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GENEALOGICAL NOTES AND ANECDOTES ANTECEDENTS and
DESCENDANTS G0496A:
George ALLEN [006] Marriage: ABT 1760 Child 1:
Child 2: Elizabeth Ann ALLEN (ABT 1762, Virginia, British North America - ?) [F]: m. Reuben PATRICK (3 February 1761, Albemarle Parish, Surry County, Virginia, British North America: christened 7 June 1761, Albemarle Parish, Surry County, Virginia, British North America - ?), 12 December 1783, Warren County, North Carolina Child 3: Dorcas ("Darkey") ALLEN (ABT 1767, North Carolina or Virginia, British North America - BEF 1805) [F]: m. James WRAY (RAY), 4 August 1788, Warren County, North Carolina Child 4: Jane ("Jean") ALLEN (ABT 1769, Virginia, British North America - ?) [F]: m. Samuel STEPHENSON, 19 August 1790, Warren County, North Carolina Child 5: Catherine ALLEN (ABT 1769, Virginia, British North America - ?) [F]: m. Thaddeus MURRAH, 14 December 1793, Warren County, North Carolina Child 6: Thomas ALLEN (ABT 1779, Warren County, North Carolina - ?) [M]: m. Elizabeth BAXTER, 30 December 1800, Warren County, North Carolina Child 7: Mary ALLEN [F]: m. William SMITH Child 8: Sally ALLEN (ABT 1776, Bute [in 1779, Warren] County, North Carolina - ?) [F]: m. John BENNETT, 1797, Warren County, North Carolina
Child 1: George ALLEN (Jr.) (1 May 1743, Hanover County , Virginia, British North America - 1 April 1836, Iredell County, North Carolina) [M]: m. Lucretia REAVES (? - 1811), ABT 1772, Wake County, North Carolina, British North America
Note 1: Reuben PATRICK, the husband of Elizabeth Ann ALLEN, was the son of John PATRICK (ABT 1727, Meherin Parish, Brunswick County, Virginia, British North America - 6 February 1780, Warren County, North Carolina) and Wilmouth UNKNOWN (1736, Virginia, British North America - 1788, Warren County, North Carolina) ____________________________ G0495A:
Marriage: ABT 1788, <North
Carolina> Child 1: Polly ALLEN (ABT 1782 - ?) [F]: m. William POLLARD (Jr.), 30 May 1803, Oglethorpe County, Georgia Child 2: James ALLEN (? - 9 September 1842, Habersham County, Georgia) [M] Child 3: Dorcas ALLEN [F] Child 4: John ALLEN (ABT 1789 - ?) [M]: m. Elizabeth DAVIS, 5 December 1810, Morgan County, Georgia Child 5: Thomas V. ALLEN (15 November 1790, Kentucky - 8 August 1887, Morgan County, Georgia) [M]: m1. Lucinda UNKNOWN; m2. Nancy UNKNOWN (? - BEF 24 November 1813); m3. Mary ("Polly") COLE, 24 November 1813 Child 6:
Child 7: Susannah ALLEN (5 March 1792, Kentucky - 13 January 1882, Walton County, Georgia) [F]: m. George Washington MALCOLM, 1808, Morgan County, Georgia Child 8: William ALLEN (15 February 1793, Kentucky - 10 October 1858) [M]: m. Mary ("Polly") DAVIS, 21 February 1808, Morgan County, Georgia Child 9: Rebecca ALLEN (1795, Kentucky - ?) [F]: m. James DALRYMPLE (1789, South Carolina - ?), 29 July 1818, Morgan County, Georgia Child 10: Elijah P(hillips?) ALLEN (ABT 1800, Kentucky or Georgia - AFT 1850, Jackson Parish, Louisiana) [M]: m1. Eliza T. HARRIS, 25 October 1827, Fayette County, Georgia; m2. Sarah E. MEADOWS, 4 December 1843, Macon, Bibb County, Georgia Child 11: Sarah ALLEN (AFT 1800, <Wilkes County>, Georgia - ?) [F]: m. William GILLILAND (Jr.), 25 May 1824, Fayette County, Georgia Child 12: Elizabeth ALLEN (1802,
<Wilkes County>, Georgia - ?) [F]: m. Joshua HAINES
(1796 - 1870), 29 November 1817, Morgan County, Georgia Note 1: William ALLEN was a soldier in the Revolution and reportedly drew land in Georgia for his services. A William ALLEN is reported as a private, from 2 October 1773 to 6 March 1776, in His Majesty's Troop of Rangers under the command of Edward Barnard which was assigned to the Ceded Lands (now Wilkes County) in Georgia. [See Robert Scott Davis, Jr., The Wilkes County Papers: 1773-1833, p. 39-43.] In 1783 a William ALLEN from North Carolina purchased land in Wilkes County, Georgia. [See Grace Gillam Davidson, Early Records of Georgia, vol. II, p. 84. See also Ceded Lands, p. 190.] Two William ALLENs can be identified in Wilkes County in 1790. Neither, however, was living near the family of Joel PHILLIPS and, given information on the birth of their children, it seems unlikely that either is the William ALLEN who married Mary PHILLIPS. [See Frank Parker Hudson, A 1790 Census for Wilkes County, Georgia, pp. 116 and 120.] According to land records, a William ALLEN also purchased land in Wilkes County in 1799. Three of his children, Thomas (born 1790), Susannah (born 1792), Rebecca (born 1795) identified their place of birth as Kentucky in later censuses. It is almost certain that he and his wife were in Kentucky during this period -- possibly having first migrated as refugees to Tennessee in 1780 with other refugees from Wilkes County. It is not known whether William ALLEN and Mary PHILLIPS were married before they departed Wilkes County or whether they met and married in Tennessee as refugees. On 21 September 1809, William ALLEN purchased land on Sandy Creek in Morgan County, Georgia [Morgan County Deed Book C, pp. 91-93.] Years after his death, his children signed over their claims to this land to his son, Thomas V. ALLEN. [Morgan County Deed Book J, pp 38-40) A Josiah SMITH of Fayette County, Georgia, whose connection to the family ALLEN is not known, of Fayette County, signed over his claim to this same land in 1836. Note 2: Although Mary PHILLIPS listed her place of birth as North Carolina in the United States Census of Fayette County, Georgia for 1850, her son, Thomas V. ALLEN, identified his mother and his father as both born in Virginia in the 1880 Census of Morgan County. [See United States Census, Morgan County, Georgia, 1880, p.322A] It is from the Census for 1850 that Mary PHILLIPS’s year of birth is known to be 1767. She was the daughter of Joel PHILLIPS (Sr.) (BEF 1738, Surry County, Virginia, British North America - 3 October 1792, Phillips Mill, Wilkes County, Georgia) and Elizabeth HARRINGTON (ABT 1730, Anson County, North Carolina, British North America - AFT 1812 and BY 1816, Wilkes County, Georgia) who were married, probably in Georgia, about 1748. Elizabeth HARRINGTON was the daughter of John HARRINGTON and Mary UNKNOWN; and she was first cousin to Hannah HARRINGTON, the wife of Col. Elijah CLARKE. [See G0498A: Thomas HARRINGTON (Sr.), note 6 in Antecedents and Descendants of Thomas Harrington, Sr. (ABT 1690 - BY 11 February 1744/45).] Because Joel PHILLIPS (Sr.) was the grandfather in common of both George ALLEN and Temperance PHILLIPS, they were first cousins. Note 3: On 23 December 1840, Elijah P. ALLEN was authorised by act of the General Assembly of the State of Georgia as trustee for incorporation of the Female Academy in Fayettevile, Fayette County, Georgia:
Note 4: Susannah ALLEN's place of birth is reported on her daughter's entry (Mary N. Allen DAVIS) in the Morgan County, Georgia, Census for 1880. [See United States Census, Georgia, 1880, p. 393A] ____________________________ G0494A:
Marriage: 12 March 1809, Morgan
County, Georgia Child
1: Child 2:
Elizabeth Ann ALLEN (6 January 1814, Morgan County,
Georgia - 26 February 1874, Smith County, Texas) [F]: m.
