EARLY HISTORY of GRIMES COUNTY

By E. L. BLAIR, M.A. Superintendent of Schools, Trinity, Texas Copyright, 1930 lt L. Bl.AIR

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Preface

It has been the ai1n of the \\'fiter to gather and preserve all available data concerning the sixty-£ our persons ,vho, as mem­ bers of Stephen F. Austin's several colonial enterprises, secured land grants in the section of Texas territory that no,v con-­ stitutes Grimes county. By far the greater part of this essay will therefore be biographical in nature. 1vlany of the persons dealt with are unknown to history. Their lives, for the most part, were absorbed in local and domestic affairs. Some few of them, however, were prominent in the political life of the period. Others offered, and some gave, their lives for the freedom of Texas ,vhen the revolutionary struggle came. They all contributed to the establish1nent of Texas as an Anglo-American state. It is hoped that this effort to record their services and trace their descendants, ,vill prove of interest and value to students of Texas history and to the many hun­ dreds of Texans in ,vhose veins today flows the blood of these sixty-four pioneers. The ,vriter is fully conscious of the fact that rnany of Grin1es county's most prominent families do nor come ,vithin the scope of this "'ork. An effort has been n1ade to give some recognition to many of such fan1ilies in foot­ notes. Concerning 1nany of these families the ,vriter has on hand much interesting infonnation, and it is hoped that it will be possible to incorporate it in a later essay. The ,vriter is not unmindful of the probability that 1nany minor errors will be found. ScHne such are inevitable in a work of chis kind because of the great variety of sources f rotn which the data is dra,vn. An earnest effort has been made, ho,vever, to distinguish clearly ,vhat has been given as facts f ron1 ,vhat is based upon ru1nor. Very scant infonnarion is given about several of the sixty-four original grantees. In s01ne such instances it has been in1possible to locate anyone ,vho could give the information desired; in some few cases, however, this scarcity is due to the lack of interest, or co-operation, on the part of people who could have given assistance. On the whole the writer has received the most vvhole-hearted co­ operation and assistance from the people of Grimes county and elsewhere. Especially grateful is the writer to the follow­ ing persons: Judge James Green McDonald of Anderson, Texas; Mr. L. H. Barry of Navasota, Texas; Mrs. W. E. Black­ shear of Navasota, Texas; Mr. W. T. Neblett of Anderson, Texas; the late l\,frs. Margaret Harrison of Bedias, Texas; Robert E. Greenwood, Junior, of Navasota, Texas; Superin­ tendent L. G. Andrews of Navasota, Texas; Miss Harriet Smither of the State Library at Austin, Texas; Mr. E. W. Winkler, librarian of the University of Texas; and Honorable Daniel E. Garrett, Congressman f ro1n the Eighth District of Texas. Most of all the writer is indebted to Dr. E. C. Barker for his patience and kindly assistance. By way of an approach to the biographical study of the original grantees, there is given a brief historical survey in which an atrern]pt has been made co trace the various steps in tlae organization of the territory and government of Texas with especial attention always given to that unit of which the present territory of Grimes county constituted a part. CONTENTS

PART I. GOVERN~fENT, POLITICAL ORGANIZATIONS AND SUBDIVISIONS

CHAPTER PAGE I. Political Organizations, 1821-1836...... 11 Population of Texas about 1821...... 11 Political Divisions of Texas about 1821...... 12 Local Government; Executive...... 15 Legislative ...... 15 The Ayuntamiento...... 15 Judiciary ...... 17 Manner of Selecting Jurors...... 18 Militia ...... 18 11. Origin, Organization, and Subdivision of Washington Municipality.... 21 Origin and Organization of Washington Municipalit)'...... 21 Creation of Montgomery County...... 26

Creation of Grimes County...... 28 Creation of ?.fadison County...... 30 Creation of Waller County...... 31

PART II. INDIAN POPULATION OF GRIMES COUNTY TERRITORY. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF THE SIXTY.FOUR ORIGINAL GRANTEES IN GRIMES COUNTY III. Indian Population of Grimes County and Its Vicinity...... 33 Bedias ...... 33 Kickapoos ...... 36 Cushattees ...... 36

Relations Between Indians and Whites...... 37 Local Indian Stories as Told by Pioneer Settlers...... 38 Indians Visit the T. P. Plaster Home...... 38 VHJ CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE Indians Kill ~Irs. Taylor...... 39 Indians Kill Kennard's Calves...... 41 1'-fethods of Precaution Against Indian Night Attacks...... 41 Indians Kill Man on Wallace Prairie...... 42 Indian Expedition of 1839...... 42 Military Preparedness against Indians...... 43 Indians Removed from Grimes County...... 44 IV. Biographical Sketches of the Sixty.four Original Grantees in Grimes County ...... 4 5 Robert Armour...... 45 Daniel Arnold...... 46 Benjamin Babbitt...... 47 James Bell...... 47 John S. Black...... 48 1\-larcus D. Black...... 52 John Bowman...... 53 Samuel Bo,vman...... 55 Alexander Brown...... 55 William Burney...... 56 Cyrus Campbell...... 56 )<>hn C. Conner...... S7 James Cox...... 60 Hanna Cornaugh...... 61 William FitzGibbons...... 61 Samuel Fulton...... 62 Claiborne Garrett...... 62 Heirs of J. Gillett...... 63 Franklin Jarvis Grtenwood...... 63 CONTENTS

CHAPTER p AGE Joe1 Grcen,vood...... ~ 1

Darius Gregg...... "7 2 Jesse Grimes...... 7 2 Jared E. Groce...... 76 Leonard W. Groce...... 84 Joshua Hadley...... 90

John Harris...... 1 0 2 Jacob Hays ...... 103 Francis Holland...... 104 William Holland ...... 106 James Holland ...... 107

Patrick C. Jack...... l 08 Isaac Jackson...... 114 Timothy Jones...... 116 Anthony D. Kennard...... 116 John Landrum...... 125 William Laughiin ...... 127 Thomas i:kDowell...... 127

M. 1'.lcDo\\·cll...... 128

William McGuffin...... l 28 Wiiliam lvklntire...... 129

l\faigarct,. McIntire...... 129 Dan id B. Mc1'.fahan...... 132

\X'illiam 1fomogomery...... 132

James \X'. J\foorc:...... 134

John l\·foore...... 135

Jt ·~ ... sc:· • o.n 1,,1lf,."!',: ~1--.c.1 ·. .- 1}...... ' J· ..39 X CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE Jesse W. Pankey...... 139 John Payne...... 139 John Peterson ...... 140 Obediah Pitts...... 140 Robert Ray ...... 142 Andrew Rea ...... 143 Ignacius Simms...... 143 William Townsend...... 14 5 Daniel Tyler...... 146 Allen Vince...... 147 Tandy Walker...... 147 Caleb Wallace...... 154 James Wallace...... 15 5 Dudley J. White...... 155 James Whitesides ...... 157 John J. Whitesides ...... 161 Asa Yeamans...... 162 Abraham Zuber...... 163

APPENDIX

1. A List of the Sixty.four Persons Who Were Granted Land by the Government of Mexico in What Is Now Grimes County, Showing Amount of Land Granted and the Date of Their Patent...... 175 2. Map Showing the Location of the Sixty-four Members of Austin's Colony Who Settled in What Is Now Grimes County...... 178 3. Muster Roll of Company G, Hood's Texas Brigade...... 180 4. Muster Rolls of Other Companies Organized in Grimes County During the Civil War...... 189 5. Incomplete List of Grimes County Officials, 1846-1929...... 196 6. Texas Veterans From Grimes County Vicinity ...... 215 7. Correspondence on the Origin and Importance of the "Wheadess" ~rovement, 1918...... 217 PART I

Chapter I

POLITICAL ORGANIZATIONS, 1821-1836

In 1800, after more than two hundred years of Spanish rule, aside from the Indian population, there were to be found only three struggling villages in what is today Texas. These settlements were around what is now Nacogdoches, Goliad, and San Antonio. Even as late as 182 l~ the population of Texas, aside from Indians, ,vas only four thousand souls. Of these, there w~s not one settlement between the Colorado and Trinity rivers.1 This vast,. fertile region continued to be un­ touched until, in 1821, Stephen F. Austin's first colony of three hundred families began to establish themselves therein. 2 With the realization of Mexican Independence in 1821 and the accompanying reorganization, the Spanish province of Texas with two other provinces (New Leon and Coahuila) was constituted into what was designated "the Internal States of the East." 3 The province of Texas had already been di­ vided into two alcalde districts, namely, Colorado and Brazos, by Governor Jose Felix Trespalacios.4 A somewhat different organization was made a few months later when the new Federal constitution ( dated October 4, 1824) created the new state of Coahuila and Texas ,vith the capital first at Saltillo,

1Barker, Potts, and Ramsdell, A School HistorJ' of Texas, 61-63. 2Austin's Map of Texas, 1822, as published in Barker's Life of Stephen F. Austin opposite page 52, shows no other settlement. 'Gammel, Laws of Texart I, 61. tlhid., 15. 12 EARLY HISTORY Of GRI~-IES COUNTY later at l\1onclovci.;; In January, 1825, the name of the District of Brazos ,vas changed by proclan1arion of Stephen F. Austin co Bravo, in honor of General Nicolas Bravo, a patriot ,vho was then Vice-President of the Mexican Republic.'3 1"'he con­ stitution of the state of Coahuila and Texas ( 1827) provided that the ne\v state should be divided into three departments, namely: Saltillo, Monclova, and Bexar. The latter embraced all the territory rhat had formerly been the province of Texas and formed one sole district.7 Four years later (1831) the department of Bexar was divided into t,vo districts ,vith the dividing line as f ollo,vs :8

"Commencing at Point Bolivar on Galveston Bay~ thence running northwesterly to strike between the San Jacinto and Trinity rivers, following the dividing ridge between the said rivers to the head­ waters of the San Jacinto; thence following the dividing ridge between the Brazos and the Trinity to the headwaters of the latter, and terminating north of the source of the said Trinity upon the Red river.''

tin 1833 this line was re-defined, thus :t•

"The dividing line .... shall commence at the expanse of water formed by the Trinity and San Jacinto rivers and continue along the latter to the headwaters thereof; thence follo\\·ing the line of Austin's colony, and by way of the dividing ridge that separates the Brazos and Trinity rivers, to the headwaters of the latter, termi­ nating north of the source of said river upon the Red river.·' The territory sir::ated east of this line ,vas designated the District of Nacogdoches ,vich the ro,vn of Nacogdoches as

11 Gammcl, La:w of Texas, I, i3. 41Barker, The Austin Paper.1·. in Annual lfrport .AJJociation for 1919, II, 1009. 'Gammel, Laws of Texa.r_. I, -124. 5lbid._. 281. "Ibid., 335. • EARLY HISTORY 01: GRI~fES COUNTY 13

capital. This arrangement continued until lviarch 18, 1834, when by a new decree (No. 270) the territory of Texas ,vas subdivided into three departments, namely: Bexar, Brazos, and Nacogdoches. Brazos ,·vas a ne,v depaitn1ent, having been cut out of the old District of Bexar ,vith boundaries as follows :10 "The dividing line .... shall commence at the mouth of the La Vaca river, and ascending said river to the southern limit of the farmer colony of Green de Witt [Dewitt] ; thence leaving said river and following said boundary westward until it crosses the river Guadalupe; thence, taking a northwesterly direction, and following the western boundary of the aforesaid colony to the road leading between Nacogdoches and Bexar; thence north, and renninating on the Red river." The map given on the following page shows these three departments. ll The to,vn of San Felipe de Austin ,vas desig­ nated as the capital of the ne,v department of Brazos.12 These three Texas depart1nents were subdivided into municipalities, of which at the outbreak of the revolution in 1836, there were eighteen, namely: Austin, Bexar, Brazoria, Goliad, Gonzales, i1atagorda, Mina (afterward called Bastrop), Nacogdoches, San Augustine, San Patricio, Harrisburg, Jasper ( formerly called Bevil), Liberty, Milam (formerly called Viesca), Refugio, Shelby ( or Teneha), Victoria, and W ashington.13

10Gammcl, Laws of Texas, I, 335. The brackets are by the wricer. 11The map given here is a partial copy of a similar map published by Fulmore in his History and Geograph')' of Texas as Told in County Names, 126. The drawing was done for the writer by Mr. Frank Purvis of Navasota, Texas. 12Gammel, Latt1.r of Texas, I, 355. 13Fulmore, Histor)' and Geog,-aph)' of Texas as Told in Co1111ty N.:1111es .. 278. There is some doubt as to the status of Harrisburg, Jasper, Liberty, 1'lilam, Refugio, Shelby, Victoria, and Washington. It may be that they, or some of them were still only comisario districts. Fulmore listed them all as municipalities. The writer has not been able to verify this statement. Dr. E. C. Barker, of the University of Texas, is of the opinion that they were not municipalities, but were well organized local units. 14 EARLY HISTORY OF GRIMES COUNTY

TEXAS IN 1835 EARLY HISTORY OF GR[MES COUNTY 15

According to Fulmore, in his HistotJ' and Geography of Texas as Told in County Names, .five additional municipalities were created by the provisional council of 1835, namely: Colorado, Jackson, Jefferson, Red River, and Sabine. Local Government: Executive.-The executive power in each of the departments of Coahuila and Texas (1827-1836) was vested in a political chief who was appointed by the gov­ ernor of the state from a list of three nominated by the state council.14 His salary in the Texas departments was eight hundred dollars per year with an allowance of four hundred dollars for expenses.1a Under the political chief there was supposed to be a district sheriff for each of the districts, ap.. pointed by the superior judge of that department. Each dis­ trict sheriff was to be assisted by a subaltern sheriff of which there was to be one in each municipality. There was to be also a constable in each comisario district.16 It is not clear, however, that the system thus provided by law was carried out in actual practice. Legislative.-The legislative power of the state of Coahuila and Texas was, in 1834, vested in a unicameral house in which each Texas department was represented by one deputy and one substitute deputy elected by district electoral assemblies, the members of such ·assemblies having been elected by popu­ lar vote from the municipal districts into which the depart­ ments were divided.11 The Ayuntamiento.-The real unit of local government was the ayuntamiento. There was one in each municipality. It was composed of alcaldes, rigidores, and a sindico. The number of these officers varied so mew hat, being based upon

uGammel, Laws of Texas, I, 444. Dlbid., 356. 111bid., 385. 11Jbid._. 356. 16 EARLY HISTORY OF GRIMES COUNTY the population of the municipality. 1 ~ In municipalities con­ taining a population of less than five thousand, there ,vas one alcalde ,vho served as president of the ayuntamiento. With him ,vere two regidores and one sindico procurador. In municipalities where the population exceeded this number, two 1nore regidores ,vere added.rn In those co,vns where ayuntamientos could not be established and which were too far distant to be incorporated under the jurisdiction of an­ other ayuntamiento, local administrative affairs were admin­ istered by a comisario and a sindico procurador; such officers being chosen by the electoral junta of the district to which the community belonged.20 To be qualified to serve as a member of an ayuntamiento one had to be at least twenty-five years of age, or twenty-one years of age and married. He must have been for three years a resident in the municipality for which he was to serve, and one year immediately preced­ ing election. Members of ayuntamientos were required to have some capital or trade ,vhereby to subsist and be able to r~ad and write. The tenure of an alcalde was one year. One­ half of the regidores were to be replaced every year and like­ wise with the sindicos except in instances where there was only one, then he was to be replaced annually. 1'tlembers of ayuntamientos vlere elected by municipal assemblies held in the same manner as in the election of deputies to the state congress. The appointment could not be declined. In case of vacancy by death or other causes, the person receiving the next highest nu1nber of votes in that respective list succeeded to the office. 21 The ayuntamienco of San Felipe de Austin! the first in the Anglo-American settlement, ,vas installed on

111 Gammcl, Lau, I of Texas, I, 4 29-4 3 1. ulbid., 347. 10lbid., 446. 111bid., 446.- EARLY HISTORY OF GRIMES COUNTY 17

February 12, 1828. The -powers and duties of ayuntatnienros were defined by decree nurnber thirty-seven of the La,vs of Coahuila and Texas. 22 Judiciary.-In 1834 Texas constituted one judicial circuit and the superior court vvas known as the HSuperior Judicial Court of Texas." This circuit was subdivided into three judicial districcs, they being identical with the three adminis­ trative departments, namely: Brazos, Bexar, and Nacog­ doches.23 The superior court ,vas by law composed of one superior judge, one secretary, and one s}:teriff. There was such a court in each of the three judicial districts. In criminal cases there was added one prosecuting attorney and a jury of twelve men. The opinion of eight jurors would convict. A judge was required to be at least twenty-five years of age and a lawyer by profession. Judges were appointed by the state congress on the nomination of the governor and drew a salary of three thousand dollars per year. A superior judge could be removed from office only for causes legally mani­ fested and proved. 24 Court was to be held every three months in each of the three districts as follows: in Bexar, beginning on the first Monday in January, April, and August; in Brazos, beginning on the first Monday in February, May, and Septem­ ber; in Nacogdoches, beginning on the first Monday in March, June, and October.25 For the trial of civil cases there was in every municipality a tribunal composed of a judge and a subaltern sheriff. The latter officer was elected in the same manner as the alcaldes. In addition to the courts named above, there was in each comn1issary district a comisario and

12Barker, "Minutes of the Ayuntamiento of San Felipe de Austin," Quarterly, XXI, 299-301. Sections of decree number r.hirty-seven are reprinted by Barker in footnote. :'Gammel, Laws of Texas, I. 365. stl bid.. 365-366. 23fbid.~ 366. 18 EARLY HISTORY OF GRIMES COUNTY a constable to execu re his orders. These constables vlere re­ quired to have the same qualifications as the comisarios and were elected in the same manner and at the same time. 26 lt1anner of Selecting Jurors.-Both civil and criminal cases were tried before a jury of twelve men, the verdict of eight of whom would convict. These jurors were selected in the following manner: Each comisario, at the beginning of the year, furnished his ayuntamiento with a list of names of all citizens in his jurisdiction who were qualified to serve as jurors. These names, each written on individual slips, were stored in boxes, there being one box for each comisario dis­ trict. During the month prior to the opening session of court, the secretary, in the presence of the ayuntamiento, drew from each box a name until he had thus drawn thirty-six names. The names thus drawn were then placed in a separate box and a list of them was furnished the sheriff for citation. 27 The selection for jurors in criminal cases was made in much the same manner, except that here the unit was the munici­ pality rather than the comisario district. Each municipal ayuntamiento was, required to remit each year to the ayunta­ miento at the capital a list of the qualified jurors in their respective municipalities. Such names were written separately on slips and stored in boxes, there being one box for each municipality. The secretary of the ayuntamiento at the cap­ ital drew from each box a number of names which multiplied by the number of municipalities in that judicial district would produce a result not less than thirty-six. A list of the names thus drawn was then furnished the subaltern sheriffs that they might cite those citizens to appear at the capital in due time. 28 Militia.-The civic military force of the state of Coahuila

21Gammel, Laws of Texas, I, 365. 1'lbid., 365. 111bid., 366. EARLY HISTORY OF GRL\1ES COUNTY 19 and Texas ,vas made up of a corps of militia organized in each town.29 Four companies were organized in the munici­ pality of Austin, March 21, 1829. Among the officers are found the names of several men then residing in the vicinity of the present county of Grimes. In the First Company ap­ pears the following officers who then held land in what is now Grimes county: Jesse Grimes, lieu tenant; Leonard \Y/. Groce, sub-lieutenant; and Francis Holland, second sergeant. The name of John Bowman appears in connection with the Fourth Company. He is listed as lieutenant but the records fail to show whether he qualified. so

•Gammel, Law.r of T exai, I, 4 51. '°Barker, "Minutes of the Ayuntamiento of San Felipe de Austin," Quarterly, XXI, 408-409. For additional information concerning these men see Chapter Pour of this thesis.

Chapter II

ORIGIN, ORGANIZATION, AND SUBDIVISION OF WASHINGTON l\fUNICIPALITY

Origin and Organization of Washington Municipality.­ According to the data the writer has been able to obtain, the municipality of Washington was never officially established by the Mexican government. It came into existence after the meeting of the Convention of October, 1832, and before the meeting of the Consultation, October, 1835. This is evident from the fact that while no mention is 1nade of a Washington n1unici pality in the reports of the proceedings of the Con­ vention of 1832, in the record of the proceedings of the Consultation (October, 1835) we find Washington listed as a separate municipality. Among her delegates, in 1835, ap­ pears the name of Jesse Grimes, V\' ho, in 1832, represented the municipality of Viesca.~a The municipality of Viesca had been created Nove1nber 1, 1830; it having been cut from the precinct of Bastrop. Viesca included a large part of the territory east of the Brazos river which afterward formed a part of Washington municipality.a2 A1nong the delegates from the municipality of Viesca at the Convention of October, 1832, are found the na1nes of three men known to have re­ sided in ,vhat lacer beca1ne Gri1nes county, namely: Joshua

=1Gammel, LawJ of 1'ex,u, I, 496 and 544. 12Barker, "1vlinutes of the Ayuntamiento of San F<.:lipe de Austin," Qu.:lflerl)', XXII, 357. The precinct of Viesca was created November I, 1830, with metes and bounds as follows: "Beginning ac the crossing of the Cusham: road on the <:,1st or kit hank of tht Brazos, thence up in a direct line of the J\tascosito road at a poinc on the said road which shall be four leagues from the Brazos ri\'er, thence along said road to the divide bec\\·ccn the San Jacinto and Trinity rivers, thence following said di ..·ide norchwardly co the San Antonio road, thence along said road to che Brazos river, thence following rhe ::1<:anderings of said ri,·er down w the place of beginning." 22 EARLY HISTORY OF GRil\IES COUNTY

Hadley, Jared E. Groce, and Jesse Grimes.:~ 3 Some other territory east of the Br~ zos river ( in addition to that part which formerly formed a pare of the municipality of Viesca) after,vard to constitute a part of W ashingron municipality, was at this time (1830) included in the precinct of San Jacinto, which then included all settlements on the ,vaters of the San Jacinto river below the Atascosita road.34 The vvrirer, in his efforts to determine the date of the creation of Washington municipality, finds that a petition, dated July 2, 1835, and addressed to the political chief of the department of Brazos ( at that time James B. Miller) explains that a similar petition had been presented the year before and had been approved by the ayuntamiento at San Felipe de Austin but for some reason was never acted upon by the state congress of that year. The petition of July 2, 1835, prayed the political chief on his own authority to order the organization of the new municipality. The follo\ving names ,vere signed to this pe­ ytion: John P. Cloes (Cole), James \Vhitesides, Shubael Marsh, John J. Wynche, Epps D. Payne, Asa Hoxey, John Newell (?),James Clark, Baldon (?)Robinson, M. Cummings, ]. G. Wilkinson, William W. Hawkins, Jesse B. Atkinson, John H. Allcorn, John B. Thompson, James G. Swisher, John Graham ( ?), Thos. G. ( ?) Allen, John G. Conner, W. A. Hall, J. J. Allcorn (?), William H. Miller, Francis G. Clampitt ( ?) , E. D. Jackson, ( ?) Soop, William H. Hill, William Lewis ( ?) , Ashley R. Stevens ( ?) , E. G. Evitt ( ?), James Moore, J. B. Chanie ( ?) , Elijah Alcorn, G. W. Bar­ nett, John F. Guthrie, D. T. A. Thomson, Alfred .lvI. Cooper, Horatio Chriesman, Stephen R. Roberts, Hiram Beales, and

.,Gammel, Lau·s of Texas, I, 479. ''Barkert "~finutes of the Ayuntamiento of San Felipe de Austin,'' Quarter!J, XXI. 415. . EARLY HISTORY OF GRIMES COUNTY 23

3 Thomas Dillard. ;; James B. ]\,filler seems to have done ,vhat the petitioners requested for he transmitted a letter to his successor (Wyly Martin), dated July 19, 1835, in \vhich he makes the follo,ving statement:

"I have permitted the Jurisdiction of Washington co organize provisionally every man in the jurisdiction has signed a petition requesting said organization as their territory is extensive and this point is too far, their petition passed through chis ayuntamiento to the Govt and was not acted upon by the Govt. last session, \\rhich causes great dissacisf action, as soon as the Govt was again or­ ganized I intended to report them as in an organized condition and pray the Govt co legalize their proceedings as every n1an has signed chis petition for the provissional organization no man can plead co the jurisdiaion of the courts .... ,.

The election of officers for the new municipality of Wash­ ington was held on Saturday, July 18, 1835, and the following officers were elected: alcalde, Joshua Hadley; regidors, Jesse Grimes and Asa Mitchell; sindico procurador, A. C. Reynolds; sheriff, John W. Hall. On the following page is a copy of the recapitulation of the votes as reported by Thos. S. Saul, secretary.30 The new ayuntamiento nominated James B. Miller for appointment by the political chief as judge in the

35Winkler, "Documents Relating to the Municipality of Washington," Quarte1·1J, X, 86-87. Another copy of the same petition had the following names thereon: J.M. Splan, David Trast, S. Moris, J. H. Wood, Robert J. Clow, H. J. William­ son, M. T. Martin, James Lynch, Sam R. Miller, Bethel 11orris, John Lott, Thos. S. Saul, Moses Evans, J. W. Simpson, Wm. Copenhaven, Ches. J. Young, J. F. Q. Walkerterson (?), Lewis Jones, Samuel Henry ( or Herney), James Gray, Noah T. ( ?) Byars, James Balantine, Peter ~I. ~lercer, Isaac Connelly, and Wm. C. Jones. The question marks were copied from the article cited above. It is sig- nificant that the names of such men as Jared E. Groce, Jesse Grimes, Joshua Hadley, and other settlers on the east side of the Brazos, are not found on either list. It appears that there must have been other copies, or that the petition was hastily gotten up by the citizens of the town of Washington. :;•if bid., 98: The table given on the opposite page was published by Winkler. t-..) - ~ Alcalde Regidors Sind. Procur' r Sheriff

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At house of Asa Mitchel!./_ 221_ 11l __ 23l 19l __ 9l 15I_I I_I_ 161 sl_l __I_ I 191 21 .12I._I Total...... j 1-11\16ol11s\11s\1os\16sl 11I 241 l116I s2I 23! 3ol 1l1s1I sol 11! 11 1 EARLY HIS'tORY OF GRIMES COUNTY 25 new municipality, and at the sa1ne time suggested lvloses Cummings, James Hall, Senior, Shubael Marsh, and S. R. Roberts as supernumeraries. Record of this action is found in a note dated at Washington, July 28, 1835, and signed by Joshua Hadley.87 In October, 1835, Washington munici­ pality was represented in the Consultation by five men, namely: Asa 1v[itchell, E. Collard, Asa Hoxey, Phillip Coe, and Jesse Grimes. 38 Of these, it is kno,vn that Jesse Grimes then resided ,vithin the limits of the present county of Grimes.=m These men took an active part in the work of the Consultation. Asa Mitchell served on the committee that uraiteu,l f. ..J t11e1 uec1aiation.J 1 • setting• rorcnr 1 cne1 causes that• rorced,. .. the Texans to take up arms and the objects for which they fought. 40 Among the signers of the Declaration of Inde­ pendence are found the names of t,vo men, namely: Benjamin Briggs Goodrich and Jesse Grimes, both of whom had their residence in what is now Grimes county.41 In the General Council that followed the Consultation the municipality of Washington was represented by Jesse Grimes.42 In the Con­ vention of March, 1836, it is found that two of the four delegates from Washington n1unicipality were residents of what is now Grimes county, they being Jesse Grimes and B. B. Goodrich, both of ,vhom signed the Constitution of the Republic of Texas.4a The Constitution of the Republic of Texas erected the municipality of Washington into Washing­ ton county and provided that it should be represented in the

1 " Winkler, "Documents Relating to the :Municipality of \X'ashington," Q1'arterl_,-, X, 100. 3"Gammel, Laws of Texas, I, 54'1. 1 ,: Ibid, 1066; and Abstract of Texas Lcmd Title.r .. I, 604. 411Gammcl, Laws of Texas, I, 514. 41 /bid., 1066; and Abst,-act of TexaJ Land Title.1, I, 604. 42Gammel, Laws of Texas, I, 534. 3 ' Jbid., 82-1 and 1084-1085. The other two delegates were S. Swisher and G. W. Barnett. 26 EARLY HISTORY OF GRL\IES COUNTY

Congress of the Republic by one senator and t\VO representa­ tives.44 The new county of Washington then contained ter­ ritory since formed into nine counties. The diagram on the following page shows these nine counties and indicates the 4 process of subdivision that resulted in their creation. r. Creation of Montgomery County.-The territory later to become G·rimes county continued to form a part of Washington county until the creation of the new county of Montgomery by an act of the Congress of the Republic of Texas, December 14, 1837. This act provided that the new county should include all of what had been Washington county east of the Brazos river, and appointed the following men as commissioners with power to select a proper place for the county seat and to purchase land for the same: James Mitchell, Pleasant Grey, William Robinson, Elijah Collard, Charles Barnett, Joseph L. Bennett, B. B. Goodrich, D. D. Dunham, and Henry Fanthorp. The ne,v county was entitled _to one representative in Congress, and with Washington county, constituted one senatorial district.40 Its boundaries were defined by the Congress of the Republic of Texas (May 24, 1838) with metes and bounds as follows :47 "Beginning at a point on the east side of the Navasota river, where the San Antonio road crosses the same ; thence eastwardly with said road to the Trinity river ; thence down said river to the boundary line of the county of Liberty; thence v,est and south with the boundary line of the county of Harrisburg; thence ~-v""cst with

"Gammel, Laws of Texas, 1078, and Winkler, "Documents Relating to Wash­ ington Municipality," Qua,1e,.1y, X, 96. 415The diagram was taken from Fulmore's History and Geography of Texas a.r Told in County Names, 288. The information is incomplete, but is given just as it was printed by Fulmore. The county now known as Brazos was formerly called "Na,,asota." The name having changed to Brazos, January 28, 1842. (Gammel, Laws of Texas, II, 745.) "'Gammel,.Laws of Texas, I, 1375-1376. "Ibid., 1518. Derivatives Created Organized Arca County Scat ------Washington 3-17-36 '37 568 Brenham ------· Brazos n1 ~ Burleson r­

----■■--- p,,( Lee ::r: 8 ------· - - 00 -~ C ?viontgomery 12-14--37 '37 1064 Conroe 0 ..c: ~ ·-II) ------·--· m po,( ~ Grimes 4- 6-46 7-15-46 *770 Anderson II) 0 .... cu -----·------· ~ 0 e .... Madison C) ....e- (.!,"" - ~ a.... e- Walke:- 4- 6-46 7-13-46 754 HuntsviJle ::: ....V QJ tT, C: e -----··---··----·-----· en 0 SP Walker i C u"" -· ------9 ~ ~ C -~ Madison z --- --·· ~ ~ po,( San Jacinto

San Jadnto

•Records destroyed before 1898. I\,,) Fulmore, History of Texas aJ Told in County NameJ, p. 288...... 28 EARLY HISTORY OF GRIMES COUNTY

the boundary line of said county to the county of Austin; thence with said county line co the Brazos river; thence with said river co the mouth of the Navasota; thence up the Navasota to the place of beginning.''

The county seat for the new county of Montgomery ,vas located on a hill somewhat south of the old to,vn of Mont­ gomery, the land for the site being donated by William Sheppard. He gave one hundred acres, of which the com­ missioners in turn deeded ninety-six and one-half acres to James McCo,vn (April 3, 1843) in payment for the construc­ tion of a court house on the remaining three and one-half acres. The first court house was a one-story log building. Sale of lots in the ne,v tO\\'n ,vas advertised in rhe 1~exas Tele­ graph.48 Creation of Grimes County.-Grimes county ,vas created in 1846 by the First Legislature of the state of Texas as a result of a petition f ro1n the people of western Montgomery county praying for separation and the formation of a ne,v county. The petition en1braced a request that the ne,v county be named "Grimes," in honor of Jesse Gritnes ,vho ,vas at that 4 time serving as senator from Montgomery county. n 'fhe petition ,vas granted and an act was passed, April 6, 1846, creating the ne\\,. county of Griines "rith n1etes and bounds as follows :50

"Beginning at the southwest corner of the county of \Valke::r ~ thence in a southwardly direction to the northeast corner of a league of land granted to W. Montgomery; thence to the southeast

~Anna L. Davis, "Old ~fontgome11•," Dal/as Afor11ing Neu·s (December 3, 1925). The writer has been unable to determine the date:: of the TexaJ 1't·legr,1pb in which this advertisement appeared. 49Zuber to B11ffi12gton, dated at Iola, Texas, June 26, 1903. 110Gammel, Laws of Texa.r, II, 1356. Walker county was created on the same day, April 6, -1846, and was also cut from l\fontgomery counry. I bid .. 135,. EARLY HISTORY OF GRI1fES COUNTY 29

corner of same; thence, due soath co the Harris county line, thence with said Harris county line, co the head of Spring creek, and from the head of Spring creek to the head of Pond creek; thence by a straight line to the mouth of Beason's creek on the Brazos river; thence, up said scream to the mouth of the Navisoto, and up the Navisoto co the crossing of the San Antonio road ; thence, with said road to the northwestern boundary line of Walker county, and down the said county line co the place of beginning.'·

A lively controversy developed in the new county of Grimes over the location of the county seat. Henry Fanthorp, then a prominent business man and land O\vner at Alta Mira ( now Anderson) offered to donate land for the site; but, as several communities were contending for the honor, the Legislature ordered that an election be held to determine the location. There followed an interesting campaign. On the day of the election, each of the contesting co111municies prepared a free dinner and provided other forms of amusements for the voters. The majority of the voters registered their preference for the Fanthorp location. A townsite was surveyed a little north of the old to,vn of Alta Jvlira. The new town was named "Anderson" in honor of Kenneth L. Anderson, the last Vice-President of the Republic of Texas, who had died recently at the Fanthorp hotel in Alta Mira and was buried in the Fanthorp cen1ecery nearby. It is said that an oak tree on the Fanthorp premises served for a time as the first court house in Grimes county. The county government was soon organized and the following officers were elected: Graves, probate judge; Albert G. Perry, chief justice; Anderson Buf­ fington, district clerk; Daniel E. Harper, county clerk; Guil­ ford M. Mooring, sheriff; F. Brigance, tax collector and assessor; David C. Dickson, representative to the Legislature;. 30 EARLY HISTORY OF GRI1'1ES COUNTY and George Lester, coroner.51 The ne,v county of Grimes with Walker and Montgomery counties constituted the fif­ teenth senatorial district (January 16, 1850) ,vith the chief justice of Montgomery county designated to receive election returns and to issue a certificate of election to the senator­ elect. Grimes county alone \\'as to constitute the thirtieth representative district and ·was entitled to one representative.ri2 Creation of Madison County.-The boundary lines of Grimes county were again changed when on January 27, 1853, the county of Madison was created with metes and bounds as follows:53

"Beginning ac the mouth of Bedias creek on the Trinity river, and running up the main Bedias to a point where the line between the counties of Grimes and Walker crosses same; thence by a di­ rect line to the northwest corner of a tract of land in the name of B. Q. Hadley, on the Navasota river; thence up said stream to where the San Antonio road crosses same; thence running with the south boundary of Leon county to the southwest corner of Alce Garrett's survey; thence on a direct line to the northeast t corner of Hiram Walker's survey on the west bank of the Trinity river, and thence down the river to the place of beginning."

Following the creation of Madison county a new arrange­ ment was made regarding the senatorial and representative districts. The state was divided into thirty-three senatorial districts ,vith Grimes, Walker, Madison, and Montgomery counties forming the nineteenth district, and the chief justice of Grimes county ,vas designated to issue certificates of election

51Zuber to Buffington, June 26, 1903. The first name of Graves, the first pro­ bate judge of Grimes county was not given by Zuber; he is referred to, however, as being a brother-in-law of George l\·1. Patrick. Only one county commissioner was named. This was Archelaus B. Dodson from North Bedias vicinity. The county records were destroyed by fire and the writer has found nothing there. 12Gammel, 1.Aws of Texa.r_. II, 479-483. 68lbid., III, 1295. EARLY HISTORY OI~ GRil\.lES COUNTY 31 ro the senator-elect.:;., Gri1nes county alone constituted repre­ sentative district number thirty-nine, the state having been re­ divided into seventy-three districts. Grimes county was rhere­ f ore entitled to one representative in the state Legislature. ~5 This arrangement continued until in 1910 ,vhen follo,ving a ne,v subdivision of the state, a part of Grimes county ,vith Brazos county was designated as representative district num­ ber twenty-six; while the southern portion of Grimes county was thrown with Montgomery county to form representative district number twenty-seven. 56 Creation of Waller County.-With the creation of Waller county by the state Legislature, April 28, 1873, Grimes county assumed the form that it has since retained. Waller county was established with metes and bounds as follows:

"Beginning at che mouth of Beason's creek on the Brazos river; thence running east co the western boundary line of Montgomery county, where it crosses ~fill creek; thence south with the said boundary line to the corner of Montgomery county on Spring creek; thence running on the bed of Spring creek with the Grimes and Harris county line, to the corner of Grimes, Austin, and Harris counties; thence running with the Harris and Austin county line to the corner of Fort Bend, Harris, and Austin counties; thence with Fort Bend and Austin county line to the Brazos river; thence up said river with its various meanderings, to the place of beginning."

The men appointed by the Legislature to organize the new county of Waller were, namely: J. B.. lvfcCown, James B. Stephenson, William l\{axwell, 0. E. Taylor, W. J. Rainwater, and J.C. Greer. They ,vere required to take an oath of office,

4 :i Gammcl, Lau·.r of Texas .. III, 1289-1290. 86lbid., 1292. HJ. G. McDonald to E. L. Blair, Jul}7 15, 1928. Also Texas Almanac for 1929, 268. 32 EARLY HISTORY OF GRIMES COUNTY which was to be administered by the chief justice of either Grimes or Austin county.57

11 Gammel, Lau1s of Texas, VII, 501. PART II

INDIAN POPULATION OF GRIMES COUNTY TERRITORY

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF THE SIXTY-FOUR ORIGINAL GRANTEES IN GRIMES COUNTY Chapter III

INDIAN POPULATION OF GRIMES COUNTY AND ITS VICINITY

Bedias.-The region to become Grimes, at the time of the arrival of the American se~tlers, was inhabited by scattered Indian settlements, the population of which seems to have consisted of mere remnants of former tribes. The writer finds some evidence to indicate that several tribes were repre­ sented in the Indian population of Grimes county, namely: Bedias, Kickapoo, and Cushatcee. Those Indians belonging to the Bedias tribe were the most numerous and best known. The name "Bedias" means brushwood in the language of the Caddo Indians to which stock the Bedias are supposed co have belonged.1 The Bedias villages ,vere scattered over a wide territory but principally along the Trinity river. A number of geographical nan1es derived from this tribe survive in this region. The town of Bedias, located in the northern portion

1Hodge, Handbook of American Indians North of lv1.exico, I, 145. The name is found spelled in great variety of ways. Hodge, in the work cited, spells it "Bidai," and in a footnote calls attention to the foil owing spellings: Badies, Bead eyes, Bedias, Bed dies, Bedees, Bedies, Bedais, Bidayes, Bidias, Vedais, V idaes, Vidais, Vidays, and Vivais. The name as used in Grimes county today is spelled "Bedias" and this form will be used by the writer. 34 EARLY HISTORY 01~ GRJ]\IES (:ouNTY of Grimes county, is situated bec,veen r,vo creeks, the South Bedias, and the· Big Bedias. These creeks cornbine before they reach the Trinity river to form the Bedias creek which flows into the Trinity river and forms a part of the boundary line bet,veen \X' alker and 1vladison counties. These Indians, according to their tribal traditions, ,vere the oldest inhabitants of this region. During the latter part of the eighteenth cen­ tury they were the chief intermediaries between the French and the Apaches in the trade of fire arms. As a result of the later political controversy bet,veen the French and the Spanish, and due to their own inter-tribal wars, and to the introduction of new diseases, their tribal organization was broken up and only remnants of their former villages continued. 2 Several such villages were found in what ,vas to become Grimes county by the Americans ,vho seeded here follo,ving 1821. The writer finds mention of such a village having been located within a few miles of the present town of 11ontgomery, Texas. In writing about this Indian village, Anna L. Davis, of 1'-Ionr­ gomery, Texas, says ::i

"Bedias Indians had a village about six miles west ( of ~iont­ gomery) on Caney creek. Here also was a burying ground, and arrow heads etc. are still found. They were friend)y. Much trading was done between them and the whites. Indians ex­ changing baskets, wooden bowls, chairs of rattan and hickory, also covers for bottles made of rattan, for such supplies as they desired from the whites. Their custom was to bring baskets and proceed to fill them with whatever supplies desired and offer to exchange basket for its contents, even going to the miJking pens of the Shannon home and having bowls filled with milk, after drinking which they would leave the bowl as payment .... The vi1Jage ,vas almost wiped our by typhoid fever. Their method of

'Hodge, Handbook of A.merican 1,zdi(lnJ North of i\1exico, I, 145. 'Anna I... Davis, "Old Montgomery," Da/J,u Afornin.~ Nez.,•J. Decembt.- 3, )925. EARLY HISTORY OF GRihlES <:ouNTY 35

creatn1c:nc was co place the patic:nts on high scaffoJds and build a smoke under the1n. Mat Shannon, who ,vas then a boy, told l\frs. Willie Davis that he had seen as many as thirty of such scaffolds wirh dense smoke rising under them. Dr. Price, father of Mrs. E. C. \Xf ise, wanted to practice among the Indians bur they re­ fused, saying, "No good doctor, Bad Medicine."

Hodge also n1entions a village of Bedias Indians as having been about twelve miles fro111 the town of l\1ontgomery.1 There seems to have been another village of the Bedias Indians in the southern portion of Grimes county, in the vicin­ ity of what came to be known as Grimes Prairie. Mrs. Rosa Groce ,v rites :5

"A friendly tribe of Indians "Bidais" lived a few miles from the plantation [Groce' s Bernardo] and they were constantly coming to the house begging for meal and other things."

In the same connection, Mrs. Rosa Groce states that Jared E. Groce at one time gave these Indians cotton sacks, prom­ ising to give then1 1neal after the sacks v.'ere picked full of cotton. It is said that the Indians did as they were told but that they did not repeat the request. The largest Bedias serden1cnt see1ns to have been in the northern portion of Grimes county and partly in Madison county, near ,vhat ,vas kno,vn as Spivey Lake in the region of Black Lake Slough. This camp see1ns to have served as a tryst for the roving bands that frequented this region. 1""he ,vriter is told that a road

'Hodge, Handb()ok of American !11dit111J North of J\1exicfJ! I, 14S. 11Rosa Groce, "Jared E. Groce," Qr,a,·terly_. XX, 358-368. :Mrs. ~fargartt Saunders of Navasota, Texas, tells of a Bedias camp having been locatc:-d on h~r grandmother's (Margaret Mclntire's) league, on Grimes Prairie. 1-i. L Barry of Navasota, also remembers an Indian village havi;;g been lorntt:d on Grimt-s Prairie, abouc ten miles east of Navasota. He (Barry) adds rhar somt of tht-m lived in houses but that most of them lived out-of-doors, and char rhey did little farming. 36 EARLY HISTORY OF GRIMES COUNTY ere\\' \\·bile cutting a road through from Bedias to 1ladison­ ville found a large collection of Indian skeletons and some equipn1ent, thought to have been buried there after a battle with the l\iexicans.n The writer is told of another Bedias village located on a farm no,v owned by Andre,\' Garner, situated between the to,vns of Anderson and Navasota, about two miles from Anderson.7 Kickapoos.-The writer finds mention of Kickapoo Indians as having lived in this vicinity but has been unable to establish definitely when they came to this section. Hodge makes no mention of any Kickapoos con1ing into Texas prior to 1852.8 During this year, he states that a large body of this tribe, \Vith some Pota watomi, left Kansas and went to Texas and thence to 1viexico. W. P. Zuber states that his father, in 1833, occu­ pied hues that had been abandoned by Kickapoo Indians t\VO years previously.!1 In the same connection, Zuber tells that parties of Kickapoos and Cushattees camped near his father's home, in 1833, with whom the Zubers bartered corn for n1oc• casins, deerskins, venison, and \Vild turkey. Judge R. P. Harper of Madisonville, Texas, tells of Bedias and Kickapoo Indians having lived together on South Bedias creek, east of the present town of Bedias. Cushattees.-These Indians had villages on both sides of the Trinity river from which they made hunting expeditions

8Told to the writer by Judge R. P. Harper of Madisonville, Texas. The exisc­ ence of such a large village of Bedias in North Grimes county is common know!­ edge among the old settlers. 1.J. G. hfcDonald to E. L. Blair, July 15, 1928. Tobe Schumacher to E. L. Blair, August 2, 1929. 'Hodge, Handbook of American Indians North of /t;fexico, I, 684. 'Zuber, Eight)' Years in Texas, 133. Manuscript in the State Libra£}', Austin, Texas. EARL y HISTORY OF GRI:MES COUNTY 37 into the region no\v known as Grimes county.10 Zuber makes the follo,ving comment regarding the Cushattees: 11 "Two roads traversed the territory of Grimes county: rowit, the La Bahia ioad and the Cushatcee Trace; the latter being a section of the old Contraband road, beaten out and used by smugglers of contraband goods on caravans of pack mules, from Alexandria, Louisiana, to the Rio Grande . . . . The section between the Neches and the Brazos was called the Cushattee trace, because it was much used by the Cushaccee Indians on their hunting expeditions." The Cushattee Indians seem to have been rather well civilized and, according to Ed,vards, it was not unusual for them co live in ,veil constructed houses, surrounded with peach trees and well-,vatered gardens and fields, ,vhich ,vere sometimes fenced. Ir see1ns co have been the custom co leave these villages almost ,vholly unprotected in the autumn ,vhile the Indians ranged afar in search of the ,vinrer supply of honey, bear 1neat, and_ venison. While on these expeditions they often visited the settlements of the ,vhites with ,vhom they engaged in barrer.12 The number of Cushattee Indians in Texas has been esti1nated by some at three hundred and fifty. 1a- Relations bet\-veen Indians and Whites.-The white seeders of Gri1nes county vicinity see1n, for the most part, co have been un1nolested by the Indians residing in this territory i.e., the Bedias, Kickapoos, and Cushattees. At rimes the Indians were insolent and they ,vere beggarly by nature, but they "'ere 1 restrained by presents and forbearance. ·• 11en like Jesse Grin1es had great influence ,vith these tribes and often sat with then1 in council. It is said by the old settlers of this section that n1en of the Bedias tribe served the ,vhites in 11'Edward, D. B., 1-li1to1·)' of Texas, 94. 11 Z11ber lo Bzl'{fington! June 26, 1903, datt'd at Iola, Texas. i:rEdward, History of Texas, 94. 13De Shields, Bm·der JW,1,-s of Texas! 153. 1'Ibid .. 21-22. 38 EARLY HISTORY OF GRil\1ES COUNTY helping to keep out the n1ore hostile Comanches and (~hero­ kees_ 1.,

LOCAL INDIAN STORIES AS TOLD BY PIONEER SETTLERS

Indians Visit the T. P. Plaster Home.-1\-Irs. Margaret Harrison told the \\'riter this interesting story of an experience ,vith a Bedias ,varrior. One night ,vhile l\lrs. 1~. P. Plaster ,vas at hon1e alone ,vith her children, her husband having gone co Houston for supplies, an Indian man quietly pushed open the door and entered the room. The mother ,vas too terrified to speak, but the little lvlargaret, too small to kno,v danger, toddled up to the big Indian and put her anns around his leg in an effort to pull him over to a chair that ,vas being pushed out by her little t,vin brother. The Indian reached down and took the little girl in his arms as he sat down in the chair. By this time the 1norher had gotten control of herself and ,vas attempting to sho,v friendliness. She made son1e coffee and offered the Indian a cup. He took the coffee but refused to dridk therefron1 until he had first given a spoonful to each of the children and to i\frs. Plaster. He then let it be known that he \vanced another cup. \Xfhen offered n1ore food, how­ ever, he refused and, after a ri1ne, left as quietly as he had con1e. Subsequently, this sa1ne Indian n1ade several visits to the Plaster ho1ne, coming at one ti1ne \\'hen the father was

tr.Information regarding the relation of Jesse Grimes with che Indians \Vi.ls fur­ nished the writer by Mrs. W. C. Preston who is a granddaughter of Jesse Grimes. l\frs. Preston resides at Fore Worth, Texas. Hamer Wilson. BiographJ of J,me Grime.r, manuscript prepared b}' Hamer Wilson while a student in an American History class in Navasota High School. The manuscript is now in the high school library at Navasota. Quoting l\frs. J. T. l\fcGincy as his auchority, Wilson states that Bedias warriors often came to the Grimes home when Jesse Grimes wa, away and remained there to protect the family from hostile InJians. Quoting Mrs. F. B. Wesson of Navasota, Wilson states chat Grimes w:1s looked upon br the Indians as a man of high wisdom and was prominent among the Indians as .1 peacemaker. EARL y HISTOR y OF GRil\l ES COUNTY 39 a.wa ;.- i ro1n ho1ne and sitting the \\•·hole night in a corner of a roorr1, leaving a little before

u~,u,.,. 1\l.:1r.~./l'el _I. /-J.,rrium to F.. L. 8/~1ir. July 15. 1928. ~fr~. i\fargarcc Harrison (born March 27, 1840; died at her home in Bedias, Texas. November 8, 1928). Her father, Captain T. P. Plaster (born June 26. 180-::i: died ~larch 27, 1861), came to Texas from Giles county, Tennessee. in 1835 or 18.16. The following quotation is from an article published soon aftt'r C:ap{ain T. P. Plaster's

'C:i.pcain PtlSt<:r .... w:1.s a c:itizen .md soldier oi the Republic He t·migrated from Giles coumy. Tcnnc·sstc, w Texas 183'> or UH<-i :ind bore a heroic: r:1rc in die rc\·oh1i::ion then going on. and ,Lt San J:1i..:i111,, hc aided in d11: m:1n:1gt•mcnc ol one of rh.: ··i w:n Sisters' whid1 did such good and c·liil'i<:nr scni<:c ur,un ti1;11 hl,,mly ticlJ. Thi'i cimp:ii~n being one which resulted so gloriously re, ~h(• :t! m-. ol Tcx:is. he..- seu!c

jamin Plaster (born March 28, 1838; died January 14, 1857), Joseph H. Plasttr (born Afarch 27, 1840; died September 2, 1927}, Margaret J. Plaster (born March 27, 1840; died November 8, 1928), Frank Plaster (born ~farch 22, 1842; died January 6, 1905). Margaret J. Plaster married B. H. Harrison ( February 20, 1856) by whom she bore eleven children, ten of whom lived to be adults, and seven of whom are now living. The writer feels deeply indebrd to :l\frs. 1farg,1m J. Harrison for her kindly assistance during the summer of 1928. 1 ;/. C. McDonald to E. L. Blair_. July 15, 1928. 1vfr. ilcDonald says that in EARLY HISTORY OF GRrMES COUNTY 41

Indians Kill Kennard's Calves.-Another story is told of an Indian raid during ,vhich Indians killed several calves belong­ ing to A. D. Kennard within sight of the Kennard home. It seems that all the n1en were away from home when an old negro slave woman discovered the Indians killing the calves in a nearby pasture. The faithful negress hastened to the house and broke the news to Mrs. Kennard. When Mrs. Kennard made no move to protect her property, the negro woman became vexed and exclaimed, · 'Missis, what shall \\'e do? What shall we do?" to which Mrs. Kennard replied that they could do nothing but trust in the Lord; at which remark, the negress retorted, "Dar am mighty pore help, ,vhen de Injuns am out dar killing the calves."18 l\fethods of Precaution against Indian Attacks at Night.­ ]. W. Blake, now of Houston, Texas, tells of hearing his grandmother, Mrs. John Durst, explain that it was custo1nary to have the negroes bring the horses and cattle up near the front of the house at night so that they could be guarded against chef t by the Indians. She told that on many nights she ,vould sit on the f rant porch \\-·ith a gun across her lap

1870, while riding by the Hadley home with his father, J. G. ~fcDonald, Senior, he was told the above story, and that his father told him it happened in 18-10. Mrs. Margaret Saunders to E. L. Blair, August 2, 1928. 1':lrs. Saunders, grand­ daughter of Margaret McIntire who settled in Grimes Prairie in 1825, has an Indian tomahawk said to have been taken from the Indians who killed l\frs. Taylor. Mrs. Saunders says these were Comanche Indians. Mrs. E. F. Edwards of Shiro, Texas, tells the story a little differently. She says that Mrs. Taylor was killed and' scalped, and that the children were a boy and a girl. The boy was shoe through the hand. According to Mrs. Edwards, the children escaped by aid of a faithful negro slave by the name of Jack Hadley. She also places the event severai years earlier than 1840. 1'-frs. E. F. Edwards seems to have gotten her information from her mother-in-law, l\.frs. Joe Edwards, who was an eye witness to the tragedy, having been in the Hadley house at the time it happened. M,·.r. E. F. Edu·ards .. "History Shiro," Nava.rota Dail)' Examine,·~ Occober 22, 1924. Franklin Brigance Memoirs, manuscript now in che possession of Mrs. Frank Brigance, Navasora, Texas. 15 }. G. AfrDonald to E. L. Blair,. July 15, 1928. 42 EARLY HiSTORY OF GRIMES COUNTY to guard the anirnals ,vhile her husband ,vas away, or \\·bile he rested after a hard day's labor. lvlrs. Nlargarer Saunders tells of her mother, l\,{rs. Sarah ~lclntire, sleeping on the top of the house in order to be n1ore safe f ron1 discovery, in the event of an Indian raid ,vhile her husband, Robert ~Icln­ tire, \Vas a,vay fron1 hon1e. Indians Kill l\1an on Wallace Prairie.--The story is of a \'ague nature, but the oh.I settlers tell of a man na:ned Shaik ,,,ho lived on \-x;' allace Prairie near Groce' s Retreat, beint l, killed by Indians in retaliation for the killing of an Indian b~- ,vhires. Shark, so the story goes, ,vas taken f ro1n a sick bed. 11 and killed by the Indians. ' Indian Expedition of 1839.-Franklin Brigance tells of an expedition made against the Cornanches in 1839. He says that a company assembled in the fall of 1839, ar Tinnonvilk \Vhere the old San Antonio and Nacogdoches road crossed the Navasota river. From here they ,vent to Comanche Peak pn the ,vest side of the Brazos river. Crossing the Brazos river, ,vhere \Vaco no,v stands, they came upon an India~ village occupied by about one hundred and thirty Indiam. An attack ,vas made but all the Indians escaped except ont ,vho was killed. A 1v1exican ,vas n1ade prisoner. A nun1be; of horses, mules, and some Indian equipn1ent ,vere captured.: The company of ,vhites then crossed ro the east side of the Brazos river and made their ,vay hon1e,vard by way o:, \v'heelock~ ,vhich ,vas then on the extren1e edge of the ·whit~. settlement. On the return trip, two officers were killed L1 Indians. These officers ,vere riding at son1e distance ahea:. of the company and ,vere killed ,vhile ,vatering ar Richlani

iuMrs. ltfargaret Sa11nders to E. L. Blafr, August 2, 1928. 20 is possible chat these Indians could have been Comanches. It hardly Tb:; 1 were in all probabiliq• Wacos or Tonkawas. EARI.Y HlSTORY OF GRI11ES COUNTY 43 aees:. The Indians escaped and the bodies of the slain offi.cer5 \vere buried at the foot of an oak tree in a nearbv ,I pra1ne.~-• • n1 ~fiiitary Preparedness against Indians in 1837.-A fair idea of the precautionary 1neasures used by the pioneer settlers of this vicinity can be had f ron1 the follo\ving explanation given by W. P. Zuber:

··our militia company was divided into six platoons, each platoon had l cornmanding officer appointed. They served by turns, each serving a week at a time. Their service was to cover the woods in

21 Franklin Brigance, ".l\lemoirs." This is a manuscript written by Franklin Brigance and now in the possession of Mrs. Frank Brigance of Navasota, Texas. Franklin Brigance (born August 12. 1818, in Sumner county, Tennessee; died in Grimes County, June 17, 1900) was the son of Charles Newcon and Fannie (Dyer) Brigance of Tennessee. Franklin Brigance was working at the tailor's trade with an unde, William Brigance, at Huntington, Tennesset, when news of Sam Houston's victo11' at San Jacinto reached him. Leaming that his father had decided to move to Texas, Franklin Brigance hastened home to join the under­ taking. They left l\kKenzie, Tennessee, in December of 1838 and went co Nashville, Tennessee, and thence to Clarksville, where they embarked on che steamboat Rock)' A1ormtain for New Orieans. At New Orleans they cook passage to Galveston on the Dolphine, and arrived at Houston, February 22, 1839. From Houston, they came by wagon to Black's Prairie in what is now Grimes count}'· Upon arrival here, they scopped for a time with John F. 1fartin. then on Spring Creek, but purchastd lan· of the Methodist church at Anderson for sixty }'ears. This information was taken from his l\femoirf, cited above, and from the Brigance Famih Bible. 44 EARLY HISTORY OF GRIMES COUNTY

search for Indians or Indian trails, in the event any such weie found, they were co be driven out."

Zuber, in this same connection, stares that the Indians, upon learning of such preparedness, ceased to molest the setde­ ments. 22 Indians Remo,1ed from Grimes County .-The United States Government began to remove the Indians from this section to the various Indian reservations about 1854. Old settlers re­ member the sight of squads of Indians marching through Anderson on their journey to their reservations. 23 By the year 1860, only six Indians were listed by the United States Census as then residing ,vi thin Gri1nes county. Of these, two were '\\'Omen and four were men.24 Three Indians were listed as residing in Grimes county in 1870; four in 1880 and none in 1890.25

i:zuber, Eighty Years in Texa.r, 80. hfanuscript in Stace Library. 23L. H. Barry to E. L. Blair, July 3, 1928. 2'Eighth Censu.s of the United States, Texas Compendium, 537. 21Eleventh Census of the United States, Texas Compendium_. 483. Chapter IV

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF THE SIXTY-FOUR ORIGINAL GRANTEES IN GRIMES COUNTY

In the preparation of the follo,ving sketches, the writer has made no pretense ar narrative continuity. Each biographical sketch is to be considered an independent unit within itself. For the sake of convenience, the sixty-four pioneers are con­ sidered in alphabetical order. Robert Armour.-The writer has found little of historic interest concerning Robert Armour. He came to Texas from the state of Tennessee, landing at Matagorda, during the year 1833. 1 He lacer settled in what is now the northwest portion of Grimes county, where he secured a grant of one league of land. 2 At the time of his arrival in Texas, he ,vas about forty-six years of age and had a fa1nily consisting of a wife and five children. The name of the wife is not known to the writer. '"fhe children were Delilah, Elizabeth, Denina, Folly, and a son whose name is not mentioned.3 Delilah Amour married Tandy Walker and a sketch of her family will be found on page No. 147 of this thesis. Elizabeth Armour (bor~ October 23, 1823; died May 23, 1887) married

1L. Ballou to E. L. Blair, dated August 15, 1928, at Brady, Texas. Ballou is a grandson of Robert Armour. 2Abstract of Texas Land Titles, I, 604. Date of his application is May, 1835. That of his patent is October 5, 1835. These dates taken from Land Applications_, 69, of record in the Texas Land Office, Austin, Texas. 1ln his application for land dated May, 1835, he gave his age as forty-eight years and stated that he had five children, four daughters and one son. In the Probate .hfinutes of Grimes County, II, 462, the following are listed as heirs of Robert Armour: Elizabeth Ballou, Delilah Walker, Denina Armour, and Polly Ann Armour. L. Ballou of Brady, Texas, also gives the names as above. 46 EARLY HISTORY OF GRIMES COUNTY on Alarch 8, 1838, to S. T. Ballou, by whom she had eight children, na1nely: Julia A. (born December 17, 1839; died September 5, 1843), George (born November 7, 1841; died February 17, 1846), Lugenio (born November 4, 1843), Lucretia (born January 17, 1846; died January 13, 1926), Seth T. (born December 17, 1846), Wilford C. (born March 7, 1851; died December 6, 1899), Charles (born December 15, 1852; died December 20, 1852), and Ann Maria (born ~lay 17, 1856; died June 15, 1920).4 Denina Armour died unmar­ ried. Polly Ann Armour married in 1850, Elie (possibly the real name was Alexander) Davis, by ,vhom she had one son. The fifth child of Robert Armour ,vas a son \\'hose nan1e the writer does not have. He seems to have returned co Tennes­ see soon after their arrival in Texas, and it is rhought rhat he died rhere by accident. Daniel Arnold.-Information concerning Daniel Arnold is confined to what is found in his application for land, and his patent thereto. The writer has been unable to locate any living descendants. His application for land ,vas made in 1826, at which time he was a married 1nan, forty-eight years of age, and ,vas the father of four children, nvo sons and

"S. T. Ballou, husband of Elizabeth Armour. rnme to Tt.:x:is from Pro,,idtnce, Rhode Island, arriving at Velasco, in the year I 83 1L He is s,1id ro have hecn in the Texas army under General Sam Houston during the year 18?-6, hut the writer has been unable to verify this. His name does not appear on the list of soldiers who fought in the Battle of San Jacinto (found in the archive!- of the State Library at Austin, Texas). Lug(:•nio Ballou now re,idt·~ :tt Rrad~-, Texas. He was born in Grimes countr i-1 1843 and the wrii(:r is indebted to him f:,r much of the data given here. l. BaJlou served rhrcl" years and tt·n days ir.: t:1-:e Con­ federate army. (The writer has not verified thi~~ bur give·~ wh.u Lugemf Ballou stated.) Lugenia Ballou was married, April 19. 1866. to Miss Chadort C. Black,

daughter of Charles Black of Galveston 7 Texas. She liv(:d for only a snort time after the marriage, dying on August 13, 1866. Six years h~rcr, July 22, 1872. Lugenia Ballou married Blanche Ryan (bom l\.larch 18. 1854 ), daughter of Joseph Ryan of Goliad, Texas. Thct an: thl" parcms ,·,f chr<~e livin~ children, namely: Clara Wood, 1'.fary Merwin, and ~'illiam Henry. All rhree now rtside at Brady~ Texas. Seth T. Ballou, Junior, now resides at Hamilton, Tex2.!:. EARLY HISTORY OF GRI1'tES COUNTY 47 rwo daughters. His wife's name ,v as Rachel, and she was forty-three years old in 1826. The family came to Texas from the state of l\1ississippi. He seems to have been possessed of considerable property, for he is listed as bringing five sla,7 es with him to Texas.~ His grant ,vas for one league, patent to which is dated l\1ay 9, 1831. This league is located in the western portion of Grimes county, and on this survey no,v is located the little city of N avasota.'i Benjamin Babbitt.-There is a quarter league grant in the extreme southern part of Grimes county which was patented to Benjamin Babbitt, November 22, 1832. 7 Scant information has been found concerning this settler. At the time of his grant he was unmarried, but we find him asking for additional land in 1845, because he had then married.8 The ,vriter has found no record of any descendants. James Bell.-The James Bell three-quarter league grant lies in the extreme southern portion of Grimes county and in the northern portion of what is now \Vall er county. In fact, four-fifths of the land granted James Bell lies in Waller county. The writer has £ound very little concerning James Bell. His land patent is dated December 2, 1832.0 At this time he was single. It is known, however, that he married later, for he asked for more land and gave, as his reason, the fact that he was then married. Bell was one of the heroes of San Jacinto, having served in Company B, First Regiment of

1These facts are taken from his Land Application~ of record in the Land Office of Texas, Austin, Texas. 'Abstract of Texas Land 1•;1/es, I, 604. Set map in App<:ndix II. DanitJ Arnold sold one-half a league to John F. Crawford on November 8, 1847. There is also a record of Daniel Arnold having sold a portion of his iand to Ht-nry Austin, April 26, 1837. Deed Record.r of Grime.f Cou,zt}', A-2, 202, and Q, 3'73. ~Ibid., 604. For location, see map in Appendix II. 1Texas Land Grants, IX, 161. 'Ab.rtra,t of Te.'<:as lAnd Titles, I, 604. See map in Appendix 11. 48 EARLY HISTORY OF GRI:MES COUNTY

Texas Volunteers. He seems to have possessed much land besides that in Grimes county. He received ten leagues on the Sabine and Trinity rivers from Williams, Johnson and Peebles.10 John S. Black.-This colonist hailed from the state of Ten­ nessee, arriving in Texas some time during the year 1830, or possibly before this year. His land application was made in 1830, and a grant of one league is parented to him under date of April 6, 1831.11 Black seems to have participated actively in the military activities then in progress. With his eldest son, ?vlonroe, he joined the Texas army and is said to have par­ ticipated in the siege of Bexar, December 5 to 9, 1835.12 John S. Black was forty years old at the time of his applica­ tion for land (1830). He was then married, and had a family consisting of his wife, Mary (then thirty-two years old), and five children, three sons and two daughters, namely: Monroe, Gavin Bingley, John S., Junior, Lucinda, and William.13 Monroe Black married and raised a family, but the writer 1 has no information concerning his descendants. " Gavin Bingley Black (born February 19, 1822; died October 4, 1868) married Margaret Anna Moore (born December 17, 1826;

2°T exas Land Grants, VI, 2030, and McDonald, J. B., The Soldiers of San Jacinto (MS), 1922, 52. 22Abs1rac1 oi Texas Land Titles, I, 604. Also Application fo1· Land, of record in the Texas Land Office, Austin, Texas. 22Zube, to Buffington, dated at Iola, Texas, June 26, 1903. 13.A.pplication for Land, of record in Land Office of Texas, Austin, Texas. Probate Minutes of Grimes County, II, 586. Also Probate Minutes of Grimes County, L, 220. Here it is stated that on A{ay 27, 1855, all the above children were living in Grimes county except Lucinda. They were all then ( 1855) of legal age except William Black, who was represented by his attorney, John W. Hutchison. Thd Probate records failed to mention the name of John S. Black! but list a John L. if. Black. The above children were also named to the writer by Gus S. Black who late1y resided at Navasota, Texas. Gus Black is a great­ grandson of John S. Black. HG11s S. Black to E. L. Blair, July 10, 1928. EARLY HISTORY OF GRIMES COUNTY 49 died December 5, 1870), by whom he had thirteen children, namely: John Maxie, George Patrick, Henrietta Porter, Rich­ ard, Charlie L., Francis (Frank), Anna l\fae, Tom, Hambright H., ~-fary Ann, Gavin Bingley, Junior, Sallie Mike, and Jesse 1 Lee. ;; John S. Black, Junior, (born 1818; died in Grimes

1'G11s S. Black to E. L. Blair, July 10, 1928, and Mrs. W. T. Schumacher to E. L. Blair, July 23, 1928. Maxie Black was a deaf mute. He never married. He was educated at the Deaf and Dumb Institute at Austin, Texas. George Patrick ( born 1\-{arch 17, 1846) served as deputy sheriff in Grimes county under Sheriff J. Cross Baker, 1900-1902. He married Catherine Grissett, daughter of Charlie Grissett of Grimes county, by whom he had seven children, namely: Gavin, Bingley, Gus S., George Patrick, Maggie, Lizzie, Alexander Franklin Brigance. Concerning these children, Gavin Black now resides at Roan's Prairie, in Grimes county. He married Irene May.field in 1891. They have one living child, Anna Mae. Bingley Black died at the age of thirteen years. Gus S. Black died a few months ago at Navasota. The writer is indebted to him for a large part of the information given about this family. The wife of Gus S. Black was formerly Annie Sophia Kelley. She is the daughter of Hugh Kelley. They were married on December 13, 1894, and have been the parents of eleven children, namely: Gracey h-lae, Hugh Patrick ( died in infancy), Catherine, Charlie Gavin, Gus S. Junior, ~fary A{., Bertha Lois, Margaret Anne, Herman M., Lucy P., and Larvis Wilson. George Patrick Black, Junior, married Mamie Clifton. They now reside at Houston and have several children. Afaggie Black is now ~frs. Herman :M. Kel!ey of Ervin community. They have no children. Lizzie Black is now 1',,frs. Andrew Tabor of Bryan, Texas. She is a widow and the mother of three chil­ dren, namely: Mary Lizzie, Andrew P., and Andrew Jackson. Alexander Franklin Brigance Black married Lucy Bounds. They now reside at Navasota and have no children. Henrietta Porter Black married George Afabry, by whom she had three children, namely: Alfa, George, and Frank. Alfa Mabry is now Mrs. Duncan Evans of Madisonville, Texas, and is the mother of four children. George Mabry is also married and has three children, namely: Lorene, Gale, and David. Frank .Mabry is now a physician at Port Arthur, Texas. Richard Black (born August 28, 1848) married Tressy Robinson, who died at the birth of their only child, Will L. Black. This son grew to manhood and married Lucy Perry of the Erwin com­ muniry, hr whom he had four children, namely: Ephriam, Will L. Junior, Richard, and Francis. Will L. Black married a second time but the writer has no in­ formation about the children of the second marriage. Richard Biack, father of Will L. Black, lacer married Gennie Mobley by whom he had four children, namely: Addie, ~lattie, Parham, and Ella. Concerning these, Addie Black married E. Fuqua and was the mother of seven children, namely: Sanford, Edward, Claude, Myrtle (now 1'.frs. William Arrington), Richard, Maurice, and Boone. 1fattie Black married and has several children. Ella Black died unmarried. Charlie L. Bfock, son of Gavin Bingley Black, died at the age of forty years unmarried. Frank 1'foore Black moved from Grimes to 1\fadison county rears ago where he served as sheriff and tax-collector for about twenty years. His wife's name was 50 EARLY HISTORY OF GRIJ\.IES COUNTY county in 1893) is remembered as an enthusiastic Royal Arch Mason, whose ambition it was to have the country around Anderson settled with lviasons only. John S. Black married Millie Hanley of Grimes county, by ,vhom he had five chil­ dren, namely: Mary, Isa, Tumpie, John S., Junior, and Calvin 1 H. Black. t Lucinda Black, daughter of John S. Black, Senior,

Lucinda. They have Jive children, namely: Cary, Luen, Frank, Olen, and Ear!. Annie Mae Black, daughter of Gavin Bingley Black, married Pleas Smith of Keith community. Her husband died leaving no children and the widow later married John F. Thomas. There were no children. Tom C. B. Black, son of Gavin Bingley Black, moved from Grimes to Hill county. He is the father of C. L. Black who is now an attorney at Austin, Texas. C. L. Black married Agada Bowman and they have three children, namely: Charles L. Junior, Mar­ garet, and Bowman. Hambright H. Black married Para Lee Horton, by whom he had one son, Charlie Black, who is now in Mexico. After the death of Para Lee, Hambright H. Black married her sister, Dela Horton, by whom he had six children, namely: Anna Mae, Jennie, Para Lee, Marshall Maxie, Hettie Bell, and Jewell. Jennie Black is now Mrs. Doyle Andrews. Para Lee Black is now :Mrs. George Conoly, and Hettie Bell is now Mrs. Glenn Ahrenbeck. The other children of Gavin Bingley Black, namely: l\lary Ann, Gavin Bingley, Junior, Sallie Mike, and Jesse Lee, died in early youth. 16W. T. Schumacher to E. L. Blair, August 2, 1928; Zuber to Bulfin~~1011: June 26, 1903; and Gu.r S. Black to E. L. B/afr, July 10, 1928. Gus S. Black is a hephew of John S. Black, Senior. He tells an interesting Indian story abour an experience John S. Black had with Indians. The story is that John S. Black went out one morning co gee his horse which was hobbled on Scott's Prairie. The grass was so high that only the back of the horse could be seen from the house. On the way across the prairie, Black killed a wild turke}' and Ide it hanging in a tree. Mounting his horse, he had ridden only a short distance when an Indian arrow struck his large, tall, big-brimmed hat. Being unable to tdl from what direction the arrow came, Black started to ride rapidly forward, when another arrow came dangerously near. Black allowed himself to fall frcm his horse, trying to make it appear that he was wounded. He waited quietly with only his pistol and five cartridges. \X'hen the Indians faiJed to appear, he placed his hat on a stick and holding it just high enough to be seen, srancd walking forward. After a few steps, another arrow was shot through the hat, whereupon it was allowed to fall slowl}' forward. The Indians then rushed into the: optn and within close range. Black opened fire with his pistol and killed three of the six Indians, and the other three fled. Black then remounted and rode rapidly toward home, but did not forget to stop and get his turkey from the tree. Mary Black, daughter of John S. Black, Junior, was born on February 23, 1857. She married Ben F. Smith, commonly known as "Tobe" Smith, by whom she had eight children, namely: George, Myrtle, Parham, Mason, Grace, Floy, Pleas, and Blanche. George Smith now resides at Keith, in Grimt:s county. ifyrtlc: died in EARLY HISTORY OF GRI:MES COUNTY 51 married a n1an by the name of 1"1cCo,vn, by ,vhom she had several children, but about ,vhom the ,vricer has no informa- youth. Parham married Wiliie Trant, daughter of Sam Trant, a prominent cattle man of Grimes county. They were marritd on October 11, 1903, and both are now living at Navasota, Texas. They have two sons, namely: Wilson (born De­ cember 5, 1906), now a student at Baylor Medical College, at Dallas, Texas; and Weyman, now a high school student at Navasota. Weyman was born January 11, 1913. :Mason Smith, son of Ben F. Smith, married Leona Smith. They reside at Carlos, in Grimes county, and have no children. Grace Smith is now .l\,frs. L. P. Harrison of Houston, Texas. She is a widow with four children, namely: Lloyd, Alva, Forest, and Edna. Edna, the eldest, is now Mrs. Joe Shannon of Houston. Floy Smith, daughter of Ben F. Smith, is now .l\,Irs. C. T. Davis of College Station, Texas. She is the mother of six children, namely: Kenneth, Alga, Earl, Mary Lou, Blanche, and Joe Hearne. Picas Smith died in infancy and the writer has no information about his sister Blanche. Isa Black, daughter of John S. Black, Junior, was born on October 11, 1859. She is now :Mrs. W. T. (Tobe) Schumacher of Keith community, Grimes county. W. T. Schumacher is the son of Henry Schumacher (born in Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Germany, in 1832; died :May 26, 1901, in Grimes county) who came to Texas, from Germany, landing at Galveston in 1847. Henry Schumacher moved to Anderson, in Grimes county, in 1855, and to Navasota, in 1865. During the Civii War he served in the Eighth Texas Cavalry, in Walker's Division. He was among the first to recognize the possibilities of cotton seed and established the cotton seed oil mill which still operates under his name at Navasota. Henry Schumacher was acrive in the or~anization of the First National Bank at Navasota, Texas, and served for a time as its president. In 1858, he married Susan Berryman, grand­ daughter of Francis Holland. She was the mother of W. T. (Tobe) Schumacher. Henry Schumacher had a son, Henry D. Schumacher, now of Houston, b}1 his first wife, touise Koch, who died at Anderson in 1856. By a third wife, Emma Horlock, Henry Schumacher had eight children, namely: Ada, Robert H., \Y./. W., Minnie, Ella, Emma, Baylor, and Ruth. ("Obituary of Henry Schumacher,"

Nai·awta Wet'k/J Re1:ieu·1 1'.fay 30, 1901.) Nine children were born to Isa and W. T. Schumacher, namely: Emma (born November 10, 1879), \X1illiam H., James A., Ecca, Ethel E)eanor, Isa, 1-izzie, and Aubrey J. Schumacher. Concern­ ing these, Emma is now Mrs. 1\1. H. Heith of Waco, Texas; William H. Schumacher now resides at Houston; James A. SchumachC.'r also resides at Houston; Ethel is now l\,frs. T. D. Crtnshaw of Grimt:s county; 1:leanor is l\Irs. William Midland of Houston; Isa is 1\frs. R. L Lavcndtr of Grimes county; Lizzie Lee is 1\frs. G. D. Samuels of Dallas; and Aubr<:y J. Schumacher resides at Iola, Grimes county. (.l\fr.r. 1J1/. T. Sch1m1acher to E. L. Bfoir. July 23, 1928) Tumpi,· Black, daughter of John S. Black, Junior, married Jim V. Floyd, by whom ~ht had scvt:ral children, of whom the writer has the names of four, nameiy: Cl.a}·, Bc:n, Tommie, and David B. Floyd. C)ay is now l\,frs. Leo Kc:dan and has one son, Floyd Kedan. Ben Floyd is now in the: United Statt·s army and is thought to be stationed in the Philippine Islands. David B. Flord is now residing at Los An~eks~ California. Tommie Floyd rtsi

(William Floyd to E. L. Blah-, July S, 1928) John S. Black, son of John S. Black, Junior, married Pet Cook of Keith community in Grimes county. Bmr. are now deceased. There were seven children, namely: Ora, Calvin H., Clarence. Ruby, Gordon, Fred, and Jerome. Ora is now Mrs. Charlie Lindley of Fo:: Worth, Texas. Calvin is married and living in California. Clarence is li\'ing :: Dallas, Texas. Ruby is now ilrs. Hugh Weaver of Houston. Fred also !i\'e~ at Houston. Gordon now resides at Brazoria, Texas, and Jerome is married a::: living at Dallas. i;Gus S. Black to E. L. Blair_. July 10, 1928. 18Probate Minutes of Grimes County, II, 586, and Ibid., L, 220. 111La11d Applications, in the General Land Office at Austin, Texas. 20Abstract of Texas Land Titles, I, 604. 21See map in the appendix of this thesis. - ... EARLY HISTORY OF GRI11ES COUNTY ))

Black, and that he ,vas kno,vn to the younger Blacks only by a nickna1ne, ''Captain Lafitte." John Bo\\rman.-There seems co have been an intimate ac­ quaintance existing benveen John Bowman and Stephen F. Austin that dated back prior to 1811, when they were together in Louisiana.22 In the year 1811, Bo,vman was back in Mercer county, Kentucky, ,vhere he had gone, it seems, with the in­ tention of making an early return to Louisiana, but had been induced to remain through the influence of his mother and other friends. At this time ( 1811) he was farming and ,vas unmarried. 23 Bowman remained in Kentucky as late as 1813, but evidently moved thence to .A.rkansas prior to 1821, for he ca1ne to Texas in the latter year and his application for land, dared 1830, sho,vs that he came from the state of Arkansas.24 The name of John Bov.rman appears in a list of the qualified voters at San Felipe de Austin, Dece1nber 22, 1824. In the following year (1825) however, he was living in the District of Colorado.~:; His name is signed to a resolution condemn­ ing the Fredonian Rebellion at Nacogdoches and dated at Sim1ns Prairie, January 4, 1827. John Bowman was appointed lieutenant in the Fourth Company of 1nilitia organized in the municipality of Austin on lviarch 21, 1829. The records, ho,v­ 2 ever, fail to sho\\' ,vhether he ever qualified. ';

==Barker, The Arutin P,,pers. in the Annual Report of the A.merictm Hi.rtoric.zl A.uociation for 1919, II, 189. John Bou·num to Steph1.•11 F. A1nti11. 21 =1bid. 24Proceedi11g.r of the Coni·entio11 of Texas Veterans, 1873. John Bowman's name appears on the ro11s as having served in a military or political capacity in Texas between 1820 and April 23, 1836. He was then residing in Cherokee county, Texas. He was listed as having migrated to Texas in 1821. 2:;Barker, The Au.rtin P(1pers .. in the Ann11,1/ Report of the Americi,111 Hi.rtoric,,/ AHociation for 1919, II, 996 and 1244. His name appears in the Census report of the Colorado district, December 31, 182 5. He was then a farmer and was shown as having no children or slaves. ~Barktr. ":Minutes of the: Ayuntamiento of San Felipe

John Bowman was married and the father of two childien, a boy and a girl, at the time he made application for land in 1830. In his application, he gave his age as fifty years, and stared that his wife's name was Margaret, ,vhose age was given as twenty-nine years. 21 He was granted one league of land, patent to ,vhich is dated April 6, 1831. This land is situated a fe,v miles north,vest of the present to~'n of Ander­ son in Grimes county.~ 8 Bo,vman seems to have been active in the affairs of his district. He was elected comisario of the district of Viesca in 1s31.2n Concerning the descendants of John Bo,v1nan, the ,vriter has no data. l\Iiss Grace H. Bo,vman of College Station, Texas, granddaughter of Ja1nes I. Bo,v.tnan, pioneer of Brazos county, thinks that John and Jan1es Bo,vman, of early Grimes county, were cousins to her grandfather. .&Irs. Luke Moore, who resides at 1701 Lysle Avenue, Waco, Texas, is a descend­ ant of James I. Bow1nan, formerly of Brazos county. This lady is now (1829) about seventy years of age and might be able to give some information as to the present whereabouts of the descendants of John Bo,vman. The \vriter, hov.'ever, has been unable to get an ans,ver to communications ad­ dressed to Mrs. Moore. As mentioned above, it is kno,vn that John Bo,vman was living in Cherokee county in the year 1873. 311 It seems probable that this family left Grimes county shortly after the establishment of the independence of Texas. Infor­ mation about the time Bowman sold his property in Grin1es

21Application for Land, 89, of record in Texas Land OHice. Three children, namely: Peggy, Eli, and William are named. Deed Records of Grimes Cot11ll). C-2, 717. 28Abstract of Texas Land Titles, I, 604. Also map in Appendix II. 211Barker, "Minutes of the Ayuntamiento of San Felipe de Austin," Qua,teri), XXIV, 162. With him served Peter Whitaker as Sindico. 30P,oceedings of the Convention of Texas Veterans, 1873. EARLY HISTORY OF GRI~iES COUNTY 55 county could probably be secured from the deed records of Grimes coun cy. Samuel Bowman.-The \vriter has found nothing concern­ ing Samuel Bo,vman or his descendants except that he applied for land September 22, 1835, through Horatio Chriesman as agenr. His application sho'\\:s that he was at that time mar­ ried. ::i His grant of one league was located in the extreme northern part of Grimes county ( map in Appendix II) and this fact suggests to the mind of the writer the probability that this Samuel Bo,v1nan 1nay have been related to the Bovnnan pioneers of Brazos county.:\~ San1uel Bowman's land patent is dated October 16, 1835, and ,vas sold, October 17, 1835, to D. L. Richardson.=13 Alexander Brovvn.-Alexander Bro,vn came co Texas from the state of Arkansas prior to April 23, 1826.:: 4 He applied for a league of land in 1830.:~~, His grant, situated in Grimes county a fe\v miles northeast of the present to,vn of Anderson, 3 was patented Nlay 17, 1831. '; At the time of his application for land, Brown ,vas thirty-t\VO years old and had a ,vife and two daughters. His wife's name ,vas Sally, and her age ,vas given as t\venty-four years. They owned one negro slave. There are many Bro,vns in Grimes county today. The writer has investigated three distinct groups and has found no one who kne,v anything about this particular Alexander Brown.37

a'Application fot Land, 81, Land Office of Texas. :i'!For additional information regarding the Bowmans of Brazos coumy, com­ municate with lvfiss Grace H. Bowman, College Scacion, Texas. 33Abstract of Texas Land Titles, I, 604, and Deed R~cords of Grimes Co1111tJ, C-2, 627. 3~Barker, The Austin Paper.r, in the Ann11aJ Report of the American HiJtoric:il Association for 1919, II, 1320. Alexander Brown's name appears signed to au affidavit regarding an Indian attack, dated April :l3, 1826. ::; Application Jo,- Land, 89. Of record in Texas Land Office, Austin. TcJ\.as. =•Abstract of Texas Land Titles, I, 604. 37 Application for Land, 89. Of record in Texas Land Office, Austin, Texas. 56 EARLY HISTORY OF GR[MES COUNTY

William Burney.-William Burney came to Texas ,vith Francis and William Holland in 1822 from Louisiana.35 Soon after arrival (prior to 1828) he married Susanna Holland, eldest daughter of Francis Holland.~0 His grant of one ieague was located so as to join the land of his father-in-law on the south. 40 In his application for land ( 1828) Burney gave his age as thirty-one and that of his wife as twenty-four.-11 Ir seems that they reared a large family; the ,vriter, ho"\\'ever, has been unable to locate any living descendants. William Bur­ ney died about 1850. His heirs, as given in the Grimes county probate records under dare of May 6, 1850, were Francis Burney, Nancy, who ,vas then Jvlrs. Thomas Buttrile, Sarah Burney, William Burney, Tapley Burney, Richard Burney, and Susan Burney. 42 Cyrus Campbell.-There are many Campbells now in Grimes county, but the ,vriter has found no descendants of the Cyrus Campbell who applied for land as one of Austin's c~lonists in 1835. In his application for land, Cyrus Camp­ bell states that he came to Texas from the state of Arkansas, that he ,vas then twenty-five years old, that his ,vife's name was Rebecca, and gives her age as seventeen years. Campbell was a blacksmith by trade.4:i He ,vas granted one league of land, patent to which was dated October 22, 1835.44 This league is situated in Gri1nes county a few 1niles east of the

:sr,117. P. Z11ber to B11ffington, dated June 26, 1903, at Iola, Texas. Zuber gi\·c:s the date of their arrival in Texas as 1822, and says that Burn~y came with the Hollands. His application for land, however, is dated 1828. It could Ytry c:~r5il~­ be true that he came with the Hollands in 1822 but delayed to make ,1ppJicacion for land until after his marriage. :~ibid. Also Tran.rcribed Deeds of Afontgomf:TJ Co11nty, XXCIII, 20-21. 40Abstract of Texas Land Titles, I, 604. See map in Appendix II. 1 " App/ication for Land, 55. Of record in Texas Land Office, Austin, Tc-:;,s. 2 " Probate lt1inute.r of Grimes Cozmty. I, 253, also 255-266. "=1Application.s for Land_. 59. Land Office, Austin, Texas. EARLY HISTORY OF GRirvlES COUNTY 57 present to\vn of Singleton. (See map in Appendix II.) The writer finds no mention of a Cyrus Campbell in the Austin papers.'5 John C. Conner.-This colonist came to Texas about 1830 from the state of Kentucky.46 His application for .land is dated 1832, and in it he gives his age as twenty-two years and scares that he was a widower with one daughter.47 His league is situated in the extreme eastern portion of Grimes county and is partly in Walker county. The patent is dated October 22, 1835.48 John C. Conner seems to have been acquainted with the Austins, at least in a business ,vay, several years prior to his coming to Texas. He is me·n­ cioned in the Austin Papers in several connections; for ex­ ample, there is a record of John Conner having purchased a rract of land in Louisiana in about 1806.49 His name is signed to a testimonial of character given to a Mr. John Woolsey, dated December 7, 1820, at Hempstead, Territory of Arkan­ sas. =rn His name appears again as owing a small sum of money ro Moses Austin on May 9, 1821.:-)i John Conner is listed as

••Abstract of Texas Land Titles, I, 604. 4.'!Barker, The Austin Papers, in the Annual Report of the Ame,-ican Historical Association for 1919, II, 1680. Mention is made of a William Campbell who is listed as one of fifty-two persons who, it seems, had formed a company and were seeking to be recognized as proprietors of a new colony. There was a itrs. C. K. D. Campbell registered with the Texas Veterans in 1893. She was then

living at Burton, Texas. Proceedings of the Convention of Tex,H V£1tera11s 1 189,, 8-14. 46 App!ication fo,· Land, Land Office, Austin, Texas. His applicarion for land states that he came from Kentucky. Mr. Henry H. Taylor of Bedias, Texas, daims to be a grandson of John Conner and is posirive thar Conner came to Texas with the Zubers in 1830. •:Ibid. '11Ah.rtract of Texas Land Titles, I, 604. See map in Appendix II. 11 ' Barker, The Atutin Paper.r_. in the Annual Re/,ort of the Americm1 Hirtoric.:1/ lusocia1ion for 1919_. II, 124. 0 ~ 1bid., 369. 11 lbid .. 392. 58 EARLY HISTORY OF GRLMES COUNTY having served in the Texas army at the Battle of San Jacinto.52 Concerning the descendants of John C. Conner, the writer is confused. There are many Conners no,v in Grimes county and ( at least some of them) seem certain to have descended from the colonist. To clearly trace the connection, however, has not been possible. As stated above, John C. Conner listed himself in 1832 as a widower ,vith one daughter. The Con­ ners here, however, insist that there were four children by the first marriage, the mother of \vhom ,vas Fannie, daughter of Green l\1cCullough. These children ,vere l\1artha, L. A., Sylvester, and Reddie.;;:i There were three children by a second marriage, namely: Ambrose, Mary, and James. Martha Conner (born 1844; died 1896) married G. B. Johnson (born 1838; died 1918), son of Ben Johnson v.'ho came to Texas from Alabama in 1868. B. G. Johnson is said to have served in Terry's Texas Rangers during the Civil War.ri4 1\vo daugh­ ters were born to Martha and G. B. Johnson, namely: (Julia born 1870; died 1927), and Eva (born 1872; now living) _:::i

112His• name is listed in the Index of Texa.r Revolntion,,r)' Jleroe.r., Archives Department, Seate Library, Austin, Texas. 113Henry H. Taylor (See footnote number 46 above) says chat his grandfather, John C. Conner, came to Texas with Abraham Zuber, Green :McCullough, and Jim Johnson, in the year 1830, and chat Conner settled in the vicinitr of the Old Red Top community. This is near the location of the John C. Conner league patented in 1835. 5'This has not been verified by the writer. 1111Henry H. Taylor to E. L. Blait", August 3, 1928. Julia Johnson married J. M. Taylor of Madison county, by whom she had several children. Those living are, namely: Henry H., Lena (born 1893), Jim (born 1897), Tom, Linnie (born 1902), and Bessie (born 1905). Henry H. Taylor resides near Bedias, is married, and has five living children. His wife, before marriage, was Myrtle Cummings, daughter of Bob Cummings. Their children are, namely: Luther Murial ( dt:­ ceased), Jennie Marie, George Mavis, Robert C., and Joe Lou. Lena Taylor is now Mrs. G. R. Jackson of Bedias, and is the mother of three children, namely: Maxine, Doris, and Gil Gardner. Jim Taylor is married and living at Bedias. He has one child named Margie. Tom Taylor also lives at Bedias. He is married and has one child. Linnie Taylor is now :Mrs. Cecil Thomas of Shiro, and Bessie is ~frs. Walter Coleman of Bedias. Eva Johnson, daughter of 1fartha, EARLY HISTORY OF GRI~1ES COUNTY 59

L. A. Conner (born 1846; died 1911) is said to have been an ex-Confederate soldier. He married Red die Suttle ( died 1917), daughter of :rviark Suttle, formerly of Walker county. Their children were as follows: Julia, John C., Sallie, Alfred, 5 Mattie, Mance, Fred, Ora, Garvin, and Joe. G Sylvester Con­ ner (born about 1848; died 1923) married Dee Suttle, sister to the ,vife of L. A. Conner, by ,vhom he had two children, namely: Robert and Lula.;11 Ambrose Conner (born about 1873; died 1927) married lviary Simmons, ,vho survives him is now lvirs. W. W. Williamson of Bedias, and is the mother of six children, namely: Claude, Howard H., William W., Ethel, Jewel, and Rose. Claude Williamson died in youth. Howard H. Williamson is now connected with the Agricultural and :Mechanical College of Texas, at College Station. He married Pearl Isbell, daughter of George Isbell, and they have cwo small children. William W. ~'illiamson is unmarried and living at Bedias, Texas. He is a World War veteran. Erhel Williamson is now ~Irs. Henry Cox of Hereford, Texas, and is the mother of two small children. Jewell Williamson is now Mrs. Charlie Cole. Rose Williamson is single and living at Bedias, Texas. 56Henry H. Tay/o,- to E. L. Blair, August 3, 1928. Julia Conner married Jim Bullard and is survived by her husband and six children, namely: Rad, less ( de• ceased), Lora, Ruby, Vernon, and another whose name the writer docs not have. They all reside at Bedias, Texas, except Lora, who is now ifrs. Horace Arnold of Midway, Texas. Ruby is also married, being ~frs. John Wells of Bedias. Vtrnon is a daughter about eleven years of age. John C. Conner, son of L. A. Conner, married Ocie Plaster, daughter of H. F. Plaster of Bedias, Texas. They are living at Bedias, Texas. Sallie, sister of John C. Conner, married Jennie Goodrum, and now resides at Huntsville, and has five children, namely: Blueford, Sherman, Garvin, and two ochers, a son and a daughter, whose names the writer does not have. Mattie Conner, daughter of L. A. Conner, is now ~lrs. R. L. McAdams of Bedias, and is the mother of four children, namely: Claude, L. A., Roger, and Geraldine. Mance Conner married Edna Donohoe, daughter of Anderson Donohoe of Huntsville, Texas. Fred and his wife now reside at Bedias. Ora Conner is now ~frs. R. B. Bu] lard of Madisonville and is the mother of three children, namely: Jarrell, Grady, and a daughter. Garvin Conner died in 1919. Joo Conner served in the 360th Infantry during the \X'orld War, and died un­ married in 1921. ;,,Ibid., Robert Conner (born 1885; died 1922) married Ah·cr ~'igl~y, who survives him and is now J\frs. Tom Nicklos of San Marcos, Texas. They had three sons, namely: Herman, R. S., and another whose name the wric<:r does not have. All three are with their morher at San J\farcos. Lula Conner, daughter of Srh-tster, is now :Mrs. Don Leach of Alabama and is the mother of two chil­ dren, a son and a daughter. 60 EARLY HISTORY OF GRIMES COUNTY and is living at Huntsville with their four children, namely: Zebb, Sylvester, Luther, and a daughter V{ho is no,v 1v1rs. Jesse Pierce of Huntsville, Texas.58 Mary Conner, sister to Ambrose, died at about eight years of age. James Conner is said to have served in Terry's Texas Rangers during the Civil War.ri 11 The writer has no record of his family. Reddie Con­ ner, half sister to Ambrose and James, was born about 1851, and died about 1886. She married Jim Richey, an ex­ Confederate soldier, by whom she had t,vo children, namely: Marion and Leon. 60 James Cox.-The writer has found little information con­ cerning James Cox. The Cox family and the Austins seem to have been intimately acquainted in Missouri as early as 1817. Among the Austin papers is a letter introducing Stephen F. Austin to Macdonald and Ridgely, 1nerchants at Baltimore, dated Decen1ber 9, 1817, at Herculaneum, Missouri, and signed by James Cox, Junior.01 This could hardly have been the James Cox who 1nade application for land in Texas in 183Q as a 1nember of Austin's colonial enterprise, for in this application, Cox gave his age as t,venty-six years. He ,vould therefore have been only thirteen years old at the time of the 2 introduction cited above. ti There is also found in the Austin papers a receipt for land, signed by James Cox, Junior, and

18Hen,·y H. Taylor to E. L. Blair_, August 3, 1928. Zebb Conner is marric:

e.,Barker, The A11.rtin Papers, Annual Report of the American Hi.rtorita/ Asso-- ci:ition for 1919, II, 334. HApplication fo,- Land, 91. Land Office, Austin, Texas. GlAb.arai-t of Tex,z.r Lcmd Titles, I, 604. See map in Appendix !I. 08App/ica1io11s for Land, 89. Land Office of Texas. a:Abs1,~1ct of TexaJ Lcmd Titles, I, 60-1. See map in Appendix II. 8/lApplic:1tions for Land, 71. In Texas Land Oflice. The namt is spelled ''Fitsgivens·· in his grant, "Fitzgibbins" in his application, and "FitzGibbons" in AbJtract of Texas Land Titles. 1 ' gAbJtract of Texas Lam/ Titles, I, 604. :oQ11arter!J of Texas State Hist0rica! Association, X, 99. 62 EARLY HISTORY OF GRI1fES COUNTY

Samuel Fulton.-Samuel Fulton came to Texas on a visit in 1824 from Alexandria, Louisiana. He was accompanied by Russel H. McWaters. They brought a letter of introduction to Stephen F. Austin signed by one J. Tho1nas, also of Alex­ andria. In this letter Thomas refers to Fulton as a young man and states that both Fulton and McWaters had numerous, wealthy, and respectable connections.11 Fulton was evidently favorably impressed with the situation in Texas for he made application for a league of land in 1828. He was then thirty­ nine years old and had a wife and four daughters. His ,vife's christian na1ne \\ras given as Elizabeth. Her age was given as thirty-one years. None of the children were named in the 7 record. :? The league granted Samuel Fulton is located in the southwest portion of Grimes county and ,vas patented April 19, 1832.73 No record is found of any living descendants of Samuel Fulton. It is very probable that he never really set­ tled on his grant. It seems that he ,vas dead before July 13, 1839, for on this date his patent ,vas presented to the county co11rt of Montgomery county by John Conner, and it was necessary to verify the signature of San1uel Fulton. Hugh l\1cGuffin ,vas appointed administrator, and one-fourth of the league ,vas sold to Dickinson & Westcott, then of lvlonrgom­ ery county. The instrument of sale ,vas dated July 13, 1839-74 Claiborne Garrett.-Scant information has been obtained concerning Claiborne Garrett. There seems to be not even a record of his application for land. He received one-fourth of a league, located in the east-central pare of Grimes county! 7 patent to ,vhich is dated December 3, 1832 ;; His land gram

71Barker, The Austin P,zperJ_. in the Ann11al Report of the American lli.rtorif;; Auociation for 1919, II, 898. ·=Application for Land, 63. Texas Land Office Records. 7:iAbstract of 'J.'exa.r Land Tit/e.r_, I, 604. Set: map in Appendix JI. 4 ' Tran.rcribed Deed Records of Montgomery Count;·, Vol. 83, page 100. ,:'JAbstract of. Texas.. Land Title.r,. I, 604. EARLY HISTORY OF GRI:MES COUNTY 63 shows that he was unmarried. 76 No mention is found of Claiborne Garrett in the Austin Papers. Several Garretts are mentioned, however, among whom may be cited, Charles Garrett, who resided in the settlement on the Brazos and Colorado in 1823.11 There is also mentioned a Thomas W. Garrett. He ,vas living in Mississippi in 1834, and ,vas at that rime making inquiry as to conditions in Texas.18 Heirs of J. Gillett.-Four children constituted the J. Gillett heirs. Only three of them, Samuel S., Roswell, and Catherine, are named in the land grant. 10 Their mother's name was Hanna Gillett, and she had died s01netime prior to 1827, the year during which the four children came to Texas from 1\1issouri.80 Their land application was dated in March, 1827.,, 1 The one league grant is located in the sourh,vestern part of Grimes county, the patent date being March 27, 1831.112 Franklin Jarvis Greenwood.-A large fan1ily of Green~ woods came to Texas from Arkansas about the year 1830. The family consisted of an aged father, Henry Bailey Green­ wood (born 1749; died at Grimes Prairie, April 11, 1835), his \\1ife, Nancy, formerly Nancy Jarvis ( died at Grimes Prairie in 1836), five sons and four daughters, namely: Frank­ lin Jarvis, Joe, Caliph, John, Acsah, Em1na, Betsey, and nvo others \\·hose names the writer does not have, one of whom, a daughter, married a man by the naine of Ben Pool, the other

~eLand G,-anls, VI, 1974. Texas Land Office Records. 11Barker, The Austin Papers, in the Anmu,/ Report of Jhe .-imerican /-lisJoriccd .Arsocialion for 1919, II, 686 and 772. ~"!hid .. JI, 1064. -~r· exa.r Land G,amj_. lll, 278, Texas Land Office. t,Jjlbid., also Land Application, in General Land Office. 1 ~ Land Applications_. 83. General Land Office of Texas. 2 ~ AbslracJ oj Texas Land Titles, I, 6~4. 64 EARLY HISTORY OF GRI~IES COUNTY being a son, about ,vhom the v.rriter has no information.~1 The Greenwoods were typical American frontiersmen. Henry Bailey Greenwood was in Virginia in 1807. By 1811 he had moved to Illinois and from here, in 1821, he began a series of migrations to the sourh,vest, through Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Arkansas, from which state he came to Texas, where, in 1830, he is found, with his r,vo sons, Franklin Jarvis and Joel, settled in what is now the Grimes Prairie community of Grimes county. 84 Of the sons and daughters of Henry Bailey Greenwood, only Franklin Jarvis and Joel made per­ manent settlement in Grimes county territory.8a Franklin Jarvis Green\vood (born September 4, 1804; died at Stone­ ham, Texas, on July 3, 1882) made application for land in 1830. In his application he gave his occupation as farming, his age as r,venry-six years. He gave his wife's name as Mary Jane, and her age as twenty-r,vo years, and stated that they came to Texas from Arkansas.86 Patent to his land was dated April 7, 1831.87 Mrs. Franklin Jarvis Greenwood ,vas for­ merly Miss Mary Jane Montgon1ery (born May 22, 1808; died

1 " Dates and names taken from the G,-eenu·ood FamilJ Bible, now in possession of Mrs. Annie Keyser, Stoneham, Texas. 114This information was taken from an unsigned, undated manuscript, written by a Mr. Bush, a great-grandson of Henry Bailey Greenwood. Bush is supposed to have gotten his date from Franklin B. Greenwood, grandson of Henry Bailey Greenwood. The manuscript is now in the possession of Mrs. John W. Green­ wood of Houston, Texas. •caliph Greenwood, it seems, never came to Grimes Prairie. One of his sons was named Jafeth Greenwood. Jafeth lived for a time near Bedias in Grimes county, but later moved into west Texas. John Greenwood and the other son, whose name is not known, also settled in west Texas. Acsah Greenwood married Moses Quick, a river captain in Illinois and never came to Texas. Emma Greenwood married a l\fr. Larrison. They settled in Ivfadison county. Betsey Greenwood married Bob Ray who had a grant of land near Anderson vicinity. She had formerly been married to a Mr. Henson. These sracements are bastd upon information received from l\frs. Annie Keyser, Stoneham, Texas; 1'frs. john W. Greenwood, Houston, Texas; and the Greenwood Family Bible. 89App!ications for Land, 81. Texas Land Office. 6-rAbstr.:tct of Texas Land Title.r, I, 604. EARLY HISTORY OF GRIJ\IES COUNTY 65

ApriL !0, 1880), daughter of Willian1 ~,foncgon1ery of the state of Tennessee, in \vhich state she married Franklin Jarvis, prior ro their migration to Texas. They had ten children, all of whom ,vere born in Texas, namely: \X'illia1n 1\Iontgomery (born June 24, 1830; died October 31, 1888), Nancy Caroline (born 1v1arch 20, 1832; died April 18, 1863), Dr. Thomas Benton (born January 14, 1834; died March 26, 1880), Eliza­ beth Eveline (born December 14, 1835; died April 18, 1926), Sarah Ernaline (born May 7, 1838; died in October, 1905), J\fary Anne (horn February 18, 1840; died July 20, 1856), Benjan1in Franklin (born ~'fay 20, 1841; died Sepre1nber 27, 1844), Harriet E,ving (born September 15, 1843; died July 28, 1856), Franklin Bailey (born l\ilay 15, 1846; died April 9, 1919), and John W. (born December 13, 1849), OO\\' living 6 at Plantersville, Texas. "' William 1\-fonrgomery Green,vood lived the whole of his life in Grimes county. He ,vas a farmer by occupation, but late in life, tried his hand at teaching school in his home community. When the Civil War broke out, he enlisted and served for a time at least, with DeBray's Regiment stationed near Galveston.bt) On September 18, 1853, he married Nancy Hobbs (born Nove1nber 16, 1834; died January 1, 1898), daughter of Edward Hobbs who then re­ sided on Fuqua's Prairie, in Grimes county. Eight children

i,.~GrL'. •:?,·ood FamilJ Bible. now in the possession of Mrs. Annie Keyser at Stoneham, Texas. The writer is gread}• indebted to 1'-Ir. Robert Ewing Green• wood for his assistance in securing data regarding the Greenwood family. Robert Ewing Greenwood (born June 21, 1911) is a son of h.fr. R. E. Gieenwood, now of ~avasota, Texas; and grandson of Franklin Baile~· Greenwood, the son of Franklin Jarvis, who secured land as one of Austin's colonists in 1830. As a senior thesis in high school history, Robert Ewing, working with the writer, prepared a History of the Greenu·oodL Young Robert Ewing Gret:n,vood was the honor graduate of the Navasota high school in 1929. He is now ( 1930) a student at tht universit\' of Texas. 11 ' Greenwood, Robert E., Junior, Hijto,-y of the Greenu·ood.l" (1IS.). l\,frs·. John ~'- Greenwood, who resides at Plantersville, Grimes count}', is cired for the stateme~~ concerning the Civil War service of \X'illiam h.fontgomery Greenwood. 66 EARLY HISTORY OF GRI:MES COUNTY were born ro this couple, namely: Edv1ard, Charlie. l\fary, James, Eveline, Lee, Eugene, and Annie.00 Nancy Caroline Greenwood married James La,vrence, July 1, 1851. James Lawrence came to Texas fron1 the state of Kentucky, but was originally from England. He ,vas a Civil \XI ar \·eceran.n Nancy Caroline and James Lawrence had three children, two

"°Greenwood, Robert E., Junior, HiJtOIJ of the G,·etnu•ood. .- (1'-1S.). Edward Greenwood ( died February 17, 1911) married El1a Williams, Octobtr 31, 1883, by whom he had four children, namely: Fred (born September 2, 1884), Earnest, Ruby (born 1889), and Reed (born 1895). Fred Green­ wood now resides at Navasota. He married Maggie Spann (born October 26, 1886), daughter of C._ P. Spann of Navasota, Texas. They have one son, Conlaw Edward, now about thirteen years old. Ruby Greenwood is now Mrs. George N. Cook of Brenham, Texas, and is the mother of two children. Reed Greenwood now resides at Shiro, Grimes county. He married Vivian Leonard. Charlie Greenwood, son of Wm. Montgomery Greenwood, died unmarried. Mary Greenwood, sister to Charlie, was the late Mrs. Will Williams of the Apolonia community, Grimes county. She had two children, namely: Jim E., and Annie Lela. Both of them are now dead. Jim E. \X'illiams, howe\"er, mar­ ried and is survived by his wife and two children who are living ac Wills Point, Texas. James Greenwood, brother to Mary, married Addie Kennard, by whom he has three children, namely: Ethel, Charlie, and George. This famil}· now\ resides in Waller county. Eveline Greenwood, daughter of \'fm. Mont­ gomery, was born April 16, 1864. She is now 1'-!rs. Horace Williams of

Jacksonville, Texas, and is the mother of four children, namely: Grace: George 1 Horace, and Angus. Lee Greenwood, son of William Montgomery Greenwood, was born on May 6, 1866, and died February 24, 1906. He married a Miss Luvinia of Dallas, Texas, but died without chiidren. Eugene Greenwood (born October 13, 1868; died December 29, 1903) marric:

92Greenwood, Histor)' of the Greenu•oodJ C:~fS.). Addie Lawrence was mar­ Jied twice. Her first husband being Andy Montgomery, by whom she had two children, namely: Lawrence, and Bert; her second husband being John lik­ Murrough, by whom she had five children, namely: John, Frank, Pat, Bob, and Addie (a son). John McMurrough is now Jiving somewhere in Massachusetts. Bob has a family and lives in Arkansas. Pac is deaJ. The writ(•r has no information about the other children of Addie Lawrence. 93[bid. l).IJohn Stoneham (born 1829; died 1894) came co Texas from Conecuh county, Alabama, in the summer of 1844. \X'ich him Gtml· an unde, George Stoneham (born 1786; died 1868), and three brothers, namely: George (born 1824; died 1874), Henry (born 1832), and Joe (born 1833; died 1864). The four young Stoneham brothers were orphaned sons of Joseph and Rebecca Stoneham, both of whom had died in the year 1836, lea\'ing George Stoneham, uncle co the boys, and brother of Joseph, their father, as guardian to the chil­ dren and administrator of the estate of Joseph Stoneham. This estate consisted of a plantation near Brooklyn, Alabama, and a number of negro slaves. ln the year 1845, another parry of Stonehams came to Texas, from Jackson county, Georgia. The party was composed of four brothers of the elder George Stone­ ham ( uncles to John Stoneham), namely: Henry ( born 1 791 ; died 1884), John (born 1795), Erastus (died 1887), and B11rant (born 1809; Jjed 1896). \Vith these came a sister, Savannah (Susan) Stoneham ( born 1790; died 1887) ~ and an age:d mother, Jane: Stoneham (born 1753; died 1858). The: descc:ndants of these Stoneham pioneers are numerous and form one of the mosc influt'ntial connec­ tions in Grimes·county today. The ·writer has much more data about the family, bur ic cannot be given here. (PhiJipia Stoneham, Hi.i'torJ of th1: Stom-ht!m F.unil)'. a manuscript prepare

1 and Henry.! :; Sarah Ernaline Greenv;ood, fifth child of Iviary Jane and Franklin Jarvis Green,vood, married James L. Law­ rence, ,vido,ver of her older sister, Nancy, by ,vhom she had c,vo children, namely: Eveline and Grace ( died October 17, ~Greenwood, Hi.rtotJ of the Greenu·ood.r (MS.). Joseph Stoneham ( died July 14, 1923) married Clara Houser, by whom he had five children, namely: George S., Ed S., Wyatt, :Mary, and Ollie. George S. Stoneham is now married and lives in l\lissouri. Ed S. and Ollie Srom:ham both reside in Houston. Wyatt Stoneham resides at Navasota, Texas. Ht is married and has four children, namely: Clara Sue, :Mary, Ruby, and Worth. J\fary Stone­ ham. sister of Wyatt, resides in Missouri. George Crowder Stoneham, son of John and Eveline Elizabeth Sconeham, now resides in the Yarboro com­ munity of Grimes county. He married Belle :Martin, daughter of John F. Martin, by whom he had six children, namely: Bernice (born July 26, 1888), Maud (born August 25, 1890), Fulton (born J\.larch 3, 1892), John, Alice (horn August 1, 1895), and Doris. All of these now reside at Yarboro with their parents except Doris, who is married, being now Mrs. Hardy. John 0. Stoneham (born April 29, 1858; died J\.lay 28, 1906) is survived by his widow (l\faggie Haynie before marriage) and five children, namely: Haynie (horn July 4, 1881: died October 4, 1921 ), Hal B., Claude, Roy, and Ervin. Haynie Stoneham married Lillian Hill, daughter of Reuben Hill, and is survived by two children. namely: John and Gordon; both of whom reside at Stoneham, in Grimes county. Two other children died in childhood. Hal B. Stoneham now resides at Navasota, Texas, where he is practicing law. He married, April 10, 1905, Emqia Ludwig, daughter of Anton Ludwig, then of Sealy, Texas. Ther ha\"e three children, namely: Ruth, Elliot, and Hal B. Ruth is the only one who is now married, she being now 1'.frs. James E. Jackson of Oklahoma. Claude Stoneham, brother of Hal B. Stoneham, is now a farmer near Stoneham, Grimes county. Roy, twin to Claude, also resides at Stoneham. Ervin Stoneham mar• ried 1'fyrtle Barry, daughter of W. H. Barry of Navasota, Texas, and they ha\"e one daughter, Margaret (born January 31, 1918). David Stoneham, son oi Eveline Elizabeth and John Stoneham, is now living at Stoneham, Grimes county. He married Hallie Fowler ( born November 10, 187 3 ; died October ~. 1903) by whom he had one child, Hallie, who now resides at Brownwood, Texas. He later married Nellie Winn, by whom he has one daughter, Dora Evelyn, now about seven years of age. Erastus Stoneham, son of John and Eveline Elizabeth Stoneham, now lives at Stoneham. He married Elizabeth Fowler, sister to Hallie mentioned above, by whom he has one child, Elenor (born October 18, 1899), now lfrs. L. E. Bartlett of San Antonio, Texas. Sebron Stoneham, brother of Erastus, is living at Stoneham. He married, De• cember 10. 1899, Alma Crittenden, daughter of G. S. Crittenden of Stoneham. They have seven children. all of whom are with their parents, namely: Herber. (born l\farch 25, 1901), Russell, Howard, Evelyn, Lucile, Lloyd, and OJi\·er. Thomas Benton Stoneham, son of John and Eveline Elizabeth Stoneham, married. April 26, 1903, Annie Crittenden, sister to Alma mentioned above. Ther resid: at Stoneham, and. have a family of seven children, namely: Robert, Francis (bor:: EARLY HISTORY or GR11v1Es CouNTY 69

1900).f!ti ~Iary Anne Green,vood, Benjamin Franklin, and Harrier E,ving Green,vood, all children of Franklin Jarvis Greenwood, died in early youth.!11 Franklin Bailey Green­ wood, ninth child of Franklin Jarvis Greenwood, resided at Stoneham, Grimes county, until lace in life, then moved to· Navasota, ,vhere he died in 1919. He served in the Nine­ teenth Legislature of Texas as a me1nber of the Lowei' House. 98 During the Civil War, rather during the latter part of this war, he served in Green's Brigade; such service being for the last seventeen months of the war, he being too young to eniist at the beginning of the War.\'\~ On July 18, 1871, Franklin Bailey Greenwood married Annie R. Dunham (born }.{arch 1, 1852; died October 8, 1905), a daughter of John and Rotilda Dunham who then resided in the Wallace Prairie community of Gri1nes county.111° Franklin Bailey Greenwood

December 12, 1907), Philipia (born October 30, 1911), Lois (born April 14, 1914), Thomas (born March 3, 1917), Wendall (born November 2, 1921) and Randolph (born January 22, 1927). All of these are with their parents· except Robert, who married Ruth Sullivan of Houston, Texas, and resides at Planters­ ville, Texas. He has one small daughter, Bobbie Ruth. Henry Stoneham, is now a minister and resides in Virginia, at Red Hill. He has a family of several children, namely: Camp, John, Kathrine, Henry B., Junior, Virginia, and Roberta. None of these are married. 111 1\frs. R. M. Thompson to Robert E. Greenu 1ood, /111zior. August 3, 1928. rr.G,·eenu•ood Famil)' Bible. NiEJection Register of State and County Officer ..- in the office of the Secrcnuy of Stare, Austin, Texas. o-JGreenwood, Robert E., Junior, Hi.flory of the Greenu·ood..-. l\·fS. The writer has not verified this. Robert Greenwood is a grandson of Franklin Bailey Green­ wood. 10Cl'[his John Dunham is said to have been a younger brother of the Robert Holmes Dunham, who, as a memher of the Mier Expedition, was executed by the Mexic:ms at Salado, :Mexico, in 1843. Below is a copy of a letter said co have been written by Robert Holmes Dunham, the original of which is ac the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas. A photostat copy is in the possession of :Mrs. Htnry N. Sandal) of Navasota, Texas. ''MEXICo·· · · D<:u !'.lochc.·r I write to you unst awful fec:lings cha1 a son <:vtr addressed a mother :o, in half ,in hour m~- doom will he finisht·d on <::rnh tor J am doomed ro die 70 EARLY HISTORY OF GRIMES COUNTY was the father of eight children, namely: Josie Frank, William \Xi'ood (born August 23, 1874), Franklin Jarvis (born Sep­ tember 7, 1876; died November 16, 1900), Robert E,ving (born February 27, 1879), Thomas Benton (born J\Jarch 5, 1884), Hannibal Boone (born September 1, 1886; died l\1arch 5, 1914), Grace (born March 5, 1884), and Annie Dunha1n (born 1889) .101 John -W.1. Green,vood, tenth and

by che hands of chc Mexicans for our lace accempc co escape the (blot) . . . G. Sama Anna chat every tenth man should be shot we drew lots I was one of rhe un­ forcunaces. I cannot say anything more I die I hope with firmness farewell m:iy god bless you and may he in this my lase hour torgive and pardon all my sins. A. D. Hendinberge will should he be .... ( blot) .... w inform you farewtll Your af tectionate son (Signed) R. H. Dunham." 101Greenwood, Robert E., Junior, llistory of the Green·woods (MS). Young Greenwood was assisted in this work by several older members of the family. Especial mention should be made of the following: Mrs. John W. Greenwood of Houston, Texas; Mr. Thomas Benton Greenwood of San Antonio, Texas; Mrs. W. W. Greenwood of Navasota, Texas; Mrs. H. N. Sandail of Na\·asoca, Texas; Mrs. Annie Keyser of Stoneham, Texas; and Mrs. Robcrr E. Green­ wood of Navasota, Texas. Concerning the descendants of Franklin Bailey Green­ wood, Josie Frank Greenwood died young. William Wood Greenwood is now a prominent physician at Navasota, Texas, where he is considered one of the outstanding citizens. He married, October 26, 1902, Nanq' Montgomeq• (horn FeSruary 22, 1882), daughter of Dr. J. T. ~lontgomery. They have three children, namely; William M. (born August 6, 1903), Helen (born Septem­ ber 2, 1907), and Aubrey (born December 29, 1915). William?\{. Greenwood is now a practicing physician in Houston, Texas. Helen is a student in Baylm University, at Waco, Texas; and Aubrey is with htr parents at NavasorJ. Franklin Jarvis Greenwood, Junior, died unmarried in 1900. Robert Ewin~ Greenwood now residt's at Navasota, Texas where he is connected with che Citizen's National Bank. He married on June 29, 1910 co Lula Lewis (bor~ October 17, 1883 ), daughter of Geor~~e W. Lewis, Junior. They ha\"e two chi:­ dren, namely: Robert Ewing (born June 21, 191 I), and l\fary Ellen (born Ji;~: 23, 1915). Robert Ewing Greenwood, Junior, has been mentioned several tirnc:i above as having helped the writer in the prepanuion of this sketch of the Green­ wood family. Thomas Benton Greenwood (horn October 4, 1881) is nO\r ~ druggist in San Antonio, Texas. He was married, April 30, 1907, co Wine:: Ingram (born July 27, 1885 ), daughter of J. A. Ingram of Henderson, Tex~·. They have one daughter, l\fartha Francis (born November 22, 1911) who i­ now ( 1928) a student in the University of Texas. Grace Greenwood (horn Marc} 5, 1884) is now l\lrs. J. H. Speed of Housron, Texas. She is a widow with O:)= daughter, Annie Elizabeth. Hannibal Boone Greenwood died unmarried. Anni: Dunham Greenwood is now 11rs. Henry Naul Sandall of Navasota, Texas, ar.: is the mother of one son, Henry Naul Sandall, Junior. Her husband, H. ~ EARLY HISTORY OF GRIMES COUNTY 71

youngest child of Franklin Jarvis Green\\'Ood, is no,v a re­ tired farmer in the Plantersville community of Grimes county. He \Vas married on December 5, 1876, to Anna Devereaux (born July 21, 1859), daughter of Ben F. Dev­ ereaux of Plantersville, Grimes county. They have eight chil­ dren, namely: Stella (born Septe1nber 19, 1877), Benjamin (born ~fay 27, 1879), iviary (born in 1881), Walter (born ~-larch 25, 1883), Lena (born in 1885), Alf red (born May 28, 111 1887), Louise, and Vivian. :! Joel Greenwood.-Joel Green,vood was another son of Henry Bailey Green\vood \vho acquired land in what is .no\v Grirnes county. He lived only a fe\v years after coming to Texas, and has no living descendants. He 1narried Anna Mont­ gomery, sister co l\t[ary Jane, ,vife of Franklin Jarvis Green­ wood. They were married in Tennessee. At the time of his application for land in Texas (1830), Joel gave his age as

Sandall, is in charge of the J\fissouri Pacific Railroad inter~scs at Navasota and is influential in the commercial life of the community. The father of Henry N. Sandall was Henry L. Sandall. His mother was Martha Elizabeth Sandall (born July 9, 1853; died March 10, 1929), a daughter of John Lindley. 1 2 •i J\f,J. John lf,,., G,-ee11u 1ood to Robert E. Greentt'<)od. f 1111i()i·. dated at Hous­ ton, Texas, August 6, 1928. Stella Greenwood is now Mrs. Charles Womack of Houston, Texas, and is the mother of one son, Charlie, now about fourteen ;·ears of age. Benjamin Greenwood married Carrie Hardesty on January 11, 1910. Ther reside ar Houston, and have cwo sons, namely: Benjamin, and Richard, now about fifteen and thirteen years oJd, respectiveJr. Mar}' Green­ wood resides in New York City and is unmarried. \X1altcr Greenwood is now a merchant at Plantersville, Grimes county. He married, April 22, 1910, 1\-lrs. Eugene Greenwood, widow of Eugene Greenwood. Ther ha,·c: no children. I.ena Greenwood is now Mrs. R. B. l\{ontgomery of El Paso, Texas. Her hus­ band is the youngest son of Dr. J. T. J..·Iontgomery of Navasota, Texas. They hlH~ three small children, namclr: Dixie, Anna Ruch, an

1 1 "' Land Application.r, 87, General Land Office of Ttxas 1IHG,-eenwood Family Bible, also Robert Ewing Greenwood. Junior. f-:'; : ,,i ,,· the Greem.vood.r (:l\fS). 11ro Abftract of TexaJ Land Tit/eJ. I, 60,L 1(l11Sec map in Appendix. 11 ';Tt'X:'I.I' L:md Gr,mJ.,. IV. 71-l. T<:x:ts Land Ofl1n.·. EARLY HISTORY OF GRI:MES COUNTY 73

His, ho,vever, ,vas not a typical southern plantation. He gave little attention to cotton but seems to have done diversified farming. He was a slave o,vner but seems never ro have been very enthusiastic for the institution. He never o,vned 1nore than three or four slaves at one time, and when the question of secession came up, Grimes took the same attitude as did Sam Houston.108 Few n1en took greater interest in the political affairs of that period than did Jesse Grin1es. He was elected sindico of the precinct of Viesca, December 19, 1830.100 In the following year, he ,vas elected regidor of the ayuntamiento of San Felipe de Austin.u 0 Jesse Grimes ,vas a member of the Consultation in 1835.111 This body appointed him to serve as a member of the General Council, in November of 1835, and while in the General Coun­ cil he was one of the committee on Land and Indian Affairs. 112 Jesse Grimes was also a member of the General Convention of l\farch, 1836, 11 =~ and his name appears among the signers of the Declaration of Independence proclaimed March 17, 1836. 114 He also signed the first Constitution of the Republic of Texas, adopted 1'1arch 17, 1836.115 Grimes continued an active participant in the affairs of the Republic of Texas, serving as a 1nember of the Senate in the First and Ninth

11•Grimes to Cordova, Esq., dated March 26, 1857. Now in the possession of Mrs. W. C. Preston, Fort Worth, Texas. Mrs. W. C. Preston is a grand­ daughter of Jesse Grimes. The writer is indebted to her for much of the above information. 1°"Barker, ":Minutes of the Ayuntamiento of San Felipe de Ausrin," Q1u1rterly. XXIII, 214. 11"lbid .. XXIV, 162. 111 Gammel, Lau.·J· of T ex(1J 1 I, 544. :::Ibid .. 561. Gammel gives two other men as having bt:cn on this committc:t:. ::J.mdy: Manin and Parmer. Dr. E. C. Barker, however, is of the op!nion :h.n this is a mis·::i.ke: and that there was onh· on<:- man. namt:h-: J\.fartin Parmer. 824. . . mlbid. 1 114 I'l 'JI 'd • 74 EARLY HISTORY OF GRI:MES COUNTY

1 Congress, rn and as a member of the House in the Sixth! 11 Seventh, and Eighth. i After Texas became a state, Grimes continued as a member of the Senate in all legislatures excepr the fifth dov,n to the year 1857.118 Politically, Jesse Grimes was affiliated with the Democratic Party. As stated above 1 1 however, he was opposed to secession. rn In a letter to J. De Cordova, Esq., dated March 26, 1857, Grimes comments upon his public career as follows:

"I was appointed by the Legislature of North Carolina, a justice of the peace and qualified Jany 1813 which office I held until the fall of 1817 when I emigrated to Alabama. In Jany 1819, I was appointed a justice of the peace for Washington county, Alabama, under the territorial government. On the Organiza­ tion of the State Government, I was elected clerk of the county court of Washington county which office I held until the fall of 1826, when I emigrated co Texas. I was likewise elected a justice of the peace which office I held for four years. I also held the of­ fice of Pose Master at Washington C. H. for about three years. I fhen resigned. In 1829, I was elected Lieutenant under Captain Abner Kay Kendal the first attempt to organize a militia in Texas the only office I ever held that gives me claim to military title. In 1832 I was elected Regidore of the Ayuntamiento of San Felipe de Austin. This being the year of the first opening of hostilities between Texas and Mexico ( F redonian War excepted) anConvention of 1836 and in the Senate of the first Congress. When Montgomery county was created 1n 1837 I was elected Chief Justice which office I held until the first of Jany 1840 when I resigned. I was elected to the House of Repre-

118Grimes to Cordova, dared March 26, 1857. mlbid., also Gammel, Lau·s of Texas, I, 1333. 118Grimes to Cordova, dated l\{arch 26, 1857. 119Afr.r. W. C. Preston lo E. L. Blair, dated August 25, 1928. EARLY HISTORY .OF GRtMES COUNTY 75

sencacives of the 6th., 7th., and 8th. Congresses and to the Senate of the 9th Congress. "I have had the honor of a seat in the Senate of all of the State Legislatures except the fifth. These are the several offices chat I have held. I beg your pardon, I had f orgocten the office of judge co which I was appointed by the Congress of Coahuila and Texas in 1835. This office was nominal. Nobody wanted co be judged. The Texans were like the Israelites when they had no king. Every man done what seemed good in his own eyes. "But che commission certainly justified the honorable title con­ necred therewith. ''Politically I have ever claimed to be a Democrat but it has been alleged that I am rather of the old fogey order."

