In the possession of Bob Arthur, P. O. Box 40854, Houston, Texas 77240
Notes in ( ) were added by Bob Arthur.

Only two family pages remain (back & front) from the old Bible.
No copyright dates for the Bible.

Page 1 - Marriages

Joseph P. Arthur and Mary L. Wesley was married Dec the 14th 1868

Their son's marriages
T. L. Arthur to Maude Lane Jefferies Jany 14 1903
B. L. Arthur to Mattie Morris, Lindale Tex Feb 14 1903

Names T. L. Arthurs children (all were born in Lindale)
Loftin Jefferies Arthur born Feby 8th 1904 - at Lindale
Mary Lennice Arthur born May 2nd 1905
Melbourne Dorsely Arthur born Mar 1st 1907
T. L. Arthur Jr born August 6th 1912
Loftin Jefferies & Bessie Snow Dece. 18, 1986 (married at Goldswaithe)
Mary Lennis Arthur & J. S. Busha
Melbourne Dorsley Arthur & Marguerite Boggan Aug 29, 1931 (married at
Livingston)
Thomas Loftin Arthur Jr & Natalie Wilson Sept 5, 1937 (maried Sulphur
Springs)
Joe Manguel Arthur & Audry Tracy were married March 1946

Page 2 - Births

The Farther - Joseph P. Arthur was Borned Oct. 14th 1840
The Mother - Mary Loucinda (Lucinda) Arthur was Borned June the 26th 1846
Louther (Luther) Stell Arthur was Borned March 18 1870 (He died at age 3
and is buried at Harris Creek Cemetery)
Thomas Loftin Arthur was Borned April 7th 1871
Byron Lee Arthur Was Borned August 3rd 1873
Joseph P. Arthur - Lindale TX Died March 20th 1916
Mary Lucinda Arthur - Lindale TX Died Jany 21st 1916

Page 3 - Deaths

Died Louther S. Arthur August the 26the 1873
Died - Dr. Byron Lee Arthur Mar. 7th 1941 - Practiced his profession
about 45 years. About 40 years at Lindale, Tex. where
he died. Buried
Dr. Thomas Loftin Arthur March 24, 1945 3 o'clock a.m. At his home in
Kingsville, Texas. Buried Chamberlain Cemetery, Kingsville, Tex.
Mary Lucinda Wesley Arthur - Lindale, Tex. Died Jan 21st 1906
Joseph Prichard Arthur - Lindale Tex. March 20th 1916

Page 4 - Memoranda

Thomas R. Arthur was borned Jan 15 1813
Rachel D. Loftin was borned Oct 7 1819
They were married Feb 17 1834
The former died in his 61st year - The latter in her 55th year

(By T. L Arthur, Sr. from Memory)
Sons: Bill (William G., married M. A. Rasbury)
John (Died in 1862, Miss. Springs Hosp.)
Joe married M. L. Wesley
Charles married Secrest (Julia Secrest)
Philip married Ella Dobbs
Jim married Dora Fowler (James Joyce "JJ" married Glen
Dora "Dorie" Fowler at Oakwood, TX, S. of Palestine)
Daughters: Martha Murrell married
1. Murrell (Joel Simeon Murrell, died in Civil War
Two children reared in Smith County after the war)
2. Jeff Lewis
Mary married Doak Stell (J. D. "Doak" Stell
Janie married Steve Yarbrough
Nettie married Frank Smyre

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Note: These marriages were copied from the Marriage Records of Smith County, Texas - 1846-1899
Published by the East Texas Genealogical Society (1979)
P. O. Box 6968, Tyler, Texas 75711

Arthur, C. L. Julia Ann Secrest 25 Dec 1872 G-175
Arthur, J. P. M. L. Wesley 14 Dec 1868 C-149
Arthur, P. E. Ella Dobbs 8 Dec 1880 I-37
Arthur, W. G. M. A. Rasbury 8 Jan 1861 B-167
Lewis, J. J. Mrs. Martha A. Murrell 30 Nov 1867 C-46
Smyre, F. M. S. F. Arthur 22 Dec 1875 H-89
Stell, J. D. Mollie A. Arthur 9 Dec 1869 F-34
Yarbrough, S. M. N. J. Arthur 17 Dec 1874 G-417

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Obituary published in the Stephenville Empire, Erath County, Texas, 11 February 1898:

From: Jeannette Holland Austin, Fayette County Probate Records: 1824 - 1871 (Wolfe Publishing, Roswell Georgia: 1995), p. 89

From: Jeannette Holland Austin, Fayette County Probate Records: 1824 - 1871 (Wolfe Publishing, Roswell Georgia: 1995), p. 94

From: Jeannette Holland Austin, Fayette County Probate Records: 1824 - 1871 (Wolfe Publishing, Roswell Georgia: 1995), p. 100

From: Jeannette Holland Austin, Fayette County Probate Records: 1824 - 1871 (Wolfe Publishing, Roswell Georgia: 1995), p. 134

From: Jeannette Holland Austin, Fayette County Probate Records: 1824 - 1871 (Wolfe Publishing, Roswell Georgia: 1995), p. 139

From: Jeannette Holland Austin, Fayette County Probate Records: 1824 - 1871 (Wolfe Publishing, Roswell Georgia: 1995), p. 139

From: Jeannette Holland Austin, Fayette County Probate Records: 1824 - 1871 (Wolfe Publishing, Roswell Georgia: 1995), p. 155

From: Jeannette Holland Austin, Fayette County Probate Records: 1824 - 1871 (Wolfe Publishing, Roswell Georgia: 1995), p. 160

From: Jeannette Holland Austin, Fayette County Probate Records: 1824 - 1871 (Wolfe Publishing, Roswell Georgia: 1995), p. 171

ALFORD, Jimerson, Jun 6, 1818 - Mar 22, 1902, Masonic Emblem

HEWELL, Ulette, wife of John T. Hewell, Jr., Apr 13, 1865 - Oct 17, 1893

ALFORD, DeWitt, Jun 2, 1886 - Aug 29, 1887

ALFORD, Abraham, Jul 16, 1888 - Jun 22, 1898

ALFORD, B. W., Jan 6, 1826 - Apr 16, 1901, 73 years, 3 months, 10 days, Masonic Emblem

BRASSELL, Martha Haddox, wife of William BRASSELL, daughter of Moses HADDOX and Rachel COE, Apr 7, 1795 - Mar 13, 1836, 40 years, 11 months, 6 days

BRASSELL, son of Britain BRASSELL and Dicy DAVIS, Mar 24, 1778 - Jun 16, 1861, 83 years, 2 months, 23 days

BRASSELL, Martha, daughter of Wm. and Martha BRASSELL, wife of Willis BRASSELL, Jan 20, 1819 - Mar 16, 1864, 45 years, 1 month, 27 days

