Bowles, Williams & Brock

Bowles, Williams & Brock

Kentucky → Taylor County, Texas · reaches generation 8

Kentucky→Taylor County, Texas

1. G6 · 4th-great-grandparents · new, 22 September 2026 William A. Bowles  ⚭  Lucy Bowles — Owsley County, Kentucky, born in Virginia. He b. c.1787, VIRGINIA · she b. c.1805, VIRGINIA. 🔑 A new generation above James Daniel Bowles, and it is published as PROBABLE. The 1850 census of Owsley County, enumerated 10 September 1850 S155, puts Wm A Bowles, 63, Farmer, $1,200 in real estate, born Virginia and Lucy Bowles, 45, born Virginia at the head of dwelling 367, with Thomas 23, Hugh[s] 21, James, William 14, Sarah 8 and Margaret 5, all born Kentucky. ⚠ The hedge is the point, and it is stated plainly: a census household list states no relationship. No document read in this research uses the word "son" of James against these two, so the link is probable, not confirmed. What carries it 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 next county S156 at exactly the right ages: Hughs 34, W. A. 27 and James 32. 🔑 These are the only Virginia births on this line, and they are also the likely source of a slip a generation down: Lucinda Carpenter's 1920 Arizona certificate gives Virginia for both of James's parents' birthplaces S158, where James himself was Kentucky-born — the informant was one generation out, and these are the Virginians he was reaching for. ⚠ Lucy's maiden surname is not known; no record read gives it. ⚠ At 63 and 45 in 1850 they are eighteen years apart, and neither birth date is attested by anything but an age column. Probable
2. G6 · and on the Williams side · new, 22 September 2026 Moses Williams  ⚭  Nancy Williams — Owsley County, Kentucky, from Tennessee. He b. c.1800 · she b. c.1802, both born Tennessee, both unable to read or write. 🔑 A new generation on a line that had none — first published as a candidate on 22 September; approved as PROBABLE and entered in the family tree on 24 September 2026, labelled probable there too. The Williams side stopped at Lydia. The 1850 census of Owsley County, enumerated 4 September 1850 S173, gives dwelling 281 as Moses Williams, 50, Farmer, $750 in real estate, Nancy, 48, Nathan 21, a son of 18 whose given name has faded off the page, Lydia, 15, born Tennessee, George 10, Nancy 8 and Abraham, 5, born Kentucky — in the county Lydia marries in six years later S143, and no second Lydia Williams is on the page. ⚠ The hedge is the point and it is stated plainly: a census names a household, not a parentage. An 1850 schedule states no relationship whatever, Ancestry's own word is inferred, and this is one sheet, not the two-census chain the Brock candidates rest on — weaker, and labelled so. Now on the family tree as PROBABLE, with cards for Moses and Nancy Williams. 🔑 The move out of Tennessee dates to c.1842 × c.1845 — Nancy, 8, born Tennessee; Abraham, 5, born Kentucky. Lydia was a child of seven to ten when they came. ⚠ Nancy's maiden surname is not known; no record read gives it. ⚠ What would settle it is the 1840 schedule with the same household, the 1856 Owsley marriage bond naming a father's consent, or a probate for Moses Williams — none pulled. ⚠ Line 21's son is not named James here: Ancestry's reading is of ink no longer on the page. Later records: in 1870 Moses, 69, and Nancy, 67, were in McKee Precinct, Jackson County, Kentucky S620; in June 1880 a widowed Nanci Williams, 78, probably Nancy, was living with Sam and Nancy Evans in Madison County, Arkansas S635. Probable
3. G5 · 3rd-great-grandparents James Daniel Bowles  ⚭  Lydia Williams 1831–1889 · she 1835–1876. FindAGrave parent links for the attachment S22. A county register now puts them on one line S143: March 1856, Owsley County, Kentucky — James Bowles, resident Owsley Co., age 20, Single, born Estill County, Kentucky; Lydia Williams, resident Owsley Co., age 20, Single, born Hawkins County, Tennessee — her birthplace, which the tree carried with nothing behind it, is now in a clerk's hand, and her age 20 contains the tree's 30 May 1835 without proving it. 🔑 The 1850 sheet tightens that to two days S173: Lydia, 15, on the 1 June 1850 reference day, requires a birth between 2 June 1834 and 1 June 1835, and 30 May 1835 is inside it. Her birthplace is Tennessee and stays Tennessee — at fifteen in her own household S173, on the 1856 register, and on the 1860 sheet S171. ⚠ Her children's two death certificates disagree with each other and with the record: Lucinda's 1920 Arizona certificate says Virginia S158 and William Anderson's 1936 Texas certificate says Kentucky. Two informants, two different wrong answers, sixty and eighty years on; recorded so the question is not reopened. ⚠ The day is not on the sheet — the day is clipped at the gutter, the image reads March 1856, and the 6 March comes from Ancestry's index of the register. ⚠ And the register disputes his year: age 20 in March 1856 puts the groom's birth about 1835–1836, against the 1831 above, which rests on FindAGrave alone; the page names him simply James Bowles, with no middle name. Either 1831 is wrong or this is a different man — recorded, not resolved, and the chip stays Probable. 🔑 Three more records now stand on this couple, read 22 September 2026. The 1863 draft list for the 12th Sub-District of Jackson County, Kentucky S156 enrols Bowls, James, 32, White, Farmer, Mard, born Kentucky in June 1863 — an occupation the index omits and the only dated residence between the 1856 marriage and the 1870 census; enrolment is liability for the draft, not service, and the former-service column is blank. The 1870 census of Travellers Rest Precinct, Owsley County S157, enumerated 30 June 1870, puts James, 39, Farmer, personal estate $150 and NO real estate — and 🔑 that empty column is a LOSS, not a constant: the 1860 census of Travellers Rest, enumerated 27 June 1860 S171, gives him $500 in real estate, with Lydia, 27, born Tenn, who could not read or write, Emily, 4, and William, 2 — William Anderson Bowles's earliest census appearance, corroborating the birth register's 9 April 1858 S160. He held land in 1860 and held none in 1870, and his personal estate fell from $200 to $150. ⚠ That sheet also unsettles the couple's relative ages: both 20 in 1856 S143, Lydia 27 to James 25 in 1860, James 39 to Lydia 35 in 1870 — three records, three answers, recorded and not resolved. ⚠ No Daniel G. Bowls is anywhere on the 1860 page; our man is plain James, and the agricultural-schedule farm to pursue is "James M. Bowls" with Lydia, 35, born TENNESSEE and eight children — Emily 13, William 12, James D 10, Nancy 8, Sarah 6, Joanna 5, Martha E 2 and Lucinda, four months, born within the year, month Feb. 🔑 That Lucinda is the one who closes a loop in Arizona. Her own 1920 Phoenix death certificate S158 gives born 27 February 1870, Kentucky, and names father James Bowles and maiden name of mother WILLIAMS — Lydia's maiden surname on a third independent document, from another state, fifty years on. 🔴 That certificate is indexed by Ancestry under James Bowles and is NOT his death record; he appears on it in one box, Name of Father. It must never be cited as his. 🔑 His birth date is now corrected to 1830–31. Three schedules' own age columns — 19 in 1850, 32 in 1863 and 39 in 1870 — are mutually consistent and all require a birth between mid-1830 and mid-1831. The Ancestry tree now reads between 1830 and 1831, from his ages 19 in 1850 S155, 32 in 1863 S156 and 39 in 1870 S157; the uncited July-1831 day it carried before was dropped on 22 September 2026. None of the three states a day, so none is given here. Probable
4. G6 · and on the Brock side · new, 22 September 2026 James Brock  ⚭  Elizabeth Brock — Harlan then Laurel County, Kentucky. He b. c.1804 · she b. c.1803, both born Kentucky. 🔑 A sixth generation on a line that had none — first published as a candidate on 22 September; approved as PROBABLE and entered in the family tree on 24 September 2026. The Brock side of Generation 6 stood empty: Solomon Alfred Brock had no parents on this record at all. Two censuses, ten years and two counties apart, now put him in the same household. The 1850 census of District No. 1, Harlan County, enumerated 21 August 1850 S169, gives dwelling 381 as James Brock, 45, Farmer, $600 in real estate, Elizabeth, 46, and Caleb 16, Sabra 14, Solomon 12, Mary 9, Mahala 6 and Caroline V. 3. The 1860 census of Laurel County, enumerated 25 July 1860 S167, gives dwelling 760 as James Brock, 56, U.B. Clergym'n, $700 real and $152 personal, Elizabeth, 57, and the same children ten years on — Caleb 26, Sabrey A. 24, Soleman 22, Mary J. 19, Mahala 17, Carline C. 13, with only Hetia C., 10 added, born between the sheets. Eight people twice, a decade apart, in two counties; nobody drops out. ⚠ The hedge is the point and it is stated plainly: a census names a household, not a parentage. No document read in this research says son of for Solomon against these two, so the link stays probable, not confirmed; both now have cards, James Brock and Elizabeth “Betsy” Brock. 🔑 James Brock was a United Brethren minister. He is a farmer in 1850 and a U.B. clergyman in 1860, with a second U.B. clergyman, B. Cochins, 78, born Georgia, on the same page — the first religious vocation anywhere in the Brock line, and entirely new. 🔑 A married Brock next door in 1850: Zecheriah Brock, 22, farmer, $100, heading dwelling 382 with Margarett 20, James 2 and Abram 7/12 — born c.1828, exactly where an elder son already married out would sit. A candidate brother, carded and not claimed. ⚠ Elizabeth's maiden surname is not known; no record read gives it. ⚠ Neither birth year is attested by anything but an age column, and the two columns disagree by a year on each of them. ⚠ What would settle the parentage is a Laurel or Harlan County probate for James Brock, or the 1865 marriage bond behind S151. Neither has been pulled. Probable
5. G5 · and on the Brock side Solomon Alfred Brock  ⚭  Matilda P. Brock 1838–1904 · she born January 1847–1912. Married 6 March 1865, Harlan County, Kentucky, on the county register S151, which also gives her maiden surname as Matildia Howard in the clerk's hand. His death is dated on or before 23 May 1904 by the Civil War pension index S152 — the day she filed as his widow from Texas — and she is enumerated a widow, head of her own household, in 1910 S154. 🔑 Updated 22 September 2026 — Iona Belle's parentage is no longer carried by a memorial. Her own Texas death certificate, no. 31724, filed 11 July 1947 S170, names her father SOLOMON ALFRED BROCK and her mother's maiden name MATILDA HOWARD — the parentage stated in words for the first time, corroborating the 1865 register's Matildia Howard. ⚠ The caveat stays on the page: the informant, Iona Reah of Hermosa Beach, California — named for the deceased and almost certainly a daughter — was reporting her own grandparents. The parentage is strengthened, not made primary. 🔑 Her birth year is now settled on 1847 by four schedules, and the DAY is unattested by any document. The 1860 Harlan Courthouse sheet gives her age 13 S165, the 1870 Madison County sheet 23 S153, the 1880 Hilburn Township sheet 33 S166, and the 1900 Callahan County sheet writes Jan 1847 with a corroborating age of 53 S138. Each of the four requires a birth between 2 June 1846 and 1 June 1847; the tree's 9 January 1848 survives none of them. ⚠ The 1910 sheet's age 62 points to 1848 S154 and the headstone says 9 June 1848; both are later, and an age column reported ten years on does not outweigh four. ⚠ No pre-1900 schedule has a day column, so the ninth of January comes from the tree alone and nothing read here touches it. 🔑 June 1880: a household split across two counties, and both sheets tick MARRIED. Solomon is enumerated alone at Eureka Springs, Carroll County, Arkansas, on 4 June 1880 S168; Matilda heads her own household at Hilburn Township, Madison County, sixty miles south, on 18 June, with Iona B. 14, Mary E. 11, Ellen 9, Ida C. 7, John B. 6 and a sixth child new to this record, James B., 3 S166. Neither sheet says Widowed. ⚠ This is not early widowhood — the pension index dates his death to 1904 — and neither page gives a reason for the split. No separation, desertion or estrangement should be read into it; a married man working or boarding in another county at enumeration is ordinary. ⚠ The pair must be read together: either sheet alone invites the wrong inference. 🔴 His own birth year is now the open question. The 1850 (12) S169, 1860 (22) S167 and 1870 (32) S153 schedules give the identical window June 1837 × June 1838 and exclude 8 April 1837; the 1880 sheet, at 43, is the only one that admits it. No schedule carries a month or a day, so the eighth of April is untouched and the year stands in the review queue, not corrected here. Probable