Jesse Grimes was 1narried twice. His first \vife' s 1naiden name was Martha Smith (born August 4, 1879, in Alabama) who died in 1824. They were married in 1813 and nine chil­ dren were born to the union, namely: Robert Henry (born October 12, 1814), Harriet Elizabeth (born August 20, 1816), Alfred Calvin (born December 30, 1817), ,vho ,vas killed in rhe Alamo in 1836,120 Rufus (born July 23, 1819), Lucinda (born October 15, 1820; died in early childhood), Jacob (born 1farch 28, 1822; died 1.855), Mary Jane (born lvlay 5, 1823; died in early childhood), Willia1n Ward (born November 16, 1824; died in early childhood), and Martha Ann (born No­ vember 16, 1824), t,vin to Willian1 Ward. The second mar­ riage of Jesse Grimes ,vas to lvliss Rosanna Ward Britton (born December 31, 1803; died in Gri1nes county, December 6, 1870), ,vho1n he married in Alabama in the year 1826. She was a daughter of Frances and Mary (\X1ard) Britton, ,vho had immigrated to ...1\laba1na fro1n South Carolina. There were six children born ro this second marriage, na1nely: Gordon

1iowilliams, Siege and Fall of the Alamo, 200 (l\fS). l\fiss Williams veri­ fies this by certificate in Land Off ice of Texas. 76 EARLY HISTORY Of GRIJ\fES COUNTY

(born November 28, 1829; died in early childhood), Harve. (born June 14, 1831; died at age of t\venty-rhree years). Leonard ( died in childhood), Helen (February 13, 1835). Emily (born June 10, 1838), and Nancy (born Aprii t 1840) .121 The writer has found that in spite of the large family reared by Jesse Grimes, there are very few descendants now living. None have been located by the name of Grimes. Mrs W. C. Preston, now of Fort Worth, Texas, v.'as formerlv I Miss Anna Ehlinger. Her mother was Nancy Grimes, who was the youngest daughter of Jesse Grimes by his second wife. ~Irs. W. C. Preston seems the best authority on the 12 present whereabouts of the descendants of Jesse Grimes. : The unusual fatality in the family is said to have been caused by tuberculosis.123 Jared E. Groce.-In the fall of 1821, Stephen F. Austin's first colony of three hundred families began to arrive in Texas. T,vo of these American pioneers are known to have estab-

121Mrs. Jf-'. C. P,-eston to E. L. Blair, daced August, 1928. "Obituary of Chjrles H. Ehlinger," Navasota WeekJJ Revieu;, August 5, 1897. 1220f the above children of Jesse Grimes who lived to manhood and woman­ hood, it is known that Harriet Grimes married a man by the name of Perry and lived near Marlin, Texas. Rufus Grimes married in Alabama in 1815, and after! his first wife's death, he married Martha Berryman, daughter of \X1illian: Berryman, of Grimes county. There were several children, all of whom are no11 dead. Only one son of Rufus Grimes lived to marry. This one was namei! Henry. There is a little grandson of Henry Grimes now Jiving. His name i; Arthur Harbuck. He is about ten years of age. (This information was gh·er: to the writer by Mrs. W. S. D. Saunders of Navasota, Texas. She did not kno\i where Arthur now resides.) Jacob Grimes died unmarried. Helen Grimes married a Mr. Love but died without issue. Emily Grimes married twice, fir>I to John Bowen, and later to a Mr. Gannaway. There were no chiidren by ('ithc:: marriage. Nancy Grimes married ( 1859) Charles H. Ehlingcr (died Au,:;ust 4. 1897) at Grimes Prairie, in Grimes county. They had fi\·t children, n2mely Ida Harris, now 1\.frs. Ben Harris of Fort Worch, Texas; Jt-sse, now Mr~ Joseph Ward of Houston, Texas ; Anna, now ~lrs. W. C. Preston oi Fon Worth, Texas; George, now married and Jiving at Brownwood, Texa$ ~ !.ilJiin. another daughter, died in infancy. ( Darn gi\'en in this fot>tnot<: w:1:- ,.;:·. tn t-. the writer by 1\frs. \X'. C. Presron. and :Mrs. W. S. D. Saunders.) 1231\-Irs. W. S. J?. Saunders to E. L. Blair, in pc.-rsonal confortnn.· . EARLY HISTORY OF GRIMES COUNTY 77 lished chemsel ves, as early as 1821, in the territory which 12 1 afterwards beca1ne Gri111es county. · One was Andre,v Mil­ lican, a ranchrnan from 1\Iillican Bend, ....\rkansas; the other was Jared Ellison Groce, a \vealthy planter and slave owner 1 from Fore Groce, Alabama. :!-i Millican remained only one winter ,virhin the limits of present Grimes county. He sold out to the Hollands in 1822 and moved into what is now Brazos county, there establishing the settlen1ent now known 121 as J\Iillican. ; The career of Jared E. Groce is a good exam­ ple of that of the American pioneer of the South during the period of the ,vestward expansion of the plantation system. His father was Jared Ellison Groce I, ,vho had emigrated co North Carolina from England in 1760, with one or more brothers. Jared E. Groce I married Sarah Sheppard in 1767, moving soon thereafter to Halifax county, Virginia. Here Jared Ellison Groce II ,vas born, October 12, 1782. The Groce brothers disagreed on the question of American Independ­ ence, Jared E. Groce I espoused the cause of the colonies, joined the An1erican arn1y under Washington, and changed the spelling of his name f ro1n "Gross" to "Groce." In 1787, Jared Ellison Groce II migrated from Virginia to Lincoln county, Georgia. In his ne,v location, he becarne actively identified ,vith political affairs, serving as a delegate to the convention char f rained the State Constitution of Georgia in

1~uber, W. P., Eighty Years in TexaJ. In manuscript form in the Scace Li­ braf}'i Austin, Texas. 1::iBugbec, "The Old Three Hundred," Texas Hi.rtorical AsJociation Qua,·terly, I, 108-117 ( 1897). There were eight of the first three hundred to secure land grants wholly or partly situated in present Grimes county. They were Jared E. Groce, Francis Holland, William Holland, Isaac Jackson, Caleb \'Vallace, Boland Whitesides, Henry Whitesides, and James Whitesides. The lase three named had grants partly situated in what is now Brazos county. ivzuber, W. P., Eight)' Years in Texas. 78 EARLY HISTORY OF GRIMES COUNTY

12 1798. f, Fron1 Georgia, Groce moved into Alabama in 1814. and settled on the Alabama river, ,v here he established wha~ carne to be kno,vn as Fort Groce. In 1821, ,vhile in New Orleans, he became interested in the colonial scheme of Stephen F. Austin. Upon his return to Alabama, he dis­ posed of his land and began active preparation for the trip to Texas. He arrived in Texas, as stated above, in the fall of 1821, established himself on the east bank of the Brazos river, at a point in the vicinity of the present tov.'n of Hemp­ stead. He was granted ten sitios of land by the Mexican government.129 This large acreage was granted "on accoum of the property he has brought ,vith hirn." 1 :{o This property consisted chiefly of a great number of negro slaves.1 :n Com­ menting upon the trip to Texas, Mrs. Berlet says:

121Berleth, Mrs. Rosa Groce, "'Jared E. Groce," Quarter/J', XX, 358. The author's real name is Mrs. Sarah Wharton Groce Berlet, and she lives at 1409. Indiana Street, Houston, Texas. It will be noticed that both names are used in the following pages, because the writer uses the name used by 1'·1rs. Sarah Wharton Groce Berlet .in whatever particular work being cited. 128:Qerlet, lvlrs. Sarah Wharton Groce, Groce and Kind1·ed Familie.r. This i; an unpublished manuscript in the possession of Mrs. Berlet, who is great-grand­ daughter of Jared E. Groce II. Her book has been prepared for members oi the family rather than for publication, and for such a work, is unusually authen­ tic. Numerous citations to court records are included. l\faps and drawings show the location and arrangement of the various Groce plantations. The abm·e statement regarding the revolutionary activities of Jared E. Groce, grandson of Jared E. Groce I. The archives of the state of Georgia are cited as authori~, for the statement that Groce was a member of "the Georgia constitutional con­ vention. Also Historical Collections of the Jo.reph Habe1·sham Cht1pter. Dim~r.­ te,s of the American Revolution, I, 302. 129Bugbee, "The Old Three Hundred," Tex,u Hi.rtoricaJ As.rociation Q11ane1i_; I, 108-113. This land was situated as follows: five sitios in Brazoria coumy. patented, July 29, 1824; two sitios in Waller county, parented. July 29. 1824: and three sitios in Grimes county, patented, July 29, 1824. 1ao1bid.

31 i Groce, William W., "John A. Wharton," Quarterly., XIX, 27 2. There· ap• pears a note by the editors citing Spanish Titles., 1, 258. General Land Office. as authority for the statement that Groce brought with him r:inery ~]aves. EARLY HISTORY OF GRIMES COUNTY 79

"The next few weeks [ after his rctu-:n from Louisiana in 18.21] weie spent in buying equipment, such as farming implements, tools, seeds., etc., and when they left Alabama, the procession was more like a caravan than anything else. Mr. Alfred Gee, the orerseer who had served with him [Groce) in Georgia, had charge of several hundred negroes. [ ....<\.ccording to his application for land, Groce had only ninety slaves when he came to Texas.) There were fifty or more covered wagons in ,vhich the women and children traveled ; the men, most of them on horseback, horses, mules, cows, sheep, hogs, came next; then came more wagons containing fur­ niture, spinning wheels, looms, provisions, etc. Colonel Groce and his son, Leonard, then a lad of sixteen years, accompanied by their body servants, Edom and Fielding, brought up the rear . . . . Rivers and streams were crossed by pontoon bridges which they carried with rhem."1:12

Groce rapidly acquired more land by purchase and barter. It is said that he secured the whole league on ,vhich the town of Courtney now stands for a bolt of domestic and a riding pony.183 His first cotton was planted in the spring of 1822 and it is said that this was the first cotton planted in Texas. Corn was also planted and, according to Thrall, so scarce was food that it ,vas necessary to maintain a ,vatch over the fields at night to prevent the negroes from scratching up the seed for food. 1 =~-1 Because of a protracted drought, very little corn was harvested fro1n this first crop. As the drought continued into 1823, the plantation ,vas destitute of bread. Corn ,vas planted in the 1noisr bed of a lake in the Brazos bottom (1823), resulting in an abundant yield. The cotton yield, from the beginning, ,vas beyond expectation. i:i:-, Accord~ng to 1\Irs. Berlet, Groce established the first cotton l.~szin in Texas

1 2 :' Bcrkt, Groce_. and Kindred Families. Brackets arc ch<: writtr's. ·•~hrall, Pictorial HistorJ of Texa.r_. 549. mlbid. J:-GBtrlet, Groce aud Kindred Familie.r, 45. 80 EARLY HISTORY OF GRIMES COUNTY ar his Retreat in 1828. i:;t; Ochers claim that Groce built his first cotton gin on the Brazos river as early as 1825. Some claim that the firsc cotton gin was owned by a John Cartwright in the "Red Lands" of ease Texas.mi It is kno,vn thar John Austin had a gin stand at his plantation on Buffalo Bayou as early as July 3, 1825, but it cannot be established, at least the writer has not established the face that he installed and oper­ ated a gin. ias While a part of the Groce slaves were busily at ,vork get­ ting the plantation farming under way, ochers ,vere at work erecting the "Big House." The building site was situated on a high bluff near the east bank of the Brazos river, about four mil~s south of the present town of Hern pstead. The building was completed in 1822 and ,vas named "Bernardo." Here Jared Ellison Groce resided until 1833, when he divided his property among his children and, raking with him several slaves, retired to his ClRetreat" on Wallace Prairie, in ,vhat is now Grimes county. The name "Retreat" signified his. re• tr~at from the malaria-infested Brazos bottom vicinity. Here Jared E. Groce died November 20, 1836.1:rn The cause of his death is given by W. P. Zuber ~s consumption. 140 This state­ ment is denied by Leonard Waller Groce, son of Jared Ellison, "'ho says that his father died of malaria and that some of his friends thought he had consumption because of a distressing cough that acco1npanied his affliction.14-1 Groce's Retreat was located about two miles southwest of the present little village

138Berleth, ''Jared E. Groce," Quarte,·J;·, XX, 358. 131Looscan, "Harris county, 1822-1845," Quanerl)', XIX, 52. 138Barker, AtHlin Papers, in the Annual Report of the Americmz J-li.,torira! Association for 1919, II, 1144. 139Berlet, Groce and Kindred Families. 14°2uber, W. P., Clipping from the Ho111ton Post about 1905 or 1906. Clip­ ping was not dated. 161 Berlet, G,-oce and Kindred Families. EARLY HISTORY OF GRihiES COUNTY 81 in Gri:nes county by the san1e name. The buildings ,vere on an open prairie hill, situated in what is no,v the north,vest corner of the farm o,vned by N. \V/. Lyles, and in the south­ west corner of the S. D. l\tlason farm; on the east line of what is no,v the W. E. Sapp farm. 142 After the death of Jared Ellison Groce, the heirs sold the Retreat plantation to a Mr. Dunham, a prospector from Tennessee. Mr. Dunham re­ turned ro Tennessee for his family, and died there. His fa1n­ ily can1e on to Texas, however, and lived at the Retreat for many years. After the death of Nlrs. Dunham, two and one­ half leagues of land from this Retreat plantation were sold to Dougald l\,fcAlpine. He pulled do,vn the houses at Re­ treat and built his own home about a mile north of the Groce residence sire. The locality no,v came to be kno,vn as the McAlpine plantation, but the na1ne "Retreat" ,vas con­ tinued for the post office and village, on the stage line about 14 rwo miles to the east of the old Groce headquarters. ='- The popular belief, prevalent in Grimes county, seems to be that Groce's Retreat was so named because Sam Houston, in his retreat norch,vard, prior to the battle of San Jacinto, camped in this sire. The ,vriter finds no data to establish such a belief, nor even to indicate that Sain Houston ever established his camp on the ease side of the Brazos. Jared Ellison Groce did nor favor the Fredonian move1nent, and ,vhen the Mexican colonel, 1'1ateo Ahumada, arrived at

142This information as to the location was given the writer by an old negro ex-slave, Dan West. Dan was brought into that community by R. M. West in 1852. He remembers that there were several buildings standing at the old Groce's Retreat. The writer went with him in person, to locate the exact locality. Dan is now ( 1928) 92 years old. His mind is clear, and he is \"Cty interesting when he tells of his trip to Texas down the ~1ississippi, through New Orleans, and Galveston co Houston. 143Berlet, Groce and Kindred Families, 60. The clipping, mentioned in foot­ note number 114 above, is pasted in l\frs. Berlet's book. 82 EARLY HISTORY OF GRIMES COUNTY the Brazos river ,vith troops, he ,vas offered the use of the Groce ferry, ,vagons, tea111s, and slaves.144 When the con­ vention of 1832 ,vas called, Jared E. Groce \\'as sent as repre­ sentative for the precinct of Viesca_ ur, He voted against the 14 resolution asking for separate statehood for Texas. '; He was chairman of the committee appointed to draft resolutions on the reduction of the rariff .147 As early as June 5, 1824, Groce served as one of the committee of four ( the other three mem­ bers being Austin, James Cummins, and John P. Coles) elected by the inhabitants of Austin's colony to prepare a pP.tition to the Mexican Congress concerning the tobacco and slavery question.148

144Berleth, "Jared E. Groce," Southwe.rtern Historical Qu,11·ter/J, XX, 358. 1411Gammel, Laws of Texas, I, 479. The other representatives from Viesca were William Robinson and Joshua Hadley. The town of Viesca was located at the falls of the Brazos and was in the municipality of the same name. The name of both the town and the municipality was changed on December r, 1835, to Milam. Gammel, Laws of Texas, I, 1002-3. 14110glesby, J. K., "And So Cotton Came to Texas," Farm mzd l~,;;:ch. Orn,­ ber 29, 1928. tGammel, Lau,J of Texa.r, I, 486. 146Barker, The Au.rtin Papen, Annual Repo1"t of the American Hi.rtorfral As.rociation /01" 1919_. II, 825-828. The prominent part played by Groce in the affairs of Austin's colony may be realized by noticing the numerous connections in which his name occurs in the Austin Papers. The following arc cited as examples: /. Erwin to Austin, dated at Shelbyville, September 30, 1825. in which Erwin replies to accusations made by Groce regarding monc~• matters (Ibid., 1213); Im/a Keep vs. Jared E. Groce, dated at San Felipe de Austi:i. May 10, 1826 (Ibid ... 1329); G,·oce to Saucedo, dated at Bernardo, january, 29, 1827, in which Groce prays for a new trial of the case mentioned abo\'f. stating that he (Groce) now has new evidence. Saucedo forwards the petiric~ to Austin, who recommends a new trial (I bid.~ I S96-7) ; JJ"-' eJta/1 trJ Graci. dated March 5, 182S, at San Felipe de Austin, in which Westall asks for cori:. also there is here a receipt from Groce to Austin for ten do!Jars (]bid .. lOSS). G,oce to Austin, dated at Alexandria, May 9, 1825, in which Groce compliment: Austin for his stand of firmness with reference to some troublesome colonis11 (Ibid ... 1133); Groce to Azutin, dated November 6, 1824, in which Groct a~­ vises that he is in bad health and requests Austin to select tracts of land fr.: Dr. Keep, Thomas Purvis, Captain Brown, and Randals. Groce scatc:5 that hf had promised to do so for these men, but that he will be unable w do ~t· because of the condition of his health (/ hid._. 933) ; John P. Coh: J u, Au.11ir.. EARLY HISTORY OF GRil\lES COUNTY 83

Groce seems to have had something to do ,vith the en­ trance of San1 Houston into the affairs of the colony, for, it is said that \X'illiam H. \X1harton ,v rote to Houston in Ten­ nessee at the suggestion of his father-in-la\\', Jared E. Groce.149 I find no record of any of the Groce men having participated personally in the military events of rhe 'fexas Revolution. This is explained as due to the fact that the father, Jared E. Groce II, \Vas crippled in both hands, and ,vas, during this 1 0 period, suffering from tuberculosis, or malaria. r. The younger Groce n1en remained at their respective plantations. None of them participated in the "Run Av.1 ay Scrape." They fre­ quently visited their father and looked afrer the affairs of his plan ration. They used their wealth to provide for men ,vho were in the army. Jared Ellison Groce III, at one time, is known to have fitted out five men for the army. During the campaign of April, 1836, just prior to Houston's forced march to the Harrisburg vicinity, preparatory to rhe battle of San Jacinto, the Texas anny can1ped for about t,vo ,veeks on the west bank of the Brazos ar a point about one-half mile f ron1 the Groce ferry. During this period, large quantities of pro­ ,·isions ,\'ere provided, free of charge, from the Groce plan­ tation, while a hospital for the sick soldiers ,vas n1aintained at 1 rhe Groce hon1e. ;;i dated November 9, 1824, in which Coles mentions having seen Groce, that he (Groce) was still un,vell, and advises Austin that there will be no trouble wirh Groce about iands (/ bid.. 936). 148 8erleth, "Jared E. G'roi-e,'' S011thu·e.1·1un 1-li.rtorica/ Quttrter/J_. XX, .358 ff. m'Berlet, G,-oce and Kind,-ed Families, l\frs. Berlct has pasrc:d in her book a clipping from the Houston Po.rt, written by W. P. Zuber. The writtr finds only one instance of a Groce holding military office in Texas. Leonard \Valier Groce was sub-lieutenant in the First Company of the first militia organized i:-; Au~:in l\[unicipaliry, !\larch 21, 1829. (Barkc:r, '"J\finutc.:s 1>f the: Ayt!,H.1- :!litnro 1!f S,:n Fdipe de Austin." Q11,1r1erl). XX I, -108-··9). mBerlet, Groce a11d Kindred Familit:.r. 58. 84 EARLY HISTORY OF GRI~1ES COUNTY

Jared E. Groce II ,vas a ,vido\ver ar the rin1e of his mi­ gration to Texas in 1821. He had been married r,vice. His first ,vife was 11ary Waller (born in 1788, in Spotrsylvania county, Virginia; died November 7, 1813, in Georgia), daugh­ ter of Leonard Waller ( died in South Carolina in 1826) ·whose cousin, Judge Ed,vin Leonard Waller, ca1ne to Texas in 1 2 1831. :; The county of Waller ,vas named in honor of this Judge Edwin Leonard Waller. i;;,; Three children ,vere born to Jared E. Groce II and Mary, namely: Leonard \Xf aller (born September 27, 1806, in Lincoln county, Georgia; died August 29, 1873, in Waller county, Texas), Sarah Ann (born in 1810 in Lincoln county, Georgia; died at Galveston, Texas, Febru­ ary 11, 1878), Jared Ellison III (born near Cambridge, South Carolina, September 5, 1812; died February 3, 1839, in \Valler county, Texas). Mary (Waller) Groce, mother of the above children, died Nove1nber 7, 1813, and in the following year, Jared E. Groce II married her sister, Anna Waller ( died at Fort Groce, Alabama, lvlarch 30, 1818). Two children were born to this union. One of them, Edwin, \vas dro,vned in the Biazos river (1829 or 1830) at the age of sixteen years. The other, Waller \Villiam, was born at Jackson, Alabama, whither his mother had fled from the Indians. She rerurned with him to Fort Groce, when he was about six ,veeks old. Waller William died in youth_rn-i Leonard Waller Groce mar-

152Berlec, G,·oce and Kindred Families, 26-29. 153Fulmore, HistorJ of Texas as Told in County Nm11e.r, 118. i:;"Bedet, Groce and Kindred Families, 26-29. Leonard Waller Groce w~, educated at a college at l\fontgomery, Alabama, to which he returned soo.1 after his father came to Texas. He returned co Texas in 1825 and imme

111~Berlet, G,·oce and Kindred FamilieJ, and l\1n. John Day to E. L. Blair, September 20, 1928. Jared Fulton Groce was ac one time a student at Inde­ pendence in Washington county, Texas. He later spent two years in the Western Military Institute of Kentucky. During the Civil War he served in Company B, of the Eighth Texas Cavalry, known as Terry's Texas Rangers. He married, October 4, 1855, Asenath (Seeny) lvfargaret Jackson, daughter of :Major A. Jackson of Brazoria county, Texas. They made their home in Waller county, :md reared a family of five children, namely: Courtney Ann (born Ocrobe:r ~). 1857; died July 23, 1861), Abner Jackson (born October 22 1859; died 190~ ). Courtm:y Fulton (born December 24, 1862 ), lt.fargaret Andrew (born Jui}' 7, 1864; died l\fay 5, 1886), .ind George Fulton (born June 10, 1867; llit:d May, 190-1). Courtney Ann, Abner Jackson, and George Fu Iron dit:d unm:irrie:d. Courrner Fulton Groce now Jives at Hempstead, Texas. She mar­ rit:d Horace Russell, 1Iarch 13, 1882, and is the mother of om:: daughter, E\'a lee, who is now 1frs. Henry Wheeler of Hempstead, Texas. l\fargarer Andrew (Drew) Groce married Cole Wood, 1\-farch 13, 1881, and had one daughter: Ascnath Jackson, who was the late l\-frs. Edgar Casham of Hcmp­ ~rc:ad, Texas. (Afr.r. / ohn DtiJ to E. L. Blafr_. September 20, 1928). Edwin Wa11er Groce, whose name was later changed ro '\XijJliam \~harcon, 86 EARLY HISTORY OF GRIMES Cou~TY

not co1ne to Texas ,vith hci father in 1821, but ren1ained in school in the east until 1827. After graduation in New York, she carne to Bernardo, accompanied by several relatives from

married, February 4, 1864, Emily Kate Wyatt (born June 1--i, 184-l, at Madison, Georgia; died July 7, 1920, at Galvesron, Texas), step.daughter of Colonel S. R. Blake. This family resided at "Bonnie Nook" their residence in Waller county until 187;, when they moved to Houston, and in che following year co "Eagle Island", in Brazoria county, where they lived with l\frs. Sarah Wharton, who willed her estate "Eagle Island" to William Waller at her death. William Waller and Emily Kate Groce had five children, namely: Fannie B. (born December 15, 1864 ), Leonard Courtney (born September 26, 1867; diec March 2, 1928), Lelia (born May 26, 1871), Sarah Wharton (born December 23, 1876), and Katie Willeen (born July 14, 1880.) Fannie B. Groce did in early childhood. Leonard Courtney Groce was educated at Chapel Hill Col­ lege, in Washington county, Texas. At the outbreak of the Civil war, he was employed in the auditor's office of the Southern Pacific Railway, at Houston. Texas. He joined the Confederate army as a member of the "Light Guards'' and served with the rank of lieutenant. He moved to California in 1889, and from thence, a few years later, into Mexico, where he engaged in mining ana rubber culture for a period of twenty-two years. The lase twelve years of his life was spent at League City, Texas, and here he is buried. Leonard Court• ne\· Groce married, in 1909, l\·faximina l\fachatm, of Amect, lvlexico. br whor.i h; had five children, namely: Beatrice, Estella, Lecmard Waller, l\!;ximina. and Courtney. These children now reside at League City, Texas. (Berlec. Groce and Kind,·ed FamilieJ.) Lelia Groce is now :Mrs. J. l\l Cra\'ens of Sant! Anna, Texas. She married on September 13, 189 3, and is now a widow with fivt children, namely: Groce, CaHa 1lay, W~·acc Pearson. Fannie, an~ Katie Alfred. Of these, Groce, and Fannie died in infancy. Calla .May is now l\frs. Joseph Bernard Brown of Houston, Texas. Wyatt Pearson is marrieJ and resides at Houston with his wife and two children. Katie Alf red is nov: l\frs. N. Wm. Campbell of Houston, Texas. She has a daughter by a formt: marriage, Calla Eddette Joseph (born March 17, 1922). Sarah Wharton Groct. daughter of William Wharton and Emily Kate Groce, is now .Mrs. George Berlet of Houston, Texas. She was married on April 26, 1898, and is ch:: mother of five children, all of whom live in Houston, Texas. Tht)' .m. namely: Emily Kathleen (born February 25, 1899) who is now :Mrs. Charlb Woodberry Salmon of Houston, and is the mother of two children, Mildrt~ Eli;~aberh (born October 15, 1918), and Charles Woodberr}', Junior (born Ap::: IS, 1920) ~ John Wharton (born September 17, 1901); Travis ~{ontgomer;· (born February 5, 1904); William Groce (born December 5, 1905); iii'!~ Rosalind Allen (born June 15, 1910). Katie Willeen Groce, sister tu Sauh Wharton Groce, is now l\frs. Robert James Calder of Galveston, Texas. S~e has a son by a former marriage ( to Arthur Richard Billingsley, December i9. 1900) br the name of Bruce Billingsle}' ( born October S, 190 l ) , who novo· resides at Houston, Texas. Katie Willeen married Robert James Cald<:r, Apri'. EARLY HiSTORY OF GRIM:ES COUNTY 87

South Carolina and Georgia. Here, a f e\v 1nonchs after her arrival she n1et William H. \X1harcon, ,vith whose sister

18, 1906, by whom she had two children, Kace Willeen (born October 16, 1907), and Robert James, Junior (born December i 1, 1916). Mary Henrietta Groce, daughter of Leonard Waller and Courtney Ann Groce, married. September 2-1, 185'7, \X'illiam Bennatt of ~!aeon county, Tennessee. She was living in Hempstead in 1901, but has since died. Their children were, as follows: Leonard Groce (born July 3, 1858 ), Catherine Cole (born Octo­ ber 6, 1857), William l\{artin (born 1vfarch 7, 1861), and Fulcon E. (born :'\o\·tmbc..-r 1-L 1869). Leonard Groce Bennatt marrit:d, December I, 1878, Hdt:n E. Wilson, a girl raised by :Mrs. w·illiam H. Wharton, by whom he had ~cn:n children, namclr: ~'illi<: l\·luriel, Addit. Maud, Elizabeth H., Uen G.. Charles H., and Robert H. Willie Jt.luricl Bennatt is now ~frs. Parker Goddard of Waco, Texas, and is the mother of three children. Addie Bennatt is now l\lrs. C. B. Dunigan of Dallas, Texas. 1\-faud Bt:nnatt is now Mrs. Fn:d \'f allas of Waco, Texas. Elizabeth H. Bennau: is nm;,· :Mrs. Naval James of Dallas, Texas. Ben G. Bennatt married Susie Post and they now reside at Richards, Texas. Charles H. Bennatt married Barb,ua Henry, but the writer has no information ,is co their present whereabouts. Robert H. Bennatt now resides at Waco, Texas. Catherine Cole Bennatt, daughter of h-1ary Henrietta and William Bennatt, is now Mrs. John Henry Day of Hempstead and is the mother of four children, namely: John Henry Junior, James Cochran, Emma, and Nettie l\1ay. John Henry Day, Junior married Ina Gardiner and now resides at Hempstead, Texas. James Cochran Day married Vera Wilson and they now reside at Brookshire, Texas. Emma Day is now l\its. George Allen of Ennis, Texas. Nettie 1vlay Day was the late (died :May 19, 1924) ~!rs. \X1ill Reed of Bellville, Texas. She is survived by five children, namely: Kath• erine, Vi..'. C., ~-fildred, Jack, and l\{oselle. William l\·fanin Bennatt, brother of Catherine Cole Bennatt, married Willie Massie, daughter of Man l\fassie of Houston, Tex~ts, br whum he haJ five children, namc.:ly: Nettie, Kate Cole, Edward, l\farcus. and Brrdia Lula. By a second marriage ( to Ida Allen, daugh­ ic:r ,>f George Allen of \X1aller County), °"''illiam bfa.nin Bcnnatt had ten chil­ Jrtn. n:undy: 11abcl, Lela, William. Arrdl, Robtrt 11iJcon, Raphel, ~lillie, John Day, :Martin Allen, and Emmie. Nettie Bennatt is now Mrs. James Ram­ ~tr of Slm:veporr, Louisiana. Katt Cole Bennatt is now ~!rs. Terrell Sanders of Houston. Edward is married ( wife was formerly Ruth Lawrence) and lives at Kat)', Texas. Marcus Bennatt married Eunice Jones and resides at Houston. BrydiJ I..ulu Bcnnatt is now l\frs. J. D. iiicchdl of Hearne, Texas. ~1abel Bc:nn:m is now 1\frs. Charles Greenwood of Hearne, Texas. Ltla l:k·nnatc is now ]\frs. Milton Elskes of Houston. William is also at Houston. He married Lois Jones. Raphel Bennatt is now Mrs. Forbes Taylor of Houston. Emmie Bcnnatt is now ~!rs. Van Wagnor of Houston. None of the ocher children of William Martin Bennatt are married and they, i. c., Arrell, Robert l\·iilton, Mollie, Marcin Allen, and John Day all reside at Houston, Texas. 0\fr.1'. John D.;1 /(J E. L. Bl::ir. September 20, 1928.) Fulton E. Benn:m. son of Henriena and William l\f. Bcnnatt, is now living at Hempstead. Texas. He has been 88 EARLY HISTORY 01;- GRIMES COUNTY

"Betsy" she had attended school in Nashville, 1"'enjjessee. They ,vere married on Dece1nber 5, 1827. Their ,,·edding married twice and had children by both wives. The first marriage was to Irene Bell, daughter of Elijah Bell of Hempstead, Texas, by w:mm he had eight children, namely: Ruth, Lilian Bell, Ollie, lester, Walter L<:-e, .Annie

Mae, F. E., and James Coleman. The second wife of Fulton E. Bennatt was1 before her marriage, Helen Bell, sister to his first wife. There were three children by this marriage, namely: Arline, Joe Herndon, and Douglas W. Ruth Bennatt is now Mrs. Jeff Allen of Hearne, Texas. Lillian Bell Bennait is now Mrs. Van Jenkins of Hempstead, Texas. Ollie is now Mrs. C. J. Allen of Hearne, Texas. None of the others are married. Eliza Ellen Groce, daughter of Leonard Waller and Courtney Ann Groce. married, February 18, 1867, Robert John Hughes of Galveston, Texas, where they made their home. They had two children, namely: Ellen Ltt and Rob­ ert John, Junior. Ellen Lee Hughes resides at Hempstead, Texas. Roben John Hughes, Junior, married Esther Bray, daughter of Sydney Brar of Eng­ land, and lives at Dickinson, Texas, with his wife and three childrtn, namely: Robert John II (Jack), Dorothy Sophie Harryette, and Ellen Marjorie. Robert John Hughes II now has a wife and son, Robert John III. Dorothy Sophie Harriette is now Mrs. W. 0. Warriner of Houston. Leonard Waller Groce, Junior, served in Company B, of Terry's Texas Rangers during the Civil War. After studying medicine at Ne,v Orleans and Galveston, he was for many years physician for the Houston, Texas Central rail­ road with headquarters at Bryan, Texas. He died at his home, Bernardo, from a railroad accident, July 6, 1901. Leonard Waller Groce, Junior, married ~on December 29, 1873, Florence Herndon (died at Hempstead, Ttxas, in Sep­ tember, 1925), daughter of John Herndon of Brazoria county, Texas. Fi,t children were born to this union, namely: Leonard \X'aller III (born Octobe~ 12, 1874, at Bernardo; died in Nicaragua, October 16, 1909), Barbara (born 1878), Herndon, and Sandy. Leonard Waller Groce III, in 1891, was em­ ployed by Fowler & McVilie of Galveston, Texas. He went to Bluefields. Nicaragua, in 1897, and shortly thereafter accepted a position with a merchan! in the mining district of Tonkey. From this time until his death, he was actively identified with various mining concerns in Nicaragua, at one time str\'inf as manager of the Concordia Mining Company. He later became a prospectoi on his own behalf and accumulated considerable property. When Zelaya re­ fused to accept the award of Alphonse XIII, king of Spain, regarding tht boundary dispute between Nicaragua and Honduras, Groce went into the army of Zelaya and had attained che rank of Colonc:I ac chc close of the ~rr~.g~k His chief, during this war, was Estrada who, about 1909, headed ,; :-c:volt;­ tionary movement against Zelaya, when Groce, having been identifiec. wirh tht rebellion, fell into the hands of Zc:laya, and was executed. (The }Jou. :r,i: Pr;::. December 12, 1909.) Leonard \X'aller Groce III married while in Nicaragua. His wife, before marriage, was Rosa Fernandez. She now li\'es in ~icaragu. with their three children, n.imely: 1.eonard, Roberro, and Ro~?. R.:rb::~ .. Groce, daughter of L<:onard 'Jrlalk:r Groce. Junior. n,;·,•; li\'C.·s ::r I--::.:·:.:-,,e.~~- EARLY HISTORY 01~ GRI1'1ES COUNTY 89 present f ram Jared E. Groce II ,vas five leagues of land and a large house situated in what is now Brazoria county, 1 Texas. =-••i Jared Ellison Groce III was left in school in Georgia when his father came to Texas in 1821. He married, October 1, 1833, 1'1ary Ann Calvit (born January 4, 1816, at Washington, lviississippi; died December 31, 1877, at Pleas­ ant Hill Plantation, in Waller county, Texas). They had c,vo children, namely: Jared Ellison IV, and Barbara 1'-fackall (born July 7, 1838, at Pleasant Hill Plantation; died Septem­ 1 1 ber 18, 1887, at Hempstead, Texas) . " Ed,vin Groce, son of

Texas. Herndon Groce, brother to Barbara, is married and resides at Hemp­ stead, Texas, with his wife (Sue Bethany) and two children, namely: John Herndon (born August 6, 1913), and Claude Bethany (born February 31, 1925). Sandy Groce is now Living in El Paso, Texas. John Harris Groce, son of Leonard Waller and Courtney Ann Groce, died while a young man. He never married. Martha (l\fattie) Groce, sister to John Harris Groce, married Captain R. A. McKay, on September 1, 1870. She died soon after the birth of their only son, Mihon McKay. Milton McKay now lives near Cameron, Texas. Bill Marcus Groce lived for several years at Hempstead. He is now dead, and che writer has no information about any family. Charles Courtney Groce married twice and raised several children. His wives were sisters and their father's name was Goldsmith. The writer has no more information about this family. Ellison Kirby Groce died young. ™Berlet, G,-oce and Kindred Families. The lumber for this house was cut, sawed, and numbered in Mobile, Alabama; conveyed thence by boat to the mouth of the Brazos river, and up this river for about twelve miles where the house was erected and named "Eagle Island". The five leagues of land given Wharton constituted all the land owned by Groce in Brazoria county, and was gi\"en as an inducement for Wharton to remain in Texas. (Groce, \X1m. W., "John A. Wharton," Q1'arterly. XIX, 272.) William H. Wharton and his bride went to Nashvi1le, Tennessee, to purchase furniture for their new home, and while there, John Austin, their only child, was born July 3, 1829. The important wle played by the Whartons in the history of Texas is well known. Space forbids an attempt to do justice to them here. John A. \X'harcon married Penelope Johnson ( died at Eagle Island, 1878), daughter of ex-governor Jc~hn­ son of South Carolina. They had one daughter who died at the early a,ge d t:ighteen years. 15:Berlet, Gro{(;' tmd Kindred Fami/ie.r. The writer was also assisted by the following persons: .l\Irs. l\fack Robinson, John Herndon Groce, l\.frs. Florence Herndon Groce, and l\frs. John Day, all of Hempstead, Texas. Jared E. Groce IV served during the Civil War as an officer on the staff EARLY HISTORY OF GRI~IES COUNTY

Jared E. Groce II, was drowned in the Brazos river soon after he can1e co Texas. It seems that he \vas in a skiff with \v'illiam H. Wharton, his ,vife and son, and ,vas trying to cross the river while it was in a s,vollen condition and the ferry was out of condition. William H. Wharton succeeded in getting his ,vife and son, John Austin, ro the bank, bur \vhen he returned for Edv.rin, he could not be found. Since Ed,vin was considered a good s,vimmer, it is thought that he must have been knocked unconscious by the log that over­ 1 turned the skiff. The body was never found. :;s Joshua Hadley.-The Hadleys of Grimes county descended fron1 a line of English Quakers who migrated into Ireland of General John A. Wharton. At the close of the war he had attained the rank of Assistant Inspector General. Jared E. Groce IV married, June 24, 1868, Neveline Hopson, daughter of Clement Hopson of Houston, Texas. Two children were born to them, namely: Jared Ellison V (born December 18. 1870; died July 14, 1921, at Waller, Texas), and Clemmie Lee Clare. Jared E. Groce V married Venice !\kDade (born October 12, 1873 ), daughter of John M. McDade of Hempstead, Texas. She survives her husband and is now living at San Antonio, Texas. They had eight children, namely: Jared Ellison VI (born May 31, 1897), John Wharton (born 1898; died 1918), Walter (born September 10, 1900, at Waller, Texas), Lucile, Le Clare, Cecile, 1\-larjorie, and Barbara. Jared Ellison VI, Walter, Lucile, Cecile, and Marjorie are all with their mother in San Antonio, Texas. le Clare Groce is now Mrs. Eldon Dyer of Corpus Christi, Texas. John Wharton Groce was drowned in the Rio Grande river in 1918, while a soldier in the United Stares army. Clemmie Le Clare Groce, the other child of Jared Ellison Groce IV, is now l\1rs. Mack Robinson of Hempstead, Texas, and is the mother of two children, namely: Clemmie Le Clare, who is now l\,[rs. John Abney of Lampasas, Texas; and Lucile, who is now with her mother at Hempstead, Texas. Barbara Mackall Groce, daughter of Jared E. Groce III, married Dr. Philip Solomon Clarke (born August 25, 1834, in South Carolina;

3 ' J~forris P. Ferris, De.,cendants of Simon Hadle)'. A manuscript, a copy of which is now in the possession of Mrs. Stella Brosig, Navasota, Texas. Ferris was county historian of Chester county, Pennsylvania; Weeks, Colonial and State Records of North C,1mli11a, F-L, XXIX; Will of Simon HadleJ', which, accord­ ing to :Mrs. Stella Brosig, was pubHshed by the Colonial Dames of Delaware in their Calendar of JPil/J, the will being dated 1755; Caruthers, Old North State; and Davis, SocietJ of Cincinnati. The writer has not examined these sources, but secured his information from a Jot1rnal prepared by Mrs. Brosig of Navasota, Texas. In this / ournal_. ~frs. Brosig quotes from the abovt sources. Additional source used by the writer was Chalmers H,1dle)' to Afrs. Stell,, BroSJig, an un­ dated communication, in which Chalmers Hadley, then public librarian at Denver, Colorado, transmits data concerning the early history of Simon Hadley, which, he says, was secured for him by Thomas and Edith Webb of Dublin, Ireland, from the Dublin Quaker Records. There seems to be some uncertainty as co the ~naidcn name of Ruth, the wife of Simon Hadley. l\.frs. Brosig gives it as Miller, while Ferris in his Descendant.; of Simon Hadley, has it as Keran. l\fany of the Hadleys seem co have been dropped from the Quaker church, during the American Revolution, because of their military activities. / Rosa Ro1111tree to Stella Br()sig, dated September 1, 1914.) 18°Ferris, in his De.rce11da11tJ of Simon HadleJ, says of the above children: Joseph married (August 25, 1721) Amy Gregg; Deborrah married (April 20, 1721) Benjamin Fred ; Simon died unmarried in 17 30 ; Hannah married ( August 28, 1727) Thomas Dickson; Ruth married (October 21, 1721) Thomas Lindly; Katherine married (August 19, 1732) Robert Johnson; and Ann married (April 12, 1'735) Richard Gregg. 92 EARLY HISTORY OF GRI:MES COUNTY marily, ,virh Joshua ,vho was the great-grandfather oi Joshua Hadley, the Texas colonist. Joshua Hadley I serYed in the A1nerican Revolutionary Army as a lieutenant in Captain Tay­ 1 1 lor's Company, Sixth North Carolina Regi1nenr. 1i He later married (July 2, 1825) Mary Rowland (died 1733), daughter of lviary and Thomas Ro,v land. They were married at New­ garden l\feeting, Pennsylvania. His ,vife's mother, 1'-lrs. Mary Ro,vland, had purchased a tract of land ( 438 acres) from the Letitia Penn manor, along with s01ne seven hundred acres, purchased earlier from Willia1n Penn, Junior. Two hundred and nineteen acres of this Letitia Penn purchase was given to Mary (Rowland) Hadley as a ,vedding present. 162 The children of Joshua and 1v1ary Hadley ,vere Ruth (born 1726), Thomas (born 1728; died September 1, 1 781), Sarah (born 1730), and Mary (born 1732).H;a This Thomas Hadley (born 1728, near Wilrnington, Dela,vare) was the grand­ father of the Joshua Hadley ,vho ca1ne to Texas as a member of Stephen F. Austin's Colonial enterprise. He (Thomas ~adley) is said to have raised a con1pany of 1nilitia, during the Revolutionary War, for the purpose of subduing the Scotch Tories in the neighborhood of Cross creek, North

111Mrs. Stella Brosig has a letter, signed by the Adjutant Generai, \Xiar Dt­ partment, Washington, D. C., dated November 13, 1911, addressed to :Morris P. Ferris, 676 West End Avenue, New York City (file number of the letter be::ing 1847155 ). The following quotation is taken from this communicatior.: "The records of this office show chat one Joshua Hadley strved as a licmc:na:ir in Captain- Taylor's Company, 6th North Carolina Regiment, Revolutionary \~'ar. He was commissioned as licucenanc April 1, 1777 ; captain, J unc I 3, 17:9 ; was wounded at Eutaw, South Carolina, September 8, 1781; transferred to the 1st ~Orth Carolina Regimcnr, and on a musrer roll ot che 4th Company dared D<:cc:mber 12, 1-:f.:. ht is shown on command General Hospital.'·

162GiJbe,-1 Cope 10 1\fr..-. Stella Bro.rigi dated at \',C, est Chesttr, Penn!-yh·ania, September 19, 1917. He cires Furhey and Cope, Hi.rtr11J of Cht-.1/tr Cr,:mt_ri PennJJ/i:ania. 1 ui: 1',forrjs P. Ferris, De.rce11da111.1 of Simon Hadhy. 6. EARLY l-fISTOR \' OF GRIMES COUNTY 93

Caro!i~a. While on a visit to his family in 1871, his hon1e was raided by the Tories. Thomas Hadley ran to the upper story of his house, leaned out of the window and called as if co his n1en. The Tories fired at him in the window and he was killed by a ball that entered his mouth. The sons of Thomas n1ade their escape, ,vith the exception of Benjamin, who ,vas captured and taken to a nearby island, where he was left bound for the insects to torture.104 Benjamin, how­ ever, made good his escape from the island, and it is said that this island ,vas then known as "Hadley Island.'' The wife of Thomas Hadley was 1'Iary Thompson (born in Lon­ donderry tovvnship, Chester county, Pennsylvania) daughter of John Thompson and Jane Davis. They settled in North Carolina at Cross creek ( now Fayetteville) before or during the first part of the Revolutionary period, and Thon1as Hadley seems to have played a prominent part in the affairs of the 1 scate. f;:; He represented Campbellton in the provincial con­ gress of North Carolina, ,vhich 1net at Halifax, North Caro­ lina (Nove1nber 12, 1776) to frarne a government and adopt 11 a constitution for the state. jfj He is said to have commanded a company of light-horse in the Revolutionary army, ,vhich ac­ counted for the fact chat he ,vas after,vards kno\vn as Cap­ 11 1 tain Thomas Hadley. ; There were eight children born to Thomas and Mary Hadley, namely: Joshua (born July 17, 1753}, Jane (born 1751), John (born 1755}, Si1non (born 1757), Benjamin (born 1760), Mary (born 1765), Thoinas

16-lferris, De.rcendant ..- of Simon Hadle)', also RoJa Ro111Jtree to l\1r.r. Stella Brorig, dated at Delaware Water Gap, August 29, 191·1, in which che ,,-ricer cites Carruthcr.5, HistorJ of North Carolina_, 2nd Serier! for the abo\"e scur~·. 10~/bid., 3. Also, !\lrs. Brosig's f ournal in which she cites Carruthers, llis10,-)' of North C1ro/i11.:1. 1116 Ferris, Descendants of Simon Hadley_, 3. is11hid. 94 EARLY HISTORY OF GRIMES COUNTY

(born 1767; died 1805), Jesse (born 1763).168 This Benjamin Hadley, son of Thomas and Mary Hadley, ,vas the father of the Joshua Hadley who migrated to Texas fro1n Tennessee, whither his father had moved from Alabama, ,vhere he had gone fro111 North Carolina. The ,vriter does not have the exact date for these various moves. Ir is kno,vn that Benjamin Hadley and his family, consisting of one 1nale and r,vo female persons (probably his wife, daughter, and son) \\1 ere in North Carolina in 1790, and that they remained there as late as 1795.rn11 The t,vo children born to chis union ,vere Mary and Joshua (born in North Carolina about 1786; died in Gri1nes county, Texas, ar Had­ ley's Prairie, 1845). Benja1nin Hadley's second ,vife ,vas Bertie Henderson ,vhom he seems co have n1arried about 1805 and then moved to Alabama. 110 There \\'ere six children by this marriage, namely: Jesse, Si1non, John, Ja1nes, Jane, and Cynthia.Ji' Joshua, son of Benjamin and Elizabeth (King) Hadley, ca1ne to Texas about 1830.112 He first located in 1ffllfer}is, Deuendants of Simon Hadley, 3. Joshua married Hanna Holmes; Jane married Captain Patrick Travis; Mary married William England; John married Margaret Livingston and moved to Tennessee; Simon is thought to have married a Wilcox, and then to have moved to Georgia. Of this, however, Ferris seemed uncertain. Simon, according to Ferris, was a major in the American Revolutionary Army. Thomas married ( 1769) Margaret Parker, daughter of John and Mary Parker. Jesse was unmarried in 1790, being listed in the cen• sus as owning eleven slaves. 109The first wife of Benjamin Hadley was Elizabeth King, daughter of William and Amelia (Slade) King. They were evidently married very soon after the close of the American Revolution, for according to Ferris, in his De.rce;.•d,mtJ of Simon Hudle)', the census of North Carolina showed that the}' had two children in 1790. As proof that Benjamin Hadley was in Norch Carolina as fatt as 1795, Ferris cires Count;· Deed Records of Cumberland County, Norrh Carolina, in which, he says, there is a deed of gift, dated in 1795, in which Hadley's mother: :Mary, gi\·cs to his sister, :r...fa.ry, a slave. Hadley signed the deed as witness. rn)RTexas Revolution, Joshua Hadley joined the Texas army and served from June 30, 1836, to Sep­ 1 tember 30, 1836. jj For this service he ,vas granted three hundred and t\venty acres of land located in Grimes county, and patented September 4, 1846.17s Joshua Hadley ,vas a member of the Convention of 1832, serYing ,vith Jared E. Groce and William Robinson from the district of Viesca.: 79 When the n1unicipality of \Xf ashingron ,vas created in 1835,

1~~AbJ1ract of Texas Land Tit/e.r, I, 604. Also see map in Appendix JI. 1·•.Mrs. \Vallace Brosig's ]011t"nal. i::;l\frs. \X'allace (Ste1la) Brosig has prepared a manuscript in the natur<: oi a family history of the Hadleys. She gives the above story. 11~/hid.

mil:id., :Mrs. Brosig cites bount}7 warrant number 211 ?>. (,'{1u,~,l L:znd Off.a Ru(jrds, Austin, Texas. i:~Jbid .., also Ah.rhwct of Te.,·t1J Land TitleJ, I, 604. 1;~Gammel, Lau;s of Texas, I, 479. C6,7· EARLY HISTORY OF GRIJ\1.ES COUNTY

Joshua Hadley and H. J. Willian1s ,vere candidates for rhe office of alcalde and Hadley ,vas elected by a vote of one hun­ 1 0 dred and sixty to one hundred and f orty-seven. " Hadley was an active 1v1ason, being a charter member of the Orphan's Friend Lodge No. 17, which was organized at the house of Henry Fanthorp on April 8, 1842. He then served on a committee, \\1ith 1'1ajor Marrin and J. W. Barnes to secure a ,var rant and dispensation from the Grand Lodge of rhe 1 1 Republic of Texas. i- The ,vife of Joshua Hadley before her marriage ,vas Ob­ edience Grantham \vho is said to have been born about 1800 in either North Carolina or Tennessee. The ,vriter has no information -about her family, other than to find that they are said to have come to An1erica from England at an early date. The land application of Joshua and Obedience Hadley was dated in February of 1831 and gives their ages as thirty­ six and thirty-one years respectfully.182 They had five chil­ dren, namely: Denny Porterfield (born about 1825, in Ten- \ 1110Winkler, "Documents Relating co the Municipality of Washington,'" Texa; Historical Association Quarterly, X, 98. 181W. T. Neblett, T. P. Buffington, and J. G. McDonald, Committee Report to the Orphan's Friend Lodge Number Seventeen, dated at Anderson, Texas, on Sep­ tember 6, 1926. In this report is a quotation from the minutes of the first meer• ing of the lodge, as follows:

"At the first meeting .•.. organized at the house ot Henry Fanthorp, with the following Masons present: Joshua Hadley, Daniel Magee, Henry Fanchorp, Josial1 C. Massie, John F. Manin, Oavid C. Dickson, George M. Patrick, James W. Barnes, Felix W. Magee, recognized as worthy Master Masons, met at the house of Henry Fanthorp . . . . By agreement, then adopting the measures from a lodge of ancient York Masons at chis place. The meeting was organized by calling Dr. Dickson co che chair .... The chair req_ucsced Joshua Hadley and f. W. Magee ro distribute the ballots for the election of W. M. On announcing che ballots counted chus · Massie fi,·e, Dickson cwo, Barnes one."