John EASON (12 March 1812 - 30 March 1873, Smith County,
Texas), 11 March 1835, Henry County, Georgia Note 1: A George ALLEN signed as having conducted the inventory of the estate of Presley Ramey in Wilkes County, Georgia, on 17 July 1794. Dabney Cholston and Absalom Ramey also signed the inventory. (But it seems unlikely that he could have been the same as the George ALLEN who was born in Kentucky since he would have been at least 21 in 1794 and thus born by 1773. If so, he would have been at least 36 when married in 1809 and at least 42 when he died in 1815. [See Davis, The Wilkes County Papers: 1773-1833, p. 223.]) There was a George ALLEN who owned 200 acres in Wilkes County in 1790, Captain William Hurley's District (N). There was, however, no William ALLEN living near him. [See Frank Parker Hudson, A 1790 Census for Wilkes County, Georgia, p. 94.] George ALLEN, born in Kentucky, probably came to Morgan County, Georgia with his father in 1809 when he bought land there. He acquired 100 acres of land on Little Sandy Creek in Morgan County in March 1811. [See Morgan County Deed Book C, pp. 90-91.] George ALLEN apparently served in Major General John McIntosh's Division, Georgia Militia, in the War of 1812. The Georgia Genealogical Magazine, #24, April 1967, p. 1584 carries the following report from the 5 April 5 1815 Georgia Journal of Milledgeville, Georgia on George ALLEN's death:
The record of his service shows that George ALLEN enlisted on 21 November 1814 and died on 21 February 1815. His cousin, Hawkins PHILLIPS, identifies his unit as Capt. Henry Lane's Company, 4th Regiment, Georgia Militia, commanded by Colonel David Booth. According to the records, the company was also part of Lt. Col. William Jones' Battalion. [Affidavit of Hawkins PHILLIPS, 2 April 1855, Leake County, Mississippi, and War of 1812 records. Hawkins PHILLIPS (1787, Georgia - 1850, Leake County, Mississippi) was the son of Joel PHILLIPS, Jr. and Charity BRANTLEY] Note 2: According to the marriage bond, Whitmill PHILLIPS (BEF 1773, Anson County, North Carolina - 1822, Morgan County, Georgia), the brother of Mary PHILLIPS, was the guarantor of Temperance PHILLIPS's marriage to George ALLEN, indicating that he - the guarantor - was her father. It is also likely that, at the time of her marriage, Temperance PHILLIPS had not yet attained the age of majority. This marriage is verifiable in Georgia Marriages to 1850. It is also claimed that Temperance PHILLIPS, the daughter of Whitmill PHILLIPS, was married to Charles ARRINGTON (1778, Virginia - ?), in Morgan County, Georgia, on 7 April 1810, and engendered Lewis ARRINGTON, in Virginia, in March 1823. And indeed, in Georgia Marriages to 1850, it can be seen that, on 29 March 1810, a marriage bond was obtained in Morgan County, Georgia, for Charles ARRINGTON and Tempy PHILLIPS. (Some HARRINGTONs, as presumably did their English forebears, appear to have dropped their "aitches.") The relationship between Temperance PHILLIPS and Tempy PHILLIPS is not definitely known; but it seems that they were distinctly different persons and that Whitmill PHILLIPS was the father of Temperance, not Tempy. The mother, accordingly, of Temperance PHILLIPS was Nancy ("Ann") HURLEY (1779, Wilkes County, Georgia - ?) who was married to Whitmill PHILLIPS before 1803. Nancy ("Ann") HURLEY was the daughter of Henry HURLEY and Fanny UNKNOWN. Tempy PHILLIPS appears to have been an untraced daughter of Joel PHILLIPS (Jr.) (AFT 1748, Wilkes County, Georgia, British North America - BEF 1812, Wilkes County, Georgia) and Charity BRANTLEY who were married about 1770.. At some date after 1790, Joel PHILLIPS (Jr.) and Charity BRANTLEY were residents of Baldwin [AFT 1807, Morgan] County, Georgia, having removed themselves from Wilkes County. Georgia Marriages to 1850 also reports the marriage of a Tempy PHILLIPS to Howard PORTWOOD on 7 September 1815, in Wilkinson County. Mary PHILLIPS and Whitmill PHILLIPS were the offspring of Joel PHILLIPS (Sr.) (BEF 1738, Surry County, Virginia, British North America - 3 October 1792, Phillips Mill, Wilkes County, Georgia) and Elizabeth HARRINGTON (BEF 1747 - BEF 1816, Wilkes County, Georgia). George ALLEN and Temperance PHILLIPS were, therefore, first cousins. Note 3: On 8 May 1819, after the deaths of both her husband William ALLEN and her son George ALLEN, Mary ALLEN (née PHILLIPS) was appointed guardian for her grandchildren, the children of George ALLEN, Whitmill P. ALLEN and Elizabeth ALLEN. [Morgan County Deed Book I, p. 509 and Jeanette Holland Austin, Georgia Intestate Records, p. 6.] Accordingly, the relation of WHITMILL Phillips ALLEN and Elizabeth ALLEN to their parents and grandparents is well established. Note 4: John EASON, the husband of Elizabeth Ann ALLEN, was the son of Abraham EASON (ABT 1775, of Fayette County, Georgia - ABT 1825, Fayette County, Georgia) and Lucibert ("Lucy") UNKNOWN (ABT 1779, Paulding County, Georgia - ABT 1853, Paulding County, Georgia), who were married about 1790. His siblings were: Nancy EASON (ABT 1791, Georgia - ?) [F]; Rice EASON (1793, Fayette County, Georgia - AFT 19 October 1850 [United States Census, Fayette County, Georgia], <Fayette County>, Georgia) [M]: m1. Frances ("Franky") MIERS (1801, Georgia - AFT 19 October 1850 [United States Census, Fayette County, Georgia], <Fayette County>, Georgia): m2. Aley MCEACHERN; Martha ("Patsy") EASON (ABT 1795, Georgia - ?) [F]; Abraham EASON (ABT 1797, Georgia - ?) [M]: m. Mary GRANVILLE, ABT 1821; Edmond P. EASON (ABT 1801, Georgia - ?) [M]: m. Mary GAY (ABT 1812, Georgia - ?), 22 January 1829, Fayette County, Georgia; Lucy B. EASON (ABT 1803, Georgia - ?) [F]: m. Samuel P. PARSON; Mary EASON (ABT 1803, Georgia - ?) [F]: m. W. M. HODGE; James EASON (ABT 1805, Georgia - ?) [F: m. Rhoda Ann MCELROY; Katherine EASON (ABT 1807, Georgia - ?) [F]; William EASON (ABT 1811, Georgia - ?) [M]: m1. Sarah AUSTIN: m2. Martha Jane GARMON; and Andrew Jackson EASON (January 1817, Georgia - ABT 1904, Terrell, Kaufman County, Texas: interment at Oakland Cemetery, Terrell, Kaufman County, Texas) [M]: m. Elizabeth A. R. FINDLAY (March 1822, Georgia - ABT 1902, Terrell, Kaufman County, Texas: interment