The Proeger Family · Generation 3 — Kristin's grandparents and their siblings

Thomas Osborn Caffey

Son of Thomas Walton Caffey Sr. · born 1910

Thomas Osborn Caffey

Confirmed

Son of Thomas Walton Caffey Sr. · born 1910

Born
9 February 1910
Died
16 March 1987
Parents
Thomas Walton Caffey Sr. & Medie Owens
Married
Alice Piland
Children
Kenneth Walton Caffey
Sources
20

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

Birth1910
Born 9 February 1910 near Elgin, Williamson County, Texas; Osburn, 10, in 1920 and Osborn T., 20, at Salado in 1930 S232S221
Death1987
Died 16 March 1987, Austin, Texas
Census1950
🆕 In 1950 he was an Austin city fireman, aged 40, with his wife Alice L., two sons and his mother-in-law Mabel L. Piland S518. added 25 September 2026.
Record1940
🆕 On his 1940 draft card he signed himself Thomas Osban Caffey and gave his birthplace as Bastrop County; Elgin sits on the Bastrop–Williamson line. He lived at 82½ East Avenue, Austin, worked for the N. M. Jackson Service Station, and named his wife, Mrs. Alice Lorene Caffey S571. added 25 September 2026.
Census1932
🆕 The 1932–33 Austin directory lists him as Osborn Caffey, living at 2702 East 1st Street S636. added 26 September 2026.

Family parents, marriages, children, siblings

Parents
Son of Thomas Walton Caffey Sr. and Medie Owens; brother of Thomas Walton Caffey Jr.
Children1944
🆕 His son Kenneth Walton Caffey was born in Travis County on 17 August 1944, to him and Alice Lorene Piland S550. added 25 September 2026.
Marriage1935
🆕 He married Alice Piland in Austin on 15 December 1935; H. C. Morrison, pastor of East Avenue Baptist Church, officiated S621. added 26 September 2026.
Marriage1893
🆕 His wife's father: Orbin Oliver Piland (his card) Confirmed, born 22 March 1893 at Gonzales by his own draft card S932 (the index of his death certificate says 24 March), died 30 September 1929, by his Texas death certificate, which names his parents as E. R. Piland and Virginia F. Montgomery S911S914. In 1920, in Hays County, “Arvin P.” (the image reads “Orvin O.”), 26, and his wife Mabel, 24, had a daughter Alice L., 5 S910; in 1930 Mabel was a widow at Austin with Alice Lorena, 15 S924, and a Texas birth index names Alice Lorene's father as Orbin Oliver Piland S923. His parents, Edward Raymond Piland and Virginia Francis “Jennie” Montgomery Probable confirm or correct →, married in Gonzales County on 28 June 1883, by the licence, read from the image S913; the family is in Gonzales County in 1900 S912. Jennie, born August 1858, died in 1927 S915. Research status: Orbin as Alice's father is CONFIRMED by the two census images and the birth index (relabelled 29 September 2026); his dates and his parents stay PROBABLE, accepted by Earl 28 September 2026 pending more evidence. What is weak: the death certificates are read from their indexes only, not the images. added 28 September 2026.
Parents1950
🆕 His mother-in-law: Mabel Logue Piland (her card) Probable confirm or correct →, the Mabel L. Piland of his 1950 household S518, was born 31 October 1895 at Galveston and died 13 April 1961 at Austin, by her Texas death certificate, which names her father as D. C. Logue S907. In 1900 “Mable”, 4, born October 1895 in Texas, was in the Waco household of D. C. Logue and his wife Virginia A. S906, who had married as D. C. Logue and Virginia Alice Hamby in Calhoun County, Alabama, on 2 April 1890 S908. Find a Grave gives her father as Dan Crutcher Logue, 1858–1939 S909. Research status: PROBABLE, accepted by Earl 28 September 2026 pending more evidence. What is weak: the death certificate image has not been read; it gives Galveston as her birthplace while the 1900 census has the family in Waco; the Hamby family has not yet been researched. added 28 September 2026.

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Thomas Osborn Caffey · Sources

Citations

Sources cited on this card

20 of the record's sources are cited here. The numbering is the record's own; the full list, with where else each is cited, is at Sources.

