David
Lester
(Lester)
Slade
Born in Brazoria County, Texas
Ancestors 
Brother of
Alma Sophronia (Slade) Hanson, Myrtle Eunice Slade, Earl Prentice Slade, Thomas Berl Slade, John Alexander Slade, Lillie Ruth Slade, Henry Ewell Slade and George Ewell Slade
Husband of
Olive Jane (Millican) Slade
— married
6 Oct 1920 in Angleton, Brazoria County, Texas
[children unknown]
Died
at age 87
in Clute, Brazoria County, Texas [uncertain]
[uncertain]Profile last modified
| Created 4 Feb 2019
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Biography
Lester was born in 1896. He was the son of Prentice Slade and Sallie Gilliam. He passed away on Dec. 9, 1983[1]. He was a veteran of World War I, having enlisted in the Army on May 10, 1918. He was released on Feb. 4, 1919.[2] For more than forty years he was a lineman for the Portland Electric Company residing in Vancouver, Clarke County, Washington. After his wife Ollie died, he retired to Brazoria County, Texas. His last years were sent in nursing homes in the area of Angleton, Texas. He is buried in the South Park Cemetery in Houston.
"He was a member of several Masonic Lodges, including the Shriner Lodge in Vancouver, Wash. He was also a member of the First Presbyterian Church in Vancouver, Wash."[3]
Sources
- ↑ Texas Department of Health. Texas Death Indexes, 1903-2000. Austin, TX, USA: Texas Department of Health, State Vital Statistics Unit. Accessed at Ancestry.com on Dec. 20, 2019.
- ↑ Beneficiary Identification Records Locator Subsystem (BIRLS) Death File. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Accessed at Ancestry.com on Dec. 20, 2019.
- ↑ Obituary, unidentified newspaper clipping, Dec., 1983.
- Bateman, Harris, Bateman Family Genealogy, private printing: Tulsa OK, 1979. Page 55.
- Slade, James, "David Lester Slade" Slade Genealogy & Family History, accessed Jan 3, 2019.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Lester by comparing test results with other carriers of his ancestors' Y-chromosome or mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Lester:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Lester by comparing test results with other carriers of his ancestors' Y-chromosome or mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Lester:
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~12.50%
~25.00%
Smitty Smith 
:
23andMe
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~12.50%
~25.00%
Dan Smith :
23andMe
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~0.78%
Don Giddens :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A684385 [compare], Ancestry member Don_Giddens_of_Texas
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