BRASSELL, Titus W., Dec 10, 1847 - Sep 6, 1883

BRASSELL, Eugenia M., Mar 2, 1855 - [no date]

BRASSELL, Minnie Belle, daughter of E. M. and T. W. BRASSELL, Jan 8, 1874 - May 1, 1885

BRASSELL, Little Grover Cleveland, son of F. T. and M. S. BRASSELL, Dec 6, 1884 - Nov 11, 1885, 11 months, 5 days

BRASSELLE, William J., Jr., Oct 21, 1821 - Jan 7, 1857

The Will of William J. BRASSELL (24 March 1778, North Carolina - 16 June 1861, Fayette County, Georgia):

William J. BRASSELL was the son of Britton (or Britain) BRASSELL (ABT 1750, <Anson County, North Carolina>, British North America - September 1827, Pike County, Georgia: interment at Brassell/Alford Cemetery, Pike County, Georgia) and LaDicy DAVIS (ABT 1754, Anson County, North Carolina - 1824, Jones County, Georgia). In Pike County, Georgia, his gravestone is inscribed:

There is no evidence that Britton (or Britain) BRASSELL ever wrote his surname with a terminal e; and it seems to be untrue that he was born in Acadia.

The siblings of Jabez Marion BRASSELL were: Sarah ("Sally") BRASSELL (9 February 1811, Jones County, Georgia - 20 March 1829, Scott County, Mississippi) [F]: m. Jimmerson ALFORD; Selah ("Celia") BRASSELL (11 August 1812, Jones County, Georgia - 1 September 1863, Scott County, Mississippi) [F]: m. John M. CAVANAUGH, Fayette County, Georgia; James ("Jimmy") M. BRASSELL (6 April 1814, Jones County, Georgia - 30 July 1896, Scott County, Mississippi) [M]: m. Nancy CAVANAUGH (15 January 1815, Putnam County, Georgia - 9 March 1897, Pulaski, Scott County, Mississippi), 13 August 1835, Upson County, Georgia; Alvah Field BRASSELL [M]; Delilah BRASSELL (20 July 1816, Fayette County, Georgia - ?) [F]: m1. Hiram MOSES: m2. Wade Hampton CAVENDER, 13 May 1840, Fayette County, Georgia; LaDicy M. BRASSELL (?, Fayette County, Georgia - ?, Fayette County, Georgia) [F]: m. Britton Washington ALFORD, 11 September 1857, Fayette County, Kentucky; Martha ("Patsy") BRASSELL (20 January 1819, Fayette County, Georgia - 16 March 1864, Fayette County, Georgia) [F]: m. James Willis BRASSELL (died in Fayette County, Georgia after 20 March 1852 and before 4 October 1852), 2 November 1837, Fayette County, Georgia; Britton Washington BRASSELL (?, Fayette County, Georgia - ?, Gonzales County, Texas) [M]; William J. BRASSELL (Jr.) (21 October 1821, Fayette County, Georgia - 7 January 1857, Fayette County, Georgia) [M]; John Calvin BRASSELL (?, Fayette County, Georgia - ?) [M]: m. Martha CAVENDER, 25 May 1843, Fayette County, Georgia; Titus L. BRASSELL (5 January 1826, Fayette County, Georgia - 5 July 1859) [M]; Philip Haddox BRASSELL (13 October 1827, Fayette County, Georgia - 19 September 1876, DeWitt County, Texas) [M]: m. Mary Ann ("Polly Ann") GAY (16 July 1829 - ?), 2 November 1851, Fayette County, Georgia. [Regarding Mary Ann ("Polly Ann") GAY, see G0495A: Rev. John HARVEY (Jr.), note 8, in Antecedents and Descendants of Rev. Isaac Harvey, Sr. (1786 - 16 September 1838).]

In the United States Census of 1870, for Scott County, Mississippi (p. 29, Beat 1, Forest Post Office, 21 June 1870), Jabez (spelled as "Jabes") BRASSELL seems to be residing without family, listing his age as 43, his place of birth as Georgia, and his occupation as postmaster. In the same census (p. 24, Beat 2, Morton Post Office, 27 August 1870), his brother, James M. BRASSELL, is reported as follows:

By Helen Marr COX, Jabez Marion BRASSELL (Sr.) engendered Walter BRASSELL (ABT 1848, Fayette County, Georgia - ?). In the United States Census for 1870, Garden Valley, Smith County, Texas, Walter BRASSELL is shown to be residing in the household of his maternal uncle, John Calhoun COX. [See John Calhoun Cox (2 January 1836 - 19 February 1917): United States Census of 1870.] In the United States Census for the third precinct (enumeration district 70) of Gonzales County, Texas (p. 462C), taken 5 June 1880, he is shown as Walter T(homas?) BRASSELL, a single white male, occupied as a farmer, 30 years of age, born in Georgia, with both parents born in Georgia.

The Will of James Willis BRASSELL, Fayette County, Georgia:

The Will of Willis BRASSELL, the son of James Willis BRASSELL, Fayette County, Georgia:

INTERESTING LETTER WRITTEN 84 YEARS AGO

Members of the Stell family in Conway County recently received a copy of a letter written by John D. STELL many years ago. The original is in the possession of relatives in Texas. The original Stells in Conway County came to Arkansas from Gwinnett County, Georgia in 1835. With them came the Harrisons, the Wilbanks, the Venables. The community now known as 'Hill Creek' was the site of the settlement of these families, and was for many years known as 'Georgia Settlement.' Mrs. Georgia Griswood, now 80 years of age, who lives in this community was a granddaughter of Robert STELL (brother of John Dennis [STELL], the writer of the letter -Ed.) who came here from Georgia. Robert STELL is understood to have been a grandson of the John STELL who came to North Carolina from England in Colonial days and was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. There are many descendants of these emigrants from Georgia who live in Conway County and throughout the state.

Fayette, Georgia
14th April 1852

Dear Manson:

Yours of the 12th is now before me, which I hasten to answer. Under existing circumstances I have no hesitation whatever in advising you to accept the profound honor. One consideration, me hereunto moving, lies in the fact that it is not by the procurement of yourself or of your relations, but is voluntarily tended unsought and unanticipated. I trust that your very kind friends have regarded it is a reward of merit. It is gratifying reflection to me indeed, which is greatly heightened by the consideration of the profound obscurity that has overshadowed our ancestry.

My grandfather, whose name was John STELL, migrated to the continent of America from England, previous to the Declaration of Independence. Located in North Carolina, then a colony, in the vicinity of Cape Fear. Took part in the Revolutionary Struggle as a private soldier. Previously he had intermarried with Susan Malone, a daughter of old Col. Malone who subsequently resided in, and I think died in, Newbury District, South Carolina, of whom my father was born on the 4th day of March 1767. He being the second son and being in the tenth year of his age at the time of the Declaration of Independence of course he was too young to take any conspicuous part in the events of that unfortunate crisis.

