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Generation 3 — Kristin's grandparents

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Thomas Walton Caffey Jr. "T.W."

TexasConfirmed

Kristin's paternal grandfather · 1924–2002

Born
21 February 1924, Salado, Bell County, Texas
Died
14 March 2002, Hays County, Texas
Buried
Austin Memorial Park Cemetery
Parents
Thomas W. Caffey & Medie
Children
Thomas Alan Caffey
Sources
5
Images
4
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Birth1924
Born 21 February 1924, Salado, Bell County, Texas S33S34
Death2002
Died 14 March 2002, Hays County, Texas; buried Austin Memorial Park Cemetery, plot 1-566-7 S34
Military1941
United States Marine Corps, 12 August 1941 – 17 September 1945
enlisted four months before Pearl Harbor, at seventeen S33. His stone reads "Married to Lucille / He served in WW2 in the U.S. Marines" S34. The muster rolls, service number 319512, place him in 1944 as a corporal in Battery M, 4th Battalion, 12th Marines — the 3rd Marine Division's artillery regiment, a 105 mm howitzer battery, "in the field" — and in 1945 as a sergeant at the San Diego recruit depot S33. ⚠️ No campaign is claimed for him here. The rolls put his battalion in the Pacific; which landings he personally took part in is not something a muster roll says, and it is not inferred
Census1950
1950 census: head of household, house 605, Austin, Travis County, ED 256-3, aged 26, with Lucille (24), Thomas A. (4) and Sandra M. (1) S32
Census1950
In 1950 he was a candy salesman for a wholesale candy company, at 605 Brentwood, Austin S220
Census1952
The 1952 Austin city directory lists him as “Thos W (Lucille L)”, salesman for Austin Candy, householder at 605 Brentwood: the same house as in 1950, and the directory names the employer the census left unnamed. Confirmed from the page image; the year is from Ancestry’s index, not printed on the page S1691
Census2026
History of this card: 11 Oct 2026
the 1950 street corrected from “Brest” to Brentwood, on a re-read of the census sheet and the 1952 directory (S220, S1691).
He and Lucille retired to Wimberley, Hays County — the shared ZIP on both their records — and died there, fourteen months apart, before being buried together in Austin S33.

Family

Marriage1945
Married Lucille Lorine Kretschmar in 1945, the year he was released S34
Parents
Son of Thomas W. Caffey and Medie
named in his Social Security NUMIDENT record, a government document whose parent fields come from his own application S33
Children
Father of Thomas Alan Caffey

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Lucille Lorine Kretschmar

TexasConfirmed

Kristin's paternal grandmother · 1925–2001

Born
25 August 1925, Austin, Travis County, Texas
Died
14 April 2001, Hays County, Texas
Parents
Will Kretschmar & Liessi Ladusch
Children
Thomas Alan Caffey
Sources
10
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Birth1925
Born 25 August 1925, Austin, Travis County, Texas S33S34. Hers is the reason the family was in Austin at all
it is her home town, not her husband's.
Death2001
Died 14 April 2001, Hays County, Texas; buried Austin Memorial Park, plot 1-566-7, with her husband. Her marker reads "Married to Thomas" S34
Census1950
In 1950 she was living with her husband and their two children at 605 Brentwood, Austin S220, and the 1952 city directory has her there still, as “(Lucille L)” in his entry: “Thos W (Lucille L)”, salesman for Austin Candy, householder at 605 Brentwood. She has no entry of her own. Confirmed from the page image; the year is from Ancestry’s index S1691
Schooling1942
She played in the Austin High School Orchestra. “Kretschmar, Lucille” is on the Orchestra Personnel roster in the 1942 Comet, when she was 16. The group photograph has no names, so she is not pointed out in it S438.
Birth1942
In the same 1942 Comet she is Treasurer of the new square-dance club “Swing and Turn”, for both the fall and spring terms, listed as “Lucile Kretschmar”, the spelling on her birth certificate Confirmed S971S264.
Record2026
History of this card. The notes on this card that carried a “new” mark were added on these days: 29 Sep 2026 (1 note). The marks and their dates were taken off on 12 Oct 2026, and nothing in the notes was changed. 13 Oct 2026
2 notes on this card ended with the words “added” and a date; they were added on: 25 Sep 2026 (2 notes). The dated endings were taken off, and nothing else in the notes was changed.

Family

Names
Recorded variously as Lucille Lorine Caffey and Lucille Lorene Kretschmar
the spelling of the middle name is unstable across records S33S34
Parents
Daughter of Will Kretschmar and Liessi Ladusch
NUMIDENT parent fields S33
Children
Mother of Thomas Alan Caffey
Parents
Grandfather on her father's side Julius Franz Kretschmar S34; grandparents on her mother's side Otto Paul Ladusch and Emma Stein Ladusch S327S328
Names1941
A year earlier, the 1941 Comet lists “Kretschmar” among the second violins. It gives the surname only, but she is the only Kretschmar in the orchestra S501.

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Thomas Walton Caffey Jr

TexasConfirmed

Kristin's grandfather · 1910–1994

Born
2 January 1910
Died
30 December 1994, Austin, Travis County, Texas
Married
Lucille Lorine Kretschmar
Children
Thomas Alan Caffey
Sources
2
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Birth1910
Born 2 January 1910 S12
Death1994
Died 30 December 1994, Austin, Travis County, Texas S12

Family

Children
Father of Thomas Alan Caffey (Kristin's father) S24
Marriage
Married Lucille Lorine Kretschmar S12

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Clarence Melvin "Melvin" Walker

TexasConfirmed

Kristin's maternal grandfather · 1920–1991

Born
5 November 1920, Lolita, Jackson County, Texas
Died
23 July 1991
Buried
Mount Olivet Cemetery, Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas
Parents
Daniel Jonah Walker & Nettie Ellen Cleveland
Children
LaVonne Walker (Caffey)
Sources
8
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Birth1920
Born 5 November 1920, Lolita, Jackson County, Texas; died 23 July 1991, aged 70 S37S38
Burial
Buried Mount Olivet Cemetery, Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas
the same cemetery as his wife, thirty-one years later S37
Death
His obituary, indexed under his own name, gives his death at Fort Worth, Tarrant County, and his last home at Richland Hills Probable confirm or correct → S767. Only the index has been read, not the clipping; its years are “about”, worked out from his age, and it is the same obituary as S295.
Birth1920
His birth was registered with the state as the unnamed infant of Jonah Walker, Jackson County, 5 November 1920, Texas birth certificate 61632 Confirmed S943.
Record2026
History of this card. The notes on this card that carried a “new” mark were added on these days: 29 Sep 2026 (1 note). The marks and their dates were taken off on 12 Oct 2026, and nothing in the notes was changed. 13 Oct 2026
one note on this card ended with the words “added” and a date; it was added on: 26 Sep 2026 (1 note). The dated endings were taken off, and nothing else in the notes was changed.
Military
US Army Air Corps, Second World War. Dorothy's obituary: "After her graduation from high school, she met Melvin Walker and shortly after they were married. Upon his discharge from the Army Air Corp, they moved to Ft. Worth" S36
⚠️ A same-name grave that is not his child. An infant "Clarence M Walker, 6 January 1944 – 2 December 1944" is also buried at Mount Olivet, Fort Worth. The name fits, the cemetery fits and the date would fit a first child born before the move. No record connects him to this couple, and he is not attached here — recorded so the next reader does not adopt him on the strength of a name Not found.

Family

Names
He went by his middle name. "Walker, Clarence" in the indexes and "Melvin Walker" in the family's own obituary text are one man
which is the whole reason this identification took a record rather than a search S36S37
Parents1930
Son of Daniel Jonah Walker and Nettie Ellen Cleveland
from his Social Security NUMIDENT entry, a government record whose parent fields come from his own SS-5 application S38, and from the 1930 census of Precinct 2, Jackson County, which enumerates the whole household S87
Children
Father of three daughters, all born in Tarrant County and all named in Dorothy's obituary sixty years later S39S36
Children
Father of LaVonne Walker (Caffey)

Open questions

Weak or missing
What is weak or missing: a 1943 Florida index lists a Clarence M. Walker in Bay County (vol. 774, certificate 4584), but there are five other Clarence Walkers in that index the same year, so it is not taken as his. What would settle it: the certificate, which gives age and residence.

