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GENEALOGICAL
NOTES AND ANECDOTES
ANTECEDENTS AND
DESCENDANTS
of
JOHN BARKMAN
(30 July 1786 - 8 October 1870)
G0494A:
<Asa BARKMAN> [004]
Birth: BEF 1765, <British North America or
Prussia>
Death: AFT 1810, <Territory of New Orleans or
Territory of Louisiana>
Marriage: BY 1784
Spouse: Unknown UNKNOWN (AFT 1765 and BEF 1784 -
?)
Child 1:   Jacob BARKMAN (20
December 1784, Kentucky, Territory of Virginia - 23
August 1852, Clark County, Arkansas) [M]: m1. Rebecca
("She-Bar") DAVIS (24 March 1791 Madison
County, Kentucky, Territory of Virginia - 12 January
1837, Clark County, Arkansas), ABT 1810: m2. Mariah
DICKINSON (1820, Alabama - ?), 9 August 1837, Clark
County, Arkansas [See G0493B:
Rebecca ("She-Bar") DAVIS in Descendants
of Zachariah Davis (ABT 1770 - AFT 1808 and BEF 1830).]
Child 2:  John BARKMAN (30 July
1786, <in the area later known as Knox County>,
Indiana, Territory of Virginia - 8 October 1870, near
Leary, Bowie County, Texas) [M]: m. Hannah DAVIS (14
October 1792, <Madison County>, Kentucky - 26 April
1874, near Leary, Bowie County, Texas) [See G0493A: Hannah
DAVIS in Descendants
of Zachariah Davis (ABT 1770 - AFT 1808 and BEF 1830).]
Note 1: Mary P. Fletcher in "Arkansas
Territorial Pioneers and Their Descendants"
appearing in the April 1914 issue of Arkansas Pioneers,
says: "as early as 1810 Jacob and John and Asa
BARKMAN lived by trapping and hunting in Ouachita Parish
(Louisiana) . . . later they moved to the district now
known as Clark County (Arkansas) where they spent
eventful lives . . . Jacob BARKMAN was a member of our
first legislature, and the first post office and county
court (of Clark) used his house until suitable buildings
were erected. This house was built of bricks molded and
burnt by his servants who also built grist and cotton
mills and boats."
Note 2: The Census of 1810 listed heads of
households only; but it enumerated the males and females
in certain age groups. Jacob, John and Asa BARKMAN are
listed as the heads of households in the Rapides Parish,
Territory of New Orleans, United States Census for 1810.
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On page 277 of the Rapides Parish
census, dated 10 December 1810 and enumerated by
R. Claiborne, the following can be discovered: Line
14: John BARKMAN is listed as between the ages of
16 and 26, as also is his wife. There is one
female child not older than 10 years of age. John
BARKMAN is the owner of one slave.
Line 15: Asa BARKMAN is listed as being in
excess of 45 years of age. His wife is listed as
between the ages of 26 and 45. There no children
in his household.
Line 16: Jacob BARKMAN is listed as being
between the ages of 26 and 45. His wife is listed
as being between the ages of 16 and 26. There are
no children in his household.
A photocopy of the BARKMAN entries in the
United States Census for 1810, Rapides Parish,
Louisiana:
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Information about John and Jacob BARKMAN and about
their spouses, as given in the census, is consistent with
what is known from other sources. On 10 December 1810,
Jacob BARKMAN was ten days short of his 26th birthday,
John BARKMAN was 24 years of age, Asa BARKMAN was not
less than 45 years of age, and Asa BARKMAN's wife was not
more than 45 years of age. The child, in the household of
John BARKMAN, could have been none other than Mary Ann
BARKMAN (31 July 1810, Rapides Parish, Territory of New
Orleans [later Louisiana] - ?), born four months and 10
days previous to the census. At the birth of Jacob
BARKMAN, Asa BARKMAN was not less than 19 years of age;
the spouse of Asa BARKMAN was not more than 19 years of
age.
John, Jacob, and Asa BARKMAN were - as the census
indicates - geographically adjacent neighbours. Asa
BARKMAN could have been the father, uncle, or cousin to
John and Jacob BARKMAN. But, as a family of trappers and
hunters, the greater likelihood is that he was their
father.
There is a legend to the effect that the father of
Jacob and John BARKMAN was named Jacob and that he was a
"full-blood" Miami Indian. This legend appears
to be associated with a tale which says that Jacob and
John BARKMAN's mother had been kidnapped by Indians. The
legend, which is preserved by Paul Homer McGill in The
History of Love County, Oklahoma (Love County
Heritage Committee, National ShareGraphics, Dallas,
Texas: 1983), pp. 247-248, appears to have been falsified
by the account which Rebecca DAVIS furnished to George
William Featherstonhaugh on 8 December 1834. See Note 3, immediately
below. McGill, a descendant of Isabel BARKMAN (24
February 1820, Arkansas Territory - AFT August 1893,
<Texas>: interment at Mt. Pleasant, Titus County,
Texas) and John J. MCCLOSKEY, M. D. (? - BEF 1870, Texas)
also reported that the father of Hannah DAVIS was Masson
DAVIS; but this is in error.
Note 3:
To the Creoles in Louisiana, the family BARKMAN would
have appeared as a group of uncouth and opportunistic
"Kaintocks." But since, previous to the signing
of the Treaty of Paris on 10 February 1763, the territory
east of the Mississippi and west of the Appalachians
belonged to France, the likelihood is that Asa BARKMAN,
whether as a British subject or not, was born east of the
mountains. By the Treaty of Paris, France ceded the west
bank of the Mississippi to Great Britain; and, in
accordance with the treaty, Great Britain also acquired
much of the Spanish Floridas. As late as 1782, there were
not more than 12,000 settlers living between the
Appalachians and the Mississippi.
In 1804, the Louisiana Purchase was divided, at the
33rd parallel, between the Territory of New Orleans and
the Territory of Louisiana.
Note 4: George William Featherstonhaugh (1780,
London, England - 28 September 1866, LeHavre, France),
the naturalist and traveler, stated that the father of
Jacob BARKMAN was "German." His source of
information, as he says, was Rebecca DAVIS, the wife of
Jacob BARKMAN. Although this may or may not mean that the
father of John and Jacob BARKMAN was an immigrant from
Germanic Europe, modern Germany (the "Second
Reich") not coming into existence until 18 January
1871, it does indicate that he was, or was perceived as,
an ethnic German. The tradition of the family is that the
father of Jacob and John BARKMAN was born in Prussia. In
the United States Census of 1870 for Bowie County, Texas,
Precinct 2, Boston Post office, dated 6 August 1870 and
enumerated by William L. Mabry, John BARKMAN stated that
neither of his parents was foreign-born. It is possible
that the father of Jacob and John BARKMAN was
Pennsylvania Dutch and, therefore, Mennonite in religion,
or else German-Jewish. But, within this collection of
BARKMANs, there is not the least evidence of Mennonite
pacifism. That this line of BARKMANs was ancestrally
Jewish has been a persistent tradition in all of its
branches. Jewish emigration to that portion of British
North America which became the State of Indiana began as
early as the 1760s. See Timothy
Crumrin, "Jews in Early
Indiana." And see also Yechiel
Barkman. Neither Jacob nor John BARKMAN appear to
have been named according to the covention, among German
Christians, whether Catholic or Protestant, by which a
child is furnished with a "spiritual" name,
borrowed from a saint, and a "call" name by
which a person is known throughout his family and to the
rest of the world.
Note 5: Evidently, the reason for
associating John BARKMAN with Knox County, Indiana is
because, in the United States Census of 1820 for Knox
County, three households were enumerated which were
headed by Abraham BARKMAN, Henry BARKMAN, and John
BARKMAN.
Note 6: CONVEYANCE RECORDS OF CATAHOULA PARISH,
LOUISIANA, BOOK A - 1808-1839:
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49A 3 January 1806 - JAMES M.
WATERS assigns within Bill of Sale to JACOB
BARKMAN for $500. /s/ JAMES M. WATERS I do
assign the within Bill of Sale to JOHN BARKMAN on
2 April 1810 /s/ JOHN BARKMAN
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G0493B:  Jacob BARKMAN
Birth: 20 December 1784, Kentucky, Territory of
Virginia
Death: 23 August 1852, Arkadelphia, Clark County,
Arkansas
Father:
<Asa BARKMAN> (BEF 1765, <British North America
or Prussia> - AFT 1810, <Territory of New Orleans
or Territory of Louisiana>)
Mother: Unknown UNKNOWN (AFT 1765 and BEF 1784 -
?)
Marriage: ABT 1810
Spouse: Rebecca ("She-Bar") DAVIS (24
March 1791, Madison County, Kentucky, Territory of
Virginia - 12 January 1837, Clark County, Arkansas) [See G0493B:
Rebecca ("She-Bar") DAVIS in Descendants
of Zachariah Davis (ABT 1770 - AFT 1808 and BEF 1830).]
Child 1: Leanah BARKMAN (14 February 1814,
Clark County, Arkansas - 14 September 1831, Pulaski
County, Arkansas) [F]
Child 2: William Fenton Smith BARKMAN (26
January 1816, Clark County, Arkansas - 11 July 1862) [M]:
m. Mary M. SCOTT, 12 November 1845, Clark County,
Arkansas
Child 3: James E. M. BARKMAN (23 February 1819,
Clark County, Arkansas - 13 September 1865, Clark County,
Arkansas: interment at Rose Hill Cemetery, Clark County,
Arkansas): m. Harriet Eleanor MADDOX (22 May 1821, near
Montgomery, Alabama - 16 May 1912, Clark County,
Arkansas, interment at Rose Hill Cemetery, Clark County,
Arkansas), 9 March 1841, Clark County, Arkansas
Other Marriage: 9 August 1837, Clark County,
Arkansas
Spouse: Mariah DICKINSON (1820, Alabama - ?)
Note 1: In the United States Census of 1850 for
Caddo Township, Clark County, Arkansas, which James S.
Ward enumerated on 24 November 1850, Jacob BARKMAN, age
67, stated that his place of birth was Kentucky. He also
stated that the value of his assets was $125,000 which
was equivalent, in 2000, to $2,496,344.31.
By immigration to the Mexican Estado de Coahuila y
Texas in 1824, Jacob BARKMAN had obtained land in what
would become Red River County, Texas:
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Gifford E. White, 1830
Citizens of Texas (Eakin Press, Austin,
Texas: 1999), p. 201:
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Board of Land Commissioners, Clerk's
Returns and Reports, Red River County
(no. 6 up to 2 November 1838):
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Jacob BARKMAN: No. = 384;
Leagues = 1/3; Date of Emigration
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[Image Credit: Mrs. Jean Barkman Ware Denes]
Note 2: Leanah BARKMAN had been attending
school in Little Rock; and it was in Pulaski County that
she took ill and died.
Note 3: Jacob BARKMAN had spent a lifetime
building his fortune but it took his son William only a
few years to spend a large part of it. In 1856, William
offered for sale the house and an adjacent 2800 acres,
plus an additional 4480 acres in Clark and Dallas
counties. In that same year he resigned as state senator
"due to the unsettled state of my business affairs,
which require my immediate and undivided attention."
Western Arkansas, p. 106; "For Sale" Arkansas
Gazette, 8 October 1856 - 7 February 1857 p. 4; Arkansas
Gazette 8 Nov. 1856.
Note 4: The following item is reproduced from The
Gems of Pike County, Arkansas 8.4 (Fall 1997). This
is a publication of the Pike County Archives and History
Society, Box 238, Murfreesboro, Arkansas 71958:
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EARLY REMINISCENCES In
the year 1810 about the first of December, one
John Hemphill, our grandfather on our mother's
side, left Bayou Sara, La. in perogues for
Arkansas with his wife and children. His wife's
name was Nancy Lawson before their marriage (and)
his children were: William Hemphill the oldest,
my mother Emily Hemphill, Andrew Hemphill,
Harriet Hemphill, Narcissa Hemphill, Samuel
Hemphill, John L. Hemphill and James Hemphill.
Jacob and John BARKMAN and the DAVISes brought
his negroes and drove his stock through by land
and they all landed at the bluff or steamboat
landing on January 1st 1811 at what is now
Arkadelphia. My grandfather settled on the place
now owned by Charles Henderson on Mill Creek, one
mile north of Arkadelphia, and as soon as he
discovered salt near Daleville, he went to New
Orleans with his perogue and bought a lot of salt
kettles. The perogues were rowed and pulled up
and down the river. He made the first salt ever
made in Clark county.
My grandfather was an Irishman with a No. 1
education and it is said that he killed a pumpkin
thinking it was a varmint. He died in 1819 and
was the first white man ever buried in the
Blakeley graveyard. When my grandfather came here
there was but the following persons living in
what is now Clark county: Adam Stroud and family,
Abner Hignight and family, Abram Newton and
family, Hendrix White and family, Isaac Cates and
family and Jo Butler and family. Old man Dick
Tate lived at Tate's Bluff at the mouth of the
Little Missouri river.
William Hemphill married a Miss Jacobs. Emily
Hemphill married Thomas Fish. Harriet Hemphill
married David Fish and Narcissa Hemphill married
Robert S. Tate, father of our Bob. Andrew
Hemphill married Margaret Welch. Thomas Fish, my
mother's first husband, after serving a term in
the legislature, died.
About 1815 the Tweedles came to Clark county,
and about 1820 one of them married a Miss White
and they separated, and the other (married) Adam
Stroud's daughter, they also separated.
The names of the DAVISes were: Green DAVIS,
Zachariah DAVIS, Nathan DAVIS, Edward DAVIS, John
DAVIS, and the girls names were: Rebecca DAVIS
married Jacob BARKMAN; Hannah DAVIS married John
BARKMAN; Lavisa DAVIS married Dr. John H. PEAKE;
and Elizabeth DAVIS who married John MURPHY.
My father's folks came from Missouri in the
year 1818 and my grandfather settled on the place
Pettit's Creek known now as the Tom Townsend
place and built a mill on Caney Creek just above
the road running from Arkadelphia to Rome or
Gurdon and lived there a few years and then moved
to the place that W.A. Trigg lived on for 25
years known in former days as Raymond, where he,
my grandfather, died in 1837. He had a very large
family. His wife, my grandmother, was Amy Stamps
and had twelve children, seven boys and five
girls, as follows: J.O. Callaway, J.S.T.
Callaway, P.S. Callaway, Thos. M. Callaway, Nat
C. Callaway, William A. Callaway and James M.
Callaway; and Mary Callaway, Elizabeth Callaway,
Nancy Callaway, Amy Callaway, and Charity C.
Callaway. Aunt Charity (is) still living in
Arkadelphia at the home of her son John Phillips.
Mary Callaway, the oldest child, married William
Arnette who died at or near Washington, Hempstead
county. Elizabeth Callaway married John Forbes
and lived only about five years after she
married; Anny married A.G. Johnston and lived
about seven years and Charity married Phil
Johnston. He lived only about seven years after
they married.
My father and mother were married in 1825, and
"Big Bill" was their first child. He
was born September 7th 1826. All the parties in
the foregoing are dead except Aunt Charity
Phillips.
The foregoing was handed down to me by my
mother. In my next chapter I will give some
things by tradition and some of my own knowledge.
S.D. CALLAWAY
The Gurdon Times, Twelfth Year, Early
Reminiscences by S. D. Callaway, January 13,
1906.
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Note 5: The following item is reproduced from The
Gems of Pike County, Arkansas 8.4 (Fall 1997). This
is a publication of the Pike County Archives and History
Society, Box 238, Murfreesboro, Arkansas 71958:
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JACOB BARKMAN Jacob
BARKMAN before his death in 1852 had become the
wealthiest man in Clark County, Arkansas. Early
on he owned a large number of slaves as indicated
by the 1830 census, there were thirty five, and
in time owned several thousand acres of land
along with enterprises in cotton, salt, a
steamboat line, and horse racing. The first
courts for Clark County, Arkansas in 1819 were
held in his house built of "sun dried"
bricks. He was born in Kentucky on December
20,1784. He was living in Rapides Parish,
Louisiana when with a caravan of families led by
John Hemphill came to Arkansas. S. D. Callaway a
grandson of John Hemphill writes in "The
Gurdon Times" newspaper for January 13,
1906: that "Jacob and John BARKMAN and the
DAVISes brought "John Hemphill's negroes and
drove his stock through by land and they all
(arrived) at the bluff or steamboat landing on
January 1, 1811 at what is now Arkadelphia."
Jacob BARKMAN married first Rebecca DAVIS
about 1810. She was born March 24, 1791 in
Madison County, Kentucky the daughter of
Zachariah DAVIS and Prudence Roberts. She died
January 17, 1837 in Clark County, Arkansas. They
had three children:
Leanah BARKMAN born February 14, 1814 in Clark
County, Arkansas died September 14, 1831 in
Pulaski County, Arkansas. She had been attending
school in Little Rock.