at Oakland Cemetery, Terrell, Kaufman County, Texas), 29 August 1839. Mary GAY, the wife of Edmond P. EASON, was the sister of Sherrod Haywood GAY (2 March 1808, Hancock County, Georgia - 6 June 1894, Hancock County, Georgia: interment at Riverdale United Methodist Church Cemetery, Pleasant Grove, Jefferson County, Georgia), the father-in-law of James Marion ("Mel") ALLEN. [See below, Child 4, under G0493A: Whitmill Phillips ALLEN.] Mary GAY and Sherrod Haywood GAY were the offspring of William GAY (1766, North Carolina, British North America - 22 May 1852, Fayette County, Georgia) and Mary HUNT (28 January 1770 - 28 May 1851, Fayette County, Georgia); and their siblings were: William GAY (ABT 1791 - ?, Selma, Dallas County, Alabama) [M]: m. Lucy WYATT (ABT 1796 - ?), 30 November 1816, Jasper County, Georgia; Penelope ("Penny") GAY (ABT 1792, North Carolina - ?) [F]: m. Henry OVERTON (ABT 1788 - ?), 3 August 1815, Jasper County, Georgia; Arpamantha ("Arpy") GAY (ABT 1795 - 1856, Newton County, Mississippi: interment at McGee Cemetery, Newton County, Mississippi) [F]: m. Richard Henry MCGEE (ABT 1792, Jones County, Georgia - 7 February 1896, Newton County, Mississippi: interment at McGee Cemetery, Newton County, Mississippi), 21 December 1815, Jasper County, Georgia; Marina GAY (15 December 1802, Georgia - 16 June 1876, Randolph County, Alabama) [F]: m. James M. PATE (ABT 1797 - ?), 16 June 1821, Randolph County, Alabama; and Cynthia ("Cynthy") GAY (29 September 1804, Georgia - 25 June 1897, Randolph County, Alabama) [F]: m. James OSBORN (ABT 1800 - ?), 12 February 1824, Jasper County, Georgia. [See below, G0493A: Whitmill Phillips ALLEN, note 13 and see G0495C: Maj. Zachariah PHILLIPS, note 5, in Antecedents and Descendants of Whitmell Phillips (ABT 1772 - 1822).] ____________________________ G0493A:
Marriage: 11 January 1833, Henry
County, Georgia Child 1: Elijah Sherwood ALLEN (27 December 1833, Fayette County, Georgia - 9 January 1913, Tyler, Smith County, Texas: interment at Dover Baptist Church Cemetery ["Father"], Smith County, Texas) [M]: m. Julia M. LANGFORD (26 September 1838, Henry County, Georgia - 16 June 1925, Smith County, Texas: interment at Dover Baptist Church Cemetery ["Mother"], Smith County, Texas), 6 December 1855, Henry County, Georgia Child 2: John C(amp?) ALLEN (25 June 1835, Fayette County, Georgia - AFT 1 June 1860, <Garden Valley, Smith County>, Texas) [M]: m. Ophelia JOHNSON (ABT 1839, Georgia - ABT 1901, Mineola, Wood County, Texas), 3 December 1857, Fayette County, Georgia Child 3: William Camp ALLEN (4 December 1836, Fayette County, Georgia - 2 June 1911, Frankston, Anderson County, Texas) [M]: m. Jane C. DEVAUGHN (ABT 1838, Henry County, Georgia - AFT June 1911), 1857, Clayton County, Georgia Child 4: James ("Mel") Marion ALLEN (18 January 1838, Fayette County, Georgia - 25 January 1914, Mineola, Wood County, Texas) [M]: m1. Mary ("Polly") Ann GAY (26 November 1843, Fayette County, Georgia - 27 March 1880, Smith County, Texas: interment at Dover Baptist Church Cemetery, Smith County, Texas), 7 October 1858, Fayette County, Georgia: m2. Isom Jane DAVIS (ABT 1850, Swan, Smith County, Texas - January 1885, Texas), 28 December 1881, Smith County, Texas: m3. Frances Sophronia ("Safrony") QUARLES (March 1844, Lowndes County, Alabama - 6 January 1922, Quitman, Wood County, Texas), 5 August 1885, Mineola, Wood County, Texas Child 5: Zachariah M. ALLEN (30 June 1840, Fayette County, Georgia - ABT 1840, Fayette County, Georgia) [M] Child 6: Martha Emily ALLEN (7 March 1842, Fayette County, Georgia - ABT 1842, Fayette County, Georgia) [F] Child 7: Abner C(amp?) ALLEN (10 November 1843, Fayette County, Georgia - 30 November 1864, Battle of Franklin, Williamson County, Tennessee, Confederate States of America) [M] Child 8: Mary Luvenia ("Luviney") ALLEN (9 September 1846, Fayette County, Georgia - ?) [F] Child
9: Child 10: Thomas B. ALLEN (23 May 1849, Fayette County, Georgia - ?) [M] Child 11: Joseph Polk ALLEN (9 May 1851, Fayette County, Georgia - 1902, Mineola, Wood County, Texas) [M]: m. Ellen Malone ("Ella Mae") STELL (6 August 1852, Louisiana - ?), 13 May 1869, Smith County, Texas [See Child 11: Ella Malone ("Ella Mae") STELL under G0493B: Robert Malone STELL (Jr.) Reverend, M. D. in Antecedents and Descendants of Michael Stell (1683 - ABT 1706).] Child 12: Columbus Elbridge
("Bud") ALLEN (12 June 1853, Fayette County,
Georgia - 20 April 1927, Smith County, Texas: interment
at Dover Baptist Church Cemetery, Smith County, Texas)
[M]: m. Samantha THURMAN (19 February 1855, Missouri - 10
May 1941: interment at Dover Baptist Church Cemetery,
Smith County, Texas), 28 July 1872, Smith County, Texas Note 1: Whitmill Phillips ALLEN's first name is also spelled "Whitmel" and "Whitmeal" in some sources. The spelling "Whitmill" is found on his Justice of Peace certificate issued by the state of Georgia and is presumed to be the spelling he used. Of his middle name, the only written record is in the EASON family Bible. His sister Elizabeth married John EASON. Whitmill Phillips ALLEN was appointed Justice of the Peace in Fayette County, Georgia, in 1838, was reappointed in 1841 and served at least until 1842. (His commissions are in the possession of descendants.) According to A History of Clayton County, Georgia: 1821-1983, Whitmill Phillips ALLEN built "The Oaks" inter annos 1839 and 1840, approximately four miles north of Jonesboro on the old Atlanta Public Road. (In 1988, the site was north of Jonesboro on Tara Boulevard at the locale of Southland Ford.) Terry Baken's Historic Clayton County: Home of Gone With the Wind describes "Stately Oaks" as "a pure example of Greek Revival architecture so common in the South in the last century" and said it appears to have been designed and built by a competent but professionally untrained carpenter. "The Oaks" was renamed "Stately Oaks" by Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Orr, who acquired the plantation in 1889. "Stately Oaks" is considered an excellent example of the residence of a substantial small planter. The home has been moved to Historical Jonesboro (south of Jonesboro on the east side of the railroad tracks on