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Dorothy La Vonne Peters

IllinoisConfirmed

Kristin's maternal grandmother · 1926–2022

Born
12 February 1926, Chicago, Illinois
Died
13 August 2022
Buried
Mount Olivet Cemetery, Fort Worth
Parents
Benjamin LaRoy "Pete" Peters Sr. & Gertie Selma Selland
Sources
5
Images
1

Research status

Research status: parents CONFIRMED — Benjamin LaRoy Peters and Gertie Selma Selland Confirmed S36S40S41
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Life

Birth1926
Born 12 February 1926, Chicago, Illinois; raised in Sioux Falls, South Dakota for her first eighteen years S36
Death2022
Died 13 August 2022, Round Rock, Williamson County, Texas
Death2022
Died 13 August 2022, aged 96, at Round Rock, Williamson County, Texas
the funeral home's own dateline, which is a statement of residence at death, not of burial city S36
Burial2022
Buried Mount Olivet Cemetery, Fort Worth, beside her husband; graveside service 22 August 2022 S36
Residence
A longtime resident of Fort Worth
"they moved to Ft. Worth where she lived for over 70 years" S36
Arrival
She and her sister Shirley made several trips to Norway, "homeland of their maternal grandparents"
the obituary predicting the Selland surname before it was found S36. Family testimony Graded as what it is. This is a sentence a family wrote for a funeral programme, not a record. It is a lead on the Selland line — it points at a Norwegian parish and a generation, and it has already been half-borne-out by the Røldal out-migration entry S75 — but no document has yet been read that says which grandparents, or from where. It is not Confirmed and is not written here as though it were.
Death
Five siblings of her own, named in the same obituary: LaRoy Peters, Betty Sanders, Shirley Peltier, Marlene Jacobs and Eileen Blacketer S36. Their own lines are not worked here.
There was never a collision risk here, and that is unusual. "Dorothy Walker" is a common name, and the research brief warned against attaching one on name alone. No inference was needed: her obituary names the client household outright — her granddaughter Kristin and Earl […], and their three children by name S36. The subject was identified by her own family, in print.
⚠️ The "died in Austin" discrepancy, resolved. The family's account was that she died in Austin; FindAGrave's copy of the obituary gives no place at all. The original publisher's copy carries the dateline "ROUND ROCK" — twenty miles north of downtown Austin, in the same metro. The family's account is right; "Austin" is Round Rock S36. The memory-care facility itself is Not found in any document and was not searched for — private medical detail about a recently deceased person, adding nothing to the genealogy.
Who her obituary names as surviving her. It is a family-written survivor list and it is the reason several people on this page can be tied to each other at all. Her three daughters, in its own words: "LaVonne Danielson […], Marilyn (Phillip) McGovern of Nashville, TN, and C.J. (Ed) Farris of Arlington, TX" — and her sisters Shirley Peltier, Marlene Jacobs and Eileen Blacketer, with a brother-in-law, Romie Sanders. Her four grandchildren, in the obituary's own sentence: "Brad Caffey (Erin) of Round Rock, TX, Jessica (Martin) Carrier of McKinney, TX, Kristin (Earl) Proeger […] and David (Marci) Peters of Nashville, TN." That sentence is what welds this record's two halves together from the published side — Brad and Kristin as grandchildren of one woman, in print, not inferred from a surname S36.
The obituary is published here in full, as a page image, and unredacted. It names seven of the next generation — Ava and Grant Peters; Preston and Scarlett Caffey; and Earl's own Maia, Evelyn and Axel — alongside the family's towns. Some of them are minors. This record's rule publishes a minor's name and nothing else; this page image is Earl's explicit per-item exception to that rule, made on 25 September 2026, and it covers this one document only S36.

Family

Names1947
Her maiden name is PETERS. Walker was her married name. The Texas Birth Index names her as "Dorothy La Vonne Peters" on her own daughter's 1947 birth record
a state vital record, not an obituary S39
Parents
Daughter of Benjamin LaRoy "Pete" Peters Sr. and Gertie Selma Selland S36S40S41

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Kristin's aunts

Confirmed

Her father's sisters · one deceased, one living

  • Sandra Caffey Falkenberg, 28 July 1948 – 4 April 2025, died at San Antonio, aged 76. Her obituary calls her "the daughter of T.W. and Lucille Caffey" and names her late brother "Tommy" S35. She is the "Sandra M, age 1" on the 1950 census sheet — her stated birth date matches the enumerated age exactly S32
  • Donna Caffey Rinn — living. Named as a surviving sister in both her siblings' obituaries; nothing further is published here S31S35
Sandra's obituary matters out of proportion to its length. Written nine years after her brother's, by a different funeral home in a different city, it names the same parents and the same three siblings — an independent document arriving at the identical family.

Kristin's mother's sisters, and how the household was proved

Confirmed

Texas Birth Index, Tarrant County · and the 1950 US Census

  • All three daughters of Clarence Melvin Walker and Dorothy La Vonne Peters appear in the Tarrant County birth index to the same couple, and all three match the survivors named in Dorothy's 2022 obituary S39S36
  • Clare La Vonne Walker — Kristin's mother. Living; this list gives her name and relationship only. Her full record is on her own card
More · 3 further facts
  • Marilyn Dorothy Walker — the "Marilyn (Phillip) McGovern of Nashville, TN" of the obituary. Living; details withheld
  • Carolyn Jane Walker — the "C.J. (Ed) Farris of Arlington, TX" of the obituary. Living; details withheld
  • 1950 US Census, White Settlement, Tarrant County — Clarence M. Walker and Dorothy L. Walker in one household with daughters Clare and Marilyn. Carolyn Jane was not yet born. A federal enumerator, on one line S39
One index row carries the whole finding. The Tarrant County birth entry for Clare La Vonne Walker gives both parents — Clarence Melvin Walker and Dorothy La Vonne Peters — in a single line. It supplies the husband's full name, the wife's maiden name, and the Fort Worth birth the family had always described, all from a state vital record rather than from a headstone S39. The date on that row is not reproduced here: she is living.
⚠️ Neither Dorothy's memorial nor Melvin's carries FindAGrave family links — both were checked, and neither has parents, spouse or children attached. The shared cemetery is corroboration only. The obituary and the state vital records carry this finding on their own S36S37.

Generation 3 — relatives in this generation

James Elmo Gold

Confirmed

Son of Anna Bell Caffey Gold · 1892–1981

Born
at Mendoza, Caldwell County, Texas
Died
22 May 1981
Parents
Elmo Gold of Elgin
Sources
4

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED son of Henry L. Gold and Anna Bell Caffey Gold. The index of his Texas death certificate, no. 41693, names his father as Henry Gold and his mother as Anna “Gaffey”, an indexing slip for Caffey S1625; the 1910 census of Caldwell County, read from the image, has Elmo, 16, son, in the household of Henry L. and Anna Gold, his mother born in Alabama S1092. The death certificate is read from the index only; its image is not yet read. Added to the family tree on 10 October 2026
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Death1981
Died 22 May 1981, Taylor, Williamson County, Texas
Birth1892
Born at Mendoza, Caldwell County, Texas, on 25 September 1892; died at Taylor, Williamson County, Texas, on 22 May 1981; his home was at Elgin. All of this is from the death certificate index S1625
Note
He is not the James Elmo Caffey of this family tree, who is another man

Family

Parents1949
His mother’s obituary of May 1949 names Elmo Gold of Elgin among her three sons S1552. He is probably the “J. E. Gold” who gave the answers on her 1949 death certificate S480; that certificate does not say how the informant was related to her
Siblings
His sisters with cards: Eva Gold and Myrtle Gold.

Open questions

Weak or missing
What is weak or missing: the death certificate is read from Ancestry’s index only and its informant is unknown; the 1910 census gives his mother’s age as 30 where her 1871 birth makes her 39; the 1920 and 1940 censuses that may show him in Williamson County have not been read; whether he married or had children is not known, and none is named here. Know more? Use “Add to this record”.

