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Generation 5 — Kristin's 2nd-great-grandparents
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Generation 5 — Kristin's 2nd-great-grandparents
32 people
Hooper Van Caffey
ConfirmedFather of Thomas Walton Caffey Sr. · born 1832
- Born
- October 1832
- Died
- at Lockhart, Caldwell County, Texas
- Parents
- Charles Caffey
- Married
- Amanda Melvina Griffin
- Children
- Thomas Walton Caffey Sr., Anna Bell Caffey Gold, James Clinton Caffey
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- 12
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- 6
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Amanda Melvina Griffin
ConfirmedMother of Thomas Walton Caffey Sr. · born 1850
- Born
- 1 April 1850
- Married
- Hooper Van Caffey
- Children
- Thomas Walton Caffey Sr., James Clinton Caffey
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- 13
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Melton Cleaveland
ConfirmedFather of Nettie Ellen Cleveland
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Nancy Jane Higginbotham Walker
ConfirmedKristin's 2nd great-grandmother · 1864–1953
- Born
- 19 October 1864, Alabama
- Died
- 3 January 1953 at Lolita, Jackson County, Texas
- Buried
- at Lolita Cemetery
- Parents
- Milton Rogers
- Children
- Daniel Jonah Walker, Willie Easter (Walker) Petrich, Ruth (Walker) Moody Thedford, Naomi Elizabeth (Walker) Rogers, Willie E. (Walker) Petrich, Ruth (Walker) Moody and 4 more
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Maude Melville Warner
ConfirmedMother of Nettie Ellen Cleveland
- Born
- about 1877
- Parents
- Ella (Shreckengost) Warner
- Married
- Melton Cleaveland
- Children
- Nettie Ellen Cleveland
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- 6
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- 2
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Julia (Lone) Selland
ConfirmedMother of Gertie Selma Selland
- Married
- Mons Selland
- Children
- Gertie Selma Selland
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Mons Selland
ConfirmedFather of Gertie Selma Selland · born 1868, Røldal, Norway
- Born
- 9 May 1868
- Died
- Not found
- Married
- Julia Lone
- Children
- Gertie Selma Selland
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- 16
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Julius Franz Kretschmar
TexasConfirmedKristin's 2nd great-grandfather · 1851–1946
- Born
- 21 June 1851
- Died
- 27 July 1946
- Buried
- at Salem Cemetery
- Children
- Willie Frank "Will" Kretschmar, Clara Frances Kretschmar Semff, Elsie Lena Kretschmar Peterson, Lizzie Kretschmar Rojas, Minnie, Max W. Kretschmar
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- 8
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Otto Paul Ladusch
ConfirmedKristin's 2nd great-grandfather · 1873–1958
- Born
- 30 March 1873, Germany
- Died
- 26 December 1958
- Buried
- Oakwood Cemetery
- Parents
- Traugott Ladusch & Johanna Sille (Selle)
- Married
- Emma Stein
- Children
- Hattie Elizabeth "Liessi" Ladusch
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- 10
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Emma Stein Ladusch
ConfirmedKristin's 2nd great-grandmother · 1875–1952
- Born
- 21 March 1875, Texas
- Died
- 30 March 1952, Austin
- Buried
- Oakwood Cemetery
- Married
- Otto Paul Ladusch
- Children
- Hattie Elizabeth "Liessi" Ladusch
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- 7
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Charles Owens
ArkansasConfirmedKristin's 2nd great-grandfather · 1863–1939
- Born
- March 1863, Arkansas
- Died
- 6 July 1939
- Parents
- Joseph Owens & China Parton