Jodeco Road), where it was renovated to serve as a house-museum of the antebellum era. For more information about this estimable dwelling, see The Oaks: The Home of Whitmill Phillips Allen (6 November 1811 - January 1868). Whitmill Phillips ALLEN and his family moved to Smith County, Texas around 1858. Reportedly he was following the westward movement of his family. His uncle, Elijah P. ALLEN, had moved to Jackson Parish, Louisiana, and other relatives have been identified in Smith County. Whitmill Phillips ALLEN was a founding member of the Dover Baptist Church, near Carroll, Smith County, Texas in 1863 and, in 1866, he deeded four acres to the Church which is now the Dover Cemetery. As is known from letters addressed to him, Whitmill Phillips ALLEN apparently carried supplies in his wagons to Shreveport, Louisiana during the War Between the States. In 1866 and 1867, Whitmill Phillips ALLEN was identified as a Justice of the Peace in Smith County, Texas; and he was also an organizer of the Dover Library Association. Note 2: The marriage of Whitmill Phillips ALLEN and Mary Ann CAMP is verified in Georgia Marriage Record to 1850. Note 3: From Genealogy: JimCSmith.net, at http://www.jimcsmith.net/master/progen/wga2.html:
Note 4: In the United States Census of 1870 for the Garden Valley beat, Smith County, Texas, enumerated by J. J. Stanford on 13 June 1860, Whitmill Phillips ALLEN was listed as the proprietor of twenty slaves, six adults and fourteen children, constituting four households. These are categorized according to age, sex (M = Male, F = Female), and colour (B = Black, M = Mulatto):
Note 5: In Tyler, Smith County, Texas, during the court term of February 1867, Hannah Tolaver, a "child of color" eight years of age, was apprenticed to Whitmill Phillips ALLEN by Judge Samuel D. Gibbs. The legal form of apprenticeship was consistent with the example furnished below:
Under the Apprentice Law, males were were expected to remain with their masters until they were 21, at which time they received a good horse, bridle, and saddle worth at least $100. It seems to have been understood that apprentices were to "behave themselves discreetly unto the person apprenticed to and all his family." Also during the court term of February 1867, Susan Tolaver, eight years of age, was apprenticed to John Calhoun COX, the son-in-law of Whitmill Phillips ALLEN, by Judge Samuel D. Gibbs. It is possible to surmise that Susan and Hannah Tolaver were twins, that - with the termination of slavery - they had been orphaned, and that - under the regime of slavery - they had somehow been associated with the old Southern family of Taliaferro (pronounced "tolliver"). Note 6: According to the 1870 United States Census for Smith County, Texas, Elijah.Sherwood and Julia Langford ALLEN's children were Alice - 10, Emma - 9, Thomas - 6, Bula - 3, and Josephine - 2. All were born after the family settled in the Garden Valley area upon their arrival in Texas from Georgia. Elijah Sherwood ALLEN served during the Civil War in Company C, 17th Texas Cavalry, C. S. A. (Tyler Daily Courier Times, 11 March 1913, p. 7) This was the same company in which William Camp ALLEN served. Elijah Sherwood ALLEN’s obituary stated that he was the oldest of seven children. Information on William Camp ALLEN includes the following: Wife, Jane C. DEVAUGHN and seven children whose names were Olivia, Thomas, Luther, Lucie, Cora, William, and Olon. The Tyler Daily Courier Times reported William Camp ALLEN as having died on June 2, 1911:
[Note: The Confederate pension application for Levina Moseley, widow of William M. Capps, who served in Company C of the 17th Texas Cavalry, required the signature of two witnesses who served with William M. Capps during the War Between the States. One of the witnesses was W. C. ALLEN who signed as a witness on 20 September 1915. The identity of this W. C. ALLEN is unclear.] William M.(Miles or Mitchell) CAPPS was born 14 July 1832. Census records indicate his birthplace as Georgia, his father's birthplace as South Carolina, and his mother's birthplace also as Georgia. William married Levina MOSELEY in Smith County, Texas on 16 August 1860. She was born in Georgia on 4 April 1843. Her parents were Miles MOSELEY and Nancy CAMP from Henry County, Georgia. William and Levina CAPPS had the following children: William Washington CAPPS, Luvina C. CAPPS, John CAPPS, Sarah Elizabeth CAPPS Parnell, Nnacy B. CAPPS Waits, Mollie CAPPS Glenn, Alma C. Lester, Cora Lee CAPPS Williamson, Nora Cozelle CAPPS, Lonnie CAPPS, Sterling Miles CAPPS. In a handwritten note from a grandaughter of William M. CAPPS and Levina Moseley CAPPS, it was indicated that the entire wagon train in which William, Levina, and other family members traveled to Texas originated in Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia. Also in the wagon train were Levina's parents - Miles and Nancy Camp MOSELEY, John CAMP (father of Nancy), Lewis and Chlorinda Camp SPARKMAN, and several ALLEN family members. This wagon train would have made the trip from Georgia to Texas around 1858. William M. CAPPS was associated with the ALLEN, MOSELEY, CAMP, and SPARKMAN families all of Clayton, Fayette, and Henry Counties, Georgia. These families all relocated to Texas from Georgia. They settled in the Garden Valley Community of Smith County, Texas. The children of Elijah Sherwood ALLEN and Julia M. LANGFORD were: Mary Elizabeth ("Little Lizzie") ALLEN (27 December 1856, Fayette County, Georgia - January 1862, Smith County, Texas, Confederate States of America) [F]; Emma Alice ALLEN (17 February 1860, Smith County, Texas - 28 December 1881, Smith County, Texas) [F]: m. James R. COX (1857, Louisiana - ?); Thomas Langford ALLEN (7 January 1864, Smith County, Texas, Confederate States of America - 28 April 1951, Tarrant County, Texas) [M]: m. Billie HARPOLE; Beulah L. ALLEN (6 March 1866, Smith County, Texas - 23 July 1896, Smith County, Texas) [F]: m. Dr. Houston RATHER (1861, Mississippi - ?); Josie Barnes ALLEN (26 July 1868, Smith County, Texas - 17 February 1946, San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas) [F]: m. W. J. WRIGHT; Lenora ("Aunt Nora") ALLEN (7 