History & Genealogical Society COOPllATING WITH THI DALLAI PUILIC LlllAIY

DALLAS, TExAs

THE QUARTERLY

SEPTEMBER, 1964 NUMBER THREE

TE NTH ANNIV ERSAR Y ISSUE

FA L L, 1 964

Local History & Genealogical Society

Judge Dee Brown \falker

Mr. John Plath Green

Mr . Banks McLaurin, Jr.

Mrs . Margaret Barret Pr att

OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS FOR 1964

PRESIDENT 162nd Judicial District Court Old Court House, Dallas, Texas

PRESIDENT EMERITUS Suite 1603, Kirby Building

VICE PRESIDENTS Executive

5843 Royal Crest Program

3529 McFar lin Blvd. Publicat ion-Editor

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Dallas (1) RI7 - 485 1

Dallas (30) EMB - 4357

Dallas (5) LA8 - 3433

Mrs . Harry Joseph Morr is "Cedar Crest", 6840 Lakewood Blvd . Dallas (14) DA8 - 1994 Communication

Mrs . H. C. McCrary 6ll2 Anita Dallas (14) TA3 -7 321

Mrs . C. A. Brewer

Mr. Porter Lindsley, Jr .

Miss Leland Hatkins

Membership 6824 Dalhart Lane

TREASURER P. O. Box ll38

RECORDING SECRETARY 5502 McCommas

CORRESPONDING SECRETARY Mrs . Sull i van Padgitt 8539 San Fernando Way

D IRECTORS -AT-LARGE Mr s . Linnie Hr i ght Barrett 3337 Blackburn Mrs . Hargaret Scruggs Carruth 4524 Edmondson Mr . Vic t or B. Gilman 5332 Edmondson Mr. Hastings Harrison 4316 Potomac (LAl-7264) Mrs . E. Norwood (Henry O.)Jones 4420 Cole Ave. Mrs . James D. Lutrell, Sr . P. O. Box 8737

PATRON MEMBERS Judge Dee Brown Walker J President, Dallas, Texas Nr . John Plath Green, President Emeritus, Dallas, Texas

Dallas (14) TA7-2856

Dallas (21) RU-6225

Dallas (6) TA3 - 2497

Dal l as (18) DAl - 2842

Da l las (4) LAl-4706 Dallas (5) LAl-1543 Dallas (9) FL7-3191 Dallas (5) EM3 -5 6ll Dallas (4) LA8 - 5493 Dallas (16) WH2 - 3329

Mr s . Harry Joseph Morris , Vice President-Editor-Public Relations -Archivist , Dallas, Texas

Mrs . Walter March Burress , Ty ler, Texas

SUSTAINING MEMBERS Mr. Has t ings Harrison , Director-at-Large , Dallas, Texas Mr. Por ter Linds l ey, Jr . , Treasurer, and Mrs . Lindsley, Dallas , Texas Mrs . H. C. McCr ary, Vic e President-Communications , Dallas , Texas Mrs . Sullivan Padgitt, Corresponding Secretary, Dallas, Texas

HONORARY MEMBERS Mrs . George F . Carlisle, Dallas, Texas Co l onel Carleton Edward Fis her,% C. H . Fisher, Clinton, Maine 0492 7 Mr s . Margaret Barre t Pratt , Vice President - Program, Dallas, Texas

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Local History & Genealogical Society COOPllATINO WITH THI DALLAS PUILIC LlllAIY

THE QUARTERLY MRS . HARRY JOSEPH MORRIS, EDITOR

Vice Pr es id ent-Publicat ion-Editor-Public Re lat i ons -Archi vist

VOLUME X SEPTEMBER, 1964 NUMBER THREE

C 0 N T E N T S Page

Local History & Genealogical Society Officers and Directors, 1964 00 -Inside Front Cover Patron Members, Sustaining Members, Honorary Members, 1964 ------- Inside Front Cover "Lineages and Genealogical Nates", Announcement of a New Book, Back of Contents

By Mrs. Harry Joseph Morris ------------------------------------- Page "Do Your Christmas Shopping Early1

', 11 HANDBOOK11

--------------- Back of Contents Page 11A Message from the President", Judge Dee Brown Walker ---------------------- 1 Schedule of Meetings, Regular General Meetings, and Regular Executive

Board Meetings, September - November, 1964 ----------------.: ____ ·-- ---------Local History and Genealogical Society Programs, September-November, 1964---­Special Memo to the Members ------------------------------------------------- 1 A Notice from the Member ship Chairman --------------------------------------- 1 "The Bulletin Board 11

- -------- ----- ·- ------------ -------------------------- --- 1 Local History and Genealogical Society Membership Roster continued as of

August 10, 1964 ----------------------------------------------------------"Scheduled Events of Genealogical and Historical Interest" --------- --------­Open Letter from Mrs. Dorothy DeWitt Wilkinson -----------------------------­Open Letter from Mrs. Sterling Clack Robertson -----------------~-----------­Open Letter from Mrs . Edna Perry Deckler -----------------------------------­"How to Wri t e Your Own Genealogy or Family History 11

, by Mr s. Harry Joseph Morr is, Vice President-Editor --- - - - -- - ---- - ---- -- - --- - - - -- -- - - --- ----- 6-7

"Swanzy Family Bible Records 11, Submitted by Mrs. Fred M. Lange ----------- 7-9

"Unpublished Bible Records", Submitted by Mrs. W. Graeme Dixon ---------- 9 "Rocky Springs Missionary Baptist Church, Dialville, Texas", Submitted by

Mrs . Jere R. Hays ------------------------------------------------------ 10 "Cemetery Records, Cottonwood Cemetery, Henderson County, Texas 1

', Submitted by Mrs. Ruth Riley Peavy -------------------- ----- ------------- --------- 10

11 Exc.erpts and Analysis of Trussel! Family, made from Diary of James Madison Trussell, Jr. 11

, Submitted by Mrs. C. A. Brewer -------- -------- 11 - 14 Copy of' Letter Written by "WM. E. PEARCE, MAY 12, 1851", Submitted by

Mrs.- Porter Lindsley, Jr. ----- - -------------------------------------- 14-16 "New Books in the Texas Collection in the Texas History .and Genealogical

Department of the Dallas Public Library'', Compiled by Mrs. Lue ile A. Boykin, Head of Department --------- ------- - -------------..:----------- 16 -18

"Random Excerpts from His tory, A Hi story Review", Compiled by Mrs. Harry Joseph Morris, Vice President-Editor ------------ ------------------ --- 18-19

"Book Reviews", by Mrs. Harry Joseph Morris, Vice President,;.Editor ------ 20-21 11Family Bible Record of John Vining 11

, Submitted by Mrs. D. R. Graves --- 21-22 "The Old Cemetery on the Hill", Submitted by Mrs . Margaret Scruggs Carruth,

Director-at-Large, Local History & Genealogical Society -------------- 22-23 "Red Rock Cemetery, Henders on County , Texas", Submitted by Mrs. Ruth

Riley Peavy, Dallas, Texas -------------------------------------- ----- 23 "Research in Pulaski, Gi les County, Tennessee", by Miss Louise Preece,

Dallas, Texas ------------------------------- --------------------------- 24 - 25 "Mitchell Marriage Records 11

, (MitcheU of Navarro County, Texas), Submitted by Mrs . Suzanne C. George, Corsicana, Texas ----------------- 26

"Laurel Oaks Memorial Park Cemetery 11, continued, Submitted by Mrs . Exa

Thomas, Mesquite, Texas --------------------- -- ------------------------ 26-30 "Queries" --- - - ---- --- - -- - - ---- -- -- ---- - - --- -- - - --- -- ----------- - - --- -- -- - 31 - 32 "The Bond Family and Southern Kinn, by Marjorie Bond Zetty and Lesbia

Word Roberts ------------------------ ---- ------ -- ---------------------- 32 "An Invitation" --------------------------""'---------------- --- ----- Inside Back Cover

"LINEAGES AND GENEALOGICAL NOTES" ANNOUNCEtlENT OF A NEW BOOK By Nrs . Harry Joseph Morr is

Limited Edition - Re l ease Da t e December 1964 - Pre - publicat i on price - $10 . 00 -

Comprehensive Data on the following lines: Anger, Bangs, Bl ack, Boynton, Brewster,

Burgess, Burton, Chaffin, Dew/Dewes/Dews, Grant, Harris , Hazen , Hicks , Hopkins ,

Huckens/Huckins , Jernigan, Mayo, Maverick, McCallister , McCormick, Page, Pell, Prence,

Skipwith, Smith, Snow , S t ewart, Stitson, Storrs, Swan, Taylor , Halker, Hatson,

Welles/Hells, Horden. Many additional genealogical nates. Fully indexed . ~·

Use convenient order blank below.

Please send me: (Number of} ___ Copy-Copies Total enclosed: ____ _

(Mr . ) (Mr s . ) (Miss) _______ -=-----,.- --------- --(Name)

(Address) (City) (State) (Zip Code)

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6840 Lakewood Blvd. , Dal l as, Texas, 75214. THANK YOU . Texas residents add 2% State Sales Tax .

DO YOUR CHRISTMAS SHOPPil'G EARLY "HANDBOOK11

For your friends who are interested in Genealogical Research, as wel l as for your self, we sugges t a thoughtfu l g i ft would be the " HANDBOOK". Make your list today, and order today while the "HANDBOOK" is still available ~ ' 'THE LOCAL HISTORY AND GENEA ­LOGI CAL SOCIETY HANDBOOK OF SEMINARS IN GENEALOGI CAL RESEARCH" - A LI MITED ED ITION -ORDER YOUR COPY NOW - Use this convenient o r der blank.

$5 . 00 per copy (plus . lOc; State Sales Tax, for Texas residents) and . lOc; postage . TOTAL COST NOW: $5.20.

Please send me: (Number of) ____ Copy, Copies. Tot al enclosed: _ ___ _

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Soc iety, to: Mrs . Harry Joseph Morris, Compiler-Editor, "Cedar Crest", 6840 Lakewood Blvd .

Dallas, Texas 75214

THANK YOU • Price e f fective, J uly 1, 1964 .

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LOCAL HISTORY AND GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY DALLAS, TEXAS

A MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT JUDGE DEE BROWN WALKER

"In the first six months of this year we have had many interesting programs and a very excellent Workshop. As we start the fall season, I hope that all of our members will attend the rest of our mettings this year and will encourage their friends who are not members to join our Society. We think that we have one of the finest Genea­logical Societies in this part of the United States. Certainly we have the finest members."

Sincerely yours, Dee · Brown Walker

'lrlf********** S.CHEDULE OF MEETINGS, 1964

REGULAR GENERAL MEETINGS-FOURTH THURSDAY EACH MONTH September 24,1964: Luncheon Meeting,Y.M.C.A.,605 N. Ervay • October. 22,1964: Conference Room,Dallas Public Library •••• November 19,1964: Luncheon Meeting,Y.M.C.A.,605 N. Ervay ••••

(Election of Officers for 1965)

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.12:00 Noon • 7:30 P.M. .12:00 Noon

REGULAR EXECUTIVE BOA!U> MEETINGS-SECOND THURSDAY EACH MONTH September 10, 1964: October 8, 1964: November 12,1964:

NOTE :

Dallas Bar Association Club Rooms • • • • • • • 12:00 Noon Dallas Bar Association Club Rooms • • • • • • • 12:00 Noon Dallas Bar Association Club Rooms • • • • • • • 12:00 Noon There are no Executive Baard Meetings nor Regula~ General Meetin~!~!!!~*;he month of December •

LOCAL HISTORY AND GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY PROGRAMS FOR 1964 Ptesented by Mrs. Margaret Barret Pratt, Vice President-Program

September 24,1964: Luncheon Meeting,Y.M.C.A.,605 N. Ervay •••• 12:00 Noon Program to be announced.

October 22,1964: Conference Room,The Dallas Public Library • • • 7:30 P.M • Dra Kenneth Carroll-"The Quakers,Their Origin,Theit

Beliefs And Their Records 11•

November 19,1964: Luncheon Meeting,Y.M.C.A.,605 N. Ervay • • • 12:00 Noon

Annual Meeting *:~;!:~;!,:n of Officers for 1965.

SPECIAL MEMO TO THE MEMBERS If you have not paid your 1964 dues, will you please send your check to our Treasurer Mr.Porter Lindsley,Jr.,P.O.Box 1138,Dallas,Texas,75221, NCM. THANK YOU.

. ************ -A NOTICE FROM YOUR MEMBERSHIP CHAIRMAN, MRS. C.A. BREWER

Invitations are being mailed out to prospective members of the Local History And Genealogical Society by the Membership Chairman,Mrs. C.A. Brewer, 6824 Dalhart La., Dallas 14, Texas:, Phone: TA 7-2856. Please send Mrs. Brewer the names of your friends who are inrerested in joining, so that an invitation can be extendei;l to them.