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Alvie Van Gold

Probable

Probable son of Anna Bell Caffey Gold · 1896–1986

Born
on 11 September 1896
Died
in January 1986
Parents
Anna Bell Caffey Gold
Sources
3

Research status

Research status: PROBABLE son of Anna Bell Caffey Gold and brother of James Elmo Gold. Evidence: he is Alvie, 13, son, in her 1910 household S1092, and her 1949 obituary names a son Alvie Gold of Texas City S1552; the indexes of his two draft registrations and the Social Security Death Index give one birth date, and the 1917–18 card names a relative “Annie Gold” S1645. Added to the family tree on 10 October 2026
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Evidence: He is Alvie, 13, son, in Anna Bell Gold’s 1910 household (S1092), and her 1949 obituary names a son Alvie Gold of Texas City (S1552); the indexes of his two draft registrations and the Social Security Death Index give one birth date, and the 1917–18 card names a relative “Annie Gold” (S1645). Weak or missing: The draft cards were read from the index, not the images, so “relative” is not shown to mean mother; Texas City in 1949 is not bridged to Elgin, where he registered in 1942. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Life

Birth1896
Born on 11 September 1896 in Texas; died in January 1986 in Texas. The dates are from the draft registration indexes and the Social Security Death Index S1645

Family

Siblings
His sisters with cards: Eva Gold and Myrtle Gold.

Open questions

Weak or missing
What is weak or missing: the draft cards were read from the index, not the images, so “relative” is not shown to mean mother; Texas City in 1949 is not bridged to Elgin, where he registered in 1942; his father is not entered in the family tree. The draft card image or his 1986 obituary would settle it. Know more? Use “Add to this record”.

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Thomas Osborn Caffey

Confirmed

Son of Thomas Walton Caffey Sr. · born 1910

Born
9 February 1910
Died
16 March 1987
Parents
Thomas Walton Caffey Sr. & Medie Owens
Married
Alice Piland
Children
Kenneth Walton Caffey
Sources
23

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED — from a record that names the parents; entered in the family tree.
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Birth1910
Born 9 February 1910 near Elgin, Williamson County, Texas; Osburn, 10, in 1920 and Osborn T., 20, at Salado in 1930 S232S221
Death1987
Died 16 March 1987, Austin, Texas
Death1987
Confirmed His obituary in the Austin American-Statesman of 17 March 1987 (p. D21) calls him T. O. “Jack” Caffey, 77, of Austin, who died Monday morning [16 March]. He worked for the Austin Fire Department for 23 years and retired in 1965. It names his wife of 51 years, Alice L., his brothers Howard Caffey of Pflugerville and T. W. Caffey of Fredericksburg, and his sister Mrs. Lee Stone of Elgin (Mattie Lee Caffey). The funeral was on Tuesday 17 March at Hyltin-Manor Funeral Home, with burial in Capital Memorial Park S1589. Read from the newspaper page text (OCR), not checked word for word against the page image. Know more? Use “Add to this record”
Census1950
In 1950 he was an Austin city fireman, aged 40, with his wife Alice Lorene (the census writes “Alice L.”), two sons and his mother-in-law Mabel L. Piland S518.
Census1952
The 1952 Austin city directory, p. 96, lists “Thos O (Alice)”, a city fire fighter, as householder at 4101 Ramsey Avenue Confirmed S1691. His wife’s name and his work match the 1950 census, and 4101 Ramsey is the address in his mother-in-law Mabel L. Piland’s obituary of 1961 S1573. The year comes from Ancestry’s index; it is not printed on the page.
Record1940
On his 1940 draft card he signed himself Thomas Osban Caffey and gave his birthplace as Bastrop County; Elgin sits on the Bastrop–Williamson line. He lived at 82½ East Avenue, Austin, worked for the N. M. Jackson Service Station, and named his wife, Mrs. Alice Lorene Caffey S571.
Census1932
The 1932–33 Austin directory lists him as Osborn Caffey, living at 2702 East 1st Street S636.
Record2026
History of this card. The notes on this card that carried a “new” mark were added on these days: 28 Sep 2026 (2 notes). The marks and their dates were taken off on 12 Oct 2026, and nothing in the notes was changed. 13 Oct 2026
5 notes on this card ended with the words “added” and a date; they were added on: 25 Sep 2026 (3 notes), 26 Sep 2026 (2 notes). The dated endings were taken off, and nothing else in the notes was changed. 13 Oct 2026 — the “Research status” line gave the day this card was added and entered in the family tree, 24 Sep 2026. The date was taken out of the sentence and stands here only; no fact or grade was changed. 13 Oct 2026 — the note on Orbin as Alice’s father said “relabelled 29 Sep 2026”. The date was taken out of the standing text and stands here only; no fact or grade was changed.

Family

Parents
Son of Thomas Walton Caffey Sr. and Medie Owens; brother of Thomas Walton Caffey Jr.
Children1944
His son Kenneth Walton Caffey was born in Travis County on 17 August 1944, to him and Alice Lorene Piland S550.
Marriage1935
He married Alice Piland in Austin on 15 December 1935; H. C. Morrison, pastor of East Avenue Baptist Church, officiated S621.
Marriage1893
His wife's father: Orbin Oliver Piland (his card) Confirmed, born 22 March 1893 at Gonzales by his own draft card S932 (the index of his death certificate says 24 March), died 30 September 1929, by his Texas death certificate, which names his parents as E. R. Piland and Virginia F. Montgomery S911S914. In 1920, in Hays County, “Arvin P.” (the image reads “Orvin O.”), 26, and his wife Mabel, 24, had a daughter Alice L., 5 S910; in 1930 Mabel was a widow at Austin with Alice Lorena, 15 S924, and a Texas birth index names Alice Lorene's father as Orbin Oliver Piland S923. His parents, Edward Raymond Piland and Virginia Francis “Jennie” Montgomery Probable confirm or correct →, married in Gonzales County on 28 June 1883, by the licence, read from the image S913; the family is in Gonzales County in 1900 S912. Jennie, born August 1858, died in 1927 S915. Research status: Orbin as Alice's father is CONFIRMED by the two census images and the birth index; his dates and his parents stay PROBABLE, accepted by Earl 28 September 2026 pending more evidence. What is weak: the death certificates are read from their indexes only, not the images.
Parents1950
His mother-in-law: Mabel Logue Piland (her card) Probable confirm or correct →, the Mabel L. Piland of his 1950 household S518, was born 31 October 1895 at Galveston and died 13 April 1961 at Austin, by her Texas death certificate, which names her father as D. C. Logue S907. In 1900 “Mable”, 4, born October 1895 in Texas, was in the Waco household of D. C. Logue and his wife Virginia A. S906, who had married as D. C. Logue and Virginia Alice Hamby in Calhoun County, Alabama, on 2 April 1890 S908. Find a Grave gives her father as Dan Crutcher Logue, 1858–1939 S909. Research status: PROBABLE, accepted by Earl 28 September 2026 pending more evidence. What is weak: the death certificate image has not been read; it gives Galveston as her birthplace while the 1900 census has the family in Waco; the Hamby family has not yet been researched.

