Generation 4 — Earl's great-grandparents

Mildred Rose Silva — detail from the three-generation photograph (FamilySearch Memory 9943586) S323.

Evidence: The index of the 1910 census of Abilene lists Otto, born in Texas about 1885, as a son of H. and Pauline Schultz, with Carl, Philip and Minnie; the indexes of the Texas death records, his 1942 draft registration and Find a Grave give Otto Herman Schultz, born 16 September 1884, died 24 May 1961 at Abilene (S1720); the notice of his funeral names his brothers Will, Carl and Phil and his sister Mrs. Minnie Coffman of 426 Elm Street (S1721). The evidence is strong. Weak or missing: Every record is an index or the machine-read text of a newspaper page, and no image has been read; the index of his death record gives no usable parents, and the funeral notice does not name them. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Evidence: The index of his Texas death record gives William J. Schultz, born 22 January 1886 at Abilene, died 26 March 1972 at Abilene, father Herman Schultz and mother Pauline Betcher; the Social Security and Find a Grave indexes agree on the dates; the index of the 1900 census of Taylor County lists Willie as a son of Herman and Pauline Shultz (S1724). The evidence is strong. Weak or missing: Every record is an index and no image has been read; a different William J. Schultz, born at Brenham in 1886 to a Herman Schultz and Minnie Wolf, has to be kept apart. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Evidence: His obituary, in the Abilene Reporter-News of 20 and 21 January 1977, names Carl R. Schultz, 88, of 1222 South 5th, Abilene, as a son of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Schultz and names a brother Otto; the Social Security Death Index and the Texas Death Index agree with it on his death on 19 January 1977 (S1756). The index of the 1900 census of Taylor County lists Carl, born in Texas in November 1888, as a son of Herman and Pauline Shultz, and the index of the 1910 census of Abilene lists him as their son (S1727); a Texas county marriage index lists Carl R. Schultz and Mary A. Henslee, married in Taylor County on 2 May 1918 (S1760). The evidence is strong. Weak or missing: Every one of those records is an index or the machine-read text of a newspaper page, and no image of any of them has been read; the day and town of his birth and his burial rest on the obituary text alone; the Texas Death Index gives the county of death as “Lamb”, where the obituary has Abilene; the 1920 census page, read from the image, does not name his parents (S1219); the marriage index and his obituary differ by a year on his marriage. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Evidence: The index of her Texas death certificate gives Mrs. Lucy C. Chrane, born 20 December 1886 in Texas, died 30 December 1929 at Abilene, father D. E. Coffman and mother Mollie Wright, and the Texas Death Index gives the same day; the 1910 and 1920 census indexes list Lucy C. as the wife of George A. Chrane (S1717). The Abilene Daily Reporter of 31 December 1929, read as machine text, reports her funeral that day and burial at Dudley, names her parents as Mr. and Mrs. D. E. Coffman of Potosi and says she married George A. Chrane in 1905 (S1732). The evidence is strong. Weak or missing: The certificate and the censuses are read from indexes and the newspaper from machine text; no image of any of them has been read. The notice and a family history printed in 1940 give her birth as 1885, a year before the certificate index; the marriage is a year only and no marriage record has been found. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Evidence: The index of his World War I draft registration in Callahan County, Texas, gives George Albert Chrane, born 15 January 1883, with Lucy Caroline Chrane as his nearest relative; the indexes of the 1910 and 1920 censuses list Lucy C. as the wife of George A. Chrane (S1717); the index of a 1926 birth at Abilene names the father George Albert Chrane and the mother Lucy Catherine Coffman; the Social Security Death Index has a George Chrane with the same day of birth who died in September 1970 (S1723); the Abilene Reporter-News of 3 September 1970, read as machine text, reports that George A. Chrane of Dudley, a rancher, died on Wednesday 2 September at Hendrick Memorial Hospital, Abilene, with burial in Dudley Cemetery (S1733). The evidence is strong. Weak or missing: Every record is an index or the machine-read text of a newspaper, and no image has been read; the marriage is a year only, from his wife's 1929 funeral notice (S1732); the day of his death is from a funeral notice that prints no age or birth date, read as machine text only; his wife's middle name differs between two of the indexes. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Evidence: The index of his Texas death record names both parents; his obituaries of January 1966 give his birth on 13 September 1884 and his death on 12 January 1966 at Wichita Falls, and name his sister Mrs. Sue Atchley and his brothers J. Lee and Jim (S1742). The evidence is strong. Weak or missing: Every record is an index or machine-read newspaper text, and no image has been read; the birthplace rests on one phrase of the obituary; his marriages are not documented. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Evidence: The Texas marriage index names him and Sue Mary Coffman, and her 1979 obituary names him as her husband; the indexes of the Texas death records and of his draft card give his birth on 2 December 1895 at Cumby, Hopkins County, and his death on 14 July 1957 at Abilene; his funeral notice of 15 July 1957 agrees (S1740). The evidence is strong. Weak or missing: The marriage index shows no date; his funeral notice does not name his wife; no burial place is known; 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 →

