RUSH FAMILIES

THE GENEALOGY OF CHARLES WESLEY RUSH, III

Rush, deGraffenried, Allen, Jones And Associated Families

By

Charles Wesley Rush, III 2009

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Contents

CONTENTS

Introduction and Explanation of Methodology iii Volume I, The Rush Family 1 Appendix A, Rush Line 51 Appendix B, Greer Line 63 Appendix C, Nash Line 67 Appendix D, Pyles Line 71 Appendix E, Long Line 73 Appendix F, American Military Ancestors 75 Appendix G, Rush Family Pictures 77 Volume II, The deGraffenried Family 87 Appendix A, deGraffenried Line 101 Appendix B, Townsend Line 107 Appendix C, Robison Line 115 Appendix D, American Military Ancestors 121 Appendix E, deGraffenried Family Pictures 123 Volume III, The Allen Family 125 Appendix A, Allen Line 143 Appendix B, Wilburn, Bonner, Fox, West Lines 145 Appendix C, McCain Line 149 Appendix D, American Military Ancestors 153 Appendix E, Allen Family Pictures 155 Volume IV, The Jones Family 159 Appendix A, Jones Line 171 Appendix B, Churchill Jones Letters 177 Appendix C, Tomlinson Line 191 Appendix D, Kendrick Line 195 Appendix E, Dees Line 199 Appendix F, Ripley and Eakin Lines 201 Appendix G, West and Hilleary Lines 207 Appendix H, American Miltary Ancestors 211 Appendix I, Jones Family Pictures 213

Introduction in

INTRODUCTION AND EXPLANATION OF METHODOLOGY

A people that take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote descendants. - Lard Macau/ay

This genealogy focuses on the ancestors of the author, Charles Wesley Rush, III. This is a product of a growing regard of my family's place in the history of the United States of America. I hope that this research will support a similar appreciation by all descendants of the individuals identified herein.

This book is divided into four family groups: Rush, deGraffenried, Allen, and Jones. These are the surnames of my grandparents. Each volume traces the direct family lines as far back as 1 can research at this time. The work provides insight into the lives of some of my ancestors and clues to family lineages. Perhaps other researchers will add to the stories.

I designed the main volume formats to show my direct-line ancestors through each ol my grandparents. The first time we see the name of the ancestor in the generation narrative, the individual's name is in capital letters. The ancestor's line of descent is in parentheses following his name when first used in narrative discussion. Following the narrative, I identify children, in chronological order, by small Roman numerals indicating their position in that generation. A "+" sign immediately before the child's name indicates a direct ancestor. In the first appendix in each volume, I depict the subject surname genealogy in a format based on the Register System. An Arabic number, assigned consecutively, is used in front of the name to identify each person in the family. 1 include additional family group genealogical information in volume appendices when I have research data of three or more generations on a separate family. Except in the narratives, I list United States state names by US Postal Service two letter abbreviations. All other abbreviations are first spelled out.

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VOLUME I

RUSH FAMILIES: The Genealogy of Charles Wesley Rush, III

T H E RUSH FAMILY

My American Rush Family, unlike other families in this genealogy, has its origins under another name in Central Europe: the Risch family. The Risch family probably arrived in Idar, modern day Idar-Oberstein, Germany, before 1640 and may have come from Switzerland. They also spelled their name as Rosch, with an umlaut on the "o." Idar-Oberstein is located some 30 miles northwest of present day Kaiserslauten. Stationed in Germany as a US Air Force officer, I visited there in 1967 to purchase jewelry made with polished stones, not knowing that this village and craft were tied to my own family 300 years in the past.

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J O H A N N E S RISCH1 was born in Idar, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany, in 1646 and died there 13 June 1717. Modern-day Idar-Oberstein is a city in the Rhineland-Palatinate of Germany. It is the German capital of the gemstone industry. The city lies on the Nahe River, in the district of Birkenfeld. The towns of Idar and Oberstein belonged to the barons of Daun-Oberstein (who later became the counts of Falkenstein) until 1670. In 1865, both Idar and Oberstein were chartered as cities, and finally in 1933, they united (along with the smaller towns of Algenrodt and Tiefenstein) to form the modern town of Idar-Oberstein. The Felsenkirche, also known as the Church of the Rock, and two ruined medieval castles are perched on the hills above the town.2

Johannes Risch was a grinder of agates (achat schleifer). He married, before 1675, ANNA MARGARETHA BECKER, who was born in Germany 30 April 1651 and died in Idar-Oberstein 26 May 1728. He became famous as the builder, about 1680, of the first grinding mill in Idar-Oberstein driven by water.3 Johannes Risch lived in a time of repetitive war and strife fought on

