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The sources below are cited inline throughout; the list is the count, and no total is printed here because a hand-written one drifted twice. Raw retrieved pages and record images are held in the private research directory, not on this site. Not every entry is a document, and each one that is not is labelled so that no reader mistakes it for one: S24 is what the family said, S46 is a DNA result, S57 is a relative's Ancestry tree, S58 is a published family genealogy quoting a will nobody here has read, S59 is an 1878 subscription biographical directory, and S66 is a published family genealogy whose Page County search found nothing and whose second search, on new names, found two generations at Probable. Those carry most of the depth below the second-great-grandparents, which is exactly why the tags matter. S25–S35 were added on 13 September 2026 with the Timberman and Caffey findings, S36–S45 later the same day with the Walker, Peters and Selland findings and the two paternal upgrades, S46 that night with the DNA, S47–S56 on 14 September with the Silva and Rose findings, S57–S63 the same day with the full-depth pedigree and the two portraits, S64–S66 on 15 September with the Azores lodge registers and the Kauffman-Coffman book, and S67 the same evening with Frank Silva Sr's 1946 obituary, the notice that confirmed Faial. S68–S73 followed on 16 September — Julius Proeger's Pennsylvania death certificate and his Kirchberg baptism, Medie Owens's Texas death certificate, the Peters–Selland marriage record, the Coffman family typescript and the memorial livestream — with S74–S77 the four Røldal parish entries and S78 the Pasadena press on Robert W. Coffman's career. S79–S88 were added on 17 September 2026: they are documents that were already published in the Documents section and were being cited on the cards above as though they were tree entries — the 1919 Ohio death certificate and the 1917 draft card, Mary Jane Wright's 1934 Texas certificate, the Page County birth register, the two Coffman gravestones, Dr. Wright's 1878 will and his printed county-history biography, the Martin headstone, the 1930 Jackson County census and the 1946 Roberts marriage record. S89 followed the same day — the 1962 Abilene Reporter-News interview in which James Burton Coffman names his niece at Abilene Christian, the only non-family source on this page for two facts that had been resting on the family obituary alone. S90–S102 were added on 17 September 2026 in the reconciliation pass: the Ohio birth index and CA Death Index that identified Anna Blanche Roberts's parents (S90–S91), the 1900 census of the Henry Roberts household in Wheeling, WV (S92), the PA death certificate and 1860 census that confirmed the Timberman grandparents (S93–S94), the TN marriage record and 1850 censuses that confirmed the Martin/Chenault line (S95–S98), the NJ Birth Index for Louise Timberman (S99), and the three DNA results — 23andMe paternal and maternal haplogroups and the GEDmatch "Are Your Parents Related?" test (S100–S102). The existing numbering has never been disturbed, so every citation printed above still points where it always did.
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- S1Family-written obituary of Nancy Martin Coffman Proeger, read at her memorial at Hope Chapel, Austin, 15 March 2025, and published by the family. Family-authored; the single richest document found.Cited on Coffman, Wright & Brooks line · Robert Earl "Earl" Proeger · Damon Lee Proeger · Mark Proeger · Tasha Dawn Proeger · William Leonard Proeger · Nancy Martin Coffman Proeger · Migration · Timeline.
- S2Texas Marriage Index and Washington State Archives, republished verbatim at SortedByName.com — sortedbyname.com/letter_p/proeger/index_2.html and
/index_1.html. Also the source for the Social Security NUMIDENT extracts and the immigration arrival index.Cited on Overview · Proeger & Kochendoerfer line · Robert Earl "Earl" Proeger · Kristin M. Caffey Proeger · Damon Lee Proeger · Mark Proeger · Tasha Dawn Proeger · Jacob Proeger · William Leonard Proeger · Julius Karl Proeger · Timeline. - S3Texas, U.S., Birth Index, 1903–1997, exact-surname search — ancestry.com collection 8781. Returns exactly three records statewide.Cited on Overview · Proeger & Kochendoerfer line · Tasha Dawn Proeger · Jacob Proeger · William Leonard Proeger.
- S4California Birth Index, 1905–1995 — ancestry.com collection 5247. The mother's-maiden-name field unmasks on a matching search term.Cited on Proeger & Kochendoerfer line · William Leonard Proeger · Timeline.
- S5Withheld. A people-search aggregator profile of a living person, used once to cross-check a date the family already held. Not a genealogical source, and nothing in this record rests on it. The link is deliberately not reproduced on this page.
- S6Texas, U.S., Divorce Index, 1968–2011 — ancestry.com collection 8794.Cited on William Leonard Proeger · Nancy Martin Coffman Proeger.
- S7Echovita obituary, Nancy M. Proeger (14 March 1943 – 20 February 2025) — echovita.com.Cited on Nancy Martin Coffman Proeger · Timeline.
- S8Elgin Courier obituary notice — elgincourier.com.Cited on Nancy Martin Coffman Proeger · Timeline.
- S9FindAGrave memorial 281024543, Nancy M. Proeger, Youngs Prairie Cemetery, Elgin, Bastrop County, Texas — findagrave.com/memorial/281024543.Cited on Nancy Martin Coffman Proeger · Documents · Timeline.
- S101950 US Census, Texas, Harris County, Pasadena, ED 101-78, sheet 16, household 184, enumerated 5 April 1950; NARA schedule id 5913392 — 1950census.archives.gov. Page images held privately.Cited on Nancy Martin Coffman Proeger · Robert William Coffman · Louise Martin Timberman · Migration · Timeline.
- S11Social Security Applications & Claims / NUMIDENT for Richard F. Proeger Jr., born 4 September 1936 Oakland, California; parents Richard F. Proeger and Mabel O. Dubuque. Used to validate that Ancestry's field mask preserves character length. Via S2.Cited on Richard Frederick Proeger.
- S12FamilySearch Tree public pages, no login required for deceased persons — William Harry Proeger
KC1N-799, Aileane Marie SilvaL9GZ-NDP, William Leonard ProegerL7GK-VBK, Queen Anne ProegerLHQW-W1L— ancestors.familysearch.org. User-contributed; event lists are treated as PROBABLE unless separately sourced.Cited on Proeger & Kochendoerfer line · William Leonard Proeger · William Harry Proeger · Aileane Marie Silva · William Leonard Proeger · Frank T. Silva · Louise Rose · Jane Bell · Thomas Walton Caffey Jr · Georg Melchior Julius Prüger · Elisabethe Sabina Loesch · Joseph Daniel Martin · Nannie Chenault · Nettie Ellen Cleveland · Julius Franz Kretschmar · Traugott Ladusch · Charles Owens · Friedrich August Proeger · Johann Leonhard David Prüger · Queen Anne “Nancy” Proeger · Migration · Timeline. - S13US Social Security NUMIDENT / Death Master File, republished verbatim — see S2. A government record; the parent-name fields come from the person's own SS-5 application.Cited on Proeger & Kochendoerfer line · William Harry Proeger · Aileane Marie Silva · William Leonard Proeger · Migration · Timeline.
- S14FindAGrave memorial 298908619, William Leonard Proeger (1878–1955), Valhalla Memorial Park, North Hollywood — findagrave.com/memorial/298908619.Cited on Proeger & Kochendoerfer line · William Leonard Proeger · William Harry Proeger · William Leonard Proeger · Documents · Timeline.
- S15FindAGrave memorial 36374281, Robert William Coffman (1906–1990), Forest Park Lawndale Cemetery, Houston — findagrave.com/memorial/36374281.Cited on Robert William Coffman · Louise Martin Timberman · Documents · Timeline.
- S16FindAGrave memorial 53116850, Lydia Mae Bowles Coffman (1883–1972), Dudley Cemetery — includes the transcribed obituary naming son Robert Coffman — findagrave.com/memorial/53116850.Cited on Robert William Coffman · James Burton Coffman · James David "Jim" Coffman · Lydia Mae Bowles · Documents · Migration · Timeline.
- S17FindAGrave memorial 298908631, Anna Blanche Roberts Proeger (1892–1942) — findagrave.com/memorial/298908631.Cited on Aileane Marie Silva · Anna Blanche Roberts · Documents · Timeline.
- S18FindAGrave memorial 53116702, James David "Jim" Coffman (1881–1972) — findagrave.com/memorial/53116702.Cited on James David "Jim" Coffman · Documents · Migration · Timeline.
- S19FindAGrave memorials 85739377 (Julius Karl Proeger, 1844–1924) and 85739357 (Minnie Margaret Kochendoerfer Proeger, memorialised 1848–1912; the year is superseded by [S137]), Smithfield East End Cemetery, Pittsburgh — findagrave.com/memorial/85739377.Cited on Julius Karl Proeger · Minnie Margaret Kochendoerfer · Migration · DNA · Timeline.
- S20FindAGrave memorial 53748559, David Emily "Dee" Coffman (1857–1938) — findagrave.com/memorial/53748559.Cited on David Emily "Dee" Coffman · David C. Coffman · Documents · Migration · Timeline.
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- S21FindAGrave memorial 53116935, Mary Jane "Mollie" Wright Coffman (1859–1935) — findagrave.com/memorial/53116935.Cited on Coffman, Wright & Brooks line · Mary Jane "Mollie" Wright · Documents · Timeline.
- S22FindAGrave memorial 63936320, William Anderson Bowles (1858–1936), Potosi Cemetery — findagrave.com/memorial/63936320.Cited on Bowles, Williams & Brock line · William Anderson Bowles · James Daniel Bowles · Lydia Williams · Documents · DNA · Timeline.
- S23FindAGrave memorial 63936483, Iona Belle Brock Bowles (1865–1947), Potosi Cemetery — findagrave.com/memorial/63936483.Cited on William Anderson Bowles · Iona Belle Brock · Documents · DNA · Timeline.
- S24Family testimony — Earl Proeger, September 2026. Stated directly by the family and recorded on their word. Covers: the Silva maiden name and William Harry Proeger as his father's father (both of which record research had already reached independently); and, on Kristin's side, her father Thomas Caffey — raised in Austin, University of Texas, died at Austin — and her mother Lavonne Walker, Walker being her maiden name. Not a document. No record has been retrieved for any of the Caffey or Walker statements, no dates were supplied for either person, and none has been estimated. Carried throughout as Family testimony, never as Confirmed. Superseded in part on 13 September 2026: the Thomas Caffey statements are now carried on records instead — see S31–S35. The Lavonne Walker statements still rest on this source alone. Extended 17 September 2026: the family further states that she was born Walker, married a Caffey and divorced, then married a Danielson who has since died — which is why her photographs are captioned Danielson. It matches the Caffey obituary's "former wife, LaVonne Danielson" [S31] independently. Her present surname and her widowhood rest on this testimony alone; the second husband's given name, and every date and place attached to that marriage, were not supplied and are not published. Extended 22 September 2026 (eyewitness): Earl was present at the birth of his half-brother John Jacob “Jacob” Proeger, born in 1994 to William Leonard Proeger and Briana Castro Proeger; Earl states the birth was one month before his own wedding ceremony with Kristin, which was held on Guam (the marriage itself was registered in Travis County; see the next entry). No birth record has been retrieved. Extended 22 September 2026 (Earl’s own account of his marriage): “Kristin and I married on Guam in a ceremony but registered our marriage in Travis County […] and we could marry without swearing, a scruple we held as Quakers and which Guam had no accommodation for.” The only date held is the Travis County registration, 1994, from the Texas Marriage Index [S2]; the date of the Guam ceremony was not supplied and is not published.Cited on Overview · Caffey line · Proeger & Kochendoerfer line · Robert Earl "Earl" Proeger · Kristin M. Caffey Proeger · Jacob Proeger · William Leonard Proeger · Clare La Vonne Walker · Aileane Marie Silva · Jane Bell · Thomas Walton Caffey Jr · Nancy Aileen Proeger · Earl Theodore Roberts · Patty Proeger · Kathy Roberts · Wayne Allen Danielson · Timeline.
- S25Index of Births in New Jersey, 1915–19, Orange — entry "Timberman, Louise M., Apr. 10, 1917, Vol. 59, p. 95" (and a second at p. 96). Digitised as New Jersey, Reclaim the Records, Geographic Birth Index, 1901–1929; FamilySearch
ark:/61903/1:1:6NS7-VPBB. A printed index page, read directly from the image rather than from a transcription. The date is exact.Cited on Timberman, Martin & Chenault line · Louise Martin Timberman · Timeline. - S26Obituary, "Louise Timberman Coffman," Houston Chronicle, published 25 January 2008; Legacy.com id 25719287. Family-supplied. Names her four children, her late husband, fifty years of marriage, her Peabody degree and her DAR membership. The document that both names her and dates her death.Cited on Timberman, Martin & Chenault line · Robert William Coffman · Louise Martin Timberman · James Harris Timberman Jr. · Timeline.
- S271930 US Census, Gallatin, Sumner County, Tennessee, lines 97–100 — Timberman, Nancy (52, widowed, head, high-school teacher); Timberman, Louise M. (13, daughter); Martin, Emma (59, sister, public-school teacher); Chenault, Ermin (28, female, boarder, saleslady in dry goods). FamilySearch
ark:/61903/1:1:SP7V-TVZ. Page image read directly. The single page that proves the Martin maiden name from a record rather than a tree. FamilySearch indexes the boarder as a man, “Ernest Chernault”. A second scan of the same sheet, Ancestry record 66161418 (1930 census, ED 83-3, sheet 29B, line 100, image 4547930_00097), reads Chenault, Ermin, sex F, a sales lady in dry goods, and that is the reading used here.Cited on Timberman, Martin & Chenault line · Louise Martin Timberman · James Harris Timberman Jr. · Nancy Louise Martin · Nannie Chenault · Timeline. - S28Marriage bond, licence and return, Sumner County, Tennessee, p. 492 — Robert Wm Coffman and Louise Martin Timberman; bond 6 June 1939; solemnised 8 June 1939 by James Burton Coffman, M.G.; clerk's office, Gallatin. Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790–1950; FamilySearch
ark:/61903/1:1:QKH3-85GH(bride),…QKH3-85G4(groom). Page image read directly and zoomed to 5×. On three passes the bride's surname read "Tuckerman" to this researcher where the indexers read "Timberman" — see her card; the disagreement is recorded, not hidden, and the name does not rest on this hand.Cited on Robert William Coffman · James Burton Coffman · Louise Martin Timberman · Documents · Migration · Timeline. - S29Marriage record, Sumner County, Tennessee, p. 398 — "Gallatin, Tenn., June 15th 1915. This day issued to J. H. Timberman, Jr. to marry Nancy L. Martin. [A.] H. Moon, Clerk." Return: solemnised 17 June 1915 by H. L. Olmstead. Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790–1959; FamilySearch
ark:/61903/1:1:QKH3-ZG5P/…QKH3-ZG5G. Page image read directly. A second scan of the same page, Ancestry record 1619878 (Tennessee, U.S., Marriage Records, 1780–2002, image VRMUSATN1780_047344-00268), was set beside the FamilySearch image: both read June 15th and the 17th, the clerk signs “Moon” on every entry, the next licence on the page is dated June 16th, and the marriage bond is dated 15 June S261. FamilySearch's 15 June was right.Cited on Timberman, Martin & Chenault line · Louise Martin Timberman · James Harris Timberman Jr. · Nancy Louise Martin · Documents · Timeline. - S30FamilySearch Tree — Coffman, Timberman and Martin persons: Louise Martin Timberman
LYBS-P4G, Robert William CoffmanLDS1-NHV, James Harris Timberman Jr9W7S-C6X, Nancy Louise MartinKHK5-FCL, Joseph Daniel MartinKG8Y-MV3, Nannie ChenaultKZZ7-P9F. Community-curated, not a record — the counterpart of S12 on the maternal side. Event lists and dates drawn from it are tagged Probable throughout. Cited here for Robert William Coffman's sibling list, which independently matches S16.Cited on Robert William Coffman · Louise Martin Timberman · Lydia Mae Bowles · Nancy Louise Martin · Migration · Timeline. - S31Obituary, Thomas Alan Caffey, Austin American-Statesman, published 8–14 January 2017; Legacy.com id 17338018. Names his parents ("born on March 7th, 1946, to Lucille and Thomas Caffey"), his sisters, and — decisively for this record — "his daughter Kristin Proeger and her husband Earl […]." Read online, 11 Oct 2026. Its guest book also carries a family friend's "T.W. and Lucille," which is corroboration, not kinship: no record makes that family related.Cited on Overview · Caffey line · Kristin M. Caffey Proeger · Thomas Alan Caffey · Timeline.
- S321950 US Census, Austin, Travis County, Texas, ED 256-3, lines 8–11, house no. 605 — Caffey, Thomas W (head, 26); Lucille L (wife, 24); Thomas A (son, 4); Sandra M (daughter, 1). Read off the page image, not the OCR index. The record that fixes Kristin's paternal grandparents. Austin's enumeration districts are filed under
county="Austin, Travis", so acounty=Travisquery misses them entirely — sweep the state.Cited on Caffey line · Thomas Alan Caffey · Thomas Walton Caffey Jr. "T.W." · Timeline. - S33US Social Security NUMIDENT / Death Master File / VA-BIRLS, and the Texas Marriage and Divorce indexes — Caffey entries, republished verbatim at SortedByName.com. Government records. Supplies T.W. Caffey Jr's birth at "Salado Bell, Texas" and his parents Thomas W Caffey and Medie Stobaugh; Lucille's birth at "Austin Travi, Texas" and her parents Will Kretschmar and Liessi Ladusch; his Marine Corps service 1941–45; the shared Wimberley retirement ZIP; and the 1969 Caffey–Walker marriage and its 1980 dissolution. The Caffey pages could not be reopened the same day.Cited on Caffey line · Thomas Alan Caffey · Thomas Walton Caffey Jr. "T.W." · Lucille Lorine Kretschmar · Thomas Walton Caffey Sr. · Medie Owens · Willie Frank "Will" Kretschmar · Hattie Elizabeth "Liessi" Ladusch · Documents · Migration · Timeline.
- S34FindAGrave memorials, Caffey / Kretschmar / Ladusch — Thomas Alan Caffey 274110930, Thomas Walton Caffey Jr 39163436, Lucille Lorene Kretschmar Caffey 39163435, Thomas Walton Caffey Sr 62147776, Medie Caffey Stobaugh 62147759, Willie Frank Kretschmar 41405071, Hattie "Liessi" Ladusch Kretschmar 41405070. Grave inscriptions, plot numbers and dates are transcriptions of stones. Family links on FindAGrave are contributor-asserted, not records — they corroborate here and are never the basis. Memorial 62147776 additionally quotes Texas death certificate #16496, which is a record.Cited on Caffey line · Kretschmar & Landrock line · Thomas Alan Caffey · Thomas Walton Caffey Jr. "T.W." · Lucille Lorine Kretschmar · Thomas Walton Caffey Sr. · Medie Owens · Willie Frank "Will" Kretschmar · Hattie Elizabeth "Liessi" Ladusch · Charles Owens · Alice Walden · Documents · Migration · Timeline.
- S35Obituary, Sandra Caffey Falkenberg (died 4 April 2025, aged 76), Porter Loring Mortuary / Dignity Memorial, San Antonio. An entirely independent document, written nine years after her brother's by a different funeral home in a different city, naming the same parents — "the daughter of T.W. and Lucille Caffey" — and the same three siblings. Read online.Cited on Caffey line · Thomas Alan Caffey · Timeline.
- S36Obituary of Dorothy LaVonne Peters Walker (12 February 1926 – 13 August 2022), Greenwood Funeral Home, Fort Worth — greenwoodfuneralhomes.com; the same text transcribed on FindAGrave memorial 242876604, Mount Olivet Cemetery, Fort Worth. Family-written. It names her husband "Melvin Walker," her parents "Benjamin 'Pete' and Selma Peters," her three daughters, her Chicago birth and Sioux Falls upbringing, the Norway trips, and — decisively — "Kristin (Earl) Proeger […]" among her grandchildren. Only the funeral home's own copy carries the "ROUND ROCK" dateline; the FindAGrave transcription drops it. The funeral home's page is published in full in the Documents grid (Earl's per-item exception, 25 Sep 2026).Cited on Overview · Kristin M. Caffey Proeger · Bradley Neal Caffey · Clare La Vonne Walker · Clarence Melvin "Melvin" Walker · Dorothy La Vonne Peters · Benjamin LaRoy "Pete" Peters Sr. · Gertie Selma Selland · Documents · Timeline.
- S37FindAGrave memorial 103851507, Clarence Melvin Walker (5 November 1920 – 23 July 1991), Mount Olivet Cemetery, Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas — findagrave.com/memorial/103851507. A grave marker transcription. Neither this memorial nor Dorothy's carries any family link — both were checked, and neither has parents, spouse or children attached. The shared cemetery corroborates; it never carried the finding.Cited on Clarence Melvin "Melvin" Walker · Daniel Jonah Walker & Nettie Ellen "Annie" Cleveland · Documents · Timeline.
- S38US Social Security NUMIDENT — Walker and Peters entries, republished verbatim at SortedByName.com — walker/index_707 and peters/index_123. A government record; parent fields come from the person's own SS-5 application. Gives "WALKER, CLARENCE MELVIN … born 5 November 1920 in LOLITA, Texas, son of DANIEL J WALKER and NETTIE CLEVLAND … died 23 July 1991," and "PETERS, BENJAMIN L … born 12 October 1905 … died 9 April 1993, while residing in Zip Code 78154" (Schertz, Guadalupe County, Texas). Both sets of dates match the headstones exactly and independently.Cited on Overview · Clarence Melvin "Melvin" Walker · Daniel Jonah Walker & Nettie Ellen "Annie" Cleveland · Benjamin LaRoy "Pete" Peters Sr. · Timeline.
- S39Texas Birth Index 1903–1997 and the 1950 US Census, Tarrant County, via FamilySearch in a signed-in session. "Clare La Vonne Walker — Birth [date withheld], Tarrant, Texas — Parents Clarence Melvin Walker, Dorothy La Vonne Peters," with her sisters Marilyn Dorothy and Carolyn Jane indexed to the same couple; and the 1950 census household at White Settlement, Tarrant County. The state vital record that supplies Dorothy's maiden name, independently of any obituary. All three daughters are living, so the birth dates on these index rows are redacted here — the citation is reproduced as it was read, minus the dates the privacy rule withholds.Cited on Overview · Clare La Vonne Walker · Clarence Melvin "Melvin" Walker · Dorothy La Vonne Peters · Timeline.
- S40Obituaries of Dorothy's siblings — LaRoy J. "Pete" Peters (d. 25 January 2021), Miller Funeral Home, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, millerfh.com; and Betty Jane Sanders (d. 10 September 2013), Pitts Chapel, Bolivar, Missouri, via Legacy.com. A third, Shirley Darlene Peltier's (May 2026), names the same parents. Two funeral homes, two states, eight years apart, both spelling the mother's maiden name Selland. Betty's names "Dorothy Walker of Fort Worth, TX" as a sibling, which is what proves it is this family and not a same-name collision.Cited on Overview · Peters & Hermann line · Selland & Lone line · Dorothy La Vonne Peters · Benjamin LaRoy "Pete" Peters Sr. · Gertie Selma Selland · DNA · Timeline.
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- S41FindAGrave memorials 70460076 and 70460158 — Benjamin L. Peters (1905–1993), plot Block C Lot 16 Grave E2, and Selma Selland Peters (1903–1991), Grave E1, the adjacent plot — Lakeview Cemetery, Clear Lake, Deuel County, South Dakota. Headstone transcriptions. Benjamin's SSA death date and the stone agree exactly. Family links on FindAGrave are contributor-asserted and are corroboration only; the obituaries at S40 carry the finding on their own.Cited on Peters & Hermann line · Selland & Lone line · Dorothy La Vonne Peters · Benjamin LaRoy "Pete" Peters Sr. · Gertie Selma Selland · DNA · Timeline.
- S42Toni Walker Family Tree, hosted by Ontario Ancestors — ontariofamilyhistory.org. A user-submitted tree, not a record. Everything drawn from it is tagged Probable and nothing else on this page depends on it: the fuller given names "Benjamin La Roy B" and "Gertie," the 16 November 1925 Deuel County marriage, and the four names in the generation above Benjamin and Selma. The tree's own dates and places are confirmed, but by S38 and S41, not by it. Last modified 22 January 2025; it still lists Dorothy as living.Cited on Benjamin LaRoy "Pete" Peters Sr. · Gertie Selma Selland · Timeline.
- S43California Birth Index, 1905–1995 — FamilySearch record
ark:/61903/1:1:VLNB-2LT, "Entry for William Lenard Proeger and Silva, 1941." Read in a signed-in FamilySearch session, where the day is not masked. This is the same index entry as S4; the free view returns it with the day hidden, which is why the birth date stood at Probable on this page until 13 September 2026. No paywall was defeated — a free FamilySearch account is all it takes.Cited on Proeger & Kochendoerfer line · William Leonard Proeger · Aileane Marie Silva · Timeline. - S44California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800–1994, via FamilySearch — William Leonard Proeger, death 14 December 1955, Los Angeles; birth 1876; parents: Julius Proeger. A state vital record, not a user tree. It is the document that promotes the join between Earl's great-grandfather and Julius Karl Proeger from Probable to Confirmed. The separate California Death Index 1940–1997 entry for the same man gives the same death date and a birth of 22 March 1876 in Pennsylvania, but abbreviates the parent field to the surname alone.Cited on Proeger & Kochendoerfer line · William Leonard Proeger · DNA.
- S45Prickly Pear, Yearbook of Abilene Christian College, 1964 — student roster, p. 114: "Proeger, Bill — Alameda, Calif."; and p. 107: "Coffman, Nancy — Pasadena." Digitised by the UNT Libraries' Portal to Texas History, ark
67531/metapth39924— p. 114 · p. 107. A contemporaneous, college-published record. Alphabetical, so the two entries fall on different pages of the same roster. More than twenty further Portal pages naming Earl's parents were retrieved and are held privately; only the two home-town lines are used here.Cited on Proeger & Kochendoerfer line · William Leonard Proeger · Nancy Martin Coffman Proeger · Documents · Timeline. - S46Autosomal DNA — Ancestry Composition report, 23andMe, Earl's own test, read 13 September 2026 (report version dated 15 September 2025). Supplies the percentages quoted in What the DNA says: European 99.2% · Western European 47.0% · British & Irish 28.9% · Spanish & Portuguese 21.6%, of which Portuguese & Galician 18.3% (Pico and Faial Islands) · Nordic 1.2% · Italian & Maltese 0.5% · Western Asian & North African 0.8%. Not a document, and not treated as one — everything drawn from it carries DNA evidence and nothing on this page is promoted to Confirmed on its strength. The account is deliberately not linked and no login is given. The same account holds a DNA Relatives match list of roughly 1,500 living people; none of it is reproduced, cited or linked here, in aggregate or otherwise, beyond the single sentence in that section, and the raw export is held in the private research directory only.Cited on Silva line · DNA.
- S47US Census, 1900 — Washington Township, ED 404, Alameda County, California; household 278, sheet 14B line 75. FamilySearch
ark:/61903/1:1:M9P7-T13. An index entry for the 1900 sheet, not a reading of the page. The FamilySearch index gives Frank Sr as 37, born June 1863, birthplace "Azores Port", arrival 1888, Head, married 13 years, and both of his parents born in "Azores Port"; his wife Annie, 34, "Azores Port"; daughter Mary, 4; son Frank, 3, California. The page itself reads one year lower in all four age cells: 36, 33, 3 and 2 [S141], and where the two differ this record follows the image. The index spells the surname "Frank Silver", which is why a search for Silva does not find the household.Cited on Silva line · Aileane Marie Silva · Frank Silva Sr · Anna "Annie" L. Silva · Migration · DNA · Timeline. - S48US Census, 1920 — Washington Judicial Township (originally Washington, ED 213), Alameda County; household 132, sheet 8B line 62. FamilySearch
ark:/61903/1:1:MH38-KY1. Frank Silva, 22, married, born California 1898, relationship to head of household: "Son", both parents born Portugal; in the household with "Mildresk" Silva, born 1899 California — an OCR mangling of Mildred. The relationship column is what makes the father–son link a record rather than an inference from a "Jr" on a headstone.Cited on Frank T. Silva · Mildred A. Rose · Frank Silva Sr · Timeline. - S49US Census, 1930 — Washington, ED 349, Alameda County. FamilySearch
ark:/61903/1:1:XCX2-4JJ(Aileen) and1:1:XCX2-4JF(Frank Sr, Head, age 66). Aileen Silva, age 11, relationship to head: "Granddaughter", father's and mother's birthplace both California — which matches Frank T. Silva and Mildred A. Rose exactly and rules the Azores-born generation out as her parents. Her father had died in December 1924. Re-served 22 September 2026 under Anna's hint; the image-level reading and its supplement are at [S147].Cited on Silva line · Aileane Marie Silva · Frank T. Silva · Frank Silva Sr · Anna "Annie" L. Silva · Timeline. - S50US Census, 1940 — Washington Judicial Township, Niles, ED 1-180, Alameda County. FamilySearch
ark:/61903/1:1:K9Q4-7JC. Frank Silva, age 76, birthplace "Azores", Head, Widowed, residence in 1935 "Same House." The second of two federal enumerations forty years apart that name the archipelago — and, like the first, it names no island. This entry is the FamilySearch index, which files the return under Niles; the printed header of the sheet reads Mission San Jose [S149], and the sheet is preferred. The two places lie a few miles apart in Washington Township, and Mission San Jose is the "Mission San" birthplace on Aileane's own NUMIDENT.Cited on Silva line · Aileane Marie Silva · Frank Silva Sr · DNA · Timeline. - S51California, County Marriages, 1849–1957 — entry for Clifford Ray Parliman and Aileane S Proeger. FamilySearch record
ark:/61903/1:2:9MJ4-4SZ5; film image1:2:3QS7-893H-5WQJ. A government vital record, not a user tree and not NUMIDENT. The index assigns the roles in its own fields: Frank Silva — "Father Of Bride"; Mildard A Rose — mother of the bride; Aileane S Proeger — bride, using the married surname from William Harry Proeger. This is the document that moved Aileane's parents from Probable to Confirmed, and it also records her third marriage, behind the known alias "Aileane Silva Parliman."Cited on Aileane Marie Silva · Clifford Ray Parliman. - S52US World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917–1918 — Frank Silva, FamilySearch
ark:/61903/1:1:KZVH-BF9. Birth date 2 December 1897; event place Alameda County, California. His own card gives the birthplace only as "United States" — confirming that he was American-born and that the immigrant generation is his parents'. He died 3 December 1924, one day after his 27th birthday.Cited on Silva line · Timeline. - S53California Death Index, 1905–1939 — Frank T Silva, born 1897, died 3 December 1924, Alameda,
ark:/61903/1:1:QKSM-D7JH; and Anna L Silva, born 1868, died 17 December 1938, Alameda,1:1:QKS9-FLRF. A state death index. Four other Frank Silvas died in the county in the same window; none carries both the middle initial T and the 3 December date. Anna's entry is what makes the 1940 census's "Widowed" line interlock.Cited on Silva line · Frank T. Silva · Anna "Annie" L. Silva · Timeline. - S54Find a Grave Index — three consecutive ARKs from one cemetery transcription batch at Saint Josephs Cemetery, Fremont / Centerville, Alameda County: Frank Silva (Sr) 1863–1946
1:1:QVVZ-XNZK, Anna L. Silva 1868–19381:1:QVVZ-XNZ6, Frank Silva, Jr 1897–19241:1:QVVZ-XNZ2. St. Joseph's is the Portuguese Catholic cemetery of the Mission San Jose district. All three are flagged "Photograph Included," which is the cheapest unexplored route to the island. Indexing artefact: FamilySearch's place authority wrongly normalises Frank Jr's Event Place to "Saint Josephs Cemetery, Preemption, Mercer, Illinois"; the Event Place (Original) on the same record reads "Fremont, Alameda, California." There is no Illinois connection.Cited on Frank T. Silva · Frank Silva Sr · Anna "Annie" L. Silva · Timeline. - S55US Census, 1900 — Washington Township, ED 405, Alameda County; household 24, sheet 1B line 93. FamilySearch
ark:/61903/1:1:M9PW-6X9. Antone Rose, Head, born February 1840, Portugal, arrival 1870, married 21 years, his own parents both Portugal-born; Louise Rose, Wife, age 44, Portugal (her birth-year column reads 1865, contradicting her own age); Mildred Rose, Daughter, born July 1898, California. The same township as the Silvas, one enumeration district over. These records say "Portugal," not "Azores," and this page does not upgrade them to match the Silvas. "Rose" is the standard Anglicisation of Portuguese Rosa / Roza. The same page (rid 36140745), read at full resolution on 22 September 2026. The children are named: Rose (Nov 1879, already married), Louise (June 1885), Antone (June 1887), Joseph (Oct 1888), Frank (May 1891), Edward and Mildred (July 1898), bracketed as twins, and Helen (Oct 1899). The mother's age column (44) and birth-year column disagree; the age governs, agreeing with S201, so she was born c.1855–56.Cited on Silva line · Rose line · Mildred A. Rose · Antone Rose · Louise Rose · Joseph Rose · Rose Rose · Louise Elizabeth Rose · Antone Rose Jr. · Frank James Rose · Edward Rose · Helen Agnes Rose · Migration · Timeline. - S56California Birth Index, 1905–1995 — Aileane Silva, born 15 August 1918, Alameda, California, FamilySearch
ark:/61903/1:1:V256-J8H. The index's single associated surname is the mother's maiden name, and it reads Rose — corroborating Mildred Rose as her mother from a vital-records index rather than from NUMIDENT or a user tree. Its limit, stated: the index does not print the mother's given name, so it establishes the surname Rose, not specifically "Mildred A."Cited on Aileane Marie Silva · Mildred A. Rose · Timeline. - S57Ancestry public member tree 119936132 ("Helm/Caffey Family Tree"), owned by a relative by marriage. Sixty-eight person pages were opened read-only on 14 September 2026 and their Relationships → Parents panels transcribed. NOT A RECORD. It is the source of every pre-1873 Caffey name, every pre-1890 Walker name, the whole Selland/Lone line, the Peters line above 1882, the Ladusch/Stein line above 1898 and the Landrock maiden name — and across its thirteen best-sourced ancestors, "Ancestry Family Trees" is cited on eleven of them, which is other users' trees, not documents. Everything drawn from it carries Family testimony and nothing is promoted. Nothing in it was edited; the role held is Guest, no paywall or CAPTCHA was bypassed, and the raw output is held in the private research directory. Parent names were matched to person-IDs by link text, which resolved to the wrong person once where two people share a name — the names are reliable, any raw person-ID is not.Cited on Overview · Caffey line · Traugott Ladusch · Lines.
- S58Reed & Browning, Genealogies of the Caffey, Iseley & Ireland Families…, as quoted within S57. Reports the 1754 Dorchester County, Maryland will of Michael Caffey (wife Sarah; sons William, Charles, John, Henry) and the 1761–62 depositions on the tract called "Ennalls Inheritance." Its own citation points at Archives of Maryland Vol. 18, pp. 27 and 643. A published family genealogy, quoted at second hand. The will itself has never been read for this page — only this summary of it. That is the single document that would settle the top of the Caffey line.Cited on Overview · Caffey line · Lines · Migration.
- S59Blue's Montgomery Directory, 1878 — quoted in family testimony for the claim that John Caffey was "the son of Michael and Mary Hooper Caffey, both natives of Ireland … grandson of John Caffey, a linen merchant of Ulster, Ireland, and of Bishop Hooper of Ireland." An 1878 subscription biographical directory — a genre in which the pedigrees are supplied by the paying subject and are notoriously flattering. Carried as Family testimony and contradicted in part by S58. "Bishop Hooper of Ireland" is exactly the kind of ornamental ancestor these books attach.Cited on Overview · Caffey line · Lines.
- S60WikiTree profile and transcription of the 1802 will of Thomas Walker (1737–1802), Lunenburg County, Virginia — naming nine living adult children including "Jarratt." A transcription on a collaborative tree, not the original will book. Its own note opens by warning that three different Thomas Walkers are routinely confused, and explicitly disclaims both Dr. Thomas Walker of Castle Hill and the Thomas Walker who married Catherine McClelland; ours is described as "just a farmer in Lunenburg County." The presidential descent that profile mentions is attached to a different Thomas Walker and is not claimed here.Cited on Walker line.
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- S61John Caffey Sr (1751–1826), three items: a typed abstract of the will-book page (p. 110) recording his will dated 2 Aug 1821 and probated 22 Aug 1826, naming wife Sarah and children Thomas, Elizabeth, Henry, Michael, John, Charles and Hooper; his headstone at Montgomery, Alabama, photographed 2010; and his obituary in the Montgomery Alabama Journal, August 1826, recording Revolutionary War service. The will is an abstract, not the original — one step off the record; the same abstract page carries two unrelated wills. These three documents establish the man. They do not establish his descent to Kristin, which rests on S57 alone — see the note on that link.Cited on Caffey line · John Caffey Sr. · Migration.
- S62Prickly Pear, Yearbook of Abilene Christian College, 1965 — p. 63, senior portrait grid: three portraits per row, three names keyed to each row alphabetically, "Powell, Marsha Joy · Proeger, Bill · Propst, Wayne." Digitised by the UNT Libraries' Portal to Texas History, ark
67531/metapth39926. Corroborated by 1963, p. 52, the Barracks Dorm Council group photograph, whose caption reads "Bill Proeger, Jim Morrow, Ray Mullins, and John Bankston." The source of the portrait on his card. The thumbnail is a crop; the link goes to the full page, because the page is the evidence and the crop is a derivative of it. Published at his express instruction, September 2026 — he is living, and no date, address or employer appears with it.Cited on William Leonard Proeger · Timeline. - S63Cactus Yearbook, University of Texas at Austin, 1966 — pp. 292 and 635. Page 292 is the Delta Tau Delta member panel, whose caption prints "Thomas Alan Caffey" among exactly seven names keyed to seven portraits in the second photo row; page 635 is the Class of 1968 grid, whose roster prints "Caffey, Thomas Alan, Austin" and whose last row keys six names to six portraits in a matching male/female sequence. Digitised in Texas ScholarWorks. The source of the portrait on his card, and of a second portrait of the same man in the documents grid below. Both are crops; both link to the full published page.Cited on Thomas Alan Caffey.
- S64UPEC Council No. 10 "Amor do Proximo", Mission San Jose — membership register, 1891–1913. União Portuguesa do Estado da California; PDF scan of the LDS microfilm hosted by Azores GenWeb, file
mission-san-jose_2-10.pdf(the file is Council No. 10 only, despite its name). Page 21, member No. 66, February 1896: Francisco da Silva, 33, lavrador, [M.S.J.], Paiz Fayal — a struck Portugal beneath; page 22, heir certificate 2223: Anna da Silva. Re-read at 200 dpi on 15 September 2026. The first record of any kind to name an island for this family. Age within a year of Frank Sr's June 1863, a farmer, wife Anna, in the family's township. Probable, not Confirmed: the row carries no birth date, no parish and no parents, and "Francisco da Silva" is a common name in this colony. It is read with S65, not alone.Cited on Silva line · Frank Silva Sr · Migration · DNA. - S65IDES Council No. 1, Mission San Jose — membership register, book 2, 1889–1946. Irmandade do Divino Espírito Santo; PDF scan of the LDS microfilm hosted by Azores GenWeb, file
ides_council_1_bk2.pdf. Page 21, member No. 178 (admitted 15 November 1896, suspended 3 October 1897): Francisco da Silva, 33, cazado, trabalhador, mission San Jose, Naturalidade Faial. Page 79, member No. 220, 5 April 1914: Frank Silva, 16, [solteiro], [trabalhador], San Jose / Mission, Naturalidade Mission; page 80, heir certificate 16362: Anna L. Silva, Mãi (mother), San Jose / Mission. Re-read at 200 dpi on 15 September 2026. The 1896 row is the same man as S64 in the neighbouring lodge — same name, age, town, marital state and island. The 1914 row is Frank T. Silva Jr: 16 in April 1914 fits 2 December 1897 exactly, he is California-born ("Mission"), and he names Anna L. Silva — the exact form on her death index and headstone — as his mother, in the same book. That pairing is what made Faial a strong inference from these books alone; neither book carries a birth date, so neither settles it. His 1946 obituary [S67] does, and it names these same two lodges — which is also what confirms that these rows are him.Cited on Silva line · Frank Silva Sr · Migration · DNA. - S66Charles Fahs Kauffman, A Genealogy and History of the Kauffman-Coffman Families of North America, 1584 to 1937 (York, PA, 1940), 834 pp. Free scan held at Archive.org, Allen County Public Library copy. Searched twice, to opposite effect. On 15 September 2026 the full text was searched for "Page County," "Luray," "David Coffman," "David Kaufman," "Dee," and "Emily": the Luray branch is present (D-series, ~55 Shenandoah and ~58 Rockingham mentions), but no match to Dee Coffman (b. 1857) or to his parents by those names was found, and the Page County wall was broken through the vital registers instead [S82]. On 16 September, with David Carl Coffman's name and dates in hand from his gravestone [S83], a second search on the new names reached entry FI1a, p. 562, which gives his exact dates (13 Dec 1812 – 25 Jan 1883) and names his father Samuel Coffman (b. 1779) and his mother Susanna Coffman (22 Jul 1779 – 25 Apr 1865), with Martin "Hawkbill" Coffman (d. 1809) a generation above, citing his will at Shenandoah Co. Will Bk. H, p. 338. A compiled secondary source. A 1940 published genealogy is a scholar's reading of records, not a record; each link it supplies is graded on the records read for it, not on the book. The will it cites is read from the image [S1337]. Samuel is Confirmed as David C.'s father by two Library of Virginia registers (his 1871 marriage licence and 1883 death register, both naming "Saml. Coffman"). The 1814 death date is unsourced and probably wrong: the 1820 census shows him still heading a household, and a Samuel Kauffman estate appears in Page County probate — Page County did not exist until 1831. The book's citation for the will of Martin "Hawkbill" Coffman, "Will Bk. H, p. 338, 1809", is right: the will was signed 20 September 1809, proved 8 February 1813, and names "my two sons, Samuel and Jacob Kaufman" [S1337]. The 1805 will with seven sons and no Samuel is that of a different Martin Coffman, of the White House. Martin as Samuel's father is Confirmed on the will, a Page County chancery bill of 1833 [S1338] and an 1835 deed [S1342]. The book also disagrees with the gravestones on two dates: it gives Emily's birth as 17 April where the stone reads 7 April, and her death as 1867 where the stone and the Page County register say 1868. The stones are followed.Cited on Coffman, Wright & Brooks line · Martin Coffman · DNA · Timeline.
- S67Frank Silva Sr — obituary, November 1946. Syndicated death notice datelined Mission San Jose, Nov. 28, retrieved 15 September 2026 as two independent OCR captures of the same text on Newspapers.com (Publisher Extra, via Ancestry All Access), image ids
205259611and205515816. "Frank Silva, 83, resident of this community for more than 50 years and former farmer and grocer, died at the San Jose Hospital yesterday… interment will be at St. Joseph's Cemetery… He was a native of Fayal, the Azores, and was a member of IDES Lodge No. 1, St. Anthony's Sodality and the UPEC Lodge. He was the husband of the late Anna L. Silva, the foster father of Frank S. Vargas, father of the late Frank Silva Jr. and Mamie Silva and grandfather of Aileen Roberts of Philadelphia." The record that confirmed the island. Not one indexed field: it independently corroborates every axis the lodge registers rested on — age 83 (b. ~1863), Mission San José, both lodges, wife Anna L., son Frank Jr — and adds the granddaughter by her married name. The second capture's OCR reads "Azures" for Azores: a scanning slip, not a variant place. It also overturns the "d. Santa Barbara County" reading this page had taken from the California Death Index; the index is simply incomplete for Alameda County.Cited on Silva line · Aileane Marie Silva · Frank Silva Sr · Migration · DNA · Timeline. - S68Julius Proeger — Pennsylvania death certificate, 6 January 1924. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, file no. 677, registration district Pittsburgh, Allegheny County; Pennsylvania, U.S., Death Certificates, 1906–1972 (Ancestry collection 5164), Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. Read on the certificate image 16 September 2026. Date of birth April 15, 1844, age 79, widower, retired; birthplace Germany; maiden name of mother Loesch, her birthplace Germany. The certificate names the mother and not the father — line 11 reads unknown Proeger. The father's given names came from S69, a different record on a different continent. This is also the record whose 15 April 1844 birth date made that match provable rather than plausible.Cited on Overview · Proeger & Kochendoerfer line · Julius Karl Proeger · Elisabethe Sabina Loesch · Timeline.
- S69Carl Julius Prüger — Lutheran baptism, Kirchberg an der Jagst (Oberamt Gerabronn), Württemberg, 28 April 1844. Württemberg, Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1500–1985 (Ancestry collection 61023), retrieved 16 September 2026. Born 15 April 1844, between 11 and 12 noon, baptised 28 April 1844 at Kirchberg an der Jagst, Oberamt Gerabronn, Württemberg — the register writes the place Gerabronn, Kirchberg u. Oa. (today Baden-Württemberg); father Georg Melchior Julius Prüger, Bürger und Schuhmachermeister dahier; mother Elisabeth Catharina geb. Lösch. Entry no. 22, original scan 5759 × 4607 px. The record that ended the "somewhere in Germany" wall on this line, and the origin of the Prüger spelling that was anglicised to Proeger in America. The identification rests on an exact birth-date match with S68, not on the name alone. The register names the mother, with the surname Lösch. At full resolution the line is legible; the Schrift im Falz verdeckt flag on the film refers to a gutter this entry sits clear of. Its given name for her, Elisabeth Catharina, is a slip: her own baptism, marriage and burial entries say Elisabetha Sabina (S1688, S1689, S133). The parish is Kirchberg an der Jagst and the Oberamt is Gerabronn: the siblings' entries read Kirchberg (OA. Gerabronn), and Julius gave Kirchberg as his home to the Hamburg clerk in 1865.Cited on Overview · Proeger & Kochendoerfer line · Julius Karl Proeger · Minnie Margaret Kochendoerfer · Georg Melchior Julius Prüger · Elisabethe Sabina Loesch · Migration · DNA · Timeline.
