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GENEALOGICAL
NOTES AND ANECDOTES
DESCENDANTS of PETER LUCAS
(ABT 1729 - 16 November 1781)
G0495A: Peter
LUCAS [005]
Birth: ABT 1729, Liverpool, Lancashire, England
Death: 16 November 1781, Fredericksburg,
Spotsylvania County, Virginia
Father: Unknown LUCAS
Mother: Unknown UNKNOWN
Marriage: BEF 1760, Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pennsylvania, British North America
Spouse: Sarah WALKER
Child 1:
Zachariah LUCAS (1760, Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania
County, Virginia, British North America - 7 May 1828,
<Fredericksburg>, Spotsylvania County, Virginia)
[M]: m1. Nancy BROWN (born in Fredericksburg,
Spotsylvania County, Virginia, British North America):
m2. Polly HARRISON (née APPERSON), 19 April
1785, Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania County, Virginia
Child 2: Nancy LUCAS [F]: m. George KIGER
Child 3: Fielding
LUCAS (1764, Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania County,
Virginia, British North America - 21 November 1829,
<Fredericksburg>, Spotsylvania County, Virginia)
[M]: m1. Sarah BROWN (died 5 March 1795,
<Fredericksburg>, Spotsylvania County, Virginia):
m2. Elizabeth Cave
WITHERS (10 May 1780, Fauquier County, Virginia - 15
March 1857, Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania County,
Virginia), 24 April 1798, Fauquier County, Virginia
Child 4: Sally LUCAS [F]
Child 5:   Peter LUCAS (ABT 1767,
Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania County, Virginia, British
North America - 1811, Fauquier County, Virginia) [M]: m.
Sarah ("Sally") Edrington JENNINGS (ABT 1764,
Fauquier County, Virginia, British North America - AFT
1850, Tennessee), 31 January 1791, Fauquier County,
Virginia [See G0494A;
Sarah ("Sally") Edrington JENNINGS in Descendants of John Jennings (ABT 1630/35 -
1669).]
Child 6: Polly LUCAS [F]
Note 1: Spotsylvania County, Virginia
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SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY
MINUTE BOOK, 1755 - 1765, p. 7
Court Session of 3 June 1755Adam
Pevey appointed overseer of the road from the
Hazle Run to Mr. Colson's above the Hall hill on
Fitzhurst's land, his gang Viz. Saml.
Hilding(?); Mr. Fielding Lewis; Mrs. Thornton;
Peter LUCAS tithes.
SPOTTSYLVANIA COUNTY
DEED BOOK E 1751 - 1761
March 1, 1756. James Allen to Peter LUCAS,
both of Spotsylvania County £80 currency. Lot
No. 62 in town of Fredericksburg. No witnesses.
March 2, 1756
SPOTTSYLVANIA COUNTY
DEED BOOK F 1761 - 1766
November 20, 1764. Richard Lewis and Ann, his
wife, of King George County, to Peter LUCAS of
Spotsylvania County £100 currency. Lot No. 76 in
town of Fredericksburg. John Dolton, Thomas
JENNINGS. December 4, 1764
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This property, located in
Fredericksburg at 1303 Caroline St., now
serves the Schooler House Bed and
Breakfast. About this property, Kitty
Farley, records the following:
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"Peter LUCAS
purchased Lot 76 from Richard and
Ann Lewis in 1764 for £100
(although the deed was not
recorded until 1771). Lewis
was a saddler by trade, living in
King George. The property
would remain in the LUCAS family
until January 1890. "Anna
P. Green, LUCAS's great
granddaughter, sold a portion of
the lot that would become 1303
Caroline Street to James and
Mollie Musselman in January
1890. In April of 1890, the
Musselmans sold to Mary E.
Schooler, and the following year
James Musselman had this
Victorian home built for
Schooler.
"Mary E. Schooler (1833 -
1903) and her daughter Willie F.
Schooler, ran a female school on
Hanover Street, immediately
behind the Masonic Lodge, known
as the Schooler
School. According to
advertisements in the Free
Lance, dated August 26,
1892, Willie advertised for
personal applicants to be made at
'1,303 "B"
Street.' (A copy of the Free
Lance advertisement hangs in
The Schooler House today.)
"Upon her death in 1903,
Mary Schooler willed her home to
her two children, Willie F. and
George Schooler. In 1913,
when Willie Schooler sold the
property, the deed noted that her
brother George had been deceased
'for some years.' Mary
Schooler and her son, George, are
both buried in the Confederate
Cemetery.
"The home passed through
several owners in the
'teens. In 1919, it was
purchased by Ann (Annie) V.
Layton. She owned the
property until 1961 whereupon the
home was purchased by Mary P.
Tingler, widow. Upon her
death in 1980, she left it to
Thelma Tingler Eastridge
(possibly a sister) and other
heirs. Eastridge sold the home in
1981 and it passed through three
other owners before being
purchased in 1997 by George and
Andi Grimsley, who meticulously
restored the home to its 1891
appearance. While digging
walkways, patio, and garden, the
dirt was hand sifted, revealing
many artifacts from the 18th and
19th centuries. Some of
these items were framed and are
now displayed in the
home. Other artifacts found
in the attic and behind a wall,
including pictures, cards, and
notes are also displayed. In
particular, one such note from
Willie F. Schooler to a local
doctor reads: 'Please make me
those preparations for varnish
and spirits of turpentine that
you said your wife used on her
Spring cleaning.'
"Today, one can
experience the ambiance of
Victorian Fredericksburg at The
Schooler House Bed and
Breakfast. Directly across
from the Rising Sun Tavern, the
Schooler House has a long front
porch on which guests may relax
on antique wicker furniture and
watch the tavern wenches greet
visitors. Guests are invited
to enjoy an afternoon snack
served in the parlor decorated
with period furniture. This
one-bedroom B&B features a
cozy sitting area just outside
the bedroom. The sunny
bedroom is furnished with
antiques, including a queen size
iron bed, and has a birds eye
view of the back garden with
pond. Chocolates on the
pillows are perfect for that
sweet tooth. Guests will
enjoy the private bath, with
original claw foot tub, and can
wrap up in lush terry
robes. A continental
breakfast is served by
candlelight on antique Moss Rose
ironstone dishes. Breakfast
may also be taken in the backyard
garden while enjoying the sounds
of the soothing waterfall.
"For a pampered, relaxed
stay, reservations may be made by
contacting Andi Grimsley,
Innkeeper, at 374-5258."
Researcher: Margaret
Lynn
Kitty Farley is a freelance
writer and preservationist.
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The original home, storehouse, kitchen
and stable with which Peter LUCAS had
improved this lot are thought to have
been ruined in 1862 during the Siege of
Fredericksburg.
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SPOTTSYLVANIA COUNTY
DEED BOOK J 1774 - 1782, page 334
April 2, 1777. Peter x LUCAS of Fredericksburg
binds out his son, Fielding LUCAS, to Edward
Simpson of Fredericksburg, Saddler, to be taught
the trade, etc. Witnesses: James Brown,
John Willis. April 16, 1778
SPOTTSYLVANIA COUNTY
WILL BOOK E 1772 - 1798, page 38
LUCAS, PETER. Fredericksburg, d. Nov. 16,
1781. Executors Bond dated July 18, 1782.
Witnessed by. John Steward, Michael Robinson,
James Hackley. Executors Zachary LUCAS, George
KIGER. Legacy to my six children, viz:
Zachariah LUCAS, Nancy KIGER, Fielding LUCAS,
Sally LUCAS, Peter LUCAS and Polly LUCAS.
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Note 2: In Colonial Families of
Philadelphia, edited by John W. Jordan, published by
Lewis Publishers of New York in 1911, in 2 volumes, there
is record (vol. 1, p. 796) of the fact that Peter LUCAS
"of Fredericksburg," who was born in Liverpool,
married Sarah WALKER, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Mention is also made (vol. 1, p. 796) of Zachariah LUCAS
(as "Zacharias") as the son of Peter LUCAS and
of Fielding LUCAS (vol. 1, p. 797) as the son of
Zachariah.
Note 3: Sarah and Nancy BROWN were the
daughters of Thomas BROWN (died March 1790,
Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania County, Virginia) and Sarah
UNKNOWN.
Note 4: The first Fielding LUCAS appears to
have been named after Colonel Fielding Lewis (born 7 July
1725, Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania County, Virginia), the
husband of Elizabeth Washington (born 20 July 1733,
Wakefield Plantation, Westmoreland County, Virginia) and,
therefore, the brother-in-law of George Washington,
President of the United States.
Note 5: Prominent
among the offspring of Zachariah LUCAS and Nancy
BROWN was Fielding LUCAS (Jr.) (3 September 1781,
Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania County, Virginia - 12 March
1854, Baltimore, Baltimore County, Maryland), who was
named after his uncle and who was married to Elizabeth
Mary CARRELL on 15 May 15 1810 at St. Augustine's Church,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Fielding LUCAS, Jr., was a
leading partner in the publishing and bookselling firm of
M & J Conrad. The publishing company focused on
schoolbooks, maps and atlases, art instruction books,
children’s books, and Catholic religious material.