October 1870, Smith County, Texas - 23 May 1966, Terrell, Kaufman County, Texas) [F]; Mittie Beatrice ALLEN (25 January 1873, Smith County, Texas - 1 January 1907, Wise County, Texas) [F]: m. Dr. B. M. JONES; Maggie Lee ALLEN (4 March 1877, Smith County, Texas - 14 August 1963, Wise County, Texas) [F]: m. Dr. William Americus JENNINGS (20 July 1874, Menlo, Chattanooga County, Georgia - ?), 10 August 1904, Mt. Sylvan, Smith County, Texas; Julia Janette ALLEN (15 December 1879, Smith County, Texas - ?) [F]: m. Ulyson W. PRATER; Lottie May (or Mary) ALLEN (19 October 1884, Smith County, Texas - ?) [F]. Elijah Sherwood ALLEN lies interred in the cemetery of the Dover Baptist Church, Smith County, Texas. For this church and cemetery, Whitmill Phillips ALLEN deeded four acres of land in 1866. The gravestone of Elijah Sherwood ALLEN is inscribed: E. S. Allen, 27 December 1833, "Father." Julia M. ALLEN (née LANGFORD) lies interred in the cemetery of the Dover Baptist Church, Smith County, Texas. Her gravestone is inscribed: Julia M. Allen, 26 September 1838 - 16 June 1925. Emma Alice COX (née ALLEN) lies interred in the cemetery of the Dover Baptist Church, Smith County, Texas. Her gravestone is inscribed: Emma A. Cox, wife of J. R. Cox, Luther’s Mama, 17 February 1860 - 23 December 1881. Beulah L. RATHER (née ALLEN) lies interred in the cemetery of the Dover Baptist Church, Smith County, Texas. Her gravestone is inscribed: Beulah L. Rather, wife of Dr. H. Rather, 6 March 1866 - 23 July 1896. Note 7: In the United States Census of 1870 for the Garden Valley beat, Smith County, Texas, enumerated 1 June 1860, Elijah Sherwood ALLEN was listed as the proprietor of four slaves, two adults and two children, constituting a single household. These are categorized according to age, sex (M = Male, F = Female), and colour (B = Black, M = Mulatto):
Note 8: In Tyler, Smith County, Texas, during the court term of February 1867, Alice Stuart, a "child of color" eight years of age, was apprenticed to Elijah Sherwood ALLEN by Judge Samuel D. Gibbs. For the legal form of apprenticeship, see note 5, above. Also during the court term of February 1867, on 1 March, Lucies Stuart, eight years of age, was apprenticed to William Camp ALLEN, the brother of Elijah Sherwood ALLEN, by Judge Samuel D. Gibbs. It is possible to surmise that Lucies and Alice Stuart were twins and that - with the termination of slavery - they had been orphaned. Note 9: According to her death certificate, Julia M. LANGFORD’s father was John LANKFORD. Note 10: In the United States Census of 1870 for the Garden Valley beat, Smith County, Texas, enumerated 1 June 1860, John C(amp?) ALLEN was listed as the proprietor of one slave, a black female who was said to be 27 years of age. Note 11: In the United States Census of 1870 for the Garden Valley beat, Smith County, Texas, enumerated 1 June 1860, William Camp ALLEN was listed as the proprietor of three slaves, one adults and two children, constituting a single household. These are categorized according to age, sex (M = Male, F = Female), and colour (B = Black, M = Mulatto):
Of this household, it seems likely that the bondswoman of John C. ALLEN was the single mother. Note 12: Jane C. DEVAUGHN, the spouse of William Camp ALLEN, was the daughter of Elijah DEVAUGHN (1794, Nash County, North Carolina - 8 November 1840, Henry County, Georgia; interment at DeVaughn Family Cemetery) and Eliza Bailey DEVALL (14 October 1805, Abbeville, Abbeville District, South Carolina - 11 January 1892, Jonesboro, Clayton County, Georgia; interment at DeVaughn Family Cemetery), married about 1819 and resident in Henry County, Georgia. Note 13: James Marion ("Mel") ALLEN: Some sources indicate that James Marion ("Mel") ALLEN may have been born 14 June 1838; and, although he said he was born in Fayette County, Georgia, his family home may have actually been in what then was Henry County. The area where he was born became part of Clayton County in 1858. James Marion ("Mel") ALLEN and his first wife, Mary Ann ("Polly") GAY had no children. According to a record prepared by her sister, Martha Matilda TRAVIS (née GAY), after she and James Marion ("Mel") ALLEN were engaged to be married, Mary Ann ("Polly") GAY broke the engagement because she did not want to go to Texas with him and his family. Finally, James Marion ("Mel") ALLEN promised not to go to Texas, if she would marry him. She was so young, 15 years of age, that she persuaded her parents, Sherrod Haywood GAY (2 March 1808, Hancock County, Georgia - 6 June 1894, Hancock County, Georgia: interment at Riverdale United Methodist Church Cemetery, Pleasant Grove, Jefferson County, Georgia) and Annis ALLEN (3 July 1814, Social Circle, Walton County, Georgia - 4 April 1894; interment at Riverdale Methodist Church, Pleasant Grove, Jefferson County, Georgia), who were married 29 May 1838, in Fayette County, Georgia, to come into the parlour so that he could make the promise before them. After he and Mary Ann ("Polly") GAY were married, James Marion ("Mel") ALLEN decided to go to Texas anyway, and Mary Ann ("Polly") GAY's father, Sherrod Haywood GAY, offered her a large sum of money if she would not go. She refused, saying she could not disgrace her sister and her family by breaking up the marriage. James Marion ("Mel") ALLEN and Mary Ann ("Polly") GAY apparently stayed in Texas about one year and returned to Jonesboro, Georgia in December 1859, where Sherrod Haywood GAY furnished a house for them (the "Renfro Place"). During the War Between the States, Mary Ann ("Polly") GAY moved in with her family. Sherrod Haywood GAY and Annis ALLEN, it should be noted, were married 29 May 1838, in Fayette County, Georgia. Annis ALLEN was the daughter of Woodson ALLEN (ABT 1774, Charlotte County, Virginia, British North America - 11 September 1834, Walton County, Georgia) and Annis PALMER (1778, Charlotte County, Virginia - ?), who were married 19 August 1794, in Charlotte County, Virginia and were resident in Social Circle, Walton County, Georgia. Annis ALLEN is not now known to have been traceably related to the family of James Marion ("Mel") ALLEN. Woodson ALLEN, in Virginia, was a witness to a deed