Timeline

29 February — Hans Schuster of Unter-Schmerach marries Anna Maria Gronbach at Lendsiedel; they are the parents of Elisabetha Schuster Probable confirm or correct → S805

22 August — Hans Schuster, a widower, father of Elisabetha Schuster, marries Anna Barbara Schuhmann at Ilshofen Probable confirm or correct → S806

30 July — the first of four children of Hans (Johann) Pröger, “Hanß Preger, Bauer allhie”, to be buried young at Triensbach: a son aged 1 year 4 months. Sons follow in April 1713 and October 1716, and his youngest daughter Maria Margaretha, four days old, on 18 June 1720 S740

13 June — Rev. James Quisenberry is born, by a compiled burial card and his epitaph as a family book copies it; the epitaph says Orange County, a family history Spotsylvania Probable confirm or correct → S728S750

5 July — Jane Burris is born in Orange County, Virginia, by her tombstone as a Quisenberry family book copies it; one DAR entry gives 1739, which nothing read supports Probable confirm or correct → S750

22 August — Rachel Martin Bush is born in Fluvanna County, Virginia, a daughter of John Martin and probably Rachel Pierce, as an SAR supplemental and a DAR entry name her S764. The birth date and place come from a compiled Pace family book, not a record, which names the mother Rachel Pace; her age of 93 in 1860 points to 1767 Probable confirm or correct → S749

4 December — Rev. James Quisenberry marries Jane Burris, both seventeen, by their tombstones as a family book copies them and a Burris family typescript, not a record Probable confirm or correct → S750S763

14 February — a Francis Bush, probably Francis Bush, enlists for one year in the 2nd Virginia Regiment S649

9 December — Frances Tandy Burris, a sister of Jane Burris, marries William Bush, called Captain Billy Bush, son of Philip Bush Sr., by a Burris family typescript, not a record Probable confirm or correct → S763

Rev. James Quisenberry moves to Kentucky and settles in what is now Clark County, by his epitaph as a family book copies it; Colonial Families puts him in the garrison of the fort at Boonesboro under Daniel Boone. Both are compiled books Probable confirm or correct → S750S762

30 March — “Benjamin Borans to Judah Lummus”, probably Benjamin Burroughs and Judith Loomis, in a copied church register indexed to Pittsgrove, Salem County, New Jersey S1150

7 July — Colby Burris Quisenberry is born in what is now Clark County, Kentucky, then Fayette County, Virginia, by two compiled family books that agree S451S761

An Abraham Thomas heads a household of nine in Madison County, Kentucky, among the Muddy Creek entries, with girls of the right age to include Lucy Ann Thomas Bowles, probably his daughter; the census names only the head Probable confirm or correct → S765

27 November — Charles Caffey gives bond in North Carolina for his marriage to Nancy Lewis S647

24 December — a James Quisenberry marries Cloey Ship in Clark County, Kentucky, James Haggard officiating: possibly a second marriage for Rev. James Quisenberry after Jane Burris, though the register gives no ages or parents; his epitaph, as a family book copies it, names Chloe Shipp of Clark County as his second wife Probable confirm or correct → S750 S727

3 November — Jane Burris dies in Clark County, Kentucky, aged 52, the mother of thirteen children, by her tombstone as a family book copies it and a Burris family typescript Probable confirm or correct → S750S763

13 December — David Carl Coffman born, Virginia; he dies 25 January 1883 at Luray, Page County. the earliest dated birth on the Coffman line S82S83

29 January — Georg Andreas Renk, a widower, marries Margaretha Barbara Seibold at Wallhausen; his first wife, Maria Margaretha Zins, has died S443

13 September — Georg Michael Renk, a mason, dies at Wallhausen aged 75 and is buried on the 15th; his burial entry names his parents, Georg Sebastian Renk and Eva Barbara S921

About 7 April — Emily M. Thornhill born, Culpeper County, Virginia S83. 3 June — Thore Thoresen Selland born at Bakkene under Selland, Røldal, Norway, and baptised there on 1 July S76

15 October — James Francis Quisenberry is born in Madison County, Kentucky, by the family Memorials and Colonial Families, both compiled books S689S688

4 February — James W. Wright is born near Nashville, Tennessee, by the 1892 History of Dallas County S85

6 January — Benjamin Burroughs of Pilesgrove, Salem County, signs his will, naming his children James, Hannah and Cornelius — Benjamin Burroughs Probable confirm or correct → S1168

17 June — Johann Michael Pröger, the 1797 son of Johann Leonhard David Prüger and Anna Maria Busch, a day labourer, marries Anna Barbara Hübner at Großaltdorf; the index’s 17 January is wrong S737

Sumner County, Tennessee — Peter H Martin heads a household of fifteen free white persons, thirteen of them under twenty, twelve years into his marriage S174. Two boys of 15–20 and two of 10–15 cannot be his and Jane's children; apprentices boarding with the shoemaker is the natural reading, stated as a hypothesis. ⚠ The sheet is neutral on Jane's birth year, and its enslaved-persons columns were not on the served image.

5 August — Rev. James Quisenberry dies, aged 71, and is buried on his farm in Clark County, Kentucky, by a compiled Revolutionary War burial card, not an original record S728; his epitaph, as a family book copies it, gives the same date S750

In Montgomery County, Alabama, a Charles Caffey heads a household of a man in his forties and a woman in her thirties with eleven children under 20, which fits Charles Caffey and Nancy; an Elizabeth Lewis, Nancy’s maiden surname, is on the same page Probable confirm or correct → S742

In Alabama (Tuscaloosa County by the index), Jno Bross, 20–29, heads a household with a woman 20–29, a boy 5–9 and a girl under 5; taken to be John Bross, later of Noxubee County, Mississippi Probable confirm or correct → S1021

23 January — Margaretha Barbara Pröger, born 20 January 1829, daughter of Johann Michael Pröger, dies of convulsions at Großaltdorf, aged two S788

20 September — Georg Friedrich Pröger, a weaver at Erkenbrechtshausen and son of Eva Barbara Schmidt, marries Maria Margaretha Stegmaier at Triensbach S738

29 November — Georg Leonhard Kochendörfer, master cooper, marries Eva Margaretha Renk at Gerabronn, Württemberg — Minnie Kochendoerfer's parents S444

4 August — Johann Georg Martin Heinrich Kochendörfer, day labourer, dies at Gerabronn, aged 67 S452

27 March — Johann Carl, son of Georg Leonhard Kochendörfer and Eva Margaretha, born 21 March, is baptised at Langenburg S729

February — Antone Rose born in Portugal S55

“C B Quisenberry”, aged 50–59, heads a Clark County, Kentucky, household that fits Colby Burris Quisenberry and Lucy, with Thacker and Jackson Quisenberry a few lines below; the census names only the head Probable confirm or correct → S741

The household of Wm Boles in Estill County, Kentucky, a man of 50–59 and a woman of 30–39 with eight children and young people under twenty, fits William A. Bowles and Lucy; only the head is named, and an Abraham Thomas is on the same sheet Probable confirm or correct → S766

In Noxubee County, Mississippi, the only Bross on the page, John Bross, 30–39, heads a household whose age marks fit his wife Matilda and daughter Mary; 1840 names only the head Probable confirm or correct → S1015

In Upper Alloways Creek Township, Salem County, New Jersey, Samuel Timberman, 60–69, is listed between Benjn Timberman and Samuel Timberman Jr; his 1830 age band of 40–49 does not agree Probable confirm or correct → S1017

Charles Caffey heads a household in Montgomery County, Alabama, in the census S1154 — Charles Caffey

James Brock heads a household of nine in Harlan County, Kentucky, probably with Elizabeth and the young Solomon — James Brock Probable confirm or correct → S1160

8 January — Barbara Pröger, daughter of J. M. Pröger and Anna Barbara Hübner, is born at Großaltdorf S789

9 September — Ludwig Harbauer marries Eva Jung in Philadelphia (typed transcript) S582

Julius Karl Proeger born, 15 April, at Kirchberg an der Jagst, Oberamt Gerabronn, Württemberg; baptised Carl Julius Prüger at the Lutheran parish there on 28 April, the register naming his father Georg Melchior Julius Prüger, Bürger und Schuhmachermeister, and his mother Elisabeth Catharina geb. Lösch S69S19

26 December — Henry Griffin marries Sarah Boatwright in Washington County, Georgia; they are the probable parents of Amanda Melvina Griffin S794

John Bross is the only Bross on the Noxubee County, Mississippi, state census page; the household figures are smudged and cannot be read Probable confirm or correct → S1020

30 September — Lucien B. Smith, son of Jeremiah Smith, is born in Ohio; his 1913 marriage return names his mother as Patience Kettle S700 S699

Minnie Margaret Kochendoerfer born, 3 November 1847, in Germany — christened at Langenburg eighteen days later, 21 November S137S124

12 July — Colby B. Quisenberry Jr. gives bond in Madison County, Kentucky, for his marriage to Sarah Tribble S644

11 October — James Francis Quisenberry gives bond in Madison County, Kentucky, for his marriage to Emily C. Chenault S643

16, 24 and 30 May — at Røldal, Norway, banns are read for the bachelor Thor Thorsen Selland (Tore Toreson Selland), 27, and the maid Ingeborg Ivarsdatter Hagerland, 16 (Ingebjørg Ivarsdatter); the wedding date itself is left blank in the register Confirmed S1112

On 31 March in Hamilton County, Ohio, Stephen W. Osborn marries Martha Jane Hearn, with her father James H. Hearn’s consent S1137

18 May — his widow Eva Barbara, geb. Hartweck, dies at Gerabronn S453

28 October — James W. Wright marries Lucy Brooks (Lucy C. Brooks) of Davidson County, Tennessee, by the 1892 History of Dallas County S85; the family moves to Texas in 1850

30 June, Sumner County — Peter H. Martin writes his will in his own hand, four days before his death S172. It names Joseph D Martin in the children's division, calls William Bell Jane's brother — "a house and a support with his Sister" — and disposes of "The Shoe Store" and his town property. Proved August Term 1849. ⚠ The word son is never written.

11 September — Edward Gregg is born in Greene County, Pennsylvania, a son of Alfred and Mary Gregg; he is the father of Ethel Gregg, wife of Frederick Albert Proeger Confirmed S926S927S928

2 October — John Bross is appointed postmaster at Macon, Noxubee County, Mississippi Confirmed S1014

17 August — Colby B. Quisenberry and Lucy are farming in Clark County, Kentucky S495

21 August — James Brock, 45, a farmer with $600 in District No. 1, Harlan County, Kentucky, is enumerated with Elizabeth, 46, and six children, among them Solomon, 12 S169. ⚠ First published as a candidate parentage; PROBABLE since 24 September 2026 — a census names a household, not a parentage.

4 September, Owsley County, Kentucky — Lydia Williams, 15, born Tennessee, is enumerated in the household of Moses and Nancy Williams, both born Tennessee, with Abraham, 5, born Kentucky S173. ⚠ First published as a candidate parentage; PROBABLE since 24 September 2026 — one sheet, and a census names a household, not a parentage.