He headlined the effort to raise funds in order to build
the Washington Monument, and also served as a director of
the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. He was one of the
founders of the Maryland Historical Society and the
Maryland Institute College of Art. To see a portrait of
him, go to Fielding Lucas, Jr. (3
September 1781 - 12 March 1854): Portrait by Sarah Miriam
Peale.
The full siblings of Fielding LUCAS, Jr. were Martha
LUCAS, who married Triplett T. ESTES, and the younger
Zachariah LUCAS.
By Polly HARRISON (née APPERSON), the elder
Zachariah LUCAS engendered Ann Apperson LUCAS (1800 -
1862), who married William WALLER.
Note 6: From Colonial Families of
Philadelphia, edited by John W. Jordan, published by
Lewis Publishers of New York in 1911, in 2 volumes:
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[vol. 1, p. 796] Peter LUCAS,
grandfather of Fielding, Jr., emigrated from
Liverpool in the early part of the eighteenth
century and settled at Fredericksburg, Virginia.
He afterwards removed to Kentucky in company with
Daniel Boone. He married Sarah WALKER, and had at
least two sons, Fielding and Zacharias, the
latter married [vol. 1, p. 797] a Miss BROWN, and
was the father of Fielding LUCAS, Jr., above
mentioned, who was brought up by his uncle,
Fielding LUCAS, Sr., in Baltimore. At the age of
fourteen years he was sent to Philadelphia to
engage in business. He returned to Baltimore in
1806, and became a member of the firm of Conrad,
Lucas & Company, of which the present firm of
Lucas Bros. is the successor. Fielding LUCAS,
Jr., was genial by nature and of an artistic
temperament; his house was a rendezvous, not only
for the artists and literati of the city, but for
all distinguished persons visiting Baltimore, and
he had considerable skill as a muscian. He was
interested in a number of public enterprises; was
for many years president of city councils; one of
the managers of the Washington Monument; and a
director of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad,
his name being inscribed on the monument at the
Relay House, commemorating the building of that
road to Washington. He was buried March 14, 1854.
He married, February 15, 1810, Elizabeth Mary,
daughter of John CARRELL, of Philadelphia, and
granddaughter of Timothy CARRELL, a wine merchant
of Philadelphia, who died there in 1786. His son,
John CARRELL, born October 7, 1758, was a
prominent merchant of Philadelphia.
John CARRELL died suddenly May 5, 1830, in
Wilmington, Delaware, while on a visit to his
son, Rev. George A. CARRELL, and was buried at
St. Mary's Churchyard, Philadelphia. He married,
September 7, 1786, Mary Judith, daughter of Capt.
John MOORE, of Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
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Note 7:
Elizabeth Cave WITHERS, the wife of Fielding LUCAS,
was the daughter of James Cave WITHERS (9 May 1752,
Stafford County, Virginia, British North America - 1828,
Fauquier County, Virginia) and Chloe JENNINGS (ABT 1755,
Prince William County, Virginia, British North America -
AFT 17 April 1828 and BEF 27 November 1828, Richmond,
Virginia) who were married, in Fauquier County, Virginia,
British North America, 4 November 1775. [See G0495A:
Augustine JENNINGS, Sr. Major in Descendants
of John Jennings (ABT 1630/35 - 1669) and see Note 10 under G0493A:
James WOOD in Antecedents
and Descendants of Nehemiah Wood, Sr. (ABT 1731 - 3
October 1816).] Chloe JENNINGS was the sister of
Sarah ("Sally") Edrington JENNINGS, spouse of
the younger Peter LUCAS.
Note 8: Concerning Zachariah LUCAS:
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Virginia County
Records: Spotsylvania County, 1721 - 1800
DEED BOOK J, 1774 - 1782, page 401September 12, 1786. Peter STUBBLEFIELD
and Peggy, his wife, of the State of Georgia;
Evans LONG and Lucy, his wife, of Spotsylvania
County, Virginia; James SMITH and Sally, his
wife, of same county; Zachariah LUCAS and Polly
HARRISON, his wife, of the same county; Richard
Long and Fanny, his wife, of same county, to
Thomas Coleman, jr. Whereas, John APPERSON, deceased, did by his last will and
testament devise to his daughter, Peggy, wife of
the above named Peter STUBBLEFIELD, 200 acres,
part of a tract purchased by said APPERSON of John Carthrae and James Somerville
for her natural life, and in case the said Peggy
should die without issue, the said land to be
equally divided amongst his other children, viz.,
the said Lucy, wife of Evans LONG; the said
Sally, wife of James SMITH; said Polly HARRISON
(who has since intermarried with Zachariah
LUCAS), and said Fanny (who has since
intermarried with Richard LONG), or the
survivors, etc., etc., and
whereas, the said Evans LONG and wife, James
SMITH and his wife, Zachariah LUCAS and his wife,
Richard LONG and his wife, having agreed to
relinquish to the said Peter STUBBLEFIELD and
Peggy, his wife, all their right, title, etc.,
as aforementioned, and so do by their being
parties to these presents, etc., etc.,
the said Peter STUBBLEFIELD and Peggy, his wife,
for the sum of £-, convey the said land (with
the other parties, they being paid 5s. each) to
the said Coleman, etc., etc.
Witnesses, Stapleton Crutchfield, Joseph Duerson,
William Henderson, John Chew, jr.; Nicholas
Payne, Henry Pendleton, jr. January 2, 1787.
Virginia County Records:
Spotsylvania County 1721 - 1800
DEED BOOK J, 1774 - 1782, page 402
December 21, 1786. Zachariah
LUCAS and Polly HARRISON, his wife, of
Fredericksburg to Joseph Herndon and John Wilson
of Berkeley Parish, Spotsylvania County £240
currency 240 acres, devised the said Polly
Harrison LUCAS by her father, John APPERSON, deceased, in Berkeley Parish,
Spotsylvania County, etc., etc.
Edward Herndon, Thomas Strachan, John
Crutchfield, Fielding LUCAS. February. 6, 1787.
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Note 9: Elections in Fredericksburg,
Spotsylvania County, Virginia
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18 March 1793:
Zachariah LUCAS was elected by 33 votes to the
Town Council of Fredericksburg, serving as common
councilman. 17 March 1794:
Zachariah LUCAS was elected by 33 votes to the
Town Council of Fredericksburg, serving as common
councilman.
16 March 1795: Zachariah
LUCAS was elected by 75 votes to the Town Council
of Fredericksburg, serving as alderman.
16 March 1795: Fielding LUCAS
was elected by 54 votes to the Town Council of
Fredericksburg, serving as common councilman.
21 March 1796: Zachariah
LUCAS was elected by 32 votes to the Town Council
of Fredericksburg, serving as alderman.
21 March 1796: Fielding LUCAS
was elected by 28 votes to the Town Council of
Fredericksburg, serving as common councilman.
20 March 1797: Zachariah
LUCAS was elected by 26 votes to the Town Council
of Fredericksburg, serving as common councilman.
20 March 1797: Fielding LUCAS
was elected by 35 votes to the Town Council of
Fredericksburg, serving as common councilman.
19 March 1798: Zachariah
LUCAS was elected by 39 votes to the Town Council
of Fredericksburg, serving as common councilman.
19 March 1798: Fielding LUCAS
was elected by 47 votes to the Town Council of
Fredericksburg, serving as common councilman.
18 March 1799: Zachariah
LUCAS obtained 59 votes, losing election to the
Town Council of Fredericksburg.
18 March 1799: Fielding LUCAS
obtained 62 votes, losing election to the Town
Council of Fredericksburg.
17 March 1800: Zachariah
LUCAS was elected by 72 votes to the Town Council
of Fredericksburg, serving as common councilman.
17 March 1800: Fielding LUCAS
was elected by 83 votes to the Town Council of
Fredericksburg, serving as common councilman.
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Note 9: Map of Spotsylvania County,
Virginia (1895):
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G0494A:  Peter LUCAS [004]
Birth: ABT 1767, Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania
County, Virginia, British North America
Death: 1811, Fauquier County, Virginia
Father:
Peter LUCAS (ABT 1729, Liverpool, Lancashire, England -
16 November 1781, Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania County,
Virginia)
Mother: Sarah WALKER
Marriage: 31 January 1791, Fauquier County,
Virginia
Spouse: Sarah ("Sally") Edrington
JENNINGS (ABT 1764, Fauquier County, Virginia, British
North America - AFT 1850, Nashville, Davidson County,
Tennessee) [See G0494A:
Sarah ("Sally") Edrington JENNINGS in Descendants of John Jennings (ABT 1630/35 -
1669).]
Child
1:
George Augustine LUCAS, Lieutenant (1793, Fauquier
County, Virginia - 27 June 1831, New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, Louisiana) [M]: m. Mary ("Polly")
Webster ALLEN (22 August 1797, <Augusta County>,
Virginia - 14 January 1889, Flatonia, Fayette County,
Texas: interment at City Cemetery, Flatonia, Fayette
County, Texas), 4 November 1817, Sumner County, Tennessee
[See G0493A:
Mary ("Polly") Webster ALLEN in Descendants
of Robert Allen (ABT 1674 - ABT 1775).]