- Married
- Alice Rachell Waldon
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- 14
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Alice Walden
ConfirmedKristin's 2nd great-grandmother · 1867–1958
- Born
- 14 September 1867
- Parents
- Wm. Mathis Waldon
- Married
- C. W. Owens
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- 12
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Edward Raymond Piland
ConfirmedFather of Orbin Oliver Piland · married 1883
- Born
- 12 January 1859
- Died
- 2 July 1932
- Married
- Virginia Francis "Jennie" Montgomery
- Children
- Orbin Oliver Piland, Myrtle Mae Piland Nance
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- 15
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Virginia Francis “Jennie” Montgomery
ConfirmedMother of Orbin Oliver Piland · 1858–1927
- Born
- August 1858
- Died
- on 25 September 1927 near Buda, Hays County
- Married
- Edward Raymond Piland
- Children
- Orbin Oliver Piland, Myrtle Mae Piland Nance
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- 9
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Dan Crutcher Logue
ProbableFather of Mabel Logue Piland · 1858–1939
- Born
- 24 November 1858
- Died
- 11 April 1939
- Married
- Virginia Alice Hamby
- Children
- Mabel Logue Piland, Leola Logue Piland, Victor Quillen Logue, Ethel Florence Logue Lewis, Lee Marvin Logue, Halbert Logue
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- 22
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Evidence: The index of his daughter Mabel's 1961 Texas death certificate names her father as D. C. Logue; in 1900 at Waco, read from the image, D. C. Logue, born November 1857, a grocery salesman, heads a household with his wife Virginia A. and their daughter Mable, 4; the Calhoun County, Alabama, marriage register, read from the image, has D. C. Logue marrying Virginia Alice Hamby on 2 April 1890; in 1910 at Cuero he is Dan C. Logue, 52, manager of a cotton mill, with Virginia and Mabel, 14, and in 1920 in Grayson County “Doctor C.” Logue, 60, born in Tennessee; a Find a Grave memorial gives his full name, Dan Crutcher Logue, and his dates, 24 November 1858 to 11 April 1939, buried at Sherman, Texas; the 1860, 1870 and 1880 Tennessee censuses, read from the images, have a Crutcher Logue aged 1, 12 (a mill spinner) and 21, in the households of H. D. and Mary A. Logue and then with a wife Jennie; the 1921 Sherman directory (S1300) has D. Crutcher Logue, assistant superintendent of the Diamond Mill Co., with Virginia A. and Marvin, and the 1987 death certificate of Lee Marvin Logue (S1301) names his father as Doctor Crutcher Logue. Weak or missing: The name Dan and his exact dates rest on Find a Grave alone, and nothing read yet ties the Tennessee Crutcher to the Waco D. C. Logue except name, age and mill work; the 1860 and 1870 censuses do not state relationships, so his parents are not proven; the 1880 wife Jennie, 19, cannot be Virginia, born 1867, and is not identified; and the 1900 census gives his birth as November 1857, a year earlier; his daughter’s death certificate is read from its index only; and the 1930 census calls his wife Virginia a widow, which sits against a death in 1939. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →
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The notes on this card that carried a “new” mark were added on these days: 30 Sep 2026 (1 note), 1 Oct 2026 (3 notes), 2 Oct 2026 (1 note). The marks and their dates were taken off on 12 Oct 2026, and nothing in the notes was changed. 4 Oct 2026 — a child line added to this card; the “new” mark and the date were taken off the line on 12 Oct 2026, with no fact or grade changed.
