The Proeger Family · Generation 5 — Kristin's great-great-grandparents

Lula Gay Montgomery Piland

Sister of Virginia Francis Montgomery · 1871–1949

Lula Gay Montgomery Piland

Confirmed

Sister 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
Sources
3

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED as a daughter of James P. Montgomery and Elenor Frances Bradford, and added to the tree on Earl’s approval of 2 October 2026. Her Texas death certificate, read from the image, gives her father as James P. Montgomery and her mother’s maiden name as Elenore Frances Bradford, both born in Tennessee S1198 S1188. Added 2 October 2026

Life in the order the records give it

Birth1871
Born 15 August 1871 in DeWitt County, Texas S1198
Death1949
Died in 1949 at Buda, Hays County, Texas, as Lula Gay Piland S1198

Family parents, marriages, children, siblings

Siblings1880
Sister of Virginia Francis “Jennie” Montgomery. The 1880 household has no Lula; it has twins Louisa and Eliza, 9, born in Texas about 1871 S1095. Whether she is one of them is not settled

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

Weak or missing
What is weak or missing: she is not under the name Lula in the 1880 census; her husband is not named here, and her marriage record has not been read

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Lula Gay Montgomery Piland · Sources

Citations

Sources cited on this card

3 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. S10951880 United States Federal Census — Precinct No. 1, DeWitt County, Texas, S.D. 6, E.D. 46, page 68. Ancestry record 10575200. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 1 October 2026. Confirmed 10 July 1880: James P. Montgomery, 47, farmer, born Tennessee, parents born North Carolina; Elenor, wife, 45, born Tennessee; Harry Alex, son, 21, and Virginia, daughter, 21, at home, bracketed as twins; Mary, 14; James L., 13; Idella, 11; Louisa and Eliza, 9, twins; Ida, 7; the children born Texas. Nothing on these three pages names Piland. The link to Jennie Montgomery, who married E. R. Piland in neighbouring Gonzales County in 1883 (S913), is her name, her age and the county.
  2. S1188FamilySearch index, Texas, Deaths, 1890–1977 — Lula Gay Piland, 1949, Buda. FamilySearch record K7D8-SQJ, checked 1 October 2026. Probable Father James P. Montgomery; mother Elenore Frances Bradford. An index only; the image has not been read.
  3. S1198Texas death certificate, state file no. 12496 — Lula Gay Piland, died 1949 at Buda, Hays County. Ancestry, “Texas, U.S., Death Certificates, 1903–1982”, record 773172566. Image examined, read 2 October 2026. Confirmed Born 15 August 1871, DeWitt County; father James P. Montgomery, born Tennessee; mother’s maiden name Elenore Frances Bradford, born Tennessee; informant M. Z. Piland. The image read of the index entry S1188.

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