William F. S. BARKMAN born January 26, 1816 in
Clark County, Arkansas married Mary M. Scott on
November 12, 1845 in Clark County, Arkansas; died
July 11, 1862.
James E. M. BARKMAN born February 23, 1819 in
Clark County, Arkansas married Harriet Eleanor
Maddox on March 9, 1841 in Clark County,
Arkansas. She was born May 22, 1821 near
Montgomery, Alabama and died May 16, 1912. He
died on September 13, 1865. They are buried in
the Rose Hill Cemetery, Clark County, Arkansas.
In
1834, George William Featherstonhaugh [Excursion
Through the Slave States (New York: 1844)]
traveled from Washington on the Potomac now D.C.
to Texas and through Arkansas visited the
BARKMANs on his way to and from the frontier of
Mexico and provides a very descriptive account of
his encounters with them:
[8 December 1834] "Three miles before we
reached the Caddo, the country began to descend,
and a change soon took place in the aspect of
nature, and of everything around us. Having
crossed the ferry where the river is about 100
yards wide, we entered upon an extensive rich
bottom of canebrake, and not long after came to a
no less extraordinary thing than a brick house,
belonging to a person of the name of BARKMAN.
This man, whose father was German, came into the
country many years ago in the character of a
peddlar, and having married the daughter of one
DAVIS, a famous hunter, settled here, became a
trader, and was now very well to do in the world.
In the mean time old DAVIS and his sons, all of
whom were brought up without any other
schoolmaster than the rifle, continued their
favorite wandering vocation, looking up to the
opulent BARKMAN as the great man of the family.
Mr. BARKMAN we did not see, but I shall certainly
not forget his lady soon, as I have never seen
any one, as far as manners and exterior went,
with less pretensions to be classed with the
feminine gender. All her accomplishments seemed
to me to have a decided leaning in the other way.
She chewed tobacco, she smoked a pipe, she drank
whiskey, and cursed and swore as heartily as any
backwoodsman, all at the same time; doing quite
as much vulgarity as four male blackguards could
do, and with as much ease as if she had been an
automaton set to do it with clockwork machinery.
She must have been a person of surprising powers
in her youth, for I was informed that she was now
comparatively refined to what she had been before
her marriage; at that period, so full of interest
to a lover, she was commonly known by the name of
old DAVIS's 'She Bar.'
"We had an opportunity of seeing one of
her extraordinary brothers, a genuine hunter,
dressed in leather prepared by himself from the
skins of animals he had killed, as he was going
with his rifle on his shoulder, and his dogs,
some twenty miles off to hunt bears. This man,
although between thirty and forty years old, had
never been out of this neighborhood, and had no
idea of the world beyond his own pursuits, and
that which he saw going on around him. His
brother-in-law BARKMAN he considered to be the
first man in the whole country; people that came
from Little Rock he had not a strong predilection
for, not because they were unworthy, but because
so many lawyers lived there; the government of
the United States he looked upon with horror,
because they sold the lands and broke up the
cane-brakes: but Texas he approved of highly,
saying that he had "heern there was
no sich thing as a government there, and
not one varmint of a lawyer in the hull place."
As his house was not very far from BARKMAN's, I
accompanied this worthy there to see it, and on
our way had a good deal of curious conversation
with him, learning from him amongst other things
that he had "been raised on fat bar's meat,"
as all his family had been, and that he loved it
better than anything. The cabin of this fellow
corresponded with his manners, and was a sort of
permanent camping out of doors; the logs of it
were at least six inches apart, the interstices,
without any filling in, staring wide open; one of
the gable ends was entirely wanting, the roof was
only closed at one end, and at the other some bed
clothes were heaped together in a corner upon a
rough floor, and his family, consisting of a wife
and several young children, were warming
themselves at a fire, not in the house, but out
of doors. How they managed during long periods of
cold wet weather may be imagined, but they seemed
contented, and even cheerful. As to himself, he
seemed quite indifferent about this al-fresco style
of living: his happiness was found only in the
cane-brake "driving the bears about" as
he said, and sleeping near a good fire.
"Mrs. BARKMAN, notwithstanding her
habits, was not deficient in good nature to us:
they had killed a young steer the day before our
arrival, and a dish of fat boiled ribs was set
before us, with good bread, of which we made an
excellent meal, having been without food since we
left Mrs. Conway's the morning before . . . .
"From BARKMAN's we proceeded to the
Tournoise Creek, said to be 15 miles off, always
upon flat good land, occasionally sandy, with
heavy beds of bluish green calcareous clay in all
the ravines; and from the description I obtained
of the country further south, I thought it
probable we should keep upon the tertiary beds
all the way to the Mexican frontier . . . . We
crossed several large creeks during the
afternoon, and at night put up at a famous
hunter's called Hignite, who lived in a solitary
log cabin that had once been the court house for
the county of Clark . . . ."
[On return, 13 December 1834] "I slept at
Hignite's again, and starting early on a fine
cold moonlight morning, rode on to Mrs.
BARKMAN's, where I fed my horse. The old lady,
who was standing at the door with her pipe in her
left hand, and a comfortable chew of tobacco in
her cheek, shook hands heartily with me, and
asked me how I liked Texas, adding before I could
give her an answer, 'that she could not see what
folks was sich (blank) fools as to go
there for.'"
George
William Featherstonhaugh was among the
outstanding naturalists of the nineteenth
century.
Jacob BARKMAN married second Mariah DICKINSON
on August 9, 1837 in Clark County, Arkansas. He
died August 23, 1852 "after illness of
thirteen days" according to his family Bible
record. His estate was administered in Clark
County, Arkansas.
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Note 6: The following item is reproduced from The
Gems of Pike County, Arkansas 8.4 (Fall 1997). This
is a publication of the Pike County Archives and History
Society, Box 238, Murfreesboro, Arkansas 71958
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REBECCA BARKMAN Blakleytown
- The people of Clark County were saddened to
learn of the death of Rebecca BARKMAN in this
year 1837. She was the wife of Jacob BARKMAN, a
planter, a river trader, and one of the earliest
settlers of this region. Jacob BARKMAN and his
brother John, arrived here around 1811. The
BARKMAN brothers were married to sisters, the
daughters of the famous Kentucky bear hunter
(Zachariah) DAVIS. While Jacob's frequent trips
to New Orleans transformed him into a gentleman,
the frontier born and bred Rebecca kept her rough
edges. Little Rock newspaperman Hiram Whittington
described her in 1830 as "a woman about
fifty (she was actually about 40) weighing in the
latitude of 200. She is ill-bred, or rather not
bred at all, smokes a dirty pipe, talks all
manner of nonsense, and never had a bonnet on her
head in her life." Whittington continues,
"But when she comes to town . . . she has a
kerchief tied around her head, and bear skin
shawl over her shoulders. And what is worse than
all the rest, she has an awkward way of boxing
her husband's ears when he displeases her . . .
."
Rebecca had, however, a gentle nature. She was
. . . (accounted) a gracious hostess . . . It is
said that the loss of her beautiful daughter
Leanah, who died in 1831 while attending school
in Little Rock, broke her spirit. Only months
before her own death, Mrs. BARKMAN . . . spent
many long hours administering to the needs of a
group of Choctaw Indians who had gotten cholera
and camped at the BARKMAN plantation on their way
to new homes in the Indian Territory.
The Arkansas News, Old State House,
1990. Printed in Clark County, Arkansas
Obituaries and Death Notices 1869-1900,
Volume 1, compiled by Allen B. Syler, edited
&c. by Bobbie Jones McLane, page 1: excerpts
edited.
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Note
7: For a critical view of George William
Featherstonhaugh’s descripton of Rebecca DAVIS
and an account of Hiram Whittington, see Dallas T. Herndon: A Little of What
Arkansas Was Like a Hundred Years Ago.
Note 8: The following item is reproduced from The
Gems of Pike County, Arkansas 8.4 (Fall 1997). This
is a publication of the Pike County Archives and History
Society, Box 238, Murfreesboro, Arkansas 71958:
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JACOB BARKMAN BIBLE HOLY
BIBLE
Old and New Testaments together
with the Apocrypha:
Translated out of the Original Tongues
By Special Command of King James I of England
Printed for Matthew Carey,
No. 118 Market Street
Oct. 27, 1802
This book was Purchased
Anne Dominee 1803
By John Brown
Jacob Barkman's Book
Born 1784, 20th of December
Rebecca Davis was born 24th of March, 1791
married Jacob Barkman died 17th day of January,
1837.
Jacob Barkman married (2nd wife) Mariah
Dickinson, 9th of Aug. 1837.
Jacob Barkman died 23rd day of August, 1852 after
illness of thirteen days.
Leanah Barkman was born 14th day of February A.D.
1814 died on 24th day of Sept. 1831.
James E.M. Barkman was born 23rd Feb. 1819, 1840
married (9 March 1841) Harriet E. Maddox born
22nd May, 1821, Montgomery, Ala., she died May
16, 1912.
V.C. Barkman was born on 11th Jan. 1842.
Births.
Rebecca Davis Barkman was born on the
twenty-fourth day of March, 1791.
Leanah Barkman was born the fourteenth day of
February, 1814.
Wm. F.S. Barkman was born the twenty-sixth day of
January, 1816.
Jas. E.M. Barkman was born the twenty-third day
of February, 1819.
Harriet E. Maddox Barkman was born the
twenty-second day of May, 1821.
Vivian Caddo Barkman was born the eleventh day of
January, 1842.
Leila Caddo Barkman was born the thirty-first day
of August, 1844.
Leanah E. Barkman was born the third of April,
1847.
Rebecca M. (Marion) Barkman was born the
twenty-third day of August, 1850.
Sallie Harriet Barkman was born the eighth of
October, 1857.
James Sumner Barkman was born the fourteenth of
December, 1859.
Walter Eugene Barkman was born the twenty-seventh
day of January, 1862.
Marriages.
J.E.M. Barkman was married to Harriet E.
Maddox the ninth of March, 1841.
Leila Caddo Barkman was married to John D. McCabe
the twenty-sixth of November, 1863.
Deaths.
Rebecca Davis Barkman died on the eleventh day
of Jan., 1837.
Valeria (or Vivian) C. Barkman died on the
eleventh of September, 1844.
Jacob Barkman died on twenty-third of August,
1852.
William F.S. Barkman died on the eleventh of
July, 1862.
James E.M. Barkman died on the thirteenth of
September, 1865.
Leanah E. Barkman died on the fourteenth of July,
1873.
Marion R. (Rebecca) Barkman died on the second of
May, 1875.
Harriet E. Barkman died on the sixteenth of May,
1912.
Lelia Caddo Barkman McCabe died on the
twenty-sixth of Nov., 1933.
Kathleen Barkman Gates died on the nineteenth of
Jan., 1939.
James Sumner Barkman died on the twenty-fourth of
May, 1941.
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Jacob Barkman Bible, Arkansas DAR Genealogical
Records Committee, Volume 36, pages 85-86. Clark County
Records compiled by Mrs. F.A. Gerig, 1953-1954.
Note 8: Jacob BARKMAN's encounter
with the Osage Indians is recalled in this excerpt from
"Life in Jonesborough, Arkansas, 1816-1821" by
Michael R. Moore:
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Henry Jones and Martin Varner
arrived along the Red River in the fall of
1816. They immediately set out to hunt and
trap along the Kiamichi River. The
area that Jones and Varner settled comprises an
area along the Red River that is today part of
southeastern Oklahoma, northeastern Texas and
southwestern Arkansas. Generally
called the "Red River settlements"
early in the period, it was established as Miller
County, Missouri Territory (later Arkansas
Territory) in 1819. Located on the boundary
of the Louisiana Purchase made by the United
States a dozen years before, this land along the
Red River would be frequently disputed during the
next ten years. Boundary disputes took on
many dimensions: the location of the
national boundary between the United States and
Spain; the territorial boundary of Arkansas; and
tribal land boundaries between the Caddo, Osage,
and Choctaw Indians and the white settlements
were all contested during this period. Hunters
and trappers first pushed into this area the
previous year of Jones' arrival in search of
beaver, buffalo and wild mustang horses.
One of the--if not the very--first hunters to
arrive in the Red River area was a William D.
Steward (Stuart), a "free man of color"
who arrive on May 15, 1815 from Kentucky.
William B. Dewees, writing from Jonesborough,
describes an 1820 buffalo and bear hunt as
follows: "I have just returned from a
five months' buffalo hunt....I joined a party of
about thirty men, who were going up Red river to
the Cross Timbers on a buffalo
hunt." "Our encamptment
during the winter was at the Tallow Cash Hills, a
short distance below the mouth of the Fo [sic]
Washitaw [sic] river. The company were
engaged in salting up buffalo meat to take down
the river to New Orleans. Strange as it may
seem to you, we have lived entirely upon the game
which we took in the chase, during the five
months that we have been gone. In fact, we
did not see a mouthful of any kind of food but
buffalo and bear meat while we were out, and a
more rugged, healthy set of men you never saw in
your life. One might suppose, as we were
dependent upon our rifles for our daily food,
that we were sometimes placed on short allowance
for fresh meat. But it was not so! We
could see large herds of buffalo in any direction
to which we turned the eye. It was with
perfect ease that we rode out in the morning,
killed a horse load of buffalo meat, and brought
it into camp."
Jonathan Pool, who as a youngster accompanied
Jones and Varner in their move from Missouri,
recalled that "the Buffalow was as plenty as
the cattle has been in Falls Couty
[sic] it was not uncommon of mornings
to see from twenty to thirty elks feeding in
sight of the house Deer Bear Turkeys
& mustang horses eaquly [sic] as
plentiful Our grate skin buisness
soon enviteed some Northern men from New Orleans
with a boat load of goods . . . ."
The prevalence of hunting was described in the
recollections of George Wright, whose father
moved to Pecan Point in 1816: "Buffalo
was plenty all along the River in all the praries
[sic]...[we] Raised no corn or meat only wild
meat...I think I have seen as many as five fine
deer shot down and slain in the yard in one
morning...if a buffalo was wanted it could always
be kiled [sic] and delivered at the camp or house
the same day and if we wanted fat meat all that
we had to do was to [call] Capt. Burkhams dogs
and could kill a fine bear at any thime [sic] to
season the lean meats[;?] with the skins off the
game that gave meat furnished an abundant supply
of Coffee and we could go to the woods and find
and cut a bea [sic] tree and get enough honey to
answer for sweetening for the family."
Several trading posts were established to
conduct business with the Indians and
trappers. The settlement at Pecan
Point--called by the Caddo Indians
"Nanat-scho"--was founded in June of
1815 when George and Alex Wetmore established a
trading post on the south bank of the Red
River. They were soon joined by another
trader, William Mabbit, who had previously
resided at Walnut Hills on Long
Prairie. The traders received
merchandise from New Orleans, which they traded
to the hunters and Indians for pelts and
meat. The trading post of the Wetmores and
Mabbit at Pecan Point was under government orders
not to trade with the Caddo Indians, but ignored
this directive and conducted considerable
dealings with them.
Almost immediately, the trappers came in
conflict with the Native tribes of the area --
particularly the Osage Indian -- as well as with
the United States government's policies in
relation to those tribes. The first record
of conflict in the area is in October, 1815--the
year before Henry Jones arrived--when three
hunters were attacked by Osage Indians on the
Kiamichi River.
According to surviving records, Osage Indian
attacks on the settlers on the Kiamichi River
area were occurring at frequent intervals during
this period. An Osage Indian band attacked
Jacob BARKMAN, Andrew Robinson, and Abraham
Anthony in October, 1815 as the hunters were
traveling to rendezvous with another group of
hunters on the Kiamichi River about 40 miles from
the mouth. Anthony was killed and
scalped. In June, 1816, John Smith Archils
was killed and beheaded while returning to his
hunting camp on the Kiamichi River about 15 miles
from the mouth.
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Note 9: Barkman
House - 406 North 10th Street, Arkadelphia,
Arkansas
Originally owned by J. E. M. BARKMAN, son of early
Clark County settler Jacob BARKMAN, this house was
constructed by Madison Griffin, who built Magnolia Manor
as well. Its ornamentation is known as
"Steamboat" or "Carpenter's Gothic."
The house was not completely finished when the Civil War
began, and local legend reports that piles of lumber were
taken from the front yard to build Confederate
fortifications. Now owned by Henderson State University,
the BARKMAN House is included in the National Register of
Historic Places. See Barkman
House: Henderson State University.
Note 10: Jacob BARKMAN pioneered
river commerce in his part of the country. He owned a
boat which he called "The Dime" because one of
the slaves, a woman, when she saw it, said "It ain't
no bigger than a dime."
Note 11: Map of Clark County,
Arkansas (1895):
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G0493A: John BARKMAN [003]
Birth: 30 July 1786, <in the region later known
as Knox County>, Indiana, Territory of Virginia
Death: 8 October 1870, near Leary, Bowie County,
Texas
Interment: near Barkman Creek, Bowie County, Texas
Father:
<Asa BARKMAN> (BEF 1765, <British North America
or Prussia> - AFT 1810, <Territory of New Orleans
or Territory of Louisiana>)
Mother: Unknown UNKNOWN (AFT 1765 and BEF 1784 -
?)