My father intermarried with Elizabeth, the eldest daughter of Captain Thomas Jones of Newbury District, S. C. I think in the year 1789, and transferred his residence to Hancock, Georgia about the year 1792 or 3 and remained in that county until February 1807 when he removed his residence to what is now Morgan county, it being then Baldwin, where he resided until his death which occurred on the 2nd of September 1814. I being at that time in my tenth year, having been born in Hancock county on the 27th of October 1804, and the youngest member of the family with one exception, my brother Robert being the youngest. In January 1821 my mother, myself, and my brother Robert moved from Morgan to the wilds of Gwinnett, poor and friendless. In the deep wildwoods of those native forests we erected our log cabin where we were nocturnally surrounded with the hideous howling of the wolf, occasional interspersed with the wild screams of the panthers as well as the doleful hootings of the night owl. During our (to me) ever memorable residence there, I being a poor ignorant orphan boy, uneducated, friendless and forlorn became acquainted with a little orphan stripling girl, somewhat similar circumstances to myself, whose name was Rachel Carroll a remote descendant of the Carroll family of Revolutionary memory, with whom I intermarried on the 24th day of November 1822. Yes, my dear son Manson, she was indeed the wife of my youth and may I not most truly add to her grave these tears be given. Pardon me for this melancholy digression. We remained in Gwinnett until January 1825 whence we removed to Fayette. Your birthday, you remember, was the 27th of August of the same year. The first school room you ever entered was the Academy at Fayetteville, and under the auspices of Mr. James F. H. Campbell you learned Your ABC's in 1830.

When you retrace our genealogy, when you find the name planted in the colonies at so early a day, when you rehearse the pages of history and find no record thereof, you are struck with astonishment; and the inquiry very naturally arises, what has become of the race? They have scattered abroad in the land and I apprehend that a large proportion have prematurely passed away. My life has been pregnant with adventure and vicissitudes and filled up to overflowing with many, very many anxious cares.

It has been an important object with me to improve the pecuniary conditions of my family, but most of all my ardent ambition has ever been to give my children a name and a place, as well as character and standing with the children of the first men of the age. I have desired and yet do most ardently desire to see my children second in importance and usefulness to none. I desire them to be respected and esteemed for their sterling integrity, their manly virtues, their moral worth. It is true Manson, you are but a youth in age, and yet you are the oldest lawyer of the name in the United States. Then why not avail yourself of the earliest opportunity of having your name enrolled with those encircled in the shrine of accredited usefulness? I never shall be able to express my thanks to Judge Starke for this demonstration of his kindness. I hope you will be able to read this faint, feeble sketch. I would transcribe it and correct it, but my time will not justify the undertaking. When you have your manuscript I should be pleased to see it.

Yours truly,

John D. STELL

Note: The name of Raphineas ("Phineas") STELL is sometimes spelled as "Rophineas." At the outbreak of the War Between the States, he enlisted at the rank of Private in the Fifth Texas Cavalry Regiment, CSA (Fifth Mounted Volunteers), later designated as the Second Regiment of Sibley's Brigade. The Fourth Texas Regiment of Mounted Volunteers is often mentioned as the "First Regiment" of Sibley's Brigade.

Col. John Dennis STELL was the uncle of Thomas Rhodes HARKINS, a resident in the household and the son of Nancy Ann STELL and William HARKINS. About the family HARKINS, see Note 7 under G0491A: Charner Augustus ("Gus") SCAIFE, M. D. in Descendants of Robert Scaife I of Winton (ABT 1515 - 11 January 1591).

And in open court personally appeared Robert Malone STELL of Gonzales County of Texas and submitted the Last Will and Testament of John D. STELL, late of Smith County, Texas, deceased, for probate and produces in open court Whitmell P. ALLEN,¹ Beverly Walker, and John T. GRESHAM² witness to said Will, each of whom being duly and legally sworn says that they were well acquainted with the hand writing of the said John D. STELL, decd, that they were acquainted [recte acquired] their knowledge of said testator's hand writing from having seen him write, that the paper here produced to the court and reported as the Last Will and Testament of said John D. STELL is wholly and entirely in the hand writing of the said John D. STELL and duly signed with his own proper hand and signature, bearing date 10th day of June AD 1862, and this they swore to in open court and in the present [recte presence] of each.

Sworn to and subscribed at the term and time stated

W. P. ALLEN
B. Walker
John T. GRESHAM

R. W. Chapman, clk. of ct. S. Co.

1. Whitmell P. ALLEN: This was Whitmill Phillips ALLEN (6 November 1811, Morgan County, Georgia - 1868, Smith County, Texas), the father of John Calhoun COX's first wife, Sarah ("Sallie") Elizabeth ALLEN.

2. John T. GRESHAM: John T. GRESHAM (4 June 1817, Virginia - 15 July 1870, Centerville, Leon County, Texas: interment at Centerville Cemetery [Section B-2], Centerville, Leon County, Texas), the widower of a Mrs. JOHNSTON, née Elizabeth CAULFIELD (1804, Ireland - 14 August 1857, Centerville, Leon County, Texas: interment at Centerville Cemetery [Section B-3], Centerville, Leon County, Texas) who died in 1857, was the second husband of Elizabeth ("Renda") TRUITT (31 May 1825, Gwinnett County, Georgia - 24 August 1900, Centerville, Leon County, Texas: interment at Centerville Cemetery [Section B-2], Centerville, Leon County, Texas), the first wife of James Jones STELL (22 September 1824, Gwinnett County, Georgia - 29 October 1849, Fayette County, Georgia). James Jones STELL was the son of Col. John D. STELL and Rachel CARROLL.