1 The author is grateful to Dr. Dorothy A. Boyd-Rush, who was Dean and Professor of History, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA, for tbe information she provided to me in the 1990s on the Risch family of Germany. Dr. Boyd-Rush compiled the information from the original registers, Evangelisch, Oberstein, Oldenburg, Germany, and correlated the data with the International Genealogical Index (IGI) files, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Family History Center film Source number 489809, Batch numbers J/K/M988941. Unless otherwise noted, all German Risch family data and relationships are attributed to Dr. Boyd-Rush research. Additionally, some American Risch/Rush family research is attributed to Dr. Boyd-Rush (hereinafter cited "Boyd-Rush." 2 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idar-Oberstein. 3 Idar-Oberstein Church Records.

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German territory. The following records regarding contemporary events in the area reflect this.4

The Pastor at Partenheim wrote: '1635 after March: Shortly after this time, we were ruined and destroyed throughout the land by the Swedish and Emperor's [armies], so that we could not come back again until the year [16]37.'

Some years later, the Pastor at Westoften noted: '1665: In the month of October, the parish was scattered by the Mainz-Lothrungian invasion, and the following children were baptised outside the area . . . From October 1665 to 1669, this churchbook, along with my other best books, were taken to Worms for security . . .'

The plundering continued, as recorded by the Pastor at Kroffelbach: 'On Friday 21 Dec 1688, a large French force came here to [KJroffelbach, plundered everything here and at [other local] villages in the Wetterau, demanded a contribution, and left again for Cassel bey Maintz and there crossed over the Rhine. I took flight and, through God's help, escaped their hands.'

One vear later, the Pastor at Ginsheim echoed his colleague: 'Because of the soldiers remaining so long in our land, with the French occupying the city of Mainz for two yrs., the German people have a right to complain about the [troop] movements back and forth in these parts: the Saxon and Bavarian armies arte encamped in Niederfield with 24,000 horse and foot [soldiers], the Hessians are on the other side of Mainz, and the Emperor's and [the] Lothringian troops are on the other side of the Rhine below the city.'

It is obvious from these contemporary, local accounts that [by 1709] the families [in the Palatine area of German}'] had been living for generations in an area fraught with near-constant wars, which made battlefields of villages, towns, and whole regions. Besides being at the mercy of invading armies, many of these unfortunate Germans were taxed unmercifully by whatever local Prince had jurisdiction over their particular geographic region, and by 1709 many poor Palatines were bled dry financially by their Lords.

In these times in Idar-Oberstein, Johannes Risch and Anna Margaretha Becker raised 12 children. i. Anna Elizabeth Risch, christened 1671, died 28 May 1737 in Germany, married Johan

Jacob Purper. ii. johann Peter Risch, christened 16 January 1672, died 6 March 1672 in Germanv. iii. Johann Michael Risch, christened 25 March 1673, died 1711 in Germanv, married Eva

F.lisabeth Heringer. iv. Johann Jacob Risch, christened 15 May 1675, Idar-Oberstein, died after 1727, probably in

PA, married (1) on 26 November 1697, Eva Margaretha Petri, Idar-Oberstein, and (2),

' 1 lenry X. Jones, Jr., "The Palatine Families of New York, A Study of the German Immigrants Who Arrived in Colonial New York In 1710," Universal City, CA, 1985, pp. i-ii (hereinafter cited "Palatine Families".)

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after 1710, Anna Eva Maus. He probably came to America about 1697.5

v. Johann Franciscus Risch, christened 19 January 1679, died 4 April 1682, Germany. vi. Anna Maria Risch, christened 1 May 1681, Idar-Oberstein, died after 20 February 1748, in

Lancaster County, PA, married 26 November 1697 Johann Peter Faeg in Idar-Oberstein.6

vii. Johann Nicol Risch, christened 12 April 1683. viii. Johann Wilhelm Risch, christened 20 April 1685.

+ ix. Johann (Hans) Georg Risch, born 28 August 1686, Idar-Oberstein, died 31 December 1757, Idar-Oberstein, married 28 November 1710 Maria Barbara Purper, christened 9 April 1687, Vollmersbach, Rhineland-Pfalz, Germany, died 29 December 1766, Vollmersbach.

x. Anna Catharina Risch, christened 10 September 1689. xi. Anna Barbara Risch, christened 1689, Idar-Oberstein. As the widow of Thomas Bohrer,

she immigrated to America in 1746 with one daughter.7 She may have died at sea coming to America in 1746 and she may have been with her nephew (author's direct ancestor) Karl Risch.8

xii. Anna Eva Risch, christened December 1690, died 6 February 1778, Germany, married 1714 Johan Jacob Fuchs.

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HANS GEORG RISCH2 (Johannes) was born in Idar-Oberstein, Rhineland-Pfalz District, Germany on 28 August 1686 and died there 31 December 1757. He married 28 November 1710 MARIA BARBARA PURPER, who was born in Vollmersbach, Rhineland-Pfalz, Germany on 9 April 1687 and died there 29 December 1766. Maria Barbara was the daughter of Johann Adam Purper, born 1654, died 1 September 1731, whose parents were Jacob Purper and Katharina Becker. Maria Barbara Purper's mother was Elisabeth Margaretha Juchen, born 1666, died 1741, whose parents were Johann Jacob Juchen and Anna Barbara.

Hans George was a grinder of agates, like his father before him He grew up in the times described above, raising a family of nine children in Idar-Oberstein. He probably built the house at Haupstrasse 36 in this village. In 1732 he kept sheep at Haupstrasse 20 and 22. He died at Hauptstrasse 42. Hans Georg was a critic of nobility and a frank speaker. He was fined by the Court 20 Reichsthaller (a large sum of money in those times) because he said that people were not obliged to go to Heidesheim to bring their harvest to the nobility.9 Hans Georg Risch and Maria Barbara Purper married and began their family at the peak of harsh times in their region. These events had the direct affect on their family of motivating several of them to immigrate to America. Again, testimonials found in regional church records reflect these times.'"

5 Ibid, pp. 221,789. r' Ibid, p. 221. 7 Werner Hacker, "Eighteenth Century Register of Immigrants from Southwest Germany," Closson Press, Apollo, PA, 1994, p. 362. s Boyd-Rush. 9 From the Evangelical Church records in Idar-Oberstein Germany. 111 "Palatine Families," pp. iii-iv.

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The Pastor at Bierstadt wrote: '(In the year 1709] there has been a horrible, terrible, cold, the like of which is not remembered by the oldest [parishioners] who are upwards of 80 years old. . . The mills of almost all villages are frozen in, so that the people must suffer from hunger. Most of the fruit trees are frozen too, as well as most of the grain. . .'

The Pastor at Runkel noted: '[1709] Right after the New Year, such a cold wave came that the oldest people could not remember a worse one. Almost all the mills have been brought to a standstill, and the lack of bread was great everywhere. Many cattle and humans, yes - even the birds and the wild animals in the woods froze. . .'

Residents of the various Duchies of southern Germany then were in a terrible state from ongoing wars, oppressive taxation, and devastating winter — all of which contributed to their emigration from their [European homeland]. . .

The British government exploited the Palatines' dissatisfaction by waging an advanced and clever public relations campaign extolling the virtues of life in the new world, which also fueled the fires of emigration. This was accomplished by the circulation throughout southern Germany prior to 1709 of the so-called 'Golden Book,' which painted America (called 'The Island of Carolina' or 'The Island of Pennsylvania' almost as the promised land of milk and honey. . .

In these times in Idar-Oberstein, nine children were born to Hans G e o m Risch and Maria Barbara Purper, six of them dying betore the)' were four years old:

i. Anna Magdalena Risch, born 1711, died 12 August 1713 in Germanv. ii. johann Jacob Risch, born 20 October 1713, died 13 October 1777 in Germany, married

Wagner. iii. johann Adam Risch, born 1716, died 1718 in Germany, iv. Anna Eva Risch, born 29 December 1718, died 1722 in Germany, v. johann Michael Risch, born 1720, christened 1734, died 1770 in Germany, married

Elisabeth Barbara Purper. vi. Johannes Risch, born 12 February 1723, died 6 August 1773 in Germany.

+ vii. johann Karl Risch, born 16 January 1725, christened 14 February 1725, died April 1806 McGaheysville, Rockingham County, VA, married about 1750, probably in PA, Maria Elizabeth Suess.

viii. johann Peter Risch, born 29 February 1728, died 26 July 1728. ix. johann Nicolaus Risch, born 21 June 1729, died 20 March 1732.

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Generation 311

JOHAN KARL RISCH/CHARLES RUSH' (Hans Georg, Johannes) was born in Idar-Oberstein, Rhineland-Pfalz District, Germany on 16 January 172512 and died in April 1806 in McGaheysville, Rockingham County, Virginia.13 He married, probably about 1750 in Pennsylvania, MARIA ELIZABETH SUESS, who died after June 1806, as evidenced by his will.