Marriage: BEF 1810, <Kentucky or Indiana>
Spouse: Hannah DAVIS (14 October 1792, <Madison
County>, Kentucky - 26 April 1874, near Leary, Bowie
County, Texas: interment at Barkman Cemetery, near
Barkman Creek, Bowie County, Texas) [See G0493A: Hannah
DAVIS in Descendants
of Zachariah Davis (ABT 1770 - AFT 1808 and BEF 1830).]
Child 1: Mary Ann BARKMAN (31 July 1810,
Rapides Parish, Territory of New Orleans [later
Louisiana] - AFT 1859, <Indian Territory [later
Oklahoma]>) [F]: m. *Seth MORRIS (1806,
Sainte-Geneviève, St. Genevieve District, Territory of
Louisiana [later Missouri Territory] - ?), 10 February
1831
Child 2: Rebecca B. BARKMAN (1 March 1812,
Arkadelphia, Clark County, Territory of Louisiana [later
Arkansas] - 15 February 1826, Miller [now Lafayette]
County, Arkansas Territory) [F]
Child 3: Jacob Davis BARKMAN (15 December 1813.
Arkadelphia, Clark County, Territory of Louisiana [later
Arkansas] - 15 February 1860, <Texas>) [M]: m.
Salina LOONEY, 1841
Child 4: Susannah BARKMAN (8 April 1816,
Arkadelphia, Clark County, Territory of Louisiana [later
Arkansas] - 26 March 1837, Texas) [F]: m. Robert TRAMMEL,
20 December 1832
Child 5: John J. BARKMAN (4 June 1818,
Arkadelphia, Clark County, Territory of Louisiana [later
Arkansas] - 1 February 1837, <Bowie County>,
Republic of Texas) [M]
Child 6: Isabel BARKMAN (24 February 1820,
Arkansas Territory - AFT August 1893, <Texas>:
interment at Mt. Pleasant, Titus County, Texas) [F]: m.
John J. MCCLOSKEY, M. D. (? - BEF 1870, Texas), BY 1846
Child 7: Mahala BARKMAN (18 January 1822,
Arkansas Territory - 17 March 1925, Ennis, Ellis County,
Texas) [F]: m.Joseph Allen LOONEY (1824, Lawrence County,
Alabama - November 1907, Ellis County, Texas), 1846
Child 8: Hannah BARKMAN (12 April 1823,
Arkansas Territory - 1917, Foreman, Little River County,
Arkansas: interment at Marvin Cemetery, Foreman, Little
River County, Arkansas) [F]: m. Robert Horace Benjamin
LANSDALE (or LANSDELL) (1818, South Carolina - 9 April
1875, Foreman, Little River County, Arkansas: interment
at Marvin Cemetery, Foreman, Little River County,
Arkansas), 1842
Child 9: James Wesley BARKMAN, M. D. (18
February 1826, Lost Prairie, Miller County, Arkansas
Territory - 23 April 1906, near Leary, Bowie County,
Texas) [M]: m1. *Rebecca A. PEAKE (7 April 1837,
Arkadelphia, Clark County, Arkansas - 22 June 1881,
Leary, Bowie County, Texas), 7 July 1853, Arkadelphia,
Clark County, Arkansas: m2. Hattie C. MARTIN (17 August
1854, Louisiana - 24 October 1922, <Texas>), ABT
1886
Child 10: Annis BARKMAN (15 December 1827,
Lafayette County, Arkansas Territory - ?, Texas) [F]: m1.
William Sullivan MCCLOSKEY (11 February 1828, Illinois -
3 April 1855, Texas), 27 June 1849, California Territory:
m2. William CAIN, AFT 3 April 1855
Child 11: Leannah BARKMAN (21 October 1830,
Lafayette County, Arkansas Territory - AFT 1893,
<Texas>) [F]: m. Robert J. LOONEY
Child 12:
Enoch L. BARKMAN
(16 October 1832, Lafayette County, Arkansas Territory -
15 July 1860, Bowie County, Texas) [M]: m. *Emily F.
HOLMES (1835, near Nash, on the Wavell - Milam empresario
grant, Departamento de Nacogdoches [later Red River
County, then Bowie County], Estado de Coahuila y Texas
[later Republic of Texas, then State of Texas], Estados
Unidos de Mexico - 26 January 1893, Bowie County, Texas)
[See G0493A:
Hannah DAVIS in Descendants of
Zachariah Davis (ABT 1770 - AFT 1808 and BEF 1830).]
Child 13: Caroline BARKMAN (2 March 1834,
Wavell Colony, Departamento de Nacogdoches [later Red
River County, then Bowie County], Estado de Coahuila y
Texas [later Republic of Texas, then State of Texas],
Estados Unidos de Mexico - 28 March 1864) [F]: m. Green
H. BOBO (1823, South Carolina - ?), ABT 1852
Child 14: Elisabeth Jane BARKMAN (8 February
1836, Wavell Colony, Departamento de Nacogdoches [later
Red River County, then Bowie County], Estado de Coahuila
y Texas [later Republic of Texas, then State of Texas],
Estados Unidos de Mexico - 1 January 1862, <Bowie
County>, Texas, Confederate States of America) [F]:
m1. Joseph Isaac TYSON (ABT 1824, Georgia - 1859,
<Texas>), BY 1856: m2. James B. THREADGILL (1833,
North Carolina - ?), BY 1860
Child 15: Jerome ("Rome") Bonaparte
BARKMAN, Sheriff (2 September 1839, Red River [later
Bowie] County, Republic of Texas - 9 November 1892, Bowie
County, Texas: interment at Rose Hill Cemetery,
Texarkana, Bowie County, Texas) [M]: m. Mary Elizabeth
CARPENTER (30 March 1848, <Hinds County>,
Mississippi - 3 July 1898, Bowie County, Texas: interment
at Rose Hill Cemetery, Texarkana, Bowie County, Texas),
Texarkana, Bowie County, Texas, 14 December 1865
Note 1: The following item is reproduced from The
Gems of Pike County, Arkansas 8.4 (Fall 1997). This
is a publication of the Pike County Archives and History
Society, Box 238, Murfreesboro, Arkansas 71958:
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JOHN BARKMAN Mary P.
Fletcher in "Arkansas Territorial Pioneers
and Their Descendants" appearing in the
April 1914 issue of Arkansas Pioneers, says:
"as early as 1810 Jacob and John and Asa
BARKMAN lived by trapping and hunting in Ouachita
Parish (Louisiana) . . . later they moved to the
district now known as Clark County (Arkansas)
where they spent eventful lives . . . Jacob
BARKMAN was a member of our first legislature,
and the first post office and county court (of
Clark) used his house until suitable buildings
were erected. This house was built of bricks
molded and burnt by his servants who also built
grist and cotton mills and boats."
John BARKMAN was born on July 30, 1786 in
Kentucky: another source says Indiana. He married
Hannah DAVIS about 1808 the daughter of Zachariah
DAVIS and Prudence ROBERTS. The account of his
coming to Clark County, Arkansas with his brother
Jacob BARKMAN and his wife's family, the DAVISes,
and the Hemphills in 1811 has been previously
given. In October 1815 his brother Jacob BARKMAN,
Andrew Robinson, and Abraham Anthony, hunting and
en route to visit another hunting party camped on
the Kiamichi about forty miles above its mouth,
were attacked by Osage Indians. They attempted to
outride their attackers, but Abraham Anthony was
overtaken, killed, and scalped. "Later his
skeleton was found . . . his hat hanging on a
bush nearby."
Prior to 1826 John BARKMAN moved his family to
Lost Prairie in Miller County, Arkansas. This was
in the jurisdiction of Lafayette County, Arkansas
when it was created in 1827. John BARKMAN was
numbered among the new county's first grand
jurors. About 1833 he moved to Texas and settled
in Bowie County. He and his wife had a large
family of fifteen children:
Mary Ann Barkman born July 31, 1810 in Rapides
Parish, Louisiana married Seth Morris.
Rebecca Barkman born March 9, 1812 in Clark
County, Arkansas died July 2, 1826 in Miller, now
Lafayette County, Arkansas.
Jacob Davis Barkman born December 15, 1813
married Salina Looney in 1841 and died February
15, 1860.
Susanah Barkman born April 8, 1816 in Clark
County, Arkansas died March 26, 1837 in Texas.
John J. Barkman born June 4, 1818 in Clark
County, Arkansas died February 1, 1837 in Texas.
Isabel Barkman born February 24, 1820 in Arkansas
married Joseph A. Looney in 1846.
Mahala Barkman born January 18, 1822 in Arkansas
married William Lansdale in 1842.
Hannah Barkman born April 12, 1823 in Arkansas
married first William Lansdale in 1842; married
second R. H. B. Lansdale.
James Wesley Barkman born February 18, 1826 at
Lost Prairie, within the original Miller County,
Arkansas, married first Rebecca A. Peake on July
7, 1852 at Arkadelphia, Clark County, Arkansas;
married second Hattie C. Martin; died April 23,
1906 near Leary, Bowie County, Texas.
Annie Barkman born December 1827 in Lafayette
County, Arkansas married first William McCloskey
on June 27, 1849; married second William Cain.
Leanah Barkman born October 21, 1830 in Lafayette
County, Arkansas married Robert J. Looney.
Enoch Barkman born October 16, 1832 in Lafayette
County, Arkansas married Emily Holmes and died
July 15, 1860.
Caroline Barkman born March 2, 1834 in Texas
married B. H. Bobo and died March 28, 1864.
Elizabeth Jane Barkman born February 8, 1836 in
Texas married first Joseph Tyson; married second
a Threadgill; died January 1, 1862.
Jerome Bonaparte Barkman born September 2, 1839
in Texas married Mary Elizabeth Carpenter on
December 14, 1865; died November 9, 1892.
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To see a photograph of Hannah DAVIS, go to Genealogical Notes and Anecdotes:
Hannah Davis.
Note 2: John BARKMAN, family Bible record:
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John Barkman's Book - Family
Record, Texarkana The original of this
information is in the possession of Jean Barkman
Ware Denes, South Lake Tahoe, California. Mrs.
Denes obtained the original from Rossie Lee
Mercer Hosier, Shreveport, Louisiana. Mrs. Hosier
obtained the original from her aunt, Mae Barkman
Willis, daughter of Jerome B. Barkman, son of
John Barkman and Hannah Davis Barkman.
Births:
Maryann Barkman was born July 31, 1810.
Rebeca B. born March 9, 1812.
Jacob D. Barkman born December 15, 1813.
Susanah Barkman born April 8, 1816.
John J. Barkman born June 4, 1818.
Isabel J. Barkman born February 24, 1818.
Mahala Barkman born January 18, 1822.
Hannah Barkman born April 12, 1823.
James W. Barkman born February 18, 1826.
Annie Barkman born December 15, 1827.
Leanner Barkman born October 21, 1830.
Enoch Barkman born October 16, 1832.
Caroline Barkman born March 2, 1834.
Elizabeth Jane Barkman born February 8, 1836.
Jerome B. Barkman born Sept. 2, 1839.
John Barkman born July 30, 1786.
Hanah Davis Barkman born October 14, 1792.
Wm. L. McCloskey born February 11, 1828.
John Hannah McCloskey born May 25, 1850.
Frances Edgar McCloskey born Nov. 1, 1851.
Isabella Jane McCloskey born November 18, 1853.
J. B. Barkman and Mary E. Barkman Family:
John David Barkman was born December 11, 1866.
Joseph Johnson Barkman was born October 24, 1869.
Franklin Marco Barkman was born December 31,
1871.
Archie Allen Barkman was born April 6, 1874.
Martha May Barkman born May 13, 1876.
Mary Maud Barkman born December 27, 1878.
Joe Barkman Children:
Maud Barkman born February 8, 1892.
Madaline Barkman was born August 2, 1896.
Little Rosie Barkman, July 1, 1881
Franklin Barkman born July 20, 1897.
Marriages:
Wm. L. McCloskey and Annie Barkman was married
June 27th, 1849.
Mary Barkman and Mark Willis was married
September 22, 1898.
(Their Infant son was born July 12, 1899 and died
July 15, 1899.)
J. B. Barkman and Mary E. Carpenter was
married December 14, 1865.
Joe J. Barkman and Mattie Anderson was married
March 19, 1891.
Frank Barkman and Jessie Answorth was married
July 2, 1896.
Deaths:
Wm. McCloskey died April 3, 1855.
Isabel Jane McCloskey died March 17, 1864.
John Barkman died October 8, 1870.
Hanah Barkman died April 26, 1874.
Rebecca Decest, July 2, 1826.
Susanah Decest, March 26, 1837.
John Jr. Decest, Fenruary 1, 1837.
Jacob D. Barkman died February 15,
Enoch L. Barkman died July 15, 1860.
Elisabeth J. Threadgill died January 1, 1862.
Caroline B. Bobo died March 28, 1864.
J. B. and Mary E. Barkman, infant son born June
18, 1868, and died the same day.
John David Barkman died March 13, 1873.
Archie Allen Barkman died March 22, 1875.
Mary Maud Barkman died July 5, 1880.
J. B. Barkman died November 9, 1892.
Mary E. Barkman died July 3, 1898.
Jacob's daughter, Susan Barkman Craven's
Family Bible Record shows his date of death to be
January 25, 1860.
NOTE: This Bible record was
published in Volume XVI, Numbers 2 and 3 (Summer
and Fall, 1989) Quarterly of the Texarkana
USA Genealogical Society
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Note 3: In the United States Census
of 1850, 1860, and 1870 for Bowie County, Texas, John
Barkman consistently states that his place of birth was
"Indiana."
Note 4: John BARKMAN and Hannah DAVIS
are buried near Barkman Creek just outside Leary, Bowie
County, Texas. The face of the gravestone bears their
names, dates of birth and death, and the epithet
"Wavell Colony Pioneers." The back of the
gravestone lists the names of all their children. The
gravesite is alongside Barkman Creek, not far from
Barkman Cemetery where James Wesley BARKMAN, M. D.,
Rebecca A. PEAKE, and others lie buried. To reach the
gravesite of John BARKMAN and Hannah DAVIS, take Highway
82 or I-30. From Highway 82, exit right on FM Rd. 1398.
From I-30, exit on FM Rd. 2253. The Barkman cemetery is
on the right, 2.2 miles from Hwy 82. There is a sign
"BARKMAN CREEK HUNT CLUB;" and the next
driveway is the Barkman Cemetery entrance. The gate is
broken down and the ground about it is badly overgrown.
Go to Mr. Dillard's driveway .2 miles from Hwy 82. Go
through Mr. Dillard's yard .2 miles on the southeast
corner of a new pecan grove approximately 40 yards south
of a stock pond to Barkman Creek. There are big oak trees
nearby and an old barbed wire fence that has grown into
the old oak tree for many years. A broken cedar stump
about 8 to 10 feet high on the north side of Barkman
Creek is the traditional grave site.
Note 5: In Mexican Texas, John BARKMAN and
Hannah DAVIS were colonists on the empresario grant of
Arthur Goodall Wavell. About Wavell, see the article
below, by Thomas W. Cutrer, taken from The Handbook of
Texas Online:
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WAVELL, ARTHUR GOODALL
(1785-1860). Arthur Goodall Wavell, English
soldier of fortune and colonial empresario, was
born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on March 20, 1785,
the son of William Wavell. He attended Winchester
College from 1798 through 1804 and began his
military career on April 10, 1805, as a cadet in
the Bengal Establishment. Ill health returned him
to England that same year, however. He joined the
Spanish Army in 1810, rising to the rank of
lieutenant colonel in 1811. Between 1811 and
1817, for his service against Napoleon in the
battles of Cadiz, Barrosa, Tarragona, and Ateca,
he was promoted to colonel and received the Cross
of Distinction, the Military Cross of San
Fernando, and the Order of Charles the III from
the crown. In 1817 Wavell resigned his Spanish
commission and in July 1820 joined the
revolutionary Chilean army as colonel of an
infantry regiment. After reaching the rank of
major general and deputy commander of the army,
he was sent to Mexico as a special aide. There he
accepted a commission as a brigadier general in
the Mexican army and was quickly promoted to
major general. In Mexico he published textbooks
on infantry and cavalry tactics and a code of
regulation as well as several pamphlets on the
defense of various regions of the country. While
he was in the Chilean service Wavell had met
Moses Austin and developed an enthusiasm for his
colonization scheme in Texas. With the death of
the elder Austin, Wavell helped Stephen F. Austin
transfer the empresario grant to his name. Wavell
gave Austin a room in his apartments, and the two
men agreed to join forces and share equally in
the profits from the Austin Colony. Years later
Wavell "boldly affirm[ed] that but for [his]
aid both pecuniary, & in his Papers, &
urging men in Power to advance his claims . . .
his Grant the Cradle of Texas would never have
been obtained." On June 26, 1822, Austin
granted Wavell his power of attorney to form a
company in England for the development of his
Texas colony. Austin's land grant and such
capital as Wavell might raise were to be the
joint stock. On July 4 the partners agreed that
all profits from land sales, mining, or commerce
in the colony were to be divided between them.