John Dennis STELL (26 October 1847, Gwinnett County, Georgia - 28 February 1898, Centerville, Leon County, Texas: interment at Centerville Cemetery [Section D-4], Centerville, Leon County, Texas), Mary Ella STELL (5 January 1846, Gwinnett County, Georgia - 23 May 1911, Centerville, Leon County, Texas: interment at Centerville Cemetery [Section B-6], Centerville, Leon County, Texas) the wife of William M. JOHNSTON (16 September 1836, Scotland - 25 December 1894, Centerville, Leon County, Texas: interment at Centerville Cemetery [Section B-6], Centerville, Leon County, Texas), an attorney in Centerville, Texas), and Emma J. STELL (29 August 1849, Gwinnett County, Georgia - AFT 15 April 1910, <Dallas, Dallas County, Texas>, the wife of David J. C. JOHNSTON [March 1844, Ireland - AFT 8 June 1900, <Corsicana, Navarro County>, Texas]) were the children of James Jones STELL (22 September 1824, Gwinnett County, Georgia - 29 October 1849, Fayette County, Georgia) and Elizabeth ("Renda") TRUITT (31 May 1825, Gwinnett County, Georgia - 24 August 1900, Centerville, Leon County, Texas: interment at Centerville Cemetery [Section B-2], Centerville, Leon County, Texas), who were married in 1845. About ten years after the death of James Jones STELL, Elizabeth ("Renda") TRUITT, the daughter of John TRUITT of Georgia, was married to John T. GRESHAM (4 June 1817, Virginia - 15 July 1870, Centerville, Leon County, Texas: interment at Centerville Cemetery [Section B-2], Centerville, Leon County, Texas), the widower of a Mrs. JOHNSTON, née Elizabeth CAULFIELD (1804, Ireland - 14 August 1857, Centerville, Leon County, Texas: interment at Centerville Cemetery [Section B-3], Centerville, Leon County, Texas), who died in 1857. About 1871, John Dennis STELL (26 October 1847, Gwinnett County, Georgia - 28 February 1898, Centerville, Leon County, Texas: interment at Centerville Cemetery [Section D-4], Centerville, Leon County, Texas) was married to Mary Alice COUSINS (12 May 1854, Alabama - 11 November 1933, Centerville, Leon County, Texas: interment at Centerville Cemetery [Section D-4], Centerville, Leon County, Texas), the daughter born in Alabama of a Dr. COUSINS who was native to Virginia. In the United States Census of 1850 for Choctaw County, Alabama, taken 30 September 1850, a James B. COUSINS, born in Virginia, is shown as a physician keeping office in Choctaw County. There is no other person surnamed "COUSINS" found in Alabama in the census of 1850 as a native of Virginia.

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The State of Texas
Smith County

To the Honourable Chief Justice of Smith County and State Aforesaid:

I, Robert Malone STELL, your petitioner a resident of Gonzales County and State aforesaid, respectfully represents to your honour that his brother John D. STELL departed this life on or about the 28th day of last October at his resident [recte residence] in the Town of Tyler in Smith County and shortly previous to his death by a written Will made and executed by his own hand appointed your petitioner executor of said Will. This is therefore to pray that said Will be admitted to probate before you and letters testamentary thereof issue in due form of law,

This 24th day of November AD 1862.

Robert Malone STELL

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State of Texas, Leon County

I, John D. STELL, of the County and State aforesaid, being of sound mind and memory and considering the uncertainty of this life do therefore make, ordain, and declaim this to be my Last Will and Testament. That is to say, first, after the payment of my just debts, the residue of my estate, real and personal, I give, bequeath, and dispose of as follows: to wit: To my son Robert Ma[n]son STELL, I have heretofore given in money and Negroes to the amount of five thousand seven hundred and eight dollars, the said Negroes having been conveyed by deed of gifts which I do hereby ratify and confirm. To my daughter Emily C. Clark, I have heretofore given, by deed which is of record in the clerk's office of the county court of said County of Leon, Negroes of the value of two thousand five hundred dollars which I do ratify and confirm; and I do further give and bequeath to my said daughter Emily C. Clark three (?) Negroes, slaves, to wit: Jane, a woman about twenty one years old; Ellen, a girl about twelve years old; and also my gray mare known by the name of Crazy Jaw which, together with the Negroes previously given, will make her bequest about equal to that given to my son Robert Ma[n]son, the said last mentioned Negroes and the said gray mare to be her separate property during the term of her natural life, free and exempt from the debts and liabilities of her present or any future husband, and, at her death, to such children [recte child] or children as she may leave living and the descendants of such child or children of hers as may then be dead, to her and them for ever.

To my three grand children, the children of my dead son, James. J. STELL, to wit: Mary Ella, John D., and Emma STELL, eight Negro slaves, to wit: Millie, a woman twenty eight years old; Marselles, commonly called Russell [the name is unclear], a boy about eight years old; Laura, a girl about five years; Lewis, a boy about three years old; Leander, a boy about eight or nine months old; Sealy, a girl about fourteen years old; and her infant child, all of the aggregate value of about three thousand dollars which, together with the above named Negroes and the money I had given to my son James J. in his lifetime, makes the legacy hereby bequeathed about equal to the other two preceeding [recte preceding] legacies, it being my interest to make as equitable a division of my estate as it is possible to do.

To my foster son, John C. Cox, now in the army of the Confederate States, if alive, I give and bequeath four thousand seven hundred dollars to be paid as soon as pract[ic]able after he returns from the war. But if he fails to survive the war or die leaving no child or children then, in that event, this bequest becomes lapsed and revokes [recte: revoked] and remains part and parcel of the assets of my estate to be distributed as here in after provided.

To my son Raphineas, who is also in the Confederate army, if alive, I give and bequeath a Negro boy slave, John, about fourteen years old, and five thousand one hundred and eighty dollars, estimating the boy John at six hundred dollars, to him and his heirs forever.

To each of my sons, Isaac, Dennis, Henry M. and Leroy, I give and bequeath five thousand seven hundred and eighty dollars.

I will and direct that the rest of my property, real and personally [recte personal], that is to say, a certain tract of land in Chambers County in the State of Alabama, containing two hundred acres and my Negroes not herein bequeathed be sold by my executor at such time as, in his judgement, may be most profitable so to do and keep the money arising from the sale thereof at interest, the same to be well secured, until my son Leroy arrives at the age of twenty one years. Then the same, together with the remainder that may have been collected on the notes, bonds, and accounts due and to become due after the payment of my just debts and bequeaths herein made, to be equal [recte equally] divided between my son Robert Manson STELL, and my daughter Emily C. Clark, the children of my deceased son James J., to wit: Mary Ella, John D., and Emma STELL, they inheriting jointly the equal distributive share that their deceased father would have done, had [he] been living, my foster son John C. Cox, my sons Raphineas, Isaac, Dennis, Henry M., and Leroy share and share alike.

I hereby nominate, constitute, and appoint my brother, Robert Malone STELL of Gonzales County in this State, executor to this my Last Will and Testament.

