Name: Ada Abner, Age 7
Birth Year: 1913
Birthplace: Louisiana
Father's Birthplace: Kentucky
Mother's Name: Nevell Lindsey
Mother's Birthplace: Missouri

Dorothy's father was an Abney, then stepfather a Lindsey, then adopted by a Wilbanks.
Name: Dorothy 'Ada' Wilbanks
(all above info from contributor # 48473675)
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1920 Census Cherokee, Texas
John Lindsey 45 @ 1875 Texas (head)
Nevell Lindsey 36 @ 1884 Missouri (wife)
Robert Lindsey 20 @ 1900 Texas (son)
Bessie Abner 10 Louisiana (step-daughter)
Ada Abner 7 @ 1913 Louisiana (step-daughter)
Corena Abner 5 Louisiana (stepdaughter)
Ruby Abner 1 Louisiana (stepdaughter)

1930 Census Cleburne, Johnson, Texas
William H. Wilbanks 48 @ 1882 Texas (head)
Josephine B. Wilbanks 43 @ 1887 Texas (wife)
Dorothy Wilbanks 18 @ 1914 Louisiana (adopted dau)
Wilma C. Wilbanks 15 @ 1915 Louisiana(adopted dau)
W. Allen Wilbanks 1 @ 1929 Texas (adopted son)
Nellie B. Lindsey 20 @ 1910 Texas (servant- black)

1940 Census El Paso, El Paso, Texas-- April 11th
Ray M. Covey 29 Texas (head)
Dorothy E. Covey 27 @ 1913 Louisiana (wife)
Ray M. Covey Jr. 8 Texas (son)
James M. Covey 5 Texas (son)
Sherry Lee Covey 2 Texas (dau)
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Texas, County Marriage Records
Name: Dorothy E. Wilbanks
Gender: Female
License Date: 8 Jun 1931
License Place: Johnson, Texas
Marriage Date: 8 Jun 1931
Marriage Place: Johnson, Texas
Spouse: Ray Melton Covey

Carson City, Nevada Marriage Index
Name: Dorothy Covey
Gender: Female
Marriage Date: 9 Mar 1948
Marriage Place: Carson City, Nevada
Spouse: Steven Bulan
Marriage Description: Carson
Marriage Record: 39794724
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Texas Death Cert:
Name: Dorothy Elizabeth Bulan
Birth Date: 2 May 1912
Birth Place: Leesville, La.
Married
Occupation: Housewife--Bookkeeper
Death Date: 9 July 1957
Death Place: Odessa, Ector, Texas
Father's Name: John Lindsey (La.)--[step-dad]
Mother's Name:Ukn
Informant: Steven Bulan(spouse)
(d/c located on Family Search.org)
[census, marriage records info found on Ancestry.com]
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Obit:
Funeral Rites Slated Monday
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m.
Monday at the Nazarene Church for
Mrs. Dorothy Elizabeth Bulan, 45, who
died at her home at 512 North Golder
Friday night after a four year illness.

The Rev. Pearl Keaton will officiate at
the services. Hubbard-Kelly Funeral
Home is handling the arrangements.

Mrs. Bulan was born May 2, 1912, in
Leesville, La. She moved to Odessa in
May 1950, from El Paso. She was a
member of the Nazarene Church and
Eastern Star.

Survivors include the husband, Steven
Bulan of Odessa; two sons, James M.
Covey of El Paso and Ray M. Covey of
Las Cruces, N. M.; three daughters, Gin-
ger and Garnette Bulan of Odessa, and
Mrs. G. C. Calaway of El Paso; her mother
and one brother, Carl Abner,both of Sacra-
mento, Calif., and four sisters, Mrs. Wilma
Newell of Dallas, Mrs. Bobby Beckenback
of Ft. Knox, Ky., and Mrs. Lola Boone and
Miss Maurine Abner, both of Sacramento.

The Odessa American (Odessa, Texas)
21 Jul 1957, Sun. Page 33
(obit found on Newspapers.com)
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