- S70Media Owens Stobaugh — Texas death certificate, 28 July 1954. Texas Department of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, state file no. 36634, Travis County; Texas, U.S., Death Certificates, 1903–1982 (Ancestry collection 2272). Read on the certificate image 16 September 2026. Born 28 September 1887, Salado, Texas; occupation practical nurse; father Charles Owens, born Texas; mother Alice Walden, born Tennessee. This certificate settles a maiden name and adds two ancestors in one line. It confirms Owens as her maiden name rather than a tree's assumption, and it is the only record on this page that names her parents. The certificate spells her mother Walden; the family tree carries the same woman as Alice Rachael Waldon. The spelling is unsettled and both forms are left standing here rather than one being chosen quietly.Cited on Overview · Owens & Walden line · Medie Owens · Charles Owens · Alice Walden · Timeline.
- S71Benjamin Leroy Peters and Gertie Selma Selland — South Dakota marriage record, 16 November 1925. South Dakota State Board of Health, Division of Vital Statistics, certificate 109784, registered no. 250, Deuel County; South Dakota, U.S., Marriages, 1905–2024 (Ancestry collection 8561). Read on the certificate image 16 September 2026. Solemnised at Brandt; both parties of Clear Lake, Deuel County; groom 20, bride 22. A state vital record for the marriage date; before it, the date rested on a family tree alone. Ancestry's index misreads the bride as "Gertie Selma Sellana"; the certificate itself reads Selland, which is why a search on the correct spelling had been returning nothing. She went by her middle name, Selma. The parents' names sit below the fold of the captured image and have not yet been read.Cited on Overview · Peters & Hermann line · Gertie Selma Selland · Timeline.
- S72Coffman and Bowles family record — typescript, undated. Four typed sheets compiled within the family and kept by Robert William Coffman (1906–1990), Earl's grandfather; passed to his son David and photographed 16 September 2026. Covers David Emily "Dee" Coffman & Mary Jane Wright, William Anderson Bowles & Iona Belle Brock and their eighteen children, and James Daniel Bowles & Lydia Williams and their ten. Family testimony, not a vital record — weighed as such. It agrees with the registers on Lydia Mae Bowles's birth to the day and on Iona Belle Brock's dates exactly, and it supplies two marriage dates and twenty-two names that no record here had. It also contradicts itself on William Anderson Bowles's birth year (1858 on one sheet, 1859 on another) and gives Mary Jane Wright's death as 1934 against 1935 elsewhere. Those conflicts are recorded, not resolved.Cited on Overview · Coffman, Wright & Brooks line · Bowles, Williams & Brock line · David Emily "Dee" Coffman · Mary Jane "Mollie" Wright · William Anderson Bowles · Iona Belle Brock · Emily Bowles · Timeline.
- S73Nancy Martin Coffman Proeger — memorial service livestream, Hope Chapel, Austin, 15 March 2025. Archived on YouTube at youtube.com/live/LeOs7uIs27E. The service at which the family-written obituary (S1) was read aloud. The video is the record of the memorial; the obituary text is the source for the biographical facts.Cited on Timeline.
- S74Røldal parish register — baptisms, 1868. Entry no. 7: born 9 May 1868, baptised 21 June 1868, child Mons, ægte (in wedlock); father Gbr. (farmer) Thore Thoresen Selland, mother Ingeborg Ivarsdatter. A primary church record, read by eye from the full-resolution scan rather than from an index or an OCR sidecar. Four of the six named witnesses are Lone and Hegerland people, which is what makes the Julia Lone lead worth chasing. Rødal is in Hordaland, at the head of the Hardanger valleys; Selland is the farm, not the family name.Cited on Overview · Selland & Lone line · Gertie Selma Selland · Mons Selland · Tore Toreson Selland · Ingebjørg Ivarsdatter Selland · Timeline.
- S75Røldal parish register — G. Udflyttede (those moved out), folio 203, year 1889. Entry no. 3: Mons Thorsen Selland, birth year 1868, destination "Dakota, Amerika", certificates issued for birth, baptism and confirmation. Read by eye at full resolution. The register names no ship, no port and no sailing date — the Naar udflyttet column carries the bare year. A Norwegian out-migration entry is a clerical hand-off between parishes, not a passenger list, and it should not be expected to yield a crossing. The birth year here and the birth date in S74 are the same man.Cited on Overview · Selland & Lone line · Dorothy La Vonne Peters · Gertie Selma Selland · Mons Selland · Tore Toreson Selland · Timeline.
- S76Røldal parish register — births (Fødte Mandkjøn), page 7, 1820. Entry no. 29: Thore, born 3 June 1820 at Bakkene, baptised 1 July 1820; father gaardmand Tore Monsen, mother Ingebor Ormsdatter. Read by eye. A second Thore was born in Røldal in 1820 — entry no. 27, to Helje Hellegsen of Suve — and the two are separated on three axes at once: the patronymic (a son of Tore is Toreson), the farm (Bakkene, a cotter’s place whose family the register calls “Sellands” in 1791 and 1796, S1695; the other is Suve), and the mother's name, which matches the Ingebjørg Ormsdatter Prestegård already on this page. This register gives 3 June; online trees give 4 June. The register is primary and is followed.Cited on Overview · Selland & Lone line · Tore Toreson Selland · Tore Monsen Selland · Ingebjørg Ormsdatter · Timeline.
- S77Røldal parish register — burials, folio 199, 1912. Men's sequence no. 3: died 5 June 1912, buried 12 June, Tore … Selland, of Selland, born 1820 at Selland. Women's sequence no. 2: died 9 May 1912, buried 18 May, Ingebjørg Ivarsdatter Selland, of Selland, born 1831 at Sauda. Read by eye. The printed column headings are wrong for this content — the clerk reused an Indflyttede (moved-in) form and overwrote the headings by hand as death date, burial date and birthplace; read the manuscript headings or every column shifts meaning. The clerk also wrote the husband's patronymic as Ivarsson, which is his wife's. The 1868 baptism (S74) calls him Thoresen and the 1820 baptism (S76) gives his father as Tore Monsen, so Toreson is correct; and were Ivarsson right, he and his wife would be brother and sister. Recorded as a clerical slip, not a competing fact, so that the next reader of that image knows it was looked at.Cited on Overview · Selland & Lone line · Tore Toreson Selland · Ingebjørg Ivarsdatter Selland · Timeline.
- S78Robert W. Coffman's Pasadena ISD career — four Texas newspaper articles, all read by eye from the page image. Abilene Reporter-News, 22 Aug 1945, p. 9, "Lieutenant Made School Executive": "…has been elected assistant superintendent of the Pasadena, Texas, Independent school district… was a ward school principal in the Pasadena district before his enlistment… a native of the Potosi community in Taylor county and attended Abilene Christian college." · Abilene Reporter-News, 29 Jul 1951, p. 38 (his parents' golden wedding): "Robert W. Coffman is assistant superintendent of the Pasadena Schools and is also a minister in the church." · The Baytown Sun, 17 Feb 1956, p. 11: "Robert W. Coffman, business manager for the Pasadena Independent School district…" · The Baytown Sun, 31 Aug 1961, p. 2: "Two top candidates for the job are deputy superintendents, Robert W. Coffman and George A. Thompson." The 1945 article is what makes the identification safe — full name with middle initial, the district, the prior post inside that same district, birthplace Potosi in Taylor County, and Abilene Christian, five axes on one page. The 1951 story names him among J. D. and Lydia Bowles Coffman's seven children and gives his Pasadena title in the same sentence, so the administrator and the Potosi son are the same man on the face of one document. No article found places him in the top job; whether he got the acting-superintendent post after August 1961 is still open.Cited on Overview · Robert William Coffman · Migration · Timeline.
- S79James Harris Timberman Jr. — Ohio certificate of death, 24 January 1919. State of Ohio, Bureau of Vital Statistics; Guernsey County, registration district 470, primary registration district 8717, registered no. 26, file no. 3039; Ohio, Deaths, 1908–1953, FamilySearch ARK
1:1:X8KB-Z38. Read from the certificate image on 15 September 2026, not from the index. Gives: Jas. H. Timberman, born 23 October 1886, birthplace Pa.; died 24 January 1919 at 9 p.m., city of Cambridge, Guernsey County, Ohio; occupation inspector, B. & O. R. R.; cause of death influenza, the attending physician certifying four days' attendance; father J. H. Timberman Sr, born N.J.; mother Louise Harbauer, born Pa.; informant Mrs. Jas. H. Timberman, Gallatin, Tenn.; buried Gallatin, Tennessee, 27 January 1919. This is the record that turned the Timberman parents from Probable to Confirmed, and the only source on this page for the cause of his death. Two cautions, both on the face of the document: the stated age of 31 is an arithmetic error — 23 October 1886 to 24 January 1919 is 32 years, and the FamilySearch index copies the mistake forward; and the cause of death is a handwritten word on 1919 microfilm, read here as Influenza on letter count, the four-day course and the date, not transcribed from type. The informant is his widow, so the parents' names are her testimony — corroborated independently by the 1910 Wilkes-Barre census, which is why the tag is Confirmed.Cited on Timberman, Martin & Chenault line · James Harris Timberman Sr. · James Harris Timberman Jr. · Timeline. - S80James Harris Timberman Jr. — World War I draft registration card, 1917. East Orange City, Essex County, New Jersey; NARA M1509, World War I Selective Service System Draft Registration Cards; FamilySearch ARK
1:1:7FP1-BV2M, read from the card image 15 September 2026. Signed in his own hand, "James Harris Timberman Jr." — the full middle name the Ohio certificate reduces to an initial. Age 30; born 23 October 1886, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; home 302 Halsted, East Orange; deputy real-estate agent for the D. L. & W. R. R. at Hoboken. The name is settled by this card and nothing else is needed for it. The age of 30 dates the card to the first national registration of 5 June 1917 rather than the 1918 rounds. Philadelphia rests on this card alone — the death certificate says only "Pa." — so the city stays Probable while the name and the birth date do not.Cited on Timberman, Martin & Chenault line · James Harris Timberman Jr..
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- S81Mary Jane Wright Coffman — Texas death certificate, 6 December 1934. Texas State Department of Health, Standard Certificate of Death, file no. 56943, Taylor County; Texas, U.S., Death Certificates, 1903–1982. Read from the certificate image 16 September 2026. Mary Jane Coffman, wife of D. E. Coffman; born 23 October 1859, Texas; died 6 December 1934 at 7:20 p.m., two miles south of Potosi, Taylor County, of cerebral haemorrhage; buried Dudley, 8 December 1934; father James W. Wright, born Tennessee; mother's maiden name Lucy Brooks, born Tennessee; informant D. C. Coffman of Abilene. It settles a death year and it names two ancestors. Her gravestone and her FindAGrave memorial give the death a day later and a year later, in December 1935 [S21]; the certificate says 6 December 1934 and the family typescript [S72] independently says 1934 as well. A state certificate written five days after the death outranks a stone transcription, and it is followed on this page. The likeliest source of the wrong year is the state registrar's filing stamp, JAN 10 1935, on the face of the same document.Cited on Coffman, Wright & Brooks line · Bowles, Williams & Brock line · Mary Jane "Mollie" Wright · James W. Wright · Lucy Brooks · Timeline.
- S82David Emily "Dee" Coffman — Page County, Virginia birth register, 8 August 1857. Virginia, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Birth Records 1853–1896, FamilySearch ARK
1:1:6K1Q-DYSJ, with the same original entry indexed twice more — Virginia, Births and Christenings 1584–1917, ARK1:1:XT4Y-1S9, and Virginia, Vital Records 1715–1912, ARK1:1:XSVY-N9PV. Retrieved 15 September 2026. The child is entered as David E. Kaufman; the parents as David C. and Emily M. The register indexes this family as KAUFMAN while every census writes COFFMAN — that spelling split is the whole reason the wall stood, because a search on Coffman against Page County returns nothing but Shenandoah drift. The three indexings disagree on the year: 1857 in the Bureau register, 1858 in the christenings collection. The page follows 1857, which the stated age of 80 on his 1938 death record and the family typescript both support. The register gives the parents by given name and middle initial only; "Thornhill" is not in this record and comes from the censuses and her gravestone.Cited on Coffman, Wright & Brooks line · David Emily "Dee" Coffman · David C. Coffman · Emily M. Thornhill · DNA · Timeline. - S83David C. Coffman and Emily M. Thornhill Coffman — gravestones, Page County, Virginia. Two chalked headstones photographed 12 August 2015 and held in the Coffman family tree shared with Earl by his uncle David; read here from the full-resolution images, 16 September 2026. OUR FATHER / DAVID C. COFFMAN / BORN Dec. 13, 1812 / DIED Jan. 25, 1883 / Aged 70 yrs. 1 mo. 12 ds. and OUR MOTHER / EMILY M. COFFMAN / wife of DAVID C. COFFMAN / BORN April 7, 1820 / DIED July 21, 1868 / Aged 48 yrs. 3 mos. Both stones close to the day on their own arithmetic, so the dates are corroborated by the monuments themselves and not only by a tree. Emily's carries the phrase "wife of David C. Coffman" — a contemporary physical object tying the couple together, independent of any index. Her death in July 1868 is also why Dee, born 1857, carries his mother's given name as his own middle name: she died when he was ten.Cited on Coffman, Wright & Brooks line · David Emily "Dee" Coffman · David C. Coffman · Emily M. Thornhill · Timeline.
- S84Dr. James W. Wright — last will and testament, Dallas County, Texas, 9 July 1878. Dallas County probate records, two manuscript pages, transcribed from the images 16 September 2026. Devises the estate to his children Jessee Wright and Kate Templeton Wright, subject to the homestead and community interest of his wife Louisiana C. Wright, whom he appoints sole executrix and guardian. A name variant, recorded rather than adjudicated. The will calls his wife Louisiana C., the printed county history [S85] calls her Lucy C. Brooks, her daughter's death certificate [S81] calls her Lucy Brooks, and FindAGrave calls her Luciana Catherine. Same middle initial and same role as surviving widow in every one. This page uses Lucy Brooks, the form on the two primary records, and prints the others rather than hiding them.Cited on Coffman, Wright & Brooks line · Mary Jane "Mollie" Wright · James W. Wright · Lucy Brooks · Timeline.
- S85History of Dallas County, Texas (1892), pp. 687–688 — the biography of James W. Wright, M.D. Two printed pages, read from the images 16 September 2026. Gives his birth near Nashville, Tennessee, 4 February 1825, son of Thomas and Martha A. (Tate) Wright; service in the Mexican War; medical study at Louisville and a degree at Nashville; his marriage 28 October 1848 to Lucy C. Brooks, of Davidson County, Tennessee, daughter of Moses T. and Nancy (Tate) Brooks; the family's emigration to Texas in 1850; and, on p. 688, his children — among them "Mary J., wife of David E. Coffman, of Taylor county." A subscription county history is a paid-for family account, not a vital record, and is weighed that way here. Its value is that it reaches the same couple from the opposite direction to the 1934 death certificate [S81]: the certificate names Mary Jane's parents, the history names Dr. Wright's daughter. Neither was derived from the other. The G6 generation it supplies — Thomas & Martha A. (Tate) Wright, Moses T. & Nancy (Tate) Brooks — rests on this book alone and stays Probable.Cited on Coffman, Wright & Brooks line · Mary Jane "Mollie" Wright · James W. Wright · Lucy Brooks · Thomas Wright · Martha Ann Tate · Moses T. Brooks · Nancy Tait · Timeline.
- S86Joseph D. Martin and Nannie G. Martin — double headstone. Member-submitted photograph dated 4/2012, from the Coffman family tree shared by Earl's uncle David. Re-read off the full-resolution image, enlarged, on 17 September 2026. Inscribed JOSEPH D. MARTIN, SEPT. 22, 1832 – SEPT. 28, 1899 and NANNIE G. MARTIN, JAN. 26, 1844 – APR. 4, 1915. The monument reads D. and 1899, so it corroborates the family tree on both the husband's middle initial and his death year, and is evidence for "Daniel". The wife's dates read Jan. 26 and Apr. 4. Their identification as Nancy Louise Martin's parents is still from the tree [S30] and remains Probable — a stone proves two people and their dates, not a parentage.Cited on Overview · Joseph Daniel Martin · Nannie Chenault.
- S871930 United States federal census — Precinct 2, Jackson County, Texas: the Walker household. Read 16 September 2026. Enumerates Daniel Jonah Walker and Nettie Ellen "Annie" Walker with their children Mary, Olan, Clarence Melvin and Robert J — the household Kristin's grandfather was born into at Lolita in 1920. This is what took the Walker great-grandparents past two bare index names. Before it, the couple existed only in the parent fields of their son's Social Security NUMIDENT record, which spells her "Nettie Clevland" and gives no dates, no places and no children. The census writes Cleveland and supplies the household. Their own parents are still Not found; the tree's "Desa Hodges, b. 1888" for Nettie's mother would make the mother eight years old and is rejected, not corrected.Cited on Overview · Clarence Melvin "Melvin" Walker · Daniel Jonah Walker & Nettie Ellen "Annie" Cleveland · Nettie Ellen Cleveland · William Olan Walker · Timeline.
- S88Earl Theodore Roberts and Aileane Proeger — Los Angeles County marriage record, 8 February 1946. California, County Marriages, 1849–1957 (FamilySearch collection 1804002), page 30, digital folder 005698721, microfilm 2115501, image 2924; ARKs
1:1:K8KQ-X2F(groom) and1:1:K8KQ-X2V(bride). Retrieved 16 September 2026. Both parties aged 27; the groom's parents are named as Leon H Roberts and Bessie H Henderson; the bride is indexed under her first married name, Proeger, with her parents as "Lank" [Frank] Silva and Mildred Ross [Rose]. It does two jobs. It replaces a family tree as the authority for Aileane's third marriage, and it is the only record that names Earl Theodore Roberts's own parents — which is how this page can state that he is no relation to the Anna Blanche Roberts in the generation above. Two unrelated Roberts families sit on this tree. She is indexed in February 1946 as Proeger, not as Parliman, though the Parliman marriage of 31 May 1943 came first [S51] — an oddity of the index, recorded and not explained.Cited on Aileane Marie Silva · Anna Blanche Roberts · Earl Theodore Roberts. - S89"Minister Returns to Abilene" — Abilene Reporter-News, 19 April 1962, p. 34. Read from the page image, held at
familytree-docs/coffman/the-abilene-reporter-news-abilene-tex-1962-04-19-p34.jpg. An interview with James Burton Coffman in which he names his two nieces then attending Abilene Christian College: "Virginia (Ginger)… and Nancy Coffman." Why it matters twice over. It is the only non-family source on this page that both places Earl's mother at Abilene Christian and states the uncle relationship — two facts this record had otherwise been taking from the family obituary S1 alone. Added 17 September 2026.Cited on Documents · Timeline. - S90Ohio Births and Christenings Index, 1774–1973 — Annie Roberts (Anna Blanche), b. 10 Nov 1892 (christening), Bellaire, Belmont, Ohio; father Henry Roberts, mother Rose Williams. FHL Film 902141. Ancestry collection 2541, record 2773008. The record that identifies both parents by name. Maiden name Williams confirmed independently by the CA Death Index (S91).Cited on Overview · Proeger & Kochendoerfer line · Anna Blanche Roberts · Henry S. Roberts.
- S91California Death Index, 1940–1997 — Anna Blanche Proeger [Roberts], b. 16 Sep 1890, Ohio; d. 15 Aug 1942, Los Angeles. Mother's maiden name: Williams. Father's surname: Roberts. Ancestry collection 5180, record 5930981. Independently confirms the mother's maiden name from S90. Birth year 1890 vs 1892: the 1900 census supports Sep 1892; the death index is a secondary source for birth date.Cited on Overview · Proeger & Kochendoerfer line · Anna Blanche Roberts · Henry S. Roberts · Timeline.
- S921900 US Federal Census — Henry Roberts household, Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia. Henry Roberts, 45, Head, b. Nov 1854, West Virginia, Glass Blower, married 25 years; Rose A Roberts, 45, Wife; Etta, 19; Florence, 17; Sam, 15; Thomas, 13. Henry's parents both b. Ohio. NARA T623, Roll 1769, Page 10, ED 0125. Ancestry collection 7602, record 62778072. Image examined, read 24 September 2026: 1590 Warren St.; Rose A. born Nov 1854, W. Va., both her parents b. Ohio, mother of 13 children, 7 living; Etta b. Feb 1881, Florence Feb 1883, Sam Mar 1885, Thomas May 1887. Anna Blanche is not in this household. Only four of Rose's seven living children are at home, so a daughter of seven living elsewhere is consistent with her own count. Siblings Etta (Henrietta), Florence, Sam, and Thomas confirmed.Cited on Overview · Proeger & Kochendoerfer line · Anna Blanche Roberts · Henry S. Roberts · Rose Alice Williams · Thomas W. Roberts · Harry Harrison Roberts · Christopher Baker Roberts · Timeline.
- S93PA Death Certificate — James Harris Timberman, d. 3 Jun 1919, Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne, PA. Father John H. Timberman, mother Rebecca Anna Harris. Certificate no. 69731, registered no. 642, registration district 667. Ancestry collection 5164, record 870597; image
41381_1521003238_0722-02796, read from the image at full resolution 2884 × 2700 px (DeepZoom pyramid level 12, 36/36 tiles) on 21 September 2026. CONFIRMS James Harris Timberman's parents. His middle name "Harris" = mother's maiden name. The image carries three things Ancestry's transcription does not. (1) Line 6 is written out in longhand words — June / Fourth / 1858 — which settles the birth date against the tree's 4 Jan 1858; line 7's age at death, 60 yrs 11 mos 30 ds against a death of 3 Jun 1919, agrees independently. (2) His occupation, line 8a: Veterinary Surgeon. (3) Residence 60 South Washington St., Wilkes-Barre; cause of death carcinoma of the prostate, duration one year; buried Mt. Greenwood Cemetery, 5 June 1919, undertaker W. E. Doran & Sons; filed 4 June 1919. The informant is a W. Timberman of West Virginia — the surname is legible, the given initials are not confidently legible at this resolution and are not expanded into a guess.Cited on Overview · Timberman, Martin & Chenault line · James Harris Timberman Sr. · John H. Timberman · Rebecca Anna Harris · Documents · Timeline. - S941860 US Federal Census — John Timberman household, Salem, Salem County, NJ. Page 43, dwelling 344, family 353, lines 21 to 25, enumerated 13 June 1860. Image examined, read 9 October 2026. John Timberman, 34, carpenter; Rebecca A. Timberman, 31 or 37; James H., 2; Esther A., 14; John H., 7/12; all born in Salem County. NARA M653, Roll 707. Ancestry collection 7667, record 55012827. Places the Timberman family at Salem, NJ in 1860 with James age 2. Rebecca’s age is a clear 3 followed by a figure that has been written over; it can be read 1 or 7, and Ancestry’s index reads 37. Neither reading is taken as her age. The census states no relationships.Cited on Overview · Timberman, Martin & Chenault line · James Harris Timberman Sr. · John H. Timberman · Rebecca Anna Harris · Timeline.
- S95TN Marriage Records — Joseph D. Martin + Nannie Chenault, 10 Jan 1866, Sumner County, Tennessee. Ancestry collection 1169, record 1652497. CONFIRMS the Chenault maiden name from a marriage record, not a tree.Cited on Overview · Timberman, Martin & Chenault line · Timeline.
- S96KY County Marriage Records — David Chinault [Chenault] + Louisa Quishinberry, 25 Oct 1827, Madison County, Kentucky. Ancestry record 902385342. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 24 September 2026: Madison County marriage register, p. 166, the return of the minister David Chinault Senr., “October the 25th day 1827 was David Chinault and Louisa Quishinberry married.” CONFIRMS Nannie Chenault's parents' marriage. The return gives no ages, parents or bond. "Senr." hints that the groom was the minister's son, but the return does not say so. Film no. 000183302.Cited on Overview · Timberman, Martin & Chenault line · David Chenault · Louisa Quisenberry Chenault · Timeline.
- S971850 US Federal Census — David Chenault household, District 3, Sumner County, Tennessee. David Chenault, 50, b. KY; Louisa, 39, b. KY; Nancy, 6, b. TN (Nannie G. Chenault); plus 9 other children. NARA M432, Roll 897, Page 150b. Ancestry collection 8054, record 6857140. Shows the full Chenault household with Nancy age 6 — Nannie G. Chenault. Also records David Chenault household in Sumner Co., TN.Cited on Overview · Timberman, Martin & Chenault line · Nannie Chenault · David Chenault · Louisa Quisenberry Chenault · Colby Burris Chenault · Timeline.
- S981850 US Federal Census — Jane Martin household, District 12, Sumner County, Tennessee. Jane Martin, 56, Head (b. ~1794); David, 19; Joseph, 18; Martha, 16; Louisa, 14; Mary McMurry, 7; William Bell, 65. NARA M432, Roll 897, Page 286a. Ancestry collection 8054, records 6921047 / 6921049. Re-read in full on 18 September 2026, and it carries two names this entry had left off. Jane heads the household with no husband present because Peter Hines Martin died 4 July 1849, the year before [S105]. And William Bell, aged 65 — her brother, in the words of Peter's will of 1849 [S172], living under her roof — is her maiden name walking into the record on its own legs, independent of the marriage index [S106] and of the family chart [S103] that first supplied it. This household is still what makes Joseph Probable rather than Confirmed as Peter's son: right name, right age, right county, in the widow's house the year after the father died — but a census names a household, not a parentage. Peter's 1849 Sumner County probate file was what would close it [S107] — and it has: his holographic will of 30 June 1849 [S172] names Joseph D Martin in the children's division, and calls William Bell Jane's brother.Cited on Overview · Timberman, Martin & Chenault line · Nancy Louise Martin · Jane Bell (Martin) · Joseph Daniel Martin · Timeline.
- S99NJ Birth Index — Louise M. Timberman, b. 10 Apr 1917, Orange, New Jersey. Ancestry collection 61252, records 6617321/6617322. CONFIRMS Louise Martin Timberman's birth in the NJ Birth Index. Index only — does not include parents' names.Cited on Timberman, Martin & Chenault line.
- S10023andMe Paternal Haplogroup report — Y-DNA haplogroup I-S17250 (I1, Northern European / Scandinavian-Germanic). Read 17 September 2026 from Earl's own 23andMe account. Follows the PROEGER / Prüger surname line. I1 is not the R1b one would casually predict for a Swabian family.Cited on DNA.
S101 – S120
- S10123andMe Maternal Haplogroup report — mtDNA haplogroup J1c1. Read 17 September 2026. Follows Nancy Coffman → Louise Timberman → Nancy Martin → Nannie Chenault — the thinnest stretch of the paper trail.Cited on DNA.
- S102GEDmatch "Are Your Parents Related?" — Earl’s own kit. Largest segment 0 cM, no runs of homozygosity. Read 17 September 2026. Earl's parents are not related to each other. This does not test the Silva/Rose endogamy question — both lines are on Earl's father's side. The test that would answer it requires Earl's father's kit.Cited on DNA.
- S103Robert William Coffman — four pedigree sheets, Genealogical Society of Utah forms (copyright 1936). Compiled by Robert William Coffman (1906–1990), Earl's maternal grandfather; kept after his death by his son David Coffman, who photographed and sent all four to Earl on 18 September 2026. Blue-ink cursive throughout, with a later layer of pencil block capitals on the right-hand column of Chart 1 and red annotations in a third hand. All four images are on this page. FAMILY TESTIMONY, and graded as such — a pedigree chart is not a record. Its value here is that it is testimony from inside the family, written down by a careful man with the 1940 Kauffman-Coffman book open beside him, and it carried two facts nothing else on this page had: the names PETER H MARTIN and JANE BELL [S105][S106], and the wedding date 5 Mar 1799 [S104]. Where the sheets disagree with a record, the record wins on this page, and one such place is printed rather than hidden: the chart's 1888 birth and "Columbus" for James Harris Timberman Jr. against his Ohio certificate's 23 Oct 1886 and Cambridge [S79]. On Martin Coffman the records bear the chart out: his will is of 1809 [S1337], and the "Geo." of the 1799 marriage index is the bond's witness, not Samuel's father [S1343] Chart 3 (the Swiss Kauffman generations) and the surname-study sheet are published as documents and not as descent. The Swiss chain carries no citation of any kind, and the surname sheet — Kauffmans on the councils of Berne, Zurich, Solothurn and Lucerne, 1303–1582 — has nothing on it connecting any of those men to this family. The sheets arrived through a phone and cap at 720 × 1280 pixels; a chart field is 12–20 pixels tall at that size, which is why several readings are graded Probable. A re-photograph at full resolution would close about a dozen of them.Cited on Coffman, Wright & Brooks line · Timberman, Martin & Chenault line · Nancy Louise Martin · David Emily "Dee" Coffman · Martin Coffman · Timeline.
- S104Samuel Coffman and Susanna Coffman — Shenandoah County, Virginia marriage, 1799. Virginia, U.S., Select Marriages, 1785–1940 (Ancestry collection 60214, record 5383144): Saml. Coffman, marriage date 12 February 1799, Shenandoah, Virginia; Father: Geo.; spouse Susanna Coffman; FHL film 33930, reference p. 98. Corroborated independently by Virginia, U.S., Compiled Marriages, 1660–1800 (Dodd; collection 3002, record 38970), same couple, same date, same county. Retrieved 18 September 2026. What it confirms, and one field the index gets wrong. It confirms the marriage the family chart recorded, and it confirms that the bride was already a Coffman — the record behind the compiler's red "1st Cousins." The bond date and the chart's wedding date are not in conflict: Virginia recorded the bond first and the minister's return after, and a 12 February bond with a 5 March wedding is the ordinary three-week pattern. The index's "Father: Geo." is not the groom's father. The original bond, read from the image [S1343], names no father for either party; the only George on it is the witness, George Hoffman. Samuel's father is Martin, as the family chart says [S103], Confirmed on Martin's 1809 will [S1337].Cited on Coffman, Wright & Brooks line · Samuel Coffman · Timeline.
- S105Peter Hines Martin Sr — Find a Grave memorial 138765883, with Ancestry member documents. Born 4 November 1793, Virginia; died 4 July 1849, Gallatin, Sumner County, Tennessee. Parents given as John Martin and Sarah Martin; spouse Jane. Indexed on Ancestry as collection 60541, record 4605011; the exact day and month are corroborated by member-submitted documents. Retrieved 18 September 2026. This is the record that answered a question this page had been posing as unanswerable. This page had carried Joseph's father as a man who died shortly before the 1850 census and could not be named — an inference drawn from his absence from it [S98]. The inference was right to within a year. The name came from a pencilled box on his great-great-grandson's pedigree chart [S103], and the "H" is Hines. Find a Grave is a compiled memorial, not an original. The dates are corroborated by the chart, by the 1818 marriage [S106] and by the 1850 widow's household; his own parents, John and Sarah Martin, rest on this memorial alone and stay Probable until an original is traced.Cited on Overview · Timberman, Martin & Chenault line · Nancy Louise Martin · Jane Bell (Martin) · John Martin · Timeline.
- S106Peter H. Martin and Jane Bell — marriage, Davidson County, Tennessee, 2 July 1818. Tennessee, U.S., Compiled Marriages, 1784–1825 (Dodd), Ancestry collection 2099, record 3593. Retrieved 18 September 2026. An actual record for a name that existed only on a family chart. Box 29 of Chart 1 reads JANE BELL in pencil and nothing more [S103]; this is the marriage behind it. A compiled marriage index is a transcription, not the county register; the register itself is read at [S162] and agrees to the day. Her maiden name is corroborated from another direction: William Bell, aged 65, is enumerated in Jane's household in 1850 [S98] — a Bell under the widow's roof, her brother by Peter's will of 1849 [S172], which reaches her maiden name from a completely different direction.Cited on Overview · Timberman, Martin & Chenault line · Nancy Louise Martin · Jane Bell (Martin) · Timeline.
- S107Peter H. Martin in Sumner County, Tennessee, 1820–1849 — census, tax and probate trail. 1820 federal census, enumerated 7 August 1820, Gallatin, Sumner, Tennessee: "Peter H Martin", one male 26–44, one female 16–25, four persons engaged in manufactures (NARA M33, roll 124, p. 263, image 158). 1824 Tennessee Early Tax List, Sumner County: "Martin Peter", Ancestry record 201898. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 24 September 2026: the only Peter Martin in the 1824 tax book, on the alphabetical list that carries the Gallatin town lots; no acreage and no town lot entered against him, which fits a Gallatin tradesman rather than a farmer. The tally columns slope and cannot be tied to his line with certainty. 1830 federal census, Sumner County: "Peter Martin / Peter H Martin". Tennessee, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1779–2008 — Peter H Martin, death 1849, Sumner County (Ancestry collection 9176, record 3819223). Retrieved 18 September 2026. Three decades of one man in one county, which is what makes the 1849 death and the 1850 widow the same family rather than two coincidences. The probate file was not opened to the page — only its index entry was seen. It is named here because it is the document that would take Joseph D. Martin's parentage from Probable to Confirmed: a Tennessee probate of this period normally names the children. Until someone reads it, the link between Peter and Joseph rests on the 1850 household [S98].Cited on Timberman, Martin & Chenault line · Documents.
- S108Dee Coffman family photograph, circa 1924 — names supplied by Virginia "Ginger" Coffman. A copy of the group photograph already published here, with names typed onto fourteen of the faces and captioned in the image itself “Dee Coffman Family / Circa 1924.” Compiled by Virginia "Ginger" Coffman (Earl's aunt, daughter of Robert William Coffman) and relayed by Earl on 18 September 2026. The labelled image is on this page. Names given: James Burton Coffman, Robert William Coffman, Sue, Lucy, Lydia Mae, Lee Coffman, James David Coffman, Dee Coffman, Mollie Wright Coffman, Lydia Francis Coffman, Ila Belle Coffman, Horace Glenn Coffman, David Coffman, Jesse Coffman. FAMILY TESTIMONY, and graded as such. A relative naming relatives she knew is good provenance; it is not a record, and no document here names a face. This is an addition, not a correction — the photograph's attribution to Dee and Mollie Coffman's family was never in question, and is unchanged. Its weight is that it answers a question this page had been carrying since 16 September: which figures are Dee and Mollie. Ten of the fourteen names are new; four agree with the identifications Earl's uncle David Coffman gave two days earlier. Mary Jane "Mollie" Wright has no other photograph anywhere in this record, so the detail on her card is cut from this frame and labelled as a detail. Her circa 1924 is the family's attribution and sits inside this page's earlier 1923–1930 estimate; the photograph still carries no date of its own.Cited on James Burton Coffman · David Emily "Dee" Coffman · Mary Jane "Mollie" Wright · Lucy C. Coffman Chrane · Timeline.
- S109James Burton Coffman — Find a Grave memorial 14852608. Forest Park Lawndale Cemetery, Houston, Harris County, Texas; born 24 May 1905, died 30 June 2006; section Lakeview Gardens 27. Links parents James David "Jim" Coffman (53116702) and Lydia Mae Coffman (53116850) and sibling Robert William Coffman (36374281). Photographs of the headstone, the section marker and two portraits; the Houston Chronicle obituary transcribed on the page. Retrieved 19 September 2026; page capture in the Documents fold. The family links are contributor-made, but they agree with S16 and with the 1910 census (S118).Cited on James Burton Coffman · Documents · Timeline.
- S110Obituary, Houston Chronicle, 2 July 2006 — "James Burton Coffman", transcribed on Find a Grave memorial 14852608 and on Legacy.com (id 26837188). Born Taylor County 24 May 1905; baptised 1923; ACC 1927; Wichita Falls 1930; Houston, Washington, Harding, Manhattan ("more than $1 million" raised); three honorary doctorates; retired 1971; commentaries; died 30 June 2006. "Preceded in death by his wife of 64 plus years, Thelma (Sissy) Bradford, his parents, three brothers, and a sister" — by June 2006 Robert (d. 1990), Jesse (d. 1992) and David (d. 2005) were dead and Lydia Frances (d. 1993) was the sister: the count fits Earl's line exactly. The 1931 marriage year is inferred from "64 plus years" and is graded PROBABLE.Cited on James Burton Coffman · Timeline.
- S111Abilene Christian University news release, "Burton Coffman dies at 101" — his death on 30 June 2006, announced 3 July 2006 — acu.edu/events/news/archives2006/060703_coffman.html, read via the Wayback Machine (capture 29 May 2010). The fullest account: baptism 1923, B.A. 1927 in history and music, the school posts, the congregations in order, the Japan–Korea chaplaincy, Harding College vice-presidency, the honorary doctorates (ACU, Pepperdine, Magic Valley Christian College), Outstanding Alumnus 1971, Christian Service Award 1987 with Thelma, the Coffman Chair, the survivors by name: June Bristow Coffman; daughters Cynthia Shry, Mary Glenn Kochendefer, Nancy Willis; eight grandchildren; six great-grandchildren. Gives the alumnus award as 1971 where the Chronicle obituary says 1972; recorded, not adjudicated.Cited on James Burton Coffman · Timeline.
- S112"Biography of James B. Coffman", ACU Coffman Commentaries site — acu.edu/sponsored/coffman/Biography_of_James_B.html, read via the Wayback Machine (capture 22 December 2015). Baptism, education, the Wichita Falls start, the honorary doctorates, and the portrait ACU used for him, captured here. Institutional biography by his alma mater and publisher; agrees with S111 at every point checked.Cited on James Burton Coffman.
- S113"James Burton Coffman Papers, 1901–1990", finding aid, ACU Center for Restoration Studies MS #44 — digitalcommons.acu.edu/findingaids/343. Biographical note gives Abilene High School, ACC B.A. 1927, the 1930 Wichita Falls post, the 37-volume commentary, and lists his five-part unpublished memoirs (1990). Archival description of his own papers; the memoirs themselves have not been read for this record.Cited on James Burton Coffman.
- S114Christian Chronicle, "Minister Burton Coffman dies at 101" — his death on 30 June 2006, reported 1 August 2006 — christianchronicle.org/minister-burton-coffman-dies-at-101/. Death at Houston aged 101; the West University church sermon at 100; the commentaries. Independent of ACU; a church newspaper, and the one obituary of the three not written by an institution he belonged to.Cited on James Burton Coffman.
- S115Manhattan Church of Christ, "History" — manhattanchurch.org/mcoc-history, read 19 September 2026. Congregation founded July 1920; 48 East 80th Street bought 1941; minister roll "Burton Coffman 1954–1971"; elders appointed May 1955 (none since 1935); building fund 1955; mortgage burned October 1960; new building first used 19 May 1968, dedicated 30 June 1968. The congregation's own account, and the reason this record says he led the Manhattan church rather than started it: the church is thirty-four years older than his ministry there.Cited on James Burton Coffman · Timeline.
- S116Thelma "Sissy" Bradford Coffman — Find a Grave memorial 36374105, and the shared COFFMAN headstone, Forest Park Lawndale, Houston. Stone reads: Thelma Bradford, Dec. 31, 1906 – Nov. 30, 1995; James Burton, May 24, 1905 – June 30, 2006. Photograph in the Documents fold. A 2002 Christian Chronicle column dates her memorial to 1994; the stone says 1995 and governs.Cited on James Burton Coffman.
- S117June Annette Easley Bristow Coffman — Find a Grave memorial 186641270. 1922–2010; widow of John Wiley Bristow; second wife of James Burton Coffman. Establishes who she was; the date of the marriage is not on the memorial and remains UNVERIFIED.Cited on James Burton Coffman.
- S1181910 US Federal Census — Justice Precinct 3, Taylor County, Texas, ED 269, sheet 3A, enumerated 19 April 1910, household 48: Jas D Coffman, 28, head, b. Texas; Lydia, 26, wife, b. Arkansas; James B, 4, son; Robt W, 3, son; David E, 0, son. NARA T624; Ancestry collection 7884, record 123378181, image 4454817_00356. Page image captured 19 September 2026 from Earl's own signed-in session. The earliest document with both brothers in it.Cited on James Burton Coffman · Documents.
- S1191930 US Federal Census — Abilene, Taylor County, Texas: household of F D Atchley, 44, and Maude, 43; roomers Burton Coffman, 24, David Coffman, 20, Jesse Coffman, 17, Horace Coffman, 14. NARA T626; Ancestry collection 6224, record 60827529. Page image captured 19 September 2026. Unmarried, the year his ministry began at Wichita Falls; the four brothers rooming together in the college town.Cited on James Burton Coffman · Documents.
- S1201940 US Federal Census — Houston, Ward 4, Justice Precinct 1, Harris County, Texas, ED 258-165, sheet 14B, 23 April 1940, line 55: Burton Coffman, head, 34, b. Texas, occupation "Minister, Church"; Thelma, wife, 32, b. Texas. NARA T627; Ancestry collection 2442, record 159837200. Page image captured 19 September 2026. His Central Church of Christ years.Cited on James Burton Coffman · Documents.
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- S1211950 US Federal Census — Houston, Harris County, Texas, ED 263-343, sheet 8, 25 April 1950, line 27: Burton Coffman, head, 44, b. Texas, occupation "Pastor, Church"; Thelma, wife, 43, b. Texas; two roomers. Ancestry collection 62308, record 187606928. Page image captured 19 September 2026. Read from the page, not the index.Cited on James Burton Coffman · Documents.
- S122Georg Melchior Julius Proeger & Elisabethe Sabina Lösch — marriage, Triensbach, Crailsheim, Württemberg, 1835. Germany, Marriages, 1558–1929, FamilySearch ARK 1:1:NZMF-P6V (bride's entry 1:1:NZMF-P6F), read 20 September 2026. Groom born 1804 at Ertenbrechtshausen, single; bride born 1803 at Crailsheim. His parents: Joh. Leonhard David Proeger and Eva Barbara Schmidt. Her parents: Joh. Friedrich Melchior Lösch and Maria Dorothea Wolf. The index that first named a seventh generation on the Proeger side and a sixth on the Lösch side. The register page behind it was read from the image on 11 October 2026 [S1689]: the date is 11 October 1835, and the bride and her parents are as indexed. Her given name is Elisabetha Sabina at her baptism, marriage and burial; "Elisabeth Catharina" stands only in the 1844 Kirchberg baptism of her son [S69] and is a slip, and Julius's 1924 Pennsylvania death certificate says Lossetta [S68]. The birthplace: the FamilySearch shared tree says Schwäbisch Hall; both index originals say Erten- or Entenbrechtshausen, two readings of one hand, and the register says Erkenbrechtshausen, a hamlet 3½ km from the Triensbach church. The place-standardiser separately mangled the baptism entry into "Kirchberg an der Iller, Biberach", 150 km south. Always read the original place field, never the standardised one. His mother: his 1804 birth register [S591] names her as Anna Maria Busch. Eva Barbara Schmid(t), whom this entry names, was his stepmother, his father's second wife from 1806, and she raised him.Cited on Julius Karl Proeger · Georg Melchior Julius Prüger · Elisabethe Sabina Loesch · Eva Barbara Schmidt · Maria Dorothea Wolf · Timeline.
- S123Georg Melchior Julius Proeger — birth 1804 and death 1870, Württemberg. Germany, Births and Baptisms, 1558–1898, FamilySearch ARK 1:1:NNGB-R2B: born 25 July 1804, died 4 February 1870; father Joh. Leonhard David Proeger, mother Eva Barbara Schmidt. Corroborated by Germany, Deaths and Burials, 1582–1958, ARK 1:1:J7HM-PXK: died 1870, born 25 July 1804 at "Entenbrechtshausen". Both read 20 September 2026. Two more index entries, agreeing with S122 on the parents and adding the dates of Julius's father. These two entries are indexes, with no image read here; that grade is the index's, not his. Georg Melchior Julius is Confirmed on the register images [S591]. A fourth ARK, 1:1:J7HM-PX2, displays as "Joh. Leonhard David Proeger, Father … Birth: Entenbrechtshausen". Do not cite that as the father's birthplace — it is almost certainly the indexer propagating the principal's birthplace onto the relationship row. These index entries give no dates for the parents; Johann Leonhard David's own baptism, both marriages and burial are read from the register images [S594]. The mother named here was his stepmother. His 1804 birth register [S591] names his mother as Anna Maria Busch; Eva Barbara Schmid(t) was his father's second wife from 1806, and she raised him.Cited on Timeline.
- S124Minnie Margaret Kochendoerfer — christening at Langenburg, and her parents. FamilySearch shared tree, person LHQC-M24, with parents LR9G-7HM (Georg Leonhard Kochendorfer, 1811 – 1 October 1859, died Langenburg) and LR9G-WGN (Eva Margaretha Renk, b. 1809), married 29 November 1837, Gerabronn, with six further children. Her christening: 21 November 1847, Langenburg, Oberamt Gerabronn, Württemberg. Read via the published tree-data service on 20 September 2026; read-only — nothing was edited, merged or attached. User-contributed tree data, and graded as such: Probable. This entry is tree data; the Langenburg baptismal register itself is read from the image at [S184]: born 3 November 1847, baptised 21 November. Its value is the parish: Langenburg is 8 km from Kirchberg an der Jagst, where her husband was baptised [S69], both inside the Oberamt Gerabronn. Two families out of one small district marrying in Pittsburgh is chain migration, and it redirects the search for her crossing, still Not found, from the Hamburg passenger lists to the Württemberg registers. The tree gives her birth year as 1847, and the 1900 census [S137] and her 1912 death certificate agree with it — so 1847 is the settled year and the cemetery record's 1848 [S19] is the outlier. The christening date is itself part of the proof: a baptism on 21 November 1847 cannot follow a birth in November 1848, but sits eighteen days after 3 November 1847. The same profile carries an unsourced 1855 immigration for Julius alongside 1865; the Hamburg port register settles it at October 1865.Cited on Proeger & Kochendoerfer line · Minnie Margaret Kochendoerfer · Timeline.