Witness my hand this 10th day of June AD 1862

John D. STELL

[Smith County, Texas, Probate Minutes, Book C-1, pp. 71-73]

"Robert Malone STELL pet. as exec. 11/24/1862.  STELL d. 10/28/1862 Tyler. Will signed Leon Co. 6/10/1862, no wtn., names children Robert Manson STELL, Emily C. Clark, Rophinias STELL, Isaac STELL minor, Dennis STELL minor, Henry M. STELL minor, Leroy STELL minor, James J. STELL, dec'd, grandchildren by son James J. STELL, Mary Ella STELL, John P. STELL, Emma STELL, his foster son John C. COX, brother Robert Malone STELL exec. Included are letter from Emily written to her uncle Robert Malone STELL to ask him to accept exec. and transcript of Dist. Court Case to recover acct. due.  Appr.:  R. B. Long, W.P. Allen, Beverly Walker.  Inv.: house & lot Tyler $2000, 7 slaves $6450, 4 horses $350, 2 mules $325, 14 cattle $65, 27 hogs $65, etc. total $10,135.50.  Malone res. 7/12/1870.  Benjamin F. Clark, son-in-law, pet. as adm. 8/1/1870.  Addntl. Inv. 5500 acres Fernanda del Valle League, Ramon de la Garza Sur. Leon Co. $20,000, house & lot Crockett $2000, cattle $200, hogs $120.  Clark removed Nov. 1879 and A.J. Swann pet. as adm. 1/7/1880." Source: Andy Leath, Probate Records of Smith County, Texas: 1846-1880

ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA, PASSED IN NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER, 1840.
ACADEMIES.

1840 Vol. 1 -- Page: 5

Sequential Number: 003

Full Title: AN ACT to incorporate the Female Academy in Fayetteville, Fayette county, and to appoint Trustees for the same; and to repeal an act, passed 24th December, 1836, to appropriate the funds remaining in the hands of the Trustees of the County Academy of Union county.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That Thomas B. Gray, John D. Stell, Elijah P. Allen, William Herring, and Samuel Martin, and their successors in office, be, and they are hereby declared to be a body corporate, by the name and style of the Trustees of the Female Academy in Fayetteville, Fayette county.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said Trustees, and their successors in office, be, and they are hereby invested with the power and authority of using a common seal, of suing and being sued, pleading and being impleaded, in the several courts of law and equity in this State; of holding titles to, and conveying real and personal estate, and of doing all other things for the well-being and prosperity of said institution which may not be inconsistent with the Constitution and laws of this State.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That said Trustees shall have power to appoint a Secretary and Treasurer, who shall give bond and security for the faithful performance of their duty; and to remove the same from office whenever a majority [page 6] of said Trustees are of opinion that the interest of said institution requires it, and to appoint others in their stead.

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That said Trustees, or a majority of them, shall have power to employ suitable teachers in said institution, to fill all vacancies which may occur in their Board, from time to time, by death, resignation or otherwise.

Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That Thompson Collins, Joseph Louther, John Butt, Junior, John Bryson and Alexander Duncan, Trustees of the County Academy in the county of Union, be, and they are hereby authorized and required to pay over to the treasurer of the Common School Fund of said county all the unexpended balance of funds remaining in the hands of said Trustees or their successors.

Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That the said treasurer of said Common School Fund be, and he is hereby authorized and required to demand and receive from said Trustees all the funds remaining in their hands, and apply the same to the payment of accounts which are due and unpaid to teachers under the common school law of this State.

Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That the act passed on the twenty-fourth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, entitled "an act to incorporate the Fayette county Academy, and appoint trustees for the same," and all other laws or parts of laws militating against this act, be, and the same are hereby repealed.

CHARLES J. JENKINS,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

THOMAS STOCKS,

President of the Senate.

CHARLES J. McDONALD, Governor.

Approval Date: Assented to, 23d December, 1840.

1845 Vol. 1 -- Pages: 12 - 13

Sequential Number: 002

Full Title: AN ACT to appropriate money for the support of Government for the political years eighteen hundred and forty-six, and eighteen hundred and forty-seven.

[Excerpt]

SEC. 62. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the sum of forty-five dollars be paid to John D. Stell, Senator from the county of Forsyth for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, a balance due him for mileage and per diem, which was not paid to him through an error committed in the settlement with the then Treasurer.
. . . .
SEC. 69. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That twenty-seven dollars and fifty cents be appropriated and paid to John Dorsey, of Henry county, who was the fortunate drawer of lot number eleven hundred and forty-one in the fourth district and first section Cherokee, who sent down for the Grant of the same, and through mistake a Grant was sent to him for lot number eleven hundred and forty-one, in the fourth District and third Section, in the name of, and to one Clem A. Wynne, who is wholly unknown to the said John Dorsey, bearing date the ninth day of June, eighteen hundred and forty-three, by means whereof his own lot became reverted to the State, and was afterwards granted at twenty-five dollars -- that the Grant to the lot first aforesaid be cancelled and considered as reverted to the State, and that John D. Stell, Senator from the thirty-first district, be authorized to receipt for the same.

PART I - PUBLIC LAWS.
BANKS AND BANKING. TITLE IV.
ART. I. GENERAL LAWS.
ART. II. CENTRAL BANK.
ART. III. PRIVATE CORPORATIONS.

1851 Vol. 1 -- Page: 39

Sequential Number: 020
Law Number: (No. 20.)

Full Title: An Act to incorporate a Bank in the city of [Illegible Text] to be called "The Atlanta Bank."

WHEREAS a number of persons in the city of Atlanta and its vicinity, interested in the welfare of that place, have capital which they are desirous of employing in facilitating its business, advancing its interest and lessening its dependence on the Banks of other places, by whose or ders discounts are controlled, and often stopped when they are most wanted and [Illegible Text] in order to purchase the produce brought to this market, and owing to the accessability of said city by means of the many Railroads which converge as that point, a Bank there would be a public convenience;

58. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That John F. Mims, William Ezzard, E. W. Holland, J. O. McDaniel, Clark Howell, J. [Illegible Text] B. O. Jones, J. A. Hayden, Richard Peters, William M. Butt, Lemuel P. Grant, [Illegible Text] Mason, James A. Collins, Joseph Winship, Barrington King, Willis P. [Illegible Text] C. W. [page 40] Arnold, John D. Stell, T. M. Jones, N. S. Angier, James T. Humphries, Stephen Terry, Joseph Thompson, and J. F. Loyd, and such persons as they may procure to take Stock under this Act, be and they are hereby incorporated and made a body politic by the name and [Illegible Text] of "The Atlanta Bank," with Banking privileges, located at Atlanta, and so shall continue until the first day of January, 1872; and by that name shall be and are hereby [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] and capable in law to have, purchase, receive, possess, enjoy and retain to them and their successors, lands, rents, tenements, so far as may be necessary for the erection of necessary Banking Houses only, and not otherwise; goods, chattels and effects of what kind, nature or quality soever; and the same to sell, grant, demise, alien or dispose of; to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered, [Illegible Text] and be defended, in any Court of Law or Equity in this State or elsewhere, having competent jurisdiction; to make, have and use a common seal; and the same to break, alter and renew at their pleasure, and to make and ordain such by-laws, rules and regulations as they may deem expedient and necessary to carry into effect the objects of the Institution; Provided such by laws, rules and regulations be not repugnant to the Constitution or Laws of this State, or of the United States.
[Sidenote: [Illegible Text]]
[Sidenote: Name.]
[Sidenote: Powers [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text]]
[Sidenote: Duration.]
[Sidenote: Lands.]
[Sidenote: Seal.]
[Sidenote: By Laws.]