13 Oct 2026 — “now read from the image” reworded to “read from the image”; the statement and its source are unchanged.
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Virginia Alice Hamby
ProbableMother of Mabel Logue Piland · born 1867
- Born
- July 1867
- Married
- Dan Crutcher Logue
- Children
- Mabel Logue Piland, Leola Logue Piland, Victor Quillen Logue, Ethel Florence Logue Lewis, Lee Marvin Logue, Halbert Logue
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- 13
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Evidence: In 1930 at Austin, read from the image, Virginia Logue, 62, widowed, born in Tennessee, lives with her daughter Mable Piland as Mable's mother; in 1900 at Waco, read from the image, Virginia A., born July 1867 in Tennessee, is the wife of D. C. Logue with their daughter Mable, born October 1895; the Calhoun County, Alabama, marriage register, read from the image, records the marriage of D. C. Logue and Virginia Alice Hamby on 2 April 1890; in 1910 she is at Cuero with Dan C. Logue and Mabel, 14, and in 1920 in Grayson County with him; in April 1950, read from the image, Virginia Logue, 81, widowed, born in Tennessee, is at Howe, Grayson County, as the mother-in-law of Harry R. Lewis, whose wife Ethel was born in Alabama about 1891; the 1921 Sherman directory (S1300) has D. Crutcher and Virginia A. Logue at 214 Staples with Marvin, and the 1987 Washington death certificate of their son Lee Marvin Logue (S1301) names his parents as Doctor Crutcher Logue and Virginia Alice. Weak or missing: The Hamby family has not been researched, so her parents are not found; her death is not found, though the 1950 census shows her alive; the 1930 census calls her a widow, which does not fit the 1939 death Find a Grave gives her husband; no record read here names her daughter Ethel as a Logue. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →
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The notes on this card that carried a “new” mark were added on these days: 30 Sep 2026 (1 note), 1 Oct 2026 (2 notes), 2 Oct 2026 (1 note). The marks and their dates were taken off on 12 Oct 2026, and nothing in the notes was changed. 4 Oct 2026 — a child line added to this card; the “new” mark and the date were taken off the line on 12 Oct 2026, with no fact or grade changed.
13 Oct 2026 — “now read from the image” reworded to “read from the image”; the statement and its source are unchanged.
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James L. Montgomery
ConfirmedBrother of Virginia Francis Montgomery · 1866–1932
- Born
- 28 December 1866
- Died
- 8 February 1932
- Buried
- at Union Cemetery near Sample
- Parents
- James P. Montgomery
- Married
- Elizabeth L. Billings
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- 13
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Elizabeth Billings
ProbableProbable wife of James L. Montgomery · mother of his children
- Children
- Milton Eastland Montgomery, Eunice Faye Montgomery, W. Irene Montgomery
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Evidence: The obituaries of two daughters name their mother as Elizabeth Billings Montgomery (S1667, S1668); the Texas death index for her son Milton gives his mother as Elizabeth Jane (S1666); a daughter’s 1939 death certificate names Elizabeth Billings (S1211). Weak or missing: Her maiden name comes from her children’s records, not from any record of her own; the newspaper texts are machine-read; in 1932 one obituary calls her his widow and his death certificate says “divorced”; 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 →
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Lula Gay Montgomery Piland
ConfirmedSister of Virginia Francis Montgomery · 1871–1949
- Born
- 15 August 1871
- Died
- in 1949 at Buda, Hays County, Texas
- Parents
- James P. Montgomery & Elenor Frances Bradford
- Children
- Merrill Zilman Piland Sr., Alex Charles Piland
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Alex Leonard Piland
ConfirmedHusband of Lula Gay Montgomery Piland
- Married
- Lula Gay Montgomery Piland
- Children
- Alex Charles Piland
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Louisa Montgomery
ConfirmedDaughter of James P. Montgomery · born 1871
- Born
- about 1871
- Parents
- James P. Montgomery & Elenor Frances Bradford
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Ida Alice Montgomery Bruce
ConfirmedDaughter of James P. Montgomery · 1874–1924
- Born
- 7 Feb 1874
- Parents
- James P. Montgomery & Elenor Frances Bradford
- Married
- Chas. B. Bruce
- Children
- Dora Inez Bruce
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Harry Alexander Montgomery
ProbableProbable son of James P. Montgomery · 1858–1931
- Born
- in DeWitt County, Texas
- Died
- 4 May 1931
- Parents
- James P. Montgomery & Elenor Frances Bradford
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- 2
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Evidence: The index of his 1931 Texas death certificate names his father as Jim Montgomery and his mother as Ellen Bradford (S1186); in 1880, read from the image, he is Harry Alex, 21, son, in James P. Montgomery's household in DeWitt County, bracketed as a twin with Virginia (S1095). Weak or missing: The death certificate is read from its index only, not the image, and its informant is unknown; his exact birth date rests on that one index line; the 1880 census is the only record read from an image that calls him a son of James P. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →