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Howard Lee Caffey

Confirmed

Son of Thomas Walton Caffey Sr. · born 1917

Born
28 September 1917
Died
9 July 1988
Parents
Thomas Walton Caffey Sr. & Medie Owens
Married
Marian Zelphia Clawson
Sources
14
Images
2

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED — from a record that names the parents; entered in the family tree.
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Birth1917
Born 28 September 1917, Salado, Bell County, Texas; his delayed birth certificate of 1944 names both parents S233
Census1940
In 1940 at 84 East Avenue, Austin, working for the Owl Taxi Co. S234
Death1988
Died 9 July 1988, Travis County, Texas
Death1988
Confirmed His obituary in the Austin American-Statesman of 10 July 1988 (p. 26): Howard Lee Caffey, 70, of Pflugerville, died on Saturday [9 July]. He was a member of First Baptist Church and had been a watchmaker for Zales Jewelers for more than 20 years. It says his wife Dorothy Mae Caffey died in November 1986, and names his brother T. W. Caffey of Wimberley (Thomas Walton Caffey Jr.). The funeral was on Tuesday 12 July at Hyltin-Manor Funeral Chapel S1594. Where he is buried is not settled: this notice prints “Capital Memorial Gardens”, a later index entry says Capital Memorial Park, and his wife was buried in Capital Memorial Park in 1986; a grave record would settle it. The notice calls his wife Dorothy Mae, which sits badly with the birth certificate for a Dorothy Kathleen Mangum noted below. Read from the newspaper page text (OCR), not checked word for word against the page image. Know more? Use “Add to this record”
Census1940
In 1940 he and Marian lodged at 2115 Willow St., Austin; he drove an ice-cream route S547.
Record1939
The state birth index names him and Marianne Zelphia Clawson as the parents of Jessie Lee Caffey, born in Travis County in 1939 Confirmed S1122. It is the same Jessie Lee who is in his 1950 household. It also names him and Dorothy Maye Mangum as the parents of a son, Howard David Caffey, born in Travis County in 1950 S1123. That gives Dorothy’s maiden name as Mangum, the surname of the parents proposed for her above, though the index does not name her parents.
Death1986
Confirmed His wife’s obituary in the Austin American-Statesman of 26 November 1986 (p. B4): Dorothy M. Caffey, 66, of Pflugerville, died Tuesday [25 November 1986]. She was a retired bookkeeper at the main library of the University of Texas at Austin and a member of First Baptist Church of Austin. It names her husband Howard L. Caffey and her mother, Mrs. Arleene Mangum of Austin, which supports the Mangum parentage given above, still Probable. The funeral was on Friday 28 November at Hyltin-Manor Funeral Home, with burial in Capital Memorial Park S1592. The line above said her dates were withheld because she might be living; this notice settles that she died in 1986. Read from the newspaper page text (OCR), not checked word for word against the page image. Know more? Use “Add to this record”
Record2026
History of this card. The notes on this card that carried a “new” mark were added on these days: 28 Sep 2026 (1 note), 1 Oct 2026 (1 note). The marks and their dates were taken off on 12 Oct 2026, and nothing in the notes was changed. 13 Oct 2026
4 notes on this card ended with the words “added” and a date; they were added on: 25 Sep 2026 (2 notes), 26 Sep 2026 (2 notes). The dated endings were taken off, and nothing else in the notes was changed. 13 Oct 2026 — the “Research status” line gave the day this card was added and entered in the family tree, 24 Sep 2026. The date was taken out of the sentence and stands here only; no fact or grade was changed.

Family

Parents
Son of Thomas Walton Caffey Sr. and Medie Owens; brother of Thomas Walton Caffey Jr.
Marriage1937
He married Marian Zelphia Clawson on 24 October 1937 at Calvary Baptist Church, Austin S519. In 1950 he was a cab driver and watchmaker in Austin, with his wife Dorothy M., Jessie Lee and two Piland stepsons S520.
Marriage1946
On 5 October 1946 in Travis County he married Mrs. Dorothy Piland, the Dorothy M. of the 1950 household S681.
Parents1921
Marian's birth certificate records a daughter of Jess Clawson, 26, a labourer, and Lillie Reeves, 23, both born in Texas, born on 28 November 1921 at 3201 San Gabriel Street, Austin, their first child; she was not yet named S732.
Marriage1940
His wife Dorothy's parents were probably Page S. Mangum and Arlene Mangum Probable confirm or correct →: the 1940 census of Austin, read from the image, lists Dorothy M., 19, daughter, single and in college, born Texas, at 1802 Pearl Street in the household of Page S. Mangum, 52, and his wife Arlene, 41, both born Mississippi, with a younger daughter Kathleen G. S888. The Texas birth index records a son of Logue Taylor Piland with his mother entered as Dorothy May Mangum S889, and she married Howard as Mrs. Dorothy Piland in 1946 S681. What is weak: the identity runs through an index and a licence rather than one document; the census does not say Arlene is Dorothy's mother; Arlene's maiden name, given in family trees as Furr, and both parents' birth days and death dates are on no document read. Accepted by Earl on 28 September 2026 pending more evidence.

Open questions

Probable
Probable confirm or correct → Dorothy was probably the Dorothy Kathleen Mangum whose Texas birth certificate names her parents as Page Stanley Mangum and Arleene Furr; until now Furr came only from family trees. Weak: the middle name is Kathleen, not Maye, and the 1940 household has a younger sister Kathleen G. Her own dates are not given, because she may be living. Know more? Use “Add to this record” S1466

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Mattie Lee Caffey

Confirmed

Daughter of Thomas Walton Caffey Sr. · born 1898

Born
30 October 1898
Parents
Thomas Walton Caffey Sr. & Emma Rachel Ault
Married
Thomas Guy Collins
Children
Lucy Lee Collins
Sources
11

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED — from a record that names the parents; entered in the family tree.
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Birth1898
Born 30 October 1898, Texas; the 1900 Bastrop County census names her parents Thomas W. and Emma R.
Census1940
By 1940 she had remarried: she is “Lee”, 42, wife of Ewell F. Hughes, a Lee County farmer, with her children Ladell, Howard R. and Lucy Lee Collins S538.
Census1910
In April 1910 her future first husband, Guy Collins, then 11, was living with his parents T. J. and Lucy Collins, his elder brother Roy and two younger children on a rented farm in Atascosa County, Texas, read from the census image S1114. The family had moved there from Shelby County, where they were in 1900 S872. Lucy’s age is given as 31, which does not fit the 1900 census.
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History of this card. The notes on this card that carried a “new” mark were added on these days: 28 Sep 2026 (1 note), 1 Oct 2026 (1 note). The marks and their dates were taken off on 12 Oct 2026, and nothing in the notes was changed. 13 Oct 2026
4 notes on this card ended with the words “added” and a date; they were added on: 25 Sep 2026 (2 notes), 26 Sep 2026 (2 notes). The dated endings were taken off, and nothing else in the notes was changed. 13 Oct 2026 — the “Research status” line gave the day this card was added and entered in the family tree, 24 Sep 2026. The date was taken out of the sentence and stands here only; no fact or grade was changed.

Family

Parents
Daughter of Thomas Walton Caffey Sr. and his first wife Emma Rachel Ault; half-sister of Thomas Walton Caffey Jr.
Parents1920
Mattie, 21, in her father's household in 1920 S232
Marriage1922
Married Thomas Guy Collins, 25 December 1922, Bell County; died 9 October 1988
Children1923
Her first child with Thomas G. Collins, a daughter, was born and died on 20 October 1923 and is buried at Beaukiss S485. In 1930 they were farming in Precinct 4, Bastrop County, with sons Ladell J. and Howard R. S486.
Marriage1898
Her first husband, Thomas Guy Collins, born at Tenaha, Shelby County, on 15 October 1898, a son of T. J. and Lucy Collins, died at Bustamante, Zapata County, on 12 January 1935 and was buried at Elgin S676.
Children1932
Her daughter Lucy Lee Collins was born 16 July 1932 in Precinct 4, Bastrop County, recorded as her fifth child; the certificate, filed late, gives the father's birthplace as Panola County S770.
Marriage1900
Her first husband's parents were probably Thos (Thomas J.) Collins and Lucy Collins Probable confirm or correct →: the 1900 census of Precinct 5, Shelby County, Texas, read from the image, lists Guy, son, born October 1898, in the household of Thos Collins, a farmer born September 1869 in Texas, and his wife Lucy, born April 1872, the mother of two children, both living, with an older son Roy S872. Guy's own 1935 death certificate names his parents as T. J. Collins and Lucy S676. What is weak: the 1900 census gives the boy only as Guy; Lucy's maiden name, given in family trees as Blake, the middle name Joseph, and the couple's birth days and death dates are on no document read. Accepted by Earl on 28 September 2026 pending more evidence.
Marriage1917
Her first husband served in the First World War as a private first class in the medical detachment of the 144th Infantry, 36th Division, from 16 July 1917 to 21 June 1919; the application for his military headstone, made at Elgin in January 1935, gives his death as 12 January 1935 and his burial in the Elgin cemetery S1276