59. SEC. II. The Capital Stock of said Bank shall be three handred thousand dollars, to be divided into three thousand shares of one hundred dollars each, and [Illegible Text] among the aforesaid Stockholders.
[Sidenote: Capital 300,000 dollars.]

60. SEC. III. For the well ordering of the affairs of said Corporation, there shall be elected by the Stockholders not less than five Directors, as soon as Gold and Silver coin to the amount of twenty thousand dollars of the subscription for said Stock shall have been received; and said five Directors so elected, shall be capable to serve as such until the first Monday in October, 1853, and shall be eligible to [Illegible Text] on which day; and in each and every year thereafter, on the same day, Directors shall be chosen by the proprictors or owners of the Capital Stock of said Corporation, when a majority of the votes given in shall be required to make a choice, and the Directors thus chosen shall, at their first meeting, and at the first meeting after each and [Illegible Text] such elections, make choice of one of their own members as President, and [Illegible Text] case of his death, or [Illegible Text] or removal from this State or from the Board of Directors, the remaining Directors shall proceed to fill the [Illegible Text] for the remainder of the year; and in case it shall at any time happen that the Stockholders [Illegible Text] fail or [Illegible Text] [page 41] by this Act, the said Corporation shall not for such omission, failure or neglect be [Illegible Text] to [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] but it shall be lawful on any other day to hold and [Illegible Text] an election of Directors in such manner as shall have [Illegible Text] or may be [Illegible Text] by the rules and [Illegible Text] of the [Illegible Text] Corporations and, Provided, that in the case of [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] removal from the State or from the [Illegible Text] of any [Illegible Text] his place may be filled by a new [Illegible Text] for the [Illegible Text] of the year, by the remaining [Illegible Text]
[Sidenote: [Illegible Text]]
[Sidenote: Annual [Illegible Text]]
[Sidenote: President.]
[Sidenote: [Illegible Text]]
[Sidenote: [Illegible Text]]

61. SEC. IV. If there should be a failure in the payment of any sum or sums subscribed by any [Illegible Text] copartnerships or body politic, when the same is required by the Directors to be paid, the share or shares of Stock upon which said failure occurs, shall be for such [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] and may again be sold or disposed of in such manner as the Directors may order and provide, and the proceeds of the sale, and the sum or sums which may have been paid thereon, shall revert to and belong to said corporation; Provided, That sixty days notice of the time at which such payment is required to be made be given in one of the public Gazettes of Atlanta.
[Sidenote: [Illegible Text]]
[Sidenote: [Illegible Text]]

62. SEC. V. The Directors for the time being shall have power and authority to appoint such officers and clerks under them as may be necessary for executing the business of the said Corporation, and shall allow them together with the President, such compensation as they may deem reasonable, and shall require of the Cashier and other officers under him, such bonds conditioned for their good behavior, and the faithful discharge of their duties as to [Illegible Text] may be satisfactory, and the President, Cashier and other [Illegible Text] of the Bank shall take the following Oath before entering on the duttes of their respective [Illegible Text] I, A. B. do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of President, Cashier, or other office (as the case may be) of the Atlanta Bank; which oath shall be entered and subscribed in the minutes of the Corporation.
[Sidenote: [Illegible Text]]
[Sidenote: [Illegible Text]]
[Sidenote: Oath,]

63. SEC. VI. The number of votes to which each Stock holder shall be entitled at any meeting or election, shall be according to the number of shares he may hold, [Illegible Text] share to be entitled to one vote: Provided, That no share or shares shall confer a right of suffrage, unless the same shall have been holden by the person in whose name it appears, at least three months previous to the day of election, and unless the same be holden by the person in whose name it appears absolutely and bona fide in his right or in that of his wife, and for his or her sole use and benefit, or as [Illegible Text] [page 42] co-partnership, corporation or society of which he or she may be a member, and not in trust for or to the use of any other person; any Stockholder' being absent, may authorize by power of Attorney under seal, any other Stockholder to vote for him, her or them: Provided, That said power of Attorney is filed in Bank sixty days before the day of election.
[Sidenote: Votes in elections.]
[Sidenote: Proxies,]

64. SEC. VII. Any number of Stockholders who shall together be the owners and proprietors of one hundred shares or upwards, shall have power at any time to call a meeting of the Stockholders, for purposes relative to the institution, giving at least sixty days notice in one of the public Gazettes of Atlanta, specifying in such notice the object of the meeting.
[Sidenote: Call of meeting of stock holders.]
[Sidenote: Notice,]

65. SEC. VIII. That the Directors shall have power to issue to the subscribers their certificates of stock, signed by the President and countersigned by their Cashier, and which shall be transferable in the books of the Cashier only by personal entry of the Stockholder, his legal representative or Attorney duly authorized by special power for that purpose: Provided, That no Stockholder indebted to the Bank shall transfer his or her stock, until all debts due said Bank by said Stockholder shall be paid, unless by consent of the Directors entered upon their minutes.
[Sidenote: Certificates of Stock.]
[Sidenote: Transfers.]

66 SEC. IX. The bills obligatory and of credit, notes and other contracts, whatsoever, in behalf of said Corporation, shall be binding upon the said Company: Provided, the same be signed by the President and countersigned by the Cashier of the said corporation, and the funds of said corporation shall in no case be liable for any contract or engagement whatever, unless the same be signed and countersigned as aforesaid.
[Sidenote: Authentication of contracts,]
[Sidenote: Minutes,]

67. SEC. X. The Directors shall keep fair and regular minutes of their proceedings, and upon any question when a Director shall require it, the yeas and nays of the Directors voting shall be inserted in their minutes, and the books, papers, correspondence and funds of the Company shall at all times bo subject to the inspection of the Board of Directors or Stockholders when convened according to the provisions of this act.
[Sidenote: Veas & [Illegible Text]]
[Sidenote: Books, & c., open to inspection.]