THANK YOU. . ************* THE BULLETIN BOARD

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT Mr.Banks McLau?-in,Jr.,Chairman of Ihe Local Hi.story and Genealogical Society Annual Book Award, regrets that he is unable to present Rules and full information regard­ing the Award, at this time, but hopes to be able to release them after the next ld.eeting of the Executive Board, which is scheduled for September 10"1964. Meanwhile, the tentative plans remain as stated in the June, 1964 issue of 11The Quarterly11

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which are that ThE: Local History and Genealogical Society Annual Book Award, wi~'i - 1 - · (cont 'd)

BULLETIN BOARD - Cent' d be presented at the Eleventh Annua! Genealogical Institute And Work Shop,May 21,22, 1965, to the winner of the best Family History, and or Genealogy, written during 1964 . Final date for ent.ries will be April 15, 1965, and is limited to memhers only

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of The Local History And Genealogical Society,Dallas,Texas . BEGIN WORK ON YOUR OWN e FAMILY HISTORY AND GENEALOGY NOW.

CONGAATI!LATJ:ONS The entire membership of the Local His tory A~d- Genealogical Society wish to extend congratulations, and sinccre good wish~s to Hr. and Mrs. C.C. Hayley,1726 Elmwood Blvd",Dallas,Texas, upon their Galden Wedding Annivers ::rry , which. they observed with 8 an Open House, in their home, Sunday, August 16,1964, from two to five O'clock .

Mr. and Hrs . Hayley are members of o~~~~~;;~*

STATE OF TEXAS ERECTING HISTORICAL tfARKERS Governor John Connally announced August 14th, 1964 th.3.t a total of 531 officia! Texas historical markers will be erected along state highways , and on or neer historical sites and land marks, which will honor Texas heroes and statesmen, mark trails,bat tle grounds, hattles, industries, shipping points, towns, and counties, and will cover the Confederacy, and the Texas Revolution era . Judge Paine Lee Bush, and Mr . John Plath Green, are members of the Texas Historical Survcy Commission,and are members of our Society.

LOCAL HISTORY AND GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY MEMBERSHIP ROSTER CONTINUED, AS OF AUGUST 10, 1964

Name Telephone Address Anderson, Mr.& Mrs. H.W. EM 1- 1280 401.2 Centenary Drive , (25) Barrett, Mrs. Linnie Wright LA 1-4706 3337 Blackburn, (4)

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f~~~=~,M~~~ ·AY~~~:nA. &ft t~2§~ . ~~8 1w~u~f~~~~ ~§)n Rd., <5> ij~~~~rw~~~e, RM~: & Mrs . J .c. DA 1-2078 ~~f8\~~~!~0~8~f~~~: ~il)issippi Note: All of the above members are local resident of Dallas,and of Texas,unless e otherwise designated. " 2 "

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SCHEDULED EVENTS OF GENEALOGICAL AND HISTORICAL INTEREST 1. Thursdav Friday Saturday.Sunday Oc::..tober 29 30 31 November 1 1964:

EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING AND PRESERVATION CONFERENCE -ANNUAL NATIONAL CON­VENTION, NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION, St.Anthony Ho t el, San Antonio,Texas. For information write National Trust For Historie Preservation, 815-17th St.,N.W., Washington 6,D.C. Make individual reservations direct to St. Anthony Hotel, San Antonio, Texas.

11. Friday and Saturday October 16, 17, 1964: THIRD ANNUAL OKLAHOMA CONFERENCE ON GENEALOGY: The College of Continuing Education, Oklahoma University,1700 Asp,Norman, Oklahoma. Sponsored by Oklahoma Genealogical Society. General Theme: ''Importance To History Of Genealogical Research. 11 Seminars conducted by: Mrs. Dorothy DeWitt Wilkinson,A.B., M.A. ,Editor, Oklahoma Genealogical Society Quarter ly; Mrs. John Witherspoon Ervin, A.B.; Dr. Donnell MacClure Owings,A.B. ,M.A. ,Ph. D., Head of His tory Department of Oklahoma University; and the principal speaker will be Dr. Conrad Swan Esguire A.B . M.A. 1 Ph D., and Rouge Dragon Pursuivant of Arms College Of Arms London. England • Registration Fees: $15 .00 for 2 days; $10.00 for 1 day. For Programs, and information regarding Pre-Registration and Housing Accomodations, write Dr. Jack FoDd, Genealogy Conferencc Director, College Of Continuing Education, 1700 Asp, Norman, Oklahoma.

111.Saturday and Sunday, November 7 ,8, 1964: FOURTH ANNUAL GATHERING OF THE SCOTTISH Cl.ANS, Salado, Texas, sponsored by the Central Texas area Museum,Inc. Make your individual reservations with the Old Stage Co~ch Inn, Salado,Texas. For Programs) and information, write to Mrs. Sterling C. Robertson, Secretary and Program Chairman, Central Texas Area Museum, Inc., Salado, Texas.

lV, Saturday November 14 1964: CHARTERING OF THE TEXAS SOCIETY OF THE NATIONAL SOCIETY OF OLD PLYMOUTH COLONY DESCENDANTS: Luncheon and Signing of the Charter, 12:00 noon, The Sam Houston Room, . The Republic Of Texas Suite, Sheraton-Dallas Hotel, Dallas, Texas. For Membe.rship information, and Lunch­eon reser-vations, - contact Mrs . Harry Joseph Morris, Organizing State Presi­dent, "Cedar Crest", 6840 Lakewood Boulevard, Dallas, Texas, 75214.

V. Friday and Saturday · November 27 28 1964: THIRD ANNUAL TEXAS STATE GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY CONVENTION, St.Anthony Hotel, San Antonio, Texas. "For information write Mrs. Edna Peiry Deckler, State President, Texas State Genealogical Society, 2528 University Drive, South, Fort Worth 9, Texas. Make individual reservations with the St. Anth~~L~~~~!!-~an Antonio.

Note from your Editor: All genealogical and historical socie'ties, particularly in the Texas area, are invited to se~d notices of their Conventions, or Special Programs or Events, for publication in "The Quarterly" . We shall be happy to serve as a "Bulletin Board" as a convenience and service to all our readers. Kindly s'end your notices to: Mrs. Harry Joseph Morris, Vice President"Editor,

"Cedal:- Crest111 6840 Lakewood Boulevard, Dallas, Texas, 75214. THANK YOU

************ ---Congratulations to the Local History and Genealogical Society for another fine

Institute and excellent series of publications. This is the second of the Institutes I have attended at Dallas and I look forward to 1965.

The cooperation of the Dallas Public Library is outstanding. Mrs. Lucile A. Boykin, Head of the Department of Texas His tory and Genealogy; and her able sta ff certainly left nothing undone in accomplishing their responsibilities for pleasant and fruitful service to regular and visiting patrons - even to arranging for first aid and conducting a Lost and Found Department.

Your President for 1964, Judge Dee Brown Walker; Mr. John Plath Green,President Emeritus; Mrs. Margaret Barret Pratt, Program Chairman; and finally those "who let the public know" Mrs . James D. Lutrell Sr., on arrangementsand Mrs. Harry Joseph Morris who covers the beat - writes the copy - edits and publishes it - and probably mails it out, have every reason to be proud of the Tenth Annual Institute •

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letter cont 1 d. I hope to see many members of the Local History And Genealogical Society at the

Third Annual Oklahoma Conference on Genealogy, October 16 - 17, College of Continu­ing Education, 1700 Asp, University of Oklahoma, Norman.

Mrs. Dorothy DeWitt Wilkinson Editor, Oklahoma Genealogical Society Quarterly P.O. Box 16652

****~!.:~oma City, Okla. 73116

The Annual Gathering of the Scottish Clans of Texas is November 7 & 8, 1964, in Salado, Texas.

Brie fly the Program is as fcillows:

November 7 - io A.M. to 4 P.M.

November 7 - 7 to 9 P.M.

November 7 - 9 to 11 P.M.

November 8 - 9 A.M. to 5 P.M.

Genealogical Workshop with lectures "Scottish Genealogy in the U. S."

Mr . Banks McLaurin, Jr., Chairman "Beginner 1 s Genealogy"

Mr. W. R. Conger Ceilidh (kay lee) A Scottish Social Evening followed by a Grand March Reception and Tartan Ball Stagecoach Club Gathering al All Scottish Clans of Texas

This colorful Gathering has caught the imagination of all of Texas and our neighboring states - 8 other states were represented last year. We, the interested Scots will be hosts for many, many people on November 7th and Sth.

The talent coming to entertain is the best. Our Highland Lassies of Dallas, all 22 of them, will re turn, as will the R. C. Forbes family of Dallas . Mrs. For bes has had in training cight Highland dancers since the last Gathering . Thus, we will see a very fine dance group. In addition to the above artists, individual Scots have been invited to participate in the program at the Gathering.

The Museum organized the first Gathering for all Scots ever held in Texas as part of its broad educational and entertainment program. The Museum fosters the best in Scottish tradition. It emphasises the Scots love of education, home, and history as well as music, in song, and on the pipes.

Kindest regards and best wishes. Sincerely yours,

s/ Lucile Robertson (Mrs. Sterling C. Robertson) Central Texas Area Museum, Inc. Salado, Texas

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July 31, 1964

GREETINGS TO THE LOCAL HISTORY AND GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF DALLAS, TEXAS!

The officers and members of the Texas State Genealogical Society invite all Dallas local, church, and family historiens to attend the annua! Texas State Genealogical Convention, to be held this year in San Antonio, Texas, at the beautiful Saint Anthony Hotel, Friday and Saturday after Thanksgiving Day, November 27-28, 1964 •

Among the special events planned will be a series of workshops directed by George B. Everton, Sr . , of Logan, Utah, editor and publisher of THE GENEALOGICAL HELPER .

A special exhibit of heraldic hooks will be dis ­played by the Heraldic Book Company, an affiliate of the Genealogical Book Company of Maryland . Mrs. Loretta Russell, aur TSGS District III Representative for Southwest Texas, is in charge of the Exhibit Hall.

Our host for the Convention will be the San Antonio Genealogical and Historical Society, with Mrs . Walter G. Davis, president . General Chairman for the Convention is our TSGS Curator, Mrs. Walter J . Achning, 534 Geneseo Road, San Antonio 9, Texas . All members of the San Antonio Genealogical and Historical Soc;iety are on the Hospitality Committee . Coffee will be served throughout the Convention in the Exhibit Hall .

Complete convention programs will be available soon and it is hoped that Dallas will have great inter­est in attending.

It is with much pleasure that we remember aur wonderful Convention in Dallas as your guests in 1962 . What an elegant convention and what a wonderful time we all had •

All roads lead to San Antonio in November and we will be waiting there for you with a good cup of coffee in one hand BH1d a heart full of love for genealogy and history in the other !

Sincere ly yours,

~<J -~ ,;9~ epd-e Edna Perry Deckler

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• "HOH TO HRITE YOUR OHN GENEALOGY OR FAMILY HlSTORY".

By Mrs. Harry Joseph Morr is, Vice President-Editor

In response to the many requests from the Members of the Local History And e Genealogical Society, wl'lich r esulted from the announcement of "The Local Hi story And Genealogical Society Annual Book Award", which will be presented at the Eleventh Annual Genealogical Institute And Work Shop, May 21, 22, 1965 to the winner of the best Genealogy and or Family History, written during 1964, this article has been written by your Editor in an effort to be of assistance to all those who are making an effor t to compile and write their respective Genealogies, and or Fami l y Histories. e

As a preliminary background, it is suggested that you carefully review "Finding Our Imnigrant Ancestors" ,written by Mrs. Harry Joseph Morris, Vice President-Editor, which appears in the Double Issue, March-June, 1963, Pages 20 through 30 in the March, 1963 issue; and Pages 21 through 28 in the June, 1963 issue; and "Introduc­tion to Genealogical Research" , and '1Specialized Report As An Example In Regional Research By States -Massachusetts 11

; and "Additional Not es On Genealogical Research", e all of which were \Hitten by Mrs. Harry Joseph Morris, Vice President-Editor, and which appear in "The Local History And Genealogical Society Handbook Of Seminars In Genealogical Research", by Mrs . Harry Joseph Morr is, Compiler-Editor , which came off the press April 18, 1964. These articles appear in the sequence as listed above on Pages 1 through 17 .

If you have not already read these articles, then you are urged to do so as • part of your preparat ion for writing your own Genealogy, and or Family His tory .

Raving done your initial research and secured all the information and data available to you, you will probably be oven1helmed by the mass of material which you have managed to accumulate. The first step is to carefully analyze and evaluate the importance of each piece of information, classify it as to true value, discard the non- essential, select the forma t which best suits your material, and idea,then e carefully assemble it, fitting each item to the format you have selected.

Always bear in mind that the information which you are presenting must be clear­ly presented, and in such a manner that it is readily understandable by your readers. Involved numbering systems , or alphabetical systems, should be avoided, since they quite often result in confusion. The '1Decimal System" suggested by Henry S.Jacoby in his artic le, 11 How To Reduce The Cost Of Printed Genealogies", which appeared in "The e Magazine Of American Genealogy", April, 1930 , is an excellent one.

While you are preparing your manuscript for publication, bear in mind the following suggestions: 1. Copy should be typed-double spaced-one side of paper only. Standard typewriter

paper size, best. 2 . Mark in the left hand margin , the type you wish the printer to use . Standar d e

size is 10 point for the body of the book; 8 point for the lists of children. Larger sized books sometimes use 11 and 9 point type.

3. Use Capitals only in typing first word of sentence, or first letter of proper name.

4. Symbols: a. Draw 2 pencil lines under the name for small capitals. b. Draw 3 lines under the name or word, if you want large capitals. c. Never draw or type a single line under a word or name, unless you

want it set up in italics. d. For indenting place "I" in left hand margin. e. To designate a paragraph, place "11". f . If you start new paragraph, then change your mind,mark "no" . g. If letter jumped in typing and you do not want it raised,place

"l_l" directly under the letter. If you do want it raised,place" l-1" directly over the letter.

h. Be sure to consult with your publisher or printer to determine whether he under stands your symbols perfectly, and also to ascertain whether he may have special symbols of his Olm, which will simplify matters for both of you.

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"HOii TO WRITE YOUR OWN GENEALOGY OR FAMILY HISTORY" cont' d. 5 . By all means add photographs, of ancestors, and ancestral home, and your Coat

of Arms, if you are entitled to one. 6. Do Index your Book •

Probably one of the most difficult points to achieve in the writing of your Genealogy, and or Family History, is finding the necessary time to accomplish the writing of it . Time for writing continually recedes into the distance except as planning and ruthless eliminations make space for it. It is not selfish,nor is it a sign of egoism, to protect writing time for such working time as the writer has. A special time for writing, and a special place for writing, are worth what it costs to achieve them.

It is the hope that all of the above will be of real assistance to all who are busily writing or preparing to write their Genealogies, and or Family Histories, and your Editor earnestly hopes that each of you will be a winner .

Quoting from Gar land Evans Hopkins, "It is not enough to have come from a line of worthy forebears; the true aristocrat is one who is in process of becoming a worthy ancestor for future generations. He has not necessarily come from anywhere, but he is definitely headed someWhere" . With that thought in mind, and realizing that by writing your own Genealogy, and or Family History, you are not only paying homage and tribute to your ancestors, but you are preserving it for the future generations, yet at the same time you are serving your contemporaries, the accomplishment of your writing of it will become a "laber of love", and a service. Good Luck!

The End. Bibliography: L "Local Hi story And Genealogical Society Quarter ly", Vol urne IX,Number One, March,

1963, "Finding Our Immigrant Ancestors11, by Mrs .Harry Joseph Morr is .

2. "Local His tory And Genealogical Society Quarter ly", Volume IX,Number Two, June, 1963, "Finding Our Immigrant Ancestors 11

, by Mrs. Harry Joseph Morr is . 3 . "Local History And Genealogical Society Handbook Of Seminars In Genealogical

Research11, Published April 18, 1964, Mrs. Harry Joseph Morr is ,Camp iler - Editor,

Printed by B.&W. Printing And Letter Service, Dallas, Texas . 4 . ''Know Your Ancestors, A Guide To Genealogical Research11 ,by Ethel W. Williams,

Ph . D., Published by Charles E. Tutt le, Rutland, Vermont, 1960 • 5. "Your Family Tree", by Garland Evans Hopkins, Published by The Dietz Press,Inc.,

Richmond, Virginia, 1949. 6 . "The How Book For Genealogists", 6th Edition, Edited by Mr. George B. Everton,Sr.:

Published by The Everton Publishers, Inc . ,Logan, Utah, 1964. 7 . "Handy Book For Genealogists", Fourth Edit ion, by George B. Everton, Sr.,/

Gunnar Rasmusen, Published by The Everton Publishers,Logan,Utah, 1962 • 8. "The Art Of Readable Writing11

, by Rudolph Flesch,Published by Harper And Brothers, New York, 1949.

9 . "Story Writing11, by Edith Ronald Mirrielees, Published by The Hr i ter, Inc.,

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SWANZY FA!1ILY BIBLE RECORDS Submitted By Mrs. Fred M. Lange .

JAMES SWANZY, departed this life, the 29th of January, 1878. In Monroe County, Mississippi, 92 years, 4 months and 19 days.

Ruben D. Swanzy, departed this life, the lOth of December, 1862 • Salley Swanzy, wife of JAMES SWANZY, departed this life, on the Evening of the

13th of August 1836 of Typhus fever, the Sth day after taken. Fannie Swanzy Butler,departed this life the 23rd of May 1842. Age 3 years, 1

month and 21 days . R.P . Swanzy, departed this life , December the 19th, 1856. Margaret Swanzy, the wife of J . T. Swanzy, departed this life the 7th of July,

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SWANZY FAMILY BlBLE RECORDS cont 1 d. Richard Collins, departed this life, the 18th of April 1855. Malinda Swanzy, the wife of T.N. Swanzy, departed this life, the 23rd of

June 1850. Edey Swanzy, wife of T . N .Swanzy, departed this life, the 2nd of April 1855. Robert Swanzy,departed this life, in Greenbrier County, in Virginia, the

22nd of June 1795. Rosana Swanzy,departed this life,the 27th of July,1802,in Abbeville District,S.C. Catheron Pinson,departed this life,in 1799, in Laurence District, S.C. John W. Swanzy, departed this life,in January,1803 in Virginia on The Potomac. Samuel Swanzy, departed this life, in Mississippi, in 1815. Elizabeth Collins,departed this life, in October 1834 John Collins, departed this life, the 4th of April,1841. Rosannah Brown, departed this life, the 17th of December 1852, in Texas. Margaret E. Swanzy, departed this life, the 12th of Qctober, 1856.

Thomas A. Swanzy, was horn October 4, 1840 Sallie C. Swanzy, was . barn January 8, 1845 James E. Swanzy, was horn July 17, 1845 Robert B. Swanzy, was horn September 10, 1851 Margaret E. Swanzy, was barn April 25, 1853 Albert D. Swanzy, was horn June 12, 1855 Ruben D. Swanzy, was barn February 25, 1858 Jefferson B. Swanzy, was horn May 10, 1860 Elizabeth A. Swanzy, was horn August 27, 1862 Mary E. Swanzy, was horn Oecember 20, 1864 Frances K. Swanzy, was born July 1, 1867 W.alter R. Swanzy, was· horn January 20, 1870 James T. Swanzy, was horn March 22, 1872

James E. Swanzy, departed this life, April 10, 1870. John S. Collins, departed this life, May 27, 1870,in Spartanburg, S.C. Anna Swanzy, departed 'this life, November 2, 1874. Emmer Swanzy, departed this life, November 13, 1874. Edward P. Swanzy, departed this life, November 15, 1874. Willa Swanzy, departed this life ? Susan S. Swanzy, wife of J.T. Swanzy,departed this life, the fifth of March

Il O'clock, at night, in Milam County, Texas. burried at Lebanon Church, March 6th, 1884.

Albert D. Swanzy, departed this life, the 2nd day of August 1888. Chronic intestinal disorderf and kidney ailment .

Robert Berryman. Swanzy, died March 8, 191S at 3:20 O'clock,P.M. at Hospital in Cameron, Texas. Burried at Lebanon Cemetery.

James Thompson Swanzy, departed this life, July 29th, 1894. Age 80 years, 3 months, and 5 days. Died at Cameron, . burried at Lebanon Church, Milam Co.,Texas.

T . N. Swanzy, departed this life, November 18th, 1913. T.A. Swanzy, departed this life, Sept. 14,1926. Burried at ~hite Cemetery,near

Sharp. S.C. (Swanzy) Murff, died October 8,1926. Burried at Rockdale, Texas. J .B. Swanzy, died December 25, 1923. Burried at Cameron, Texas. Frances N. Swanzy, died January 26, 1945. Burried at Holland, Texas.

James Swanzy, was horn Sth of September, 17S5, in Abbeville,S.C. Sallie Swanzy, was born Sth of February,1789 J. T. Swanzy, was born 24th of April, 1814 . J . A. Swanzy, was born 22nd of December, 1Sl6

~:~: ~=:~~~: ~:: tg~~ ~~= H~d0~l~~!!:lgH Elizabeth R. Swanzy, was born the 18th of August,1824 Margaret Swanzy, was born the 3rd September, 1817 Susan S. Swanzy, was born the 20th, of September 1831 Sallie S. Collins, was born the 15~h gf ~pril, lå47

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SWANZY FAMILY BIBLE RECORDS cont'd. llhRRIAGES

James Swanzy and Sallie Collins, were married the 7th of April 1813, by Rev. James GUVmd, in Spartanburg, S.C.

J. T. Swanzy, and Margaret Seely, were married the 25th of April 1839, by Rev . Poseley .

J.T. Swanzy, and Susan Dale, were married the 19th of November 1850, by S. C. Johnson.

R. P . Swanzy, and Matilda Cook, were married the Sth of August 1848. T.N. Swanzy, and Edey Collins, were married the 26th of November 1850. Thomas N. Swanzy, and Malinda Boyd, were mB.rried by the Rev. Samuel Johnson,

on the 25th day of March 1847, in Monroe Co., Mississippi . Fannie N. Swanzy, was married to S.C. Swanzy, August the 26th, 1886. J. Brown Swanzy, and Net McLeod, were married the 15th of December, 1866. Mollie E. Swanzy, was married to Ed. Easterwood, November 25, 1886.

Descendent, Blanche Swanzy tange, (Mrs. Frederick Matthew Lange) Daughter of John Robert F. Swanzy, (b. 1-22-1852,Aberdeen, (Monroe Co. )Miss.; m. Jane C.Harkness, 9-22;1871,Shelbyville, (Shelby Co) Texas.; m. (s~cond wife) Tornmie Smith, De~.20, 1900. chn., Mary Elizabeth Swanzy, b. Se?t• 12,1901; Blanche Swanzy,b. Sept.24,1902. John Robert F. Swanzy, died Jan.21,1903,Shelby County, (Center) Texas. John Robert F. Swanzy,son of Robert P. Swanzy, and Matilda (Cook) Swanzy . Robert P. (Pinkney), Swanzy, son of James Swanzy and Sallie (Collins) Sw.::mzy. James Swanzy, son of Robert Swanzy, (b. Philadelphia, Penna, 1740, d.Greenbrier, Va., 1795; served as Lieut. in The So.Carolina Militia; Revolutionary Soldier.) and Roaanuah (?) Swanzy . HOLY BIBLE King James Version translated out of the Original Greek with Canne's Marginal Reference. The text corrected according to the Standards of the Am.erican Bible Society (Sterotyped by James Conner, New York) Hartford, Ct.,Andrew's and Judd, Lee Street,1835. (Original owncr: JAMES SWANZY; after death, James Thompson Swanzy,I; after death James Thompson Swanzy,II; after death , Mrs. C.H. Massey,of Buckholtz,Texas, the present owner, who copied the se records from the Bible) Submitted by Mrs. Frederick Matthew ;~;:~::~::nzy) Lange,descendent of JAMES SWANZY

UNPUBLISHED BIBLE RECORDS Submit ted By Mrs. W .Graeme Dixon

The Bible is in the possession of Mrs. John C. Waller,Jr ., of Ft.Worth,Texas . FAMIL"x' RECORD - MARRIAGES

Hiram Stine Davis and Harriet Adelaide Lowrie his wife was married in the town of Pittsboro, Mississippi,July 4,A . D., 1854 by the Reverend James Hampton •

R.C. Kelly and Mollie Davis was married September 15,A.D.,1875 by the Reverend R.S . Thomas, Coffeyville, Miss. BIRTHS ----iTiram S.Davis was horn November 22,1827, in Perry County, Tenn .

~~~hi~~b!e~1~!e~s 1~:~ 1~~~~s J~!!e 24 7ai8~5:~n M;lt~~b~~~~c!~h~~!1~~~:~~s;~ ·'Tenn • Mary Porter Davis was born October 14, 1857 ,in Pittsboro,Calhoun Co . ,Miss. Infant boy was horn May 13,1860 in Pittsboro,Calhoun Co . ,Miss. James Marion Davis was born November 7, 1861, in Pittsboro,Calhoun Co. ,Miss. Adelaide Jean Davis was born December 27, 1864 in Pittsboro,Calhoun Co. ,Miss.

~~~hm R~~m~=~l~a~!: ~~;n b~~~u;~l~8~8 i~n~ i~n c~f ~!~rii!~ 'i:~:~~~~~: g~: :~t::: Pearl Waverly Kelly was horn October 1878,in Coffeyville, Yalabousha Co. ,Miss • Guy Porter Kelly was born January 20, 1883,.in Coffeyville, Yalabousha Co. ,Miss.

~ary Davis, wife of Porter S.Davis, died July 21,1859,aged 62 years,5 mo.,16 days Porter A. Davis died January 14,1869,aged 77 years, 5 months, 13 days.

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ROCKY SPRINGS MISSIONARY BAPTISH CHURCll, DIALVILLE, TEXAS Submitted By Mrs. Jere R. Hayes

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11Rocky Springs Missionary Baptist Churcil, Dialville, Texas, Cherokee,County,was e organized April 8, 1848, in the home of Thomas J . Lindsey by Elder Walter Ross. 11

John Harris ,Ordained Deacon J .J . Lindsey Isaac Sheppard Thomas J. Lindsey Minerva Crenshaw

CHARTER MEMBERS Elizabeth Lindsey Bathsheba Lindsey Stephen Halbert John Halbert Sally Margaret Halbert

Frances Halbert Wylie Thomason Thomas Johns ton Lucy Johns ton

First Pastor, George G. Slever Present Pastor, Gordon Shaffer

The first church bu ilding .was a log cabin. The second building, now the present church, was bu ilt some years later, with an addition of Sunday School rooms in 1950 .