Child 2: Peter Walker LUCAS (11 February 1796,
Fauquier County, Virginia - 5 May 1870, Memphis, Shelby
County, Tennessee) [M]: m. Clementina DONOHO (28 November
1801, Sumner County, Tennessee - 16 September 1864, Holly
Springs, Marshall County, Mississippi), 29 October 1817,
Sumner County, Tennessee
Note 1: Peter Walker LUCAS and
Clementina DONOHO lie interred in the Hill Crest
Cemetery, Holly Springs, Marshall County, Mississipi.
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G0493A:
George Augustine
LUCAS, Lieutenant [003]
Birth: 1793, Fauquier County, Virginia
Death: 27 June 1831, New Orleans, Orleans Parish,
Louisiana
Father:
Peter LUCAS (ABT 1767, Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania
County, Virginia, British North America - 1811, Fauquier
County, Virginia)
Mother: Sarah ("Sally") Edrington
JENNINGS (ABT 1764, Fauquier County, Virginia, British
North America - AFT 1850, Tennessee) [See G0494A:
Sarah ("Sally") Edrington JENNINGS in Descendants of John Jennings (ABT 1630/35 -
1669).]
Marriage: 3 November 1817, Sumner County,
Tennessee, by John Wisman
Spouse: Mary ("Polly") Webster ALLEN (22
August 1797, <Augusta County>, Virginia - 14
January 1889, Flatonia, Fayette County, Texas) [See G0493A:
Mary ("Polly") Webster ALLEN in Descendants
of Robert Allen (ABT 1674 - ABT 1775).]
Child 1: Eliza Webb LUCAS
(1818, Gallatin, Sumner County, Tennessee - 18 January
1883, Flatonia, Fayette County, Texas) [F]: m. Martin W.
SLOAN (29 July 1803, Pleasant Shade, Smith County,
Tennessee - 6 July 1878, Flatonia, Fayette County,
Texas), 27 September 1838, Carthage, Smith County,
Tennessee [See G0492A: Martin
W. SLOAN in Descendants of
Archibald Sloan (BEF 1697 - BEF March 1674).]
Child 2:
Sarah Rebecca LUCAS (June 1820, Gallatin, Sumner
County, Tennessee - 10 January 1908, Flatonia, Fayette
County, Texas: interment at Oak Hill Cemetery, Flatonia,
Fayette County, Texas) [F]: m. Samuel A. MCCLELLAN,
Captain (4 March 1819, Jonesboro, Washington County,
Tennessee - 22 November 1894, Flatonia, Fayette County,
Texas: interment at Oak Hill Cemetery, Flatonia, Fayette
County, Texas), ABT 1842, Tennessee
Child 3:
Letitia M. LUCAS (26 May 1826, New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, Louisiana - 11 September 1901, Fayette County,
Texas) [F]: m. Rosseau S. SNELL (7 February 1810,
Virginia - 12 May 1867, La Grange, Fayette County,
Texas), 16 June 1850, Davidson County, Tennessee
Note 1: War of 1812 Muster Rolls: Sumner
County, Tennessee. Captain John Wallace. Pay Roll of a
company of Infantry commanded by Captain John Wallace of
the First Regiment, Tennessee Volunteers, in the service
of the United States from the 10th December, 1812, to the
13th of February, 1813. John Wallace, Capt.; George A.
LUCAS, Lt.; Ezekiel Cherry, Lt.; Roberts Windham, Eng.;
Israel Moore, Sgt.; John Lane, Sgt.; Lewis Lane, Sgt.;
Thomas C. Beard, Sgt.; William Huffman, Cpl.; Turner
Barnes, Cpl.; Raba Harrell, Cpl.; Benjamin G. Vincent,
Cpl.; James Rhodes, Drummer.
The First Regiment of the Tennessee Volunteer Infantry
was under the command of Col. Edward Bradley and it was
in service from September 1813 to Devember 1813. The
counties from it which it obtained recruits were: Sumner,
Giles, Lincoln, Montgomery, Overton, Rutherford, Smith,
and Wilson. Its Captains were: Abraham Bledsoe, Harry
Douglass, James Hambleton, John Kennedy, William
Lauderdale, Brice Martin, John Moore, Travis Nash, Thomas
Haynie, and John Wallace.
Tom Kanon of the Tennessee State Library and Archives
reports the following:
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"This unit was originally
under the command of Colonel William Hall during
Jackson's excursion to Natchez. Bradley took over
the regiment when Hall was promoted to brigadier
general. Bradley's regiment then became part of
Hall's brigade, along with Colonel William
Pillow's Second Regiment of Tennessee Volunteer
Infantry. This brigade participated in Jackson's
first campaign into the Creek Nation. Bradley's
regiment fought at the Battle of Talladega (9
November 1813) and muster rolls show many
casualties from that battle, especially in the
companies of Captains Abraham Bledsoe and Brice
Smith. "The line of march for this first
campaign followed the route from Fayetteville to
Huntsville, then to Fort Deposit and Fort
Strother. The troops were dismissed in December
1813. The number of men in each captain's company
varied from twenty-nine to seventy-two
soldiers."
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Autographs of George Augustine
LUCAS on file (War of 1812 Pension Files) at the
United States Department of the Treasury: 
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In the United States Census of 1820 for Gallatin,
Sumner County, Tennessee (fol. 136r), the household of
George Augustine LUCAS was enumerated as follows:
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Free white males of 16 and under
26 years of age, including heads of families: 1
Free white females under 10 years of age: 2
Free white females of 16 and under 26 years of
age, including heads of families: 1
Numbers of persons engaged in Commerce: 1
Slave males under 14 years of age: 1
Slave females under 14 years of age: 1
Slave females of 14 and under 26 years of age: 1 |
The household of George Augustine LUCAS was enumerated
on the page following that (fol. 135v) on which the
household of Elmore DOUGLASS, M. D. is recorded. About
Elmore DOUGLASS, M. D., see note
3 under G0493B:
John ALLEN in Descendants
of Robert Allen (ABT 1674 - ABT 1775).
Note 2: The marriage of George Augustine LUCAS
to Mary ("Polly") ALLEN was performed by John
Wisman. At some time during the 1820s, George Augustine
LUCAS and Mary ("Polly") ALLEN moved their
family to New Orleans, Louisiana, settling on an estate
called "Shady Vale." In 1830, the City
Directory of New Orleans, in Orleans Parish, shows
George Augustine LUCAS residing or doing business at 40
Magazine Street and there occupied as a commission
merchant. He, evidently, like many planters in that
region, maintained two domiciles, one in the country -
where he farmed - and the other in the city - where he
had access to markets. According to the legend which has
been preserved among the descendants of Sarah Rebecca
LUCAS, George Augustine LUCAS died, in New Orleans, in an
epidemic of yellow fever. In his memorandum of May 1914,
William Wilson SLOAN recorded that his paternal
grandfather, George Augustine LUCAS, had died between
1830 and 1832. [See the memorandum in Descendants
of Archibald Sloan (BEF 1697 - BEF March 1764).] Sam Riley (Virginia Polytechnic Institute
and State University) reports the following in the Journal
of Magazine & New Media Research 1.2 (Fall
1999):
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"It might
seem surprising that four French-language medical
journals were published in New Orleans during the
1800s, but for the consideration of the
city’s moist, semi-tropical climate. Such a
climate lent itself to a succession of epidemics
in which tropical and malarial diseases killed
hundreds, sometimes thousands of the city’s
residents yearly. Yellow fever was a terrible
killer, especially in 1817, 1819, 1820, 1832,
1847, and 1853, the worst year of all, when
nearly 8,000 died from it. Cholera was especially
rampant in 1832, killing roughly one-seventh of
the city’s population, and in 1877 smallpox
killed 2,000. These and other medical problems
made medicine a particularly salient topic in
this epidemic-racked city." |
1832, then, was the year in which New
Orleans was struck by two epidemics, Yellow fever and
cholera. In any year, the season for yellow fever in New
Orleans was July, August, and September. And, in 1832,
New Orleans was attacked by cholera in October and
November. The family Bible of Robert ALLEN, the brother
of Mary ("Polly") Webster ALLEN, records a date
of death, for George Augustine LUCAS, as 22 June 1832.
However, 27 June 1831 is the date consistently given by
his widow in documents dating from 1851 to 1887.
From the United States Census of East
Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, for 1830, the following can
be deduced:
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George LUCAS, age
between 30 and 40
Wife, age between 30 and 40
Daughter, age under 5
Daughter, age 5 to 10 |
But this seems not to be the same
household as that of George Augustine LUCAS.
See Fielding
Lucas, Jr. (3 September 1781 - 12 March 1854): Map of
Louisiana.
Note 3: 40 Magazine Street, New Orleans, Louisiana:
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In the time of George Augustine
LUCAS, 40 Magazine Street, in New Orleans, would
have been located not far from its intersection
with Canal Street, and near Gravier, just inside
the English-speaking Faubourg Ste. Marie. In the
1820s and 1830s, New Orleans would have contained
hundreds of acres of empty lots, endowing much of
the city with a bucolic - if "bucolic"
can be the adjective which applies to a malarial
wetland - appearance.
