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Bessie May Bragg

Female Abt 1907 - Yes, date unknown


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  • Name Bessie May Bragg  [1, 2, 3
    Born Abt 1907  Sabine County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2
    Gender Female 
    Died Yes, date unknown 
    Person ID I2474  Strong Family Tree
    Last Modified 17 Aug 2014 

    Father David Benjamin Bragg,   b. 6 Mar 1868, Isla, Sabine County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 8 Feb 1922, Sabine County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 53 years) 
    Mother Naomi Leona Dorsey,   b. 19 Sep 1872, Sabine County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 4 Jul 1964  (Age 91 years) 
    Married 1 Nov 1888 
    • Virgie Speights wrote that when Naomi married David Bragg in 1888, the bought the house and farm where she was still living in 1963. It is a pleasant tree shaded, double penned square logged house, and already old. Repairs and additions have been added to the original logs, which are still underneath

      The Braggs were farmers, and also raised sheep, which he sheared and she spun into yarn, and then knit into sweaters, gloves and socks for her family. (Speights, Old Timers of Sabine County, p. 20).
    Family ID F1186  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Ottis Leon Jones,   b. 12 Mar 1909, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 29 Sep 1976, Sabine County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 67 years) 
    Children 
     1. Nelda Faye "Nell" Jones,   b. 13 Oct 1934, Milam, Sabine County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 30 Apr 2012, Rosevine, Sabine County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 77 years)
     2. Living
     3. Donna Louise Jones,   b. 22 Jun 1946, Center, Shelby County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 12 Sep 2011, Milam, Sabine County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 65 years)
     4. Betty Carolyn Jones,   b. 4 Oct 1947,   d. 27 Feb 2000  (Age 52 years)
    Last Modified 9 Dec 2006 
    Family ID F563  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

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  • Sources 
    1. [S632] Descendants of William Mercer http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mbonsal/mercer/william.html.

    2. [S481] 1910 United States Federal Census [Ancestry.com database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2006, (For details on the contents of the film numbers, visit the following NARA web page. Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Thirteenth Census of the United States, 1910. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1910. T624, 1,178 rolls. This database is an index to the head of households enumerated in the 1910 United States Federal Census, the Thirteenth Census of the United States. In addition, each indexed name is linked to actual images of the 1910 Federal Census. The information recorded in the census includes: name, relationship to head of family, age at last birthday, sex, color or race, whether single, married, widowed, or divorced, birthplace, birthplace of father and mother, and more.), Texas, Sabine County, Pr 4 Enumerated 28 Apr 1910 SD 2 ED 134 Sheet 7B 105-109 (Reliability: 3).

    3. [S374] Speights, Virgie "Old Timers of Sabine County, Texas Vignettes of Pioneer Families" (S. Malone, c. 1983), p. 20 (Reliability: 3).