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James Edward Bragg

Male 1909 - 2001  (92 years)


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  • Name James Edward Bragg  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
    Birth 10 Sep 1909  Sabine County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3, 4
    Gender Male 
    Death 31 Dec 2001  Center, Shelby County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4
    Burial New Hope Cemetery, Milam, Sabine County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Person ID I2475  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 locationd. 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 locationd. 4 Jul 1964 (Age 91 years) 
    Marriage 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 Louise E. Baldwin,   b. 31 May 1907   d. 12 Dec 1994, Milam, Sabine County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 87 years) 
    Children 
     1. James Cleveland "Rusty" Bragg, Sr.,   b. 6 Mar 1938, Sabine County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 25 Sep 2011, Milam, Sabine County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 73 years)
    Family ID F11245  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 4 Sep 2010 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 10 Sep 1909 - Sabine County, Texas Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 31 Dec 2001 - Center, Shelby County, Texas Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBurial - - New Hope Cemetery, Milam, Sabine County, Texas Link to Google Earth
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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. [S928] McCary, Mackie & Kay "New Hope Cemetery, Sabine County, Texas" Cemetery Index ; http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~txsabine/burials/.

    4. [S333] Ancestry.com - U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-Current [database online], (Ancestry.com. Social Security Death Index [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2011. Original data: Social Security Administration. Social Security Death Index, Master File. Social Security Administration. The Social Security Administration Death Master File contains information on millions of deceased individuals with United States social security numbers whose deaths were reported to the Social Security Administration. Birth years for the individuals listed range from 1875 to last year. Information in these records includes name, birth date, death date, and last known residence.).

    5. [S336] The Sabine County Reporter, P.O. Box 700, Hemphill, Texas (Published Weekly), (Founded in 1883, The Sabine County Reporter (USPS 474-660) is published once a week on Wednesday. The Reporter is Published by Sabine County Reporter, Inc. Postmaster: Send change of address to P.O. Box 700, Hemphill, Texas 75948-0700. The Sabine County Reporter and The Rambler merged March 1, 1988. Member National Newspaper Association and Texas Press Association.), May 8, 1996, Page 12, obituary of Leona Bragg Waller Boyett (Reliability: 3).

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