The Faubourg Ste. Marie was
subdivided from land which had belonged to the
personal estate of Jean Baptiste le Moyne, Sieur
de Bienville and which, after Bienville, had been
acquired by the Society of Jesus. The area of the
Faubourg Ste. Marie is today the Lower Garden
District. In the 1820s, much of the Garden
District was being subdivided from the Livaudais
plantation.
The cartographic image below is a
detail taken from Norman's Plan of New
Orleans and Environs (New Orleans: 1845). As
of 1845, when B. M. Norman published the map, the
layout and names of the streets nearest the east
bank of the Mississippi River were virtually
unchanged from what they had been in 1830. But,
thanks to the whims of the River and to the
United States Army Corps of Engineers, many
differences will be found between these streets
as they are today and as they were then.
The location of 40 Magazine
Street in 1830 is marked (+). 40
Magazine Street was located at the intersection
of Magazine and Gravier, immediately above
Gravier, on the left-hand side. In 1833, after
the death of George Augustine LUCAS, Banks's
Arcade was constructed along the entire block, on
the left-hand side of Magazine, from Gravier to
Natchez. A portion of the arcade is still (2002)
standing. At this location, a historic plaque
reads as follows:
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"These buildings
were once part of the notable BANKS'S
ARCADE, erected in 1833 by Thomas Banks,
Charles F. Zimpel, Architect. A
glass-roofed arcade extended from Natchez
to Gravier Streets. The upper stories of
this corner building contained John
Hewlett's Restaurant. On October 13,
1835, a committee of New Orleans Friends
of Texas met in Banks's Arcade to plan
operations to aid the Texas Revolution.
These buildings restored 1941 by J. Aron
& Co., Inc., Emilio Levy,
Architect." |
Concerning Banks's Arcade, The
Handbook of Texas Online reports:
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TAMPICO EXPEDITION.
After his election to the presidency of
Mexico in 1833, Antonio López de Santa
Anna left the inauguration of the new
liberal policy to the vice president,
Valentín Gómez Farías, went into
political retirement for a few months,
and emerged as leader of the reaction. He
assumed dictatorial powers, dissolving
state and national legislatures.
Insurrections broke out at various
points; Zacatecas, Coahuila, and Texas
refused to accept centralism, holding to
the Constitution of 1824. In New Orleans
a movement, led by George Fisher and
José Antonio Mexía, began at Bank's
Arcade on October 13, 1835; the members
of the movement raised men and money for
an expedition to attack Tampico in an
effort to stir up an insurrection in the
eastern states of Mexico. Mexía, who was
to lead the expedition, communicated the
plan to the Texas leaders who approved
it, although some, Stephen F. Austin
among them, advocated an attack on
Matamoros instead. Counting on the
support of the liberals known to be among
the members of the garrison at Tampico,
Mexía and his 150 "efficient
emigrants" left New Orleans on
November 6, 1835, on the schooner Mary
Jane. The schooner ran aground off
the bar of Tampico on November 14. This
disaster, together with a premature
uprising of the garrison on November 13
and the arrival of fresh troops from
Tuxpan, upset Mexía's plans; he attacked
the city held by Gregorio Gómez on
November 15, was defeated, withdrew on
the American schooner Halcyon, and
embarked for the mouth of the Brazos
River, where he landed his troops on
December 3. Thirty-one prisoners were
left at Tampico; of these, three died of
wounds; the others were tried by court
martial and shot on December 14. BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Hubert Howe Bancroft, History of the
North Mexican States and Texas (2
vols., San Francisco: History Company,
1886, 1889). Eugene C. Barker, "The
Tampico Expedition," Quarterly of
the Texas State Historical Association
6 (January 1903).
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NORMAN'S
PLAN of NEW ORLEANS & ENVIRONS: 1845
Henry Moellhausen (frequently
spelled Mollhausen), a civil engineer
who sometimes worked with the celebrated
architect, James Dakin, made the survey from
which B. M. Norman published his map in 1845. In
1836, New Orleans was divided into three separate
municipalities, each with its own constituent
wards. Between the First and Second
Municipalities, Canal Street - as is shown on the
map - was the boundary. From 1836 until 1852, New
Orleans was a civic locale in which it was
necessary to fight not one city hall but,
instead, three.
40 Magazine Street (+),
the office of George Augustine LUCAS, is shown at
the intersection of Magazine and Gravier,
immediately above Gravier, on the left-hand side.
Charity Hospital (+)
is shown facing Common, between St. Mary and
Girond.
The St. Charles Exchange Hotel (+)
is shown facing St. Charles, between Common and
Gravier.
First Presbyterian Church (+)
is shown facing St. Charles, between Gravier and
Union.
St. Patrick's Church (Roman
Catholic) (+) is shown where St.
Mary terminates at Lafayette Square.
The Julia
Street Wharf (+) is shown on the
riverfront eight blocks west of Canal, in the
Second Municipality.
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Note 4: In the middle name of Eliza Webb LUCAS,
it seems that "Webb" was short for
"Webster."
Note 5: Samuel
A. MCCLELLAN was the son of Isaac Brownlow MCCLELLAN
and Margaret R. GREER, the daughter of Samuel GREER and
Rebecca MCCRACKEN and the sister of Rebecca GREER, first
wife of Robert ALLEN. [See G0494A:
George Meade ALLEN, note 3, in Descendants
of Robert Allen (ABT 1674 - ABT 1775).] He and Sarah
Rebecca LUCAS are both interred in the Flatonia City
Cemetery, Fayette County, Texas.
Note
6: The children of Sara Rebecca LUCAS and Samuel
A. MCCLELLAN were Samuel MCCLELLAN (5 September 1843,
Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee - 14 May 1846,
Tennessee); Elizabeth ("Eliza") W. MCCLELLAN
(1845, Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee - April
1881, near La Grange [Justice Precinct 7], Fayette
County, Texas: interment at Cozy Corner, Fayette County,
Texas), who married Samuel Berry BROWN (1840, Alabama -
April 1881, near La Grange [Justice Precinct 7], Fayette
County, Texas: interment at Cozy Corner, Fayette County,
Texas) on 9 January 1868 in Fayette County, Texas; Julia
Mae ("Aunt Babe") MCCLELLAN (25 August 1847,
Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee - 10 August 1935,
San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas), who first married
Robert Upton BARKLEY, Sr. (25 January 1845, Texas - 26
March 1919) of San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas, on 4
March 1869, and who second married her first cousin,
William Wilson SLOAN, after 11 July 1919 [Notice of her
marriage to William Wilson SLOAN was published in the Gonzales
Inquirer 6 November 1920. See G0492A:
Martin W. SLOAN, Child 4: William Wilson SLOAN in Descendants of
Archibald Sloan (BEF 1697 - BEF March
1764).]; George A. MCCLELLAN (1852, Texas -
AFT 1879), who married Amanda HOUSE on 4 March 1879;
Margaret ("Maggie") Eloise MCCLELLAN (1858,
Texas - 21 July 1925, San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas),
who was married to R. B. BERRY; and Mollie MCCLELLAN
(1859, Texas - 24 July 1865, Texas).
About Elizabeth ("Eliza") W. MCCLELLAN and
Samuel Berry BROWN, from Fayette County Cemeteries,
TXGenWeb Project:
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Sam & Eliza Brown
Graves Cozy Corner
According to the Joe Cole Cemetery Survey of
1958, these graves are on Mr. Edgar Anders
property, that at one time was the Dr. J. P.
BROWN Plantation near the Cozy Corner
neighborhood. Mr. Cole spoke with Laura Dobbins
of Cozy Corner who said she was born on Dr.
BROWN's place in 1878 and that her mother was a
witness to the events that took place on April
30, 1881. Mr. BROWN killed his wife and child and
then killed himself. They were buried in one
grave underneath a large live oak tree. Ms.
Dobbins said there was a stone at the grave and
that all Mr. Cole would want to know would be
found on the stone. Mr. Cole tracked down Mr.
Anders who took him to the site on top of a high
hill in a clump of live oak trees. There was a
marble stone that was broken into 3 pieces, one
piece had a pretty verse on it and the other two
were blank. Mr. Anders said that about 14 years
previous (c.1944) some people from Dallas had
come to visit the grave and shortly thereafter he
found the stone broken and the piece with the
names and dates missing. Mr. Anders did not know
what was inscribed on the missing piece but a
black man from the area who did not want his name
mentioned said that it told of the murder and
suicide and he thought that a relation of Mr.
Brown's had carried it away. [Joe Cole #071W]
Norman Krischke did further research on this
site in December 1990 and found a news article
about the incident in the La Grange Journal
of May 5, 1881 (available in archives). It states
that Sam BROWN killed himself and his wife. He
cut his wife's (Eliza W. McClellan BROWN) throat
with a razor and then his own with the same
weapon. Mrs. BROWN tried to get away from him by
running to her neighbors house but Mr. BROWN
pursued her and caught her some 100 yards from
the house where he cut her throat killing her
instantly, then cut his own throat and bled to
death in about two hours. While he was pursuing
Mrs. BROWN, his daughter, about 8 years old (Lily
Emma), caught his coat and begged him to desist.