20 September — in Civil District No. 4 of Davidson County, Tennessee, Jas. Wright (James W. Wright), 25, a physician, lives in the household of Moses T. Brooks, 56, and Nancy, 51, the couple the county history names as Lucy’s parents Confirmed S1096

September — in Jackson Township, Jasper County, Missouri, William M. (Wm. Mathis Waldon), 8, is at school in the household of James Waldon, 48, a farmer born in South Carolina, and Joanna, 36, born in Kentucky; it is the first record to name his father Confirmed S1120

August — James Harris, 53, labourer, and Rachel, 39, are in Upper Alloways Creek, Salem County, with Benjamin and Charlotte E. — James Harris S1167

30 January — Joseph Owens marries Chiney (China) Parton, 16, in Whitley County, Kentucky; they are the probable parents of Charles W. Owens (see Joseph Owens & China Parton) Probable confirm or correct → S810

9 June — Jefferson C. Hoskins is born in Laurel County, Kentucky, to Levi Hoskins and Elizabeth Brock S648

About 1853 — Robert B. Martin, a Sumner County merchant in 1850, moves his family from Sumner County, Tennessee, to Rusk, Cherokee County, Texas; his children born before are Tennessee-born, those after Texas-born S428S429

12 January — Walter (Waller) Quisenberry, son of James Francis Quisenberry, is born in Clark County, Kentucky S698

8 May — Colby Chenault gives bond to marry Araminta Harper, Sumner County, Tennessee S445

22 February — Catharina Margaretha Burkhardt, née Kochendörfer, a daughter of Johann Adam Martin Kochendörfer, dies at Michelbach an der Lücke, aged 81 S1152

4 April — James P. Montgomery marries Ellen (Elenor Frances) Bradford in Coffee County, Tennessee, by the marriage register read from the image; they are the parents of Virginia “Jennie” Montgomery Piland S1200 S1185

David Emily Coffman born, Page County, Virginia S68S69

22 December — Hooper Van Caffey marries Amy P. Richardson, his first wife, in Autauga County, Alabama; the licence was issued the day before S555S646

William Anderson Bowles born, Owsley County, Kentucky S22

4 June — James Harris Timberman Sr. born in New Jersey; the family is at Salem, Salem County two years later S94. June 1858 is confirmed three times over — his death certificate writes it out in words, its age-at-death field agrees, and the 1900 census gives age 41 at the 1 June census date S93S139. The day is given by the township birth return of 15 July 1858 S374 Confirmed

30 December — Mariah, a Black girl, is born enslaved near Winchester, Clark County, Kentucky; the county register enters “Colby B. Quisenberry” as her owner but does not say whether it means Colby Burris Quisenberry or his son Colby B. Jr. S726

Mary Jane "Mollie" Wright born, Dallas County, Texas S21

24 October — Sarah F. Moore marries John Martin Quisenberry in Montgomery County, Kentucky S708

25 July — the same household in Laurel County, and James Brock's occupation now reads U.B. Clergym'n — a United Brethren minister, the first religious vocation anywhere in the Brock line. Soleman, 22, is a farm labourer with $50 S167. ⚠ PROBABLE since 24 September 2026 — see James Brock

20 August, Harlan Courthouse — Matilda, 13, is entered as a dom. laborer and ticked as having attended school within the year S165. Age 13 excludes the tree's 9 January 1848, and is the third of four columns to close her birth year on 1847.

27 June, Travellers Rest, Owsley County — James Bowls, 25, holds $500 in real estate, with Lydia, 27, born Tennessee, Emily 4 and William, 2 S171. By 1870 the land is gone S157.

Colby Chenault is listed on the slave schedule for District 2 of Sumner County, Tennessee, as holding one enslaved girl, aged 10. The schedule does not give her name S686

26 June — Rachel Martin Bush, 93 and blind, is living with Fielding Bush in Clark County, Kentucky S702

At Leroy, Ingham County, Michigan, J. Smith, 54, born in New York, has in his home a V., 16, born in Ohio: probably Jeremiah Smith’s daughter Victoria Janette Smith, though the census gives initials only S713

Levi Hoskins, 30, and his wife Elizabeth, 30, are at Harlan Courthouse, Harlan County, Kentucky, with six children, from Ransom, 9, to Solomon, one month old S721

Colby B. Quisenberry Jr., 37, is farming near Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky, with Sarah, five children and D. M. Thompson, 14 S756

In Clark County, Kentucky, James Francis Quisenberry, 35, and “Emma”, 28, have Alice, 12, Anderson, 9, Waller, 7, and Francis, 5, at home S759

7 June — near Sherman, Grayson County, Texas, the census lists A. J. and Catherine Pardon, probably Jackson and Catharine Parton, China's parents, moved from Kentucky with five children S986.

27 July — in the Cat Spring, New Ulm and Industry precinct of Austin County, Texas, “D Stein”, 45, farmer, born Germany, has his wife Anna and children including Henry, 13: probably Dietrich Stein; the census gives only his initial Probable confirm or correct → S1016

20 August, Palace Hill, Dallas County — Jas. W. Wright, 35, physician and farmer, with L. C., 28, Sally, 8, Jas. B., 4, and Mary J., 9/12: Mollie Wright in her first census Confirmed S1004

October — at Ramah, Montgomery County, Alabama, Charles Caffey, 72, a farmer, and Nancy, 60, have Hooper, 12, still at home, and live next door to his son H. V. Caffey (Hooper Van Caffey), 28, and his young family Confirmed S1151

July — Chas. Cleveland, 15, at school in Newberg Township, Cass County, Michigan — Charles Edgar Cleveland S1155

June — Charles Chenault, 2, and his brother Millard F., 4, close David Chenault’s household at Castalian Springs — Charles Coker Chenault S1162

July — the farm schedule shows Colby Chenault farming about 192 acres in Sumner County — Colby Burris Chenault S1161

Probably Moses Williams, 60, and Nancy, 56, farming in Jackson County, Kentucky, with George B., Nancy Ann and Absalom — Moses Williams Probable confirm or correct → S1172

15 September — Sarah Howard is born in Harlan County, Kentucky, to John C. Howard and his second wife, Mary Morris S626

6 November — Cora Quisenberry is born in Clark County, Kentucky, to Martin J. Quisenberry and Sarah F. Moore S695

5 September — an Edward Hawkins marries Missouri C. Buice in St. Clair County, Alabama: probably the first wife of Edward Hawkins, husband of Emily Bowles, though nothing on the licence ties him to Arkansas S709

June — Frank Silva Sr born on Faial in the Azores, the first Azorean in this record; his own parents were born there too S47. The island is named by his own 1946 obituary, "a native of Fayal" S67 Confirmed

Jas. F. Quisenbury, 38, a Clark County farmer, is on the June–July Civil War draft list for Kentucky’s 7th District: probably James Francis Quisenberry; the list gives only a name, an age and a county S725

16 September — Ivanora, daughter of John Martin Quisenberry and Sarah Moore, is born, as the 1900 family Memorials gives it; a compiled family book Probable confirm or correct → S752

25 June — at Elizabethtown, Hamilton County, Ohio, Stephen Osborn registers for the Civil War draft as “S. W. Osborn, 42”, a farmer born Ohio; in 1860 he farmed 90 acres in Whitewater Township Confirmed S1083S1084

25 June — at Ryegate, Vermont, Orange G. Morrison registers for the Civil War draft as “Morrison Orange, 31”, a married farmer born Vermont Confirmed S1088

June–July — Colby Quisenberry, 39, farmer of Fayette County, Kentucky, is entered on the Class II draft list — Colby B. Quisenberry Jr. S1173

27 September — Georg Friedrich Pröger (born 1838), son of the late weaver Georg Friedrich Pröger and Maria Margaretha Stegmaier, marries Margaretha Barbara Bauer of Gröningen at Triensbach; the groom's father, a son of Johann Leonhard David Prüger, is already dead S775

Iona Belle Brock born, London, Laurel County, Kentucky S23

6 March, Harlan County — the marriage register's unindexed right leaf sites the wedding "at John C. Howard's", and the column names the bride's father's house on every row checked S151. A second independent chain to John C. Howard as Matilda's father — and he was a Justice of the Peace, officiating in the same register. ⚠ Two chains are not a statement; the row stays open.

27 January — Audley, son of John Martin Quisenberry and Sarah Moore, is born, as the 1900 family Memorials gives it; an Audley, 14, is in the 1880 household Probable confirm or correct → S752S753

15 September — Rosine Barbara Pröger, daughter of Georg Friedrich Pröger and Margaretha Barbara Bauer, is born at Erkenbrechtshausen S790

In the Norwegian census of 31 December, Thore Thorsen (Selland), 46, a farmer and freeholder in Røldal, is counted with his wife Ingeborg and their sons Thore, 14, and Iver, 11 S1126

10 January — Joseph D. Martin marries Nannie Chenault, Sumner County, Tennessee S95. Marriage record CONFIRMS the Chenault maiden name

About this year — Anna "Annie" L. Silva born in the Azores; her maiden name is Not found S47

The Alabama state census lists a Nancy Caffey heading a household of two women over 20 in Montgomery County, on the page with Elizabeth and L. R. Caffey: probably Nancy (Lewis) Caffey, still living; the list gives no ages Probable confirm or correct → S736

19 July — a Henry Griffin, probably the father of Amanda Melvina Griffin, registers to vote in Washington County, Georgia Probable confirm or correct → S804

12 June — Henry Roberts Jr. marries Delina Deblois at Westfield, Vermont S954

9 May — Mons Thorsen Selland born at Røldal, Norway, baptised 21 June S74. 21 July — Emily M. Thornhill Coffman dies at Hawksbill, Page County, Virginia, leaving her son Dee aged ten S83

22 March — Anna J. Cleveland, daughter of Charles (Charles Edgar Cleveland) and Jennet, is born at Marcellus, Cass County, Michigan, by the county birth register; the printed Cleveland genealogy gives 21 March Confirmed S1129

22 November — James W. Wright registers to vote in Dallas County after nineteen years in Texas — James W. Wright S1171

4 February, at seven in the evening — Georg Melchior Julius Prüger dies at Kirchberg an der Jagst, aged 65 years, 6 months and 10 days; buried on the 7th. His own burial entry calls him a Schuhmachermeister, as his son's baptism register did twenty-six years earlier — and against the Schullehrer of his widow's 1872 entry. It names his parents too, both already dead: Johann Leonhard David Prüger, a Maler of Erkenbrechtshausen, and Eva Barbara geb. Schmid S135 — in fact his stepmother; his 1804 birth register names his mother as Anna Maria Busch S591

Antone Rose arrives in the United States S55

Edward Hawkins, 32, later the husband of Emily Bowles, lives alone in Valley Township, Madison County, Arkansas; next door are William, 7, and Eliza, 4, both born in Alabama S703

Still at Leroy, Michigan, Jeremiah Smith, 64, born in New York, is now blind; his son Lucien B., 24, farms with him S714

Colby B. Quisenberry Jr., 48, farms land worth $20,000 in Fayette County, Kentucky; the youngest at home is Colby M., 7 S757

James Francis Quisenberry, 45, farms land worth $26,000 in Clark County, Kentucky, three houses from Golding Quisenberry, 52, whose kinship is not known S760