It is shown from these minutes that other officers elected at this meeting were as follows: Senior Warden, Dickson ; Junior Warden, Geo. it Patrick; Sem• tary, Barnes; Treasurer, Henry Fanthorp; Tiler, D. l\fagee.

iuLand Applic:ztio11s1 89, General Land Office of Texas, Austin, Texas. Mrs. Stella Brosig's /011rtMI. EARLY HISTORY OF GRil\fES COUNTY 97 nessee) ~ Travis King, Caroline, Grantham H., and Henry F. 18 1 Only one of these, Henry F. Hadley, was born in Texas. = Obedience Hadley died in 1839, and her ,vido,ver, Joshua, lacer married Joyce V. ].\-1cGuffin, by ,vhom he had three 18 children, namely: Joshua, William B., and Anthony D. "' Denny Porterfield Hadley married and raised a family. The writer, ho,vever, has been able to get no inforn1ation con­ cerning his descendants. The writer has also failed ro secure 18 information about Travis King Hadley. r. Their sister, Caro­ line Hadley, married John F. Martin ( died at Anderson, Texas, 1846) ,is,; by ,vhom she had four children, namely: Winston Travis, William A., John F. (born May 11, 1843;

183Mrs. Brosig's Journal, and Transcribed Probate Minutes of Grimes County, I, 89. 1"'These three Hadleys were named, in 1853, as being minor heirs of Joshua Hadley and were then under the guardianship of Joyce V. Hadley. They were also mentioned as half-brothers to T. K. Hadley (Travis King). P,-obate Min­ utes of Grimes County, 11, 333. 11\lAnthony D. Hadley, half-brother to Travis King and Denny Porterfield Hadley, is now living near Cleburne, Texas, and could probably give the desired information. Lou M. Hadley of Fort Worth, Texas, is a son of Henry F. Hadley, younger brother of Denny Porterfield, and could likely give some information. The writer has been unable to get an answer to communications addressed to eirher of these. 1M1John F. Ivfarcin arrived in Texas about 1830 and secured a grant of one­ quarrer league of iand in what is now Brazos county, patent to which is dated !\-fay 11, 1831. (Mrs. Brosig's /011,-nal in which she cites Reco1·ds of Austin's Colony which the writer has not verified) M:artin is said co have served in the Texas army from January 10, 1835, ro August 7, 1836. f Bounty Ce,-ti,~cates are cited by Mrs. Brosig in her Joztrnal.) At the approach cf Santa Anna's Anny, :Martin is said to have been sem co help conduct the women and children to safety. (Mrs. Brosig's /011r11a/ in which she cites Yoakum's Histor;· of Texas, II, 131.) Ac his death in 1846, John F. Martin left an e5tate valued at S12,636, consisting of 11,883 acres of land and sixteen negro slaves. ( Probate /Hi1111tes of Grimes CoumJ, I, 56-59.) It is said that the present Odd Fellow's Cemeccry at Ander• son is located on a plot of ground on which Marcin was preparing to construct a new residence and which after his death was given to the Lodge for a cemetery, in which 1fartin was the first to be buried. f /. G. AfcDonald to E. L. Blair, June 23, 1928.) 98 EARLY HISTORY OF GRI:MES COUNTY died December 6, 1918) and 1v1argarec Obedience.11- 1 Caro-

1&1Winston Travis 1\-fartin is said to have served in Walker's Division during the four years of the Civil War. He married a Miss Marshall soon after the close .of the war. She died about 1871 and, about 1884, Winston Travis married Ellen Jennings. There were no children by either marriage. ( l\fr.r. Stella Brosig to E. L. Blair, June 27, 1929, also J. G. McDonald to E. L. Blair, June 11, 1928.) William A. :Martin was educated at Independence, Texas. He served under Captain William Hutcheson, as a member of Company G, Hood's Texas Brigade during the four years of the Civil War. (Sec M1uter Roll of Hood'J Texas Brigade in the appendix of this thesis.) At the close of the War he married Lena Thomas, daughter of R. S. Thomas of Anderson, Texas. She died in 1870, having been the mother of one son, Robert A. Martin, who died at Anderson, about 1919. By a second marriage, William A. ~fartin had three children, namely: Amelia, Winston, and Ben. Amelia Martin (died 1925) was the late Mrs. C. H. Bridges of Anderson, Texas. She was post mistress ar Anderson, Texas, at the time of her death. There were no children. Winscon Martin. son of William A. Martin, now resides at Wharton, Texas. He is a widower with one son. Ben Martin is now a dentist in New York City. (/. G. McDon11/d to E. L. Bl"ir, June 11, 1928.) John F. Martin, Junior, served four years in Hood's Texas Brigade, Company G, during the Civil War. (See Mu.rter Roll in appendix of this thesis.) He was county Treasurer in Grimes county, 1880-1888. (See Li.rt of County Of­ ficials in appendix of this thesis.) John F. l\fartin, Junior, married Alice Stevens (born 1\-farch 11, 1847). Mrs. John F. l\ifartin is now living with her daughter, Mrs. Stella Brosig, at Navasota, Texas. They had nine children, naaiely: Bell, John S., Kace, l\,faude, Donald, StelJa, Wallace, Jeanett, and Charlie. Bell Martin ( born December 1 1, 1866) is now Mrs. G. C. Stoneham of Yarboro community, Grimes county, and is the mother of six children, namely: Bernice, Maude, Jerald Fulton, Alice, John, and Doris. John S. :Martin (born March 22, 1871) now resides at Dallas, Texas, with his wife (formerlr Allie Lauderdale) and four children, namely: John Luther, Clifton, Aleene, and Sam. Kate ~farcin (born :May 15, 1869) was the late l\frs. M. l\fenger of Navasota, Texas. She was killed in an automobile accident in i 926. Mrs. l\ifengcr was active in the social and religious life of her community. There were no children by this marriage. l\{aude l\fartin is now l\ifrs. John T. Evans of Navasota, Texas, and is the mother of two children, namely: Myrtle and John T., Junior. l\.fyrtle is now 1'.frs. Henry C. Baker of Navasora, Texas, and is the mother of one daughter, l\fargaret (born June 28, 1917). Donald Afanin (born February 7, 1875) now lives at Dallas. His wife was formerly :Minnie Camp. daughter of C. C. Camp, Senior, of ~avasota, Texas. They have two children, namely: Virginia (born August 10, 1902) and Collins. Virginia is nmv l\frs. Renau Bassett of Dallas. Texas. Stella l\Iartin ( born December i, 1876) is now :Mrs. \Vallace Brosig of Navasota, Texas, co whom the writer is indebted for her assistance in the preparation of this sketch. l\frs. Brosig is active in the ci\'ic life of her community and state, having served during the World War as a member of the Grimes County Council of Defense, and later as chairman of--rhe War Savings Scamp Committee. ~frs. Brosig belongs to the EARLY HISTORY OF GRI:MES COUNTY 99 line (Hadley) l\.1artin lacer 111arried Oliver H. P. Hill by whom she had seven children, namely: Gibbs, Alice, Joshua

Daughters of the Republic of Texas, of which organization she has served as rhird Vice President. She is a member of the Texas Daughters of the Con­ federaq', and of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and is now chair­ man of the Washington State Park on the Brazos Committee. Wallace Martin, son of Alice (Stevens) and John F. Martin, Junior, died in infancy. Jeanette Martin ( born January 8, 1880) i.; now Mrs. R. Andrew Sangster of Navasota, Texas, and is the mother of five children, namely: Katherine (born September 5, 1901), :Margaret E. (born February 25, 1903), Jeanette (born October 7, 1905 ), Robert Andrew, Junior, (twin to Jeanette), and Alysse (born January 4, 1908). Robert Andrew, Junior, is the only one of the above who is married. His wife was, before marriage, Flora Mae Griffin. They were married during the year 1928. The four Sangster sisters constitute one of the most wholesome and influential groups felt in the religious and social life of their community. Charlie Martin (born 1farch 18, 1882) died of influenza, October 20, 1918, while a soldier in the Company E, Third Infantry, United States Army, stationed ac Fort Sam Houston. Margaret Obedience l\fartin, only daughter of Caroline and John F. l\fartin, married H. H. \X'ilson (born January 9, 1828; died December 24, 1913), son of John and 1\-fary Ann Wilson of Belfast, Ireiand. The career of H. H. Wilson is interesting. It is said that he came from Ireland to Nova Scotia, in 1858, making the trip in a smalJ sailboat in which it took him three months co cross the Atlantic. Wilson went from Nova Scotia to Boston, where he visited with some aunts. He next went to New York City; thence to New Orleans, where he met his brother, John H. Wilson, with whom he came co Anderson, Grimes count}', h)' way of Galveston. Arriving at Anderson, the two brothers estab­ lished themsehres in the mercantile business. When the Civil \X.'ar started, H. H. Wilson joined the Confederate army and served with the rank of lieucnant in Company D, Eighth Texas Infantry, Walker's Division. In the year 1865, he married :Margaret Obedience Hadley, as stated above, by whom he had ten chil­ dren, namely: 1'fary Caroline (born December 12, 1866; died February 14, 1915 ), Arthur Hugh (born October 27. 1868), Walter T. (born October 12, 1871; died :May 27, 1927), Alice l\.Iabel (born 1874; died 1891), Hugh Cochran (born 1876; died 1879), H.B. (born October 6, 1878), Hugh l\f. (born June 13, 1880), l\·fargarec E. (born November 1, 1882), John (born 188S; died 1887), and Ethel H. (born January 14, 1890). l\fary Caroline Wilson never married. Arthur H. Wilson now lives at Navasota. He married Susan Boone, and a sketch of his familv wili be found in connection with the Boonc:s in foornort: numht:r 29-1 of this thesis. The late \X'altcr Wilson was a prominent physician at Navasota. He is survived by his widow, formerl}' Stella Ogilvy, and rhrcc sons, namd\': W. 0., Charles 0., and W. Tra,·is. \XI. 0. \Xlilson lives :11 Navasota wirh his wife, formt:"rly 1fary Sloan, and one son, Ogilvy (born Fc:b:-uarr 18, I 924). Charks 0. \X'ilson also livt:S ,!t Na,·~1s<•rai ~!nd has a wife (torcne Bachus before marriage) and smaJJ son, Charles, Junior. \'<'. TraYis \X'ilson is preparing himself for the mtdicai profession. Hugh B. 100 EARLY HISTORY OF GRI!\IES COUNTY

P., Paul 0., Ben J., and i\'1ollie. 1~s 1"he \\' riter has no infor- 1nation about Granchain H. Hadley, son of Joshua and Obe-

Wilson served in the United States army during the Spanish-American War, being dismissed after an injury caused by lightning stroke. It seems that he was sick with typhoid fever and was struck by lightning while being moved to a hospital. He afterward married Edith Lovejoy, daughter of Colonel J. Lovejoy. Both are now living at Dallas. They have three children, namely: Lester, H. T., and Virginia. Lester is married and living at Shreveport, Louisiana, and H. T. Wilson is also married and living in New York. Dr. Hugh 1'-f. Wilson, son of Margaret Obedience and H. H. Wilson, is now a physician at Navasora, Texas. Dr. Wilson was House surgeon at the J\.lissouri Pacific Hospital, in Palestine, Texas, from 1906 to 1909. In 1925, he did post graduate work in a medical school in New York, and later visited England and Ireland, raking advantage of the opportunity to visit the birthplace of his father, at Belfast, Ireland. It is to Dr. Hugh Wilson that the writer is indebted for the information given in this sketch of the Wilson family. ~Iargaret Wilson is now ~Irs. Sam Stovall of Navasota, Texas, and is the mother of two children, namely: Sam Wilson (born July 30, 1922), and Joe Hugh (born January 10, 1925). Ethel H. Wilson is now Mrs. M. E. Jones of Houston, Texas, and is the mother of three chjldren1 namely: Stella Wilson, Ray Lester ( died l\fay 30, 1929), and ~Iargarct Ethel. (Dr. Hugh J\f. Wilson to Mn. E. L. Bl,1fr, July 24, 1929; also l\fr.r. Sam Stoz·all to J\frs. E. L. Blair, July 24, 1929.) 1AAGibbs Hill now lives at Corpus Christi, Texas, and has a family but the write[ does not have the names of his wife and children. Allee Hill was the late l\,lrs. P. B. Jennings ( died about 1894) of Anderson, Texas. She is survived by her husband and five children, namely: Travis, Pleas, Juanita, Della, and Ellen. Travis Jennings lives at Anderson and has a wife and two children, Tra,·is, Junior, and a small daughter whose name the writer does not have. Pleas Jennings is unmarried and now lives with his father at Ander­ son. Juanita Jennings is now l\frs. Edgar Spurlock of Houston. Della Jennings is teaching in the Houston city schools. Ellen Jennings married and moved to Brazoria county where she died several years ago. The writer has no data on her family. Joshua P. Hill now lives in Greer county, Oklahoma. He is married, bur the writer has no data on his family. Paul 0. Hill was killed by a railroad accident at Corsicana, Texas, in I 8"'8, and left no family. Reuben P. Hill is now living with his third wife at Stoneham, Texas. He mar~·ied Lucy Harrison. sister of Hugh Harrison of Anderson, by whom he had two children, namely: Lilian and Mary. Reuben P. Hill's second wife, before her marriage, was Willie Cuthrell, daughter of J. W. Cuthrell of Roan's Prairie community. There -.vere three children by this marriage, namely: Roland Cuthrell (born September 28, 1900), Ida Mae (born June 21, 1902), and Claudia. The third wife of Reuben P. Hill (now living) was, before her marriage, Carrie Grant, daughter o_f J. T. Grant. There are no children by this marriage. Lillian Hill is now ~.frs. J. H. Stoneham of Stoneham, Texas. ~fary Hill is now l\frs. EARLY HISTORY OF GRI11ES COUNTY 101

1 dience Hadley. ':' His brother, I-Ienry F. Hadley, n1arried 1viinnie 1-Iooring, daughter of L. 1'1. lvlooring, and raised a family of five children, nan1ely: Joshua P., L. 1'1., C. G., Seth, 1 11 and Sallie. !' Joshua Hadiey, Junior, son of Joshua Hadley, Senior by his second \\·ife, ,vas a deaf 111ute. He died 1':farch 1 11 19, 1924, in Grin1es councy. ! The ,vriter has no data co11-­ cerning \Xfillia1n B. Hadley, brother to Joshua Hadley, Junior.

T. B. Viser of lvfadisonville, Texas. Roland C. Hill is living at Anderson, Texas, and served as county treasurer of Grimes county from 1924 to 1928. (See List of co11ntJ officers in appendix to this thesis.) He married Ruth Clayton of Bedias community, and they have a small son, Roland C. Hill, Junior. Ida Mae Hill is a member of the public school faculty at Abilene, Texas. Ben J. Hiil, son of Caroline and Oliver H. P. Hill, now resides at Navasota, Texas:- His wife was formerly 1'frs. Eva Ethridge, daughter of Gen. J. W. Barnes. They have three children, namely: Oliver, Eva, and Allen. Oliver Hill died while in the United States army during the World War. Eva is married and living in San Antonio, Texas. Allen is now living at Anderson, Texas. His wife is the daughter of Oscar Gooch of Navasota, Texas, and they have two small children. :Mollie Hill married J. T. Harrison of Anderson, Texas, and moved from Grimes county. The writer has no information about her family. ( J. G. Afc­ Dona/d to E. L. Blair and Roland C. Hill to E. L. Blah- .. July 23, 1928.) 1 9 1i Anthony D. Hadley, who resides near Cleburne, Texas, is a half-brother and should be able to give the information. uioJoshua P. Hadley, son of Henry F. Hadley, married J\.fattie Floyd (born !\lay 24, 1869), d.mghter of Jim Vernon and ~fary Floyd. They now reside in the Roan's Prairie community of Grimes county, and are parents of two children, namely: Eleanor (born September 22, 1891), and Birdie (born December 7, 1892). Eleanor Hadley is now l\irs. J. S. Smith of the Roan's Prairie community of Grimes county, and is the mother of one son, Jarrell. Berdie Hadley is now Mrs. P. V. Fuqua of Roan's Prairie community in Grimes county, and is the mochcr of three small children, namely: J. P. ( born March 10, I 919), Floyd (born December 27, 1921 ), and Percy (born December 19, 1923 ). (Doris floJd 10 E. L. Blair .. June 2, 1929.) Lou M. Hadley, brother to Joshua P. Hadley, married l\fabd Sumners, anJ live at Fon Worth, Texas, with his wife and two childrc:n, Hall, a son, and a daughter whose name the writer does not havt. C. G. Hadley is single and living ac Fon Worth, Texas. Seth Hadley is aiso single and living at Baird, Texas. Sallie Hadie~• is now 1'1rs. Spencer l\1ayfield of the state of Florida. She has one son by the name of Henry. ( Afr..-. A1auie 1-J,zdleJ to E. L. Bh1ir_. July 23, 1929.) 1 11 i ,lfr..-. 1\f.111ie Hadley to E. L. Blair_. July 23, 1929. 102 EARLY HISTORY OF GRIMES COUNTY

Anthony D. Hadley, youngest son of Joshua and Joyce Had­ ley, is no\v living near Cleburne, Texas, and has raised a large family. The \vriter has no information about the mem­ 1 1 bers of this fan1ily. ! ~ John Harris.-John Harris came to Texas f ro1n the state of Tennessee. His land application is dared in February of 1831 and shovvs hin1 to have been t\.venry-rhree years old and unmarried. 1 !l:, His grant ,vas for one-quarter league, sin1a­ ted several miles northeast of the present tO\Vn of Anderson, in Grimes county, patent to ,vhich ,vas dated, October 16, 1832.1:••1 This tract of land ,vas sold by John B. Harris to lvlitchell Kennard, Noven1bcr 27, 1834. j!l:-, John Harris mar­ ried Virginia Goodrich, a daughter of Benja1nin Briggs Good­ rich. t% The family lived for a time at Alta ~lira ( now

1112 1\frs. lvlattie HadleJ 10 E. L. Bl.:1fr, July 23, 1929. rn:1Land Applications, 89, in the General Land Office of Texas, at Austin, Texas. isu.Abstract of Texas Land Titles, I, 604. 11 1 ~ Transcribed Deed Records of Montgomer,· Coumy, Volume 83, 246-24 7. 100Qixon, Sam Houston, "Men Who Made Texas," Hou.;ton Chronicle, April, 1923. Benjamin Griggs Goodrich (born 1799, in Brunswick county, Virginia) was the son of John Goodrich and the grandson of the John Goodrich who served as lieutenant in the Fourth Virginia Battalion during the American Revo­ lutionary War. He was descendant of Zacheus Goodrich who came to America from Scotland in 171 S. As a small child Benjamin Briggs Goodrich was taken with his parents from Virginia to Tennessee, where he grew into manhood and was given an academic education. He later graduated from a medical college in Baltimore and began the practice of medicine there. Returning co Tennessee, he went, thence, to Mississippi and practiced medicine for a rime near Vicksburg: going, thence, to Tuscaloosa, Alabama; thence, ro Tallahassee, Florida; thence b.1ck to Alabama, ,vhcrc he served one term in che Legislature of char state. From Alabama, ht came to Texas, in 1833, and settled in what is now Grimes county, in what was then known as the Eureka community, near the present rown of An

Anderson) ,vhere John Harris ,vas engaged in the n1ercan­ rilc business. They afterward moved to Houston, Texas, where John Harris died about sixty years ago. John and Vir­ ginia Harris had three children, namely: John G., Ben, and },fary. w:- There ,vere many Harris's in Austin's colony, and they are n1entioned in ntunerous connections in the Austin Papers, ho,vever, the \\' ricer has been unable co find any men­ tion of John B. Harris. u•s le seems, also, impossible to show that the John B. Harris, of Grimes county, was related to rhe Harris' s of Harrisburg. John B. Harris ,vent to Harris­ burg ro live, ho\vever, and in the minds of 1nany, he is thought ro have been closely related to these pioneer Harris's of that vicinity. Jacob Hays.-The v.·ricer finds no information in the Ap­ plication for Land concerning Jacob Hays. There is a grant for one league to him, situated in Grimes county a fe,v 111iles southwest of the present ro,vn of Anderson, patent ro ,vhich

\'ention that met at Washington, ~!arch 1, 1836. (Gammel, Laws of Texas, I, 1085.) In both he was a strong advocate for separation from Mexico. He signed the Declaration of Independence, an took an active part in the prepa­ racion of the first Constitution. ( Gammel, Lau,.r of T exaJ, I, 824.) Benjamin B. Goodrich married Serena Crothers, from the state of Kentucky. They had nine children, namely: Ben (died February 21, 1923), John (died 1851), Virginia, Serena, Eugenia, Elizabeth, ~Iary Rhoda, Briggs ( died 1889), and William. Mrs. W. C. Gibson of Navasota, Texas, is a daughter of Eugenia Goodrich. ur:Ben Pearce to E. L. Blair, dated at Navasota, Texas, June 6, 1929. John G. Harris married a woman by the name of Lou, but left no children. Ben Harris married Susie Boyd, from lfississippi. They had one daughter, Susie, who now lives in Philadelphia. Her husband is said to be an educator, but the writer does not know the name. Ben Harris's second wife was Ida Ehinger, sister of Mrs. V/. C. Preston, now of Fort Worth, Texas, where Ida also resides. l\tlary Harris married B. H. Barnes, formerly a merchant at Fort Worth. They had cwo daugh­ teis, namely: Ruth, now 11rs. Harvey Hubbard of Louisvilie, Kentucky; and Florence, who died young. 19'1Barker, The Arutin Papers, in the Annual Report of the American Hi.rtorical Association for 19 I 9 and 1922. 104 EARLY HISTORY OF GRilvlES COUNTY

,vas dated April 8, 1831. HH• This land ,vas sold, J\,Iay 1 S~ 1834, 20 to James Dar,vin, and no heirs ,vere mentioned. " Francis Holland.-In 1822 Francis Holland conducted a large group of relatives f ro1n Louisiana into ~,hat is now Gri1nes county, Texas. Following the old Coshatte Trace, they came upon the log houses belonging to Andre"r ~Iilli­ can, on the southwest side of Ten Mile creek. Francis Hol­ land bought all the improvements from 1'1illican, and located his league along both banks of the creek. The ocher mem­ bers of this group of imn1igrants ,vere William Holland, whose family consisted of his wife and three daughters; 1'1rs. Mary Peterson, sister to Francis and \Xf illiam Holland, and her rwo sons; John and Wesley Fisher, each of ,vhon1 had a family. All of the group, except John Fisher, settled in this vicinity. 201 Francis Holland from the beginning par• ticipated in the public affairs of his new state. He served several terms as alcalde for his district, ,vhich ,vas then some­ 20 \vhat larger than the present county of Gri1nes. :? In Decem. her! 1830, he was elected comisario for the precinct of Viesca. 203 In 1832, his house \Vas one of the three designated polling places for the precinct of Viesca, and Francis Holland ,vas the presiding election judge.w., In 1832 he ,vas a dele-

109AbJt1"act of Texas Land Title.r, I, 604. 200Tran.rc,-ibed Deed Reco,.ds of Afontgomtr)' Count)'., Volume 8\ 226. 201Zube~·, lf/', P., to B1,ffington, dated at Iola, Texas, June 26, 1903. 2 2 " Zube,· to B11ffingto111 dated at Iola, Texas, June 26, 1903. 203Barker, "1.·linutes of the Ayuntamiemo of S:1.n Felipe de Austin,'· 5,,,mh:,yr:­ ern Historical Qua,-tedJ., XXIII, 214. 20 "lbid ... XXIV, 161. The other two voting places in rhis precinct -.•.-crt: tht houses of \Valter Sutherland (presided over by Jt::ss<: Grimc-s L arid t::c houst of Frelk Rankin ( presided over by l\t H<.-rbcrc). The house of Fr~?.~ci :-i Hol­ land had been a voting place as early as No\'c:mber 2,, 1829, and wJ.s ihe1: presided over by Jesse Grimes. (Barker, "!!inures of che Ayunrami~nro of San Felipe de Aus_tin," Southu·estern Historic,1/ Qll:1rlerly. XXI, 4 J 5.) EARLY HISTORY OF GRIMES COUNTY 105

2 5 gare ro the convention that n1et at San Felipe de Austin. <• His death in 1834 prevented his participation in the Texas Revolution. That he would have been ready and willing co serve in a n1ilirary capacity may be inferred from the fact rhat he is named as second sergeant in the first militia organ~ ized in the n1unicipality of Austin, March 21, 1829. The active part Francis Holland played in Austin's colony may be appreciated by an examination of the Austin 20 correspondence. <; The wife of Francis Holland ,vas formerly a Miss Buck, and she was a sister to the ,vife of William Holland. They had six children, namely: James, Tapley, Frank, William, Susie, and Nancy. The four boys were all dead by 1838, and left no descendants. The youngest, \Villiam, died in 1834, ~s did his father and mother. In 1836, the orher rhree boys volunteered for the Texas army, and participated in rhe acrivicies around Bexar and Concepcion, wh_ere James contracted measles, ,vhich seeded in his lungs. Fiank accon1panied hin1 home where he died in the fall of 1836.:w 7 Tapley remained in the army and died in the Alamo, 1·1arch 6, 1836. 208 In the spring of 1838, Frank ,vas killed by Indians ,vhile on a surveying expedition. He was killed ,vhile he and nvo ocher 1nernbers of the party \vere hunting ga1ne. 20!' Susan Holland, daughter of Francis, married William Bur-

=00Gammel, Lau•s of Texa.r. I, 497. :o,;Barker, The Au.rtin Pape,-.1, in the Annru,l Report of the American Historical Ar.•·ociarion for 1919_. II, 739,772, and 1552. iorzuber 10 Buffington_. dated at Iola, Texas, June 26, 1903, also W. T. Schu­ machr:-,- to E. L. Blair_. dated at Heith, Texas, June 18, 1928. I\fr. W. T. Schu­ macher is a descendant of Francis Holland. 2111!\X'illiams, Amelia, The Siege and Fall of the ltlamo_. 200. 1\-frs. Williams gin:s the name of Tapley Holland, age twenty-four, listed from Grimes county, Texas. 2(1'.•z11her to Buffington_. dated at Iola, Texas, June 26, 1903. 106 EARLY HISTORY OF GRIMES COUNTY ney. 210 Nancy, the ocher daughter of Francis Holland, mar­ ried William Berryman.211 William Holland.-As stated above, William Holland came to Texas from Louisiana, with his brother Francis, in 1822. He established his headright league in the same vicinity, patent to which ,vas dated August 10, 1824. 212 Both William and his wife ( sister to the wife of Francis) died soon after their arrival (Zuber thinks in 1833), leaving three daughters, namely: Katie (died about 1886, buried at Iola, Texas), Sarah (born August, 1818; died about 1844), and a third, whose name the writer does not have. Both Katie and Sarah married and reared large families. 213

211)Zuber Jo Buffington, dated at Iola, Texas, June 26, 1903; W. T. Schumacher to E. L. Blair, dated at Keith, Texas, June 18, 1928. For more information re­ regarding Susan, see William Burney, index. 2111bid., William Berryman and Nancy Holland had three children, namek: William ( died young), John ( died single), and Susan ( died September 4, 1859) married Henry Schumacher ( 1858) and was the mother of one son, W. T. Schumacher (born June 4, 1859), who now resides at Keith, Grimes county, ,and to whom the writer is indebted for assistance in preparing this record. The above heirs of Susan Berryman are also found listed in ch· Probate Minutes of Grimes Count)', T. 463. 212Abstrac1 of Texas Land Titles, I, 604. 213Katie Holland married three times. . Her .first husband was a man by the name of McDowell. The writer thinks, but has been unable to prove, that this was the M. McDowell who patented land in Grimes county, October 5, 1835. Mc­ Dowell and Katie had two children, namely: Sam and Elizabeth ( Betsie). The second husband of Katie Holland was John Treadwell, by whom she gave birth to one son, John. Katie later married William Cobb, by whom she had four chil­ dren, namely: Henry, Frank, Thomas, and Robert. Concerning the children of Katie Holland, it is known that Elizabeth ( Betsie) married Plummer Franklin ( 1854), by whom she had nine children, namely: Alice, now Mrs. Gus Roberson of Iola, Texas; Barbara, now Mrs. J. D. Maxwell of Iola, Texas; Mattie, the late Mrs. W. P. Hogue of Iola, Texas; James; Tom, now :esiding at Bryan, Texas; Jim; Jeff; Harrison, commonly known as "Sugg"; Howell, married Emma :Moore and is now dead. ( Mrs. /t.fary McCary to E. L. Blair, dated at Iola, Texas, July 2, 1928.) John Treadwell, son of Katie and John Treadwell, married Leovenia Ariola, daughter of Mesamore Ariola. The writer has no information about their family. Henry Cobb, son of Katie and William Cobb, married a Miss Grissett, daughter of Charlie' Grissett. Both Henry and his wife were drowned in Bell EARLY HISTORY OF GRI~fES COUNTY 107

James Holland.-The "'ricer assumes that the Jarnes Hol­ land ,vho secured a quarter league grant of land, patent to which ,vas dated .A.pril 7, 1831, situated bec,veen Navasota and Anderson, in Grimes county, is one and the sa1ne as the James Holland, son of Francis Holland, who died of measles county, Texas, a few years ago. Frank Cobb married Cally Barrett, daughter of Charlie Barrett, by whom six children were born, namely: Charlie, now of Hous­ ton, Texas; Ida Mae, now Mrs. John Franklin; Jesse; Arthur and Katie. Thomas married b-faggia Gayle (both now dead), by whom he had seven children, all of whom are now living but one; they are, namely: Will, now of Houston, Texas; Ed, now at Cross, Grimes county, Texas; Walter, now at Concord, Texas; Julia, now Mrs. Martin Stone of Cross, Texas; Susie, the late Mrs. Dolphus Sherfield of Cross, Texas; Maggie, now Mrs. Wallie Hicks of Houston, Texas; Clara, now Mrs. Charlie Mize of Iola, Texas. ( McCra)' to Blair, dated at Iola, Texas, July 2, 1928.) Sarah Holland, the other daughter of William Holland, married W. H. Grissett (born August, 1814; died 1844), by whom she had two sons, namely: John (born 1838), William Holland ( born December, 1841). John Grissett lost his life while a prisoner during the Civil War. Mrs. Josephine Grissect of North Zukh, Texas, tells that he was with a squad of prisoners who, having been marched for three days without water, came to a stream and were forbidden to drink; whereupon, John Grissett, disregarding the order, fell down and began co drink, and as a result was shot while thus drinking. ( l\1.rs. Josephine G,·iuetl 10 E. L. Blair, dated ac North Zulch, July 28, 1928.) William Holland Grissett enlisted in the Confederate army at the age of nineteen. According to Mrs. Jose­ phine Grissett (his widow), he was a member of Green's Brigade, fifth regiment, Cloud's company of cavalry. It is said that he was with the first group of troops co be enlisted from Grimes county. At the close of the war, he married ( 1865) Miss Josephine Mciver (born January 3, 1848), daughter of Dave and Nancy Ann }.{elver. William Holland and Josephine Grissett had nine children, namely: Nettie, Dave F., Ella, John, Thomas, Ophelia, Lizzie, Gooch, and Willie. Con­ cerning these children of William H. Grissett, it is known that Nettie died April 20, 1906; she was then Mrs. T. H. Wrenn. There were no children. Dave F. Grissett married ( 1895) Katherine Lambert, and they now ( 1929) reside at Trinity, Texas, with their two children, C. R. and Thelma. lvfary Ella is now Mrs. F. M. Bell of North Zulch, Texas, and is the mother of four children, namely; Ella b--fae, David F., Cara Maurine, and Nettie Afaurita. J. M. Grissett died (unmarried) on June 30, 1915. W. T. Grissett died in early childhood. Ophelia is now Mrs. J. D. Darby of Iola, Texas, and is the mother of one son, Harold B. Lizzie Fay now resides near Dallas, Texas. Of the other children, the ~·riter has no information. (All of the information regarding the Grissetts was given to the writer by Mrs. Josephine Grissett of North Zulch in a letter dated Jul}' 28, 1928.) 108 EARLY HISTORY 01:;- GRI:MES COUNTY in the fall of 1836. :?H His application for land \\",~S dared 1824, and in it, he gives his age as t,venty-one years, and savs 21 that he came to Texas from Ohio. :; • Patrick C. Jack.-The Jack f an1il y was one of the manv Irish families who came co America during the colonial period and quickly developed into typical pioneers. Patrick Jack (born September 19, 1700, at Derry Ireland; died in l i85, at Charlotte, North Carolina), the son of a Patrick Jack (born at Edinburg, Scotland, December 3, 1678; died 1726), and the grandson of Jacob Jack. He (Patrick Jack) came to America from Ireland about 1730,2m and at the con1mencemenr of the Revolutionary War was living in the little town of Charlotte, Mecklenburg county, North Carolina, ,vhere he and his son, Captain James Jack, owned the most valuable lots of rhe town. They resided, ,vhen the delegates from the n1ilitary districts of the county assembled on the nineteenth and twen­ tieth of May, 1775, on the corner next to the court house, and ,kept a public house of entertainment. Here Patrick died during the latter part of, or immediately follo,\;ing the Ameri­ 211 can Revolution. His wife ,vas formerly l\,iiss Lille l\-1cAdoo1

2"Ab.rtract I.And Title.r_. I, 604. Zuber to Buffington, dated at Iola, Texas, June 26, 1903. 211 Application for Land, 55. General Land Office Records, at Austin, Texas. The only thing that makes the writer think that there is a possibility of this James Holland not being the son of Francis Holland, is the fact that he sars thar he came from Ohio, while, according to Zuber, the other Hollands came frorr. Louisiana. It could very easily be, however, that the Hollands came from Obie to Louisiana, or that Zuber was mistaken. 218 /. V. Thompson to Mr.r. W. W. Lott, June 22, 1927. 211Captain Guy Jack's "lconoclast"-B.iographical Sketch. This was furnished the writer by Dr. Lovett, President of Rice Institute, Houston, Texas. Dr. Lovett's wife is indirectly related to the Jack family. The foHowing is a quora­ tion from the Sketch by Captain Guy Jack:

"One the 26th day ot September, 1780, Lord Cormnllis, elated ""ith the ,·,c:rnry ai Camden, entered Charlotte, with che confident expectation of soon restoring ~onh Carolina co che British crown. Captain Jack (Patrick) was chcn an old and 1r.firm man, having give.e up che chief control of his public house to his son. Cir:. Ja:nes EARLY HISTORY OF GRIMES COUNTY 109 also of Irish descent, and they had a large family, consisting of four sons and five daughters, namely: James, John, Rob­ ert, San1uel, Charity, Jane, Ivlary, l\,fargaret, and Liliis. 218 Of chese children, ,ve are here primarily interested in James Jack, for it \Vas his great-grand-sons ,vho came to Texas in 1831. The following quotation i~ taken from Captain Guy Jack's "Iconoclast." The faces here given indicate very clearly the important part played by James Jack during the A1nerican Revolutionary period:

"At the convention of delegates in Charlotte on the 19th and 20th of May, 1775, Captain James Jack was one of the deeply interested spectators, and shared in the patriotic feel in gs of chat ever memorable occasion. He was then about 40 years of age~-brave, energetic and ready co engage in any duty having for its object the welfare and independence of his country. "For his well-known bravery and decermin~tion of character he was selected to be the bearer of the Mecklenburg declara­ tion of Independence to Congress, then in session in Phila­ delphia, Penn. He set out from Charlotte on that long, lone­ some and perilous journey on horseback. . . . "Upon his arrival he immediately obtained an interview with the North Carolina delegates ( Caswell, Hooper and Hughes) , and drew from his pocket, the Mecklenburg resolution of May the 20th, 1775, and handed them ,vith the remark, 'Here, Gentlemen, is a paper chat I have been instructed to deliver to you, with the request that you should lay the same before Congress.·

Jack; buc neither age nor infirmity could enlist the sympathies of che British soldiery. The patriotic character ot chc house had become excensively known through Tory information, and ics destruction was consequently, a 'foregone conclusion.' The Brit­ ish soldiers removed ics aged owner trom che teacher bed upon \\'hich he was lying, emptied its contents inro the streec. and then sec fire co the house. The re:1son as­ signed for chis incendiary ace was, 'ail of old Jack's sons were in the rebel army.' "

218 /. V. Thomp.ron to 1\fr.r. W. W. Lott, dated June 22, 1927. Both J. V. Thompson and Mrs. W. W. Lott are descendants of the:: Patrick Jack mentioned above. This letter is written as a result of investigation made by J. V. Thomp­ son. 110 EARLY HISTORY OF' GRIJ\fES COUNTY

"After the North Carolina delegates had carefully read the Mecklenburg resolutions and approved of their patriotic semi­ men ts so forcibly expressed, they informed Captain Jack that they did not think Congress was prepared to ace upon so impor­ tant a matter as absolute independence. "Captain Jack had another interview with the North Caro­ lina delegates. They infor med him that they had consulted with several members of the Congress, including Hancock, Jay and Jefferson, and that they all agreed while they greatly ap­ proved of the patriotic spirit of the Mecklenburg resolutions, it would be, in their judgment, pre1nature to lay them officially before the House, as they still entertained some hopes of a reconciliation with England. "Captain Jack finding the darling object of his long and toil­ some journey could not then be accomplished, and that Congress was not then ready to vote on so bold a matter as absolute independence, just before leaving Philadelphia for home, some­ what excited, addressed the North Carolina delegates and several ocher members of Congress in the following patriotic words: 'Gentlemen: You may debate here about reconciliation and memorialize your King, but bear it in mind, 1'1eck]enburg, owes nq allegiance to, and is separated from the Crown of Great Britain forever.' "Captain Jack entered the service in command of a company and acted in that capacity with distinguished bravery through­ out the war under Colonels Polk, Alexander and ocher officcrs. He uniformly declined promotion when tendered, there being strong reciprocal attachment between himself and his command, which he highly appreciated and did not wish to sunder. A( the commencement of the war he was in 'easy and rather affluem circu1nstances'-at its close con1paracively a poor 111an. Prompted by patriotic feelings for the .final prosperity of his country still struggling for independence, he loaned te the state of North Carolina, in her great pecuniary need S20,ooo.oo for which unfortunately, he nor any descendant of his, has eYtr betn paid a cent in return.''

1·he \\'ricer does nor vouch for the authenticity of ~he state- EARLY HISTORY O.F GRIMES COUNTY 111 ments made in the above quotation. Soon after the close of the Revolutionary War, Captain James Jack moved from Charlotte, North Carolina, to Wilkes county, Georgia. In 1813 and 1814, he was living in Elbert county, Georgia. He married (November 20, 1766) Miss 1'1argaret Houston by whom he had five children, nan1ely: Cynthia (born Septem­ ber 20, 1767), Patrick (born Septe1nber 27, 1769), \Xiillia1n Houston (born June 6, 1771), Archibald (born April 20, 17i3), and James (born September 20, 1775).219 Patrick Jack, eldest son of Ja1nes and Margaret Jack, served in the United States army during the ,var of 1812 ,vith rank of colonel, and ,vas in command of the Eighth Regitnenc, United States Infantry, stationed at Savannah, Georgia. It is said that he frequently represented the county of Elbert in the 220 Senate of North Carolina. Patrick .,Tack was the father of eight children, six sons and two daughters, of whom the writer has the names of four, namely: Patrick, Junior, Wil­ liam H., James W. (the eldest), and Archibald (born Novem­ ber 14, 1819; died March 14, 1833).221 Patrick Jack (son

221Mrs. W. W. Lott to E. L. Blair, dated July 1, 1928, at Navasota, Texas. The oldest son of Archibald Churchill Jack was Samuel M. Jack (born March 13, 1848; died July, 12, 1913) who married Miss C~rrie DeMaret (born January 12, 1853; died January 12, 1899), daughter of Captain Edgar Del\{aret, by whom he had five children, namely: Archie DeMaret (born September 22, 1875) now at Tulsa, Oklahoma; Clara Belle ( born March 29, 1881), now Mrs. \V/. W. Lott of Navasota, Texas; Edgar, now at Darby, Pennsylvania; Elice Navarre (born May 30, 1888), now Mrs. H. W. Steele of Houston, Texas; and Cornelia (born December 31, 1894), now Mrs. James W. Trotter of Amarillo, Texas. 218j. V. Thompson to M,·s. W. W. Lott, dated June 22, 1927; Wheeler, A. H., lo E. L. Blair, April 27, 1929, in which is a copy of a part of Captain Guy Jack's "Iconoclast." 220A. H. Wheel,i,· to E. L. Blafr, dated at Houston, Texas, April 27, 1929. Wheeler is secretary to President Lovett of Rice Institute, and in this letter in­ closed a lengthy quotation from Captain Guy Jack's "Iconoclast," in which is given a biographical skerch of the Jack family, to whom 1\frs. Dr. Lovett is in­ directly related. Also, J. V. Thompson to Mrs. U7 . W. Lott, dated June 22, 1927. Mrs. W. W. lott is a granddaughter of the Archibald ChurchiH Jack, men­ tioned above, and now resides at Navasota, Texas. 112 EARLY HISTORY OF GRIMES COUNTY of Patrick Jack) married a Miss Spencer by ,vhom he had six sons, namely: James, William H., Patrick C., Spencer H., Abner, and Churchill. Three of these boys, Wrillian1 H., 22 Patrick C., and Spencer H., came to Texas in i830. :! \Villiam H. Jack (born April 12, 1806; died of yellow fever in Gal­ veston, Texas, August 24, 1844) was reared and educated in Georgia, graduating from the University of that state in 1827. Having studied law, he began the practice of sa1ne at Tuscaloosa, Alabama, in 1828, and, in the following year, was elected a member of the Alabama state Legislature. In 1830, he established himself at San Felipe de Austin, Texas, ,vhere he continued his profession. When Patrick C. Jack, and others, were imprisoned at Anahuac, in 1832, William H. Jack organized a party for their release. William Jack is said to be the author of the c•Turtle Bayou Resolutions." He joined the Texas army in 1835, and served in the Battle of San Jacinto in 1836 as a private soldier.223 William H. Jack was appointed Secretary of State in Burnet's cabinet, serving until October, 1836, after which he was a member of the lower house of the First Congress of the Republic of Texas. I-le later served in the Senate of the Seventh and Eighth Congresses, being Chairman of the Judiciary Com­ mittee. 224 William H. Jack married Laura Harrison, sister to James T. Harrison, of Columbus, Mississippi, the la\vyer whom President Davis selected to defend him in 1865. Three

222Captain Guy Jack's "Iconoclast," also, Fulmore, The Histo1J and GeographJ of Texas as Told in County Names, 186-188. 223Fulmore, HiJtory and Geography of Texas as Told in Co11nty Na11zes! 186- 188. Index of Texas Revolutionary Soldiers, in the State Libra1y, Austin, Tcx~1s. He is here listed as being under Captain Patton, Fourth Company, Second Regi­ ment, Texas Volunteers. :.24Ibid. EARLY HISTORY OF GRIMES COUNTY 113 children ,verc born ro \\1 illian1 H., and Laura Jack, na1nely: 2 Hallie, Laura, and Thomas jyf. ~:i Patrick C. Jack (brother to \Villiam H. Jack) is the only member of the Jack family to own land in what is now Grimes county. His one-quarter league grant is situated in the vicinity of the present to,vn of Anderson and was patented 2 April 6, 1831. :rn His application is dated in April, 1831, in Vil'hich it is seen that he ,vas then twenty-four years old, 2 7 single, and from the state of .l\.labama. :? It seems that he had been practicing lav., in Jefferson county, Alabama, for three years prior to his coming to 'fexas. The writer has found no record of Patrick C. Jack ever having resided within the present limits of Grimes county. Upon his arrival in Texas, he located, first at Anahuac, and later at San Felipe de Austin. His imprisonment at Anahuac, as a result of his protest against the conduct of Bradburn, and his subsequent release by armed Texans, is ,veil kno,vn to all students of Texas history. When the Revolution began, in 1835, he promptly volunteered and con1manded a company during the storming of Bexar. In December, he was elected to the lower house of the Second Congress of the Republic of Texas (1838- 1839) and, in 1841, ,vas appointed District Judge of the Sixth

225Captain Guy Jack's "Iconoclast." Laura married Guy M. Bryan (he was a member of Congress before the Civil War, and Speaker of the House in Texas, 1875) and they have a son, Guy M. Bryan, now residing at Houston, Texas. Hallie married W. P. Ballinger, who then resided at Galveston, Texas. A daughter, Mrs. Dr. Edward Randall, is now living at Galveston, Texas. Colonel Thomas M. Jack graduated in law from Yale University; served on the Staff of General Albert Sidney Johnston during the Civil War. After the Civil War Colonel Thomas M:. Jack resided at Galveston, Texas, where he practiced law as a member of the firm of Ballinger, Jack, and lvlott. 2'l6Abstract of Texas Land Titles .. I, 604. Gu}' M. Jack says that the three Jack Brothers came to Texas in 1831. Fulmore, however, says that Patrick C. came in 1832. 221Applicatio11 for Land .. 95. Of record in the General Land Office, Austin, Texas. 114 EARLY HISTORY OF GRIMES COUNTY

District of Texas, in ,vhich position he ,vas serYing ,vi1en he ,vas striken with yello,v fever, from which he died in Hous­ ton, Texas on August 4, 1844.228 The ·writer has no record of the family of Patrick C. Jack, but understands that Harry 22 1 Jack, of Corsicana, Texas, is a descendanr. t The other Jack brother, Spencer H., who came to Texas ,vith \Viliiam H., and Patrick C., died young and left no descendants.230 Isaac Jackson.-The writer has been unable to gee compre­ hensive information concerning the family of the Isaac Jack­ son who, with his wife, Simantha (possibly Samantha), made application for land in Texas under date of December, 1827. In his application, he stated that he was thirty-two years of age, and that his wife ,vas ihirry, and that they came to Texas from Ohio. No children are given.231 He ,vas granted one league, situated in the south,vestern part of ,vhat is now Grimes county, along the east bank of the Brazos river, patent 2 to which was dated August 7, 1824. :i:? (There is evidently an error in these dates, as his application was not made until 1827), It is said that Isaac Jackson was born in Alabama, and that, as a young man, he served with General i\ndrew Jackson, in th~ battle of New Orleans. He ,vas knO\\'n to his friends as ''Old Hickory" because of the above experi­ ences. The writer finds nothing to indicate chat Isaac Jackson

228Fulmore, Hhtory and Geography of Texas as Told in Count; Name.;, 186- 188. Captain Guy M. Jack's "Iconoclast.'' M,·.r. W. W. Lott to E. L. Blair, dated July 1, 1928. The writer finds it claimed by some that Patrick C. Jack was in the Battle of San Jacinto, but his name does not appear on the ro1l known as The Index of Texas Revolutionary Soldiers_. of record in the State library, Austin, Texas. 129.1\.frs. W. W. Lott to E. L. Blair, dated July 1, 1928. 230lbid. "'s'Application for Land, 63. General Land Office of Texas, at Austir,. 232 Abstract of Te:ra.r Land Title1 1 I, 604. EARLY HISTORY OF GRIJ\fES COUNTY 115 was related to the family of the fan1ous Andre,v Jackson_:?:i:i Seven chiidren \\'ere born to Isaac and Sin1ancha Jackson, namely: Elbert, Henry, Isaac, Job, lv[archa, Lettie, and another whose name the \\'ricer does nor have, kno,vn by her nick-name ··Puss''. 2=~-i There are many references in the Austin Papers co Jacksons in Texas, but the ,vriter finds in rhen1 no mention of Isaac Jackson of Gri1nes county. Job and Isaac, sons of Isaac and Simantha Jackson, served in Company G, Fourth Regiment of Hood's Texas Brigade, during the Civil 23 War. Job lose his right leg at the battle of Sharpsburg. :;

mH. T. Tucker to E. L. Blafr, dated at Plantersville, Texas, August 1, 1928. Mr. H. }. Tucker was personally acquainted with the sons of Isaac Jackson. ~H. T. T11cker to E. L. Blair, dated at Plantersville, Texas, August 1, 1928. Elbert Jackson committed suicide and left no heirs. Henry Jackson mar­ ried Henrietta Tims about 1857, but left no children. Isaac Jackson, Junior, married Mrs. Harry Allford, formerly M:iss Thaney Roberts, daughter of Green Roberts; there were no children. Job Jackson died unmarried. Mar­ tha Jackson married Walter White and moved to Brazos county. Mr. Tucker knows of no descendants. Lettie Jackson married Marshall Stephenson, by whom she had eight children, namely: Jesse ( died in San Antonio about 1885), Mar­ shall ( died in the nineties, unmarried), Sarah, Zilla, James, Bart, Jeff, and William M. Concerning these children of Lettie and Marshall Stephenson, ic is known that they all died unmarried except Sarah, Zilla, Jeff, and William H. Sarah married Tom Winfrey and they moved to San Antonio. Zilla (found also as Dilla) married Cyrus Williams and moved to .Milam county (J\.Irs. Ella Stephenson says that she thinks they moved to Milam county) where they raised a large family. Jeff Stephenson is said to be now living in San Antonio, Texas. He has two sons, namely: Dan, now Jiving near Wharton, Texas; and Walter, now living in ':alifornia. William H. _Stephenson married Ella Hunt, daughter of Leslie Hunt. Mrs. Ella Stephenson now resides at Plantersville, Texas, and it is to her the writer is indebted for most of the information given above. She has four children now living, namely: William, now married and living at Plantersville, Texas. (1-Iis wife was formerly Miss Carry Chandler) ; Baker, who married Helen Goodman, and now resides at Plantersville; Earnest, now residing at PlantersvilJe; and Ella, now l\frs. Bletch of Goose Creek, Texas. "Puss," the youngest daughter of Isaac and Simantha Jackson, married a man by the name of Perry and moved to another section of the stare. Jl,fr.r. Ella Stephen..-on to E. L.

Blair1 dated at Plantersville, Texas, August 1, 1928. ::r.Al:t.rt<:r Roll of Fottrth Regimc-111. Comp::m; G, ll

Timothy Jones.-The writer has no data regarding 1·in1orhr Jones other than \vhat is given by his land application. This sho,vs that he was then 1narried, his ,vife's name being Gen­ net, and had a family of seven children, three sons and four daughters. The application also sho,vs that he came to Texas f ron1 Kentucky, and chat Timothy ,vas a farn1er by occupation. His application ,vas dated in April, 1835.~=rn I-Iis grant was for one league, situated in the northern pare of the present county of Grimes, patent to which ,vas dated October 24, 183 S. 2=n No 1nention is found of a Timothy Jones in the 2 18 Austin Papers. = Anthony D. Kennard.-The Kennard family was one of Scorch origin, and came to America from Scotland during the colonial period. The \vriter has no information about the family prior to the arrival of Anthony D. Kennard in Texas about 1832. His application for land is of record in the General Land Office of Texas, but no date is given. This application sho,vs Anthony D. Kennard to have been forty­ five ~ars old, and his wife, Sarah, to have been forty-t,vo years of age. They then had seven children, and are listed as having 23 come to Texas from Arkansas. n They ,vere granted one

238 App/ications f o,- Land, 21. Of record in the General Land Office, at Austin. Texas. 31 -.: Abstract of Texas Land Titles, l, 604. 38 :i Barker, The Au.rtin Papen, Annual Report of the Americ(m HiJtorical A'i?· ciation for 1919, II. The writer finds mention of a Henry Jones, pages 773 anJ 1454; James Jones, page 1055; James W. Jones, page 748; John Jones, pagei 773, 782, 830, 938, 39, and 340; John Rice Jones, pages 29, 32, 39, and in mJny other connections; Oliver Jones, 1306 and in several other places; Randal Jones, pages 749, 760, 809, and elsewhere; Ronald Jones, page 924; William Jones. pages 1515 and 1600. 23PApplication for Land, 29. General Land Office of Texas, at Austin, Texas. The land applications show Kennard to have come to Texas from Arkansas; hii descendants, however, insist that he came from Alabama; he possibl}' moved fro:r. Alabama to Arkansas, and then to Texas. Zube,- to Lubbock, dated February 25. 1899, and published in the Proceedings of the Texas Veterans, 1899, 10. EARLY HISTORY OF GRJ11ES COUNTY 117 league of land, situated about eight 1niles northeast of the present to,vn of Anderson, in Grin1es county, patent to ,vhich was dated, November 22, 1832.:.!"' 0 The Kennard men ap­ parently took little interest in the political affairs of the colony, but participated actively in the military actiYities of the period. Anthony D. Kennard served in the Texas arn1y on an Indian campaign in 1835, in Captain Coleman's Com­ pany, of Colonel John H. Moore's Regiment. Four of An­ thony D. Kennard's sons ,vere in rhe Texas arn1y during the revolution against Mexico, nan1ely: \Villiam E., A. D., l\'1ark L., and Mike. it:.?-u Anthony D. and Sarah Kennard had eight children, namely: ~1ark L. (born July 24, 1821 in Alaba1na; died April 23, 1897, at Roan's Prairie, Grimes county), ~!il­ liam E. (born July 16, 1815; died February 14, 1899, at Cleburne, Texas), A. D., ~-:like l\'L, John R., Rachel, Virginia, and cwo other daughters ,vho died in childhood at ages 2 2 eleven and thirteen, respectively. '-' Mark L. Kennard, after serving as a volunteer in the Texas Revolutionary Anny, continued co make his home in Grin1es county until his death in April of 1897. Both he and his ,vife are buried at Roan's Prairie, in Grin1es county. His ,vife ,vas forn1erly Miss Helen Walker (born in Greensboro, Alaban1a; died Septe1nber,

240A.bstract of Texas Lmd TitleJ_. I, 604. 241Z11ber to L1'bbock, dared February 28, 1899, published in rhe Proceedi11gs of 1he Texas Veterans_. 1899, 10. The writer finds no record of any Kennard in the Index of Texas Revol11tionary He,-oe.,·., of record in the archives of the State Library, Austin, Texas. The name of Wiliiam E. Kennard. however, appears on the roll of Texas Veterans for 1892. He then registered as residing in Johnson county, Texas. On the roll for the following year. appe,lrs the names of both William E. Kennard and ~lark L. Kennard. Proceeding,· of T e:v:as Veta.:m., 1892 ,md 1893_. pages 3-i, and 8-14, respectively. 242/udge J. G. McDonald to E. L. Blair_. dated ac An

1897, at Anderson, 1·exas) daughter of Buck \X1alker, who resided at Roan's Prairie. They had six children, namelv: \Xlilliam W., l\fike, Permelia, Sallie, Martha, l\,fary, and A. D.24=: William E. Kennard, eldest son of Anthony D. and

3 :.& William W. Kennard, son of Mark L. and Helen Kennard, now resides at Houston, Texas. He married Fannie Gooch, daughter of Abraham Gooch, and sister to Oscar Gooch of Navasota, Texas. His wife died in 1897, having been the mother of five children, namely: Myra, now the wife of Judge Hood Boone, at Edinburg, Texas; Frank, now Mrs. H. Redford of Navasota, Texas; Helen, died at the age of thirty years, unmarried; Hortence, now 1virs. Guy Foster of Houston, Texas; Willie, now of Houston, Texas. William W. Kennard's second wife was Callie Davis, daughter of Green Davis, by whom he had three sons, namely: Green D., Marcus, and Wilbur, a11 of whom now reside at Houston, Texas. lvlike Kennard, second son of Mark L. and Helen, died in 1881. He was then about twenty-one years old. Permelia ( died April, 1888) marrieJ Jim Hixson and was the mother of two children, namely: Mark L. Hixson, now of Anderson, Texas; and Helen, now Mrs. H. R. Jones of Bedias, Texas. Sallie (died 1889) married (1888) Mac Lindley of Navasota, Texas. There were no children. Martha is now Mrs. W. S. 1vfclntire of Anderson, Texas, and is the mother of five children, namely: Eugene Kennard, now at Richards, Texas; Dr. Jesse Randolph, now at Houston, Texas; William S., now at Navasota, Texas; Florence, now Mrs. J. P. Stanford, Houston, Texas; and Dr. Harold Walker, at Sweetwater, Texas. Mary, daughter of Mark L., is now Mrs. Will Gillespie of Houstoo. Her husband was killed by Lester Taylor in 1909. She is rhe mother of two sons and four daughters, namely: Jack, Kennard (both now at Houston). Christine, now Mrs. Lewis Daab of League City, Texas; Ruby, now :l\frs. J. N. Parson; Addine, now Mrs. Glynn Eggertt, and 1'farcha, now .lvfrs. Frank Hall. The three last named all now reside at Houston, Texas. A. D. Kennard (bore January 21, 1874, in Grimes county) now resides at Anderson, Texas, and is engaged in the stock business. He married Louella Wood ( born Februar}' 1, 1877, near Willis, Texas) daughter of Cummings Wood, formerly of Walker county, Texas. They married on December 16, 1894, and have had six children. namely: Lockett (born September 1, 1895 ), Cummings (born December 10, 1897), Anthony Drew (born November 12, 1900; died June 9, 1904), Evel}·n (born August 12, 1904; died September 30, 1905), Minnie (born April 14. 1907), and Carroll (born July 12, 1911). Lockett Kennard married (December 24, 1914) Essie Farquhar, daughter of Edward Farquhar, formerly of Navasot,. Texas. They have one son, Edward, now about nine years of age. Cummings Kennard married Ruth Johnson, daughter of E. T. Johnson of Galveston, where Cummings and his wife now reside. Afinnie is now Mrs. Leslie Williams of Anderson, Texas. Both she and her husband are popular school teachers oi Grimes county, and the writer is greatly indebted to them for their assistance in securing the data here given. Carroll Kennard, lives with his parems at EARLY HISTORY OF GRIMES COUNTY 119

Sarah Kennard, is said to have served in the Texas Army against the Indians in the Tidwell Campaign of 1840; as a volunteer in the San Jacinto Campaign in 18 36; in the Kiell Campaign of 1839; and in the expedition against the Vasquez invasion of 1842; and was elected captain of the militia in 2 1841. H He n1arried a Miss Robertson ( sister of lvlrs. A. M. Womack) but the marriage \vas an unhappy one and separa­ tion rook place after the birth of four children, namely: John, Rachel, Dolly, and William.24a This family moved to Johnson county years ago (William E. registered from there 241 in 1892) . ; Anthony D. Kennard, Junior, son of the colonist, Anthony D. Kennard, also served in the Texas army during the struggle for independence.::•H He married (1838) Sarah Smith (born March 23, 1821, at Greensboro, Alabama), by whom he had three children, namely: Rachel Virginia ( died October, 1883); 1{ark F. ( died January 17, 1928), and Nannie (died January, 1902) .248 This family of Kennards moved

Anderson, Texas. He graduated from the Navasota high school in the spring of 1929. The data given above was furnished the writer by Mrs. Minnie (Kennard) Williams, who co-operated with the writer in passing a questionnaire around to the older members of the Kennard family. Questionnaire is dated January 13, 1929. 2"Zuber to Lubbock, dated at Iola, Texas, February 28, 1899, and published in the Proceeding.r of the Texa.s Veterans, 1899, 10. William E. Kennard is listed as a member of the Texas Veterans Association for the years 1892 and 1893. The writer has no other data to verify the above. 2411John Kennard, son of William E. Kennard, now resides at Clyde, Texas. Rachel married Tom Smith. Dolly married William 11oore. Both are now dead and the writer has no information of any children left by either. William, their younger brother, is also dead. A1innie Kennard to E. L. Blair, dated January 13, 1929. w.P,oceedings of the T exa.r Veteran As.rociation for 1892, 3-i. 1 "' Zuber to L1,bbock_, dated at Iola, Texas, February 28, 1899, published in the Proceedings of the Texas Veteran Association f o,· 1899, 1O. w,/11dge /. G. McDonald to E. L. Blair., dated at Anderson, June li, 1928. Also. Min11ie Kennard to E. L. Blair, dated January 13, 1929. Rachel Virginia Ken­ nard married T . .l\-f. Westbrook. Nannie married ~f. (Pid) Hart. The writer has no information as to their children. 120 EARLY HISTORY OF GRlMES COUNTY from Grimes co Johnson county, Texas, about 1850. There A. D. Kennard gained pro111inence as a f arn1er, stockn1an, and banker. Mike M. Kennard, son of the original Anthony D. Kennard, as stated above, rendered. military service to 1·exas, during the revolutionary period.240 He lacer married a 1liss Womack, daughter of A. M. Womack, formerly of the Apolonia community in Grimes county. Five children were born to them, namely: Anthony D. ( died \vhile in the South­ ern army during the Civil War), Mary, A. W., John H., and another daughter whose name the writer does not have. 2:;o

2 9 ' Z11ber to Lubbock, dated at Iola, Texas, February 28, 1899t and published in the Proceedings of the Texas Veteran AJsociation for 1899, 10. Judge /. G. McDonald 10 E. L. Blair, dated January 13, 1929, in which Judge McDonald states that he remembers when Mike M. Kennard used to attend the meetings of the Veteran Association. 0 • Muster Roll of the Fourth Regiment, Company G., Hood's Tex,u Brigade,. of record in the archives of the State Library, Austin, Texas. Copy of chis Muster Roll is found in the appendi'x of this volume. Mary Kennard married Rock Roberts and resided at Cypress, Texas, until her death. She was the mother of four children whose names the writer does not have. A. W. Kennard (born Decemb~r 21, 1849; died about 1911) married a Miss Forrester, daughcer of William Forrester, by whom he had one child, Edna, now Mrs. Jim Jones of Fort Worth, Texas. The second wife of A. W. Kennard was Miss Lizzie Terrell. by whom he had .five children, namely: John, Lock, Lydia, and A. W., Junior, and another daughter whose name the writer does not have, bur who is now Mrs. Shields Norwood of Austin, Texas. The widow, Mrs. A. W. Kennard, also re­ sides at Austin, Texas. John H. Kennard, brother of A. W. Kennard, is now a merchant at Anderson, Texas. He was tax collector of Grimes county for a term of four years, beginning in 1890. He married Mattie Brown, daughter of G. \\'. Brown, by whom he has five children, namely: Hiram, G. Brown, l\Iary Lou, Stella, and Lizzie. G. Brown Kennard is now a banker at Anderson. Texas. He married Lillian Campbell, daughter of Vil. L. Campbell. They h~ve ont son, A. John Kennard, who is employed in the bank with his f arher. Mary Lou resides with her parents at Anderson, Texas. St<:lla is now l\frs. Gary Tlwma~ of Anderson, Texas. She is the mother of three sons, whose name._: howevt:. the writer does not have. Lizzie is now 1'-frs. T. Jack H<:arst of Anderson. Texas, and is rhe mother of one son. The above data is taken from the foliowjng: 1ll11i• nie Kennard to E. L. B/afr, dated January 13, 1929; /11dge /. G. 1lfcD011.1id w E. L. Blair_. dated June 11, 1928; and J. G. ftfcD011aJd to E. L. Blair. dared January 13, 1920. EARLY HISTORY OF GRI:MES COUNTY 121

John R. Kennard, the youngest son of Anthony D. Kennara, the colonist, was too young to serve in the army of the Re­ public of Texas. When the Civil War came, ho,vever, he enlisted, and was promoted to the rank of Major in General 2 1 Pat Cleburne's Division. " At the rime of his death, in 1884, he was serving as District Judge for this district, which office he had held for about four years.~r. 2 John R. Kennard mar­ ried Sallie Nobles, daughter of Judge Nobles of Houston, Texas. They had four children, namely: Mary, Ed, John, and 2 1 Lucy. ri= Rachel Kennard, the only daughter of the elder Anthony D. Kennard, married (by bond in 1833 or 1834) Henry Fanthorp, an Englishman ,vho came to Texas, direct from England, about 1832. Henry Fanthorp is one of the most interesting characters connected with the early history of Grimes county. He had been married twice in England. When death claimed his second v.,ife and an only son, he determined to start life anew in the province of Texas. He arrived at \Xiashington, Texas, sometime in the year 1832, and, after a short time, purchased f ron1 Francis Holland at a price of nventy-five cents per acre, eleven hundred and seven acres of land. He erected a log house, the ruins of ,vhich still stand, being used today by Judge J. G. McDonald as a rorn crib. As a true Englishn1an, Fanthorp at once began ro deal in merchandise, buying and selling corn, using his house for a crib and sleeping, for rhe most part, out of doors. In the spring of 1834, Fanthorp built a ne\v and n1uch larger house. This ti1ne care ,vas taken to select a beautiful clun1p