- S125William Harry Proeger and Aileen Marie Silva — Wasatch County, Utah marriage, 13 August 1940. Utah, County Marriages, 1871–1941, Wasatch County, Marriage License Record E, page 203, certificate no. 2915. Register image 4000 × 3238 px, read 20 September 2026. Both parties present: groom age 25, bride age 21; licensed, married and filed same day by Alfred Sharp, County Clerk and LDS Elder. Witnesses Bert M. Lindsay and Marjorie Duke — neither related to either family. Both gave residence as "Rockford, Madison County, Illinois" (no Rockford exists in Madison County; the clerk struck the printed "Utah" and wrote Illinois — the address was internally inconsistent, recorded and not corrected). Register image held at
familytree-docs/proeger/proeger-silva-marriage-certificate-1940.jpg. The document behind the weakest "Confirmed" in the corpus. This county vital record — with both their signatures — is the source for the marriage; the FamilySearch tree event (S12) carries no government record. Heber City is on the US-40 transcontinental corridor; Earl reports the couple was traveling from Ohio to California and stopped to marry, which fits the route. The residence anomaly (Illinois, not Ohio or California) is what they told the clerk and is not smoothed over. Two months later William Harry registered for the draft in North Hollywood.Cited on Aileane Marie Silva. - S126Bradley Neal Caffey — Texas birth index, 1972. Texas, U.S., Birth Index, 1903–1997, Ancestry collection 8781, record 11286050, index image
TXBTH_1972_000216a. Read 21 September 2026. Father Thomas Alan Caffey; mother Clare LaVonne Walker. The record that makes him Kristin's full brother rather than a surname match. A state birth index naming both parents, and they are the same two parents the same index gives for Kristin in 1975 (imageTXBTH_1975_000216e). Corroborated independently by the 2022 Walker obituary [S36], which lists Brad and Kristin in one sentence as grandchildren of the same woman. No evidence of a third child. Across the whole Caffey hint cluster and the full obituary, only these two appear as children of this couple — that is absence of evidence from two sources that each had reason to name everyone, and is graded Probable, not Confirmed.Cited on Kristin M. Caffey Proeger · Bradley Neal Caffey · Thomas Alan Caffey · Clare La Vonne Walker. - S127Thomas Alan Caffey and Clare LaVonne Walker — marriage, 1969, Tarrant County, Texas. Texas, U.S., Marriage Index, 1824–2014, Ancestry collection 8795, record 3165434. Read 21 September 2026; the same date is carried forward on the 1980 divorce record [S128]. One conflict, resolved against the newspaper. The Newspapers.com Marriage Index (record 102623378) dates this marriage 1969. That collection is machine-extracted — Ancestry's own header states it was "found using artificial intelligence technology and may contain errors" — and it is one derived index against two state indexes that agree on 7 June. This page takes 1969. The likeliest explanation is mundane: the newspaper item ran the week after the ceremony and the extractor took the publication date for the event date.Cited on Thomas Alan Caffey · Clare La Vonne Walker.
- S128Caffey–Walker divorce, 1980, Travis County, Texas. Texas, U.S., Divorce Index, 1968–2017, Ancestry collection 8794, record 1980076447. Read 21 September 2026. A state record. It gives the day; [S33] gives only the year 1980. Clare LaVonne Walker is living, and this page publishes living adults in full under Earl's rule of 21 September 2026. A divorce is the kind of fact a living person might not want published, so it is recorded here that this one is on the page deliberately and with his authority, not by oversight. The state file number is not published.Cited on Thomas Alan Caffey · Clare La Vonne Walker.
- S129Clare LaVonne Walker and Wayne Allen Danielson — marriage, 1993, Travis County, Texas. Texas, U.S., Select County Marriage Records, 1837–2015, Ancestry collection 9168, record 130766248. Read 21 September 2026. Corroborated by the U.S. Index to Public Records (collection 62209, record 235937201), which files her as "Lavonne W Danielson" from 1993 onward, and by U.S. Phone and Address Directories (collection 7339, record 296670805), "Lavonne Danielson," spouse "Wayne," 1996–2002. This is what settles the two-names question, and the answer is a remarriage, not an index variant. Every Danielson record postdates the 1993 marriage; every Caffey and Walker record precedes it. There is no third reading of her name to reconcile — there are two marriages. It is a separate matter from, and does not disturb, the middle-name finding: her mother Dorothy La Vonne Peters passed that middle name to her, which is why Texas indexes file her under the first name Clare that the family does not use. Both things are true at once. Wayne Allen Danielson is the University of Texas dean — second dean of the College of Communication, 1969–1979. Identified 23 September 2026 by Earl Proeger [S24] and by the dean's own obituary, which names his wife LaVonne and his stepchildren Brad Caffey and Kristin Proeger [S297].Cited on Clare La Vonne Walker · Wayne Allen Danielson · Timeline.
- S130Thomas Alan Caffey — Texas birth index, 7 March 1946, Travis County, naming his father as Thomas Walton Caffey. Texas, U.S., Birth Index, 1903–1997, Ancestry collection 8781. Read 21 September 2026. Father Thomas Walton Caffey; mother Lucille Lorine Kretschmar. A correction aimed at the Ancestry tree, not at this page. Earl's online tree records the father's middle name as William. The state birth index says Walton, and so does the Austin Memorial Park gravestone already held in this corpus [S34] — an index and a stone, independent of each other. This page has read Walton throughout and continues to; the discrepancy is recorded here so that the tree can be corrected against it.Cited on Thomas Alan Caffey.
- S131Bradley Neal Caffey — marriage to Erin Helm, 2003. Three independent indexes agreeing on the date: Texas, U.S., Marriage Index collection 8795 record 13022122; Newspapers.com Marriage Index collection 62116 record 177232356; Texas, U.S., Select County Marriage Records collection 9168 record 940285567. Read 21 September 2026. Her own ancestry belongs to a different family and is out of scope for this record, which is why it is not worked here. Brad's residence history, which these records also supply down to city and year, stays in the research corpus — an editorial judgement about what belongs in a genealogy, not a privacy rule.Cited on Bradley Neal Caffey.
- S132Kristin Marie Caffey — L. C. Anderson High School yearbooks, Austin, Texas, 1990 and 1993. U.S., School Yearbooks, 1900–2016, Ancestry collection 1265: 1990 image
sid_1636_1990_0095(record 601954478, printed page 91, "Unique Classes" underclass portrait rail, key printing "Kristin Caffey (9)"); 1990 imagesid_1636_1990_0197(record 1164442023, printed page 193, index and group pictures, printing "Caffey, Kristin (9) 50, 91, 193" and the Marching Band group caption); 1993 imagesid_1636_1993_0110(record 1052669974, printed page 106, "1993 Seniors of Anderson" mass class photograph, roll printing her full name "Kristin Marie Caffey"). Retrieved 21 September 2026 through Earl's signed-in Ancestry session; Deep-Zoom tiles stitched at level 12 to 2720 × 3664 px (1990) and 2592 × 3376 px (1993), 138 of 138 tiles, no misses. Read-only: no hint was accepted, ignored, rejected or attached, and no tree was edited. The school is Anderson, not Austin High — the research brief that commissioned this said Austin High and was wrong. The viewer breadcrumb reads Texas / Austin / Anderson High School, Ancestry's own school field says Anderson on all three records, and the 1993 page is captioned "1993 Seniors of Anderson" with Anderson sweatshirts in the photograph. Printed page numbers differ from the image sequence numbers throughout this collection (91≠095, 193≠197, 106≠110); both are recorded. Ancestry's derived birth years for her are junk and are not used. It computes 1974 from the 1990 volume and 1977 from the 1993 one for the same person — both are blanket "about 16" machine estimates, not records. Her date of birth here comes from the state birth index [S126]. A 1993 senior class photograph is several hundred living people, not one. The page is published because Earl asked for it by name; everyone else on it is a classmate who did not. That is recorded here as a judgement made, not a detail overlooked. One page not retrieved: printed page 50, which her own index line cites.Cited on Bradley Neal Caffey · Documents. - S133Elisabetha Sabina (Lösch) Prüger — burial register, Kirchberg u. Oa., 14 August 1872. Evangelische Kirche Kirchberg (OA. Gerabronn), Heiraten u. Tote 1784–1896, image 656 of 706, burial entry no. 534; Landeskirchliches Archiv Stuttgart, through Württemberg, Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1500–1985 (Ancestry collection 61023, record 15195655). Read from the register image at full resolution, 4796 × 4013 px, 21 September 2026; re-read 11 October 2026. Died 12 August 1872 at five in the morning, a Wittwe (widow) of Kirchberg; buried 14 August at ten; born at Crailsheim, 26 May 1803. Father Joh. Friedr. Melchior Lösch, Glockengießer (bell founder) in Crailsheim, marked deceased; mother Maria Dorothea geb. Wolf, marked deceased; her late husband G. Melch. Jul. Prüger, in Kirchberg. The register gives a surname, a death date, a birth date and both parents. The Ancestry index of this same entry reads her surname as something else entirely, a misread of the Kurrent. The register names her father a Lösch of Crailsheim, which is the birthplace the German deaths index independently gives her, and her son's 1924 Pittsburgh death certificate [S68] gives his mother's maiden name as Loesch. On the death date the two Ancestry indexes disagreed, 13 August in collection 61023 and 12 August in collection 9868; the image says 12 August. The birth date is written in the entry and agrees with her baptism [S1688] and her marriage [S1689]. Her husband's trade word is abbreviated; his own burial entry calls him a master shoemaker [S135]. History: at the 600 px tier this page was illegible and an earlier pass misattributed the parents' column to her husband. The full-resolution reading of 21 September 2026 then took the father's second name, his trade and the mother's maiden name wrongly (as Heinrich, a glazier, and Muck) and back-calculated a late-April birth from the age column; the re-read of 11 October 2026, checked against three other register images in two other hands, gives Friedr., bell founder and Wolf.Cited on Proeger & Kochendoerfer line · Julius Karl Proeger · Georg Melchior Julius Prüger · Elisabethe Sabina Loesch · Johann Friedrich Melchior Lösch · Maria Dorothea Wolf · Documents.
- S134James David "Jim" Coffman — Texas death certificate, 22 December 1972. Texas State Department of Health, Standard Certificate of Death, state file no. 95942, local file 911, Taylor County, filed 8 January 1973; Texas, U.S., Death Certificates, 1903–1982. Read from the certificate image at full resolution, 2842 × 2393 px, 21 September 2026. Died 22 December 1972 at the West Texas Medical Center, Abilene, of arteriosclerotic heart disease with congestive heart failure, gradual onset, certified by S. B. Estes of 1502 N. 2nd, Abilene; usual residence Rt. 2, Abilene, Taylor County, rural, on a farm; born 3 September 1881, age 91, male, white, married; occupation stock farmer, cattle. Father David E. Coffman; mother's maiden name Molly Jane Wright. Informant Jesse J. Coffman, his son. Buried Dudley Cemetery, Dudley, Texas, 23 December 1972, Elliott's Funeral Home. It expands his mother's record; it does not correct it. Her grandson gave her name as Molly Jane Wright, which is what the family called her; the formal Mary Jane stands on her own certificate [S81] and in the 1924 photograph's caption [S108]. Same woman, two registers of the same name, and neither displaces the other. The certificate gives his birthplace as Dallas, where this page carries Buffalo Gap [S18]; a birthplace recalled ninety-one years later by a son is weak evidence and the conflict is recorded, not resolved. It does nothing for the Page County, Virginia Coffman/Kaufman spelling wall — this is a Texas birth three generations below it.Cited on James David "Jim" Coffman · Mary Jane "Mollie" Wright.
- S135Georg Melchior Julius Prüger — his own burial register entry, Kirchberg u. Oa., 7 February 1870. Evangelische Kirche Kirchberg (OA. Gerabronn), Heiraten u. Tote 1784–1896, image 639 of 706, burial entry no. 3 of 1870 (page column 634, running no. 205); Landeskirchliches Archiv Stuttgart, through Württemberg, Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1500–1985 (Ancestry collection 61023, record 15195522). Read from the register image at full resolution, 5041 × 4061 px, 21 September 2026. Named Georg Melchior Julius Prüger, Schuhmachermeister in Kirchberg a/J.; born 25 Juli 1804; died 4 February 1870 at seven in the evening, buried 7 February at ten in the morning; age at death 65 years, 6 months, 10 days. Parents, both marked deceased: Johann Leonhard David Prüger, Maler (painter) in Erkenbrechtshausen, and Eva Barbara geb. Schmid. Wife named as Elisabetha Sab[ina] geb. Lösch. This is the entry that settles his trade, and it settles it against the schoolteacher. Three register images now name his occupation: his son's 1844 baptism [S69] and his own burial here both say Schuhmachermeister; only his widow's 1872 entry [S133] says Schullehrer, and that one was written two years after he was dead, in a column describing a late husband. Two contemporaneous readings against one posthumous one. The 1872 reading is kept on this page as a variant and is not deleted. The entry also checks itself. The stated age of 65 years, 6 months and 10 days counts forward from the stated birth of 25 July 1804 to exactly 4 February 1870 — the stated death date, to the day. Birth and death corroborate each other inside one record, which no index can do. The parentage is read from the register image. The image gives the parents' names and adds a trade and a maiden name that no index held. The father's residence, Erkenbrechtshausen, is the same village this page already records as Georg's own birthplace [S12] — independently recorded, and the match is what confirmed the reading of a difficult compound. The mother's surname may be written Schmid or Schmidt; the terminal stroke does not decide it and it is not forced here. The mother named here was his stepmother. His 1804 birth register [S591] names his mother as Anna Maria Busch; Eva Barbara Schmid(t) was his father's second wife from 1806, and she raised him.Cited on Proeger & Kochendoerfer line · Georg Melchior Julius Prüger · Eva Barbara Schmidt · Documents · Timeline.
- S136Anna "Annie" L. Silva — California Death Index, 1905–1939, page 6332. California, U.S., Death Index, 1905–1939 (Ancestry collection 5187, record 1035937), image
41547_B138961-00159, index pages 6331–6332. Read from the page image at full resolution, 1520 × 1484 px, 21 September 2026. Her line reads SILVA · ANNA · L · age 70 · 12 17 38 · 71446 — middle initial L, age 70, died 17 December 1938, state file number 71446. The file number is the new fact here, and it is a lead rather than a finding. Ancestry's transcription of this record does not surface it; the printed page does. 71446 is the handle for ordering the actual California death certificate — the document that would carry her parents' names and her birthplace, and therefore the only record in view that could settle whether the Escobar connection reaches her directly. The index itself cannot. It is a printed state list — surname, given name, initial, age, county code, date, file number — and it carries no maiden name. Her maiden name therefore remains Not found on this evidence. Nothing here touches her registered baptismal name, Anna Luísa do Coração de Jesus, or the fact that Escobar belongs to her father Thomás Pereira d'Escobar, one generation up. Eleven Anna Silvas appear on this page alone, so the line was identified by reading the image, not by trusting the index pointer. Name, age and death date all agree with what this record already held: this source confirms and overturns nothing. 1520 × 1484 is this frame's native size, not a cap. The 600 px thumbnail tier of the same page is not legible; the full frame is.Cited on Anna "Annie" L. Silva · Documents. - S1371900 U.S. Federal Census — the Julius "Prouger" household, Greensburg, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. Ancestry collection 7602, record 42748658, image
4115244_00814. Enumeration District 101, Greensburg Borough Ward 4, sheet 24 B, dwelling 461, family 502, 219 West Third Street, enumerated 19–20 June 1900 by James S. Kimmel. Read from the image at full resolution — 3848 × 3810 px, 21 September 2026; read-only, nothing accepted, attached or edited. The surname is written Prouger. Lines 60–64: Julius, head, Apr 1844; Minnie, wife, Nov 1847, age 52; Walter H, son, Jan 1881, Architect; Gotleib, son, June 1882; Carrie, daughter, Apr 1888. This is the record that settles Minnie's birth year at 1847. The written month and the age column agree only with 1847 — a November 1848 birth would have been entered as 51, not 52 — and her 1912 Pennsylvania death certificate gives 3 November 1847 independently, twelve years later. Two further facts come from the wife's row alone: both spouses report immigration in 1867, 33 years in the US and 32 years married, which places the marriage in America in 1868, after the crossing; and 10 children born, 7 living. The occupation column gives Julius as a molder. The nativity column says only "Germany" — it does not corroborate Langenburg.Cited on Proeger & Kochendoerfer line · Julius Karl Proeger · Minnie Margaret Kochendoerfer · Gotleib Proeger · Documents · Timeline. - S1381900 U.S. Federal Census — the Solomon Alfred Brock household, Justice Precinct No. 5, Callahan County, Texas. Ancestry collection 7602, record 70304882, image
4112117_00044. Supervisor's District 4, Enumeration District 16, sheet 2 B, stamped page 6248, dwelling and family 29, enumerated 6 June 1900. Read from the image at full resolution — 3822 × 3736 px, 21 September 2026; read-only, nothing accepted, attached or edited. Lines 58–62: S. A. Brock, head, April 1838, age 62, Farmer, renting, married 35 years; M. P., wife, Jan 1847, age 53, 10 children born, 7 living; John B., son, Dec 1874, Preacher; M. L., daughter, Jan 1883; Ada M., daughter, Feb 1885. What it settles and what it cannot. Matilda's birth month is confirmed January; the year stays open — the sheet reads Jan 1847 against the tree's 9 January 1848, and the 1900 schedule carries month and year but no day column, so no census can close it; her headstone at Clyde carries a day, Jan'y 9, 1848 [S1768], which is the tree's date and a year later than this sheet. Solomon's April 1838 on this sheet stands against the tree's 8 April 1837, and his headstone agrees with the sheet: born Apr 8 1838 [S1769]. Both stones are Probable for the day. The surname is written plainly Brock; Ancestry's alternate index reading "S A Breck" is a transcription artefact, not a name variant. Migration window: both parents and all four grandparents are Kentucky, all three resident children are Arkansas, the eldest born December 1874 — which with Iona Belle Brock's December 1865 Kentucky birth brackets the move to between December 1865 and December 1874. This is a fact about Solomon's household; it reaches Earl's line only through Iona Belle's Probable FindAGrave parentage [S23].Cited on Bowles, Williams & Brock line · Solomon Alfred Brock · Matilda Pauline Howard · Lorena Lucille Brock · Ada May Brock Estes · John B. Brock · Documents · Timeline. - S1391900 U.S. Federal Census — the James H. Timberman household, Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. Ancestry collection 7602, record 47094515, image
4115129_00218. Supervisor's District 6, Enumeration District 159, Ward 5, 2nd Division, sheet 2 B, house 8, dwelling 38, family 44, enumerated 1 June 1900 by John Shadrach. Read from the image at full resolution — 3933 × 3947 px, 21 September 2026; read-only, nothing accepted, attached or edited. Lines 71–75: James H. Timberman, head, June 1858, age 41, married 14 years, Veterinary Surgeon, born New Jersey of New Jersey parents; Louisa E., wife, June 1863, age 36, 3 children born, 3 living, born Pennsylvania of German parents; James H., son, Oct 1886, At School; George W., son, Feb 1892; Albert, son, Aug 1893. The third independent source for the June 1858 birth. The tree carried 4 January 1858; the 1919 Pennsylvania death certificate [S93] gives June / Fourth / 1858 in longhand, and this census, taken nineteen years earlier while he was alive, gives June 1858 and corroborates itself on the age column — 41 at the 1 June 1900 census date is right for a 4 June birth and would be 42 for a 4 January one. The day is not on this page: a 1900 schedule carries month and year and no day, so the fourth is not given here; the 1858 township birth return settles it S374. He is already a Veterinary Surgeon here, nineteen years before the certificate records the same trade — and, as there, the occupation exists only in the image and not in Ancestry's transcription. Ancestry indexes the entire household as "Limberman"; the enumerator's looped capital is a T, and that is a transcription artefact, not a name variant.Cited on Timberman, Martin & Chenault line · James Harris Timberman Sr. · George W. Timberman · Albert N. Timberman · Documents · Timeline. - 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 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.Cited on Bowles, Williams & Brock line · William Anderson Bowles · Mary Matilda Bowles Lindley · Solomon Alfred Bowles · Timeline.
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- S1411900 U.S. Federal Census — the Frank Silva household, Washington Township, Alameda County, California. Ancestry collection 7602, records 36140336 and 36140335 — one sheet, two hints, one pull — image
4118417_00621. Enumeration District 404, sheet 14 B, dwelling 275, family 278, enumerated 15 June 1900 by Antone Dutre. Read from the image at full resolution — 3700 × 3708 px, 21 September 2026; read-only, nothing accepted, attached or edited. Lines 73–78: Frank Silva, head, 1863, age 36, married 13 years, Farmer, alien, born the Azores of Azorean parents, immigrated 1888, 12 years in the United States; Annie, wife, Jan 1866, age 33, immigrated 1895, 5 years in the United States, 2 children born, 2 living; Mary, daughter, Aug 1896, California; Frank, son, Dec 1897 or 1898 (the last figure of the year is blotted), age 2, California; Joe, partner, Mar 1863, arrived 1885; and Antonio S. Escobar, laborer, Dec 1869 the Azores, arrived 1895. What the sheet shows about the marriage and the two crossings. His 1888 and her 1895 are both written in the immigration column, and beside them the sheet records married 13 years — about 1887. The Cedros marriage register gives 12 June 1886 [S1232], so they married on Faial before either arrival year on this sheet; the years-married column is a year out. The first child was born in California in August 1896. The seven years between the two arrival years are this sheet's figures only: the later censuses give other years for both of them [S147], no passenger list has been read, and no document here states that they crossed separately. Her birth year: the age column is right and the date cell is not. The image reads Jan 1866, but age 33 at the 15 June 1900 date fits a birth in 1867 and would be 34 for January 1866. Her baptism entry at Cedros gives born 7 April 1867 [S1233], which agrees with the age and with neither the month nor the year written in the cell. The son's birth year: the age cell is clear and the year cell is not. On line 76 the month reads Dec. The last figure of the year is blotted at the top: it has a long down-stroke, like this enumerator's 7 and 9 and unlike his 8, and it was first read here as 1898. The age cell beside it reads 2 without doubt, which fits December 1897; a child born in December 1898 would have been entered as 1. His draft registration card, in his own hand, gives 2 December 1897 [S150], and that is the date this record uses. Antonio S. Escobar is in the household and arrived in the same year she did. Escobar is the surname of her father, Thomás Pereira d'Escobar, one generation up; a brother travelling with her is the obvious reading, but the sheet states no relationship — he is entered as Laborer. Not confirmed. The month in Frank's date-of-birth cell is not legible with confidence; the year 1863 and the age 36 are clear and agree. Ancestry indexes the household as "Silver"; the page reads Silva — a transcription artefact, not a name variant.Cited on Silva line · Frank T. Silva · Frank Silva Sr · Anna "Annie" L. Silva. - S142U.S. Application for Headstone or Marker (DD Form 1330) — Pvt. Willie Frank Kretschmar. Ancestry collection 2375, record 3681966, image
2375_03_01017-01102. Read from the image at full resolution — 2407 × 1501 px, 21 September 2026; read-only, nothing accepted, attached or edited. Box 1 KRETSCHMAR, WILLIE FRANK; box 2 service number ASN 2231722; boxes 4 and 5 enlisted 9/21/1917, discharged 3/14/1918; box 6 Texas; box 8 Pvt.; box 9 345th Field Artillery, Battery A; boxes 10 and 11 10/18/1890 and 11/20/73; box 13 a flat granite marker with a Latin cross; box 14 Austin Memorial Park, Austin, Texas; box 15 applicant Mrs. Liessi Kretschmar, relationship Wife, 4913 Avenue H, Austin, signed in her own hand Liessi Kretschmar; consignee Cook-Walden Funeral Home; ordered 15 March 1974, contractor Hillsboro Mon. Works, B/L Z-9247115. The WW I box is checked and a clerk has written Pvt · US Army · WWI across the foot. This is the first evidence of military service anywhere in the Kretschmar record. Neither the FindAGrave memorial [S34] nor thirty-odd Portal newspaper notices mention it. The form gives an enlistment and a discharge and nothing between them — under six months, no decorations, no overseas service, no discharge type. The 345th Field Artillery belonged to the 90th Division, organised at Camp Travis in Texas, which sits conveniently beside a Travis County man, but that is context and not on this document; it is not asserted here. It also gives 18 October 1890 and 20 November 1973 a second independent custodian — a federal form filed by the widow and processed by the Veterans Administration, beside the cemetery memorial. And the applicant block is Hattie Elizabeth "Liessi" Ladusch calling herself his wife in her own signature, which corroborates the marriage independently of the grave. No parents on this form, so the "s/o Franz and Lena Landrock Kretschmar" reading stays Probable on the memorial alone; no plot number, so 1-566-10 still rests on [S34]; no marriage date, so 1923 does too.Cited on Willie Frank "Will" Kretschmar · Documents. - S143Owsley County, Kentucky marriage register, March 1856 — James Bowles and Lydia Williams. Ancestry collection 1117 (Kentucky, U.S., Marriage Records, 1852–1914), record 47500, image
KYVR_994052-0124. Read from the image at full resolution — 3536 × 3264 px, 49/49 DeepZoom tiles, 21 September 2026. The ruled register carries GROOM and BRIDE halves with the printed headings Date of Marriage · Name · Residence · Age · Condition · Place of Birth. Their line reads: March 1856 · James Bowles, residence Owsley Co., Ky., age 20, Single, born Estill County, Kentucky — and Lydia Williams, residence Owsley Co., Ky., age 20, Single, born Hawkins County, Tennessee. A primary record behind this couple, where the FindAGrave parent links [S22] are derivative. A county clerk puts the two of them on one line in the same county whose birth register settled their son William Anderson Bowles. Lydia’s birthplace has a source: the bride column gives Hawkins County, Tennessee, the place the tree carried uncited. Her age 20 at a March 1856 marriage puts her birth between about March 1835 and March 1836, which contains the tree's 30 May 1835 without proving it. Both are recorded Single — a first marriage for each — and both were already resident in Owsley County. The day is clipped at the gutter: the image carries March 1856, and the 6 March on the card is Ancestry's index of this register, not a date read off the page. The groom's age contradicts the birth year this site carries. Age 20 in March 1856 puts this James Bowles's birth about 1835–1836, against the 1830–31 the site gives James Daniel Bowles from three age columns (S155, S156, S157). The register gives no middle name; it reads simply James Bowles. Either the 1830–31 is wrong or this is a different man. Recorded, not resolved — the couple stays Probable. Estill County, Kentucky as his birthplace is on this register alone, and a Kentucky register of this period carries no parentage columns, so it says nothing about the generation above.Cited on Bowles, Williams & Brock line · James Daniel Bowles · Lydia Williams. - S144Lucas County, Ohio marriage licence application and certificate no. 97864, 1932 — William H. Proeger and Dorothy Susan Reid. Ancestry collection 61378 (Ohio, U.S., County Marriage Records, 1774–1993), record 2472799, image
TH-1-18858-23171-20, film 002169933, ledger page 288. Read from the image at full resolution — 4818 × 3802 px, 80/80 DeepZoom tiles, 21 September 2026. The entry has two halves. The licence application, sworn 27 February 1932, gives the groom as William H. Proeger, 21 years of age on the 26 day of June, residence 4823 Summit St in Lucas Co., Ohio, born Pa., occupation Machinist, father Wm. L. Proeger, mother's maiden name Anna B. Roberts, not previously married; and the bride as Dorothy Susan Reid, 18 years of age on the 4 day of March, residence 4823 Summit, born Indiana, occupation none, father Charles Reid, mother's maiden name Bessie Craighead, not previously married, consent signed Mrs. Bessie M. Reid. The certificate beneath it returns: “on the 4 day of March, A.D. 1932, I solemnized the marriage of Mr. Wm. H. Proeger with M. Dorothy Susan Reid”, signed R. O. Stevens. His first marriage, with the bride named. An index [S12] gives the date and county without a spouse; the ledger names her and settles the marriage. Both parties are recorded not previously married, which makes Aileane Marie Silva his second wife, not his first. His parentage is now on a document he personally swore to — father Wm. L. Proeger, mother Anna B. Roberts — rather than inferred from censuses and index entries [S12][S14]. And it is the first paper behind the family's memory of Ohio: Earl's own account has his grandfather coming back to California from Ohio around the August 1940 Utah wedding, and this ledger puts him at 4823 Summit Street, Toledo, working as a machinist, in February–March 1932. The year digit on the groom's age line is smeared and is not legible. The line reads “21 years of age on the 26 day of June 19—”. The day and month are clear and corroborate 26 June; the year on that line is not readable, and the abt 1911 in Ancestry's index is derived from the age column, not read off the page. What became of Dorothy Susan Reid is not on this page. Between 4 March 1932 and 13 August 1940 there was a divorce or a death; the ledger says neither, and no such record has been looked for. An open question, not a finding. Groom and bride give the same address, 4823 Summit — stated twice, explained neither time. The bride was a minor at application: she turned 18 on 4 March 1932, the wedding day itself, and her mother Mrs. Bessie M. Reid signed the consent line on 27 February. The officiant's initials are not certain — the certificate signature reads R. O. Stevens and the application's expected-officiant line carries the same surname with initials that could be read either way. The frame is film-flagged “Smeared Ink” by the filmer, and Ohio licence ledgers of this period carry age, not birth date, on both sides.Cited on William Harry Proeger · Dorothy Susan Reid · Jane Bell · Documents · Timeline. - S145Texas certificate of death no. 92128, 1971 — Nettie E. Walker (Nettie Ellen Cleveland). Ancestry collection 2272 (Texas, U.S., Death Certificates, 1903–1982), record 1216570, image
33154_b062847-00961, form VS-112 rev. 1/58. Filed with the local registrar 1 December 1971 (file no. 96, L. M. Sheffield) and received by the Texas Bureau of Vital Statistics 18 December 1971. Read from the image at full resolution — 2811 × 2390 px, 30/30 DeepZoom tiles, 21 September 2026. The sheet gives: name Nettie E. Walker; died 25 November 1971 at 6:00 a.m. in White Settlement Hospital, White Settlement, Tarrant County, after a stay of one month; usual residence 5717 Terrace Trail, Sansom Park; female, Caucasian, married; date of birth 27 November 1897, age 73; birthplace Nebraska, citizen of the U.S.A.; occupation housewife, homemaking; father Melton Cleaveland; mother's maiden name Maude Melville Warner; never in the armed forces; Social Security number on the certificate, not transcribed; cause of death uremia (2 weeks) due to renal shutdown (3 weeks) due to post-traumatic shock (3 weeks); autopsy performed; certified by C. J. Carter, M.D., who had attended her since 1965; buried 27 November 1971 at Mount Olivet Cemetery, Fort Worth, by Maxine Biggers of Biggers Funeral Home. Her parents are named here for the first time in this research — Melton Cleaveland and Maude Melville Warner. Each has a card on this site. The burial is the strongest tie to this family: Mount Olivet Cemetery, Fort Worth, on 27 November 1971 is the same cemetery as her son Clarence Melvin Walker. The birth date on this sheet conflicts with the one on her card. The certificate says 27 November 1897; the couple card carries 29 November 1896 — two days and one year apart — and neither date is settled. Item 8 of a death certificate is informant-supplied, not a birth record; the age column (73 last birthday) agrees with the certificate's own date, which corroborates the sheet and not the fact. Both stay on the page until a Nebraska birth or baptismal record decides. The certificate is registered under her married surname and names no husband — the form has no spouse field, so the sheet never says Daniel. The identification rests on the Cleaveland maiden surname in item 13, the middle initial E. for Ellen, the Nebraska birthplace already independently on record [S87], and the shared Mount Olivet burial. Ancestry's hint engine also matched it to her, which is an opinion and not evidence. The informant is a signature, not a printed name, reading most plausibly E. G. Walker; it is not D. J. Walker and not C. M. Walker as written, and who E. G. Walker was is unknown. Post-traumatic shock is named as the underlying cause while every injury field is blank — items 20a–20f, accident/suicide/homicide, time, manner and place of injury, are entirely empty. The certificate contradicts itself by omission, and what happened three weeks before her death is not on this page. The physician's street address (item 22b) reads 6721 and the street name is not legible.Cited on Walker line · Daniel Jonah Walker & Nettie Ellen "Annie" Cleveland · Nettie Ellen Cleveland · Melton Cleaveland · Maude Melville Warner · Documents · Timeline. - S1461910 U.S. Federal Census — the Frank Silva household, Washington Township, Alameda County, California. Ancestry collection 7884, records 939010 and 181169056 — one sheet, two hints, one pull — image
31111_4327262-00314. Supervisor's District 3, Enumeration District 158, sheet 4 B, dwelling 86, family 91, Vallejo Street, enumerated 19 April 1910. Read from the image at full resolution — 4042 × 2746 px, 48/48 DeepZoom tiles, 21 September 2026. Lines 93–95: Frank Silva, head, age 45, married once, 23 years, Foreman, wine cellar, born Portugal of Portuguese parents, immigrated 1887, mother tongue Portuguese; Annie, wife, age 42, married once, 23 years, 4 children born, 1 living, born Portugal of Portuguese parents, immigrated 1887, mother tongue English; and Frank, son, age 12, single, born California of Portuguese parents. The home is recorded owned, free of mortgage, a house. This sheet settles the household and opens three questions. Father and son are on one document, in one household — Frank Jr is entered as Son, born in California of two Portuguese parents. A census page, and not only the tree's own edges, tells the two men of the same name apart. His age 12 in April 1910 is consistent with the 2 December 1897 the tree carries, but the sheet gives no day and no month and does not independently date his birth. Married 23 years — about 1887 — agrees with the 1900 sheet's thirteen years [S141] and with the 1886 Santa Bárbara, Horta marriage record. The arrival year is not settled: four census sheets give four years for him. The 1900 sheet wrote 1888 for him and 1895 for her; this sheet writes 1887 for both; the 1920 sheet writes 1895 for both [S150]; the 1930 sheet, read off the image, writes 1891 for him and 1899 for her [S147]. For her that is three years, twelve years from the earliest to the latest. No date on this site may harden out of these four sheets — only a passenger manifest or a naturalisation paper can close it. The naturalisation cell is overwritten and blotted. A superscript that reads as "Na" sits on the rule between lines 92 and 93 and cannot be assigned to either row with confidence, so this page does not say whether he was naturalised by 1910. The 1900 sheet had recorded him alien after twelve years, and the California Voter Register hint that looked like the answer belongs to a different man — that Frank Silva was naturalised in San Francisco in 1874, when ours was eleven and still in the Azores. The age column disagrees with the gravestone by about a year. Age 45 at the 19 April 1910 enumeration puts the birth between April 1864 and April 1865, where the tree and the stone carry June 1863. This is recorded as a discrepancy, not a correction: an age column is the enumerator's arithmetic and not a witness to a birth, and the 1862 Santa Bárbara, Faial baptism already held on file outranks it. The 1930 and 1940 returns do not make it three censuses pointing at 1864. The 1930 sheet was enumerated on 7 April 1930 and gives his age as 66, which means a birth between 8 April 1863 and 7 April 1864 — June 1863 falls inside that window, so 1930 supports the gravestone rather than contradicting it [S147]. This 1910 page remains the one age column that genuinely points later. None of it settles the birth year: the 1862 Faial baptism outranks every age column, and 1862 is not 1863 either. The hardest fact on the page is a count, not a name: Annie bore four children and only one was living in April 1910. In 1900 she had two born, two living — Mary, b. August 1896, and Frank. By 1910 only Frank Jr survives. Mary and two further children, unnamed on any sheet held here, died between 1900 and 1910. No names, no dates and no places are on this document, and none are supplied. His occupation has moved from Farmer in 1900 to Foreman in a wine cellar, as a wage earner. As in 1900, Ancestry indexes the household as "Silver"; the page reads Silva — a transcription artefact, not a name variant. Three more things are on the sheet. Her own columns read four children born, one living — three children of Frank and Anna Silva died before April 1910 and are named nowhere in this research. Anna could speak English in 1910 and Frank could not: the column asks whether able to speak English, or, if not, give language spoken; her cell reads English, his Portuguese. Ancestry files hers as Native Tongue: English, inverting the column. Frank's occupation reads Foreman, Wine Cellar, wage earner. Both arrivals read 1887 and M1, 23 years puts the marriage at c.1887; the index carries only Anna's year, so the conflict with 1930 [S147] shows only on the image.Cited on Silva line · Frank T. Silva · Frank Silva Sr · Anna "Annie" L. Silva · Migration. - S1471930 U.S. Federal Census — the Frank Silva household, Washington Township, Mission Precinct, Alameda County, California. Ancestry collection 6224, record 88915983, image
4532332_00361. Supervisor's District 8, Enumeration District 1-349, sheet 2 B, dwelling 43, family 43, enumerated 7 April 1930 by an enumerator signing as "Iny W. Cull" — the given name is not confidently legible and is not asserted. Read from the image at full resolution — 3932 × 2844 px, 48/48 DeepZoom tiles, 21 September 2026. Lines 78–80: Frank Silva, head, age 66, 24 at first marriage, born Portugal, immigration 1891, naturalisation Na, occupation beginning "Farm"; Anna, wife, age 61, 19 at first marriage, born Portugal, immigration 1899, naturalisation Na; and Aileen, grand daughter, age 11, born California of California-born parents. The home is owned, valued $1,000, with no radio set. Both adults are recorded able to read, write and speak English, mother tongue Portuguese. This sheet answers the naturalisation question the 1910 page could not. Column 23 reads Na — naturalised — for both Frank and Anna, in a clean, unblotted cell. That is not a guess at a smudge: the capital was checked against control glyphs in the same hand on the same rows — the enumerator's capital N in "No" (col. 16) is a flat-topped crossbarred loop and matches the cell exactly, while his capital P in "Portugal" (col. 18) is a tall open ascender with a closed bowl and does not resemble it. The 1910 sheet's blotted, unassignable superscript [S146] is corroborated by this independent document. The consequence is a document not held here: a naturalisation file exists. He was naturalised in California after the 1900 return, which recorded him alien after twelve years, and before this one; the 1920 sheet [S150] narrows it. A naturalisation packet carries an arrival date and very often the vessel, and it has not been pulled. Age 66 is consistent with June 1863 and does not point at 1864. Ancestry indexes this record abt 1864 by subtracting 66 from 1930, but enumeration was 7 April, so age 66 means a birth between 8 April 1863 and 7 April 1864 — and the June 1863 on the gravestone falls inside that window. The age columns do not agree on about 1864: that figure is index arithmetic, not a reading [S146]. This sheet does not settle the birth year in the other direction either: the 1862 Santa Bárbara, Faial baptism outranks every age column, and 1862 is not 1863. Ages at first marriage — 24 and 19 — are the two ages the Cedros marriage register gives on 12 June 1886 [S1232]. Worked from this sheet's own ages they come to about 1887–1888, a year or two late, as does 1910's married 23 years. Aileane Marie Silva is in this household at age 11, entered as grand daughter — her grandparents were raising her after Frank Jr died in 1924. This is the first document placing her in that house. The sheet gives only an age, which brackets her birth to 8 April 1918 × 7 April 1919; it gives no day and no month. The arrival year is not settled by this sheet: four census sheets give four years for him. 1900 → him 1888, her 1895; 1910 → 1887 for both; 1920 → 1895 for both [S150]; this sheet → him 1891, her 1899. For her that is three years, twelve from the earliest to the latest. Both 1930 immigration cells are over-inked — the second digit of each has filled in — and 1891/1899 are read at DeepZoom level 12 against the clean 1877 and 1907 entries elsewhere on the same page as controls; Ancestry's index also reads 1891. No date on this site may harden into a settled arrival year. Another census cannot close this; a manifest or the naturalisation file can. Frank Silva Jr is absent, as expected — he died in 1924, which is what makes this sheet Frank Sr by definition rather than by inference. The marriage columns and the immigration column on this sheet do not conflict. Frank 1891, Anna 1899 stand eight years apart on consecutive lines, and both ages at first marriage fall before either year. The register settles that part: they married on Faial in 1886 and emigrated afterwards [S1232]. Whether they crossed together or the husband went first is not settled: the census arrival years disagree with one another, and a passenger list or the naturalisation petitions (both are marked Na) would close it.Cited on Silva line · Frank T. Silva · Frank Silva Sr · Anna "Annie" L. Silva · Documents · Migration. - S148World War I draft registration card — Frank Silva Jr., 12 September 1918, Mission San Jose, Alameda County, California. Ancestry collection 6482, record 29586428, image
005240885_02265. Local Board for Division No. 2, County of Alameda, Hayward, California; serial 939, order A 2696; the third and final WWI registration. Read from the image at full resolution — 3048 × 1464 px, 18/18 DeepZoom tiles, 21 September 2026; the image carries both sides side by side, the Registration Card and the Registrar's Report. A full birth date for Frank Jr in his own hand: "4. Date of birth: Dec. 2, 1897", on a form he signed beneath the printed affirmation "I affirm that I have verified above answers and that they are true." Everything else this site holds for that date is an index or a gravestone. It is a SELF-REPORTED date on a form the subject signed, not a birth register — evidence of a different kind from a baptism or a civil birth entry, and it is not written up as though it were one. The arithmetic on the card agrees with itself, which is the reason to trust it as far as it goes: age 20 at 12 September 1918 brackets the birth to 13 September 1897 × 12 September 1898, and 2 December 1897 sits inside that window. Box 10, NATIVE BORN, is ticked; boxes 11 (Naturalized) and 12 (Citizen by Father's Naturalization Before Registrant's Majority) are empty, as are both alien boxes. Frank Jr was a citizen by birth — independent of, and consistent with, the Na recorded against his parents in 1930 [S147]. The first document in which Frank Jr himself names Mildred. Questions 19/20, nearest relative: "Wife Mildred Silva", at his own address. That dates the marriage to before 12 September 1918, consistent with Aileane's 1918 birth. First occupation and employer on any document for him: Laborer, Ritchie Bros Co., Mission San Jose. Physical description: medium height, medium build, gray eyes, brown hair, no disqualifying injury. His permanent home address is Mission San Jose — the family's township in 1900, 1910 and 1930, with no gap. The card gives no birthplace. The revised Form No. 1 records citizenship status but not the town or state of birth, so Native Born fixes the country and nothing finer; California comes from the 1920 and 1930 censuses, not from here. Frank Sr appears nowhere on the document — the father/son link is not evidenced by this card and continues to rest on the census sheets already cited. The serial is read as 939 with a soft final digit, and the registrar's signature was not confidently legible and is not transcribed.Cited on Silva line · Frank T. Silva · Frank Silva Sr · Documents. - S1491940 U.S. Federal Census — Frank Silva, Mission San Jose, Washington Township, Alameda County, California. Ancestry collection 2442, record 68940180, image
m-t0627-00191-00688(NARA T627, roll 191). Supervisor's District 6, Enumeration District 1-180, Sheet 20-B, line 59, household 481, enumerated 1 May 1940 by an enumerator signing as "Joseph Fonte". Read from the image at full resolution — 7162 × 5402 px, 154/154 DeepZoom tiles, 21 September 2026. Silva, Frank, Head, M, W, age 76, Wd — widowed, attended school no, highest grade completed 3, birthplace Azores, citizenship Na, residence on 1 April 1935: Same house; at work in the week of 24–30 March 1940, 48 hours; occupation Owner, industry Grocery Store; 52 weeks worked in 1939, no wages, and other income of $50 or more: yes. Home owned, valued $1,000, not a farm. He owned and ran a grocery store. Owner / Grocery Store, 52 weeks in 1939, 48 hours in the census week, no wage line but other income of $50 or more — the exact signature of a self-employed proprietor. In 1930 he was a farmer [S147], so this is a documented change of trade between 1930 and 1940, at the age of 76, and it is the first document to give him a business of his own. His 1946 obituary calls him "a former farmer and grocer" [S67]; this sheet is the record behind the second half of that phrase. Widowed. Column 13 reads Wd. Anna L. Silva had died before 1 April 1940 — the tree carries 17 December 1938 — and this is the first census in which he appears without her. Residence on 1 April 1935: Same house. It is the one question no other census asks, and it puts him in this Mission San Jose house continuously from at least 1935 to 1940. With the 1900, 1910 and 1930 sheets and his son's 1918 draft card [S148], the family's documented centre of gravity is Washington Township, Alameda County, without a gap. Naturalised, a third time. Column 17 reads Na, agreeing with 1930 and with the blotted 1910 entry [S146]. He is enumerated alone. Household 481 holds one person; line 60 opens a new household. No parents, no spouse and no children appear on the line, so this document evidences no relationship at all — every family link on his card continues to rest on the sources already cited there. He is, however, his own informant: the enumerator's circled informant mark sits beside his name, so the answers on this line are Frank Silva's own. The sheet gives an age, not a date, and it does not decide 1863 against 1864. Age 76 at census day 1 April 1940 brackets the birth to 2 April 1863 × 1 April 1864. June 1863 falls inside that window — and so does part of 1864. It is consistent with the gravestone and is not an independent witness for either year. Ancestry indexes it abt 1864 by subtracting 76 from 1940, which ignores the census day, exactly as it did on the 1930 sheet. This sheet does not make 1864 the agreed year of three censuses [S146]. Birthplace reads only "Azores" — an archipelago, not a parish. The 1862 Santa Bárbara, Faial baptism already on file is finer than anything this column can give. The place on the sheet is Mission San Jose, not Niles. The FamilySearch index of this same enumeration district labels it Niles [S50]; the printed header of the sheet itself gives the township as Washington and the unincorporated place as Mission San Jose. Both are in Washington Township and a few miles apart; where they differ, the sheet is preferred over the index [S50]. Line 58, immediately above him, is struck through and annotated "Omitted By Error" — a voided line, not a lost household. The street-name column is a vertical entry running above his line and was not read confidently for line 59; his house-number cell is blank. The enumerator's surname is read as Fonte with less confidence than the given name, and the education cell is read as the third grade from a single digit with no further qualifier. Nothing on the page depends on either.Cited on Silva line · Frank Silva Sr · Documents · Migration · Timeline. - S1501920 U.S. Federal Census — Frank Silva household, Mission San Jose Town, Washington Township, Alameda County, California. Ancestry collection 6061, record 3289996, image