30 December — Colby Burris Quisenberry dies in Clark County, Kentucky, by Colonial Families and page 7 of the family Memorials; elsewhere the Memorials says 31 December S451S761

20 July — at Winslow, Stephenson County, Illinois, the widow Marancy Warner, 46, keeps house with Clifford, 19, farm labourer; the census does not say they are mother and son Probable confirm or correct → S828

In Randolph County, Alabama, Lucinda Higgenbotham, born about 1830 in South Carolina, heads a household with Alexander, Benjamin and Nancy, by a FamilySearch census index; see Lucinda C. (Avery) Higginbotham S841

25 July — at Ward 6, Bossier Parish, Louisiana, M. J., 40, born Alabama, keeps house for David Dannel, 70, with the Walker boys Tom, Wallice and Edgar: Mary Jane Bross, wife of Daniel Green Walker, has remarried by 1870 Probable confirm or correct → S1079

30 July — Henry W. Henderson, 6, is at school in Ryegate, Vermont, in the household of William J. and Caroline Henderson S963

6 June — at Carmichaels, Greene County, Pennsylvania, Edward Gregg, 20, a carpenter (enumerated as Augustus E.), lives with his mother Mary Gregg, 65, who owns real estate worth $7,500; his father Alfred is not in the household Confirmed S1034

17 September — at Precinct No. 5, Austin County, Texas (post office Industry), Dietrich Stein, 50, a farmer born in Saxe-Weimar, is enumerated with Justin, Bertha, Henry and the Texas-born Caroline, 13; no wife is in the household Confirmed S1059

Census of 29 September, Dallas County: Dr James W. Wright, a physician born in Tennessee, with his wife Luciana and their daughter Mary J., 10 S1132

June — at Westfield, Vermont, Henry Roberts (Henry Roberts), 25, a farm labourer, is counted with Delina, 17, and their daughter Emma, 1 Confirmed S1133

In Whitewater Township, Hamilton County, Ohio, Stephen Osborn, 48, and his wife Jane (Martha J. Heron), 40, with Emma, Josephine, Douglass and Laura Confirmed S1148

June — Rosa A. Williams, 15, at Bellaire, Ohio, probably with her mother Mary A. Williams — Rose Alice Williams Probable confirm or correct → S1153

September — the farm schedule shows Colby Quisenberry farming 165 acres near Lexington, Kentucky — Colby B. Quisenberry Jr. S1158

17 October — David C. Coffman, 58 and widowed, marries M. F. (Mildred F.) Flinn in Page County, Virginia S362

8 October — Johann Wilhelm Dietrich Stein is born at New Ulm, Texas, to Heinrich (Henry) Stein and Maria née Emmert S633

Pittsburgh — Julius Proeger is naturalized in 1874: his own 1920 census line and his son's sworn 1919 passport application both give the year S179S180. The certificate is still unlocated.

9 August — Maria Louise Chenault is licensed to marry Benjamin C. Barry, Sumner County, Tennessee S554

31 December — the Norwegian census finds Thore Thorsen (Tore Toreson Selland), a farmer who owns his land and also works as a building carpenter and smith, at Røldal with his wife Engeborg Iversdtr (Ingebjørg Ivarsdatter), their son Mons, born 1868, and three more children Confirmed S1100

1 February — US Design Patent D8,942 issued to Julius Proeger of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania for a bird relish dish, assigned to Robert Hemingray of Covington, Kentucky

22 March — William Leonard Proeger born, Pittsburgh S13

20 April — Godfrey Murfin, later the husband of Gertrude Proeger, is born at Wem, Shropshire, England, by his draft card and petition; the General Register Office index lists his birth in the Wem district in April–June 1876 Confirmed S1103 S365 S1102

3 February — James Francis Quisenberry dies in Clark County, Kentucky S688S689

9 July — Dr. James W. Wright signs his will at Dallas, leaving the estate to his two youngest children, Jessee and Kate Templeton Wright, with his wife Louisiana C. as executrix S84. 27 October — three months later, Dee Coffman marries Mary Jane "Mollie" Wright at Dallas S72

At Fremont, Nebraska, on 26 November, Charles Warner, son of John Warner and Marency Alexander, marries Mary E. Maurer S1138

4 and 18 June — a household split across two Arkansas counties, and both sheets tick MARRIED. Solomon A. Brock is alone at Eureka Springs, Carroll County S168; Matilda heads her own household sixty miles south at Hilburn Township, Madison County, with six children S166. ⚠ Neither page gives a reason, and none should be inferred.

In Owsley County, Kentucky, Levi Hoskins, 54, and his wife Elizabeth, 49, still have Caroline, John M., Palestine and Leander, 10, at home S723

Colby B. Quisenberry Jr., 57, and “Sallie” are at Brier Hill, Fayette County, Kentucky, with three of their children and their married daughter Lucy B. Carr and her two small children S758

“Mart” Quisenberry, 47, John Martin Quisenberry, is farming at Howards Mills, Kentucky, with Sarah, their children and her mother, Emily Moore, 78, born in Virginia S753

Sarah Griffin, 55, widow of Henry Griffin and probable mother of Amanda Melvina Griffin, is living in Macon, Georgia S796

In Williamson County, Texas, the widow China Owen, born in Kentucky, has her son Charles Owens, 17, and five more children S798

1 June — at Sheridan Precinct, Washington County, Nebraska, the widow Marancy Warner, 57, is “Mother” in the household of John Ladd and his wife Mintie, probably her daughter Araminta Probable confirm or correct → S1018

1 June — at Rockdale Beat, Randolph County, Alabama, “N. J.” Higginbotham, 15, later Nancy Jane Walker, is the daughter of the widowed head of the household, L. Higginbotham, about 50, born in South Carolina S812

7–8 June — in Travis County, Texas, the census lists Alice, 13, as the daughter of William Waldrin (Waldon), 37, a farmer born Missouri S916

9 June — at Cedar Precinct, Boone County, Nebraska, Clifford Warner, 28, farmer, lives with his wife Ella, 22, and their daughter Maud, born in Nebraska; that Ella is Maud's mother is probable Probable confirm or correct → S824

12 June — Orange G. Morrison, 48, farmer, and his wife Elisabeth J., 46, are counted at Ryegate, Vermont, with their daughters Marion, Maggie and Artemiza, 12 S833

23 June — at Austin County, Texas, Henry Stein, 32, lives with his daughter Emma, 5, and his widowed father Dietrick Stein, 68, both men born in Saxe-Weimar S919

Precinct 7, Dallas County — Dr James W. Wright, 55, physician, and Lucy C., 48, with Jesse, 10, and Kate, 7, four dwellings from the newly married Dee and Mollie Coffman Confirmed S345

June — Henry W. Henderson, 15, is at school in Ryegate with his parents William J., 51, a farmer, and Caroline K., 43, and his sister Virginia J. Confirmed S1087

The census finds the Peters family at Cedar Falls, Black Hawk County, Iowa: Sophia (Sophia Herman), 36, born in Prussia, with her husband written as Charles, 40, not John, and nine children from William, 16, to a baby girl born in May Confirmed S1130

June — Stephen W. Osborn, 58, is a justice of the peace in Whitewater Township, Hamilton County, Ohio, with his wife Jane, 50, and their daughter Laura, 18 Confirmed S1149

June — Mariah Barry, 28, with her husband and sons Albert and Wallace in the Second District of Sumner County — Maria Louise Chenault S1163

James David "Jim" Coffman born, Buffalo Gap, Taylor County, Texas S18

12 December — Benjamin Peters, Kristin's great-great-grandfather and LaRoy Peters's father, is born at Cedar Falls, Iowa, to German-born parents; his own 1942 draft card gives the day and place S786. The 1900 census gives December 1881 and the 1903 marriage return 1881; the online tree's 12 December 1882 has the wrong year S660

12 March — James Daniel Hawkins, son of Emily Bowles and Edward Hawkins, is born in Crawford County, Arkansas S584

23 January — James Daniel Bowles, a son of William Anderson Bowles and Iona Belle Brock, is born at Cass, Arkansas Probable confirm or correct → S890S891

25 January — David Carl Coffman dies at Luray, Page County, Virginia, aged 70; his chalked gravestone closes his age statement to the day S83. Lydia Mae Bowles born, Franklin County, Arkansas S16

10 October — Franz and Lina Kretschmar land at Baltimore from Bremen with three daughters, bound for Texas S380

28 February — the will of David C. Coffman, naming all five of his children, is proved in Page County, Virginia S489

Louisa Hiscock, born in Ohio, daughter of Jeremiah and Patience Smith, dies at Rose, Genesee County, Michigan S701

7 October — Charles W. Owens marries Alice Rachell Waldon in Travis County, Texas S782

28 June — Edward Raymond Piland marries Virginia Francis “Jennie” Montgomery in Gonzales County, Texas; they are the grandparents of Alice Lorene Piland, wife of Thomas Osborn Caffey Probable confirm or correct → S913

In the Wilkes-Barre directory — Dr. J. H. Timberman, veterinary surgeon, is practising at 96 Public Square, Wilkes-Barre S375

About this year — Frank Silva Sr marries Annie; the 1900 census records them as married 13 years S47

1 January — Henry W. Henderson marries Artie H. Morrison at Ryegate, Vermont; they are the parents of Bessie Hill Henderson S357

16 May — Maria Margaretha Stegmaier, widow of Georg Friedrich Pröger and then of Johann Leonhard Frank, dies at Triensbach, aged 85 S776

Frank Silva Sr arrives in the United States and settles in Washington Township, Alameda County, California — the Portuguese-Azorean district that became Fremont. He is still in the same house in 1940 S47S50

17 October — Louise Bell Martin marries Nathan James Harsh at Gallatin, Sumner County S401

29 July — William Lacy Carpenter, first child of Lucinda Bowles and Robert M. Carpenter, is born near Little Rock, Arkansas S957

Mons Thorsen Selland is entered in the Røldal out-migration register for "Dakota, Amerika" — the emigration that puts Kristin's Norwegian line in South Dakota S75

Design Patent D20,079 — glass vessels

22 June — Julius Herman Proeger's son Edgar Wagner Proeger is born, Pittsburgh S560

31 December — Mary Jane Martin and P. H. Rutherford take out a marriage licence, Sumner County, Tennessee S572

2 April — D. C. Logue marries Virginia Alice Hamby in Calhoun County, Alabama; they are the parents of Mabel Logue Piland, mother-in-law of Thomas Osborn Caffey Probable confirm or correct → S908

13 October — D21,113, ornamentation of glassware, filed from Greensburg, Westmoreland County. 24 November — D21,181, tableware, which became the "Pioneer's Victoria" pattern of the Pioneer Glass Company, Pittsburgh

30 May — Elizabeth “Lizzie” Darling, mother of Ethel Gregg Proeger, dies at Pittsburgh, aged 36; she is buried at Carmichaels on 1 June Confirmed S925

1 January — the Norwegian census finds Tor Torsen (Tore Toreson Selland), born 1820 at Røldal, a farmer who owns his land, heading his household in Suldal with his wife Ingeborg Confirmed S1117

Anna Blanche Roberts born, Bellaire, Belmont County, Ohio S17

10 February — Marion E. Morrison, daughter of Orange G. Morrison and Elizabeth J. Miller, dies single at Littleton, New Hampshire, aged 30, and is buried at Groton, Vermont S994.

