Maude Alma (Pyles) Smith (1911 - 2008)

Born 27 Feb 1911 in Bosque, Texas, United States

Ancestors

Died 9 Feb 2008 at age 96 in Houston, Harris, Texas, United States

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Biography

Maude was born in 1911 in Bosque County, Texas. She was the daughter of William Pyles and Lizzie Greenwade. Maude was the 4th of 9 children. Four of her siblings died as children.^[1]

Maude Alma Pyles married Douglas Bryan Smith in Bosque, Texas, on November 16, 1930, when she was 19 years old.^[2] They had two daughters - Shirley Dolores, born in 1936, and Kay Laverne, born in 1937.^[3]

Maude died at the age of 96 at the home of her daughter in Santa Fe, Texas in 2008.^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ "United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHYZ-MWT : accessed 1 July 2023), Maud Piles in household of Arwin Piles, Hill, Texas, United States.
2. ↑ "Texas, County Marriage Records, 1837-1965," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QK8R-3RN4 : 23 February 2021), D. B. Smith and Maudie Pyles, 27 Oct 1930; citing Marriage, citing Bosque, Texas, United States, Texas State Library, Archives Division, and various Texas county clerks; FHL microfilm 1,428,144.
3. ↑ "Texas Births and Christenings, 1840-1981", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:4LDQ-PXPZ : 12 March 2020).
4. ↑ "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, Births, and Marriages 1980-2014," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QK2B-T88M : accessed 1 July 2023), Maude Alma Smith, Texas, United States, 12 Feb 2008; from "Recent Newspaper Obituaries (1977 - Today)," database, GenealogyBank.com (http://www.genealogybank.com : 2014); citing Houston Chronicle.