4293692-00489. Supervisor's District 5, Enumeration District 213, Sheet 8-B, lines 59–63, dwelling 131, family 132, enumerated 17 January 1920 against a census reference date of 1 January 1920. Read from the image at full resolution — 4000 × 2896 px, 48/48 DeepZoom tiles, 21 September 2026. The whole household stands in one frame: Silva, Frank, Head, M, W, 64, married, immigrated 1895, Na 1904, born Portugal, Farmer, general farm; Anna, Wife, 62, immigrated 1895, Na 1904, Portugal; Frank, Son, 22, married, born California, Laborer, general work; Mildred, Daughter-in-law, 21, married, born California; and Vargas, Frank, Boarder, 7. Tenure O F — owned, free of mortgage — with the farm-schedule mark in the left margin. This is the first and only document that places Frank Jr and Mildred under his parents’ roof, and it is the sheet behind the "Mildresk" index entry carried on her card, read here from the image rather than from the index. It is also the first document anywhere on this record to date the naturalisation. Every other sheet writes only Na; this one writes 1904 for both of them, and 1895 as the year of immigration. A naturalisation year on a census is a pointer, not a certificate — it points at an Alameda County or federal naturalisation file of about 1904, which has not been found. Frank Sr was a farmer here and a grocer in 1940 [S149]; the change of trade is now documented at both ends rather than inferred. What this sheet gets wrong: the two parents’ ages are overstated by seven to ten years. Frank Sr is entered as 64; his baptism of 9 June 1862 [S1228] makes him 57 on 1 January 1920. Anna is entered as 62; her birth on 7 April 1867 [S1233] makes her 52. These cells are rejected here, and the reason is on the same five lines: the two young adults are exact. Frank Jr at 22 is right for 2 December 1897 on 1 January 1920, and Mildred at 21 is right for July 1898. The enumerator was not systematically careless — the error is confined to the two people whose ages an informant would have been guessing. No other sheet comes near a birth in 1855 or 1856, which is what 64 would mean: the 1930 and 1940 ages fit the June 1863 of his gravestone [S147][S149], and the 1910 age points a year later still [S146]. The 64 is recorded on this page and rejected on this page. Aileane Marie Silva, born August 1918, is not on this sheet. She should be about sixteen months old. The household runs Head, Wife, Son, Daughter-in-law, Boarder and stops. This record does not explain her absence and no explanation is invented for her here. The 1920 census records ages only — no months, no days. "Portugal" is the whole birthplace on this sheet; Azores and Fayal come from other documents [S67]. The enumerator’s signature is read as Anna A. Solon with low confidence, and the boarder’s age is a single glyph read as 7. The boarder is entered as Boarder, not as kin; no relationship to this family is claimed for him. Read at full resolution (Ancestry record 3289995). The street is Vallejo Street, written in the street column; the farm-schedule number is 79, a line on the 1920 agricultural schedule for E.D. 213 not yet sought; Frank Sr answers Yes to speaking English in 1920, where in 1910 he did not [S146]; Mildred's father and mother are both born in Portugal on her own line. Anna's age reads 62 on the image, not the index's 52; the rejection of this sheet's ages stands. The arrival year here is 1895 for both — for him a fourth year beside 1888, 1887 and 1891 on the 1900, 1910 and 1930 sheets, for her the same year as in 1900; no arrival year is published as settled.Cited on Silva line · Frank T. Silva · Frank Silva Sr · Anna "Annie" L. Silva · Documents · Migration. - S151Harlan County, Kentucky marriage register — Salomon A. Brock and Matildia Howard, 6 March 1865. Ancestry collection 61372 (Kentucky, U.S., County Marriage Records, 1783–1965), record 902259827, image
TH-1971-28951-10144-30, register opening pp. 98–99. Read from the image at full resolution — 4320 × 3837 px, 72/72 DeepZoom tiles, 21 September 2026. Their line, verbatim: "Salomon A Brock — Matildia Howard", by whom married left as ditto marks, "march 6 1865", then John C. Howard, Lenard Farmer, J. W. Foster. The marriage is on a register. The 1900 census gives only a bare "married 35 years" [S138]; this register gives the day. Her maiden surname is documentary: the clerk writes Matildia Howard. The form is a school-census sheet repurposed as a marriage register, and what each column means is uncertain. The printed headings (CENSUS REPORT OF SCHOOL CHILDREN, Signature of Parents Guardians or Heads of Families, Post Office Address of Parent, Guardian, Etc.) are struck through in ink and overwritten by hand as MARRIAGE REGISTER · PARTIES NAMES · BY WHOME MARRIED · Date · PLACE OF MARRIAGE · NAME O WITTNESS · PRESENT. The two schemes do not line up, so the cell holding John C. Howard could be read as place of marriage, given as a householder's name, or as the printed parent or guardian column. The reading kept is place of marriage: it is the only one consistent across the neighbouring rows, which put a householder of the bride's own surname in that cell both times (Sarah Hulton, or Helton, above; Littleton Marcum below, for Silas J. Howard — Emily Marcum). The wedding was held at John C. Howard's. The register does not say that he was her father. The cell names a place; read as the printed parent or guardian column it would name him as her parent, and that reading is not adopted. This register has no age column, no birthplace column and no parentage column, so it cannot touch the 1847-versus-1848 question. The Owsley County register [S143] has those columns; Kentucky county registers of this period are not uniform. The officiant is not recoverable — her by whom married cell is ditto marks and the run is long. The register runs across both leaves, and the right leaf carries the place and the witnesses. Ancestry indexes only the left leaf. The right leaf's PLACE OF MARRIAGE column reads "John C. Howard" for this couple. A wedding at his house is a second independent chain to John C. Howard as Matilda's probable father, alongside the two census households that list her with him: Paulina, 5, in 1850 [S967], and Matilda, 13, in 1860 [S461] [S165]; the death certificate of the couple's eldest daughter names her mother's maiden name as Matilda Howard [S170]. John C. Howard was a justice of the peace, officiating at other marriages in this same register. Also on the right leaf: witness Lenard Farmer, and J. W. Forster in the third column. Two chains are not a statement of parentage. No document read says Matilda was John C. Howard's daughter in words, and he is graded Probable father on his card; the sheet preceding image4230650_00446carries the head of dwelling 822 and has not been pulled.Cited on Bowles, Williams & Brock line · Iona Belle Brock · Solomon Alfred Brock · Matilda Pauline Howard · John Covey Howard · Matilda Brock Howard · Documents · Timeline. - S152U.S. Civil War pension index card — Solomon A. Brock, invalid 1872; Matilda P. Brock, widow 1904. Ancestry collection 4654 (U.S., Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861–1934), record 11728726, image
32959_032717-04066. Read from the image at full resolution — 2067 × 1366 px, 15/15 DeepZoom tiles, 21 September 2026. Printed card, form 3-H-3: NAME OF SOLDIER Brock, Solomon A.; DEPENDENT — Widow Brock, Matilda P., Minor blank; SERVICE Co. 3 Ky. Inf. and Co. 7 Ky. Inf., and 156 Co. 2d Battn. V.R.C.; 1872, Nov. 2 — Invalid, application 179,175, certificate 248,266; 1904, May 23 — Widow, application 807,122, certificate 585,190, filed from Texas. It dates his death to on or before 23 May 1904. A widow's application is filed after the soldier dies, and hers was filed from Texas, where the 1900 census [S138] already had the household, in Callahan County; the 1910 sheet enumerates her as a widow [S154]. Her pension payment card gives the widow's pension a date of commencement of 17 Jany 1904, earlier than this filing [S1767]; neither card says what that date marks, and neither gives the day he died; his headstone at Clyde gives 16 January 1904, the day before that commencement [S1769]. Her middle initial is P on this federal form, and on the payment card; her headstone has an initial that can be read as P. or R. in the photograph held [S1768], and the two federal cards are followed. The card shows military service in two Kentucky infantry companies and in the Veteran Reserve Corps, and an invalid pension he drew himself from 2 November 1872, at about 34. No birth, marriage or death date appears on the card, and it does not bear on whether she was born in 1847 or 1848. It is an index card, not the file: the widow's application 807,122 / certificate 585,190 at NARA would carry the marriage proof and his date of death, and it has not been ordered.Cited on Bowles, Williams & Brock line · Solomon Alfred Brock · Matilda Pauline Howard · Documents. - S1531870 U.S. Federal Census — Salomon Brock household, Valley Township, Madison County, Arkansas. Ancestry collection 7163, record 12720236, image
4259273_00413. Page 9, dwelling and family 62, lines 26–29, enumerated 12 July 1870, post office St Paul, by the assistant marshal. Read from the image at full resolution — 3428 × 4528 px, 63/63 DeepZoom tiles, 21 September 2026. Brock, Salomon, 32, M, W, "Teaching School", personal estate $100, born Kentucky; Matilda, 23, F, W, keeping house, born Kentucky; Iona B., 4, born Kentucky (line 28, first transcribed here as Sara B.; the image, read on 22 September and again on 13 October 2026, has Iona B., and she is Iona Belle Brock); Mary E., 2, born Kentucky. The age column says 23, and that requires January 1847 — not 1848. Enumerated 12 July 1870, a woman born January 1847 is 23; born January 1848 she is 22; born June 1848, as the headstone has it, she is 22. This is the second schedule whose own age column backs January 1847, and it is independent of the 1900 sheet [S138], which reads Jan 1847, age 53. The family is in Arkansas in 1870, and the Kentucky → Arkansas move is bracketed at both ends. They married in Harlan County, Kentucky in March 1865 [S151]; both daughters on this sheet were born in Kentucky; and by July 1870 the household is in Madison County, Arkansas. The move happened between about 1868 and mid-1870 — and the 1880 sheet [S166] narrows it further to 1869 × July 1870, since Mary E. was born in Kentucky and Ellen in Arkansas. Solomon's occupation is "Teaching School". He is a schoolteacher at 32 with $100 of personal estate and no real estate, two years before the invalid pension he began drawing in November 1872 [S152]. This sheet is the reason the Harlan County non-population schedule was rejected. That row indexes a Matilda Howard in Harlan, Kentucky on 28 July 1870 — sixteen days after this enumerator wrote Matilda Brock, aged 23, keeping house in Arkansas with two children, and five years after she became a Brock. The Harlan Matilda Howard is a different woman, and the row is closed on that ground rather than on a guess about the schedule's contents. No month and no day. Pre-1900 schedules carry age only; this sheet narrows the year and cannot give a date. The enumeration-date digit reads 12 and 13 cannot be wholly excluded; nothing here turns on it, since both fall in July 1870 and give the same arithmetic. The name on line 28 is settled. Line 28 reads Iona B., not Sara B., not Jane B., and not Ancestry's Imma M. — settled on the image, and independently by the 1880 Hilburn Township sheet [S166], where the eldest daughter is Iona B., 14, born Kentucky: four in July 1870 and fourteen in June 1880 is the same child. The four-year-old on line 28 is Earl's great-great-grandmother. The move from Kentucky narrows. With Mary E. born in Kentucky and Ellen in Arkansas on the 1880 sheet, the arrival closes to 1869 × July 1870, from the wider December 1865 × December 1874 bracket.Cited on Bowles, Williams & Brock line · Iona Belle Brock · Solomon Alfred Brock · Matilda Pauline Howard · Mary E. Brock · Documents. - S1541910 U.S. Federal Census — Matilda P. Brock, widow, head of household, Clyde, Callahan County, Texas. Ancestry collection 7884, record 27738158, image
4449748_01049. State Texas · County Callahan · Justice Precinct No. 5 · incorporated place Clyde Town, dwelling and family 74, lines 47–49, the last household on the sheet, enumerated April 1910. Read from the image at full resolution — 4295 × 2980 px, 54/54 DeepZoom tiles, 21 September 2026. Brock, Matilda P., Head, F, W, 62, Wd, 10 children born / 7 living, born Kentucky, both parents Kentucky, occupation "own income"; Ellen, daughter, 38, single, born Arkansas, teacher of music on own account; Lorna, daughter, 27, single, born Arkansas. The first schedule to record her as a widow (the column reads Wd) and as head of her own household, living on her own income. It agrees with the pension index [S152], which dates Solomon's death to on or before 23 May 1904, the day she filed as his widow from Texas. "10 children born, 7 living" is the same pair of figures the 1900 sheet gives [S138]: ten years apart and from two enumerators, so the two households are one family, and no child of hers died in between. Her middle initial is P here too, as on the two pension cards [S152] [S1767]; her headstone has an initial that can be read as P. or R. in the photograph held [S1768]. Both daughters were born in Arkansas, which is where the 1870 sheet puts the family [S153]. Its age column says 62, and that points to 1848, not 1847: at an April 1910 enumeration a woman born January 1847 is 63, born January 1848 she is 62. This is the one census page read for her that points to 1848, and the image agrees with the index. The 1900 sheet states a month and a year, January 1847, and its own age column, 53, agrees with that cell; the ages on the 1860 [S165], 1870 [S153] and 1880 [S166] sheets each require 1847 too. This sheet carries no month: an age alone, reported ten years later. January 1847 is settled, on four age columns, and the 1910 age is recorded here as a disagreement. No census page gives her birth day. The Ancestry tree carries 9 January 1848; her headstone has a birth line with the day 9 and the year 1848, and its month is not legible in the photograph held [S1768]. Only the NARA widow's pension file (application 807,122 / certificate 585,190) or a Kentucky birth record can give a day.Cited on Bowles, Williams & Brock line · Matilda Pauline Howard · Documents. - S1551850 U.S. Federal Census — Wm. A. Bowles household, County of Owsley, State of Kentucky. Ancestry collection 8054, record 17453547. SCHEDULE I.—Free Inhabitants, enumerated 10 September 1850 by Luther Br---- , Ass't Marshal; dwelling and family 367, lines 9–16. Read from the image at full resolution — 3550 × 4514 px, 22 September 2026. Wm A Bowles, 63, M, Farmer, real estate $1,200, born Virginia; Lucy Bowles, 45, F, born Virginia; then Thomas 23, Hugh[s] 21, James, William 14, Sarah 8, Margaret 5, all born Kentucky. This sheet is the reason a sixth generation stands on the Bowles line. It is the earliest document that places James Daniel Bowles in a household, and the household has a head and a wife born in Virginia — the only Virginia birth anywhere on this line. It is published as Probable, and the reason is on the page itself: a census household list states no relationship. The columns give name, age, sex, occupation, estate and birthplace, and nothing else. No document read in this research yet uses the word "son" for James against Wm A. and Lucy. What carries the identification is arithmetic on a second page: the three older boys of this house reappear on three consecutive lines of the 1863 draft list for the neighbouring county S156 at exactly the right ages — Hugh 21 → Hughs 34, William 14 → W. A. 27, James → 32. James's own age digit is genuinely ambiguous: at native resolution it reads 11 as readily as 19, two plain strokes. The index says 19; the 1863 page is what fixes it at 19, not the digits. Wm A Bowles here, 63 and born in Virginia, is not William Anderson Bowles (b. 1858), James's son. Two men, the same initials, two generations apart. No occupation is entered for any son, and only the head holds real estate. Jackson County was cut out of Owsley, Clay and Estill in 1858, which is why the 1863 residence is a different county and not a move.Cited on Bowles, Williams & Brock line · James Daniel Bowles · William A. Bowles · Lucy Ann Bowles · Abraham Thomas · Documents.
- S156U.S. Civil War Draft Registrations, 1863–1865 — James Bowls, 12th Sub-District, Jackson County, Kentucky. Ancestry collection 1666, record 405876. CONSOLIDATED LIST of all persons of Class I, 8th Congressional District of Kentucky, enumerated during June 1863 under Robert Hays, Provost Marshal; page No. 29, certified to Provost Marshal General James B. Fry at Washington on 1 February 1864. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Line 8: Bowls, James — age on 1 July 1863 32 — White — Farmer — Mard — born Kentucky; no former military service, no remark. Three Bowles brothers stand on three consecutive lines. Line 6 Bowles W. A., 27, single, farmer, Kentucky; line 7 Bowls Hughs, 34, single, farmer, Kentucky; line 8 our man. The three ages carry the 1850 Owsley household forward exactly S155, and that agreement — not any one line — is what identifies both sheets. It adds an occupation the index omits — Farmer, dittoed down the column — and a dated wartime residence in a decade where this man had none: nothing stood between the 1856 Owsley marriage S143 and the 1870 Owsley census S157. Enrolment is liability for the draft, not service. He is listed in Class I (men 20–35, and unmarried men to 45); the former military service column is blank and there is no remark. Nothing here says he served. Its age column disagrees with the tree by a week. A man born 9 July 1831 is 31 on 1 July 1863, not 32. This is the second of three schedules leaning the same way; with S155 and S157 it is why the tree and this site give 1830–31. The clerk's spelling is Bowls, surname first; that is the register's hand, not a new name.Cited on Bowles, Williams & Brock line · James Daniel Bowles · Documents.
- S1571870 U.S. Federal Census — James Bowles household, Travellers Rest Precinct, Owsley County, Kentucky. Ancestry collection 7163, record 22213199. Enumerated 30 June 1870 by A. J. Herd, Ass't Marshal; post office Travellers Rest, page No. 34, dwelling 224 / family 220, lines 1–10. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Bowles, James, 39, M, W, Farmer, personal estate $150 and the real-estate column empty, born Kentucky; Lydia, 35, keeping house, born TENNESSEE; then Emily 13, William 12 (farm labour), James D 10, Nancy 8, Sarah 6, Joanna 5, Martha E 2, and Lucinda, 4/12, born within the year — month FEB. The whole family stands in one frame — the couple the 1856 Owsley register created S143, with eight children, fourteen years on. Lydia's Tennessee birth is in a second clerk's hand, corroborating the Hawkins County, Tennessee of the marriage register. William, 12, is William Anderson Bowles to the month — a boy born 9 April 1858 is exactly 12 on the 1 June 1870 census day S160. Lucinda at four months is the link to Arizona. The "born within the year" column gives Feb, and her own 1920 death certificate, filed in Phoenix by her husband, gives 27 February 1870 S158. He owned no land in 1870. The real-estate column is empty — a fact an index cannot show, and a plain one beside his father's $1,200 twenty years earlier S155. Its age column is the third to exclude 9 July 1831. Age 39 on 1 June 1870 requires a birth between 2 June 1830 and 1 June 1831. With 1850 (19) and 1863 (32), three independent enumerations agree with each other and disagree with the tree, whose date carries no primary citation. The tree and this site give 1830–31; none of the three states a day. Emily, William and James D are all marked cannot read, cannot write; only James D attended school within the year. No other Bowles household appears on the page. The empty real-estate column is a loss, not a constant. The 1860 Travellers Rest sheet [S171] gives James Bowls $500 in real estate; here the column is empty and personal estate has fallen from $200 to $150. He held land in 1860 and held none in 1870, and that is a fact about the decade, not a transcription constant. The transcription otherwise holds in every particular. The page gives no reason for the loss.Cited on Bowles, Williams & Brock line · William Anderson Bowles · James Daniel Bowles · Lydia Williams · Emily Bowles · Documents · Timeline.
- S158Arizona Certificate of Death, 1920 — LUCINDA CARPENTER, daughter of James Daniel Bowles, Phoenix, Maricopa County. Ancestry collection 60420, record 600216827. Arizona State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, County Registered No. 9718, Local Registrar's No. 2439. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Lucinda Carpenter, F, White, married; date of birth Feb 27 1870, age 50, occupation Housewife, birthplace Kentucky; NAME OF FATHER: James Bowles; MAIDEN NAME OF MOTHER: Williams; informant R. N. Carpenter; died 28 September 1920, 3:30 p.m., of shock following operation at the Deaconess Hospital, attended from 12 August; buried Greenwood, 30 September 1920; usual residence California, about two years in Arizona. This is not James Daniel Bowles's death record, though Ancestry's index makes it look like one. The index surfaces the record under Name: James Bowles. On the image he appears in one box only — Name of Father. It is not cited as his death record; he died in 1889 in Texas. A second index error on the same card: "Spouse: Williams Bowles" is not a person. Williams is the maiden-name-of-mother box, a surname with no given name, read by the indexer as a man. What the certificate does settle is a daughter, fully. 27 February 1870, born Kentucky locks to the month against Lucinda, 4/12, born within the year — Feb on line 10 of the 1870 Owsley schedule S157. It also corroborates Lydia's maiden surname from another state entirely — Arizona, fifty years and two thousand miles from Owsley County, from a family informant. Williams rests on three independent documents: the 1856 marriage register S143, the 1858 birth register S160 and this. What is rejected here, and why. The certificate gives Virginia for both of her parents' birthplaces. Both are rejected. James was born in Estill County, Kentucky on his own marriage register S143 and Kentucky on three schedules; Lydia was born in Tennessee on two. The informant was a son-in-law reporting in 1920 on a father-in-law thirty years dead. The likely source of the slip is recoverable and is worth stating: James's own parents, Wm A. and Lucy Bowles, were born in Virginia S155 — the informant was one generation out, not simply wrong. A death certificate is primary for the death and hearsay for the parents. Both parents' Virginia birthplaces were checked against the other records. Lydia's is wrong too. Three contemporaneous records give her Tennessee — the 1850 Owsley schedule while she was living at home [S173], the 1856 bride's column [S143], and the 1860 Travellers Rest sheet [S171] — and her son's 1936 Texas certificate gives a third answer, Kentucky. Two informants, two different wrong answers, sixty and eighty years on. Tennessee stands; the pattern is the finding. The Virginia is weak sideways corroboration of the Virginia-born generation in [S155] and worthless for either James's or Lydia's own birthplace.Cited on Bowles, Williams & Brock line · James Daniel Bowles · Lydia Williams · Lucinda Bowles Carpenter · Documents · Timeline.
- S159Württemberg family register — Ev. Landeskirche SCHWIEBERDINGEN, Familienregister Band 25, opening pp. 366b/367: the household of Johann Georg Fux, whose second wife is a DAUGHTER of Georg Melchior Julius Prüger and Elisabeth Sabina Lösch. Ancestry collection 61389, records 3576174 and 3576173 (one image closes both hints), image
1056758-00638, film stamp 000262. Read from the image at full resolution — 6447 × 4585 px, 117/117 DeepZoom tiles, 22 September 2026. Hausvater: Johann Georg Fux, kath., Gürtlermeister hier, b. 7 Jul 1821, d. 14 Okt 1910, son of Matthäus Fux and Barbara geb. Hornung. Copulation I, 25 Nov 1850: Maria Ana geb. Pfrogg (1822–1857). Copulation II, 28 Mai 1861, zu KIRCHBERG a. d. Jagst: Christiane Juliane Erdlin, geb. PRÜGER, evang., born 25 Okt 1838 zu Kirchberg, died 3 Febr. 1911. Her parents are written out in the register's own rows: "II V." — Georg Melchior Prüger, B[ürger] u. Schuhma[cher] in Kirchberg a. J., and "II M." — Elisabeth Sabina geb. Lösch. This register documents a sister of the immigrant Julius Karl Proeger. Christiane Juliane Prüger, born at Kirchberg on 25 October 1838, is his elder sister, five and a half years before his own 28 April 1844 baptism in the same parish S69. She stayed in Württemberg, married a Schwieberdingen belt-maker, and died there in 1911. The identification does not rest on the surname. It rests on four points in the two parent rows that agree with the 1844 Kirchberg baptism: the given names Georg Melchior; the trade Schuhmacher; the town Kirchberg an der Jagst; and the wife's full name with maiden surname, Elisabeth Sabina geb. Lösch. A parish 80 km away, with no access to the Kirchberg book, wrote all four. Her given name is Sabina here too. Her baptism S1688, her marriage S1689 and her burial S133 all say Elisabetha Sabina, and this register, written by a different parish for a different purpose, agrees. Elisabeth Catharina stands only in the 1844 Kirchberg baptism of her son S69 and is a slip; Lossetta is her son's 1924 death certificate S68. Ancestry indexes the parents' surname as Sträger. The image reads Prüger at 4×, same hand, same word — but the initial cluster is not beyond dispute even at 4×, so the reading is given with that doubt stated. Nothing above depends on it. "Residence Place: Schwieberdingen", which Ancestry offers, is rejected for both ancestors. Schwieberdingen is the parish of the book and of the daughter's married household; Georg Melchior and Elisabeth Sabina are named as absent parents, at Kirchberg. Neither ever lived there on this evidence. "Erdlin" is a married name. She was already widowed or once married before 28 May 1861 at twenty-two. That first marriage is not on this page and has not been looked for. The third given name "Julius" is not on this page — a family table abbreviates. Not a conflict, but not corroborated here either. The children block for the second marriage is empty. That proves none were entered in this book, not that there were none.Cited on Proeger & Kochendoerfer line · Julius Karl Proeger · Elisabethe Sabina Loesch · Christiane Juliane Prüger · Documents. - S160Owsley County, Kentucky BIRTH REGISTER, returns for 1858 — Wm. A. Bowles, born 9 April 1858, with both parents named on the row. Ancestry collection 1213 (Kentucky, U.S., Birth Records, 1847–1911), record 150077533, image
KYVR_994052-0056; the leaf is tabbed BIRTH and flagged Faded Page. Read from the image at full resolution — 3736 × 3264 px, 56/56 DeepZoom tiles, 22 September 2026. The register runs as one table across the opening. Row 5: Date of Birth April 9th (the year 1858 stands at the head of the column and is carried down by ditto); Name of Child Wm. A. Bowles; Male; Alive; Place of Birth Owsley Co., Ky; Name of Father: Jas. Bowles; Maiden name of Mother: Lydia Williams; White; Residence of Parents Owsley Co., Ky. 9 April 1858 rests on a county register, not on Find a Grave. The date is the one Find a Grave gives; here it is written by a county clerk, at the time, in a statutory register, where Find a Grave offers only parent links S22. A primary record outweighs a derivative one: this outranks S22 and is cited ahead of it. It is also the first documentary statement of the parent–child link in words. Elsewhere James Daniel Bowles and Lydia Williams are tied to William Anderson Bowles by Find a Grave and by inference from the 1870 household S157 — a son William, 12, exactly the right age. This register states it outright, at the birth, naming the father and the mother's maiden name on the child's own line. A third independent document for the maiden surname Williams, and the second written in Kentucky at the time S143. The column heading is "Maiden name of Mother", not spouse — Ancestry's index renders it as Spouse: Lydia Williams, the same fact with worse provenance. Ancestry's index carries no date at all. The date exists only on the image. Only one Bowles appears anywhere in the father column of this page — it is otherwise Davis, Abner, Warner, Young, Prewit, Wells, McGuire, Kincaid, Beatty, Williams, Boothe, Bryant, Sizemore, Creech and others — so there is no second candidate on the leaf. The 1856 date on his Texas death certificate is the outlier; it is outweighed by a birth register, the 1900 Texas census S140 and the 1870 Kentucky census S157.Cited on Bowles, Williams & Brock line · William Anderson Bowles · James Daniel Bowles · Lydia Williams · Documents.
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- S1611860 U.S. Federal Census — Jane Martin, widow and head of household, District No. 12, Sumner County, Tennessee. Ancestry collection 7667, record 22611436, image
4297417_00518. Post Office Gallatin, enumerated 16 June 1860, page No. 30, dwelling and family 209, lines 30–32. Read from the image at full resolution — 4690 × 6621 px, 130/130 DeepZoom tiles, 22 September 2026. Jane Martin, 62, F, Farmer, real estate $9,240, personal estate $11,840, born TENNESSEE; Jo. D. Martin, 27, M, do [Farmer], born Tennessee; M. L. Martin, 21, F, born Tennessee. The estate figures are written once on line 30 with a brace drawn down the three lines. Joseph D. Martin is in the widow's house a second time, ten years on. He is in the 1850 household S98 and here again under the same roof, now entered as a Farmer in his own right, six years before he married Nannie Chenault S95. A census names a household, not a parentage: Ancestry's own index says inferred child, and neither enumeration states the word "son". His parentage rests on these two households together with Peter's 1849 Sumner County will S107, read on 22 September 2026 as [S172], which names Joseph D Martin inside the children's division; the link is graded Probable on his card. Her birthplace reads Tennessee for the second time, on her own line, ten years after the 1850 sheet said the same S98. No record read in this research gives Virginia for her. Her husband Peter Hines Martin was born in Virginia S105, and a birthplace copied sideways from a husband to a wife is the commonest error in an online tree. She was worth better than $21,000, in her own name: $6,000 of real estate in 1850; $9,240 real and $11,840 personal here, in a household of three, with Farmer in her own occupation column both times. The two age columns cannot both be right. 1850 gives 56 (born 1793–94); this sheet gives 62 (born 1797–98): ten years apart the ages advance six. The 1818 marriage S162 favours the earlier year (a bride of about 24 rather than 20), the 1820 tally leans the later S163, and 1840 is neutral S164. No record read gives a month or a day, and her birth year is unsettled between the two. M. L. Martin's initials are not clean — a large looped capital reading M or Jn — and the age reads 21 with 24 possible. At 24 she is the Louisa, 14, of 1850; at 21 she matches no child on that sheet. It is transcribed as read, not resolved. Abram Martin, 65, born North Carolina, $10,000 real and $11,950 personal, stands two dwellings from Jane in 1860 and two doors from her in 1850, with Mary Martin 53, Malvina 26 and John Franklin 20. A brother of Peter is a hypothesis only: Peter was born 1793 and Abram about 1795, and Peter's grave names his own father John, the name Abram gave a son, but Peter was born in Virginia and Abram in North Carolina, which is a real obstacle. Abram's household is noted here, not researched, and he is not in the family tree.Cited on Timberman, Martin & Chenault line · Jane Bell (Martin) · Joseph Daniel Martin · Documents. - S162Tennessee marriage register, 1818 — the county record behind the Dodd index: Peter H. Martin to Jane Bell, 2 July 1818, with the officiant named. Ancestry collection 1169 (Tennessee, U.S., Marriage Records, 1780–2002), record 4572939, image
VRMUSATN1780_040401-00127; a bound clerk's register under the printed heading "MARRIAGE RECORD, 1818", opening pp. 196/197. Read from the image at full resolution — 4644 × 3432 px, 70/70 DeepZoom tiles, 22 September 2026. The fifth entry on the left leaf, verbatim: "Martin, Peter H. — To — Jane Bell. Issued July 2d 1818. I solemnized the rite of matrimony between the within named parties on the 2d day of July 1818. Wm. Hume, V.D.M." The marriage is on the county register, not only on a transcription. Tennessee, U.S., Compiled Marriages, 1784–1825 (Dodd) S106 is a compiled index; this register is the record it was compiled from, and the two agree to the day. S162 is cited ahead of S106, which is kept because the Dodd index is what found the marriage. The licence was issued and the wedding held on the same day, 2 July 1818. The officiant is named: Rev. William Hume, V.D.M. (Verbi Dei Minister), a Presbyterian minister and the busiest name on the opening; he also married Mann to Alexander and Tait to Coleman that fortnight, and he appears nowhere else in this research. The page itself names no county: Davidson County comes from the collection and the film, not from the leaf, and the entries around it are ordinary Middle Tennessee returns of June–August 1818 under ministers Wm. Anderson, Benj. Darrow, Levin Edney, Joseph Love, Edmund Lanier, Joel Anderson, R. W. Oakley J.P. and James Whitsitt. A marriage register of 1818 has no column for age, birthplace or parents. It bears on Jane's birth year only by inference: a bride of about 24 on the tree's c.1794, against about 20 on the 1860 reading S161. It names no parent of either party; Jane's maiden surname is all it gives about her family.Cited on Timberman, Martin & Chenault line · Jane Bell (Martin) · Documents. - S1631820 U.S. Federal Census — Peter H. Martin, town of GALLATIN, Sumner County, Tennessee: a MANUFACTURER employing four. Ancestry collection 7734, record 1017030, image
4433291_00158(one read closes two hints, Peter Hines Martin and Jane Bell). Read from the image at full resolution — 3716 × 4500 px, 72/72 DeepZoom tiles, 22 September 2026. Enumerated 7 August 1820. The sheet carries two fragments: the close of the town of Gallatin list, ending with the clerk's note "Whole amount in Gallatin 429", and below it the start of the Sumner County list. Peter H. Martin stands on the second line of the Gallatin fragment, above Mathew Neale and John Perkins. His tally: free white males 10–15: 1, 16–25: 2 (of whom 16–18: 1), 26–44: 1 — Peter himself, 26 that August; free white females under 10: 1, 16–25: 1; Persons engaged in Manufactures: 4; slaves, females under 14: 1. Totals: 6 free white, 1 enslaved, 7. This is the earliest record of what Peter Hines Martin did for a living, and he was not a farmer. Four hands in manufactures, in the town of Gallatin, in 1820, is a workshop. A daughter under 10 in August 1820 is a child who is not named on any record read. She is consistent with the 2 July 1818 marriage S162. The children named for this couple are later: Robert B., about 1827 by his age in 1850 (a Probable son), David about 1831, Joseph 1832, Martha about 1834 and Louisa about 1836. A tally is not a name: this is a lead, not a person. On Jane's age this sheet leans against the tree, by one tick on a bracket boundary. There is one female 16–25 and none 26–44. A woman born about 1794 was 26 on 7 August 1820 and belongs in the upper bracket; born 1797–98 she was 22 and belongs where the mark is. So 1820 leans the same way as the 1860 schedule S161, against the 1850 schedule and the tree S98. It settles nothing and is not acted on: the bracket was reported by the head of household. The two males 16–25 and the one 10–15 are too old to be this couple's children; they may be apprentices or journeymen in the workshop, or younger siblings. They are unnamed and not claimed as kin. One enslaved girl under 14 is on the tally; by 1840 the household held ten enslaved people S164. Gallatin neighbours on the fragment include William Trousdale, later Governor of Tennessee, and John Perkins, who reappears on the 1840 sheet.Cited on Timberman, Martin & Chenault line · Jane Bell (Martin) · Documents. - S1641840 U.S. Federal Census — P. H. Martin, Sumner County, Tennessee: a household of twelve, six sons, eight in agriculture and ten enslaved people. Ancestry collection 8057, record 3431539, image
4410645_00752. (No. 4.) SCHEDULE of the whole number of persons within the division allotted to A. D. Bugg(?), page 20, row 8. Read from the image at full resolution — 4062 × 3312 px, 56/56 DeepZoom tiles, 22 September 2026. Free white males: 5–9: 2, 10–14: 2, 15–19: 2, 40–49: 1. Free white females: under 5: 2, 15–19: 1, 20–29: 1, 40–49: 1. Total free white 12 · persons employed in agriculture 8 · total slaves 10 (2 males under 10, 4 males 10–23, 1 male 24–35, 1 female under 10, 2 females 10–23). The two boys aged 5–9 fit David and Joseph of the 1850 sheet S98, born about 1831 and 1832, so 8 and 9 in 1840. Six sons, born roughly 1821–1835. Three sons are named in Peter H. Martin's will of 1849 S172: Robert B., David B. and Joseph, each a Probable son on his card because the will never writes “son”; the other three boys of this row are not named in any record read, nor is the daughter of the 1820 tally S163. The household grew. In 1820 it held one enslaved person; by 1840 it held ten, with eight people working the land, and Jane had $6,000 in 1850 and more than $21,000 in 1860 S161. On Jane's age this sheet is neutral. A female 40–49 covers births from 1790 to 1800 and so contains both years her card weighs, about 1794 and 1797–98. A one-bracket slip, recorded not reconciled: Martha, 6 in 1840 on the 1850 arithmetic, has no 5–9 female slot; the enumerator entered two girls under 5 where the 1850 ages want one under 5 and one 5–9. Ancestry indexes the name "P K Martin"; the image reads P. H. The identification rests on the name, the county, the year and the 40–49 brackets: Peter turned 46 in November 1840, and Jane was 42 to 46. An 1840 schedule names only the head of the family; every other person on the row is a tally mark. Woody Martin heads a family on the same page of the same division, and Jno. McMurry is a neighbour, the surname of the Mary McMurry, 7, in Jane's 1850 household S98; no record read explains either.Cited on Timberman, Martin & Chenault line · Jane Bell (Martin) · Documents. - S1651860 U.S. Federal Census — Howard household (tail), Harlan Courthouse, County of Harlan, State of Kentucky. Ancestry collection 7667, record 39163902, image
4230650_00446. SCHEDULE 1.—Free Inhabitants, enumerated 20 August 1860 by C. B. Brittain, Ass't Marshal, post office Harlan Courthouse; page 126, dwelling and family 822/822, lines 1–6. Read from the image at full resolution — 4836 × 6469 px, 22 September 2026. Mary 15, Matilda 13, Jacob 11, a girl of 4, Henry 3, Araminta 1, all born Ky; Mary and Matilda both entered dom. laborer and all three eldest ticked attended school within the year. Age 13 excludes the family tree's 9 January 1848. The census reference day is 1 June 1860, so 13 puts Matilda's birth between 2 June 1846 and 1 June 1847; born 9 January 1848 she would be 12. It is one of the age columns that agree on January 1847, with the 1870 Madison County sheet at 23 [S153] and the 1900 Callahan County sheet, which writes Jan 1847 with an age of 53 [S138]; the line page gives her birth as January 1847. A schedule of 1860 carries an age only, no day and no month. She is at work and at school at thirteen; neither fact is in Ancestry's index. No surname is written on any of the six lines. Dwelling 822 begins on the preceding sheet, page 125, read from the image on 25 September 2026: John C. Howard, 53, Mary, 35, and Elizabeth, 17 [S461]; this image holds the last six of the family under a ditto of the surname written there. The 1860 schedule states no relationships on either sheet, so the link from Matilda to John C. Howard is a household inference here; his card grades it Probable and gives the other records it rests on. A second Howard household five doors on. Dwelling 827: Wilkerson Howard, 62, farmer, $4,000 real and $2,100 personal against page totals of $5,600 and $4,520, with Mary, 57, born Virginia, Samuel L. 32, Wilkerson A. 24, Elizabeth 20, Calvin 18, Green 16 and Gerusha 14. This sheet states no relationship between the two houses. John Covey Howard's card has his parents as John Howard and Mary Risner, Probable, and names a Wilkerson Howard among the Howards living near him in an earlier census [S642]; where Wilkerson, about eight years the elder, stands in that family is not shown by any record read. Ancestry indexes Henry as 2; the image reads 3. The four-year-old is indexed Idress, and the hand will not settle the name.Cited on Bowles, Williams & Brock line · Matilda Pauline Howard · John Covey Howard · Matilda Brock Howard · Documents · Timeline. - S1661880 U.S. Federal Census — Matilda Brock household, Hilburn Township, County of Madison, State of Arkansas. Ancestry collection 6742, record 5406340, image
4239811-00834. SCHEDULE 1.—Inhabitants, enumerated the Eighteenth day of June, 1880 by Aaron L. Thompson, Enumerator; page 27, S.D. 2, E.D. 104, stamped 554; dwelling and family 228/234, lines 11–17. Read from the image at full resolution — 3888 × 4560 px, 22 September 2026. Brock, Matilda, 33, head, MARRIED, Keeping House, born Kentucky, both parents Ky; Iona B. 14 (Ky), Mary E. 11 (Ky), Ellen 9 (Arkansas), Ida C. 7 (Ark), John B. 6 (Ark), James B. 3 (Ark). Age 33 is the fourth age column to exclude 9 January 1848. Reference day 1 June 1880; 33 puts her birth between 2 June 1846 and 1 June 1847. With 1860 (13) [S165], 1870 (23) [S153] and 1900 (Jan 1847, age 53) [S138], four independent schedules close the year on 1847 and the day remains unattested by any document. She heads her own household and the tick is in the MARRIED column, not Widowed — while Solomon heads a separate household at Eureka Springs, Carroll County, sixty miles north, fourteen days earlier [S168]. These two sheets must be read as a pair. This is NOT early widowhood: the pension index dates his death to on or before 23 May 1904 [S152]. The Kentucky-to-Arkansas move narrows to 1869 × July 1870. Mary E., 11, was born in Kentucky; Ellen, 9, in Arkansas, and the 12 July 1870 sheet already has the family in Madison County with both then-living daughters Kentucky-born [S153]. The wider December 1865 × December 1874 bracket closes to a little over a year. It settles S153's one open reading. The eldest daughter here is Iona B., 14, born Kentucky; four in July 1870 and fourteen in June 1880 is the same child, so the 1870 line-28 given name is Iona B. and Sara B., Jane B. and Ancestry's Imma M. can be retired. A sixth child, James B., 3, born Arkansas — Ancestry's index truncates its household list at "John B. Br" and he has no card on this site. No month, no day. The page gives no reason for the split household, and no separation, desertion or estrangement should be inferred from it.Cited on Overview · Bowles, Williams & Brock line · William Anderson Bowles · Iona Belle Brock · Solomon Alfred Brock · Matilda Pauline Howard · Mary E. Brock · Ida C. Brock · John B. Brock · Emily Bowles · Documents · Timeline. - S1671860 U.S. Federal Census — James Brock household, County of Laurel, State of Kentucky. Ancestry collection 7667, record 39738881, image
4231191_00444. SCHEDULE 1.—Free Inhabitants, enumerated the 25th day of July 1860 by J. R. Martin, Ass't Marshal; page 112, dwelling 760, family 714, lines 9–17. Read from the image at full resolution — 2237 × 2930 px, 22 September 2026. Brock, James, 56, U.B. Clergym'n, $700 real and $152 personal, born Ky; Elizabeth, 57; Caleb 26 (farm labor, $82); Sabrey A. 24; Soleman, 22, farm labor, $50; Mary J. 19; Mahala 17; Carline C. 13; Hetia C. 10 — all born Ky. A PROBABLE sixth generation on the Brock side. This sheet puts him at 22 in the household of James and Elizabeth Brock with seven others of the surname, and the 1850 Harlan County sheet [S169] shows the same couple with the same children ten years earlier and Solomon at 12. The hedge is the whole point and it is stated plainly: a census names a household, not a parentage. No record read in this research says son of, so the link is graded PROBABLE, in the family tree as on this page. James Brock was a United Brethren minister — U.B. Clergym'n in the occupation column, against page totals of $3,200 and $2,000, with a second U.B. clergyman, B. Cochins, 78, born Georgia, at line 2 of the same page. The first religious vocation anywhere in the Brock line. Solomon is a farm labourer at 22 with $50 to his name — ten years before he is Teaching School in Arkansas [S153]. Laurel County, not Harlan. The family is in Harlan in 1850 [S169], in Laurel in July 1860, and back in Harlan for the marriage of 6 March 1865 [S151]; the birthplace column on both schedules reads only Kentucky. Age 22 leans against the tree's 8 April 1837 without overturning it. Reference day 1 June 1860; 22 requires a birth between 2 June 1837 and 1 June 1838, and born 8 April 1837 he is 23. Neither schedule carries a month or a day, so the day is untouched and only the year is in question — review queue. Ancestry indexes him Salman; the image reads Soleman.Cited on Bowles, Williams & Brock line · Iona Belle Brock · Solomon Alfred Brock · James Brock · Elizabeth “Betsy” Brock · Documents · Timeline. - S1681880 U.S. Federal Census — Solomon A. Brock, alone, Eureka Springs, County of Carroll, State of Arkansas. Ancestry collection 6742, record 6102587, image
4239800-00647. SCHEDULE 1.—Inhabitants, enumerated on the 4th day of June, 1880 by C. G. Davis, Enumerator; page 11, E.D. 25, stamped 157, dwelling and family 94/99, line 40. Read from the image at full resolution — 3784 × 4312 px, 22 September 2026. Brock, Solomon A., 43, head, MARRIED, Farmer, born Kentucky, both parents Kentucky. The other half of a household split across two counties. He is alone here on 4 June 1880; Matilda and six children are in Madison County on 18 June [S166], about sixty miles south. BOTH sheets tick MARRIED — not widowed, not divorced. Publish the pair together; neither alone. The first census to carry his middle initial — Brock, Solomon A. It cuts against S167 and S169 on the birth year. The 1850 (12), 1860 (22) and 1870 (32) schedules give the identical window June 1837 × June 1838 and exclude 8 April 1837; this sheet, at 43, is the only one that admits it. The year is unsettled — a review-queue row, not a correction. Page context, and it proves nothing. Eureka Springs was a one-year-old mineral-spring resort, the sheet is full of hotel boarders with Rheumatism and Sore eyes, and he had drawn an invalid pension since 1872 [S152] — but the page does not say he was there for the water, and no reason for the split household is on either sheet.Cited on Bowles, Williams & Brock line · Solomon Alfred Brock · Matilda Pauline Howard · Documents · Timeline. - S1691850 U.S. Federal Census — James Brock household, District No. 1, County of Harlan, State of Kentucky. Ancestry collection 8054, record 17189309, image
4192493_00369. SCHEDULE I.—Free Inhabitants, enumerated on the 21st day of August 1850; dwelling and family 381/381, lines 20–27, with dwelling 382 next door. Read from the image at full resolution — 3502 × 4498 px, 22 September 2026. Brock, James, 45, Farmer, real estate $600, born Ky; Elizabeth, 46; Caleb 16 (farmer); Sabra 14; Solomon, 12; Mary 9; Mahala 6; Caroline V. 3 — the surname written once on line 20 and dittoed down. Next door, dwelling 382: Brock, Zecheriah, 22, farmer, $100, with Margarett 20, James 2 and Abram 7/12. This is the pair to S167, and it turns the CANDIDATE parentage into a two-census chain. Every member of dwelling 381 reappears in Laurel County ten years later at the right age — Caleb 16→26, Sabra 14→Sabrey A. 24, Solomon 12→22, Mary 9→19, Mahala 6→17, Caroline V. 3→Carline C. 13, James 45→56, Elizabeth 46→57 — nobody drops out, and the only addition in 1860 is Hetia C., 10, born after this sheet was taken. Eight people twice, a decade apart, in two counties. That is what makes it a chain rather than a one-page guess, and it is still an inference. No record here says son of; graded Probable on James Brock's card, with the 1930 death record of Solomon's sister Sabra, which names the same parents. A married Brock next door. Zecheriah, 22, born c.1828, with a wife of 20 and two small sons — exactly where an elder son of James who had already married out would sit. A candidate brother, carded and not claimed. James Brock's calling changed: a farmer with $600 here and a U.B. clergyman with $700 in 1860 [S167]. Both are on the record and neither should be flattened into the other. The given name is written out in full — Solomon, clearer than 1860's Soleman. Age 12 leans against 8 April 1837 without overturning it: reference day 1 June 1850, so 12 requires a birth between 2 June 1837 and 1 June 1838, and at 8 April 1837 he is 13. The day is untouched; the year goes to the review queue. The birthplace column names a state, not a county. The enumeration-day digit reads 21; 31 cannot be wholly excluded, and the arithmetic is the same either way.Cited on Bowles, Williams & Brock line · Solomon Alfred Brock · James Brock · Elizabeth “Betsy” Brock · Documents · Timeline. - S170Texas standard certificate of death no. 31724 — Mrs. Iona Belle Bowles, Potosi, Taylor County, 4 July 1947. Texas Department of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics; file no. 225, filed 11 July 1947 by local registrar Lila Fern Martin, Abilene, received by the Bureau 8 August 1947. Ancestry collection 2272, record 82067279, image
40394_b062310-02504. Read from the image at full resolution — 2048 × 1713 px, 22 September 2026. Date of birth December 31, 1865; birthplace London, Kentucky; age 81 years 6 months 3 days; widowed; housewife; father SOLOMON ALFRED BROCK (b. Kentucky); mother's maiden name MATILDA HOWARD (b. Kentucky); informant Iona Reah, Hermosa Beach, California; date of death July 4, 1947; burial Potosi, July 6, 1947; undertaker Garrison Funeral Home, Abilene; cause coronary thrombosis. Ancestry files the hint under Solomon Alfred Brock because he is named on it. The certificate is his DAUGHTER's, and it is cited on Iona Belle Brock's card. Four facts move off Find a Grave onto a state certificate filed seven days after the death — the birth date, the birthplace, the death date and the burial were all cited to a memorial [S23]. S170 is cited ahead of S23 for all four. The same pattern as S160 over S22 for her husband. Her parentage is stated in words for the first time. Field 10 names her father and field 12 her mother's maiden name, independently corroborating the 1865 Harlan County register's Matildia Howard [S151]. London is the seat of Laurel County, the county the 1860 schedule puts her father's family in [S167]: Solomon grew up in Laurel, married in Harlan in March 1865, and his first child was born at London nine months later. The place fits the family's movements as well as the certificate. An informant on a death certificate knew the deceased, not the deceased's parents. Iona Reah, named for the deceased and almost certainly a daughter, was reporting her own grandparents. The parentage is strengthened, not made primary; what would make it primary is an Owsley or Harlan County record naming Iona as a child of Solomon at the time. The duration of the fatal illness is smudged — 1 day is the reading, 5 is not impossible. It says nothing about Solomon himself beyond his name and Kentucky birth, and does not touch the 8 April 1837 question.Cited on Bowles, Williams & Brock line · Iona Belle Brock · Solomon Alfred Brock · Matilda Pauline Howard · Documents · Timeline. - S1711860 U.S. Federal Census — James Bowls household, post office Travellers Rest, County of Owsley, State of Kentucky. Ancestry collection 7667, record 39791435, image
4231202_00321. SCHEDULE 1.—Free Inhabitants, enumerated on the 27th day of June 1860 by J. E. Gibson, Ass't Marshal; page 25, stamped 321, dwelling and family 165/165, lines 24–27. Read from the image at full resolution — 4655 × 6478 px, 22 September 2026. James Bowls, 25, real estate $500, occupation column blank; Lydia, 27, born Tenn, cannot read or write; Emily, 4; William, 2. The sheet names him plain James, and the search for his farm follows that name. He is James, never Daniel; no Daniel G. Bowls is anywhere on the page; and because he holds $500 in real estate an agricultural-schedule entry is likely. The farm to pursue on the 1860 agricultural schedule is "James M. Bowls"; that schedule has not been read. William Anderson Bowles at 2 — his earliest census appearance, exactly as the Owsley County birth register's 9 April 1858 predicts [S160], and an independent corroboration of it. Lydia born Tenn, matching Hawkins County on the 1856 bride's column [S143]. James Bowles held land in 1860 and had none in 1870. Read against the 1870 sheet [S157], where the real-estate column is empty and personal estate falls $200 to $150, the empty 1870 column is a LOSS, not a constant. Emily, 4, is the eldest child on the sheet. Lydia could not read or write (col. 13). James's occupation column is blank where every other head on the page reads Farmer — an enumerator's omission, not a statement that he had no trade. It unsettles the couple's relative ages. Both 20 in 1856 [S143]; here Lydia 27 to James 25, which no other record supports; James 39 to Lydia 35 in 1870 [S157]. Three records, three answers — recorded, not resolved.Cited on Bowles, Williams & Brock line · James Daniel Bowles · Lydia Williams · Emily Bowles · Documents · Timeline. - S172The last will and testament of Peter H. Martin — Sumner County, Tennessee, written in his own hand 30 June 1849, proved August Term 1849. Tennessee, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1779–2008; Sumner County Will Books 1789–1904; Ancestry record 3819223, image
004776071_00479. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. "I Peter H. Martin of the County of Sumner and State of Tennessee, being in my usual health and of sound and disposing mind, do make and ordain this my last will and Testament." To his wife Jane Martin, for life: the home plantation, the timbered tract bought of William Walton, the horses Charley and Rhoda and choice of three more, eight cattle, the farm gear, a year's provisions, the household furniture, twenty stock hogs, and "Choice of my Servants to the Number of three." The residue "to be sold at public sale for the benefit of my children." "My Town property to be Sold at a Credit for the benefit of my Children. Robert B. Martin has had an advance of three hundred & seventy dollars for which he will account to the other children in the division of my estate … The Shoe Store may be sold to the Crutchers & R. B. Martin and the latter allowed to retain the use of the Capital I put in." "To David B. Martin I give … a dark bay filly four years old. To Joseph D Martin I give unto a light bay filly now two years old." "To Mr. Wm Bell I leave a house and a support with his Sister as long as he Shall choose to accept it." "Witness that I have written with my own hand this 30th day of June 1849 … P. H. Martin (Seal)." Witnesses Thomas Crutcher, J. B. Wilson, W. H. Crutcher; proved in open court, Sumner County Court, August Term 1849, on the oaths of Thomas Crutcher and Wm H Crutcher; recorded by Wm S. Munday, Clerk. The strongest evidence on the Joseph question [S107]; his card keeps the link to his father Probable. Joseph D Martin is named by his father, inside the passage disposing of the estate for the benefit of my children, in the same breath as David B. Martin and immediately after Robert B. Martin is told to account to the other children in the division of my estate. Three named Martins stand inside the class "my children" in the testator's own instrument. The caveat travels with it: the will never writes the word son beside any of the three names. The filiation is carried by the structure of the bequest, not by a kinship term. It is far stronger than the two census households the link rested on [S98] [S161], and it is still not the word. William Bell was Jane's BROTHER — with his Sister, in Peter's hand. S98's open brother or uncle is answered, and it explains why he was living in her house in 1850: her husband provided for it. Peter Hines Martin kept a SHOE STORE, with capital still in it in 1849 and partners in the Crutchers, and held town property apart from the plantation. Read with Persons engaged in Manufactures: 4 at Gallatin in 1820 [S163], it is one trade across thirty years — and David, 19, "Clerk" in 1850 [S98] was clerking in his father's store. Holographic, and four days before his death — written 30 June 1849, and his grave gives 4 July 1849 [S105]. Nine people in an instrument Ancestry indexes under one name: Jane Martin, Robert B., David B. and Joseph D Martin, Wm Bell, William Walton, and three witnesses. Ancestry's Probate Date 30 Jun 1849 is the date the will was written and sealed; probate is the August Term. The will bequeaths Servants by choice of three; it names none of them.Cited on Overview · Timberman, Martin & Chenault line · Nancy Louise Martin · Jane Bell (Martin) · Joseph Daniel Martin · Robert B. Martin · Documents · Timeline. - S1731850 U.S. Federal Census — Moses Williams household, County of Owsley, State of Kentucky. Ancestry collection 8054, record 17453010, image
4192506_00389. SCHEDULE I.—Free Inhabitants, enumerated on the 4th day of Sept 1850 by Luther Brawner, Ass't Marshal; dwelling and family 281/281, lines 18–25. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Moses Williams, 50, Farmer, real estate $750, born TENNESSEE, cannot read or write; Nancy Williams, 48, born Tennessee, cannot read or write; Nathan 21, Laborer; a son of 18 whose given name has faded off the page; Lydia, 15, born TENNESSEE; George 10; Nancy 8, born Tennessee; Abraham, 5, born KENTUCKY. Lydia's probable parents, each with a card, graded Probable. This sheet puts her, at fifteen, in the household of Moses and Nancy Williams in the county she marries in six years later [S143], and there is no second Lydia Williams on the page. The hedge is stated plainly: an 1850 schedule states no relationship whatever. Ancestry's own word is inferred. This is the same evidentiary shape as James and Elizabeth Brock [S167] [S169] and it is weaker — that is a two-census chain, this is one sheet. It is graded Probable, not Confirmed, on his card and in the family tree. Age 15 contains the tree's 30 May 1835 by two days. Reference day 1 June 1850; 15 requires a birth between 2 June 1834 and 1 June 1835. The tightest corroboration the date has; the day itself is still unattested by any document. The family left Tennessee between c.1842 and c.1845 — Nancy, 8, born Tennessee; Abraham, 5, born Kentucky. Lydia was a child of about seven to ten when they moved. Lydia's birthplace is Tennessee, in her own household, at fifteen — the first of three contemporaneous records to say so, with the 1856 bride's column [S143] and the 1860 Travellers Rest sheet [S171]. Both parents illiterate (col. 13 ticked). Line 21's given name is unread. Ancestry indexes James, 18; the ink is no longer on the page, and he is recorded here as unread, not as James. The $750 leads with a 7 in this hand; $450 cannot be wholly excluded. What would settle the parentage is the 1840 schedule with the same household, an Owsley County marriage bond for Lydia in 1856 naming a father's consent, or a probate for Moses Williams. None has been pulled.Cited on Bowles, Williams & Brock line · Lydia Williams · Moses Williams · Nancy Williams · James Wilder · Nancy Hays Wilder · Documents · Timeline. - S1741830 U.S. Federal Census — Peter H Martin, County of Sumner, State of Tennessee. Ancestry collection 8058, record 754848, image
4409701_00274; stamped 137. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. One read closes two hints — the same row is served under Peter and under Jane. Peter H Martin — the initial is plainly H, not M and not K — MALES: under 5 = 3 · 5–10 = 3 · 10–15 = 2 · 15–20 = 2 · 30–40 = 1; FEMALES: 5–10 = 1 · 10–15 = 1 · 15–20 = 1 · 30–40 = 1. Fifteen free white persons. Thirteen people under twenty in a household formed in July 1818 [S162]. On 1 June 1830 the eldest child of that marriage could be eleven; two boys of 15–20 and two of 10–15 cannot be Peter and Jane's children. With four hands in manufactures at Gallatin in 1820 [S163] and a shoe store still carrying his capital in 1849 [S172], apprentices and journeymen boarding in the house is the natural reading — stated as a hypothesis; the schedule says nothing. It is the first thing on this line that explains the household's size. Jane's birth year: NEUTRAL. One female 30–40 covers births from 1790 to 1800 and contains both candidate years (c.1794 and c.1797–98), exactly as the 1840 bracket does [S164]. This sheet must not be cited for her birth year either way. The enslaved-persons columns are NOT on the served image. The sheet ends at the free-white-females column; the 1830 form carries those tallies on the facing leaf, which has not been read. Ancestry indexes Total Slaves 10; that figure is an index of a leaf not read, and is cited as indexed, never as read. The enumerator's name runs off the right edge of the served image. Neighbours on the page: Reuben D. Warner above, Josiah W. Baldridge below.Cited on Timberman, Martin & Chenault line · Jane Bell (Martin) · Documents · Timeline. - S1751870 U.S. Federal Census — the Harbauer children, Philadelphia, 31st District. Ancestry collection 7163, record 5628177, image
4278818_00714; page 96, enumerated 25 June 1870. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. A household continued from page 95: Lewis 25, Maroco finisher; Henrettia 22, dress maker; Annie 20, milliner; Adaline 18; George 15 and Henry 9, at school; Louisa, 7, born Pennsylvania, both parents foreign-born, at school; lodger Jacob North 26, packing-box maker, born Kurhessen. The earliest record of Louise Emma Harbauer — age 7 fits the June 1863 birth. The same siblings and Jacob North are with the widow Eva Harbauer in 1880 [S176]. The household begins on page 95, which has not been read. Ancestry's inferred father Lewis is wrong — Lewis, 25, is the eldest brother. This sheet names no father; her card gives him as Ludwig Harbauer, Probable, from her sister Henriette's baptism entry of 1863.Cited on James Harris Timberman Sr. · Eva Harbauer · Ludwig Harbauer · Documents. - S1761880 U.S. Federal Census — Eva Harbauer household, 149 Noble Street, Philadelphia. Ancestry collection 6742, record 225860, image
4244458-00660; SD 1, ED 190, page 11, enumerated 5 June 1880; house 149, dwelling 85, family 109. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Eva Harbauer, 55, widowed, keeping house; Henry 25 and George 19, sons, morocco dressers; Louisa, 17, daughter, single, "In store"; then Jacob North 35, box maker, with his wife Adoline 28 (the Adaline of 1870), Clara 8 and Albert 5. Louise's mother is named: Eva Harbauer, a widow by 1880. In the next house, 151 Noble Street, boards "Jas Timberman", 22 — the age of James Harris Timberman Sr, born June 1858. Neighbours in 1880, married in 1885 or 1886 [S139] [S1455]. The identification is by name and age only and is stated as such. The birthplace columns on this page drift against the name rows — Louisa's line carries Bavaria three times, Eva's Pennsylvania/Ireland/Ireland. Ancestry's born Bavaria for Louisa is built on the drift; 1870 and 1910 both say Pennsylvania, and Pennsylvania stands.Cited on James Harris Timberman Sr. · Eva Harbauer · Ludwig Harbauer · Documents. - S1771910 U.S. Federal Census — James H Timberman household, 293 North Main Street, Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. Ancestry collection 7884, record 120845508, image
4450036_00989; Ward 16, ED 166, sheet 20A, enumerated 3 May 1910. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. James H, head, 51, born New Jersey, "Doctor, general practice", own account; Louise, wife, 46, born Pennsylvania of German-born parents, three children born, three living; James H Jr 23, clerk at a coal company; George 18; Albert 16; a servant, Helen, 14 or 19, born Bohemia. The page writes Louise — not Louisa, and nowhere Larissa. "Married 20 years" on both lines puts the marriage near 1890; the 1900 sheet's 14 years and James Jr's age both put it in 1886 [S139]. a Philadelphia marriage index and his obituaries say 1885 [S1455] [S1649]. The marriage is 1885 or 1886; the 20 is recorded, not adopted. "Doctor" is his own trade as a veterinarian [S178] [S139]; it is not published as a physician.Cited on James Harris Timberman Sr. · Documents. - S178Williams' Wilkes-Barre City Directory, 1900, page 259. U.S., City Directories, 1822–1995, Ancestry collection 2469, record 156790457, image
2698300. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. "Timberman Jas. H., veterinarian, 8 E. Union, h do" — business at 8 East Union Street, house the same. A second record of the veterinary trade, from his own return, and the family's 1900 address. Ancestry indexes the entry as Union Timberman — the street taken for a given name. Louise is not named; directories list the householder.Cited on James Harris Timberman Sr. · Documents. - S1791920 U.S. Federal Census — Julius Proeger, 711 N. St. Clair Street, Pittsburgh Ward 11. Ancestry collection 6061, record 99550057, image
4385023_00859; SD 24, ED 471, sheet 5A, enumerated January 1920. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Julius Proeger, head, 75, widowed, owns the house free, immigrated 1865, naturalized 1874, born Germany (Württemberg) as were both his parents, speaks English, no occupation; daughter Gertrude P. Murfin, 32; son-in-law Godfrey Murfin, 43, born England, commercial traveller in linen; and a granddaughter. He was naturalized in 1874 — the year the index drops. His son's sworn 1919 statement gives the same year [S180]; the certificate itself is still unlocated. Immigrated 1865, in his own household's answer, agreeing with the Saxonia crossing. Gertrude is marked alien: under the 1907 Expatriation Act a US-born woman took her English husband's nationality.Cited on Julius Karl Proeger · Gertrude Proeger Murfin · Godfrey Murfin · Documents · Timeline. - S180Passport application of Julius Proeger Jr — New York, 25 November 1919. U.S., Passport Applications, 1795–1925, Ancestry collection 1174, record 600918579, image
USM1490_995-0672; application no. 143646. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Julius Proeger, native citizen, born Pittsburgh on or about 29 July 1867, sales manager, travelling with his wife Ida Waggoner Proeger, born Pittsburgh 3 October 1869, to sell for export in Central and South America. "My father Julius Proeger was born in Germany (Wurtemburg) and is now residing at Pittsburgh, Pa.; he emigrated to the United States from the port of Hamburgh on or about October 15, 1865 … resided 54 years uninterruptedly in the United States … naturalized … at Pittsburgh, Pa., on 1874." A son of Julius and Minnie: Julius Jr, born 29 July 1867, who has a card as Julius Herman Proeger. Sworn, and the father alive at the time: Hamburg, mid-October 1865, and naturalisation at Pittsburgh in 1874. The disposition line reads Father's naturalization papers on passport No. 50070, 6/16/17 — the file that should hold a copy of the 1874 certificate.Cited on Julius Karl Proeger · Julius Herman Proeger · Documents · Timeline.
S181 – S200
- S181H. Samson funeral home ledger — funeral of Gertrude (Proeger) Murfin, Pittsburgh, 21 March 1956. Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, U.S., Samson Funeral Home Records, 1866–1982, Ancestry collection 63100, record 105004976, image
63100_c8afcfcb_0102-00683. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Funeral of Gertrude "Croeger" Murfin (the clerk's C for P), charged to the estate of Gertrude C. Murfin c/o Mr. Godfrey Murfin, 711 N. St. Clair St., Pittsburgh; services 21 March 1956, 2 P.M., Smithfield Cem.; total $1,194.95, paid 6 April. Julius's daughter, still in his house 36 years after the 1920 census [S179], and buried in the cemetery where her parents lie. The personal-details face of the sheet (age, parents, informant) has not been read; Ancestry's Julius and Wilhelmina come from that face and are not read here.Cited on Julius Karl Proeger · Gertrude Proeger Murfin · Documents. - S1821910 U.S. Federal Census — the Proeger household, 707 N. St. Clair Street, Pittsburgh Ward 11. Ancestry collection 7884, record 122780201, image
4449845_01104; SD 23, ED 421, sheet 4A, enumerated 16–18 April 1910. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Head entered as "Louis G." Proeger, 66, born Germany, owns the house free; Wilhelmina S., wife, 63, married 44 years, born Germany; L. Walter 29, land surveyor; Gertrude C. 27; Caroline M. 22; a servant. Minnie in her last census, two years before her death, with three of her children. "Louis G." is the enumerator's name for Julius — the wife, the children and the street identify the household, and Julius is at 711 on the same street in 1920 [S179]. The sheet's immigration year for both, 1855, loses to 1865 for Julius ([S179] [S180]); for Minnie it is the only statement and is not adopted. Married 44 years points to 1865/66 and is left open.Cited on Julius Karl Proeger · Minnie Margaret Kochendoerfer · Caroline M. Proeger (Ross) · Documents. - S1831880 U.S. Federal Census — Julius "Prager" household, Virginia Street, Pittsburgh Ward 32. Ancestry collection 6742, record 28666117, image
4244222-00374; SD 4, ED 169, page 26, enumerated 7 June 1880. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Julius, 35, machinist, born Württemberg ("Wertenberg"); Mena, 32, wife; sons Julius 12, George 8, Frederick 6, and Mena 2, all born Pennsylvania. Three more children: George (c.1872), Frederick (c.1874) and Mena (c.1878). Frederick has a card, Frederick Albert Proeger (1873–1947); Mena is probably the Mrs. Minnie Benjes of her mother's 1912 obituary [S1654], who has one too; George has no card and is not among the four sons that obituary names. None is at home in 1900. Mena's 32 fits Minnie's November 1847 birth [S184]. The family is indexed as Prager.Cited on Proeger & Kochendoerfer line · Julius Karl Proeger · Documents. - S184Langenburg (Württemberg) baptismal register, 1847, entry 30. Ancestry record 14762676. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Baptised "Sibÿlla Mina", born 3 November 1847 between 10 and 11 at night, baptised 21 November. Father Georg Leonhard Kochendörfer, Bürger in Gerabronn, cooper (Küfer) in Langenburg; mother Eva Margaretha geb. Renk. Minnie's parents on an original register. The next record to obtain is the Langenburg Familienregister (1834 volume), f. 279. The status of [S124] is not changed here.Cited on Proeger & Kochendoerfer line · Minnie Margaret Kochendoerfer · Georg Leonhard Kochendörfer · Eva Margaretha Renk · Georg Andreas Renk · Maria Margaretha Zins · Documents · Timeline.
- S1851940 U.S. Federal Census — Harry Julius household, 912 Buchanan, Amarillo, Potter County, Texas. Ancestry record 159380593; ED 188-26, sheet 25B. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Harry Julius, 59, born Indiana; L. Jean Julius, 49, born Arkansas, who ran a cafe; and Iona B. Bowles, 74, widowed, mother-in-law. Iona's daughter Jean, born Arkansas; the sheet's 49 points to about 1891, and her card gives 4 May 1890 from her obituary [S1568]. The sheet puts Iona in the "same house" in 1935, when William was still alive at Abilene; that line is not adopted.Cited on Iona Belle Brock · L. Jean Bowles Julius · Documents · Timeline.
- S1861910 U.S. Federal Census — William A. Bowles household, Justice Precinct 7, Taylor County, Texas. Ancestry record 123373807; ED 268, sheet 2A, enumerated 16 April 1910. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. William A., 52; Iona, mother of 18 children born, 15 living; twelve children at home. The farm is owned and mortgaged, on the Abilene–Potosi road. 18 children born, 15 living, in Iona's own answer. William's 52 supports 1858 over the death certificate's 1856. Clara L. H., 18, born Arkansas, may be the L. Jean of 1940 [S185]; not assumed.Cited on William Anderson Bowles · Iona Belle Brock · Sally Irene Bowles · Thomas L. Bowles · Lily Olene Bowles · John Wesley Bowles · Robert Anthony Bowles · Documents · Timeline.
- S1871880 U.S. Federal Census — James Boles household, Hilburn Township, Madison County, Arkansas. Ancestry record 6421242; ED 104, page 24, enumerated 16 June 1880 by Aaron L. Thompson. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. James Boles, 49, widowed; William A., 22, farm labourer; James D. 20, Nancy A. 16, Sarah 15, Joanna 14. The household continues on page 25 (not yet read). The same enumerator, three pages before Iona Brock's household [S166]. James is entered widowed; the date of Lydia's death is not inferred here.Cited on Documents.
- S1881920 U.S. Federal Census — William A. Bowles household, Justice Precinct 7, Taylor County, Texas. Ancestry record 13175085; ED 272, sheet 15A, enumerated 27 January 1920. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. William A., 61; Iona B., 54; with a son Ward D., 9, born after the 1910 census. The third census to give William an 1858 birth [S186]. His mother's birthplace reads Tennessee here, as it does on her own lines of 1850 and 1860 [S173] [S171]; the Kentucky of his 1880 line stands alone.Cited on William Anderson Bowles · Iona Belle Brock · Warren Debs Bowles · John Wesley Bowles · Robert Anthony Bowles · Documents · Timeline.
- S1891870 U.S. Federal Census — John Timberman household, Gloucester City, Camden County, New Jersey. Ancestry record 27598502; page 83, enumerated 8 July 1870. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. John Timberman, 40, house carpenter; James H., 12, works in cotton mill; John H., 11, the same; Rebecca, 6; the house kept by Rebecca Osborn, 62. James Harris Timberman Sr at twelve, and a sister, Rebecca, who has a card of her own: born 10 August 1864 at Salem, New Jersey. His mother is not in the household; that is recorded, not read as a death.Cited on James Harris Timberman Sr. · John H. Timberman · Documents.
- S190Polk's Wilkes-Barre City Directory, 1914, page 430. Ancestry record 190005467. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Timberman & Church (James H. Timberman and Harry R. Church), veterinary surgeons, rear 15 N Main; James H. jr resides at 340 N Main; Albert N., reporter. The practice had a partner by 1914, and the family had left 293 North Main [S177].Cited on James Harris Timberman Sr. · Documents.
- S191Texas death certificate no. 10375 — Mrs. Bell Harsh, Abilene, Taylor County, 13 February 1935. Ancestry record 773424312. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Mrs. Bell Harsh, born 13 November 1866, Tennessee, of Gallatin, Tenn., died 13 February 1935 at 250 College Dr., Abilene; buried Gallatin; parents Joseph D. Martin and Nannie Chenault; informant Walter H. Adams. A daughter of Joseph D. Martin and Nannie Chenault — identified by the Rutherford family book as Louise Martin, wife of Nathan James Harsh [S204]. The given name before "Bell" is not legible on this certificate.Cited on Louise Bell Martin Harsh · Documents · Timeline.
- S1921931 Census of Canada — the Proeger household, 16 Gillard St., Wallaceburg, Kent, Ontario. Ancestry record 998955; page 17. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. William ("Progeor"), 54, mould maker at the glass factory; Anna 40; Richard 18, mould maker; Julius 13; Queen Ann 11. Came to Canada 1928. The family lived in Canada from 1928 to at least 1931. William Harry is not in the house, consistent with his 1932 Ohio marriage [S144].Cited on Queen Anne “Nancy” Proeger · Documents · Timeline.
- S193Pennsylvania birth certificate no. 105903 — Richard Frederick Proeger, Beaver, 19 July 1913. Ancestry record 185160911. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Born 19 July 1913 at 327 Fifth St., Beaver borough, Beaver County, the second child; father William L. Proeger, 37, mould maker, born Pittsburgh; mother Anna B. Roberts, 22, born Bellaire, Ohio.Cited on Richard Frederick Proeger · Documents.
- S1941900 U.S. Federal Census — Henry W. Henderson household, Ryegate, Caledonia County, Vermont. Ancestry record 61919317; ED 51, sheet 9B. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Henry W. and Artemiza Henderson; Bessie H., 9, with four siblings; and the grandfather William, born 1826. Earl Theodore Roberts's mother's family (step-line). This Roberts family is no kin to Anna Blanche Roberts.Cited on Documents.
- S195Vermont birth record — Bessie Hill Henderson, Ryegate, 10 December 1890. Ancestry record 925685. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Bessie Hill Henderson, born 10 December 1890, Ryegate; father Henry Henderson, farmer; mother Artie Morrison of Topsham.Cited on Henry Henderson · Artie Morrison · Documents.
- S196Vermont marriage record — Leon H. Roberts and Grace M. Avery, Newbury, 26 June 1907. Ancestry record 1012562. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Leon's first marriage; his parents Henry Roberts (born Westford, Vt.) and Delina Deblois (born Fairfax, Vt.).Cited on Henry Roberts · Documents.
- S197New Hampshire marriage return — Leon H. Roberts and Bessie H. Henderson, Wells River, Vt., 29 April 1909. Ancestry record 147606. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Leon H. Roberts, 26, of Bath, N.H., widower, second marriage; Bessie H. Henderson, 19, of Ryegate; officiant J. Alphonse Belanger. The reverse has not been read.Cited on Documents.
- S198New Hampshire birth return — Elmer Henry Roberts, Bath, 1 May 1912. Ancestry record 150624969. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Elmer Henry Roberts, born 1 May 1912, Bath, N.H., the second child of Leon H. Roberts, mill hand, and Bessie H. Henderson.Cited on Documents.
- S199Harris County, Texas, Register of Marriages — licence 0302006. Ancestry record 926048933. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Licence issued 1964; William Leonard Proeger, 23, and Miss Nancy Martin Coffman, 21, both of Abilene, married 1964; officiant Robert W. Coffman, minister. Licence 0302006, issued the day before the wedding of 1964. The register does not say the officiant is her father.Cited on Overview · William Leonard Proeger · Nancy Martin Coffman Proeger · Documents · Timeline.
- S200Pennsylvania veterans' service card, Mexican Border 1916 — Albert N. Timberman. Ancestry record 60763399. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Albert N. Timberman, 22, born Wilkes-Barre, reporter; Battalion Sergeant Major, 3rd Field Artillery; next of kin "Dr. J. H. Timberman, Father, 60 S. Washington St., Wilkes-Barre". A son of James Harris Timberman Sr, named with his father on the same card.Cited on James Harris Timberman Sr. · Albert N. Timberman · Documents.
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- S2011910 U.S. Federal Census — Antone Rose household, Washington Township, Alameda County, California. Ancestry record 938582; ED 157, sheet 4A. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Antone, 62, and Louisa J., 54, immigrated 1880, own the farm free; Antone Jr, Joe and Frank next door. Louisa J.'s 54 and the 1900 sheet's age 44 both disagree with the 1865 birth year read from S55; with the 1900 age of 44 they place her birth c.1855–56, and her card gives c.1856. This note does not place Edward, Mildred or Helen in 1910; their cards cite no 1910 census entry. The sheet's immigration year, 1880, cannot be right for Antone, who married in Alameda County in January 1879 [S315]; his card keeps the 1870 of the 1900 sheet [S55].Cited on Rose line · Antone Rose · Louise Rose · Documents · Timeline.
- S2021870 U.S. Federal Census — Joseph D. Martin household, District 12, Sumner County, Tennessee (P.O. Gallatin). Ancestry record 14376304. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Joseph D. Martin, 37, farmer; Nannie, 26; Louisa, 3; Mary, 1. Louisa is Louise Bell (Martin) Harsh [S191] [S204]; Mary, 1, is Mary Jane Martin, who has a card of her own. His age of 37 agrees with the 1832 on his headstone, the birth year his card gives.Cited on Joseph Daniel Martin · Louise Bell Martin Harsh · Mary Jane Martin · Documents · Timeline.
- S203Tennessee death certificate 57-18066 — Martha Martin McConnell, Gallatin, 12 July 1957. Ancestry record 16413938. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Martha Martin McConnell, born 26 August 1874, Sumner County, died 12 July 1957 at 406 S. Water, Gallatin; widow of A. H. McConnell; parents Joseph D. Martin and Nancy Chenault; buried Gallatin Cemetery; informant Dan Martin. A daughter of Joseph D. Martin and Nannie Chenault, sister of Nancy Louise (Martin) Timberman.Cited on Martha "Mattie" Martin McConnell · Documents.
- S204Gen. Griffith Rutherford and Allied Families (Harsh), page 175. Ancestry record 4440717068. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Nathan James Harsh (2 December 1860 – 10 October 1934) "married Miss Louise Martin … She died February 1935. Was dtr. of Joseph Martin and Nancy Chenault Martin." Mrs. Bell Harsh of the 1935 certificate [S191] is Louise (Louisa) Bell Martin, the Louisa of 1870 [S202]. The book is a derivative; its "originally of North Carolina" loses to the censuses, and page 176 has not been read.Cited on Louise Bell Martin Harsh · Documents.
- S205Handwritten "cousins list" by Eileen (Aileane) Roberts, c. 1996. A single sheet in her hand listing her four children (Nancy, Patricia, Bill, Kathie) with each child's children and their ages, closing "I thought you might like to know how many cousins you have." Written for Tasha Proeger, Earl's sister; the closing line is addressed to her. Tasha sent it to Earl, and it was published on 22 September 2026 (documents/silva/eileen-roberts-cousins-list-c1996). Undated. c. 1996 is derived from Bill's age (55) and Earl's (29). Birth years derived from its ages are marked as derived. Tessa (11), India (13) and Teal (27) confirmed by Earl Proeger, 23 Sep 2026. Derek (12), Rex (11) and Elain (35, spelled without a final E) confirmed by Earl Proeger, 22 Sep 2026. J J (2) is John Jacob “Jacob” Proeger, Earl’s half-brother and Bill’s son, confirmed by Earl Proeger, 22 Sep 2026. His birth year, 1994, is Earl’s eyewitness testimony [S24], so for him the age is not a derived year. It records Nancy as deceased by c. 1996, which the Oregon Death Index confirms: she died 9 January 1973 [S298].Cited on Jacob Proeger · Aileane Marie Silva · Nancy Aileen Proeger · Timeline.
- S2061860 U.S. Federal Census — David Chenault household, District 3, Sumner County, Tennessee (P.O. Gallatin). Ancestry record 22605797; page 48, dwelling 323. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. David Chenault, 60, farmer, born Kentucky, RE $52,600, PE $31,120; Louisa, 48, born Kentucky; Nancy, 15; with Harvy 23, [Lucy?] 12, Milton 11, Mariah 8 and William 6. Nannie at fifteen in her father's house, ten years after [S97]. The household may continue on page 49 (not yet read); one sister's name is not certain.Cited on Nannie Chenault · David Chenault · Louisa Quisenberry Chenault · Milton Waller Chenault · Maria Louise Chenault · Charles Coker Chenault · William Chenault · Documents · Timeline.
- S2071880 U.S. Federal Census — Martin household, 10th Civil District, Sumner County, Tennessee. Ancestry record 16828687; ED 214, page 32. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Martin [given name left blank], 47, farming; Nannie, 36, parents both born Kentucky; children Luisa B. 13, Mary 11, Emma 10, Kate 7, Mattie 5, Joe 3 and Nannie 1. Two more children: Kate (c.1873) and a son Joe (c.1877), each with a card of their own, Kate Martin and Joseph Daniel Martin Jr. Mattie is Martha Martin McConnell [S203]; Nannie, 1, is Nancy Louise (Martin) Timberman.Cited on Louise Bell Martin Harsh · Mary Jane Martin · Emma Lee Martin · Kate Martin · Martha "Mattie" Martin McConnell · Joseph Daniel Martin Jr. · Documents · Timeline.
- S208Tennessee death certificate, Sumner County, Reg. No. 41 — Mrs Nannie C. Martin, 14 April 1915. Ancestry record 320718. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Mrs Nannie C. Martin, widow, born 26 January 1844, died 14 April 1915, 10th Civil District, three miles east of Gallatin; father D. Chenault (Ky.); mother "Lizzie Eastberry" (Ky.); buried Gallatin Cemetery 16 April; informant J. [R.?] Martin. A primary record of Nannie's birth and death. The mother's surname is hard to read. Nannie's card takes its dates from this certificate, 26 January 1844 – 14 April 1915.Cited on Overview · Timberman, Martin & Chenault line · Nannie Chenault · David Chenault · Louisa Quisenberry Chenault · Documents · DNA · Timeline.
- S2091930 U.S. Federal Census — D. Jonah Walker household, J.P. 2, Jackson County, Texas. Ancestry record 62694189; ED 120-5, sheet 4B. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. D. Jonah Walker, 40, first married at 22; Nettie, 33, first married at 15, born Nebraska; Olan 15, Robert J. 12, Melvin 9 and Mary 7. The ages at first marriage put the marriage at about 1911–12.Cited on William Olan Walker · Catherine Mary Walker Bradley · Documents · Timeline.
- S2101950 U.S. Federal Census — D. J. Walker household, Lolita, Jackson County, Texas. Ancestry record 186702072; ED 120-15, sheet 3. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. D. J. Walker, 60, farmer, and Ida, 57, both born Texas; his mother Nancy Walker, 85, widowed, born Alabama. A second wife, Ida, and his mother Nancy (c.1865). Nettie is not in the household; when and how the first marriage ended is not settled.Cited on Daniel Jonah Walker & Nettie Ellen "Annie" Cleveland · Nancy Jane Higginbotham Walker · Documents.
- S211WWII draft registration card, 1942 (U-534) — "Daniel Jones Walker", Lolita, Jackson County, Texas. Ancestry record 12617872. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Age 52, born 10 March 1890, McLennan ("McClellon") County, Texas; farmer; contact R. T. Walker, Lolita. Only the front of the card has been read. The card reads "Jones"; the site keeps Jonah.Cited on Daniel Jonah Walker & Nettie Ellen "Annie" Cleveland · Documents.
- S2121920 U.S. Federal Census — D. J. Walker household, J.P. 2, Jackson County, Texas. Ancestry record 80464063; ED 135, sheet 12B. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. "D. E." [D. J.] Walker, 30; Annie, 23, born Nebraska; sons [Al?/Ola?] 6, Olen 4 and Robert 1. The eldest son's name is not legible and he is absent in 1930 [S209]; he is not added.Cited on Documents.
- S2131900 U.S. Federal Census — Charles E. Smith household, Fullerton City, Nance County, Nebraska. Ancestry record 55270332; ED 145, sheet 3A. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Nettie E. Cleveland, born November 1896, 3, father born California, mother Nebraska, entered as granddaughter of Charles E. Smith (b. Oct 1844, Mich., carpenter) and his wife Victoria (b. 1844, Ohio; married one year, no children). How Nettie is related to Charles E. Smith is not explained by the sheet.Cited on Nettie Ellen Cleveland · Documents.
- S2141930 U.S. Federal Census — Leon H. Roberts household, Hancock, Berkshire County, Massachusetts. Ancestry record 16461703; ED 2-19, sheet 1B. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Leon H. Roberts, 47, born Vermont, teamster in the lumber woods; Bessie H., 39; Leora C. 19, Almon [Elmon?] E. 14, Earl T. 11, born Massachusetts, Bernice L. 8, Leon H. Jr. 1, and a grandson Arthur L., an infant. Earl Theodore Roberts at eleven with his parents [S197].Cited on Earl Theodore Roberts · Documents.
- S2151950 U.S. Federal Census — Earl T. Roberts household, 219C Brush St, Alameda, California. Ancestry record 265156503; ED 59-37, sheet 17. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Earl T. Roberts, 32, born Massachusetts, Armed Forces; Aileane, 31; Nancy A. 13, Patricia E. 11 and William [L.] 9, enumerated as Roberts. Aileane's three Proeger children in their stepfather's household. All three are entered as born California; for Nancy that agrees with her own 1955 record of marriage, which gives Niles, California [S275].Cited on Nancy Aileen Proeger · Earl Theodore Roberts · Documents.
- S2161940 U.S. Federal Census — Nancy Timberman, 400 South Water St, Gallatin, Sumner County, Tennessee. Ancestry record 35338371; ED 83-4A, sheet 8A. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Nancy Timberman, 61, widowed, head, owns the house ($3,000); two years of college; public-school teacher, $640 for 32 weeks in 1939; the same place in 1935.Cited on Documents.
- S2171950 U.S. Federal Census — Nancy M. Timberman, 400 South Water St, Gallatin, Tennessee. Ancestry record 104044430; ED 83-10, sheet 4. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Nancy M. Timberman, 71, widowed; with her sister Martha M. McConnell, 75, widowed. Places Martha Martin McConnell [S203] as Nancy's sister, in one household.Cited on Documents.
- S2181940 U.S. Federal Census — Will Kretschmar household, 1911 East First St, Austin, Travis County, Texas. Ancestry record 159947344; ED 227-47, sheet 6A. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Will Kretschmar, 49, laborer, city recreation department; Liessi, 42; Lucille, 14, and Raymond, 10. House owned.Cited on Documents.
- S2191940 U.S. Federal Census — Medie Stobaugh household, Austin, Travis County, Texas. Ancestry record 159981746; ED 227-60, sheet 9A. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Medie Stobaugh, 51 [or 52], widowed, practical nurse in a private home; son Thomas Caffey, 16; stepson Earle Stobaugh, 18. Medie was widowed a second time by 1940. A Thomas Caffey, 30, filling-station operator, next door may be her son Osborn T.; not assumed.Cited on Medie Owens · Documents.
- S2201950 U.S. Federal Census — Thomas W. Caffey household, 605 Brentwood, Austin, Texas. Ancestry record 189288649; sheet 18. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026; the street column was re-read on 11 October 2026. The street name is written once, sideways at the head of the sheet (“W 55½”, then “Brentwood”), and the house number is 605; the 1952 city directory prints the same address, “h605 Brentwood” (S1691). Thomas W. Caffey, 26, candy salesman for a wholesale candy company; Lucille L., 24; Thomas A., 4; Sandra M., 1.Cited on Thomas Walton Caffey Jr. "T.W." · Lucille Lorine Kretschmar · Documents.
S221 – S240
- S2211930 U.S. Federal Census — Tom W. Caffey household, Town of Salado, Bell County, Texas. Ancestry record 65751299; ED 14-7, sheet 1B; enumerated 2 April 1930. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Tom W. Caffey, 57, farmer, first married at 24; Medie R., 42, first married at 17; sons Osbar/Osborn T. 20, Howard L. 12 and T. W. Jr. 6. Eleven days before Tom's death. The ages at first marriage (c.1897 and c.1904) do not fit one marriage; Tom's mother is entered born Alabama, against Georgia on his death certificate. Neither is settled.Cited on Thomas Osborn Caffey · Documents · Timeline.
- S2221940 U.S. Federal Census — B. LaRoy Peters household, 1810 E 5th, Sioux Falls, Minnehaha County, South Dakota. Ancestry record 112056159; sheet 5B. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. B. LaRoy Peters, 34, born Iowa, laborer in meat packing; Selma, 37, born South Dakota; Dorothy L., 14, born Illinois; Shirley 12 (Ill.), Junior L. 10 (Iowa), Marlene 5 and Betty J. 2 (S.D.). House owned.Cited on Documents.
- S223Texas birth certificate, Lolita, Jackson County, Reg. No. 78 — male Walker child, 5 November 1920. Ancestry record 120563444. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. A male Walker, given name never filled in, born 5 November 1920, 4:45 a.m., at Lolita; father Jonah Walker, 30, born Texas, farmer; mother Nettie Cleveland, 24, born Nebraska; her fourth child, four living. Attendant J. L. Womack MD, Edna; filed 15 November 1920. The primary birth record of Clarence Melvin Walker [S38]. The index's "Nettie WA" is a struck false start, not a middle initial.Cited on Documents.
- S2241910 U.S. Federal Census — Milton Cleveland household, Precinct 5, Brazoria County, Texas. Ancestry record 143961038; ED 11, sheet 2A, lines 14–17. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Milton Cleveland, 37, born California, carpenter, married twice, one year; Desa, 22, born Nebraska, first marriage, one year, no children born; son Edgar, 11, and daughter Nettie, 13, both born Nebraska to a Nebraska-born mother. Desa is Nettie's stepmother, not her mother. Nettie's birth mother, a Nebraska-born first wife, is not named on this sheet; her death certificate names her Maude Melville Warner [S145]. A Chas Cleveland, 64, born Michigan, nearby may be Milton's father; not assumed.Cited on Walker line · Nettie Ellen Cleveland · Maude Melville Warner · Documents.
- S225Travis County, Texas, marriage license No. 224 — Willie Kretschman and Mrs. Liessi Wolter, 10 October 1923. Ancestry record 40780372; marriage record p. 464. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Willie Kretschman [Kretschmar] and Mrs. Liessi Wolter, licensed and married 10 October 1923 by G. W. P. Showalter, minister of the gospel; returned and recorded 12 October. She is styled "Mrs.": Wolter is her first husband's name, not her maiden name. She is Hattie Elizabeth (Liessi) Ladusch, and her daughter's 1920 birth certificate names the father as William P. Wolter [S665].Cited on Dorothy Freda Kretschmar · Documents.
- S2261950 U.S. Federal Census — Walker household, Terrace St, Sansom Park Village, Tarrant County, Texas. Ancestry record 190625488; ED 220-91, sheet 31, lines 16–17. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Nettie E. Walker, 52, wife, born Nebraska, keeping house; head "Eddie G." Walker, 51, born Texas, married. Terrace St fits the Sansom Park address on her death certificate [S145]. Daniel Jonah Walker would be 60, not 51, so the head is not him. Her card takes "Eddie G." for her second husband, Eddie Guy Walker, whom she married at Denton in 1940 [S558]; that identification is Probable, and this sheet alone does not prove it.Cited on Nettie Ellen Cleveland · Documents.
- S227Fort Worth, Texas, City Directory, 1932, p. 744. Ancestry record 1123396265. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. "Walker Danl J (Nettie E) h3005 E 4th." Daniel Jonah and Nettie were householders in Fort Worth by 1932.Cited on Nettie Ellen Cleveland · Documents.
- S2281900 U.S. Federal Census — Fritz Kretschmar household, Justice Precinct 6, Travis County, Texas. Ancestry record 44341807; ED 117, sheet 21B, lines 78–86 (indexed "Kutzschmer"). Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Fritz, 48, born Germany, immigrated in 1883, naturalized, married 21 years; Lena, 45, born February 1855, mother of 8 children, 8 living; Lizzie (Aug 1879), Clara (Aug 1881) and Elsie (Jan 1883), born Germany; Charlie (1886), Minnie (Mar 1888), Willie (October 1890) and Max (c.1895), born Texas. Fritz is Julius Franz Kretschmar, born c.1851–52. His age of 48 here and [S230] rule out the 1868–1940 of a user tree; his card gives 21 June 1851 – 27 July 1946 from his death certificate.Cited on Julius Franz Kretschmar · Lena Kretschmar · Lizzie Kretschmar Rojas · Clara Frances Kretschmar Semff · Elsie Lena Kretschmar Peterson · Minnie Johanna Kretschmar Reininger · Max W. Kretschmar · Documents · Timeline.
- S2291910 U.S. Federal Census — Ben S[ernff] household, Justice Precinct 6, Travis County, Texas. Ancestry record 28666854; ED 98, sheet 2A, lines 21–24. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Ben S[ernff], 36, born Germany, farmer; Clara, 28, born Germany, immigrated 1884; son Richard, 4; and Willie Kretschmer, 19, brother-in-law, farm laborer, born Texas. The household head's surname is hard to read.Cited on Documents.
- S2301940 U.S. Federal Census — Max Kretschmar household, Justice Precinct 6, Travis County, Texas. Ancestry record 157064853; ED 227-86, sheet 9A, lines 17–22. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Max Kretschmar, 46, farmer; Olga, 35; three children; and Franz, 88, father, widowed, born Germany, naturalized. Julius Franz Kretschmar alive in April 1940, aged 88.Cited on Julius Franz Kretschmar · Max W. Kretschmar · Documents.
- S2311950 U.S. Federal Census — Meddie Stobaugh, 2117 Clifton, Austin, Texas. Ancestry record 195231986; ED 256-143, sheet 10, lines 15–16. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Meddie Stobaugh, 63, widowed, head; with her mother Allice Owens, 83, widowed. Medie's mother Alice was living in April 1950. Alice is entered born Texas here, which agrees with her own death certificate (Waco, Texas, [S781]); the Tennessee on [S70] is the weaker reading.Cited on Medie Owens · Alice Walden · Documents.
- S2321920 U.S. Federal Census — T. W. Caffey household, Precinct 2, Bell County, Texas. Ancestry record 80271873; ED 5, sheet 4B, lines 92–96. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. T. W. Caffey, 44, farmer, renting, parents born Alabama; Meadie, 33; Mattie, 21; Osburn, 10; and Howard, 2 3/12. Mattie is the daughter of T. W.'s first wife, Emma Rachel Ault: the 1900 Bastrop County census names her parents Thomas W. and Emma R., as her card says (Medie had two children by 1917, [S233]). A neighbour J. O. Caffey, 41, may be a brother.Cited on Thomas Osborn Caffey · Mattie Lee Caffey · Documents.