=1zuber to Lubbock, dared ac Iola, Texas, February 28, 1899, and published in the Proceedings of the Texas Veteran ASJociation for 1899,. 10. :s:J11dge /. G. i\frD011ald to E. L. Blair, dared at Navasota, Texas, January 13, i929. 1 "' /. G. McDonald to E. L. Blair. June Ji, 1928. A1innie Kennard to E. L. Blair, January 13, 1929. 122 EARLY HISTORY OF GRlMES COUNTY of trees for the site. A comfortable log d\velling \\'ith a rock chimney at each end \Vas erected. Upon the completion of the new house, the v,edding with Miss Rachel Kennard was celebrated. The couple soon found themselves in the hotel business, and Fanthorp enlarged the dwelling so as to make a spacious tavern, known as the Fanthorp Inn. Many inter­ esting events and stories cluster around this old ravern.:!:;i Here, in 1835, when the Provisional Government established a weekly mail route between San Felipe de Austin and Nac­ ogdoches, was established the first post office in ,vhat is now Grimes county, v1ith Fanthorp as the name of the office and 2 5 Henry Fanthorp as the post master. r. Here, in 1837, Fan­ thorp, with his brother-in-law, l,,,fike ~L Kennard, and Abra­ ham Womack, established the first mercantile firm to do busi­ ness in what is now Grimes county. They purchased a ten thousand dollai stock of merchandise in Ne,v Orleans, freighted the goods to Fanthorp and operated under the firm name of Fanthorp, Womack & Kennard. Here two of the most Important stage lines of this section of Texas crossed, and maintained stage stands across from the tavern, v.'here three times a week each stage stopped, watered, or exchanged teams, and made necessary repairs, while the passengers re­ freshed themselves at the tavern. One of these stage lines ran from Houston to Old Spring.field; the other from Nacog­ doches to Austin. Sam Houston was often a visitor and the Fanthorp descendants like to rell of the time when one of

25"Zuber to Buffington, dated at Iola, Texas, June 26, 1903. Helen Greenwood, History of Anderson. This essay was prepared by Miss Greenwood, daughter of Dr. W. W. Greenwood, of Navasota, Texas, and submitted in the Local His­ torical Essay Contest sponsored by the University of Texas in 1925, in which i1 won honorable mention. Julia Rochelle, "Here Texas· Great lien Once lodged," The Dallas Mo1·ning News, October 25, 1925. z~cbid. EARLY -1-IISTORY OF GRlMES COUNTY 123

Queen Victoria's maids of honor stopped over for a rest and talked with Fanthorp, far into the night, concerning affairs in England. The visitor was the Honorable Amelia M. Murray who published Letter.r fronz the United States, Cuba, and Can­ ada, New York, 18 56. She stopped at Washington, Independ­ ence, Huntsville, and Crockett, but makes no mention of having stopped at Fanthorp. The writer is indebted to Mr. E. W. Winkler, Librarian of the University of Texas, for the informa­ tion about Murray. At this inn died Kenneth L. Anderson, the last Vice President of the Republic of Texas, and he was buried with Masonic honors across the road from tl-i'e old cavern in the Fanthorp cemetery. \Xfhen the new county was created by the First State Legislature of Texas in 1846, it \.Vas decided to n3:me the new county seat in honor of this Kenneth L .. Anderson, and a memorial slab in his honor found in the county court house at Anderson~ In 1839, Fanthorp pur­ chased a new tract of land f rooting his tract on the north and surveyed a new cownsice. Several lots were sold and the new town v~·as named "Alta Mira," Spanish words, meaning "High View." This to,vn was later absorbed by the ne,v county seat, Anderson, located on a tract of land, donated by Fanthorp, and adjoining Alta 1VIira. The manner of selecting this location for the ne\v county seat is ~xplained elsewhere in this thesis. Another important event at Fanthorp's Inn was the visit of General Zachary Taylor and his army as they passed through on rheir march to the 1·f exican border in 1846. A formal dinner ,vas served the General and his of­ ficers, ,vhile the soldiers \\'ere provided with refreshments from improvised tables and stands under the nearby trees.~~ 6

•1. G. McDonald to E. L. Blair, dared at Anderson, Texas, June 11, 1928. Helen Greenwood, Histor')' of Andenon. Julia Rochelle, "Here Texas' Great Men Once Lodged," Dallas Morning NeU"s, October 25, 1925. Zuber to B11f­ fu,gton, dated at Iola, Texas, June 26, 1903. 124 EARLY HISTORY OF GRI~IES COUNT\'

Henry Fanthorp and Rachel Kennard had three c:1~idren, namely: John, Mary A. (died i-tay 2, 1902), and another who died in early childhood. John married Sallie Ivfoore, bur died soon after the marriage, leaving no children. 1fary A. Fanthorp married ( 1863) ]\1ajor William M. Stone ( died Oc­ tober 8, 1872), ,vho had served on the staff of General \,'alker 2 1 during the Civil War. ;; William M. and Mary A. Stone had five children, namely: Annie B., Eleanor, Julia, Willian, ~1., and Henry Fanchorp.2:;s

1 'JfJ Judge ]. G. McDonald to E. L. Blair, dated June 11, 1928. Judge Mc­ Donald says that he secured the above information regarding Fanthorp from his father, James Green McDonald, Senior, but that he remembers Fanthorp, who died when he (Judge McDonald) was a very small lad. 218 }. G. McDonald to E. L. Blah-, dated June 11, 1928; also /. G. 1\1.cDonaJd to E. L. Blair, dated January 13, 1929. Annie B. Stone married ( 1887) Charles B. Kettler, an attorney who formerly practiced at Navasota, Texas. The writer has no information as to their present whereabouts, nor of their children, except to know that there wa~ one daughter named hfaria. Eleanor Stone ( died Jan­ uary 25, 1903) married James Green McDonald (born September 11, 1858) by whom she had one daughter, Mary Eleanor (died June 15, 1903). The husband, Judge Ja\Des Green McDonald, never married again. He still resides in Grimes county, and has been one of her most useful citizens, holding today the love and respect of his fellow citizens. He is the son of James Green McDonald, Senior, the grandson of Henry Brown McDonald, of North Carolina; great-grandson of the Hugh McDonald of North Carolina, who, during the American Revolution was a member of Marion's Band. Henry Brown McDonald, grandfather of Judge J. G. McDonald of Anderson, Texas, served as Colonel under General Andrew Jackson, during a part of the War of 1812, and was wounded in the battle of Muckfall ( with the Indians) a short time before the Battle of New Orleans. The father of Judge J. G. McDonald, J. G. McDonald, Senior, was the son of Henry Brown McDonald and Mary Crowder. He (James Green Mc­ Donald, Senior) was one of a family of eight children, namely: ~falvina, Minco, Darthula, N. Brown, La Fayett, Brown, and William Henry. James Green McDonald (born 1824; died March 11., 1903) came to Texas in 1851 and located at Austin, but in the following year, moved to Anderson, Grimes county, where he made his permanent home and reared a large fami)y. A lawyer by profession, he was from the time of his arrival at Anderson, acrivcJy affiliactd with the political life of the county and state. He served as District Attorney ( 1856-1860) and during this period the district extended from Madison count}' to Galveston and Beaumont. He was elected to the State Legislature in 1860, but resigned this position in 1861, having been appointed Brigadier General of Texas troops, by Governor Clark, which office he held for cwo years. fo ~ 8"71. ht EARLY HISTORY OF GRil\iES COUNTY 125

John Landrum.-John Landrum \vas the son of Zachariah and Letitia Landrum \vho ca1ne to Texas fro1n lvlaringo county, .i\labama, arriving in Texas on December 31, 1829. -- was again dccted District Attorney and served, this time, for four years. In 1882, he was elected to the Srate Senare to complete the unexpired term of J. T. Buchanan. James Green McDonald, Senior, married ( February 13, 1850) Julia T. Davis of Nashville, Tennessee, from which state he came to Texas. They had ten children, namely: James Finie (died in infancy), Mary Elizabeth, Finie, James Green, Julia, William LaFayette, Alethia Allen, Emily Peyton, Grace, and Brown. ~fa1y Elizabeth McDonald married (September 5, 1869) William W. :Meachum of Anderson. Colonel William W. Meachum died at Anderson in August of 1926. He was one of the most respected citizens of Grimes county, and the writer regrets that space here will not permit of a more lengthy biographical sketch. He was the father of nine children, namely: Julia, now Mrs. Ralph Powell of Bryan, Texas; Eleanor, now of Anderson, Texas; William G., died in childhood; :McDonald, now at Houston, Texas; Mary Elizabeth, now instructor in music ac Sam Houston Srate Teachers' College, ar Huntsville, Texas; Blanch, now at Anderson, Texas; lvfartha L., now Mrs. E. J. Palm of Austin, Texas; Clifford C., died in 1920; and Winifree W., died in 1923, at che time of his death being connected with the Attorney General's Department at Austin, Texas. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Zoleca Meachum, and two children, namely; Winifree, and Zoleta. Finie l\fcDonald married ( 1897) Etta Siddall, and moved later to i1omgomery, Texas, where they now reside. Julia McDonald (died 1882) married ( 1878) John B. Goodlet and moved to California. She is survived by one daughter, now Mrs. A. R. (Pope) Clark of California. William McDonald married Hattie Stemmons, moved to Dallas, Texas; thence co the Klondike; thence to New York; thence to Washington, D. C., where he died June 30, 1919, being survived by no children. Alethia Allen McDonald married (1890) P. S. Halleck, educator at Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he died. His widow returned to Anderson, Texas, then moved to Temple, Texas, where she died, August ~8, 1926, being survived by one daughter, Julia, the late Mrs. A. J. Albright of Kenosha, Wisconsin. She is survived by one daughter, Julia Lorraine Albright. Emily Peyton MacDonald died April 2, 1896. She was then teaching in the Dallas public schools. Grace l\fcDona]d died in infancy. Brown McDonald now resides at Dennis, Texas. He is the father of three children, namely: Alice, John, and Edith. James Green 1\-kDonald, as his father, J. G. McDonald, Senior, is a lawyer by profession and has played an active pare in the public affairs of his community and state. He served as post master at Ander• son, Texas, ( 1884-1888) during Cleveland's administration; County Attorney for Grimes county, from 1890-1892, and holds chis office now, having been elected in November of 1928; County Judge for Grimes coumy, 1892-1896, and again, 1900-1904; repicsented his district in the Thirtieth, Thircr-first, and Thirty-sixth Legislatures. While in the Legislature he served on the following committees: Judidary, for the Thirtieth and Thirty-first; Educational, in the Thirtieth and Thirty-first; Appropriation, in the Thirty-first and Thirty-sixth; 126 EARLY HISTORY OF GRI1'-iES COUNTY le is said that Zachariah served in the army of Texas during the revolution of 1836, but the ,vricer has not been able to 2 verify the clai111. :;~, John Landrum's land application, dated January, 1830, sho,vs that he ,vas then r,venry-nine years of age and his ,vife, J\-iary, ,vas nventy-c,vo. They had two children, a son and a daughter. The application further shows that they came to Texas fron1 Alaban,a and that they o,vned r,vo negro slaves.~';<, They were granted one league, situated in ,vhat is now the sourh,vesr corner of Grimes county,

Public Health, in the Thirty-sixth. He introduced the resolution to build a home for wives and widows of ex-Confederate soldiers, which building is now a reality in Austin, Texas; introduced the bill, passed by the Thirty-sixth Legislature, to pay women employees of the state on the same basis as men ; sponsored the bill, passed by the Thirty-first Legislature, to pay special veniremen at the rate of one dollar per day. Judge J. G. McDonald was mosc active in the organization of the White Man's Union in Grimes county in 1900. He now resides aione at the old Fanthorp building. Here the writer has enjoyed many an hours' con­ versation with him, as we sat under the shade of che old oak trees, under which so many interesting events transpired in che early days of Grimes county, while we, now and then, refreshed ourselves from the old Fanthorp well. The writer has found no person so well informed concerning the history of this county, as Judge James Green McDonald. Indeed he has made it a study and has been consid~ring the preparation of a county history himself. His patience and co­ operation is most highly appreciated by the writer. Julia Stone, the third child of Mary A. Fanchorp, married Jim Quincy Yar­ borough, Junior, by whom she had two daughters, namely: Julia, now l\lrs. W. L. Garber of New York City; and Alice, now l\frs. John N. Ratcliff, of Navasota, Texas. Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Garber have one little daughter, Alice Lloyd, now ( 1929) about five years old. l\1r. and l\frs. John N. Ratcliff have a little son, John Nobles, Junior, now ( 1929) about four years old. William l\f. Scone, Junior, married Howze l\filton, daughter of Governor l\.[ilton of Florida, and the family now resides at l\liriama, Florida. There arc no children. Henry Fanthorp Stone died, j\fay 12, !.894, unmarried. 23uftfr.r . .lHclfJ Dt11"i.1 to E. L. Blt1ir_. dared at 1',Ioncgomery, Texils, January 12, 1929. lvlrs. Da,·is is a grear-grnnddanghrcr of Zachariah Landr.un. ln ht:r k-uer she does not make it clear as to whether she meant the Texas Revolution, or the American Revolution, and the writer failed co receive an answer to a second in­ quiry. The writer finds n

2111 Abstract of Texas Land Titles_. I, 604. Sold 670 acres to Henry Griggs: October 15. 1852. Deed Records of Grimes Count)', C, 314. 262/ohn Landrum to Nancy Landrum (sister-in-law), dated in Rusk county, August 20, 1859. Original of this letter is in the possession of lvlrs. Mary Davis of :Montgomery, Texas. Mn. John Landrum to John Landrum, dated 1858, gave her age as fifty years. Original in possession of lvlrs. Mary Davis, J\fontgomery, Texas. 211 1 :1\fr.i, .i\1arJ Davi.r to E. L. Blair_. dated January 12, 1929. 2 4 •i Ab.rtr.-1et of Texas Land Titles, I, 604. :,:.;Barker, "l\·linutes of the Ayuntamiento of San Felipe de Austin," Quartt:rly, XXIV, 162. 2i111Barker, The Awtin Paper.r, in the Annual Report of the Americ,w Historical A.r.fociation for 1919 .. II, 1373. lPilliam Laughlin to Austin, dated at District of San Jacinto, July 1 S, 1828; in which Laughlin as constable requests the aid of Austin in enforcing the law against one John D. Tayior. Under date of July 17, 1826, Laughlin again writes Austin in regard to the same matter. Ibid ... 13:4. 128 EARLY HISTORY OF GRil\fES COUNTY age of the ,vife ,vas not given. They then had nvo sons. He gave his occupation as farming, and stated that they came 21 to Texas from the state of Massachusetts. ;; His one league grant is situated in \vhat is no,v the norrl1\vcst portion of Grimes county, the date of his patent being, October 5. 2 l835. u~ Three days lacer, October 8, 1835, McDonald sold half of his league co Spencer H. Jack, for Johnson, Chriesman and Company.~•;:, No mention is found of Thon1as l\fr. Donald in the Az,stin Papers .. and the ,vriter has no information regarding any descendants. i\l. McDowell.-The records sho\v that !vi. ~IcDo,vell ap­ plied for land through Horatio Chriesn1an as agent, under date of September 22, 1835.~rn The application gives no infor. n1ation concerning the fan1ily of McDo,vell. It see1ns that M. McDo,vell is the sa1ne as the l\,fill McDo,vell \\1ho married Katie Holland, daughter of William Holland, by ,vhorn he had c,vo children, San1 and Elizabeth. For further informa­ tion regarding these children, see footnote No. 13, above. Jvfc. Dowell' s one league grant is situated in the northern part of Grimes county, in the vicinity of the present town of Cross, and v.'as patented, October 17, 1835.271 William J\'IcGuffin.-11 his colonise and his vvife, J\t[aryanna, ,vere natives of I re land. They came to i-·exas f roin the stare of Tennessee. No date is given for the application; his patent ho\vever, is dared Novcrnber 12, 1.832. At the ri1ne he 1nadt application, Ivic(iuffin \Vas t,venty-four, and his wife seven-