28 November — Leola Logue, later Piland, daughter of D. C. Logue and Virginia Alice, is born at Galveston, Texas, by her death certificate S1113

22 March — Orbin Oliver Piland is born at Gonzales, Texas, by his own draft card (the index of his death certificate says 24 March), later the father of Alice Lorene Piland, wife of Thomas Osborn Caffey Confirmed S932S911

28 April — William Anderson Bowles Jr., a son of William Anderson Bowles, is born at Elmdale, Taylor County, Texas Probable confirm or correct → S899

18 April — Anna J., daughter of Charles Edgar Cleveland, marries Frank Hodges at Belgrade, Nance County, Nebraska; her brother Milton is a witness S706

12 January — Max W. Kretschmar, son of Julius Franz Kretschmar, is born in Texas S1197 S228

1 July — William Leonard Proeger, 19, a glass worker at Greensburg, enlists in Co. I, 10th Infantry, Pennsylvania National Guard; discharged 10 February 1898 on leaving the town S442

18 January — Iona Belle Bowles, later Noonan, a daughter of William Anderson Bowles, is born Probable confirm or correct → S905

31 October — Mabel Logue, later Piland, is born at Galveston, by her death certificate; she is the mother-in-law of Thomas Osborn Caffey Probable confirm or correct → S907

13 November — Albert E. Cleveland, 58, born in St. Lawrence County, New York, a son of Solomon Cleveland and Mary Thompson, marries the widow Anna C. Shaffer in Hamilton County, Nebraska Confirmed S1139

3 August — Frieda Bertha Caroline Ladusch is born at New Ulm S551

US Patent 580,716 — hollow glassware

2 December — Frank T. Silva born, Alameda County, California, to Frank Sr and Annie S52S47

February — Eleanor E. (or G.) Proeger, the only child of Frederick Albert Proeger and Ethel, is born in Pennsylvania; the 1910 and 1920 censuses write her second initial differently S418S419S420

26 July — Mildred A. Rose born, California, a twin with her brother Edward, in Antone and Louise Rose's household at Washington Township S55

The census enumerates both families in the same township, a few pages apart: the Silvas at ED 404 — indexed under the Anglicised "Frank Silver", birthplace "Azores Port" S47 — and the Roses at ED 405 S55

Two husbands of the Kretschmar and Ladusch sisters appear as boys in the census: Albert Reininger, born May 1884, in John Reininger's household in Caldwell County, and Otto Herber, born November 1892, one of six sons of Ernst Herber in Travis County S678S687. They later marry Minnie Johanna Kretschmar and Frieda Ladusch

Emily C. Quisenberry, widow of James Francis Quisenberry, is living with her son Waller at Ford, Clark County, Kentucky, the mother of four children, three then living S690

In Precinct 1, Bastrop County, Annie Gold, born January 1871 in Alabama, is the wife of Henry Gold, with four children; John W. Caffey lives next door: Anna Bell Caffey Gold S730

John Martin Quisenberry and Sarah F. have been married 40 years; she has borne nine children, seven living S754

June — a Henry Stein household in Austin County, Precinct 5, with a second wife Pauline and a daughter Bertha, is a candidate for Henry Stein's; it gives his birthplace as Texas, not Germany Probable confirm or correct → S771

In Precinct 2, Jackson County, Texas, Willie B. Walker, 42, born California, heads a household with his wife Nancy J., their children, among them Jackson J., 10, born March 1890, and his mother Mary J. Daniels, 69, a widow, once the wife of Daniel Green Walker and since remarried Probable confirm or correct → S808

June — in Fayette County, Kentucky, Colby Quisenberry, 77, a widowed farmer who owns his farm, lives with his sons Maddison, Dudley and Colby Jr. and his widowed daughter Bell Cass Confirmed S1061

12 June — in Precinct No. 1, Bastrop County, Texas, C. B. Caffey, 34, born in Alabama, farms rented land with his wife H. F. and their five children, Roy, Olly, Ethel, Myrtis and Earl Confirmed S1055

8 June — Lucy C. Wright (Lucy Brooks), born May 1832 in Tennessee, a widow of 68, farms her own land at Eagle Ford, Dallas County, with her son James B. and his three boys; she has borne six children, four living Confirmed S1089

In the Norwegian census of 3 December, Tore T. Selland, 80, and his wife Ingeborg are counted in Suldal, a retired farm couple living on a farm annuity S1127

Census of 4 June, Brandt Township, South Dakota: Mons Selland, 32, a naturalized farmer, with Julia and their one-month-old daughter Ida C. S1128

June — the widowed Mrs Barry, born July 1852, owns her farm in the 2nd Civil District of Sumner County — Maria Louise Chenault S1164

6 June — in Precinct 5, Gonzales County, Texas, Ellen Montgomery, 64, born March 1836 in Tennessee, is a widow, the mother of nine children, all living, so James P. Montgomery has died S1184

1 August — James David Coffman marries Lydia Mae Bowles at Potosi, Texas S16

30 November — Hooper Van Caffey, Confederate veteran of the 10th Alabama Infantry, dies in Texas S481

Godfrey Murfin, 24, born at Wem, is a draper’s assistant on New Street, Birmingham — Godfrey Murfin S1157

26 June — John Wesley Bowles, a son of William Anderson Bowles, is born at Potosi, Taylor County Probable confirm or correct → S904

15 October — at Hampton, Franklin County, Iowa, Sarah Peters, 28, born at Cedar Falls, a daughter of John Peters and Sophia Hermann, marries Albert L. Ward, a farmer of Rowan Confirmed S1041

26 September — Victor Quillen Logue, son of D. C. Logue and Virginia Alice (Hamby), is born; his draft cards say Atlanta, Georgia, and the 1940 census says Texas S1193 S1195

1 April — Benjamin Peters marries Edna B. Orsborn at Alexander, Franklin County, Iowa; the return names his parents as John Peters and Sophia Hermann S791. They are LaRoy Peters's parents.

1 October — Gertie Selma Selland born at Clear Lake, Deuel County, South Dakota S41S42

15 November — Gertie Selma Selland is baptised in Deuel County, South Dakota, daughter of Mons and Julie Selland, by a FamilySearch index S820

28 February — Johann Georg Pröger, unmarried son of Johann Michael Pröger and grandson of Johann Leonhard David Prüger, dies at Kleinaltdorf S778

15 March — Elmo David Blackburn, later the husband of Lily Olene Bowles, is born, by his own 1942 draft card; the card’s Amarillo birthplace is self-reported and not settled S717

3 April — Robert Anthony Bowles, a son of William Anderson Bowles, is born at Potosi, Taylor County; his draft card says 4 April Probable confirm or correct → S894S895

24 May — James Burton Coffman, Earl's great-uncle, born in Taylor County, Texas, the eldest surviving son of James David Coffman and Lydia Mae Bowles S109S111

12 October — Benjamin LaRoy "Pete" Peters Sr. born in Franklin County, Iowa S38S42

19 September — Edward Gregg, father of Ethel Gregg Proeger, dies at Pittsburgh, aged 56, recorded as Edwin Alexander Gregg; he is buried at Carmichaels on 22 September Confirmed S927

6 November — Robert William Coffman born, Dudley, Callahan County, Texas S15

20 August — Nannie Bell Rutherford, 12, daughter of Mary Jane Martin and Philip H. Rutherford, dies at Nashville S410

7 July — Traugott Ladusch dies in Fayette County, Texas, by the state death index, certificate 29481 Confirmed S1035

20 March — Colby B. Quisenberry Jr. dies at Avon, Kentucky; his death certificate names Colby B. Quisenberry and Lucy Bush as his parents S493

31 May — Johann Friedrich Pröger, a weaver, grandson of Johann Leonhard David Prüger, dies at Hausen; buried at Untersontheim 2 June S777

20 August — Samuel R. Roberts, a car inspector born at Bellaire on 13 March 1884, son of Henry S. Roberts and Rose A. Williams, marries Mary Doughty of Martins Ferry in Belmont County, Ohio Confirmed S1043

William Leonard Proeger marries Anna B. Roberts, Ohio County, West Virginia S13

22 April — Dessa Warner, born in Greeley County, marries George Wustrack in Butler County, Nebraska; the record names her parents as Clifford Warner and Ella Shreckengost, his Probable confirm or correct → wife S682

3 April — Vernon Clyde Gold, son of Anna Bell Caffey Gold, is born in rural Caldwell County, Texas; a 1969 amendment to his birth certificate names his father as Henry Lewis Gold S696

On 5 July at Bath, New Hampshire, Elmer E. Roberts, 20, son of Henry Roberts and Delina Deblois, drowns S1134

13 November — Henry Stein dies near New Ulm, Austin County, Texas S613

The Hamilton County directory lists Martha J. Heron, Stephen Osborn’s widow, as “Orsborn Martha J wid Stephen W”, at Elizabethtown, Ohio; the 1907 directory already has her as a widow there Confirmed S1085S1086

Edward Hawkins, 72, widowed, husband of Emily Bowles, lives with his son Harvey, 34, and Harvey’s sons in Big Springs Township, Benton County, Arkansas S724

At Sturgeon, Owsley County, Kentucky, Levi Hoskins, 84, and Elizabeth, 80, married 59 years, live with their daughter Mary J. and her husband Harden D. Peters S748

John Martin Quisenberry, 76, lives with Sarah in their son Earl’s home, married 50 years; the census writes him as “James M.” S755

Mons and Julia Selland are enumerated at Brandt, Deuel County, South Dakota, with their daughter Selma, by the FamilySearch census index S821

In Justice Precinct 4, Travis County, Texas, Edward R. Piland, 52, and Virginia F., 53, married 27 years, head a household that includes their son Oliver O., 17; she is the mother of 8 children, all living Confirmed S1025

2 May — at Elgin, Bastrop County, Charley B. Caffey (written “Coffey”), 43, owns a mortgaged farm, with his wife Fannie and eight living children Confirmed S1056

April — Guy Collins, 11, later the first husband of Mattie Lee Caffey, is enumerated with his parents T. J. and Lucy Collins on a rented farm in Atascosa County, Texas S1114

1 December — the Norwegian census finds Tore T. Selland (Tore Toreson Selland), 90, a retired farmer living on his annuity at Selland, Røldal, with his wife Ingeborg (Ingebjørg Ivarsdatter), born 15 March 1831 Confirmed S1111

In Mason County, Texas, William Waldon, 67, a teamster, is counted in his second marriage, of 36 years, to Phisilla S1121

9 August — Warren Debs Bowles born in Taylor County, Texas; the state birth index lists him as the unnamed infant of W. A. Bowles — Warren Debs Bowles S1169

At Ryegate, Vermont, Henry W. Henderson, 44, farms his own mortgaged farm with his wife Addie M., married 23 years, six children born and five living, and Marion E., James M. and Winnona M. at home Confirmed S1039

April — in Justice Precinct 5 of Caldwell County, Texas, Anna Bell Caffey Gold, entered as Anna, wife of Henry L. Gold, has borne 7 children, 5 of them living; Elmo, Eva, Alvie, Myrtle and Vernon are at home Confirmed S1092