Evidence: A Texas marriage index lists Otto H. Schultz and Victoria Julia Galbraith; the index of the 1920 census lists her, aged 25 and born in Missouri, as daughter-in-law in Pauline Schultz's household; two notices of January 1980 give her birth on 17 September 1894 at Carthage, Missouri, and her death on 11 January 1980 at Abilene (S1747); her husband's 1961 funeral notice says he married Victoria Galbraith at Abilene in 1918 (S1721). The evidence is strong. Weak or missing: Every record is an index or machine-read newspaper text, and no image has been read; both 1980 notices print her husband as Otto M. and give two ages, 87 and 85; the month of the marriage and the burial are in the obituary only. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Evidence: The index of the Texas death records gives Lora Matilda Coffman, born 25 July 1888 at Higginsport, Ohio, died 28 October 1970 at Wichita Falls; the Social Security Death Index agrees on the dates; the index of a daughter's obituary names her parents as J. F. Coffman and Lora Matilda Maxwell Coffman (S1748); her husband's 1966 obituary names his wife Laura (S1742). The evidence is strong. Weak or missing: Every record is an index, and no image has been read; no marriage record and no obituary of her own have been found; that she was his second wife, married in 1910, rests on the 1940 Kauffman-Coffman family book alone. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Evidence: The index of her Social Security claim names both of her parents and gives her birth on 10 May 1893 at Potosi; her 1979 obituary and funeral notice, and the obituaries of her brothers Joseph Franklin (1966) and Jesse Lee (1967), name her (S1740, S1742, S1729). The evidence is strong. Weak or missing: Every record is an index or the machine-read text of a newspaper page, and no image has been read; no town of death is known; the marriage date is in the obituary text only; the burial is in a funeral notice and a grave index, and no stone or page image has been read. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Evidence: The California death index lists Martha Ellen Richardson, also Bowles, born 25 September 1896, with her mother’s maiden name as Brock and her father’s surname as Bowles (S1644); her mother’s 1947 obituary names a daughter Martha Richardson of Los Angeles (S1632). Weak or missing: Only the index was read, and it gives her parents’ surnames, not their given names; her husband’s given name and their marriage are not found. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Evidence: Two entries in an index of newspaper obituaries list Frances Fathergail as a survivor of her mother, Iona Belle Bowles, in 1947 and as a sister of S. A. Bowles in 1964 (S1663). Weak or missing: Both are machine-made index entries and neither clipping was read for her name; the papers give only “Frances”; no birth, marriage or death record of hers has been read, and no dates are known. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Evidence: The report of the Martins Ferry accident of February 1919 names Mrs. Henry Roberts “and her two daughters, Mrs. James C. Kyle, aged 39 … Mrs. Florence E. Zane, aged 37” (S1648); an Etta, born February 1881, is in her parents’ 1900 household. Weak or missing: The paper gives only her married name; that Mrs. Kyle is the Etta of the 1900 household rests on two census readings; the newspaper was read as machine-read text, not from the page; no marriage or death record has been found. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

⚠ Not to be confused with Jane Bell (Martin), c.1794–1798, of Sumner County, Tennessee — Earl's 3rd-great-grandmother and the wife of Peter Hines Martin. Two different women, four generations apart, with the same name. No Sumner County fact belongs on this card.

Evidence: A FamilySearch family tree and family testimony. Weak or missing: No birth, marriage or death record has been read; c.1879 and 1955 are unsourced. William Leonard Proeger's wife until her death in August 1942 was Anna Blanche Roberts, and his own 1955 death notices name no wife, so a marriage to Jane Bell could only fall between August 1942 and December 1955, and none has been found. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →