Lela Mae Bender^[1]

1902 - 1987  (84 years)

This page is from Gloria Crumpler Vester's Crumpler database, kept as she compiled it in 1999. The family's current research is in the Walsh tree (everyone in both trees). Her original 1998–2010 Crumpler website is preserved at crumpler-family.com.

• Name	Lela Mae Bender
  Birth	6 Aug 1902	BRAGGS, LOWNDES CO. ALABAMA
  Gender	Female
  Death	21 Mar 1987	NEW BETHEL, BRAGGS, LOWNDES COUNTY, ALABAMA
  Person ID	I14644	Gloria Crumpler Vester - Crumpler Database (1999)
  Last Modified	28 Oct 2026

  
  

  Father	William Henry Bender,   b. 1 Aug 1866, BRAGGS, LOWNDES CO. ALABAMA d. 13 Nov 1958, NEW BETHEL, BRAGGS, LOWNDES COUNTY, ALA. (Age 92 years)
  Mother	Robert (Bobbie) Frances Lock,   b. 3 Apr 1861, BRAGGS, LOWNDES CO. ALABAMA d. 20 Apr 1938, NEW BETHEL, BRAGGS, LOWNDES COUNTY, ALA. (Age 77 years)
  Marriage	22 Dec 1886	in LOWNDES CO. ALABAMA
  Family ID	F4807	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Wilbur Gordan Gates,   b. 10 Jan 1901, BRAGGS, LOWNDES CO. ALABAMA d. 17 Dec 1951, NEW BETHEL, BRAGGS, LOWNDES COUNTY, ALABAMA (Age 50 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1920	in PROB LOWNDES COUNTY, ALABAMA
  Children	1. William Golson Gates,   b. 2 Aug 1922, LOWNDES CO. ALABAMA d. 28 May 1975, NEW BETHEL, BRAGGS, LOWNDES COUNTY, ALABAMA (Age 52 years)
  Family ID	F4967	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	28 Oct 2026

  
  

• Sources

  [S1] Gloria Crumpler Vester, Gloria Crumpler Vester, Crumpler family database (crumpler.org, 1999), (crumpler.org/gloria/html/, GED2WWW pages of 2 Nov 1999; recovered from the Internet Archive), crumpler.org/gloria/html/dat222.htm#17.