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Present membership is 261. e DIALVILLE, TEXAS: was named for JOHN J. DIAL, from Georgia, his parents S.C. whose farm was divided by the railroad coming through. He died in 1928, just 3 hours short of 86 years of age. He was married twice. His first wife, IDA JONES, (daughter of John W. Jones and Sophrina S. Black) was barn in Alabama. Second wife, ELIZABETH LONGSTREET BOGGS • CHILDREN BY IDA JONES • 1. Nay M. Dial 3. Caledonia Dial 5 . Olivia Dial 2 . Hosea C. Dial 4. Rachel Dial 6. Lulu Dial CHILDREN BY ELIZABETH BOGGS 1. Cyrus Jackson Dial

CEMETERY RECORDS, COTTONWOOD CEMETERY, HENDERSON COUNTY, TEXAS • Submitted By Mrs. Ruth Riley Peavy

March 10, 1961 L.S. (DOC) BLANSITT (father) S . M. WILLMON,Son of Shepard & C. C.Willmon b . Feb. 5,1854 d . May 21,1905 b. March 5, 1861 d . June 17, 1881 S.F. CRAIN, son of A. B.& E.Crain, SHEPPARD WILLMON, Husband of C.C.Willmon • b.Hardiman Co . ,Tenn. Oct.16,1846 d.Aug . b. June 29,1825 d. Scot?? 14,1901 25,1893,age 46 yrs 10 mo. 9 days it really looked like this (broken stene) N.C . BOAIWRIGHT b. June 2,1835 d. June G.E. BALLARD,b . Sept.14,1879 d.Oct.5,1910 29,1901 M.J . BALLARD,b.Feb . 20,1845 d .Aug . 17,1906 MRS . S . E . ALLISON b . March 9,1842 in MARTHA J.,wife of J.W . Ballard, Edgar Co.,Ill. d. Jan . 28,1892 b . Nov.18,1843 d. March 29,1916 • MILDRED GENEVA, dau . of J.L . & W.J.Copprell MOTHER - SARAH J.,Wife of C. S.Copprell b . July 7,1900 d. Jan.16,1903 b . Oct.3,1840 d. Aug.15,1915 ADA BELLE,wife of N.M . Copprell G.S . husband of S . J. Copprell b . Oct . 7,1879 d. July 8, 1906 b. July 2,1836 d . July 3, 1906 Next grave unmarked, (pro.hus)Same Plot . C.R .P . M.C . Cont . Same Plot.- same stene These initials alene on 2 tmbs.together e J .S. GREEN M.C.A . Green They were: PERRYMAN Dec . 21, 1851 Oct. 26, 1858 COPPRELL April 21,1941 Feb. 10, 1884 J.H.,son of c.s. and S . J . Copprell S. W. GREEN, horn in chatham Co.,NC b. May 26, 1870 d. April 6, 1902 April 4, 1817 d . Feb . 12,1899 OTHERS BURIED HERE: REBECCA c. GREEN, b.Blount Co . ,Tenn. Henley Graham Brewer e Dec. 19,1814 d. April 5,1906 Hutcheson White Tuck JOSEPH A. P . SMITH Morton Starr Frazer b . June 26,1832 d. Feb.8,1871 Ellard Robertson Pickel NANCY SMITH Wheeler Dennis Benge b.July 1, 1837 d. June 17, 1912

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EXCERPTS AND ANALYSIS OF TRUSSELL FAMILY MADE FROM DIARY OF JAMES MADISON TRUSSELL, JR.

Submitted By Mrs. C.A. Brewer

A diary, written by James Mad is on Trussell,Jr. ,horn in Franklin County, Tenn., December 26, 1808,died in Llano County, Texas, November 14, 1887 ,begins as follows :

"Thinking it might be interesting to my children and posterity, I here commence a diary of my life and reminisence of events, and a family record. 11

The following facts are taken from this diary: The father of James Madison Trussel!, James Trussel!, was horn in Frederick Co.,

Virginia, the llth day of May 1770 and was brought up in Chester District (now County), South Carolina. He was baptized into the Baptist Church the 3rd day of July,1803. He was a deacon of that church in good stand ing for many years.

His wife was Elizabeth (Betsy) Lyles. She was born in Chester County, South Carolina, January 1,1781. She died in Green County, Alabama, September 30, 1830.

She was of Irish parentage. Her mother 1·s maiden name was Cockrel (diary does not give her first name.) There was quite a large connection of the Lyles,Cockrels, Prices, and others in times of the Revolutionary War. Diary states so far as the writer knows they a11 fought for their country.

There were some prominent men among Elizabeth Lyles 1 people, such as Major Autenson,Martin,and Colonel William Ly les and his brothers. They all served in the War of 1776. (Was William Ly les father of Elizabeth? Dia ry does not say so.)

James Trussell (horn 1770; died October 18, 1860) had ~wo uncles, \Hlliam and Matthew, who settled in South Carolina and raised f amilies. His uncle,John, went with the Virginia Blues under Washington in 1755 to the Indian War. He never re­turned and never was heard of again.

Although the diary gives the names of three of James Trussell' s (1770-1860) uncles, John,William,and Matthew it fails to give the name of his father •

(Query-was his name James and did he serve in Revolutionary War?) His mother 1 s maiden name was Asher of Virginia birth. Her first name wa.s not

given. Same descendants think her name was Suaan. According to the diary, James Trussell (1770-1860) and wife Elizabeth Ly les

Trussell (1781-1830) had ten children, as follows: 1. J ohn, born in South Carolina, birth date not given. Died Dec. 30,1852 at

about 54 years of age. Soon after the War of 1812, he was elected captain of the militia, when a military office was a great honor. ·ae served six years.

2. Mourning Trussel!, born in South Carolina, married in Green County,Alabama to Martin Johnson. They had six children (names not given. )She died Sept.30,1837.

3. Joseph Trussel!, barn in South Carolina, no birth date given, but diary states he was about 34 years old at his death, February 6,1835. He married a widow, Mrs. Cutbirth Price, whose maiden name was Straight. He and his wife were murdered by a negro slave, whom he hdd owned for a short time. After he murdered them, the negro set fire to their house and their baby and little negro girl were burned to death in the house.

4. Matthew Trussel!, barn in Kentucky, March 6, 1806, died in Green County,Ala., where he mostly was raised. Married Mary Saunders April 6, 1839. ·Mary Saunders was a niece of William Bissell of Green County, and Phil Gulley, long time sheriff of Kemper County, Mis s issippi. With a view to moving to Mississippi, he bought a tract of land with a saw and grist mill and same cattle in Lauderdale County, Miss. On his return trip to his home in Green County, Alabama, he was taken ill and died April 16, _.

He had children but the diary dces not g :f.ve their names or tell whether the family moved to Mississippi or remained in Alabama.

5. James Madison Trussell. (Writer of the diary), Born in Franklin (Now Coffee County) Tennessee, December 26,1808, not very far from Winchester, Tennessee. Married May 8, 1834 to Susan S4 Parks. See page 2 for descendants.

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DIARY OF JAMES MADISON TRUSSELL JR . cont' d. 6 . Nancy Trussel! , marr ied (?) Hicks" Lived to be over 74 years of age, widow

for over 30 years . Had 6 boys and 2 daughters. They li ved in South Texas. 7 . Susan Trussell married (?) Ussery . Died in East Mississippi. A widow for

more t hat 30 years. 8 . William Carroll Trussell . Does not give name of his wife. States they bad

several daughters and three sans lived in East Mississippi. (Diary mentions a son Van died in the War).

9 . Andrew Jackson Trussel!, horn about March 15, 1822. He volunteered as a private in War with Mexico . Became a Lieutenant and served through the War. Served as Texas Ranger . Diary does not ment ion any wife or children.

10. Elizabeth was a small child when her mother died. She lived with her brother John Trussell. She married Wash Head. They went to Louisiana. When he died she returned to live with her br other John. She married again but diary does no t give name of her second husband. States å~e raised five or six chi l dren . One of her sons was a Baptist preacher.

The writer of the diary further states these facts: "In the fall of 1815 my father moved to the head of Cahaba River in St. Clair

County, Alabama . There I saw my first Indian which scared me very badly . In the spring he sold his improvements and moved to Tuscaloosa, eight miles below the falls of the Black Warrior River. My father had heard of the Spanish town of Mobile, Alabama . So he made a bateau of two cypress lags dug out and doweled together. He sent my brother John, Martin Adams, and Jonathan Coon to Mobile . This was the first boat that had ever been carried from Tuscaloosa to Mobile by white men. They brought back one barrel of flour at $20 . 00 per barrel, same rice at a high price, and the first sweet potatoes I ever saw, with directions from an old negro how to plant and cultivate them.

In 1817 my father made a good crop of corn and a small crop of cotton, the first I ever saw growing.

I n January 1819 my father with his family forded the Warrior River and settled near the Tombigbee River on a large creek called Trussell Creek named for him.

I joined my oldest br other in running a pole boat from Gainsville on the Tombig ­bee (as it was then called) up the Oaknoxubee (now called Noxubee) . We carried corn, meat, groceries and dry goods for the new settlers in that part of Choctaw land .

In the summer of 1833 when the river was too low for boating I taught school in Noxubee County near my first wife 1 s father. When school closed I ran the boat again until about April 1 . I quit, and on May 8, 1834 I married Susannah Slaughter Parks.

We sold aur ferry boat and went to Ken:per County, Mississippi. I was elected representative from Kemper County for two years but I resigned in 1838. I moved to Lauderdale County on November 18, 1838 where I farm.ed for 28 years .

I prospered in my business. I became the owner of about twelve thousand acres of land, twenty- three negr o slaves. I had plenty mules, plows, cows, oxen, sheep, goats and hogs .

I had a good gin house and two gin stands, with a thresher and fan . About t:hirty bales of cotton ready to gin when the Yankees came, burned the cotton, the gin, robbed my house and then burned it , February 19, 1864.

My oldest son fell at Vicksburg during the Civil War. My father , James Trussell (horn May 11, 1770) lived with me in Lauderdale County

for twenty - three years befare his death. He died October 18, 1860 , age 90 years, five months and seven days . "

End of data taken from the diary of James M. Trussel!. James Madison Trussel! barn December 26,1808 in Franklin County near Winchester,

Tennessee . Died in Llano County, Texas, November 14, 1887. Married in Mississippi May 8, 1834 to Susan S. Parks, Born January 16, 1819, died February 16, 1859 in Miss.

He moved to Texas in 187 7 . He was for many years an active deacon in Mt.Gilead Baptist Church. They had nine children, namely:

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DIARY OF JAMES MADISON TRUSSELL JR, cent 1d . I. John F .H. Trussell horn January 1836, died June 27, - 1863 . Civil War Veteran.

Killed at Vicksburg, Mississippi. He married Tenie Spinks . After his death Tenie married Rufus King brother of Martin Daniel King. Children: Spinks, Rogers,Effie and Lonie King. Lonie King as a concert musician. They li ved in Meridan,Miss.

Il. Charity E . Trussell born December 24, 1837 . Married a Mr . (?) Snowden. Li ved at Decatur, Mississippi. Some of descendants li ved in or near Decatur. Have no further data on this line .

III. Olivia Trussell born December 3, 1843, died March 21, 1899 (meningitis) in Quannah, Texas. She married first K~nnedy . Had a daughter, Emma Kennedy , who married her first cousin Willie Altmin. Olivia after Kennedy' s death married William Henry Reynolds (widower with two sans, William and Ben Reynolds). They had following children: (1) Stacy, (2) Lee, (3) Ada, (4) Paris, (5) Lester.

I quote from a letter from Mrs. Stella Chapman·, "One son, Lee Reynolds,lived in San Antonio was a tax assessor. Another son, Paris, was editor years ago of t he Want Ad department of the San Antonio Express . The Re"ynolds children li ved at Marfa and norther n Texas ei ties . 11

In an obituary written by John F . Elder, he stated she had eleven chi ldren, nine of whom survive her .

IV. Victoria Trussell horn Jo.nuary 20,1840 died S~ptemher 19,1900 in Meridian, Mississippi. Married William Allen July 13, 1856 . Wi\liam Allen and Victoria Trussell Allen had three children:

l. Charity married James Daniel. See Daniel and Allen familes for descendants .

2 . Mary O.Allen married Robert Elby Todd. See Allen family and Robert El by Todd family for descendants.

3. Victoria Cornelia Allen, bom February 1, 1867 died May 12, 1887 (typhoid pneumonia) •

V. Nancy Jane Trussell born March 2, 1846 . Died 1927 in Houston, Texas. Married Martin Daniel King horn October 16, 1834 in Alabama (see King family) .

VI. Susan Algina Trussell, horn December 7 , 1848 . Died young . VII. Amanda N. Trussell, horn June 3, 1851. Married Wi ll iam Altman . Children:

1. William Jr. 2, Victoria (Vicky) 3. Lora 4. Etta 5 . Ethel. Lora married a Mr. Alderman lives in New Mexico. A widow for many years •

VIII. James Madison Trussell born December 7 , 1854. Married Janie Jones of Burnet County. Children as given by Mrs. Stella Chapman :

1. Jimmie-no data, 2. Lillian- no data, 3. Ler a - no data, 4 . Stephen Aubrey, 5 . Viola married _ Jones 6 . Bessie never married, 7 .Margaret married Michael Dunn of Grand Prairie, Texas .

