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Mary Matilda Bowles Lindley

Daughter of William Anderson Bowles · born 1885

Mary Matilda Bowles Lindley

Confirmed

Daughter of William Anderson Bowles · born 1885

Born
13 January 1885
Parents
William Anderson Bowles & Iona Belle Brock
Married
Chester Major Lindley
Sources
12

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED — added 24 September 2026 from a record that names the parents; entered in the family tree the same day.

Life in the order the records give it

Birth1885
Born 13 January 1885, Boston Mountain, Arkansas; Mary M., Jan 1885, in the 1900 census at Abilene S140
Census1950
🆕 In 1950 she and Chester, then 64 and still a practising veterinarian, lived at 2402 North 1st Street, Abilene S570. added 25 September 2026.
Military1942
🆕 Chester's 1942 draft card gives his birthplace, Brown County, Texas S671. He died at Abilene on 21 January 1961 and was buried at Potosi; his death certificate names his parents as William Thomas Lindley and Mary E. Waggley, and gives 1885 for his birth, against the 1884 of both his draft cards S670. added 26 September 2026.
Census1974
🆕 In 1974, on her own affidavit, the 1921 birth certificate of her daughter was amended to supply the child’s name, Phyllis Marcia Lindley, born 1921, and to correct the parents’ names to Chester Major Lindley and Mary Bowles Confirmed S1141.
Census1933
🆕 The 1933 Abilene directory lists Chester M. Lindley, veterinary surgeon, and his wife Mary at 865 South 4th; a Rice Lindley lived at the same address Confirmed S1165.

Family parents, marriages, children, siblings

Parents
Daughter of William Anderson Bowles and Iona Belle Brock; sister of Lydia Mae Bowles
Marriage1884
Married Chester Major Lindley (born 14 April 1884), a veterinarian at Abilene S628; died 3 April 1979
Marriage1920
🆕 She married Chester M. Lindley, a veterinarian in Abilene. The censuses have them there with their children: Farland, Clay and Ries in 1920 S510; a daughter born in February 1921 S511; Ries and Marcia in 1930 and 1940 S512S513. She died a widow in San Antonio on 3 April 1979, and was buried at Potosi; her death certificate names her parents as William Anderson Bowles and Iona Belle S509. added 25 September 2026.
Marriage1918
🆕 Her husband's 1918 draft card gives his full name, Chester Major Lindley, and his birth date, 14 April 1884. He was a veterinarian in Abilene and named “Mrs. Mary Lindley (wife)” as his nearest relative S628. added 26 September 2026.

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Mary Matilda Bowles Lindley · Sources

