Documentation for Reuben William Vining - Mary Elizabeth Bowes


Reuben William Vining, a watch maker, immigrated into the United States in 1853 and became a naturalized citizen.

Census Data

  1860 1870 1880 1890 1900 1910
Reuben William Vining 35 49 58 ? 77 dead
Mary Elizabeth (Bowes) Vining 31 46 50 ? dead
    Olivia Annie Vining 9 20 married and living in separate houshold
    Mary “Mollie” Vining 5 15 married and living in separate household
    Elizabeth Louise “Lizzie” Vining 5 15 20 ? 44
[see note below]
    William Lincoln Vining 9 [married?] and living in separate household
    Nelly Vining 3 [living? in separate household]


1860 New Orleans (ward 1), Orleans Parish, Louisiana - dwelling 1899, family 2274. Also living in this household in 1860 was Catherine Blaney (16 y., b. Ireland).



1870 New Orleans (ward 10), Orleans Parish, Louisiana - dwelling 632, family 627:



1880 Georgetown, Williamson County, Texas - dwelling [?], family 11:



1900 San Jacinto Street, Austin (ward 8), Travis County, Texas - dwelling 3, family 3. In 1900, Reuben William Vining’s widowed daughter Elizabeth Louise (Vining) Walker and her daughter Hannah Walker were living in the same household.





Death Data

Monument side and close-up of monument side for Mary Elizabeth (Bowes) Vining, in Odd Fellows Cemetery, Georgetown, Williamson County, Texas (from Find A Grave):