Later in his life anglicizing his name to Charles Rush, he was the first of this Rush family to come to America. He was aboard the ship SS Neptune from Rotterdam, arriving in Philadelphia on 25 October 1746, and listed on the passenger list as Carl Risch.14 15 On the same list are a Jacob Ruesch (Rauch), which may have been his brother16 and a Michael Fisher, who was probably from Idar Oberstein.17

It is highly probable that Charles and his wife initially lived in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He married Maria Elizabeth Suess (some records show her as Anna Elizabeth), probably in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, about 1750. But by 1753 (see son, John, below), they had made their permanent residence in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, near present-day McGaheysville, Augusta (later Rockingham) County, Virginia. The preserved records of the Peaked Mountain Church,18

McGaheysville, Virginia, show her name as Anna Elizabeth and record her as "nee Suess."19 These same records in other places show her name as Maria Elizabeth. The first girl child of the couple was named Anna Elizabeth (Annalise), which may indicate that Anna Elizabeth is correct. In his will, Charles Rush refers to her only as Elizabeth.

Elizabeth Suess was probably born in Pennsylvania. There are many early records of Suess families in Lancaster County, though the author's research has not connected directly with these families. Balthaser Suess and his wife, Maria Barbara, were members of the Brickersville Lutheran Church, Warwick Township, Lancaster County, in 1730 and those records show they had a daughter, Maria Barbara, born in 1738, and a daughter, Catarina Margareta, born in 1742. These and other names of

11 Rivers Peterson, untitled document on Rush Family genealogy, dated 1934 (hereinafter referred to as "Peterson, untitled." The first serious researcher of this American Rush family was Rivers Peterson ot Indianapolis, Indiana. Mr. Peterson, a descendant, apparently began bis research about 1930 and tbe author has in his possession several letters Mr. Peterson wrote to the author's grandfather requesting family data. The accumulation of Mr. Peterson's research was compiled in 1934 in a 39 page family history. A copy was provided the author by George D. Rush, Ware Shoals, SC, on 13 August 1982. Tbe author has combined the Peterson and Boyd-Rush research for compiling Generation 3 and Generation 4 narrative and family data. 12 Boyd-Rush. 13 John Weyland, Virginia Valley Records, 1930 (hereinafter referred to as "Weyland." 14 J. Daniel Rupp, "Thirty Thousand Names of Immigrants in Pennsylvania, 1727-1776," Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore, MD, Reprint 1994, pp. 175-176. 15 Ralph Strassburger, "Pennsylvania German Pioneers," 1966, pp. 362-363. See also Strassburger's "Pennsylvania German Pioneers, Volume 2, Facimilies of Signatures, 1727-1775," published by the Pennsylvania German Society, Norristown, PA, 1934, List IIIC, Ship Neptune, October 25, 1746. K. Peterson, untitled. 17 Boyd-Rush. 18 "William & Mary Quarterly, 1st Series, Vol. 13," pp. 247-253. 19 Peterson, untitled.

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the same family are shown at the neighboring Muddy Creek Church, East Calico Township. 2() 21

The following also regards this Suess family. "John George Suess was born in lower Alsatia (Elsass) in 1718. After serving nine vears in the French army as a grenadier, he emigrated to Pennsylvania in 1750 to join his brothers Balthaser and Frederick who had preceded him to America by ten or more years and had located in Heidelberg Township on the Tulpahocken Creek. John George there

married Miss Dock, also from Alsatia.""" Note that both names —John and George - were used to name children of Charles Rush and Elizabeth Suess, however, the same names were in the Risch family in Germany. Among these same church records we find the names Rish, Resh and Rush: Jacob Rish in 1731 and 1732; Peter Resh in 1759; Matthias Rush in 1773; and Peter and John Rush at later dates.-3

There are numerous records of the Charles Rush family in Augusta/Rockingham County between 1758 and 1806. An issue of the William & Alary Quarterly,24 states: "Charles Rush lived near Magaheysville (McGaheysville), Virginia, from 1758 to 1806, a Lutheran Elder in the Peaked Mountain Church. Children John, George, Peter, Arliss . . ." Although the first recorded date of Charles Rush in the Shenandoah Valley is 1758, his son John, in his application for a Revolutionary War pension, states that he was born in that section of Rockingham (formerly Augusta) County in 1753.2ri In the old church and County records the name is spelled variously as Rush, Risch, Resch, Resh, Reusch. Charles Rush's own signature to his will is either Rush or Rish. His son John wrote his name Johnannes Risch and the entries of births, deaths and marriages in his family Bible are written in German.26 The first record found of Charles Rush's name in the Augusta County records is in connection with the purchase of 210 acres on Cub Run, near AlcGaheysville, in 1758.27 There is also a roster of No. 2 Colonial Militia 1651—1776 of Augusta County showing the name of Charles Rush as a captain and member of the militia, September 1758.2lS. Hennings Statutes29 states: "To the Militia ot the Count}' of Augusta and for provisions by sundry inhabitants of said County, viz, to Capt. Alexander Sayers for his pay and to the pay of his officers and company of militia to the last day of August 1758 as per muster roll. . . . to Charles Rush 20L 8s, also 51s." It also says, "The schedule to which this account refers; to the militia of the County of Augusta, and for provisions furnished by sundry inhabitants of said County, viz to George Hedrick, John Siler, John Miller, Charles Mau, Charles Rush 52 shillings each." Weyland3" states, "Capt. Teter, who commanded the militia ot the present McGaheysville neighborhoods at one time had in his command the Rush,

