James Francis Mabry

b. 20 March 1884, d. 19 October 1975
  • James Francis Mabry was born on 20 March 1884 in Georgia.
  • He married Zettie Teague, daughter of Washington C. Teague and Melissa Humphries, on 19 September 1906 in Llano County, Texas, by license issued the same day, with A. C. Smith, MG, officiating.
  • James Francis Mabry and Zettie Teague appeared in the US federal census of 15 April 1910 in Temple, Bell County, Texas, at 110 South 21st.
  • He was employed s a blacksmith in a shop, according to the 1910 census.
  • James Francis Mabry registered for the draft on 12 September 1918 in Bell County, Texas, while living at 110 South 21st Street in Temple, and employed there as a blacksmith by W. P. Livingston.
  • James Francis Mabry and Zettie Teague appeared in the US federal census of 1 January 1920 in Temple, Bell County, Texas, at 110 South 21st Street enumerated next to the household of Zettie's sister Daisy Brown.. Other members of the household included James Francis Mabry Jr., Katherine Genelle Mabry and Mozelle Mabry.
  • He was employed as a blacksmith, according to the 1920 census.
  • James Francis Mabry and Zettie Teague appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1930 in Temple, Bell County, Texas, at 110 South 21st. Other members of the household included James Francis Mabry Jr., Katherine Genelle Mabry, Mozelle Mabry, Billie Nan Mabry, Edwin Riebe Mabry and Lane Teague Mabry.
  • He was proprietor of a blacksmith shop, according to the1930 census.
  • The following appeared on 26 April 1933 in The Abilene Morning News: (Temple, April 25) Lane Mabry, 5, a son of James Mabry, Temple blacksmith, died in a hospital at Bolton today of burns received last night when the family car overturned and caught fire on a road 11 miles west of Belton.
         The older Mabry and his wife were burned seriously, Mozelle, 8, suffered a broken arm. Three children at a house nearly pulled Billy Mabry from the flaming car and Marvin Truelove, who was in a passing car, rescued Mr. and Mrs. Mabry.
         The car, carrying 11 persons, plunged off a culvert into a deep ditch after its lights went out. Mabry said the machine was moving slowly, following the lights of a car ahead, when its wheels slipped off the side of a culvert.
  • James Francis Mabry and Zettie Teague appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1940 in Bell County, Texas. Other members of the household included Billie Nan Mabry and Edwin Riebe Mabry.
  • He was proprietor of a machine shop, according to the1940 census.
  • James Francis Mabry registered for the draft on 27 April 1942 in Bell County, Texas, while living with his wife Zettie in Temple, and employed by Mabry & Williams at 419 South Main.
  • At the time of his death James Francis Mabry was living in Belton, Bell County, Texas.
  • James Francis Mabry died on 19 October 1975 at age 91 in Temple, Bell County, Texas, at Scott & White Hospital.
  • His wife Zettie Teague became a widow at his death.
  • He was interred at Rock Hollow Cemetery, Belton, Bell County, Texas.
  • Last Edited: 20 Nov 2016

Family: Zettie Teague b. 17 July 1889, d. 12 September 1985