26 June — William Harry Proeger born, Pennsylvania S13

12 April — Martha Elizabeth Martin and Arthur Harris McConnell are licensed to marry in Sumner County, her brother J. D. Martin standing surety S390

9 April — Minnie Margaret Kochendoerfer dies, Pittsburgh S19

Ingebjørg Ivarsdatter buried at Røldal on 9 May and her husband Tore Thoresen Selland on 5 June, four weeks apart S77

12 June — James Daniel Bowles, a son of William Anderson Bowles, marries Alice (Bessie) Bagby at Aurora, Lawrence County, Missouri Probable confirm or correct → S938

Lucien B. Smith, 66, marries at Webberville, Michigan; the return names his parents as Jeremiah Smith and Patience Kettle S699

2 March — Dorothy Susan is born at Indianapolis as Dorothy Susan Boost S366

6 November — Walter Quisenberry, son of James Francis Quisenberry, dies at Winchester, Kentucky S698

10 March — John Martin Quisenberry dies in Montgomery County, Kentucky; his death certificate names Colby B. Quisenberry and Lucy Bush as his parents S494

27 June — Willie Bernard Walker, born 11 April 1857 in California, dies of pellagra at Lolita, Jackson County, Texas S787

17 June — J. H. Timberman Jr. marries Nancy L. Martin at Gallatin, Sumner County, Tennessee; licence issued the 15th S29

14 September — Karl Proeger Ross, first child of Caroline M. Proeger and Charles W. Ross, is born at College Hill, Beaver County, Pennsylvania S958

26 August — Frieda Ladusch marries Otto C. Herber at Austin S470S471

10 April — Louise Martin Timberman born at East Orange / Orange, Essex County, New Jersey — Vol. 59, p. 95 of the printed county birth index S25

5 June — Daniel Jonah Walker registers for the draft at Lolita, Jackson County, Texas, working for his father-in-law Milton Cleavland S393

27 January — Milton Waller Chenault, Nannie Chenault's brother, dies at Castalian Springs, Sumner County, Tennessee, and is buried in the Chenault Graveyard S427

5 June — Will Kretschmar, 26, of Del Valle, registers for the draft in Travis County S435

Otto Carl Herber, husband of Frieda Ladusch, registers for the draft at Austin: born at Creedmoor, Texas, living at 1904 Canterbury Street, in the piano business S680

Solomon Alfred Bowles, a farmer on Abilene Route 2, registers for the draft in Taylor County, born at St. Paul, Arkansas, and claims exemption on grounds of conscience S684

5 June — Harry Roberts registers for the World War I draft at Wheeling, West Virginia, a roller of zinc for the Hazel-Atlas Glass Co. S769

15 August — Aileane Marie Silva born, Alameda County, California S13S56. The birth index carries her mother's maiden name: Rose

12 September — William Leonard Proeger (Tarentum, Pa.) and James David Coffman (Potosi, Tex.) register for the draft S381S379

4 April — Colby Burris Chenault dies; buried in Gallatin Cemetery, Tennessee S561

A World War I transport list for Co. D, 111th Ammunition Train, 36th Division, has Bowles, William A., private first class, whose person to notify is “Bell Bowles, mother”, on a rural route out of Abilene: a son of Iona Belle Brock; no other record read so far names him Probable confirm or correct → S773

17 April — an infant of Otto Herber, probably Roy Otto, husband and son of Frieda Ladusch, is born in Travis County Probable confirm or correct → S800

12 September — John Berry Brock, 43, minister at Opelousas, Louisiana, registers for the draft — John B. Brock S1170

12 September — Godfrey Murfin, 42, registers for the draft at Pittsburgh: 711 N. St. Clair Street, a salesman for William Coulson & Son, still a British subject; nearest relative his wife Gertrude P. Murfin Confirmed S1103

12 September — at Greensburg, Pennsylvania, William Spicer MacDonald, husband of Mabel Gregg MacDonald, registers for the draft from 550 Harrison Avenue and names “Mabel Gregg MacDonald, wife” as his nearest relative Confirmed S1107

24 January — James Harris Timberman Jr. dies in Guernsey County, Ohio, leaving Louise fatherless at 21 months; the family returns to Gallatin Probable confirm or correct → S30S26

3 June — James Harris Timberman Sr. dies at 60 South Washington Street, Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, one day before his sixty-first birthday, of carcinoma of the prostate. His trade on the return is Veterinary Surgeon, as it was nineteen years earlier on the census. Buried Mt. Greenwood Cemetery, 5 June S93. Father and son die four months apart in the same year Confirmed

28 October — US Patent 1,320,091, sheet glass, filed by a "resident of Pittsburgh, Allegheny County"

16 June — Max W. Kretschmar, son of Julius Franz Kretschmar, sails home from Bordeaux on the Santa Rosa with the 250th Company Military Police S434

5 November — Clarence Melvin "Melvin" Walker, Kristin's maternal grandfather, born at Lolita, Jackson County, Texas S37S38

The census finds Frank T. Silva and Mildred living in his parents' house at Washington Judicial Township — he is entered as "Son", aged 22 and married; she is indexed by OCR as "Mildresk" S48

Clara Frances Kretschmar Semff is farming with Bernhard Semff in Saline County, Arkansas S562

In Hays County, Henry L. and Anna Gold have Myrtle, Vernon and Hazel B. at home S731

1 February — the Texas birth index records an unnamed child of Alfred Bowles born in Taylor County, certificate 11378: probably the son Dixon of Solomon Alfred Bowles Probable confirm or correct → S744

In Precinct 7, Taylor County, Haden Nesmith, 5, later the husband of a daughter of Lydia Mae Bowles, is at home with his parents Shirel I. and Maud and his brothers S746

Ben Peters, father of Benjamin LaRoy Peters Sr, is renting a farm in Florida Township, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota S792

In Dallas the sisters Jean and Iona Bowles, daughters of Iona Belle Brock, are both trained nurses Probable confirm or correct → S803

2 February — in Fisher County, Texas, Wm. Mathis Waldon, Alice Walden's father, dies, by his widow Prissila's sworn Confederate pension application S979.

At 302 North 5th Street, Rogers, Arkansas, J. D. Bowles, 37, a son of William Anderson Bowles, keeps a music store; with him are his wife Bessie A. and sons J. Daniel and Richard M. Confirmed S1026

At 550 Harrison Avenue, Greensburg, Pennsylvania, Mabel, a daughter of Edward Gregg, and her husband William S. MacDonald, a Canadian-born salesman, have four daughters; she is still at 224 Underwood Avenue, Greensburg, in the 1930, 1940 and 1950 censuses Confirmed S1028 S1029 S1030 S1031

January — at Roby, Fisher County, Texas, W. M. Walden, 78, is enumerated with his wife Paleshine, 65, and a granddaughter, Estelle Wells, weeks before his death Confirmed S1040

In Alexis Township, Butler County, Nebraska, Ella A. Warner, 62, widowed, lives with her daughter Martha M. and son-in-law Alden R. Moural, a farm manager Confirmed S1042

January — in Florida Township, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota, La Roy B. Peters, 14, is enumerated with his mother Edna B., his sisters Eva M. and Hazel F. and his brothers Clifford L. and Russell R. Confirmed S1052

22 January — at Elgin, Bastrop County, Charles B. Caffey (written “Charls B. Coffey”), 54, is renting, with Fannie H. and six of their children Confirmed S1057

28 January — in the Second Civil District of Sumner County, Tennessee, Mariah Barry, 68, a widow who owns her farm free, lives with her daughter Jessie and two grandchildren Confirmed S1064

January — Araminta (Harper) Chenault, 83 and widowed, lives with three of her children on Dobbins Road, Sumner County — Colby Burris Chenault S1159

In the Prohibition years, between 1920 and his death in 1924, Frank Silva Jr owned, per family, Coste’s saloon, a speakeasy at Mission San José; a newspaper clipping shows him third from left in its line-up, and on 1 October 2026 his granddaughter Patricia (Proeger) Collins named him: “My Grandfather Frank Da Silva Jr. He was the owner of this speakeasy” — family tradition, not yet found in a record Confirmed clipping on his card

28 November — Marian, first child of Jess Clawson and Lillie Reeves, later the wife of Howard Lee Caffey, is born at 3201 San Gabriel Street, Austin S732

9 August — John W. Orsborn, 73, retired, of Homestead, Indiana, swears his application for a licence to marry Nannie Johnson at Dearborn County, his third marriage, and names his parents Stephen Osborn and Martha J. Heron, both dead S1075

On 11 January at Oswego, New York, Harry Charles Carpenter, a soldier born at Prescott, son of Robert M. Carpenter and Lucinda Bowles, marries Florence Ethel Snyder S1140

2 April 1922 — Lucien B. Smith dies in Leroy Township, Ingham County, Michigan; his death certificate gives his father Jeremiah Smith’s birthplace as New York and calls his mother “Mary Kettel” S700

Willie Frank Kretschmar marries Hattie "Liessi" Ladusch — the German-Texan line on Kristin's side S34

3 January — Sue M. France, eldest daughter of David C. Coffman and Emily Thornhill, dies a widow at Luray, Virginia, aged 78 S959

6 January — Julius Karl Proeger dies at Pittsburgh, aged 79 S19. 3 December — Frank T. Silva dies in Alameda County, one day after his 27th birthday, leaving Aileane fatherless at six S53. He is buried at St. Joseph's Cemetery, Fremont S54

21 February — Thomas Walton Caffey Jr. born at Salado, Bell County, Texas S33S34

2 November — Henry Roberts, father of Leon H. Roberts, dies a widower at Newbury, Vermont, aged 80 S956

25 August — Lucille Lorine Kretschmar born at Austin, Travis County, Texas S33S34

16 November — Benjamin Peters marries Gertie Selma Selland in Deuel County, South Dakota — the state marriage record, certificate no. 109784, pulled 16 September 2026 Confirmed S71; the church register names her parents, M. T. Selland and Julia S774

12 February — Dorothy La Vonne Peters, Kristin's maternal grandmother, born at Chicago, Illinois S36

4 December — Victor Quillen Logue marries Mildred Warner Pool at Los Angeles; the record names his parents as D. C. Logue and Alice Hanby S1191

Virginia Francis “Jennie” (Montgomery) Piland, grandmother of Alice Lorene Piland, wife of Thomas Osborn Caffey, daughter of James Montgomery, dies on 25 September near Buda, Hays County Probable confirm or correct → S915 S1183

30 September — Orbin Oliver Piland, father of Alice Lorene Piland, wife of Thomas Osborn Caffey, dies aged 36 Probable confirm or correct → S911

The Timberman household is enumerated at Gallatin, Tennessee: Nancy, 52, widowed and teaching high school; her daughter Louise, 13; her unmarried sister Emma Martin, 59 — the page that proves the Martin maiden name S27

13 April — Thomas Walton Caffey Sr. dies at Salado S34

The same census finds Aileane, aged 11, in her Azorean grandparents' house at Washington Judicial Township, entered as "Granddaughter", with both parents' birthplace given as California S49. An orphaned girl raised by Frank and Anna Silva