Stephen Aubrey Trussel!, barn March 6,1892 . Married July 9,1916 to Mattie Lawrence, barn July 28, 1896. They give their children as follows:

A. Mary Louise barn August 7, 1917. Married November 4,1934 to Gueary Burnett Evans barn Decemher 26, 1912. Children:

a. Gueary Aubrey Evans barn December 22, 1935 b . James Thomas Evans barn September 18, 1938 c. Betty Joyce Evans born October 14, 1940

B. Alvin Aubrey Trussell barn October· 13, 1918 not married. c. James Howard Trussell barn February 27, 1928 married November .4,

1944 to Melba Vir ginia Fitzgerald barn January 5, 1922. Two children: a . Allen Richard Trussell born September 25, 1946 b . Roger Duane Trussell barn December 2, 1948.

D. Wanda Oleta Trussell born July 16, 1923 . Married December 28, 1946 to Carlton Lee Carr born April 6, 192L No childr-en.

E . Kenneth Lawrence Trussell barn March 12, 1925 . Married August 20 , 1949 to Shirley May Malloy born 29, 19_.

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F . Donald Ray Trussel! born February 11, 1928. Married August 22, 1952 to Jonnie Bill Gilbert born January 30, 1932. Two children: e

a . John Stephen Trussell horn August 13, 1954 b. Donna Elise Trussel! barn October 23, 1956

G. Stephen Robert Trussel! barn July 2, 1934. Married June 15, 1956 to Joyce Evelyn Watson. No children.

IX . Mary Washington Trussel! horn August 1857, died May 1955 in Meridian, Miss. lacking less that three months being 98 years old . Married Spencer Banston Gilbert e October 30, 1876. There were eight children . See Gilbert family for descendants.

Note: Mrs. Chapman states that Jsmes M. Trussell (1808- 1887) after his first wife's death married William Altman ' s mother. Had ane son, Joseph E. Johnston Trussell horn July 19, 1861 died September 15, 1864 .

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Martin Daniel King was born in Fayette County, Alabama, October 16, 1834 . Died in Llano County, Texas, April 27, 1883. Married September 3, 1863 in Lauderdale County, Mississippi to Nancy Jane Trussel!, born March 2, 1846 in Lauderdale County, died in Houston, Texas, May 21, 1927, at age of 81 years, 2 months, 19 days .

Martin Daniel King was a Civil Har Veteran . He and captain Brown were the fi r st volunteers from Lauderdale County, Mississippi.

He was a deacon for many years in the Baptist Church in a little village called Kingsland, named for his wife Nancy Trussel! King. They had seven children,namely:

I. Susan Elizabeth King, horn December 1, 1864 in Lauderdale County, Mississ-ippi. Married Charley Monroe King of Hondo, Texas about 1883. Children:

1. Aubrey King, deceased 2 . Charles Herbert King, deceased 3 . Howard Monroe King, living at 223 Rebecca Street, Houston, Texas (1959).

Owns a 3 - acre home in Houston.

COPY OF LETTER WRITTEN BY "WM. E. PEARC~, MAY 12, 1851" Submitted By Mrs . Porter Lindsley, Jr.

My dear Father: -

Nevada, California May 12, 1851

This time I write from the far off golden California,the land that has taken so many thousands from friends and home . I would have written long before this but I delayed because I hoped to be able to tell you in my first letter that I had made a fortune, hut it appears that my turn has not come yet; how soon the Lord knows hut I am living in hopes and trying hard at the same time. I am happy to say however I have been in the best health ever since I left the States. True, I have been laid up for the last week with a sprained ankle hut it is getting well fast . I was cutting under a high bank of earth and coming down sooner that I expected it nearly buried me and crushed by foot badly. I wrote to you just before I left the States ~year ago and I thought you would like to hear from me by this time . I know I shall be most happy to hear from home for it is so long since I had a letter I feel quite an exile from everybody ~ngland .

I ought to tell you something about our trip accross the Plains . I start ed for Oregon with a company from Beardstown on the Illinois River. We had 13 wagons, some worked with mules, some with oxen and some with horses - most ly oxen . Our Boss used oxen with horses to ride when we were not driving the team; our starting point was Independence on Missouri River next the lndian country; camping here and waiting for the grass to grow for about two weeks, we finally left on April 27th, 1850,

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COPY OF LETTER HRITTEN BY ''-!M.E . PEARCE,MAY 12,1851 cont'd. the civilized world for a ~ trip 2100 miles overland. The first part of the trip was splendid. The very novelty of the thing was the fun of it. lmagine 75 or a hundred scapegraces from 18 to 25 years of age with fine fresh horses scouring over a country very much like the Downs of Old Dorset , and dressed in every kind of style, And ever y ane of them armed to the teeth while a hundred Indians riding with them and reining their mettl'ed steeds in opposition. Fine times, fine weather, and fiddling and dane ing in the camp every night after supper,

This ~tate of things only lasted about ten days when matters changed wonderfully. We were out about 200 miles from the Settlements and the corn, oats,etc , which we had taken in the wagons began to fail while the grass was too young yet to support the animals. The Indians through here were hostile and tbievish, never missing an opportunity to steal a horse or a mule . The weather had now truned very wet and cold, very few of us as .: far as I could judge seemed to admire Stand ing guard when it carne to their · turn, I know myself that I more t han once dreaded that standing guard away from the camp, the nights dark and cold and rainy, straining your eyes to be sure that some old black stump of a tree was not an Indian watching to shoot you; or5tartl" ed by the howl of the prairie wolf within ten feet of your heels. That this way of spending ' a night after a leng day' s journey was not so pleasant as sleeping in a house and on a feather bed.

We soon struck the California road from St. Joseph; this road was crowded. with wagons full of emigrants to the gold mines and grass got scarcer than ever until the l5th of May we got to Fort Kearney on the Platte River . Here the feed was pretty good and our animals began to travel better and we had be t ter times along there. Buffalo began to give us some sport and fresh meat too. But they are hard to kill their bide is so thick . I have seen them shot as lesst a dozen times and then not brought down, a ball will glance from the head åll day long unless you hit the eye then their beef is yours. Certainly the meat is not so good as beef hut "notbing to turn up your nose at on the Plains . We arrived at Fort Laramie June lst, 700 miles of our journey. But many a wagon I have seen turning back home disheartened with the trip long before we got here at this place. He brought a few provisions and again pushed ahead, for we were anxious to keep the advantage we had gained by so early a start and to keep clear of the rush behind us . We sometimes heard of the sufferings of those behind us " how their~mals died fb~ want of food and how, l eaving ' their wagons they had to foot it . About this time we were getting pretty well up toward the Rocky Mountains and we began to see the Elephant and feel him . Here feed was scarce and water poisonous. The road is strewed along with every sort of dead animal putrid and rotting in the sun, offensive and sickening to view; and then the roads ... I can 1 t begin to describe them . And hills almost steep enough to make a horse fall back" It often took all the cattle in the train just to pull up one wagon beside the aid of ropes . And then the descent of some of those mountains was worse yet. It almost made me giddy to look down" June 15th we reached the suIMD.it of the dividing ridge of the Rocky Mts. The weather which had been so hot and oppressive was no() ·as cold as winter_ with ice and snow all around us . We· trudged along, hut all the romance of our trip was gone, and to eas'e our jaded horses we had to walk nearly all the time; and soon we had to cross deserts with not a blade of grass for fifty miles, nothing but sand, sand, and then the Sun! When our train moved very slowly we had to travel sometimes all night to get"""that very necessary element water, and gr ass for our famishing animals. --

It was comical enough to see the figures we cut once in a while. The dust along the road is generally very fine, ankle deep and of different colors, black, white, red, yellow, etc. the wagons are nearly all the time enveloped in a clotid of it, while the perspiration made it stick to our faces. About this time you might have seen a chap about my size tramping along the road pretty well tired of the whole concern. Clothes all torn to rags, boots that scarcely deserved the name, to look at them you would have allowe·d that at any rate I had exerted my ingenuity to keep ~'9le

and body together; and my hat " but I had none " and a red handkerchief tied arou:nd my head answered all purposes. But I am tiring your patience; well, wc Passed FOrt

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COPY OF LETTER WRITTEN BY ''WM . E.PEARCE MAY 12 1851 cont'd. Hall about the last of June 1300 miles and in two days left the California Trail.

We were new in the Oregon Territory but the most of it is barren and desolate except in spots; after crossing the Blue Mountains the country looks much hetter . we were now alene, none of the emigrants were going to Oregon and we had no company except the wild Indians on the Plains. The se were friendly, hut it was a kind of sulky friendship for they had been beaten not lang befare by United States troops. We passed through two powerful nations of them- there were enough of them to have swallowed our litt le train. We finally, after cross ing the Cascade Mts. arr i ved at the settlements in Oregon August 16th.

I soon saw, that altho 1 I might like the country very well I could not make money enough. I sold out my interest in the teams and after staying two weeks, again start­ed on a trip to California about 700 miles more, but this time by water down the great Columbia River and down the Pacific Coast to San Francisco, arriving there Sept . Sth. I cannot stop to tell you of everything and every place I was in, but will tel 1 you something of the mines.

Navada, my present stopping place is in the center of the richest mining region in the whole state, with a population of 6000 persons . One year aga you might have seen about fifty men at work digging and washing gold dust. I remained one month in Sacramento last Fall and then with a partner came up here and sold ~- A good business then but not worth a cent now . It came near breaking us, but we chanced to get hold of a good claim about that time which saved us. I mean a mining claim. It is a piece of ground 30 ft . square and is all any man can hold legally . There is more or less fine gold in all the soil around this country. You would not take a pailfull of dirt out of our streets without a portion of the precious metal. Hired men get $5.00 per day and men working their own claims from $50 . 00 to $100 . 00 per day . At present I am interested in four different claims, but only ane which is workable now, the others have too much water in them. The first claim I worked was in what is called the Cegota Diggings, it was in a hill 60 ft. down below the surface . It is done by sinking shaft in a hole down to the rock, and gravel that lays on it is the stu ff that pays. The dirt is hau led up with a windlass . I never fancied much working and picking that far under ground by candle ligbt; and then the place is only four ft. high, the roof kept up by heavy timbers. The dirt is now washed mostly this way;- lang boxes from 14 to 21 ft . lang, 12 in. width, the same in height fitting together so as to form one lang box. The dirt is shoveled into them and a stream of water passes through them. The gold, being heaviest, sinks to the bottom.

You will see by the papers what fires we have had. I must now conclude, hoping to hear from all of you very soon, with my love to

Jim and the girls. I remain, Your affectionate son,

HM . E. Pearce .

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BOOK REVIEWS By Mrs. Harry Joseph Morris, Vice President-Editor

Local His.tory. And Genealogical Society, Dallas, Texas

I. "Guide To Genealogical Records In the National Archives", By Meredith B .Colket, Jr . , and Frank E . Bridgers, The National Archives, National Archives And Records Service, General Services Administration, Washington : 1964; National Archives Publication No. 64-8; For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.s. Govern­ment Printing Office, Washington, D.C .• , 20402-Price 50 cents.

Soft Cover-145 pages-Foreword by Bernard L. Boutin, Administrator of General S~rvices -Preface by Wayne C. Grpver, Archivist of the United States.

This very important, highly technical book, which has been compiled and written by Meredith B. Colket,Jr.,and Frank E. Bridgers, with infinite regard for detail, and accuracy of information, contains VIII Chapters, which are fully outlined in the very comprehensive "Contents". The headings or tit les for the VIII Chapters are as follows: "Population And Mortality Census Schedules", "Pas senger Arrival Lists 11

, "United States Military Records", "United States Naval And Marine Records", "Records Of Veterans' Benefits11

, "Records Concerning The Confederate States Of America", 11Land-Entry Records For the Public -Land States", "Other Records Of Genealogical Va lue".

The careful development of each category under the above headings or titles, plus the various detailed liSts, and tables, mal)e this book which describes, and is a guide to, the Records of the Føderal Government, invaluable to the genealo ­gist, and to all those doing research in the National Archives, enabling them to use the Records more effectively and with a vast saving of time .

This book is a ~ for every genealogist, and Genealogical Library.

Il. "Ledbetters From Virginia", By Roy C.Ledbetter, William R. Ledbetter, Justus · R. Moll, and James D. Tillman, Jr.,Published by t1 ilkinson Printing Company,

Dallas, Texas, 1964. Hard Cover-369 pages-Indexed-contains 11 Chapters in addition to the Preface,

written by Roy C. Ledbetter; Biographical Sketches of the Authors and Researchers; Photographs; Sketch qf Area of Ledbetters in Virginia; and placed in Inside Back Cover Pocket is a "Map of Ledbetter Migrations", and "Map of Ledbetter Soldiers". The Index by Families is particularly helpful in tracing the Ledbetters to the present generation and to their current home addresses .

"Ledbetters From Virginia", covers the period from 1635 up to 1800, tracing the immigrant Ledbetters who settled in the Prince George County area of Virginia about 1635 up to about 1800, then traces the descendants of three of the imigrants to the present time .