6. G4 · 2nd-great-grandparents William Anderson Bowles  ⚭  Iona Belle Brock 9 Apr 1858 Owsley Co., Kentucky – 3 Apr 1936 Abilene, Texas · she 31 Dec 1865 London, Laurel Co., KY – 4 Jul 1947 Potosi, TX S170 · m. 24 Dec 1880 Confirmed by the family typescript S72; Iona was still single at home in the June 1880 Hilburn census S166, which a December wedding fits. ⚠️ Date conflict, recorded not resolved: his death certificate says born 1856, the Owsley County birth record says 1858. His own memorial flags the discrepancy. A third voice now backs 1858: the 1900 census of Justice Precinct No. 1, Taylor Co., Texas S140 reads Apr 1858 and gives age 42 at the 29 June 1900 census date — exact for April 1858, and 44 for 1856. Two independent sources now say April 1858, and the certificate's 1856 is the outlier. ⚠ The day is not on that sheet — a 1900 schedule has no day column, so the ninth still rests on the Owsley County birth register alone. The same sheet corroborates Iona at Dec 1865, age 34, records 12 children born, 11 living, and brackets the family's move: the last Arkansas-born child is Oct 1891 and the first Texas-born child Apr 1893, so they left Arkansas for Texas between October 1891 and April 1893. ⚠ Years married reads 17 on his line and 19 on hers; that column settles nothing. 🔑 Updated 22 September 2026 — the ninth of April no longer rests on Find a Grave. The Owsley County birth register for 1858 S160 records, on row 5, "April 9th", child Wm. A. Bowles, Alive, born Owsley Co., Ky, father Jas. Bowles, maiden name of mother Lydia Williams. A county clerk wrote the date at the time, and the citation is upgraded: S160 is cited ahead of S22. 🔑 It is also the first document anywhere in this research that states the parent–child link in words rather than by inference — before it, the tie to James and Lydia ran through Find a Grave S22 and through a son William, 12, of exactly the right age on the 1870 household S157. ⚠ Ancestry's index of that register carries no date at all; the date exists only on the image. 🔑 Re-read 22 September 2026 — his 1936 Texas death certificate (no. 23075) carries three things not adjudicated before. The father is written "J. D. BOWLES" — the first document in this research to carry the middle initial; the 1856 register and the 1860 and 1870 schedules all say plain James. The informant is J. D. Bowles of Oberlin, Kansas — a son carrying the grandfather's initials, and a live lead in Decatur County. His wife at death is named Maudy Bowles. ⚠ The certificate's 79 years 11 months 24 days was computed from its own 1856 and corroborates nothing but itself; what it gets right is the ninth of April. ⚠ It gives the mother's birthplace as Kentucky, the third answer her children's certificates give for Lydia; Tennessee stands. · both buried Potosi Cemetery, Texas. Confirmed
7. G3 · great-grandmother Lydia Mae Bowles 1883 Franklin Co., Arkansas – 1972 Abilene, Texas. Confirmed

The record that would break all three of these walls at once is the same class of document: the death certificate. Mary Jane Wright's has been read — Texas, 1934 — and it names Dr. James W. Wright and Lucy Brooks S81. The same certificates for William Anderson Bowles (Texas, 1936) and Iona Belle Brock (Texas, 1947) are what would do the same for the other two couples. 🔑 Iona Belle Brock's has now been read — Texas certificate no. 31724, Potosi, Taylor County, filed 11 July 1947 S170 — and it names Solomon Alfred Brock and Matilda Howard. One of the three walls is down.

The Kentucky → Arkansas move is now bracketed. On the 1900 census of Justice Precinct No. 5, Callahan County, Texas S138, Solomon Alfred Brock and Matilda P. Brock are both Kentucky-born, as are all four of their parents, while every one of the three children still at home was born in Arkansas — the eldest, John B. Brock, in December 1874. Iona Belle Brock was born in Kentucky in December 1865. The household therefore left Kentucky for Arkansas between December 1865 and December 1874, and reached Texas after that. The same sheet confirms Matilda's birth month as January and reads Jan 1847 against the tree's 9 January 1848; the 1900 schedule has no day column. 🔑 The year is now settled on 1847 by four age columns — 1860 S165, 1870 S153, 1880 S166 and 1900 S138 — and the DAY is still unattested by any document. 🔑 The bracket is now much tighter at the Kentucky end, because the 1870 schedule itself has been read. On 12 July 1870 the household is already in Valley Township, Madison County, Arkansas, post office St Paul S153 — Salomon Brock, 32, "Teaching School", personal estate $100; Matilda, 23, keeping house; and two daughters, both born in Kentucky. 🔑 And the 1880 schedule closes it to a little over a year. In Hilburn Township, Madison County, on 18 June 1880 S166, Mary E., 11, is recorded born in KENTUCKY and Ellen, 9, born in ARKANSAS — Ellen is the first child of the household born in the new state. The move from Kentucky to Arkansas therefore falls in 1869 × July 1870, from a bracket that was December 1865 × December 1874 a week ago. So the move happened in 1869 or the first half of 1870, not merely before 1874, and it is documented at both ends: they married in Harlan County, Kentucky in March 1865 S151 and were farming — teaching, rather — in Arkansas five years later. 🔴 On the birth year, the schedules do not all agree, and the disagreement is printed here rather than smoothed away. The 1870 sheet's age 23 in July 1870 requires January 1847; the 1900 sheet writes Jan 1847 and its own age column, 53, corroborates that cell S138; the 1910 sheet's age 62 in April 1910 points instead to 1848 S154. January 1847 is settled, and not by counting sheets: it is the only year stated with a month, by the only schedule whose own arithmetic checks, and the 1870 age independently requires it, while the 1910 entry is an age alone, reported ten years later. ⚠ The tree's 9 January 1848 is supported by no document read here. The headstone gives 9 June 1848 — the only witness to a day, and a monument erected after death by someone else, which already has her middle initial wrong against a federal form that reads Matilda P. S152. The tree's date matches neither source and looks like a hybrid of the two. ⚠ Every federal census on this woman has now been read, and not one carries a birth day. Only the NARA widow's pension file (application 807,122, certificate 585,190) or a Kentucky birth record can settle it; the file has not been ordered. ⚠ The hedge travels with the fact: this is a fact about Solomon's household, and it reaches Earl's line only through Iona Belle Brock's parentage, which rests on FindAGrave parent links only and is rated Probable S23.

Lines this chain touches

1. S16FindAGrave memorial 53116850, Lydia Mae Bowles Coffman (1883–1972), Dudley Cemetery — includes the transcribed obituary naming son Robert Coffman — findagrave.com/memorial/53116850.
2. S22FindAGrave memorial 63936320, William Anderson Bowles (1858–1936), Potosi Cemetery — findagrave.com/memorial/63936320.
3. S23FindAGrave memorial 63936483, Iona Belle Brock Bowles (1865–1947), Potosi Cemetery — findagrave.com/memorial/63936483.
4. S30FamilySearch Tree — Coffman, Timberman and Martin persons: Louise Martin Timberman LYBS-P4G, Robert William Coffman LDS1-NHV, James Harris Timberman Jr 9W7S-C6X, Nancy Louise Martin KHK5-FCL, Joseph Daniel Martin KG8Y-MV3, Nannie Chenault KZZ7-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.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. 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. The same wall stands on Solomon's April 1838 against the tree's 8 April 1837 — the next source must carry a day: a Texas death certificate or a gravestone. 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].
8. S1401900 U.S. Federal Census — the William A. Bowles household, Justice Precinct No. 1, Taylor County, Texas. Ancestry collection 7602, records 44269127 and 44269126 — one sheet, two hints, one pull — image 4118560_00039. Supervisor's District 4, Enumeration District 148, sheet 18 A, dwelling 288, family 302, enumerated 29 June 1900 by N. M. Everett. Read from the image at full resolution — 3880 × 3688 px, 21 September 2026; read-only, nothing accepted, attached or edited. Lines 38–50: William A. Bowles, head, Apr 1858, age 42, Farmer, born Kentucky of a Kentucky father and a Tennessee mother; Iona B., wife, Dec 1865, age 34, born Kentucky of Kentucky parents, 12 children born, 11 living; then eleven children — James E. Jun 1882, Lily Jul 1883, Mary M. Jan 1885, Solomon A. Aug 1886, Ellie Dec 1887, Cynthia G. May 1890 and Clara H. Oct 1891 all born in Arkansas, and William A. Apr 1893, Onie Jan 1894, Martha Sept 1896 and Ida J. May 1898 all born in Texas. A third voice on the 1856-versus-1858 conflict, and it agrees with 1858 twice over. The date columns read Apr 1858, and the age column reads 42 at the 29 June 1900 census date — exact for an April 1858 birth, and 44 for an 1856 one. Two independent sources now say April 1858: the Owsley County birth register and this census, taken thirty-six years before the death certificate and while he was alive. The certificate's 1856 is the outlier. ⚠ The day is not on this sheet — a 1900 schedule carries month and year and no day column, so the ninth still rests on the birth register alone. The same sheet brackets the household's move: the last Arkansas-born child is October 1891 and the first Texas-born child is April 1893, so they left Arkansas for Texas between October 1891 and April 1893. ⚠ Years married reads 17 on his line and 19 on hers; the two do not agree and the sheet cannot settle the marriage year. Ancestry indexes the whole household as "Beals"; the page reads Bowles, partly obscured by an indexer's struck-through pencil mark — a transcription artefact, not a name variant. ⚠ This is not the Callahan County sheet [S138]: different county, different image, different household.
9. 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. The first primary record behind this couple. Until this pull they sat here on FindAGrave parent links alone [S22]. A county clerk now puts the two of them on one line in the same county whose birth register settled their son William Anderson Bowles. Lydia’s birthplace is no longer unsourced: the tree carried Hawkins County, Tennessee with nothing behind it and the bride column now gives it. 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 1831 the site gives James Daniel Bowles — a year that rests on FindAGrave alone. The register gives no middle name; it reads simply James Bowles. Either the 1831 is wrong or this is a different man. Recorded, not resolved — the couple stays Probable. ⚠ Estill County, Kentucky is new and uncorroborated, and a Kentucky register of this period carries no parentage columns, so it says nothing about the generation above.