7 December — Artie (Harriet Artimiza) Henderson dies at Ryegate, Vermont, aged 63 S359

At Kyle, Hays County, Anna Bell Caffey Gold, 59, is the wife of Henry L. Gold, 58, a farmer who owns his place, with Vernon, 22, and Hazel, 15, at home S711

Hayden Nesmith, 15, at school, lives with Isaac S. and Maude Nesmith and his brothers on R.F.D. 2 Abilene; he later married a daughter of Lydia Mae Bowles S747

Austin — Charles W. Owens, a peddler, and Alice are at 808 Clermont in the 1930–31 directory; in 1929 they were at 1912 E. 2nd S807

In Amarillo, Texas, Robert A. Bowles, 25, a son of William Anderson Bowles, rooms on Pierce Street and works as a presser in a dry-cleaning plant Confirmed S1027

April — on Summit Street, Washington Township, Lucas County, Ohio, Dorothy Reid, 16, is in school, living with her parents Charles L. Reid, a machinist, and Bessie Confirmed S1038

April — in Justice Precinct 5, Hays County, Texas, E. R. Piland, 71, a widower, lives on the farm of John Howard and his wife Ida as John’s father-in-law, which makes Ida his daughter Confirmed S1033

10 April — at Elgin, Bastrop County, Charles B. Caffey, 64, a house painter, owns his home, with his wife Frances H. and Ralph, Marie and Ruth Confirmed S1058

12 April — in Rogers precinct, Colfax County, Nebraska, Ella A. Warner, 72, widowed, lives with her daughter Martha and son-in-law Alden R. Moural Confirmed S1090

Milton Cleveland, carpenter, and his wife Alice are at 725 Canby, Sheridan, Wyoming — Melton Cleaveland S1156

8 June — Max W. Kretschmar marries Olga Jenke in Travis County, Texas S1203

24 March — Godfrey Murfin, husband of Gertrude Proeger, petitions for citizenship at Pittsburgh S365

4 January — Emma Alice Hinkle, daughter of James Francis Quisenberry, dies in Robertson County, Tennessee S692

January — Tom Leslie Bowles Jr. is born in Amarillo to Tom Bowles, a cook, and Delphia Kennedy S1115

12 June — a snapshot inscribed “Mother Proeger … at Wallaceburg, Ontario” shows Anna Blanche (Roberts) Proeger, 39, on a sidewalk in the town; she was the only Mrs Proeger at Wallaceburg in 1931–32, and on 1 October 2026 her granddaughter Patricia (Proeger) Collins named her: “My Grandmother Proeger my Fathers Mother” Confirmed S192 S239 photo on her card

16 July — Lucy Lee Collins, daughter of Mattie Lee Caffey, is born in Precinct 4, Bastrop County, recorded as her fifth child Confirmed S770

2 July — Edward R. Piland, born 12 January 1859, dies near Buda, Hays County, Texas, a widower; his death certificate names his parents as Reuben Piland and Mary Gibson; Houston Piland is the informant Confirmed S1024 S1032

The Los Angeles directory: William A. Bowles Jr., son of William Anderson Bowles, a clothes cleaner, and Evelyn J. are listed at 4838 South Huntington Drive, between his 1930 and 1940 census addresses Confirmed S1119

20 December — nine months after the wedding, Dorothy Proeger, 18, tries to cross at Windsor to visit her husband William Proeger at 635 Duke St., Wallaceburg, Ontario, and is turned back Confirmed S1037

The Austin city directory lists Mabel Logue Piland as “Piland Mabel L Mrs”, a saleswoman at the F & W Grand Silver Store, rooming at 403 West 14th Street Confirmed S1091

8 December — Harald Dean Blackburn, infant son of Lily Olene Bowles, dies at Amarillo, Texas S697

13 July — Maria Louise Barry, born Chenault, daughter of David Chenault and Louisa “Quinesberry”, dies in Sumner County, Tennessee, aged 81 S961

Chester M. Lindley, veterinary surgeon, and his wife Mary are at 865 South 4th, Abilene — Mary Matilda Bowles Lindley S1165

17 March — Daisy Holly, daughter of Dee and Mollie Coffman, dies of pneumonia at 834 Ambler Avenue, Abilene, aged 37 S350

6 December — Mary Jane "Mollie" Wright Coffman dies at Potosi, Taylor County, Texas, on Texas death certificate no. 56943 S81. ⚠️ Her stone and her FindAGrave memorial read 1935, a day later in December S21; the state certificate and the family typescript S72 both say 1934, and the certificate is followed here

10 September — Louise Harsh's husband Nathan James Harsh dies at Gaston Hospital, Lebanon, Tennessee S503

15 December — letters testamentary are issued in Sumner County, Tennessee, on the will of Emma L. Martin; Nancy M. Timberman is executrix Confirmed S1019

The Amarillo directory lists Robert A. Bowles as a cleaner at Oriental Cleaners, householder at 1304a Lincoln, with his wife Geneva Confirmed S1106

15 December — T. O. Caffey marries Alice Piland in Austin S621

24 June — Mordant Chenault, wife of Charles Coker Chenault, dies at Nashville S656

12 January 1935 — Thomas Guy Collins dies at Bustamante, Zapata County; he was the first husband of Mattie Lee Caffey S676

23 October 1935 — Otto Carl Herber dies at Austin; he was the husband of Frieda Ladusch S679

19 June — the Taylor County Court admits the will of Mary Jane Coffman (Mary Jane “Mollie” Wright) to probate, case no. 2282, with David E. Coffman as executor Confirmed S1099

3 April — William Anderson Bowles dies at Abilene S22

19 March — Charles Coker Chenault, Nannie Chenault's youngest brother, dies at Castalian Springs, Tennessee, aged 77; buried in Gallatin Cemetery S425

20 December — Colbey M. Quisenberry, son of Colby B. Quisenberry Jr., dies at Hendersonville, North Carolina S694

7 February — M. B. Griffin, probably Micajah, brother of Amanda Melvina Griffin, dies at Marshall, Texas Probable confirm or correct → S797

6 April — administrators qualify on the estate of Charles Coker Chenault, Sumner County S802

10 February — William Harry Proeger and Aileane Da Silva are photographed on the grass with a cat, three and a half years before their 1940 marriage; their daughter Patricia (Proeger) Collins named them on 1 October 2026 — “My father William Harry Proeger and my Mother Aileane Da Silva” Confirmed photo on his card

Nancy Aileen Proeger born 6 April 1937 in Niles, California S275, the eldest of William Harry Proeger and Aileane Silva's three children — three years before their 1940 marriage. She died on 9 January 1973 in Wallowa County, Oregon S298, so her dates are published here; her sister Patty is living and hers are not

24 October — Howard Lee Caffey marries Marian Zelphia Clawson at Calvary Baptist Church, Austin S519

R. F. Proger, glass moulder, and his wife Mable are at 1364 82nd Avenue, Oakland — Richard Frederick Proeger S1166

28 April — David Emily Coffman dies at Merkel, Taylor County, Texas, aged 80; buried Dudley Cemetery, Callahan County S20. 17 December — Anna L. Silva dies in Alameda County and is buried at St. Joseph's, Fremont S53S54

17 August — Earl Theodore Roberts, 20, enlists in the U.S. Navy at Springfield, Massachusetts, service number 212 50 12 S301S266. By June 1940 the census lists him, 22, as U.S. Navy S274.

26 April — Iona Beth Blackburn is born in Potter County, Texas, daughter of Lily Olene Bowles and Elmo David Blackburn S718

29 June — Arthur Harris McConnell, husband of Martha Elizabeth Martin, dies at Spokane, Washington, aged 66; she is the informant Confirmed S1044

12 February — Leola Logue Piland, wife of Ruben Piland and elder sister of Mabel Logue Piland, dies at Austin, aged 45; she is buried in Oakwood Cemetery S1113

8 June — Robert William Coffman marries Louise Martin Timberman in Sumner County, Tennessee, two days after the bond. The service is solemnised by the groom's own older brother, James Burton Coffman, M.G. S28

May — Earl Theodore Roberts joins the new destroyer USS Anderson (DD-411) as one of her first crew S301S302.

2 June — Milton Cleaveland dies at Sheridan, Wyoming S464

6 July — Charles W. Owens, born in Arkansas in 1863, dies at Austin; buried at Youngs Prairie S780

13 August — William Harry Proeger marries Aileane Marie Silva at Heber City, Utah. 16 October — he registers for the draft at North Hollywood, Los Angeles County S12. The elder Proegers are at Dunkirk, New York Probable confirm or correct →

The census writes it down plainly. Frank Silva Sr, 76 and widowed, is enumerated at Niles in Washington Judicial Township — same house as in 1935 — and the birthplace column reads "Azores" S50. Forty years after the 1900 return said "Azores Port," a second federal enumerator writes the archipelago again — and, like the first, names no island. His obituary six years later does S67

14 March — Nettie Ellen Cleveland, as “Mrs. Nettie E. Jerkins”, marries E. G. Walker at Denton S558

At Elgin, Bastrop County, C. B. Caffey, 74, owns his house, with his wife Frances H., 67, and Cordelia Harris, 77, a widow born in Alabama S715

Elsie Lena Kretschmar, 57, and Christian F. Peterson, 62, rent a place on Fincher Lane, Precinct 6, Travis County S716

Pittsburgh — Gertrude Murfin, 56, Godfrey and their daughter Marjorie are in their own house at 5805 Hayes Street, as in 1935 S942

April — at South Ryegate, Vermont, Henry W. Henderson, 75, a farmer now unable to work, lives with his daughter Winona M. and her husband Perley A. Sulham Confirmed S1051

a son is born to William Harry Proeger and Aileane Marie Silva, and given his paternal grandfather's exact name S4S43. He is Earl's father, and he is living — no further detail is published here.

17 June — Lizzie Kretschmar Rojas petitions for naturalization at Corpus Christi S577

The Austin city directory lists “Stansbury Edw D (Mary)”, Edd Stansbury and Mary E. Brock, at 703 Patterson Avenue S735

20 November — James Daniel Bowles, a son of William Anderson Bowles, dies at Michigan City, Indiana Probable confirm or correct → S890

15 August — Anna Blanche Roberts Proeger dies at home, 2123 Lemoyne Avenue, Los Angeles, aged 49; her death notice calls her “loving wife of William L. Proeger” S17S1174S1175

May–June — Earl Theodore Roberts is aboard USS Anderson (DD-411), ship's cook first class, through the battles of the Coral Sea and Midway. 16 August — he leaves her for the Commissary Steward School, San Diego, and re-enlists on 19 September S302S303.