-"Frederick S. Weiser, "Records of Pastoral Acts at Emanuel Lutheran Church, Known in the Eighteenth Century as the Warwick Congregation, Near Brickerville, Elizabeth Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 1743-1799," The Pennsylvania German Society, Breinigsville, PA, 1983. 21 Frederick S. Weiser, "Records of Pastoral Acts at the Lutheran and Reformed Congregations of the Muddy Creek Church, East Calico Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 1730-1790," The Pennsylvania German Society, Breingsville, PA, 1981. — "Reports of Pennsylvania-German Society of Lancaster, Pa.,Vol. 12." 11 Peterson, untitled. 24 "William & Mary Quarterly, 2nd Series, Vol. 12," p. 306. 25 John Rush, Revolutionary War pension application, Virginia Line R9090. 2i> Peterson, untitled. :" "Augusta County Deed Book 8," pp. 19-21. 28 Weyland. -" "Hennings Statutes at Large, Vol. 7-1756-1763." '"' Weyland'.

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Kisling and other families who resided in that vicinity."

There are other references to him in Augusta County records. Charles Rush was on various bonds these dates: 15 November 1758, 20 November 1779, and 19 November 1771. His name was on estate settlements dated 21 March 1772, 18 August 1772, 19 May 1773, 16 August 1774, and 5 June 1774. Charles Rush qualified as administrator of Henry Strutsenecker estate, 16 March 1773.31 32

Land patents of Richmond3 3 show that on August 1, 1772, Lord Dunmore, Governor of Virginia, granted unto Charles Rush a tract of land containing 80 acres lying on the east side of Smith's creek, adjoining John Davis and Thomas Harrison in Augusta County.

Land patents of Richmond34 also record that on 29 August 1787, Beverly Randolph, Governor of Virginia, granted unto Charles Rush a tract of land containing 343 acres lying on the south side of the Peaked Mountain, adjoining George Shaver (Shaeffer) and Philip Haw by virtue of a Treasury Warrant No . 11270 dated March 6, 1782 and surveyed April 7, 1784.

Weyland35 shows Charles Rush as a landowner in Rockingham County in 1789 with 553 acres, in the 11th Military District. It also shows Charles Rush with "1 tithable, 1 slave, 4 horses" in 1788, in Captain John Rush's Company #14. It is not known if this John was his son. However, there are earlier, frequent, references to a Captain John Rush, and the author believes that this individual ma)' have been of another (English) Rush line. Ruebusch36 also shows Charles Rush in 1789 as being listed in Militia Company No. 11 and owning 553 acres.

The Rush family name appears frequently in the old Peaked Mountain Church records. Charles Rush (Carl Risch) served as an elder of that body. His sons John and Peter served in the same capacity. An Augusta County history37 provides a list of people who signed an agreement by which members of a reformed and a Lutheran Congregation would worship jointly in the Peaked Mountain Church. Among the signers are Charles Risch and Jacob Risch. This agreement is dated 31 October 1769. The relationship of Charles and this Jacob Risch is not known. There was also a John Rush who signed that agreement. This John could have been the son of Charles, but he was only 16 years of age at that time. The name of Charles Rush and his wife Elizabeth appear frequently in the Peaked Mountain Church records, as communicants, sponsors of baptisms, and in some cases in connection with marriages.

Charles Rush served in the American Revolution. The Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) lists, "Charles Rush, born about 1730, died prior 4 April 1806, married Elizabeth ?, place of

31 Lyman Chalkley, "Records of Augusta County, Virginia, Vols I-1II," Baltimore Genealogical Publishing Co, 1965, p. 457.' 12 Additional records of Charles Rush in Augusta County may be found in "Chalkley's Chronocles, Vol 3." 33 "Land Patents XLI, Richmond, Virginia," p. 29. 34 "Land Patents XVI, Richmond, Virginia," p. 65. 35 Weyland. 36 Ruebusch, "History of Rockingham County." 37 "History of Augusta County," page 428.