Wavell sailed from Vera Cruz on the French brig
L'Azema, bound for Bordeaux. On September 3,
however, the ship was attacked and captured by
Spanish pirates, and Wavell was robbed of $1,700
and all of his property including copies of
Austin's grant and his map of Texas. The French
ship then returned to Charleston, where Wavell
transferred to the British ship London to
complete his voyage. He arrived in Liverpool on
November 11 and began his attempts to raise
capital for his and Austin's enterprise. In May
1823 he informed Austin of the proposal of a
London firm to furnish £20,000 in exchange for a
half interest in the company. Austin did not
respond to Wavell's letter. Wavell returned to
Mexico, therefore, with no arrangement for
English capital to support Austin's efforts, and
the company that the two men had planned was
never formed. Although the terms of the agreement
for raising funds for Austin's colony had never
been put into effect, Wavell still had claims
against Austin for loans made to him in 1822, and
in 1826 he appointed Benjamin Rush Milam as his
agent to recoup his investment. No money,
however, was ever recovered.
In 1824 Wavell wrote to Austin for advice on
his own colonization efforts. Austin responded in
wholly negative terms. "I am heartily sick
of the whole business," he informed his
former partner, and advised him that if he wished
"to keep out of trouble let Colonization
matters alone, either here or anywhere
else." Nevertheless, on July 30, 1825,
Wavell applied for a grant between Sulphur Fork
and Kiamicha River on the Red River-an area
recommended by Milam that Wavell himself had
never seen. On March 9, 1826, the vice governor
of Coahuila and Texas, Ignacio de Arispe, granted
Wavell's request, giving him a six year time
limit to complete the colonization of what is now
Lamar, Red River, and Bowie counties as well as
portions of Fannin and Hunt counties and Miller
County, Arkansas. Wavell's efforts to promote the
colony in England were fruitless, however, and
Milam's attempts to draw colonists from the
United States were hampered to a large degree by
Mexico's hostility to slavery, without which the
production of cotton was next to impossible. Too,
the great Red River Raft, a log jam stretching
165 miles from Loggy Bayou to Carolina Bluffs,
prevented river transport to and from the colony.
The United States disputed the eastern border of
the Wavell grant, correctly claiming that it was
actually within the southwest boundary of
Arkansas, and finally, on April 6, 1830, Mexico
banned further immigration from the United States
and refused to issue land titles to any of the
colonists that Milam had recruited.
In 1826 Wavell attempted to visit his colony
but was prevented by flood waters. In 1828 he
returned to Mexico, but did not visit Texas, and
in 1831 an attack of rheumatism stopped him from
viewing his grant. With Milam's death at the
siege of Bexar in 1835, colonization efforts came
to a virtual standstill. In 1837 Wavell divided
his share in the grant with Milam's heirs, and
only in 1841 was the survey of the grant
completed. In August 1843 and again in February
1844 Wavell approached the British chargé
d'affaires seeking compensation for the loss of
his claim, but was informed on both occasions
that Her Majesty's Government would not support
his claim. Accordingly, he petitioned the
congress of the Republic of Texas for
compensation, but as the laws of June 12, 1837,
had voided all Mexican empresario grants, making
them the property of the government, and
forbidden any alien to file suit against the
republic, his petition was never acknowledged,
and Sterling C. Robertson was awarded part of
Wavell's lands. At last Wavell attempted to
petition the state of Texas for compensation for
the $10,000 that he claimed to have expended
toward the colonization of the state, and on
March 18, 1853, retained Ashbel Smith as his
attorney. Not until fall of 1856 was Smith able
to see legislation passed that would allow Wavell
to file suit for his claims in a Texas court.
Under its terms he could request one league of
land for every twenty families settled on his
grant. This land would be equally divided with
the heirs of Ben Milam. As Wavell and Milam had
introduced only 140 families onto the colony,
however, the value of the 15,498 acres to which
Wavell would be entitled would not equal the cost
of the suit. Wavell, therefore, dropped his Texas
claims to pursue the study of the gunrafts then
being developed by the Prussian navy, and he
never again made mention of Texas in any of his
correspondence. On May 27, 1827, Wavell was named
a fellow of the Royal Society. He claimed to have
recommended Gail Borden's meat biscuit to the
admiralty as rations for the Royal Navy. He died
in London on July 10, 1860. He was the father of
ten children and the grandfather of Field Marshal
Sir Archibald Wavell.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Robert W. Amsler, "General
Arthur G. Wavell: A Soldier of Fortune in
Texas," Southwestern Historical Quarterly
69 (July 1965). Eugene C. Barker, "General
Arthur Goodall Wavell and Wavell's Colony in
Texas," Southwestern Historical Quarterly
47 (January 1944). Thomas W. Cutrer, The
English Texans (San Antonio: University of
Texas Institute of Texan Cultures, 1985).
Vertical Files, Barker Texas History Center,
University of Texas at Austin.
Thomas W. Cutrer
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Image copyright © 1976, The Board of
Regents of the University of Texas
On the map above, the location of
Wavell's Colony is shown in the northeast. Curiously, in
1722, Los Adoes, east of the Sabine River in Louisiana,
became the capital of the Spanish province of Coahuila y
Tejas under the governorship of José de Azlor y Virto de
Vera, the Marqués de San Miguel de Aguayo. Los Adoes
remained the capital until 1773, when San Antonio de
Bexar became the capital city. The object of having the
capital at Los Adoes was to keep the French east of the
Red River. Regimes which are jealous of their own
security are inclined to locate their capitals in the
direction of greatest threat. This is why, for example,
the capital of the Confederate States of America was
moved from Montgomery, Alabama to Richmond, Virginia.
J. H. and Sam BARKMAN reported that
"the John Barkman headright of approximately six
square miles was part of the General Arthur Wavell
Mexican colony in Bowie County. Title was granted by the
Republic of Texas in 1838." [See Mrs. Harry Joseph
Morris, Citizens of the Republic of Texas
(Texastate Genealogical Society, Dallas, Texas: 1977), p.
19]
According to Sarah BARKMAN,
"Wavell's Colony was never able to issue land grants
because of a dispute between Mexico and the United States
but John BARKMAN was given a land grant by the Republic
of Texas. In 1850 he reported owning 5861
acres. his land grant is north of highway 82 near
Leary, Texas. John and Hannah BARKMAN are buried
near Barkman Creek on his land."
Note 6: In 1838, John BARKMAN paid taxes on his
slaves in Red River County, Republic of Texas:
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Beth and Emily Dorman, Tax
Payers of the Republic of Texas, Covering 30
Countiues and the District of Panola (Beth
and Emily Dorman, 14 W. Mountain Lane, Grand
Prairie, Texas 75051: 1981), p. 156:
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Red River County, 1838 BARKMAN,
John: Slaves = 2; Value = 1050; Total Tax
Value = 1320; Poll = 1.
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Josephine ("Aunt Jo") JAMES (1850 - 1955)
was born as a slave to the family of John BARKMAN and, by
the middle of the twentieth centrury, was the last
surviving former slave of that family which came to
settle along Barkman's Creek in 1826:
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RITES TODAY FOR 'AUNT JO'
JAMES (9 October 1955) Josephine (Aunt
Jo) JAMES, who was born as a slave to the BARKMAN
family of Bowie County 105 years ago, will be
buried today at Red Bank. Final rites will be
held at the Red Bank church about a mile from
where she lived.
Aunt Jo died nine days ago at her home. Until
her fatal illness, she will still active despite
her advanced age and still prepared her own
meals.
The BARKMAN family settled along Barkman's
Creek in 1826, and Aunt Jo was born as a slave of
the family in the year 1850. After the
Emancipation Proclamation, she remained close to
the BARKMAN family and will still living near
Mrs. Byron BARKMAN, whose farm is between Hooks
and Leary, at the time of her death. She had
about nine children, over 40 grandchildren and
about 84 great-grandchildren.
She is the last surviving ex-slave of the
BARKMANs'.
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Josephine ("Aunt Jo") JAMES was buried in
the Red Bank Cemetery about a mile from where she lived.
Note 7: In a deed to Chip BARKMAN, the son of
Jacob Davis BARKMAN, dated 1853, a Mary MORRIS "of
Oklahoma Territory" is mentioned; but there is no
notary attached for her. The deed was recorded in 1859.
Seth MORRIS was the son of Curtis Lafayette MORRIS and
Mary CROW, who were married 20 January 1805. Seth MORRIS
had a sister, Mahala MORRIS (1811, Sainte-Geneviève, St.
Genevieve District, Territory of Louisiana [later
Missouri Territory] - ABT 1875, Nash, Bowie County,
Texas), who was married 18 May 1825, in Monroe, Hempstead
County, Arkansas Territory, to Bryant HOLMES (ABT 1802,
<Wayne County>, North Carolina - 30 May 1838, Nash,
Bowie County, Texas). Bryant HOLMES and Mahala MORRIS
engendered Emily F. HOLMES (1835, Holmes Farm, near Nash,
Bowie County, Texas - 26 January 1893, Bowie County,
Texas) who was the wife of Enoch L. BARKMAN, the brother
of Mary Ann BARKMAN. Seth MORRIS, therefore, was both
uncle and brother-in-law to Emily F. HOLMES.
Bryant HOLMES immigrated to the Mexican Estado de
Coahuila y Texas in May 1822:
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Gifford E. White, 1830
Citizens of Texas (Eakin Press, Austin,
Texas: 1999), p. 201:
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Board of Land Commissioners, Clerk's
Returns and Reports, Red River County
(no. 6 up to 2 November 1838):
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Bryant HOMES (that is,
HOLMES): No. = 397; Leagues = 1;
Labors = 1; Date of Emigration =
May 1822 [A "labor" =
177 acres.] |
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Note 8: Concerning Isabel BARKMAN, a letter
from J. A. (Joseph Allen) LOONEY, dated 27 August 1893,
to James Wesley BARKMAN, M. D. says, "Well, Jim you
wrote to me if I knew where sister Isabell McCloskey was
living. Well, she surprised us day before yesterday by
paying us a visit, her and Rufe. She is with us today.
Her, Mahala and Leanah was together all day yesterday and
they made good use of their time talking. Isabell looks
to be in fine health. Though she says she is troubled at
times with rheumatism. It had been twenty four years
since her and Mahala had seen each other. Had been over
thirty years since I had seen her. She does not look as
old as I expected. She carries her age well. She will
soon be seventy five. She is lively as ever and seems to
enjoy herself fine. She lives with her son Rufe seventeen
miles west of the town of Kaufman, Kaufman County. Their
post office is Sego. It is on the Dallas side and Kaufman
R. Road." He congratulates Dr. BARKMAN and Hattie on
the birth of a son, and thanks them for naming him after
himself.
Note 9: James Wesley BARKMAN is said to have
been financed through medical school, at Loyola
University of New Orleans, by his sister Caroline who had
"married well." A story is told about his
walking along the streets of New Orleans. From a
building, he heard a woman screaming. He went into the
building to investigate but, being unable to get through
the door, he looked through the transom. Seeing that a
man was choking the woman, he shot the man. He was
exonerated on the woman's testimony.
James Wesley BARKMAN practiced medicine with John
Humphrey PEAKE, M. D. in Arkadelphia, Arkansas for about
a year. He married Rebecca, his 1st cousin and Dr.
PEAKE's daughter. Subsequently, he moved to his father's
homestead near Leary, Texas and practiced there for 50
years. He and Rebecca had at least 12 children. Several
years after her death, he married Hattie C. MARTIN. In
letter of proposal to Hattie C. MARTIN, he mentions that
she resembles his "lost love."
James Wesley BARKMAN died in his 81st year as a result
of making a house call during a stormy night.. He fell
from his horse, after being hit by a tree branch, and was
dragged. During recovery, it is said by a Houston cousin,
Philip FESER, Hattie gave him an "overdose of
laudanum," the cause of his death. Death information
in Bowie County records says that he "died of old
age."
James Wesley BARKMAN wrote poetry, much of which is in
the possession of Dorothy May FESER in Houston. Thus, his
letter of proposal to Hattie C. MARTIN ends:
Though far our paths may sever,
Should fate e'er bid us part,
Nor time nor place shall ever
Divide my constant heart.
But while its pulse is beating,
Its truth unstained shall be.
And, when the last is fleeting,
That throb shall be for thee.
-- May God in His kind providence aid and protect you
is the wish nearest the heart of
J.W. BARKMAN
Note 10: Although her marriage license gives
her age as 18, Rebecca A. PEAKE married James Wesley
BARKMAN at the age of 16.
Note 11: In the Barkman Cemetery, the
gravesites of James Wesley BARKMAN, Rebecca A. PEAKE, and
their youngest child, Bertie Rebecca BARKMAN (3 September
1880, Bowie County, Texas - 18 May 1881, Bowie County,
Texas), are marked. Other gravesites there are unmarked.
To reach the Barkman Cemetery, go to Leary, Bowie County,
Texas. Take FM Rd. 1398 north until crossing I-30 and,
from there, measure off 9/10ths of a mile. The cemetery
is on a small bluff on the right, just after the road
curves downhill and curves gently to the right. The
inscription on James Wesley BARKMAN’s tombstone
says, "Dearest father we have laid thee in the
peaceful grave's embrace. But thy memory shall be
cherished Til we see Thy Heavenly face." Rebecca's
says, "The Pure in Heart shall see God, " and
Bertie Rebecca's says "Our daughter dear sleeps
sweetly here."
Note 12: Concerning the death of Enoch BARKMAN,
it is said that he and his wife, Emily F. HOLMES, were
returning home from a visit to some of his relatives. He
had had a few drinks. Each was riding a horse and each
was accompanied on the saddle by a child seated behind.
Emily F. HOLMES, at this time, was pregnant with Leoma
("Lennie") BARKMAN. Enoch’s horse, which
was young and which had only recently been broken, shied
at something and bucked. Enoch pulled out his pistol and
clouted the horse on the head. That, evidently, cocked
the pistol because, when he put it back in the holster,
it fired, shooting him in the leg. As a result of the
wound, he eventually died. His brother, James Wesley
BARKMAN, M. D. said that the leg should be amputated; but
Enoch refused. By some accounts, Enoch died of
"blood poisoning;" by others, he died of
gangrene.
Note 13: In the United States Census of Bowie
County, Texas, for 1860, enumerated 5/6 July 1860, Enoch
L. BARKMAN stated that his occupation was that of
"overseer," that the value of his real property
was $665, and that the value of his personal property was
$400. He then had no more than ten days of life
remaining. Emily F. HOLMES reported ownership of real
property valued at $700. James Wesley BARKMAN, M. D.
lived nearby.
Note 14: Green H. BOBO was the tax assessor and
collector in Bowie County, Texas for 1853 - 1856 and 1866
- 1867.
Note 15: Transaction
concerning the estate of John BARKMAN:
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The State of Texas County of
Bowie
Know all men by these present that for a
valuable consideration to us in hand paid by C.
D. BARKMAN of Bowie County, Texas, one, J. W.
BARKMAN of Bowie County, Texas, son and heir of
John BARKMAN deceased and Joe BARKMAN and Frank
BARKMAN and Rossie BARKMAN and Mary BARKMAN ,
children and heirs at law of J. B. BARKMAN,
deceased, who was a son and heir of John BARKMAN
deceased and Frances M. TAYLOR, a feme sole
and Leomi SCAIFE and her husband C. A. SCAIFE
daughters and heirs of Enoch BARKMAN, deceased,
who was a son and heir of John BARKMAN deceased,
and Mahala LOONEY and her husband J. A. LOONEY of
Ellis County, Texas, said Mahala LOONEY being a
daughter and heir of John BARKMAN, deceased and
Isabella MCCLOSKY of Kaufman County, Texas, a
widow and a daughter and heir of John BARKMAN,
deceased and Leanah A. LOONEY, a widow, of Ellis
County, Texas, and a daughter and heir of John
BARKMAN, deceased and Pet LANSDELL, a widow, of
Little River County, Arkansas, and a daughter and
heir of John BARKMAN deceased, and Mary MORRIS, a
widow, of the Indian Territory and a daughter and
heir of John BARKMAN, deceased, and Ann CAIN of
Bowie County, Texas, and her husband William
CAIN, said Ann CAIN being a daughter and heir of
John BARKMAN, deceased and J. B. BOBO, H. B. BOBO
and Lem. P. BOBO and Hanah MARLEY and her husband
John MARLEY and M. C. JORDAN and her husband U.
