Richard H. Dent

✦ direct ancestor — my children's 4×-great-grandfather · Woodall line, the Woodall–Ramsay side — their mother's people

○ descent not proven throughout — 1 of 3 links unassessed

Marriage & children

Lenora Walker Dent (1852–1934)

Records behind this page

Texas, Deaths, 1890-1977 - Texas Bureau of Vital Statistics standard certificates of death, images via FamilySearch

Certificate no. 18877 (1934), Lenora N. Pace, d. 26 Apr 1934, Kaufman Co.; FamilySearch record ark:/61903/1:1:K34N-94B, image ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GY1Q-9BGF

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READ ON THE IMAGE 29 Sep 2026 (register K917), items 1-20. County of Kaufman. Full name: Lenora N. Pace. Female, white, married; husband Rev. I. F. Pace. Date of birth: Jan 1st 1852. Age 82 years 3 months 25 days. Occupation: housewife. Birthplace: Ga. (13) Name of father: Richard Dent. (14) Birthplace of father: Not known. (15) Maiden name of mother: Walker. (16) Birthplace of mother: Not known. Informant: Frank Pace, Crandall, Texas. Date of death April 26, 1934. Burial Crandall, 4-27-1934.

Research notes

Working notes from the research, kept verbatim — what was read, what it proved, what stays open. Many open with a line grading the parentage; what the grades mean.

Research note · 30 Sep 2026

AUDITED 30 Sep 2026 - FIRST NOTE. Entered as father of [199] Lenora Walker Dent, ungraded; the argument is in [199]'s note. Her 1934 Texas death certificate, no. 18877, read on the image, names her father "Richard Dent", birthplace not known. Seen in FamilySearch indexes only, images not yet read: Richard H. Dent married Elizabeth Walker in Wilkes Co., Ga., 28 Dec 1841; he heads a household at Cusseta, Chattahoochee Co., Ga., in 1870, aged 52; and in 1900 Richard H. Dent, born Apr 1818 in Georgia, lives with his son John T. Dent in Justice Precinct 4, Sabine Co., Texas. The FamilySearch tree calls him Richard Hezekiah Dent, 1818-1902; not checked. His parents are unknown.

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