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Mary E. Montgomery Baker
ProbableProbable daughter of James P. Montgomery · c.1865–1942
- Born
- in Texas
- Died
- 27 May 1942
- Parents
- James P. Montgomery & Elenor Frances Bradford
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- 3
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Evidence: The index of the Texas death record of Mary E. Baker, who died at Austin in 1942, names her father as James L. Montgomery and her mother as Mary Ellen Bradford (S1189); a Mary of the right age is in James and Elenor Montgomery's household in DeWitt County in two censuses read from the images, aged 6 in 1870 (S1094) and 14 in 1880 (S1095). Weak or missing: The death record is read from its index only, not the image, and its informant is unknown; it calls her father James L., not James P., and her mother Mary Ellen; nothing read yet ties the Mary of the DeWitt County household to the Mary E. Baker of Austin except the parents' names in that index; no marriage record has been found. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →
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Margie Idella Montgomery Turner
ProbableProbable daughter of James P. Montgomery · 1868–1959
- Born
- at Gonzales, Texas
- Died
- 10 January 1959
- Parents
- James P. Montgomery & Elenor Frances Bradford
- Children
- Joseph Harold Turner, Viola Inez Turner
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Evidence: The index of the Texas death record of Margie Idella Turner, who died at Austin on 10 January 1959, gives her birth on 15 March at Gonzales and names her father as Jim Montgomery (S1583); an Idella of the right age is in James and Elenor Montgomery's household in DeWitt County in two censuses read from the images, aged 1 in 1870 (S1094) and 11 in 1880 (S1095); the Austin American-Statesman of 10 and 12 January 1959, read from the newspaper text, reports Mrs. Margie Idella Turner, 90, of Austin (S1583). Weak or missing: The death record is read from its index only, not the certificate image, and the index names no mother, so Elenor rests on the census households; the birth year 1868 comes from a grave index; nothing read yet ties the Idella of the DeWitt County household to the Mrs. Turner of Austin except the father's name in that index; no marriage record has been found. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →
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Matilda Evlin Montgomery Henry
ConfirmedDaughter of James P. Montgomery · 1855–1931
- Born
- in DeWitt County, Texas
- Died
- 9 August 1931
- Parents
- James P. Montgomery & Elenor Frances Bradford
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Charles Brooks Bruce
ConfirmedHusband of Ida Alice Montgomery Bruce · 1864–1920
- Born
- 12 Aug 1864
- Married
- Ida Alice Montgomery Bruce
- Children
- Dora Inez Bruce
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Edmund A. Cearley
ConfirmedFather of Ruby Edna Cearley Piland · 1877–1954
- Married
- Merrill Zilman Piland Sr.
- Children
- Ruby Edna Cearley Piland
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- 4
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Martha M. A. Warner
ProbableProbable sister of Maude Melville Warner · born 1898
- Parents
- Clifford Warner & Ella (Shreckengost) Warner
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- 5
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Evidence: The Nebraska marriage index names the bride of Alden R. Moural in 1918 as Martha M. A. Warner, daughter of Clifford Warner and Ella Schreckengast; the 1920 census, read from the image, lists Ella A. Warner as mother-in-law in the household of Alden R. Moural and his wife Martha M. Weak or missing: The marriage is read from the index only; her birth and death dates come from index entries, not the records; the 1910 and 1920 censuses disagree on her birthplace; her mother Ella's own link to this record is Probable. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →
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Lena Kretschmar
ConfirmedWife of Julius Franz Kretschmar · born 1855
- Born
- February 1855
- Married
- Julius Franz Kretschmar
- Children
- Charlie F. Kretschmar, Clara Frances Kretschmar Semff, Elsie Lena Kretschmar Peterson, Minnie, Max W. Kretschmar
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- 6
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Ottilie Annie Stein Kelm
ConfirmedSister of Emma Stein Ladusch · 1886–1966
- Born
- in Austin County, Texas
- Died
- 6 May 1966
- Parents
- Henry Stein
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- 4
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Adolph Gotlieb Kelm
ConfirmedHusband of Ottilie Annie Stein · 1885–1955
- Born
- in Colorado County, Texas
- Died
- 25 November 1955
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- 3
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