Charlie D. Bly

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"of Highland, California."

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Virgie Speights wrote a sketch of this couple on the occasion of their 58th wedding anniversary, in a column of hers dated August 6, 1963. It was published in her book "Old Timers of Sabine County, Texas." He was a Methodist Minister at the First Methodist Church. He was born in Shellrock, Freeborn County, MN, moving with his family to Chicago, Ill, where is father was a railroad worker with the Rock Island Railroad. Bly's first job was also with the railroa, but her preached on the side until 1902, when he moved to Arkansas to become pastor at Chippo, and has been a full time pastor ever since. His next pastorage was at Mansfield, Louisiana, where he met and married Lavinia Anderson. They moved into the Hemphill parsonage, and except for a few years in Kentucky, West Virginia and other Texas towns, lived there through his retirement.

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Name: Charles Alvin Bly
Death Date: 22 Feb 1970
Death Place: Hemphill, Sabine, Texas
Gender: Male
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Death Age: 97 years
Estimated Birth Date: 1873
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Father's Name: Alvin Bly
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Mother's Name: Estelle Amy
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Film Number: 2218584
Digital Film Number: 4168861
Image Number: 2117
Reference Number: 13975
Collection: Texas, Deaths, 1890-1976

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Census Listings:

1920 Census
Texas, San Augustine, JP 4
Enumerated 7 Jan 1920
SD 326 ED 179 Sheet 5B
87-89
Bly, Charlie Head m W 42 (???) M Minnesota Ill NY Lumber Goods Planer? Mill
Bly, Teblye (sci) Wf F W 37 M La Ala La
Bly, Charlie D Son m W 13 S Tx Minn La
Bly, Lenena Dtr F W 11 S Ky Min La
Bly, Marshal Son M W 9 S La Minn La
Bly, Edith Dtr F W 7 S Tx Minn La
Bly, Loyd Son m W 5 S Tx Minn La
Bly, Norine Dtr F W 2 S Tx Minn La

1930 Census
Texas, Sabine County, JP 7
Enumerated April 7, 1930
ED 202-10 SD 19 Sheet 1A Stamped 111
Scrapping Valley Road
11-11
Bly, Charley A Head M W 58 m 32 Minnesota Ill NY farmer
Bly, Lavinia Wf F W 48 m 24 La Ga La
Bly, Edith Dtr F W 17 S Tx Minn La
Bly, Loyd Son m W 15 S Tx Minn La
Bly, Lorene Dtr F W 12 S Tx Minn La
Bly, Laurence Son M W 10 S Tx Minn La
Bly, Earl Son M W 7 S Tx Minn La

Charles married Lavinia Elizabeth Anderson on 3 Aug 1905 in Mansfield, DeSoto Parish, Louisiana. Lavinia was born on 21 Jul 1881 in Louisiana; died on 8 Mar 1975 in Beaumont, Jefferson County, Texas; was buried in Hemphill City Cemetery, Hemphill, Sabine County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Virgie Speights wrote a sketch of this couple on the occasion of their 58th wedding anniversary, in a column of hers dated August 6, 1963. It was published in her book "Old Timers of Sabine County, Texas." She stated that the couple met in Mansfield, Louisiana, where Mrs. Bly, the former Miss Lavinia Anderson, lived at the time. "Mrs. Bly is also alert, energetic and serene. She keeps her house spic and span and is an excellent cook." Virgie added that the couple had a "tintype of Mrs. Bly's father in Civil War Confederate uniform, made about 1860 or 1861."

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Name: Lavinia Elizabeth Bly
Death Date: 08 Mar 1975
Death Place: Beaumont, Jefferson, Texas
Gender: Female
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Death Age: 93 years
Estimated Birth Date: 1882
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Father's Name: William Anderson
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Mother's Name: Ophelia Lafitte
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Film Number: 2243707
Digital Film Number: 4167404
Image Number: 18
Reference Number: 18
Collection: Texas, Deaths, 1890-1976