The Proeger Family · Generation 3 — Kristin's grandparents

Thomas Walton Caffey Jr. "T.W."

Kristin's paternal grandfather · 1924–2002

Thomas Walton Caffey Jr. "T.W."

TexasConfirmed

Kristin's paternal grandfather · 1924–2002

Born
21 February 1924, Salado, Bell County, Texas
Died
14 March 2002, Hays County, Texas
Buried
Austin Memorial Park Cemetery
Parents
Thomas W. Caffey & Medie
Sources
4
Images
4

Life in the order the records give it

Birth1924
Born 21 February 1924, Salado, Bell County, Texas S33S34
Death2002
Died 14 March 2002, Hays County, Texas; buried Austin Memorial Park Cemetery, plot 1-566-7 S34
Military1941
United States Marine Corps, 12 August 1941 – 17 September 1945
enlisted four months before Pearl Harbor, at seventeen S33. His stone reads "Married to Lucille / He served in WW2 in the U.S. Marines" S34. The muster rolls, service number 319512, place him in 1944 as a corporal in Battery M, 4th Battalion, 12th Marines — the 3rd Marine Division's artillery regiment, a 105 mm howitzer battery, "in the field" — and in 1945 as a sergeant at the San Diego recruit depot S33. ⚠️ No campaign is claimed for him here. The rolls put his battalion in the Pacific; which landings he personally took part in is not something a muster roll says, and it is not inferred
Census1950
1950 census: head of household, house 605, Austin, Travis County, ED 256-3, aged 26, with Lucille (24), Thomas A. (4) and Sandra M. (1) S32
Census1950
In 1950 he was a candy salesman for a wholesale candy company, at 605 Brest, Austin S220
He and Lucille retired to Wimberley, Hays County — the shared ZIP on both their records — and died there, fourteen months apart, before being buried together in Austin S33.

Family parents, marriages, children, siblings

Marriage1945
Married Lucille Lorine Kretschmar in 1945, the year he was released S34
Parents
Son of Thomas W. Caffey and Medie
named in his Social Security NUMIDENT record, a government document whose parent fields come from his own application S33

Photos & documents 0 photos · 4 documents

Documents (4)

Documents · 4 page images all documents

Retrieved from the UNT Libraries' Portal to Texas History, or — for the University of Texas Cactus yearbooks — from Texas ScholarWorks. Each thumbnail opens the full page scan, which can also be downloaded. The quoted text is the OCR that ships with the scan, copied verbatim; the page image is the authority.

Page 234 of Travis County Deed Records: Deed Record 851, 1947-05/1947-07

Travis County Deed Records: Deed Record 851 — page 234

County deed record · 1947-05/1947-07 · page 234 of 650

…228 Conveyed, and by these presents do Grant, Sell and Convey, unto Thomas Walton Caffey and Lucille Kretschmar Caffey, Grantee (s), of Travis County, Texas, all of that certain lot lisny wiisny . 319 tract or parcel of land lying and being situated in the County of Travis, State of known and described as follows, to-wit: Lot No. Nine (9), in Block "F", Plaza Place, a subdivision to the City of Travis Cou …

Confirmed because dated 1947, after T.W. Sr. died (1930), so this is T.W. Jr.; the page independently carries the Kretschmar surname — the documented in-laws and home city of this household. Corroborating names on the same page, as the OCR spells them: Austin, Kretschmar, Travis.

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Page 63 of Travis County Deed Records: Deed Record 852, 1947-05/1947-09

Travis County Deed Records: Deed Record 852 — page 63

County deed record · 1947-05/1947-09 · page 63 of 652

… rgained, Sold and Conveyed, and by these presents does Bargain, Sell ^ Convey and Assign, without recourse unto said Grantee, the following described note: One certain purchase money promissory note in the amount of $6,100.00 , dated May 22, 1947, bearing interest at the rate of 4% per annum, executed by Thomas Walton Caffey, et ux, payable to the order of W. T. Mayne Company, Inc., Austin, Travis County, Texas, which said note is more fully described in a certain warranty deed executed by J. L. Melton, & ux , appearing of record in Vol. 851, page 227, of the Deed Recordsof Travis County, Texas, and J. in a certain deed of trust of even d …

Confirmed because dated 1947, after T.W. Sr. died (1930), so this is T.W. Jr.; the page independently carries "of Austin" — the documented in-laws and home city of this household. Corroborating names on the same page, as the OCR spells them: Austin, Travis.