dated 13 October 1792, signed by Patrick Henry and Dorothea Henry. Woodson ALLEN and Annis PALMER were, in fact, neighbours of Patrick Henry and named one of their sons [Patrick Henry ALLEN (18 December 1815, Campbell County, Virginia - ?, Georgia): m. Sarah C. HAYES, 1843, McDonough, Henry County, Georgia] after him. Woodson ALLEN was a revolutionary army soldier and drew land in Walton County in the Georgia Land Lottery of 1827. Woodson ALLEN and Annis PALMER were married 19 August 1794, in Charlotte County, Virginia. In 1914, Samuel WILKINS, the son of William W. WILKINS and Lucy ALLEN, copied the dates of birth of the children of Woodson ALLEN and Annis PALMER: Luke ALLEN (1 August 1795 - ?) [M]; John ALLEN (8 September 1797 - ?) [M]; William ALLEN (5 December 1799 - ?) [M]; James ALLEN (20 May 1803 - ?) [M]; Woodson Palmer ALLEN (12 October 1805 - ?) [M]; Mary ALLEN (1 July 1808 - ?) [F]; Lovic Pierce ALLEN (1 July 1810 - ?) [M]; Lucy Palmer ALLEN (22 September 1812 - ?) [F]: m. William W. WILKINS, 1840, Fayette County, Georgia; and Annis ALLEN (3 July 1814 - ?) [F]: m. Sherrod Haywood GAY (2 March 1808, Hancock County, Georgia - ?), 29 May 1838, Fayette County, Georgia. A daughter of Patrick Henry ALLEN and Sarah C. HAYES is likely to have been Almeda ("Mittie") ALLEN (ABT 1844, Georgia - ?) who married William Washington CAMP (24 April 1824, Henry [later Clayton] County, Georgia - 30 April 1905) on 28 October 1860 in Clayton County, Georgia. [See Child 8: William Washington CAMP under G0494A: John ("Big Headed") CAMP in **********] The other children of Sherrod Haywood GAY and Annis ALLEN were: Asa GAY (7 September 1839, Clayton County, Georgia - 7 September 1839, Clayton County, Georgia) [M]; John W. GAY (29 November 1841, Clayton County, Georgia - 10 April 1844, Clayton County, Georgia) [M]; Martha Matilda GAY (20 December 1845, Fayette County, Georgia - 3 March 1929, East Point, Fulton County, Georgia) [F]: m. Maxmillian ("Max") TRAVIS (6 January 1842, Fayette County, Georgia - 30 April 1914, Riverdale, Clayton County, Alabama), 26 December 1861; Polk GAY (13 December 1847, Fayette County, Georgia - ?, Memphis, Tennessee) [M]: Marietta GAY (26 November 1849, Fayette County, Georgia - AFT 1880, Fayette County, Georgia) [F]: m. Perry ARCHER (ABT 1845 - AFT 1880); John Calhoun GAY (8 February 1851, Fayette County, Georgia - 17 April 1914: interment at Riverdale United Methodist Church Cemetery, Pleasant Grove, Jefferson County, Georgia) [M]: m1. Jackie MILNER(ABT 1856 - BY 1882): m2. Mary E. MILNER (21 May 1864 - 2 September 1894, Clayton County, Georgia), ABT 1882, Clayton County, Georgia; William W. GAY (2 September 1854, Fayette County, Georgia - 16 March 1934, Clayton County, Georgia) [M]: m. Ella TERRELL (13 February 1871 - 31 August 1936, Clayton County, Georgia); and Joanna GAY (14 April 1858, Fayette County, Georgia - AFT 1889) [F]: m. James MCCONNELL (? - AFT 1889). [See G0495C: Maj. Zachariah PHILLIPS, note 5, in Antecedents and Descendants of Whitmell Phillips (ABT 1772 - 1822).]
On 20 May 1861, in Jonesboro, James Marion ("Mel") ALLEN joined Company E, 10th Georgia Volunteer Infantry. The company was originally known as the Clayton Sharpshooters and, later, the Benjamin Infantry. His company was the first organized in Clayton County; and his regiment left Jonesboro on 30 May 1861. He and his regiment arrived in Richmond, Virginia, on 2 June 1861, and were initially stationed at Williamsburg. Except for furloughs such as that of November 1862, when his wife had smallpox, James Marion ("Mel") ALLEN remained with the 10th Georgia until the end of the War. A friend, in a letter to his father, said that James Marion ("Mel") ALLEN was extremely ill himself when he came home in November 1862; but he had recovered by the time he left on Christmas Day. By 1864, James Marion ("Mel") ALLEN was a corporal. The 10th Georgia Infantry was part of the Army of Northern Virginia; and it participated in many of the major, and some of the bloodiest, battles of the War Between the States, including Sharpsburg (Antietam), Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and the Wilderness Campaign. When told that the 10th Georgia had broken in one battle, the division commander, General Kershaw, reportedly refused to believe the report:
The 10th Georgia also developed a reputation of a different sort. When its men were accused of having stolen some pigs at Fredericksburg, General McLaw refused to take action against the regiment. He reportedly said that if the 10th had in fact butchered the hogs, he was certain its men would have done it near someone else rather than furnish evidence against themselves. McLaw may have been right. Dr. George Todd, regimental surgeon and brother of Mary Todd Lincoln, President Lincoln's wife, had a cask of smuggled French brandy stolen by the regiment during a fight staged by the soldiers to distract everyone's attention. After dividing the spoils, they hid the empty cask in a tent belonging to the 53rd Regiment. James Marion ("Mel") ALLEN surrendered and was paroled at Appomattox. According to his pension application James Allen returned to Texas in 1866. He settled in the Garden Valley area of Smith County, probably near Carroll, where his parents and other members of his family lived. The pension application says that he moved to Mineola, Texas around 1878. However, his first wife, Mary Ann ("Polly") GAY died on 27 March 1880 and was buried in Dover Cemetery (near I-20 and State Highway 110 in western Smith County), suggesting that they still lived in Smith County up to her death. James Marion ("Mel") ALLEN married his second wife, Isom Jane DAVIS, on 28 December 1881, in Smith County. Isom Jane DAVIS reportedly died as a result of complications from the birth of her second son, Royl. James Marion ("Mel") ALLEN’s third wife, Frances Sophronia ("Safrony") QUARLES outlived him. In his pension application of July 1809, James Marion ("Mel") ALLEN reported his occupation as transferman (but drayman, according to Marie LAKE). Henry ALLEN, his grandson, recalls that James Marion ("Mel") ALLEN was the founder of a motor freight company in Texas and was very successful.