C. JORDAN children and heirs of Caroline BOBO,
who was a daughter and heir of John BARKMAN,
deceased, and Joe C. TYSON, son and heir of Jane
TYSON a daughter and heir of John BARKMAN
deceased, said Joe C. TYSON being of Bowie
County, Texas have and by these presents do quit
claim, release and relinquish to said C. D.
BARKMAN all right title claim and interest we
have in and to the following described tract of
land: a survey made for Mary MORRIS by virtue of
Certificate number 232 issued to her for 1280
acres of land by the board of land commissioners
for Red River County, Texas, on the 7th day of
September 1838, and situated in Bowie County,
Texas, and commencing at a stake on the South
boundary line of the Wm. McKinney Survey, the
North East corner of John BARKMAN Head Right
Survey, a stake from which bears a Red oak S. 53
W. 11 vrs, a Hickory brs. S. 55 W. 164 vrs, both
marked J. B.; thence East 445 vrs. to a stake,
the South E. corner of Wm. McKinney Survey on the
West boundary line of Collin McKinney survey,
from which a Black jack brs. S. 33 W. 13 8/10 vrs
marked J. B.; thence South with Collin McKinney
survey 3242 vrs to a stake from which a Black oak
brs. N. 33 E. 9 vrs. marked J. D. B.; thence West
1625 vrs to a stake on the East boundary line of
said John BARKMAN survey from which a Gum brs. N.
76 E. 11 vrs., marked J. D. B. a Black oak brs.
S. 89 E. 8 vrs. marked E. F.; thence north with
John BARKMAN survey 1797 1/10 vrs. to a stake
from which a Red oak brs. S. 61 W. 23 4/10 vrs, a
Hickory bears South 47 W. 22 4/10 vrs, both
marked J. B.; thence East 1180 vrs, to a stake
from whence a willow oak brs. N. 50 W. 10 vrs, a
sweet gum brs. N. 41 W. 11 4/10 vrs. both marked
J. B. Thence north 1500 vrs. to the beginning
containing 637 3/5 acres . To have and to hold
unto said C. D. BARKMAN, his heirs and assigns
forever free from us, our heirs and assigns.
Given under our hands this the 15th day of
September 1893
Hannah Marley
J. A. Looney
John Marley
Mahala Looney
Isabella McCloskey
Leanah A. Looney
Frances M. Taylor
Pet Lansdell
M. C. Jordan
U. C. Jordan
Ann Cain {mark}
William Cain {mark}
Frank Barkman
Mary E. Barkman
May Barkman
Rossie Barkman
Joe Barkman
Joe Tyson
J. W. Barkman
Lem. P. Bobo
H. B. Bobo {mark}
J. B. Bobo {mark}
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Note 16: Joseph Isaac TYSON is said to have
perished in the aftermath of having rescued a drowning
slave who couldn't swim. Within a year of his dying,
Elisabeth Jane BARKMAN , now a widow with three small
boys, married James B. Threadgill. Both she and her
youngest son died about two years later. Her eldest son,
Joseph Cicero TYSON, as an adult in Texarkana, was known
as "Colonel" TYSON. In 1896 - 1898, Joseph
Cicero TYSON was the sheriff of Bowie County, Texas.
After Elisabeth Jane BARKMAN died, her sons were turned
over to a man named Bob Moss, who was supposed to care
for them. Instead, while looting the estate, he put them
out in slave quarters; and they would have frozen to
death had not an old slave made sure they had some heat
in their dwelling. Joseph Cicero TYSON supported his
brother, Isaac ("Ike") TYSON, through law
school, but Isaac died shortly before or shortly after
the completion of his studies.
The following narrative was written by Myrtle Ella
TYSON (15 December 1890, New Boston, Bowie County, Texas
- 28 September 1987, Texarkana, Bowie County, Texas), the
daughter of Joseph Cicero TYSON:
"The TYSON family -- My grandfather Isaac TYSON
who was married to Elisabeth Jane BARKMAN, died from
pneumonia. When he was about 25 yrs old. One of his
slaves fell into a river and couldn't swim. So my
grandfather jumped into the icy water and saved the slave
but he took pneumonia and died leaving a wife and two
little boys under five yrs old. My father and his little
brother, Ike. His mother remarried but died shortly
thereafter.
"A man named Bob M--s was appointed their
guardian. This man took everything, money, property and
he sold their slaves and was collecting in gold and
silver for these slaves long after the Civil War. Mr. Bob
Johnson who was a very old man when I was a child visited
my Dad and I heard him tell Dad that he paid Bob M--s
gold and silver for TYSON negroes long after the War. Mr.
Johnson was the father of Judge George Johnson and
grandfather of Mary Margaret Johnson McWilliams. Mr. M--s
put these two poor little orphans out in the slave
quarters with the Negroes and my Dad said that they would
have frozen to death except for one old Negro slave who
would come into their room and keep a fire going. This
old slave would get down on his knees and pray for these
two little orphans. Jim and Rob H-----d were grandsons of
Bob M--s, Bob M--s's daughter having married a H-----d.
"When my father was 13 years old he started
working for Leslie C. DeMorse in his store in (here there
is a note at the side that says Grandfather of Dr. Bill
TYSON) Old Boston. He slept in the store at night.
Started saving for his brother Ike and was sending Ike to
Law School where he also took pneumonia and died at about
the age of 20.
"The TYSON family came from Georgia by way of
Louisiana bringing their families, slaves, etc. Somewhere
in La. my great-grandfather had a white man for
Plantation Manager. This man shot and killed my
great-grandfather in the presence of his little son. This
son vowed to avenge his father's death and he kept his
promise. When this son grew to manhood he traced that man
and followed through several states. Remember that all
this traveling was done on horseback and over cow and
Indian trails. When he finally came upon this man walking
along a country road -- he told this man to get on his
knees and pray for he was going to die. He then rode on
to the man's home and told his wife where to find the
body.
"The old TYSON place was out around Myrtle
Springs, North of Leary. The new Paper Mill is on a part
of TYSON land. My grandfather and grandmother TYSON are
buried in old Barkman Cemetery. There were so many rumors
about her jewelry that her grave was robbed 3 times, the
last time when I was a child. This upset my Dad terribly.
Of course he was too young to know what happened to the
jewelry. Maybe some of the M--s and H-----d families are
wearing it today.
"It is said that the first TYSON who came to
America was the (Blacksheep) son of the Lord Mayor of
London, who gave the son a substantial allowance each
year to STAY in America."
Note 17: Jerome ("Rome") Bonaparte
BARKMAN was sheriff of Bowie County from 1875 to 1878. On
9 November 1892, in an altercation, he was shot and
killed in Texarkana, where the Texarkana National bank
now stands, in broad daylight by Zack Few. In the ensuing
shootout, Zack Few was himself shot and killed either by
Joseph Johnson BARKMAN (24 October 1869, Bowie County,
Texas - 20 June 1914, Texarkana, Bowie County, Texas) or
by Franklin Marco BARKMAN (31 December 1871, Bowie
County, Texas - 12 October 1907, Minden, Claiborne
Parish, Louisiana), both the sons of Jerome
("Rome") Bonaparte BARKMAN.
In 1882, in Texarkana, Texas, Zack Few had made a name
for himself in the aftermath of the Paragon fire, which
is recounted below:
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After 12 July 1882 PARAGON
FIRE ONE OF WORST TRAGEDIES HERE
believed to have been published in the Texarkana
Gazette (date missing from article)
Death rode with the bolt of lightening that
stabbed down through the furious wind and rain
which buffeted a youthful Texarkana on the night
of July 12, 1882. An estimated 30 men died that
night in the Paragon disaster. The tragedy of the
Paragon, a saloon and gambling house, was one of
the worst in the history of the 75 year old city.
An estimated 36 men, some of whom had gone into
the saloon for shelter from the rain, were
trapped in the Paragon when lightening struck the
adjoining brick building and toppled it over on
the saloon. A few of them came out alive. Most of
them were carried out dead, and some were burned
to ashes in the fiery holocaust . . . . in part
Our people went to work to rescue the ones whose
cries could be heard . . . . They reached James
Lawrence whose leg was broken and J. W. Windsor,
whose ankle was injured, and brought them out. A.
W. Manning, known as "Will" who kept
the lunch stand, was taken out dead. Manning had
come to Texarkana only three weeks before from
Little Rock. The storm had hit the city around
6:30 p.m. The lightning struck the Ghio Building
about 20 minutes later. At 11 p.m. the rescue
workers were still bringing out the dead. Fire
broke out in the adjoining building about this
time and though it was almost impossible to
endure the heat, the band of men kept at their
sad and difficult task of removing the dead. They
tried to remove the body of Mike Mayfield with a
rope but failed, so they covered it with
blankets, zinc and brick. The body of W. B.
(Billy) Russell, the bartender and also the mayor
of Texarkana Texas, could not be removed until
long after it was discovered. Midnight came and
went and still the rescue workers were bringing
out the dead, some of them burnt beyond
recognition. When it was all over 29 bodies had
been removed from the Paragon. Among the dead
were Russell Mayfield, Manning, John Morefield,
Col. Mercer, Tom Hull a locomotive engineer, John
Poland of Shreveport, John Mayfield, Robert
Henderson, Nat Vice, Milton Strange, H. B.
Spencer, Tony King, Dan Staples of Richmond Ark.,
Professor A Rosswindor, and a negro. No stores
opened their doors on the day following the
tragedy. (The article goes on to say nine more
bodies were removed, burned beyond recognition.)
(Lige Vaughn, a negro laborer, was on the roof of
the new Ghio building checking the drain pipe.
When lightning hit the building Vaughn went down
with it, breaking a leg.)
From Mr. Frank McFerrin: The following comes
from a newspaper article in The Weekly
Texarkanian, 24 July 1924. The article is
entitled "Anniversary of Texarkana's Great
Disaster, The Paragon Horror," written by W.
B. Weeks, an older gentleman who came to
Texarkana in 1876 and who witnessed the aftermath
of the tragedy. He writes that the Paragon was a
145 foot long box house that extended the entire
length of the lot. It stood one building from the
corner of Broad and State Streets. The building
being constructed next to it was a three storied
brick structure called the Ghio Building. During
a storm the incomplete brick wall of the Ghio
structure collapsed onto the Paragon, crushing
the frail frame structure and all those who had
retreated into it or who were patronizing the
saloon during the storm. He writes, "Many
persons lost their lives in the holocaust, but
the exact number will never be known. Estimates
made at the time varied; the lowest placed the
number at 35 and the highest at 80. Persons best
in position to know, however, generally agreed
that 52 was about the total number killed."
The problem with arriving at an exact number of
dead apparently became insurmountable due to
three circumstances: (1) The fact that Texarkana
was a railroad town and on any given day there
may be approximately 200-300 people staying over
for a day or several days. The transients would
be hard for citizens to account for. (2) The
resulting fire was so complete and thorough that
the remains of those burned were nothing more
than bones. (3) Undertakers would have been in
the best position to know the closest approximate
number of victims and it was possibly this group
of people to whom Weeks refers to in his
statement above. Weeks states that only one man
escaped as the collapse was occurring. That was
J. B. Gregory. He mentions the names of 12 of the
most prominent victims: Milton Strange, W. B.
Russel, a former mayor of Texarkana, Texas, Mike
Mayfield, John Morefield, Colonel Mercer, a
gentleman gambler, John Poland, Tom Hall,
railroad engineer, Jimmy Lawrence, polar dealer,
Uncle Nat Vice, Professor A. Roost, teacher of
the Texarkana Brass Band, A. W. Manning, lunch
stand keeper, and Charles Spencer, musician. So
horrible was the ensuing fire that W. B. Russel,
one of the victims, shot himself with his
revolver, when the flames began to take him.
Weeks mentions members of the rescuers as being
James McMahon, Dr. Beidler, Captain Rosborough,
A.L. Ghio, Charles S. Todd, Homer Yandes, J. H.
Draughon, Walter Driscoll, C.E. Dixon, Zack Few,
W. H. Sweeney, Pat Lonergan,Bob Cannon, Hank
McCartney, John H. Trigg, J. F. Smith, John
Taylor, Pat Hardin, W. G. Cook, John E. Blake, M.
V. Flippin, Ben F. James, Walter E. Buron, and
Tom Dailey.
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Note 18: Map of Bowie County, Texas
(1895):
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G0492A: Enoch L. BARKMAN [002]
Birth: 16 October 1832, Lafayette
County, Arkansas Territory
Death: 15 July 1860, Bowie County, Texas
Father:
John BARKMAN (30 July 1786, <in the region later known
as Knox County>, Indiana, Territory of Virginia - 8
October 1870, near Leary, Bowie County, Texas)
Mother: Hannah DAVIS (14 October 1792,
<Madison County>, Kentucky - 26 April 1874, near
Leary, Bowie County, Texas: interment at Barkman
Cemetery, near Barkman Creek, Bowie County, Texas) [See G0493A: Hannah
DAVIS in Descendants
of Zachariah Davis (ABT 1770 - AFT 1808 and BEF 1830).]
Marriage: ABT 1854, Bowie County,
Texas
Spouse: *Emily F. HOLMES (1835, near
Nash, on the Wavell - Milam empresario grant,
Departamento de Nacogdoches [later Red River County, then
Bowie County], Estado de Coahuila y Texas, Estados Unidos
de Mexico - 26 January 1893, Bowie County, Texas)
Child 1:
Frances M. BARKMAN (March 1856, Bowie County, Texas -
AFT 11 June 1900) [F]: m1. John H. HILL (1848, Alabama -
BET 1881 and 1888), ABT 1875; m2. Unknown TAYLOR (died
between 1888 and 15 September 1893)
Child 2: Charlie H. BARKMAN, (1859,
Bowie County, Texas - BEF 1870, Bowie County, Texas) [M]
Child
3:
Leoma ("Lennie") Enoch BARKMAN (30 August
1860, Texarkana, Bowie County, Texas - 19 April 1942,
Lake Charles, Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana: interment at
Orange Grove - Graceland Cemetery, Lake Charles,
Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana) [F]: m. Charner Augustus
("Gus") SCAIFE (Sr.), M. D. (18 March 1856,
Claiborne Parish, Louisiana - 26 March 1900, Dougherty,
Chickasaw Nation [Murray County], Indian Territory
[Oklahoma]), 2 January 1877 [See G0491A:
Charner Augustus ("Gus") SCAIFE (Sr.), M. D.
in Descendants
of Robert Scaife I of Winton (ABT 1515 - 11 January 1591)]
Note 1: Emily F. HOLMES was second married to
Benjamin NIX (1820, Union County, South Carolina of South
Carolina - 21 April 1881, Bowie County, Texas).
Note 2: In the United States Census
of 1870 for Bowie County, Texas, Enoch L. BARKMAN
reported his occupation to be that of overseer. His
pursuit of this category of employment, which goes
without mention in the United States Census for 1870, is
likely to have occurred on the farm of his mother-in-law,
Mahala MORRIS (1810, Sainte-Geneviève, St. Genevieve
District, Territory of Louisiana [later Missouri
Territory] - ABT 1875, Nash, Bowie County, Texas), the
widow of Bryant HOLMES (1802, <Wayne County>, North
Carolina - 30 May 1838, Nash, Bowie County, Republic of
Texas). The household of Enoch L. BARKMAN appears to have
been located next door.
Note 3: Concerning the death of Enoch BARKMAN,
it is said that he and his wife, Emily F. HOLMES, were
returning home from a visit to some of his relatives. He
had enjoyed a few drinks. Each was riding a horse and
each was accompanied on the saddle by a child seated
behind. Emily F. HOLMES, at this time, was pregnant with
Leoma ("Lennie") BARKMAN. Enoch’s horse,
which was young and which had only recently been broken,
shied at something and bucked. Enoch pulled out his
pistol and clouted the horse on the head. That,
evidently, cocked the pistol because, when he put it back
in the holster, it fired, shooting him in the leg. As a
result of the wound, he eventually died. His brother,
James Wesley BARKMAN, M. D. said that the leg should be
amputated; but Enoch refused. By some accounts, Enoch
died of "blood poisoning;" by others, he died
of gangrene.
Note 4: Frances M. BARKMAN engendered
seven children, four of whom survived childhood. By John
H. HILL, she engendered two sons, Sam Pettis
("Pat") HILL and Lavert HILL, and a daughter,
Dixie L. HILL. By Unknown TAYLOR, she engendered Enoch
TAYLOR. Of her children who did not survive childhood,
nothing is known. For information about Frances M.
BARKMAN and, especially, about Dixie L. HILL, see Note 10
under G0491A:
Leoma ("Lennie") Enoch BARKMAN.
Frances M. BARKMAN, as Frances TAYLOR, is mentioned as
a femme sole in a settlement of the estate of
her paternal grandfather on 15 September 1893. About
this, see Note
15 under G0493A:
John BARKMAN.