Mr. BROWN thrust the razor around and cut her
hand slightly and told her that he would kill her
if she did not leave him alone. The little girl
witnessed the startling tragedy and her retelling
of the events is heart-rending. A Negro woman on
the premises ran to the neighbors to get help. An
inquest was held and the two bodies were buried
at Dr. J. P. BROWN's on May 1, 1881. It is
generally supposed that the cause of the horrible
deed was the temporary insanity of Mr. BROWN, as
he was not considered a bad man at heart. The
deceased leave behind three little children all
sick with the measles.
Further research by Krischke tells us that
Samuel B. BROWN married Eliza W. McClellan on
January 9, 1868. Sam was the son of Dr. John P.
BROWN and Eliza was the daughter of S. A. &
Sarah Rebecca Lucas MCCLELLAN (who are both
buried at Oak Hill Cemetery in Flatonia, her name
listed as Sarah A. MCCLELLAN).
According to papers in the
BARKLEY-BROWN-MCCLELLAN-SLOAN file in the Freytag
Collection in the Fayette Heritage Archives, the
children's names were: Lily Emma (the oldest and
who witnessed the incident), Harry, and Sara (or
Sadie). Lilly Emma & Sara/Sadie went to live
with their McClellan grandparents in Flatonia
where Sara/Sadie died in January 1882 (no marked
grave found). Harry went to live with his
grandfather, Dr. J. P. BROWN. Dr. BROWN died in
1884 and Harry was sent to another BROWN relative
near Fort Worth. Harry and Emma were not allowed
to see each other after the deaths, but when
Harry was 17 (c. 1892) he ran away to see his
sister. Lily Emma BROWN married George R. SMITH
and possibly died 4-20-1962 in Luling. Harry
BROWN died several years prior to 1962.
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Note: In
the United States Census of 1880 for
Fayette County, Texas, the name of
"Sarah/Sadie" BROWN is given as
"Sada." Lily Emma BROWN was
born in 1872, Harry BROWN was born in
1875, and Sada BROWN was born in 1878. |
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Note
7: After the death of George Augustine LUCAS,
from 1835 to 1838, Mary Webster ALLEN and her daughters
resided at "Greenwood" with Col. Robert ALLEN
in Carthage, Tennessee. It was there that Martin W. SLOAN
courted and married Eliza Webb LUCAS in 1838. Afterward,
Mary Webster ALLEN and her remaining two daughters
resided at "Allenwood" with Col. John ALLEN in
Gallatin, Tennessee. Subsequently, around 1842, Sarah
Rebecca LUCAS married Samuel MCCLELLAN. As is shown by
the United States Census for 1850, Sarah and Samuel
MCCLELLAN were residing, in Nashville, next door to Eliza
and Martin W. SLOAN. On 16 June 1850, Letitia LUCAS
married Rosseau S. SNELL and, in 1857, moved with him to
LaGrange, Fayette County, Texas. In 1851, from shortly
before the middle of March until 19 March, the families
of Martin W. SLOAN and Samuel A. MCCLELLAN journeyed by
river from Nashville, Tennessee to New Orleans, Louisiana
on the steamboat Iroquois. (The family legend
which says that they traveled overland from Nashville to
board a vessel at Memphis is incorrect.) From New
Orleans, on 5 April, the families SLOAN and MCCLELLAN
took the Louisiana, a vessel powered by both
steam and sail, to Galveston, Texas on a journey that
lasted two days and two nights. On 8 April, from
Galveston, the families SLOAN and MCCLELLAN resumed their
voyage on the Louisiana which, on 9 April,
passed over the sand bars at Matagorda Bay and landed at
Indianola, Texas. On 13 April, they subsequently boarded
a steamboat, the William Penn, at Indianola, and
continued up the Guadalupe River to Victoria. After
reaching Victoria and after a number of
"vexatious" delays, the families SLOAN and
MCCLELLAN journeyed by stagecoach up the Guadalupe Valley
to Seguín, with a stop at Cuero. From Seguín, the
family MCCLELLAN took a stagecoach toward LaGrange,
Texas. [For the details of this journey, see From Tennessee to Texas: The Diary of
Sarah Rebecca Lucas McClellan and the Letter of William
Wilson Sloan: Texts.] Although Martin W. SLOAN, by
the middle of 1851, had settled his family in Seguín,
Guadalupe County, Texas, Eliza Webb LUCAS, his wife,
expressed such dissatisfaction with Seguín that, by
1852, the family had returned to Indianola. It seems
likely that the route which the families SLOAN and
MCCLELLAN took to Texas was the same as that which would
be taken, in 1857, by the family of Rosseau S. SNELL.
Note 8: It
seems clear that Mary ("Polly") Webster ALLEN
(Mrs. George Augustine LUCAS) moved to Texas with the
family of Rosseau S. SNELL in November 1857. By 1868, she
was in LaGrange, Fayette County, Texas as the
proprietoress of a ferry she owned on the Colorado River.
Contract no. 9486 demonstrates that she sold to her
daughters, Sarah and Letitia, for one dollar, her title,
claim, and interest to the ferry, ferry boat, tackle, and
the fixtures. The contract is dated 9 July 1868. In 1870,
the United States Census for Fayette County, Texas shows
that Mary ("Polly") Webster ALLEN was living
with her daughter, Letitia, and her two granddaughters.
Letitia's husband, R. S. SNELL, and two of her children
had perished in the epidemic of Yellow Fever which
overtook Fayette County in 1867. In 1889, Mary
("Polly") Webster ALLEN (Mrs. George Augustine
LUCAS) died on 14 January and was buried in the City
Cemetery, Flatonia, Fayette County, Texas. She lies
interred in the Cadwell - Snell lot just north of that of
the family of Samuel A. MCCLELLAN, including Sarah
Rebecca LUCAS (Mrs. Samuel A. MCCLELLAN). At the time
when Mary ("Polly") Webster ALLEN (Mrs. George
Augustine LUCAS) died, Sarah Rebecca LUCAS (Mrs. Samuel
A. MCCLELLAN) was operating a boarding house in Flatonia.
Note 9: Rosseau S. SNELL was first
married to Louisa M. ROBERTSON (27 August 1811,
Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee - 29 May 1848,
Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee), in Davidson
County, Tennessee on 20 November 1833. Of this marriage,
Laura M. SNELL, who married Hugh McNary CADWELL, was born
16 February 1848. Rosseau S. SNELL was second married to
Letitia M. LUCAS (26 May 1826, New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, Louisiana - 11 September 1901, Fayette County,
Texas) on 16 June 1850, in Davidson County, Tennessee. Of
this marriage, Mary E. SNELL (31 August 1851 - 5
September 1915), Rossella ("Rossie") SNELL (29
March 1859 - 25 October 1880), Josephine SNELL (6 March
1853 - 22 February 1867), Letitia L. SNELL (8 November
1854 - 23 February 1867), and Carrie SNELL (November 1857
- 28 August 1918) were born. Carrie SNELL was born aboard
ship in Galveston Bay, in November 1857, as the family,
on its way from Tennesse to its new home in Texas, was
making its way to Indianola. Josephine SNELL and Leticia
L. SNELL, in February 1867, perished within two days of
each other in LaGrange, Fayette County, Texas during an
epidemic of Yellow Fever. Rosseau S. SNELL died during
this same epidemic and is buried in LaGrange. Among all
his descendants, Rosseau S. SNELL's second wife, Letitia
M. LUCAS, was known as "Granny LUCAS."
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G0492A: Eliza Webb LUCAS [002]
Birth: 1818, Gallatin, Sumner County, Tennessee
Death: 18 January 1883, Flatonia, Fayette County,
Texas
Father:
George Augustine LUCAS, Lieutenant (1793, Fauquier
County, Virginia - 27 June 1832, New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, Louisiana)
Mother: Mary ("Polly") Webster ALLEN (22
August 1797, <Augusta County>, Virginia- 14 January
1889, Flatonia, Fayette County, Texas) [See G0493A:
Mary ("Polly") Webster ALLEN in Descendants
of Robert Allen (ABT 1674 - ABT 1775).]
Marriage: 27 September 1838, Carthage, Smith
County, Tennessee
Spouse: Martin W. SLOAN (29 July 1803, Pleasant
Shade, Smith County, Tennessee - 6 July 1878, Flatonia,
Fayette County, Texas) [See G0492A: Martin
W. SLOAN in Descendants of
Archibald Sloan (BEF 1697 - BEF March 1674).]
Child 1: Mary Lucas SLOAN (August 1839,
Carthage, Smith County, Tennessee - 20 July 1864, Fayette
County, Texas, Confederate States of America: interment
at La Grange Old City Cemetery, La Grange, Fayette
County, Texas) [F]: m. Robert Spears SHANNON (11
September 1823 - 12 October 1897), 29 January 1861
Child 2: Rebecca McClellan SLOAN (October 1841,
Carthage, Smith County, Tennessee - 1865, Fayette County,
Texas) [F]
Child 3: Louis Phillips SLOAN (September 1844,
Carthage, Smith County, Tennessee - 3 April 1850,
Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee) [M]
Child 4:
William Wilson SLOAN (25 September 1845, Carthage,
Smith County, Tennessee - 29 November 1925, San Antonia,
Bexar County, Texas) [M]: m1. Mary ("Molly")
Frances SMITH (April 1848, Mississippi - 11 July 1919,
San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas): m2. Julia Mae
("Aunt Babe") MCCLELLAN (25 August 1847,
Tennessee - 10 August 1935, San Antonio, Bexar County,
Texas) [See above, G0493A:
George Augustine LUCAS, Lieutenant, Note 6 and
see Note
6, under G0493A:
Sarah Rebecca LUCAS, in Descendants
of Robert Allen (ABT 1674 - ABT 1775) and, above, G0493A,
Note 6.]