10. 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 for the first time. Until now this site carried only the 1900 census's bare "married 35 years" [S138]. 🔑 And her maiden surname is documentary: the clerk writes Matildia Howard, where before Howard came off a member-submitted photograph's filename. 🔴 STRUCTURAL FINDING — the form is a SCHOOL-CENSUS SHEET REPURPOSED AS A MARRIAGE REGISTER, and the column semantics are genuinely 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 reads either as place of marriage, given as a householder's name, or as the printed parent or guardian column. Preferred reading: PLACE OF MARRIAGE — it is the only one consistent across neighbouring rows, which put the bride's own surname in that cell both times (Sarah Hulton above; Littleton Marcum below, for Silas J. Howard — Emily Marcum). ⚠ The rejected reading is the valuable one, which is exactly why it is hedged and not asserted: it would make John C. Howard her FATHER. A portrait of a John C. Howard is already published here off a member tree. This page does not settle it. ⚠ CRITICAL NEGATIVE: 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. 🔑 SUPPLEMENT, 22 September 2026 — the register re-read across BOTH leaves, and the right leaf carries everything. Ancestry indexes only the left leaf. The right leaf's PLACE OF MARRIAGE column reads "John C. Howard" for this couple — and the column names the bride's father's household on every row checked above and below (Sarah Helton above; Littleton Marcum below, for Silas J. Howard — Emily Marcum). This is a SECOND INDEPENDENT CHAIN to John C. Howard as Matilda's father, alongside the 1860 Harlan household [S165] — and 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. 🔑 New from the right leaf: witness Lenard Farmer, and J. W. Forster in the third column. ⚠ Two chains are still not a statement of parentage. No document read says Matilda was John C. Howard's daughter in words; the sheet PRECEDING image 4230650_00446 carries the head of dwelling 822 and has not been pulled. The row stays open in the review queue.
11. 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 then enumerates her as a widow in her own right [S154]. 🔑 Her middle initial is P on a federal form compiled from her own application. The headstone published here reads "MATHILDA R. BROCK": two custodians disagree, and this card is the better witness. The stone's R is now the outlier, and it is left standing rather than corrected away. 🔑 Military service is entirely new to this family's record — two Kentucky infantry companies plus the Veteran Reserve Corps, i.e. reassignment to garrison duty, which usually followed wounds or illness — and an invalid pension he drew himself from 2 November 1872, at about 34. ⚠ No birth, marriage or death DATES appear anywhere on the card. It gives a ceiling, not a date, and does not touch 1847-versus-1848. ⚠ It is an INDEX, not the file. The widow's application 807,122 / certificate 585,190 at NARA would carry the marriage proof and his actual date of death. It has not been ordered, and it is the best next lead on this couple.
12. 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; Sara B., 4, born Kentucky; 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 now 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" — new to the record. 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. 🔑 SUPPLEMENT, 22 September 2026 — the one open reading on this sheet is CLOSED. 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. 🔑 And 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.
13. 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 — 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" — the identical pair of figures the 1900 sheet gives [S138]. Ten years apart, two enumerators, the same answer: the identity of the two households is not in doubt, and no child of hers died in between. 🔑 Her middle initial is P here too — a third custodian against the headstone's "MATHILDA R." 🔑 Both daughters were born in Arkansas, which is where the 1870 sheet puts the family [S153]. 🔴 WHERE THIS SHEET DISAGREES, AND WHAT IS PREFERRED. 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 of the four that indexes 1848, and reading the image confirms the index rather than overturning it. It is still outvoted, and the reason is the kind of evidence, not the count. The 1900 sheet states a month and a year in its own hand — January 1847 — and its own age column, 53, corroborates that cell; the 1870 sheet's age 23 in July 1870 independently requires January 1847 [S153]. This sheet carries no month at all: an age alone, reported ten years later, for a woman of about sixty-two. So January 1847 is settled — by FOUR age columns, not three, since the 1860 Harlan [S165] and 1880 Hilburn [S166] schedules each require it too — and the 1910 age is recorded here as a genuine disagreement rather than smoothed away. ⚠ The DAY remains unattested by any document. ⚠ No document read in this research says 9 January 1848, the date the Ancestry tree carries. The headstone says 9 June 1848; the schedules say January, and two of the three say 1847. The tree's date matches no source read here. ⚠ Every federal census on this woman is now read, and none of them carries a birth month and day except 1900. Only the NARA widow's pension file (application 807,122 / certificate 585,190) or a Kentucky birth record can give a day.
14. 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 now 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.
15. 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 moved the tree to 1830–31 on 22 September 2026. ⚠ The clerk's spelling is Bowls, surname first; that is the register's hand, not a new name.
16. 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 now 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 is now corrected to 1830–31 (22 September 2026) — 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. 🔑 SUPPLEMENT, 22 September 2026 — 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. S157's transcription otherwise holds in every particular. ⚠ The page gives no reason for the loss.
17. 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, AND 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 must never be 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. 🔑 And it corroborates Lydia's maiden surname from another state entirely — Arizona, fifty years and two thousand miles from Owsley County, from a family informant. Williams now 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. 🔑 SUPPLEMENT, 22 September 2026 — re-read under the hint filed to the MOTHER, and both parents' Virginia birthplaces adjudicated. 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.
18. 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 STOPS RESTING ON FIND A GRAVE. The date does not move. What changes is who wrote it: a county clerk, at the time, in a statutory register, where before it stood on Find a Grave parent links S22. Weigh primary over derivative: this outranks S22 and is cited ahead of it. 🔑 It is also the FIRST DOCUMENTARY STATEMENT OF THE PARENT–CHILD LINK IN WORDS. Until this row, James Daniel Bowles and Lydia Williams were 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. Note the column heading: it 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, which is why this hint looked like a duplicate of what the tree already held. 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 untouched by this and remains the outlier; it is now outvoted by a birth register, the 1900 Texas census S140 and the 1870 Kentucky census S157.
19. 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 tree's 9 January 1848. The census reference day is 1 June 1860, so 13 puts her birth between 2 June 1846 and 1 June 1847; born 9 January 1848 she is 12. This is the third independent age column for January 1847, after the 1870 Madison County sheet at 23 [S153] and the 1900 Callahan County sheet, which writes Jan 1847 with a corroborating age of 53 [S138]. 🔑 She is at work and at school at thirteen — neither fact is in Ancestry's index. 🔑 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. Born c.1798, he stands a generation above John C. Howard or is an elder brother — the best open lead to John C. Howard's own parents, and no relationship is claimed here. ⚠ CRITICAL NEGATIVE: no surname appears on any of the six lines. Dwelling 822 begins on the preceding sheet, where the index finds John C. Howard, 53, and Mary, 35; this image holds only the last six of the family under a ditto of a surname written elsewhere. The parent link on this page remains a household inference, not a statement. The preceding sheet has not been pulled. ⚠ No day and no month — a pre-1900 schedule carries age only, and the ninth of January comes from the tree alone. ⚠ Ancestry indexes Henry as 2; the image reads 3. The four-year-old is indexed Idress and the hand will not settle it.
20. 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 is not in the tree. ⚠ No month, no day. ⚠ The page gives no reason for the split household, and no separation, desertion or estrangement should be inferred from it.
21. 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 CANDIDATE sixth generation on a line that had none. PROEGER-TREE.md records the Brock side of Generation 6 as unknown: Solomon Alfred Brock has no parents on the tree. 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 it was published as a CANDIDATE — not probable, not confirmed. Updated 24 September 2026: approved as PROBABLE and entered in the family tree, labelled probable there too. 🔑 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.
22. 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.
23. 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; published as a candidate, PROBABLE since 24 September 2026. 🔑 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.
24. 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. 🔴 The hint is filed under Solomon Alfred Brock because he is named on it. The certificate is his DAUGHTER's, and it belongs 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 tree had the place from a memorial; it now has a reason. ⚠ 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.
25. 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. 🔑 This is the sheet the batch-AB review queue asked for by name, and the answer redirects the row rather than closing it. Our man is plain 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" — the queue row is redirected, not closed. 🔑 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, the eldest, is new. ⚠ 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.
26. 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. 🔑 A new generation on a line that had none — published as a candidate, PROBABLE since 24 September 2026. The Williams side stops at Lydia on this record; 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 published as a CANDIDATE, not probable, not confirmed, and nothing has been written to the 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.
27. 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 c.1891. ⚠ The sheet puts Iona in the "same house" in 1935, when William was still alive at Abilene; that line is not adopted.
28. 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.
29. 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 and Kentucky in 1880; not settled.
30. 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.
31. 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. Corrected 26 September 2026 (same image as Ancestry record 600410452, read again): she died 13 May 1911, cerebral apoplexy. 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), not a stranger as first written. 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.
32. 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.
33. 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).
34. 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.
35. 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.
36. 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.
37. 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 continues on the next page, which has not been read. A wife Mary aged 35 fits Matilda Brock having died about 1855, so this is probably a second marriage.
38. 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.
39. S505U.S., WWII Draft Registration Cards, 1940: Warren Debs Bowles. Ancestry record 20532555. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Warren Debs Bowles, born 9 August 1910, Abilene, Texas; of 1606 Johnson, Amarillo; employed by the Texas Co.; contact V. E. Hancock, brother-in-law. His card has Potosi as his birthplace, a few miles from Abilene; both are recorded.
40. S5061940 U.S. Federal Census — W. D. Bowles household, 1606 Johnson, Amarillo, Potter County, Texas. Ancestry record 159392591. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed W. D. Bowles, 29; wife Opal, 24; a son; nephew Dickson, 20. The next unit at the same address is T. L. Bowles, 38, from Taylor County.
41. S5071950 U.S. Federal Census — Warren D. Bowles household, 3907 E. 12th, Amarillo. Ancestry record 193903606. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Warren D., 39, dry cleaner; wife Opal; four sons. At 3903, two doors away, Robert A. Bowles, 46, also in the cleaning trade.
42. S5081950 U.S. Federal Census — Tom L. Bowles household, Amarillo, Potter County, Texas. Ancestry record 193904088. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Tom L., 46, cleaner; wife Delphia Z., 39; Tom L. Jr., 19; two daughters; sister-in-law Wilma Hirshelman, 27.
43. S509Texas, U.S., Death Certificates — no. 22891: Mary Matilda Lindley, 1979. Ancestry record 926436. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Mary Matilda Lindley, widow, of 224 Shelburn St., San Antonio, died 3 April 1979; born 13 January 1885, Arkansas; father William Anderson Bowles, mother Iona Belle; informant Mrs. Marcia Bean; buried Potosi Cemetery.
44. S5101920 U.S. Federal Census — C. M. Lindley household, Abilene, Taylor County, Texas. Ancestry record 13161849. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed C. M. Lindley, 36, veterinary surgeon; Mary, 35, born Arkansas, parents born Kentucky; sons Farland, 13, Clay, 10, and Ries, 4.
45. S511Texas, U.S., Birth Certificates — no. 12754, Abilene, February 1921. Ancestry record 120813005. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed A daughter, the fourth child, of Chester Lindley, 37, veterinary surgeon, and Mary Bowles, 36. It gives the mother's birthplace as Texas; every census says Arkansas.
46. S5121930 U.S. Federal Census — Chester M. Lindley household, Precinct 1, Taylor County, Texas. Ancestry record 60811360. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Chester M. Lindley, 45, veterinarian; Mary M., 45, born Arkansas, parents born Kentucky; Ries R., 14; P. Marcia, 9.