68. SEC. XI. No notice or protest shall be necessary to charge any maker or endorser of any note, bill or other obligation discounted by said Bank, and in all suits commenced by said Corporation upon any note, bill, bond or obligation upon which there shall be any indorser or indorsers, the maker or makers together with the indorser or indorsers or their representatives, may be embraced and sued in the same action, and no proof of notice demand or protest [page 43] shall be required on any trial to authorize a recovery.
[Sidenote: Notice and protest dispensed with.]
[Sidenote: Suits by the bank,]

69. SEC. XII. In no suit, or action in any Court of this State in which the said Bank may be a party, shall it be lawful for the other party or parties to require the said Bank to produce the books of the Bank into Courts [Illegible Text] evidence, nor shall it be lawful for such party or [Illegible Text] to require by subpoena or otherwise, the attendance of any officer of the said Bank in Court, on the trial of such case. But whenever in any such suit it may become necessary for the [Illegible Text] of justice, that the evidence [Illegible Text] in the said books or the testimony of such officer should be had, it shall and may be lawful for either party in any such case, requiring such evidence or testimony to [Illegible Text] out a commission in the usual manner, to examine the officers of the said Bank as to the contents of said books, or as to their own knowledge of the facts, notwithstanding such officer may reside in the county in which suit may be pending.
[Sidenote: Books not to be required in Court,]
[Sidenote: [Illegible Text]]

70. SEC. XIII. It shall not be lawful for the President, Directors or Officers of said Bank, to borrow any amount of money from said Bank, either directly or indirectly, as maker, endorser or acceptor.
[Sidenote: Loan to officers [Illegible Text].]

71. SEC. XIV. The Atlanta Bank shall be permitted, and are hereby authorized to issue bills or notes of credit payable to bearer on demand, signed by the President, and countersigned by the Cashier; but the total amount of debts which the said Corporation shall at any time owe, whether by bond, bill, note or other contract, shall not exceed three times the amount of the capital stock actually paid in, and in case of excess, it shall be the duty of the President and Cashier to notify the Governor in writing of such excess, upon the receipt of which, it shall be the duty of the Governor to issue his Proclamation declaring the charter of said Bank forfeited in consequence of said excess, and calling a majority of the Stockholders, who shall have power and authority to adopt such measures as may be deemed prudent and effectual in bringing the affairs of said Corporation to a speedy close. But said Bank shall issue no bills or notes or checks, until one hundred thousand dollars of the capital stock have been actually paid in, in specie.
[Sidenote: [Illegible Text] issue bills,]
[Sidenote: Limit of [Illegible Text],]
[Sidenote: Penalty for violation,]
[Sidenote: No bills to issue until 100,000 dollars in [Illegible Text] is paid in,]

72. SEC. XV. Any Bank or branches thereof, which may make a demand of specie from the Atlanta Bank, shall be compelled to receive the bills of the said Bank making the demand.
[Sidenote: Payments to Banks,]

73. SEC. XVI. That dividends of the profits of the Corporation or so much thereof as may be deemed expedient and proper, shall be declared and paid half yearly, and the [page 44] said dividends shall be determined from time to time by a majority of Directors at a meeting to be held for that purpose, and shall in no case exceed the amount of the net profits actually acquired by the corporation, so that the capital stock thereof shall never be impaired.
[Sidenote: Dividends,]
[Sidenote: Limit,]

74. SEC. XVII. That the persons and property of the Stockholders in the Atlanta Bank, shall at all times be pledged and bound in proportion to the number of the share or shares that each individual or company hold, posess or interested in, or entitled to in the said Bank, for the payment and discharge of the debts or contracts of said Bank, or for the ultimate redemption of all notes or bills issued or that may hereafter be issued by and from the said Bank, in the same manner as in simple actions of debt or common commercial cases.
[Sidenote: Individual liability of stockholder,]

75. SEC. XVII. All transfers of said stock shall be wholly void, if made within six months previous to the failure of said Bank; but that said stock so transfered shall be deemed and held liable for the debts of the Institution, notwithstanding said transfer.
[Sidenote: Transfers after failure,]

Approval Date: Approved, January 27, 1852.

Note issued by The Atlanta Bank on 4 April 1853, No. 117
"Stock Owned by Geo. Smith & Co., Bankers, Chicago - Stockholders Personally Liable"
Engraved and Printed by Toppan, Carpenter, Casilear & Co., New York and Philadelphia
[James A.] Haxby Plate Note

George Smith

In 1853, controlling interest in The Atlanta Bank was acquired by a Scotsman, George Smith. About George Smith and what he made of The Atlanta Bank, the following account is from Carole E. Scott, "Banking Lessons From the Antebellum South," B>Quest (Business Quest): A Journal of Applied Topics in Business and Economics (2000):

The Atlanta Bank, the first bank chartered in Atlanta, Georgia, ceased operations on or about 1 March 1856, the last date for which its balances were recorded. Its deposits are recorded with the State of Georfia from 1 September 1853.

George Smith, born in 1808 in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, died in London, England in 1899, reputedly worth $100 million. [See George Fraser Black, Scotland's Mark on America (New York: 1921)].

ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA, PASSED IN MILLEDGEVILLE, AT A BIENNIAL SESSION IN NOVEMBER, DECEMBER, AND JANUARY, 1851-'2.

PART II.--LOCAL AND PRIVATE LAWS.
CHURCHES AND CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS.*

* The Acts incorporating several Churches may be found under Title I, [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] being a part of Acts belonging property to that Title.

For Act incorporating Augusta Orphan [Illegible Text] “Cites and Towas,” Act No. 272.

TITLE IV.

1851 Vol. 1 -- Page: 360

Sequential Number: 240
Law Number: (No. 240.)

Full Title: AN ACT to incorporate the Baptist Church in the town of [Illegible Text] in the county of Cobb, and appoint Trustees for the same; also, to incorporate Pisgah Baptist Church in the county of Floyd; also, to incorporate the Baptist Church of Christ, in Fayetteville in Fayette county, and appoint Trustees for the same.

SECTION I. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That David Dobbs, John M. Edge, William H. Robert, T. D. Key, A. S. Smith, and William S. Tweedle, be and they are hereby constituted a body corporate and politic, by the name and style of the Trustees of the Marietta Baptist Church, in the village of Marietta, and the county of Cobb, and that they shall have a perpetual succession, and common seal, and they and their successors, by the name aforesaid, shall be able and capable in law and equity, to possess, purchase, receive, and retain to them and their successors, forever, any lands, tenements, rents, issues, goods, and chattels, of any kind whatever, which may have been given to or purchased by the said Trustees, for the use of said Church, and the same to dispose of in whatever manner they shall adjudge most beneficial for the use thereof, and by the name aforesaid, shall be able to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered, in any Court of Law or Equity.
[Sidenote: Marietta Baptist. Church incorporated.]

SEC. II. And be it further enacted, That all vacancies occurring by death, resignation, removal or otherwise, shall be filled by said Church at a regular Church meeting, and that any [Illegible Text] of the Trustees be a quorum, and authorized to exercise all the powers granted by this Act, and that said Trustees shall have power to make all by-laws, rules and regulations necessary to carry their powers into effect, not repugnant to the Constitution and Laws of this State, or of the United States.
[Sidenote: Power of Trustees.]

