Life History
11th Dec 1859 |
Born in Georgia.1 |
17th Jul 1914 |
Birth of daughter Viola Elmina LEWIS in Texas.2,3,4,5,1 |
26th May 1959 |
Died in Pasadena, Harris, Texas.1 |
after 26th May 1959 |
Buried in Mustang Prairie Cemetery, Mustang, Falls County, Texas.1 |
Other facts
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Married Lona Louise KELLY |
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William Thomas Lewis
Birth Dec 11, 1859 Georgia, USA
Death May 26, 1959 Pasadena, Harris County, Texas, USA
Children:
Thomas Ezell Lewis (1890 - 1956)
Infant Girl Lewis (1894 - 1894)
Viola Elmina Lewis DeGataire (1914 - 2006)
Note: Gravestone has born 1859, but on 1900 census in Falls Co. he said he was born Dec 1862.
Burial Mustang Prairie Cemetery, Mustang, Falls County, Texas, USA
Created by Lynda Chalk Barefield Jun 16, 2010
-- Find A Grave Memorial #53764300, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=53764300
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The memorial states "Gravestone has born 1859, but on 1900 census in Falls Co. he said he was born Dec 1862." But we shoudl note that the year of birth did not usually come from the enumerated themselves, but was usually worked out in an often erroneous fashion by the enumerator from the age.
There again we find census ages notoriously varied and often unreliable in censuses. We also find that engraved dates on gravestones, often from incorrectly remembered or recorded family sources, are often also wrong. It is not uncommon to even find the date of death in error. We note these in this genealogy when we find them.
Sources
- 1. Find a Grave Memorial Registry
- 2. 1940 Federal Census, Falls County, Texas
- 19 April, Precinct 2, District 73-9, page 8B, Hse #149, Rents $125
- 3. Texas, Marriage Collection, 1814-1909 and 1966-2011
- 4. U.S. Public Records Index, 1950-1993, Volume 2
- 5. U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014