47. S5131940 U.S. Federal Census — Chester M. Lindley household, Abilene, Texas. Ancestry record 157938646. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Chester M., 55, veterinarian; Mary M., 55, born Arkansas; P. Marcia, 19; Ries R., 24, bookkeeper; a daughter-in-law, V. Muriel.
48. S514Texas, U.S., Death Certificates — no. 39576: Solomon Alfred Bowles, 1964. Ancestry record 23545742. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Solomon Alfred Bowles, farmer, died 2 June 1964, Abilene, of pneumonia; born 11 August 1887, Arkansas; father Wm. A. Bowles, mother Ionabell Brock; informant Mrs. S. A. Bowles; buried Potosi. The certificate's birth year, 1887, differs from the year on his card; both are recorded.
49. S5151920 U.S. Federal Census — Solomon A. Bowles household, J.P. 7, Taylor County, Texas (indexed “Bowler”). Ancestry record 13175136. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Solomon A., 33, farmer; wife Jewel, 21; Yolanda, 2.
50. S5161930 U.S. Federal Census — Solomon A. Bowles household, Precinct 7, Taylor County, Texas. Ancestry record 60799617. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Solomon A., 42, farmer, married at 29; wife Jewel, 30; Yolanda, 12; Dixon, 10; Lorene, 8.
51. S5171940 U.S. Federal Census — S. Alfred Bowles, Precinct 1, Taylor County, Texas. Ancestry record 157946148. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed S. Alfred Bowles, 52, born Arkansas, farmer, owns his farm. Only his own line is on this sheet; the household continues overleaf.
52. S522Texas, U.S., Death Certificates — no. 32742: Ada Estes, 1962. Ancestry record 23234992. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Ada Estes, divorced, died 27 May 1962 at Hendrick Hospital, Abilene; born 8 February 1886, “Missouri”; father Sol Brock; informant her son Jack Estes; buried Elmwood, Abilene. Her censuses give Arkansas as her birthplace; Missouri is recorded as a variant.
53. S5231910 U.S. Federal Census — Dr. James Estes household, Ward 3, Abilene, Taylor County, Texas. Ancestry record 123369528. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Dr. James Estes, 36, physician; Ada, 25, music teacher, married 9 years, 4 children born and 3 living, born Arkansas, parents born Kentucky; Robert, 7; John Milton, 5; Fay, 3.
54. S5241920 U.S. Federal Census — Adah Estes household, 3635 Noble Ave., Dallas, Texas. Ancestry record 100142441. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Adah Estes, 34, head, married, owns her house; Jack, 14; Fay, 12; James, 6; Jean, 5.
55. S5251930 U.S. Federal Census — Ada Estes household, 541 Peach, Abilene, Texas. Ancestry record 60833062. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Ada Estes, 43, divorced; her sons Robert, 26, Jack, 24, James, 17, and Gene, 15; daughter Faye, 23. Robert is indexed as her brother; the word is struck through on the page and he is her son.
56. S526The Kenan Family, p. 79: Gene Howard Estes. Ancestry record 4306664597. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Gene Howard Estes, born 31 October 1914 at Abilene, “son of Dr. Jack Milton and Ada (Brock) Estes”, married Elise Brown on 11 November 1937. A compiled book. It calls the father Jack Milton; the 1910 census (S523), taken at the time, names him James and lists a son John Milton.
57. S527Texas, U.S., Death Certificates — no. 98527: Lorena Lucille Stevenson, 1973. Ancestry record 811658. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Lorena Lucille Stevenson, widow, died 21 November 1973 in a nursing home at Richland Hills; born 8 January 1882, “Missouri”; father Soloman Arrin Brock, mother “Pauline Idris Howard”; informant Mrs. Faye McBurney; Greenwood Mausoleum, Fort Worth. Her sister Mary's certificate (S529) names the mother Matilda Howard. Which name is right is not settled.
58. S5281940 U.S. Federal Census — Lorena L. Stevenson household, Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas. Ancestry record 160402536. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Lorena L. Stevenson, 55, widow, born Missouri; Howard D. McBurney, 25, and Fay I. McBurney, 23, both born Kentucky; Edyline R. Miller, 17.
59. S529Texas, U.S., Death Certificates — no. 52565: Mary E. Stansbury, 1951. Ancestry record 22576155. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Mrs. Mary E. Stansbury died 29 September 1951 at 8164 Bendell Dr., Houston; born 4 July 1868, Kentucky; father “Somerman” Brock, mother Matilda Howard; informant Mrs. J. D. Conner; buried South Park Cemetery.
60. S5301930 U.S. Federal Census — Stansbury and Livermore household, Precinct 1, Wichita County, Texas. Ancestry record 60360108. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Mary Stansbury, 61, first married at 23; her son Edward, 24; her daughter Lucile with her husband Albert R. Livermore and four children.
61. S5311900 U.S. Federal Census — Edd Stansbury household, J.P. 5, Stonewall County, Texas. Ancestry record 71070240. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Edd Stansbury, born June 1868, Kentucky; Mary E., born July 1868, Kentucky; married 8 years; Earl, Mert and Bertha.
62. S5321910 U.S. Federal Census — E. D. Stansberry household, J.P. 6, Jones County, Texas. Ancestry record 125938516. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed E. D., 41, farmer, owns his farm; Mary, 41, married 20 years, 8 children born, 7 living; Earl, Merce, Bertha, Lucile, Jennie, Edward and Pansy Bell.
63. S5331940 U.S. Federal Census — Jennie I. Warren household, 703 Patterson, Austin, Texas. Ancestry record 159991595. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Jennie I. Warren, 36, widow, state inspector of beauty shops; her parents Edd and Mary Stansbury, 71, of Wichita Falls in 1935; her sister Pansy Belle Baldwin, 31.
64. S5401950 U.S. Federal Census — James D. Conner household, 8164 Bendell, Houston, Texas. Ancestry record 187541336. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed James D. Conner, 45, real estate; wife Jamie S., 45, beauty operator; her parents Edward D. and Mary E. Stansberry, both 81, born Kentucky.
65. S541U.S., WWII Draft Registration Cards: Willie Hollis Windham. Ancestry record 19436438. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Willie Hollis Windham, 26, of 408 Peach St., Abilene; born 3 March 1920 at Dudley, Texas; “Unemployed – Veteran”; contact his sister Mrs. Dorace Rose, same address.
66. S542Texas, U.S., Birth Certificates — no. 59962, Potosi, Taylor County, 1917. Ancestry record 105690361. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Yolanda Bowles, born 29 December 1917, the first child of Alfred Bowles, 31, farmer, born Arkansas, and Jewell Ross, 19, born Potosi. His age, 31, fits a birth in August 1886, not the 1887 on his death certificate (S514).
67. S544U.S., WWII Draft Registration Cards, 1942: Tom Leslie Bowles. Ancestry record 20532544. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Tom Leslie Bowles, 39, of 4008 East 11th, Amarillo; born 26 June 1902 at Abilene; working at Oriental Cleaners for Vernon Hancock.
68. S5451920 U.S. Federal Census — Ed. Stansbery household, J.P. 1, Wichita County, Texas. Ancestry record 13354194. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Ed. Stansbery, 51, oil field, born Kentucky; Mary E., 51, born Arkansas, both parents born Kentucky; Bertha M., 21; Lucile E., 17; Jamie I., 16; Edward A., 14; Pansy Bell, 11. The 1900 census and her death certificate say Kentucky. The family was in Arkansas by 1870, so either is possible.
69. S5481880 U.S. Federal Census — J. C. Howard household, Harlan County, Kentucky. Ancestry record 42076005. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed J. C. Howard, 72, farmer, father born North Carolina, mother born Virginia; wife Polly, 45; Sarah, Lucinda, Madison; a divorced daughter Idras, 24, with two children; Littleton Morris, 80, father-in-law.
70. S553U.S., City Directories — Lubbock, Texas, 1955, p. 411. Ancestry record 393120040. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Hayden R. Nesmith (Frances C.), telegraph operator; Mrs. Frances C. Nesmith, teacher at Senior High School; 2108 27th St.
71. S556U.S., City Directories — Amarillo, Texas, 1937, p. 109. Ancestry record 386632927. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Bowles, W. Debs (Opal), counterman, Texas Co., h 1606 Johnson; his brothers Thos L. (Delphia) and Robt A., cleaners.
72. S557Texas, U.S., Death Index, 1903–1940 — p. 2520: William A. Bowles, 1936. Ancestry record 4626946. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed “Bowles, William A.”, Taylor County, died 3 April 1936, certificate 23075. The same page has a different William Anderson Bowles, of Wood County, d. 1 September 1940, cert. 43995; he is not ours.
73. S5651940 U.S. census — Precinct 1, Taylor County, Texas, ED 221-22, sheet 18B. Ancestry record 157945899. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed I. Shirel Nesmith, 48, farmer, and his wife Maud, 47; sons Hayden, 26, single, farmer, Carlton, 24, and C. W.; all born in Texas, in the same house in 1935. The head's initial could be read as I. or J.
74. S569Abilene, Texas, city directory, 1958, p. 61. Ancestry record 402929895. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Bowles Soloman A (Jewel), home 1357 Sycamore. The Ancestry index reads the house number as 357; the page says 1357.
75. S5701950 U.S. census — Abilene, Taylor County, Texas, ED 221-24, sheet 21. Ancestry record 192762585. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Chester M. Lindley, 64, veterinarian at an animal hospital, and his wife Mary, 65, born in Arkansas, at 2402 North 1st Street. A Worthy F. Lindley household lives in a separate dwelling at the same address; the page does not say how they were related.
76. S5801900 U.S. census — Cornett, Clay County, Kentucky, ED 29, sheet 20A. Ancestry record 17518209. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed In the home of William Wilson (born June 1844) and his wife Sabra (born January 1835): Elizabeth Brock, mother-in-law, born March 1803 in Kentucky, 97, widowed, the mother of 13 children, 3 of them living.
77. S5811880 U.S. census — Bull Skin, Clay County, Kentucky, ED 24, p. 35. Ancestry record 42003735. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed James Brock, 74, a cooper, born in Kentucky, his parents born in Virginia; Elizabeth, 76. The next household is William Wilson, 34, and Sabra, 46.
78. S584Arkansas certificate of death no. 013254, 1967 — James Daniel Hawkins. Ancestry record 75859142. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed James Daniel Hawkins, born 12 March 1882 in Crawford County, Arkansas, died 31 August 1967 at Huntsville; father Edward Hawkins, mother Emily Bowles; informant Alfred Hawkins of Combs; buried Riverside Cemetery, St. Paul.
79. S589Amarillo, Texas, city directory, 1942, p. 102. Ancestry record 377629917. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Bowles Thos L (Delphia), cleaner, Oriental Cleaners, home 4008 East 11th Avenue; also Warren D. (Opal), clerk, Texas Co. refinery.
80. S590Amarillo, Texas, city directory, 1929, p. 363. Ancestry record 388554338. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Julius Harry (Jean B), Tenth Avenue Cafe, rooms at 506½ East 10th Avenue.
81. S6151930 U.S. census — Amarillo, Potter County, Texas, ED 188-9, sheet 21B. Ancestry record 61430965. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Harry Julius, 48, head, cafe proprietor, a veteran, born Indiana; Jean, wife, 38, married at 34, born Texas, parents born Kentucky, cafe manager; Lilly Bowles, sister-in-law, 21, single, waitress in the cafe. Three lines up: Tom L. Bowles, 26, a cook in a cafe, and his wife Delphia, 19. The census gives Jean's birth as Texas about 1892; the tree's 4 May 1890, Arkansas, is kept.