Child 5: Samuella ("Sammie") Eliza
SLOAN (6 September 1847, Carthage, Smith County,
Tennessee - 11 March 1878, Oso, Fayette County, Texas:
interment at Pine Springs Cemetery, Oso, Fayette County,
Texas) [F]: m. Benjamine Franklin BURKE (13 June 1839,
Burke's Landing, Union County, Arkansas - 30 March 1908,
Yoakum, Lavaca County, Texas: interment at Oak Grove
Cemetery, Yoakum, Lavaca County, Texas), AFT 1870,
Fayette County, Texas
Child 6: Martin Jennings SLOAN (5 July 1849,
Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee - 1902, Flatonia,
Fayette County, Texas) [M]: m. Lucy SULLIVAN (August
1853, Mississippi - AFT 10 June 1900, <Flatonia,
Fayette County>, Texas)
Child 7: Joseph Dudley SLOAN (12 May 1852, Indianola,
Calhoun County, Texas - 1 April 1921, Wichita Falls,
Wichita County, Texas) [M]: m1. Frances
("Fannie") Rebecca MERCER (ABT 1854 - AFT 15
March 1881 and BEF 13 July 1884), Flatonia, Fayette
County, Texas: m2. Della Amanda COX (26 September 1865,
Smith County, Texas - 7 December 1925, Lake Charles,
Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana) [See G0491A:
Joseph Dudley SLOAN in Descendants
of Archibald Sloan (BEF 1697 - BEF March 1674) and
see G0491A: Della Amanda COX in Descendants
of John Cox (1 November 1727 - ABT 1804/05).]
Note 1: The following account was written by
William Wilson SLOAN. In it, he is recalling details
furnished to him by his father, Martin W. SLOAN.
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THE
SLOAN FAMILY TREE Written by W. W. SLOAN,
May 1914
Somewhere about A.D. 1750 my Great Grandfather
SLOAN landed and settled in North Carolina from
Scotland. He had several brothers whom were
Presbyterians. In North Carolina my Grandfather
Archibald SLOAN was born in about 1765. He had
four brothers in the Revolutionary Army.1
About the year 1795 - he with his family and a
brother Jasper2
left N.C. and moved to what was afterward Smith
Co. Tenn. Here in 1803 On July 29 - my father
Martin W. SLOAN was born. My father was I think,
the third son. His brothers were born in the
order named - William John - James D.- Samuel and
Hugh. I think there were two daughters one of
whom was named Margaret - the other Sophia who
married a John SLOAN (not related) from Alabama.
Margaret married a man by the name of Coker -
they moved to Missouri.
The SLOANs all settled in Tenn. - James D.
near Humbolt - Hugh died young. In later years
Sam SLOAN moved to Comanche Co. Texas - I think
about 1878.
My father in early life was prosperous and
gathered together quite a nice property and
retired from active Mercantile pursuits to a farm
about two, miles from Carthage, Tenn. where he
had been in business - but placing too much
confidence in man - misfortune came and he lost
about all he had saved - and so dispirited was he
that he sold what little he had left and in March
1851 left Nashville to which place he moved in
1849 and came to Texas - landing at Indianola and
in early 1851 removed to Seguín, Texas. After a
few months sojourn here, my Mother becoming
greatly dissatisfied - he returned to Indianola.3
In the year 18374
my father was married to Eliza W. LUCAS in
Carthage Tenn. To them was born Mary Lucas in
Aug. 1839, Rebecca McClellan in Oct. 1841, Louis
Phillips in 1843, William Wilson in Sept. 25,
1845, Samuella Eliza in Sept. 6, 1847, Martin
Jennings in July 5, 1849, Joseph Dudley in May
1852. Of the children Louis died in Nashville in
1850, Mary in Fayette Co. Texas in 1864, Rebecca
in Fayette Co. Texas in Dec. 1865, Samuella in
Fayette Co., Texas in 1878,5
Martin in 1902.
My father died in Flatonia, Texas July 6, 1878
being 75 years of age lacking 23 days.
My fathers brother Jasper had a son Archibald
but I do not know what became of them.
My mother's maiden name was Eliza W. LUCAS and
her mother was Mary ALLEN, an aunt of Sam
HOUSTON's first wife.6
My Grandfather on mother's side was Fielding W.
LUCAS7
who died in New Orleans in about 1830 or
32. His mother's name (maiden) was Sarah
Adrington JENNINGS8
and she was a lineal descendant of William or
Humphrey JENNINGS the founder of the great
Jennings Estate now held under tenure by the
Crown of England. She, my Great grandmother,
always prided herself on her pure English blood
of Nobility.
My mother died in Flatonia, Texas - Jan 18,
1883.
My only brother now living is in Sweetwater,
Texas.9
Editorial Notes:
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1. William
Wilson SLOAN appears to have confused
his paternal grandfather with his
great-great grandfather. And the landing
of his family in British North America
did not occur as recently as his father
had led him to believe. 2.
Unless
"Jasper" is understood as a
nickname for James D. SLOAN, who did have
a son named Archibald, the identity of
Jasper SLOAN is unclear. The names of the
siblings of William Wilson SLOAN's
paternal grandfather are well attested.
But "Jasper," as it happens,
was indeed a common nickname for
"James."
3. Upon
returning to Indianola, Martin W. SLOAN
assumed proprietorship of a hotel. As the
following account makes clear, his
fortunes did not improve:
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Daily Ranchero,
Brownsville, Texas, September 1,
1867
DR. F. E. HUGHES ON YELLOW
FEVER — HOW IT IS
INTRODUCED.
[Reprinted from the Indianola
Bulletin, Indianola, Texas,
August 22, 1867]
Now that we have passed through
one of the most direful scourges
to which our little city has ever
been subjected, it behoves us as
a people, to take notes, and if
possible, let us arrive at the
true cause which originated this
dreadful disease. The first
question, then, “Is yellow
fever sui generis, and
if so, is it indigenous to our
locality?” I contend, that
it is not either, but that it is
an exotic and must be
imported. As well may you
tell me that small pox, measles
and scarlet fever can be
generated. Thirty years
since, and the physician who had
openly announced that the Itch
was propagated and kept alive by
an animal, would have been
hooted, it was then thought to be
filth, but the microscope has
developed a distinct living
animal. I don’t care
if a child is allowed to wallow
in a pig-sty and fatten with the
pigs, as long as you keep him
from coming in contact with a
living scabies, he will have no
itch; then if cleanliness is
neglected the disease will spread
rapidly, and without proper
cleanliness he never will
recover. The medical profession
are fast becoming a unit, that
Asiatic cholera is propagated by
means of a living thing, whether
that be animal, or vegetable
life, they are as yet
undecided. All of our most
recent writers have classed
yellow fever with cholera as a
fatal disease, and communicable
from one person to another
through the excretions of the
infected party the marked
difference in the two, being that
the yellow fever prisona
is strictly a tropical plant or
animal, and cannot , if exposed
to a temperature of 22 degrees,
survive. You may, however,
for weeks keep them alive, though
the thermometer may go to zero,
if carefully enclosed in woolen
blankets, yet they have a certain
time to die, and if not allowed
to reproduce in the human body,
they become extinct. They
will not survive a period of four
months, and if once dead, I would
as soon expect, should the entire
cane crop of the United States be
destroyed by a freeze, to
reproduce it by artificial means.
No, sir, we must first go where
the cane crop is a perennial to
get the seed; and if you light
upon the vessel, you may import a
new crop of yellow fever.
I now propose to trace the origin
of yellow fever, since and during
residence at this place and Old
Indianola — During
the winter of ’49 and
’50, I located at Old
Indianola, three miles
above. We had no yellow
fever until the later part of
’52. On the morning of
the 20thb I was
sent for to visit a Mr. Jackson
then at Sloan’s Hotel, who
had, the day previous arrived per
steamer from New Orleans. I
found him with all the
characteristics symptoms of a
well marked case of yellow
fever. Mark you, there was
not another case of sickness in
the town. It was
“distressingly”
healthy. In a few days Mr.
Jackson recovered, and I was
congratulating the inmates of the
Hotel, under the belief that this
case would be the last; but we
were doomed to
disappointment. In less
than twelve days nine of the ten
members of Mr. Sloan’s
family were down. A German
girl who worked in the house left
sick. From her it spread
among the German families, and
from the family of Mr. Sloan, it
was easily traceable.