  1. S2211930 U.S. Federal Census — Tom W. Caffey household, Town of Salado, Bell County, Texas. Ancestry record 65751299; ED 14-7, sheet 1B; enumerated 2 April 1930. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Tom W. Caffey, 57, farmer, first married at 24; Medie R., 42, first married at 17; sons Osbar/Osborn T. 20, Howard L. 12 and T. W. Jr. 6. 🔑 Eleven days before Tom's death. ⚠ The ages at first marriage (c.1897 and c.1904) do not fit one marriage; Tom's mother is entered born Alabama, against Georgia on his death certificate. Neither is settled.
  2. S2321920 U.S. Federal Census — T. W. Caffey household, Precinct 2, Bell County, Texas. Ancestry record 80271873; ED 5, sheet 4B, lines 92–96. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. T. W. Caffey, 44, farmer, renting, parents born Alabama; Meadie, 33; Mattie, 21; Osburn, 10; and Howard, 2 3/12. ⚠ Mattie is probably from an earlier marriage of T. W.'s (Medie had two children by 1917, [S233]); not assumed. A neighbour J. O. Caffey, 41, may be a brother.
  3. S5181950 U.S. Federal Census — Thomas O. Caffey household, Austin, Travis County, Texas. Ancestry record 191581182. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Thomas O., 40, city fireman; wife Alice L., 35; two sons; mother-in-law Mabel L. Piland, 54.
  4. S550Texas Birth Index, 1944: Kenneth Walton Caffey. Ancestry record 153922900. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Kenneth Walton Caffey, Travis County, 17 August 1944; mother Alice Lorene “Pilard” [Piland]; father Thomas Osborn Caffey.
  5. S571U.S. World War II Draft Registration Card — Thomas Osban Caffey, Austin, 1940. Ancestry record 20540545. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Signed Thomas Osban Caffey (typed “Osbanne”), 30, born 9 February 1910 in Bastrop County, Texas; 82½ East Avenue, Austin; working for the N. M. Jackson Service Station, Congress Avenue; his wife Mrs. Alice Lorene Caffey. Elgin, where other records place his birth, sits on the Bastrop–Williamson county line.
  6. S621Travis County, Texas, marriage record, licence no. 1008, 1935. Ancestry record 40751477. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Mr. T. O. Caffey and Miss Alice Piland, licensed 14 December 1935; married 15 December 1935 by H. C. Morrison, pastor of East Avenue Baptist Church, Austin.
  7. S636Austin, Texas, city directory, 1932–33 (Morrison & Fourmy), p. 139. Ancestry record 399581350. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Caffey Osborn r2702 E 1st. “r” marks a resident who was not the householder.
  8. S9061900 U.S. census — D. C. Logue household, Waco, Texas. Ancestry collection 7602, record 43883385. Waco Ward 1, McLennan County: D. C. Logue, 42, head; his wife Virginia A., 32, born July 1867 in Tennessee, married ten years; daughter “Mable”, 4, born October 1895 in Texas. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 30 September 2026: ED 71, sheet 1B, 1609 North 6th Street. Probable On the image: Logue, D. C., born November 1857, grocery salesman; Virginia A., born July 1867, Tennessee, married ten years, the mother of five children, four living; Ethel, born January 1891 in Alabama; Leola; Mable, born October 1895; Hazel; Halbert, born February 1900. The image agrees with the index. It gives D. C.’s birth as November 1857, a year before the 24 November 1858 of his Find a Grave memorial [S909]; Ethel’s Alabama birth in 1891 fits the 1890 Calhoun County marriage [S908].
  9. S907Texas death certificate index — Mabel Logue Piland, 13 April 1961, Austin. Ancestry record 23640738. Born 31 October 1895, Galveston; died 13 April 1961, Austin, Travis County; father D. C. Logue. Probable Read from the index only; the certificate image has not been examined. The Galveston birthplace sits against the 1900 Waco household (S906); the family may have moved. Second citation, added 1 October 2026: the Texas state death index for 1961, page 971, Ancestry record 5099606, image examined, reads “PILAND MABEL LOGUE | TRAVIS | APR 13 | 24560”, the same death and file number. It is still an index; the certificate itself, with her birthplace and parents, has not been seen.