Solomon Alfred Bowles, of Potosi, registers for the World War II draft, giving his birthplace this time as Cass, Arkansas S685

Eddie G. Walker, born 23 September 1898 at San Marcos, of 1310 College, Fort Worth, registers for the draft with “Mrs. E. G. Walker” as his contact: very probably the second husband of Nettie Ellen Cleveland S710

17 July — Edna Blanche (Orsborn) Peters, mother of Benjamin LaRoy Peters Sr, dies at Spencer, Iowa S784

William Anderson Bowles Jr., a son of William Anderson Bowles, registers for the draft at 4706 Klamath Street, Los Angeles, giving his birth as 28 April 1893 at Abilene, Texas Confirmed S1022

16 November — Charles W. Ross, an accountant born in Indiana, husband of Caroline M. Proeger, dies at Latrobe, Pennsylvania, aged 62, and is buried at Woodlawn, Pittsburgh Confirmed S1036

27 April — Charles W. Ross, husband of Caroline M. Proeger, registers for the draft at 61, giving his birth as 11 August 1880 at Columbus, Bartholomew County, Indiana, and his employer as Stupakoff Ceramic, Latrobe Confirmed S1045

14 March — Nancy Martin Coffman born, Houston, Texas S1S7

27 February — Earl Theodore Roberts joins USS LST-455; by June 1944 he is her chief commissary steward S303S312.

11 September — Harry Max Reininger, son of Minnie Johanna Kretschmar, marries in Henrico County, Virginia, while in the Army S566

3 April — Alice Chenault Bullock, daughter of Colby Burris Chenault, dies at Nashville S672

17 September — Thomas Walton Caffey Jr. is released from the US Marine Corps after four years; he and Lucille Kretschmar marry the same year S33S34

28 November — Kate, daughter of James W. Wright and Lucy Brooks, born in Dallas County in 1873, dies as Mrs. Kate Temple Britain, a widow, at Hamilton, Texas Confirmed S1146

8 February — Aileane Marie Silva marries Earl Theodore Roberts at Los Angeles S12. 27 November — Frank Silva Sr dies at San Jose Hospital, aged 83, after more than fifty years at Mission San José; his obituary calls him "a native of Fayal, the Azores" and names his granddaughter Aileen Roberts of Philadelphia S67. Buried beside his wife at St. Joseph's S54

7 March — Thomas Alan Caffey, Kristin's father, born at Austin S31

10 June — William B. O’Farrell, first husband of Helen Agnes Rose, is killed when his car hits a truck loaded with steel beams head-on on San Leandro Boulevard at 92nd Avenue, Oakland S1178S1180.

5 October — Howard Lee Caffey marries Mrs. Dorothy Piland in Travis County S681

4 July — Iona Belle Brock Bowles dies at Potosi, Texas S23

4 July, Potosi, Taylor County — Iona Belle Bowles dies of coronary thrombosis, and her Texas death certificate, filed seven days later, names her father Solomon Alfred Brock and her mother's maiden name Matilda Howard S170. Four facts move off Find a Grave onto a state record. ⚠ The informant was a daughter, reporting her grandparents.

11 September — Thomas William Walker, son of William Olan Walker and Erma Lee Norcross, is born in Jackson County, Texas S705

30 March — Henry William Henderson dies at South Ryegate, Vermont, aged 84 S361

12 November — Pansy Belle Baldwin, 40, divorced, of San Antonio, daughter of Edd Stansbury and Mary E. Brock, marries again at Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas S707

5 April — the Coffman household is enumerated at Pasadena, Harris County, in the US Census; Robert W. Coffman, then assistant superintendent of the Pasadena schools S78, gives his occupation as school administrator S10

On the same 1950 census, in Austin, the Caffey household is enumerated at house 605 — T.W. 26, Lucille 24, Thomas A. 4, Sandra M. 1 S32. And at White Settlement, Tarrant County, the Walker household — Clarence M., Dorothy L., and daughters Clare and Marilyn S39

Elmo Blackburn, 46, husband of Lily Olene Bowles, runs his own electric shop and lives at 2804 Taylor, Amarillo; no wife is on the sheet S719

Ethel G. Proeger, 74, widow of Frederick Albert Proeger, heads her own household at 109 West Third Street, Greensburg, Pennsylvania S733

Alfred S. Bowles, 65, born in Arkansas, is still farming his own land in Taylor County with Jewel, 52; John W. Bowles, 47, farms next door S743

10 April — at Howe, Grayson County, Texas, Virginia Logue (Virginia Alice Hamby), 81, widowed, is the mother-in-law of Harry R. Lewis, a cotton-mill oiler, in his house with his wife Ethel, 59 Confirmed S1101

12 July — Luther Dunn Chenault, born 10 August 1887, the Luther D. at home with Milton Waller Chenault in 1910, dies at Memphis, aged 62, a retired travelling salesman; his certificate gives his mother as Nancy Dunn and leaves his father blank Confirmed S1131 S400

The Hobbs, New Mexico, directory lists William Olan Walker and Erma L. at 508 West Lea, a groundman for New Mexico Electric Service S745

28 July — Medie Owens Caffey Stobaugh dies at Austin State Hospital, Travis County, Texas. Her death certificate names her parents — Charles Owens and Alice Walden — which is how Kristin's Owens great-great-grandparents got onto this page at all S70

James Burton Coffman becomes minister of the Manhattan Church of Christ, New York City — a congregation founded in 1920, not by him; he led it to 1971 S115

7 September — Delphia Zella (Kennedy) Bowles, wife of Thomas L. Bowles, dies at Amarillo S668

Nancy Aileen Proeger, who transferred in 1954 from Astoria High School, Oregon, is a senior at George Washington High School, Guam. “P. Proeger” (Patty) appears in the same yearbook S311. Their brother Bill Proeger is a freshman there, enrolled as “B. Roberts” under his step-father's surname S313.

14 December — William Leonard Proeger, the elder, dies at Los Angeles, aged 79, and is buried in an unmarked grave at Valhalla Memorial Park; his death notices name a daughter, three sons and two sisters, and no wife S14S1176S1177

19 June — Albert C. Reininger, husband of Minnie Johanna Kretschmar, dies at Austin S677

May — Earl Theodore Roberts is on Guam with the family (dated scrapbook page). Earl Proeger says he was posted there as a Navy officer and that Bill went through high school on Guam S300.

29 July — Edd Stansbury, widower of Mary E. Brock, dies at San Antonio S657

19 February — Ethel Gregg Proeger, widow of Frederick Albert Proeger, dies at Greensburg, Pennsylvania, aged 81; her death certificate names her parents as Edward Gregg and Elizabeth Darling S423

The Austin directory lists Minnie Johanna Kretschmar, widow of Albert C. Reininger, at 1711 South First Street S704

19 January — Benjamin Peters, father of Benjamin LaRoy Peters Sr, dies at Sioux Rapids, Iowa; buried in Marathon Cemetery S785

15 September — William Anderson Bowles Jr., a son of William Anderson Bowles, dies at Pasadena, California Probable confirm or correct → S899

17 December — Godfrey Murfin, widower of Gertrude (Proeger) Murfin, dies at 711 N. St. Clair Street, Pittsburgh, aged 81 S944S945

1 February — Earl Theodore Roberts becomes Chief Warrant Officer W-4 S266. That year he served aboard USS Wexford County (LST-1168) at Pearl Harbor (captioned family photograph).

8 August — Alice Rachael Owens, born 14 September 1867 at Waco, dies at Austin S781

7 May — Joseph Daniel Martin Jr. dies at Memphis, aged 82 S371

Nancy Coffman graduates from Pasadena High School S1. ⚠️ This page previously placed Mildred Rose Silva's death in this year; the date came from a user tree and no record supports it, so it has been withdrawn Not found

7 October — Mildred A. Rose, Aileane's mother, dies in Alameda County as Mildred A Springer S316

6 December — John Wesley Bowles, a son of William Anderson Bowles, dies at Abilene Probable confirm or correct → S904

21 January — Chester Major Lindley, husband of Mary Matilda Bowles, dies at Abilene S670

13 April — Mabel Logue Piland, mother-in-law of Thomas Osborn Caffey, dies at Austin Probable confirm or correct → S907

19 April — the Abilene Reporter-News interviews James Burton Coffman, who names his two nieces then at Abilene Christian: "Virginia (Ginger)… and Nancy Coffman." Independent proof, from outside the family, both that Earl's mother attended ACC and that Burton was her uncle — the clipping is in the documents below S89

27 May — Ada May Brock Estes dies at Abilene; the Texas death index enters her as Ada Estes, Taylor County, file 32742 S734

Junior year — Tommy Caffey is junior-class president and Junior Class Favorite at McCallum High School S491S492

Patricia Proeger, Earl’s aunt and the sister of William Leonard Proeger, marries Albert R. Collins in California Confirmed S1207

30 June — the Manhattan Church of Christ's new building at East 80th Street and Madison Avenue is dedicated, the first purpose-built Church of Christ in New York County, the fruit of the building fund James Burton Coffman launched in 1955 S115

16 March — James Henderson, born in Vermont in 1898, son of Henry Henderson and Artie Morrison, dies at Woodsville, New Hampshire Confirmed S1147

29 October — Lydia Mae Bowles Coffman dies at Abilene, aged 89 S16. 22 December — her husband James David "Jim" Coffman dies in Callahan County, aged 91, eight weeks later S18

9 January — Nancy Aileen Proeger, then Nancy Wortman of Enterprise, 35, takes her own life in a pickup parked at the foot of Wallowa Lake, Oregon, as the Wallowa County Chieftain reports on 11 January S343 Confirmed

20 November — Willie Frank Kretschmar dies; buried at Austin Memorial Park, two plots from where his daughter will lie S34

8 June — Jewel Ross Bowles, widow of Solomon Alfred Bowles, dies at Abilene S658

27 February — Robert Anthony Bowles, a son of William Anderson Bowles, dies at Phoenix, Arizona Probable confirm or correct → S894S895

A public-records address index has “Aileane S Roberts”, born 15 August 1918, at National City and San Diego, California: Aileane Marie Silva, by a commercial list, index only, whose birth date matches hers to the day Probable confirm or correct → S768

27 August — Victor Quillen Logue, Mabel Logue Piland’s brother, dies in Arkansas and is buried at Concord, Cleburne County Probable confirm or correct → S1206

3 April — Mary Matilda Bowles Lindley dies in San Antonio; she is buried at Potosi S509

9 July — Raymond Will Kretschmar, son of Will Kretschmar and Liessi Ladusch, dies at Beaumont, Texas, aged 50, a veteran and Western Electric installer S968.