82. S6201870 U.S. census — McKee Precinct 1, Jackson County, Kentucky, p. 6. Ancestry record 18553557. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Dwelling 38: Moses Williams, 69, farmer, born Tennessee, real estate $300; Nancy, 67, keeping house, born Tennessee. Next door, Riley Williams, 50, born Tennessee, and his family; one door on, Samuel Evans, 31, and Nancy Ann, 27.
83. S6251870 U.S. census — District No. 1, Harlan County, Kentucky, p. 22 (Mt. Pleasant post office). Ancestry record 22067980. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Dwelling 144, enumerated 8 July 1870: John C. Howard, 64, farmer, real estate $1,500, personal estate $200; Mary, 37, keeping house; Idres (female), 14; Henry, 12; Jacob, 22, attending school; Sarah, 7; Lucinda, 3; Newberry, 18, farm labourer; Ary (female), 15; all born Kentucky. Relationships are not stated. The Ancestry index makes Mary one of the children; she is 37 and keeping house.
84. S626Kentucky birth register, Harlan County, 1861. Ancestry record 150320612. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed 15 September [1861]: Sarah S.(?) Howard, female, born Harlan County; father John C. Howard; mother's maiden name Mary Morris; both parents born and living in Harlan County. The child's middle initial could be S or L.
85. S628U.S. World War I draft registration, 1918, serial 1246 — Chester Major Lindley, Abilene, Texas. Ancestry record 171114620. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Chester Major Lindley, Abilene, Taylor County; 34, born 14 April 1884; white, native born; veterinarian, Abilene; nearest relative Mrs. Mary Lindley (wife), Abilene; registered 10 September 1918.
86. S6301870 U.S. census — Buffalo Precinct, Owsley County, Kentucky, p. 6 (Booneville post office). Ancestry record 18775011. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Dwelling 33, enumerated 13 August 1870: James Brock, 66, minister of the gospel, personal estate $340, born Kentucky; Elizabeth, 64, keeping house; Hiram Hoskins, 13, farm labour; Lee Hoskins, 2. Dwelling 35: William H. Wilson, 36, farmer, and Sabra, 30, with five children.
87. S6351880 U.S. census — Boston Township, Madison County, Arkansas, p. 37. Ancestry record 5403284. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Enumerated 23–24 June 1880. Dwelling 312: Sam Evans, 43, farmer, born North Carolina; Nancy, his wife, 37, born Tennessee; Mary, 11, and Geo. B., 9, born Kentucky; three younger children born Arkansas. Next line: Nanci Williams, 78, mother-in-law, widowed, born Tennessee, mother born Virginia; cannot read or write. The Ancestry index makes her a head of household; the page says mother-in-law.
88. S6371950 U.S. census — Hermosa Beach, Los Angeles County, California. Ancestry record 259470630. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Dwelling 230, 1906 Pacific Coast Highway: Iona B. Reah, 55, head, born Texas, visiting nurse; Harry Julius, 68, brother-in-law; Jean Julius, 59, sister, born Arkansas. The Ancestry index calls Jean never married; the page lists Harry as the head's brother-in-law.
89. S6411950 U.S. census — Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas, 3319 N.W. 27th Street. Ancestry record 191851818. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Fay Scheymayder, head, 30, divorced, born Kentucky, relief teletypist; her young daughter; Lorena Stevenson, mother, 68, widowed, born Missouri. The same address as Lorena's 1940 household, where Fay was Fay I. McBurney.
90. S6421840 U.S. census — Harlan County, Kentucky. Ancestry record 1263253. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed John C. Howard, head: males under 5, 3; 5–10, 2; 20–30, 1; 30–40, 1; females under 5, 1; 10–15, 1; 20–30, 2. Neighbours Jacob, Larkin, Samuel and Wilkerson Howard. A tally census: only the head is named.
91. S648Kentucky birth register, Laurel County, 1852. Ancestry record 300392572. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Jefferson C. Hoskins, male, born 9 June 1852, Laurel County; father Levi Hoskins; mother Elizabeth Brock. The Ancestry index reads Haskins; the page reads Hoskins.
92. S655Catholic Diocese of Spokane, Washington, marriage register, 1935, p. 69, no. 37. Ancestry record 120052297. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Edward A. Stansbury and Selma Klenke, both of 1821 W. 2nd Avenue, Spokane, married 29 November 1935. His parents: Ed. Stansbury and Mary Brock. Hers: Fred(?) Klenke and Anna Leopold; she was baptised in Texas in 1911.
93. S657Texas death certificate, 1956, Bexar County, state file 34487. Ancestry record 23302949. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Edd Stansbury, widowed, retired farmer; born 15 June 1868, Harlan County, Kentucky; died 29 July 1956, San Antonio; parents Sam Stansbury and Elizabeth Howard; buried South Park, Houston.
94. S658Texas death certificate, 1974, Taylor County, state file 46202. Ancestry record 1077623. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Jewel Ross Bowles, widowed, of 1357 Sycamore, Abilene; born 28 September 1898, Texas; died 8 June 1974, Abilene; parents W. D. Ross and Lula Greenway; buried at Potosi.
95. S668Texas death certificate, 1954, Potter County, state file 46366. Ancestry record 22574208. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Delphia Z. Bowles, born 8 August 1910, Stephens County, Texas; died 7 September 1954, Amarillo; parents W. W. Kennedy and Lula Spencer.
96. S669Texas birth certificate, Amarillo, 1931 — amendment filed 1989. Ancestry record 120372824. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed The amendment to her son's birth record names the mother as Delphia Zella Kennedy. The son may be living; his details are kept off the site.
97. S670Texas death certificate, 1961, Taylor County, state file 05676. Ancestry record 23726996. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Chester Major Lindley, veterinarian, of Abilene; born 14 April 1885, Texas; died 21 January 1961, Abilene; parents William Thomas Lindley and Mary E. Waggley; informant Mrs. Mary M. Lindley; buried at Potosi. His own 1918 and 1942 draft cards give 1884; the certificate says 1885.
98. S671U.S. World War II draft registration, 1942, serial U-1036. Ancestry record 12473963. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Chester Major Lindley, 1049 Pecan Street, Abilene; born 14 April 1884, Brown County, Texas; contact Mrs. Mary M. Lindley.
99. S684U.S. World War I draft registration card, 1917, Taylor County, Texas. Ancestry record 17120033. Image examined, read 26 September 2026. Confirmed Solomon Alfred Bowles, farmer, Abilene Route 2; born 11 August 1886, St. Paul, Arkansas; claimed exemption on grounds of conscience.
100. S685U.S. World War II draft registration card, 1942, Potosi, Taylor County. Ancestry record 12474670. Image examined, read 26 September 2026. Confirmed Solomon Alfred Bowles, Potosi, Taylor County, Texas; born 11 August 1886, Cass, Arkansas; contact Mrs. Jewel Bowles. The back of the card is not on this image.
101. S697Texas death certificate, 1933, Amarillo, Potter County. Ancestry record 90184242. Image examined, read 26 September 2026. Confirmed Harald Dean Blackburn, died 8 December 1933 at St Anthony's Hospital, one day old, premature, a twin; father Elmo D. Blackburn, born Missouri; mother Lillie Bowles, born Texas. The surviving twin is not named here.
102. S7031870 U.S. census, Valley Township, Madison County, Arkansas. Ancestry record 12363131. Image examined, read 26 September 2026. Confirmed Edward Hawkins, 32, born Georgia, living alone; in the next household, William Hawkins, 7, and Eliza, 4, both born Alabama. A James Hawkins, 48, born Georgia, carpenter, lives three doors away.
103. S707Tamaulipas civil register, marriages, Nuevo Laredo, 1949, acta 413. Ancestry record 300344558. Image examined, read 26 September 2026. Confirmed 12 November 1949: Pansy Belle Baldwin, 40, divorced, of San Antonio, Texas, daughter of Edd Stansbury and Mary Stansbury, married a San Antonio merchant, 46, divorced, whose given name reads Weldon B. Overall, son of Isaac H. and Johanna Overall of Teague, Texas. The index garbles her name as “Paresy Belle Baldadin”.
104. S709St. Clair County, Alabama, marriage book, 1861, p. 344. Ancestry record 1485426. Image examined, read 26 September 2026. Probable Edward Hawkins and Missouri C. Buice, of St. Clair County, licensed and married 5 September 1861 by G. D. Johnson, M.G. The licence gives no ages or birthplaces; the link to Emily Bowles's husband is circumstantial.
105. S717World War II draft registration card, 1942, Amarillo, Texas, serial T-96. Ancestry record 19795984. Image examined, read 26 September 2026. Confirmed Elmo David Blackburn, 37, born 15 March 1904, birthplace given as Amarillo, Potter County, Texas; of 1601 ‘B’ Pierce Street, Amarillo; employed by Southwestern Public Service Company; contact V. E. Hancock, 912 Buchanan Street. Signed Elmo Blackburn. The birthplace is self-reported and is not settled; the date is used.
106. S718Texas birth index, 1938 births, p. 167. Ancestry record 152891971. Image examined, read 26 September 2026. Confirmed Iona Beth Blackburn, female, born 26 April 1938, Potter County; mother Bowles, Lily Olene; father Blackburn, David St. Elmo. A state index, derived from the certificate.
107. S7191950 U.S. census, Amarillo, Potter County, Texas, ED 225-96, sheet 71. Ancestry record 187484742. Image examined, read 26 September 2026. Confirmed 2804 Taylor: Elmo Blackburn, head, 46, married, born Texas, working 40 hours in his own electric shop. No wife is listed with him on this sheet.
108. S720Amarillo, Texas, city directory, 1940, pp. 108–109. Ancestry record 377858817. Image examined, read 26 September 2026. Confirmed “Blackburn Elmo (Lily) servicemn S W Public Service Co h1601b Pierce”. Other Blackburns on the page (Blackburn Bros, Blackburn-Shaw) are not shown to be kin.
109. S7211860 U.S. census, Harlan County, Kentucky, P.O. Harlan Courthouse, p. 81, dwelling 518. Ancestry record 39159707. Image examined, read 26 September 2026. Confirmed Levi Hoskins, 30, farmer; Elizabeth, 30; Ransom, 9; Jefferson, 7; William, 6; Hiram, 5; Mary, 2; Solomon, 1 month; all born Kentucky. The 1860 census states no relationships.
110. S7221870 U.S. census, Precinct 9, Clay County, Kentucky, P.O. Manchester, p. 9, dwelling 58. Ancestry record 18394740. Image examined, read 26 September 2026. Confirmed Levi Hoskins, 44; Elizabeth, 40, housekeeper; James R., 19; Jefferson C., 18; William, 16; Hiram, 14; Mary J., 11; Solomon L., 9; Caroline, 7; John M., 6; Palistine, 4; and a baby of 2 months whose name is hard to read.
111. S7231880 U.S. census, 2nd Precinct, Owsley County, Kentucky, ED 84, dwelling 270. Ancestry record 12219318. Image examined, read 26 September 2026. Confirmed Levi Hoskins, 54, farmer; Elizabeth, 49, wife; Caroline, 18; John M., 16; Palestine, 14; Leander, 10; all born Kentucky of Kentucky parents. The index reads the surname correctly; the H looks like an A.
112. S7241910 U.S. census, Big Springs Township, Benton County, Arkansas, ED 13, sheet 6A. Ancestry record 166710426. Image examined, read 26 September 2026. Confirmed Harvey Hawkins, 34, farmer, born Arkansas, owns his farm; sons Edgar, 15, and Evert, 13; and his father Edward, 72, widowed, born Georgia.