The book was the result of group effort, and it took approximately 60 years to compile it . It is obviously a "laber of love"" and is a dignified tribute by the writer s and researchers to their common ancestors, and contains much valuable information.

This book may be secured from Mr. Roy C. Ledbetter, 3516 University Boulevard, Dallas, Texas, 75205, for $9.00 per copy, · which includes Sales Tax, and mailing

nr: "The Texas Heritage Of The Fishers And The Clarks", By O.C. Fisher. Published by The Anson Jones Press, Salado, Texas, 1963. A Limited Edition.

Hard Cover-242 pages-Indexed-contains 9 Chapters in addition to the Preface, written by C. Clark Fisher, Congressman; 110f Texas Families",and lists of "Early Texas Fishers 11

, and "Early Texas Clarks", compiled by the Publisher; the Contents page; 10 photographs, and four- "Views of Junction at The Turn of the Century11

are used on the Front End Sheets; Bibliography; Credits Or Acknowledgements; con­cluding with the "Family Album 1865-1963" which contains 113 photographs, both individual and grbup, and biographical sketches of the various members and their descendants of the Fisher, and Clark famiUes. There are 231 names listed in the Index, making the book genealogically valuable.

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devotion to the ancestors, and is espccially dedicate d to the memory of Jobe and Rhoda Clark Fis her.

To quote the Publisher-it is a tribute to all the Fishcrs and Clarks who were "building a heritage rather than a dynasty" .

The book is a gold mine of information on these two families, and is an artistic triumph, being a fine example of the printer 1 s skill, and the unusual 11Pioneer Mural" design of the binding, and the attractive slip case, make it a beautiful and valuable book to add to your collection of Texana, and Genealogy hooks .

IV. "Land Tit les Texas General Land Office Houston 183811 "An Abstract Of The Original Titles Of Record In The General Land Office" 1 with an Introduction

By Mary Lewis Ulmer, Reproduced By The Pemberton Press, Austin,Texas,1964. Hard Cover-182 pages-No Index • This handsome volume, is a faithful reproduction, resembling a Ledger and will

be a most valuable addition to libraries, both private and public, to historical and genealogical collections.

Quo ting from Mrs. Ulmer' s most informative, and well written 11Preface", "The date of the earliest grant is October 18, 1791 to Edward Murphy, officia! Indian trader at Nacogdoches and the last one February 27, 1836 to William F. Gray of Austin' s Colony." It is an invaluable source of information on the settlement of Texa s, and will be of great assistance in searching for Texas ancestors, and is a ?-filST for serious students of that era, both historically and genealogically speakTr;g~

MARRlAGES

FAMlLY BlBLE RECORD OF JOHN VlNlNG Submitted By Mrs. D. R. Graves, Dallas, Texas

--William C. James was married to Nancy F. Vining June 28, 1836 . John Vining was married to Polly Hubert on January 5, 1809 • John Vining was married to Elvira Shelton September 16, 1824. John Vining was married to Lucy Hash the 29th of November, 1835 . Martha W. Vining was married to Matthew Burks, October 16, 1828. Mary Wade Vining was married to Algernon S . Porter, September 26, 1833. T. C. Burks was married to Lucy Alice Harrel, December 18, 1876.

BlRTHS --:JOiln Vining, son of Thomas and Mary, his wife, was horn January 7, 1786 •

Polly Hubert, daughter of Mathew and Martha, was horn March 25, 1782. Elvira Harris, daughter of Edward and Catherine, was horn the 13th of July 1801. James Hubert Vining, son of John and Polly,his wife,was horn November 2,1809.

*Martha Wallas Vining,daughter of John and Polly,his wife,was horn SepL 11,1813. Mary \fade Vining,daughter of John and Polly,his wife,was horn April 10, 1815 • Nancy Flournov Vining, daughter of John and Polly,his wife,was horn Aug . 15, 1817.

* Wade Hamton Vining, son of John and Polly,his wife,was horn October 11, 1819. Evalina Cooper Vining 1 daughter of John and Polly,his wife, was barn Feb.9,1821. John Vining, son of John and Elvira,his wife, was horn May 25, 1827 . Edward Harris Vining, son of John and Elvira,his wife , was barn May 25,1827. William Thomas Vining, son of John and Elvira,his wife, was horn Feb. 1, 1829 • Elizabeth Dillard Vining,daughter of John and Elvira,his wife,was horn Nov . 1,1830. There were two stillborn daughters, not named. William Cary James was horn October 5, 1807 . Mary Catherine Shelton,daughter of Joseph and Elvira,his wife,was horn Jan.12,1820 .

* Thomas Cooper Burks was horn June 5, 1847. He was the son of Mathew Burks and his wife Martha Wallace Vining. --

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FAMILY BIBLE RECORD OF JOHN VINING cont' d. Mattie V. Burks was born Feb. 27, 188.L Frances Jewel Burks was born Oct· ber 14, 1881. Thomas Sedberry Burks was born August 7, 1888. Quincy Mebane Burks was barn August 7, 1890.

DEATHS * Polly Vining, wife of John Vining, departed this life on Dec. 27, 1823.

Elizabeth Dillard Vining,daughter of John and Elvira,his wife,departed this life on November 18, 1830.

Matthew H. Vining, son of John and Polly,his wife,departed this life on Mar.23, 1832.

Edward H. Vining, son of John and Elvira,his wife,departed this life on January 17, 1834.

James H. Vining,son of John and Polly,his wife, died November 4, 1834. Evalina C. Vining,daughter of John and Polly,his wife, <lied November 29,1839. Elvira Vining,wife of John Vining, died May 6, 1834. Lucy Vining, wife of John Vining, died June 29, 1846.

* Mary Vining died December 27, 1823. John Vining departed this life September 1847. Martha W. Burks died June 29, 1881. Mathew Burks died November 21, 1882.

* Discrepencies in spelling of Hampton,Wallace, Matthew "Polly" and Mary were the same person.

************* THE OLD CEMETERY ON THE HILL

Submitted by Mrs. Margaret Scruggs Carruth,Director-at-Large Local History And Genealogical Society,Dallas,Texas

In the Old Cemetery on the Hill (now a part of HILLCREST MEMORIAL PARK) there are buried a number of early Dallas residents about whom it is earnestly desired to have more information- especially if any gave service in the Civil War, or had re­latives here who did.

The following information is all known to date about most of those whose birth and death-dates are given . .. presumably where only one date appears that date is thought to be the death-date. For convenience the l.ist has been alphabetized (to a degree) for ready-reference as follows:

Seth Abbott 1850-1880

Delitha Beaird 1827-1882 Ella Brown 1857-1896 Sallie Brown -1889

Matilda Carter Infant of J .L.Cox Fannie Crowder Infant of H.H.Crowder Blance Cruse

· Claudie Cruse (no date)

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1865-1899 1899 1899

John M. Crabtree 1809-1883 Mary G. Crabtree 1826-1870 Nannie T .Cum 1880-1901 James S .Cunning 1843-1894 Edward M.Crabtree 1850-74 S . J . Dean 1876-1877 G.E. Dotson 1852-1890 Millie Dotson 1854-1892

Mary Elkins

Rosetta Franklin

Infant of J .Gaddis Infant of Gaddis Infant of Gaddis Infant of J .Gadd is Elijah W. Gilbert

Robert Hasty H.H. Hall K. Hall Fannie E .Hall Wm.R. Huggins Wm.L. Rughes M.A. Rughes Elijah E. Rughes I.A. McCoy Maudy Mealer

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Sarah F. Logan 1861-1893 Virginia M.Taylor 1838-1904 James B. Taylor 1863 - 1883

Elsie Offutt 1897-Dec . 28 Geo . W. Thompson 1833- 1891 John B. Tanner 1822-1895

Sanuel T .Law 1818-1892 Cora Tanner 1858- 1891 Lucinda Law 1825-1897 Ida Tanner 1867-1902

Infant of B.F. Tanner 1883 David O. Pierce 1879-1892 . Infant of B. F. Tanner 1899 Francis M. Purser 1855-1895 Infant of R.G. Tanner 1894

Rosa -Lee Tanner 1893 James P . Rowan 1852-1875

Mary Walla~e 1812-1898 August C .Se hendel 1822-1904 Fanny Wall 1858-1890 N.E . Spann 1859-1887 S .M. Wade 1848-1906 Rev. John Smith 1798- 1878* Sallie \fade 1871-1892 Mary A. Sp ilman 1832-1897 Hope Womack 1844-1888 Ernest Stellman 1830-1894 Lela Wright 1895-1899 Annie B. Stellman 1832-1902 Edward E .Stellman 1858-1881

Can anyonc throw light on those very earliest, including the Rev . John Smith (1798- 1878) ? or John Crabtree (1809-1883); or Mary Wallace (1812-1898)? .

Where but one in a family (i.e.one surname,only,occurs) it is imperative to secure data from descendants. There are, of course, unmarked graves nearby but

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RED ROCK CEMETERY, HENDERSON COUNTY, TEXAS Submitted By Mrs. Ruth Riley Peavy, Dallas, Texas

Location: Henderson County. Copied by Mary Ann La Rue Perryman and her Scout Troup, Athens, Texas . Submitted and copied by Ruth Riley Peavy, Dallas, Texas.

Irena,t·li fe of H.L. Hilliams B.July 2, 1847 d .March 29,1898

Henry Wynn b . in Tenn . 1820 d .Jan . 5, 1900

Emmaline Warren April 1,1856 Nov. 21, 1937

Dave Copeland Co 165 Dept Brig June 25,1887 May 18, 1956

Thomas Smith March 20, 1881 Sept. 13, 1900

Little Willis,son of (?) Smith Sept;· 9, 1877

~1i!~~i~~~~~band of August 1, 1878

Jan. 8, 1847 J .S. husband of July 12,1905 M.I. Smith

Willie Franklin Polk Torrmie son of b. Nov . 1, 1854 son of Allen Polk Willis'& Mary Smith d. Feb.15, 1910 b. Sept. 7, 1835 March 20, 1879 Aaron Jonson

Carline Targentin d . May 11, 1907 Sept. 15, 1900 b. 1851 d . 1901 b.June 18, 1848 Allen Polk Jabeanunes, wife of ~~\~iche~l~1930 b . 1838 d.Oct.4,1903 L .F . Johnson

Reuben Turgentin Little Clem,son of Feb . 5 , l855

~:Mm~ ~~1~8~:e 80 ~:~u~e D~%o ~::~/~~d~::~,hus -Aron McGuin d.June 10 , 1919

Lette Polk Oct . 6, 1878 Nov . 2, 1922

d.July 27,1901 g:n~8~§ L. Andrews

Infant son of B & L d . April 8, 1893 Pore, b.Nov . 18,1896 d. Nov. 23,1896 ~~l~!! .M6:~~~6oker

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Nancie Holland d. Nov. 15,1885 Aged 60 years

Sara,wife of Anderson Boman b. 1861 d .Aug. 4, 1886

Elivara, wife of P. Johnson d. Aug. 1883

RESEARCH IN PULASKI, GILES COUNTY, TENNESSEE By Miss Louise Preece, Dallas, Texas

In all genealogical 'research records are basic. But one should 'also become ac­quainted with the local people--and particularly the old timers.

This was my experience when I made my first field trip. My destination was Pulaski, Giles County, Tennessee where I had a difficult barrier. In 1880, when many Southern families were bitter as a result of the War Between the States, my grandmother married a Yankee. She was banished, came to Texas that same year, and was too proud ever to return.

The Census records in the Dallas Public Library were invaluable, and family tradition led me to much factual information. In a copy of Anserchin' News,on our own shelves, I even found the 1852 marriage date of my great-grandparen~Rosanna Faust and John Phillips from a list compiled by Mr, Andy Weddington of Pulaski from old newspaper accounts. John Phillips, I knew, had originally the name of Juan Phillpe or Philippe.

When I reached Pulaski I was utterly unprepared for its beauty . "Blackberry \Hnter11 arrives in May when the first cool snap strikes the crisp white blooms of the plants. Gold and white honeysuckle and wild flowers were in profusion in this town of gently rolling hills . However, the first object to catch the eye is the remarkable blue dame of the courthouse . The clock indicated the hours of a town modern in every respect, hut one which somehow seems untouched by the rush of time. The sheriff stated there had been only one murder in two years.

The history of Pulaski follows the war pattern of the South--perhaps more so. It was a main route for both annics during the war, and the townspeople had their supplies raided and their horses taken both by the Confederate and Federal troops. The courthouse itself, built in 1859, quartered Federal troops. Fort Hill,abOut two miles high above the town, was occupied by the Federals. In fact, annals of Giles County report that Shennan and his army marched through the county to Chattanooga, where he began his march to the sea. The school house, now in use as a recreation hall, as well as churches, served as hospitals for the wounded.