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Page 5 of The Bartlett Tribune and News (Bartlett, Tex.), 28 March 1958

The Bartlett Tribune and News (Bartlett, Tex.) — page 5

Newspaper · 28 March 1958 · page 5 of 6

… nnd Alan Mr. and Mrs. Vince Cortese and family Mr. and Mrs. M. F. Andreas' nnd Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Andreas of Temple. Also Weldon Friedrich Wal- lace Kelm Mr. and Mrs. Charles Friedrich Mrs. Walter Fried- rich Mr. and Mrs. Morris Krauss Mr. and Mrs. Will Kret- zschmar Otto Ladush Mrs. Tom Wesson and Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Caffey and family of Aus- tin. Mr. and Mrs. Leland Coker and Tommv of Caldwell: Mrs. M. Heinsohn Mrs. Leonora King Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Noack of Ft. Worth; Mr. and Mrs. Chester Haschke. and 'Glen and Gary Mrs. Ida M. Currie Mrs. Annie M. Stem Miss Elsie M. Stein of Dallas; Walter Weige and son of Anton : Roland Kelm Mrs. Monr …

Confirmed because dated 1958, after T.W. Sr. died (1930), so this is T.W. Jr.; the page independently carries the Kretschmar surname, the Ladusch surname — the documented in-laws and home city of this household. Corroborating names on the same page, as the OCR spells them: Aus-Tin, Kret-Zschmar, Ladush.

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Quoted text is the Portal's own OCR of this page, copied verbatim. OCR of 1960s newsprint drops punctuation and mis-reads letters — "Caffey" is read as "Caffcy", "Caftey" and "Cafley" on these pages; the page image is authoritative and should be read before treating any wording as exact.

In the record Generation 3 — Kristin's grandparents

Thomas Walton Caffey Jr. "T.W." · Sources

Citations

Sources cited on this card

4 of the record's sources are cited here. The numbering is the record's own; the full list, with where else each is cited, is at Sources.

  1. S321950 US Census, Austin, Travis County, Texas, ED 256-3, lines 8–11, house no. 605 — Caffey, Thomas W (head, 26); Lucille L (wife, 24); Thomas A (son, 4); Sandra M (daughter, 1). Read off the page image, not the OCR index. The record that fixes Kristin's paternal grandparents. ⚠️ Austin's enumeration districts are filed under county="Austin, Travis", so a county=Travis query misses them entirely — sweep the state.
  2. S33US Social Security NUMIDENT / Death Master File / VA-BIRLS, and the Texas Marriage and Divorce indexes — Caffey entries, republished verbatim at SortedByName.com. Government records. Supplies T.W. Caffey Jr's birth at "Salado Bell, Texas" and his parents Thomas W Caffey and Medie Stobaugh; Lucille's birth at "Austin Travi, Texas" and her parents Will Kretschmar and Liessi Ladusch; his Marine Corps service 1941–45; the shared Wimberley retirement ZIP; and the 1969 Caffey–Walker marriage and its 1980 dissolution. The Caffey pages 403'd on a second attempt the same day.
  3. S34FindAGrave memorials, Caffey / Kretschmar / Ladusch — Thomas Alan Caffey 274110930, Thomas Walton Caffey Jr 39163436, Lucille Lorene Kretschmar Caffey 39163435, Thomas Walton Caffey Sr 62147776, Medie Caffey Stobaugh 62147759, Willie Frank Kretschmar 41405071, Hattie "Liessi" Ladusch Kretschmar 41405070. Grave inscriptions, plot numbers and dates are transcriptions of stones. Family links on FindAGrave are contributor-asserted, not records — they corroborate here and are never the basis. Memorial 62147776 additionally quotes Texas death certificate #16496, which is a record.
  4. S2201950 U.S. Federal Census — Thomas W. Caffey household, 605 Brest, Austin, Texas. Ancestry record 189288649; sheet 18. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Thomas W. Caffey, 26, candy salesman for a wholesale candy company; Lucille L., 24; Thomas A., 4; Sandra M., 1.

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