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service Virginia."38 During the Revolutionary War the general assembly of Virginia required - or military officers impressed - various citizens to provide livestock, foodstuffs, arms and other supplies to the militia and Continental armies. During the first assembly following the surrender of the British at Yorktown in October 1781, the General Assembly passed an act to compensate these citizens. Charles Rush had several claims including flour, diets, horse pasture, and "horses at hay."39

A memorial to Revolutionary soldiers in the Peaked Mountain Church Cemetery, McGaheysville, lists the name of Charles Rush.

The will of Charles Rush, slightlv damaged by a fire, which destroyed many Rockingham County records, is available at the Countv Court House in Harrisonburg, Virginia. It happens that the most mutilated section is just at the beginning of that portion which lists the names of his heirs. But fortunatelv subsequent county records are available that give the complete list of his children, or at least those living, or who had descendants living, at the time the will was drawn. Weyland4" states, "A digest of Charles Rush's will mentions his wife, Elizabeth, John Rush, George Rush, Peter Rush, daughter Anliss Lear (Lair), granddaughter Elizabeth Hanger now married to William Steel. John Rush was executor. Witnesses were Peter Nicholas, Jacob Rush, and Jacob Nicholas. This will was dated 4 April 1806 and was proved June 1806." Following is the text of this will41 using the spelling and capitalization just as it is written, and showing the missing portions.

In the name of God of the County of Rockingham and state of Vir being very weak in body but of perfect mind and memory thanks be given unto God calling unto mi that Alortality of my body and knowing that it is appointed for all men Once to die do make an ordain this my last will and testament tha is to say first of all I give and Recommend my soul in the hands of Almighty god who gave my body I recommend to the last to be buried in a desent christian maner at the discretion of my Executor not douting but the General reser tion I shall receive the same again bv the might)' power of God and as to such worldly a state wherewith it has pleased god to bless me in this life I give and dispose of the same in the following first of all I desire that the whole of my personal estate be appraised and that all my just debts and be paid I then give and bequeath to my beloved wife Elizabeth one feather bed and furniture and a child's part equal with my children as follow I desire the whole of my land to be rented sold as my executor shall think besd I empower my Executor to make title for said land I desire the hole of my estate John Rush, George Rush, Peter Rush and my Daughter Anliss Lear to have an equal part ot my estate, as for my Granddaughter Elizabeth Hanger now married to William Steel is to have twenty dollars and no more but in case my executor shall think proper anv Dime hereafter to give to the said Elizabeth Hanger any sum of money not exceeding an equal share with the rest of my heirs he may do so I do hereby appoint John Rush my executor of this my last will and testament Sineth

w "DAR Patriot Index," NSDAR, Washington D C , 1966, p. 586. ''Janice L. Abercrombie, "Virginia Publick Claims, Rockingham County," Iberian Publishing Company, Athens, GA, 1994, pp. iii-vii, 24-28.

40 Weyland, p. 428. 11 Boyd-Rush.

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Sealeth this fourth day of April in the year eighteen hundred and six.

Charles Rush (Seal) Teste Peter Nicholas, Jacob Rush, Jacob Nicholas

Rockingham June Court, 1806

The witness, Jacob Rush, was probably a grandson, but may have been the brother of Charles Rush. The subsequent court records show that the preserved portion of the will covered all the children of Charles Rush. The following is found in a later (1810) County deed book:42 "The deed release from John Rush, George Rush, Peter Rush and other heirs of Charles Rush, deceased, to John Huston was presented in court and acknowledged by said John Rush and Peter Rush, and was proved by the oaths of John Rush and William Swanson as to George Rush and William Steel, which together with the commission and privy examination of Steel's wife returned certified and ordered to be recorded." And from the same record: "John Rush, Peter Rush, George Rush, John Lair, William Lair, Charles Lair, Matthias Lair, the surviving issue of Annie Lair, deceased, who was the daughter and one of the heirs of said Charles Rush, William Steel and Betsey his wife, only heir and representative of Betsy Hanger, deceased, who was one of the daughters and one of the heirs of the said Charles Rush." Although we can assume that Elizabeth survived her husband's death in 1806, we hear no more about her.