My introduction to the town was actually through a visit with two Tennessee Walkers which Mr. Stacy Rose had quarted in some stables near Windsor Village, where I stayed. Since it was too late to visit the courthouse that afternoon of my arrival, I wandered up a lane past old slave cabins that are still occupied. Mr. Rose, whose people were in Pulaski from almost the beginh1ng,strolled up. He is very genial, and very proud because the fine horses he breeds are winners in this Blue Grass region. Ycs, he? had heard of ·a Phillips girl who had gene to Texas and never re 00

turned. Perhaps his aunt could hclp. , Mrs. S . H. Hoodward, the aunt, lives in a magnificent grey mansion built befare

the Civil War, and its ornamental New Orleans ironwork has caused it to be photo­graphed many time. "Just walk right in," Mr. Rose told me. And that is the way it is in frien~ly P1.,1laski 00 -you 11 just walk right in . " Mrs. Woodward, confined to a wheel chair with arthritis, told me that her memory is dinnning, for she is past 92. However, she recalled that Fausts li ved next to the Presbyterian Church and later moved to Lawrenceburg in adjoining Lawrence County.

Then I learned the story of the tmm clock. Thomas Martin, the merchant who built the house, loaned the townspeople three thousand dollars demanded by the Federals on Fort Hill to prevent the shelling of Pulaski. He was the only person in town who had th'e money, and at his death after the war hard times were everywhere and the note uas still up.paid. His administrator, Judge Henry M. Spofford, sued,and with the money he purchased the to\m clock and presented it tå the town . It has a face on each side of the dome. While McCallum mentions the clock, I 'did not find the story of ho\'1 it got there nor have I found it in other historical accounts of the town thus f.a.r.

The courthouse is the fifth, tuo having been destroyed by fire that caused the loss of many records even be fore the war. Marriage records date from 1865. Deed

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RESEARCH IN PULASKI, GILES COUNTY TENNESSEE cont'd. records are good, and I learned· that one genealogist spent weeks just typing informa­tion. There are a mere handful of early wills in the vault . The files of the Pulaski Citizen are not apen to the public, but I was told that there is much micro­film material in the State Library at Nashville . The Public Liårary in Pulaski is attractive and well stocked, but the only historical material is a copy of Goodspeed. There are a number of cemeteries, but a plat of only one . This is to be found at the Bennett;. Funeral Home. Apparently the best records of Gl:les County are at the State Librai:-y. I håd about thirty mi nu tes there, and did not get the time to check a book of early gravestone inscriptions that Mrs. Charles ~ . Embry handed me . I plan to go back next year . ,

So back I went to the tmmspeople on a fast run that barely gave me time to grab an occasional hamburger or whatever else could be had quickly. So many persons were anxious to help~ and over in Lawrenceburg I had the p leasure of mceting Mr. and Mrs. John F. Morrison, active genealogists who have completed several lines and are work­ing on others. Mr. Morr i son is a retired attorney.

Around the courthouse block in Pulaski are places of business that bear the names of the CenSus records. Here I encountered persons whose parents and grandparents had told them of Lockout Mountain, Chickamauga, and Missionary Ridge, just as I recalled similar tales related by my Olm grandmother . Morris Harwell; whose people had ex­tensive land holdings before tbe war, told me of how those who h~d land lost it, and of carefully hoarded Confederate money that was without later v~lue. His people were Methodist circuit riders, and are ministers today. "We , loved our slaVes," he said, and after the war wc divided with them what we had left. 11 As I chatted with him Fousts came in to the store to buy, and I took their names and . addre~ses •.

In a glass partitioned office in a building that had the words 11Southern Baptist Convention" I met Nr. R. E . Wilsford, Associate Missionary and in· some areas Super­intendent of Missions of the Giles County Baptist Association. ~Ir. Wilsford is en­deavoring to locate early records that became distributed among some of the member -ship and of which trace was lost as time went by. · .

Another historical spot in Pulaski is the modest one-story: building in which the Ku Klux Klan originated and from which the organization spread throughout the South . ll .bears a plaque with the information that the Klan was organized .there in the law office of Judge Thomas M. Jones on December 24, 1865. It also lists the names of the charter members all Confederate veterans: Calvin E. Jones, Frank O. McCord, Richard R. Reed, John B. Kennedy, John C. Lester, James R. Crowe. What began as an initia­tion prank was later put down by Acts of Congress in 1870-71.

The Civil War blockade that ran through the general area may give me a clue to my h~Uest-to-goodneSs"pir'a..te"gre8.t-grcnt uncle of Whom I now ~peak with the hope thåt" he was really a Rhett Butler and had nothing to do with certain activities on the Natchez Trace. From his chest in the attic of my great-grandmother's home came a sea chanty that has been our family lullaby for at least four generations. John Lomax had never heard, in his travels, this song l·1hich tells the story of a dying pirate chief for whom "there will be a warm welcome 1way down below.'' My mother sang it for the Library of Congress back in the thirties. From this same chest my grandmother took silk for her wedding gown, along with a splendid set of jet beads and earrings. All her cher" ished records and family possessions were lost in a fire shortly after she came to Texas .

I returncd to Dallas with a notebook full of information and happy memories of those who gave so freely Of their time and energy to help me. Still, I am reminded of the words of Joe Tom Kennedy dmm on Chicken Creek who said, 11 You should have come fifty yea~s ago, and I would have remembered." Giles County has a priceless heritage of archives · that remains to be written.

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MITCHELL MARRIAGE RECOPJJS, (MITCHELL OF NAVARRO COUNTY, TEXAS) Submitted By Mrs. Suzanne C. George, Cors icana, Texas

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MARRIAGE RECORDS: • William Mitchell to Martha McBrian 7-17-1872 Tom Mitchell to Rhoda Hilliams 4-2-187 3 W. J. Hitchell to Ennna E. Erwin 1-10-1877 Hilliam S . Mitchell to Rhoda J. Howe 11-30-1847 Hilliam F. Seale to Martha A. Mitchell by Jacob Hickman 3-9-1855 Reubin E. Sanders to Nancy I. 'Mitchell 10-18-1848 • Hilliam T. Smith to Elizabeth I. Mitchell 6-24-1853

LAUREL OAKS MEMORIAL PARK CEMETERY, CONTINUED Compiled By Mrs. Exa Thomas, Mesquite, Texas e

LAUREL OAKS MEMORIAL PARK CEMETERY (located on Lake June Road,1/4 mi. from Beltline west and 1 mile from Hickory Tree Road going east, between Mesquite and Balch Springs, Dallas County, Texas.) The Bennett Memorial Park Cemetery was start­ed there in 1874 by the Bennett Family and was dedicated to H .H. Bennett and wife Sydney Bennett. The first burial was that of Virginia E. Futrell, a grandaughter of e the Bennetts, on May 8, 1874. It continued to be a family cemetery until 1957 it was enlarged and renamed Laurel Oaks Memorial Park Cemetery. It is well kept and marked, both sections having perpetua! care. Only two unmarked in the Bennett Section.

Aaron, J .E. (Bill) Armstrong, Susan Gail Armstrong, Virtus D. Armstrong, Virginia Wife

Baker, Elbert M. Barnes, Thomas L . Jr. Barnett~ Ernest V. Barnett, Maggie wife Ba ty, Sheila Gay Berry, Clarence A. Berry, Ora Lee wife Bolin, Richard Lee

(Okla. PFC Med Det 355 Inf mill) Boatl:r ight, Jimmie Hall Brooks, J .B. Lawrence Burch, Thomas

July 19, 1903 - September 24, 1962 Sept.19,1963 daughter of Thomas & Ilawane Feb. 10, 1907 - June 1, 1962 Oct. 12, 1910 -

Jan.5,1926 - Dec. 3, 1963 Jan.7,1957 - Nov.19, 1963 1889 - 1961 1889 -Det. 27, 1960 - May 25, 1962 1895 - 1963 1900 -June 25, 1919 - October 30, 1959

1900 - 1962 June 15, 1910 - Jan. 15, 1963 Born & Died Scpt.19,1963 infant son of Burch,Thomas and wife Ilwane

Calk, James C. 1915 - 1963 Calk, Bessie N. wife 1907 -Canady, Charle L Det. 28, 1894 - April 22, 1963

(Okla.Texas Cpl Btry B,115 Fiel.d Arty. \-fli . l) Claybrood, Janice Diane June 27, 1957 - June 20, 1960 Cosby, Tammie Marie September 3, 1959 - September 4, 1959 Creamer, Infant daughter Jan 196- (Leonard & Margaret Creamer) Curtis, William B 1892 - 1961 Curtsinger, Eugene 1884 - 1963 Curtsinger, Josephine wife 1887 - 1962

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Dahn, ·Frank N • Dahn, Ella L. Dale , Roy

Dean, Frank H. Deait, Callie z . wife Davis, Leo E . Davis, Josie wife Davis, Jack V. Davis, Bernice L. Davis, Pete Demoss, Helten Owen

Enochs , Louis C. Enochs, Lee wife

Fabey, Mark A. Fincher,Carl Olien

(Texas CMB USNR WW 11) Fisher, Ernest H. Fleming, Fred Fleming, Myrtle L. Ford, Margaret Jean

Gregg, Samuel T. Gregg, I.Stella uife Green, Bonnie Rose Green, Carl V. Griffen, William(mack) Gross, Kenneth Lynn

Hackett, Thomas William Hammers, Donald E. Jr. Has tings, Allen DHane

Hendrix, Charles Henry Hitzfield,Victor R.

(Texas Btry A,666 PA Bn WH 11) Hobbs, Sam C. Hobbs, Jo Allena wife Hodges, Ed Hodges, Hyrt le wife Hodgcs, Roy Louis Holly, Luther E. Holly, Flossie P. wife Hood, Grover N. Horton, Kinnie Joe Howard, Alvin James Howard, Lena wife Hudnut, Sharon Ann Hukill, William E .

(Texas S 2 USNR WW 11)

September 27, 1886 -July 17, 1889 - May 29,.1963 May 9, 1955-May 25, 1959 son of Bobby & Bobbie 1888 - 1957 1890 -1882 - 1957 1909 -1926 - 1963 1924 -1912 - 1959 Sept . 20,1945-Jan .11 ,1960 son of Buddy and Elois Demoss

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Aug . 29, 1951 - Jan.24, 1960 Aug.31, 1909 - Sept. 5, 1960

March 5, 1894 - J anuary 24, 1964 1900 - 1962 1901 -1942 - 1960

1880 - 1963 1886 -Jan . 23, 1960 - Feb. 6, 1960 1906 - 1962 March 31, 1897 - Feb, 15, 1959 1964

August 9, 1957 Infant 1957 - 1959 April 19, 1960-April 20,1960 brother of Donald and Lawrence Born & Died July 18, 1957 December 24,1909 - Sept. 7, 1959

1911 -1914 - 1962 1875 - 1954 1889 -October 30, 1958 - Jariuary 18, 1961 September 30, 187!!· • January 16, 1963 Fe brua ry 12, 1871 -1890 -Sept . 19,1963 - December 19, 1963 April 30, 1886 - January 7, 1959 March 23, 1882 -1951 - 1959 July 26, 1911 .:- J"ne. 22, 1962

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Ingvaldson, Pete r (Minn . PFG 139 Inf HW l PH)

Jeffcoat, Luther E. Jeffcoat, Bessie A. wife J anes , Connie Jean

Jones, Danny R. Jones, Elizabeth Adaline J ones , M Gene Oscar? Jones , Lester A. J anes, Bunah M wife Jones, William Travis

Knowlton , Clarence

Lacy, Edward Lacy , Laura Bel l e wife Lankford, Hinnifred Jean Lewis, Billy Fred

(Texas Cpl Btry A, 936 PA Bn HW 11) Lewis, Lawrie K. Limoges, Russel Limoges , Myra ·wife Littlefield, Lcla V. Loy, Debra Denis e Lynn , Debr a

Mangol d , Otho Curtis Mangold , Leana Mae wife Mangold, Edna Earl dau . Manning ~ F. Tom Manning, M Maurine wife McDearman, Oscar C . McDearman wife McDearman, daughter McFaddin, Andrew J. McFadrJin, Lela May wi fe Meredith , Bill Neredith ,Minnie wife Meska , Tonuny V. Middling , Charles P. Middling, Lillie M wife Mi ll er , Hoyt L. Miller , Sarah Movelda wife Hillican , Roy E. Sr . Millican, Louis son Moon, Sherry D. Moorman, John A. Moore, Howard A. Morr is, Roy H. Mot l ey, Hugh Richard Mot l ey, Nan (Howard ) wife

August 18 , 1G96 - June 14, 1961

1886 - 1960 1898 -March 1 - March 4,1959,Infant daughter of

· Charles & Mitzie Jones Feb . 9, 1962 - April 29, 1962 August 27, 1870 - August 7, 1962 April 15 ,1960 - October 24 , 1962 1906 - 1958 1909 -1913 - 1963

Fe bruary 4, 1914 - February 9, 1960

July 20, 1904 - May 20, 1961 Aug . 6,1902 -June 9, 1960 March 11 , 1929 - May 28 , 1960

Sept . 10, 1961 -June 9 , 1963 1906 -1907 - 1964 1917 - 1961 April 16,-24,1962 1959 Infant daughter of Walter G. & Gloria M. Yager

1908 - 1958 1920 -July 14,1914 - Nov . 26, 1915 1902 - 1955 1906 -December 8, 1891 -February 10, 1895 July 13 , 1914 - Nov . 26, 1915 June 14 , 1892 - April 29, 1962 Mar 16, 1895 -1884 - 1963 1892 -May 15, 1916 - July 12, 1963 1878 - 1962 1889 -1903 -1925 -1892 - 1960 1929 Dec. 19, 1959 - April 29 , 1960 1902 - 1960 Feb . 5, 1894 - April 26, 1960 August 1906 - July 1913 April 14, 1888 - J une 23, 1954 March 4, 1886 -

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Muse, Jewell Muse, Jackie Doyle Mitchell, Floyd Mitchcll, Lucille wife

Ogden, Harlan ~Darnell Oliver, Aubry L .