Note 14: Columbus Elbridge ALLEN lies interred in the cemetery of the Dover Baptist Church, Smith County, Texas. His gravestone is inscribed: Columbus E. Allen, 12 June 1853 - 20 April 1927. Samantha ALLEN (née THURMAN) lies interred in the cemetery of the Dover Baptist Church, Smith County, Texas. Her gravestone is inscribed: Samantha Thurman Allen, 19 February 1855 - 10 May 1941. Note 15: In the cemetery of the Dover Baptist Church, Smith County, Texas lies interred Luther T. ALLEN. His gravestone is inscribed: Luther T. Allen, son of W. C. and Jane Allen, 29 March 1860 - 6 December 1862. Luther T. ALLEN was the son of William Camp ALLEN and Jane C. DEVAUGHN. Note 16: Mary ("Polly") Ann ALLEN (née GAY) lies interred in the cemetery of the Dover Baptist Church, Smith County, Texas. Her gravestone is inscribed: Mary A. Allen, wife of J. M. Allen, 26 November 1843 - 27 March 1880. Note 17: Although Marie LAKE believed that Isom Jane DAVIS’s birthplace was Van, Van Zandt County, Texas, the birth certificate of the second child of Isom Jane DAVIS states that her place of birth was Swan, Smith County, Texas. Isom Jane DAVIS died from complications with the birth of her second child, Royl James ALLEN. By Isom Jane DAVIS, James Marion ("Mel") ALLEN engendered two sons: Virgil D(avis?) ALLEN (September 1883, Texas - ?): m. Nina Hattie SMITH (27 September 1885, Mount Airy, Habersham County, Georgia - 16 November 1964, McCamey, Upton County, Texas), 12 November 1903, Quitman, Wood County, Texas; and Royl James ALLEN (31 December 1884, Mineola, Wood County, Texas - ?): m. Pearl Estelle WHITE (8 December 1889, Farmerville, Union Parish, Louisiana - ?), 30 May 1906, Swan, Smith County, Texas. Note 18: In the United States Census of 1870 for the Garden Valley beat, Smith County, Texas, enumerated 2 July 1860, James Marion ALLEN was listed as the proprietor of a single slave, a male mulatto, thirty years of age. Note 19: Map of Morgan County, Georgia (1895):
____________________________ G0492A:
Marriage: 22 June 1864, Smith County, Texas,
Confederate States of America Child 1: Child 2: Helen Chloe COX (February 1868, Smith County, Texas - October 1871, Smith County, Texas) [F] Child 3: John Carson COX (5 December 1869, Smith County, Texas - 22 October 1908, Smith County, Texas) [M]: m. Mattie Lee FERRELL (May 1875, Coweta County, Georgia - ?, Smith County, Texas), 8 November 1895, Smith County, Texas Child 4: Mary ("Mattie") L. COX (29 September 1871, Smith County, Texas - 29 August 1902, Tyler, Smith County, Texas) [F]: m. Leslie E. BURKE (1869, Brownsville, Marshall Township, Saline County, Missouri - AFT December 1894 and BEF 18 June 1900, Dublin, Erath County, Texas ), 10 September 1890, Nolan County, Texas Child 5: Whit Allen COX (23 October 1873, Leon County, Texas - 25 February 1925, San Marcos, Hays County, Texas) [M]: m. Ella ("Nell") Rives Moore WOODS (23 November 1876, San Marcos, Hays County, Texas - 23 December 1948, San Marcos, Hays County, Texas), 5 September 1910 Child 6: William Camp COX (8 January 1876, Leon County, Texas - AFT 4 July 1923, <Brownwood, Brown County>, Texas) [M]: m. Florence ("Florrie") A. WATKINS (October 1885, Tyler, Smith County, Texas - ?), 26 December 1906, Tyler, Smith County, Texas Child 7: Unnamed daughter COX (died at birth, probably in 1877, Smith County, Texas) [F] Child 8: Emmie Elizabeth COX (5 February 1878, Smith County, Texas - 18 May 1883, Sweetwater, Nolan County, Texas) [F] Child 9: Sam Stell COX (8 November 1881, Mineola, Wood County, Texas - AFT 1925) [M]: m. Lily ("Lil") L. HARPER (February 1892, Mexia, Limestone County, Texas - AFT 25 November 1925), 10 July 1919, 8:45 PM, Mexia, Limestone County, Texas, at the home of the bride's mother, Mrs. Lily A. HARPER Child 10: Unnamed daughter COX (died at birth,
1884, Sweetwater, Nolan County, Texas) [F] Note 1: In the annals of the Fifth Texas Regiment, Hood's Brigade, which served both in the Army of Northern Virginia and in the Army of Tennessee, the name of John Calhoun COX has long been synonymous with courage. See John Calhoun Cox: Fifth Texas Regiment, Hood's Brigade (1) and John Calhoun Cox: Fifth Texas Regiment, Hood's Brigade (2). In Texas, remaining true to his roots in Georgia, John Calhoun COX enjoyed raising peanuts. Note 2: Colonel John Dennis STELL (27 October 1804, Hancock County, Georgia - 28 October 1862, Tyler, Smith County, Texas, Confederate States of America), after the death of Samuel Waller COX, was second married to Amanda Melvina HARVEY, in Fayette County, Georgia, on 2 January 1839. John Dennis STELL was a figure of some importance in the histories of both Georgia and Texas. See John Dennis Stell: Texas Secession Convention, John Calhoun Cox: Fifth Texas Regiment, Hood's Brigade (1), and John Calhoun Cox: Fifth Texas Regiment, Hood's Brigade (2). It is abundantly evident that John Calhoun COX regarded John Dennis STELL with perfect filial affection. John Dennis STELL's system of kinship can also be viewed at Penny's Southern Diggins'. Note 3: To see the Southern Cross of Honor with which John Calhoun COX was awarded by the United Daughters of the Confederacy, go to John Calhoun Cox: Southern Cross of Honor. Note 4: To see the United States Census report for the household of John Calhoun COX in Garden Valley, Smith County, Texas for 1870, go to John Calhoun Cox (2 January 1836 - 19 February 1917): United States Census of 1870. Note 5: In Tyler, Smith County, Texas, during the court term of February 1867, Susan Tolaver, a "child of color" eight years of age, was apprenticed to John Calhoun COX by Judge Samuel D. Gibbs. The legal form of apprenticeship was consistent with the example furnished below:
