Surname Saturday: Families of Elizabeth Anne “Doll” Brinlee and Leander Scott/Harve Mulder

Leander Scott
& Elizabeth Anne “Doll” Brinlee
b. 9 Jul 1866, Bates County, Missouri
d. 20 Sep 1950, Dallas, Dallas County, TX
|--Lora Mae Scott
|----b. Aug 1884, Texas
|----d. bef 1910

Harvey “Harve” Mulder
b. Feb 1852, Alabama
d. 19 Nov 1934
& Elizabeth Anne “Doll” Brinlee
b. 9 Jul 1866, Bates County, Missouri
d. 20 Sep 1950, Dallas, Dallas County, TX
m. 25 Dec 1887
|--Ardenie Lee Mulder
|----b. 5 Nov 1888, Texas
|----d. 11 Dec 1938, Collin Co., Texas
|---& Jesse James McDonald
|----b. 1 Nov 1886, Blue Ridge, Texas
|----d. 2 Sep 1968, McKinney, Collin Co., Texas
|----m. 1905
|----Harvey Carrol Mulder
|----b. 8 Aug 1891, Near Blue Ridge, Collin Co., Texas
|----d. 1957
|---& Cora Ethel McDonald
|----b. 28 Jul 1888
|----d. Dec 1978, Bonham, Fannin Co., TX
|----m. 1909
|--Willie Mulder
|----b. 23 Dec 1893, Texas
|----d. 11 Aug 1989
|---& Marion Luther Truelove
|----b. 8 Oct 1893, Blue Ridge, Collin, Texas
|----d. 4 Oct 1953, Dallas County, TX
|----m. 1916
|--Albert Leon Mulder
|----b. 1 Jan 1897, Blue Ridge, Collin Co., Texas
|----d. 5 Nov 1972, Sherman, Grayson Co., Texas
|---& Edna Hunter
|----b. 21 Apr 1902, Texas
|----d. 16 Nov 1978, Sherman, Grayson Co., Texas
|----m. 1921
|--Orous Ambert Mulder
|----b. 12 Apr 1901
|----d. 29 Oct 1985, Fort Worth, Tarrant Co., Texas
|---& Edna Hendricks
|----b. 1901, Texas
|--Odessa Beatrice Mulder*
|----b. 24 Feb 1904, Texas
|----d. 19 Jun 1970, North Richland Hills, Tarrant, Texas
|---& C. A. Sanford
|----b. 1903, Texas
|----m. 1929
|--Odessa Beatrice Mulder*
|----b. 24 Feb 1904, Texas
|----d. 19 Jun 1970, North Richland Hills, Tarrant, Texas
|---& Guyton House Hunter
|----b. 19 Mar 1900
|--Odessa Beatrice Mulder*
|----b. 24 Feb 1904, Texas
|----d. 19 Jun 1970, North Richland Hills, Tarrant, Texas
|---& Hilyard Wakefield Eubanks
|----b. 9 Aug 1901
|----d. 5 Sep 1973, North Richland Hills, Tarrant, Texas
|--Lonnie Odell Mulder*
|----b. 7 Jul 1907, Texas
|----d. 25 Oct 1985, Dallas Co., Texas
|---& Katherine Bessie Cassteel
|--Lonnie Odell Mulder*
|----b. 7 Jul 1907, Texas
|----d. 25 Oct 1985, Dallas Co., Texas
|---& Hellen Virginia Mullinix

Elizabeth Anne Brinlee was the second child of Hiram Carroll Brinlee Jr. and Diza Caroline Boone. Harvey Mulder was the son of George D. Mulder and Angeline Walker. Harvey’s first wife was Eveline Langham; they had children George Monroe, Elizabeth (who apparently died as an infant), Oscar, and James Calvin.

There are several mysteries, or at least some missing information, connected with this family. To begin with, I do not know anything about Leander Scott – parents, dates, or what happened to him. Doll Brinlee was a widow when she married Harve Mulder, so Leander Scott must have died some time between 1884, when his daughter Lora Mae was born, and 1887, the approximate year when Harve Mulder and Elizabeth Brinlee Scott married.

I also do not know what happened to Lora Mae, though it appears she had died by 1910, since the 1910 census indicates that one of Doll Mulder’s children had died by then, and the others are accounted for. I do not know when Lora Mae Scott died or whether she had married before she died.

The final mystery is who the parents are of the Duckworth grandchildren living with Harve and Doll on the 1910 and 1920 censuses, as well as an adopted Duckworth daughter shown with them on the 1930 census:

Claud/Cloyd and Roy Duckworth, grandsons, both age 9, are living with the family on the 1910 census.

Claud, grandson, age 19, and Jessie, granddaughter, age 15, are living with the family on the 1920 census.

Lora, adopted daughter, age 9, is shown with the family on the 1930 census.

Might Claud, Roy, and Jessie be children of Lora Mae Scott (they would have been the right ages – born between 1901 and 1905 – to have been her children)? And perhaps Lora was the daughter of Claud or Roy?

I would love to share information with anyone related to/researching this family; you can contact me at my e-mail address, which can be found by going to my profile page (there is a link to that page in the About Me section to the left).

[Many thanks to Debbie Blanton McCoy for corrections in some of the locations associated with this family - some much appreciated assistance from a very kind fellow Texan!]