113. S734Texas death index, 1962, p. 385. Ancestry record 5134651. Image examined, read 26 September 2026. Confirmed “Estes, Ada”, Taylor County, 27 May 1962, file 32742.
114. S735Austin, Texas, city directory, 1941, p. 602. Ancestry record 1122825888. Image examined, read 26 September 2026. Confirmed “Stansbury Edw D (Mary) r 703 Patterson av”.
115. S7431950 U.S. census, Taylor County, Texas, ED 221-57A, sheet 75. Ancestry record 195175579. Image examined, read 26 September 2026. Confirmed Alfred S. Bowles, 65, born in Arkansas, farming on his own account, with his wife Jewel, 52, born in Texas. Next door: John W. Bowles, 47, farming, with Ethel, 45, and Verna, 19. The index leaves Jewel out; she is on the image. John W. is John Wesley Bowles, Alfred's brother: his 1940 household is on the same census sheet as Alfred's family (S935), and his own draft card (S934) gives the same birth year. Updated 29 September 2026: this note first said how he was related was not known.
116. S744Texas birth index, 1920, p. 128. Ancestry record 150336837. Image examined, read 26 September 2026. Probable “Bowles, Alfred, Inf. of”, Taylor County, 1 February 1920, certificate 11378. An index entry that does not name the child; the certificate itself has not been read.
117. S7461920 U.S. census, Justice Precinct 7, Taylor County, Texas, ED 272, sheet 4A. Ancestry record 13174778. Image examined, read 26 September 2026. Confirmed Shirel I. Nesmith, 28, farmer, and Maud, 26, with Lewey, 7, Haden, 5, and Carlton, 4, all born in Texas. Next door: William Nesmith, 37, and his family.
118. S7471930 U.S. census, Precinct 7, Taylor County, Texas, ED 221-31, sheet 5B. Ancestry record 60799394. Image examined, read 26 September 2026. Confirmed Isaac S. Nessmith, 38, farmer, owner, and Maude, 36, with Dewey, 18, Hayden, 15, at school, and Carlton, 14; R.F.D. 2 Abilene. The index reads Carlton as “Earlton”.
119. S7481910 U.S. census, Sturgeon, Owsley County, Kentucky, ED 165, sheet 13A. Ancestry record 194193627. Image examined, read 26 September 2026. Confirmed In the household of Harden D. Peters, 60, and his wife Mary J., 51 (eleven children born, nine living): Levi Hoskins, 84, father-in-law, and Elizabeth, 80, mother-in-law, married 59 years. These Owsley County Peters are not Earl's Peters line.
120. S7651810 United States Federal Census, Madison County, Kentucky, p. 893: household of Abraham Thomas. Ancestry record 690356. Image examined, read 22 September 2026. Probable Abraham Thomas, head, among the Muddy Creek entries: males under 10 (2), 10–15 (1), 26–44 (1); females under 10 (2), 10–15 (1), 26–44 (1); one enslaved person. Only the head is named. Madison County is where an Abraham Thomas consented to Lucy Thomas's marriage in 1821. The girl aged 10–15 or one of the girls under 10 could be Lucy, born about 1805, but the census does not say so. The index agrees with the image.
121. S7661840 United States Federal Census, Estill County, Kentucky: household of Wm Boles. Ancestry record 2098703. Image examined, read 22 September 2026. Probable Wm Boles, head (last line of the sheet): males under 5 (1), 5–9 (1), 10–14 (2), 15–19 (1), 50–59 (1); females under 5 (1), 5–9 (1), 15–19 (1), 30–39 (1). An Abraham Thomas is listed seven lines above. Only the head is named. The man of 50–59 (born 1781–90) fits William A. Bowles (63 in 1850) and the woman of 30–39 (born 1801–10) fits Lucy (45 in 1850); the Abraham Thomas on the same sheet is circumstantial. Boles is the image's spelling of Bowles.
122. S773U.S., Army Transport Service Passenger Lists, 1910–1939 — transport Orizaba, Hoboken: Co. D, 111th Ammunition Train, 36th Division. Ancestry record 123188075. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, September 2026. Probable Line 132: Bowles, William A., private first class, service no. 1480433, Company D; person to notify Bell Bowles, mother, R.R. #2, Abilene, Texas. The sailing date is blank on the page. “Bell Bowles” of Abilene fits Iona Belle, but no other record yet names a son William A. A 1900 or 1910 household, his draft card, or a Texas service card for 1480433 would confirm him.
123. S8031920 U.S. census, 721 Liberty Street, Dallas, Texas, ED 26, sheet 17B: Jean Bowles household. Ancestry record 22308056. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 27 September 2026. Probable Jean Bowles, head, 29, single, a trained nurse; her sister Iona, 23, single, also a trained nurse; and a lodger, Alma Everett, 24, trained nurse. Both sisters' parents are given as born in Kentucky. Jean's age fits her 4 May 1890 birth, and her sister Iona B. Reah was a visiting nurse in 1950 (S637). The census gives both sisters as born in Texas; the site keeps Arkansas for Jean. Collection: 1920 United States Federal Census.
124. S854Kentucky County Marriage Records — Madison County marriage bond and consent, Will Bowles and Lucy Thomas, December 1821. Ancestry collection 61372, record 1351996784 (image TH-1-10015-831-18; FHL film 000183308). Image examined, read 28 September 2026. Confirmed Docket “Bowles to Bond, Commonwealth”. Consent memo: “Memo. The within Will Bowles of lawful age, and the within Abraham Thomas the father of the within Lucy Thomas gave his personal consent to the match. Decr 28th 182[1] … Ch. Shackelford DC”. The index dates the marriage 29 December 1821. First read 24 September 2026 for William A. Bowles; re-read 28 September. The memo names the bride's father; it does not give the bride's age.
125. S855FamilySearch index — marriage of Will Bowles and Lucy Thomas, Madison County, Kentucky, 1821. FamilySearch ark:/61903/1:1:V5ZZ-H4V and ark:/61903/1:1:V5Z6-SWG. Index only; no image read (checked 28 September 2026). Probable Indexes the same Madison County bond and consent, naming Abraham Thomas; the second entry is another indexing of the marriage. Not independent of S854; it confirms the reading of the names.
126. S863W. M. Wilder, Wilder and Some Connecting Families (typescript), p. 571, “A Tennessee Fragment”. Ancestry U.S. Family History Books, record 4519537298. Image examined, read 28 September 2026. Probable “F-2 James Wilder b in Va. m Nancy Hays, came to Tennessee with his father [David Wilder of Luther, Hancock Co.] and later moved to ‘Old Settlement’ Ky. They had: G-1 Nancy Wilder (dau of James & Nancy Hays Wilder) b in Tenn. abt 1802 d in Madison Co., Ark. after 1878, m Moses Williams (b abt 1799 in Tenn. d 7/27/1874 Madison Co., Ark.)”, “who was a veteran of the War of [1812]”. A compiled family history; the entry continues on p. 572, not yet read.
127. S864Howards in Kentucky, p. 127 (query column). Ancestry U.S. Family History Books, collection 62282, record 4449409226 (image 85982_fl5042582_2449242-00132). Image examined, read 28 September 2026. Probable “Sudie F. Spillman, Harlan, Kentucky, is a Howard descendant and is trying to trace her line from John Howard of Virginia, born about 1774, d. 1822. Married Mary Risner, Scott County, Virginia. Their first child ‘Larkin’ was born in Tennessee about 1802. Their daughter Sarah married Rice Johnston. Their second son John Covey is Sudie's great-grandfather. The other sons were William, Michael, and Robert. Robert was born after his father's death. The other daughters were Elizabeth, Phoebe, and Catherine.” A descendant's query, not a sourced genealogy.
128. S865FamilySearch index, 1850 U.S. census — John C. Howard household, Harlan County, Kentucky. FamilySearch ark:/61903/1:1:M657-CYX. Index only; no image read (checked 28 September 2026). Probable John C. Howard, born about 1805, Kentucky, with Michael, John, Larkin, Hiram, Nancy, Elizabeth, Mary, Paulina and Jacob. Index only; relationships are not stated. The names Larkin and Michael match brothers named in the Howards in Kentucky query (S864).
129. S8711850 U.S. census — James Wilder household, Subdivision 32, Hancock County, Tennessee. Ancestry collection 8054, record 6185865 (image 4206039_00301). Image examined, read 28 September 2026. Confirmed Dwelling and family 24, lines 22–24: James Wilder, 60, tanner, born North Carolina; Jane [Wilder], 72, born Virginia; Elizabeth, 37, born Tennessee. ⚠ This James Wilder, born about 1790 and still in Tennessee, is not the James Wilder of S863, who was born in Virginia and moved to Kentucky. Cited to keep the two apart.
130. S8731910 U.S. Federal Census — David J. Blackburn household, Salem Township, Lewis County, Missouri (ED 63, sheet 7A, dwelling/family 144, lines 33–37). Ancestry record 14549622 (image 31111_4330739-00527). Image examined, read 28 September 2026. Confirmed David J. [Jr.?] Blackburn, head, 38, married 15 years, born Missouri, parents born Kentucky, farmer; Ruth E., wife, 32, mother of 3 children, 3 living; Bessie, daughter, 14; Clarence, son, 11; Elmo D., son, 6; all born Missouri. FamilySearch indexes the same household (1:1:M2YP-TDH). Elmo's 1942 draft card (S717) gives Amarillo as his birthplace.
131. S8741900 U.S. Federal Census — James Stewart household, Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana (ED 52, sheet 19A, dwelling/family 379, lines 16–19). Ancestry record 2516147 (image 4120195_00898). Image examined, read 28 September 2026. Confirmed James Stewart, head, born November 1851, 48, married 20 years, born Alabama, lumberman [?]; Amanda, wife, born February 1858, 42, married 20 years, mother of 2 children, 2 living, born Alabama; Mollie J., daughter, born November 1883, 16, born Louisiana; Willie, son, 14, born Louisiana. Enumerated 15 June 1900. Amanda's age here does not agree with the 70 given for Amanda Stewart in 1920 (S459).
132. S8781920 U.S. Federal Census — Tom J. Windham household, Justice Precinct 4, Callahan County, Texas (ED 35, sheet 7B, dwelling/family 131, lines 87–94). Ancestry record 22179205 (image 4391478_00736). Image examined, read 28 September 2026. Confirmed Tom J. Windham, head, 36, born Texas, farmer; Mary C., wife, 32, born Mississippi; Myrtle O., daughter, 14; Dorace O., daughter, 11; Era C., son, 10; Ada L., daughter, 4 9/12; Cecil C., son, 2; Willie H., son, under 1 year. Enumerated 16 March 1920.
133. S879U.S. Social Security Numerical Identification Files (Numident) — Willie Hollis Windham. FamilySearch index 6K7L-65KK. Read from the index, read 28 September 2026. Probable Willie Hollis Windham, born 3 March 1920, Dudley, Callahan County, Texas; died 23 October 1993; father Tom Windham; mother Callie Crenshaw. Image not read.
134. S8811850 U.S. Federal Census — Nathaniel Hawkins household, District 10, Campbell County, Georgia (dwelling/family 287, lines 36–42). Ancestry record 18509281 (image 4193086-00413). Image examined, read 28 September 2026. Confirmed Nathaniel Hawkins, 43, farmer; Charlotte, 43; Joseph, 21, farmer; Syntha C., 18; Permelia A., 17; Sarah A., 14; Edward, 11. The 1850 census has no relationship column. Edward is the last line of the page, so the household may continue overleaf.