26 -:Appliration f ()1" Land~ 63. In the Gtncral Land Office of Texas, Austin, Texas. 2 M Abstrart of T

~~~Applica1ion fo,- Land, 33. In che General Land Office of Texas, at Austin, Texas. Also, Ab.r1,-ac1.r of Texa.,· Land Titles~ I, 604. r.sw. W. JP'illiarn.r to E. L. Blair .. dated at Conroe, Texas, December 13, 1829, writes as follows: "M>· t:tthcr's mother w:is a McGuffin and trom hearing my father speak ot her people, I got the impression that she had two brothers, \Villiam and Hugh, who came co Texas in the early part ol the last century, but whether they or either ot them rormcd a pare ot Austin's colony, I am unable to say. One of the two brothers, but which on I do not know, died in Guadalupe county sometime along about 1870, and left three sons and one daughter, if I am not mistaken, as tallows: John, William. Hugh, ar.d Elizabeth who married a man by the name ot Robbins. John McGuffin died Jt Seguin a good many }'Cars ago and I don't think he has any descendants living. Hl· w:i~ w there was another McGuflin, Gore.Ion hy name. who lived, I think, in Gon• 1,d1:s cuuntr, :1nd he had a siscc:r who, it still li"ing, is in Houscon. I chink Gordon ~kGuifin and his sister were children ot the ocher original McGuffin. Gordon Mc­ Guffin's sister is name

1812; died ~lay 26, 1895) .~;-i A.fter the death of her hus­ band, in 1814, lvlargaret 1vlclntire, ,vith her t,vo sons, \X'il­ liam and Robert, joined Austin· s second group of colonists and came to Texas, in 1825. Both Ivlargarct and her oldesr son, William, applied for land. Their applications are dared in Aprii of 1825, and sho,v Margaret to have been thirty-eight and \Villiam t,venty-three years of age. The appiication also shovvs that they came from Louisiana. Nf argaret is shown to have had one child, ,vho ,vas the younger son, Roben_:!~~­ William received one-quarter league and Margaret one league. Margaret's league is situated in the southeast portion of the present county of Grimes, and \\:filliam's quarter league joins it on the east side. 1'1argaret's league ,vas patented, April \ 1831 ,vhile \X'illiam's patent is dated on the follo,ving day?'i Through the Margaret McIntire league runs ·what is known as Big Dry creek. Jesse Grimes ,vas given a league (patented April 6, 1831) joining the 1'1argaret l\ilclntire league on rhe ,vest,-and t,vo years later, the 1\-Iargaret J\1clntire league line ,vas moved back one n1ile so as to n1ake roo1n for F rankiin Green\\'Ood. These three families constituted ,vhat ,vas the beginning of the Gri1nes Prairie con11nunity in Grin1es county. In 1826, the :tv!clntires erected their ne,v d,velling "·hich \\'as a four-room house \\'ith a separate roon1 for a kitchen, 111ade 2 of square he,,·n cedar logs. 1. William McIntire married Mahala Po,vell, daughter of Arch Po\\·ell, ,vho came ro Texas

2 4 ~ AfrJ. lJV. S. D. Saunde,-s to E. L. Bl(1ir, dated July 3, 1928) at Nava5ma, Texas. Mrs. Saunders is a daughter of the Robert :McIntire mcntiont:d abo\'t. and granddaughter of the widow l\1argaret (Fahey) ~klntire. Tht: datt~~ she secun·

:ml\.frJ. U"I". S. D. Saunders to E. L. Blai1 1 dattd July 3, 1928. i.: 1\-:avasocai Texas. EARLY 1-llSTORY OF GRI1'fES COUNTY 131 fron1 Tennessee in 1834. 1'1ahala died a fc,v years after the marriage, leaYing no children. In 1842 Willian1 married again, this tin1e, to ivlargaret Anglin,

2i"i\fr.r. W'. S. St11mder.r to E. L. Blair, dated July 3, l 928, ac Navasorn., Texas. Also, Probate A·finute.r of GrimeJ Cozwty. N. 117-i 18. Also, Prob,1te

Min11te.r of Grimes Co1mty 1 II, 334. Concerning the children of William and Margaret (Anglin) Mclntire,-Robert was killed by Indians in Utah; Samuel now lives in Salt Lake City, Utah, and so does his brother William. 2 11 i 1'\fr.r. W. S. D. Afclntfre to E. L. B/ait-_. dated july 3, 1928, at Navasota, Texas. Sarah, daughter of Robert and Sarah, is now :Mrs. F. B. Wasson of Navasota, Texas. She is the mother of three children, namely: l\{aggie ( born 1876; died 1918), Le-al (died 1906), and Quantrell. l\faggie was the late l\frs. W. E Farmer of Navasota, Texas, and is survived by her husband and four children, namely: Velma (now 1vlrs. John Quinn), Gladys, Weldon, and Billie. Le-al died unmarried in 1906. Quantrell now resides at Navasota. He married Lucille Williams, and they have two small children. 1'fargaret, second daughter of Robert l\fclntire, is now l\frs. W. S. D. Saunders of Navasota, Texas. The writtr is indebted to her for most of the information given about this family, and he deeply appreciates hei co-operation and patience. :Mr. and :Mrs. W. S. D. Saun­ ders had three children, namely: Susie (born 1886), August (born 1890; died 1918), and Aubrey (born 1883). Susie is now lvlrs. Dr. J. I. Collier of l\,larlin. Texas, and is the mother of two children, namely: Ivan Thayer ( now about nine­ teen), and :Margaret (now about twelve). August died with influenza at an army camp at College Station~ Texas, in 1918. Aubrey was the late: l\[rs. J. :M. Whit­ field. She left no children. Edward 1vklmire, son of Robert and Sarah, marritd ( 1876) Emma Knott, of Harmony community in Grimes county. Both arc now dead. Their children were Frank, Clifford, and Nora. Frank is now living at Shields, Tcxas, and has a large family. Clifford is now in California. Nora, the lace l\frs. Frank Bn:nham, is survived by sevtrnl children who are now in Oklahoma. John l\fclnrirc, son of Rohen and Sarnh, ditd while in the.: Con­ federate army, at Aclanca, Georgia, in i863. Lawrence l\klntirc.-, brother to EARLY HISTORY OF GRIMES COUNTY

Daniel B. i\'lci\1ahan.-No trace of anv descendants of J Daniel B. J\,[c11ahan has been found by the \Vrirer. His appli- cation for land, dated in Septen,ber, 1835, sho,Ys that he was married. His grant \Vas for one league, \vhich is located in Vv·hat is no,Y the norrh·west portion of Grimes county, and his patent ,vas dated, October 16, 1835.:?so \Villiam 1"1ontgomery.-In the extre1ne southeastern corner of Grin1es county, is a one-league grant, patented to \X'illiam Montgomery, under dare of l\·Iay 4, 1831 _tsi \Xlillia1n 1Ionr­ gomery's land application sho,vs that he ca1ne to Texas from the state of Arkansas; that he \vas then a ,vido,ver fifty-eight years old; a fanner by occupation and the father of one son. The application was dated in i 830.:!":! There is son1e confu­ sion in the n1ind of the \\'rirer as to the family connection between the descendants of William ~1ontgomery. As stated above, his land application sho,vs that he had one son. His descendants, ho\vever, say that he \vas the father of a large fan1ilv, n1ost of \vho1n had 1narried before he came to Texas. It is ~·kno\vn that r,vo of his daughters 1narried Greenwood brothers, Franklin and Joel, in Tennessee. It seems that the family consisted of eight children, namely: Edley, Willia1n, Jr., Andy, En1ily, Queeny, Sallie, Annie, and n·Iary Jane.25a Edley lvlontgomery n1arried and ,vas the father of five children:

John, was born in 1847, and died in 1909, unmarried. His brother, Frank (born 1842) died in 1873, as a result of a wound received in Georgia while he was in the Confederate army. He vvas unmarried. 280App/ications for Land, 61. In the General Land Office of Texas, at Austin, Texas. Abstract of Texa.r Land Tit/eJ, I, 604. 81 : Ab.rtract of Texas Land Titles, I, 604. 2 2 " Applicatio11J for Land_, 89. In the General Land Office of Texas. at Austin, Texas. :is::,Un. T. L. CaJt/e to E. L. Blair, dated at Plantersville, Texas, August 3, 1928. /. L. Afontgomery to E. L. Blair, dated at Richards, Texas, November 8, 1928. EARLY HISTORY 01; GP.I~IES COUNTY 133 namely: Willia1n, Andre,v, 1':faggie, Nannie, and Saphronia. ~~-1

=54,\frs. T. L. Castle to E. L. Blair, dated at Plantersville, Texas, August 3, 1928. Robert E. G,-eenu,iood, Junior, to E. L. B/afr, dated at Navasota, Texas. August 23, 1928. William, son of Edley h-fontgomery, married Amanda Blount=­ and they had eight children, namely: Mattie, Willie, Claude, Joe, Henry, Mary~ Johnie,. and L~ra. Of these? Henry, M~ry, ~nd Johnie di~d. in. early Y<"!U~h; Mattie 1s marned and now lives at Mad,sonvdle, Texas; Willie 1s now hvmg in Bell county, Texas. He married Ida Cotton and they have several children. Claude now lives at Beeville, Texas. He has been married twice; first, to Edna Hurst; his present wife was formerly Lula Watson. Joe Montgomery married Etca Williams and' they now live at Beeville, Texas. Lura is now Mrs. Dollie Pool, of Houston, Texas. Andrew 1'fontgornery, son of Edley, married a Miss Harris, sister to Jim C. Harris: who resides near Richards, Texas. They had six children, namely: Bailey, Bob, Daughty, Johnie, Kye, and "Bibbie." Bailey, Bob. Daughcy, and "Bibbie" died unmarried. Johnie married Ella Urzell. They ha\'e several children living, namely; J. lee Montgomery, now in the lumber business at Richards, Texas; Dee 1',fontgomery, also of Richards, Texas; Lester ~lontgomcry, now at Dacus, Texas; and Eva Lora, now ~frs. \X'illi.m1s of Richards, Texas. l\faggie l\1ontgomery, third child of Edley 1',foncgomery, mar­ ried (December 23, 1872) Joseph Bay, a farmer near Richards, Texas, by whom she had eight children, namely: Ada Bay, Vashti, Lela, Lola, Effie, Viola, E. P., and Elmer. Concerning these children of Maggie (1',fontgomery) and Joseph Bay, Ada Bay is now 1\-frs. John Hamlin of Conroe, Texas. She has several children. Vashti Bay is now :Mrs. T. L. Castle of Plantersville, Texas, and it is co her the writer is indebted for a large part of the data given here concerning ihe Montgomery family. Lela Bay is now 1'1rs. E. L. Dyer of Stoneham, Texas. She has five children, namely: Lois, Earl, Onis, Elton, and Thelma, who is now Mrs. R. L. Warner of Twin Falls, Idaho. Lola Bay is now 1'-Irs. E. G. Cude of Ogden, Ctah. Effie, her sister, is now 1'{rs. \X'. A. Coe of Dayton, Texas. \'iola Bay is now Mrs. C. ~i. Coe of Cleveland, Texas. Her husband, G. M. Coe, is a brother ro W. A. Coe, husband of Effie, and both these men are brothers co Mrs. Oscar Coe of N~tvasora, Texas. E. P. Bay married ~lirand}· Hill. They now reside at Stoneham, Texas. Elmer Bay is now l\,frs. Glynn Dablin of Salt Lake City, Utah. Nannie l\·fontgomery, daughter of Edie~• }foncgomcry, married Billie Sims. They made their home near Richards, Tex.is, ~nd had a family of four children, namely: Ben, Aubrey, Ervin, and another ·.:;ho dit

1·he ,vricer has no inforn1ation concerning \X'illian1 1'1onr­ go1nery, Jr., nor of his brother, Andy. 1·heir sister, E1nil)\ married \v'illiam Berrv, and moved fron1 Grin1es county to 4 • Wax,ihachie, Texas, about the year 1880. They ,vere known co ha \·e had four children, na1nely: 1V1ary, Ella, Clarence, and another daughter ,vhose name the ,vriter does not ha,·e. Queeny Montgo1nery, sister to Ernil y, married a j\[ r. Sn1irh and she and her husband resided near Richards, ,vhere he ,vas killed, soon after the n1arriage, by being rhrcnvn from a horse. There ,vere no children. Sallie lviontgomery, an­ other daughter of \V/ illiam 1[ontgomery, Sr., 1narried \\'ill Stoveall. They resided near Richards, Texas. There ,vere three children, na1nel y: Bailey, \XI illie, and Hattie.!!~~ Annie l\1ontgo1nery, sister to Sallie, 1narried Joel G-reen,voodi brother to Franklin Jarvis Green,vood, the husband of Annie's sister, 11ary Jane.:!s,; Jan\es \Y/. ~loore.-The Land Office records sho,v that Jatnes \'('. 1'1onre and his ,vife, 1\:Iatilda, applied for land in Austin's colony in the year 1830. James \V/. i\-Ioore ,vas then thirty-three years old ( no age given for 1.f atilda) and had t\YO sons. They ca1ne to Texas fron1 Arkansas, and his occu­ pation is given as fartning.:?si One league of land was granted, situated in ,vhat is no,v the northern pa rt of Grime,

:i!l,;,,frs. T. L. CaJt/e to E. L. Blair, dated at Plantersville, Texas, August 3, 1928. Concerning these children of Sallie and Will Stoveall, Baile}' is married. Jnc now resides at Housron, Texas; Willie married Ada \X'illiams, and reside~ at Richards, Texas; and Hattie is now l\frs. Elwood Curer of 1fadison coumr.

T'-•~·x··s .. 1. ... 2~;/bid. Robert E. Greenwood, HiJtory of th,1 G'reenu·or;d.r, in which rhe Gr::r:1:­ u1ood F.1111i!; Bible is cited. For a

~s",1bJtr~ul of Texa.r Land Titles, I, 604. 1 ~" 'Lmd Application_. 57. Of record in_ the General Land Office, Austin, Texas. John l\foore's league of land was sold on September 19, 1845, to John H. Gordon and John F. Crawford. Deed Records of Grimes Co1111ty, A2, 351. 1 ~ '6/-/. H. Boone to E. L. Blair, dated at Navasota, Texas, August 16, 1928. According to l\·lr. Boone, the :Moore home was located between where the J. M. Garvin Dairy now stands and the city of Navasota. Ab.rt-r:ICI of Texas Lmd Titles. I, 604. 1 ~i• 1hid. 1\[r. H. H. Boone is a grandson of John :Moore. 2 :~ /bid. The writer finds the name of John H. l\ioon~ listed in the Pr,Hceding.r of rh~ AJ.;ociation of Te.wu Vetera11., for 1873. He w.1s then residing in Fayette county. According to the above record, John H. Moore served in a military or political capacity in Texas between 1820 and 1836. No John l\ioorc is listed in tht lndex of Texas Rez•olutionary Heroes. in the State Library, at Austin, Tex:ts. There are several 11oores so listed, howtver, an

no Christian name given (see appendix). This Colond John H. Moore par­ ticipatt:d in an Indian Campaign in 1835, according co Zuber. (Zuber to Lubbock, dated ar Iola, Texas, February 28, 1899, published in ProceEdi11gJ ()J the As.rociation Texas Veterans for 1899., 10). There is a John \X'. 1foorc mentioned as having been elecred comisario for the San Jacinto precinct in 1831. With him served William Laughlin a.;, sindico. Barker, "l\linutc-s of the Ayuntamiento of San Felipe de Austin," Qu:ll"ta/J_. XXIV, 162. Tht Colonel John H. 1Ioore, of fa}'ttte county, is the grandfather of :Mrs. E. G. Townsend of Belron, Texas. l\fr. E. G. Townsc:nd ad\"ists that Colonel John H. Moore is of no relation to the.: John :Moore of Grimc:s cmim:y, and rhat he (john H. 1'foore) came co Tc:xas when a young man from the state of Tennessee, in 1821, at the age of twenty-one years. E. G. Tou,,-nsrmd to E. L. Blair, July 19, 1929; also Adele Hender.ron to E. L. Blair, July 22, ! 929. 2u3H. H. B()one to E. · L. Blafr. dated ar Navasora, Texas, August 16, 1928. EARLY 1-fISTORY OF GRI1'1ES COUNTY 137

(born l\-Iarch 16, 1874; died August 6, 1874}, and Thos. Green (born Septe1nber 13, 1864; died September 16, 1877) .294

~e-.ii\.frs. A. H. Jf?i/son to E. L. Blafr, dared at Navasota, Texas, July 27, 1928. Hannibal H. ~'ilson, Biograph)· of Hannibal Honestus Boone, ( 1925). This, in manuscript form, is in the high school library at Navasota, Texas. A biographical sketch of H. H. Boone was published in the Navasota W eek./y Rez:ieu·, May 27, 1897. From these sources, the writer finds, chat Joseph Green Boone (died about 18il), father of Hannibal Honestus, mentoined above, was born in North Carolina, from which state she migrated to Tipton, Tennessee, in 1827; thence, in 1834, to Mississippi; thence to Texas, in 1852, at which time he settled in what is now Waller county, a few miles from the present town of Hempstead. While residing in l\,lississippi, Joseph Green Boone, married Harriet ·Latham (died 1851) by whom he had two sons, Joseph, and Hannibal Honestus (born February 24, 1834; died }fay 23, 1897, at Navasota, Texas). Of Joseph Boone, brother to Hannibal Hones­ tus. the writer has no information, other than to know that he came to Texas. Ha~nibal H. Boone, husband of Sue H. Gordon, above, came to Texas with his father from De Sota county, Mississippi, in 1852, and lived in what was known as the Rock Island community, in what is now WaJler county. Hanni­ bal Honestus had been educated at Mountain Academy, in Tipton county, Tennessee, under the direction of Rev. Holmes; later being a student in Austin College at Huntsville, Texas, then under the direction of Rev. Daniel Bacon. While a student in Austin College, he studied law and, in 1859, began the practice of this profession at Hempstead, Texas. When the Civil War began, Hannibal Honestus Boone joined the army of the South and ser\'ed on the Rio Grande in Colonel John S. Ford's regiment. He was later stationed near Galveston, and still later, served in Green's Brigade, as Major in Waller's Battalion, and as such, saw active service in Texas, Louisiana, and Arkansas. He was wounded at Fordoche, Louisiana, September 29, 1862, losing his right arm and two fingers from his left hand, after which he was sent home. Upon his arrival at home, he presented himself co General MaGruder and was assigned suitable duties until the close of the war. Soon after the Civil War, Hannibal Honestus Boone moved to Anderson, Texas, in Grimes county. Here he was ~ctive in the practice of his profession until the year 1776, when he was elected Attorney General for the state of Texas. After holding this office for one term, he made his home at Navasota, Texas, where he resided until his death, in 1897. Hannibal H. Boone was reared in the Presbyterian church but, late in life, joined the Episcopal church. (The writer has not examined original sources to verify the above statements, but gfres such information as was obtained from the sources indicated at the btginning of this note). Hannibal Honestus Boone married Harriet Rebecca Fullinwieder by whom he had one daughter, Harriet Rebecca (born December P, 1861; died April 26, 1894), who married (December 29, 1886) Stephen W. Wilson. They ( the Wilsons) made cheir home ac Rockdale, Texas. There were rwo children, boch of who~ are now living, namely: Jason Boone \Vilson. and Susan Ntlson Wilson. As given abon.·, Hannibal Hontstus 138 EARLY HISTORY OF GRLMES COUNTY

Charles Peter Gordon, brother to Sue H. Gordon, can1e to Texas and lived for a time in Grirnes county, then 1110,·ed to Chambers county, ,vhere he died about 1888. He n1ar­ ried Lizzie Andrus, of Louisiana, by \vhom he had two sons. namely: John A. Gordon, no,v of Houston, Texas; and Charles Peter Gordon, Jr., who, ,vhen last heard of by 1Ir. H. H. Boone, \Vas in Denver, Colorado.:?!•~ \Y/. \V. Gordon, son of Lidia E. (1v1oore) and Charles Peter Gordon, came

Boone's second wife was Susan H. Gordon, grand-daughter of John ~foorc. Of the ten children, named above, Hannibal H. Boone (born August 17, 1866; died December 12, 1929) married (November 30, 1890) Emma Brown (born August 15, 1872), daughter of Geo. H. Brown, and had four children, all of whom are now living, namely: David Boone, who married l\famie William:; and now resides at Amarillo, Texas; Dorothy; 1fary; and Sarah, ail rim:c of whom are single and reside at Navasota, Texas, with their mother. The writer is deeply indebted to the late Mr. Hannibal H. Boone for assistance in securing the data here given, especially that which applies to his grand­ father, John Moore. Mary Boone (born October 16, 1868) married the late Anderson Crisp (married June 16, 1900) of Uvalde, Texas, where she now resides with her three children, Anderson Boone, Michael, and Evelyn. Susie Boone ,(born August 18, 1870) is now lvlrs. A. H. Wilson of Navasota, Texas. She has four children, all of whom are living, namely: l\fargarec. now Mrs. J. B. Allison of lvlanor, Texas; Arthur Boone \X'ilson, who married (!\fay 5, 1927) Lillie Dean, ( daughter of l\fr. and l\Irs. S. W. Dean of Navasota, Texas), and now resides at Huntsville, Texas; Hannibal H. \X'ilson, and his brother, Lawrence, both reside with their parents at Navasota, Texas. The writer was given much assistance in this work by l\frs. A. H. Wilson and her son Hannibal. Evelyn Boone (born July 2, 1872) is now teaching in the public schools of El Paso, Texas. Gordon Boone (born 1\-lay 9, 1875) married (August 4, 1897) Emma Shrewsbury, of Sherman, Texas, where the family now resides. Gordon has two daughters, namely: Katherine, and Elizabeth, both of whom are single. Latham Boone ( born August 20, 1ST) married (January 1, 1905) Virginia Scott, daughter of J. L. Scott of Navasota. Texas. Latham and his wife, with their three sons, \X'altcr G., Latham, and Berrell, now reside at Navasota, Texas. Hood Boone (born December 18. 1879) married (July 30, 1902) _:t..fyra Kennard, daughter of W. W. Kennard. The family now resides at Edinburg, Texas. There is one daughter, Helen. Louise Boone (born August 11, 1882) is now l\{rs. Henry Gudger of Orange:. Texas. She married November 23, 1904, and is the mocher of three chijdren. namely: Henry D. Grudger, who married (l\larch 12, 1928) Mary i,an Foreman, and resides at Orange, Texas; Gordon and Jack H. Grudger both of whom are single and reside at Orange, Texas. ::-x.H. H. Boone to E. L. Blair, dated at Navasota, Texas, August 16, 1928. EARLY HISTORY OF GRI~IES COUNTY 139 ro Texas, but returned soon after,vard to Louisiana to marry. He see1ns to have remained there. The \vriter has no infor­ 2 rnation regarding his family . !\fi Jesse B. l\tlcNealy.-The Land Office records sho\v chat Jesse B. 1vlcNealy and his ,vife, Elizabeth, applied to Austin for land in his colony under date of December, 1829. Jesse B. 1'-IcNealy ,vas then r,vency-seven years old, and Elizabeth, his wife, \\'as eighceen. They had one child, a daughter. The application sho,vs that they can1e to Texas from Louisiana. Their one-league grant is located in what is no,v the south­ western portion of Grin1es county, a fc,v miles to the east of the to-wn of Navasota. His patent date is April 11, 1831 _:.:!li James W. Pankey.-The ,vriter has no infonnation regard­ ing James ~'- Pankey other than that is given in his applica­ tion for land. The application is dared, Dece1nber, 1827, and sho,vs that he ,vas then forty-six years old and unmar­ ried. He can1e ro Texas from Louisiana and ,vas a farmer by occu parion. He received, ho,vever a \vhole league of land, which \Yas not the rule for single men. This league is located in what is n0\\' the northern part of Grimes county, and \Vas patented, October 19, 1835. 2118 There is a community in this ,·iciniry kno,vn as Pankey. 1·he ,vriter assun1es that the na1nc is in honor of this colonist. John Payne.-Even niore scant is the inforn1ation at hand concerning John Payne. The Land Office records give no information other than to sho,v chat there \Vas a one-league grant patented to John Payne under date of October 16, 1835.

~l"'H. If. Boone ltJ E. L. Bi.:tir. dated at Navasota, T~xas, August 16. 1928. ~:i~L.md Applic~11io11.1 57, in General Land Office::, Austin. Texas. Ab.r11·,1ct ()/ Tex:u Land Tit/eJf I, 604. :!"~I hid. 140 EARLY HISTORY OF GRiifES COUNTY

This league is located in ,vhat is no,v the excre111e nt~::zl\1.·esr 2 11 portion of Grimes county (see Appendix Il). :\ John Peterson.-\Vhen the Hollands (Francis and \'4/il­ liam) ca1ne to Texas, from Louisiana, in 1822, a sister, 1-Irs. 0 Jvfary Peterson, ,vith her c,vo sons, came ,vith then1. ~ '~ The writer believes that John Peterson \Vas one of rhese sons. The land application of John Peterson gives his age at t\\'enty­ three years; sho,vs hin1 to have been (February of 1829} single; and that: he came to Texas from Louisiana. His grant ,vas for one league, patented on April 2, 1831, and situated 3 1 immediately to the south of the Francis Holland league. (1 ~lrs. Frank Crutchfield, of Navasota, Texas, ,vas forn1erly a Peter­ son, and descended f ro1n this John Peterson. She thinks one of her sons, \\'ho now resides in Dallas, Texas, could give some information about the family, but the "'ricer has not succeeded in getting anything definite in hand.:i"2 Obediah Pitts.-Obediah Pitts ,vas born in Scotland, being the son of Levi Pitts. He ca1ne to America ,vhile still a youth, married Polly (Molly) Grappin in Alaba1na, and some years thereafter applied to Austin for land in Texas. The dare of his land application is not kno,vn. His land patent \Vas dated o·ccober 29, 1835. The application sho"·s Obediah Pitts to have been thirty-seven years old, and his \\'ife, Polly, to ha-ve been t\Yenty-eight. At that tin1e they had rbree daughters. They brought ,vith rhen1 four negro slaYes~ and

2"'JLand Application. in General Land Office, Austin, Texas~ also Ab.<11·.2,1 of Texas Land Titles, I, 604. :ioozuber to Briffington, dared ar Iola, Texas, June 26, 1903. :io1Land App/ic:ttion.c, in General Land Office, Austin, Texas. .,ih.:zriu: ()j Texas Land Titles. I, 604. 102 : Mrs. Frank Cr11tch{reld IO J.,fr.r. E. L Bl,1ir. dared ar 1'a,.·aso:a, Texas~ Augusr 23, 1928. EARLY HISTORY OF GRLMES COUNTY 141

11 came ro Texas from the state of ilrkansas.: •:: The descend­ ants of Obediah Pitts think that he ,vas in the Texas army during the revolution against lVIexico, but the ,vriter, has found nothing to verify this. There seems, also, co be some confusion concerning the children of Obediah and Polly. As stared above, the application for land gives only three daugh­ ters; ir is kno,vn, ho\\'ever, that there was at least one son, John Griffith Pitts (born April 18, 1817; died July 21, 1897). This son married Elizabeth \V/ illia1ns (born December S, 1820; died August 26, 1886) ,vho resided near the present ro,vn of Brenham, in Washington county, Texas. John G. Pitts re­ sided at the old Pitts homestead, near the present little to,vn of Courtney, in Grin1es county, ,vhere they reared a fan1ily of six children, namely: Ike (born May 4, 1849; died March 9, 187-1), John Griffith, Levi, Nancy (born July 23, 1847; died June 19, 1881), Mary Elizabeth (born January 31, 1855; died 1farch 25, 1886), and Laura. 304

'JO:l:111d App!ic:1tio11J, 91. Of record in the General Land Office at Austin, Texas. Abstra,·t of Te.,:as Land Titles, I, 604. Also, Miss Francis Leak.e to E. L. Blair, dated at Navasota, Texas, June 28, 1929. :11M,Uiss Francis Leake to E. H. Blafr., dated at Navasota, Texas, June 28, 1929. .Miss Leake secured her information from the Family Bible and from the older members of the Pitts familr. According to her information, Ike Pitts married (about 1873) Fannie Broadnax, but died soon after the marriage, leaving no children. John Griffith Pitts, Jr., married and subsequently moved ro Hill county, Texas, where he reared a family of five children, namely: Roberta, Johnie, Jesse, Levi, and Cleveland. Roberta is now ~lrs. John Marler of Aquilla, Texas. Johnie is married and lives with her husband in Waco, Texas. Jesse is married and lives in Corsicana, Texas. Lc\·i also lives at Corsicana, and Clevdand died in youth. Levi, son of John Griffith and Eliza­ beth, now resides at Rockport, Texas. He is unmarried. Nancy Pitts married Hamp Thomas, mO\·ed to 1'-Iillican, Texas, and reared a family of four children, namelr: Elizabeth, Hamp, l\-Iamie, and Nannie. Elizabeth was the late iirs. Jeff Leake of Temple, Texas. She died about twenty-eight }rears ago, being ~urvived by two children, namel}': Edna, now ~frs. W. A. Stubblefield, of Houston, Texas; and Ethel Anne, a prominent school teacher, who is now with her sister in Houston, Texas. Hamp Thomas was a soldier br profession. He scn·ed in the American armr in the Philippine Islands for a time, and 142 EARLY HISTORY OF GRIMES COUNTY

Robert Ray.--There is a quarter-league grant of land sit­ uated in ,vhat is now the western portion of Grimes counryi that ,vas parented to Robert Ray under date of April 9, 1831. The application is dated January, 1824, and sho,vs Robert Ray co have been married. His ·wife,s na1ne was 1-fargarec, and her age is given as fourteen years. Robert Ray gave his own age as t,venty-nine years. They ca1ne co Texas from rhe stare of New York.:m:-, It seems that 1'1argarer, ,vife of Robert Ray! did not live long after their arrival in Texas, for Robert Ray is known to have married later to Becsey Green,vood, daugh­ ter of Henry Bailey Green\\'Ood, and sister to Franklin Jan·is Green,vood. The ,vriter has no inforn1ation about any chil­ dren.1oti when the World War began, joined the Canadian army as a volunteer. \X'hile serving in France he was killed in action. Hamp Thomas joined the Canadia:i army under the name of "J. Baker". He belonged to the Third Canadian Tunnelling Company, and his regimental number was 441729. He was ranked as Sapper. The date of his death was October 3, 1917, and the records shm~­ that he died of wounds in the head. (Extract from B11ria/ Records, Canadi.:r. Reco1·4 Office, London.) l\famie Thomas, daughter of Nancy and Hamr­ Thomas, was the late Mrs. W. W. Duncan of Bartlett, Texas. She left r.c· children. Nannie Thomas is now :Mrs. A. J. Simon of San Antonio, Texas. She has three children by a former marriage ( to W. R. Beaumier), nameir Margaret, l\fary, and Hampton. Margaret is now l\frs. Earl Blair of Houston. l\fary is now 1frs. l\farton of Houston, and Hampton n:sides in San Antonio. ~fary Elizabeth Pitts, daughter of John Griffith Pitts, married J. W. leak: (born l\·farch 18, 1852), son of J. F. Leake (born in South Carolina, 1828; died in 1904) and Laura Leake (born in South Carolina, 1832; died 1893i They had four children, namely: Francis A. Leake, Fletcher Leake~ Gordo: Leake, and WilJis Leake. Francis A., Gordon, and Willis Leake an: all sin~~t and reside in Navasota, Texas. Fletcher l.cake lives at Amarillo, Texas. and hJ, a wife and five children, namely: John Gordon, Fletcher, Francis, l\·fary, anJ Ro~­ en. Laura Pitts married, in 1876, A. Key, and they lived at Wilmingwn, C2ii­ 1 fornia. They have one daughter, Edna Earl, who is Now l\frs. E. H. Cooke of L ; Angele:s, California. (L. G. A11dreu·.1 to E. L. Blair, July i 2, 1929.) 105 = L,md Appli((;tion.r_. 55, in the Gcn(•ral tand Office at Austin. Tc:xJ~ AbJtract of TexaJ Ltmd Titles_. I, 60-1. =:•~;Greenwood, Robert E., Junior, HiJtorJ of G're<:nu·o(Jd., (:MS ) . :\t th<: tir.;c of her marriage ro Ray, Betsey was a widow. having been married to a rr.,~ by the name of Henson. EARLY HISTORY OF GRI:MES COUNTY 143

Andre,v Rea.-The land applications sho,v no information about Andre\\' Rea other than that he ,vas fifty years old and single. His application is not dared. His one-quarter league (trant, parented on June 18, 1831, lies a fe,v 1niles east of the ~resent little to,vn of Shiro, Grin1es county.:w; There are sev­ erai Reas living in this vicinity, and the writer believes that they are descendants of Anclre,v Rea, but no conclusive data . ..l ·w~ has been o bta1nel'!.' ·• Ignacius Sin1n1s.-No record ,vas found of a land applica­ tion by Ignacius Sin11ns, but a one-league grant, lying in the extreme northern part of Grimes county and partly in 1'1ad­ ison county, ,vas patented to him under dare of October 26, 1835.:w!, It see1ns that Ignacius Si1nms ca1ne co Texas s01ne­ time prior to 1835, secured his land grant, and in 1836, re­ turned to Louisiana, ,vhere he ren1ained until about 1852, when he returned to Texas and re-occupied his land. During rhe period of his stay in Louisiana (1836-1852), his land ,vas held by his brother-in-law, Ed,vard Ariola_::,o The "·ife of

01 :• Land Application.r, 97, in the General Office at Austin, Texas. Ab.rtr,ut of Texa.i Land Titles, I, 604. 3GliThe writer understands that Frank Rea of Shiro, Texas, is a descendant of Andrew Rea. No answer was received from a communication addressed to 1'.lr. Frank Rea. Such communication was written under date of November 4. 1928. •,,.'Land Appliet1tio11s, of record in the General Land Office at Austin, Texas. Also Abstract of Texas Land Titles_. I, 604. 310Afr.r. Margaret M. Harrison to E. L. Blah- .. dated at Bedias, Texas, July ... 1928. l\fr.r. JP''. C. Blagg to E. L. Blair, dated at Iola, Texas, June 21, 1928. Mrs. Blagg is a grand-daughter of Edward Ariola. According to the above, Edward Ariola came to Texas from Louisiana along with Ignacius Simms, and occupi<.-

Ignacius Simms was Nancy Pankey, po5sibly a daughter co the James W. Pankey ,vho settled on a nearby league at abour the same time. They ,vere married, ho,vever, prior to their ar• rival in Texas. Both are buried in the old Bechel Ce1nerery on ,vhar is kno\vn as Simms Prairie, a few I"niles f ro1n the town of Bedias. Their children \Vere Richard (born July 8, 1824; died April of 1883), Nancy, Mary Anne, 1'-1ary Jane, Adeline, Wiiliam and John.:~ 11 more children, :Matilda, Francis, and Sallie. Concerning these children of l\fasamore Ariola, Leovenia married John Treadwell ; l\fargaret died in child­ hood; l\fatilda is now l\frs. W. C. Blagg of Iola community in Grimes county; Francis married Will Upchurch, from whom she later separated. She had three children, namely: Eula Upchurch, now Mrs. Will Nobles of Bedias, Texas; l\fike Upchurch, now of l\fadison county; and Esmer Upchurch, now of Bedias, Texas. Delores Ariola settled later in Old ~Iexico, where she married and had two children. John Ariola, son of Edward, is said to have fought in the Battle of San Jacinto with T. P. Plaster, and to have influenced Plaster to settle in Grimes county after the establishment of Texas independence. (This given by ~frs. l\fargaret Harrison, daughter of T. P. Plaster. The Index oi Texas Revolutiona,J Soldie,-s, shows Plaster co have been ac the Battle of San Jacinto, but no mention is made of John Ariola). McDonald, however, in his Soldiers of San Jacinto (l\{S), 37, gives the name of Simon Ariola, as be­ longing ~o the Ninth Company, Second Regiment of Texas Volunteers. Ac­ cording to ~frs. l\,f. Harrison, John Ariola also fought in the l\·fexican War under Ben l\kCullough, as did also his two brothers, Gray and Eli. She sa}'S that Eli also fought in the Southern army during the Civil War, and that he lose an arm ac Pea Ridge, Arkansas. .After the dose of rhe Civil \Var, Eli Ariola married. The writer does not know the name of his wife, but she is said co have married William Jones, after the death of Eli Ariola. lvfary Ariola, daughter of Edward, married Wiliiam Stone and lived in Grimes county until her death. She had two children, Edward and .Mary. mf. T. Simms to E. L. Blair, dated at Bedias, Texas, Jul}' 6, 1928. According co l\fr. J. T. Simms, Richard Simms, son of Ignacius, married Afaris Callender, daughter of J. J. Callender who resided on Simms Prairie. They (Richard and Aiaris) had six children, namely: Mary Anne, Nancy, William R., Ekina Mae, Lula, and Jerrr T. 1\-fary Anne, Simms married V. A. Upchurch, moved to Falls county about 1908, where they reared a family. l\frs. 1Iaggie Roberts of Chilton, Texas, is a daughter of l\·!ary Anne and V. A. Upchurch. Nancy Simms married Ennis Upchurch, moved ro Falls county about 1901, and is survived by several children. William R. Simms, son of Richard Simms, married A{ollie Hall, daughter of W. L. Hall; moved co l\fadison county abour 1925. ~frs. Frank l\Iidkiff, of Bedias, Grimes county, is a daughter, and so is :Mrs. Lena Price of Bedia~. Both ha\'c: families. Elvina l\fae Simms is now Mrs. EARLY HISTORY OF GRil\fES (:ouNTY 145

\v'illiam Townsend.-\\'illia1n 1·\nvnsend applied for land in April of 1835, and his grant ,vas patented on October 20 of the san1e year. He ,vas another one of the group of pioneers who seeded in the exrren1e northern part of \Vhat is no,v

E. L. Hall. She is a widow and resides in the Cotton communitr, Grimes county. Her children ~ire W. R. Hall, 1\f. M. Hall, Gary Hall, all three of whom reside at Bedias, Texas. There are two daughters, namely: Mrs. Eula Mae Tadlock, of Cotton community, Grimes county; and 1\·frs. Lona Barnett, of Edna, Texas. Eula Simms, daughter of Richard, is now 1\frs. Job Landers, of Bedias, and is the mother of eight children, namely: Simms, Jose, Charlie, Odell, Richard, Jerry, Jesse, and Beuiah. Simms Landers married a :Miss Newton, and resides at Bc

Grimes county. The league lies partly in Madison county. His application sho,vs char he came from Alabama; that he was a farmer by occupation. The application also sho\\'S that William To,vnsend had a large fan1ily in l\tlatagorda, Texas.=112 The name of William To\\·nsend appears on the rolls of rhe Texas Veteran Association as having furnished documentary evidence of military or political service to Texas benveen 1820 31 and 1836. :1 The writer is led to believe that rhe family of William To,vnsend never permanently settled on the league in Grimes counry·, but re1nained in iviacagorda counrv. ~ . Daniel Tyler.-No information has been found concerning Daniel Tyler ,vhose one-quarter league grant, parented Octo­ ber 22, 1835, lies a few miles to the south of the present town of Navasota. The application in the General Land Office gives no information. :u 4 lives near Conroe, Texas, with several children. Allie married Ira \X'est of Montgomery county. Both are now dead and the writer has no information regard\ng their children. The third wife of John Simms was Mattie Yar­ borough, by whom he had two children, namely: J. H., and Robert. J. H. Simms married a daughter of F. E. Strand, and now resides at Bedias, Texas. Robert Simms married; his wife is dead, however, and he now lives ar Bedias, Texas. They had two children, Harmon, and Mattie. Harmon is ar Bedias, and ~Iattie is now l\lrs. Youngblood of Hempstead, Texas. The writer finds no mention of Ignacius Simms in the Au.rtin Papers. A. Bartlett Simms seems to have played a rather prominent pare in opposing the Edward (Fredonian) Rebellion, but there is nothing to sho·w chat he was related to Ignacius Simms. (Barker, The A1utin Papers, in the Am11u1/ Repo,1 of the American Historical A.r.rociatimz for 1919, II, 1333, 1550, 1568.) 12 :i Ltmd Applict1lion, 91. Of record in the General Land Office. Austin: Texas. Abstract of Texas Land Titles, I, 604. 31 1 = Proceeding.r of the AHociation of Texas Veterans for 1873. Hdf a leag~e was sold to Horatio Chriesman, Octoht"r 15, 18~6. Gri11u-..- C(.-u,:t1 Dud Reco,-d, C, 178. · 31'Land Application.r, of record in the General Land Office, Austin, Ttxas . .Ab.r11·act of Texas Land Titles, I, 604. Daniel Tyler sold some of his land to David Underwood on January 27, 1852. Deed RtcordJ of G'rim!:! Co,,mj, B, 617-619. On the same date he sold another part (the northeast cmt-eighth league) to E. G. Hearn. I bid. EARLY HISTORY OF GRI:MES COUNTY 147

Allen Vince.-A one-half league grant, situ aced in the east­ ern pa.rt of ,vhat is no,v G·ri1nes county and lying partly in 1fontgomery county, ,vas patented to Allen Vince on April 30, 1831. The ,vricer finds no record of an application from Allen Vince in the General Land Office at Austin, Texas, and has found no descendants of this colonist.:u:; Tandy Walker.-l'he land application of l'andy \'i/ alker is dated in 1830, and sho,vs him to have been sixty-r,vo years old, and his ,vife, 1'-Iary, co have been fifty-five years old. The application sho,vs that they had ,vith then1 c,vo sons; th,1t they owned six ncgro slaves; and that they ca1ne to Texas from Palo Gacho (spelled "Palagache" in application). Palo

Gacho creek is located a fe,v miles east of Naco_gdoches,...... Texas. It seems the refore that the \Y/ alkers had settled at first in this locality and later applied for land in Austin's 111 colony.= ; It is kno,vn that the \XI alkers ca1ne to Texas from Alaba1na, and that they arrived in Texas ~-larch 11, 1.828.:n~ The \vriter has s01ne rather interesting data concerning the \valker fan1ily, but it is of such a fragn1entary nature rhat it has been impossible to trace clearly the fa1nily connections.

315Lmd Application_. and Abstract of Texas Limd Title.r. I, 604. His land was sold to Seabean J. Hendrick, February 28, 1844. Deed Records of Grime.r Co11nlJ. A-2, 421. 316La11d Application, 97. L. Bal/011 to E. L. Blc,ir_. dared at Brady, Texas, July 19, 1928. Ballou is a grandson of Robert Armour, whose daughter, Delilah, was Tandy Walker'5 second wife. Stephen F. A11.rtin's Afap of Te~:as, 1829, in Archives of Scare Library. 31 "/. T. Robi..-011 to lHr.r. Etta TY" eaz:e,-_. dat<::d at Austin, Texas, :March 11, 1929. In this iccter, J. T. Robison, Texas Land Commissioner, cires Headright Cenificace No. 168, issued by the Board of Land Commissioners of 1'-Iont­ gomery county, February 1, 1836, to Tandy Walker for ont league and one labor, which certificate recites that Tandy H. Walker arrived in this country, ~farch 11, 1828, and that he was a married man. This Tandy H. \Valker ma)· have been the son of the Tandy Walker to whom a Grimes county league was patenred under date of April 27, 183 I. The writer bases the statement :hat Walker came co Texas from Alabama on West's Hi.rtorJ of 1\f ethot!iJm ;,z Ai,1b11M. 90-91. EARLY HISTORY OF (1RI!\fES (~OUNTY

The \\/ alkcrs \vcre pioneer ,voo

;aliThe following quotation is taken from West's HistorJ of A1ethodism in Alabama, 90-91. It was furnished l\Irs. Etta Weaver, of Navasota, Texas, by Marie B. Owen, Director of the Department of Archives and History, State of Alabama, in a letter dated, l\·larch 19, 1928.

'"Among all che men whom Mr. Scurdevanc found in char t:ouncr>· there was none ot more conspicuous character than Tandy Walker, none: in whom .Mr. Sturdc:vanc was more incc:nscly inter<:sccd. Mr. \';'alker's grandmother's maid<.:n name was Nancy Tandy. That was the origin ot his name:, Tandy. He w~1s by birch a Viigini:m. by n:1ture and experience a backwoodsman, by crade a bfack:.mich, and by :icquirt:d knowk·c.lge ot the Indian language a medium of communication becween the Eng­ lish-s1,caking and the Indian-speaking peopk. For all these re.1sons Mr. Sturde­ v:i.:.u ·would he inccrt:stcd in him. He:: emign1.ted to Tombigbee by or before the summer ot 1803. Some have said chat he: wcnc co Tomhighee in 1801. He: wa~ nocec.J tor rnuragc, generosity and honesty. The United Scates Government was exceedingly anxious co civilize the Indiilns and improve cheir condition. and co th:~ enc.l endeavored to introduce among tht:m implements ot husb:indry. In some of the treaties made wich che Indi:in Trihes the Federal Government sripul:ncd rn furnish chem blacksmiths. In l'onn1::c1ion wich rhc trading house c:srnblio;h1.:d :u Sainr Stephens tor the benefit ct che Choctaw Indians the go\'c.-mmenc cscahlishd a blacksmith shop. and tor a time employed Tandy \Va.Iker co do the work ot tl:e shop .... Thc:retore, co .Mr. Scurdevanc, T~indy \\':'alker, the blal"ksmich, w:is an important and invaluable <:icizeu in chc: country where he found him. Tani.h­ \X1al~r was, rh> lloubc, the nun ·who. from time co cim<::, shod the horse ot the first Mc:chodisr pre:icher who wcm co and tro in thac c:m·ironc:s: delic~m: and complicated missions. He was sent on <.:xpcditions in which ctmion. daring, <:ndurancc, insight, and wisdom were all in requisition. In 1812. upon the suggestion ot .Mrs. Gaines, the wite ot George S. Gaines. th<: Govc:rnm<.:nt A~em. and upon the promptings of his own noble and generous ;mpubcs. Tandv \\:'alkcr wel't co chc Falls ot che Black \v'arrior Ri\·cr, about where: Tuscaloosa 110,\' stands, w resn:e or ransome a Mrs. Cr:1wley who had been captured in Tennessee and bru;.igbc co chac place hy a party oi Creek warriors who !iam• hight<: Circuit, near Coffcc\'illc. Clark<.: Coumy. 1\lahama. hy Re,·. Samuel ~c:llc:r~. then Presiding elder. This woman w;1s a memh<.:r ot che :Methodist Church in :\b.­ b:ir:1a. lur thr'ce-quaners ot a century. She wa!:- tull ol foid1 and ~ooc.J works. "Somh<.:.1sc ol the: prese:H cown ot i\:'ew Berns and in Township eighteen and Rarlgt six is a no;,ed prairie marked on the maps as \\?alkcr's Prairie, ,111d !iaid tu h_.t,·~ bt~n <.':tiled fc!r Tandy_ \~':1lker. and n_oc iar_ tn.,m th_:ir _Prairi<.:. ~rn 1!1c \\<:~: side of 1r. 1 andy \'\'a!kc:r died !!1 :1hour I 8 LL 1-1!.,; gr.1,·c I) there unfil rh!, d:,~. E.'\RLY HISTORY ·oF GRIMES (~OUNTY 149

JI1t0 Alaban1a. 1"here is s01ne reason to think that he, cer­ rainlv some of his sons, resided in 1·ennessee about 1826.:il!, J

Tandr, \\.'alkcr, \\'hilc residin!!l,, in Alaba1na, is said co have sen·ed in the United States Annv.I under General Andre,v Jackson, during the \'v'ar of 1812, and is said to have been se,,eral ri1nes \\'Ounded \\.-hile in such service.=::.!(' His n1ost

31PJoh11 C. W' alker ta A.11s1in_. dated at Land Office Henderson county, State of Tennc:ssee, dated March 15, 1826, published by Barker in the Anmu,l Report of the Americ(m Histo,-ical AsJoci(1tion for 1919, II, 1274. Walker writes as follows:

"From an acquaintance I had with your tarher's iamily particularly Jas. Austin "·ho lived ,vith me in my fachc:r's tami!)· in chc stare ot Kentucky while he was ac school 1 rnke chc Jihercy ot addressing you a lctrer which I hope will be speedily answered there is about to ht made up a company co emigrate co the pro,·incc ot Texas l wish co makt: one ot ic hue least I might nut be sati!ihed with thac Coun­ tr}'. I wish >"Ou as J know rou trom Character co write mt a lencr concerning chat Countr)' as lO the soil he:alcl1. wacers tu: :md the panicular terms upon which sc:nlcrs ,;o chere upon. how much land a man ot tamily would be cncicle:d co, and .also a skc:tch ot Your I.a ws. and some ot chc mosc imporcanc dauscs in your con­ ~cituiion, which mighc concern as amc:rican as well as your religious restriccions etc rhe distance irom .New Orleans, by water the distance lrom the Chickasaw Bluffs by land as near as you can guess-accompanied with your advise Ot che importance 01 dri.,.ing rnnlc hog~s c:cc. <:cc:. whcrhc:r )·our soil and dimate is adapted to the culrnrc ot coHon. and whcrher groceries can he conveniencly, and low. \\'hecher vour I.ind~ or heavily Timhcred or b:urony. che Rivers you would advise me on, ccc. etc.' c:cc. It Jas. :\ustin is wirh you or in reach ot you J should be verry glad, he coulJ hcar 1rom me.·. :ind tdl him co write mt:, trc." 2 • fJRufus G1'imes to John G. li'-" alker. This ktter is undated, but seems to be in the handwriting of Rufus Grimes. The original is in the possession of 1'Irs. Ena Wea\'er, Navasota, Tc:xas. lr indic.ires thar John G. \X'alker was making an mempt ro secure a bounrr from th<: l.!nircd Stat<.:s Go\'t:rnm<.:nt hc:causc of his £r.1ndfacher's services during rhc War of 18 I 2. Rufus Grimes off<.:rs to take an o:uh to rht following:

"Tha~ 11<: was wi1<:!I a ho\' a<."qu;1imc.:d wid1 Tandy \X'alkc.·r who c111H: IO Tl:XilS ;n rlit year !828 and w whom wis grnncc.: Tt:-::is ,u,cl w,:s :t,om·d IO ha\'C: hc.:<:n m~un· 1;:nc-s w1Hrndcd whil<.- i!! mili:;,r•: ,;c:n·icc uridc:r :\ndn.:,,· _i.,l;:~nn during tile: yc:ir~ i:-·c,r.; 181~ rn 181~ .... " ·

fo this s.unc ltnc:r Rui11s Grir:1<.:s st~lli..•S ch~u if T:111c.ly \,f:dkc·r cn:r haJ ~ny .i::u;hters d1,1C ile (Grim<.:..;)

.:'Trunuribed Deed Rerord.r of Afomgomer)' Co11ntJ., LXXXIII, 578. -~The writer is conscious of the fact that the above is not clear, but it seems impossibie with the dace in hand to trace the connection satisfactorily. ~Owen's Hi.rto1J and DictionmJ of Alabama Biogruphy. IV. mentions two d1ughcers, Sarah and l\[illie. R11f1n Grime.r to John Grime.r lf/' alker .. cited in footnote number 320 above, named three sons, Tandy H., John, and Daniel. L. B.1!/01, /(I E. L. 8/(1ir, July 19, 1928, mentions Mary Jane. There may have been other children. There are several other Walkers mentioned in the Grimes coumr records. for example, there is an Alexander Walker to whom Tandy and his wife deeded land, March 6, 1840. T,-ansc,·ihed Deed Records of l\fontgomery C{nmt), LXXXIII, 578. =~L. Ba!io,, to E. L. B/afr, July 19, 1928. ~=i\X'est, l-listorJ of l•fethodi.rm in Alabama, 90-91. J:-,L. Ballou to E. L. Blair, August. 19, 1928. 152 EARLY HISTORY OF (1RIMES (:ouNTY of Tandy \\ialker, n1arrying a \\/. 1 1 aylor, by ,vhon1 s!:e had one daughter ,\·hose na1ne the ,vriter does nor have. ~f illie and her husband, \Y/_ Taylor, resided in 1'.fonrgon1ery county~ Texas.:i::o Tandy H. \Valker, son of Tandy \Valker, married in the year 1828, or 1829, co a ,voman named Prudence Choar, by whom he had one daughter, Em1na.=1=11 Tandy H. \X'alker 111arried again in 183 7, having three n1ore children by rhi~ second ,vife, namely: a daughter \\'hose nan1e the ,vrirer does not have, ,vho married W. C. Career and resided in c;ri111es county; Elizabeth; and John Grimes.=i=: 2 Daniel \\.' alker,

3300wen, History and Dictiona,-y of A/aba,,M Biograph)', JV. L. Ballou 10 E. L. Blair, July 19, 1928. 331L. Ba/1011 to E. L. Blair, July 19, 1928. This Emma Walker, daughter of Tandy H. and Prudence Walker, married a man by the name of Taylor and, according to Rufus Grimes, moved ro Sutton county, Texas. (R..11/ 11.r Grimes !6 John Grimes JPalker., this is the undated letter described in footnote number 320, above.) 132 = R1lj1u Grimes to John G,·imes JPalker. L. B,1/1011 to E. L. B/,1ir. July 19, 1928. Elizabeth Walker married a man named Jones. The writer has no in­ formation regarding her family. John Grimes Walker (born April 19, 1846; died February 16, 1928) married Eliza Bullock (born July 23, 1851; died June 2, 1917). They reared a large family of eleven children, namely: Rufus A. (born August 12, 1870); Willie H. (born February 28, 1879), King Oran (born Oc­ tober 12, 1875 ), Mary Elizabeth (born ~fay 2, 1878), Dolphia Dolcna (born June 12, 1880; died March 23, 1902), John Grimes, Junior (born April 5, 1889), Rosa Lee (born l\farch 10, 1886), Ida Pearl (born October 9, 1888), Polly Ann (born February 4, 1891), Etta Jennett (born February 12, 1894), and Carrie 1\-lyrtle (born l\farch 4, 1896). As indicated above, nint of these children are now living. Rufus A. Walker married, October 9, 1891, Fannie Dehart, by whom he had one daughter, Ellen. Rufus A. Walker married a st:c~mc.l rime, and now resides at \X'aco. There are two children by the second marriage, namdy: Annie and Wil1ie. \X'iJlie H. Walker, son of John Grimes Walker, married, Decembci 26, 189-1, Carri<.: Andrews, by whom he had one son, Oris Theodore- \\::alkc-r. born December 26, who now resides in Houston, Texas. \X1iJlic H. \'Xfa.Jker·s second wife was, before her marriage, a .'.Miss Laura Taylor. Both \\'i!lie H.. and his wife, Laura, now reside ac Franklin, Tc::-:.1s. King Oran \X':?iker mar­ ried Pearl 1\farthcws, and rhcy now lin: at Courn:<:y: Texas. They \;::·.-~ he children, namely: Lena, \X1altcr, Edna, I.aw:rn, and "'Jack.'' l\farr L \\.. ;:,lk'-·r i~ now !\.!rs. W. ~r. P(•dc:n of Navasota, Texas. Her husb.rnJ, \X'. i\I. Pede:-:-~, did in 1921, being survived by his wifo and three children, namely: Jamc:s Ak-xa.ndti Peden, Christie P<.:den, and J\fary Elizabeth P('den. Jam<:'s Alexande:- ~arrit2 1\-fiss Bengie l\fuJlican (about 1926) and rht-y now rtsidc· ar Nav:-:sP:z. Tex::s. EARLY HISTORY OF GRIJ\·IES COUNTY 153 brother ro Tandy H. \Valker, n1arried about February of 1835. His ,vife died soon after their marriage, and Daniel himself died in 1837.:{:{:i .l\manda \Valker, daughter of Tandy \X'alker, tnarried Ha1np Carter. They ,vere n1arried in the summer of 1858, at the old \X1 alker hoinestead, on Gri1nes Prairie. An1anda and Hamp Carter are both no,v dead. They resided in what is kno,vn as l\·fartin's Prairie community, near the ..present little tO\\'n of Roan 's Prairie, and are sur- rired by se,·eral children, some of "·horn arc A1nanda, Illa, Quince, and l\Iattie. The "'·riter kno,vs of one other daugh­ rer by the na1ne of Julia ,vho is no,v dead.::::-, Elizabeth \'('alker, daughter of Tandy Walker, married a 1nan by the name of Clarence Jones.=~:{:; John C. Walker, son of Tandy \X'alker, seems to have died ,vhile young.:-l:rn

John Grimes Walker, Junior, married Annie Mansel of Houston, Texas, where rhey now reside. They have one daughter, named Lola. Rosa lee Walker is now ifrs. William Davis Allen of Houston, Texas. She had three daughters, namely: Gladys, Annie. and ~'illie. Only one, Gladys, is married. She is no,v Mrs. Ray Thompson of Houston, Texas. Ida Pearl Walker is now Mrs. \ViJlie Brown of Houston. They have two children, namely: Rosa l\faud and Billie. Pollr Ann Walker is now Mrs. W. E. Hawkins of Houston, Texas. She has one daughter whose name is Ruth. Etta Jennett Walker is now l\frs. W. S. Weaver of Navasota, Texas. Her husband, W. S. Weaver, was born October 20, 1889, and was killed in a railroad accident, October 5, 1928. 11rs. W. S. \X'eaver has rhree children, namely: Leroy Shelton (born September 1, 1911 ), William Clifton (horn July 22, 1919), and Etta Lattreece (horn July 26, 1921). The writer is indebted to Mrs. \X'. S. Weaver for the greater part of the information given in this sketch. Carrie l\·lyrrle Walker is now l\Irs. C. F. Wea\'tr of Nava­ sota, Texas, and is the mother of seven children, namely: Emorr Louise, Carrol, Fiorrie, Kittie :Mac, Thomas Z., Elizabeth, and Helen. ( lHr.r. 117. S. 117 em·er to E. L. Bhrir,

Caleb Wallace.-N o application for land by Caleb \X' allace is found in the General Land Office, at Austin, Texas. 1·here is a one-league grant, situated in what is no,v the southern part of Grimes county, that was patented to Caleb \Vallace, l\1Iay 14, 1828. :::n The writer has found no one in Grimes county who kno,vs anything about Caleb \Vallace. lvI r. Joe Ashford, of Hempstead, Texas, says that he remembers the family, and that they moved a,vay from Grimes county ·when he was a sn1all boy.a::s It is supposed that the \Xf allace family came from Virginia.=~:u, The house of Caleb \Vall ace ,vas a desig- left no heirs. Ballou, however, seemed co be of the opinion that John Walker married and left heirs. The writer is somewhat confused about this John C. Walker. Ballou gives him as having been the son of Tandy and his second wife, Delilah Armour. There is a record, however, of a John C. Walker, who had a family in Tennessee in 1826, and who wrote to Austin, asking about con­ ditions in Texas (see footnote number 319, page 149, of this chapter). If this John C. Walker was the son of Tandy Walker, he was evidently one of the older c~ildren by the first wife, lfary Mays. It may be, on the other hand, chat the Jolin C. Walker, who wrote from Tennessee, was a brother of Tandy Walker, or even no relation at all. 331Land Applications and Abstract of Texas 'Land Titles, I, 604. a/oe Ashford to E. L. Blair, dated at Hempstead, December 3, 1928. Mr. Joe Ashford is about seventy or more years old and lived most all of his life in the southern part of Grimes county. 339Mrs. Afaude WaJJace McDonald to E. L. Blair, dated at Austin, Texas, De­ cember 23, 1928. Mrs. McDonald resides at 600 West 17th Street, Austin, Texas. The following is quoted from her letter.

"I regret co say that I am unable to give you any dala on th is p:i rricular Cal ch \'f.allacc, further than I am quite sure he emigrated from Virginia to Texas and i:i most likely closely related to the Caleb Wallace who was P. clerk of the Presbyter ot Hanover ro the General Assembly ot Virginia, 1776. · See Old Churches and Families of Virginia,' by Bishop Meade. Austin was in Virginia about chis time and I suspect became acquainted with the Wallace families and induced the \X1allaccs to come to Texas. I am the granddaughter of Lt. Col. Wm. Simpson Wallace, who came to Texas trom Tennessee about 1834 or 1835, and later was dcput)' Sur­ -.·:;·or of Bexar Land Disrrkc under John James. The Lt. Col. commission was g:ven him by Pres. M. B. Lamar, for killing Gen. Flores in the: Bartle ot "Brushy Cr.' and securing che 'Cordova-Flores correspondence.' My g-g-father, John Wallace. c:i.me from Virginia co Tenn. The original Wallace family of Virginia was a very b.~ge one, and the; ha-.·e scattered-some to Ken. Tenn. Fla. S. C., Ala. Colo. and wh:::!'e not.·· EARLY HISTORY OF GRI~lES COUNTY 15'.5 nated voting place in 1831, and the presiding judge for such was \v'illiam Pettus.=: 40 James Wallace.-There is an application in rhe General Land Office for Jan1es \X' allace, and it sho\vS that he can1e co Texas fron1 the state of Georgia; chat he ,vas by occupation a farmer; that he was fifty-six years old, in Dece1nber of 1826, the dace of his application; and that his ,ivife's name ,vas Patsy, \vhose age is given as fifty years.=H 1 The one-league grant co Ja1nes ~'allace is in the southern part of Gri1nes county, and joins the ~Tandy \Valker league on the south. The parent elate is April 6, 1831.:'"~ No infonnation has been found regarding any descendants. Dudley J. White.-The land application of Dudley J. White shows that he came to Texas from the scare of Georgia; that, by occupation, he was a farmer; that his age was then (Feb­ ruary, 1827), twenty-seven years; that his ,vife ,vas nan1ed Berhia~ \vhose age \Vas t\\'enty-four years; and that they had 14 no children.= :i His league was patented May 31, 1831, and is located in \vhat is no,v the extreme southern part of Grimes county, lying partly in \X' all er county _:,H In July of the year 1852, the ,vriter finds eight heirs given for Dudley J. White, na1nely: Berthia, James W., Leander, John P., Mariah 14 L., Caleb W., Elendor, and Miriam.= :; In addition to these,

110 : Barker, ··ifinmes of the Ayuntamiento of San Felipe de Austin," Qua,-terly, XXII, 358. :,uLcmd App/it-,1tio11J, -i9, in the General Land Office, at Austin, Texas. 2 :M Abstract of Texas Land Tirles, I, 604. A James P. Wallace was granted 1608 acres of land, for services as stat~ ranger for a period of twelve months dating from January 17, 1836. (Gammel, Lau•s of Texas, VIII, 395 ), also, the name of W. A. Wallace appears on the rolls of the Association of Texas Vet­ cr:tlh for 1893. (Proreeding.!" of the A.r.rociatimz of Texcu Vetercms for 1893. 8-1 -1.) 3 ~ Land A.pp/ication.r, 91, of record in the General Land Office at Austin, Texas. S44Abs11act of Texas Land TitleJ, I, 604, see map in the appendix of this volume. "AProbate 1lii11utes of Grimes Count)", II, 361-362. 156 EARL v HISTORY Of GR1J\1Es Cou NTY

1-lr. Joe Ashford, of He1npsread, 1 1 exas, states that he rernem­ bers a son of Dudley J. \Vhite by the name of Walter, and another by the name of Pinkney. According to Ashford, Walter \\fhite died ,vhile in the Confederate Anny. He says that Walter White left no family.=:-i,; Pinkney \Xihite (likely the John P. White listed aboYe) ,vas also a Con£ ederate Vet­ eran. After the ,var, he married and resided in the northern part of \\·hat is no,v Brazos county, near the old co,\·n of Wheelock.=:-n Caleb White served in Hood's Texas Brigade during the Civil War, and \i\'as killed at Gaines 1'1ill, leaving 118 no family.: • Mariam (Matilda) \X1hite inarried a J\1r. Jack­ son by ,vhon1 she had a daughter ,vho ,vas also named j\la­ tilda. ~-Iariam (White) Jackson outlived her first husband and later 1narried Levi Bailey, and lived for several years at Bryan, Texas. There \Vere no children f ron1 this second n1arriage. i\·Ialtida Jackson, daughter of :tvlarian1 by her first husband, married and 1noved from Gri1nes county. The ,vriier has no infonnation of her family. 11 "!1 Elendo; \Xlhite n1arried a Mr. Gregory. They 1noved ro Houston ,vhere she died \Vith yello,v fever prior to the Civil \XI ar, being survived by c,vo sons, na1nely: Edgar, v.'hose descendants no,v reside near Brookshire, Texas; and Dudley. 1'1ariah L. \'('hire mar­ ried Joe Lyons and they n1oved to Alaba1na_:::;u The na1ne, 34r,/oe A.rhford to E. L. Blair, December 3, 1928. This Walter is probably the: same as the James W. White liscccl in the Proh(1te AfinuteJ oj GrinU: c County. II, 361. James W. \X'hite's namt occurs on the Li.rt of l\T:mte.r of 1\filiti.:. for Beant No. 4 of Grime.I' Comzt')'_. certified to by J. G. Chatham, enrol1ing officer. under date of October I, 1861. ( See A111Jter Roll in Appendix.) 41 a /oe Ashford to E. L. Blafr, December 3, 1928. 48 :: Polley, Hood's Te:x,1.1 Brigade, 325-327. His name docs nor appear o:i the original Ji,fu.rte1· Roll but appears on Polley·s roll. He therefore evidently joined after the organization of this unit. 140 = Grime.c County Prob,11e Ifrtord.r. II, 361-36.2. A.dJj ord 10 E. L. Bl.,ir, December 3, 1928. Ashford gives her name as l\Iacilda. ':15°ProbtJle }Uinme.r of Gri111e.r Cmm1J. II, 261-262; Joe A.,h.f ord 1<:, E. L. Blair, December 3~ 1928. EARLY HISTORY OF GRIM:ES COUNTY 157

\\'·'hire, seen1s to have been a con1n1on one in Austin's colony. The \\~ricer finds n1any of that nan1e 1nencioned in the A11Jtin Pt1perj_:n 1 jarnes \X'hicesides.-The ,vricer fails to find any record of the land application made by Jaines \"X1hitesides. His grant is dared July 16, 1824, and lies in the soutl1,vestern por­ tion of ,vhat is no,v Grimes county.:::;~ James \X/hitesides (born July 21, 1771; died in Texas, April 24, 1848) came to Texas fro1n the state of Tennessee, prior to April 20, 1824.:lri:i He played an in1portant role in the affairs of the colony, but seems to have n1aintained the status of an influential private C1t1zen. The ,vritcr finds nothing to sho,v that he ,vas eyer in the anny of Texas, or that he ever held public office, other than that of election judge in the district of Bravo, 1826.=~.;4 The nan1e of Jan1cs \'vhitesides occurs fret1uently in the corre­ spondence of Stephen F. Austin, and indicates that \\/hicesides

