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Continued: Ricky Henderson
<phillips_luckey(at)yahoo.com>
Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 10:37 AM
To: blackwood204(at)hal-pc.org
"Thank you for your inquiry into your family. The only information I have is on Doroteo Torres. All information form Henne and Meyer has never been found. We do have record books about burials in and around Milam County. I show a Ben Torres born 1876 and died 1930. He is buried in the Edgeworth Cemetery in Bell County. The cemetery is just over the milam County line. Doroteo and Yrinea are buried in the Big Lump also know as San Antonio Cemetery which is near Rockdale on Highway 79. On her marker it reads Yrinea Suarez 1867-1932. Information we have on Doroteo is he was widowed. A Maria Torres and Selistino Vargas were in charge of arrangements. Doroteo was a farmer. Born 2/6/1869 and died 11/30/1937. Funeral was Friday, December 3, 1937. lived and died near Rockdale. Father was Crecencio Luiz born in Mexico and mother Adela Torres born in Mexico."
Per 1910 Census, family immigrated to US in 1893.
Texas Death Index, 1903-2000 about D. R. Torres
Name: D. R. Torres
Death Date: 30 Nov 1937
Death County: Milam
Certificate: 56673
TORRES NAME MEANING AND HISTORY
Galician, Catalan, Spanish, Portuguese, and Jewish (Sephardic): habitational name from any of the numerous places named Torres, all named with the plural of torre ‘tower’ (see Torre).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
1910 United States Federal Census about Dorotis Tauer
Name: Dorotis Tauer [Doroteo Torres]
Age in 1910: 47
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1863
Birthplace: Mexico
Relation to Head of House: Head
Father's Birth Place: Mexico
Mother's Birth Place: Mexico
Spouse's Name: Yuma
Home in 1910: Justice Precinct 4, Milam, Texas
Marital Status: Married
Gender: Male
Year of Immigration: 1893
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members:
Name Age
Dorotis Tauer 47
Yuma Tauer 40
Maria Tauer 18
Guadalupe Tauer 15
Cruset Tauer 11
Cresencia Tauer 9
Patrosend Flores 3
1920 United States Federal Censusabout D R Tomes
Name: [D R Torres]
Home in 1920: Justice Precinct 4, Milam, Texas
Age: 65 years
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1855
Birthplace: Mexico
Relation to Head of House: Head
Spouse's Name: Yrinea
Father's Birth Place: Mexico
Mother's Birth Place: Mexico
Marital Status: Married
Race: Indian (Native American)
[Octoroon]
Sex: Male
Home owned: Rent
Year of Immigration: 1893
Able to read: Yes
Able to Write: Yes
Image: 308
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members:
Name Age
D R Tomes 65
Yrinea Tomes 58
Maria Tomes 22
Cresencia Tomes 17
1930 United States Federal Census about Doroteo Lonez
Name: Doroteo Lonez
Home in 1930: Precinct 4, Milam, Texas
View Map
Age: 64
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1866
Birthplace: Mexico
Relation to Head of House: Head
Spouse's Name: Irena
Race: Mexican (Latino)
Occupation:
Education:
Military service:
Rent/home value:
Age at first marriage:
Parents' birthplace:
Household Members:
Name Age
Doroteo Lonez 64
Irena Lonez 60
Maria Lonez 36
Crecancio Lonez 24
MILAM COUNTY TEXAS - A History of Rockdale Texas (Surrounding Communities)
File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by
Lynna Kay Shuffield for the
Milam County Genealogical Society
milamco@yahoo.com
July 26, 2001
BIG LUMP [Community]
(Researched by Mrs. Ida Jo Marshall)
Big Lump was a former lignite mining community on the Missouri Pacific Railroad four miles west of Milano.
Big Lump had a Mexican Catholic Church. This building stood across the International and Great Northern Railroad tracks from the Big Lump stores. Big Lump had a post
office. C. K. Stribling and Guy Clymore had charge of the post offfice.
Sam Taylor was superintendent of Big Lump Coal Mine. The coal company also operated a commissary where the employees bought their supplies. Guy Clymore was foreman of
the Big Lump mine and was accidentally killed by an International and Great Northern
switch engine on March 16 1927.
There was a cotton gin at Big Lump. It was built in the ear;y 1900's and operated several
years.
http://files.usgwarchives.net/tx/milam/history/rockdale/pg017.txt
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