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Probable
Probable confirm or correct → By July 1954 she was probably Mrs. Lee Stone of Elgin: her stepmother Medie Stobaugh’s obituary names “one daughter, Mrs. Lee Stone of Elgin” S1597, and her half-brother T. O. Caffey’s 1987 obituary names the same Mrs. Lee Stone of Elgin as his sister S1589. Evidence: she went by Lee in 1940, her first husband is buried at Elgin, and no other daughter is known. Weak: neither notice gives her maiden name, and no Stone marriage record has been found; both were read from the page text (OCR). What would settle it: a Hughes or Collins to Stone marriage record, or her 1988 death record. Know more? Use “Add to this record”

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Harrol B. Caffey

Confirmed

Son of James Clinton Caffey · 1924–2017

Born
27 Jun 1924
Parents
James Clinton Caffey & Ebber Lou Owens Caffey
Married
Frances T. Anderson
Sources
6

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED. Son of James Clinton Caffey and Ebber Lou Owens, twin of Carrol (1930 census, Precinct 6, Travis Co., FamilySearch HKYY-83Z). Birth 27 Jun 1924 from US Public Records (KGV2-WN9) and Find a Grave index; the twin C. C. Caffey carries the same birth date (K597-YR5). Death 17 Dec 2017, burial Liberty Hill, Williamson Co. is PROBABLE-strong: Find a Grave index only (CVJ8-KSPZ), no obituary or death index read. Birthplace given only as Texas. Wife and children not yet in this record. Added to the family tree on Earl’s approval of 4 October 2026.
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Death1924
Harrol B. Caffey: born 27 Jun 1924 in Texas; died 17 Dec 2017 in Liberty Hill, Williamson, Texas
Census1930
In 1930 he was 5, beside his twin Carrol, in his parents’ house on the Austin–Bastrop Road S1223; in 1940, as “Harold”, 15, at 2406 Santa Rita, Austin S1224
Census1950
In April 1950 Harrol B. Caffey, 25, married, was a clerk with the U.S. Army State Military District, living with his wife in her parents’ house at 1400 Morgan Lane, Travis County S1382. His wife was Frances T. Anderson (below); she is named only, because she may be living.
Census1953
The 1953 Austin city directory lists him as an assistant county auditor, at 2003 Arpdale, on the same page as his parents “Jas C (Ebber)” and his brother “Woodrow W (Eula I)” S1383
Census1987
In January 1987 he was living in Austin: the obituary of his brother Woodrow names “Harold Caffey” of Austin among three surviving brothers Probable confirm or correct → (the spelling Harold is the newspaper’s, as in the 1940 census) S1712
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History of this card. 13 Oct 2026
one note on this card ended with the words “added” and a date; it was added on: 4 Oct 2026 (1 note). The dated endings were taken off, and nothing else in the notes was changed.

Family

Parents
Son of James Clinton Caffey and Ebber Lou Owens Caffey
Marriage
He married Frances T. Anderson; John K. Beery, minister of Ward Memorial Methodist Church, performed the ceremony. The date and place are not given here, because she may be living S1464

Open questions

Weak or missing
What is weak or missing: his death is PROBABLE only: 17 December 2017 at Liberty Hill comes from a Find a Grave index entry, with no obituary or death index read; his birthplace is given only as Texas. Know more? Use “Add to this record”.

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Woodrow Willard Caffey

Confirmed

Son of James Clinton Caffey · 1917–1987

Born
29 Mar 1917
Parents
James Clinton Caffey & Ebber Lou Owens Caffey
Children
Johnnie Van Caffey, Patricia Joyce Caffey
Sources
9

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED. Son of James Clinton Caffey and Ebber Lou Owens. Sources: 1930 census, Precinct 6, Travis Co. (FamilySearch HKYY-9PZ): Woodrow, 13, son of J. C. and Ebber Caffey; WWII draft registration 16 Oct 1940 (QL3N-H26K): Woodrow Willard Caffey, b. Salado, Tex., person named James Clinton Caffey; Texas Death Index (JVTJ-CM9): d. 1 Jan 1987, Bastrop Co.; SSDI (J12G-S3K): b. 29 Mar 1917; his obituary of 3 January 1987: interment at Haynie Chapel Cemetery, Garfield, Travis Co., which agrees with the Find a Grave index (QV2Z-44K8). His wife, Eula Irene Etheredge, is named below from their 1937 marriage licence. Added to the family tree on Earl’s approval of 4 October 2026.
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Death1917
Woodrow Willard Caffey: born 29 Mar 1917 in Salado, Bell, Texas; died 1 Jan 1987 in Bastrop, Texas
Census1930
In 1930 he was 13, at home with his parents on the Austin–Bastrop Road, Travis County S1223
Census1940
In October 1940 he was a carpenter living at 2211 Haskell Street, Austin S1225
Census1940
In April 1940 he was 23, a carpenter in building construction, living with his wife Irene, 22, and their daughter, 2, in the house of her parents, Thomas L. and Artie P. Etheredge, at 2115 Haskell Street, Austin; his employer, the roofer Walter M. Johnson, lived next door S1380
Census1950
In April 1950 Woodrow W. Caffey, 33, a carpenter, headed his own household in Austin with his wife Eula I., 31, their son James W., 9, their son Johnnie, born the October before, two daughters, and his widowed mother-in-law Artie Etheredge, 57 S1381
Census1953
The 1953 Austin city directory lists “Woodrow W (Eula I) carp h1121 Henninger” S1383
Military1987
He died on the evening of Thursday 1 January 1987, aged 69, “of Bastrop, formerly a resident of Austin”: a retired construction superintendent, a Methodist, and a U.S. Army veteran of the Second World War. The funeral was on Monday 5 January at Hyltin-Manor Funeral Chapel, the Rev. C. D. Etheridge officiating, with interment at Haynie Chapel Cemetery, Garfield Confirmed S1712. The paper says he and his wife, “Irene Etheridge Caffey”, would have kept their 50th wedding anniversary on 3 January 1987, which agrees with the licence of 1937. A son and three daughters survived him, with three brothers, “Kirk Caffey of Del Rio” and Harold and Carroll Caffey of Austin, and two sisters, Dorothy Hibler and Lola Pearl Leach of Austin. Harold is Harrol B. Caffey; Kirk is very probably his brother Carey Clabourn Caffey, who lived at Del Rio.
Burial2026
History of this card: 11 Oct 2026
the status line’s “burial Garfield (Find a Grave index)” and “wife and children not yet in this record” replaced from the 1987 obituary (S1712) and the 1937 licence (S1379).

Family

Parents
Son of James Clinton Caffey and Ebber Lou Owens Caffey
Children1949
His son Johnnie Van Caffey, born 10 October 1949 at Austin, a printer-bookbinder, died after a car accident on 20 November 1979 and was buried at Haynie Chapel Cemetery; Woodrow signed the certificate, so he was living in November 1979 S1226
Marriage1937
On 3 January 1937 he married Eula Irene Etheredge at Corpus Christi, Nueces County; the Rev. R. O. Cawker officiated, and the licence, no. 14384, had been issued on 31 December 1936 S1379. The licence spells her surname Etheregge.
Children
His daughter with Eula Irene Etheredge was Patricia Joyce Caffey; she is named only, because she may be living S1488

Open questions

Weak or missing
What is weak or missing: his wife, Eula Irene Etheredge (born about 1918), is now named from their 1937 marriage and the 1940 and 1950 censuses, and his son James W. from the 1950 census; his daughter Patricia Joyce is named below from the Texas birth index, without dates, and his other daughters (his obituary counts three) are not named; they may be living. His obituary was read as newspaper text, not from the page image. Know more? Use “Add to this record”.

