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Dora Inez Bruce

Daughter of Charles Brooks Bruce · born 1894

Dora Inez Bruce

Confirmed

Daughter of Charles Brooks Bruce · born 1894

Parents
Charles Brooks Bruce & Ida Alice Montgomery Bruce
Sources
3

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED as a daughter of Charles Brooks Bruce and Ida Alice Montgomery Bruce; her life after 1910 has not been found. Two census pages, read from the images, list her in their house. In June 1900, in Precinct 1 of DeWitt County, Dora I., daughter, born August 1894, aged 5, is the second of four children, and her mother is entered with four children born and four living S1357. In April 1910, on East Main Street at Cuero, Inez, daughter, 15, is the second of six children, and her mother is entered with six born and six living S1358. No child had died and the second child is the same age on both pages, so Dora I. and Inez are one girl. The images were read on 4 October 2026 and were not opened again when this card was written.

Life in the order the records give it

Census2026
History of this card. 12 Oct 2026
card written when she was added to the family tree, from the readings of the 1900 and 1910 census pages (S1357, S1358).

Family parents, marriages, children, siblings

Parents1900
Daughter of Charles Brooks Bruce and Ida Alice Montgomery Bruce. In 1900 her brothers and sister in the house were Mary B., Orin M. and Millard; in 1910 they were Mary, Orie, Millard, Lena May and Alma. They do not have cards.

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

Not found
Dora Inez Bruce was born in Texas in August 1894. The month and year are from the 1900 census page; no record of her birth has been read, and the day is not known.
Weak or missing
What is weak or missing: no record gives the two names together; the name Dora Inez is put together from “Dora I.” in 1900 and “Inez” in 1910. No marriage and no death have been found for her, so no date of death is given; she is not in her parents’ house at Cuero in January 1920 S1402, and the surname she may have married into is not known. Another Inez Bruce of the same age, born in the state of Georgia and living there all her life, is not her. Know more, or think this is wrong? Use “Add to this record”.

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Dora Inez Bruce · Sources

Citations

Sources cited on this card

3 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. S13571900 census — Chas. B. Bruce household, Precinct 1, DeWitt County, Texas, ED 25, sheet 7B, lines 74–79, 14 June 1900. Ancestry, “1900 United States Federal Census”, record 70553254. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 4 October 2026. Confirmed Bruce, Chas. B., head, born August 1864, 35, married 8 years, born Texas, parents born Tennessee, farmer, owns his farm free; Ida A., wife, born February 1874, 26, married 8 years, 4 children born and 4 living, born Texas, parents born Tennessee; children Mary B. (Oct 1892), Dora I. (Aug 1894), Orin M. (Mar 1897) and Millard (Feb 1899). ⚠ Ida’s month and year of birth, her Tennessee-born parents and DeWitt County tie this to her card. “Married 8 years” fits the 18 November 1891 marriage. Also serves the card of Dora Inez Bruce, the Dora I. on line 77.
  2. S13581910 census — Chas. Bruce household, East Main Street, ward 1, Cuero, DeWitt County, Texas, ED 35, sheet 11B, lines 73–80, April 1910. Ancestry, “1910 United States Federal Census”, record 168626225. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 4 October 2026. Confirmed Bruce, Chas., head, 45, first marriage of 18 years, born Texas, rural mail carrier, owns his house free; Ida, wife, 36, married 18 years, 6 children born and 6 living, born Texas; children Mary 17, Inez 15, Orie 13 (a delivery boy for a department store), Millard 11, Lena May 7 and Alma 3. ⚠ This enumerator gives Ida’s parents as born in Mississippi; the 1900 census and her death certificate say Tennessee, which the card keeps. The index misses Alma on line 80 and misreads the surname as “Bence”. Also serves the card of Dora Inez Bruce, the Inez on line 76.
  3. S14021920 census — C. B. Bruce household, Cuero, DeWitt County, Texas, ward 1, ED 35, sheet 4B, lines 97–100, January 1920. Ancestry, “1920 United States Federal Census”, record 109354356. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 4 October 2026. Confirmed Bruce, C. B., head, owns the house free, 54, born Texas of Tennessee-born parents, a rural mail carrier; Ida, wife, 45, born Texas; Willard B., son, 20, single; Lena May, daughter, 17, single. ⚠ Ida’s father’s birthplace is hard to read (Alabama?); the 1900 census and her death certificate say Tennessee. The index reads the daughter as Laura May; the image says Lena May. The son is Millard of 1900 and 1910. A younger daughter, Alma, is indexed with the family but falls on the next sheet, which was not read.

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