The issue of Charles Rush and Anna Elizabeth Suess were as follows: i. John Rush, born 6 December, 1753Augusta County, VA, died 26 January 1835, married

Anna Marie Nicholas, born 8 September 1754, died 6 October 1839. Her father was Jacob Nicholas, who married Barbara Zeller (Sellers), daughter of Henry Zeller, 7 December 1752.43 A letter from the Veterans Administration in 193244 states John Rush applied for Revolutionary War pension on 23 November 1832 (Pension Claim 9090) and alleged the following service: "That in 1774 he served three and one-half months as a Sergeant in the Virginia Militia under Colonel Slaughter and was engaged against the Indians on the Virginia frontier. From early in October, 1780, served nearly three months as Captain in Colonel Sampson Matthews' Virginia Regiment; in 1781 served twenty days as private in Captain George Huston's Company in Colonel Benjamin Harrison's Virginia Regiment; in 1781 served twenty days with the Virginia troops as Captain of Mounted Riflemen and was in battles of Hotwater and Jamestown."4; i

ii. Anna Elizabeth (Anliss) Rush, born 1753/4, Augusta County, VA, died 1806, married prior to 1775 Matthias Lair, born 1752, died 1795, Cynthiana, Harrison County, KY. He was a Captain in the Revolutionary War.46

—t— iii. George Rush, born about 1755, Augusta County, VA, died 11 February, 1831, married (1)

42 "Deed Book No. 35, Rockingham County," pp. 124-125, November 5, 1810. 43 Peterson, untitled, says tbe record of the births, deaths and marriage of John and Anna Marie Rush is taken from his Bible which, in 1934, was in the possession of a relative living in McGaheysville. 44 Letter to Rivers Peterson from The Veterans Administration, Washington D C , 8 July 1932. 45 Boyd-Rush. 4f' Peterson, untitled. The birth and death dates of Anna Elizabeth are from her grave in the Lair Vault at the Cedars, near Cynthiana, Kentucky.

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on 9 November 1782 in Rockingham County, VA Mary Bushong, born ca. 1758, died 12 November 1799, Lincoln County, NC, (2) the widow Elizabeth Harry.47

iv. Elizabeth Rush, born Augusta County, VA, died prior to 1806. married Frederick Hanger.4S

v. Peter Rush, christened August 1763, McGahayesville, Augusta County, VA, died 1815, married 19 June 1786 Barbara Hanger, daughter of Peter Hanger.49

51) Generation 4

GEORGE RUSH4 (Karl/Charles, Hans Georg, Johannes) was born in McGaheysville, Augusta County, Virginia. His birth date is not established but was somewhere between 1755 and 1760. He died 11 February 1831, as shown by his gravestone near Franklin, North Carolina. He married MARY BUSHONG in Rockingham County, Virginia, 9 November 1782 (date of their marriage bond). She was born 22 August 1756 in York County, Pennsylvania3' and died 12 November 1799. Her gravestone in Lincoln County, North Carolina reflects 1758-1799.D2

Not much is known of the early life of George Rush, except that we know from the Peaked Mountain Church records that he had a strong German Lutheran Church upbringing. An issue of the William and Alary Quarterly53 documents: "George Rush married Alary Bushong and moved to Lincoln County, N. C. He died in Franklin County February 11, 1831 his grave marker states."

On 9 November 1782 Geortre Rush and Jacob Bushont? signed a marriage bond in Rockingham County, Virginia, for the marriage of George to Jacob Bushong's daughter, Mary. The wife of Jacob Bushong is shown by deed records to have been named Julianna. In old Virginia records the name may be found variously spelled Bushong, Bushang, Boshong, Bosang. As it appears on the marriage bond of George Rush, as signed by Jacob Bushong, the name seems to be written "Bishing" with a diaresis over each of the vowels. Jean Beauchamp, the original Hugenot name, arrived on the ship Brittania in charge of Alaster Michael Franklin from Rotterdam, Holland, and qualified for entry into the port of Philadelphia 21 September 1731. He first settled in Pennsylvania and lingered there with his growing family until he had become a naturalized citizen of his adopted land in 1739. The record is found in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. To preserve the French pronunciation the spelling was early changed to Bushong and Jean to John. One ot his several sons, Jacob Bushong, married Julianna Weigel and they were the parents of Mary.

George Rush participated in the Revolutionary War. The DAR Patriot Index lists him as a private

47 Peterson, untitled. 4a Peterson, untitled. 49 pcterson, untitled. " The major portion of this generation's information comes from the following source: Elizabeth Denison Lipscomb

and Rosalind Davison Washington, "Rush Memoirs," privately published, undated. Provided to the author by Elizabeth Lipscomb of Auburn, AL. Note that the authors of this book received the George Rush data from George Dexter Rush of Ware Shoals, SC. He had compiled some of it from original Rush researcher, Rivers A. Peterson. 7,1 Rush Memoirs. -1- Peterson, untitled. 53 "William & Marv Quarterly, 2nd Series," Vol. 12, p. 306.

