The 1880 census has her name as Alvena, Ancestry.com public record shows her as Alvina, 1900 census has Alvenia. I'm not sure what is correct at this point but have left the 1880 spelling until I find more.
Source: Est. year from "Years Married" on 1900 census.
Sources
Source: S3 Title: U.S. Census, 1880. Shows her age 8, with parents and brother Virgil. Source for est. birth year, birthplace Indiana.
Source: S2 Title: U.S. Census, 1900. Source for birth month/year, est marriage year. Shows three children. Gives her name as Alvenia.
Source: S1 Title: Ancestry.com public records on the web. Source for her husband's name. Gives her father, but says "unavailable" for her mother. Shows a 4th child (Randolph Dewitt Thomas, b. 1902) not on the 1900 census, but does not show Dewey (b. abt 1898).
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WikiTree profile Hockett-145 created through the import of 22AUG13-Update (edit).ged on Aug 22, 2013 by Fred Remus. See the Changes page for the details of edits by Fred and others.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Alvena by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line.
It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Alvena: