The Proeger Family · Generation 3 — Kristin's grandparents and their siblings

James Elmo Gold

Son of Anna Bell Caffey Gold · 1892–1981

James Elmo Gold

Confirmed

Son of Anna Bell Caffey Gold · 1892–1981

Born
at Mendoza, Caldwell County, Texas
Died
at Taylor, Williamson County, Texas
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

Life in the order the records give it

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 parents, marriages, children, siblings

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

Open questions what is probable, weak or missing — confirm or correct it

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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James Elmo Gold · Sources

Citations

Sources cited on this card

4 of the record's sources are cited here. The numbering is the record's own; the full list, with where else each is cited, is at Sources.

  1. S480Texas, U.S., Death Certificates — Anna Bell Gold, Austin, 1949 (no. 25185). Ancestry record 773924602. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Anna Bell Gold, born 5 January 1871, Alabama, died 5 May 1949 at Austin; father Hooper Van Caffey, mother Mattie Griffen, born Georgia; informant J. E. Gold; buried Kyle Cemetery.
  2. S10921910 United States Federal Census — Justice Precinct 5, Caldwell County, Texas, S.D. 10, E.D. 33, sheet 6A, dwelling 103, family 104. Ancestry record 122960984. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 1 October 2026. Confirmed 23 April 1910: Henry L. Gold, head, 38, first marriage of 18 years, born Texas of German-born parents, farmer, renting; Anna, wife, 30, first marriage of 18 years, mother of 7 children of whom 5 living, born Alabama of Alabama-born parents; Elmo, son, 16; Eva, daughter, 15; Alvie, son, 13; Myrtle, daughter, 8; Vernon, son, 2; the children born Texas. Her age, 30, is ten years short: she is Annie B., 9, in 1880 (S479) and born January 1871 by the 1900 census (S730). Eighteen years married agrees with the 1900 census’s marriage about 1892.
  3. S1552Obituary, “Mrs. Anna B. Gold” — San Antonio Express, 8 May 1949, p. 56, datelined Kyle, 7 May. Newspapers.com, read from the site’s text of the page on 30 September 2026; the page image has not been transcribed letter by letter. Confirmed Funeral services for Mrs. Anna Bell Gold, widow of Henry Gold, were conducted in Kyle on Friday (6 May 1949). She died in the home of her daughter, Mrs. Clarence Whitaker, in Austin. Surviving: three daughters, Mrs. J. M. Whittington of Kyle, Mrs. Clarence Whitaker and Mrs. Gus Woodall of Austin; three sons, Vernon Gold of Kyle, Elmo Gold of Elgin and Alvie Gold of Texas City; two brothers, 21 grandchildren and 19 great-grandchildren. ⚠ The two brothers are not named, and neither are her parents. No Austin paper of 5–12 May 1949 was found to carry an obituary.
  4. S1625Texas death certificate no. 41693 — James Elmo Gold, Taylor, Williamson County, 22 May 1981. Ancestry, “Texas, U.S., Death Certificates, 1903–1982”, record 410851. Index only; the certificate image is not yet read. Confirmed Born 25 September 1892 at Mendoza, Caldwell County, Texas; residence Elgin; father Henry Gold; mother Anna “Gaffey”. “Gaffey” is taken as an indexing slip for Caffey: the 1910 census (S1092) has Elmo, 16, as the son of Henry L. and Anna Gold. The informant is not in the index.

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