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Person · L. Jean Bowles Julius
The record
- HHomethe fan · what changed · open questions
- MMigrationbirths and deaths on a map, by decade
- TTimeline609 entries · 5 eras
- PPeople290 cards, by generationL. Jean Bowles Julius
- LLines13 surname pages
The evidence
- DDocuments896 thumbnails, filterable
- SSourcesS1–S1207, with where each is cited
The findings
- How the wall came downProeger line
- The glass patentsProeger line
- How the Caffey half was closedCaffey line
- What the DNA saysits own page
- Four routesMigration
- The asymmetryLines
- Open questions20 questions
- Add to this recorda form, read by Earl
How to read this record
Every claim is tagged
Most family trees flatten everything into the same confident typeface. This one does not.
The three research tags below are the whole point of the exercise: they say what a document
proves, what the weight of evidence suggests, and what nobody has found yet. A fourth marks
what the family stated directly, where no document has been retrieved at all — it is kept
separate on purpose and is never quietly promoted to confirmed. A fifth, added on
13 September 2026, marks biological evidence: a DNA result is not a document, and it is not
testimony either. Two further labels mark where this page withholds information
rather than lacking it.
ConfirmedAttested by a document that was actually retrieved and read — a census sheet, a
government index, a grave marker, a family-written obituary.
ProbableStrongly supported but not nailed down: a user-contributed tree, a masked index field,
or a chain of consistent circumstances. Believable, not proven.
Not foundSearched for and not located. This is a statement about the search, not about the
person — the record may well exist somewhere unsearched.
Family testimonySupplied by the family and recorded on their word — no document has been retrieved for
it. Note the diamond rather than the dot: this is provenance, not proof, and it stands
apart from the three record tags above S24.
DNA evidenceBiological evidence consistent with a claim. It corroborates origins; it does
not by itself establish a person or a link. Note the bar rather than a dot or a diamond:
no DNA result on this page is ever counted as confirmed, because no document
was read for it S46.
Living — withheldThe person is living. By the privacy rule for this page, name and relationship are
shown, and at most a year the family has already published. Full dates of birth, ages,
places of residence and record identifiers are held back.
Research in progressA branch that is actively being worked on. The node exists in the structure so the
shape of the family is honest; the detail is simply not in yet.
- Born
- 4 May 1890
- Died
- 23 June 1951
- Parents
- William Anderson Bowles & Iona Belle Brock
- Married
- Harry Julius
- Sources
- 5
Research status
Research status: CONFIRMED — added 24 September 2026 from a record that names the parents; entered in the family tree the same day.
Life in the order the records give it
Birth1890
Born 4 May 1890, Arkansas
Death1951
Died 23 June 1951, Los Angeles; the California death record names both parents
Census1929
🆕 In 1929 she and Harry ran the
Tenth Avenue Cafe in Amarillo and had rooms at 506½ East 10th Avenue
S590. added 25 September 2026.
Census1930
🆕 In 1930 she was the
cafe manager and Harry the proprietor, in Amarillo; her sister Lilly, 21, waited tables in the cafe and lived with them, and her brother Tom L. was a cook, three lines up the page
S615. added 26 September 2026.
Census1950
🆕 In 1950 Jean Julius, 59, born Arkansas, and her husband Harry Julius, 68, were living at 1906 Pacific Coast Highway,
Hermosa Beach, California, in the home of her sister
Iona B. Reah, 55, a visiting nurse
S637. The index calls Jean never married; the page lists Harry as the head's brother-in-law. added 26 September 2026.
Census1920
🆕 In January 1920 she was
Jean Bowles, 29, single, a
trained nurse, heading a household at
721 Liberty Street, Dallas, with her sister
Iona, 23, also a trained nurse, and a third nurse as lodger
Probable confirm or correct → S803.
Evidence: her name and age, and a sister Iona who was still nursing in 1950 (S637).
What is weak: it is a single census, it gives both sisters as born in Texas rather than Arkansas, and it gives their mother's birthplace as Kentucky; the site keeps Arkansas. added 27 September 2026
Family parents, marriages, children, siblings
Marriage1940
Wife of
Harry Julius; in 1940 at 912 Buchanan, Amarillo, running a cafe, with her widowed mother Iona living with them
S185In the record
Generation 4 — Earl's great-grandparents and their siblings
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.