In 1853 I had removed to Powder
Horn Wharf. During the latter
part of July, the vessels plying
direct to New Orleans, where the
fever was then raging, landed
their entire cargoes at the T
head. The first case that
occurred was one of the wharf
hands. There were but few houses
within a mile of the wharf, and
they three and four hundred yards
apart; all other houses having
been destroyed a month previous
by fire, and every citizen, who
had not before had the disease,
was a victim, with one single
exception. So far the
unacclimated citizens of
Indianola (by unacclimated I mean
those who have not had yellow
fever) kept aloof; but gaining
confidence by its seeming
disappearance, they came down and
soon the disease raged with fury
what is now called Old
Indianola. As for a local
cause, there were only four
houses, and they distant from
each other. The clean shell
beach was covered with a dense,
woody growth, with the exception
of the shell road, the sites of
the four houses and the burnt
district, yet covered with ashes.
The next epidemic was in
1858. Of this I know
nothing personally; but J. M.
Reuss, who has had perhaps, more
experience with this disease than
any other physician on our coast,
west of Galveston, furnishes me
with the following statement.
“During the month of
September, 1858, I took the first
case of yellow fever that
occurred, on this bay to the City
Hospital from one of the steamers
plying to New Orleans. In
the afternoon of the same day, I
took my children out riding in
the same buggy. Four days
after, both of my children were
simultaneously attacked with
yellow fever. Twenty days
after this the disease became
general.”
In 1862 we had it again.
This time the disease ran the
blockade on board the steamers California
and Gen. Rusk. The
first case was one of the crew of
the Rusk whom I called on to see
with Dr. Davis, of
Victoria. From him it
spread.
Now we come to consider how the
present epidemic of 1867 made its
advent. — On the 11th of
May, the schooner Margarita,
an American vessel, with some
twenty passengers set sail for
this port. She came to
anchor in our harbor on the 21st
of the same month. She was
boarded by Mr. C. R. Prouty,
Deputy Collector and thoroughly
examined. Nineteen days
after Mr. Prouty was attacked
with yellow fever. On board
this schooner, was one Mr.
Dechort, wife and three children,
besides other stock and
plunder. This Mr. Dechort
had a lot of second-hand blankets
which he wished to dispose of at
auction. A drayman by the
name of Hunter was engaged to
haul them, and a lad by the name
of Cook assisted in loading
them. These two were the
first save one other a carpenter
recently from the North, who fell
victims to the disease. —
Another, and among the first
cases was Mr. DeMurguiendo, who
arrived direct from Baltimore,
and was put in the same room that
Mr. Dechort and family had
occupied. In six days he
had the disease. The
second-hand blankets were exposed
and sold at auction, and soon the
disease became general, striking
down our citizens by twenties and
fifties.
The facts herein stated, I hold
myself ready to prove.
F. E. Hughes, M. D.
Certificate
I, Wm. Andrews do hereby
certify that I, in company with
Thomas Duke, did on or about the
25th day of May examine a certain
lot of blankets, offered for sale
at Messrs. Murdock &
Milby’s auction room,
Indianola. Said blankets were
left with Messrs. Murdock &
Milby by a person who came from
Vera Cruz on or about the 20th
day of May, on the schooner Margarita.
Three days subsequent I left
Indianola for my home on Hynes
Bay and in the evening of the
same day I was attacked with
yellow fever. My companion
Mr. Duke, was attacked on the 4th
day with the same disease and
died a few days afterward.
A Negro woman who attended upon
Mr. Duke was attacked on the 14th
day and died four or five days
afterwards.
Witnesses: Wm.
Andrews, G. Seelingson, F. Hunt.
Editorial Note:
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a.
yellow
fever prison:
Hughes means the
organic vessel or medium
to which the disease is
naturally confined. b.
the
morning of the 20th: Hughes
does not say which month;
but it was most likely in
July, August, or
September.
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Of
course, about yellow fever, Dr. Hughes
was thoroughly incorrect. Yellow fever is
a viral infection spread, as Maj. Walter
Reed, USA (13 September 1851, Belroi,
Virginia - 22 November 1902, Washington,
D. C.) discovered, by the female of Stegomyia
fasciata (Aedes aegypti).
It was Maj. William Crawford Gorgas, USA
(3 October 1854, Toulminville, Alabama -
3 July 1920, Queen Alexandra Hospital,
London, England) who discovered the means
of eradicating the disease. William
Crawford Gorgas was the son of Brig. Gen.
Josiah Gorgas, CSA (1 July 1818, Running
Pumps, Pennsylvania - 15 May 1883,
Tuscaloosa, Alabama).
4. Martin
W. SLOAN and Eliza Webb LUCAS were
married on 27 September 1838. In 1849,
they moved to Nashville, Davidson County,
Tennessee; and, in March 1851, they
migrated to Indianola, Calhoun County,
Texas. It is certain that the family of
Martin W. SLOAN went overland by coach
from Nashville to Memphis, Tennesse and
that the family travelled by steamboat
from Memphis to New Orleans, Louisiana.
From New Orleans, they took another
steamboat to Galveston, Texas. From
Galveston, they boarded a sailing ship
which took them past Matagorda Bay into
Indianola. For further details concerning
this journey, see From
Tennessee to Texas: The Diary of Sarah
Rebecca Lucas McClellan and the Letter of
William Wilson Sloan: Texts. And see
above, G0493A:
George Augustine LUCAS, Lieutenant,
note 7.
5. Samuella
Eliza SLOAN married Benjamine
Franklin BURKE (13 June 1839, Burke's
Landing, Union County, Arkansas - 30
March 1908, Yoakum, Lavaca County, Texas:
interment at Oak Grove Cemetery, Yoakum,
Lavaca County, Texas). Her gravestone, at
Pine Springs Cemetery, Oso, Fayette
County, Texas, is inscribed as follows:
Sammie E. Sloan BURKE, September 6, 1847
- March 11, 1878. She and Benjamine
Franklin BURKE were probably married, in
Fayette County, Texas shortly after 1870.
Benjamine Franklin BURKE was the son
of James BURKE (20 October 1797, Kentucky
- 22 March 1873, Oso, Fayette County,
Texas: interment at Pine Springs
Cemetery, Oso, Fayette County, Texas) and
Martha ("Patsy") OGDEN (5 June
1805, Montgomery County, North Carolina -
5 February 1897, Oso, Fayette County,
Texas: interment at Pine Springs
Cemetery, Oso, Fayette County, Texas).
The gravestone of Martha
("Patsy") OGDEN, at Pine
Springs Cemetery, is inscribed for
"Martha Ogden BURKE."
In the BURKE section of the Pine
Springs Cemetery, there is - or was - a
gravestone inscribed thus: Infant Girl
BURKE, February 27, 1878. This, very
likely, was the child of Samuella Eliza
SLOAN and Benjamine Franklin BURKE.
Samuella Eliza SLOAN may well have died
in the aftermath of complications in
childbirth. Of the marriage of Benjamine
Franklin BURKE and Samuella Eliza SLOAN,
there was no surviving issue.
Other than the graves of Samuella
Eliza SLOAN, James BURKE, Martha
("Patsy") OGDEN, Infant Girl
BURKE, the only other burial for this
family in the Pine Springs Cemetery is
that of Willie BURKE, whose gravestone is
inscribed as follows: Willie BURKE, June
21, 1878 - July 27, 1880. The parentage
of this individual is not known.
There is, in the Pine Springs
Cemetery, also a burial for Girl SLOAN,
dated 3 February 1877. This is likely to
have been the infant daughter of Martin
Jennings SLOAN and Lucy SULLIVAN. There
is a burial in the Pine Springs Cemetery
for "E. J. SULLIVAN, March 4, 1820 -
May 11, 1873." This may have been
the husband of Lucy SULLIVAN (née
UNKNOWN) (April 1818, North Carolina -
AFT 10 June 1900, <Flatonia, Fayette
County>, Texas), the mother-in-law of
Martin Jennings SLOAN.
About the Pine Springs Cemetery, Karen
Monsen gives an account:
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"This
cemetery was visited in November
1986. It is located on Fayette
County Road #355. The actual site
is reached by walking along a
path some 25 yards from the road.
Tall cedar trees are growing on
either side of the path creating
a tunnel. The cemetery is
surrounded by a board fence. We
found headstones with 32 readable
names on them but there are many
more unknown burials in this
cemetery. On the gate leading to
the path is a sign stating:
"Pine Springs Cemetery was
used by the town of Oso and
surrounding area for over 40
years, from 1860 until about
1900. Pine Springs Chapel
Methodist Episcopal South stood
on this site but was destroyed by
fire September 26,1880."
(Note: The cemetery, after
falling into disrepair in the
early 1900s, was completely
restored in 1968 by Mrs. Gregg
Ring. Karen Monsen and Elizabeth
Brown visited the site again in
1997 and the cemetery is in
complete disrepair. Most
tombstones are broken and
unreadable or buried under
growth. An excellent history of
the cemetery was written by
Norman C. Krischke called
"Pine Springs Cemetery"
in September 1997. The history
notes that Abraham and Rhoda
Byler, who are buried at Pine
Springs, are the grandparents of
J. Frank Dobie." |
Benjamine Franklin BURKE was a veteran
of Company F, the Eighth Regiment, Texas
Cavalry (Terry's Texas Rangers),
Confederate States Army. He was mustered
into Company F, in Houston, Texas, on 7
September 1861. He saw action at Shiloh
and suffered a gunshot wound to the neck
at Chickamauga. Returning to action after
Chickamauga in late 1863, he was present
for duty in September 1864. At enlistment
and at discharge, he held the rank of
Private.