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James Elmo Caffey

Confirmed

Son of James Clinton Caffey · 1929–1963

Born
22 Jun 1929
Parents
James Clinton Caffey & Ebber Lou Owens Caffey
Married
Norma Gayle Schrader
Sources
6

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED. Son of James Clinton Caffey and Ebber Lou Owens. Sources: Texas birth certificate (FamilySearch VH81-1R6): James Elmo, b. 22 Jun 1929, Del Valle, Travis Co., father James C., mother Ebber Owens; Texas death record (FamilySearch KSBJ-BHL): James Elmo Caffey, d. 12 Apr 1963 Austin, parents J. C. Caffey and Ebber Owens; Texas Death Index VZ61-LNT agrees; burial Garfield, Travis Co. (Find a Grave index QVKM-FXDP); the 1963 headstone application below names the cemetery as Haynie Chapel, Del Valle. Spouse not yet in this record. Added to the family tree on Earl’s approval of 4 October 2026.
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Death1929
James Elmo Caffey: born 22 Jun 1929 in Del Valle, Travis, Texas; died 12 Apr 1963 in Austin, Travis, Texas
Military1950
He served in the U.S. Air Force from 1 August 1950 to 31 July 1954, when he was honorably discharged as a technical sergeant in the 808th Air Base Group, with the Korean Service Medal. In May 1963 his father, James C. Caffey, applied for a flat granite veteran’s marker for his grave at Haynie Chapel Cemetery, Del Valle S1362
Birth
His birth certificate, read from the image (the registrar wrote Coffey), shows that his mother Ebber Owens, 40, born at Leander, had borne eleven children, nine of them living, and that his father James C., 50, was a farmer born in Bastrop County S1374
Record1963
The Texas death index gives his 1963 death certificate as state file no. 27945, Travis County S1375
Birth1929
The 1929 Texas birth index lists him as “Coffey, James Elmo”, Travis County, 22 June, as on his certificate S1399
Death
His death certificate, state file no. 27945, gives the cause of death as suicide by carbon monoxide. It describes him as divorced, a city employee, living at 4804 Manchaca Road, Austin; the informant was his brother Harrol Caffey S1478
Record2026
History of this card. 13 Oct 2026
one note on this card ended with the words “added” and a date; it was added on: 4 Oct 2026 (1 note). The dated endings were taken off, and nothing else in the notes was changed.

Family

Parents
Son of James Clinton Caffey and Ebber Lou Owens Caffey
Marriage
His wife was Norma Gayle Schrader (below); she is named only, because she may be living. Know more? Use “Add to this record”.
Marriage1949
He married Norma Gayle Schrader; John K. Beery, the Methodist minister who married his brother Harrol in 1949, performed the ceremony. She is named only, and the date and place are not given, because she may be living S1477

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James Crutcher Lewis

Confirmed

Son of Harry Randolph Lewis · born 1910

Born
19 May 1910
Died
Not found
Parents
Harry Randolph Lewis & Ethel Florence Logue Lewis
Sources
3

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED. Son of Harry Randolph Lewis and Ethel Florence Logue; ’Crutcher’ is his grandfather Dan Crutcher Logue’s middle name. Sources: Texas birth certificate (FamilySearch VHZV-Z94): b. 19 May [1910], Cuero, DeWitt Co., father Harry Lewis, mother Ethel Logue; WWII draft registration, Sherman, 16 Oct 1940 (QL3X-NMMR): James Crutcher Lewis, b. 19 May 1910 Cuero, contact Harry Randolph Lewis; 1920, 1930 and 1940 censuses, Sherman, in the household of Harry R. and Ethel F. Lewis. Death not found: the James W. Lewis 1910-2004 Social Security entries name no parents and are NOT accepted. Born 1910; marked deceased, no death date entered. Added to the family tree on Earl’s approval of 4 October 2026.
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Birth1910
Born 19 May 1910 in Cuero, DeWitt, Texas
Census1940
In April 1940 he was 29, single, a quill skinner at the Sherman cotton mill, living with his parents at 207 Forest Avenue S1385
Record1940
On his 1940 draft card, read from the image, he gave 207 Forrest Avenue, Sherman, and the Sherman Manufacturing Co. as his employer, with his father as his contact; he signed with his mark, witnessed by his father S1386
Birth1910
His birth certificate, read from the image, is no. 48213: a male child Lewis, not yet named, born 19 May at Cuero to Harry Lewis, a laborer, and Ethel Logue, reported by Dr. W. R. Gillett of Cuero S1394. The certificate gives no year; the state index files it with the 1910 births.
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History of this card. 13 Oct 2026
one note on this card ended with the words “added” and a date; it was added on: 4 Oct 2026 (1 note). The dated endings were taken off, and nothing else in the notes was changed.

Family

Parents
Son of Harry Randolph Lewis and Ethel Florence Logue Lewis

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Weak or missing
What is weak or missing: his death has not been found. A James W. Lewis 1910–2004 in the Social Security files names no parents and is not accepted. Know more? Use “Add to this record”.

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Eva Gold

Confirmed

Daughter of Anna Bell Caffey Gold · 1894–1990

Sources
3

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED daughter of Henry L. Gold and Anna Bell Caffey Gold. Evidence: the 1910 census of Caldwell County, Texas, read from the image, has Eva, daughter, 15, in the household of Henry L. and Anna Gold S1092; “Evia Gold” married John Whittington in Caldwell County on 18 December 1911 S1656; and her mother’s obituary of May 1949 names a daughter Mrs. J. M. Whittington of Kyle S1552. Added to the family tree on 10 October 2026
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Record1894
The family tree enters her birth as 3 September 1894 in Texas and her death as 3 January 1990, both taken from a Social Security index entry that names no parent; that entry has no source number here and was not re-read for this card

Family

Siblings
Her brothers and sister with cards: James Elmo Gold, Alvie Van Gold (Probable) and Myrtle Gold.

Open questions

Weak or missing
What is weak or missing: the marriage was read from the index, not the register, and names no parent of the bride; the index spells her Evia; the obituary gives only her married name; no death certificate or obituary of hers has been read. No child of hers is named here. Know more? Use “Add to this record”.

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Myrtle Gold

Confirmed

Daughter of Anna Bell Caffey Gold · 1902–1986

Sources
4

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED daughter of Henry L. Gold and Anna Bell Caffey Gold. Evidence: the 1910 census of Caldwell County, Texas, read from the image, has Myrtle, daughter, 8, in the household of Henry L. and Anna Gold S1092; she was still at home in Hays County in 1920 S731; Myrtle Gold married August R. Woodall at Lockhart on 14 November 1920 S1656; and her mother’s obituary of May 1949 names a daughter Mrs. Gus Woodall of Austin S1552. Added to the family tree on 10 October 2026
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Record1902
The family tree enters her birth as 27 May 1902 in Texas and her death as November 1986, both taken from a Social Security index entry that names no parent; that entry has no source number here and was not re-read for this card

Family

Siblings
Her brothers and sister with cards: James Elmo Gold, Alvie Van Gold (Probable) and Eva Gold.

Open questions

Weak or missing
What is weak or missing: the marriage was read from the index, not the register, and names no parent of the bride; the obituary gives only her married name; no death certificate or obituary of hers has been read. No child of hers is named here. Know more? Use “Add to this record”.

