Viola Elmina LEWIS Lona Louise KELLY Mini tree diagram

William Thomas LEWIS1,1

11th Dec 18591 - 26th May 19591

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

 

Married Lona Louise KELLY

Notes

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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.

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