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Lowry Lawrence Cordray

Male 1892 - 1973  (80 years)


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  • Name Lowry Lawrence Cordray  [1, 2, 3
    Born 16 Dec 1892  Geneva, Sabine County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 4
    Gender Male 
    Died 16 May 1973  Houston, Harris County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Buried San Jacinto Memorial Park, Houston, Harris County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Notes 
    • https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/J69V-8WL
      name: Lowry Lawrence Cordray
      death date: 16 May 1973
      death place: Houston, Harris, Texas
      gender: Male
      race:
      death age: 80 years
      estimated birth date: 1893
      birth date:
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      marital status:
      spouse's name:
      father's name: John Lawrence Cordray
      father's birthplace:
      mother's name: Mary Emma Payne
      mother's birthplace:
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      additional relatives:
      informant Mrs. R J Cassidy
      film number: 2242782
      digital film number: 4167877
      image number: 2770
      reference number: 2793
      Collection: Lowry Lawrence Cordray, "Texas, Deaths, 1890-1976"
    • (Research):

      Census Listings:

      1920 Census
      Texas, Sabine County, JP 8
      Enumerated 2 Jan 1920
      SD 326 ED 172 Sheet 1A Stamped 184
      1-1
      Albert and Fannie McGown family
      2-2
      Ben R. Payne
      3-3
      L. L. Cordray Head M W 29 M Tx Tx Tx Farmer
      Dollie Cordray Wf F W 24 M Tx Tx Tx
      Bertie Cordray M W 2 5/12 S Tx Tx Tx
      4-4
      BW and Bertie Cordray and family
    Person ID I42564  Strong Family Tree
    Last Modified 8 Dec 2020 

    Father John Lawrence "J. L." Cordray,   b. 13 Jan 1854, Georgia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1 Mar 1896  (Age 42 years) 
    Mother Mary "Mollie" E. Payne,   b. Nov 1859, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 9 Apr 1921  (Age ~ 61 years) 
    Married Y  [3, 5
    • Their double tombstone at the Payne-Williams Cemetery is inscribed "Having finished life's duty They now sweetly rest."

      Sabine County, Texas Affidavit of B. R. Payne, sworn on August 25, 1927 and witnessed by Edna Whitehead, Notary Public. B. R. Payne was age 74 at that time, and a livelong resident of Sabine County, living about two miles south of Geneva. He was also a grandson of William Roberts, He showed his youngest sibling, Mollie E. Payne was the wife of J. L. Cordray. She was only married once...(and) has been dead about tens years, She laft the following children.

      a) Emmett Cordray, near Bronson, Texas
      b) Ben W. Cordray, near San Augustine, Texas
      c) Emma (Cordray) McGown, wife of E. H. McGown, Geneva.
      d) Florence (Cordray) Gray, wife of L. C. Gray, Geneva.
      e) J. R. Cordray (Jack)
      f) Lowery Cordray
      g) Annie (Cordray) Ford, wife of Laurie Ford, at San Augustine.
    Family ID F12720  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBorn - 16 Dec 1892 - Geneva, Sabine County, Texas Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDied - 16 May 1973 - Houston, Harris County, Texas Link to Google Earth
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  • Sources 
    1. [S33] FamilySearch.org, Texas Deaths, 1890-1976, (http://search.labs.familysearch.org/recordsearch/).

    2. [S384] 1900 United States Federal Census [Ancestry.com database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2004, (Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1900. T623, 1854 rolls. This database is an index to individuals enumerated in the 1900 United States Federal Census, the Twelfth Census of the United States. Census takers recorded many details including each person's name, address, relationship to the head of household, color or race, sex, month and year of birth, age at last birthday, marital status, number of years married, the total number of children born of the mother, the number of those children living, birthplace, birthplace of father and mother, if the individual was foreign born, the year of immigration and the number of years in the United States, the citizenship status of foreign-born individuals over age twenty-one, occupation, and more. Additionally, the names of those listed on the population schedule are linked to actual images of the 1900 Federal Census.), Texas, Sabine County, Pr. 8 Enumerated 5 Jun 1900 SD 8 ED 72 Sheet 5B (Reliability: 3).

    3. [S1985] .

    4. [S384] 1900 United States Federal Census [Ancestry.com database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2004, (Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1900. T623, 1854 rolls. This database is an index to individuals enumerated in the 1900 United States Federal Census, the Twelfth Census of the United States. Census takers recorded many details including each person's name, address, relationship to the head of household, color or race, sex, month and year of birth, age at last birthday, marital status, number of years married, the total number of children born of the mother, the number of those children living, birthplace, birthplace of father and mother, if the individual was foreign born, the year of immigration and the number of years in the United States, the citizenship status of foreign-born individuals over age twenty-one, occupation, and more. Additionally, the names of those listed on the population schedule are linked to actual images of the 1900 Federal Census.), Texas, Sabine County, Pr. 8 Enumerated 5 Jun 1900 SD 8 ED 72 Sheet 5B Shows DOB as Dec 1891 (Reliability: 3).

    5. [S1514] McCary, Mackie & Kay, Fussell, and Toole "Payne-Williams Cemetery, Sabine County, Texas" Cemetery Index ; http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~txsabine/burials/.