After the death of Samuella Eliza
SLOAN, Benjamine Franklin BURKE married
Georgia Ann Texas CULPEPPER (21 March
1851, Lafayette County, Mississippi - 12
November 1905, Yoakum, Lavaca County,
Texas: interment at Oak Grove Cemetery,
Yoakum, Lavaca County, Texas), on 15
December 1880 in Lavaca County, Texas.
About Benjamine Franklin BURKE, see
Jessie Burke HEARD, ed., Terry Ranger
Writes Home: Letters of Pvt. Benjamin F.
Burke Written While in Terry's Texas
Rangers 1861-1864. (no place, no
publisher: 1965) at the library of the
University of Houston.
6. This
was the notorious Eliza (Elizabeth) H.
ALLEN (2 December 1809, Gallatin,
Sumner County, Tennessee - 3 March 1862,
Gallatin, Sumner County, Tennessee,
Confederate States of America) who, on 2
January 1829, in Gallatin, Tennessee, was
married to Samuel HOUSTON (2 March 1793,
Timber Ridge, Maryville, Rockbridge
County, Virginia - 26 July 1863,
Huntsville, Walker County, Texas). Sam
HOUSTON, at the time of this marriage,
was the Governor of Tennessee who was
eventually to be the liberator of Texas.
Eliza H. ALLEN was the daughter of John
ALLEN (24 February 1776, Pennsylvania -
19 March 1833, Sumner County, Tennessee)
and Letitia SAUNDERS (27 February 1782,
North Carolina - 29 November 1832, Sumner
County, Tennessee) who were married, in
Sumner County, Tennessee, on 21 December
1800. John ALLEN and, therefore, his
brother, United States Congressman Robert
ALLEN (19 June 1788 - 19 August 1844) and
his sister, Mary ("Polly")
ALLEN, were the descendants of Robert
ALLEN who was born ABT 1674 in County
Antrim, Ireland, and who died in Charles
County, Maryland ABT 1775. John ALLEN,
the master of Allenwood Plantation, near
Gallatin, on the Cumberland River, and
Letitia SAUNDERS were, in Tennessee and
in the era of Andrew Jackson, a
politically prominent couple. Eliza ALLEN
rejected HOUSTON immediately upon their
marriage; and, in less than a month, the
marriage was essentially finished. The
resulting scandal was such as to provoke
HOUSTON into resigning the governorship
of Tennessee and, furthermore, to destroy
his aspirations for the presidency of the
United States. [See G0493B
in Descendants
of Robert Allen (ABT 1674 - ABT 1775).]
7. This is
incorrect. The maternal grandfather
of William Wilson SLOAN was George
Augustine LUCAS, who was born in 1793 in
Fauquier County, Virginia, and who was
married to Mary ("Polly")
ALLEN, in Sumner County, Tennessee, on 3
November 1817 [See, above, G0493A:
George Augustine LUCAS, Lieutenant].
George Augustine LUCAS, however, had a
brother, Peter Walker LUCAS (11 February
1796, Fauquier County, Virginia - 5 May
1870, Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee),
who was married to Clementina DONOHO (28
November 1801, Sumner County, Tennessee -
16 September 1864, Holly Springs,
Marshall County, Mississippi) and who
engendered a son, Fielding Augustine
LUCAS (23 August 1818, Sumner County,
Tennessee - 23 December 1897, Holly
Springs, Marshall County, Mississippi).
On the original Fielding LUCAS, see
above, G0495A:
Peter LUCAS.
8. This
was Sarah ("Sally") Edrington
JENNINGS (ABT 1767, Fauquier County,
Virginia - AFT 1850, Tennessee). Her
claims against the British Crown
concerning the Jennings estate were
enthusiastically championed by Martin W.
SLOAN who helped to organize conventions
in Nashville of numerous pretenders,
within and without the Jennings system of
kinship, all wishing to share in the
inheritance. The Jennings case was,
perhaps, the major genealogical event in
the United States in the Nineteenth
Century, comparable to what transpired
after the death, in 1976, of the
enigmatic Howard Hughes. More recent
examination of the ancestry of Sarah
Edrington JENNINGS does not support her
claims to the Jennings estate. [See G0494A:
Sarah (Sally) Edrington JENNINGS in Descendants of John Jennings
(ABT 1630/35 - 1669).] Beatrice Mackey Doughtie, in Documented
Notes on Jennings and Allied Families
(Decatur, Georgia: 1961), thought that
the the name "Edrington" may
have been conferred in reference to the
mansion, in Birmingham, England, of
Humphrey Jennings. But the name of that
house, which still stands in Birmingham,
is not "Edrington" but, as it
is spelled correctly, Erdington Hall.
Erdington Hall today (AD 2000) does
service as a junior and infant school.
"Edrington," then, can only
refer to Sarah (Sally) Edrington
JENNINGS's father's half-brother,
Christopher EDRINGTON. [See G0497A:
John JENNINGS in Descendants of John Jennings
(ABT 1630/35 - 1669).]
9. This
was Joseph Dudley SLOAN (12 May 1852,
Indianola, Calhoun County, Texas - 1
April 1921, Wichita Falls, Wichita
County, Texas).
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Note 2: In Carthage, Smith County,
Tennessee, Orville Green and Martin W. SLOAN were
merchants under the name of Green and SLOAN. When Orville
Green left the partnership, Samuel Coaker, the
brother-in-law of Orville Green, became SLOAN's partner.
When Martin W. SLOAN departed Tennessee for Texas, the
Green family went to Lebanon, Tennessee.
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Smith County, Tennessee. Chancery
Court Enrollments. August, 1839: Samuel Coaker
and Martin W. SLOAN, surviving partners in the
firm of Coaker and SLOAN. Reference is made to
SLOAN's being in Philadelphia in 1836, buying
merchandise for the firm. Smith County,
Tennessee. Chancery Court Enrollments. February,
1843: Martin W. SLOAN sues Orville Green. They
were merchants and partners in the selling of
goods and the freighting of tobacco to New
Orleans for several years previous to 15 February
1838, when the firm was dissolved by mutual
consent.
In February 1842, in Smith County, Martin W.
SLOAN filed suit against a Mr. Nickson; and the
case was heard in February, 1844. [Accordingly,
Martin W. SLOAN and his family must have departed
Smith County for residence in Davidson County
between 1844 and 1850, that is, in 1849.]
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Note 3: In 1841, Martin W. SLOAN was
listed as a trustee of the Carthage (Tennessee) Female
Academy.
Note 4: To see a photograph of Eliza
Webb LUCAS, the wife of Martin W. SLOAN, go to Eliza Webb Lucas (1818 - 18 January
1883).
Note 5: Mary Lucas SLOAN, the wife of
Robert Spears SHANNON, lies interred in the La Grange Old
City Cemetery, La Grange, Fayette County, Texas. Beside
her is her son, Robert L(ucas?) SHANNON (1862 - 8
November 1864). Robert Spears SHANNON subsequently
married Nettie W. MILFORD on 25 October 1866.
Note 6: Martin Jennings SLOAN was
appointed postmaster at Lyons, Fayette County, Texas on
23 March 1871.
Note 7: About William Wilson SLOAN,
published in the Schulenberg Argus: "The
Citizens of Flatonia organized a Hook and Ladder Company
on August 10, 1877 that should prove a success. The
officers were President George Robinson, Vice President
W. W. SLOAN, Secretary F. P. Yeager and Treasurer W. W.
Yeager."
Note 8: Obituary of William Wilson
SLOAN, in Frontier Times Monthly by J. Marvin
Hunter, published monthly at Bandera, Texas, vol. 3, no.
4, January 1926, p. 23:
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W. W.
Sloan Dies
W. W. SLOAN, 80, pioneer Texan and resident of
San Antonio for 32 years, died Sunday morning
November 29.
He was a native of Carthage, Tennessee, and
came to Texas with his parents when five years
old, and lived first at Indianola. He was married
to Mary Frances SMITH of Mississippi in 1868.
After joining the Texas 33rd Cavalry in 1863, he
served through the remainder of the Civil War.
After holding the offices of mayor, magistrate
and public weigher for several years during his
residence in Flatonia, he moved to San Antonio in
1893 and became associated with G. W. Hagy as a
partner in an undertaking firm in 1900, from
which he retired in 1917. He was a member of the
first school board under the San Antonio
independent school district, and was one of the
founders of Prospect Hill Baptist Church, of
which he was a member.
He was married to Mrs. Julia BARKLEY of Yoakum
some years after the death of his first wife.
Besides his widow, members of the family who
survive him include two daughters, Mrs. Fred P.
MILLER of Kingsville, Miss Louise SLOAN of
Baltimore, Maryland; six sons, W. W. SLOAN, Jr.
of Falfurrias, John J. of Des Moines, Iowa, Dr.
Martin F. SLOAN of Baltimore, Sam D. of Fort
Worth, Sid and Jean SLOAN of San Antonio, and 12
grandchildren.
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Note 9: Map of Smith County,
Tennessee (1895):
Note 6: Map of Fayette County, Texas
(1895):
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