:::uBarker, The Au.din Papers, in the Annual Report of the American Historical Association for 1919, II. In this volume, the following Whites are mentioned: Allen (or Alen) \X,'hite, pages 702, 771, and 773; Amy \Vhite, page 1132; Joseph \X1hite, page 1523; Walter C. White, page 1291; Will White, page 1681. In Austin Pt1pers, as published by Barker in the Annutll Report of the American HiJtorit:al Association for 1922, II, is found the name of F. White, page 162; Matthew G. White, page 316; and Thomas White, pages 164, and 197. In the "J\Iinutcs of the Ayuntamiento of San Felipe de Austin," as published by Barker, in the Quarterly_. XXIII, 307, Dudley J. White is mentioned as having failed to comply with obligations under which he purchased lots, and it was or­ dered that such lots be sold on June 2, 1831. White had purchased them, February, 1831. 2 ~ L:md Applicatio11.r, an

•in addition to the instances cited in footnotes numbers 353 and 354 above, James Whitesides is found mentioned in the following connections: In a bill for surveying, signed by Horatio Chriesman, and dated at San Felipe de Austin, October 1, 1824, it is shown that two leagues were surveyed for James White­ sides. (Barker, The Austin Papers, in the Annual Report of the American His­ torical Association for 1919, II, 911.) James Whitesides to Austin, dated No­ vember 29, 1924, in which Whitesides asks regarding some land for the sons of his deceased brother, Jonathan (Ibid., 978), Au.ctin to James White.rides, dated November 2, 1828, in which Austin requests a loan of twenty dollars from Jarqes Whitesides, giving as reason for such request that he was too busy with office affairs to go out collecting (Ibid. for 1922, II, 138), James Whitesides to AuJtin, dated at San Felipe de Austin, December 1, 1829, in which Whitesides gives a statement of money due him for taking care of sick persons (I bid., 321), James Whitesides to Anthony Butler, dated at Coles Settlement, August 2, 1832, a rather lengthy letter, in which Whitesides comments on the affair, at Anahuac, between Bradburn, Travis, and the Jacks, and advises that everybody in his sec­ tion had declared for General Sama Anna (Ibid._. 829), JameJ u;,· hite.ridt.r to A11J­ tin, dated at San Felipe de Austin, September 4, 1832, in which Whitesides re­ quests Austin to make certain payments to Samuel Marshall, which request was accepted by Austin (Ibid., 824), and JameJ White.rides to Austin., dated at Coles Settlement, January 21, 1833, regarding land (Ibid .., 919). 3110Barker, The A11.rtin Pape,-s, in the Anm,al Report of the Ame1·ica11 Historical Association for 1919 .. 11, 978, and 1212. 1 :io Abstract of Texas Land Tit!e.r, I, 604, ff. 308There was a Boone Whitesides residing on the Na\'asota river, l\ovember 28, 1824. In the Azt.rtin Papers there is a letter from Boone Whitesides to Austin, of the above date, in which Boone Whitesides calls Austin's attention to the fact that he considers himself as much entitled to land as some other young men who had been given grants. ( Barker, The Au.rtin Papers, in tht Annual Report oj the American Hi.rtoric,tl A.uociation for 1919., II, 978.) John P. Coles in a letter t0 Austin, dated Januar}' 7, 1826, mentions having been guardian to some Whitesides children, and refers to their uncle, to whom he says that he is willing EARLY HISTORY OF GRIMES COUNTY 159

James Whitesides' ,vife ,vas, before her marriage, Miss Betsey Deck (born February 10, 1786; died October 23, 1843). They had c,vo sons, namely: Jinken (born November 19, 1811; died June 6, 1824), and John Tilford (born April 7, 1813; died l\1ay 13, 1892, and is buried at He1npstead, 1·exas) _:\:;n l\s a young n1an, John Tilford Whitesides served in the army of 31 11 Texas during the rebellion against lv[exico. ; He married (July 10, 1832), 1viiss Elizabeth Binghan1 ( died June 4, i859), by ,vhom he had seven children, namely: Acye Hoxey (born March 19, 1843), 1'1ary Terry (born February 11, 1840; died March 21, 1865), John F. Cra\\1 ford (born July 19, 1847; died January 17, 1896), James Bingharn (born October 7, 1851; died 1920), Franklin Terry (born lviarch 12, 1856), Francis B. (born Decen1ber 4, 1835; died February 23, 1847), and James Ashford (born September 2, 1850; died September 30, 1850) _ar.i to give them (Ibid., 1245). A William B. \X'hitesides is found mentioned as having helped James Holland guard a prisoner, by the name of Hiram Friley, September 13, 1830. (Barker, "Minutes of the Ayuntamiento of San Felipe de Austin," Quarterly, XXII, 190-191.) . 359Whitesides' Family Bible. The records are there in the handwriting of James and John Tilford Whitesides. The writer found this Bible at the old Tilford Whitesides' homestead a few miles south of the town of Hempstead. 3801\frs. James B. Whitesides to E. L. Blafr, dated at Hempstead, Texas, De­ cember 3, 1928, 1'-lrs. James B. Whitesides is the widow of James Bingham White­ sides, son of Tilford Whitesides, mentioned above. The writer finds that John Til­ ford Whitesides was a member of the Association of Texas Veterans in 1873, and is listed as having furnished documentary evidence of having served in a military or political capacity of Texas between 1820 and i 836. ( Proceedings of the ASJ0- ci(1tion of Texas Veterans for 1873.) 1'-frs. John Tilford Whitesides' name ap­ pears on the roll of the Texas Veterans as late as 1892. ( Proceedings of the A.rsociation of Texa.i Veterans for 1892.) 3 1 fi Taken from the Whitesides Family Bible, and from 1\.1n. Jame.r B. Whitesides to E. L. Blafr_. dated at Hempstead, December 3, 1928. Concerning the above children of John Tilford and Elizabeth (Bingham) Whitesides, the writer .finds chat Acye Hoxey Whitesides died while trying to escape from a Federal prison, during the Civil War. The following is copied from a note, written over the signature of John Tilford Whitesides, in the Whitesides' Family Bible. ··Acy Hoxey Whiteside left Texas July 30, 1861, as a member of Hood's Bri~a

John Tilford \Vhitesides· second ,vife ,vas, before her n1ar­ riage, l\1rs. Josephine Wood, ,vido,\· of Joseph \\/ood. The dare of this second 1narriage ,vas July 17, I 869. John Tilford

burg [a word here is blurred] 3rd day ot July, 1863, sem to Fore Delaware and remained there umil chc 1~lch ot November, same year, and from patriotism :i.n

The name of Acye Hoxey Whitesides does not appear on the original muster roll of the "Grimes County Grey," but is given by Polley in his book, Hood's Texas Brigade, 325-327. Polley states that he was taken prisoner at Gettysburg and died while attempting to escape. 1fary Terry Whitesides married, 1\-farch 21, 1861, Thos. C. Ashford (died in 1867, ac Courtney, Texas), son of Simon Ash­ ford of the Wallace Prairie community. Thos. C. Ashford served as a member of the Twenty-first Texas Cavalry, in Austin's Company, during the Civil \Xiar. (This information was given by Joe Ashford to E. L. Bl:1ir_. December 3, 1928.) Thos. T. and l·fary Terry Ashford left no children. John F. Crawford White• sides was a Confederate veteran, having served in Watson's Company, of J. D. Gidding's Brigade, on the Rio Grande river, where he was stationed at the close of the war. This statement was made by l\fr. Joe Ashford of Hempstead, Texas, who says chat he was in the same company with John F. Crawford Whitesides. ( Joe AJ·hford to E. L. B/,,fr_. December 3, 1928.) John F. Crawford married Sue l\{orrison, daughter of Judge Gwynn l\Iorrison. Sue died January 27, 1893, at t\le age of forty-three years, six months, and sixteen days, having given birth to two children, namely: Frank and Annie. Frank Whitesides now resides at Hemp­ stead, Texas. Annie Whitesides, his sister, is now l\frs. Duer of Houston, Texas: and has three children, namely: Camilla, now l\lrs. Webie Whitesides of Houston, Texas; Earl, of Houston, and Autrey, also of Houston, Texas. James Bingham Whitesides married (July 2, 1873) Versie l\.forrison, daughter co Judge Gwynn :Morrison, and sister to Sue, the wife of John Cra,vford Whitesides. James B. \Xi'hicesidcs died at Hempstead, Texas, in 1920, and is buried there. Mrs. James B. Whitesides is still living at Hempstead, Texas, and che writer wishes here co acknowledge his indebtedness to her for her valuable assistance in the preparation of this biographical sketch. 11rs. James B. Whitesides is th<: mother of four children, namely: Gertrude, Lillie, Lilian, and l\faud. Gertrude \X1hiresides is now l\frs. J. L. Pope of Hempstead, Texas. She was formerly 11:rs. Chatman, and has two children by her first marriage, nameiy: James Chat­ man, novv· married and living in Houston, Tt.~xas; and Catherine Chatman, now l\frs. S. l\Iyers of l\fexia, Texas. Lillie \X'hitesides is now 1frs. George Brown of Hempstead, Texas. They have no children. Lillian W'hitesides was the late l\Irs. George Phair. She is survfrcd by three sons, namc:ly: Earnest, now at Holly­ wood, California; Bradley, now married and Jiving at Houston, Texas; and l\filcon, also of Houscon, Texas. 1\-faud Whitesides, youngest daughter of James B. Whitesides, died in youth at about thirteen years of age. Franklin Terry Whitesides, when last heard from by l\frs. James B. Whitesides, was iiving ir. EARLY HISTO~Y OF GRI~·fES COUNTY 161

\\/hiresides had no children by his second \vife. 1'1rs. \v' ood, ho,,·ever, at the time of her marriage to Whitesides, had a daughter, by her first husband, named l\,fary \X1 ood (born Scptetnber 30, 1860), ,vho is nO\\' Nlrs. Clarence \Vier, of Hempstead, Texas.:-1,; 2 John J. Whitesides.-There is a one-league grant lying to the south,vest of the James Whitesides league and directly north of the Caleb Wallace league, patented to John J. White­ sides, O.ctober 14, 1831.:-1,;:~ In the General Land Office, at Austin, Texas, is an application from this John J. Whitesides which sho\vs hin1 to have applied to Austin for land in De-

Kansas City, and was single. James Ashford Whitesides, youngest son of John Tilford Whitesides, died in infancy. Since two of the sons of John Tilford Whitesides, namely John F. Crawford and James Bingham, married daughters of Judge Gw}·nn Morrison, the writer thinks it well to give what information he has at hand concerning the l\·lorrison family. Gwynn Morrison (born February 16, 1809, in Orange county, New York) came to Texas at some time prior to the year 1836, joined the Texas army and served against Mexico. According to l\.frs. James B. Whitesides of 1-lemp­ stead, Texas, his daughter, Gw}'nn :Morrison was in the Texas Army at the time of the Battle of San Jacinto, arriving on the scene of this battle on the day follow­ ing the battle from the Goliad vicinity. He was enrolled as a member of the Texas Veteran Association in 1873, as having furnished documentary evidence of having served Texas in a military or political capacity between i820 and 1836. (Proceedings of the Association of Texas Veterans for 1873.) Gwynn Morrison married Ann Roberts ( born April 1S, 1821, in Franklin county, Tennessee) on November 26, 1838. They were married at 1v!ontgomery, Texas, and the wed­ ding ceremony was performed hr Jesse Grimes. Gwynn lvforrison and his wife, Ann, reared a large family of ten children, namely: Elizabeth Jane (born June 26, 1840), Matilda Ann (born Februaty 9, 1842), John Tyler (born February 29, 184-1), l\.Iary Esther (born February 2, 1846), Susan Caroline (born August 13, 1849 ), Vcrsenoy Devereaux (born ]\fay 15, 1853), Emma Sophronia (born January 27, 1856), Sarah ]\fillecta (born ]\fay 15, 1859), William Gwynn (born October 5, 1861 ), and Florence Roberts (born December 10, 1864). (The writer copied the above data from a record found filed in the Whitesides Family Bible.) There is in the Whitesides Family Bible a record of Thos. 1frKinney White­ sides who died, October 20, 1837; the writer, however, was unable to find out anythmg about him. 2 3'l /oe Ashford lo E. L. Blair, December 3, 1928. :..i.AI; rtract of Te.\·:u Land Titles, I, 60:1; also, see map in appendix of this voJ. ume. 162 EARLY HISTORY OF GRIJ\.lES COUNTY

cember, 1826; and that he ,vas then thirty years old; that his wife's name was Elizabeth, ,vho was eighteen years of age; that they then had one child, a daughter; that they came to Texas from ~1Iissouri; and that John J. \"Xlhitesides ,vas by occupation 36 a fanner. ~ Other than this, the writer has no information about John J. \X1hitesides, or his family. Asa Y eamans.-The one league grant of Asa Yeamans is situated in the extreme southeastern portion of ,vhat is now Giimes county. The date of his patent is July 8, 1831.365 His iand application, dated January of 1829, sho,vs that he came to Texas from New York~ that he ,vas fifty-seven years old and married; that his ·wife, Jerusha, was fifty-two years old; that they had four children, three sons and one daughter; 31 and that Asa Yeamans ,vas a fanner by occupation. rn In the Probate records of Grimes county, the follo,ving heirs are given for Asa Yeamans: Joseph Yea1nans, Daniel Yeamans, Mary Yeamans, Esther Yeamans, then (November 26, 1844) Mrs. W. Baxter, Horace Y ea1nans, and Caleb S. Y eamans?11 From ,vhat the ,vriter can find out about this family, it seems that they left Gri1nes county at an early date ( if indeed they ever really settled here) and located in Matagorda county. Joseph Yeamans sold his land in Grimes county to Aaron Shannon, August 27, 1841. At the time of the sale, Joseph ,vas living in Matagorda county. The record con­ cerning this sale tnentions a D. Y ea1nans, a Daniel Y ean1ans: and I-Iorace Yeamans, supposedly the brothers of Joseph:

364Land Applications, 49; of record in the General Land Office, at Austin, Texas. w,Abst,·act of Texas umd Titles, I, 604. 'JM,Land Applications, 71; General land Office of Texas. 7 :ta Probate Deed Re.cords of Grimes Count')', LXXXIII~ 582, 583-584~ 589. EARLY HISTORY Of GRIJ\IES COUNTY 163 narned above. No ,vife signs the deed with Joseph. The deed to Aaron Shannon is dated July 2, 1841.::,:~ Abraha1n Zuber.-1~he Abrah:un Zuber league lies in the eastern part of Gri111es county, a fe,v rniles south of the present little ro,\·n of Shiro ( fonnerl y Prairie Plains). 1\bra­ ha1n Zuber (born Nove1nber 14, 1780, in Lancaster county,

1 :.• "Probt1te DtJ:d l{uordJ of Grime., County. LXXXIII, 582, 583-58-i, 589. Since writing the above, the writer has secured from :Mrs. E. ~I. Yeamans, 102 Bryan street, Houston, Texas, some additional information on the family of Asa Yeamans that is both interesting and valuable. It is now known that Asa Yeamans brought with him to Texas three sons, namely: Horace, Erastus, and Elias. Two of these, Erastus and Elias, were kil1cd by the Mexicans, they hav­ ing been with Fannin at Goliad. (Photostat cop)' of a petition to the Texa:r Semite and House of Representative.I"_. signed b)' Asa Yeamans, tmder date of September 28. 1836, certified to bJ Jane Y. McC,1ll11m. SecretarJ of State under date of December 13_. 1929.) Both of these boys joined the Texas Army on February 6, 1836, and belonged to Captain Westover's company with the rank of private. ( Photostat copy of a certificate d:1ted M,1y 17,. 1837. signed bJ A/be,-t Sidne)' Johnston, Secretary of War, m1d certified to b) Fmmit· .AL W-'iicox, Acting St,1te Librarian 1mder date of December 12, 1927.) The other son of Asa Yeamans, Horace (born 1812), served in the Texas Armr participating in the: siege of Bc:xar retreat from Gonzales with Houston and fought at the Harrie of San Jacinto ( E. At. Yemmm.1" tn E. L. Bl.:1it-. dated Ho11.11011_. Texas_. September 7_. 1930. The u·riter has not verified the above statfi­ menl.) After the war, Horace Yeamans lived with his parents on "Lower Caney, in ~-facagorda county until the death of the father, moving soon thereafter to the town of :Matagorda. In the year 1838 he moved to his headright league located on Cashes creek. Horace Yeamans married Eliza Baxter, an emigrant from Eng­ land, by ,,,horn he had six children, namely; Benjamin, Annie, 1'1argrcte, Daniel, Horace :Moore, and Sallie. Of these children the writer has information about Horace l\loore Yeamans only. It is known, however. that lvlargrete married a man by the name of Bruce, and that her father died at her home in :Matagorda in 1908. Horace :l\foore Yeamans, son of Horace Yeamans, and grandson of Asa Yeamans, was born on Cashes creek in 185•1. He married, November 10, 1880, Elease 11arie La Bauvc (Mrs. E. l\L Y<.:amans mentionc:d ahm·e) who resided on Ease Carancahua creek, by whom he had four sons, all of whom art now li\"ing, namely: Linn Odelon (born November 13, 1885), Eugene Numa (born Sepccm­ hc:r 3, 1892), Charles Valcont ( born Otcembc:r 11, 189-1), and Victor Horace (horn :l\farch 20, 1897). Linn 0. Yeamans marri<::d Olive Gertrude Ranche. The famih• lives at Houston and there are two children, namely: Donald and Lucilie Ellincr. Eu~cne N. Ytamans married Ruch Jepson and resides at Houston, Texas. Charles V. Yeamans married Jeanette Lewis and they also reside at Hou5ton. The other hoy. Victor Horace Yeamans, is now ( 1930) unmarried and living at Houston. (E. AL Yemn:111.r to E. L. Biair. September-:, 1930.) 164 EARLY HISTORY OF (;RIMES (~OUNTY

Pennsvh·ania;, died Novernbe1 24, 18.:18, at hjs hon1e in Ciri111es county, Texas) ,vas the son of Abraham Zuber, Senior, (born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, bcn\·cen the years 1740 and 1745; died in Oglethorpe countr, Cieorgia, about 1802) and l\lary Bartling (born in Den1nark, about 1750; died in c;eorgia, in 1820).::i;~i r\braha1n Zuber, Senior, ,vas of pure Gern1an stock an

360W. P. Zuber, AnreJtr)' and Kindred of JV. P. Z11be,-. This work has been published in pamphlet fom1, copy of which may be had from :Mrs. J. T. Swanson, Navasota, Texas. The father of A-fary Barding, according to Zuher, was a Dr. Bartling, a physician, who moved from Denmark to London when l\fary was about nine years of age; thence, six years later, to Philadelphia, Pennsrlvania, where he died. Zuber knows of only two children, namely: J\fary and a son, Chrislieb. Chrislieb Bartling resided at Philadelphia; married and had two sons, Henry, and Charles, who were ship-masters. He was living in 1822, and wrote a letter to Abraham Zuber, in which he stated that he was then eighty-two years old. :m:1w. P. Zuber has a note written in the margin of his Ancestry and Kindred of W. P. Z11ber, under date of December, 1905, in which he states as follows: "I now have the evidence from Luther R. Kelker, Custodian of Public Records, Pennsylvania State Jjbrary, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The record shows that Abraham Zuber was Lieutenant of 5th Company. Sch Battalion, Lancaster County A.,sociators. In service, August 26, 1780." 311 W. P. Zuber, Ance.rtry tmd Kindred of W'. P. Zuber, Daniel Zuber was a son of German parents who came to America from Hanover, Germany, and settled in Lancaster count}', Pennsylvania. \V/. P. Zuber did not know whether Daniel was born in Germany or Pennsylvania, but h<: gr~w co manhood in Pennsylvania and lived there all of his life. W. P. Zuber mentions a grandson of Daniel Zuber, also named Daniel, who resided in Georgia, and his grandson wrote that his grandfather, Daniel, had been a rebel soldier in the American army during the revolution. Regarding Elizabeth Zuber, wife of Daniel, W .P. EARLY HISTORY OF (;RIMES (:ouNTY 165

In rhc year 1786, Abraha1n Zuber, Senior, sold his property in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, and n1igrateJ ro Ogle­ rhorpe county, Georgia, \\·here he purchased a farm on which he lived during the rest of his life. I-fe and his wife, i\Jary, ,vere the parents of thirteen children, r,,·elve of ,\'hon1 lived to be adults; of these, about half \\'ere born in Lancaster county, Pennsyh·ania, and the others in Ogle­ thorpe county Georgia. The ,vriter has the names of only six of these children, na1nely: E1nanuel, Abrahan,, Daniel, John, Jacob, and Joshua.=112 As a young man, Abraham Zuber, Junior, learned the carpenter's trade. In the year 1814, he

Zuber states that he does not know where or when she was born, or ~:hat her maiden name was~ but that she was of German de:scent; spok<: the Germ,m lan­ guage; and married Daniel in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. He did not know the date. 372Emanuel Zuber died in Oglethorpe county, Georgia, being survived by one son, named Joseph, who died young. Joseph Zuber was survived by one infant daughter. Daniel Zuber, a son of Abraham Zuber, Senior, died in Floyd county, Georgia, at the age of seventy-five years. He was the father of thirteen sons, rweh-e of whom live•k;,C,) .. 11,!,. (0· .. !1l~, J\11,r· l ..... !'il · ...... 1pp- •• ; ~d,\1\C.l- ·· =--1 h·) H.:... ,

:i::;\X'. P. Zuber, Ance.rtry and Kindred of 1~'. P. Zuber. \X'. P. Zuber says that the reason his father changed from a merchant to a farmer, in 1816, was that his wife, ifaq• Ann 1'fann, whom he married, February 16, 1816, had inherited from her grandfather, Robert Deshazo, "a lot of valuable negrncs," which enabled him (Zuber) to become a farmer of considerable importance. Robert Deshazo, according to W. P. Zuber, was born in Virginia in the ytar 1730, being a son of Nathaniel Deshazo, who was born in Franet:. It is givtn by Zuber, that Lewis Deshazo, eldest son of Robert, enlisted in the American Rcrn­ lucionary army at the age of sixteen, while his father, Robert Deshazo, then living in North Carolina, participated in the local struggle between the W'higs and Tories. on the side of the Whigs. 1follie Tre,·elian (born in Virginia~ in 1732), wife of Robert Deshazo, was the daught(:r of pa rems. one of whom cam<: to America from Scotland, and the other from Ireland. Her brother, John Trevelian, served in the Virginia 1'-!ilitia in the campaign against Fore Duequesn<: in 1855 and fought in the Battle of Monongahela, where he was captured by the French, and was held for some time as a prisoner in Canada. (The writer has verified none of the above~ but gi"es it as given by \Y/. P. Zuber in his AnceJSh'j' and Kindred of lf.,., P. Z11her.) EARLY HISTORY OF GRI!\iES COUNTY 167

in the District of Brazoria, but \vhen the survey ,vas arren1pred, ic "·as found to include much land that had already been granted ro another 1nan. This accounts for the 1nove into what is no,v Grimes county, in the year 1 s33_:-:-;., 'fhe land application of Abrahan1 Zuber is dared in February of 1831. Ir sho,Ys that Zuber ,vas then fifty years old; that his ,vife, 11ary Ann, \Vas thirty-seven years old; that they had one son, one dau_ghcer, and four negro slaYes; that they can1e - L frotn the District of Aes ( spelled in the appiicarion i\ises); and that Zuber ,vas by occuparioa a farmer.=:;,, On the land granted to Zuber \vas an abandoned Kickapoo Indian village, around ,vhich \\·ere several parches "·here rhe Indians had planted corn, and there \Yas icfr !)tanding several Indian cabins, into ,vhich Zuber n1oved his family in 1833, and con­ tinued to use the1n for d,vellings until 1839, ,vhen his new house was ccHnplered. 'I'his ne,v house ,vas a double-room log building, and stood about nvo n1iles ,vest of the old Indian cabins. on the site ,vhere no,v stands the home of E. F. Ed,vards, ,vho is still (1924) using the ,veil dug by Zuber in 1839.::i,i It is said that ,vhen Zuber arrived in this section, he ,,·as loaned a cook and several other ncgroes by Jared E. Ciroce, until he (Zuber) could supply hi1nself ,virh serYants of his O\\'n.=:;, Abrahan1 Zuber serYed as the first District Clerk of 1'lontgo1nery county ( organized in 1836) and his deputy ,vas Doctor Charles B. Sie,\·arr, ,vho becaine his successor.=i;s

3i'W. P. Zuber, Eight)' Years in Texas, 131-132. This is an unpublished manu­ script found in the Archives of the State Library, Austin, Texas. 5 :i; Land Applict1tio11s_, 97, of record in the General Land Office, Austin, Texas. :i;oifrs. E. F. Edwards, "History of Shiro," Navasota Daily Examiner_. October 22, 192-1. 77 :i Rosa G. Berlech, "Jared E. Groce," Qr,arterly. XX, 36 7 . :mzuber, A,uestrJ and Kindred of 117. P. Zuber. 168 EARLY HISTORY 01~ GRtMES COUNTY

As stated above, Abraham Zuber married (February 16, 1816) 1V1ary Ann ivfann (born September 18, 1793; died in Grimes county, October 20, 1879). They ,vere parents to tVi'O children, nan1ely: William Physich (born July 6, 1820, in T"'·iggs county, Georgia; died September 22, 1913, at his home in Grimes county, 1·exas), and 11ary Ann Deshazo, (born in Ease Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, April 15, 1826; died on the Zuber homestead in Grirnes county, 1·exas~ 1881 ). William P. Zuber ,vas thirteen years old ,vhen his parents settled in ,vhat is no,v Grimes county, and, though only sixteen years old, serYe

3 r9Zuber, Eight)' YearJ in Texas. (:MS.). Also Pension Papen1 No. 231, Archives of the State Library, at Austin, Texas. In the W. D. i\fil/er Papers, II, is found a roll of the sick and detailed men remaining at the upper encampment during the Battle of San Jacinto, April 21, 1836. by order of the Commander-in­ chief, and under the command of 1fajor l\ikNutt ... The names on this roll are approved and reported correct by the Veteran Board composed of Col. F. W. Johnson, Col. Jno. l\,f. "''ade, and Judge Edwin \X'aJler, appoinred by Governor Roberts ro pass upon application for Pc:nsion, anJ authorized hr ~ict of the: Sixteenth Legislature. The report of this committee was approved on April 26, 1879, and Mr. \X'. P. Zuber's name appears on the roll. ( Harriet Smither to E. L. Blair, November 9, 1928. l\·Iiss Smither was the Archivist of the State Library, at Austin, Texas.) l\,fr. W. P. Zuber states in his application for pen­ sion, November 16, 1870, that he was

Twenty.first Texas Cavalry, in ,vhich organization he served until the end of the war. 3 s<., W. P. Zuber seen1s to have cared little for politics. The only public office he ever held seems to have been that of Justice of the Peace in precinct number two of Grimes county from 1876 to 1878.=181 During the last years of his life, he spent much time ,v ricing and, though his writings have not been vvidely published, they possess n1uch interest in value, especially in connection ,vith a ,vork such as the writer has undertaken. Three of ~'lr. Zu ber's \vorks have been of especial value to the ,vriter, nan1ely: Ancestry ttnd Kindred of 1¥,,. P. Zuber, Mentoirs of Z11ber, and Eighty Y etll'S in Texas. His Ancest1')' and Kindred of lf/. P. Z11bef is a sixteen page pamphlet, published in 190S, and dated at Iola, Texas, July, 1905. Me11zoirs of Z11ber is in manuscript form and seen1s to have been \\'ritten at the suggestion of i-Ir. T. P. Buffington, of Anderson, Texas. This is in the nature of a history of the to,vn of Anderson and vicinity. Ir is dated June 26, 1903, and the original is no,v ( 1929) in the possession of ivir. T. P. Buffington, -of Anderson, Texas. Zllber' s Eight)' Years in Texas is a manuscript of more than six hundred pages, the original being in the Archives of the State Library at ..Austin, Texas. On July 17, 1851, \\'. P. Zuber married Louisa Liles (died lvfarch 15, 1904, in Grin1es county)" by ,vho1n he had three children, narnely: Daniel Carl (born November 12, 1854; died 1'1ay 26, 1902), Rachel Zerena, and James /\.ndre,v.=:~:.i l\fary Ann Deshazo Zuber. sister of \X'.

16 : °2uber, Ance.,11-y mu/ Kindred oi JY7 • P. Z11bt:T. :lhl[bid. :, ... ~//;,:d. Ar che tim(: of his dtath, 1'!ay 26, 1902, Danid C:1rl Zubtr w:i~ rbiding in 3rran, Tc:xas, whc:rc.- he: had been <:n,gagt'

_Johnson. formt"rly of Bc.:dias community in Grime:s coumr1 hy ,vl?On) he h:~~ r,,.-o daughttrs. n;1mdy: Edna ( horn Dccemht'r 10. 1882). and .l\fab(-1. 0.H~id C:·~rl 17(, EARLY HISTORY OF GRL\11:S (~OUNTY

P. Zuber, n1arricd Joseph Rush Ed\vards (born in i-·cnnessee. 1824; died at the Zuber hon1estad in Grin1es county, i 904) on .April 22, 1847. 1""he n1arriage rook place at the Zuber

Zuber·s sc.:conJ wife~ \\·as, brforc htr nurriag(.;, Zanni(: i\lcDl>Ugd, by whoill he h.1j two childrC:"n, namely: !\tfargarct and Neill. Edna Zuber is now nirs. J. T. Swanso!l of Navasota, Texas. and is the mother of three sons, namely: James, Danie:!, and Jarrttt Cook; all of whom reside at :t\avasma with their parents. This family is typical of the best citizenship in Grimes county. 1fr. J. T. Swanson is in the wholesale grocery business, and the local people take great pride in the faet that he, with one or two other men of Grimes county, \\.·as responsible for tht idea of having Texas go on a wheatlcss basis for a period of three months during the World War, thereby making available millions of pounds of fiour to bt shipped to our soldiers and the soldiers of our ailies in Europe. The part played by :Mr. J. T. Swanson in this movement is clearly shown from the following quotation, taken from a speech made by Hon. Pat N. Fahey on Thanksgiving Day, 1918, and published in the Nen·asota Dttil)' Ex,1miner under dace of I\ovem­ ber 30, 1918. "This idea ut a three monchs period ot whcadc:ss Jays constir;.:ces NaY:i.soca ·s r.ouble an

1fabel Zuber1 daughter of Daniel C. Zuber, is now :Mrs. H. H. Allri

383Sarah Cornelia Edwards was the late l\lrs. R. Brooks Gooch of Granite, Oklahoma. The writer has no data on this family, but it is thought that she had several children. William Oscar Edwards (born ~fay 7, 1849, at Shiro, Texas; died February 16, 1915) married Georgia E. Foster (born November 7, 18-i-:'; died February 3, 1881) on November 7, 1872. Six children were born to this union, all of whom are dead except two, namely: Sally (born June 21, 1877) and Lizzie (born January 16, 1876). Sallie is now l\,lrs. Sam Norman of Hunts­ ville, Texas. She was married on September 3, 1899. They have four children, namelr: Georgia, Lillian, Aubrey ( a boy), and Ruby. Lizzie Edwards is now Mrs. R. A. Hoke of Huntsville, and is the mmher of four children, namdy: Foster, Emma, Louise, and Roy. Mary Elizabeth Edwards married Charles M. Gooch and died at Temple, Texas, several years ago, being survived by several children, some of whom are Nettie, Willie, Charlie, Lidia, and Katie. Nettie is married and living at Galveston. Charles lives at Temple. Willie is dead, and the writer has no information about the others. Warren 0. Edwards is now a Cumberland Presbyterian minister and lives at Teague, Texas. Elisha Floyd Edwards married Bertie Armstead and they are living at Houston. They had three children, namely: Marvin, l\·lattie Laura, and Porter. Porter died in 1929. Virginia Edwards married a Mr. Mayfield and lives at Houston. They have several children, two of \\·horn are Jessie and 1vfary. Ed Austin Edwards is liv­ ing on the old Zuber homestead in Grimes county, and has never married. Mrr. J. T. SU'anson to E. L. Blair, July 4, 1929; l\,fr.r. C. E. Henry to E. L. Blair, July 28, 1929; and 1',frs. R. A. Hoke to E. L. Blair, Juiy 24, 1929.

Appendixes

APPENDIX I

UST OF PERSONS WHO WERE GRANTED LAND IN WHAT JS NOW GRIMES COUNTY HY THE G0VERNJ\.IENT OF THE UNITED STATES. 1

Name Le.t,gues Date of Patent 1. Armour, Robert ...... l October 5, 1835 2. Arnold, Daniel...... 1 May 9, 1831 3. Babbitt, Benjamin ...... ¼ November 22, 1832 4. BcII, James ...... ~~ December 2, 1832 (a) 5. Black, John S...... 1 April 6, 1831 6. Black, Marcus D ...... ¼ April 6, 1831 7. Bowman, John ...... I April 6, 1831 8. Bowman, Samuel...... 1 October 16, 1835 9. Brown, Alexander ...... l May 17, 1831 10. Burney, W 1,.·11· tam ...... 1 April 6, 1831 11. Campbell, Cyrus ...... 1 October 22, 1835 12. Conner, John ( ...... 1 October 22, 1835 (b) 13. Cox, Jan1es ...... 1 May 28, 1832 14. Cornaugh, Hannah ...... l December 19, 1832 15. FitzGibbons, \~illiam ...... 1 April 6, 1831 16. Fulton, Samuel...... l April 9, 1831 17. Garrett, Claiborne ...... ¼ December 3, 1832 18. Gillett, Heirs of} ...... 1 1\,farch 27, 1831 P). Greenwood, Franklin J...... I April 7, 1831 20. Greenwood, Joel...... ~...... 1 l\1ay 13, 1831 21. Gregg, Darius ...... ¼ April 6, 183 I 2 2. Grimes, Jessc ...... I l\pril 6, 1831 23. Groce, Jared E...... 3 July 29, 1831 24. Groce, Leonard W ...... l April 21, 1831 25. Hadlc:y, Joshua ...... 1 May 7, 1831 26. Harris, John ...... ¼ October 16, 1832 27. Hays, Jacob ...... 1 April 8, 1831 28. Holland, Francis ...... l Augusc I 0, 1824 29. Holland, James ...... ¼ April 7, i 831 1Copi<:d from AbJtract of Tex,zs Land Tit/eJ, I, 604 ff. (a) Four-fifths in Waller county. ( h) Two-fifths in Waller coumy. 176 EARLY HISTORY OF GRIMES COUNTY

i\'ame Leagues Date of Patent 30. Holland, William ...... 1 August 10, 1824 31. Jack, Patrick C ...... ------·------¼ April 6, 183 I 32. Jackson, Isaac. ____ .___ ._. ___ .. _____ ._._ 1 August 7, 1824 33. Jones, Timothy_--·----- ____ ·-·------·- 1 October 24, 1835 34. Kennard, Anthony Drev-··---···· 1 November 2, 1823 35. Landrum, John ______.. ______--·---- 1 April 10, 1831 36. Laughlin, \Villiam ______._ ¼ April 11, 1831 37. McDonald, Thomas. ______1 October 5, 1835 38. l\1cDowell, M. -----·------____ ----· ·-· 1 October 17, 1835 39. McGriffin (McGuffin) ~'m. __ 1 November 12, 1832 40. McIntire, William __ .______. ______¼ April 6, 1831 41. lv!clntire, Margaret ______1 April 5, 1831 42. McMahan, Daniel B, ____ ------·-·- l October 16, 1835 43. 1\iontgomery, William ______. 1 May 4, 1831 44. McNealy, Jesse B,------··------· 1 April 11, 1831 45. Moore, James W·--·------· 1 Oaober 20, 1835 46. Moore, John ______... ------·-----· 1 April 15, 1831 47. Pankey, James W,------·-·-·-- 1 October 19, 1835 48. Payne, John ______._ .. ____ . ______.. . 1 October 16, 1835 (c) 49. Peterson, John .. _.... ___ .. ____ .. _.. __ .. . 1 April 2, 1831 sq. Pitts, Heirs of Obediah_ ...... 1 October 29, 1835 (d) 51. Ray, Robert ___ ._. ___ .... __ . __ ._._ .. _._ .. . April 9, 1831 Rea, Andrew ______¼ 52. ¼ June 18, 1831 53. Simms, Ignacius ...... -·--····-··- I October 26, 1835 (e) 54. Townsend, WiIJiam .. -·····-·-····· I October 20, 1835 (f) 55. Tyler, Daniel._ ...... ----··-· ¼ October 22, 1835 56. Vince, Allen ...... ··-·-· __ ---·-····- ½ April 30, 1831 (g) 57. Walker, Tandy...... _. ______I April 27, 1831 SB. Wallace, Caleb ...... ______····- l May 14, 1828 59. Wallace, Jan1es ...... ·-·------1 April 9, 1831 60. White, Dudley J-······-··-···---··-­ 1 May 3 1, 18 31 ( h) 61. Whitesides, John J------l October 14, 1831

(c) Three-fifths in ?vfa

1'ame Leagues Date of Patent 62. Whitesides, James ______1 July 16, 1824 (i) 63. Yeamans, Asa ______l July 8, 1831 64. Zuber, Abraham ______.. 1 March 4, 183 3

(i) One:-fifth in Brazos county. 178 EARLY HISTORY OF GRIMES COUNTY

APPENDIX 11

MAP SHOWING THE LOCATION OF THE LAND GRANTS OF THE SIXTY-FOUR MEMBERS OF STEPHEN F. AUSTIN'S COLONY WHO SETTLED IN WHAT IS NOW GRIMES COUNIT. The map shown below was prepared for the writer by Mr. Frank Purvis, while a senior in the Navasota high school, 1929. The map was prepared by taking an official map of the county and copying thtrefrom only the grants of the sixty-four colonises concerned. It will be noticed that the important creeks and towns are also shown. I I \

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APPENDIX III

The following is a photostatic copy of the original muster roll of the Grimes County Greys that formed Company G of Hood's Texas Brigade. The Original is in the Archives of the State Li­ brary, Austin, Texas.

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The follo,,·ing is the muster roll of Company G, Fourth Regim<:nt, Hood's Texas Brigade, as published by J. B. Polley in his Hood's Texas Brigade_. pages 325-327.

:MUSTER ROLL OF FOURTH REGIMENT, COMPANY G, HOOD'S TEXAS BRIGADE. 1. Adkinson, John J., Lieut.; ,vounded. 2. Adams, Sam H. 3. Aikens, James 0.; wounded. 4. Allen, W. J. 5. Arnett, David 6. Bassett, Robert H., Lieut. and Adjt. of Regiment; disabled at Chickamauga. 7. Bassett, Noah H.; wounded, died in Texas. 8. Barry, Wm. E., Lieut.; disabled at the Wilderness. 9. Barry, L. Howard, 0. Serge.; ,vas \\rounded several tjmes. 10. Barry, John D.; killed at Chickamauga. 11. Barry, Thos. W. 12. Baines, Thos. ~, ., Serge. 13. Baines, Wm. M. 14. Barnes, John T. 15. Baker, Jesse W., Licur. 16. ~ Barker, James, Scout. 17. Beecher, R. A., 0. Ser gt.; killed at Gettysburg. 18. Blackshear, Robt. D.; "'ounded at Sharpsburg and Spot• slyvania Court House. 19. Blackshear, Jas. J., Sergt.; wounded. 20. Blackshear, Duncan R.; wounded twice. 21. Blackshear, E. T. 22. Boozer, H. D. 23. Bookman, J. M. (Bob), Lieut.; killed at Chickamauga. 24. Butts, Lewis D., Lieut.; kiJled ar Gaines· Mill. 25. Biffingcon, Tom C., Lieut. and Captain. 26. Briet:l, A. C., Ordnanca Sergr.; wounc.kd at \X'ilderne:ss. 27. Bowen, Allen 28. Chambers~ G. C.; killed at Sharpesburg. 29. Churchwell, Thomas; killed at Chickamauga. 30. Char]ey, Martin F. EARLY HISTORY OF GR1~1Es Cou~TY- 185

31. Closs, T. 0.; killed at Gettysburg. 32. Chatham, VJ..! m. B.; wounded at Wilderness. 33. Cruse, A. J.; killed at Gaines' Mill. 34. Cotton, H. T. 35. Co11ins, Daniel; chief bugler from commencement to Appo- mattox; dead. 36. Cook, J. J. 37. Dance, John T.; wounded at Gaines' Mill. 38. Dawkins, F. A. 39. Damm, Frank; wounded at Gettysburg. 40. Davis, E. C. 41. Daffan, Lawrence A. 42. Davis, John A. 43. Dunham, Chas. H., Lieut. 44. Duke, Joseph G.; mortally ,vounded at Chickamauga. 45. EckoJls, Wm. R. A.; lost arm at Gaines' Mi]l. 46. Ferrell, Davis S.; killed at Gettysburg. 47. Finley, J. R. 48. Fields, Drury H. 49. Floyd, Chas E. 50. Floyd, Wm. 51. Flournoy, Jas. J.; \\'Ounded at Gaines' Mill. 52. Gay, G. A.; disabled at Gaines' Mill. 53. Gould, Jas. L., Serge.; mortally wounded at Gettysburg. 54. Green, John E.; killed at Gettysburg. 55. Griffin, David C.; wounded at Gaines' ?\fill. 56. Grissett, \V.,l m. J., Com. Ser gt. 57. Giles, Jas. J. 58. Giles, E. D. 59. Giles, P. 1. 60. Giles, Dan 61. I-Iaddon, i1ack E.; killed at S(:cond ~ianas~as. 62. Harrison, ~L Iv!. (Smoky) 63. Hasson. Robert: Iosr lc:g at Darbycown. 64. Heitner, Edward 65. Hadon, Jas. J. ✓->..; H;,.,.t J ,.,,, \]\,. &\.~ ' • '" • 6,.-.- r,..._·jq .. 1·1--.".Jn .L,,u, G,,-'- .. orcrc:b 186 EARLY HISTORY OF GRIJ\fES COUNTY

68. Hubbell, N. L. 69. Hughes, W. T. 70. Hutcheson, J. \V/., first Captain of Co1npany G.; killed at Gaines' Mill. 71. Jackson, Isaac 72. Jackson, Job; lost leg at Sharpsburg. 73. Jones, W. S.; killed at Gaines' Mill. 74. Jones, N. B. 75. Jones, G. W. 76. Jones, I. Newton. 77. Kay, Eli 78. Kennard, A. Drew 79. Kendall, J. L. 80. King, Jno. H. 81. Lawrence, Groce; killed at Wilderness. 82. Livingston, A. 83. Loggins, Dr. Jas. C. 84. Loper, \Vm. deserted. 85. Marcin, Wm. A. 86. Marcin, John F., Serge. 87. May, J. W. T., Color Guard; wounded at Second lvlanassas. 88. McCowen, John;; killed at Chickamauga. 89. McDaniel, Ben 1-1. 90. McClenny, Wm.; killed at Wilderness. 91. McGregor, \Vm. B. 92 Midkiff, J. A.; wounded ac Wilderness. 93. :t,..fidkiff, E. P.; killed at Gaines' Mill. 94. Montgomery, Joseph 95. Moss, Geo. R. 96. Mooring, Chas. G.; wounded several times. 97. Mooring, J. S. (Bob); wounded at Wilderness, disabled. 98. l\tluldre,v, Jno. T. 99. Muse, Jas. T.; wounded at Gaines' Mill. 100. Nix, Jno. L.; wounded at Gettysburg. 101. Nelms, Everard P.; wounded at Gaines' ].\,fill. 102. Nettles, Joseph H. 103. Neal, French 104. Pearce, Ben W.; wounded at Sharpsburg. EARLY HISTORY OF GRIMES COUNTY 187

105. Pearce, Ed. W. ; lost hand at Gaines' Mill. 106. Parnell, .,T as. C. 107. Patterson, Wm. R. 108. Peteet, W. B. 109. Peteet, J. Monroe; wounded at Gaines' ]\,fill. 110. Pinckney, Richard H.; youngest soldier in regiment. 111. Pinckney, Jno. M.; wounded several times. 112. Plaster, Joseph H.; wounded at Gaines' ?\fill and Wilderness. 113. Plaster, Frank 114. Qualls, Geo. S.; Color Corporal. 115. Reynolds, J. S. 116. Rogerson, John; killed at Gaines' Mill. 117. Roach, John, Lieut.; killed. 118. Roco, A. C. 119. Rowe, H. T. 120. Robinson, John 121. Stacy, John J., Color Corporal; wounded at Gettysburg. 122. Scott, J. H. ; killed at Gaines' Mill. 123. Scott, Garrett; killed at Sharpsburg. 124. Schultz, ~'. A. 125. Shaffer, Henry E. 126. Smith, W. H. 127. Silverbaugh, A.; killed at Chickamauga. 128. Spencer, Chas. W.; mortally wounded at Eltham's Landing. 129. Stewart, A. Jackson ; wounded at Gettysburg. 130. Stacy, \Villis A.; wounded at Gaines' Mill and Wilderness. 131. Terrell, E. Tom, Asst. Surgeon. 132. Terrell, \Xlm. H. 133. Tidwell, Wm. C. 134. Thomas, J. W. (Gotch) 135. Trant, John; wounded at Gaines' 1vlill and killed at Sharps- burg. 136. Turner, Jasper l 37. Ticrncr, Wesley 138. Wilson, Walter S.; wounded at Second Manassas. 139. Watson, A. E. 140. Webb, Frank X. 141. Whitehurst, J. K. i88 EARLY HISTORY OF GR[MES COUNTY

142. White, ~iachew, D. 143. White, Caleb; killed at Gaines' Mill. 144. Whitesides, A. Hoxcey; captured at Gettysburg and drowned in effort to escape. 145. Whitlock, A. T. 146. Williams, Henry F. 147. Williams, Jas. J.; wounded at Gaines' Mill. 148. Wood, Dan A.; wounded several times. 149. Ward, Chas. H. 150. Womack, M. S. ; captured at Gettysburg. 151. Wood, Rufus H., Serge. 152. Wallingford, T. G.; Litter bearer. 1

1Polley, J. B., Hood's Texas Brigade, pp. 325-327, Neale Pub. Co. (1910); New York. EARLY HISTORY OF GRIMES COUNTY 189

APPENDIX IV

There follow photostatic copies of Grimes county muster rolls during the CiYil War which are found in the Archives of the Stace Library. They are self-explanatory.

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APPENDIX V

INCO11PLETE LIST OF GRIMES COUNTY OFFICIALS 1846-1929

Date Councy Clerk Counrr Judge Source of Data

1846-1848 Albert G. Perq· Z11ber to Buff­ ington~ June 26, 1903. 1848-1850 Geo. M. Patrick Texas Al111anac o t 1B.57, n4_ 1s;o-1852 Geo. M. Patrick 1852-1854 Geo. M. Patrick 1854-1856 Geo. M. Patrick 1856-1858 Geo. M. Patrick G. l\L Mooring /hid.

1858-1860 Geo. M. Patrick G. J\L Mooring I hid. of 1858. 1860-1862 Geo. M. Patrick 1862-1864 Geo. M. Patrick 18<'14-1866 Geo. M. Patrick G. NL Mooring Ibid. of 1865. 1866-1868 Geo. M. Patrick \Y/. E. Barry Ibid. of 1866, 239 1 1868-1870 G. ~1. J\,fooring \V. E. Barrr Ibid. () f 1868, L95. 1870-1872 ,tl. E. Barry l... 1-l. Barr)-' to E. L. Blair. July 9, I 928. 1872-1874 1874-1876 1876-181 8 T. C. Buffington J. L. l)ickson .\lin11te.r 1J( I Cr1 n, n1 ission ers' C1)111'!, C, 36.

1From July 30, 186: ( date of Governor Throckmonon ·s r~ml>,·al by Sheridan), to November :, l.86:, county gon•mment was in the hands \It men appointed hr the military GO'vernor, Barker, Potts ~tnd R,tmstlc1I. in A Sch,,,,! fli,J1Jry of Te.,·:i,, 228. EARLY HISTORY OF GRI~fES Cou~TY 197

Date County Clerk County Judgc Source of Data

1878-1880 T. C. Buffington A. Buffington:.! 1\1 i II II I ,: J of Co1n111iJsio11ers' Co11rt_, C, 36. 1880-1882 T. C. Buffington A. Buffington Ibid., C, 76 1882-1884 Lock l\{cDaniel P. W. Cawthon Ibid., C, 2i9 1884-1886 Geo. D. Neal P. C. McKee Ibid., C, 369 1886-1888 I... R. \Xf rcn P. C. McKee Ibid., D, 22 1888-1890 L. R. Wren P. C. McKee Ibid., D, 136 1890-1892 C. L. Kettler P. C. l\fcKcc ibid._. 246. 1892-1894 J. G. J\.fcDonald P. C. McKee Ibid .., 403. 1894-1896 J. G. McDonald P. C. McKee Ibid., E, 128 1896-1898 J. H. Teague lvl. S. Womack Ibid., 285. 1898-1900 J. H. Teague C. B. Nickols Ibid., 473 ff. 1900-1902 J. G. l\{cDonald Jno. T. Prc:sn.\'ood Ibid., 586. 1902-1904 J. G.l\fcDonald Jno. T. Presrwood:i Ibid., E-1, 82.

2A. Buffington seems to have been appointed, July S, 1881, for the unexpired term of J. L. Dickson. (Ibid._. C, 177.) 3The political campaign of 1900 is one of imponance in the history of Grimes county for it was in this year that the White Alan's Union first submitted a ticket. In the election of 1896 the Populist party combined with the Republicans, which was then composed mostly of negroes, and defeated the Democratic ticket. A similar campaign in 1898 resulted in a controversy. The Democrats contested the election. While the comest was pending, the election returns we:re taken from the office of the county clerk, C. B. Nickols, and it is thought that they were burned. At any rate they wc:-re never found and the Populist-Republican com­ Jination claimed the victory. \X'ith a few exceptions their candidates held the offices until 1900. In the Spring of 1899 a small group of men met secretly in rhe office of Judge J. G. McDonaid to discuss plans for the organization of a White !\fan's Union. Five men are known to have been present at this meeting, :iamely: John Wickey, of Anderson; Will Edwards, of Prairie Plains; Sam Isbe11, of Bedias; Jim Ogg, of P1anter~vi1le; and J. G. 1'-fcDonald, of Anderson. lt was decided to delay the actual organization until the public attitude could be sounded. A few months after this meeting a ,1vhitc boy was ki1lcd by a ncgro in the Roan's Prairie community and the nc~ro was hung by a mob of ,,..-hite men. About ten days later a white church building in the Erwin community was burned and a negro was suspected. When a group of white mt11 ca1ied at this negro's home, he refused to come our of the house, and in the subsequnt fight, rwo white men were slightly wounded. The negro was taken and immediately hanged. The organization of the White :Man's Union quickly fo11owed. 1'.-fembership was open :o all whirc men upon appiication, but such applicarions were subject to black­ nall. In the acrual e1ecrion, however1 any white man could vote the ticker, even 198 EARLY HISTORY Of GRIMES COUNTY

Date County Clerk County J udgc: Source of Dara

1904-1906 T. P. Buffington R. P. Siddall I bid .. 264 ff. 1906-1908 T. P. Buffington R. P. Siddall Ibid .. 446. 1908-1910 Hood Boone R. C. Wood I iJI, "d .. F, 8-_j -9(.\7.

1910-1912 Hood Boon(: R. C. Wood I bi.J .. D, 136. 1912-1914 Reid Rikard A. G. Lyles Ibid., 312; H 55 1914-1916 Reid R ikar

Dace Sheriff District Clerk Source of Dara

1846-1848 1848-1850 1850-1852 H. W. Raglin F. B r i g a n c e, /\1 e 111 o i rs o f Prank/in Bri- gance. 1852-1854 F. Brigance Ibid. 1854-1856 F. Brigance Ibid.

1856-1858 John B. Camp F. Bri~ancec...; Wilt Stevenson to Hanni b a I 117ilson April 9, 1926. 1658-1860 \V./. J. Gray F. Brigance Texas Abnanac 1858. 94. 1860-1862 1862-1864 1864-1866 C. S. Cone R. H. Bassett lhid. of 1865-1867, 46. 1866-1868 A. J. Stearns I;. Brigance Ibid. 1865-1866 239. 1868-1870 Jno. B. Swayne f. Brigance Ibid. 1870-1872 1872-1874 1874-1876 1876-1878 Jno. B. Swayne F. Brigance Ibid. of 1878, 84. 1 1878-1880 D. A. Wood· !. \ f i 11 II t e S of Co1nmissio11ers' Co11rt. C, 76-77.

1880--1882 D. A. Wood F. Brigance Ibid,. 148.

•John B. Swa;·ne resigned, August 18, 1877, and 0. A. Wood was appointed co fill out ch~ unexpired term, August 24, 1877. Afi11uteJ of Co,11111ifsioner.r' Co11rt,. C, 36. 200 EARLY HISTORY OF GRil\lES COUNTY

Date Sheriff District CJcrk Source c.•i Data

1882-1884 G. L. Scott J. L. Kennard Ibid., 219. 1884-1886 G. L. Scott S. J. Sanders Ibid .. 369 ff. 1886-1888 G. 1. Scott F. Brigance l bid., D, 22. 1888-1890 G. L. Scott F. Brigance Ibid., 136. 1890-1892 M. M. Cone W. G. Bennett Ibid., 246 ff. 1892-1894 M. M. Cone W. G. Bennett Ibid ... 403. 1894-1896 M. P. Yarborough W. G. Bennett I hid., E, 128. 1896-1898 G. L. Scott Gilford Smith Iora' . I ., 285. 1898-1900 G. L. Scott Gilford Smith Ibid., 473-491. 1900-1902 J. C. Baker \YI. L. Wilcox Ibid.~ 586. 1902-1904 J. C. Baker W. L. Wikox I hid., E-1, 82. 1904-1906 S. E. Hooker J. H. Neeley Ibid., 264 ff. 1906-1908 S. E. Hooker J. H. Neeley Ibid., 446. 1908-1910 T. H. Lacy J. F. \Vest Ibid .. F, 83-99. 1910-1912 T. H. Lacy R. E. Shine Ibid., 244-250. 1912-1914 Jno. Grissett W. E. Binford Ibid., H, 55. 1914-1916 Jno. Grissett=> W. E. Binford Ibid ... 248. 1916-1918 \Y/. J. Lyles G. 1\1. \X1ebb Ibid., 439 if.

t 1918-1920 W. J. Lyles G. 1\1. Webb Ibid., 568. 1920-1922 J. F. Stewart J. K. Mason I bid., I, S5. 1922-1924 J. F. Stewart J. K. Mason Ibid ... 215. 1924-1926 R. M. Hudson R. A. Hoke Ibid., 483. 1926-1928 R. M. Hudson R. A. Hoke f. G. 1\fcDonaJd to E. L. Blair, July 7, 1928. 1928-1930 W. B. Binford J. F. StC:"warr Ibid.

11John Grissett died while in office and the Commissioner's Court appointed G. M. Webb to· fill out the unexpired term. The appointment was made on

July 12, 1915. Afim,tes of Commissioner.r' Cou,-1 1 H. 323. EARLY HISTORY OF GRI:MES COUNTY 201

Date Tax Collector Tax Assessor Source of Data

1846-1848 F. Brigance F. B rig a n c e, Afemoirs. 1848-1850 F. Brigance Ibid. 1850-1852 Elisha Floyd Central Texian,e August 11, 1855 1852-1854 1854-1856 1856-1858 Solomon Greei7 Solomon Greer Solomon Greer· s T a x Assessor's Book. 1858-1860 \Xl m. Carley \X'm. Carley Texas Aitnanac, 1859, 213. 1860-1862 1862-1864 F. Brigance F. B r i g an c e, ,\fenzoit-s. 1864-1866 Wm. Carley Texas Almanac, 1865, 46. 1866-1868 ·w. L. Chathan \V/. L. Cha than Ibid., 1865-1866, 239 1868-1870 W. L. Chathan \Xl. L. Cha than lbid., 1868, 195. 1870-1876 (No record) 1876-1878 A. \Y/. Kennard E. T. Terrell Ibid., 1878, 84. 1878-1880 C. C. Camp \X1. C. Steele A1i111,1tes of C onuuissio11ers' Court C, 76-77. 1880-1882 C. C. Camp W. C. Steele Ibid., 148 ff. 1882-1884 C. C. Camp W. C. Steele Ibid.~ 219. 1R84-1886 Geo.~'. Dodd ~,. C. Steele Tbid .. 369 ff.

11The Central T exian was a newspaper published at Anderson, Texas. The Editor, August 11, 1855, was Wm. B. Reynolds. The writer secured a copy of this paper from 1-fiss Neeley Davis, of Grimes county. ~The writer was allowed to examine the record books kept by Mr. Solomon Greer. This book has been donated to the l.ibrary of the University of Texas, by Ji.fr. \'YI. -..xr. Greer of Carlos~ Texas . 202 EARLY HISTORY OF GRI~IES COUNTY

Date Tax Colltccor Tax Assessor Source of Data

1886-1888 A. Garvin W. C. Sceeic Ibid., D, 22. 1888-1890 A. W. Garvin Ibid., 136. 1890-1892 J. H. Kennard W. 0. S1nich Ibid., 246. 1892-1894 J. H. Kennard R. C. Wood Ibid., 403. 1894-1896 B. W. Pearce, Sr. D. D. Greer Ibid., E, 128. 1896-1898 W. G. Howard D. D. Greer Ibid., 285. 1898-1900 W. G. Howard D. D. Greer Ibid., 473-491. 1900-1902 R.H. Oliphant \Y/. S. Stampley Ibid., 586. 1902-1904 Gary Thomas W. S. Stampley I bid., E-1, 82. 1904-1906 J. T. Simms Jno. McKinney lbid., 264-290. 1906-1908 J. T. Simms T. S. Blake Ibid ... 446. 1908-1910 Joo. McKinney J. B. Mooring Ibid., F~ 83-99. 1910-1912 Jno. McKinney J. B. Mooring Ibid., 244-250. 1912-1914 Will H. Smith J. A. Neeley Ibid., H, 55. 1914-1916 Will H. Smith J. A. Neeley Ibid., 248. 1916-1918 C.H. Crutchfield M. E. McGee Ibid., 440. 1918-1920 C.H. Crutchfield M. E. McGee Ibid., 568 1920-1922 A. W. Lewis G. G. Keyser Ibid., I, 55. 1922-1924 A. W. Lewis G. G. Keyser Ibid., 215. 1924-1926 H.B. Lavender Irvin P. Bradley Ibid.~ 483. 192~-1928 H.B. Lavender Irvin P. Bradley f. G. iHcDonald to E. L. Blair, July 8, 1928. R. W/. Mallett Ibid. 1928-1930 Lee McKinncvJ

Date County Attorney County Surveror Source of Data 1864-18668 Rufus Grimes Texas Al111a11ac of 1865-1867, 46. 1866-1868 1868-1870 Henry C. Searcy Ibid. of 1868., 19;_ 1870-1872 1872-1874 1874-1876

~he writer has_no data for the period 1846-1864. EARLY HISTORY: OF GRLMES COUNTY 203

Dace Coumy Attorner County Surve}·or Source of Data

1876-1878 T. G. Ashford Texas Almanac of 1878, 84. 1878-1880 1880-1882 1882-1884 C. L. Kettler l-\1 i 11 11 t e s o f Co111missio11ers· Co11rt, C, 219. 1884-1886 C. L. Kecder0 I bid., 369 ff. 1886-1888 j. H. Teague Ibid., D, 22. 1888-1890 J.M. Wesson Ibid .. 136. 1890-1892 J. G. McDonald Ibid., 246. 1892-1894 E. A. Scott Rufus Griines Ibid., 403. 1894-1896 E. A. Scott Ibid., E, 128. 1896-1898 A. M. Campbell Ibid., C, 290. 1898-1900 A. M. Ca1npbell Ibid., 973-991 1900-1902 Haynes Shannon Ibid., 568. 1902-1904 A. F. Brigance Ibid., E-1, 22. 1904-1906 A. F. Brigance E. F. Edwards Ibid., 264 ff. 1906-1908 C. ~L Spann Ibid., 446 1908-1910 \'

9C. L. Kettler rtsigntd, February -1, 1886, and tlw Commissioners' Court ap­ pointed F. Brigance on the same dily. Cr;mmiJ.rioner.i · Court ,,tinute.r. C. -1-W. 204 EARtY HISTORY Of GRI1'-fES COUNTY

Date County Treasurer COlmty Superinccn

1878-188010 lock McDaniel ,\·lin11/e.r fJj Conuni.rsioners' Co11rt, C, 163. 1880-1882 Jno. F. 1vlarcin /hid._, 148. 1882-1884 Jno. F. Marcin /hid., 219. 1884-1886 Jno. F. Marrin /hid., 376. 1886-1888 Jno P. Martin I hid .. , D, 22. 1888-1890 W. W. Kennard Ibid., 136. 1890--1892 W. W. Kennard Ibid., 246. 1892-1894 W.W. Kennard W. L. Campbell Ibid., D, 403. 1894-1896 Jno. B. Terrell I hid., E, 128. 1896-1898 Jno. B. Terrcll11 /hid .. 285 ff. 1898-1900 R. G. Deadrick12 /hid., 473-491. 1900-1902 L. M. Bragg Ibid., 586. 1902-1904 L. ?vi. Bragg Ibid., E-1, 84. 1904--1906 L. T. Calloway Ibid., 264-290. 1906-1908 J. F. \X'cst I hid ..• 446. 1 1 1908-1.910 G. C. Hall J. Thomas Davis = Ibid., F, 83-99. 1910-1912 G. C. Ha11 W. \XI. Barron Ibid., 244. 1912J.1914 M. L. Floyd W.W. Barron1-1 /hid., 312; H 55 1914-1916 M. L. Floyd J.C. Crutchfield Ibid., H, 248. 1916-1918 R. H. Oli phanc M.A. McDonaJd /hid., H, '140. 1918-1920 R. H. Oli phanc 1-izzie Faye Grissett Ibid ... 568.

10The writer has no data for period 1846-1878. 11John B. Terrell died while in office and the unexpired term was filled b}· R. G. Dead rick, appointed June 13, 1898. i\Jim1te.r of Co111mis.1ionu1 · Comt. E, 442. 12R. G. Deadrick died while in office and his term was compkrt:

Dace County Treasurer County Superintendent Source of Data

1920-1922 Geo. P. Barron Ibid., I, 55. 1922-192.:i Mark Malle-cc Geo. P. Barron /hid., 215. 1924-1926 Roland Hill Emory Barrett !hid., 483. 1926-1928 Roland Hill Emory Barrett /. G. McDonald lo E. L. Blair, July 9, 1928. I 928-1930 Callahan Elizabeth Siddall Ibid.

MEN WHO HAVE REPRESENTED GRll\tIES COUNTY IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, 1846-1931

Legis- Source Lcgis- Iacive of Dace laturc Dist. Rcprescncati vcs Dat:t 1846-1847 1 1847-1849 2 1849-l 85 l 3 David C. Dickson House / 011rnal 1851-1853 4 30 David C. Dickson Ibid. 1853-1855 5 39 Thos. H. M. Rogers !hid. 1855-1857 6 39 David C. Dickson Ibid. 185i-] 859 7 :,9 Thos. H. lvl. Rogers !hid. i859-l86l 8 39 David C. Dickson !hid. 1861-186~ 9 ':,7 J. G. 1\1cDonald Ibid., and Elec- lion Register 37 P. J. Pahncr Ibid. 1863--186~ H> 37 J. G. i\1cDonald l.!lection Register .uul Cr)1111ty Of-

,ficer.r

•)' I R. L Inge /hid. ! 866- I ~(; - 1 I ..37 I. Worsha1n !hid. 1870--PP l ~ .; 12 15 J. T. Butler I hi,/.

::Since ti1.: :iumhcr of chc Lcgislatlln: is gin:n i11 th(.' second colu111!l, it 1s 110c :"!tCtss:.i.rr t:• .~in: the m11nhc:r of the House Journal, wht11 citL"d hl·rc.:. :,;During :h..: pt:ri,)d, 186:-- J 8"'0. Texas was under military gon:rnmcnt pc.:nding :~·con-,t1L,:·:· .::· .1!,,n.~ rile li11C's of thL· Co11gn:ssion:1I plan. 206 EARLY HISTORY OF GRI:MES COUNTY

Lcgis­ Sourcf Legis- lativc of Date Jacure Dist. Representatives Data 1870-1871 15 Carn C. Duval Election Register of Sttl!e and C011nlJ' Officers 15 R. Williams, (colored) 13 1:. C. Franks Ibid. 1871-1873 13 15 J. H. \Vashington, (colored) 17 Ibid. 13 15 R. \Villiams, (colored) Ibid. 13 15 J. S. Mills Ibid. 1873-1876 14 15 Thomas Beck, (colored) Ibid. 1876-1879 15 30 Cardis Louis Ibid. 15 29 \V/. V. Henderson Ibid. 1879-1881 16 29 Thos. Beck, (colored) Ibid. 16 30 R. J. EYans, !bid. ~ (colored) 188i-1883 17 30 Thos. Beck, (colored) Ibid. 17 29 R. J. Evans, (coiored) Ibid. 1883-1885 18 52 John L. I\1cAlpinc !hid. 1885-1887 19 52 T. B. Greenwood lhid. 1887-1889 20 52 H. A. D. Bassett Ibid. 1889-1891 21 52 W. L. Campbell Ibid. 1891-1893 22 52 John D. Keith !hid. 1893-1895 23 54 W. E. Barry !hid. 23 47 N. E. D<:Ytr lhid. 1895-1897 24 54 A. F. Brigance: Election Regi.rter 11 f Stale anti C1i1111IJ Of fiars

1~Thc men Jisttd as "colored" ,,·c.-rt so listc:d in a list of 1\.tgr(1 L::g1.,i.1:1,,._. ,,: Tex,u. furnished the writ(:r hr J\liss Harric.-t Smither. Archivist of tht Texa~ Sme Library. EARLY HISTORY QF GRIMES COUNTY 207

tegis­ Source legis- lative of Dare lacure Dist. Reprcsen cati ves Data

i~97-1899 25 54 J.M. Bennett Election of Reg­ ister of State and Cot111ty Of ftcers. 1899-1901 26 54 J. 1\1. Bennccc Ibid. 1901-1903 27 54 John M. Ackerman Ibid. l\,f',.T'\,.._,.J.J l\K---1---··­ w 1 • 1 1903-1905 28 44 J• !Y.I.\•. .LJUU41U .1VlCd.LllU1U l fJta. 1905-1907 29 44 G. J. Winter Ibid. 1907-1909 30 44 J. G. McDonald Ibid. 1909-1911 31 44 J. G. McDonald Ibid. 1911-1913 32 44 T. P. Buffington Ibid. 1913-191 S 33 21 W. E. Neeley Ibid. 1915-1917 34 21 W. E. Neeley Ibid. 1917-1919 35 21 W. E. Neeley Legislative 1vf.an11al., 1917 35 22 Dr. Oscar Davis Ibid. 1919-1921 36 21 W. M. Williams Election Re gist er 36 22 J. G. McDonald Ibid. 1921-1923 37 21 W. ~I. Williams Le gislaiive 1Uan11al, 1917 37 22 Lee J. Rountree Ibid. 1923-1925 38 26 Lee J. Rountree Ibid., 1923 38 27 W. H. Diggers Ibid. 1925-1927 39 26 W. S. Barron Ibid., 1925 38 27 Robert A. Powell /hid. 1927-1929 40 26 W. S. Barron Ibid._. 1927 40 27 R. A. Powell !hid. 1929-1931 41 26 W. S. Barron lbid.: 1929 41 27 John M. Ackerman Ibid. 208 EARLY HISTORY 01: GRl}.IES COUNTY

l\-IEN WHO HAVE REPRESENTED GRIMES COUNTY IN THE STATE SENATE, 1846-1931

Sena- Source Legis- rorial Name of of Date lature Dist. Senator Data

1846-1847 1 Jesse Grimes Senate / ournal 1847-1847 2 Jesse Grimes Ibid. 1849-1851 3 13 Jesse Grimes lbid. 1851-1853 4 13 Jesse Grimes Ibid. 1853-1855 5 1855-1857 6 19 Jesse Grimes Ibid. 1857-1859 7, 19 Jesse Grimes Ibid. 1859-1861 8 19 Jesse Grimes Ibid. 1861-1863 9 17 A. M. Branch Election Registe, 1863-1865 10 17 David C. Dickson Ibid. 1866-1867 11 17 Benton Randolph Ibid. 1870-1871 12 17 W. A. Savior Ibid. ~ 1871-1873 13 15 E.T. Randle Ibid. 1873-1876 14 15 Ed Randle Ibid. 1876-H879 15 16 Tillman Smith Ibid. 1879-1881 16 16 j. R. Burnett Ibid. 1881-1883 17 J. T. Buchanan Ibid. 17 J. G. iv(cDonald Ibid. 1883-1885 18 8 lvl. G. Randolph Ibid. 1885-1.887 19 8 M. G. Randolph Ibid. 1887-1889 20 8 Wm. W. Davis /hid. 1889-1891 21. 8 Wm. W. Davis ..,.., Ibid. 1891-1893 8 W.B.Page El ectio 11 Re giste, __.., ., 1893-1895 , 15 W. P.McComb Ibid. 1895-1897 2-'.i '] 5 W. P. McComb Ibid. 1897-1899 ~5 '] 5 Geo. D. Neal Ibid. l 899-1901 26 15 Geo. D. Neal Ibid. 1901-1903 27 15 Geo. D. Neal !hid. 1903-1905 28 15 A. W. ~-[orris Ibid. "'l (' 1905-190"7 ..'...~ 15 J. ~kDonald i\leachum Ibid. 1907-1909 30 15 J. i\fcDonaJd l\feachmn Ibid. 1909-1911 31 I 5 T. i\fcDonald ]\f cachu1n /hid. EARLY HISTORY OF GRIMES COUNTY 209

Sena- Source Legis- torial Name of of Date lature Dist. Senator Data

1911-1913 32 15 J. McDonald Meachum Ibid. 1913-1915 33 15 C. W. Nugent Ibid. 1915-1917 34 15 C. W. Nugent Ibid. 1917-1919 35 15 W. L. Dean Legislative lvf..anual, 1917 1919-1921 36,. _ 15 W. L. Dean Election Register 192i-i923 ,, 15 H. L. Lewis Legislative Mant,al, 1917 1923-1925 38 15 H. L. Lewis Ibid., 1923 1925-1927 39 5 H. L. Lewis Ibid., 1925 1927-1929 40 s H. L. Lewis Ibid., 1927 1929-1931 41 5 Nat Patton Ibid., 1929

COUNTY COMMISSIONERS GRIMES COUNTY, 1868-1931

Dace County Commissioners Source of Data 1868-187018 J. Buchannon Texas Al,nanac of 1868, 19> Wilson Taylor C. S. Talleferro A. B Easley 1876-1878 J. Buchannon A1in11tes of Com,nissioners' Court, W. G. Howard C, 36. P. B. Cabeen Joe Andrews 1878-1880 W. M. Spaulding19 Ibid., 76-77. Joseph Andrews Adrian Garvin Lewis Owen 1880-1882 W. C. Hearne20 Ibid., 148.

1!'fhe writer found no records that gave the members of the Commissioners' Court, 1846-1868. The records for 1870-1871 are also lacking. 1PJoseph Andrews resigned on December 9, 1878 (Ibid., C, 77) and Elisha Fiord cook the place of lewis Owen (Ibid., 99). W1. I. Terrell took the place of Wm. Spaulding (Ibid., 78). 2°Commissioners in 1881 were as foliows: C. L. i-Iiller, W. H. Stephenson, Lewis G. Blackburn, and ifoses Upchurch (Ibid., 194). 210 EARLY 1-JISTOHY OF (iRlMES (:OU;'\;TY

l);lll" Jvlosts Upchurd1 C. L. ~-f i l lc:r \X1. H. St<:ph<:nson T. J. Havnic: J I I )')') . ~ nu .. -- ·-. B. B. Low{:ry .Robe. \Xi ooJwarJ A. C. Calloway J. \V/. Lawkss /Ind .. .169--71. R. B. Tc:n1pkman W. C. Hendrick S. V. S1nich 1886--J 888 H. i\fal Jett Hc:nry \Y/ ashingcon T. G. Ashford Fred Behn 1888-1890 ]. D. \Vilson Ibid .. I 36. Henry Washin1=,rton H.B. Hughey Fred Behn 1890-1892 J. D. Nelson Ibid.~ 246. G. W. Brown A. C. Calloway Fred Behn 1892-1894 J. N. Mize /hid .. 403. T. J. Tucker H.B. Hughey F. H. Behn 1894-1896 J. T. Mize Ibid., E, 128. T. J. Tucker W. A. Sapp E. H. TerrelJ 1896-1898 Gains Colson J. W. Mayfield B. E. Sapp E. H. Terrc:11 1898-1900 Gains Colsont1 Ibid., 473-491. 21 Behn resigned on Fc:hruary J 2. 1900 .and his p!acc was takt"n t ~ _>.,hn F. Thomas. f Ibid.: ~:58.) EARLY l-llSTOHY or (i1u~11:s Co11:':TY 21 I

G. L. Gillispie: ?\L F. Rc<:d(:r F. H. Bc-hn i 900-- I ~JO.~ J. I\ 1. Barron J. L. Gi lh:·spi<.: Channey Cabt:.-~Ln \V/. S. Ashe: i902--i 9o~i S. A. isbc:11:.::.: JlJ ,,~-i . . l;-- I " (,.:..~ ·, H. L. Grc:tn R. ~l. \X'esc \'

:~\\'..'. S. Asht rc~igm:d on ]\fay 12, l 9lM and his plaCl7 w.ts lilkl·n by J. T. Barry. :~G. \~l. Sollock r(."si,gnc.-d and his plan: was taken by J. M. P<:u.-rs (Ocrober "?'. 190';). 212 EARLY HISTORY OF GRI~-IES COUNTY

Date County Commissioners Source of Data