SEC. III. And be it further enacted, That Alvan Dean, [Illegible Text] Dawkins, and Joseph J. Harden, and their successors in office, be and they are hereby declared to be a body corporate and politic, under the name and style of [Illegible Text] Baptist Church, of the county of Floyd, and as such may have a common seal, sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, recover and hold property conveyed to them, and transfer and sell the same at pleasure, and that said Trustees and their successors, shall have power to fill [page 361] all such vacancies that may occur in their body, and make such by-laws and regulations as they may deem proper; Provided, The same are not contrary to the Constitution and Laws of this State, or of the United States.
[Sidenote: [Illegible Text] Baptist church incorporated.]

SEC. IV. And be it further enacted, That John D. Stell, James J. Whitaker, John Murphy, Jeptha Murphy, John B. Allen, William H. Hooten, and John Nash, and their successors, be and they are hereby declared to be a body corporate and politic, under the name and style of Trustees of the Baptist Church of Christ, at Fayetteville, Fayette county, and by such name and style shall have power to hold, possess, and enjoy property, real and personal, and transfer the same at pleasure, may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, and may pass any rules and by-laws for their government, not contrary to the Constitution and Laws of this State, or of the United States, and said Trustees, or a majority of them, may fill any vacancy that may occur in their body.
[Sidenote: Fayetteville Baptist church incorporated.]

SEC. V. And be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws militating against this Act, be and the same are hereby repealed.
[Sidenote: Repealing clause.]

Approval Date: Approved, January 20, 1852.

Headquarters, Tyler, Texas,}
                 June 24^th, 1862.}

Editor Tyler Reporter —

Sir: — I desire to say to the people through your paper, that guns are needed by the troops now in the service.

There is a regular Government Agent (Col. John D. Stell) at this place, who will buy double barrel shot guns, muskets and rifles of all kinds, if with reasonably large bores.

The guns must be in good shooting order.

Col. Stell has the cash to pay for these guns at a fair price, and I earnestly hope the citizens of the country will send in every gun they can possibly spare that may be fit for immediate service.

Maj. Gen. Hindman urges me to bring all the arms I can get with the troops that go to Arkansas.— They will be needed, and no man ought to withhold a gun that he can spare.

Most Respectfully, &c.,
Henry E. McCulloch,
Brig. Gen. C.S.P.S.

[Source: Ms. Vicki Betts, Robert R. Muntz Library, University of Texas at Tyler, Tyler, Texas [http://www.uttyler.edu/vbetts/]

About Brig. Gen. Henry E. McCulloch, CSA, the following is from The Handbook of Texas Online:

John NEWLIN was born in Parke County, Indiana in 1841 and his wife is also a native of the same county, born in 1853. They are the parents of three children: E(rvin) M. [born 7 January 1881, Penn Township, Parke County, Inidiana: m1. Blanch BAIRD (died 17 October 1918), 27 September 1908: m2. Xenia CUNNINGHAM (née PERRY), 14 May 1921], married Xenia PERRY, lives at Normal, Illinois; Clayton J., the subject of this sketch and Florence [born 25 April 1883, Penn Township, Parke County, Indiana: m. William Rollin CARMACK (29 September 1879, Vermilion County, Indiana - 25 February 1959), 29 May 1928], lives at Ridge Farm, Illinois. She is librarian at the Carnegie library there. Ridge Farm is the smallest town in the United States having a Carnegie library. Mr. John NEWLIN has been a prominent building contractor in Indiana for many years and he and his wife now live retired at Ridge Farm, Illinois.

Clayton J. NEWLIN received his education in the public schools and after learning the carpenter trade, was employed by M. Yeager & Son at Danville, Illinois where he remained six years. He then was associated with the Fitzsimmons Construction Company of Springfield and in 1916 came to McLean county, locating in Normal. Mr. NEWLIN has had the contract for many public buildings in Illinois and has built fifteen school buildings, among them being the McLean high school.

In 1911, Mr. NEWLIN was married to Miss Sallie M. COX, a native of Tyler, Texas and the daughter of John and Mary (BARRON) COX. Mr. COX was born in Georgia and his wife was a native of Alabama. He served during the Civil war with the Hood's Texas Brigade in Company C. He was a prominent politician of Texas and served as county judge of Smith County for 15 years. Mr. and Mrs. COX are now deceased. To Mr. and Mrs. NEWLIN two children have been born: John Cox, born at Tyler, Texas in 1912 and Robert Ervin, born at Springfield, Illinois in 1916.

Mr. NEWLIN is a Republican, a member of the Quaker church and belongs to the Masonic lodge and Consistory of Bloomington, the Shrine of Peoria and the Blue lodge of Normal. Mr. NEWLIN has been unusually successful and is considered one of Normal's most efficient citizens.

In 1942 John N. R. Score assumed the presidency of Southwestern University in Georgetown. Score, known as an expansionist, launched his "University of Small Colleges" plan under which, in 1946, Southwestern acquired Daniel Baker College. But the plan was unable to solve the smaller school's problems; enrollment once again was decreasing, accreditation was withheld, and finances were not improving. In 1949 the experiment was abandoned.

In 1950 the Episcopal Diocese of Dallas began operating the school, which had grown to comprise fourteen acres and eight buildings, as one of only two Episcopal senior colleges in the United States. Once again the college was accredited. It had an enrollment of 200 and a faculty of twenty-six, with eight Ph. D.s; it offered B. A. and B. S. degrees and, beginning in September 1951, a program in church-work training with sixteen female students enrolled. Daniel Baker played basketball in the Big State Athletic Conference. Nevertheless, the college once again failed financially, and in 1953 it closed. Its campus was taken over by nearby Howard Payne College (now Howard Payne University), which remodeled the main Daniel Baker building for use as the Douglas MacArthur Academy of Freedom.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Dictionary of American Biography. Ralph W. Jones, Southwestern University, 1840-1861 (Austin: Jenkins, 1973). William Stuart Red, A History of the Presbyterian Church in Texas (Austin: Steck, 1936). Vertical Files, Barker Texas History Center, University of Texas at Austin.

"In the reorganization that followed Green's death and Bee's removal from command, Woods's regiment became part of Xavier B. Debray's brigade of John A. Wharton's division. During the next seven months the Hirtle Texas Cavalry remained in Louisiana, patrolling the Athanasia River from Alexandria to Opelusas. In February 1865 the regiment returned to Texas, and at Houston on May 21, 1865, by order of Gen. John B. Magruder, it divided its public property and disbanded. Following the war Woods returned to San Marcos to resume his medical practice and farming. He married Ella Reeves Ogletree in 1874; the couple had five children. Woods died in San Marcos on January 27, 1898, and is buried there."

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Carl L. Duaine, The Dead Men Wore Boots: An Account of the Thirty-Second Texas Volunteer Cavalry, CSA, 1862-1865 (Austin: San Felipe, 1966).

Thomas W. Cutrer