Note 4: Charlie H. BARKMAN died AFT
5/6 July 1860 and BEF 1870. It is believed that this may
be the "Charlie" who died in a fire when one of
the houses on the old HOLMES place burned.
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G0491A:
Leoma ("Lennie") Enoch BARKMAN [001]
Birth: 30 August 1860, Texarkana, Bowie
County, Texas
Death: 19 April 1942, Lake Charles,
Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana
Interment: Graceland - Orange Grove
Cemetery, Lake Charles, Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana
Father: Enoch L. BARKMAN
(16 October 1832, Lafayette County, Arkansas Territory -
15 July 1860, Bowie County, Texas)
Mother: *Emily F. HOLMES (1835, near
Nash, on the Wavell - Milam empresario grant,
Departamento de Nacogdoches [later Red River County, then
Bowie County], Estado de Coahuila y Texas [later Republic
of Texas, then State of Texas], Estados Unidos de Mexico
- 26 January 1893, Bowie County, Texas)
Marriage: 2 January 1877
Spouse:
Charner Augustus ("Gus") SCAIFE (Sr.), M. D.
(18 March 1856, Claiborne Parish, Louisiana - 26 March
1900, Dougherty, Chickasaw Nation [Murray County], Indian
Territory [Oklahoma]) [See G0491A:
Charner Augustus ("Gus") SCAIFE (Sr.), M. D.
in Descendants
of Robert Scaife I of Winton (ABT 1515 - 11 January 1591).]
Child 1:
William Stonewall SCAIFE (5 January 1878, Texarkana,
Bowie County, Texas - 31 March 1956, Lake Charles,
Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana: interment at Orange Grove -
Graceland Cemetery, Lake Charles, Calcasieu Parish,
Louisiana) [M]: m. Edna Lucille POOLE (20 July 1872,
Lovelady, Houston County, Texas - 3 June 1953, Lake
Charles, Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana: interment at Orange
Grove - Graceland Cemetery, Lake Charles, Calcasieu
Parish, Louisiana), 1909 [AFT 22 April], Lake Charles,
Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana
Child
2: Minnie F(rances?) SCAIFE (February 1880,
Texarkana, Bowie County, Texas - BEF 1 June 1900,
Claiborne Parish, Louisiana) [F]
Child
3:
Charner Augustus ("Gus") SCAIFE (Jr.) (14
June 1884, Gibsland, Bienville Parish, Louisiana - 11
September 1944, Nocona, Montague County, Texas: interment
at Orange Grove - Graceland Cemetery, Lake Charles,
Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana) [M]: m. Ida May SLOAN (4
June 1887, Cleburne, Johnson County, Texas - 12 September
1964, Lake Charles, Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana:
interment 14 September 1964 at Orange Grove - Graceland
Cemetery, Lake Charles, Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana), 25
September 1910, Sweetwater, Nolan County, Texas [See G0490A: Ida May
SLOAN in Descendants
of Archibald Sloan (BEF 1697 - BEF March 1764) and G0490A:
Charner Augustus ("Gus") SCAIFE (Jr.) in Descendants
of Robert Scaife I of Winton (ABT 1515 - 11 January 1591).]
Child 4:
Claude SCAIFE (15 December 1886, Texarkana, Bowie
County, Texas or Claiborne Parish, Louisiana - 18 April
1889, Dougherty, Chickasaw Nation [Murray County], Indian
Territory [Oklahoma]: interment at Dougherty
Cemetery, Section A, Murray County, Oklahoma) [M]
Child
5: Evelyn ("Eva") SCAIFE (27 March
1890, Texarkana, Bowie County, Texas - 4 February 1976,
Lake Charles, Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana: interment at
Orange Grove - Graceland Cemetery, Lake Charles,
Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana) [F]: m. George Albert
HOEFLING (24 January 1887, San Antonio, Bexar County,
Texas - ?), June 1914
Note 1: Like David Copperfield, Leoma
Enoch BARKMAN was born with a caul. This was regarded,
from olden times, as a sign of prodigious birth. Thus
Charles Dickens's account of David Copperfield:
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"I was born with a caul,
which was advertised for sale, in the newspapers,
at the low price of fifteen guineas. Whether
sea-going people were short of money about that
time, or were short of faith and preferred cork
jackets, I don't know; all I know is, that there
was but one solitary bidding, and that was from
an attorney connected with the bill-broking
business, who offered two pounds in cash, and the
balance in sherry, but declined to be guaranteed
from drowning on any higher bargain. Consequently
the advertisement was withdrawn at a dead loss -
for as to sherry, my poor dear mother's own
sherry was in the market then - and ten years
afterwards, the caul was put up in a raffle down
in our part of the country, to fifty members at
half-a-crown a head, the winner to spend five
shillings. I was present myself, and I remember
to have felt quite uncomfortable and confused, at
a part of myself being disposed of in that way.
The caul was won, I recollect, by an old lady
with a hand-basket, who, very reluctantly,
produced from it the stipulated five shillings,
all in halfpence, and twopence halfpenny short -
as it took an immense time and a great waste of
arithmetic, to endeavour without any effect to
prove to her. It is a fact which will be long
remembered as remarkable down there, that she was
never drowned, but died triumphantly in bed, at
ninety-two. I have understood that it was, to the
last, her proudest boast, that she never had been
on the water in her life, except upon a bridge;
and that over her tea (to which she was extremely
partial) she, to the last, expressed her
indignation at the impiety of mariners and
others, who had the presumption to go
'meandering' about the world. It was in vain to
represent to her that some conveniences, tea
perhaps included, resulted from this
objectionable practice. She always returned, with
greater emphasis and with an instinctive
knowledge of the strength of her objection, 'Let
us have no meandering.'" |
Note 2: William Stonewall SCAIFE and Edna
Lucille POOLE engendered one child: William Harold SCAIFE
(20 July 1912, Trinidad, Las Animas County, Colorado - 8
April 1994, Lake Charles, Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana: interment 11 April 1994, Prien Memorial Park,
Lake Charles, Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana).
Note 3: In the United States Census
for 1880, taken in Ward 8 of Claiborne Parish, Louisiana
on 15 June 1880, Charner Augustus SCAIFE, Sr. is reported
to be 23 years of age and to be occupied as a farmer. His
wife's name is given as "Liomia," 19 years of
age, and his household includes two children: Willie
SCAIFE, aged 2 years, born in Texas, and Minnie SCAIFE,
aged 3 months, born in Texas. Minnie SCAIFE's date of
birth is explicitly recorded as February 1880.
Note 4: Claude SCAIFE was
interred in the Dougherty Cemetery, Section A, Murray
County, Oklahoma beneath a stone marked "Claude
Scaife | December 15, 1886 - April 18, 1889 | son of Dr.
C. A. and L. E. Scaife | There are Thoughts That Never
Perish | Bright Unfading Through Long Years | Thy Memory
We Cherish | Enshrined in Hope Embalmed in Tears."
The following account of the Dougherty Cemetery is
taken from Mr. Dennis Muncrief by whom the
gravestones have been transcribed:
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"Dougherty is a small
community in the heart of the Arbuckle Mountains.
It is located on the banks of the Washita River
in prime farming and ranching land. The Dougherty
Cemetery was originally part of the Chickasaw
Indian Allotment to the Mazeppa Turner family.
When Mazeppa Turner started building his home on
a hill in the middle of his allotment, ancient
Indian graves were uncovered when digging began.
Mazeppa applied to have his allotment changed to
an area on the Washita River. The Old Indian
Gravesite' was used as the local burial site
after that. Of interest may be the fact that the
1940s & '50s big band singer, Kay Starr, was
born and raised in Dougherty. Her parents are
buried in the cemetery. The Town of Dougherty is
at the end of SH 110, about 10 miles southeast of
Davis, Oklahoma. The cemetery on the east side of
town is in excellent condition and well kept.
There is much pride in the cemetery and local
people are adding gravestones to many of the
unmarked graves as records are discovered." |
Note 5: Charner
Augustus SCAIFE (Sr.), M. D. obtained his degree in
medicine from the Louisville Medical College on 21
February 1889. His diploma in medicine was approved by
the Louisiana State Board of Health, in New Orleans, on 8
July 1889. As a farmer-physician in Louisiana and in
Indian Territory, he frequently accepted payment for his
services in the form of animals and produce. To see a
transcription of his diploma, go to Charner Augustus
Scaife, M. D. (18 March 1856 - 26 March 1900): Louisville
Medical College.
In Biographical and Historical Memoirs of
Northwest Louisiana (The Southern Publishing
Company, Chicago and Nashville: 1890), chapter 13,
Charner Augustus SCAIFE, Sr. is acknowledged as having
obtained his doctorate in medicine in 1889 at the
Louisville Medical College and as having registered to
practice medicine in Sarepta, Webster Parish, Louisiana.
Note 6: Soon after the death Charner Augustus
SCAIFE (Sr.), his immediate survivors were visited, on 1
June 1900, by the marshal responsible for taking the
federal census. The 1900 Census for "Dougherty
Town," Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory, Twp 2 S -
Range 2 E, listed Lennie Scaife, age 39, as the head of
household; William, age 22, as son; Gus, age 15, as son;
and Evie, age 11, as daughter. "Evie," in fact,
became ten years of age the day after her father's death.
Note 7: For
many years, William Stonewall SCAIFE served on the Police
Jury (in other jurisdictions, the equivalent of a county
council) of Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana. Thus, the
following:
LAKE CHARLES AMERICAN PRESS, 15
January 1944:
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Political
Advertisement: My record as a police juror and as
a private citizen has been for the upbuilding of
Lake Charles and Calcasieu Parish. I advocated
and helped to build the LaGrange School. I was
first to advocate the building of a junior
college for Lake Charles. And when I became a
member of the police jury in 1932, I had the jury
go on record as setting aside the present site of
the junior college for that purpose. Through my good friend, Huey Long, I
personally got the South Street road paved.
However, this project was not carried out until
after his death.
If you elect me next Tuesday, I
assure you that I will do everything I possibly
can to get you out of the mud and water and give
you drainage that has been neglected for years.
W. S. "BILL'' SCAIFE
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Note 8: Edna Lucille POOLE, the wife
of William Stonewall SCAIFE, was sometimes
a copy-editor at the Lake Charles American Press.
She was the daughter of George Franklin POOLE (20
November 1847, Mississippi - 17 September 1921, Lake
Charles, Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana: interment at Orange
Grove - Graceland Cemetery, Lake Charles, Calcasieu
Parish, Louisiana) and Mary Elizabeth GARRISON (5
November 1851, Georgia - 23 March 1923, Lake Charles,
Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana: interment at Orange Grove -
Graceland Cemetery, Lake Charles, Calcasieu Parish,
Louisiana).
The siblings of Edna Lucille POOLE were: Unnamed
infant POOLE (born and died about 1873), sex unknown;
Thomas F. POOLE (25 December 1873, Houston or Trinity
County, Texas - 11 March 1902, Orange County, Texas:
Orange County, Texas: interment at Evergreen Cemetery,
Plot 2, Orange County, Texas) [M]: m. Maud THOMAS, 19
December 1894, Orange County, Texas [Thomas F. POOLE was
killed in a saloon in Orange, Texas by his friend, Jim
Jett, who was charged with murder. Jim Jett was of the
same family as that for which, in Orange, the Jett
Cemetery is named; but he isn't buried there.]; Oscar
POOLE (29 August 1875, Houston or Trinity County,
Texas - 21 December 1899, Orange County, Texas: interment
at Evergreen Cemetery, Orange County, Texas) [M]: m.
Louvenia BLAND (27 June 1881, Orange County, Texas - 25
March 1943, Orange County, Texas: interment at Evergreen
Cemetery, Orange County, Texas), 24 November 1897, Orange
County, Texas [Oscar POOLE and Louvenia BLAND engendered
at least one daughter, Oscar Olivia POOLE (7 August 1900,
Orange County, Texas - 11 June 1990, Orange County,
Texas: interment at Dorman Cemetery, Orange County,
Texas), who married Henry Carl MYERS (2 October 1896 - 9
July 1986, Orange, Orange County, Texas) on 31 December
1916 in Orange County, Texas.]; George H. POOLE (February
1877, Houston or Trinity County, Texas - March 1908,
Graybar, Rapides Parish, Louisiana) [M] [George H. POOLE
was never married. He was killed in strike violence
according to the Lake Charles American Press.];
Claude POOLE (February 1881, Texas - AFT 23 April 1930)
[M]: m. Marguerita UNKNOWN. [On 15 January 1920,
according to the United States Census, Claude POOLE and
his wife were residing in Lake Charles, Calcasieu Parish,
Louisiana. On 23 April 1930, according to the United
States Census, Claude POOLE was residing, without his
wife, in Mont Belview, Justice Precinct 5, Chambers
County, Texas.]; Earl Adam POOLE (February 1883, Trinity
County, Texas - 22 June 1930, Calcasieu Parish,
Louisiana) [M] [Earl Adam POOLE was never married. On 15
January 1920, according to the United States Census, he
was residing in Lake Charles, Calcasieu Parish,
Louisiana. His nephew, William Harold SCAIFE inherited
his automobile.]; and Grover C. POOLE (July 1885, Trinity
County, Texas - AFT 2 September 1931) [M]: m. Lydia
("Lettie") E. LOONEY (1885/86, Texas - AFT 16
April 1930), 14 May 1909, Alexandria, Louisiana. [On 16
April 1930, Grover C. POOLE, his wife, his two sons James
W. POOLE, aged 17, born in Mississippi, and Jack H.
POOLE, aged 14, born in Washington, were all residing in
Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California. Lydia
LOONEY's father is said to have been born in Tennessee
and her mother is said to have been born in Louisiana.
James W. POOLE was born 21 August 1912 and died 15 May
2001, in Oceanside, San Diego County, California. Jack H.
POOLE was born 23 March 1916 and died November 1986 in
Nickelsville, Scott County, Virginia.]
Grover C. POOLE, the brother of Edna Lucille POOLE,
was involved - in 1927 and 1931 - in a number of
real-estate transactions in Texas (Texas Land Title
Abstracts):
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District: Bexar
County: Val Verde
Grantee: Grover C. POOLE
Certificate: 3524
Patentee: Grover C. POOLE
Patent Date: 12 Apr 1927
Patent #: 428
Patent Volume: 33A
Survey/Blk/Tsp: E.Pt. 24 GC &
SF LLL-
Acres: 182
Class: School
File: 139861 |
District: Bexar
County: Val Verde
Grantee: Grover C. POOLE
Certificate: 896
Patentee: Grover C. POOLE
Patent Date: 12 Apr 1927
Patent #: 429
Patent Volume: 33A
Survey/Blk/Tsp: E.Pt. 6 Anton
Adams OV 4-
Acres: 861.60
Class: School
File: 139862 |
District: Bexar
County: Val Verde
Grantee: Grover C. POOLE
Certificate: 554
Patentee: Grover C. POOLE
Patent Date: 13 Apr 1927
Patent #: 430
Patent Volume: 33A
Survey/Blk/Tsp: S.Pt. 8 S. A.
Ballard OV 4-
Acres: 878
Class: School
File: 139863 |
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District: Bexar
County: Val Verde
Grantee: Grover C. POOLE
Certificate: 1987
Patentee: Grover C. POOLE
Patent Date: 13 Apr 1927
Patent #: 431
Patent Volume: 33A
Survey/Blk/Tsp: S.Pt. 5 Sam
Everett OV 3-
Acres: 979.40
Class: School
File: 139864
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District: Bexar
County: Val Verde
Grantee: Grover C. POOLE
Certificate: 1984
Patentee: Grover C. POOLE
Patent Date: 13 Apr 1927
Patent #: 432
Patent Volume: 33A
Survey/Blk/Tsp: 4 Wm. P. Henry OV
3-
Acres: 1280
Class: School
File: 139865
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District: Bexar
County: Val Verde
Grantee: Grover C. POOLE
Certificate: 1919
Patentee: Grover C. POOLE
Patent Date: 13 Apr 1927
Patent #: 433
Patent Volume: 33A
Survey/Blk/Tsp: S.E Pt. 4 M. A.
McDougald-
Acres: 503
Class: School
File: 139869
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District: Bexar
County: Val Verde
Grantee: Grover C. POOLE
Certificate: 152
Patentee: Grover C. POOLE
Patent Date: 13 Apr 1927
Patent #: 434
Patent Volume: 33A
Survey/Blk/Tsp: 7 A. T. Rainey OV
4-
Acres: 1280
Class: School
File: 139870
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District: Bexar
County: Val Verde
Grantee: Grover C. POOLE
Certificate: 1531
Patentee: Grover C. POOLE
Patent Date: 13 Apr 1927
Patent #: 435
Patent Volume: 331
Survey/Blk/Tsp: 12 W. A. Stacy
OV4-
Acres: 532
Class: School
File: 139871
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District: Bexar
County: Val Verde
Grantee: Grover C. POOLE
Certificate: 2025
Patentee: Grover C. POOLE
Patent Date: 13 Apr 1927
Patent #: 436
Patent Volume: 33A
Survey/Blk/Tsp: S.Pt. 11 S. J.