- S233Texas delayed (correcting) birth certificate No. 37973, filed 3 February 1944 — Howard Lee Caffey, Salado, Bell County. Ancestry record 121590938. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Howard Lee Caffey, born 28 [or 23] September 1917, Salado; father Thomas W. Caffey, 43, born Bastrop County, farmer; mother Medie Owens, 30, born Williamson County; two children born, two living. Informant Mrs. J. W. Stobaugh, 84 East Avenue, Austin. Medie herself, under her second married name, on one document with both surnames. Her sworn birthplace (Williamson County) differs from Salado on her death certificate; not settled.Cited on Medie Owens · Howard Lee Caffey · Documents · Timeline.
- S234WWII draft registration card, 1940 — Howard Lee Caffey, 84 East Ave., Austin, Texas. Ancestry record 140719001; serial 4672. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Age 23, born 28 September 1917, Bell County, Texas; employer Owl Taxi Co., 300 Congress Ave.; the person who will always know his address: Mrs. Medie Stobaugh, mother, 84 East Ave. His own statement of the mother–son link, and Medie's Austin address c.1940.Cited on Howard Lee Caffey · Documents.
- S2351930 U.S. Federal Census — B LeRoy Peters household, Marathon, Buena Vista County, Iowa. Ancestry record 120830589; ED 11-18, sheet 3A, dwelling 66. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. B LeRoy Peters, 24, born Iowa, laborer, renting; G. Selma, 26, born South Dakota, parents born Norway; Dorothy L., 4 3/12, born Illinois; Shirly D., 2; B LeRoy Jr, an infant, born Iowa.Cited on Documents.
- S236Evangelical Lutheran Church baptism register, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, 1938, p. 15. Ancestry record 3676969; pastor Alfred O. Storvick. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. On 18 December 1938 five Peters children were baptised together: Dorothy LaVonne, born 12 February 1926, Chicago; Shirley Darlene (8 Nov 1927, Chicago); Laroy Junior (13 Feb 1930, Marathon, Iowa); Marlene Elaine (10 Oct 1934) and Betty Jane (1 May 1937), Sioux Falls. Parents Benjamin Laroy Peters and Gertie Selma Selland; sponsors Mr. and Mrs. Ole N. Lone. Dorothy's birth date and place, and her mother's maiden name, in a church record.Cited on Peters & Hermann line · Benjamin LaRoy "Pete" Peters Sr. · Gertie Selma Selland · Documents · Timeline.
- S237Fort Worth, Texas, City Directory, 1947, pp. 1126–27. Ancestry record 1124280409. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. "Walker Clarence M (Dorothy L) clk Stripling's r617 N Retta."Cited on Documents.
- S2381940 United States Federal Census — William Harry Proeger, Aileen, Nancy and Patricia. Ancestry record 140315410; sh. 4A. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. 1940 census, 819 Logan St., Alton, Madison Co., Illinois (sheet 4A, 10 Apr 1940): William Proeger 28, Aileen 26, Nancy 3, Patricia 2. Patricia as well as Nancy was born before the 13 August 1940 Utah marriage. The census gives Nancy's birthplace as Illinois; her own 1955 record of marriage gives Niles, California [S275], and her card follows that.Cited on Documents.
- S239Canada, Border Crossings from U.S. to Canada, 1908-1935 — The William L. Proeger family entering Canada at Windsor, Ontario. Ancestry record 2652144; Vol 3 p.261. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Canadian Immigration Service, Windsor, Ont., 2 June 1927 (Vol 3 p.261): William L. Proeger 50, glass worker, bound for the Dominion Glass Co. at Wallaceburg, with Anna B. 36 and children William L. [Harry] 15, Richard F. 13, Julius Carl 9, Queen Ann 7; last residence Lake Worth, Florida. The crossing is dated 2 June 1927 on the entry itself. William L. had been in Canada 1902–1906, at Montreal; his nearest relative is given as a brother, J. H. Proeger, of Tampa, Florida.Cited on Richard Frederick Proeger · Julius Karl Proeger (1917–1972) · Documents · Timeline.
- S240U.S., World War II Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947 — William Harry Proeger. Ancestry record 17541178. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. WWII draft registration, William Harry Proeger, serial 4296, North Hollywood, 16 Oct 1940: born 26 June 1911 Rochester, Pa.; employed by Crystalite Glass Co., Glendale; wife Aileen Marie at 20584 Cambridge Ave., Hayward. Cited on Documents.
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- S241Pennsylvania, U.S., Birth Certificates, 1906-1917 — William Harry Proeger. Ancestry record 3236667. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Pennsylvania certificate of birth no. 89736: William Harry Proeger, born 26 June 1911 at 464 Connecticut St., Rochester, Beaver Co.; father William L. Proeger, 35, glassworker, b. Pittsburgh; mother Anna B. Roberts, 20, b. Bellaire, Ohio; first child. The primary record of his birth and of both parents.Cited on Documents.
- S242U.S., School Yearbooks, 1900-2016 — Louise Martin Timberman. Ancestry record 205235664; p. 33. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Ward-Belmont School, Nashville, 1936 yearbook, Senior Class p.33: Louise Martin Timberman of Gallatin, Tennessee, Ariston club, General Diploma, German Club '36, with her senior portrait. With her senior portrait.Cited on Documents.
- S2431950 United States Federal Census — Hayden R. and Frances L. Nesmith. Ancestry record 189044857; sh. 75. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. 1950 census, 405 Barton Ave., Littlefield, Lamb Co., Texas (sheet 75, 8 Apr 1950): Hayden R. Nesmith 35, railroad telegrapher; Frances L. 33, homemaking teacher at the city high school; one son. Cited on Documents.
- S244U.S., City Directories, 1822-1995 — Frances and Hayden R. Nesmith, 2108 27th St.. Ancestry record 394113434; p. 329. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Lubbock City Directory, 1953, p.329: Mrs. Frances C. Nesmith, teacher at O. L. Slaton Jr. High; Hayden R. Nesmith, telegraph operator, Santa Fe (P&SF) railway; home 2108 27th St. Cited on Documents.
- S2451950 United States Federal Census — Horace G. Coffman, associate minister. Ancestry record 188268914; sh. 9. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. 1950 census, 1515 Ave L, Lubbock, Texas (sheet 9, 10 Apr 1950): Horace G. Coffman 35, associate minister; wife E. Dott 35, b. Tennessee; two children. Ancestry's index reads "Horace S", never married; the image reads Horace G., married. The image is followed.Cited on Documents.
- S246U.S., World War II Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947 — Horace Glenn Coffman. Ancestry record 19624879. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. WWII draft registration, Horace Glenn Coffman, serial 1851, Abilene, 1940: born 27 Feb 1915 Abilene; student at George Pepperdine College, Los Angeles; mother Mrs. James D. Coffman, Route 2, Abilene. Cited on Documents.
- S247California, U.S., County Birth, Marriage, and Death Records, 1849-1980 — Horace G. Coffman and Emma D. Forsythe. Ancestry record 900511532; book 1879 p.77. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. California county Index to Marriages, 1943: Emma D. Forsythe to Horace G. Coffman, recorded 5 February, book 1879 p.77. An index of recording dates; the county is not on the page.Cited on Documents.
- S2481930 United States Federal Census — James D. and Lydia Coffman with Frances and Ila B.. Ancestry record 60805574; sh. 5A. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. 1930 census, Justice Precinct 3, Taylor Co., Texas, sheet 5A: James D. Coffman 48, farmer on his own farm; Lydia 46 (b. Arkansas); Frances 13; Ila B. 8. Lydia's mother is entered born Kentucky here, which agrees with the death certificate of her mother, Iona Belle Brock: born at London, Laurel County, Kentucky [S170].Cited on Documents.
- S2491940 United States Federal Census — Robert Wm and Louie T. Coffman. Ancestry record 158373912; sh. 14B. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. 1940 census, Genoa, J.P. 2, Harris Co., Texas, sheet 14B: Robert Wm Coffman 33, school principal; wife Louie T. 23, b. Tennessee (Gallatin, 1935). In 1935 he was at Colorado City, Mitchell Co., and she at Gallatin, Tennessee.Cited on Documents.
- S250Tennessee, U.S., Marriage Records, 1780-2002 — Robert Wm Coffman and Louise Martin Timberman. Ancestry record 1634184. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Marriage record, Sumner County, Tennessee: Robert Wm Coffman and Louise Martin Timberman, licensed 6 June 1939, married 8 June 1939 by James Burton Coffman, M.G. The groom's elder brother married them. Bond and licence 6 June 1939.Cited on Documents.
- S2511930 United States Federal Census — Willie and Liessi Kretschmar household. Ancestry record 60683525; sh. 7B. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. 1930 census, Austin, Travis Co., sheet 7B: Willie Kretschmar 39 (City Playgrounds, WWI veteran), Liessi 32, Dorothy 9, Lucille 4, Raymond (infant), at 1911 East First Street. Cited on Willie Frank "Will" Kretschmar · Dorothy Freda Kretschmar · Documents · Timeline.
- S252Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 — Earl Theodore Roberts. Ancestry record 4487933. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Windsor, Berkshire Co., Massachusetts, register of births: Earl Theodore Roberts, born 7 May 1918, son of Leon H. and Bessie (Henderson) Roberts, farmer. The mother's birthplace reads "Highgate(?), Vt" and is uncertain.Cited on Documents.
- S253California, U.S., County Birth, Marriage, and Death Records, 1849-1980 — Aileane Proeger and Earl T. Roberts. Ancestry record 900920854; book 2545 p.30. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. California county index to marriages, 1946: Aileane Proeger to Earl T. Roberts, recorded 11 Feb 1946, book 2545 p.30. The recording of the 8 February 1946 marriage S88.Cited on Documents.
- S254U.S., School Yearbooks, 1900-2016 — Nancy Coffman. Ancestry record 156538772; p. 130. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Pasadena High School, Pasadena, Texas, 1960 yearbook p.130: junior class officers 1959-60, with Nancy Coffman as parliamentarian. Classmates are shown as printed; none is identified.Cited on Nancy Martin Coffman Proeger · Documents.
- S255U.S., School Yearbooks, 1900-2016 — Nancy Coffman. Ancestry record 264336342; p. 46. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Abilene Christian College yearbook 1963, p.46: Student Senate members, including Nancy Coffman, sophomore. Cited on Documents.
- S256U.S., School Yearbooks, 1900-2016 — Nancy Coffman. Ancestry record 275948527; p. 157. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Abilene Christian College yearbook 1962, p.157: Kitten Klub, with Nancy Coffman in the fifth row. Cited on Documents.
- S257U.S., School Yearbooks, 1900-2016 — Nancy Coffman. Ancestry record 275949203; p. 131. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Abilene Christian College yearbook 1962, p.131: Omega Rho Alpha freshman English honor fraternity, with Nancy Coffman as secretary. Cited on Documents.
- S258Texas, U.S., Death Certificates, 1903-1982 — Lydia Mae (Bowles) Coffman. Ancestry record 1243331. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Texas death certificate 78845: Lydia Mae Coffman, d. 29 Oct 1972 Abilene; b. 30 Jul 1883 Arkansas; parents William A. Bowles and Iona Belle Brock; informant Robert W. Coffman; buried Dudley Cemetery 31 Oct 1972. Names both her parents. The Social Security number on the certificate is blacked out on the published image.Cited on Documents.
- S259U.S., Family History Books — David E. and James David Coffman. Ancestry record 4306388704; p. 566. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. A Genealogy and History of the Kauffman-Coffman Families (1937), p. 566: David E. Coffman (b. 8 Aug 1857) md. Mary J. Wright, R.2 Potosi, Tex.; son James David (b. 3 Sep 1881) md. 1 Aug 1901 Lydia Bowles (b. 30 Jul 1883), farmer and stockman, R.2 Abilene. A compiled, derivative source. It supports the 1 August 1901 marriage date.Cited on Documents.
- S2601920 United States Federal Census — Nancy Timberman, widowed, with Louise and Emma Martin. Ancestry record 36257732; sh. 9A. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. 1920 census, Gallatin, Sumner Co., Tenn., ED 119 sheet 9A, South Water St.: Nancy Timberman 41, widowed, owns her house; Louise 2 (b. New Jersey, father b. Pennsylvania); Emma Martin 49, sister, high-school teacher. Louise's birthplace is New Jersey here too.Cited on Documents.
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- S261Tennessee, U.S., Marriage Records, 1780-2002 — J. H. Timberman Jr. and Nancy L. Martin. Ancestry record 5659918; p. 171. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Sumner Co., Tenn., marriage bond, 15 June 1915: J. H. Timberman Jr. obtained a licence to marry Nancy L. Martin; surety a Timberman Sr. The bond's date does not agree with the licence and marriage dates on S29; unresolved, and nothing is changed from it.Cited on James Harris Timberman Jr. · Documents.
- S262Texas, U.S., Death Certificates, 1903-1982 — Nancy Martin Timberman. Ancestry record 1537068. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Texas death certificate 31838: Nancy Martin Timberman, teacher, d. 17 May 1967 at 811 Garner, Pasadena, Harris Co., Texas; b. 5 Nov 1878 Tenn.; parents Joseph Martin and Nancy Chenault; informant Robert W. Coffman; removed to Gallatin Cemetery, Tenn. Her death was in Pasadena, Harris County, Texas, where she had lived ten years. The FamilySearch tree S30 puts it in California, which the certificate does not support.Cited on Timberman, Martin & Chenault line · Nancy Louise Martin · Documents · Timeline.
- S263U.S., World War II Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947 — Robert William Coffman. Ancestry record 19624995. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. WWII draft registration (Oct 1940): Robert William Coffman, Box 71, Genoa, Harris Co.; b. 6 Nov 1906 "Abilene, Texas"; employer Pasadena ISD; contact his father James David Coffman, Route 2, Abilene. He gives Abilene as his birthplace, the nearest town to Dudley.Cited on Documents.
- S264Texas, U.S., Birth Certificates, 1903-1932 — Lucile Kretschmar. Ancestry record 1079872. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Texas birth certificate: Lucile Kretschmar, b. 25 Aug 1925, 3905 Ave. B, Austin; father Willie F. Kretschmar 34, carpenter, b. Travis Co.; mother Liessi Ladusch 27, b. New Ulm, Texas. Cited on Lucille Lorine Kretschmar · Willie Frank "Will" Kretschmar · Otto Paul Ladusch · Documents.
- S265Texas, U.S., Select County Marriage Records, 1837-1965 — T. W. Caffey and Lucille L. Kretschmar. Ancestry record 130648971. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Travis Co., Texas, marriage licence No. 878: T. W. Caffey and Miss Lucille L. Kretschmar, issued 28 May 1945, married 29 May 1945 by Rev. E. L. Sparks. Cited on Documents.
- S266U.S., Select Military Registers, 1862-1985 — Earl Theodore Roberts. Ancestry record 113449; p. 664. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Navy Register 1960, p. 664: Earl Theodore Roberts, Chief Warrant Officer W-4 from 1 Feb 1958; b. 7 May 1918; pay-entry base date 17 Aug 1938. Cited on Earl Theodore Roberts · Documents · Timeline.
- S2671910 United States Federal Census — William L. and Anna B. Proeger. Ancestry record 118138225. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. 1910 U.S. census, Rochester Borough Ward 3, Beaver Co., Pa., ED 52 sheet 7B, lines 85–86: William L. Proeger, 33, mould maker at a glass factory, and his wife Anna B., 19, roomers in the Charles P. Miller household on Adams Street, married one year. Cited on Documents.
- S268U.S., City Directories, 1822-1995 — Wm L. and Anna Proeger. Ancestry record 662437020. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Tampa City Directory, 1927, p. 768: Wm L. (Anna) Proeger, manager, ElDac Gas Co. No. 2, residence 2908 10th Ave.; W. N. Proeger, office boy, L. M. Anderson Dental Supply Co. Cited on Documents.
- S2691920 United States Federal Census — William L. Proeger household. Ancestry record 33883065. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. 1920 U.S. census, Cincinnati Ward 13, Hamilton Co., Ohio, ED 242 sheet 2B, lines 96–100: William L. Proeger, 43, machinist, renting at 6081 Montgomery Road with his wife Anna B., 29, and sons William H., 8, Richard F., 6, and Julius K., 2, all three born in Pennsylvania. Cited on Richard Frederick Proeger · Documents.
- S2701950 United States Federal Census — William L. Proeger, widower. Ancestry record 264946943. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. 1950 census, Los Angeles, sheet 13: William L. Proeger, 74, widower, at 2123 Le Moyne Street with his daughter Queen A., her husband Charles E. and their son Warren E. Cited on Documents.
- S2711920 United States Federal Census — Leon and Bessie Roberts household. Ancestry record 85319695. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. 1920 U.S. census, Dalton, Berkshire Co., Mass., ED 12 sheet 22A, lines 16–22: Leon Roberts, farm operator, with his wife Bessie, their children Ora, Elmer, Almond and 'Carl' [Earl], and Leon's widowed father Henry, 75. Cited on Documents.
- S2721950 United States Federal Census — Leon H. and Bessie H. Roberts. Ancestry record 159211601. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. 1950 U.S. census, Hancock, Berkshire Co., Mass., ED 2-47 sheet 71, lines 16–24: Leon H. Roberts, 67, with his wife Bessie H., 59, a machine operator at a wire works; their son Almon E. and his wife Marvel I.; grandson Arthur L. Jenks; and next door their son Leon H. Jr. and his wife Florence. Cited on Documents.
- S2731910 United States Federal Census — Leon H. and Bessie H. Roberts. Ancestry record 15821392. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. 1910 census, Bath, Grafton Co., New Hampshire, sheet 3A: Leon H. Roberts, 27, farmer, and his wife Bessie H., 19, newly married. Cited on Documents.
- S2741940 United States Federal Census — Leon Roberts household. Ancestry record 89791414. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. 1940 census, Hancock, Berkshire Co., Massachusetts, sheet 4B: Leon Roberts, farmer, with Bessie and sons Leon H., Almon (U.S. Army) and Earl (U.S. Navy). Cited on Earl Theodore Roberts · Documents · Timeline.
- S275Oregon, U.S., State Marriages, 1906-1971 — Nancy Aileen Proeger and Robert George Belcourt. Ancestry record 1350125980. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Oregon Record of Marriage, Clatsop Co. file 3591 (state file 8614): Robert George Belcourt, U.S. Army, and Nancy Aileen Proeger, born Niles, California, 6 April 1937, daughter of William Proeger and Aileen DeSilva, married at Astoria, 9 October 1955. Cited on Aileane Marie Silva · Nancy Aileen Proeger · Documents · Timeline.
- S2761950 United States Federal Census — Clarence M. and Dorothy L. Walker. Ancestry record 187904828. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. 1950 U.S. census, White Settlement, Tarrant Co., Texas, ED 220-68 sheet 40, lines 27–30: Clarence M. Walker, 29, stock clerk at the aircraft factory, WWII veteran, with his wife Dorothy L., 24, born Illinois, and daughters Clare L. and Marilyn D. Cited on Documents.
- S277U.S., World War II Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947 — Clarence Melvin Walker. Ancestry record 20441434. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. WWII draft registration card: Clarence Melvin Walker, 617 N. Retta, Fort Worth, born 5 November 1920 at Lolita, Texas; registered as a veteran, 'unemployed – recently discharged'. Cited on Documents.
- S278Texas, U.S., Birth Index, 1903-1997 — Donna Rae Caffey. Ancestry record 155476065. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Texas birth index, 1953 births, p. 535: Donna Rae Caffey, Travis Co., 29 July, daughter of Lucille Lorene Kretschmar and Thomas Walton Caffey. Cited on Documents.
- S279U.S., World War II Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947 — Thomas Walton Caffey. Ancestry record 20540546. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. WWII draft registration card: Thomas Walton Caffey, born 21 February 1924 at Salado, Texas, living at 1911 East 1st Street, Austin — the Willie F. Kretschmar house. Cited on Documents.
- S2801950 United States Federal Census, Callahan Co. TX, ED 30-5, sheet 8 (db 62308) — W. H. and Ila Belle Windham. Ancestry record 193303215. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. 1950 U.S. census, Callahan County, Texas, near Dudley: W. H. and Ila Belle Windham and their infant daughter. Cited on Documents.
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- S281Texas Birth Index 1952, p. 4125 (db 8781, TXBTH_1952_001607o) — David Hollis Windham. Ancestry record 305442214. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Texas birth index, 1952, p. 4125: David Hollis Windham, born 14 Nov 1952, Taylor County, to Ila Belle Coffman and Willie Hollis Windham. Cited on Documents.
- S2821950 United States Federal Census, Coleman Co. TX, Trickham, ED 42-14, sheet 6 (db 62308) — David E. and Katheryn A. Coffman. Ancestry record 195321816. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. 1950 U.S. census, Trickham, Coleman County, Texas: David E. and Katheryn A. Coffman with their son Robert W. and daughter Myra N. Cited on Documents.
- S283Oklahoma County Marriage Records, Comanche Co., Marriage Record p. 285 (db 61379) — David Coffman and Kathryn Longacre. Ancestry record 63333739. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Comanche County, Oklahoma, marriage record p. 285: David Coffman and Kathryn Longacre, both of Abilene, married at Lawton 31 Aug 1932 by his brother James Burton Coffman, minister of the Church of Christ. Witnesses included Robert W. Coffman. Cited on Documents.
- S2841950 United States Federal Census — James D. and Lydia M. Coffman with Jesse J.. Ancestry record 190357834. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. 1950 U.S. census, Taylor Co., Texas, ED 221-63 sheet 5, lines 21–23: James D. Coffman, 68, stock farmer, his wife Lydia M., 66, born Arkansas, and their unmarried son Jesse J., 37, farming with them; Jesse had two years of college. Cited on Documents.
- S285Texas, U.S., Birth Index, 1903-1997 — Joyce Lanell Coffman. Ancestry record 155257588. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Texas birth index, 1952 births, p. 706: Joyce Lanell Coffman, Taylor Co., 28 November, daughter of Dorothy Grace Whitley and Jesse Jerome Coffman. Cited on Documents.
- S286U.S., World War II Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947 — Jesse Jerome Coffman. Ancestry record 19624908. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. WWII draft registration card, 1940: Jesse Jerome Coffman, of Novice, Coleman County, born 24 August 1912 at Dudley, Taylor County; father J. D. Coffman, R.F.D. 2, Abilene. Cited on Documents.
- S287Texas Birth Index 1946, p. 2158 (db 8781, TXBTH_1946_000901n) — Vernon Ralph Nesmith. Ancestry record 309489391. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Texas birth index, 1946, p. 2158: Vernon Ralph Nesmith, born 28 Sep 1946, Tarrant County, to France Lydia Coffman and Hayden Ralph Nesmith. Cited on Documents.
- S288WWII Draft Cards (Young Men), 1940 (db 2238) — James Burton Coffman. Ancestry record 19624893. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. WWII draft registration, Houston, 1940: James Burton Coffman, born 24 May 1905, Taylor County, Texas, of 701 Taft, employed by the Central Church of Christ. Cited on Documents.
- S289Houston City Directory 1945, p. 261 (db 2469) — Rev. J. Burton Coffman. Ancestry record 384649973. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Houston city directory, 1945, p. 261: Rev. J. Burton Coffman (Thelma B.), pastor, Central Church of Christ, home 701 Taft. Cited on Documents.
- S290Texas Birth Index 1947, p. 610 (db 8781, TXBTH_1947_000305n) — Otice Bruce Coffman. Ancestry record 154437509. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Texas birth index, 1947, p. 610: Otice Bruce Coffman, born 17 Apr 1947, Lubbock County, to Emma Dott Forfythe and Horace Glenn Coffman. Cited on Documents.
- S291Lubbock City Directory 1957, p. 117 (db 2469) — Horace G. Coffman. Ancestry record 393778133. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Lubbock city directory, 1957, p. 117: Horace G. Coffman (Dott), assistant minister, Broadway Church of Christ, home 2607 35th. Cited on Documents.
- S292Tennessee, U.S., Deaths and Burials Index, 1874-1955 — Nannie C. Martin. Ancestry record 469026. Index entry only — no image was examined, read 22 September 2026. Probable Indexed: Nannie C Martin, born 26 Jan 1844, Tennessee; died 14 Apr 1915, Gallatin, Sumner Co., Tennessee; buried 16 Apr 1915. The burial day is Probable, on the index alone. The index's 14 April is the day the page already gives.
- S293U.S., Find a Grave® Index, 1600s-Current — Daniel Jonah Walker. Ancestry record 14811624. Index entry only — no image was examined, read 22 September 2026. Probable Indexed: Daniel Jonah Walker, born 10 March 1890, died 30 July 1964, buried at Lolita, Jackson County, Texas. The burial place is Probable: a memorial contributor's, not a record.
- S294U.S., Newspapers.com™ Obituary Index, 1800s-current — Jonah P. Walker. Ancestry record 533071915. Index entry only — no image was examined, read 22 September 2026. Probable Indexed: Jonah p. Walker, born 10 Mar 1890; died about 1964, Ganado, Jackson Co., Texas; residence Lolita; spouse Ida; children Melvin, Olin, R., Mary Bradley. Machine-indexed from his obituary. Mary's married surname Bradley is Probable.
- S295U.S., Newspapers.com™ Obituary Index, 1800s-current — Dorothy L. Walker. Ancestry record 814246314. Index entry only — no image was examined, read 22 September 2026. Probable Indexed: Dorothy L Walker, spouse Clarence Melvin Walker; children La Vonne Caffey, Marilyn Peters, Carolyn J Wilson. Almost certainly Melvin's 1991 obituary, indexed with Dorothy as his widow. The daughters' married names of about 1991 are Probable.Cited on Clarence Melvin "Melvin" Walker.
- S296U.S., Newspapers.com™ Obituary Index, 1800s-current — Franz Kretschmar. Ancestry record 6597875. Index entry only — no image was examined, read 22 September 2026. Probable Indexed: Franz Kretschmar, born 20 Jun 1851, Germany; died about 1946; residence Elroy; children Charley, Will, Max, Lizzie Rojas, Clara Semff, Elsie Peterson, Minnie Reininger. Machine-indexed from his obituary. It independently gives the surname Semff. The daughters' married names are Probable.Cited on Lizzie Kretschmar Rojas · Clara Frances Kretschmar Semff · Elsie Lena Kretschmar Peterson · Minnie Johanna Kretschmar Reininger.
- S297Wayne Allen Danielson, Ph.D. — obituary, Austin American-Statesman, 5 November 2017 (Legacy.com, Weed Corley Fish Funeral Homes, Austin). Read and captured 23 September 2026. States: born 6 December 1929, Burlington, Iowa, to Bessie and Arthur Leroy Danielson; B.A. Journalism, University of Iowa, 1952; M.A. 1953 and Ph.D. 1957, Stanford; dean of the School of Journalism at the University of North Carolina; joined the University of Texas faculty in 1969 and was dean of the College (formerly School) of Communication, 1969–1979; first wife Beverly Kinsell, d. 1988, mother of his four children; later "courted and married LaVonne Walker Caffey," an Austin ISD early-childhood special-education teacher; died 31 October 2017, aged 87. Survivors: "his wife LaVonne", sons Matt, Ben and Paul, daughter Grace Chimene, and "Stepchildren … Brad (Erin) Caffey and Kristin (Earl) Proeger […]." Corroborated by the Moody College of Communication's notice Remembering Wayne Danielson (3 November 2017), which gives the 1969–1979 deanship and the 31 October death, and by the UNC Hussman School's Wayne Danielson (1929–2017), which quotes advice from "him and his wife LaVonne." This, with Earl's confirmation of 23 September 2026 [S24], is what identifies the husband in the 1993 marriage record [S129] as the dean. The obituary's loose chronology (“three years” after 1988 before he began dating) does not date the marriage; the county record's 1993 stands.Cited on Clare La Vonne Walker · Wayne Allen Danielson · Timeline.
- S298Oregon Death Index, 1898–2008: Nancy Ail Wortman, died 9 January 1973, Wallowa County, Oregon, aged 35, born April 1937; certificate 73-01723. Oregon State Library, State of Oregon Death Index 1971–1980 (Ancestry collection 5254, record 610109). Corroborated by the U.S. Social Security Death Index (Ancestry collection 3693, record 68905787): Nancy Wortman, born 6 April 1937, card issued in Oregon 1953–54, died January 1973. The 6 April 1937 birth matches her 1955 Oregon marriage record [S275] exactly. Read 23 September 2026 (documents/proeger/1973-oregon-death-index-nancy-wortman). Index entries only; the certificate itself has not been retrieved. Replaces an erroneous 20 Feb 2025 date that had been attached to her.Cited on William Leonard Proeger · Aileane Marie Silva · Nancy Aileen Proeger · Documents · Timeline.
- S299“Earl T. Roberts 1918–2007” — The Star-News (Chula Vista, Calif.), 9 March 2007, p. 7. Illustrated obituary with a uniform portrait; image contributed to Ancestry by a member (cduarte192) and read from the image, 22 September 2026. Chief Warrant Officer CW-4, U.S. Navy; service in World War II, Korea and Vietnam; when enemy dive bombers wrecked his destroyer's galley he fed the crew using the blacksmith's forge and a welder's torch; a plaque honours him at the Mt. Soledad Veterans Memorial, La Jolla. Born 7 May 1918, Windsor, Mass.; retired to National City. The obituary does not name the destroyer, the action or the year. It lists William Proeger of Austin as “a son”; he was Earl Roberts's stepson.Cited on Earl Theodore Roberts.
- S300Family testimony — Earl Proeger, 23 September 2026. Recorded on his word: his step-grandfather Earl Theodore Roberts fought in the Pacific in the Second World War and was stationed on Guam as an officer after the war, and Earl's father Bill (William Leonard Proeger) went through high school on Guam while he was posted there. Not yet matched to a service record. A family scrapbook page captioned “May 1956 Guam” supports the Guam posting; the high-school years are Earl's account alone so far.Cited on William Leonard Proeger · Earl Theodore Roberts · Timeline.
S301 – S320
- S301U.S., World War II Navy Muster Rolls, 1938–1949 — Naval Training Station, Newport, R.I., report of changes, May 1939. Ancestry collection 1143, record 141030331 (NARA RG 24). Read from the image, 23 September 2026. Roberts, Earl Theodore, service no. 212 50 12, apprentice seaman (Sea2c); enlisted 17 August 1938, Springfield, Mass.; received 12 May 1939 and transferred 16 May 1939 to the receiving station, New York, “for USS Anderson detail”. The enlistment date matches the pay-entry base date in the Navy Register (S266). The service number is what separates him from several other Earl T. Roberts on the rolls.Cited on Earl Theodore Roberts · Documents · Timeline.
- S302U.S., World War II Navy Muster Rolls, 1938–1949 — USS Anderson (DD-411), report of changes, Pearl Harbor, 17 August 1942. Ancestry collection 1143, record 19286774 (NARA RG 24). Read from the image, 23 September 2026. Earl Theodore Roberts, 212 50 12, ship's cook first class (SC1c); transferred 16 August 1942 to the Commissary Steward School, Naval Training Station, San Diego. The destroyer USS Anderson was commissioned in May 1939, the month he was sent to her, so he was one of her first crew (a plankowner). He served in her until August 1942, through the battles of the Coral Sea and Midway.Cited on Earl Theodore Roberts · Documents · Timeline.
- S303U.S., World War II Navy Muster Rolls, 1938–1949 — USS LST-455, report of changes, San Francisco, 31 March 1943. Ancestry collection 1143, record 36325596, image 32861_250626-00030 (NARA RG 24). Read from the image, 23 September 2026. Earl Theodore Roberts, 212 50 12, SC1c; re-enlisted 19 September 1942 at San Diego; received aboard 27 February 1943 from the receiving station, San Diego. The index lists him on LST-455's rolls through 30 June 1944 (see S312).Cited on Earl Theodore Roberts · Documents · Timeline.
- S304U.S., Find a Grave® Index, 1600s-Current — Leon Henry Roberts. Ancestry record 51679890. Index entry only — no image was examined, read 22 September 2026. Probable Indexed: Leon Henry Roberts, born 14 July 1882, Lowell, Orleans Co., Vermont; died 24 May 1961, Hancock, Berkshire Co., Massachusetts; buried at Hancock. Spouses Bessie Hill Roberts and Grace May Roberts; father Henry Roberts. Birth, death and burial are Probable: a memorial contributor's, not a record. His ages in 1909 (S197) and 1930 (S214) both fit a July 1882 birth. The index's 24 May is wrong: the Hancock death register (S339) reads 4 May 1961.
- S305U.S., Newspapers.com™ Obituary Index, 1800s-current — Leon Henry Roberts. Ancestry record 520627799. Index entry only — no image was examined, read 22 September 2026. Probable Indexed: Leon Henry Roberts, born 14 Jul 1882, Lowell, Orleans, Vermont; died about 1961; residence Berkshire, Massachusetts; spouse Bessie; father Henry Roberts; children Earl, Almon, Leon, Leora Croughwell. Machine-indexed from his obituary. It names his son Earl, a second tie from Earl Theodore Roberts to Leon after the 1930 census (S214).
- S306U.S., Find a Grave® Index, 1600s-Current — Bessie Hill Roberts. Ancestry record 51679891. Index entry only — no image was examined, read 22 September 2026. Probable Indexed: Bessie Hill Roberts, born 10 December 1890, Ryegate, Caledonia Co., Vermont; died 14 May 1993, Springfield, Hampden Co., Massachusetts; buried at Hancock, Berkshire Co., Massachusetts. Spouse Leon Henry Roberts; father Henry William Henderson. Death and burial are Probable: a memorial contributor's, not a record.
- S307U.S., Newspapers.com™ Obituary Index, 1800s-current — Bessie Hill Roberts. Ancestry record 622124010. Index entry only — no image was examined, read 22 September 2026. Probable Indexed: Besse [Bessie] Hill Roberts, born 10 Dec 1890, Ryegate, Caledonia, Vermont; died 14 May 1993; married 29 Apr 1909, Wells River, Vermont; residence Hancock, Berkshire, Massachusetts; spouse Leon Henry Roberts; father Henry William Henderson; children include Earl T. Roberts. Machine-indexed from her obituary (spellings as indexed). It names Earl T. Roberts as her son, and its 1909 marriage agrees with the marriage card (S197).
- S308Tarrant County, Texas, U.S., Probate Index, 1800-2012 — Clarence Melvin Walker. Ancestry record 166513. Index entry only — no image was examined, read 22 September 2026. Probable Indexed: Clarence Melvin Walker, died 1991, Texas; probate file, Tarrant County. Name, year and county only. The probate file itself has not been seen.
- S309U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007 — Lydia M. Bowles. Ancestry record 779603188. Index entry only — no image was examined, read 22 September 2026. Probable Indexed: Lydia M Bowles; spouse James D Coffman; child Lydia Frances Nesmith. The parents' fields of an application, most likely their daughter Lydia Frances Nesmith's. A second witness, independent of S16, to the maiden name Bowles.
- S310Indiana, U.S., Marriage Certificates, 1960-2012 — Julius Proeger. Ancestry record 126130965. Index entry only — no image was examined, read 22 September 2026. Probable Indexed: Julius Proeger, party to a marriage in Indiana (collection span 1960–2012); father William L Proeger; mother Ann Roberts. Spouse, date and county are not indexed. Identity rests on both parents' names; it is Probable.
- S311George Washington High School yearbook, Guam, 1955. Internet Archive
classmates-yearbook-37313-1955-george-washington-high-school(Classmates.com no. 37313). Page 80, senior portraits, read from the image, 23 September 2026: “NANCY A. PROEGER — Transfer 54 from AHS, Asteria [sic, Astoria], Oregon; Junior Class Secretary 3.” A club-photo caption reading “P. Proeger” (Patty) comes from the OCR text only and has not been checked against the image, so it is Probable. “Mr. Roberts” in this book is John O. Roberts, a social-studies teacher from Kirkwood, Missouri. He is not Earl T. Roberts. Bill Proeger is in the 1955 volume as the freshman “B. Roberts” S313. He has not been found in the 1956 volume.Cited on William Leonard Proeger · Nancy Aileen Proeger · Earl Theodore Roberts · Patty Proeger · Timeline. - S312U.S., World War II Navy Muster Rolls, 1938–1949 — USS LST-455, muster roll of the crew, quarter ending 30 June 1944, p. 3. Ancestry collection 1143, record 36330586, image 32861_250626-00180 (NARA RG 24). Read from the image, 23 September 2026, matching the service number. Roberts, Earl Theodore, 212 50 12, CCS(PA) (chief commissary steward, permanent appointment); enlisted 19 September 1942; first received on board 27 February 1943. Between March 1943 (S303) and June 1944 he was promoted from ship's cook first class to chief petty officer. His ships after mid-1944 are not yet traced.Cited on Earl Theodore Roberts · Documents · Timeline.
- S313George Washington High School yearbook, Guam, 1955 — freshman class photograph. Internet Archive
classmates-yearbook-37313-1955-george-washington-high-school(Classmates.com no. 37313). Page 29, lower freshman photograph, read from the image, 23 September 2026. Front row, fourth from left, captioned “B. Roberts”. Identified as William Leonard “Bill” Proeger by his son Earl Proeger, 23 September 2026. He was enrolled under his stepfather's surname. The 1950 census also lists him as William Roberts. The yearbook's “Mr. Roberts”, the teacher John O. Roberts, is unrelated.Cited on William Leonard Proeger · Earl Theodore Roberts · Timeline. - S3141920 U.S. Federal Census — Louisa A. Rose household, Washington Township, Alameda County, California. Roll T625_92, ED 212, page 5A; Ancestry collection 6061, record 3288770. Read from the index, 23 September 2026; the image has not yet been read. Louisa A. Rose, Head; Edward Rose, son, 21; Antone Rose, son, 33, widowed; Helen Farrel, daughter, 20, and Wm Farrel, son-in-law, 20. Parents' birthplace Azores. Antone Sr is absent, so he died between April 1910 and January 1920. Louisa is indexed at age 80, against 44 in 1900 and 54 in 1910; read the image before using that age.Cited on Overview · Rose line · Antone Rose · Louise Rose · Timeline.
- S315Alameda County, California, Index to Marriage Certificates No. 2 — “R” page. Ancestry record 31576, on disk. “Rosa, A. da × L. da G. de Mendonca, Jany 3 79”, Book F[?] p. 225. An index, initials only; the certificate in Book F p. 225 would give her full name. A FamilySearch tree's “Louisa Dagloria Dutra de Mendonça” and 26 Jan 1879 are not supported by this entry beyond “da G.”; “Dutra” is unsupported.Cited on Rose line · Antone Rose · Louise Rose · Timeline.
- S316California Death Index, 1940–1997 — Mildred A Springer. FamilySearch record
VPWY-81H, read 23 September 2026. Born 26 July 1898, California; died 7 October 1960, Alameda County; mother's maiden name Mendonca. An index; the certificate has not been seen. The birth date matches the July 1898 twins entry of the 1900 census (S55) and the mother's maiden name matches Louise Rose's, so this is Mildred A. Rose under a later married surname. FamilySearch also attaches this row, wrongly, to her mother as a death record.Cited on Overview · Silva line · Rose line · Mildred A. Rose · Louise Rose · Timeline. - S317California, San Francisco County Records — marriage of Joseph Rose and Fanny Maria Waara (Lytala), 13 August 1913, San Francisco. FamilySearch
XLXS-XZ9,QL4B-THYH, image 33SQ-G5NS-4SH, read 23 September 2026. Father “Antone Rose”, mother “Louisa Mendosa”.Cited on Rose line · Louise Rose · Timeline. - S318California, County Marriages — Frank James Rose (25) and Alda Marks (18), 2 November 1914, Los Angeles. FamilySearch
K8Z1-YTB, image 3QS7-L93H-ZSH4, read 23 September 2026. Father “Antone Rose”, mother “Louise Silver”. “Silver” is the one record that does not give Mendonça; a variant or an error.Cited on Rose line · Louise Rose. - S319California, San Francisco County Records — Helen Agnes Rose (18) and William Bernard Farrell (20), 30 November 1918, San Francisco. FamilySearch
QL41-B5NX, image 33SQ-G56G-C25, read 23 September 2026. Father “Anthony Rose”, mother “Louise Mendonca”.Cited on Rose line · Louise Rose · Timeline. - S320U.S., Social Security NUMIDENT — Helen Rose. FamilySearch
6K4H-S77C, read 23 September 2026. Born 3 October 1899, Irvington, California; died 20 November 1995; father Anthony Rose, mother Louisa Mendonca.Cited on Rose line · Louise Rose · Helen Agnes Rose.
S321 – S340
- S321Portugal, Azores, Catholic Church Records — baptisms at Horta, Faial: Francisca, b. 31 May 1847, and Manoel, b. 6 November 1850. FamilySearch index
6JZK-KR1R,6JZK-86V8, read 23 September 2026 (images restricted). Parents Francisco Dutra de Mendonça and Francisca Eugénia (do Coração de Jesus / da Roza) of Feteira; grandparents António Dutra de Mendonça × Luiza Feliciana Boleza and Manoel Francisco da Roza × Maria Felícia. These are two of the siblings a FamilySearch tree gives Louise. Her own 1856 baptism is not attached, so her place in this family is Probable. A Manuel Dutra Mendonca, b. Azores c.1851, died at Oakland on 28 January 1892 (FamilySearchHGHK-92PZ).Cited on Rose line · Louise Rose. - S322FamilySearch Family Tree — Rose family profiles (Antone Rosa
M81P-XYB, LouisaMC9V-JM3, Louise Elizabeth RoseKD12-DBDand their parents and siblings), read 23 September 2026. A user tree, not a record. Gives Louise Elizabeth Rose (b. 1885, Pleasanton) a marriage on 30 May 1907 at Pleasanton and a death on 28 November 1978 at Glendale. It also gives Antone a death in 1911, Louisa a death on 5 July 1936 and a marriage on 26 January 1879, none of them with a record behind it.Cited on Rose line · Louise Rose. - S323FamilySearch Memory 9943586 — three-generation photograph. Original upload, 1044 × 1572 px, uploaded 7 September 2014; downloaded 23 September 2026. Uploader's comment, 28 November 2016: “Mildred Rose/Silva on the left, Aileane Silva/Proeger on the right, Nancy Proeger in front. Three generations my mom, grandmother and great grandmother.” Undated. The identifications are the uploader's, Mildred's great-granddaughter.Cited on Mildred A. Rose · Timeline.
- S324California Death Index, 1905–1939, and Find a Grave — Antone D. Rose. FamilySearch
QKSM-CP5SandQVKS-DK9T, read 23 September 2026. Born c.1848, died 1914 aged 66, buried at Hayward. A candidate only for Antone Rose (b. Feb 1840 on the 1900 census, 62 on the 1910 census). Not proven; many Antone Roses lived in Alameda County.Cited on Rose line. - S325Texas death certificate no. 72008 — Otto Ladusch, 1958. Texas, U.S., Death Certificates, 1903–1982 (Ancestry collection 2272, record 23561925). Read from the image. Born 30 March 1873, Germany; died 26 December 1958, Seton Hospital, Austin, Travis County; parents “no record”; buried Oakwood Cemetery.Cited on Otto Paul Ladusch · Traugott Ladusch · Johanna Sille (Selle) · Timeline.
- S326Texas death certificate no. 20521 — Emma Stein Ladusch, 1952. Texas, U.S., Death Certificates, 1903–1982 (Ancestry collection 2272, record 21537089). Read from the image. Born 21 March 1875, Texas; died 30 March 1952, Austin; father Henry Stein; informant Otto Ladusch, husband; buried Oakwood Cemetery.Cited on Hattie Elizabeth "Liessi" Ladusch · Emma Stein Ladusch · Henry Stein · Mary Emmit Stein · Timeline.
- S3271900 U.S. Federal Census — Otto Ladusch household, Austin Ward 10, Travis County, Texas. Ancestry collection 7602, record 44319545. Read from the image. Otto 26, born Germany, immigrated 1883, married 5 years; wife Emma, born March 1875, Texas, 2 children both living; daughters Frieda 3 and Elizabeth 2.Cited on Lucille Lorine Kretschmar · Hattie Elizabeth "Liessi" Ladusch · Otto Paul Ladusch · Emma Stein Ladusch · Traugott Ladusch · Frieda Ladusch.
- S3281910 U.S. Federal Census — Otto Ladusch household, 1617 Willow Street, Austin. Ancestry collection 7884, record 28679316. Read from the image. Otto 36, Emma, Freda 13, “Liccie” 11.Cited on Lucille Lorine Kretschmar · Hattie Elizabeth "Liessi" Ladusch · Otto Paul Ladusch · Emma Stein Ladusch · Frieda Ladusch.
- S329Travis County, Texas marriage index — Otto Ladusch and Emma Stein, 5 November 1895, Austin. Ancestry collection 60183, record 12803. Index entry; the register image has not been read.Cited on Otto Paul Ladusch · Emma Stein Ladusch.
- S3301900 U.S. Federal Census — Eva Harbauer, Philadelphia Ward 18. Ancestry collection 7602, record 47750343; ED 340, sheet 10A, line 34. Read from the image. Born June 1825, Germany; immigrated 1829; mother of 11 children, 5 living.Cited on Eva Harbauer · Documents.
- S331Texas death certificate no. 3466 — Nancy Jane Walker, 1953. Texas, U.S., Death Certificates, 1903–1982 (Ancestry collection 2272, record 21787116), Jackson County. Read from the image. Born 19 October 1864, Alabama; died 3 January 1953, Lolita; widowed; father Robert Higginbothan; mother's maiden name Avery; cause of death carcinoma of the jaw, one year; buried Lolita Cemetery. The certificate image is in the Documents grid.Cited on Walker line · Daniel Jonah Walker & Nettie Ellen "Annie" Cleveland · Nancy Jane Higginbotham Walker · Lucinda C. (Avery) Higginbotham · Documents · Timeline.
- S332Pennsylvania death certificate no. 20068 — Gertrude Proeger Murfin, 1956. Ancestry collection 5164, record 5704357. Read from the image. Aged 71, born Pittsburgh; died 18 March 1956; father Julius Proeger; mother's maiden name Wilhelmina Kochendoerfer; spouse Godfrey Murfin.Cited on Gertrude Proeger Murfin · Documents.