135. S882Georgia, marriage records from select counties — Fayette County, 23 September 1827: Charlotte Cox to Nathan Hawkins. Ancestry index entry (image 40660_303185-00043, not read). Read from the index, read 28 September 2026. Probable Charlotte Cox married Nathan Hawkins, 23 September 1827, Fayette County. Index only; the register image has not been read.
136. S8851930 U.S. Federal Census — William H. Bethany household, 1648 Johnson Street, Amarillo, Potter County, Texas (ED 188-14, sheet 18B, lines 68–70). Ancestry record 61457066. Image examined, read 28 September 2026. Confirmed William H. Bethany, head, 38, married at 19, born Arkansas; Lena L., wife, 39, married at 20, born Arkansas; Opal, daughter, 14, born Texas, father and mother born Arkansas. Dwelling 335, family 344.
137. S8861920 U.S. Federal Census — William H. Bethany household, Amarillo, Potter County, Texas (ED 117, sheet 14A, lines 13–15). Ancestry record 100645663. Read 25 September 2026. Confirmed William H. Bethany, Lena L., and Opal, about 4, born Texas.
138. S887Texas birth index, 1944 births, p. 263 — Richard Howard Bowles. Ancestry record 303917103. Read from the index, read 28 September 2026. Probable Born 11 August 1944, Potter County; mother Bethaney, Willie Opal; father Bowles, Warren Debs. A state index, derived from the certificate.
139. S890Indiana death certificate index — James Daniel Bowles, 20 November 1941, Michigan City, LaPorte County. Ancestry collection 60716, record 359388 (primary index row). Parents Wm A. Bowles and “Ioma”; spouse Bessie Alice. The index row for his mother (record 750359388) reads “Ioma Breck”. Probable Read from the index only; the image has not been examined. Record 750359388 is the mother row on his certificate, not a death record for Iona. Accepted as PROBABLE by Earl 28 September 2026.
140. S891Find a Grave memorial 141771549 — James Daniel Bowles (1882–1941). Gives birth 23 January 1882, Cass, Arkansas, and parents William Anderson Bowles and Iona Belle. Probable A compiled memorial, not a record.
141. S8921930 U.S. census — James Daniel Bowles, Atwood, Kansas. Ancestry collection 6224, record 33508136. Probable Read from the index only; the image has not been examined.
142. S8931940 U.S. census — James Daniel Bowles, Crown Point, Indiana. Ancestry collection 2442, record 55453072. Probable Read from the index only; the image has not been examined.
143. S894U.S. Social Security Death Index — Robert Anthony Bowles. Ancestry collection 3693, record 6116135. Born 3 April 1904; died February 1974. Probable Read from the index only; the image has not been examined.
144. S895Find a Grave memorial 32204228 — Robert Anthony Bowles (1904–1974). Born 3 April 1904, Potosi, Taylor County, Texas; died 27 February 1974, Phoenix, Arizona; parents William Anderson Bowles and Iona Belle. Probable A compiled memorial, not a record. His Arizona death certificate has not been read.
145. S896U.S. WWII draft registration card — Robert Anthony Bowles. Ancestry collection 2238, record 20532523. Gives his birth as 4 April 1904. Probable Read from the index only; the image has not been examined. The day differs by one from the Social Security index.
146. S8971940 U.S. census — Robert A. Bowles, Amarillo, Texas. Ancestry collection 2442, record 159403049. Probable Read from the index only; the image has not been examined.
147. S8981950 U.S. census — Robert A. Bowles, Amarillo, Texas. Ancestry collection 62308, record 193903615. Probable Read from the index only; the image has not been examined. His brother Warren D. Bowles's household two doors away is S507.
148. S899Find a Grave memorial 114180807 — William Anderson Bowles Jr. (1893–1957). Born 28 April 1893, Elmdale, Taylor County, Texas; died 15 September 1957, Pasadena, California; buried Rose Hills. Probable A compiled memorial, not a record; no California death certificate read.
149. S900U.S. Social Security Applications and Claims Index — William Anderson Bowles Jr. Ancestry collection 60901, record 647572468. Spouse Evelyn J. Smith. Probable Read from the index only; the image has not been examined.
150. S9011930 U.S. census — W. A. Bowles Jr. Ancestry collection 6224, record 90702266. Probable Read from the index only; the image has not been examined.
151. S9021940 U.S. census — W. A. Bowles Jr. Ancestry collection 2442, record 73681895. Probable Read from the index only; the image has not been examined.
152. S9031950 U.S. census — W. A. Bowles Jr. Ancestry collection 62308, record 257070183. Probable Read from the index only; the image has not been examined.
153. S904Texas death certificate index — John Wesley Bowles, 6 December 1960, Abilene. Ancestry collection 2272, record 23227833. Born 26 June 1902, Potosi, Taylor County; father W. A. Bowles; mother “Belle Broach”. Probable Read from the index only; the image has not been examined. “Broach” is read as Brock.
154. S905Find a Grave memorial 141783210 — Iona Belle Bowles Noonan (1895–1986). Born 18 January 1895; died 10 September 1986; parents William Anderson Bowles and Iona Belle; husband Charles Francis Noonan. Probable A compiled memorial, not a record; nothing else yet read names her parents.
155. S934U.S. World War II draft registration card T-11064 — John Wesley Bowles, Taylor County, Texas, 1942. Ancestry record 20532483. Image examined, read 29 September 2026. Confirmed John Wesley Bowles, Route 2, Abilene, born 26 June 1902, Abilene, Texas, aged 39, a self-employed farmer; contact Will Nesmith; signed “J W Bowles”. His own statement of his birth date. His death certificate (S904) gives Potosi, a Taylor County community beside Abilene.
156. S9351940 U.S. census — John Bowles household, Precinct 1, Taylor County, Texas (ED 221-22, sheet 22A). Ancestry record 157946165. Image examined, read 29 September 2026. Confirmed John Bowles, head, 37, born in Texas, farmer, in the same house in 1935; Ethel, wife, 35; two daughters. Ancestry indexes the name as “Banales”. The same sheet opens with Alfred Bowles's family.
157. S936Texas birth certificate no. 61843 (delayed filing, 1957) — a daughter of John Wesley Bowles. Ancestry record 108291474. Image examined, read 29 September 2026. Confirmed Father John Wesley Bowles, 24, born in Texas, farmer; mother Ethel Maude NeSmith, 22, born in Texas. Cited for the parents only; the child's details are not published.
158. S937Texas birth certificate no. 55790, Amarillo — a daughter of R. A. Bowles. Ancestry record 108545227. Image examined, read 29 September 2026. Confirmed Father R. A. Bowles, 28, born in Texas, cleaner; mother Geneva Reynolds, 19, born in Texas. Cited for the parents only; the child's details are not published.
159. S938Lawrence County, Missouri, marriage licence, p. 499 — James Daniel Bowles and Alice Bagby, 12 June 1912. Ancestry record 7909659. Image examined, read 29 September 2026. Confirmed James Daniel Bowles, 30, of Texas, and Alice Bagby, of Aurora. Licence issued 8 June 1912; married at Aurora on 12 June 1912. She is Bessie A. in the 1920, 1925 and 1930 censuses; Bessie Alice is the probable reading.
160. S939Kansas state census, 1925 — J. Daniel Bowles household, Abilene, Dickinson County. Ancestry record 8220096. Image examined, read 29 September 2026. Confirmed Tenure “Parsonage”: J. Daniel, 43, born in Arkansas, came from Texas, clergyman; Bessie A., 38, born in Missouri; two sons. His age fits a birth in January 1882.
161. S940Los Angeles Directory Co.'s South Bay directory, 1936, p. 272 — Hermosa Beach. Ancestry record 1423030717. Image examined, read 29 September 2026. Confirmed Reah Glanton (Iona B), secretary of the Hermosa Beach Chamber of Commerce, house 1524 Monterey Boulevard. Ancestry indexes the place as Redondo Beach; the page is the Hermosa Beach section.
162. S957Arkansas delayed certificate of birth no. 166 — William Lacy Carpenter, born near Little Rock, Pulaski County, 29 July 1888 (sworn 27 November 1942, filed 9 January 1943). Ancestry record 300663443. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 24 September 2026. Confirmed Child William Lacy Carpenter, male, born 29 July 1888 at 2 a.m., in the country near Little Rock, Pulaski County. Father Robert M. Carpenter, 24, farmer, born Kentucky; mother Lucinda Bowles, 22, housewife, born Kentucky; no earlier children. Affiant Nannie E. Evans, of Wallowa, Oregon, who gives her relationship as aunt, sworn before a notary at Emmett, Gem County, Idaho. The certificate was made 54 years after the birth, and the parents' ages are recollections. Lucinda's own death certificate and the 1870 census (S158) put her birth in February 1870, not about 1866, and the 1900 census gives Robert's as November 1866; the site keeps both. The index reads the middle name as "Lasy"; the image has Lacy. Lucinda's sister Nancy Ann Bowles married George R. Evans, so the affiant is probably she, but the certificate does not say so. Collection: Arkansas, U.S., Birth Certificates, 1914–1925.
163. S9641880 United States Federal Census — Hilburn Township, Madison County, Arkansas, ED 104, page 32, dwelling 274 (22 June 1880). Ancestry record 39681260. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 24 September 2026. Confirmed William Carpenter, 41, head, farmer, born Kentucky, parents born Tennessee; Ala, 34, wife, born Kentucky; sons John 17, Robert 14 (farm laborer), Charles D. 12, and daughters Margarett 15, all born Kentucky; Amanda 10, Mary J. 8, Eliza B. 6, Sarah E. 4, Lyllian 2 and Josephine 1, all born Arkansas. The household is read in full. That this Robert is Robert Marion Carpenter, who married Lucinda Bowles in 1887, is Probable: Kentucky birth, age and Arkansas residence fit, and his daughter Ala E. was named for his mother, but no record yet names his parents. Collection: 1880 United States Federal Census.
164. S9671850 United States Federal Census — Harlan County, Kentucky, dwelling and family 342 (August 1850). Ancestry record 17189094. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 24 September 2026. Confirmed John C. Howard, 45, farmer, real estate $1,200, born Kentucky; Michael 18, John 16, Larkin 15, Hiram 13, Nancy 10, Elizabeth 9, Mary 7, Paulina 5 and Jacob 3, all born Kentucky. No adult woman is in the household. Next door (343) is Aaron Brock, 64, born Virginia. The image behind the index in S865. The 1850 census states no relationships. Mary 7, Paulina 5 and Jacob 3 reappear in 1860 as Mary 15, Matilda 13 and Jacob 11 (S165), which is why Paulina is taken to be Matilda Pauline Howard. Her age here points to 1845; the site keeps 1847 from four later censuses, since all three children run two years older here than in 1860. Collection: 1850 United States Federal Census (db 8054, image 4192493_00364).
165. S9831880 U.S. census — Hilburn Township, Madison County, Arkansas, ED 104, page 25, 16 June 1880, lines 1–4. Ancestry record 6421264. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 28 September 2026. Confirmed A household continued from the previous page: Martha E., 12, and Lucinda, 10, born Kentucky, at school, then Sarah F., 7, and Lydia J., 5, both born Arkansas; all four with parents born Kentucky. The head of the household, James Boles, is on the previous page, which has not been read. Lucinda's age and Kentucky birth fit her birth on 27 February 1870 (S158). The younger girls' Arkansas births place the family's move from Kentucky about 1870–73.
