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Etta Pearl Atchley Dye

Daughter of Leo Litton Atchley · 1922–2009

Etta Pearl Atchley Dye

Probable

Daughter of Leo Litton Atchley · 1922–2009

Born
in Texas
Parents
Leo Litton Atchley & Sue Mary Coffman Atchley
Sources
2

Research status

Research status: PROBABLE as a daughter of Leo Litton Atchley and Sue Mary Coffman Atchley. The evidence is strong: the indexes of the 1930 and 1940 censuses list her in her parents’ household, her mother’s 1979 obituary names Etta Pearl Atchley as a daughter, and her father’s 1957 funeral notice names a daughter Mrs. George B. Dye S1741S1740. It stays Probable because her 1922 birth certificate has not been found, and every record is an index or the machine-read text of a newspaper page: no image has been read.

Evidence: The indexes of the 1930 and 1940 censuses list her in her parents' household; her mother's 1979 obituary names Etta Pearl Atchley as a daughter and her father's 1957 funeral notice names Mrs. George B. Dye (S1740); the Social Security Death Index and an obituary index give her birth on 8 April 1922 and her death on 10 May 2009 at Seven Lakes, North Carolina (S1741). The evidence is strong. Weak or missing: Her 1922 birth certificate has not been found; a birth index entry naming her as the mother of a child surnamed Morgan is unexplained; 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

Death2009
Etta Pearl Atchley Dye died on 10 May 2009 at Seven Lakes, Moore County, North Carolina. She was born in Texas on 8 April 1922. The dates are in the Social Security Death Index and an obituary index S1741. No image of either has been read.
Census2026
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 Social Security, obituary, census and divorce indexes and her parents’ newspaper notices (S1741, S1740).

Family parents, marriages, children, siblings

Parents1957
Her father’s funeral notice of July 1957 calls her Mrs. George B. Dye, of Dudley; a Texas divorce index has an entry for the couple, and her mother’s obituary of January 1979 calls her Etta Pearl Atchley, of McAllen S1741. Her husband has no card, and her children are not named here.

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 Daisy Bertha Atchley Morgan. Her brother is not named here.
Weak or missing
What is weak or missing: her birth certificate has not been found; a Texas birth index entry names her as the mother of a child surnamed Morgan, which is unexplained; 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 S1741 Card added 2026-10-12

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Etta Pearl Atchley Dye · 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. S1741Indexes — Etta Pearl Atchley (Mrs. George B. Dye), Texas and North Carolina, 1922–2009. FamilySearch: Social Security Death Index; obituary index (QKQG-BDSV); 1930 census index (CQGP-M3Z); 1940 census index (KWJ3-5PH); Texas divorce index (VY6B-QRX). Indexes read on 4 and 5 October 2026; no image read. Probable Born 8 Apr 1922 in Texas; died 10 May 2009 at Seven Lakes, Moore County, North Carolina. 1930 and 1940: in the household of her parents. Divorce index: an entry for her and George B. Dye. ⚠ Index only: no image has been read. Her 1922 birth certificate has not been found. A Texas birth index entry names her as the mother of a child surnamed Morgan; that is unexplained. Her parents’ newspaper notices that name her are in S1740. Her husband, her children and her brother are not named beyond this. Serves the cards of Etta Pearl Atchley Dye, Leo Litton Atchley and Sue Mary Coffman Atchley.

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