Stapleton OV 4-
Acres: 308
Class: School
File: 139872
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District: Bexar
County: Val Verde
Grantee: Grover C. POOLE
Certificate: 983
Patentee: Grover C. POOLE
Patent Date: 13 Apr 1927
Patent #: 437
Patent Volume: 33A
Survey/Blk/Tsp: S.E. Pt. 5 Tidwell
OV 4-
Acres: 334
Class: School
File: 139873
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District: Bexar
County: Terrell
Grantee: Grover C. POOLE
Certificate: 381
Patentee: Grover C. POOLE
Patent Date: 02 Sep 1931
Patent #: 412
Patent Volume: 50A
Survey/Blk/Tsp: 30 T&SL 153-
Acres: 640
Class: School
File: 140315
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George Franklin POOLE, a lawyer by profession and the
father of Edna Lucille POOLE, was the son of John D.
POOLE (1 March 1823, Tennessee - 27 March 1895, Orange
County, Texas: interment in Jett Cemetery, in Orange,
Texas) and Louisiana A. COTTON (10 June 1815, Madison
County, Alabama - 9 October 1895, Orange County, Texas:
interment in Jett Cemetery, in Orange, Texas) who were
married about 1845. His siblings were: Willis M. POOLE
(September 1850, Mississippi - AFT 1899) [M]: m. Margaret
VASHTI (March 1855, Mississippi - AFT 1899) [Willis POOLE
was a hard-shell Baptist preacher. He also owned a
furniture store in Temple, Texas.]; John H. POOLE (1853,
Louisiana - ?) [M]; and T. J. POOLE (1855, Louisiana - ?)
[M].
On 8 January 1863, John D. POOLE, in Crockett, Houston
County, Texas enlisted, for a period of three months, in
Company B (Houston County), 11th Brigade, Texas State
Troops. His immediate commanding officer was Capt.
William Wortham. The 11th Brigade of the Texas State
Troops was under the command of Col. L. W. Cooper. Upon
enlistment, John D. POOLE gave his age as 37.
On 15 or 16 June 1880, John D. POOLE, aged 57, born in
Tennessee, and Louisiana A. COTTON, aged 63, born in
Alabama, were listed in the United States Census as
residing in Precinct 3, Houston County, Texas. John D.
POOLE was occupied as a farmer. The father of John D.
POOLE is reported as having been born in Virginia and his
mother is reported to have been born in Tennessee. The
mother of Louisiana A. COTTON is reported to have been
born in Alabama. Also residing in the household was a
granddaughter, Minnie E. POOLE, aged 11, born in Texas.
Both the parents of Minnie E. POOLE are reported to have
been born in Alabama.
Louisiana A. COTTON, the wife of John D. POOLE, was
the daughter of Peter Johnston COTTON (25 December 1787,
Rockingham County, North Carolina - October 1862, Tippah
County, Misissippi) and Lavinia TUCKER who were married
20 May 1806 in Wilson County, Tennessee.
Peter Johnston COTTON, the father of Louisiana A.
COTTON, was the son of James COTTON (October 1765, Rowan
or Guildford County, North Carolina - 18 February 1838,
McNairy County, Tennessee) and Nancy Jane JOHNS(T)ON
(born 1765, Guildford County, North Carolina). James
COTTON and Nancy Jane JOHNS(T)ON were married, on 20
December 1786, in Rockingham County, North Carolina. The
other children of James COTTON and Nancy Jane JOHNS(T)ON
were: Mary COTTON (15 March 1792, probably Tennessee - ?)
[F]: m.John MCCARTNEY; Martha COTTON (19 May 1796,
Tennessee - 22 November 1852, Madison County, Alabama)
[F]: m1. John ASHWORTH: m2. Samuel Boulds BARRETT;
Tabitha (COTTON (3 February 1801, Tennessee - 1 May 1877)
[F]: m.Henry LEWIS, 23 September 1819; and Charles K.
COTTON (3 October 1805, Smith County, Tennessee - ?) M]:
m. Rutha Elizabeth MAHAN (7 April 1806, Knox County,
Kentucky - 27 November 1878, Henderson County, Texas), 10
August 1828, Jackson County, Alabama.
Peter Johnston COTTON, during the War of 1812, was a
private in the 2nd Regiment (Lillard's) of the East
Tennessee Volunteers.
James COTTON, the father of Peter Johnston COTTON, was
the son of Amos COTTON (born in 1735, Edgecomb County,
North Carolina, British North America) and Zelpha
WIMBERLY. His siblings were: George COTTON (born in North
Carolina) [M]; Wimberly COTTON (born in North Carolina)
[M]; Joseph COTTON (born in North Carolina) [M]; Sally
COTTON (born in North Carolina) [F]; Pheribe COTTON [F];
and Elisabeth COTTON.
The Will of Amos COTTON, the father of James COTTON,
is as follows:
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Amos COTTON, being weak in body .
. . wife Zilpha, use of estate during her
widowhood and bequeath one negro, Jude to wife.
Sons George COTTON and Wimberly COTTON,
plantation where Davis Fountain now lives, Son
George , Negro Peter, and one mare and Smiths
tools.
Son Joseph, land where I now live adj. the spring
branch, the creek field and patent line. It to be
the deviding line to be made by George WIMBERLY
and or Elias Fort, son Joseph, one Negro and one
mare.
Son James COTTON, remaining part of my land, also
Negro, Simon, and my still and worm,
Daughter, Sally COTTON, Negro Cate,
Daughter, Pheribe COTTON, negroes Green and Luke
Daughter, Elisabet, negro Lettice.
Excutors : Friends
George WIMBERLY
Robert DIGGERS
Elias FORT
Witnesses:
John X Fountain
Solomon X Fountain
William X Elenor
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Amos COTTON, the father of James COTTON, was the son
of Joseph COTTON (1706, Nansemond County, Virginia,
British North America - ?) and Elizabeth ERVIN who were
married, in 1735, in Talbora, Edgecomb County, North
Carolina, British North America. His siblings were:
Willie COTTON (born in Edgecomb County, North Carolina,
British North America) [M]: Abesella COTTON (born in
Edgecomb County, North Carolina, British North America)
[F]: m. Robert COTTON; Mary COTTON (born in Edgecomb
County, North Carolina, British North America) [F]: m.
Thomas DEW; Lucretia COTTON (born in Edgecomb County,
North Carolina, British North America) [F]: m. Absolom
MERRITT; Patience COTTON (born in Edgecomb County, North
Carolina, British North America) [F]: m. John RAULS;
Charity COTTON (born in Edgecomb County, North Carolina,
British North America) [F]: m. James SLAUGHTER; Cealla
COTTON (born in Edgecomb County, North Carolina, British
North America) [F]: m. Beniah WILLIAMS; Joseph COTTON
(born in Edgecomb County, North Carolina, British North
America) [M]; Thomas COTTON (born in Edgecomb County,
North Carolina, British North America) [M]: m. Ann
UNKNOWN; and William H. COTTON (1735, Edgecomb County,
North Carolina, British North America - ?) [M]: m.
Claremond D. CHAPPELL.
Joseph COTTON, the father of Amos COTTON, was the son
of John ("Bertie") COTTON (22 April 1658,
Queens Creek, York County, Virginia, British North
America - ABT 1728, Queens Creek, York County, Virginia,
British North America) and his second wife, Martha
GODWIN. His siblings were: Alexander Sportsborn COTTON
(21 December 1700, South Quay, Nansemond County,
Virginia, British North America - 1769, Barfield, Bertie
County, North Carolina) [M]: m. Ann FOSTER, ABT 1718;
Patience COTTON (1703 - 30 November 1725) [F]:
m.Capt. John SPEARS; Susannah COTTON (1704 - ?) [F]: m.
Esan BLOUNT; Thomas COTTON (ABT 1709, Bertie County [now
Hertford County], North Carolina, British North America -
1771, Hertford County, North Carolina, British North
America) [M]: m1.Mary UNKNOWN: m2. Patience
("Sarah") BRIDGES; James COTTON (1712,
Nansemond County, Virginia, British North America - ?,
Nansemond County, Virginia) [M]: m1.Sarah LUTAN: m2.
Sarah BRIDGES; Priscilla COTTON (1714 - ?) [F]:
m1.Unknown LEONARD: m2. Francis LEE; and Arthur C. COTTON
(9 September 1716, Nansemond County, Virginia, British
North America - ?) [M]: m. Elizabeth Mary RUTLAND.
John ("Bertie") COTTON, the father of Joseph
COTTON, had been first married to Martha UNKNOWN. Their
children were: John COTTON (1684 - 2 February 1740/01,
North Hampton County, Virginia, British North America)
[M]: m. Ann JONES; Martha COTTON (1685, Isle Of Wight
County, Virginia, British North America - ?) [F]: m.
Francis BENTON (died before 1728); Anne COTTON (1687,
Isle Of Wight County, Virginia, British North America -
1736, Bertie County, North Carolina, British North
America) [F]: m. Capt. John THOMPSON; Mary
("Polly") COTTON (1688, Isle Of Wight County,
Virginia, British North America - ?) [F]: m. Thomas
HOLLAND; Samuel COTTON (1690, Isle Of Wight County,
Virginia, British North America - 18 May 1774, North
Hampton County, Virginia, British North America) [M]: m.
Ludia E. WELL; and William COTTON (1694, Barfield,
Nansemond County, Virginia, British North America - ?)
[M].
John ("Bertie") COTTON, the father of Joseph
COTTON, was the son of John COTTON and Ann HUTCHINSON.
The siblings of John ("Bertie") COTTON were:
William COTTON (1660, Queens Creek, York County,
Virginia, British North America - ?) [M]: m. Anne
HUTCHINSON; Thomas COTTON (1662 - March 1717/18, Surry
County, Virginia, British North America) [M]: m. Mary
UNKNOWN; Charles COTTON (1664, Queens Creek, York County,
Virginia, British North America - ?) [M]; Richard COTTON
(1669 - ?) [M]; Ann COTTON (1674 - ?) [F]; Elizabeth
COTTON (1676 - ?) [F]; Robert COTTON (1678 - ?) [M]; Jane
COTTON (1680 - ?) [F]: m. John DONELSON; and Walter
COTTON [M].
Mary Elizabeth GARRISON, the wife of George Franklin
POOLE, was the daughter of William J. GARRISON (1818,
Georgia - AFT 1880, Houston County, Texas) and Cecilia
("Sisley") Ann Amanda HARKINS (25 November 1831,
Coweta County, Georgia - 11 May 1888, Houston County,
Texas) who were married about 1850. Her siblings were:
Martha A. GARRISON (1853, Georgia - ?) [F]; James Dora
GARRISON (December 1854, Georgia - ?) [M]; Georgia T.
GARRISON (1857, Texas - ?) [F]; William F. GARRISON
(January 1860, Centerville, Leon County, Texas - ?) [M]:
m. Emma L. UNKNOWN (November 1870, Texas - ?); Sarah J.
GARRISON (1863, Leon or Houston County, Texas,
Confederate States of America - ?) [F]; Emma GARRISON
(1866, Leon or Houston County, Texas - ?) [F]; Ella
GARRISON (1868, Leon or Houston County, Texas - ?) [F];
and Isabella H. GARRISON (1872, Houston County, Texas -
?) [F].
Cecilia ("Sisley") Ann Amanda HARKINS, the
wife of William J. GARRISON, was the daughter of William
HARKINS (1789, Coweta County, Georgia - 1861, Randolph,
Houston County, Texas) and Nancy Ann STELL (1790,
Newberry District, South Carolina - 1865, Randolph,
Houston County, Texas) who were married on 6 August 1808
in Morgan County, Georgia. Her siblings were: Elizabeth
Ann HARKINS (1813, Coweta County, Georgia - 20 June 1895,
<Leon County>, Texas) [F]: m. Elbert HARRIS (1806,
Georgia - 18 December 1874, Leon County, Texas), 7
December 1828, Coweta County, Georgia; Sarah K. HARKINS
(1813, Coweta County, Georgia - AFT 1850, <Carroll
County, Georgia>) [F]: m. Beverly SIMMONS (1802,
Georgia - AFT 1850, <Carroll County, Georgia>), 30
July 1829, Coweta County, Georgia; Thomas Rhodes HARKINS
(1818, Coweta County, Georgia - ?, <Leon County,
Texas>) [M]; James W. HARKINS (7 September 1819,
Coweta County, Georgia - 20 December 1880, <Coweta
County, Georgia>) [M]: m1. Susan E. BILBO (ABT 1824 -
?): m2. Mary Ann BLEDSOE (1824, Georgia - ?, <Coweta
County, Georgia>), 14 May 1840, Coweta County,
Georgia; Rebecca HARKINS (ABT 1822, Coweta County,
Georgia - ?) [F]: m. Lynn B. HARRIS (ABT 1820 -
<1851>), ABT 1845; Martha HARKINS (1824, Coweta
County, Georgia - 16 September 1842) [F]: m. Tilman
INGRAHAM, 9 September 1841, Coweta County, Georgia; Mary
Ann HARKINS (6 February 1828, Coweta County, Georgia - 25
June 1895) [F]: m. Tilman INGRAHAM, 14 March 1843, Coweta
County, Georgia; and William Jackson HARKINS (6 February
1828, Coweta County, Georgia - 15 December 1902,
Coltharp, Houston County, Texas) [M]: m1. Jane Ann BILBO
(1830, Georgia - BEF 1870, <Coweta County,
Georgia>): m2. Mary H. BILBO (September 1836, Georgia
- AFT 1900, Coltharp, Houston County, Texas).
At some time between 1856 and 1860, Elbert HARRIS and
his wife Elizabeth Ann HARKINS moved from Tallapoosa
County, Alabama to Centerville, Leon County, Texas.
Georgia Marriages to 1850 verifies that Sarah
K. HARKINS was married to Beverly SIMMONS in Coweta
County, Georgia on 30 July 1829. It also shows that, on 6
June 1827, Beverly SIMMONS was married to Elizabeth
BUCKHALTER in Pulaski County, Georgia. Beverly and
"Sarah C. SIMMONS" appear in the United States
Census of Carroll County, Georgia, taken 5 April 1850. A
"Beverly SIMMONS" appears in the United States
Census of San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas, taken 25 June
1860, as a person without family, aged 50, born in
Georgia, occupied as a "hostler," that is, as
one who attends horses - a stableman or a groom.
Mary Ann BLEDSOE, the second wife of James W. HARKINS,
was the daughter of John BLEDSOE, born 1778 in Virginia.
The marriages of Tilman INGRAHAM to Martha and Mary
Ann HARKINS are verified in Georgia Marriages to 1850.
The United States Census of 1850 for Houston County,
Texas shows a "Tilman INGRAM," aged 33,
employed as an overseer, born in Alabama, with his wife
Martha, aged 31, born in Tennessee; with his sons William
L., aged 8, born in Texas, Robert, aged 6, born in Texas,
and John, aged 4, born in Texas; and with his daughters
Martha, aged 16, born in Texas, Nany, aged 14, born in
Texas, and Manda, aged 12, born in Texas. Tilman
INGRAHAM. who married Martha and Mary Ann HARKINS, should
not be confused with Lt. Col. Tillman INGRAM, C. S. A.
[7th Regiment, Florida Infantry] (1 January 1822, Kershaw
County, South Carolina - 1890, Kosse, Limestone County,
Texas: interment at Kosse Cemetery, Kosse, Limestone
County, Texas) who was married to Jane Amanda Louisiana
GOOCH (19 May 1822, Chester County, South Carolina -
1890, Kosse, Limestone County, Texas: interment at Kosse
Cemetery, Kosse, Limestone County, Texas) on 22 July
1842.
At some time between 1860 and 1870, William Jackson
HARKINS moved himself and his family to Houston County,
Texas.
William HARKINS, the husband of Nancy Ann STELL, was
the first Justice of the Peace in Fayette County,
Georgia. He and Nancy Ann STELL settled in Texas in 1857.
Nancy Ann STELL, the wife of William HARKINS, was the
daughter of Robert Malone STELL (4 March 1767, Newberry
District, South Carolina, British North America - 2
September 1814, Morgan County, Georgia) and Elizabeth
JONES (1773, Washington County, Virginia - ABT 1840,
Fayetteville, Fayette County, Georgia) who were married
in 1788, in Newberry District, South Carolina. [See G0494A:
Robert Malone STELL in Antecedents
and Descendants of Michael STELL (1683 - ABT 1706).]