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Carey Clabourn Caffey

Probable

Son of James Clinton Caffey · 1911–1989

Born
15 Feb 1911
Parents
James Clinton Caffey & Ebber Lou Owens Caffey
Sources
2

Research status

Research status: PROBABLE. Son of James Clinton Caffey and Ebber Lou Owens, Probable and strong. Every record behind this card was read as index text, not from an image: the Texas birth index (FamilySearch 4LJ4-CCPZ) names Carey Clabourn Caffey, born 15 Feb 1911 in Bastrop County, with father James Clinton Caffey and mother Ebber Lutilia Owens; the 1930 census index has Carey, 19, a son in the household of J. C. Caffey in Precinct 6, Travis County; his draft card index of 16 Oct 1940 gives Elgin as his birthplace and Del Rio as his home; the Find a Grave index gives 15 Feb 1911 – 20 Apr 1989 and Haynie Chapel Cemetery, Garfield. S1713 Added to the family tree on 11 October 2026.
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Evidence: The Texas birth index names Carey Clabourn Caffey, born 15 February 1911 in Bastrop County, with father James Clinton Caffey and mother Ebber Lutilia Owens; the 1930 census index has Carey, 19, a son in J. C. Caffey's household in Travis County; his 1940 draft card index gives Elgin as his birthplace and Del Rio as his home; the Find a Grave index gives 15 February 1911 to 20 April 1989, Haynie Chapel Cemetery, Garfield; his brother Woodrow's 1987 obituary names a brother Kirk Caffey of Del Rio (S1712). Weak or missing: Every record is read from an index, none from an image; the index of his obituary dates the death three days later than Find a Grave, and the obituary itself is unread; that he was the Kirk of 1987 rests on the Del Rio residence and the obituary index's Carey Kirk Caffey. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Life

Death1911
Carey Clabourn Caffey: born 15 Feb 1911 in Elgin, Bastrop, Texas and died 20 Apr 1989
Census1987
He is very probably the “Kirk Caffey of Del Rio” named among the surviving brothers in the 1987 obituary of Woodrow Willard Caffey S1712: he lived at Del Rio in the 1940 and 1950 census indexes, and the index of his own 1989 obituary calls him “Carey Kirk Caffey” Probable confirm or correct → S1713

Family

Parents
Son of James Clinton Caffey and Ebber Lou Owens Caffey

Open questions

Weak or missing
What is weak or missing: none of his records has been read from an image; the obituary index dates his death three days later than the Find a Grave index, and the obituary text, which would settle it, is unread; no place of death is on file. His wife and children are not named here because no death record is on file for them and they may be living. Know more? Use “Add to this record”.

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Dorothy Mabel Caffey Hibler

Probable

Daughter of James Clinton Caffey · 1922–2013

Born
24 Sep 1922
Parents
James Clinton Caffey & Ebber Lou Owens Caffey
Sources
3

Research status

Research status: PROBABLE. Daughter of James Clinton Caffey and Ebber Lou Owens, Probable and strong. Her birth and parents are read from an image: the delayed Texas birth certificate of Dorothy Mable Caffey, born 24 Sep 1922 at Salado, names her father as James Cleburne Caffey and her mother as Ebber Owens S1397. That this child is the Dorothy Hibler who died in 2013 rests on indexes only: the obituary index (FamilySearch XMRZ-3Y69) and the Find a Grave index give Dorothy Mabel Caffey Hibler, born 24 Sep 1922 at Salado, died 22 Aug 2013 at Kyle, buried at Austin. S1715 Added to the family tree on 11 October 2026.
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Evidence: The delayed Texas birth certificate, read from the image, records Dorothy Mable Caffey, born 24 September 1922 at Salado, daughter of James Cleburne Caffey and Ebber Owens (S1397); the obituary index and the Find a Grave index give Dorothy Mabel Caffey Hibler, born 24 September 1922 at Salado, died 22 August 2013 at Kyle, buried at Austin; her brother Woodrow's 1987 obituary names a sister Dorothy Hibler of Austin (S1712). Weak or missing: Her death, burial and married name are read from indexes only, and the 2013 obituary text is unread; the birth certificate was filed late, in 1959, on her mother's oath, and spells the name Mable. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Life

Death1922
Dorothy Mabel Caffey Hibler: born 24 Sep 1922 in Salado, Bell, Texas and died 22 Aug 2013 in Kyle, Hays, Texas
Death1987
She is the “Dorothy Hibler of Austin” named among the surviving sisters in the 1987 obituary of her brother Woodrow Willard Caffey S1712; that she is the same woman is probable, not proved. The birth certificate spells her second name Mable; the 2013 indexes spell it Mabel, which stands here.

Family

Parents
Daughter of James Clinton Caffey and Ebber Lou Owens Caffey

Open questions

Weak or missing
What is weak or missing: her death, burial and married name are read from indexes, and the text of the 2013 obituary is unread. Her husband and children are not named here because no death record is on file for them and they may be living. Know more? Use “Add to this record”.

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Lola Pearl Caffey Leach

Probable

Daughter of James Clinton Caffey · 1920–2003

Born
16 Jun 1920
Parents
James Clinton Caffey & Ebber Lou Owens Caffey
Sources
2

Research status

Research status: PROBABLE. Daughter of James Clinton Caffey and Ebber Lou Owens, Probable and strong. Every record behind this card was read as index text, not from an image: the Social Security Numident index (FamilySearch 6K7J-6XZQ) gives her birth on 16 Jun 1920 at Salado, Bell County, her death on 8 Jul 2003, her father as James C Caffey and her mother as “Ebben L Owens”; the 1930 census index has Lola P., 9, a daughter in the household of J. C. Caffey in Precinct 6, Travis County; the Social Security Death Index and the Find a Grave index give the same dates, with burial at Garfield, Travis County. S1714 Added to the family tree on 11 October 2026.
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Evidence: The Social Security Numident index gives her birth on 16 June 1920 at Salado, Bell County, her death on 8 July 2003, and her parents as James C Caffey and Ebben L Owens; the 1930 census index has Lola P., 9, a daughter in J. C. Caffey's household in Travis County; the Social Security Death Index and the Find a Grave index give the same dates, with burial at Garfield; her brother Woodrow's 1987 obituary names a sister Lola Pearl Leach of Austin (S1712). Weak or missing: Every record is read from an index, none from an image; the Numident index enters her under the surname Schmidt, which is unexplained; Manchaca is her last residence, used as the place of death; no marriage record has been searched. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Life

Death1920
Lola Pearl Caffey Leach: born 16 Jun 1920 in Salado, Bell, Texas and died 8 Jul 2003 in Manchaca, Travis, Texas
Death1987
She is the “Lola Pearl Leach of Austin” named among the surviving sisters in the 1987 obituary of her brother Woodrow Willard Caffey S1712; that she is the same woman is probable, not proved

Family

Parents
Daughter of James Clinton Caffey and Ebber Lou Owens Caffey

Open questions

Weak or missing
What is weak or missing: none of her records has been read from an image; the Numident index enters her under the surname “Schmidt”, which is not explained and may be an earlier or later married name; Manchaca is her last residence in the Social Security index and stands here as the place of death for want of a better record. Her husband and children are not named here because no death record is on file for them and they may be living. Know more? Use “Add to this record”.

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William Olan Walker

Confirmed

Son of Daniel Jonah Walker · born 1915

Born
8 April 1915
Died
18 February 2002
Parents
Daniel Jonah Walker & Nettie Ellen Cleveland
Children
Thomas William Walker
Sources
7

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED — from a record that names the parents; entered in the family tree.
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Birth1915
Born 8 April 1915, Lolita, Jackson County, Texas; Olan, 15, the eldest, in the 1930 household S209S87
Death2002
Died 18 February 2002; his Social Security record names both parents
Military1940
His 1940 draft card: of Edna, Jackson County, born 8 April 1915 at Lolita; his wife was Mrs. Erma Lee Walker S539.
Census1940
In the 1940 census he was an auto-repair mechanic in Edna, 24, with his wife Erma Lee, 19, a cafe waitress whose mother was born in Germany S567.
Census1950
In 1950 he was an electrician at Hobbs, Lea County, New Mexico, 35, with Erma Lee, 29, and two young children; the family had been in Jackson County, Texas, in 1949 S585.
Census1951
The 1951 Hobbs directory lists him with Erma L. at 508 West Lea, a groundman for New Mexico Electric Service S745.
Record2026
History of this card. 13 Oct 2026
5 notes on this card ended with the words “added” and a date; they were added on: 25 Sep 2026 (3 notes), 26 Sep 2026 (2 notes). The dated endings were taken off, and nothing else in the notes was changed. 13 Oct 2026 — the “Research status” line gave the day this card was added and entered in the family tree, 24 Sep 2026. The date was taken out of the sentence and stands here only; no fact or grade was changed.

Family

Parents
Son of Daniel Jonah Walker and Nettie Ellen Cleveland; brother of Clarence Melvin Walker
Children1947
His son Thomas William Walker was born in Jackson County, Texas, on 11 September 1947. The birth index gives the mother's maiden name as Irma Lee Norcross, which is Erma Lee's maiden name S705.