- S333A. C. Quisenberry, Memorials of the Quisenberry Family (1900), p. 67. Ancestry collection 62282, image 4297925964. Louisa Quisenberry, born 29 September 1811, married David Chenault 25 October 1827; children include “7. Nancy, m. Martin”. A compiled secondary source, not an original record.Cited on Nannie Chenault · Louisa Quisenberry Chenault · Colby Burris Quisenberry · Lucy Bush · Colby Burris Chenault · Documents · Timeline.
- S334Virginia marriage record — David C. Coffman and Emily M. Thornhill, 30 May 1843, Rappahannock County. Virginia, U.S., Select Marriages (Ancestry collection 60214, records 3071678 and 3071679).Cited on David C. Coffman · Emily M. Thornhill.
- S335Page County, Virginia death register, 1868 — Emily M. Coffman. FamilySearch
1:1:6ZG8-J469. Emily M. Coffman, spouse David C. Coffman; parents Wm. and Mary Thornhill.Cited on Coffman, Wright & Brooks line · Emily M. Thornhill · William Thornhill · Mary Thornhill. - S336Find a Grave memorial 259939327 — Traugott Ladusch. Read 22–23 September 2026. Wife Johanna Selle (1835–1899); children Pauline Alise Wenzel, Annamarie Ehmling, Bertha Nonnenmacher and Reinhold Gustav Ladusch. Otto is not listed.Cited on Otto Paul Ladusch · Traugott Ladusch · Johanna Sille (Selle).
- S337U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917–1918 — Leon Henry Roberts. Ancestry record 19321462. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Registered 12 Sep 1918, serial 2346, Local Board Div. 2, Adams, Mass. Leon Henry Roberts, 36, born 14 July 1882; farmer, self-employed, at Windsor, Mass.; nearest relative Mrs Bessie Hill Roberts, Dalton. Signed in his own hand. The index's “Berrie” is Bessie, and its “North Adams” is the board's stamp, not his residence. His own statement of the birth date.Cited on Earl Theodore Roberts.
- S338U.S., World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942 — Leon Henry Roberts. Ancestry record 6636572. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Serial U-1910. Leon Henry Roberts, 59, born 14 July 1882, Lowell, Vermont; residence Main Road, Hancock, Berkshire Co., Mass.; self-employed; contact Mrs Bessie H. Roberts. Front of card only. The 1942 registration of men aged 45–64, not military service.Cited on Earl Theodore Roberts · Documents.
- S339Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records — Hancock deaths 1961, no. 2, Leon Henry Roberts. Ancestry record 6851715. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Leon Henry Roberts, farmer, of Hancock, died 4 May 1961 at Hancock, aged 78 y 10 m 10 d; born Lowell, Vt.; father Henry Roberts (b. Westford, Vt.), mother Delina Deblois (b. Fairfax, Vt.); cause ruptured aneurysm of the abdominal aorta; buried Hancock Cemetery. This register settles the death as 4 May; the Find a Grave index (S304) has 24 May. His condition is entered as “S”, and the clerk's age points to 24 June 1882; his own draft card (S337) and the 1900 census (S340) give July 1882.Cited on Earl Theodore Roberts · Documents · Timeline.
- S3401900 U.S. Federal Census — Henry Roberts household, Ryegate, Caledonia Co., Vermont. Ancestry record 61919208. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed ED 51, sheet 8, dwelling 173. Henry Roberts, 55, b. Oct 1844, Vt., farm laborer, married 32 years; wife Delina, 47, b. Apr 1853, Vt., mother of 10 children, 4 living; sons Theodore (b. Jan 1877), Leon (b. July 1882), Homer (b. May 1886) and Elmer (b. Mar 1888). Leon's three brothers enter the record here.Cited on Earl Theodore Roberts.
S341 – S360
- S341Elroy McKendree Avery, The Groton Avery Clan, vol. 2 (1912), p. 880 — Grace May Avery. Ancestry record 4513405467. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Probable No. 6106, Grace May, daughter of Frank Forest and Betsey (Avery) Avery, born 27 April 1886 at Bradford, Vt.; married Leon Roberts in June 1907; “she was drowned July 5, 1908.” A compiled family history, not a record. It gives the wedding as 30 June at Bradford; the Vermont marriage card, the contemporary return, gives 26 June 1907, and the card's date is kept. The drowning rests on this book alone.Cited on Earl Theodore Roberts · Documents.
- S342Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records — Williamstown marriages 1940, no. 39, McDonald–Roberts. Ancestry record 15052518. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed 30 Aug 1940, Williamstown: Charles Jay McDonald, 27, of Pittsfield, son of Jay C. McDonald and Goldie Hood, married Bernice Louise Roberts, 18, of Dalton, born Dalton, daughter of Leon H. Roberts and Bessie Hill Henderson. Officiant Thomas M. Bishop. The index's “Berince” and “Hinderson” are misreadings.Cited on Earl Theodore Roberts · Documents.
- S343“Woman Takes Own Life At Wallowa Lake — Rifle Shot In Parked Car Claims Nancy Wortman.” Wallowa County Chieftain (Enterprise, Oregon), Thursday 11 January 1973, page 1. Page image shared on Ancestry by cduarte192 (media 204294cd), 872 × 924 px; read by eye 24 September 2026 (documents/proeger/1973-01-11-wallowa-county-chieftain-nancy-wortman). Confirmed Nancy Belcourt Wortman of Enterprise, 35, died on Tuesday [9 January 1973], apparently by her own hand with a rifle, in a pickup parked near the boat ramp at the foot of Wallowa Lake; found about 8:30 p.m. after a day-long search. Employed at the Wallowa County Nursing Home; twice divorced; survived by two daughters living at Fort Huachuca, Arizona with their father, Robert Belcourt, and a son and a daughter who had lived with her in Enterprise. Date, county and age agree with the Oregon Death Index [S298], and Robert Belcourt is her 1955 husband [S275]. A contemporary newspaper report, not the death certificate, which has not been retrieved. Published at Earl’s instruction, 24 September 2026.Cited on Aileane Marie Silva · Nancy Aileen Proeger · Timeline.
- S3441870 U.S. Federal Census — David C. Coffman household, Luray Twp., Page Co., Virginia. Ancestry record 40335323. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed David C. Coffman, 57, farmer, real estate $8,500, personal $2,000; Annie R. 22, Jane C. 20, and David E., 12, at school. The index's “Malinda Coffman 60” and “Lucy Coffman 15” are two Black domestics in the household; no surname is written for them on the image, and they are not carried as Coffmans.Cited on David Emily "Dee" Coffman · Documents.
- S3451880 U.S. Federal Census — Precinct 7, Dallas Co., Texas: David E. and Mary J. Coffman. Ancestry record 7452380. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed David E., 23, farmer, b. Va.; Mary J., 21, b. Tex. of Tennessee parents — twenty months after the wedding. Four dwellings up the same page: Dr James W. Wright, 55, physician, Lucy C., 48, and their children Jesse, 10, and Kate, 7. The first census to show the Wright family itself.Cited on Coffman, Wright & Brooks line · David Emily "Dee" Coffman · Mary Jane "Mollie" Wright · James W. Wright · Lucy Brooks · Timeline.
- S346U.S., Selected Federal Census Non-Population Schedules — 1880 Agriculture, Precinct 7, Dallas Co., Texas, p. 2 line 4. Ancestry record 3811440. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed David E. Coffman, share tenant (“rents for shares of products”): 60 acres tilled, 50 in woodland; farm $150; 2 horses, 2 milch cows; 1879 crops of wheat, oats, corn and 3 acres of cotton (2 bales). James W. Wright owns the farm on line 2 (100 acres tilled, $5,600). Read together with the population schedule, S345.Cited on David Emily "Dee" Coffman.
- S3471910 U.S. Federal Census — Abilene Ward 3, Taylor Co., Texas, ED 266, sheet 16B. Ancestry record 28640074. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed David E., 52, farmer, renting; Mary Jane, married 31 years, mother of 10 children, 7 living; at home Jessie Lee 19, Sue 16, Daisy 14 and Dee Carl 12. Mary Jane's age is written 58, an enumerator slip; her 1859 birth stands.Cited on Coffman, Wright & Brooks line · David Emily "Dee" Coffman · Mary Jane "Mollie" Wright · Daisy Hope Coffman Holley.
- S3481920 U.S. Federal Census — Justice Precinct 7, Taylor Co., Texas, ED 272, sheet 14A. Ancestry record 13175075. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Enumerated 26 Jan 1920, one sheet before the Bowles household (S188). David E., 62, farmer, owns a mortgaged farm; Mary J., 60, b. Tex.; James B. Wright, 64, single, entered as “Brother” — Mollie's brother. The index's “Mary S” is a misread of J.Cited on David Emily "Dee" Coffman · Mary Jane "Mollie" Wright · Lucy Brooks.
- S3491930 U.S. Federal Census — Precinct 7, Taylor Co., Texas, ED 221-31, sheet 4A (RFD 2 Abilene). Ancestry record 60799483. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed David E., 73, owns his home, first married at 21; Mary J., 70, first married at 19; James B. Wright, 74, brother-in-law, widowed. The index's “working on own account” is wrong; the image gives Dee's occupation as None.Cited on David Emily "Dee" Coffman · Mary Jane "Mollie" Wright · Lucy Brooks.
- S350Texas, U.S., Death Certificates — no. 15321, Daisy Holly, 1934. Ancestry record 81672982. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Daisy Holly, born 5 Apr 1896, Texas, died 17 Mar 1934 at 834 Ambler Ave., Abilene, of lobar pneumonia after influenza; husband and informant Owen Holly; father D. E. Coffman, b. Va.; mother Mary J. Wright, b. Tex.; buried Abilene, 18 Mar 1934. Serves the card of Daisy Hope Coffman Holley; the image was read again on 11 October 2026, with the same names. The stated age of 36 is the clerk's arithmetic. The FamilySearch index of this certificate (K3F6-FF3) misreads the mother as “Martha” Wright and adds Taylor County as the place of birth, which the image does not give. Her children are not named here.Cited on Coffman, Wright & Brooks line · David Emily "Dee" Coffman · Mary Jane "Mollie" Wright · Lucy C. Coffman Chrane · Daisy Hope Coffman Holley · Timeline.
- S351California, U.S., Voter Registrations — Los Angeles County 1946, City Precinct 1200. Ancestry record 31531908. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Probable “Proeger, William H, 1839½ Lake Shore av, DS” (Declines to State). Identity rests on the rare name, his 1940 LA County draft registration (S12) and his father being William L. The index's “183914” is 1839½.Cited on William Harry Proeger.
- S3521940 U.S. Federal Census — Harry Roberts household, Boyd Ave., Lansing, Pease Twp., Belmont Co., Ohio. Ancestry record 38067602. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Harry Roberts, 50, b. Ohio, laborer at a glass company, renting at $7 a month; wife Amelia, 45, b. W. Va.; daughters Etta Mae, Amelia, Lora and Shirley, and a married daughter, Catherine Rose, with her three small daughters. Identity: his age fits the 19 May 1889 Bellaire birth, he worked in his father's glass trade in the same county, and he named a daughter Etta after his eldest sister. The index's “760” is the rent, written 7.00.Cited on Henry S. Roberts · Harry Harrison Roberts.
- S3531940 U.S. Federal Census — Richard F. Proeger household, 20674 Glen Road, Castro Valley, Alameda Co., California. Ancestry record 67972297. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Richard, 26, mould maker at a glass works, $1,960 in 1939, renting at $28 a month, living in San Francisco in 1935; wife Mable O., 26, b. French Canada; son Richard F., 3. The same trade his father gave on Richard's 1913 birth certificate (S193).Cited on Richard Frederick Proeger.
- S3541950 U.S. Federal Census — Richard F. Proeger household, 2257½ Ewing St., Los Angeles, California. Ancestry record 264955166. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Richard, tool and die maker at an electrical plug factory; wife Mabel O., 36, b. Canada, naturalised, a shipping clerk; son Richard F., 12. The index's “Richard T” is a misread of F. This census gives Mabel's birthplace as other Canada, the 1940 census French Canada; left open.Cited on Richard Frederick Proeger.
- S3551930 U.S. Federal Census — Charles W. Ross household, Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co., Pennsylvania. Ancestry record 48461677. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Charles W. Ross, 49, b. Indiana, salesman of food products, renting at no. 5601; wife Caroline, 42, b. Pa., both parents b. Germany (Württemberg); son Karl P., 14; daughter Katherine, 12. Caroline is Julius Karl Proeger's daughter: her son Karl P. Ross was the informant on her 1958 death certificate, which names Julius as her father. Her age of 42 fits the tree's 1888 birth.Cited on Julius Karl Proeger · Caroline M. Proeger (Ross).
- S3561930 U.S. Federal Census — Lewis W. Proeger household, 1107 La Clair St., Swissvale, Allegheny Co., Pennsylvania. Ancestry record 49140072. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Lewis W. Proeger, 49, laundry manager, owns his house ($18,000), first married at 35; wife May, 49, b. Ohio; children May, 11, and Walter, 9. The first record of his marriage; May's maiden name is not known. The index's “Praeger” is wrong: the image reads Proeger.Cited on Julius Karl Proeger · Luis Walter (Lewis) Proeger.
- S357Vermont marriage card (groom) — Henry W. Henderson and Artie H. Morrison, Ryegate, Vermont, 1 January 1887. Ancestry record 925750. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Henry W. Henderson, 22, farmer, born Ryegate, son of William J. Henderson and Carrie K. (Gilfillan), married Artie H. Morrison; C. H. Farnsworth, clergyman; Alex Cochran, town clerk. The first image of the marriage and of Henry's parents. His age, 22 on 1 January 1887, fits a birth of 12 June 1864.Cited on Henry Henderson · Artie Morrison · Caroline Kent Gilfillan · William J. Henderson · Timeline.
- S3581930 U.S. Federal Census — Henry W. Henderson household, Ryegate, Caledonia Co., Vermont (ED 3-19, sheet 7A). Ancestry record 124392317. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Henry W. Henderson, 65, dairy farmer; wife H. Artmiza, 62; their daughter Winona Sulham and her husband Perley, with four grandchildren. The grandchildren are not named here in case any is living.Cited on Henry Henderson · Artie Morrison.
- S359Vermont death return — Harriet Artimiza Henderson, Ryegate, 7 December 1930. Ancestry record 216231. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Harriet Artimiza Henderson, married, housewife, aged 63 years 1 month 19 days, born at Ryegate 18 October 1867, daughter of Orange G. Morrison and Elizabeth J. Miller, both born at Ryegate; died of lobar pneumonia after 7 days. Certified copy by Clarence J. McLam, town clerk. This settles her full name, which the site had only from a shared tree.Cited on Thomas Walton Caffey Sr. · Artie Morrison · Orange G. Morrison · Elizabeth J. (Lizzie) Miller · Documents · Timeline.
- S3601870 U.S. Federal Census — Orange G. Morrison household, Ryegate, Caledonia Co., Vermont (P.O. McIndoes Falls), p. 14. Ancestry record 36852849. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Orange G. Morrison, 38, farmer, real estate $3,150; Elizabeth, 37; Winona, 14; Marion, 9; Margaret, 5; and Artemiza, 3, with $4,000 real estate and $1,500 personal estate entered in her own name. The property on a three-year-old's line is larger than her father's; it may have been settled on her, but the page does not say why.Cited on Artie Morrison · Orange G. Morrison · Elizabeth J. (Lizzie) Miller.
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- S361Vermont death card — Henry William Henderson, Ryegate, 30 March 1949. Ancestry record 124148. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Henry William Henderson, retired farmer of Pleasant St., South Ryegate, widowed, died 30 March 1949 aged 84 years 9 months 19 days; born Ryegate 12 June; father William J. Henderson, born Ryegate; mother Carolyn Gillfillan, born Barnet; informant Winona M. Sulham. The card writes the birth year as 1865, but its own age line and every census give 1864.Cited on Henry Henderson · Caroline Kent Gilfillan · William J. Henderson · Documents · Timeline.
- S362Page County, Virginia, Register of Marriages for 1871, p. 217. Ancestry record 710325. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Line 53, 17 October 1871: D. C. Coffman, 58, widowed, farmer, son of Saml & Susannah, married M. F. Flinn, 40, single, daughter of Saml & Judith, by J. W. Watson. Line 7 of the same page: 3 February 1871, A. W. McKim, 24, druggist, married A. B. Coffman, 22, daughter of David C. & Emily. The first image-level statement of David C.'s parents, Samuel and Susannah.Cited on Coffman, Wright & Brooks line · David C. Coffman · Samuel Coffman · Timeline.
- S3631880 U.S. Federal Census — David C. Coffman household, Luray Township, Page Co., Virginia (ED 63, p. 35). Ancestry record 19053196. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed David C. Coffman, 67, farmer, with his second wife Mildred F., 49; Ann Sowers, 60, and a domestic, Emma Judd, 18. Ann Sowers has no relationship entered; the page does not give Mildred's kin.Cited on David C. Coffman.
- S364Page County, Virginia, Register of Deaths for 1883, line 16. Ancestry record 449672. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed David C. Coffman died 25 January 1883 at Fruitland, of paralysis, aged 70, a farmer; born Fruitland; parents given as Saml. & Mary Coffman; informant Mary Coffman. The informant gave his mother as Mary. His 1871 marriage register says Susannah, and the tree keeps Susanna; this is left open for Earl.Cited on David C. Coffman · Samuel Coffman · Documents.
- S365U.S. District Court, Pittsburgh — petition for citizenship no. 91799, Godfrey Murfin, 24 March 1931. Ancestry record 685005. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Godfrey Murfin, travelling salesman of 711 N. St. Clair St., born Wem, England, 20 April 1876; arrived New York 5 June 1905 on the Parisian from Queenstown; married Gertrude at Pittsburgh 3 April 1915; wife born Pittsburgh 7 May 1883; one daughter, Marjone Louise, born Pittsburgh 7 June 1917. The petition's 1883 birth date for Gertrude does not agree with her age of 32 in 1920 or 71 at her 1956 death. Both are kept.Cited on Gertrude Proeger Murfin · Godfrey Murfin · Documents · Timeline.
- S366Indiana birth certificate no. 35542 — Dorothy Susan Boost, Indianapolis, 2 March 1914. Ancestry record 2237729. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Dorothy Susan Boost, born 2 March 1914 at 1120 East 13th Street, Indianapolis, daughter of Andy Boost, 28, of Logansport, a wagon cleaner, and Bessie Craighead, 27, of Peru, Indiana; the fourth of four living children. Her mother is the Bessie Craighead of the 1932 marriage licence (S144), where her father is given as Charles Reid. How she came to be a Reid is not yet known.Cited on William Harry Proeger · Dorothy Susan Reid · Documents · Timeline.
- S367Toledo, Ohio, city directory, 1933, p. 729. Ancestry record 303061589. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed “Proeger Wm H (Dorothy S) appr Toledo Mould Co h2808 E” — William Harry Proeger and Dorothy S., still listed as a married couple. The marriage was intact at the 1933 canvass, so the divorce or death falls between mid-1933 and August 1940.Cited on Dorothy Susan Reid.
- S368World War I draft registration card — Joseph Daniel Martin, Memphis, Tennessee, 12 September 1918. Ancestry record 23058756. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Joseph Daniel Martin, 539 LeMaster, Memphis, age 41, born 21 Dec. 1876; manager of the sundry department, Van Vleet-Mansfield Drug Co.; nearest relative Olga Norvell Martin; medium height and build, blue eyes, brown hair.Cited on Joseph Daniel Martin Jr..
- S3691940 U.S. Federal Census — Joseph D. Martin household, Rosemark, Shelby Co., Tennessee (ED 79-5, sheet 15-A). Ancestry record 36234464. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Joseph D. Martin, 62, manufacturers' agent (drug sundries), owns a farm on the Rosemark–Atoka road, in the same house in 1935; wife Olga Norvel, 56.Cited on Joseph Daniel Martin Jr..
- S3701950 U.S. Federal Census — Joseph D. Martin household, 1646 Harbert, Memphis, Tennessee (ED 98-300, sheet 74). Ancestry record 106085825. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Joseph D. Martin, 73, born Tennessee, retired manufacturers' agent; wife Pauline E., 60, born Tennessee.Cited on Joseph Daniel Martin Jr..
- S371Tennessee certificate of death no. 59-12636 — Joseph Daniel Martin, Memphis, 7 May 1959. Ancestry record 1512634. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Joseph Daniel Martin, died 7 May 1959 at Methodist Hospital, Memphis, aged 82, of 1646 Harbert Avenue, manufacturer's representative; born Tennessee 23 Dec 1876; father J. D. Martin, mother Nancy Chenault; wife and informant Mrs. Pauline Martin; buried Memorial Park, Memphis, 9 May 1959. The certificate gives the 23rd; his own draft card (S368) gives 21 December, which the tree keeps.Cited on Joseph Daniel Martin Jr. · Timeline.
- S3721950 U.S. Federal Census — Godfrey Murfin household, 711 N. St. Clair St., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (ED 77-337, sheet 14, lines 12–13). Ancestry record 244825954. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Godfrey Murfin, 73, born England, naturalized; wife Gertrude P., 65, born Pennsylvania; both unable to work. The same house the couple shared with her father in 1920. Her age, 65, agrees with her death at 71 in 1956 against the 32 of the 1920 census.Cited on Gertrude Proeger Murfin · Godfrey Murfin.
- S373Amarillo, Texas, city directory, 1940, p. 113. Ancestry record 377859274. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed “Bowles Iona B (wid W A) r3 912 Buchanan” — Iona Belle Brock Bowles, widow of William Anderson Bowles, at the address of the 1940 census (S185). Also Ancestry record 377859273 (the same page, filed under Iona). The index turned “wid W A” into a listing for W. A. himself; the page shows he was already dead. Three other Bowles on the page (Robert A., Thomas L., Warren D.) are not shown to be kin.Cited on William Anderson Bowles · Iona Belle Brock · Documents.
- S374Salem County, New Jersey — Return of Births, Upper Alloways Creek Township, 4 June–17 December 1858, p. 139, line 1. Ancestry record 706930. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed James H. Timberman, male, born June 4 1858 at Allowaystown, son of John Timberman & Rebecca; father a carpenter, residence Allowaystown; recorded 15 July 1858. The first contemporary record of his birth; it settles the day, which had rested on his 1919 death certificate alone. A tree birth of 4 January 1858 is wrong.Cited on Overview · James Harris Timberman Sr. · John H. Timberman · Mary Burroughs Timberman · Timeline.
- S375Boyd's Wilkes-Barre City Directory, 1884, p. 245. Ancestry record 143141099. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed “Timberman James H., veterinary surgeon, 96 Public sq., h do (see adv)”, and his advertisement: “Dr. J. H. Timberman, Veterinary Surgeon. Member of Penn'a College of Veterinary Surgeons. Office, No. 96 Public Square, Wilkes-Barre, Penna.” The year is from Ancestry's title for the volume; it is not printed on the page.Cited on James Harris Timberman Sr. · Timeline.
- S3761930 U.S. Federal Census — Joseph D. Martin household, 1845 Cowden Avenue, Memphis, Tennessee (ED 79-107, sheet 9A, lines 1–2). Ancestry record 66506840. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Joseph D. Martin, 52, agent, druggist sundries, owning his house ($10,000); wife Olga, 47, her father born Mississippi and mother Virginia. This is the son (1876–1959), not his father Joseph Daniel Martin (1832–1899). The census age puts his birth about 1878; his draft card and death certificate give December 1876.Cited on Joseph Daniel Martin Jr..
- S3771900 U.S. Federal Census — Mrs Nan Martin household, District 10, Sumner Co., Tennessee (ED 118, sheet 12-B, lines 60–64). Ancestry record 61310365. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Mrs Nan Martin, born January 1844, 56, widowed, mother of 8 children, 7 living, farming her own farm free of mortgage; her father and mother both born in Kentucky; daughters E. L. (b. Aug 1870, school teacher), M. E. (b. Aug 1874, music teacher) and Nanie (b. Nov 1878); son John, b. Aug 1880. Kentucky-born parents fit David Chenault and Louisa Quisenberry, both from Kentucky.Cited on Nannie Chenault.
- S3781910 U.S. Federal Census — Nannie Martin household, District 10, Sumner Co., Tennessee (ED 140, sheet 9-B, lines 71–73). Ancestry record 27548369. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Nannie Martin, 66, widowed head, mother of 8 children (7 living), owns her farm free of mortgage; daughter Emma, 31, single; sister-in-law Martha Gillispie, 75, widowed. Ancestry indexes her as Hannah; the image reads Nannie. This sheet gives her parents' birthplaces as Tennessee; the 1900 sheet (S377) says Kentucky.Cited on Nannie Chenault.
- S379World War I draft registration card — James David Coffman, Taylor County, Texas, 12 September 1918. Ancestry record 71113877. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed James David Coffman, 37, born 3 September 1881, stock farming at Potosi, Taylor Co.; nearest relative his wife Lydia Coffman, Potosi; medium height and build, black eyes, black hair.Cited on James David "Jim" Coffman · Timeline.
- S380Baltimore passenger list — steamship America, Bremen to Baltimore, arrived 10 October 1883 (page E-7, lines 384–388). Ancestry record 1024920. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Franz Kretschman, 32, farmer, of Germany, bound for Texas, with Lina, 28, and daughters Elisab[eth], 4, Clara, 2, and Eliza, 6 months. The family and their Texas destination are read off the page; the ship, date and ports are on the manifest cover sheet and are taken from Ancestry's index.Cited on Julius Franz Kretschmar · Lena Kretschmar · Documents · Migration · Timeline.
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- S381World War I draft registration card — William Leonard Proeger, Local Board No. 15, Tarentum, Allegheny Co., Pennsylvania, 12 September 1918. Ancestry record 10212496. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed William Leonard Proeger, Maple Ave., R.F.D. #1 Tarentum, age 42, born March 22 1876, native born; mechanic at Allegheny Steel Co., Brackenridge; nearest relative Mrs Anna Proeger, wife; tall, medium build, brown eyes, dark brown curly hair. Also Ancestry record 110212496 (the same card, filed under Anna). His own signed statement of 1876, against a 1878 on a memorial site.Cited on William Leonard Proeger · Anna Blanche Roberts · Timeline.
- S3821940 U.S. Federal Census — William Proeger household, 414 Park Ave., Dunkirk, Chautauqua Co., New York (ED 7-29, sheet 13A, lines 16–17). Ancestry record 9706875. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed William Proeger, 64, born Pennsylvania, glass worker, $1,248 wages in 1939; wife Anna, 49, born Ohio, the informant; both living in Chicago in 1935; renting, no children at home.Cited on William Leonard Proeger · Anna Blanche Roberts.
- S383The Flashlight, Abilene High School yearbook, 1921, p. 48. Ancestry record 201670304. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed The Sophomore Class roll, with “Coffman, Burton”. A sophomore in 1920–21, so of the class of about 1923. No portrait on the page.Cited on James Burton Coffman.
- S384The 1927 Prickly Pear, Abilene Christian College yearbook, p. 53. Ancestry record 200467511. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed “Robert Coffman, Potosi”, with his portrait. The portrait is placed by the page layout (bottom row, far right), not by comparing faces. The page gives no class year.Cited on Robert William Coffman.
- S3851870 U.S. Federal Census — 3rd Civil District, Sumner Co., Tennessee, P.O. Castalian Springs, page 6, line 1. Ancestry record 14378915. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed “Chenault Chas”, 11, born Tennessee, attended school within the year; enumerated 19 July 1870. He is the last line of a household that begins on page 5, which this image does not show; Ancestry's index places him with David and Louisa Chenault and their children.Cited on Charles Coker Chenault.
- S3861900 U.S. Federal Census — C. C. Chenault household, Civil District 1, Sumner Co., Tennessee (ED 109, sheet 6-B, line 51). Ancestry record 61297225. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed C. C. Chenault, head, born December 1858, 41, married 7 years, farmer owning his farm free of mortgage; both parents born Kentucky; wife Mordalite (born February 1873, mother of 3, 3 living) and children Neil, Mildred and Marian. His brother M. W. (Milton) Chenault farms four dwellings down the sheet. Also Ancestry record 61297253 (the same page, filed under Milton). Mordalite is the census taker's spelling of Maudante.Cited on Charles Coker Chenault · Marian Chenault · Mildred L. Chenault · Timeline.
- S3871910 U.S. Federal Census — C. C. Chenault household, Civil District No. 1, Sumner Co., Tennessee (ED 131, sheet 4-B, line 69). Ancestry record 27544610. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed C. C. Chenault, 52, farmer and employer, owning his farm free; married 16 years; parents born Kentucky; wife Mordante, 36, mother of 5 children, 4 living; children Neil, Mildred L., Marion and Eugenia. Next door, his brother William Chenault, 56, with his wife Lydia and nine children.Cited on Charles Coker Chenault · Eugenia Chenault · Timeline.
- S3881920 U.S. Federal Census — Charles Chenault household, First District, Sumner Co., Tennessee (ED 117, sheet 2-B, lines 67–72). Ancestry record 36253715. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Charles Chenault, 61, farmer, owning his farm free of mortgage; wife Mordante, 45; children Charles C., 25, Mildred, 24, Marion, 21, and Eugenia, 18; enumerated 7 January 1920. This sheet gives his parents' birthplace as Tennessee; 1900, 1910 and 1930 say Kentucky.Cited on Charles Coker Chenault.
- S3891930 U.S. Federal Census — Charles C. Chenault household, 1st Civil District, Sumner Co., Tennessee (ED 83-1, sheet 6A, lines 46–49). Ancestry record 66186681. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Charles C. Chenault, 71, farmer owning his farm, first married at 34, born Tennessee of Kentucky-born parents; wife Mordante, 56, first married at 21; daughter Eugena Kelly, 27, and granddaughter Carnelia; enumerated 11 April 1930. First married at 34 fits his marriage of 15 November 1893.Cited on Charles Coker Chenault · Eugenia Chenault.
- S390Sumner County, Tennessee, marriage bond book, p. 135 — Arthur Harris McConnell and Martha Elizabeth Martin, 12 April 1911. Ancestry record 4873653. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Bond of Arthur Harris McConnell, of Sumner County, licensed to marry Martha Elizabeth Martin; surety J. D. Martin. The bond gives her middle name, Elizabeth. Her father died in 1899, so the surety is her brother Joseph Daniel Martin Jr. This is the licence date, not the wedding day; no return is on the page.Cited on Martha "Mattie" Martin McConnell · Timeline.
- S3911920 U.S. Federal Census — Arthur H. McConnell household, 8 Drummond Precinct, Fremont Co., Idaho (ED 161, sheet 3A, lines 43–47). Ancestry record 101723542. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Arthur H. McConnell, 47, born Iowa, farmer, owning a mortgaged farm; wife Martha M., 45, born Tennessee of Tennessee-born parents; children William M., 7, John M., 5, and Margaret M., 4. This sheet says the boys were born in Iowa and Margaret in Tennessee; the 1930 census (S392) says all three were born in Idaho.Cited on Martha "Mattie" Martin McConnell.
- S3921930 U.S. Federal Census — Arthur McConnell household, 716 Lincoln Place, Spokane, Washington (ED 32-92, sheet 9A, lines 18–22). Ancestry record 112790686. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Arthur McConnell, 57, born Iowa, superintendent at a telephone company, owning his house ($8,000); wife Martha M., 55, born Tennessee; sons William M. and John M. and daughter Margaret.Cited on Martha "Mattie" Martin McConnell.
- S393World War I draft registration card — Daniel Jones [Jonah] Walker, Precinct 13, Jackson County, Texas, 5 June 1917. Ancestry record 16436681. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Daniel Jones Walker, 27, of Lolita, born March 10th 1890 at China Springs, Texas; general laborer for Milton Cleavland at Lolita; married, claiming exemption as the only support of a wife and two children; medium height and build, gray eyes, dark brown hair. His employer is his father-in-law, Nettie's father Melton Cleaveland. “Jones” is how the card writes Jonah.Cited on Daniel Jonah Walker & Nettie Ellen "Annie" Cleveland · Timeline.
- S3941940 U.S. Federal Census — E. G. Walker household, 2605 Hale St., Fort Worth, Tarrant Co., Texas (ED 257-122, sheet 10B, lines 46–48). Ancestry record 160343789. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed E. G. Walker, 41, truck man at a dry cleaners; wife Nettie, 42, born Nebraska, a seamstress on the WPA sewing project; daughter Mary Elen, 14; all at the same place in 1935.Cited on Nettie Ellen Cleveland.
- S395Milestones, Ward-Belmont School yearbook, Nashville, 1935, p. 114. Ancestry record 160975192. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed The F. F. Club, with “Louise Timberman” in the bottom row, second from left. No hometown on the page; she is placed by the school, the year and the name, a year before her senior page (S242).Cited on Louise Martin Timberman.
- S396McCallum High School yearbook, Austin, Texas, 1962, p. 212. Ancestry record 567667132. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Sophomores: “Tommy Caffey”, middle row, left portrait. The school and year are from Ancestry's index; no masthead on the page. His obituary (S31) names McCallum High School.Cited on Thomas Alan Caffey.
- S3971870 U.S. Federal Census — David Chenault household, 3rd Civil District, Sumner Co., Tennessee, P.O. Castalian Springs, page 5, lines 35–40. Ancestry record 10638827. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed David Chenault, 70, farmer, real estate $50,200, personal estate $14,000, born Kentucky; Louisa, 58, keeping house, with her own real estate of $8,200, born Kentucky; Milton W., 21, farmer, born Tennessee; Mima L., 18; Wm, 16, at school; Fillmore, 14; enumerated 19 July 1870. The household runs on to the next sheet (see S385).Cited on David Chenault · Louisa Quisenberry Chenault · Milton Waller Chenault · Maria Louise Chenault · William Chenault · Timeline.
- S3981880 U.S. Federal Census — Milton Chenault household, First District, Sumner Co., Tennessee (S.D. 3, ED 208, page 16B, lines 18–21). Ancestry record 10075961. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Milton Chenault, 30, farmer, born Tennessee of Kentucky-born parents; wife Nannie, 24, born Kentucky of Kentucky-born parents; son Henry, 5, and daughter Mary, 2; enumerated 11 June 1880. Next door, David Chenault, 80, and Louisa, 69; his brother Harvy four dwellings on. Faint pencil marks in the insane, maimed and cannot-read/write columns on his line are not published: the same marks run across an unrelated household, and 1910 shows him reading and writing.Cited on Milton Waller Chenault.
- S399Sumner County, Tennessee, marriage licence — Milton W. Chenault and Nannie E. Dunn, 26 February 187_. Ancestry record 1653663. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Licence to any minister or justice to marry Milton W. Chenault and Nannie E. Dunn, given at the clerk's office of Sumner County Court on 26 February; clerk's surname Cage. The last digit of the year was never written in. Ancestry's index reads 1870; FamilySearch's index gives 1874, and he was still single in his father's house in July 1870 (S397). No minister's return is on this image.Cited on Milton Waller Chenault.
- S4001910 U.S. Federal Census — M. W. Chenault household, Civil District No. 1, Sumner Co., Tennessee (ED 131, sheet 5A, lines 44–50). Ancestry record 27544642. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed M. W. Chenault, 60, general merchant on his own account, owning a mortgaged farm; married 36 years; wife Nannie, 55, mother of 9 children, all 9 living; at home Henry, 34, Louise, 28, Milton W., 26, Luther D., 24, and Sarah A., 19; enumerated 21 April 1910. This sheet gives Tennessee as the birthplace of his parents and of Nannie; 1870 and 1880 say Kentucky.Cited on Milton Waller Chenault · Timeline.
S401 – S420
- S401Sumner County, Tennessee, County Marriage Record, p. 134, entry 6 — N. J. Harsh and Louisa B. Martin, 17 October 1888. Ancestry record 5605204. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Licence issued at Gallatin, 17 October 1888, to N. J. Harsh to marry Louisa B. Martin (Harris Brown, clerk); return: married the same day by R. W. Harsh, M.G.Cited on Louise Bell Martin Harsh · Timeline.
- S4021900 U.S. Federal Census — N. J. Harsh household, 1st Civil District, Sumner Co., Tennessee (ED 109, sheet 4B, lines 51–59). Ancestry record 61297028. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed N. J. Harsh, 38, farmer owning his farm free, married 12 years; wife Louise, born May 1867, 33, mother of 4 children, 4 living; children Kenneth, Joe D., Nannie M. and Nathan; three servants; enumerated 7 June 1900. May 1867 differs from the 13 November 1866 of her death certificate (S191); both are second-hand, and neither is settled.Cited on Louise Bell Martin Harsh.
- S4031910 U.S. Federal Census — N. J. Harsh household, Civil District No. 1, Sumner Co., Tennessee (ED 131, sheet 3B, lines 67–73). Ancestry record 129782370. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed N. J. Harsh, 49, farmer and employer, owning his farm free, married 21 years; wife Louise, 43, mother of 8 children, 5 living; children Kenneth, Joseph, Nannie M., Louise B. and Richard K.; enumerated 19 April 1910.Cited on Louise Bell Martin Harsh.
- S4041920 U.S. Federal Census — Nathan J. Harsh household, Harsh Road, First District, Sumner Co., Tennessee (ED 117, sheet 7A, lines 37–42). Ancestry record 36254186. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Nathan J. Harsh, 59, farmer, owning his farm free; wife Louise M., 53; sons Kenneth and Joe D., daughter Louise B. and son Richard; enumerated 16–17 January 1920.Cited on Louise Bell Martin Harsh.
- S4051930 U.S. Federal Census — Nathan J. Harsh household, Greenfield Road, 1st Civil District, Sumner Co., Tennessee (ED 83-1, sheet 7A, lines 19–25). Ancestry record 66186570. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Nathan J. Harsh, 69, farmer, owning his farm, with a radio; wife Louise, 63, first married at 22; their son Kenneth, 40, his wife Hattie and three grandchildren; enumerated April 1930.Cited on Louise Bell Martin Harsh.
- S4061910 U.S. Federal Census — Willie B. Walker household, Perryman Avenue, Palacios, Matagorda Co., Texas (ED 145, sheet 1B, lines 71–77). Ancestry record 123055432. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Willie B. Walker, 53, born California, owning his house; wife Nancy J., 45, born Alabama, mother of 5 children, 5 living; sons Robert T., 22, delivery-wagon driver, and “John”, 20, farm laborer, born Texas; Ruth E., 12; Willie E. Jr., 7; and Mary J. Daniels, 79, “mother”; enumerated 13 May 1910. “John” is taken to be Daniel Jonah: the only son of his age, with his parents and brother Robert T. (the R. T. Walker of his 1942 draft card). The name as written is John. Mary J. Daniels is probably Willie's mother Mary Jane Bross under a later married name; not proved.Cited on Overview · Walker line · Daniel Jonah Walker & Nettie Ellen "Annie" Cleveland.
- S407Texas birth certificate no. 16186 — a daughter of D. Jona Walker and Nettie E. Walker, born 10 March 1923, Jackson Co., Texas. Ancestry record 108602949. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Father D. Jona Walker, 33, farmer, of La Ward, born McLennan Co., Texas; mother Nettie E. Walker, 26, born Nance Co., Nebraska; fifth child of the mother, 4 living; physician Jesse L. Womack, Edna. “Jona” supports Jonah over the “Jones” of the draft cards. Nettie's age, 26, fits a November 1896 birth (1930 census) rather than November 1897 (death certificate); it narrows the question but is not a birth record.Cited on Daniel Jonah Walker & Nettie Ellen "Annie" Cleveland · Nettie Ellen Cleveland.
- S408Gen. Griffith Rutherford and Allied Families (Harsh), page 141 — Philip Harsh Rutherford and Mary Martin. Ancestry record 4295225622. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed “Philip Harsh Rutherford b. Mch. 15, 1858 d. Dec. 5, 1914 at Geiger, Ala. M'd Mary Martin b. Sept. 8, 1868 m'd 1890. Was dtr. of Mr. Joseph Martin of Sumner Co., Tenn. … Mrs. Martin was a member of the Chenault family”; eight children with birth dates: Homer Harding (1892), Nannie Bell (1894, d. Nashville 1906), Emma Louise (1896), Amanda Catherine (1899), Philip Horace (1902), Joseph Cheselton (1904), Martin (1908) and Mary Bell (1911). The same book as S204 (page 175). A published genealogy, not a primary record; its 1890 marriage year agrees with the 1910 census (S411) but not with 1900 (S409).Cited on Mary Jane Martin.
- S4091900 U.S. Federal Census — P. H. Rutherford household, 10th Civil District, Sumner Co., Tennessee (ED 118, sheet 15A, lines 48–50). Ancestry record 61310653. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed P. H. Rutherford, head, born March 1858, 42, farming; wife M. M., born September 1868, 31, married 9 years, mother of 4 children, 4 living; son H. H., born July 1892. The rest of the household (three daughters and a servant, per the index) is on sheet 15B, not yet examined. Married 9 years here points to c.1891; 1910 says 20 years (c.1890).Cited on Mary Jane Martin.
- S410City of Nashville, Tennessee, death certificate no. 1106 — Nannie Bell Rutherford, 20 August 1906. Ancestry record 22516515. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Nannie Bell Rutherford, schoolgirl, born 14 February 1894 in Texas, died 20 August 1906 at Douglas Infirmary, Nashville, of peritonitis following appendicitis; father P. H. Rutherford, informant, of Gallatin R.F.D. 3; mother's maiden name Mary Martin; buried at Gallatin. The father gave his own initials as P. H. The reverse of Mary's childhood carte de visite reads “Mrs. T. H. Rutherford”; every record here says P., so the T is taken as a misread P.Cited on Mary Jane Martin · Timeline.
- S4111910 U.S. Federal Census — Philip H. Rutherford household, Long Hollow Pike, Civil District No. 4, Sumner Co., Tennessee (ED 134, sheet 8A, lines 12–19). Ancestry record 129787485. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Philip H. Rutherford, 52, farmer and employer, owning his farm free; wife Mary M., 42, married 20 years, mother of 7 children, 6 living; Homer H., 17, and Emma L., 14, both born Texas; Amanda, 11, Philip H. Jr., 8, Joseph E., 5, and Martin, 2, born Tennessee; street written in the margin as Long Hollow Pike. The two eldest children's Texas birthplaces place the family in Texas about 1892–96.Cited on Mary Jane Martin.
- S4121920 U.S. Federal Census — Mary M. Rutherford household, Cordell Township, Washita Co., Oklahoma (ED 187, sheet 1B, lines 72–79). Ancestry record 49525031. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Mary M. Rutherford, head, 51, widowed, farmer on a dairy farm, employer, owning the farm free; children Homer, 27, farmer (born Texas), Louise, 23, rural-school teacher (born Texas), Amanda, 20, Horace, 17, Joseph, 15, Martin, 11, and Mary Bell, 8; enumerated January 1920.Cited on Mary Jane Martin.
- S4131930 U.S. Federal Census — Mary A. Rutherford household, College Street, Cordell, Washita Co., Oklahoma. Ancestry record 95451856. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Mary A. Rutherford, 61, widowed, head, owning a $1,000 house, born Tennessee, first married at 22; sons Joseph, 25, and Martin, 22, and daughter Mary B., 18, all single and born Tennessee; a lodger. Written as Mary A. here; M. or M. M. on every other sheet. Married at 22 fits 1890–91.Cited on Mary Jane Martin.
- S4141940 U.S. Federal Census — Mary Rutherford household, Cordell City, Washita Co., Oklahoma (ED 75-5A, sheet 2A, lines 34–36). Ancestry record 93015860. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Mary Rutherford, head and informant, 71, widow, born Tennessee, owning her house ($1,000), living in the same house in 1935; son Martin, 32, and daughter Mary Bell, 28, both single. Ancestry's index reads “Martue”; the image reads Martin.Cited on Mary Jane Martin.
- S4151950 U.S. Federal Census — Mary M. Rutherford household, 319 W 4th, Cordell, Washita Co., Oklahoma (ED 76-5, sheet 4, lines 14–16). Ancestry record 57486505. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Mary M. Rutherford, head, 81, widow, born Tennessee; son Martin, 42, and daughter Mary B., 38, both never married. The latest dated record of her alive. A death year of 1955 on an unsourced member photo is not used. Ancestry's index reads “Marcy M”.Cited on Mary Jane Martin.
- S4161880 U.S. Federal Census — Edward Gregg household, Carmichaels Borough, Greene Co., Pennsylvania (ED 69, page 3, dwelling 29, lines 31–34). Ancestry record 29464210. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Edward Gregg, 30, works in a planing mill, born Pennsylvania; wife Lizzie, 26, born Virginia; daughters Ethel, 4, born Pennsylvania, and Mabel, 1; enumerated 2 June 1880. Ethel's 1957 death certificate (S423) gives her birth at Carmichaels on 27 November 1875 and her parents as Edward Gregg and Elizabeth Darling; Lizzie is taken as Elizabeth. The page gives Lizzie's birthplace as Virginia on her own line and Pennsylvania on Ethel's; Virginia is held, unconfirmed. An Aaron Gregg, 54, shares the dwelling; the page does not say how he is related.Cited on Frederick Albert Proeger · Edward Gregg · Elizabeth “Lizzie” Darling · Mabel Gregg MacDonald.
- S417Pennsylvania, U.S., Marriages, 1852–1968 — marriage licence no. 6460, Fred Proeger to Ethel Gregg (docket cover; FHL film 001851681). Ancestry record 902707460. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed The docket cover reads “No. 6460. Marriage License. Fred Proeger to Ethel Gregg.” The cover carries the names only. The date (30 September 1896), the place (Washington County) and the ages come from the index, not from this image; the application and return pages have not been examined. The same image is Ancestry record 2707460.Cited on Frederick Albert Proeger · Edward Gregg.
- S4181900 U.S. Federal Census — Fred Proeger household, North Pennsylvania Avenue, Greensburg Borough ward 1, Westmoreland Co., Pennsylvania (ED 100, sheet 22B, lines 84–86). Ancestry record 42744922. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Fred Proeger, head, born November 1873, 26, married 4 years, born Pennsylvania of German-born parents, musician, renting; wife Ethel, born November 1875, 24; daughter Eleanor, born February 1898; enumerated 19 June 1900. The index's “Fred B.” is the enumerator's column code, not an initial. The same image is Ancestry record 42744921.Cited on Frederick Albert Proeger · Timeline.
