Lessie Leola Kerr

Notes:

Name: Lessie Leola Birdwell
Death Date: 27 Sep 1973
Death Place: Texas
Gender: Female
Race:
Death Age: 67 years
Estimated Birth Date: 1906
Birth Date:
Birthplace:
Marital Status:
Spouse's Name:
Father's Name: Stephen Austin Kerr
Father's Birthplace:
Mother's Name: Florence Page
Mother's Birthplace:
Informant: Estes J. Birdwell (by phone)
Occupation: Housewife
Place of Residence: 13649 Reeveston Road, Houston
Cemetery: Rosevine Cemetery
Burial Place: Rosevine Texas
Burial Date:
Additional Relatives:
Film Number: 2242914
Digital Film Number: 4168751
Image Number: 1837
Reference Number: 1849
Collection: Texas Deaths, 1890-1976


(Medical):See attached sources.

Lessie married Estes James Birdwell on 11 Feb 1923 in San Augustine County, Texas. Estes (son of Norman E. "Thaddius" Birdwell and Blanche Henley) was born on 25 Mar 1903 in Texas; died on 28 Aug 1978 in Harris County, Texas; was buried in Rosevine Cemetery, Rosevine, Sabine County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
Marriage information from

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~txsanaug/marriages/Bibens-Bryley.pdf

Said to be recorded in the San Augustine County, Texas Marriage Book 6, Page 148


It appears they had a fourth daughter, as shown on the Texas Birth Index as follows:

22 Apr 1933 Female San Augustine E J Birdwell Lessie Kerr

There infant daughter MAY have died young, as a third child is not shown by Barbara Yancey Dore on her Southeast Texas Regional Gedcom.

1. Drunetta Kay "Drue" Birdwell was born on 30 Apr 1925 in San Augustine County, Texas; died on 6 Apr 1972 in Houston, Harris County, Texas.
2. Duverne Elizabeth Birdwell was born on 30 Jan 1928 in San Augustine County, Texas; died on 16 Jan 1996 in Nacogdoches County, Texas; was buried in Rosevine Cemetery, Rosevine, Sabine County, Texas.
3. Izora Laree Birdwell was born after 1930; and died.
4. Billie Faye Birdwell was born on 22 Apr 1933 in San Augustine, San Augustine County, Texas; died on 16 Jul 2016 in Tahlequah, Cherokee County, Oklahoma; was buried in Rosevine, Sabine County, Texas.

Notes:

Names of the children of Stephen Kerr are from a Family Photo in the Pictorial History of Sabine County, Texas, and from the 1920 Sabine County Census. There is one daughter listed in the photo that is not identified on the 1920 census, Viola. She was probably already married, or may have died young.

(Research):Census Information:

1920 Federal Census
Texas, Sabine County, JP 6
Enumerated 14 and 15 January 1920, Jesse L. Mosley
SD 326, ED 173, Sheet 14 B
280-280
Kerr, Stephonson Head M W 52 M Farmer Tx Tx Tx
Kerr, Florence E Wife F W 42 M Tx Tx Tx
Kerr, Charley D. Son M W 16 S Farm Laborer Tx Tx Tx
Kerr, Roy Son M W 22 S Carpenter House Tx Tx Tx
Kerr, Jewel Dtr F W 15 S Tx Tx Tx
Kerr, Lessie L. Dtr F W 13 S Tx Tx Tx
Kerr, Lou T. Dtr F W 11 S Tx Tx Tx
Kerr, Stephen A Son M W 9 S Tx Tx Tx
Kerr, Oscar D. Son M W 8 S Tx Tx Tx
Kerr, Therman Son M W 5 S Tx Tx Tx
McClure, Gall Boarder M W 22 S Tx Tx Tx

Stephen married Florence E. Page. Florence was born about 1877 in Texas; died about 1921 in Sabine County, Texas; was buried in Rosevine Cemetery, Rosevine, Sabine County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]