166. S984U.S. Army Transport Service passenger list — 242nd Military Police Company, port of embarkation Liverpool, England, sheet 2 (date blank, after the First World War), line 45. Ancestry record 129837644. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 28 September 2026. Probable Harry C. Carpenter, private first class, army no. 2311994; to be notified in emergency: Mrs Lucinda Carpenter, mother, Phoenix, Arizona. Phoenix is where Lucinda Bowles Carpenter died on 28 September 1920 (S158), so this is probably her son. The list gives no age or birthplace for him, and no other record read names him as her son.
167. S988Record of Appointment of Postmasters — Taylor County, Texas, pages 787–788, Potosi. Ancestry record 728860. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 28 September 2026. Probable Postmasters at Potosi: Joel A. Holly (1898), William T. Woody (1904), William L. Simpson (27 February 1907), then William A. Bowles, appointed 15 May 1907, followed by Chester M. Lindley (date not read). The register gives no age or other identifier. Potosi was the Bowles family's town, and his son William Anderson Bowles Jr. was only 14 in 1907, so this is probably the father; that rests on name and town only.
168. S993W. M. Wilder, Wilder and Some Connecting Families (typescript), page numbered (290), “A Tennessee Fragment”; Ancestry U.S. Family History Books. Ancestry record 4514386444. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 28–29 September 2026. Probable The same entry as S863, here complete on one page: “G-1 Nancy Wilder (dau of James & Nancy Hays Wilder) b in Tenn. abt 1802 d in Madison Co., Ark. after 1878, m Moses Williams (b abt 1799 in Tenn. d 7/27/1874 Madison Co., Ark.) who was a veteran of the War of 1812 and his widow drew a pension therefore. They m 2/15/1819 in Hawkins Co., Tenn.” It names their son Sampson Williams, born in Hawkins County (“1925”, a typing slip for 1825), and James Wilder's parents as David Wilder, born in Virginia about 1760, died at Luther, Tennessee, aged 96, a Revolutionary soldier, and Nancy Elkins. A compiled family history by the same author as S863, so not independent of it. No marriage register has been read. Moses Williams's War of 1812 widow's pension would test the marriage and her maiden name.
169. S10131830 United States Federal Census — Estill County, Kentucky, page 250. Ancestry record 1789998. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 29 September 2026. Probable Line 9: Abraham Thomas, male 50–60, with males under 5, 15–20 and 20–30, two females 10–15 and a female 50–60. William Boles is three lines below; Cornealius Thomas, 30–40, is on line 16. 1830 names only the heads of households.
170. S1022U.S. WWII Draft Registration Cards, 1942 — serial U1950, Los Angeles, California. Ancestry record 13423915. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 29 September 2026. Confirmed William Anderson Bowles, 4706 Klamath Street, Los Angeles, born 28 April 1893, Abilene, Texas, age 49; self-employed, W. A. Bowles, 3329 Eastern Avenue; contact Mrs Emma Smith. Signed by him. The same address as his 1940 census entry.
171. S10231920 United States Federal Census — Belvidere Township, Los Angeles County, California, sheet 8A, line 8. Ancestry record 168247. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 29 September 2026. Probable “Bales, William A”, 26, single, born Texas, both parents born Kentucky, farmer. The surname is misspelled; the age and birthplaces fit.
172. S10261920 United States Federal Census — Rogers, Benton County, Arkansas, enumeration district 20, sheet 3B, lines 60–63. Ancestry record 108742682. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 29 September 2026. Confirmed 302 North 5th Street: J. D. Bowles, 37, born Arkansas, parents born Kentucky, merchant, music store; Bessie A., 32, born Missouri; sons J. Daniel and Richard M. Read from the image.
173. S10271930 United States Federal Census — Amarillo, Potter County, Texas, enumeration district 188-9, sheet 10B. Ancestry record 61432195. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 29 September 2026. Confirmed Pierce Street: Robert A. Bowles, roomer, 25, single, born Texas, presser in a dry-cleaning plant, rooming with Vernon E. Hancock, a dry-cleaning proprietor. The entry gives his parents as born Texas, an error in a roomer’s line.
174. S1082U.S. World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917–1918 — Precinct 9, Taylor County, Texas, card No. 54, serial 42-4-99-A. Ancestry record 17120035. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 30 September 2026. Confirmed 5 June 1917: William Anderson Bowles, 24, Route 2, Abilene, born 28 April 1893 at Abilene, a farmer, single; short, stout, brown eyes, light brown hair. The same name and birth date as his 1942 card [S1022].
175. S1105Texas, Death Index, 1903–2000 — typescript state index of 1960 deaths, page 120. Ancestry record 6822025. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 1 October 2026. Confirmed “BOWLES JOHN WESLEY — TAYLOR — DEC 6 — 75611”: Taylor County, 6 December 1960, state file 75611. Ancestry indexes the place as the town of Taylor; the column on the image is the county. The certificate itself (file 75611) has not been read from the image; S904 is its index.
176. S1106U.S., City Directories, 1822–1995 — Amarillo city directory, 1934, page 99. Ancestry record 388570351. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 1 October 2026. Confirmed “Bowles Robt A (Geneva) clnr Oriental Clnrs h1304a Lincoln”. The index reads the address as 304a Lincoln; the image has h1304a, “h” for householder. Debs and Warren D. Bowles are listed in the same block at 506½ E. 10th Avenue; the directory does not say how they were related to him.
177. S1115Texas Birth Certificate — Tom Leslie Bowles [Jr.], Potter County, 22 January 1931 (registrar’s no. 147, state file 7595). Ancestry record 105372823. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 25 September 2026. Confirmed Born 22 January 1931 at 5:30 p.m., 506½ East 10th Street, Amarillo; father Tom Bowles, 28, born “Abilina” [Abilene], Texas, a cook; mother Delphia Kennedy, 20, born Eastland, Texas; her first child. Filed 25 February 1931. Indexed under the father; the child on the certificate is the son, Tom Leslie Jr. The physician’s and registrar’s names are hard to read.
178. S1116Texas Birth Index, 1946 births, p. 289 (Texas Department of Health) — Sandra Lynn Bowles. Ancestry record 159388441. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 25 September 2026. Confirmed “BOWLES, SANDRA LYNN”, county 188 [Potter], born 19 May 1946, female; mother Kennedy, Zella Delphia; father Bowles, Tom Leslie. An index line, not the certificate itself.
179. S1119Los Angeles City Directory, 1932, p. 297 — William A. Bowles. Ancestry record 232305208. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 30 September 2026. Confirmed “Bowles Wm A (Evelyn J) clo clnr 4838 S Huntington dr”, a clothes cleaner. There are six other William Bowleses in the same column. His wife’s initials and his trade single this one out.
180. S1140City of Oswego, New York, Record of Marriages, p. 853, no. 856 — Harry Charles Carpenter and Florence Ethel Snyder (11 January 1921). Ancestry record 1050051680. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 29 September 2026. Confirmed Licence of 5 January 1921: Harry Charles Carpenter, white, 21, of R.F.D. 1, Phoenix, Arizona, soldier, first marriage, born Prescott, Arizona, father Robert M. Carpenter, mother Lucinda Bowles; Florence Ethel Snyder, 18, of Oswego, candymaker, born Oswego, father Albert Snyder, mother Frances Clark. Married 11 January 1921 at Oswego by Merritt J. Winchester, clergyman; future address Madison Barracks, New York.
181. S1141Texas amendment to certificate of birth, state file no. 12754, Taylor County, 1921 (filed 28 January 1974). Ancestry record 105813006. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 25 September 2026. Confirmed The child’s name, left blank on the original, is supplied as Phyllis Marcia Lindley, born 1921; the father’s name is corrected from Chester Lindley to Chester Major Lindley and the mother’s from “Mary Bowbs” to Mary Bowles, on the affidavit of Mary Lindley, the parent, sworn 3 January 1974. Phyllis Marcia may be living; she is given here by name and birth year only.
182. S1142Arkansas certificate of birth, Benton County, city of Rogers, registered no. 62, 1918. Ancestry record 150122413. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 29 September 2026. Confirmed Child Richard William Bowles, born 1918, second child of the mother, two living; father James D. Bowles, of Rogers, white, 36, born Arkansas, preacher; mother Bessie Bagby (written “Bogby”), 31, born Missouri. Richard may be living; he is given here by name and birth year only. The surname is written “Bowler” at one end of the line.
183. S11601840 U.S. census, Harlan County, Kentucky (one sheet, no page number legible). Ancestry record 1263558. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 25 September 2026. Probable James Brock, head: males under 5 (2), 5–10 (1), 10–15 (1), 15–20 (1) and 30–40 (1); females under 5 (1), 5–10 (1) and 30–40 (1); nine in all. Neighbours on the same sheet include Amy Brock, Jesse Brock Jr., and the Howard households of James, William Jr., William J., Benjamin and Phillip Howard. The 1840 census names heads only. The identification rests on the age brackets (a man and a woman 30–40, two boys under five) and the county, which is the county of the 1850 household (S169).
184. S1165Abilene, Texas, city directory, 1933, p. 215. Ancestry record 407520816. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 25 September 2026. Confirmed “Lindley Chester M (Mary) vet surg 865 S 4th”: Chester M. Lindley, veterinary surgeon, and his wife Mary, house at 865 South 4th; also “Lindley Rice r865 S 4th”. A directory gives no age and the wife’s given name only. Rice Lindley at the same address is not stated to be their son.
185. S1169Texas state birth index, 1910 volume, Bos–Bra, p. 16 (typed index). Ancestry record 150321798. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 24 September 2026. Confirmed “Bowles, W. A., Inf. of”, Taylor County, born 9 August (8–9), certificate no. 53667. “Inf. of” is the index’s form for an unnamed newborn: W. A. Bowles is the father, not the child. The year 1910 comes from the volume heading; the sheet notes “year not shown on certificate”. The certificate itself has not been read.
186. S1170World War I draft registration card, St. Landry Parish local board, Opelousas, Louisiana (17-3-39 C), registered 12 September 1918. Ancestry record 27878387. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 25 September 2026. Confirmed John Berry Brock, Liberty Street, Opelousas, St. Landry Parish; age 43; born 5 December 1874; white, native born; minister, no employer; nearest relative Mrs. Jimmie Stewart Brock (wife), Liberty, Opelousas; medium height, stout, brown eyes, dark hair; registrar H. M. Callahan. The index reads the wife as “Jennie”; the card says Jimmie, as the 1940 and 1950 censuses do. The card names no parent: the link to Solomon Alfred Brock rests on the name, the birth month (December 1874, as in 1900, S138) and the Opelousas ministry already on his card.
187. S11721860 U.S. census, Jackson County, Kentucky, P.O. McKee, dwelling and family 295, lines 17–21. Ancestry record 39429512. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 25 September 2026. Probable Moses Williams, 60, farmer, real estate $540, personal $250, born Tennessee, cannot read or write; Nancy, 56, born Tennessee, cannot read or write; George B., 20; Nancy Ann, 17, at school; Absalom (“Absolum”), 15, at school; all born Tennessee. The census states no relationships. The pairing (Moses born Tennessee about 1800 with Nancy) matches 1850 in Owsley County (S173), from which Jackson County was partly formed in 1858; Nancy’s age has moved eight years, not ten. Lydia is not in the house.