In the United States Census of Centerville, Leon
County, Texas, taken 12 September 1860, the following
configuration appears on pages 55 (265A) and 56 (265B):
| |
Dwelling |
|
Family |
|
Name |
|
Age |
|
Sex |
|
Occupation |
|
Real Estate |
|
Personal
Estate |
|
Place of
Birth |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
390 |
|
390 |
|
W. J. GARRISON |
|
42 |
|
M |
|
Mechanic |
|
|
|
150 |
|
Georgia |
| |
|
|
|
|
Amanda GARRISON |
|
27 |
|
F |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Georgia |
| |
|
|
|
|
Mary E. GARRISON |
|
9 |
|
F |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Georgia |
| |
|
|
|
|
Martha A. GARRISON |
|
7 |
|
F |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Georgia |
| |
|
|
|
|
Dora GARRISON |
|
6 |
|
M |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Georgia |
| |
|
|
|
|
Georgia T. GARRISON |
|
3 |
|
F |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Texas |
| |
|
|
|
|
William F. GARRISON |
|
7/12 |
|
M |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Texas |
| |
391 |
|
391 |
|
John D. STELL |
|
55 |
|
M |
|
Planter |
|
18,000 |
|
49,925 |
|
Georgia |
| |
|
|
|
|
Amanda M. STELL |
|
49 |
|
F |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Georgia |
| |
|
|
|
|
Raphineas STELL |
|
17 |
|
M |
|
Student |
|
|
|
|
|
Georgia |
| |
|
|
|
|
Isaac STELL |
|
15 |
|
M |
|
Student |
|
|
|
|
|
Georgia |
| |
|
|
|
|
Dennis STELL |
|
12 |
|
M |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Georgia |
| |
|
|
|
|
Henry STELL |
|
10 |
|
M |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Georgia |
| |
|
|
|
|
Leroy STELL |
|
6 |
|
M |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Georgia |
| |
|
|
|
|
John COX |
|
24 |
|
M |
|
Merchant |
|
|
|
125 |
|
Georgia |
| |
|
|
|
|
T. R. HARKINS |
|
42 |
|
M |
|
Laborer |
|
|
|
|
|
Georgia |
| |
----- |
|
----- |
|
----- |
|
--- |
|
--- |
|
----- |
|
|
|
----- |
|
----- |
| |
393 |
|
393 |
|
Elbert HARRIS |
|
53 |
|
M |
|
Farmer |
|
|
|
715 |
|
Georgia |
| |
|
|
|
|
Elizabeth HARRIS |
|
46 |
|
F |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Georgia |
| |
|
|
|
|
Berry HARRIS |
|
18 |
|
M |
|
Wagoner |
|
|
|
|
|
Alabama |
| |
|
|
|
|
Elizabeth HARRIS |
|
15 |
|
F |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Alabama |
| |
|
|
|
|
Henrietta HARRIS |
|
12 |
|
F |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Alabama |
| |
|
|
|
|
Paritee HARRIS [= "Parilee HARRIS"] |
|
10 |
|
F |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Alabama |
| |
|
|
|
|
Emma HARRIS |
|
6 |
|
F |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Alabama |
| |
|
|
|
|
Elbert HARRIS |
|
4 |
|
M |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Alabama |
| |
|
|
|
|
A. G. HARRIS |
|
27 |
|
M |
|
Wagoner |
|
|
|
|
|
Alabama |
The household of William J. GARRISON and Cecilia
("Sisley") Ann Amanda HARKINS is shown next
door to that of Col. John Dennis STELL (27 October 1804,
Hancock County, Georgia - 28 October 1862, Tyler, Smith
County, Texas, Confederate States of America) and Amanda
Melvina HARVEY (formerly Mrs. Samuel Waller COX, July
1811, Butte County, Georgia - 1861, Leon or Smith County,
Texas, Confederate States of America). Col. John Dennis
STELL was the uncle of Cecilia ("Sisley") Ann
Amanda HARKINS and of her brother, Thomas Rhodes HARKINS,
a resident in his household. Col. John Dennis STELL was
the foster father of John Calhoun COX, also a resident in
his household. One household beyond that of Col. John
Dennis STELL is that of Elbert HARRIS and his wife
Elizabeth Ann HARKINS, the sister of Cecilia
("Sisley") Ann Amanda HARKINS and Thomas Rhodes
HARKINS and the niece of Col. John Dennis STELL. About
Col. John Dennis STELL, see G0493A:
John Dennis STELL, Colonel in Antecedents
and Descendants of Michael Stell (1683 - ABT 1706), John Dennis Stell: The Texas
Secession Convention, John
Dennis Stell: Address to the People of Texas, and John Dennis Stell: Texas Ordinance
of Secession. About Amanda Melvina HARVEY, see
G0493A: Amanda
Melvina HARVEY in Antecedents
and Descendants of Rev. Isaac Harvey, Sr. (1786 - 16
September 1838). About John Calhoun COX, see G0492A: John
("Little Black Jack," "Black Jack")
Calhoun COX, Sergeant, Company C, Fifth Texas Regiment,
Hood's Brigade, Army of Northern Virginia, and Justice of
the Peace, Smith County, Texas ("Judge Cox")
in Antecedents
and Descendants of John Cox (1 November 1727 - ABT
1804/05).
Note 9: About George Albert HOEFLING,
the husband of Evelyn SCAIFE, the paragraphs below are
taken from Frank W. Johnson ("A Leader in the Texas
Revolution"), A History of Texas and Texans,
edited and brought to date by Eugene C. Barker (Ph. D.,
professor of American history, the University of Texas)
with the assistance of Ernest William Winkler (M. A.,
Texas State Librarian, 4 vols. (The American Historical
Society, Chicago and New York: 1916), vol. 4, pp. 1665 -
1666. This account of George A. HOEFLING is written very
much in the boostering style which Sinclair Lewis, in Babbitt,
made to be an object of parody.
| |
[1665] GEORGE A. HOEFLING. Among
the younger generation of business men of Texas,
one who has not only won flattering success
individually, but has been with others behind all
the movements that are bringing San Antonio to
the front as the metropolis of the Southwest is
George A. HOEFLING, who is carrying on a rapidly
growing insurance enterprise at 514 State Bank
and Trust Building. A member of an old and
honored family of San Antonio, he was born in
that city January 24, 1888,1
and is a son of William and Mary (NIXON)
HOEFLING, the former now deceased. The paternal
grandfather of George A. HOEFLING, William HOEFLING,
Sr., was born at Saxemeiningen, Prussia,
Germany, and came to the [1666] United States in
1855, landing first at New York and going from
that city to Indianola, Texas, from which port he
came overland to San Antonio. A butcher by trade,
after some years spent in retail lines he
branched out into the wholesale business and was
the founder of what is now the Union Meat
Company, a large packing concern and one of the
leading industries of the city. A successful
business man of large affairs, at one time he was
very wealthy and was the owner of a large amount
of valuable real estate, particularly to the
north of San Antonio on what is now known as the
North Loop, where land is now worth several
hundred dollars an acre. William HOEFLING, Sr.
was one of the big men of his day and a very
popular one also, noted for his fine, genial
qualities, and his hearty and unfailing good
nature, his generosity to all ¾ a friend to everyone, one
of the old-time types of character. He was one of
the first members of the San Antonio Volunteer
Fire Department, when that meant hard, dangerous,
unpaid service; he was a charter member of the
Beethoven Maennerchor, an early member of the
Casino Association, and an active participant in
all the varied social and business affairs of the
San Antonio of the good old days. When he came to
Texas he was nineteen years of age, and was
married in San Antonio. His wife still survives
him and is a resident of this city, being a
native of Hanover, Germany. She came to Texas in
the '40s when a young girl with her parents, who
were members of the Prince Solms-Braunfels Colony
which settled the Town of New Braunfels. Among
other things it should be said that William
HOEFLING, Sr. was a prominent and influential
figure in public affairs and politics; he served
several years as an alderman, as well as in the
capacity of county commissioner of Bexar County.
The services of such a man as Mr. HOEFLING cannot
be estimated in their value to a city.
William HOEFLING Jr., son of the above and
father of George A. HOEFLING, was born in the
City of San Antonio in 1860, and was reared and
educated here, his business experience being
secured with his father in the meat business, in
which he was engaged under the name of William
Hoefling & Son, until his untimely death in
1895, when he was but thirty-five years of age.
Mrs. HOEFLING is the daughter of the late R. G.
NIXON and was born in St. Louis, Missouri, her
father being a native of Liverpool, England. He
came to San Antonio in 1875 and established the
first iron foundry in that city. The old foundry
was located at the present site of the Carnegie
Library. mrs. HOEFLING is still living.
George A. HOEFLING was educated in the grammar
and high schools of San Antonio, and has been
identified with business since early youth. In
1907, deciding he had the experience necessary to
become the proprietor of a business of his own,
he established himself as a general insurance
agent, handling fire, life, casualty, indemnity,
etc., with offices at 514 State Bank & Trust
Building. In this line he has met with flattering
success. Mr. Hoefling is one of the enterprising
and energetic young business men of the city, and
has allied himself with those movements most
significant of progress and advancement.
He is a member of the San Antonio Chamber of
Commerce and is well known in fraternal and club
circles. He holds a life membership in the
Benevolent and Protective order of Elks, in which
he took an active part in organizing. He also
belongs to the Travis, the Automobile and other
leading clubs of San Antonio.
In June, 1914, he married Evelyn SCAIFE, who
was born at Texarkana, Arkansas,2
a daughter of Dr. Charner Augustus and Leoma
(BARKMAN) SCAIFE. Her father was born in Georgia3
and her mother was a member of a well known
pioneer family at Texarkana.
Editorial Notes:
| |
1. January
24, 1888: On his Draft
Registration Card for World War I (Roll:
1983587, Draft Board: 2), George Albert
HOEFLING gave his date of birth as 24
January 1887. 2. was
born at Texarkana, Arkansas:
This is incorrect. Evelyn SCAIFE was born
in Texarkana, Texas.
3. Her
father was born in Georgia:
This is incorrect. Charner Augustus
SCAIFE, M. D. was born in Claiborne
Parish, Louisiana.
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In 1930, George Albert HOEFLING and Evelyn SCAIFE were
residing at 4701 Lafaye St., New Orleans, Louisiana. At
that time, George A. HOEFLING was the manager of a
distillery.
Note 10: Also interred
in the Scaife section of the Graceland - Orange Grove
Cemetery in Lake Charles, Louisiana is Dixie Hill MEANS
whose gravestone - incorrectly - marks her life as having
extended from 1885 to 1958. After she was widowed, Dixie
Hill MEANS and her son, Warren H. MEANS, resided in Lake
Charles at the home of William Stonewall SCAIFE and Edna
Lucille POOLE. Thus interred in the Graceland - Orange
Grove Cemetery, but not in the Scaife section, is also
Warren H. MEANS (13 November 1910, Missouri - 9 May 1952,
Lake Charles, Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana). He, as the
story goes, was something of an invalid and walked with a
wooden leg. It may be justly suspected that his middle
name was "Hill."
According to the United States Census for Syracuse,
Hamilton County, Kansas, taken 3 April 1930, Dixie Hill
MEANS, at the age of 46, was residing with her husband,
Warren W. MEANS, who gave his age as 50 and place of
birth as Illinois. Dixie Hill MEANS reported that she was
born in Mississippi. Warren W. MEANS gave his age of
marriage as 22; and Dixie Hill MEANS gave her age of
marriage as 18. Warren W. MEANS stated that his father
had been born in Indiana and that his mother had been
born in Illinois. Dixie Hill MEANS stated that both her
parents had been born in Virginia. Though, in 1930,
residing in Kansas, Warren W. MEANS, at some time in his
life, is supposed to have been employed at the Washington
State Penitentiary in Walla Walla, Washington.
Warren W. MEANS came from a large family. He was the
son of George Harrison MEANS (24 February 1843, Indiana -
5 January 1914, Protection, Comanche County, Kansas), a
federal veteran of the War Between the States who, on 7
August 1862, enlisted at Monmouth, Illinois with the 83rd
Infantry, Illinois Volunteers, and who remained in
service until being mustered out, in Chicago, on 26 June
1865. His mother was Amanda Ellen LIONBERGER, who was
born in Hancock County, Illinois on 8 December 1848 and
who married her husband, in Hancock County, Illinois, on
29 December 1867. George Harrison MEANS died, in
Protection, Comanche County, Kansas, on 5 January 1914.
Amanda Ellen LIONBERGER died 23 April 1927, in
Hutchinson, Reno County, Kansas. Their son, Warren W.
MEANS, was born 14 October 1878, in Roseville, Warren
County, Illinois. Warren W. MEANS, perhaps among other
things, was a building contractor. It was on 29 June 1949
that he died in Raymondville, Texas County, Missouri. He
was interred in Raymondville, Texas County, Missouri on 2
July 1949. [MEANS family information from Ms. Nancy Kluth
<n k l u t h @ y a h o o . c o m>.]
Dixie HILL and Warren W. MEANS are said to have been
married in May 1901 in Jonesboro, Craighead County,
Arkansas. And, indeed, the United States Census of
Jonesboro, Craighead County, Arkansas, taken 11 June
1900, shows the household of Frances HILL, a widow:
| |
Name |
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Relation |
|
Color |
|
Sex |
|
Date of Birth |
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Marital
Status |
|
Mother of
How Many Children |
|
Children
Living |
|
Birthplace |
|
Birthplace
of Father |
|
Birthplace
of Mother |
| |
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| |
Francis HLL |
|
Head |
|
W |
|
F |
|
March 1856 |
|
Widow |
|
7 |
|
4 |
|
Texas |
|
Texas |
|
Texas |
| |
Pat HILL |
|
Son |
|
W |
|
M |
|
May 1876 |
|
Single |
|
|
|
|
|
Arkansas |
|
Texas |
|
Texas |
| |
Dixie HILL |
|
Daughter |
|
W |
|
F |
|
August 1879 |
|
Single |
|
|
|
|
|
Mississippi |
|
Texas |
|
Texas |
| |
Lavert HILL |
|
Son |
|
W |
|
M |
|
February 1882 |
|
Single |
|
|
|
|
|
Texas |
|
Texas |
|
Texas |
| |
Enoch TAYLOR |
|
Son |
|
W |
|
M |
|
July 1889 |
|
Single |
|
|
|
|
|
Texas |
|
Texas |
|
Texas |
Earlier, the United States Census of Tallahatchie
County, Mississippi, taken June 1880, showed the
household of John H. HILL:
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Relationship |
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Occupation |
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Birthplace |
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Birthplace
of Father |
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Birthplace
of Mother |
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John H. HILL |
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W |
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M |
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32 |
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Head |
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Farming |
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Alabama |
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Tennessee |
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Tennessee |
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Francis HILL |
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W |
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F |
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24 |
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Wife |
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Keeping House |
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Texas |
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Texas |
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Texas |
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Sam Pettis HILL |
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W |
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M |
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4 |
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Son |
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At Home |
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Arkansas |
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Alabama |
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Texas |
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Dixie L. HILL |
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W |
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F |
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8/12 |
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May |
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Daughter |
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At Home |
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Mississippi |
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Alabama |
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Texas |
Frances HILL, at birth, was Frances M. BARKMAN,
the sister of Leoma
("Lennie") Enoch BARKMAN and, therefore,
the sister-in-law of Charner
Augustus ("Gus") SCAIFE, Sr., M. D. As is
evident from the census-returns, she was first married to
John H. HILL, born in 1848 in Alabama and died between
1881 and 1888, and she was second married to Unknown
TAYLOR who died between 1888 and 1900. Since, as Frances
TAYLOR, Frances M. BARKMAN was mentioned as a femme
sole in a settlement of the estate of her paternal
grandfather, John BARKMAN, dated 15 September 1893, it
may be inferred that Unknown TAYLOR died between 1888 and
15 September 1893, leaving his surname to Enoch TAYLOR.
Pat HILL, mentioned in the census of 1900, is evidently
the same person as Sam Pettis HILL in the census of 1880.
By the census of 1900, Frances M. BARKMAN had reverted to
the surname of her first husband. Beyond Sam Pettis
("Pat") HILL, Dixie L. HILL, Lavert HILL, and
Enoch TAYLOR, Frances M. BARKMAN is understood to have
given birth to three offspring who did not survive
childhood and about whom nothing is known. See Note
15 under G0493A:
John BARKMAN.
In sum, Dixie Hill MEANS, born as Dixie L. HILL, was
the niece of Leoma
("Lennie") Enoch BARKMAN and was,
therefore, the first cousin of William
Stonewall SCAIFE, Minnie F.
SCAIFE, Charner
Augustus ("Gus") SCAIFE, Jr., Claude SCAIFE, and Evelyn
("Eva") SCAIFE. In the habit of spoofing
the census-takers, she stated in the United States Census
of Great Bend, Barton County, Kansas, taken 22 April
1910, that her father was a native of France, in the
United States Census of Great Bend, Barton County,
Kansas, taken 15 January 1920, that her father was a
native of Virginia, and in the United States Census of
Syracuse, Hamilton County, Kansas, taken in 1930, that
both her parents were natives of Virginia. Warren H.
MEANS was her only child.
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