T. W. Harris C. M. Mobley 1916-1918 J. N. Mize Co111111isi.ro11ers' Co11rt, H, 439, ff. W. F. Stephenson G. C. Stoneham J. M. Ackerman 1918-1920 J. N. Mize /hid._. 568. W. F. Stephenson l\T ,v, T ylnr .a. 'I, WY , L, 1\..-, J. M. Ackerman 1920-1922 R. P. Harrison24 Ibid., I, 55. 0. A. Hamilton R. T. West E. H. Terrell 1922-1924 R. P. Harrison Ibid ... 215. 0. A. Hamilton R. T. West J. T. Barry 1924-1926 D. L. Guerrant Ibid._. 483. Ed. Foster A. D. McAlpine J. T. Barry 1926-1928 D. L. Guerrant /. G. J\tfcDonald to E. L. Blair, Ed. Foster July 9, 1928. A. D. McAlpine J. T. Barry 1928-1930 Robert Hall Ibid. Will Stephenson Ed Harris J. R. Campbell

24E. H. Terreli resigned on January 1, 1921, and J. T. Barrr was appointed to fill the vacancy. Ibid._, 1, 6·1. EARLY HISTORY ·OF GRIJ\IES COUNTY 213

COVNTY SCHOOL BOARD l\·lE:MBERS, GRil\lES COU~TY, 1910-1931

Date School Trustees Source: of Data

1910-19i2 W. S. Stampley 1."\·Iin1,tes of Comn1issioners' Court, J. C. McDonald F,312. J. L. Dreher N. W. Lyles Martin Klein 25 J. L. Dreher 1\·lin11te.r of Co1111t}' School Martin Klein BoartJ.i,; N. W. Lyles 1'{. B. Burns:! 7 1914-1916 J. L. Dreher /hid. Martin Klein G. C. Stonehan1 W. F. Barnett W. H. Binford 1916-1918 W. H. Binford Ibid. Anton Gabriel W. F. Barnett J. Thos. Davis John A. l\-lcKay 1918-1920 H. R. Jones Aiin11tes of Commissioner!' Court, J. G. ?vie.Alpine H, 590. W. F. Baker L. G. Andrc\\"S 1920-1922 S. E. Hooker !hid., I, 169. A. D. iv{cAipinc: L. G. Andrews J. !\1. Ackerman Mrs. H. R. Jones

:.,Prior to 1910 the administration of school affairs was under the County Commissioners. :r:Thc Mimile.1 of the Cormly School Bo,lfd arc in volumes arranged chrono­ logically, and the pages are unnumbered. The records, such as they are, are in rhe office of the County Schooi Superintendent, .u Anderson, Texas. The abo ... e information was furnished tht" writer by l\fiss Elizabeth Siddall, County Super­ intendent of Grimes county, 1929-1931. 2'The nfth member of the board was not named. 21 -1 EARL,.. l-hsTOR Y OF C.iR I i\ll•:s Cotr :\:TY

Dare S11u rec.: ot Dara

L. G. And rcws L. G. 11ndreu·.r to f.. L. Blai,-, A. D. l\kAJpin(· July 11., i 929. also :\fin11te.r .-)f S. E. Hooker C1J1111l1· Schr,io/ Bo~trd. l)udlc:y Brown lV[rs. H. R. Jones 1924--1926 L. G. Andrews :\Jin11le.r of C1J1.;11/J Sch1Joi B(),1rd. DuJ k:y Brown S. E. Hooker ..,\. D. tvkAlpinc H. H. Taylor 1926-1928 L. G. Andrews i\lin11/eJ of Co1111ty School Boad. Dud Icy Brown S. E. Hooker N. W. Lyles H. H. Taylor 1928-1930 L. G. Andrews L. G. r1ndreu·.r t1J I{. L. Bla1t\ Dr. G. C. Harri~ Julr 11, 1929. Dudley Brown H. H. ·Taylor S. E. Hooker EARLY HISTORY ·OF GRIMES (~OlJNTY -') 1-­' APPENDIX \'I

TEXAS VETERA~S FRO~I GRI.MES COi.'.'\:TY VICINITY Tb: following list includes rhos<: p<.:rsons whoin rlu.: writc:r founJ listed .1s n1embers of the Texas Vc:t<:ran Associarion. The dates given undc:: dH.: column ''dace bc:longing"' is ch<: dac<: of th(· Proceedings of the Tex:u V eir:r~111 £1.r.roci(tlion in which chat particular name: was found. The od1L"r data given \\'as taken f ro1n the same.: source.:.

Dalt· Dael: of Bdong- ~figracio11 i\.1c~ ,ng to Tcxa:-. Pbcc of Residence Bradk\', D:t\"id 187 _) 18.,5 Bryan, Texas Bowm~n, John J. 1873 1821 Cherokee county Bowm:1n. Ja1nes H. 1873 182) Chc.:rokcc county Cook. Fra11k J. 1873 18:,6 Hen1pstc:ad, Te:xas CrawforJ. Robcrc 187"'_., Bryan. Texas Campb~H, ~Irs. C. K. I). 1.893 Burton, Texas Connrr. \\1• J\-1. 1893 Houscon county Davis. N. H. 189:; ~\foncgon1ery county

Fuaua.l H. H. 1893 Fowh.:r. J. \X'. 189} i\lontgomcry councv, Fuqt!a. J. H. 1898 An'-lc:rson, Tc:xas Gar., G.D. 1893 ~lonrgomcry county Gcntrr.. ~- (i. 1893 i\·lontgo1n<.:ry county Grir:-:.:.-~. Ruf us 1898 Na,·:tsoca, Texas 1 Kenn·• • ;, ..i l1, \Y./·n~ . F. . 18()2 Johnson county Ke:n,, • "~ .. t",4,u,~I ~lI . L . 1h''9"' :, McG2.h:t\'. Sa111ud S. l.875 18 -~~) • Brr:tn,, Texas .M . o~, r.r ._,•11''ZN 1. _.. l• • 187.~ I H.1) Brc:nhain, Tc:xas

1 8-, 'I Morrhc,n. G,.vp1n \ I _., Cirim{:s county p~.L[f i.\.:t., .. : · C1\.:0. ··· 1~ f . 1873 1829 Anderson, Texas

fl• I .... ,.,,. "'S •'- ,, .. t~ ~. CB• • 187:, I ~-~O l\l'onc~omcry count\·./ ....Scot~ t. li,tin.... • ...... N .. 1893 .\ Iontgon1c:ry count,·. Slu~non, ~fart 189~ _;"\loncgomc:ry counn· I Stl.A..t~ ., ,., ·· :1. "1'"' u. lM • \X'' . 1893 l)obbin. Tc:xas 1 Tow:~.,:.:nd. \X illiam 1s,·, , I_°) \V/ad.;. John i\f. I 87 _-; IS_\ 5 i\lonr~oml"ry n.HlfH)" 216 EARLY HISTORY OF GRIMES COUNTY

Date Date of Belong­ Migration Name mg to Texas Place of Reside;nce Waller, Edmund 1873 Walker, William1 1873 Wade, John]\.{. 1873 Montgomery county Whitesides, Tilford 1873 Waller county Whitinder, J. T. 1892 Hempstead, Texas Whitesides, Mrs. J. T. 1892 Hempstead, Texas \Vallace, W. A. 1893 Big Foot, Frio county Wood, T. B. 1893 Waller county Wesson, Rev. J. M. 1898 Zuber, W. P. 1892 Grimes county

1Some such names as that of William Walker are included merely ht-cause there is a possibility that they may have some connection with the people in Grimes county by that name. EARLY HISTORY. OF GRI~iES COUNTY 217

APPENDIX VII

CORRESPONDENCE SHOWING ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE IDEA OF VOLUNTARY ABSTINENCE FROl\,f THE USE OF WHEAT AND WHEAT PRODUCTS BY AMERICAN CITIZENS, 1918 The wheatless movement, as such applied to private American citizens, seems to have had its birch in Grimes county. Such constitutes a unique contribution and is of such importance, that the writer has taken con­ siderable interest in gathering together official data. The correspond­ ence given below is self-explanatory, and taken as a \\-·hole, gives the history of the movement in a comprehensive manner. The ·writer is indebted to the Honorable Daniel E. Garrett, Washington, D. C., for his assistance in securing this correspondence. The writer is also very thankful to Mr. E. W. Libby, Chief Clerk, Department of Commerce, Washington, who, at considerable trouble, collected and had copied, the various telegrams and press notices here published. 218 EARLY HISTORY OF (iRI~lFS (~Ol.;:\:TY

t;. r,. 111 •. ,, 1,;~111-:.,1:. , .... ;-,. , .• ,~-; ••

~t 6, 1929

Mr.!. t •.Bla1r Justin, Texe.a Dear Mr. Blair:

Reterrir..g to the part which 0rirJ.es Co'Jnty pluycd i:t putting Texas on a wheatlesa bnsi s du'.Pi nt:; ·the •::orld ::u.1· ~ the f'ollowi ne was whe. t occurred •

.At thn t ti:'!;e I was making wcekl:.,, tl'!f;~ tl:rou~l• co .. ::. ~lcr­ able of the county, representing· my firm. .\.t -:.~1c z~!',iC -~ , .e, I was holdiJlB a co:r.mission l'ro!"'1 ~.:r. Peden•::; o:·r1cc !lS nc~i:•t~.. Food Admir!istrator for this ( district. Eowcve:r, 31.1 or r::~• work W~;st you mir~ t say, under t~. ~ieni i.. t, a~ t::-. !:e,::i ::t •.-.:.::t1 a'Piiointea Deputj• iood .admi .1st:::~ tor fo1· t::!s tlist::.•ict and as I understood my oomm1ss1on, • ,ms to uo his assistant. On leaving here l,:Onday morni;.c I r-::acl:c:d .... ;:clcrson, a:~d the retailers theru told me that they hr.1d ~ m.!:..:.ll ru-:io:.:.1~ t or flc>ur on llaud (lI~d would .::;1£.dly di viclc sc::c ;•.-it?: ar.1y rncrc~.:1::t

1n the coun~~,. ~ihen I a:-rived at iledius 1 I wo.s tolu pn1cti­ cally the same thing by the J!lerchants t:-.e::.·e. · ;11011 I 2,:,J.ci,r!c. Iola !~~r. E. l!:. Yeae;er llo.u r,one frca:! ;~or.ic, uut lci't ·,;ord ~-;!.tli his clerl: i'or mo to- this effect; tho.t he lr.,u s er.it: l'luur i ~ tr::tnsit, and -.;11,J he would ~la.dly divide this witl':. othl;r 1~1•:!l'• .eho.nts in Gri?~es County am agree not :..,O :JUy a.ny r.1oee f'lm:r un.t il a new cro) was hai·,·ested; or,. he would r:l:.:.i.ly i.1,1·:: t .. i::: flour ove:- to the 3ovtir11r.1en_t to be disposed oi' as t~.e:: thoue~.t best •. Upon urri,•al at l.··-.vusota I i: .:,:ed !. ~ i;ely got 1 in touc~! rrit2! ...r. Hewitt a:1d -.;0,1<1 itii: w.aat h:!d b.!p~>cnec, 21..so sa:,rinc to :.~r. Hewitt t: ..::.t .!. believed bot~~ .\!!darson :.i:!u 3edio.s would also w1111ggly w1d gl·..;.dly tu... ·n their ilc.mr o·:cr to the ,_;overnment. I immediately cot in touch i'.-it:i both places b:,r phone, and eksed them 1 r t:iiey Viere ~.-ill in~ •:olun• to.ril:,, to turn ~his tlour O\·•:;r to the &:.o·.-erru:en t, ~'i!.ici: "tl.e/ Yer,- e;cne1·6us ly agreed to do• I ti:..er. asi-::e:d !.:r·. ~-i~.wi tt to tske t:1e :latter un with ?.-:r. Pede!'! 1s office, tu2.11:1;· hi:-1 i1:st w:.n1. t hr.:.d bee!i done. - ...

?-:::.·. -"eden 1n tl.!.l'I'l took th-e ::.a:-:cl· up wit:i :.:.:.·. Eoover 1 :i oi.'fice. 'l'he .tlour i·;o.s a-.: cepted ;.,i. t;. ins t1·..:.otL:ns to hold until t!1ey could obtain se.cka wi1ich \;ere necessE.:.ry for e.:i::­ port purposes. In less than a weei,, thi-ot!f~l~ ::r • .?ede::•s EAR LY 1-l:STOH. Y OF (iRl\I FS Col 'NTY 219

11:,,;c. OIU'OH.\"fl•:I,, WIIOI.ES.\LE <~HOCEIURS

:"-ii,\\' ,\SOTA. Tl•:XAS

-=t!.'torta and throur:h i.!le e:rrorta of tile food ndministrators :.n '":ihe Ste:te of 'i'exe.a, t e -whole sto.t-A ,ms on a wheatless :~sis.

Ai'te1· hold inc the flotu• for a week or two, wa1 ting ~·or the sacks we were advised that tiJ.e naoks could not ue o::>t~ ned readlly, and that the amount 01· flour in (!U estion ~--~3 small, nud ~xpre.:..sinc to us the11• appreoistion o:r our 3:,"~orts l we were .inforr...;ed to. go ~1ead ond let this i'lour be 1:.:s ei tnaer the recula tion at that time.

Ir there is enything 1·urther tiiat I oon expla 1.n 1n i;iti,t -=~-~-;-cer. r will be truly glad to do so, You~s ~ery truly,

1. T. SWA.?lSON 220 EARLY HISTORY OF GRIJ\-IES COUNTY P.EDEN IRON 8: STEEL Cl! '90ll•IN· GOODS MC)USINOL D 0000, DocsTos "':so SAX .... \..~'1·0~10 ...... "4...... -. -SAND CIITL0¥ t111•11t1•S NUD_,,I '\\TIIOl~ES.ALE JLUU>'\\"~\.RF. & St:PPLIE!!i •'" ""D ,rm11es •oo•,N• ..,.r•1M.1 AllfDMO'l'1l,I ACCIIID'IIII NII• I A "1:01'1111 1 ---•·•••" JNO W WAff9. w,CI D D PIDEN. "•C'I NW•' &•••• HMITONI, w1c•N191 JNO A NANYIOI, YOC"C -n• I D PIDEN, MC •••• ._ ,.,., ■ I l'AVLOR, v•CI •HI • r WIITTS "•. •111111•1 ......

HOUSTON,~ July o, 1~29

I.!r. E. I .• Blair, :aox 788, l{avasota, Texas. Dc.ar l~. Blair:• In respo::ise to your intere;s tine; let~er of j;;.ly 41.a ·I at1 oo.rry to advise that all officialr ccords of th~ :,•~ue::--dl ::ice~ .Adr,-:1:i1strat1on of Texas were returned to ~-c.shington, :::i.e. b Febr.. uiry 1919 under instructions from Hational Headr:i.u.e.:.:tcrs. For ttat reason 1 t 'i"till be necessary for you to cott ..u.:·.1,:; ....-cc ·,:ith :·1a::lunoton, ii' you wish exact copies ot these l'euords. Ti~e following state;:ient is bo.~~d upor:. 1.ic::::.o:.·:, -~-~ ··11· T~ 0 l '" I • • ..... u.:.--~-..-~ i,...... conaulta""1'.... " on . ·th ..J.&,.,~... J... 'MirtIf St... ele ' •·:,~o.. •• ·•~;.-,,_..., .... --- \.,..., ___ ,,<:.,., ;.~~110.ccr !.ere durini;; the ilar; therefore, be.tore incoi•:poi•uti::.:_ ~~-:e i:::. a:J."J pe:.i.·1.~e.~1ent histor:r, 1 t would be ,·,1se to ve1•ify ;,,...:.. c ~:· •ti1e oi'!'icia.l uoc-..u:ients and record~ at :•:ash1n6t0ni'

According to :!~Y best rJ1or1ledge the li'ederal Foal Administrator !'or Texas received a tele£,;rai."ZI. on or about Aprill;;:: 1918, from l'.~. L. u. llewi tt, Distr::.c t Food J.dninistrator, located at Navasota, Texas, to the e:r:tec t tli.at the ci tiz.ans or Grines Cou..'lt;,r had held a IJ.S.ss i:1eetdng and had voluntarily at;1eed by resolution to abstain from all use of ·.vheat and uheat produc!s tor a period or forty-five days, or until t:r.. e new l1arvest. 7!:is action was taken at perhaps the nost cri tic'al period. of t;:~ ~:a~·, when r.he Ge mans wer~ :.!aking their brea t drive to·::.1:-d t~1c :.:::~li~ Channel. A ccZJ.Srata,J..atory telegram· waa dispatched :.c ::::. Hewitt, a..."l.d telegrams expla1n11ia the action or the ci tizc!'ls o: Grimes County were dispatched to the other fifteen Di~t~ict .Foou Adm1n1stratpr• in Texas, _w1 th the request t14at tj~c~' a~·::·x;.._& to call sinular ~ass meetinga'throug~out their res?ective ~is­ triots ror the purpose of asc-erta1ning w!iether their citizenship would ae w1ll1Dt; to take similar action.

fhe replies to the above ne i:iSe.[;C s wercJ pr~::~t a:.~ ·unaxumousl7 1n the affittiat·ive •

.1 few days later a.notl,o r ca:..:.:.:un:!.cation was .rcc.::i•,·,u 1 tr

i.:r, Hewitt was :.:.dvised to s!lip the flour to the Unite~ States Food li..d!!linis'!;ration G::-ain Coz:;o:;:•a.t:Wn,at Galveston. '!"~ere t:.1s i'lo~ was resacked, in jute bags ai.1d fo:rwarded to EDgland. ,'\. re :-ort of tr1e above facts was foi,we.rded to the Unit­ ed :;:ates :.:'ood .Aili.::.1::1ist1·ation nt ~'iashington where it was incorporated i:i a c:.ispntch t.l'::.ro:.:..:..;i1 the State De;,artaent to the General ccm- :.i:.:i..:.:!.r..c:; -:;:e "\::?crticun Expeditionary Force in Fra.noe, and was· p~bl:shed in tcensturs ar..d S~ripesV the nenspaper of tne A.E.F. c-:: ~:::.: '..!"J.Y ".;l!at A.""leric o.n troups i'i::a... st went into action us Ar.lcrican

A persor.:.ul o.c.;l~nowled[;;J:ient 1'rom General John J. . rer~J:i:1£; was subse~ue~"?tly rec-~i ,;ad ·t1:.. rouc;h '."lashing ton a:id transmitted !o :~e o;;·~ ..i\.:t:,ril 28th, 1~18, a.r::l by :cs passed on to the people of G:::-i::,.·:is County• '!'he volu:• .-~a.:·y contributions ci" •,;heat p:::oduc ts nade t;; t:.~ _.,eo_ple of tLe e:1tire state of 'i1exo.s, :pursua.n·t to the e.bO'le resnl~ &ions, w.ere all s.:m·;; :through the ual. .. c c :~o..."'"lllcl u~ the one abov~ ci..;.3Cri bed, :-efo:::.:in,., to Ci-ri:.1.es Coan·~y l'lour, anci ; .a,µ,e a sizablo cargo, ;·Jiiich contributed much to the subsistence and also to the :.:orale of the A.::i.erica:i troups and the tr0UlJS of tho Allies.

The whea~less procram in Toxbs continued until about • • r:: ... h ,una J...ii. •• , ;·,!.en !'lour fro:u the ne·.-, wheat crop bat..un to reach the r.:arket. Action si!.:ilar to t::at of the i~eo~le of' Texas waa s,.i.bsei.:.Uei1t::.y tal;an by tte citizens or A~:l:ansloi.s ::.r:d m.;.merous other statss. I believe t:iis action contI·i bu tcd 11ightily to the :ote.!. ~h1pzilo:~".; ·of...,the ar1uivalent of sane ?01 000 bushels of -:meat t::-n::.sported to Europe o.r ter J.:..n-.iary 1 1 H-Jl8, on which c"i.a~e l~r. ::oover, the li:..ii ted States Food Ad!·11n1stro.tor, had cabled Lord :;;:iondt1, British Food Controller, to the effect that the last r.-.·aile.bla pound of surplus A:.~oricr.a.n wheat ·.-.a~ t:iat ciay bci11e sti:,;_ped to England e.:id ~i'H.i.~ ~-...,,J :,ubsequent .olli:p1.1ent r... u.st necessarily. 1 l"' .. ,. ~-·V I'a--, W."W-~ .&..,.rO'":"I &a1, ...\,,U\,i .,_n ...\, 0"11u.•···'l·•··- 1. "'-"'"' ,J ....~---~--; c.., 'I - ... ~..-. o.t:•.a. t;,1,J,\;.. ,,. ~I~ ... e-ican - pr:,••·le'-'U.i:" e 222 U. S. FOOD ADMINfSTRATION

OF SU!H::t,Y ?-~/JtC:! ~.;, l~le. ~-t•,f:Cii 23. l~ 1,:. Jc, RELEASE Th .. t!r:iti.:d '.:l,ol•;S :'o.;;...; ,'i.,!.r:J.::iists--.Uor.-it-d11.y i::.:.:1:..d the !ollo~:u,;;:-

i>r1;;ca.d, Such brt.ad :.:.usr. bi? 11ur.~bl.! .md t!lercfora rcqair•:::i n lt&J"g.:r prc1,crtioa ot

ac1crlfiees ln the ~onsur:;~ti.JD c.f \,b~-1.t pr-:ducu th~n c:Jn the poor. Jn u~dition,

cur population in tbd i•tricultw-al districts, 11hf!r~ lh•J utb..:r cer~le ~G

abundrJ1t., are ;::era skill-=lci iu tht, pr1?p '1'iAtivn c,f bN"'as t:-,;1;. th~511? otJi~r c.. reil1

t.t,an tl'.e croud~d cit)' ,.nd indu~trial pcpulc..t1'1ni;, EARLY l-lISTORY OF c;1u~t1:S COl.i~TY

• titcb n!net:.r ::1rJ.lG. !II ,irved, thun confl:)l'l!'.in& "1th tb..s Ur.4 tat ions r,:qi:~!'?tod of tbe­

t,ousehold~rB.

3. lieta.Uers to sdl 110~ 1r.0r~- th::.n on"9-e:1,rhth of a barrdl of flour to •.>ny t.own -

nstemer at any one tlc.e, o.na ln no case 10 Gctll ;41e11t pro.Suets "s tb

4. la •Sir tn• &>Akcra anc. grocer• to reduce ,ho vol\Db of flctor)' brcM sold. 'bJ'

••11••1'1 of the three-ciuarter poanc! loaf where cme pOlllll1 IIIU 0014! u~foro, and ,orrHpondlac prOJ)orllGDB I.D other ftlghl,. •• •l•o a.u t,Akurc not to 1ncreaae

~ amount of thalr wbea.t flour pvch ~ea bqOD« 70 ,-••t ot tbe 11o•er:1ge -~11 -1awn, p,arohua4 1n tho fovr c:on,hR prior '° Naroh ls't.

5. W'aaufaat.urer• u1lna wheat product■ fOI' aon,,-too«· purpoa,,. •~ould c:.r••~ •,aoh 11• entlrel7.

t.arle7 1 bllc)-..ffb.-.t, potato flour, 3\ c~tJl'..1 •.

1611'.,J \ho·11ti<'llri t"adUos thl"oughout u-.c larA _.r_, no•• uciJ>8 110 v,ie:,.I pro4uc\l

•1evv, e:aaapt a ver7 sa.11 ~Erount for cooklng pm-posec, ... .n4 1t-re doing •o tr,

,erf ect health and e;1tiata.cU0n. There s., no re11.1:on uJ\T a.ll of the- /.z.icr1c.'llt

people llho lll"= 1:able to cook ln tht:ir om> houaehol4a o,innot. subsiot perfectly weU 224 EARLY HISTORY OF GRIMES COUNTY

0 0.P .. T.

u. s. roo:o AD?-'.INIST?.AZ:IOt~

POSTAL

Houston, Tex. J.1,ll,r. 28, 1918

rood Admn. Z&brilk11 Washington.

Citizens in Grimes count7 have decided to use .no wheat tlour

and have a car :n ham alao other■ rolliz:ig and. tendered 1AM

to government at cost price is there arq ny dovernment au ~se this and how would same be rtnanced Peden. EARLY HISTORY OF GRIMES COUNTY 225

COPY

TELIGRW

tr. S. FOOD ADY.I?lIS:i!tATIOlf

POSTAL

,ood Adrn,

ZABIUSiOE 1-ashinston. ~eter exchange telegra:2 reference flour Grime, coun~1

SeYenty five barrels at .Anderson Te:za1 price eleven dollan

L~d el~ht cents forty three barrel, »edias Texas eleven twenty seventy five Barrels Iola Texas ten ninet:, packed in forty eight and twenty tour powid sacks will cost about twent1 nine cents freight to Galveston STOP Please telegraph n~~e ~r consignee and how this deal will be financed STOP Y.any sections or atate are taking same action as citizens or Grimes county and

1! the Administration has &D1' maahineey for accepting these

comparatively small quantities flour there will evidently be

ocnsiderablo qu.anti ty offered to covenunent. Please telegraph

1 ::t:.edi ate ly.

peden. 226 EARLY HiSTORY OF GRl1'-iES COUNTY U. S. FOOD ADMINISTRATION

FOR :mrmING !.:arch 281 1918,

~'!heatless r::eals and days are no\: optional 1 n pr1 vate torr.es.

but ~-.ill be riE;id!.y enforced in all pL:.blic ea~ir.g ple.ces, the Food Administration announced today. Private ho~es have been requested a~ a t.1l1tary measure to reduce wheat consurr.pt!on to l~ pounds per person per week. -,.ha full light of publ.ici ty will be turned upon establishments • violating this urgent request of the Food Administration. Federal 'Food Administrators in all states ,vere given telegraphic orders today to enforce the program by rigid inspection and investigation.• ~":here violations are reported, the Administrators are instructed to hold hearings which must be open to tne public and to tbe press. Virtually this mear.s that no violator, no matter what the extentuating circ~mstances, will be shielded by having his name ,athheld from the newspapers. Where violations are proved, the ndministrators are urged to follo,v immediately ,rith puz11t1ve measures, the nature of whioh will be determined 1n ooneultation with authorities in rashington. :nile private homes will r.ot be r~q~ired to observe wheatless rr,eals and days, they will be req,.ilred to cut wheat consuir:ption to about one-r.al! of normal. ,If this can be done ni thout entirely

giving 'l!p ,;heat at any rteal 1 the Food Ad.ministration \Vill consider that its progrum 1s being followed strictly to the letter. It is urging, ho·.-:ever. that those, whoe:e circumstances and requirements permit, effect an even greater reduction. It believes that the 1m·

perative necessity for this measure ~111 be ~ell understood and that. its request will receive ready response frc~ the intelligent claeee, 119 ----,.. -oOc------~ EARLY HISTORY OF GRIJ...1 ES COUNTY 227

si;tci.L:.lly ... r-k U~..: ~·:..:ll-to-do hc.ur.-..holdn in \.lit,; cc w,1.r, to :-ci~lo~: tl:ir. ucluitiollill

,,re .~b.;c, li.1tt!lY d.:~ ,nd<.:d of uu to u;;.i.1nto1n tl:l.; c1vU ,t,10:pubtion .,nd i:.oldiera ot

the ,.llies and our ov:n Arr:;7, \H r,r~os~ to aup:plamont th,1 volw1t:l.ry co-oper~

ticn cf the lhlblic \}:; 4.. furthf:r Umi tution of' distrib-.iti<.m nnd we shall p]..~ce

tc s~cur.:: .,,s nearl;r eq.n ta.bl~ d1Gtribt:.t1on .• s poGsiblo, With th\? "'rr1v3l cf barvcst we should be u~lc to relax such rJstriction~i until tben we ~ak for tbo)..

·-•-•Llbg----- 228 EARLY HISTORY OF GRI.MES COUNTY

C'. a. IOOb AmtttlflS'i1aAT!Otl

-.rob. 29, 1918,

FSI>l1f FOOD ADltINISTRATIOB UOUSTO?l TEXAS

'ilE COMPLD,!E,1'1' '111E CI'l'iZE?fS OF GR!r.:ES COUNTY U?Olf

'l"riEIR PA~RIOTISM Al:1) ~!ER? POUND OF WHEAT FLOta THEY

CONSER.VE WILI, GQ- 'l'O OUR ASSOCIATES I?1 THE WAR Pi:.EASE AD'TISS

T/HE'P.E THIS FLOUR lS THE COST Al.1D HAVE IT DIVERTED TO

IOOVBB EARLY HISTORY O.F GRl1'1ES COUNTY 229

COP t.

OUT-GODG ffl.m'9A11

V~ S. JPOOD .mtmrISn&!Plca·

IYJSBIIGTOB

l'EDD • ,OOD AD?,II!lISTRA'1'" 0 HOUSTON TEY.AS

OF ':.'HEAT FLOUR BY PATRI:JTIC CITIZENS CF TEXAS 1l.UI!ro SA?.TE t7P

H1TO CA..tU.OADS AUD SHIPPU:G TO GALVES'l'ON WHSBE .ALLIED SHIPS

\t1LL '!'AU IT ABCARD PAn!EtlT "RILL BE ?.:ADE :S! WHKAT Er.PORT

001-J>A?:-'~ AGAWST BILLS. OF LADnm CIR IF YO~: THI!~-: :T SHOULD !lE

TAKEH OVER BY :'COD a:n~IST?.ATIC~ '..'ILL A~'!-"!Al:GE TO DO 'l'P.A'r EARLY HISTORY OF GRIMES COUNTY U. S. FOOD ADMINISTRATION WoJrinp,n. D. C

/or RELEASE FOR FV!NING NO. 7S? Pft!>ERS OF DJTE. Ma.roh 29, lala.

f.!ore than 400 l1ntel men are in r,asb t11c;ton today to oonfsr with the United Stat~s Food Administr~tion in efforts to map out a prograrr. t-v ~~hicl1 they co.n effect still 1·w:ther rea.uction 1n American consumptior. of ~,;hea.:t. The rr.eating 11 said to be tha most; important anJ r~prcsantative ~•er lield. by AmJrioan botal manag1:1rs and proprietors. The largest and best kno~n hotels froc coast to coast and from Canada to Mex100 ue repraeentad~ Ow1ng to hot~l oong~stion 1n Vas~ington 1 tha entire party •+11 laav~ th1s after­ ~oon for New York, whsr? cbo meottne; will ba contln®d tomorrow. Judging from the attitude of hotel men who were 1n informal \ conferanoes at the Food A:imin1strat·1on -~hie morning, tbey are ready to make any possible sacrifice in order that expor,a to th~ Alli~s may be zr.a.1nta1ned. They r:~gard today •a meeting more in the light of a patriotic service and opportunity to assist 1n-proaeouting the

•a.i; tha.n as a business maet1rig ,w1tb tlle ,-oea1'b1lit1 of hazdeh1pa. and privations. At the New W11lard Hotel this aft~rnoon tb:ey will be addreea ed by offic1ale of tho Food Admin1a,rat1on and men fumiliar w1tb present conditlone on bo-tb s14ee ot tbe ocean. When they reaob lew York tbey r:111 ba tlle gu.eats ot J. YoE. Bowma.n, proprietor

Tho :-:ee:ting is ·oej ng &.ttended by hotel .represe;ita­ tiv~s or the Food Administration from praoticelly every state in tb& country un1 by managers and proprietdrs ~f the leading hutels of tbe Unit~d States, It is probable that a conservation p~ogra~ Will be f¢rmulated this afternoon and details of its exacut1on worked out at tomorrow's mact1ng in New York, ---zc'bg --- 232 EARLY HISTORY OF GRIJ\,fES COUNTY

U. S. FOOD AuMINISTRATION Wu1ungton. D. C.

for RELEASE FOR £VErJ IllG No. 788 :··!arch 291 1 ~18, PAPERS OF DATt.

In r.::aking op~ional the observ:-:.hce of '."":hea.tless days in private ho~cs, the Food Ad~inistration lifted r.o restrictio~s upon

tnc consumption of :.\heat products. It is n:erely asking the Awerican people to reduce their per capita consumption to not more than 1-1/a pounds per ·,'idek. If this can be done "ilithout the observance of

\ih~a.tless a,ea.ls or r■ heatless days the Food Administration \'lill ccn­ sider that its request is being observed. Increased necessity for· :.rheat wi tb wl':ich to maintain the

war bread of the A!lies makes it imperat~ve that Amer1oaq conswi:ption oe cut by at least ~>0 p1:r cent. '£his pld.ces upon the individual the cuty of eat in.g not mo1·e than 1-1/a pounds of \'tbeat products each ·,:eek, This is =.n aosol ute rr.ilj tary necessity. Tne method of sa.v1ng ls being left en ti rely to the ir.ji vidual. If it can be done w1 thout

forcgoine tl:e U:3t: ,:i.f wce.1.t at ar1y specified meal or on any day, the Food 11.dminist:;ttic,n' s urgent p::..ea for fll:··.her conaervati<"n will be carried out to the l~tter. ----- ,,rob --- ·- EARLY HISTORY OF GRI1'1ES COUNTY 233

U. S. FOOD ADMINISTRATION Wasfzington. D. C. fot- RE.LEASE FOR E~li!NG NO. 793

PJlPERS OF DI TE. MARCH 30, 191b, --o'Jo---

No ~heat flcur w111 be used by the citi?.~ns of Orlmeo County, Texas. until aft:?f' th•? ni3xt barY'3Bt, acootd1~g to a tele­

gram received today by the United States Food Ao.m1nis·i.rat1oo. These patriots havJ alr~ady turned over to the Gove~nment a,.ooet, on3 car of whe~t flour dnd will d'3liver othoTs now in tranati.

These ca.re ar~ b~ing dlv..:rted to an Atlantio por~ by the \',bea, Export Corrrpany ..:.nd the Food Adr.i1n1atrat1on fo~ 1mm~a.iate ship.. ment to the Allies. In a_ppr3cla.tion of tt.1e aplend~d a.ct on ~h.::: part ot these Texa.fi c1t1iene th:3 follor:1ng Rlre wo.s sent today: "\ie compl1rr.cnt the c1 t1zena of Griines County upon their patr1ottsm, nnd ev~ry poun~ of wbJ&t flour th:y conserT, will go to our Assoo!at~s in the Jar. (signed) "Boovera •--mbB··- 234 EARLY HISTORY OF GRIMES COUNTY

UNITED STATES Fooo ADMINISTRATION WASHINGTON, 0. C. April 2, 1918,

,.., wou• IICPr.. r "1,111'11• ra

6-H-424 t>ata Book Reference Begulation • Wheal

SUJ3JECTr Action of Citizens of Grimes Countr, Texas

to ALL FEDERAL FOOD ADMWISTRATORS:

In cbnnection w1th the dec1a1on of the leading hotel a.en of the country to go without wheat or wheal products until the next harvest, the action of the c:1t1·zena of Gri~es County, Texas, is aigni£1can~. · · r. ,1,-. On V.arch ~, a telegram was received from N41' Peden, Federal Food ·Administratoi· for Texas, atat1nc that the citizens of Grime& County, Texas, bad offered to turn over to th~ Gov~rcmamta car of wheat flour and to de­ liver other cars then in t.ransit, tney themaelvea doing without wheat flcr~r until tba nex\ honest. Thia patriotic offdr was accepted by tbe Food ~dm1n1atrat1on and the flO\lr waa purchased and shipped to our Aaaociatea in the War, For your information we enclose herewith cop1 of press release #?93 regarding tbis offer. We bellen thia information should be sent to all your local admlnia... &ratora. Fait~fully youra

UNITED S'l'A'l'ES iOOD ADaIN!SfRATIO•

Per ••••••••••••• , . • .. • ..•• • • • • • • lncloaure EARLY HISTORY OF GRIMES COUNTY 235

U. S. FOOD ADMINISTRATION Wa.sJilngta,-, D. C.

/r,, RFI EASE FOR MORNING April 2, 1910. PAPERS OF APRIL 3, 1918. ----0--,.,..., Total Ab&tainers c~ubs, the me~bers of •hioh pledge themselves to refrain from tbe use of ~1heal- absolutely, are being organized in Ohi~. The rr.oven:ent s tartt>a in Mt. Gilead, Morrow County, follO\'iing a r,:eeting at which the pressing need of ·,1hea.t tor ahipmant to Europe ~as set forth. Those at the meeting at once declared th~t, since the only ~·,heat that can be sr..ipped up to the next harvest 1a that which Americans save out o! their normal consumption, the, "ould pledge themselves not to eat any at all. Several of these Total Abstainers clubs have already been organized, and the mo~ement is spreading.

---a.vl--· 236 EARLY HISTORY OF (;RII\-IES COUNTY U. S. FOOD ADMINISTRATION ~------Wa,6uzgto,r.. D. C. ------000.. -•

out f"lour or •,"Jh-Jt1,t prcdu.cta alto~•:,ther w1tU u.f't Jr tho no;:t hell"'• to~.

,ournment. ... u stocks of flo;ir 1n stcck, in tra.n11i t or contrn.oted !er.

The= ••tat spir1t-1a a:antf'eatdd 1n Cal1forr.in.. A L1H.::1u,;., frc0- O"'kl.ir.4 ctatc:e

tt-.1tt the aoo mc:~ere of the Ebell. Club, th.: lhdir.tr. -..,ocen's club or the cit~·, r.we

1olea:nl1 pled,ed to do wi tbout Nhe:1-t 1112til S.Jptm:iber, · while t.~~ Fllcul t7 ttoo~n' s Club ot Stanford Unt•er1it1 baa t.1.ken aicdl&r ~otion.

t.1ezt~nts 'IDd conslUner1 of Oklahoma ,ae orter1n1: stocks of flour to the &OTerncent. Tr.3 meroh.,nts ot VtLlliant h~Yo ottered all their sto~ka and thos• ot

Woodward ~r.d 1.-lva a.ll ezcept t\lo pounds p,sr ~ont.b pa ca.?1 ta.

Fla,, wb1ch s.:.,,va tr.at a zta.&& me.stizlc; or c1 U.-ens h..s plee2«;::=cl :.o ;~bstain froi:1 t:Oe

use of wheat, .a.Dd tr.at tne sor.:e ,~n~imar.t ia r~!ld~ted in ctn~r aectionp c! tnc S

eta.te.

pr0f'es9!or..:.l a.en ot the c1t7, adoptdd resolutions to do \'i.thot:.t ..,.;,c!1.t teillcw:.n~ EARLY HISTORY OF GRl1fES COUNTY 237

The hobs! moo ot thl;) Fer,~ua Count:,·, r::ontctn,1., Asuoci,1.tion ot Hot•ll :uul

8-,at,,s.ur..n.t men h.a.•:s pldd:_;dd tl:ecicelves nat-.to ".J.!H> ·:h-:3 ... t in ,IJl/ fore trcm A.">rU lo to the bAr~eot. 238 EARLY HISTORY OF GRIMES COUNTY

U. S. FOOD ADMINISTRATION

Jo, .REL.[Af;E FOR ?.:OP1'J I NG APPIL ;.;-.9, 1918. P~PEns OF APRIL 30, 1CJ8. ------o---- Plans are no:: on foot to enlist 5,000,GO.J T\;xans in. the crar on •lhf:at consumptiC'lr.. Tht! fnllo.,i,~g tc':f!gr?.J., si~=ied by a eemmi ttee r~ppointed at a ,n~eting SUn:.ics.Y r11g:~t -1a.s received today by the Food Adr.1ir.istrc.ti•rn. . "Thre~ hunJr~d c1.nci, t,T~r.ty·five Fcdera:., district, county

an\\ deputy food &.c!:.. 1nit:t.:a~ors of Texas .in conference assembled pletlge you their c.ns"Mrving devotion, tbelr st,-'P.dfast t1ervice for God and country, to th~ ar.d that our bre~d may sustain our gallant troops and our glorious ~llies. ~e arc e~ljst~d.f~r tbe period ot tbe ~ar. Cene?al Pershing•e cable greatly at1mnlate1 our en­

\b'U8lUt1c determination tn orgaujz13 51 OO0,no, Texans into effective line of d~f~nse," EARLY HISTORY OF GRilt.iES COUNTY 239

U. S. FOOD ADMINISTRATION•· Washington, CZ>. C. fo, RELEASE FOR MORNING NO. 1019 I PAPERS OF JUNE 14. 1918. JU?JE 13, 1918. --~-oo---- Actual wheat savings in the state of Texas since April 15 have been equivalent to 14,895,OOO·pounds of flour, Since the TeXGS peopl~ went on an a.bs-:>lutely lw'heatless basis they have saved suff ioient ilour to fee~ thP- e~t~re-lne:i~~.n Army in France for one month--enough to feed. o;.i 1e 'l'cxas 'hcys in the National Guard, the National Army, the regul&.r. Army, ·tll~ Navy and the J.iar1ne Corps, for an entire yea:r. !,:ore than 65,225 carrels of flour have been turned over to the Food -"dmin1stra.ticn by Te=ta.s mills. Amounts purohased from mercha.nta aho b.aa s~all surpluses come to more than 1,700,000 pounds. The flour has been concentrated at G~lveston and New Orleane, where it r:as resacked and seil1i direct to the Allied countries. one hundred and fifty thousand p0W1d.s of flour turned in by citizens oi Fo:t. Ben1 County was delivered direct to camp Logan, at Houston, Texa..e, ~aint~inincr an adequate supply there until the departure of the Illinois Brigade for France. Tne F~deral Food Administrator for Texas has taken the position that every state should. actually save enough flour cut of i~s normal co~sumpticn to feed the boys it has plaoed in service. The Texas savings are sufficient to make 19,558,500 loaves of bread baked w1 thout wheat substitutes. \11th the amount o! subst1 tutee no;1 rtquire;-d oi 'bakers it \'iOUld be sufficient to 111ake 26,078,000 loavee. ---ep-- 240 EARLY HISTORY OF GRIJ\·IES COUNTY

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Barker, E. C., Life of Stephen F. A11stin, Cokesbury Press, Dallas, Texas, 1925. Barker, E. C., The Austin Paper.r, in the Annr,al Report of American Hi.rtorical Association for 1919 and 1922. Barker, E. C., "l\ilinutes of the Ayuncamienro of San Felipe de Austin," South­ u•estern Hi.rtorical Quarterly, XXI, 299-301. Barker, Potts, and Ramsdell, A School Histor;· of Tex(1s, Row, Peterson and Com­ pany, Chicago, Illinois, 1924. Bedee, tvlrs. Sarah Wharton Groce, Groce ,znd Kindn:d Families (MS.). Berleth, Mrs. Rosa Groce, "Jared E. Groce," S01,thu,estern Hi.rto,·ical Quarterly, xx, 358. Brigance, Franklin, Memofrs (MS). Brosig, Mrs. Stella, Journal (MS). Bugbee, "The Old Three Hundred," Sorlthu•eJtern Hi.rtorica/ Q11arterly, I, 108- 117. Davis, Anna L., "Old Montgomery," Dalla.r lUm·ning Neu•.r, December 3, 1925. De Shields, Border U7 ars of Texas. The Heraid Company, Tioga, Texas, 1912. Dixon, "Men Who Made Texas," The Houston Ch,-onic/e, .April, 1923. Edward, D. B., HiJtory of Texas, T. A. James & Co., Cincinnati, 1836. Edwards, Mrs. E. F., "History of Shiro," N(wa.rota Dc1i/y Examiner, October 22, 1924. Fahey, Honorable Pat N., "Thanksgiving Address," Navasota Daily Examiner, November 30, 1918. Family Bibles. Feriss, Morris P., Descendants of Simon Hadley (MS) in the possession of ]\,frs. Stella Brosig, Navasota, Texas. Fulmore, History and Geography of Tex(t.r aJ Toid in County Names, Press o[ \"E. L. Steck, Austin, Texas, 1915. Gammel, Lau,s of Texas, 1822-1898, Gammel Book Store, Austin, 1898. Greenwod, Robert E., Junior, History of the G'reenU'oods, an essay in the high school library at Navasota, Texas. ( 1925). Greer, Solomon, T,1x AHe.rsor's Record fo,- Grimes Co1111IJ, 1858. The original is in the possession of V/. W. Greer, Carlos, Texas. Grimes County CommiJSioner's Court Reco,·d.r, Anderson, Texas. Grimes County Prob,1te Court Records, Anderson, Texas. Grimes Count)' Deed Records, Anderson, Texas Grimes County School Boelfd Afinute.r, Anderson, Texas Groce, William M., "John A. Wharton," Southivestenz Historic~/ Quarterly, XIX, 272, ff. Index of Texas Re110l11tionary Heroe.r, Archives of State Library, Austin, Texas. Looscan, "Harris Count}', 1822-1845," Sortthu·e.rtem Historical Quarter/J., XIX, 52 . .AiontgomerJ Count;· Transcribed Deed Record.r, Anderson, Texas. Afrute,· Rol/.r /1·om Grimes Cormty, in the Archives of the State Library, Austin, Texas. EARLY HISTORY OF GRI~-iES COUNTY 241

Neblelt, Buffington and lvkDonidd, C(nnmiilce Rt1port ta Orphan's friend Lodge Number Se111m/ee11 (l\fS.) September 6, l 926~ original is in the possession of W. T. Neblett, Anderson, Texas. Oglesby, J. K., "And So Cotton Came to Texas," F:11·m and Rand1, October 29, 1928. Owen. Thos. l\f., HistorJ tmd Dictio11:1ry of Altibama Biog1".:1phy, IV, S. J. Clark Publishing Co., Chicago, 1921. Polley, J. B., I-food's Texm Brigade, The Neale Publishing Company, Ne..-: York, 1910. Proceedings of the Associ11tion of 1'exc1s Veterans, for the Years 1873, 1892, 1898, and 1899. Rochelle, "Hert Texas Grear ~fen Once: Lodged,'- Da/JaJ l\1fJ1'lli11g Neuis, Octo­ ber 25, 1925. Stoneham, Philipia, HiJtory of the Strnu·ham Family in Grimes Co111J1y, an essay in the high school library at Navasota, Texas. Texa.,-, Ab.rtract of Land Titles, 1821-1836. Texas Almanac, 1857-1865, 1867-1873, 1875-1876, 1910-1914, 1920-1929. Texas General Land Office Records. 1821-1836. United State.r Cens11.r Reports, Eighth and Eleventh. West, Anson, History of Afethodis,n in Alah.:una, Nashville Methodist Church, 1E93. Williams, Amelia, Siege :md Fall of the Alamo (1v!S.) University of Texas Library. Wilson, Hamer, Biograph)' of Je ..-Je Grimes, Essay in the high school library at Navasota, Texas, 1925. Wilson, Hannibal H., Biography of Hanibal JloneJ/11.r Boone, an essay in the high school library, Navasota, Texas, 1925.

LETTERS

Ar.dreu·s, L. G., to E. L. Bluir, dated at Navasota, Texas, July 12, 1929. Ashford, Joe, to E. L. Blair, dated at Hempstead, Texas December 3, 1928. Ballou, L., to E. L. Blair, dated at Brady, Texas, August 15, 1928. Barry, L. H., to E. L. Blair, dated at Navasota, Texas, July 3, 1928. Blackshear, W. E., to E. L. Blair, dated at Navasota, Texas, July 4, 1928. Boone, H. H., to E. L. Blair_. dated at Navasota, Texas, August 16, 1928. Castle, l\:lrs. /. L., to E. L. Blafr_.

Grissett~ 1'1n. Josr:phine. to E. L. Bl:zir, dat<:d at North Zulch Texas~ July 281 1928. Hadley, l\.frs. A1attie, to E. L. Bitiir. dare:

Landn,m, John 1 lo 1'\;j.:111cy Landr11111. dattd in Rusk county, Texas, August 20, 18S9. Landrian, Mn. John, to John Landr11m, dated 1889. Leake, Frtznds, to E. L. Blair~ dattd at Navasota, Texas, June 28, 1929. Libb)', E. Jf"/., Chief Clerk_. Dep:l1'tment of Commerce .. to E. L. Blair. dated at \X'ashington, July 2-1-, 1929. Lott, 1\-frs. 117. W., to E. L. Blair. dated at Navasota, Texas, July 1, 1928. i\tlcCary, 1Urs. l\.·JarJ, to E. L. Blair~ dared at Iola, Texas, July 2, 1928. AfcDonald, ]. G., to E. L. Blair, dated at Anderson, Texas. June 11, 1928; July 15, i928; July 25, 1928; and January 1, 1929. /t,fcDonald, M,-s. Wallace, to E. L. Bft,i,·! dated at Austin, Texas, December 23, 1928. 1"1.ontgomerJ, /. L., to E. L. Blair, dated at Richards, Texas, November 8, 1928. Pearce, Ben, to E. L. Bfoir, dated at Navasota, Texas, June 6, 1929.

Peden, E. A.1 to E. L. Blah-_. dated at Houston, Texas, July 8, 1929. Robison, J. T._. to 1\frs. E. 1Y7 eave,·, dated at Austin, Texas, March 3, 1929. Saunde,-s_, ,,1H. l~'. S. D., to E. L. Blt,ir, dated at Navasota, Texas, July 3, 1928. Schumacher, Jf/. T., to E. L. Blair, dated at Keith, Texas, August 2, 1928. Smither, Harriet, Archfrest, State LibrarJ, to E. L. Biait-_. dated at Austin, Texas, November 9, 1928. Stephenson, J\1r.r. Ella, to E. L. Blair, dated at Plantersville,, Texas, August 1, 1928. Tay/or, Henry, H., to E. L. Blc1ir, dated at Bedias, Texas, August 3, 1928. ThompJoll, J\.fr.r. R. 1\1., to Robert E. Greenwood. J1mio1·. dated August 3, 1928. Thompson, to i\,fr.r. U7 • JY/. Lott, dared June 22, 1927, original is now with Mrs. W. Vfl. Lotr, of Navasota, Texas. Tou·n.rend, E. G., to E. L. Blair, dated at Belton, Texas, July 7, 1929. .Tucker_. H. T .., Jo E. L. Blafr_. dated at Plantersville, Texas, August 1, 1928. Wheeler, A. H., to E. L. Bl:1fr_. dated April 27, 1929. White.ride.r, M1'.r. /ame.r B .. to E. L. Blair, dated at Hempstead, Texas, Dec- ember 3, 1928. Wi/Jiam.r, W. IP._. to E. L. Blafr_. dated at Conroe, Texas, Dece:mber 13, 1928. Wilson, Mrs. A. 1-1 .. to E. L. Blair, dated at Navasota, Texas, July 27, 1928. Z11ber_. lf/, P., 10 T. P. Buf/i11gton_. dated at Iola, Texas, June 26, 1903. INDEX

Ae':I. District of, 16-:­ }{owman, J\brga1ct, 5-1 Ah~mada, ~facco, 81 Bowman, Samuel, 5 5 Akande Districts, 11 Bayou Bocff, 129 Alcorn, Elijah, 22 .Beales, Hiram, 22 Allcorn, John H., 22 Bedias Indians in Grimes County, 33- Alkn, Thos. G., 22 36 Alm Mira, 29, 123. 102 Btll, James, 4-:­ Anahuac, i 13 Bennttt, Joseph L., 26 Anderson, Established, 29 .. Bernardo," 80 Andtrson, Kenneth L., 29, 123 Bcrler, l\frs. Sarah \X1harton Groce, 78 Andrus. Lizzie, 138 Berlcch, l\frs. Roas Groce. 78 f ooJnote Anglin, I:lisha, 131 Berry, Clarence, 134 Anglin, l\largaret, 131 Berry, !~Ila, 134 Bernr l\farv l 34 Armour, Delilah, 151, 45 • J' ,I • Armour, Denina, 4 5 Berry, \Villiam, 13·1 Armour, Elizabeth, -15 Berryman, Sarah, 131 Armour, Polly Ann, 45-46 Berryman, William, 13 l. 106 Armour, Robert, 4 5-46, 151 Bethel Cemetery, 144 Ariola, Edward, 14 3 Biard, D., 24 Ariola, Lc.-ovenia, 106 / ooJJWlt! Big Dry Creek, 130 Arnold, Daniel, 46 Black, Anna l\fac, -19 Arnold, Rachel, 47 Black, Calvin H., 50 Ashford, Joe, 154, 1 56 Black, "Captain La fitce," 52 Atkinson. Jesse B., 22 Black, Charlie L., 49, 50 Attorneys of Grimes County, 202-203 Black, Frank, 49 Austin, Moses, 5 7 Black, Gavin Bingley, Jr., 49 Austin, Stephen F., 11, 12, i5-16, 53, Black, Gavin Bingley, 48 60, 62, 76, 78, 92, 157 Black, George Patrick, 49 Babbitt, Benjamin, ,17 Black, Gus S., 48--19 footnote. S2 Bailey, Levi. 156 Biack, Hambright H.," 49 Balantine, James, 2 3 / ootuott' Black, Henrietta Porter, 49 Ballou, Ann l\laria, •16 Black, Isa, 50 Ballou, George, 46 Black, J<:Ssc Lee:, -~9 Ballou, Lucrecia, ti 6 Black, John L ~1., -18 footnote Ballou, Julia A., 46 Black, John l\faxie, -19 Ballou, Lugenio. -16 Black, John S., 48, 50 Ba11ou, S. T., 46 Black, Lucinda, 1i8 Ballou, \X'ilford, C., -16 Black, !,Iary. 50 Barker, Dr. [. C., 13 fol•tnote Black, l\fary Ann, -19 Barnes~ Jam,s W., 96 footno/'1 Blark, l\farcus D .. 52 Barnett, Charles, 26 foo111ote Black, l\-lonrot, -18 Barnett, G. W .. 22 Black, RicharJ. -19 Barry, H. L., 35 Black, Sallie l\·likt, -·i9 Bartling. l\fary, 16:1 Black, Tom, -19 Baxtt:r, l\frs. W ., 162 Black. Tumpil:, 50 Howman, l\iiss Gract: H .. 5·1 Black, WilJiam, 52. -'i8 Bowman, James I., 54 Black, J. \Xi., 41 Bowman, John: 19 Bibliography. 2-H>---2-f 2 244 INDEX

Bingham, Elizaberh, l 59 Campbell, C. K. D., 57 /0011:01~ Bonnie Nook, 86 jfJof1wtr1 Campbell, Cyrus, 56 Boone, Evelyn, 136 Calvit, 1farr Ann. 89 Boone, Gordon, 136 Campbell, Rebecca, 56 Boone, Hannibal H., Jr., 136 Campbell, WilJiam, 57 /0011101~ Boone, Hannibal Honestus, 136--138 Carter, Amanda, 153 Boone, Hood, 136 Carter, El la, I 53 Boone, Latham, 136 Caner, Hamp, 15 3 Boone, Louise, 136 Caner,Julia, 1;3 Boone, ifary, 136 Career, ~fattie, l 53 Boone. Susie, 136 Career, Quince, ! 5 .3 Boone, Thomas Green, 13 7 Carter, W. C., 152 Boone, William, 136 Cartwright, John, 80 Bowman, John, Biography, 53-55 Castle, l\frs. T. L., 13 3 footnote Brazos Alcalde Districts, l 1 Chapel Hill College, 86 footnote Brazos Department Created, 13 Chart showin,g subdivisions of Wash- Bravo District, 12, 15 7 ington ~1unicipality, 27 Bra\'O, General Nicolas, 12 Choat, Prudence, 152 Brigance, Burton, 43 footnote Chricsman, H., 2-i, 128, 22, ;5 Brigance, Edna, 43 footnote Chanie, J. B., 22 Brigance, Franklin, 29, 40, 42, 43 foot- Clampitt, Travis G., 22 note Cleburne, General Pat, 12 1 Brigance, A. Franklin, -13 iootnot~ Clark, James, 22 Brigance. l\frs. Franklin, 41 f ootnott! Clow, Rohen J., 23 fooh1ot1? Brigance, John H., 43 footnote Cobb, William, 106 footnote Brigance, Joseph Tucker, -13 footnott! Coe, Phillip, 2 5 . Brigance, l\fattie, 4 3 / ootnote Cole, John P.• 22, 82 Brigance, Thomas, 4 3 / r;otnot~ Coleman, Captain, 11 7 Britton) Francis, 75 Collard, .E., 25; Elijah, 26 Britton, l\fary, 75 Colorado Alcalde District, 11 Britton, Rosanna Ward, 7 5 Comanche Peak, 4 2 Brown, Alexander, 5 5 Commissioners of Grimes County, Bryan, Gur M., 113 footnote 209-212 Buck. 1'-fiss, 105 Connelly, Isaac, 23 / ootnote Bugbee, 77 f oot11ote Conner, Alfred, 5~ Buffalo Bayou, 166 Conner, Ambrose, 58 Buffingcon, Anderson, 29 Conner, Fannie, 58 Buffington, T. P., 96 f oatnote. 169 Conner, Fred, 59 Burney, Francis, 56 Conner, Garvin, 59 Burney, Nancy, 56 Conner, James, 60, 58 Burney, Richard, 56 Conner, Joe, 59 Burney, Sa rah, 56 Conner, John C., 59, 57, 62 Burne}', Susan, 56 Conner, John G., 22 Burney, Tapley, 56 Conner, Julia, 59 Burne}', William, 56 Conner, L. A .. 58 Burney, \X'm. Jr., 56 Conner, Lula, 59 Bush, 64 f 001110/e Conner, tuther, 60 lluttriie, ~Irs. Thos., 56 Conner, l\fancc, 59 Byars, Noale T., 23 footnote Conner, Martha. 58 INDEX 245

Conner, l\lattic:, 59 Dillard, Thos., 2; Conm:r, ~fary, 58 Deshazo, Robert, 166 /oohwt(;· Conner, Ora, 59 District of Acs, 167 · Conner, Reddie, 58 District Clerks of Grimes County, Conner, Rohen, 59 199-200 Conner, Sallie, 59 Dodson, Archelaus B., 30 f 001no1~ Conner, Sylvester, 58, 60 Dunham, !\-Ir. and 1'-Irs., 81 Conner, Zebb, 60 Dunham, Aniiic R., 69 Conscitution of Octobtr 4, 1824, 11 Dunham, D. D., 26 Consultation, 25 Dunham, John and Rotilda, 69 Convention of March, 1836, 25 Dunham, Robert Holmes, 69 f oot1101e Cooper, Alfred M., 22 Durst, 1\-lrs. John, 41 Copenhaven, William, 23 / oot1101e Easley, Edward, 1 51 Cordova, J. De, 73 Eagle Island, 86, 89 O,rnough, Hanna, 61 Edwards, Ed Austin, 171 Coshatte Trace, 104 Edwards, E. E., 167 County Clerks of Grimes Councy, I 96- Edwards, 1'frs. E. F., 41 joot,wle 198 Edwan~s, Elisha Floyd, 171 County Government for Grimes Coun­ Edwards, Mrs. Joe, 41 footnote ty, 29 Edwards, Joseph Rush, 170 County Seat of Grime'i Coumy, Loca- Edwards, l\·fary Elizabeth, 171 tion of, 29 Edwards, Sarah Cornelia, 171 Cox, James, 60 Edwards, Virginia, 171 Cox, James Jr., 60 Edwards, Waren 0., 171 Cox, Sarah, 61 Edwards, William Oscar 171 Crawley, Mrs., 150 Ehinger, Anna, .,6 '

Crittenden 1 G. lvl., 67 foowote Election of first off iccrs for Washin,;- Crutchfield, Frank, 140 ton 1'funicipality, 23 - Cushattec Indians, 36 Eltction, Rccapirnlacion table 1835 24 Cummings, James, 82 Election to determine location of cc;un- Cummings, 1·1., 24, 22, 25 ty seat for Grimes county, 29 Darwin, James, 104 Evans, !\loses, 23 footnote Davis, Anna L., 34 Evitt, E. G., 22 D:1\'is, James, 93 Fahey, Margaret, 129 Da\'is, lvlrs. ~-fary, 126 / ooJlwtc Famhorp, Hem1', 26, 29, 96, 121 Da\'is, President, 112 Fanchorp Inn, 122 DcRray's Regiment, 65, 6: Famhorp, John, 12'1 Deck, Bets<:y, 159 Famhorp, :Morgan, & Kennard, 122 Dtdarntion of lndcpcndc:ncc, Texas, 2 5 Fanchorp, l\lary A., 12/4 Dd,faret, Carrie, 111 Fisher, John and. \X·' e:stlcy, l O-t Demaree, Captain Edgar, 111 FitzGibhons. \X1illiam, 61 Devereaux, Anna, 71 Floyd, Jim V., 51 foot1101e Dc\"ercaux, Ben F ., , 1 Fon Groce, 84 De\'ereaux, James, 127 Frcdonian Rebellion, 5?>. 81 Dc\·treaux, William, 12-:" l;ulmore's Hiscoiy of Texas, I 5 Dickson, David C., 29, 96 foot11ote Fulton, Alexander, 85 Dickson Rangers, 190 Fulton, Courtney Ann, 85 Dickinson & Westcott, 62 Fulton, Elizabeth, 62 Dilbrd. T .. 24 Fulton, Samuel, 62 246 INDEX

Fuqua·s Prairie, 65 Greenwood, Harriet Ewing, 65 Garrctc, Charles, 63 Greenwood, Helen, 122 footnote Garrett, Claiborne, 62 Greenwood, Henry, 72 · Garren, Thos. W., 63 Greenwood, Htnrr Bailey 63-6~1, 71, Gee, Alfred, 79 1-12 Gin, first in Texas, 79-80 Greenwood, History of, 6'5 f 001110/e Gillaspie, Captain James, 168 Greenwood, Jafech, 64 foot11nte Gillece, Boswell, 63 Greenwood, James, 66 Gillece, Catherine, 63 Green,vood, Joe, 63 Gil Ierr, Hanna, 63 Greenwood, Joel, 6-l, , I, 1.,-l Gillett, J., 63 Greenwood, John, 6:,, 65 Gillett, Samuel, S., 63 Greenwood, John \V ., 70 Gordon, Charles Peter, 136, 138 Greenwood, Josie Frank. "':'O Gordon, Elizabeth, 136 Greenwood, Lee, 66 Gordon, John A., 138 Greenwood, Lena, 1 l Gordon, ?.ifary A., 136 Greenwood, Louise, 71 Gordon, Sarah W., 136 Greenwood, 1.fary, 64-69 Gordon, Sue H., i 36 Greenwood, Nanq' Caroline, 63-66 Gordon, William, I 36 Greenwood, Robert E,ving, 70 Graham, John, 22 Greenwood, Sarah Ernaline, 65, 68 Grappin, Polly (1.·lolly L 140 Greenwood, Seel la, 7 1 Grassr Creek, 150 Greenwood, Thomas Benton, 65, 67, Graves, first probate judge of Grimes 70 county, 29 Greem1,-·ood, Vivian, 71 Gray, James, 23 footnote Greenwood, Walter, 71 General Council, Jesse Grimes, 25 Greenwood, William Wood, 70 Gove1\unenr, Local in Texas, I '5-19 Greenwood, \X1illiam !\fontgomery, 65, Goodrich, B. B., 25, 26, 102 foo11101t: 72 Grear Falls, on Brazos. l '50 Greer, J. C., 31 Green's Brigade, 69 Greer, W. W., 201 foot1u1tf Greenwood, Acsah, 63 Gregg, Darius, -2 Greenwood, Alfred, 71 Grey, Pleasant, 26 Greenwood, Annie, 66 Gregory, Dudley, I 56 Greenwood, Annie Dunham, 76 Gregory, Edgar, 156 Greenwood, Benjamin, 71 Gregory, Eleanor White, 156 Greenwood, Benjamin Franklin, 65 Grimes, Berhshcba, 72 Greenwood, Betsey, 63, 142 Grimes, AlfrC'd Calvin, 75 Greenwood, Caliph, 63 Grimes County Grers, 180-188 Greenwood, Charlie, 66 Grimes Count}', crt"ation of, 28 Grcenwoo

Grimes, .M:trcha. Ann, 7 5 Hadley, Jant, 93-9·1 Grimes, :Mary Jant. 75 H ..i.Hcr, Jesse, 9-1 Grimts, Nancy, 76 Hadley, John, 93 Grimes Prairie, 130, l SO Hadley, Joseph, 91 Grimes, Robert Henry, 75 Hadley~ Joshua, 21, 23--25, 39, 82 Grimes, Rufus, 75 Hadley, King, 93 Grimes, Sampson, 72 1-fadley, L l\L, 101 Grimes, \X'illard Ward, 75 Hadler, l\fary, 92-94 Gri1rn:s, Walkt:r, .Madison and l\1ont­ Ha

Groce, Ellison Kirby, 85 Hall1 John \V/., 23-2-i Groce, Jared Ellison, 2 2, 2 3 / 00111ote. Hall, W. A., 22 35, 76, 77-90, 95, 167 Hanley, 1-[illie, 50 Groce, Jared Fuiron, 85 Harper, Daniel E., 29 Groce. John Harris, 85 Harris, Be:n, 103 Groce. Leonard Walh:r, 19. 80, 84-85 Harris, John B., 102 Groce, 1-Iartha, 8 5 Harris, John G., 103 Groce, ~fary Henrietta, 85 Harris, l\1ary, 103 Groce, l\frs. Rosa, 35 Harrison, B. H., -10 / ootnote Groce, Sarah Ann, 84-8 5 Harrison, James T., 112 Groce, Sarah W'h::i.non, 85 Harrison, Laura, 112 Groce. Walltr William, 8-1 Harrison, l\.lrs. Marwuer, 39 footnote, Groce, William W., -s 38 Guthrit:', John F., 22 Hawkins, \X'illiam "v..' ., 22 Hadley, Ann, 91 Hays, Jacob, 103 Hadlev, Anthom· D .• IO~. 9., Henderson, Bettie, 9 .. ( Hadle;•. Benj,m1.in, 9~-')4 Hc:n ry, Samud, 2 3 f 1Jr)/ 11()/e HJdlev, C. G., 101 Hill, Alice. 99 Hadl<:,·. ' Caroline' 97 Hill, Bc:n j.. 100 1-fadley, Catherine, 91 Hill. Gihhs, 99 Hadley, Cynthia, 9-1 Hill. Joshua P., ion Hadler. Deborah, 91 Hill, ~.lollic, IOU Hadlt}< Denny Porterfield, 97 Hill, Oliver H. P., 99 H;tdley Isl.m

Holland, James, 105, 107 Jack. l\fary. I 09 Holland, Katie, 106, 128 Jack, Patrick, 1 J 1 Holland, Nancy, 105 Jack, Patrick C., 108-114 Holland, Sarah, 106 Jack, Robert, 109 Holland, Susanna, 56 Jack, Samuel, 109 Holland. Susie, 105 Jack, Spencer H., 112, 128 Holland, Tapky, 105 Jack, Thomas, 113 Holland, William, 56, 77, 104-106 Jack. \X'iJliam H., 111-112 Hood's Texas Brigade, 180-188 Jackson, Andrew, 115 Hoover, as United States Food Ad- Jackson, E. D., 22 ministrator, 228-9, 233-4 Jackson, Elbert, 11 S Houston, .lvfargaret, 111 Jackson, Job, 115 Houston, Sam, 73, 81, 83 Jackson, Letti<::, 115 Hoxey, Asa, 2 5 Jackson, ifanha, 11 5 Hutchison, John W ., 48 Jackson, Gen. Andrew, 149 Indians, 10 5 Jackson, Henry, 115 Indians attack John S. Black, 50 foot- Jackson, Simantha, 114-116 note Jont:~, Clartnct, 153 Indians attack Hadley boys, 85 Jones, Lenin, 151 Indians capture ?wlrs. Crawley, 150 Jones, lewis, 23 f oatnote Indian Expedition of 1839, 42 Jones, Timothy, 116 Indians, Kickapoos, 167 Jont's,, William C., 23 / ootnote Indians kiJl Mrs. Taylor, 39 Johnson, Eva, 58 Indians kill man on \X1allace Prairit, Johnson, Ben, 58 42 Johnson, Chriesm~n & Company, 128 Indians kill Kennan.l's calves. 41 Johnson, G. B., 58 India!\ precautions by whites; 41 Johnson, Julia, 58 Indians removed from Grimes county, Judiciary in Texas undt!r ~{exico, 17 44 Judges of Grimes county, 196-198 Indian relations with whites, 3 7 Jurors, manner of sdecting, 18 Indian stories as told by pioneer set- Kendal, Abner K., 74 tlers, 38 Kennard, Anthony Drew, 24, 39. 116- Indians visit the T. P. Plaster homt, 38 12·1 Jack, Abner, 112 Kc.-nnard, A. \X' .. 120 Jack, Archibald, 111 K<:nnard, Dolly, 119 Jack, Captain }:?.mes, I 08, 111 Kennard, Ed, 121 Jack, Captain Guy, 108 footnofr Ktnna rd, John, 119 Jack, Crnrhia, 11 J Kennard, John H., 120 Jack, Charity, l 09 Kennard, John R., 11 7 Jack, Churchi11, 112 K<:nnard, Luq•, 121 Jack, James, 109-J 12 Kennard. l\fark L, 117, 119 Jack, Hallie, 113 Kennard. 1farrha, 118 Jack, Harry, 114 Kt·nna.rd. ~fary, I 18-121 Jilek, Isaac, "7:, 11 -'i Kt-nnard, r,iichtll, 102 Jack, Jacob, I 08 Kennard. J\fike 1'1., I 1-:-.12~ Jack, John, 109 Kennard, Nannie, 119 Jack, Jane, 109 Kennard, Permelia. 118 Jack, Laura, li 3 Kennard, Racht], 117-J 22 Jack, ~fargarer, 109 Kennard, Sallie. 118 249

Kennard, Sarah, 116 :\1artin, Winston Travis, 97 Kennard, Virginia, 117 l\fartin, William A., 97 Kennard, William, 117-118 Martin, Wyly, 23 Keyser, Annie, 64 footnote Massie, Josiah C., 96 footnote Kickapoo Indians, 36 Masonic Lodge, 96 Kickapoo Village, 167 Mason, S. D., 81 Kiell Campaign, 119 ~fays, Mary, 150 King, Captain, 13 5-136 Maxwell, William, 31 King, Elizabeth, 94 footnote Meachum, Colonel William W., 125 Lake, Frank L., 52 footnote Lake, Nelson, 62 lvlecklenburg Resolutions, 109 footnole Landrum, John, 125-127 Mercer, Peter M., 23 f oolnote Landrum, Mary, 126 Mercantile Firm, first in Grimes Landrum, Sarah, 127 county, 122 Landrum, Wells, 127 l\letes and Bounds of Grimes county, Landrum, Zacharia and Letitia, 125 28 Laughlin, William, 127 Mier Expedition, 67 footnote Lawrence, Addie, 67 :l\fitchell, A., 24 Lawrence, Eveline, 68 ~litchell, Asa, 2~, 25 Lawrence, Grace, 68 Mitchell, James, 26 Lawrence, James, 66, 68 ~lillican, 77 Leake, Francis, 141 footnote Millican, Andrew, 77, 104 Lewis, William, 22 Millican Bend, 77 Liendo, 85 l\f ilitary preparedness against the In- Liles, Louise, 169 dians, 43 "Little Warrior," 1 SO Militia in Texas, 18 Local government in Texas, 15-19 Miller, James B., 23 Looscan, 80 footnote Miller, Sam R., 23 footnote Lott, John, 23 footnote lvliller, Thos. P., 136 Lott, l\frs. W. W., 109 footnote, 111 l\1iller, William H., 22 Lovett, Dr., 108 footnote Montgoinery, Andrew, 133 Lyles, N. W., 81 lvlontgomery, Andy, 132 Lyons, lvfariah L., 156 Montgomery, Anna, 71, 132 Lyons, Joe, 156 l\-lontgomery county, creation of, 26 Lynch, James, 23 footno/e Montgomery, Edley, 132 Lynch, J. P., 24 l\-lontgomery, Emily, 132 :Madison county, creawd, 30 Montgomery, Dr. J. T., 71 footnote :Magee, Danial, 96 footnote l\foncgomery, l\laggic, 133 .Magee, Felix W., 96 footnote 1\-fontgomcry, l\·fary, 64, 132 1fail Route, first in Grimes county, ifomgomcry, Nannie, 133 122 J\.fomgomcry, Quecny, 132 Mann, iiary Ann, 166 / ootnote., 168 ~fomgomery, Sallie, 132 i\iap, location of original grants in 1fomgomcry, Saphronia, 133 Grimes county, 179 l\{omgomcry, William, 65, 132-134 ~fap of Texas, 1835, 14 l\·{oorc, James, 22 :Marsh, Shubael, 22, 25 ~loorc: James W., 134 1'-fartin, John F., 43 foolnole. 96-97 l\{oore, John, 135 l\fartin, l\f. T., 23 / 001note Moore, John H., 117 ~fartin's Prairie, 153 Moore, Lidia E., 136 250 INDEX

Mm:,re, l\1rs. Luk~, S4 Navasota councy, 26 f (JO/note Moore, l\fargarct Ann. -4 8 Neblett, 'vl. T., 96 fotilnote l\foore, ~fatilda, 13-i Newell, John, .22 l\,foorc, Sailie, 124 Newspapers, Ceiltr:zl Texia11, 201 foot- l\,fouring, Guilford 1\-f., 29 note lfooring, l\,finnie, 101 Noblts, Sallie, 121 :Zvfooring, L. l\,f., 101 Officials of Grimes county, 196-214 l\forris, Bethel, 23 footnote "Old Hickory" Jackson, 114 l\forrison, Judge Gwynn, 161 jootnote Orphans' Friend Lod,ge, 96 l\,funicipalities of Texas in 1836, 13 Pankey, James W., 139, 1•14 l\Iurray, Honorable Amelia M., visits Palo Gacho, 117 Grimes county, 123 Pointer's Prairie, 13 S Muster RolJs from Grimes county, Patrick, George ~!.. 96 footnote: 30 180-195 footnote l\.facDonald & Ridgely, 60 Payne, Epps D., 2 2 ~kAdoo, Little, 108 Payne, John, 139 l\kAlpine, Dougald, 81 J.;eden, E. A., 220, 224, 225 l\,fcCown, J. B., 3 1 Peden, 1\-Irs. William, 1 '.52 footnote r..-fcCown, James, 28 Penn, Letitia :Manor, 92 1kCullough, Green, S8 Penn, William Jr., 92 1\,fcDonald, Henry Brown, 124 foot­ Perry, Albert G., 29 note Petition to create Grimes county, 28 McDonald, James Green, 41 footnote_. Petition to create Washingron munici- 121, 124-126 aplity, 22 l\kDonald, 1\,frs. Maude Wallace, 154 Peterson, l\,frs. l\·fary, 140 footnote Peterson, John, 140 l\fcDonald, Thomas, 127 Pettus, Willii:!m, 155 McDowell, Elizabeth, 128 Pierce, 1'.frs. Jesse, 60 l\.fcDowell, l\,f., 106 footnote} 128 Pitts, ~fary Elizabeth, 1-11 McDonald, Sam, 128 Pitts, Ike, 1-11 McGinty, Mrs. J. T., 38 footnote Pitts, John Griffin, 141 McGuffin, Hugh, 62, 129 Pitts, Levi, 140-141 McGuffin, Joyce V ., 97 Pitts, Nancy, 1-11 !vfcGuffin, William, 128 Pitts, Obediah, 140-141 l\,{vlver, Dave and Nancy Ann, 107 Plaster, Benjamin, 39 footnote footnote Plaster, Captain T. P ., 39 footnote l\Iclntire, Edward, 13 l Plaster, Frank, 40 / ootnote l\.fclntire, Frank, 131 Plaster, A·fillican l\{., 39 footnote l\.fdntire, John, 131 Plaster, Joseph H., 40 Ivklntire, tawrence, I 31 Plaster, 1'-fargarec J., 40 footnote l\klntire, 1fargaret, 129-131 Plaster, l\fanha, 39 /001110/e 1klntire, Robert, 129-131 Plaster, Thomas A.; 39 footnote 1\-klntirc, Samuel, 131 Plaster, 1\-frs. T. P ., 38 McIntire, Sarah, 42, 131 Pleasant Hill Plantation, 89 McIntire, ~'illiam, 129-131 Pool, Ben, 63 ?vkl\{ahan, Daniel B., 132 Post office, first in Grimes county, 122 McNealy, Elizabeth, 139 Powell, Arch, 130 lvkNealy, Jesse B., 139 Powell, n·fahala, 130 nk\X' ltCrS, Russel H .. 62 Prairie Pbins, 163 INDEX 251

Preston, ~frs. W. C., 38 / ootnote, 76 Simms, Adeline, 144 Purvis, Frank, 13 footnote, 178 Simms, John, 144 Queen Victoria's maid visits Fan- Simms, J. T., 144 footnote thorp, 123 Simms, Ignacius, 143 Quick, l\1oses, 64 footnote Simms, l\·Iary Anne, 1'14 Ray, Robert. 64 foohwte_. 1•12 Simms, l\faq, Jane, 144 Ray, l\larguret, 142 Simms, Nancy, 144 Rainwater, W. J., 31 Simms Prairie, 144 Rea, Andrew, 143 Simms, Richards, 144 RecJdy, E .• 24 Simms, William, 144 Representatives for Grimes county, Simpson, J. W., 23 footnote 205-207 Slaves, brought by Groce, 79 Representatives from Washington mu- Smith, Ben F. (Tobe), 50 footnoJe nicipality, 25 Smith, :l\tfartha, 7 5 Retreat, 80 Smith, Sarah, 119 Reynolds, A. C., 2 3 Soop, 22 · Reynolds, Caswell, 1 5 1 Spencer, l\fiss, 112 Richardson, D. L., 55 Splan, J. l\L, 23 footnote Richey, Jim, 60 Stage Lines, 122 Richey, Leon, 60 Steamboats on Brazos, 135 Richey, Marion, 60 Stephenson, James B., 31 Rivers, Antonio, 143 footnote Stevens, Ashley R., 22 Rogers, Susan Emily, 4 3 / oot11ote Stewart, Dr. Charles B., 167 Robinson, Baldon, 22 Robinson, William, 26, 82, 95 Scone, Annie B., 124 Roberts, Stephen R., 22, 2 5 Stone, Eleanor, 124 Roll of Original Grantees, 175-177 Scone, Henry Fanthorp, 124 Rowland, l\·fary, 92 Stone, Julia, 124 Rowland, Thomas, 92 Stone, William l\·f., 124 "Run Away Scrape," 83 Stoneham, David, 67 San Fdipc de Austin, 13, 73, 105 Stoneham, Erastus, 67 Sapp, \XI. E.. 81 Stoneham, George Crowder, 67 Saul, Thos. S., 2 3 Stoneham, Henry, 6S Saunders, Margaret, 35 jootnote Stoneham, John, 67 Saunders, W. S. D., 41 footnote, 131 Stoneham, Joseph F., 67 footnote~ 136 Stoneham, Philipia, 67 footnoJe School Board 1\-fcmbers of Grimes Stoneham, Thom:ts Bt:nton, 67 county, 213-214 Stoneham, Sebron, 67 Schumacher, Henry, 61 footnote Smvcall, Bailey, 134 Scotch Tories. 92 Scoveall, Hattie, 1 34 Senators for Grimes county, 208-209 Stoveall, \Xlill, 1 34 Shannon, Aaron, 1. 62 Surveyors for Grimes County, 202-203 Shannon, J ., 2-'i Superintendents for Grimes County, Sheriffs of Grimes County, 199-200 204-205 Sherman, Colonel Sidney, 168 Sheppard, Sarah, 77 Sutt:e, Dec, 59 Sheppard, Wiliiam, 28 Suttle, J\Iark, 59 Siddall, Elizabeth, 213 / ootnote Suttle, Reddic, 59 Simmons, ~fary. 59 Swanson, J. T., 170 footnote, 218 252 INDEX

Swanson, J\lrs. J. T., J 6-1 f o,;11101e. 170 \X'alker's Prairie:, 1SO fooliJOte Walker, Tandy, 45. 14:-15; Swisher, James G., 22 Walkerterson, J. F. Q., 23 footnote Tax Assessors of Grimes County, 201- Wallace, Caleb, 77 foot11ote. 154 203 Wallace, James, 155 Tax Co1lecrors of Grimes Count}", 201- Wallace, Patsy, 15 5 203 WalJer, Anna, 84 Taylor, General Zachary, visits Fan- W ctller County created, 31 chorp's Inn, 123 Waller, Judge Edwin Leonard, 84 Taylor, Henry H., 57 footnote W allcr, Leonard, 84 Taylor, lfrs., killed by Indians, 39, 95 Waller, Mary, 84 Taylor, 0. E., 31 Washingcon l\funicipality erected into Taylor, W., 152 county, 25 Ten Mile Creek, 104 W ashingron 1vf uniciaplity, origin and Texas in 1821-36, Political Organiza­ organization, 21 tions, 11 Weaver, .l\-frs. Etta, 147 footnote Texas Veterans from Grimes County, West, Dan (coiored), 81 footnote 215-216 West, R. M., 81 footnote Thomas, }., 62 Wesson, l\frs. F. B., 38 footnote Thomas, John, 93 Wharton, "Bets)'," 88 Thomas, John B., 22 Wharton, John Austin, 78, 90 Thomas, :Mary, 93 Wharton, William H., 83, 87, 90 Thrall's History, 79 Wheacless l\fovement, World War, Tidwell Campaign, 119 170 footnote. 217-239 Tinnonvil!e, 4 2 Wheelock, 42, 156 Townsend, William, 145-146 White, Bethia, 155 Trast, David, 2 3 / ootnote White, Dudley J., 155-157 Travis, Captain Patrick, 94 footnote White, Elendor, 165 Treadwell, John, 106 footnote White, James W., 155 Treasurers of Grimes County, 204-205 White, John P., 155 Trespalacios, Jose Felix, 11 White, Leander, 155 Tucker, Lou, 72 White ~fan's Union, 197, footnote Tucker, Dr., 72 \X'hite, Mariah L., 155 Tucker, Sallie, 72 White, Miriam, 155 Vasquez Invasion 1841, 1 79 White, Pinkney, 156 Viesca, 21, 54, 73, 82, 95 White, Walter. 156 Vince, Allen, 147 Whitesides, Ac.ye Hoxey, 159 Walker, Amanda, 151 Whitesides, Boland, 77 footnote Walker, Buck, 118 \X1hiresides, Bolen, 158 Walker, Daniel, 151-152 \X1hitesides, Boone, 158 Walker, Elizabeth, 151-152 Whitesides, Elizabeth, 162 Walker, Emma, 152 \Vhiresidcs, Franklin Terry, 159 Walker, General, 124 Whitesides Henry, 1 58 Walker, Helen, 117 \X'hitesides, Jame:~, 22, 7~, 15:-161 Walker, John C., 1 51 Whitesides, James Ashford, 159 Walker, John Grimes, 152 \'C'hiresidcs, James Bingham, 159 Walker, lfary, 147 Whitesides, !\frs. James B., 157 foot- Walker, :Mary Jane, 151 11olt' \X'a]ker. Sarah, 151 · WhitesiJes, John F. Crawford, 159 INDEX 253

Whitesides, John Tilford, 159 Yeamans, Esther, 162 Whitesides, John J., 161 Yeamans, l\,frs. E. 1\:1., 163 Whitesides, l\lary Terry, 159 Yeamans, Horace, 162 Wier, ~frs. Clarence, 161 Yeamans, Jerusha, 162 Wilkinson, J. G., 22 Yeamans, Joseph, 162 Winder, John and Ann, 1 2 Yeamans, ~fary, i 62 Winkler, E. \X'., 123 Young, Chester J., 23 footnote Williams, Elizabeth, 1-i 1 Zuber, Alexander, 24 Williams, H. J., 96 Zuber, Abraham, 163-171. Williams, W. W., 129, footnote Zuber, Ancestry and Kindred, 169 Williamson, H. J., 23 footnote, 24 Zuber, Daniel, 164-165, 169 Wilson, :Mrs. A. H., 137 / ootnote Zuber, Eighty Year.r in Text1s, 169 Wilson, John and lvfary, 99 f ootnott:· Zuber, Emanuel, 165 Wilson, H. H., 99 footnote Zuber, Jacob, 165 Wilson, Hamer, 38 Womack, A. ~f., 120 Zuber, James Andrew, 169 Wood, J. H., 23 footnote Zuber, John, 165 Wood, Mrs. Josephine, 160 Zuber, Joshua,165 Wood, Mary, 161 Zuber, Mary, 165 Woolsey, John, 57 Zuber, ~{a1y Ann Deshazo, 168 \X'ynche, John J., :?2 Zuber, Memories of., 169 Yeamans, Asa, 162 Zuber, Rachel Zerena, 169 Yeamans, Caleb S., 162 Zuber, Wm. P., 36, 43, 80, 106, 164, Yeamans, Daniel, 162 168