Under the Apprentice Law, males were were expected to remain with their masters until they were 21, at which time they received a good horse, bridle, and saddle worth at least $100. It seems to have been understood that apprentices were to "behave themselves discreetly unto the person apprenticed to and all his family." Also during the court term of 1867, Hannah Tolaver, eight years of age, was apprenticed to Whitmill Phillips Allen by Judge Samuel D. Gibbs. It is possible to surmise that Susan and Hannah Tolaver were twins, that - with the termination of slavery - they had been orphaned, and that - under the regime of slavery - they had somehow been associated with the old Southern family of Taliaferro (pronounced "tolliver"). Note 6: This is an example of scrip employed as currency in Tyler, Texas in 1865. Note the signature of Judge Samuel D. Gibbs:
Note 7: In his terminal illness, John Calhoun COX was attended by H. C. Scott, M. D., who last visited his patient at home (206 Bowie St., Sweetwater, Nolan County, Texas, the residence of Joseph Dudley SLOAN), on 18 February 1917 and who testified, on 14 March 1917, that the old soldier had died of "softning (sic) of the brain," a condition which, as the physician reported, had persisted for the previous six years. [See G0491A: Joseph Dudley SLOAN in Descendants of Archibald Sloan (BEF 1697 - BEF March 1764).] Note 8: Map of Fayette County, Georgia (1895):
Note 9: Mattie Lee FERRELL was the daughter of Augustus Cicero FERRELL (18 August 1844, Coweta County, Georgia - 14 March 1912, Garden Valley, Smith County, Texas: interment at Dover baptist Church Cemetery, Smith County, Texas), a veteran of Company C, 63rd Georgia Infantry, Confederate States Army, and Mary M. HAMRICK (1851, Morgan County, Georgia - AFT March 1890 and BEF 7 December 1892, Smith County, Texas) who were married 15 November 1866 in Campbell County, Georgia. Augustus Cicero FERRELL was second married to Mary Elizabeth Florence WILBANKS (1856, Alabama - 10 August 1942, Smith County, Texas: interment at Rose Hill Cemetery, Tyler, Smith County, Texas) on 7 December 1892 in Smith County, Texas. To the marriage of John Carson COX and Mattie Lee FERRELL, four children are known to have been born: Noveline (or Noviline or Novelina) COX who was born in Smith County, Texas in November 1896, Roy COX who was born in Smith County, Texas in August 1899, Helen COX who was probably born after 18 June 1900 and no later than July 1909 in Smith County, Texas, and Robert COX who was probably born after 18 June 1900 and no later than July 1909 in Smith County, Texas. John Carson COX and Mattie Lee FERRELL are both known to have died in Smith County, Texas. If their deaths were not actually simultaneous, neither seems to have much survived the other. Note 10: Leslie E. BURKE was the son of William E. BURKE, a minister of the Gospel born in Missouri in 1842, and Mary Lilla UNKNOWN, born in Missouri in 1849. After the death of William E. BURKE, Mary Lilla UNKNOWN was married to John E. BOYNTON in Comanche County, Texas on 28 September 1898. Mary ("Mattie") L. COX and Leslie E. BURKE are known to have had no more than two children, both daughters: Lilla BURKE and Louise BURKE. In the United States Census for Tyler, Ward 3, Smith County, Texas, taken 18 June 1900, "M. L. BURKE," a widow, is shown residing in the home of her father, John Calhoun COX, with her daughter, "L. L. BURKE." "L. L. BURKE" was Leslie L. BURKE who, in the United States Census for Dublin, Erath County, Texas, taken 21 April 1910, is shown residing in the home of her paternal grandmother, Mary L. BOYNTON, a widow. Whether Leslie L. BURKE should be identified with Lilla BURKE or with Louise BURKE is not known. But it seems that either Lilla BURKE or Louise BURKE did not survive to the year 1900. It frequently happens that, when a daughter is named after her father, the father has died previous to his daughter's birth. Note 11: Florence ("Florrie") A. WATKINS was the daughter of William WATKINS, born May 1858 in North Carolina, and Nannie M. UNKNOWN, born March 1861 in Texas. The marriage of William Camp COX and Florrie A. WATKINS was without issue. In Brownwood, Brown County, Texas, Florence Watkins COX was a member of the faculty at Daniel Baker College. She is pictured in The Trail for 1917, the yearbook of Daniel Baker College. About Daniel Baker College, the following by Louann Atkins Temple is from the Handbook of Texas Online:
Note 12: Lily ("Lil") L. HARPER was the daughter of James O. HARPER, an attorney who was born February 1857 in Mississippi, and Lily A. UNKNOWN, who was born November 1870 in Alabama. Sam Stell COX and Lily ("Lil") L. HARPER engendered a son, Samuel Stell COX, Jr. (2 October 1920, Mexia, Limestone County, Texas - 29 August 1990, San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas) and a daughter, Martha Ann COX, born 25 November 1925 in Mexia, Limestone County, Texas. Note 13: Ella ("Nell") Rives Moore WOODS, the wife of Whit Allen COX, was the daughter of Col. Peter Cavanaugh WOODS, M. D.(30 December 1819, Shelbyville, Franklin County, Tennessee - 27 January 1898, San Marcos, Hays County, Texas) and Ella Rives OGLETREE (12 January 1845, <Newberry District>, South Carolina - 4 July 1932, San Marcos, Hays County, Texas), married in 1874. The first wife of Col. Peter Cavanaugh WOODS, M. D. was Georgia Virginia LAWSHE, married in 1850. The offspring of Whit Allen COX (Sr.) and Ella Rives WOODS were: Ella Rives COX (4 November 1912, San Marcos, Hays County, Texas - 23 December 1979, San Marcos, Hays County, Texas) and Whit Allen COX (Jr.) (2 November 1914, San Marcos, Hays County, Texas - 9 January 1961, Corpus Christi, Nueces County, Texas).
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