Ella Lewis Jeffrey Bozarth December 14

Ella Lewis (or Louise) Jeffrey Bozarth was born 14 December 1885 in Dale, Caldwell County, Texas. Her parents were Jesse Thomas Jeffrey Jr. and Mary Elizabeth Rowe Jeffrey. Ella was my 2^nd cousin, 3 times removed.

In 1906 she married a farmer, Travis Martin “Trab” Bozarth in Caldwell County, Texas. They had two sons, Rufus and Ray.

Now I have to confess. While searching for records for Ella, I discovered that she had a sister, Frankie Jeffrey who seemed to have had another mother. That seemed strange so I had to go see what I could find. It took longer than I expected. The FindAGrave memorials are completely messed up. One has her as her own sister.

At the moment, it looks like Ella’s father, Jesse was indeed married twice. He married Maria Frankie Rice (haven’t found a marriage record yet) in 1850 and Mariah died 10 days after their daughter Frankie was born in 1870. I have to do more exploring on this.

But aside from that tantalizing distraction, I couldn’t find much on Ella herself.  Seems all the interesting stuff was about her husband or father or his first wife.

In 1920 Trab, Ella, the two boys were all living in Caldwell County with Trab’s mother Mattie living with them. Trab had draft cards for both WWI and WWII.

Ella Louise Jeffrey died on July 29, 1953, in Caldwell, Texas, when she was 67 years old and is buried in the Jeffrey Cemetery, McMahan, Caldwell County, Texas, USA