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Person · Harry Randolph Lewis
The record
- HHomethe fan · what changed · open questions
- MMigrationbirths and deaths on a map, by decade
- TTimeline654 entries · 5 eras
- PPeople312 cards, by generationHarry Randolph Lewis
- LLines13 surname pages
The evidence
- DDocuments896 thumbnails, filterable
- SSourcesS1–S1227, with where each is cited
The findings
- How the wall came downProeger line
- The glass patentsProeger line
- How the Caffey half was closedCaffey line
- What the DNA saysits own page
- Four routesMigration
- The asymmetryLines
- Open questions20 questions
- Add to this recorda form, read by Earl
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or a chain of consistent circumstances. Believable, not proven.
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person — the record may well exist somewhere unsearched.
Family testimonySupplied by the family and recorded on their word — no document has been retrieved for
it. Note the diamond rather than the dot: this is provenance, not proof, and it stands
apart from the three record tags above S24.
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not by itself establish a person or a link. Note the bar rather than a dot or a diamond:
no DNA result on this page is ever counted as confirmed, because no document
was read for it S46.
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- Born
- 10 Jun 1890
- Died
- Not found
- Married
- Ethel Florence Logue Lewis
- Sources
- 3
Research status
Research status: CONFIRMED. Husband of Ethel Florence Logue (m. 10 Jul 1909, Lavaca Co., Texas County Marriage index QK8T-5ZN4). Sources: Social Security NUMIDENT (FamilySearch 6KQ7-YFGW): Harry R. Lewis, b. 10 Jun 1890; 1930 and 1940 censuses, Sherman, Grayson Co. (HY6C-H3Z, KWV5-DB6): b. 1890 Mississippi, wife Ethel F.; NUMIDENTs of two daughters name Harry R. Lewis x Ethel F. Logue; his son’s 1940 draft card gives ’Harry Randolph Lewis’. Parents, death and burial not yet read; none entered. Added to the family tree on Earl’s approval of 4 October 2026. Added 4 October 2026
Life in the order the records give it
Birth1890
Born 10 Jun 1890 in Mississippi
Note1920
A loom repairer at the Sherman cotton mills in 1920
S1215 and a loom fixer there in 1930
S1216Residence1956
Living in May 1956: he signed his wife’s death certificate as informant
S1217Family parents, marriages, children, siblings
Open questions what is probable, weak or missing — confirm or correct it
Weak or missing
What is weak or missing: his parents, death and burial have not been read. Know more? Use “Add to this record”.
Weak or missing
What is weak or missing: the 1920 census gives his father born in Louisiana and his mother in Mississippi; the 1930 census reverses them. Neither is asserted here
S1215 S1216In the record
Generation 4 — Kristin's great-grandparents and their siblings
- S12151920 census — Harry and Ethel Lewis, 1721 South Crockett Street, Sherman, Texas. Ancestry, “1920 United States Federal Census”, record 22755480. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 4 October 2026. Confirmed Sherman, Grayson Co., ED 72, sheet 18B, 15 Jan 1920: Harry Lewis, 29, born Mississippi, loom repairer at the cotton mills; wife Ethel, 28, born Alabama, parents born Tennessee; son James C., 9, and three younger children. ⚠ Harry’s parents are given as father Louisiana, mother Mississippi; the 1930 census (S1216) reverses them. Neither is asserted.
- S12161930 census — Harry R. and Ethel F. Lewis, 109 West Forrest Avenue, Sherman, Texas. Ancestry, “1930 United States Federal Census (records 63618100 and 63618104, one page)”, record 63618100. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 4 October 2026. Confirmed Sherman, Ward 3, ED 91-6, sheet 6A, 7 Apr 1930: Harry R. Lewis, 40, born Mississippi, loom fixer, cotton mill, first married at 19; wife Ethel F., 39, born Alabama, weaver at the cotton mill, first married at 18; son James C., 19, and three younger children. ⚠ Already cited on the cards from a FamilySearch index; now read from the image. The marriage ages fit the 10 Jul 1909 marriage. Harry’s parents’ birthplaces conflict with 1920.
- S1217Texas death certificate 25032 — Ethel Florence Lewis, died 19 May 1956, Sherman. Ancestry, “Texas, U.S., Death Certificates, 1903–1982”, record 23780449. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 4 October 2026. Confirmed Ethel Florence Lewis, married, born 1 Jan 1891 at Anniston, Alabama, died at home, 207 Forest Ave., Sherman, on 19 May 1956, of uremia of chronic nephritis; buried 20 May 1956 at Memorial Park Cemetery, Sherman. Father D. C. Logue, born Tennessee; mother “Alice Hammett”, born Tennessee. Informant H. R. Lewis, who signed it. ⚠ The mother’s maiden name “Hammett” is written on the certificate itself, given by her husband; her own Social Security application gives Hamby, which stands.