Max W. Kretschmar, who outlived his brother Will Kretschmar, dies in Travis County on 3 December 1981 and is buried at Salem Lutheran Cemetery S1204 S1197

7 July — William Harry Proeger dies, Marin County, California S13

10 September — Iona Belle Bowles Noonan, a daughter of William Anderson Bowles, dies Probable confirm or correct → S905

17 February — Robert William Coffman dies in Harris County, Texas, after fifty years of marriage; buried at Forest Park Lawndale, Houston S15S26

3 March — Hattie "Liessi" Ladusch Kretschmar dies in Hays County S34

23 July — Clarence Melvin "Melvin" Walker dies, aged 70; buried at Mount Olivet Cemetery, Fort Worth S37S38; his obituary index gives his death at Fort Worth and his last home at Richland Hills Probable confirm or correct → S767. 8 December — Gertie Selma Selland Peters dies at Schertz, Texas, and is buried back at Clear Lake, South Dakota S41

9 April — Benjamin LaRoy "Pete" Peters Sr. dies at Schertz, Texas, twenty months after his wife, and is buried in the grave beside hers at Lakeview Cemetery, Clear Lake S38S41

LaVonne Walker, Kristin's mother, marries Wayne Allen Danielson, former dean of the University of Texas College of Communication, in Travis County S129S297

John Jacob "Jacob" Proeger, Earl's half-brother, is born to Bill Proeger and Briana Castro Proeger. Earl was there S24

Earl Proeger and Kristin M. Caffey marry in a ceremony on Guam; the marriage is registered in Travis County, Texas, on 25 June S2. Texas let them marry by affirmation rather than oath, a Quaker scruple Guam made no accommodation for S24

20 November — Helen Agnes Rose, by then Helen A. Johnson, dies in California, aged 96 S1181.

Eileen Roberts writes out her "cousins list" for Earl's sister Tasha: her four children Nancy (deceased since 1973), Patricia, Bill and Kathie, with their children and ages S205

10 January — Aileane Marie Silva dies at National City, San Diego County, California S13

14 April — Lucille Lorine Kretschmar Caffey dies in Hays County, Texas S34

14 March — Thomas Walton Caffey Jr. dies in Hays County, fourteen months after his wife; they are buried together at Austin Memorial Park, plot 1-566-7 S34

30 June — James Burton Coffman died 30 June 2006 at Houston, aged 101, the last of the brothers but Horace; buried beside Thelma at Forest Park Lawndale S109S110

20 January — Louise Martin Timberman Coffman dies at Deltona, Volusia County, Florida, aged 90. Her obituary names her four children and closes the last gap on Earl's maternal line, eighteen years before anyone reads it for that purpose S26

30 December — Thomas Alan Caffey, Kristin's father, dies at Austin, aged 70. His obituary names "his daughter Kristin Proeger and her husband Earl […]" S31

31 October — Wayne Allen Danielson, Kristin's stepfather and second dean of the UT College of Communication (1969–1979), dies at 87. His obituary names his wife LaVonne and his stepchildren Brad Caffey and Kristin Proeger S297

13 August — Dorothy La Vonne Peters Walker dies at Round Rock, Texas, aged 96, after more than seventy years in Fort Worth; graveside service at Mount Olivet, Fort Worth, on 22 August. Her obituary names Kristin, Earl and their three children — which is how this branch was identified without a single inference S36

20 February — Nancy Martin Coffman Proeger dies at Austin, Texas, aged 81 S7. 24 February — graveside service; buried at Youngs Prairie Cemetery, Elgin S8S9. 15 March — her memorial at Hope Chapel, where the family-written obituary that anchors this entire record was read aloud S1. The service was livestreamed and is archived on YouTube S73

4 April — Sandra Caffey Falkenberg, Kristin's aunt, dies at San Antonio, aged 76; her obituary independently names the Caffey grandparents S35

13 September — this record research completed, in three passes on one day. The paternal wall comes down on documents alone, and the family confirms the Silva maiden name and William Harry Proeger the same day. A second pass names Louise Martin Timberman and her parents, closing the last gap on the maternal line and solving the Martin naming chain. A third builds Kristin's paternal line three generations deep from the 1950 census and two obituaries — and, in passing, corrects this page's own claim that James Burton Coffman was a brother-in-law rather than a son. A fourth, later the same day, fills Kristin's maternal line two generations deep — Walker, Peters and the Norwegian Selland — closes the exact 1941 birth date behind a signed-in index view, and finds Julius Proeger named as a father on a 1955 California death record.

14 September — the Silva line opens. A county marriage record naming Frank Silva as "Father Of Bride" promotes Aileane's parents from Probable to Confirmed; four new great-great-grandparents arrive — Frank Silva Sr and Anna, Antone and Louise Rose; and the 1900 and 1940 censuses turn the Azores from a DNA inference into a record, with a sixth, unnamed generation behind it. ⚠️ The island did not come with it that day — Pico and Faial were still DNA only, and stayed so for twenty-four hours. Two claims are demoted the same day: Frank's middle name "Thomas," and Mildred's death in 1960.

15 September — the island is settled. Frank Silva Sr's November 1946 obituary is retrieved and read: "He was a native of Fayal, the Azores." Faial moves from DNA inference to Confirmed Confirmed S67, and the notice independently names his lodges, his wife Anna L. Silva, his son Frank Jr and his granddaughter Aileen Roberts. The same evening a lead is withdrawn: the California Death Index entry for a Frank Silva who died at Santa Barbara on the same date is a different man, and the certificate is not to be bought. Pico is not promoted — it stays DNA evidence. Dee Coffman's parents are found the same day, under the KAUFMAN spelling.

16 September — the deepest day of the whole record. On Earl's side: the Kauffman-Coffman genealogy of 1940 yields David Carl Coffman's own parents, taking the Coffman line to generation 7 S66; both Coffman gravestones at Luray are read from the 2015 photographs S83; Dr. James W. Wright's 1878 will is transcribed and names "Mary J., wife of David E. Coffman of Taylor county" S84; the Gerabronn baptism register names Julius Proeger's father S69; and the family typescript supplies two marriage dates S72. On Kristin's side: the Røldal parish registers are read in Norwegian and put three Selland generations on record S74S75S76S77; the Peters–Selland marriage record is finally pulled S71; and the Owens and Walker great-great-grandparents arrive from a death certificate and the 1930 census S70S87. The family identifies the faces in the Coffman group photograph, and Earl settles his sisters' birth order against this page's first version of it.

20 September — a read-only FamilySearch sweep of the paternal line. Julius Proeger's birth parish is resolved from the district town to Kirchberg an der Jagst, inside the Oberamt Gerabronn S69; Minnie Kochendoerfer is christened at Langenburg, eight kilometres away in the same Oberamt, and her parents are named for the first time S124; Julius's father and mother acquire dates and a marriage — Triensbach, 1835 — and above them a seventh generation, Johann Leonhard David Proeger ⚭ Eva Barbara Schmidt, is named S122S123. All of it rests on index entries, not images, and is held at Probable. Two things are closed off rather than opened: a 2009 Proger genealogy of a Chemnitz, Saxony textile family is ruled out on region, settlement, trade and generation, and Allegheny County naturalisation is not on FamilySearch at all — a full-text search returns nothing, making it a NARA Philadelphia request. The contributor who attached the German baptism evidence in 2017 and again in 2024 is almost certainly Earl's cousin Sheryl.

17 September — the page is audited against its own research, thirty findings deep, and repaired. Nothing new is discovered; a good deal is corrected. Mary Jane Wright's death moves to the certificate's 6 December 1934 in the last place that still carried the stone's date. The Coffman generations stop being a prose aside and become a chain with chips and a citation. Four hand-typed totals come off the page for good, including the source count in the stamp above — a number nobody can keep true is not a fact, it is a liability. And the consistency gate that guards this page is rewritten to catch what it missed: case, digits and paraphrase.

17 September — Genealogy research reconciliation. Anna Blanche Roberts's parents identified: Henry S. Roberts and Rose A. Williams, confirmed by four records. Timberman parents confirmed (John H. Timberman + Rebecca Anna Harris, PA death certificate). Martin/Chenault parents confirmed (David Chenault + Louisa Quishinberry; Jane Martin). DNA haplogroups read: Y I-S17250, mtDNA J1c1. GEDmatch AYPR: parents not related (0 cM). Patent number D8,492 corrected to D8,942. Six Coffman/Proeger corrections applied.

18 September — Earl's grandfather joins the research. Uncle David sends photographs of four pedigree sheets Robert William Coffman filled in on 1936 Genealogical Society of Utah forms S103. Two pencilled boxes on one of them — PETER H MARTIN · Nov 4, 1793 and JANE BELL — open a new generation on the Martin line: Peter Hines Martin, 4 Nov 1793 – 4 July 1849, Gallatin, Sumner Co., Tennessee S105, married Jane Bell on 2 July 1818 S106. A second breadcrumb, "m. 5 Mar 1799", finds the Shenandoah County bond of 12 February 1799 S104. ⚠️ The day's best document argues against the family chart: that bond names Samuel Coffman's father as "Geo.", where the chart says Martin — so the generation above Samuel stays Unsupported as stated and is now contested as well as unproven. Two claimed readings of the same sheets are rejected the same day, after re-reading every disputed glyph against a known instance of the same character in the same hand. One had misread the Timberman box's middle name and put his death seventy years late, which would have shifted a whole generation; the sheet in fact reads JAMES HARRIS TIMBERMAN, d. Jan 1919, matching the Ohio death certificate exactly S79, and this page was already right. The other invented a surname for Joseph Martin's wife; the sheet reads NANCY CHENAULT in block capitals, agreeing with the three sources already here. Mary Funkhouser and the compiler's own hedge "Tate (?)" are searched and recorded as not found.

18 September — the family puts names to the faces. Virginia "Ginger" Coffman sends back the Dee Coffman family group photograph with names typed onto fourteen of them and her own caption, "Dee Coffman Family / Circa 1924" S108. Ten are new. Two of the ten are Dee and Mollie themselves — he seated at the centre with the white moustache, she beside him — which answers a question this page had been carrying openly since the 16th. Mary Jane "Mollie" Wright now has a face, the only one of her in this record. ⚠️ Nothing about the photograph's attribution changes: it was always this family's, and this is an addition to it. The names are family testimony Probable confirm or correct →, not a record, and her circa 1924 narrows the page's 1923–1930 estimate without becoming a document.

22 September — Peter Hines Martin's own will is read. It names Joseph D Martin in the children's division, calls William Bell Jane's brother, and leaves a shoe store in Gallatin S172. By evening Joseph Daniel Martin's dates are settled at 1832–1899, Louise Rose's birth moves back to about 1856, Edward and Mildred Rose are shown to be twins, James Bowles's birth narrows to 1830–31, and Jane Bell's birthplace is fixed as Tennessee.

23 September — Nancy Aileen Proeger gets her own dates: born 6 April 1937, Niles, California — never Texas — and died 9 January 1973, Wallowa County, Oregon S275S298. Her stepfather Earl T. Roberts gets his Navy career from the muster rolls — USS Anderson (DD-411) from her first crew, then LST-455 S302S303 — and a 1955 Guam yearbook finds Nancy a senior there S311 and her brother Bill Proeger a freshman, enrolled as “B. Roberts” and identified in the class photo by Earl S313. Nannie Chenault (1844–1915) is Confirmed on her own death certificate S208; Wayne Allen Danielson is identified S297; Dorothy Susan Reid and two probable Martin sons, Robert B. and David B. S172, join the record; and Aileane's cousins list, written for Tasha, is set down. Mildred A. Rose's death is restored — 7 October 1960, as Mildred A Springer S316 — a three-generation photograph of Mildred, Aileane and Nancy is added S323, and Louise Rose's maiden name Mendonça is confirmed S317S319.

24 September — the Wallowa County Chieftain front page of 11 January 1973, shared on Ancestry by cduarte192, is added to Nancy Aileen Proeger’s record: it reports that she took her own life at Wallowa Lake S343. Earl asked that it not be held back.

25 September — three documents held back the day before are published in full at Earl’s request: Nancy Jane Higginbotham Walker’s 1953 death certificate, which names carcinoma of the jaw S331; Dorothy La Vonne Peters Walker’s 2022 obituary, unredacted, as a per-item exception to the rule for minors S36; and a 2015 portrait of Bradley Neal Caffey and Erin with their two children.