  10. S908Calhoun County, Alabama, marriage register — D. C. Logue and Virginia Alice Hamby, 2 April 1890. Alabama County Marriage Records, Ancestry record 901501955, page 123; indexed in Ancestry collection 60000, records 118681 and 1420397. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 30 September 2026. Probable Licence issued 2 April 1890 by Emmett F. Crook, Judge of Probate, to join “D. C. Logue and Virginia Alice Hamby”; the return certifies that the minister solemnized the marriage the same day, 2 April 1890, signed Allen K. Moore(?), pastor of the Christian Church. Until 30 September 2026 this was read from the index only. The register gives no ages, parents or residences.
  11. S909Find a Grave memorial 97803773 — Dan Crutcher Logue (1858–1939). Gives his full name, his dates (24 November 1858 – 11 April 1939), his burial in West Hill Cemetery, Sherman, Texas, and his wife as Virginia Alice Logue. Probable A compiled memorial, not a record; the dates rest on it alone. Updated 30 September 2026 with the dates the memorial gives.
  12. S9101920 U.S. census — Piland household, Hays County, Texas. Ancestry collection 6061, record 43429362 (the page image is also reached through record 43429363). “Arvin P.”, 26; wife Mabel, 24; daughter Alice L., 5. Image examined, read 28 September 2026. Confirmed Precinct 2, ED 119, sheet 5B: the enumerator wrote Orvin O. Piland, head, 26, born in Texas; Mabel, wife, 24; Alice L. Piland, daughter, 5, all born in Texas. Ancestry's index reads the name as “Arvin P.”; the image reads “Orvin O.”, the same initials as Orbin Oliver. Updated 29 September 2026: it was first cited from the index only.
  13. S911Texas death certificate index — Orbin Oliver Piland, 30 September 1929. Ancestry collection 2272, record 23497175. Born 24 March 1893; parents E. R. Piland and Virginia F. Montgomery. Probable Read from the index only; the image has not been examined.
  14. S9121900 U.S. census — Piland household, Gonzales County, Texas. Ancestry collection 7602, record 43464939. Probable Read from the index only; the image has not been examined.
  15. S913Texas marriage index — Edward Raymond Piland and Virginia Francis “Jennie” Montgomery, 28 June 1883, Gonzales County. Ancestry collection 60183, record 807408; the licence image is Ancestry record 390206. Image examined, read 29 September 2026. Confirmed Gonzales County marriage licence: Mr. E. R. Piland and Miss Jennie Montgomery; licence issued 27 June 1883 by D. D. Jones, clerk; married 28 June 1883 by L. L. Bradley, minister. The licence gives initials and a nickname only; the full names come from the index. Updated 29 September 2026: it was first cited from the index only.
  16. S914Find a Grave memorial 26217520 — Orbin Oliver Piland. Cited with his death certificate for his dates. Probable A compiled memorial, not a record.
  17. S915Texas death certificate index — Virginia Francis “Jennie” (Montgomery) Piland, 1927. Ancestry collection 2272, record 30274803. Born August 1858. Probable Read from the index only; the image has not been examined.
  18. S923FamilySearch index, Texas Births and Christenings, 1840–1981 — Alice Lorene Piland, born 20 November 1914, Kyle, Hays County. FamilySearch record 4LVY-XPMM, checked 28 September 2026. Probable Father Orbin Oliver Piland; mother Mabel Larrimore Logue. An index only; no image. It is independent of the 1920 and 1930 censuses, and its date matches the Social Security index.
  19. S9241930 U.S. census — Mable Piland household, Austin, Travis County, Texas. Ancestry collection 6224, record 60697622. Image examined, read 28 September 2026. Confirmed ED 227-29, sheet 3A: Mable Piland, head, 34, widowed, born in Texas; Alice Lorena, daughter, 15, born in Texas; Virginia Logue, mother, 62, widowed, born in Tennessee. Mabel is widowed by April 1930, which fits Orbin's death in 1929.
  20. S932U.S. World War I draft registration card — Orbin Oliver Piland, Hays County, Texas, 5 June 1917. Ancestry record 19976228. Image examined, read 29 September 2026. Confirmed Orbin Oliver Piland, 24, of Buda, born 22 March 1893 at Gonzales, Texas; farming for Jno. Howard; a wife and two children. His own statement. The index of his death certificate (S911) gives 24 March.

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