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Catherine Mary Walker Bradley

Confirmed

Daughter of Daniel Jonah Walker · born 1923

Born
10 March 1923
Died
23 June 1998
Buried
in Kopperl Cemetery
Parents
Daniel Jonah Walker & Nettie Ellen Cleveland
Married
Robert Sidney Bradley
Sources
21

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED — from a record that names the parents; entered in the family tree.
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Life

Birth1923
Born 10 March 1923, Jackson County, Texas; Mary, 7, in the 1930 household S209
Death1998
Died 23 June 1998; her Social Security record names both parents
Death1998
Died 23 June 1998 at Cleburne, Johnson County, Texas, a widow, aged 75; she lived at Kopperl, Bosque County Confirmed S1322 S1324 S1325
Burial
Buried in Kopperl Cemetery, Kopperl, Bosque County, Texas (Find a Grave 16247883) Confirmed S1323 S1324
Military1921
The Mack C. Bradley born 2 December 1921 at Plainview, probably her fourth husband, was the son of Guy Bradley, a cotton ginner and World War veteran, and Lela M., of O’Donnell, Lynn County; in 1940 he was 18, in his first year of college, and in 1942 he was working for Consolidated Aircraft in San Diego S1405 S1406 S1407
Census1950
In April 1950 Sid, 36, was entered as divorced, a carrier salesman for a meat packer, living with his widowed mother at 1519 Vee St., Fort Worth. This does not fit the family’s date of about 1947 for his marriage to Catherine, and the conflict is not yet resolved S1415
Census1956
Possible, not confirmed: A 1956 Lubbock directory lists a Mack C. Bradley, a Pioneer Natural Gas repairman, with a wife (not named, as she may be living) (Ancestry record 391144300); it fits the Plainview- and O’Donnell-born Mack, but nothing ties the two. What would settle it: his 1984 death certificate or obituary. Separately, the 1931 Fort Worth directory has two Sidney Bradleys, neither at the family’s Highland Avenue address (Ancestry record 398629377), so neither is taken as Robert Sidney. What would settle it: a directory line also listing Pattie or J. B. Bradley at the same address.
Record2026
History of this card. The notes on this card that carried a “new” mark were added on these days: 1 Oct 2026 (1 note), 5 Oct 2026 (5 notes). The marks and their dates were taken off on 12 Oct 2026, and nothing in the notes was changed. 13 Oct 2026
the “Research status” line gave the day this card was added and entered in the family tree, 24 Sep 2026. The date was taken out of the sentence and stands here only; no fact or grade was changed.

Family

Parents
Daughter of Daniel Jonah Walker and Nettie Ellen Cleveland; sister of Clarence Melvin Walker
Names
Name: her records call her Catherine Mary (Catherine M., Catherine W.); the family and the newspapers called her Mary, and the family remembers her as “Mary Katherine”. She went by her middle name. S1322 S1324
Marriage2026
Her marriages, as far as the records go (a niece’s family statement, 2026, said four, S1315):
1. First husband
not yet identified.
2. Robert Sidney “Sid” Bradley (19 February 1913, Hillsboro – 9 July 1969, Fort Worth; buried Mount Olivet, Fort Worth) Confirmed S1124 S1326. The family puts the marriage about 1947; no marriage record yet.
3. Loyd Robert Boydstun (1924–1985), married June 1971 in Tarrant County, divorced 29 June 1973 Confirmed S1327 S1328. The county book says 9 June, the state index 2 June.
4. Mack C. Bradley, married 10 August 1973 in Tarrant County Confirmed; probably the Mack C. Bradley of Port Lavaca (2 December 1921 – 14 June 1984, died Victoria County, buried Lolita) Probable confirm or correct → S1329. Weak or missing: no record yet names her as Mack’s widow, and the first husband and the Sid Bradley marriage date are unknown.
Marriage1953
She married Robert Sidney Bradley. The state birth index names them as the parents of Dorothy Jean Bradley, born in Tarrant County in 1953 Confirmed S1124.
Marriage1940
Her second husband Robert Sidney “Sid” Bradley registered for the draft in 1940 at 1002 Park St., Fort Worth, working for Swift Company, with his mother Mrs. Pattie Bradley as his contact; that April he was single, 27, a truck driver at a meat-packing plant, living there with his widowed mother Patty O. Bradley, 57, born Alabama S1408 S1409
Marriage1615
Her second husband Sid Bradley grew up in Fort Worth as the son of J. B. Bradley, a livestock commission man, and Pattie, born Alabama: at 1615 Lincoln Ave. in 1920, with a sister Dale, and at 1867 Highland Ave. in 1930, aged 17 and at school S1413 S1414

Open questions

Probable
Probable confirm or correct → Family statement: a niece recalls that “Aunt Mary” married at least four times, and that her second and fourth husbands were both named Bradley S1315. Records now show Robert Sidney Bradley was the 2nd and Mack C. Bradley the 4th, with Loyd Robert Boydstun between them (see above); the first husband is not yet identified. Weak or missing: the Boydstun marriage and divorce and the Mack Bradley marriage are now on record (S1327–S1329), but there is still no marriage record for Sid Bradley (the family says about 1947) and nothing yet on the first husband.
Probable
Probable confirm or correct → Her third husband was probably the Lloyd R. Boydstun, 25, of Fort Worth in 1950, a carpenter’s helper for a building contractor, with a wife Mary J. and daughters Beverly J. and Rosemary, who are named only. Weak: name, age and city only. Know more? Use “Add to this record” S1467
Probable
Probable confirm or correct → In 1929 a Sidney Bradley was vice-president of his low-sophomore auditorium class at North Side High School, Fort Worth, very probably her second husband Sid Bradley. Weak: name and class only. Know more? Use “Add to this record” S1468

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Dorothy Freda Kretschmar

Confirmed

Daughter of Hattie Elizabeth Ladusch · stepdaughter of Willie Frank Kretschmar · born 1920

Born
30 December 1920
Died
15 August 2003
Parents
Hattie Elizabeth Ladusch & Willie Frank Kretschmar
Sources
6
Images
1

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED — read from her own birth certificate S665.
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Life

Birth1920
Born 30 December 1920 at 1617 Willow Street, Austin, Texas, as Dorothy Wolter S665; Dorothy, 9, at 1911 East First Street in 1930 S251
Death2003
Died 15 August 2003. Her 1937 Social Security application names Willie Kretschmar as her father: she filled it in at 16 and named the stepfather who raised her

Family

Parents
Daughter of William P. Wolter and Hattie Elizabeth Ladusch; stepdaughter of Willie Frank Kretschmar; half-sister of Lucille Lorine Kretschmar
Parents2026
History of this card. 26 Sep 2026
this card had called her Willie Kretschmar’s daughter; corrected from her birth certificate (S665), which names William P. Wolter as her father. 13 Oct 2026 — the “Research status” line gave the day this card was added, 24 Sep 2026. The date was taken out of the sentence and stands here only; no fact or grade was changed.

Open questions

Open question
⚠️ Willie Kretschmar was her stepfather, not her father. Her birth certificate, made at the time, names her father as William P. Wolter, 25, a farmer born in Travis County, and her mother as Liessi Ladusch; she was her mother’s first child S665. Willie Kretschmar married “Mrs. Liessi Wolter” in October 1923 S225 and raised her from the age of two.
Probable
Probable confirm or correct → In April 1940 she was probably the “Dorthy” Krauss, 19, on Water Street, La Grange, Fayette County, with her husband Winston Krauss, a grocery truck driver, and their son Doyle; in 1935 the couple had lived in rural Lee County. Weak: first name and age only. Know more? Use “Add to this record” S1474
Probable
Probable confirm or correct → In 1950 she was probably the Dorothy Krauss, 29, on Main Street, La Grange, with Winston, a wholesale-grocery food salesman, and their children Doyle, Karen Jo and Sharon Kay, who are named only because they may be living. Weak: given name, age and Texas birth only. Know more? Use “Add to this record” S1473
Probable
Probable confirm or correct → On 13 March 1954, as Mrs. Dorothy Freda Krauss, she probably married Marcel Frank Girard at St. Martin’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, Austin. Weak: no maiden name or parents on the page; the first and middle names carry the link. Know more? Use “Add to this record” S1472

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