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Daisy Bertha Atchley Morgan

Daughter of Leo Litton Atchley · 1918–1989

Daisy Bertha Atchley Morgan

Probable

Daughter of Leo Litton Atchley · 1918–1989

Born
at Sabinal, Uvalde County, Texas
Parents
Leo Litton Atchley & Sue Mary Coffman Atchley
Married
Joe Blanton Morgan
Sources
2

Research status

Research status: PROBABLE as a daughter of Leo Litton Atchley and Sue Mary Coffman Atchley. The evidence is strong: the index of her Texas birth certificate and the index of her Social Security claim both name her parents, her mother’s 1979 obituary names Daisy B. Morgan of Dudley as a daughter, and her father’s 1957 funeral notice names a daughter Mrs. J. B. Morgan S1743S1740. It stays Probable because every record is an index or the machine-read text of a newspaper page: no image has been read, the birth certificate included.

Evidence: The indexes of her Texas birth certificate and of her Social Security claim name both parents and give her birth on 22 April 1918 at Sabinal; her 1989 obituary gives her death on 21 February 1989 at Odessa (S1743); her mother's 1979 obituary and her father's 1957 funeral notice name her (S1740). The evidence is strong. Weak or missing: Two places are given for her death, Odessa and Abilene; the burial is in the obituary text only; every record is an index or machine-read newspaper text, and no image has been read. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Life in the order the records give it

Death1989
Daisy Bertha Atchley Morgan died on 21 February 1989 at Odessa, Ector County, Texas, aged 70. She was born at Sabinal, Uvalde County, Texas, on 22 April 1918. Her obituary, in the Abilene Reporter-News of 23 February 1989, says she died in an Odessa hospital; the index of her Social Security claim gives Abilene. The obituary is followed here for the place S1743.

Family parents, marriages, children, siblings

Marriage1916
Wife of Joe Blanton Morgan (1916–1993), of Dudley, whom her obituary names as her husband. Her sons are not named here. According to the obituary she went to Oplin High School, attended Abilene Christian College and belonged to the Highway 36 Church of Christ; it gives her burial at Dudley Cemetery, which rests on the newspaper text alone S1743.
Parents2026
History of this card. 12 Oct 2026
card written when she was added to the family tree as a daughter of Leo Litton Atchley and Sue Mary Coffman, from the birth certificate and Social Security indexes and her 1989 obituary (S1743). 12 Oct 2026 — her husband now has a card of his own and is linked.

Open questions what is probable, weak or missing — confirm or correct it

Probable
Probable confirm or correct → Daughter of Leo Litton Atchley and Sue Mary Coffman Atchley. Sister of Etta Pearl Atchley Dye, whom her obituary names. Her brother is not named here.
Weak or missing
What is weak or missing: two places are given for her death, Odessa and Abilene; the burial is in the obituary text only; every record is an index or machine-read newspaper text, and no image has been read. Know more, or think this is wrong? Use “Add to this record”.
Cited on this card S1740 S1743 Card added 2026-10-12

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Daisy Bertha Atchley Morgan · Sources

Citations

Sources cited on this card

2 of the record's sources are cited here. The numbering is the record's own; the full list, with where else each is cited, is at Sources.

  1. S1740Indexes and newspaper notices — Sue Mary Coffman (Mrs. Leo Litton Atchley) and her husband, Taylor County, Texas, 1895–1979. FamilySearch: for her, Social Security claim index (6K7D-3QN2), Social Security Death Index (V3D3-MPN) and Find a Grave index (QVVF-7PPX); for him, Texas death records index (K338-3KH) and Texas Death Index (VZ62-DYP), First World War draft card index (7FHB-XDN2), Texas marriage index (QV1Z-3W5W) and 1920 census index (MHBZ-5LR). Newspapers.com, Abilene Reporter-News: 15 July 1957, p. 3 (image 761690549); 19 January 1979, p. 18-A (image 763138876); 20 January 1979, p. 30 (image 763140480). Indexes and machine-read text read on 4 and 5 October 2026; no image read. Probable Claim index: Sue Mary Coffman, born 10 May 1893 at Potosi, both parents named. Died 18 Jan 1979. 1979 obituary: died Thursday 18 January at Shady Oaks Lodge No. 2, aged 85; married Leo Litton Atchley at Potosi on 29 May 1917; of Dudley from 1919; two daughters, Daisy B. Morgan of Dudley and Etta Pearl Atchley of McAllen; funeral notice: burial at Dudley Cemetery. Leo: death index, born 2 Dec 1895 at Cumby, Hopkins County, died 14 Jul 1957 at Abilene. Marriage index: the couple, no date shown. 1957 notice, “Atchley Funeral At Dudley Church”: L. L. Atchley, 61, of Dudley since 1919, died 4 a.m. Sunday 14 July at Hendrick Memorial Hospital; funeral at the Dudley Church of Christ; survivors his wife, daughters Mrs. J. B. Morgan of Notrees and Mrs. George B. Dye of Dudley, a sister Mrs. Bertha Robinson of Sulphur Springs and a brother F. D. of Abilene. ⚠ Index and machine-read text only: no image has been read. The 1979 obituary does not name the town of her death and gives 1956 for her husband’s death, a year early. The 1957 notice does not name his wife and gives no burial place. The marriage date and her burial rest on the newspaper text alone. Their son is not named here. Serves the cards of Sue Mary Coffman Atchley, Leo Litton Atchley, Etta Pearl Atchley Dye, Daisy Bertha Atchley Morgan, David Emily “Dee” Coffman and Mary Jane “Mollie” Wright.
  2. S1743Indexes and obituary — Daisy Bertha Atchley (Mrs. Joe Blanton Morgan), 1918–1989. FamilySearch: Texas birth certificate index (X227-6XK); Social Security claim index (6K72-N3NY). Newspapers.com: Abilene Reporter-News, 23 February 1989, p. 28 (image 764660693). Indexes and machine-read text read on 4 to 6 October 2026; no image read. Probable Birth certificate index and claim index: Daisy Bertha Atchley, born 22 Apr 1918 at Sabinal, Uvalde County, both parents named. Obituary: Daisy B. Morgan, 70, of Dudley, died Tuesday 21 February 1989 in an Odessa hospital; born at Sabinal; Oplin High School; attended Abilene Christian College; Highway 36 Church of Christ; burial at Dudley Cemetery; survivors include her husband and a sister, Etta Pearl Atchley. ⚠ Index and machine-read text only: no image has been read, the certificate included. The claim index gives Abilene as the place of death; the obituary gives Odessa. The burial rests on the newspaper text alone. Her sons and her brother are not named here. Serves the cards of Daisy Bertha Atchley Morgan, Etta Pearl Atchley Dye, Leo Litton Atchley and Sue Mary Coffman Atchley.

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