- S4191910 U.S. Federal Census — Fred A. Proeger household, 131 North Maple Avenue, Greensburg Borough ward 2, Westmoreland Co., Pennsylvania (ED 128, sheet 1B, lines 98–100). Ancestry record 192460778. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Fred A. Proeger, 36, married 14 years, born Pennsylvania of German-born parents, musician who “teaches & plays” on his own account, renting 131 North Maple Avenue; wife Ethel, 34, one child born and living; daughter Eleanor E., 12, at school; enumerated 15 April 1910. Eleanor's second initial is unclear here; the 1920 sheet (S420) reads G. The same image is Ancestry record 26043052.Cited on Frederick Albert Proeger · Timeline.
- S4201920 U.S. Federal Census — Fred A. Proeger household, 131 North Maple Avenue, Greensburg Borough, part of 2nd ward, Westmoreland Co., Pennsylvania (ED 100, sheet 7B, lines 83–85). Ancestry record 34594692. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Fred A. Proeger, 46, renting, born Pennsylvania of German-born parents, teacher, piano music; wife Ethel, 44, born Pennsylvania of Pennsylvania-born parents; daughter Eleanor G., 21, single, student at a conservatory; enumerated 15–16 January 1920. Same house number and same neighbours as 1910. The same image is Ancestry record 34594691.Cited on Frederick Albert Proeger · Timeline.
S421 – S440
- S4211930 U.S. Federal Census — Fred A. Proger household, Greensburg Ward 4, Westmoreland Co., Pennsylvania (ED 65-38, sheet 8A, lines 1–3). Ancestry record 56807879. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Fred A. Proger, head, 56, renting house 223 at $60 a month, with a radio, born Pennsylvania of German-born parents, first married at 22; wife Ethel, 54, first married at 20; a roomer, a schoolteacher; enumerated 10 April 1930. Spelled Proger on the sheet. His occupation is written only as “M.” and is not expanded here. The street for line 1 is faint and is not given.Cited on Frederick Albert Proeger.
- S4221940 U.S. Federal Census — Fred Proeger household, 533 Fremont Avenue, Greensburg ward 8, Westmoreland Co., Pennsylvania (ED 65-60, sheet 3B, lines 66–67). Ancestry record 18754029. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Fred Proeger, head and informant, 66, born Pennsylvania, organist and musician for a church and on his own account, renting 533 Fremont Avenue at $36.50 a month, in the same house in 1935; wife Ethel, 63, born Pennsylvania; enumerated 4 April 1940. Ancestry's index reads Praeger; the image reads Proeger. The same image is Ancestry record 18754027.Cited on Frederick Albert Proeger.
- S423Pennsylvania death certificate, file no. 18938 — Ethel Gregg Proeger, 19 February 1957, Greensburg. Ancestry record 7223935. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Ethel Gregg Proeger, widow of Frederick A. Proeger, of 302 N. Pennsylvania Avenue, Greensburg, retired homemaker, born 27 November 1875 at Carmichaels, Pa., died 19 February 1957 at Greensburg, aged 81, of a cerebral haemorrhage; father Edward Gregg, mother Elizabeth Darling; buried 21 February 1957 at St. Clair Cemetery, Hempfield Township. Her parents are as the informant gave them. The marriage index names her father as A. E. Gregg; the two forms are not merged.Cited on Frederick Albert Proeger · Edward Gregg · Elizabeth “Lizzie” Darling · Timeline.
- S424Tennessee, U.S., Marriage Records — Wilson County marriage record, no. 181 (printed pp. 382–383): Chas. C. Chenault to Mandante Bradley, 15 November 1893. Ancestry record 3220078. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Licence issued at Lebanon, Tenn., on 15 November 1893 “to Chas. C. Chenault to marry Mandante Bradley”, Wm. Harkreader, clerk; the return, Wilson County, says the rite was solemnized the same day, 15 November 1893, by T. B. Larimore, M.G. The bride's given name reads Mandante, or equally Maudante: n and u cannot be told apart in this hand. The censuses give Mordalite and Mordante; the tree's Maudante is kept and the spelling stays open.Cited on Charles Coker Chenault.
- S425Tennessee death certificate no. 8387 — Charlie C. Chenault, 19 March 1936, Castalian Springs, Sumner County. Ancestry record 654969. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Charlie Cornelius Chenault (written “Cornenlis”), white, widowed, farmer for 50 years, born 28 December 1858 in Tennessee, died 19 March 1936 at Castalian Springs, Civil District 1, Sumner County, aged 77, of a cerebral haemorrhage; father David Chenault, born Kentucky; mother Louise Quisenberry, born Kentucky; buried Gallatin Cemetery, 21 March 1936. The middle name Cornelius comes from an informant in Murfreesboro; the tree has Coker. Neither is settled, and both are recorded. Gallatin is his burial place, not where he died.Cited on David Chenault · Charles Coker Chenault · Documents · Timeline.
- S426Colonial Families of the United States of America, p. 429 — the Quisenberry family: Louisa, wife of David Chenault. Ancestry record 450007999. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Probable “I. Louisa, b. in Madison County, Ky., 29th September, 1811; m. 25th October, 1827, David Chenault of the same county; they settled in Sumner County, Tenn.; 14 children.” A compiled genealogy, not an original record. Its marriage date agrees with S96. The count of 14 children is the book's and has not been checked against the censuses. Louisa's father is on p. 428, which has not been read.Cited on David Chenault.
- S427Tennessee death certificate, file no. 26 — Milton W. Chenault, 27 January 1917, Castalian Springs, Sumner County. Ancestry record 15187030. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Milton W. Chenault, white, married, farmer, born 1 June 1849 in Tennessee, died 27 January 1917 at Castalian Springs, Civil District 18, Sumner County, aged 67 years 7 months 26 days, of Bright's disease; father D. Chenault, born Kentucky; mother “Quinsberry”, born Kentucky; buried in the Chenault Graveyard, 28 January 1917. Ancestry attached this record to his father and indexed the mother as “Winesberry”; the image reads Quinsberry. The day of birth is overwritten, but the stated age counts back exactly to 1 June 1849.Cited on David Chenault · Milton Waller Chenault · Timeline.
- S4281850 U.S. Federal Census — Robert B. Martin household, District 5, Sumner County, Tennessee (dwelling 463, lines 31–34). Ancestry record 6857995. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Robert B. Martin, 23, merchant, real estate $1,500, born Tennessee; Urilda, 21; Charles H., 4 months; and Howel Webb, 16, clerk; enumerated 30 September 1850. Ancestry's index reads the wife as “Milda”; the image, and the later censuses, give Urilda. The page names no parents.Cited on Robert B. Martin · Timeline.
- S4291860 U.S. Federal Census — R. B. Martin household, Beat 2, Cherokee County, Texas, P.O. Rusk (dwellings 426–427). Ancestry record 34989871. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed R. B. Martin, 33, farmer, real estate $3,000, personal $6,000, born Tennessee; U. P., 30; Charles H., 10, and Jennie B., 8, both born Tennessee; Laura B.(?), 6, born Texas; enumerated 26 June 1860. Next door: D. B. Martin, 29, merchant, born Tennessee, with S[usa]n W., 23, born North Carolina, and Ella, 1 month. The page states no relationship between the two households. The children's birthplaces put the move from Tennessee to Texas between about 1852 and 1854.Cited on Robert B. Martin · Timeline.
- S4301870 U.S. Federal Census — Robert B. Martin household, Rusk, Cherokee County, Texas (page 6, dwelling 32, lines 10–17). Ancestry record 5079851. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Robert B. Martin, 43, merchant, real estate $2,000, personal $2,500, born Tennessee; Urilda P., 41; Charlie H., 19, and Jennie B., 17, born Tennessee; Clarra B., 10, and Percy, 6, born Texas; with Jennie Hicks, 22, a domestic servant, and George, 1; enumerated 12 July 1870. Cited on Robert B. Martin.
- S4311880 U.S. Federal Census — R. B. Martin household, East Half of Rusk, Cherokee County, Texas (ED 12, page 4, lines 12–14). Ancestry record 7324308. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed R. B. Martin, 53, widowed, farmer, born Tennessee, father born Virginia, mother born Tennessee; sons Charles H., 30, schoolteacher, born Tennessee, and Percy, 16, born Texas; enumerated 3–4 June 1880. The parents' birthplaces match Peter Hines Martin (born Virginia) and Jane Bell (born Tennessee). That is consistent with his being their son, but it is not proof, and he stays Probable.Cited on Robert B. Martin.
- S432U.S., Appointments of U. S. Postmasters, vol. 14 (1842–1858), ff. 488–489 — Gallatin (court house), Sumner County, Tennessee. Ancestry record 747676. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Probable Postmasters at Gallatin: Thomas C. Moore, 30 April 1841; Robt. B. Martin, 20 April 1848; Jno. H. Malone, 16 August 1849; Wm. Menefee, 26 December 1850. The page gives only a name, a town and a date. That this is the Robert B. of Peter H. Martin's will is a reading of place and time, not a stated fact: his successor was appointed six weeks after Peter died at Gallatin.Cited on Robert B. Martin.
- S4331910 U.S. Federal Census — Frank Kredeschmar household, Justice Precinct 6, Travis County, Texas (ED 90, sheet 3B). Ancestry record 28666865. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Frank Kredeschmar, head, 58, married, born Germany, immigrated 1883, naturalized, farmer, owns his farm free; with Thera(?), daughter, 30, born Germany; Charlie, son, born Texas; Minnie, daughter, 22; and Max, son, 16; enumerated 26 April 1910. The enumerator's spelling. He is marked married, but no wife is in the house; the page does not say where Lena was. The eldest daughter's name is hard to read.Cited on Julius Franz Kretschmar · Charlie F. Kretschmar · Max W. Kretschmar.
- S434U.S. Army Transport Service passenger lists — Santa Rosa, Bordeaux to Hoboken, sailed 16 June 1919, 250th Company Military Police (sheet 3). Ancestry record 113203882. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Kretschmar, Max W., serial 1,498,084, Private first class, 250th Company Military Police; person to notify: Mr. Frank Kretschmar, father, R.F.D. #2, Delvale, Texas; stamped “To Camp Merritt”. The list names Frank as Max's father and places him at Del Valle in June 1919. Max has no card of his own yet.Cited on Julius Franz Kretschmar · Max W. Kretschmar · Documents · Timeline.
- S435U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards — Will Kretchmar, Travis County, Texas, 5 June 1917. Ancestry record 18006513. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Registered 5 June 1917 at Austin as Will Kretchmar and signed Willie Kretschmar: age 26, born 18 October 1890, Travis County, Texas, natural-born citizen; home Del Valle, Route 2; a labourer for H. Meyer at Elroy; single; claimed exemption for heart trouble; tall, slender, grey eyes, brown hair. He claimed the exemption, but he still served from September 1917 (S142). The card does not explain his early discharge, and none is inferred here.Cited on Willie Frank "Will" Kretschmar · Migration · Timeline.
- S436Texas Birth Index, 1929, p. 1031 — Raymond Willie Kretschmar, Travis County. Ancestry record 152366261. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed “KRETSCHMAR, RAYMOND WILLIE — county 227 [Travis] — Oct 07 — M — mother LADUSCH, LIESSI — father KRETSCHMAR, WILLIE F.” A state index, not the certificate itself. It gives Liessi's maiden name as Ladusch; the 1923 marriage licence calls her Mrs. Liessi Wolter.Cited on Willie Frank "Will" Kretschmar · Hattie Elizabeth "Liessi" Ladusch.
- S437Austin, Texas, City Directory, 1954, p. 370 — Kretschmar. Ancestry record 399805248. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed “--Will F (Liessi F) carp h1911 E 1st”: Will F. Kretschmar, carpenter, and his wife Liessi, householders at 1911 East First Street, the same address as the 1930 and 1940 censuses. Max W. Kretschmar is listed just above, at Del Valle. Fred (1901 E 1st) and Charlie F. (1903 E 1st) Kretschmar are next door on the same page. The directory does not say how they are related to Will. Ancestry indexes the number as 911.Cited on Willie Frank "Will" Kretschmar · Max W. Kretschmar.
- S438U.S., School Yearbooks — Austin High School Comet, Austin, Texas, 1942: Orchestra Personnel. Ancestry record 1449559491. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed The Orchestra page of Austin High School: the orchestra was founded in 1938, and 67 names are on the roster. “Kretschmar, Lucille” is in the third column. The year 1942 is Ancestry's volume date, not printed on the page. The page gives only her name. The identification rests on the rare surname, the school and her age, 16. The group photograph carries no names, so she cannot be picked out in it.Cited on Lucille Lorine Kretschmar.
- S439U.S., School Yearbooks — The Pasadenian, Pasadena High School, Pasadena, Texas, 1959, p. 234: Sophomore Class Officers. Ancestry record 805169122. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed “Dana Parr, Treasurer; Phyllis Holder, Parliamentarian; Nancy Coffman, President; Konnie Boeger, Vice President; Sharon McKissick, Secretary” — the sophomore class, school year 1958–59. The caption does not match names to faces, so Nancy is not labelled in the photograph. Classmates are named as printed; none is identified.Cited on Nancy Martin Coffman Proeger · Documents.
- S440U.S., School Yearbooks — The Pasadenian, Pasadena High School, Pasadena, Texas, 1959, p. 99: Library Club. Ancestry record 805168830. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Library Club officers: Sam Morse, Reporter; Nancy Coffman, Treasurer; Charlene Gusky, President; Barbara Dillard, Secretary; librarians Mrs. Odessa Eskridge and Mrs. Kathleen Lege. Same volume as S439. Names are as printed.Cited on Nancy Martin Coffman Proeger · Documents.
S441 – S460
- S441U.S., School Yearbooks — Pasadena High School yearbook, Pasadena, Texas, 1960, p. 138: class portraits. Ancestry record 156538904. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed An alphabetical portrait page, Clemons to Cox; “Coffman, Nancy” is second row, left. There is no class heading on the page. S254 puts the junior class officers on p. 130 of the same book, so these are most likely the junior portraits, 1959–60. That is an inference, not printed on the page.Cited on Nancy Martin Coffman Proeger · Documents.
- S442Pennsylvania, U.S., Veterans Card Files, 1775–1948 — Proeger, L. William, Pvt., Co. I, 10th Infantry, Pennsylvania National Guard. Ancestry record 117476. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed “PROEGER L WILLIAM PVT CO I 10TH INF P.N.G.”: enlisted 1 July 1895, residence Greensburg, age 19, 5 ft 8 in, glass worker; no promotions; discharged 10 February 1898, “Removal from city”; federal service: none. The card has no birthplace or parents. It is taken as William Leonard (b. 1876) because of the rare surname, the initial, his exact age, the town and the family trade. The only other L. Proeger son was 14 in 1895. His discharge came before the 10th Pennsylvania entered federal service in 1898, so he is not credited with the Spanish–American War.Cited on William Leonard Proeger · Timeline.
- S443Württemberg, Germany, Lutheran Parish Registers — Wallhausen, marriages 1813, no. 1: Georg Andreas Renk and Margaretha Barbara Seibold, 29 January 1813. Ancestry record 14293437. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Georg Andreas Renk, born 27 April 1776, son of Georg Michael Renk, mason, and Maria Barbara, “widower of the late Maria Margaretha geb. Zins”, marries on 29 January 1813 Margaretha Barbara Seibold, born 1784 at Michelbach an der Lücke. The original register, not an index row. It is his second marriage, and it shows his first wife, Maria Margaretha Zins, died between Eva Margaretha's birth in January 1809 and January 1813. The bride's relatives and the pastor named in the entry are not kin and are not entered.Cited on Eva Margaretha Renk · Georg Andreas Renk · Maria Margaretha Zins · Georg Michael Renk · Maria Barbara (Renk) · Eva Barbara (Renk) · Timeline.
- S444Württemberg, Germany, Lutheran Parish Registers — Gerabronn, marriages 1837, no. 5: Georg Leonhard Kochendörfer and Eva Margaretha Renk, 29 November 1837. Ancestry record 914646708. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Georg Leonhard Kochendörfer, master cooper (Büttnermeister), born at Gerabronn 1 March 1811, son of Johann Georg Martin Heinrich Kochendörfer and Eva Barbara, marries on 29 November 1837 Eva Margaretha, born at Wallhausen 25 January 1809, daughter of Georg Andreas Renk, innkeeper and master baker at Wallhausen, and the late … Margaretha geb. Zins. The register image, read in place of the index rows cited before. Ancestry's index gives her birth as 15 January and her mother as “Eva Margareta Renk”; the image reads 25 January and Zins. It appears to call the mother Eva Margaretha, where the 1813 register (S443) says Maria Margaretha; the 1813 entry, made by her own husband's parish three years after her death, is followed here. The groom's mother's surname is only partly legible.Cited on Proeger & Kochendoerfer line · Minnie Margaret Kochendoerfer · Georg Leonhard Kochendörfer · Johann Georg Martin Heinrich Kochendörfer · Eva Barbara Hertweck · Eva Margaretha Renk · Georg Andreas Renk · Maria Margaretha Zins · Timeline.
- S445Tennessee, U.S., Marriage Records, 1780–2002 — Sumner County marriage bond, Colby Chenault and Araminta Harper, 8 May 1854. Ancestry record 1650318. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Bond of Colby Chenault to marry Araminta Harper, Sumner County, Tennessee, 8 May 1854; surety T. L. B. Brown(?). A bond, not a return, so it proves the intent to marry on that date. The 1910 census (S450) says the couple had been married 55 years, which fits. The surety's name is hard to read and he is not taken to be kin.Cited on Colby Burris Chenault · Timeline.
- S4461860 U.S. Federal Census — Colby Chenault household, District 2, Sumner County, Tennessee (P.O. Enon College). Ancestry record 22607022. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Colby Chenault, 29, farmer, born Kentucky, real estate $8,000, personal estate $2,200; Araminta, 24; James, 4; Allis, 1; and a farm labourer. Their first census together. The labourer is not kin.Cited on Colby Burris Chenault.
- S4471870 U.S. Federal Census — Colby Chenault household, 3rd Civil District, Sumner County, Tennessee (P.O. Castalian Springs). Ancestry record 4931289. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Colby Chenault, 39, born Kentucky; Araminta, 31; Jas., 14; Alice, 11; Nanny, 9. The household continues on the next page, which has not been read, so the rest of the children are not listed here.Cited on Colby Burris Chenault.
- S4481880 U.S. Federal Census — Colby Chenault household, 1st District, Sumner County, Tennessee (ED 208). Ancestry record 16810567. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Colby Chenault, 49, born Kentucky, father and mother both born Kentucky; Araminta, 44; and ten children. Kentucky-born parents fit David Chenault and Louisa Quisenberry, but the census does not name them. His parentage still rests on the 1850 household (S97) and Quisenberry Memorials p. 67 (S333).Cited on Colby Burris Chenault.
- S4491900 U.S. Federal Census — Colby Chenault household, 5th Civil District, Trousdale County, Tennessee. Ancestry record 61355682. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Colby Chenault, born May 1831; Arminta, born March 1836, mother of 9 children, 9 living; with Sewell, Ernest, Nannie and Sallie. Used for the residence and the family count only. Every birthplace on this household, his included, is written “Tennessee”; the other four censuses say Kentucky for him, and that is kept.Cited on Colby Burris Chenault.
- S4501910 U.S. Federal Census — Colby Chenault household, 3rd Civil District (Coles Ferry Pike), Sumner County, Tennessee. Ancestry record 27545091. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Colby Chenault, 78, born Kentucky, married 55 years, marked “Ca”, a Confederate Army veteran; Arminta, 74, 9 children born, 9 living; with Nannie L. and Sallie, a teacher. The census veterans' column gives no unit. A Tennessee Confederate pension or service file has not been searched yet.Cited on Colby Burris Chenault.
- S451Colonial Families of the United States of America, p. 428 — Quisenberry: Colby B. Quisenberry. Ancestry record 7977. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Probable Colby, sixth of the thirteen children of James Quisenberry's first marriage, born 7 July 1788, Fayette County, Virginia (now Clark County, Kentucky); died 30 December 1870; married Lucy 16 December 1810. The book lists eleven half-siblings from his father's second marriage. A compiled family history, not a record, so it is marked probable. Kentucky was still part of Virginia in 1788, which is why other sources say Virginia and the censuses say Kentucky. Quisenberry Memorials (S333) gives the death as 31 December 1870; the two books disagree by a day.Cited on Colby Burris Quisenberry · Timeline.
- S452Württemberg, Germany, Lutheran Parish Registers — Gerabronn, burials 1837, no. 29: Johann Georg Martin Heinrich Kochendörfer, 4 August 1837. Ancestry record 14648184. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Johann Georg Martin Heinrich Kochendörfer, day labourer, born 22 March 1770, son of Johann Adam Martin Kochendörfer and Catharina Sophia Barbara, died 4 August 1837 of consumption (Auszehrung) and was buried on 6 August. His wife is Eva Barbara geb. Hartweck, married (copulirt) 15 May 1810; family register folio 171. The burial register itself, not an index row. The site had his marriage as 12 May 1810 from the index; this entry and his widow's (S453) both give 15 May.Cited on Johann Georg Martin Heinrich Kochendörfer · Eva Barbara Hertweck · Johann Adam Martin Kochendörfer · Catharina Sophia Barbara (Kochendörfer) · Timeline.
- S453Württemberg, Germany, Lutheran Parish Registers — Gerabronn, burials 1848, no. 9: Eva Barbara Kochendörfer geb. Hartweck, 18 May 1848. Ancestry record 14648485. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Eva Barbara Kochendörfer, geb. Hartweck, widow, born at Oberweiler [?] 3 May 1779, daughter of Johann Georg Hartweck, herdsman, and Maria Margaretha Schnürmann [?], died 18 May 1848 of dropsy of the heart and was buried on 20 May. Her husband died 4 August 1837; they married 15 May 1810; family register folio 171. The register spells her surname Hartweck; the site keeps the index spelling Hertweck for her name. Her birthplace and her mother's surname are only partly legible.Cited on Johann Georg Martin Heinrich Kochendörfer · Eva Barbara Hertweck · Johann Georg Hartweck · Maria Margaretha (Scheuermann) Hartweck · Timeline.
- S454Kentucky, U.S., Death Records, 1852–1965 — Elizabeth Hoskins, Island City, Owsley County, 1911. Ancestry record 750410452. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Probable Elizabeth Hoskins, born 26 April 1831; father James Brock, born Harlan County; mother's maiden name Betsy Howard, born Harlan County. She died 13 May 1911, cerebral apoplexy (the same image is Ancestry record 600410452). The informant, H. D. Peters of Island City, was also the undertaker, and very probably her son-in-law Harden D. Peters, in whose home she lived in 1910 (S748). It is still one statement, made eighty years after her birth, so Betsy's maiden name is treated as probable until a second source agrees.Cited on Overview · James Brock · Elizabeth “Betsy” Brock · Elizabeth Brock Hoskins · Timeline.
- S455Kentucky, U.S., Death Records, 1852–1965 — Hiram B. Howard, Harlan County, 1915. Ancestry record 751259890. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Hiram B. Howard, born 23 November 1837, son of John Cony [Covey] Howard and Matilda Brock; informant H. H. Howard of Wallins Creek. The image behind the site's existing statement that his death record names John Covey Howard and Matilda Brock as his parents.Cited on John Covey Howard · Matilda Brock Howard · John Howard.
- S4561910 U.S. Federal Census — Julius H. Proeger household, Ward 19, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (ED 531), 1836 Lang Avenue. Ancestry record 23848989. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Julius H. Proeger, 42, clerk, born Pennsylvania, both parents born Germany, married 21 years; Ida W., 39, mother of 1 child, 1 living; son Edgar W., 19; and a German-born servant. The servant is not kin, though the relationship column calls her “daughter”. German-born parents fit Julius Karl Proeger and Minnie Kochendoerfer, but the census does not name them.Cited on Proeger & Kochendoerfer line · Julius Herman Proeger · Ida Elizabeth Waggoner.
- S4571880 U.S. Federal Census — Edward Hawkins household, Hilburn Township, Madison County, Arkansas (ED 104). Ancestry record 5406246. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Emily Hawkins, 24, born Kentucky, father born Kentucky, mother born Tennessee, wife of Edward Hawkins, 40, born Georgia; Ellen 6, Harry 4, Allie 3, Elizabeth 3 months; stepson William 16. It matches the family typescript's “m. Ed. Hawkins”. Hilburn Township is where Matilda Brock's household was in 1880 (S166).Cited on Emily Bowles.
- S4581910 U.S. Federal Census — John B. Brock household, Natchitoches, Louisiana (ED 80). Ancestry record 9240301. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed John B. Brock, 35, minister, born Arkansas, parents both born Kentucky, married 8 years; Jimmie, 26; John B. Jr., 7; Ruth, 2. Ancestry's index reads his age as 25; the image reads 35, which fits his December 1874 birth.Cited on John B. Brock.
- S4591920 U.S. Federal Census — John B. Brock household, Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana (ED 88). Ancestry record 25029764. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed John B. Brock, 45, minister, owns his home; Jimmie, 36; John B. Jr., 16; Ruth, 12; Edwin, 9; and his mother-in-law Amanda Stewart, 70, born Alabama. Amanda Stewart as mother-in-law makes Jimmie's maiden name probably Stewart. No marriage record has been read.Cited on John B. Brock.
- S4601930 U.S. Federal Census — John B. Brock household, Ward 2, Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana (ED 49-2). Ancestry record 35843677. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed “John E.” [John B.] Brock, 56, contractor (hauling dirt), married at 27, parents born Kentucky; Jimmie, 47; John Jr., 26; Ruth, 22, teacher; Edward, 19; Amanda Stewart, 83; and Thelma. The enumerator wrote “John E.”; the household, ages and the mother-in-law match 1920. Thelma's relationship is not stated.Cited on John B. Brock.
S461 – S480
- S4611860 U.S. Federal Census — John C. Howard household, Harlan County, Kentucky, p. 125 (P.O. Harlan Courthouse). Ancestry record 39162629. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed John C. Howard, 53, farmer, real estate $2,000, personal $1,000; wife Mary, 35; Elizabeth, 17. The household, dwelling 822, continues on page 126, read from the image on 22 September 2026: Mary, 15, Matilda, 13, Jacob, 11, a girl of 4, Henry, 3, and Araminta, 1 [S165]. The schedule states no relationships; Mary, 35, is taken to be his wife, and his second: the 1850 household has no adult woman in it [S967] and the 1861 birth register names Mary Morris as the mother of his daughter Sarah [S626].Cited on John Covey Howard · Matilda Brock Howard · Timeline.
- S4621830 U.S. Federal Census — Harlan County, Kentucky, p. 117: James Brock. Ancestry record 1858460. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Line 1, James Brock: one man 20–30, one woman 20–30, three boys under 5. Line 3 is John Howard (20–30, with a wife 20–30) and line 4 Hiram Brock. The same page has a James Brock Senr, a couple aged 50–60. Ancestry hinted the older household, James Brock Senr. The couple on this site is line 1, whose ages fit James (born about 1804) and Betsy (about 1803). James Brock Senr is a candidate father for James, not proven.Cited on Overview · James Brock · Elizabeth “Betsy” Brock.
- S463Nebraska, U.S., County Marriage Records — Nance County, p. 145: Milton Cleavland and Maud Warner, 4 February 1896. Ancestry record 116059. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Milton Cleavland, 23, born Rockland [Rocklin], California, son of C. E. Cleavland and V. J. Smith; Maud Warner, 18, born Nebraska, daughter of Clifford Warner. Licence 3 February 1896 at Fullerton; married 4 February 1896 at Belgrade. One register page carries both of Ancestry's hints (record 900116059 for Maud). Her mother's name is left blank.Cited on Overview · Melton Cleaveland · Maude Melville Warner · Charles Edgar Cleveland · Victoria Janette Smith · Clifford Warner · Ella (Shreckengost) Warner.
- S464Wyoming, U.S., Death Records — Milton Cleaveland, Sheridan, 1939. Ancestry record 180607657. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Milton Cleaveland, carpenter, died 2 June 1939 at Sheridan, Wyoming; born 15 July 1872, Rocklin, California; father Charles E., born Michigan; mother born Wood County, Ohio; wife and informant Alice L.; buried Sheridan Municipal Cemetery, 6 June. The Cleveland genealogy (S467) and the 1880 census (S465) put his birth in 1873; the day, 15 July, agrees.Cited on Melton Cleaveland · Charles Edgar Cleveland · Victoria Janette Smith · Documents · Timeline.
- S4651880 U.S. Federal Census — Chas. Cleaveland household, Penn Township, Cass County, Michigan (ED 72, p. 15). Ancestry record 31126485. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Chas. Cleaveland, 34, labourer; Janette, 36, born Ohio; Anna J., 11; Milton, 6, born California. Cited on Melton Cleaveland · Charles Edgar Cleveland · Victoria Janette Smith.
- S4661930 U.S. Federal Census — Milton Cleveland household, Fullerton Township, Nance County, Nebraska (ED 63-7). Ancestry record 107521117. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Milton Cleveland, 57, park caretaker, first married at 23; Alice, 52, born Iowa, first married at 40. Alice is his widow in 1939 (S464). Whether she is the wife of the 1910 household (S224) is not settled.Cited on Melton Cleaveland.
- S467Descendants of Moses Cleveland (printed genealogy), p. 1939, no. 11632: Charles Edgar Cleveland. Ancestry record 3845121. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Probable Charles Edgar Cleveland, son of Solomon, married 11 April 1866 at Rives, Michigan, Victoria Janette Smith, born 19 March 1844 in Ohio, daughter of Jeremiah Smith and Patience Kittle. In Placer County, California, 1883. Children Anna Jane (1869), Milton (15 July 1873) and Ella. A derivative book. The parents' names agree with the marriage register (S463) and the 1880 census (S465); the ancestry back of Charles Edgar rests on the book alone.Cited on Melton Cleaveland · Charles Edgar Cleveland · Victoria Janette Smith · Jeremiah Smith · Patience Kittle · Solomon Cleveland · Mary Malinda Thompson · Documents.
- S468Texas, U.S., Death Certificates — Freda Herber Wesson, Comfort, Kendall County, 1973 (no. 54660). Ancestry record 1563803. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Freda Herber Wesson, died 18 July 1973 at Comfort, Kendall County; born 3 August 1896, Austin, Texas; father Otto Ladusch, mother Emma Stein; informant Mrs. Liessi Kretschmar; buried Oakwood Cemetery, Austin. Her own 1942 statement (S469) gives her birthplace as New Ulm, Austin County; “Austin” here may be the county read as the city.Cited on Frieda Ladusch · Documents.
- S469Texas, U.S., Birth Certificates (corrected 1942) — Roy Otto Herber, Austin, 17 April 1918 (no. 21667). Ancestry record 123242981. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Roy Otto Herber, born 17 April 1918 at Seton Infirmary, Austin; father Otto Carl Herber, 25, piano tuner; mother Freda Bertha Ladusch, 22, born New Ulm, Austin County, stenographer. The correction affidavit was sworn by Freda herself.Cited on Frieda Ladusch · Documents.
- S470Texas, U.S., County Marriage Records — Travis County, vol. 20, p. 633, licence 1040: Otto C. Herber and Frieda B. Ladusch, 26 August 1916. Ancestry record 130800425. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Licence issued and marriage performed 26 August 1916 at Austin: Otto C. Herber and Miss Frieda B. Ladusch, by Gideon Olson. Cited on Frieda Ladusch · Documents · Timeline.
- S471Texas, U.S., Lutheran Church Records — Gethsemane Lutheran Church, Austin, marriages p. 89, 26 August 1916. Ancestry record 153392936. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Otto Herber, 23, and Freida “Lodusch”, 20, married 26 August 1916 by Pastor G. C. Olson. The church register agrees with the county licence (S470).Cited on Frieda Ladusch · Documents · Timeline.
- S4721930 U.S. Federal Census — Otto Herber household, Austin, Travis County, Texas (ED 227-15). Ancestry record 60719765. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed 907 W. 29th Street, owned, $3,000: Otto “Heber”, 37, piano tuner; Freda, 33, first married at 20; Roy, 12. Cited on Frieda Ladusch.
- S473Texas, U.S., Death Certificates — Clara Frances Semff, Cleburne, 1967 (no. 39735). Ancestry record 1020206. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Clara Frances Semff, died 17 June 1967 at Cleburne; born 5 August 1881, Germany; father Franc Kretschmar, mother Lena Landrock; of Old Betsy Road, Keene; buried Rio Vista Cemetery, 19 June. Cited on Lena Kretschmar · Clara Frances Kretschmar Semff.
- S474Texas, U.S., Death Certificates — Minnie Johanna Reininger, Austin, 1978 (no. 05706). Ancestry record 887799. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Minnie Johanna Reininger, died 18 January 1978 at Austin; born 11 March 1888, Travis County; father Frank Kretschmar, mother Lena “Lantrop” [Landrock]; informant her son Frank Reininger; buried Capital Memorial Gardens. Cited on Lena Kretschmar · Minnie Johanna Kretschmar Reininger.
- S475Texas, U.S., Birth Certificates — unnamed son of Albert Reininger, Caldwell County, 10 July 1911 (no. 28393). Ancestry record 120184061. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed A son born 10 July 1911, two miles south-west of Lytton Springs, Caldwell County; father Albert Reininger, farmer; mother “Miss Minna Kretschman”. The child is Willie of the 1920 census (S476).Cited on Minnie Johanna Kretschmar Reininger · Documents.
- S4761920 U.S. Federal Census — Albert Reininger household, Justice Precinct 5, Caldwell County, Texas (ED 60). Ancestry record 22164835. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Albert Reininger, 37, cotton farmer, renting; Minnie, 31; Willie, 8; Frank, 4. This line gives Minnie's mother as born in Texas, against the German-born Landrock family; a single census line.Cited on Minnie Johanna Kretschmar Reininger.
- S4771940 U.S. Federal Census — Albert C. Reininger household, Precinct 6, Travis County, Texas (ED 227-83). Ancestry record 157060804. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Albert C. Reininger, 58, farmer; Minnie, 52; Frank, 22; Harry, 21; in rural Travis County in 1935. Cited on Minnie Johanna Kretschmar Reininger.
- S478Texas, U.S., Death Certificates — C. B. Caffey, Austin, 1948 (no. 9724). Ancestry record 83851818. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Probable C. B. Caffey, born 7 October 1865, Mobile, Alabama, died 15 February 1948 at the Texas Confederate Home for Men, Austin; father Hooper Van Caffey; mother Amy Richardson, born Alabama; buried Elgin. The informant was the institution, so Amy Richardson as Hooper's first wife is held as probable. The 1880 census (S479) agrees: his older children have an Alabama-born mother.Cited on Hooper Van Caffey · Charles B. (C. B.) Caffey · Timeline.
- S4791880 U.S. Federal Census — Hooper V. Caffey household, Wards Store (Snake Prairie), Bastrop County, Texas (ED 10, p. 17). Ancestry record 6521306. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Hooper V., 48; Mandy, 30, born Georgia; John W., 20; Cordelia D. P., 17; Charls B., 14; Annie B., 9; Thomas W.; Jessie [?]; James C., 2; and the widowed daughter Fanny E. Willson, 21. One page, two hints (record 7179290 for Amanda). The children to Charls B. have an Alabama-born mother, those from Annie B. on a Georgia-born one.Cited on Hooper Van Caffey · Anna Bell Caffey Gold · Charles B. (C. B.) Caffey.
- 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. Cited on James Elmo Gold · Amanda Melvina Griffin · Anna Bell Caffey Gold · Timeline.
S481 – S500
- S481Texas, U.S., Confederate Pension Applications — widow's application no. 27929, Mrs. Mattie Caffey, 1914. Ancestry record 78940. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Mrs. Mattie Caffey, 63, born Georgia, widow of Hooper Van Caffey, who died 30 November 1901; he served in the 10th Alabama Infantry and held Texas pension no. 204. She gives the marriage as 15 April 1869, Pike County, and says she came to Texas in December 1872; post office Elgin. Filed May 1914, allowed from 1 June 1914. The Pike County register (S482) gives the marriage as 1 May 1870, and that date stands. The county of death is overwritten, probably Caldwell.Cited on Caffey line · Hooper Van Caffey · Amanda Melvina Griffin · Migration · Timeline.
- S482Alabama, U.S., County Marriage Records — Pike County, pp. 405–6: H. V. Caffey and Amanda M. Griffin, 1870. Ancestry record 1425700. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Licence and bond 21 April 1870, H. V. Caffey and Miss Amanda M. Griffin, bondsman J. L. Soles; married 1 May 1870. One image, two hints (record 901425700 for Amanda).Cited on Hooper Van Caffey.
- S4831900 U.S. Federal Census — Hooper V. Caffey household, Justice Precinct 7, Bastrop County, Texas (ED 12). Ancestry record 70171221. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Hooper V., born October 1832; Amanda M., mother of 12 children, 7 living, married 31 years; John C., 1878; Arthur C., 1893; Thomas W., born October 1872, married 4 years; Emma R., daughter-in-law; and Mattie L., granddaughter, born October 1898. One page, two hints (record 70171222 for Amanda).Cited on Amanda Melvina Griffin.
- S4841850 U.S. Federal Census — Charles Caffey household, 2nd District, Montgomery County, Alabama, p. 152. Ancestry record 15675750. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Dwelling 19: Charles Caffey, 61, born North Carolina, farmer; Nancy, 59, born North Carolina; Elizabeth J., 22; Hooper V., 17, born Alabama, farmer. Thomas (66), Michael (68) and Lindsey R. Caffey (34), all born North Carolina, live within four dwellings. The 1850 census names no relationships, so this is co-residence, not proof that Charles was Hooper's father. It is the first record for that link.Cited on Overview · Caffey line · Hooper Van Caffey · Charles Caffey · Nancy (Lewis) Caffey · John Caffey Sr. · Mary Buchanan · Documents.
- S485Texas, U.S., Death Certificates — infant daughter of T. G. Collins, Elgin, 1923 (no. 28304). Ancestry record 771712415. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed An infant daughter of T. G. Collins, born and died 20 October 1923; mother Mattie Lee Caffey, born Elgin; father born Tenaha, Texas; buried Beaukiss. Cited on Mattie Lee Caffey · Documents.
- S4861930 U.S. Federal Census — Thomas G. Collins household, Precinct 4, Bastrop County, Texas (ED 11-12). Ancestry record 65796254. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Thomas G. Collins, 32, farmer, renting; Mattie L., 32, first married at 25; sons Ladell J. and Howard R. Cited on Mattie Lee Caffey.
- S487Texas, U.S., Death Certificates — Hayden R. Nesmith, Lubbock, 1980 (no. 89259). Ancestry record 727183. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Hayden R. Nesmith, died 18 October 1980 at Lubbock, aged 66; a Second World War veteran; agent for the Santa Fe Railway, and an author and poet; wife Frances (née Coffman), informant; buried Resthaven Memorial Park, 20 October. The image carries a Social Security number; it is not transcribed here and the image is not reproduced.Cited on James Burton Coffman.
- S488U.S., World War II Draft Registration Cards — Hayden Ralph Nesmith, Taylor County, Texas. Ancestry record 20207423. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Hayden Ralph Nesmith, born 15 April 1914, Taylor County, Texas, farmer, Route 2, Abilene; contact his mother, Mrs. Maud Marian Nesmith. Cited on James Burton Coffman.
- S489Virginia, U.S., Wills and Probate Records — Page County Will Book P–S, p. 158: will of David C. Coffman, proved 28 February 1883. Ancestry record 2168515. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed “I David C. Coffman of the County of Page”: one third of his personal property, and the income of a third of his land for life, to “my beloved wife Mildred F. Coffman”; the residue equally among “all my children, viz: Susan M. France wife of R. Lee France, Annie B. McKim wife of A. W. McKim, Jane C. Chapman wife of John N. Chapman, William S. Coffman, and David E. Coffman”; executor his son-in-law A. W. McKim. Signed 13 February 188[?], witnesses Samuel Spitler and Wm. L. Hudson; proved 28 February 1883 in the Page County court. The last digit of the signing year is lost at the page edge. The first document to name all five children together, and the third, after S82 and S20, to tie Dee to David C.Cited on Coffman, Wright & Brooks line · David Emily "Dee" Coffman · David C. Coffman · Documents · Timeline.
- S490U.S., School Yearbooks — Milestones, Ward-Belmont School, Nashville, 1935, p. 68: French Club. Ancestry record 205222076. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed The French Club photograph, bottom row: “Louise Timberman”, eleventh from left. The same yearbook has her in the F. F. Club (S395).Cited on Louise Martin Timberman.
- S491U.S., School Yearbooks — McCallum High School, Austin, 1963, p. 109: McCallum v. Killeen, 13–12. Ancestry record 572852004. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed “Tommy Caffey: junior halfback, 1-year letterman”, with an action photograph in jersey 24; “Tommy Caffey saved the day with his extra point. The final score, 13-12 for the Knights.” Cited on Thomas Alan Caffey · Timeline.
- S492U.S., School Yearbooks — McCallum High School, Austin, 1963, p. 172: honors feature. Ancestry record 572852113. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed “A junior at McCallum, Tommy Caffey has received many honors”: vice-president of his sophomore class, president of his junior class, vice-president of the spring Student Council, on the all-A honor roll four times, and Junior Class Favorite; B team and varsity football. With a portrait. Cited on Thomas Alan Caffey · Timeline.
- S493Kentucky, U.S., Death Records — City of Lexington, Registered No. 217: Colby B. Quisenberry, 1907. Ancestry record 601240356. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Colby B. Quisenberry [Jr.], widower, born 31 August 1822, Madison County, Kentucky, died 20 March 1907 at Avon, Fayette County; father Colby B. Quisenberry, born Virginia; mother Lucy Bush; informant his son Colby B. Quisenberry Jr.; buried Lexington Cemetery. The informant was a grandson. Three censuses and his brother's 1914 certificate (S494) put the elder Colby's birth in Kentucky.Cited on Colby Burris Quisenberry · Lucy Bush · Colby B. Quisenberry Jr. · Documents · Timeline.
- S494Kentucky, U.S., Death Records — Montgomery County, file no. 8269: John Martin Quisenberry, 1914. Ancestry record 751294136. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed John Martin Quisenberry, retired farmer, born 26 April 1833, Clark County, Kentucky, died 10 March 1914; father Colby Quisenberry, born Madison County; mother Lucy Bush, born Clark County; informant Sarah Frances Quisenberry; buried Machpelah Cemetery, Mt. Sterling. Lucy's birthplace comes from her son's informant, so it is secondary.Cited on Colby Burris Quisenberry · Lucy Bush · John Martin Quisenberry · Timeline.
- S4951850 U.S. Federal Census — Colby B. Quisenbery household, District 2, Clark County, Kentucky. Ancestry record 16999313. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Dwelling 211, 17 August 1850: Colby B., 61, farmer, real estate about $41,580; Lucy, 60; Tandy, 24; Elkanah, 19; John M., 17 (all born Kentucky); and a labourer, Samuel Kapell. A Tandy Quisenbery, 59, farms two dwellings away. One page, two hints (record 16999314 for Lucy).Cited on Colby Burris Quisenberry · Lucy Bush · Timeline.
- S4961860 U.S. Federal Census — Colby Quesinbery household, District 2, Clark County, Kentucky (P.O. Winchester). Ancestry record 39306011. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed 14 July 1860: Colby, 71, farmer, real estate $30,600; Lucy B., 70; Elkanah, 27; Martin, 25, shoe merchant; Sarah, 20; and two Perkins children, Leslie C., 11, and Rachael B., 9. One page, two hints (record 39306012 for Lucy). The page does not say who the Perkins children were.Cited on Colby Burris Quisenberry · Lucy Bush.
- S4971870 U.S. Federal Census — Colby Quisenberry household, Precinct 6, Clark County, Kentucky (P.O. Winchester). Ancestry record 22007133. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed August 1870: Colby, 80, retired farmer, real estate $12,000, marked “Insane”; Lucy, 78. One page, two hints (record 18428720 for Lucy). He was alive in August 1870, so the family books' 1870 death falls after the census.Cited on Colby Burris Quisenberry · Lucy Bush.
- S498U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications — national no. 27139, James Marvin Hinkle, 1914. Ancestry record 315470. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Probable A great-grandson's lineage: Colby Burris Quisenberry (1788–1870) and Lucy Bush (1790–1872), married 1810; Lucy the daughter of Francis Bush and Rachel Martin (his second wife); Francis Bush born 23 February 1750, Orange County, Virginia, died 1836, Clark County, a private in the 2nd Virginia. The supplemental line gives Colby's parents as James Quisenberry (1759–1830) and Jane Burris, married 1776. A compiled lineage of 1914, not a record, so the parents are probable. The cover sheet is record 315462.Cited on Colby Burris Quisenberry · Lucy Bush · Rev. James Quisenberry · Jane Burris · Francis Bush · Rachel Martin Bush · James Francis Quisenberry.
- S499DAR Lineage Book, p. 189, no. 88597: Miss Elizabeth B. Karr. Ancestry record 2609444. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Probable Descent through Colby Burris Quisenberry Jr. (1822–1907), who married Sallie Tribble in 1847, from Colby Burris Quisenberry (1788–1870) and Lucy Bush (1790–1872), married 1810, and from James Quisenberry (1759–1830), born Spotsylvania County, Virginia, died Clark County, Kentucky, a private in the Virginia militia. A printed compilation. It agrees with the SAR application (S498).Cited on Colby Burris Quisenberry · Rev. James Quisenberry · Jane Burris.
- S500DAR Lineage Book, p. 101, no. 141325: Mrs. Electra Helm Withers. Ancestry record 3600439. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Probable Descent through Joyce Duncan Quisenberry (1828–1911), wife of Joseph H. Withers, from Colby Burris Quisenberry and Lucy Bush; Francis Bush married second Rachel Martin (1767–1860), daughter of Lieut. John Martin and Rachel Pierce. It gives Jane Burris's birth as 1739, where the SAR application (S498) says 1759. Both are recorded.Cited on Colby Burris Quisenberry · Lucy Bush · Francis Bush · Rachel Martin Bush · Lieut. John Martin · Rachel Pace Martin.
Where we looked and found nothing
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