Parker, Gregory Dale Pavey, Anderson Pavey , Christina .wife · Pearson,' John H. Pearson, Pearl wife Perkins, Paul Hayne

(Texas M US Navy) Prater, Larry E. Prock, Abraham Prock, Sarah wife Pullen, Thomas Pullen, Hazel Putman, William Henry Putman, Alvin Frank Putman, Robert Lee (brothers)

Reaves, Jerry T . Reaves, Vickic J. wife Reed" Jessie Lee Remington, Ed,·1ard E. Remington, Rose wife Robinson, Ulla Hugh Robinson, Bopnie Rea wife Roerne, John William Roome,Ada Loretta wife Rosa, Seabol:n J. Rud der, T, H, (Buddy) Rudder, Dolores Ann wife

Sanders, E. Walter Sanders, !va J. wife Seyforth, Robert C. Seyforth, Grace I Simmons, Nathan Edward Smith, Thomas R. Sr . Stevens, Dean Robert J.

Stovall, Henry Earl Sutton, Robert L.

(Texas Sgt US Army WW 11 BSM PH)

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Feb . 3, 1963 Infant May 3, 1908 - December 22, 1963 May 16, 1917 - ' 1882 - 1955 1894 -May 30, 1940 - October 25, 1960

1942 - 1959 February 4, 1884 -December 1, 1887 - June 21, 1962 1911 - 1963 1918 - 1964 Nov . 1, 1956 - May 14; 1961 Nov. 25,1947 - May 14, 1961 Sept.18,1948 - May 14, 1961

April 1939 - June 1960 September 1940 ~ June 1960 December 15, 1901 - November 2, 1960 August 19,1866-1958 flugust 2, 1877 -July 30, 1902 - May 3, 1961 February 28, 1911 -1886 - 1958 1894 -1897 - 1958 April 28, 1901 - ' April 30,1963 Sept. 11,1929 - Feb, 19, 1961

Dec. 12, 1905 -Jan. 16, 1961 April 25, 1908 -1910 - 1963 1910 -May 11, 1927 - June 26, 1960 1915 - 1963 May 22-23 1960 Infant son of Robert & Willie Stevens flpril 21, 1929 - May 30, 1959 September 15,1922 - Feb. 7, 1963

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Thodø , Christopher Post Thompson, Janet Lee

Thompson, t1 .A . Thompson, Addie wife Tobes, Mat tie De bra Tribble, Andrew J . Tribble, Hillie Ann wife Tucker, Huey Tucker, Josephine K. wife Tudor, Connie Bell Tittle, Earl J . Tittle, Julia G. wife

Wallace, Robert Neal Welch , Lawrence C. Welch, Agnes L. wife Heldon, James A. Weldon, Martha P. wife Wiggins, Percy E. Wiggins, Mary M. wife Whittle, Travis Alvin

(Texas Tee 5 868 AAA Bn CAC m1 11) Wilkinson, Halter Hilkinson, Sadie wife Hilkinson Infant Son Williams, Odis L. Wills, Glenn Sr.

(Texas PFC US Army WW l) Wills, Arde na wife Wilson, Simmie R. Whi tehead, Barney P . Woodard, Boyd F. Hoodard, Hazel wife

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Yager, De bor ah Yager, Robin Kay

October 30, 1947 - July 20, 1959 August 6,1957 Infant daughter of Bobbie & Earle 1913 - 1959 1912 -1884 - 1960 October 26, 1870 - June 13, 1961 Jan . 16, 1879 - Oct . 30 , 1962 1906 - 1962 1909 -~lay 31, 1959 Infant Jan . 16, 1916 - June 15, 1962 August 13, 1905

July 25, 1960 - Feb. 5, 1961 March 2, 1896 - Jan. 20, 1962 Nov . 30, 1895 -1905 - 1962 1907 -1880 - 1963 1883 - 1960 Feb. 17, 1912 - Nov . 22, 1963

July 15, 1893 - July 4, 1959 June 6, 1901 - Feb . 17, 1960 October 1939 - September 1939 1910 - 1959 August 20, 1894 - June 27, 1963

April 1906 - January 1961 Oct . 25, 1893 - April 13, 1959 April 14, 1910 -August 18, 1912 - Nov . 5, 1962

Dec. 24,1938 - Sept . 28, 1962

1962 Infant son of Robert & Bobbie

1959 Infant of Walter G.& Gloria M. April 22-23 1963

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Note from the Editor: In response to popular request, this feature l1as been again added to 11THE QUARTERLY", as a service to our Readers. Please send YOUr uQueif:eSil, writ ten in a concise form, typed, to Mrs. Harry Joseph Morris, VicJ? - President·-Editor,

e "Cedar Crest", 6840 Lakewood Boulevard, Dallas, Texas 75214-, fqr future publication in "THE QUARTERLY".

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I am trying to locate a ceraetery,_ or cemeteries, near the si te of Lis bon which is halfway between Dallas and Lancaster, south of Dallas. There is ' data in my family that my Grandmother's family,the Sloans, lived in Lisbon during 1836-45. Perhaps my great-great grandpar·ents are buried there. My great grandparents were named Fergus Sloan Il and Prudence King Sloan. Please reply to: Mrs .Wade E. Fores ter, 1203 Br!:!~!. Di:. ,Sweetwater ,Tex.

In my search for family his tory, I have been told that Dexter Hamilton of Dallas served as Federal Judge for six­teen years. He has been dead for several years. He is the son of Guy Hamilton and Nary Hunter. it is his mother ~ Hunter that I am interested in. She was married before marrying Mr. Hamilton and it is from this union that I am descended •

I would like to know if you have record of her parents, or anything of her history. Please rep ly to: Mrs. Jane W. (George) Waller, 11 Court of Oaks , Westport,Conn.

J..,'k -J. ; .~"*** I have become interested in searching

out the names of my ancestors . The only information that I have is what my grand­father could remember which is as follows: My great-grandfather Van .Tate Bland, son of Isaac Bland, married Laura Martin, daughter of Jacob Martin; died in Hope, Lavaca, Texas, Aug. or Sept. of 1907 or 1908 . Laura Martin died at Batesville, Independence, Ark. They bad the follow­ing children: Sadie Bland, William Bland, Jake Isaac Bland, Lillian Bland and Betty Bland. Birth and death da tes unknown, except for (my grandfather) Jake Isaac Bland. He was born on Apr. 12, 1893 in Bethesda, lndependence, Ark. and married Rosa Ann Ross on Nov . 22, 1914 .

I would like to obtain any information on this Bland family that might be in your records.

Also, could you tell me if the town of Hope, Texas is still in existence. Please reply to: Mr. Victor L . Bland, 13 S.W. lst, Milton-Freewater, Oregon

I am interes ted in knOwing whether you have any referenc~ ' to a L . H.Thrash family that lived in Nacogdoches,Co . , Texas and later moved to Rusk Co . They rnoved to Texas in 1870/71 .

Would like to know if you have any records of transfer of churc.h memberships from a Georgia· Church to a Church in Tex . It would mo.re than likely be , a Baptist Church.

Could you tell me whether there has been a genalogy of a Thrash family pub" lished . Please reply to: Mrs. Charles H. Harmen, Box 4~:audette, Minnesota.

Would like information about the following : BenHman Fullilove, married Emily Noell 1828,Boone Co.,Ky. William Johnston, married Mary Noell 1831,Boone Co. ,Ky. Jonathan Waters married Tabitha Noell,1827 Boone Co.,Ky. Also pa~ of Berrv Noell who lived in Smitham Parish,Cumberland Co . , Va. 1801. Mrs . H. K. McDowell, 4329 Cole Ave.,

Dallas 5, Texas . *****

Have much information to exchange on" Cleghorn (Claghorn) families of U .s .A, frOm Scotland, Ireland, England. Only 3 known immigrants by this name came to America befare 1800. Hant to correspond with. Gideon - want to find

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descendents of ~Isham Gideon, Re.v. War soldier­sons and his daughter Sarah Gideon born in 1790' s who married Hiram Reed in Tenn. Please reply to: Mrs. Guy D. JosSerand, Rt.2,Dodge City, Kansas.

***** fu!l.L_Theta McCrorv, 736 N. Zangs,Dallas

8,Texas . Will exchangc data on following: Robert and/or John McCrorv from Pa. to Ohio to Indiana . Fash (Faesch) Daniel b. Holland,married 1800, Ann Boqart, New York . Bogart Ort (Aeort) married Catrina Pele New York, about 1750. Miller, Jacob,Methodist Min , b,1799 York

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County Pa.,also wife Delilah Lowe b.1801 Baltimore Md. migrated Stark & Jefferson Co,,IlLto La Salle and Coles Co,,IlL

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Information sought on John Hodge,came to s.c. from Ireland, married Sally Green about 1823, returned to Ireland for son

? Hodge, barn about 1818 by first wife. What was ? Hodge and mother's name? John Hodgeleilled by sister-in-law in S.C.,about 1828 . ? Hodge deserted by step -mother in S .C::when family mi ­grated to Miss. Sally Green Hodge and five children migrated to Miss. ;with Allen and Polly Green, (parents of Salley Green Hodge). Please rep ly to: Mrs. Arthur Prestridge, 3728 Park Lane, Dallas 20, Texas.

Would like to exchange data on Truss Corven 1 Jordan Martin Dempsey Askew & Nixon all N.C. & S.C . into Alabama, then to Texas 1850 1 s & 60' s. Please reply to: Mrs. John H. Nixon, 517 W.6th St. , La ne as ter,;:::! 7 5146.

I have been searching the libraries for information about both sides of my family but have only been able to obtain fragmen tary his tory, infact the only in­formation on Texas families seems mostly confined to the publication put out by your Organization. I would appreciate it, if you would tell me whether there has been any history written on Judge Pete Arnold, I think he was a Judge in Dallas or Ft.Worth,probably about 50 years aga. I am a grandson,and am interested in an­tecedents and descendants .

My Grandmother was Mariam Greigg,dau­ghter of John Singer,of Padre Island,! 1 i ved wi th her in La re-do, when I was young,and I have forgotten most of the things she used to tell me about the early Texas.

Please reply to: H.R. Arnold, 10120 Miller Way, South Gate, California .

Including allied families of Kent, Townsend, Hill, Pittman, J acob, Cooper, Mann and Flm<lers of N. C. ; S. C.; Ga.; Miss.; La.; and Texas .

(1000· Surnames) Twenty years of research by

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Limited Edition $10 . 00 Order from: Mrs. W. E . Roberts,

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Local History &:. Genealogical Society

Coopt:rating wilh the

DALLAS PUBLIC LIBRARY

AN INVITATION You are cordially invited to become a member

of the Local History and Genealogical Society

Dallas, Texas

THE SOCIETY is a non-profit corporation chartered under the laws of the State of Texas. In Co - operation with the Dallas Public Library, its members undertake to collect genealogical and historical material for permanent record in the Texas, Loe al His tory and Genealogical Department of the Library.

THE TEitM "Local His tory", as used in the Society name does not apply to Dallas and Texas only, but to local history anywhere, as related to genealogy. He are es­pecially interested in Bible records, census microfilms, church, cemetery and marriage records .

MEETINGS are held on the fourth Thursday of each month, September through June, alternating noon luncheons at the Y .M.C .A. with evening meetings, 7:30 to 8:45, in the Conference Room of the Library .

A WORKSHOP is conducted at the Library each year, on the third Friday evening and Saturday morning of May, at which time experienced genealogists and archivists gi ve in­struction on special problems and specific areas.

IN ADDITION to this, membership includes subscription to the quarterly publication, and use of its queries department , placing your particular problem before numerous other groups and state and national archives departments. Comments on the Quarterly are re ­ceived from foreign groups as well as from those in the United States.

MEMBERS ARE also offered a n excellent opportunity to compare related lines and selve baffling questions, hut exchange of material is not requisite to membership .

DUES are $5.50 per calendar year, one membership fee serving for any relationship in which one Quarterly, only, is required for two members of a family, as husband and wife . Non- resident subscriptions are $3.50 per year.

GIFTS TO the Society are tax deductible. HE HOPE THAT YOU WILL ACCEPT our cordial invitation to become a member. If you

are interested, please fill out the information blank, noting if you like, the lines in which you are interested, and return it with your check to Mrs . C. A. Brewcr, Membership Chairman, 6824 Dalhart tane , Dallas 14, Texas.

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ENCLOSED IS MY CHECK FOR $ PAYABLE TO THE LOCAL HISTORY AND GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY FOR MEMBERSHIP IN THE SOCIETY.

Date. _ _ _ __ _ Signa ture Telephone _____ _

Mrs. Harry Joseph Morris Vice President- Editor Local History & Genealogical Society 11 Cedar Crest", 6840 Lakewood Blvd . , Dallas, Texas 75214

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