Citations

Sources cited on this card

12 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. S1401900 U.S. Federal Census — the William A. Bowles household, Justice Precinct No. 1, Taylor County, Texas. Ancestry collection 7602, records 44269127 and 44269126 — one sheet, two hints, one pull — image 4118560_00039. Supervisor's District 4, Enumeration District 148, sheet 18 A, dwelling 288, family 302, enumerated 29 June 1900 by N. M. Everett. Read from the image at full resolution — 3880 × 3688 px, 21 September 2026; read-only, nothing accepted, attached or edited. Lines 38–50: William A. Bowles, head, Apr 1858, age 42, Farmer, born Kentucky of a Kentucky father and a Tennessee mother; Iona B., wife, Dec 1865, age 34, born Kentucky of Kentucky parents, 12 children born, 11 living; then eleven children — James E. Jun 1882, Lily Jul 1883, Mary M. Jan 1885, Solomon A. Aug 1886, Ellie Dec 1887, Cynthia G. May 1890 and Clara H. Oct 1891 all born in Arkansas, and William A. Apr 1893, Onie Jan 1894, Martha Sept 1896 and Ida J. May 1898 all born in Texas. A third voice on the 1856-versus-1858 conflict, and it agrees with 1858 twice over. The date columns read Apr 1858, and the age column reads 42 at the 29 June 1900 census date — exact for an April 1858 birth, and 44 for an 1856 one. Two independent sources now say April 1858: the Owsley County birth register and this census, taken thirty-six years before the death certificate and while he was alive. The certificate's 1856 is the outlier. ⚠ The day is not on this sheet — a 1900 schedule carries month and year and no day column, so the ninth still rests on the birth register alone. The same sheet brackets the household's move: the last Arkansas-born child is October 1891 and the first Texas-born child is April 1893, so they left Arkansas for Texas between October 1891 and April 1893. ⚠ Years married reads 17 on his line and 19 on hers; the two do not agree and the sheet cannot settle the marriage year. Ancestry indexes the whole household as "Beals"; the page reads Bowles, partly obscured by an indexer's struck-through pencil mark — a transcription artefact, not a name variant. ⚠ This is not the Callahan County sheet [S138]: different county, different image, different household.
  2. S509Texas, U.S., Death Certificates — no. 22891: Mary Matilda Lindley, 1979. Ancestry record 926436. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Mary Matilda Lindley, widow, of 224 Shelburn St., San Antonio, died 3 April 1979; born 13 January 1885, Arkansas; father William Anderson Bowles, mother Iona Belle; informant Mrs. Marcia Bean; buried Potosi Cemetery.
  3. S5101920 U.S. Federal Census — C. M. Lindley household, Abilene, Taylor County, Texas. Ancestry record 13161849. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed C. M. Lindley, 36, veterinary surgeon; Mary, 35, born Arkansas, parents born Kentucky; sons Farland, 13, Clay, 10, and Ries, 4.
  4. S511Texas, U.S., Birth Certificates — no. 12754, Abilene, February 1921. Ancestry record 120813005. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed A daughter, the fourth child, of Chester Lindley, 37, veterinary surgeon, and Mary Bowles, 36. It gives the mother's birthplace as Texas; every census says Arkansas.
  5. S5121930 U.S. Federal Census — Chester M. Lindley household, Precinct 1, Taylor County, Texas. Ancestry record 60811360. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Chester M. Lindley, 45, veterinarian; Mary M., 45, born Arkansas, parents born Kentucky; Ries R., 14; P. Marcia, 9.
  6. S5131940 U.S. Federal Census — Chester M. Lindley household, Abilene, Texas. Ancestry record 157938646. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Chester M., 55, veterinarian; Mary M., 55, born Arkansas; P. Marcia, 19; Ries R., 24, bookkeeper; a daughter-in-law, V. Muriel.
  7. S5701950 U.S. census — Abilene, Taylor County, Texas, ED 221-24, sheet 21. Ancestry record 192762585. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Chester M. Lindley, 64, veterinarian at an animal hospital, and his wife Mary, 65, born in Arkansas, at 2402 North 1st Street. A Worthy F. Lindley household lives in a separate dwelling at the same address; the page does not say how they were related.
  8. S628U.S. World War I draft registration, 1918, serial 1246 — Chester Major Lindley, Abilene, Texas. Ancestry record 171114620. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Chester Major Lindley, Abilene, Taylor County; 34, born 14 April 1884; white, native born; veterinarian, Abilene; nearest relative Mrs. Mary Lindley (wife), Abilene; registered 10 September 1918.
  9. S670Texas death certificate, 1961, Taylor County, state file 05676. Ancestry record 23726996. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Chester Major Lindley, veterinarian, of Abilene; born 14 April 1885, Texas; died 21 January 1961, Abilene; parents William Thomas Lindley and Mary E. Waggley; informant Mrs. Mary M. Lindley; buried at Potosi. His own 1918 and 1942 draft cards give 1884; the certificate says 1885.
  10. S671U.S. World War II draft registration, 1942, serial U-1036. Ancestry record 12473963. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Chester Major Lindley, 1049 Pecan Street, Abilene; born 14 April 1884, Brown County, Texas; contact Mrs. Mary M. Lindley.
  11. S1141Texas amendment to certificate of birth, state file no. 12754, Taylor County, 1921 (filed 28 January 1974). Ancestry record 105813006. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 25 September 2026. Confirmed The child’s name, left blank on the original, is supplied as Phyllis Marcia Lindley, born 1921; the father’s name is corrected from Chester Lindley to Chester Major Lindley and the mother’s from “Mary Bowbs” to Mary Bowles, on the affidavit of Mary Lindley, the parent, sworn 3 January 1974. Phyllis Marcia may be living; she is given here by name and birth year only.
  12. S1165Abilene, Texas, city directory, 1933, p. 215. Ancestry record 407520816. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 25 September 2026. Confirmed “Lindley Chester M (Mary) vet surg 865 S 4th”: Chester M. Lindley, veterinary surgeon, and his wife Mary, house at 865 South 4th; also “Lindley Rice r865 S 4th”. A directory gives no age and the wife’s given name only. Rice Lindley at the same address is not stated to be their son.

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