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from Virginia in Captain Henry Lee's Company in the First Regiment, Light Dragoons, Continental Troops, Commanded by Colonel Theoderick Bland. Neither the date of his enlistment, nor the period of his service is shown. His name was borne on the roll of that Company from November 1777 to February 1778. Mrs. Julia Blanche (Rush) Powell, a sister of Charles W. Rush, I, was established as a member of the Texas Society, Daughters of the American Revolution based on this record of George Rush.54

In 1785 George and Mary Rush moved to Lincoln County, North Carolina where he purchased, on 27 June 1785, two tracts of land totaling three hundred and fifty acres and located on the northeast side of the south fork of the Catawba River. The consideration was two hundred pounds.5 5 Here he erected a large double log cabin and followed the vocation of farming. Near the home site was an excellent spring that probably supplied the water for the Rush family requirements. This site was about two miles from the city of Lincolnton. Other land transactions recorded are the transfer of land to him from Phillip Null, October 1785, and 295 acres on the west bank of the Tennessee River for $1,230.65 in 1823.56 In the Census of 1790 he and Maty had two sons under 16, three daughters and two slaves.37

The following is from a paper by Rush researcher, Rivers Peterson, probably written about 1934.

In that connection, I call to mind an anecdote related to me by Rev. Charles Rush, grandson of Charles George. It is said that at one time Charles George returned to Lincolnton for the purpose of persuading his brother Jacob to move to Alabama. Jacob was doubtless living on the Rush place at the time, having purchased it from his father in 1822.

Arrangements were practically made when Jacob balked. His objection is said to have been that if he moved to Alabama, he would have to drink well water and might be drinking after a frog.

On a slight rise across from this spring I found the last resting place ot Mary Bushong Rush. Old residents who were later raised on this farm, assert that the family lot formerly showed three graves, two being of children. But at the times of my visits only one grave was in evidence. A group of trees and bushes grew about the place, the remainder of the land being under cultivation, almost hiding the stone on which I was able to decipher: Sacred to the memory of Molly Rush who died November 12, 1799, aged 41 years.

This, incidentally, was the second stone that had been erected at Mary Rush's grave. The first lay on the ground beside it. It was a rough piece of granite on which was rudely carved: 1799 MR.

54 DAR "Roster of Revolutionary Ancestors, Vol IV, R-Z," 1976, page 1853. 55 Lincoln County, NC Deeds, 1785. 56 Lincoln County Deeds, 1823, Blk B, Page 125. 57 "Heads of Families At the First Census of the United States, Taken in the Year 1790, Morgan District, Lincoln County, North Carolina."

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After Mary died in 1799, George Rush apparently returned to his birthplace to marry his second wife, Elizabeth (Saylor?), widow of John Harry of Rockingham County, Virginia. However, there is no hard evidence found for this second marriage and no will for John Harry has been located. In "Vestry Books of Rockingham County" is an entry granting John Harry a license to operate a tavern in his Cross Keys home in August of 1800. In April of 1802, that license is renewed or granted to Elizabeth Harry. These records may indicate the death of John Harry, possibly in 1801, as well as the marriage of Elizabeth Harry to George Rush after 1803. Their first known child was born in 1807.

Some time after 1820, George Rush, accompanied by several of his married children moved to Western North Carolina and spent his last years near Franklin, Alacon County. O n 16 October 1822 he sold to his son Jacob 451 acres for $1,200. At the time of execution of the deed, George Rush was living in Haywood County, presumably in that section that later became Macon County. On 8 March 1823 he was issued Grant No . 9 of the Cherokee land division for 295 acres, in section 73, District 15, located on the west bank of the Tennessee River, for $1,230.65, as recorded in the Haywood County records.58 As recorded on 12 January 1828 he secured a grant for 140 acres in Section 82, District 15 for $423.00. In Alarch 1828 he transferred this land to his son-in-law, John Sellers. Also in Alarch 1828 he was granted 59 acres in Section 91, District 15, in partnership with William Carpenter.

From then on nothing is known of the life and affairs ot George Rush. He appears to have accumulated considerable means. An old resident of Macon County, who claimed to have done much research on County history, said the family always had fine horses and dressed in broadcloth on trips to town.

George Rush died 11 February 1831 and is buried in a cemetery near Franklin, North Carolina that was evidently established as a family plot. It was either on, or near, the property on which he lived. Here also may be found the graves of several of his daughters, sons-in-law and other descendants. Elizabeth Rush is believed to have died 13 May, 1831.

George Rush's will was dated February 22, 1827 and it reads as follows.

In the name of God, Amen

1, George Rush of the County of Haywood, and State of Nor th Carolina, being of sound mind and disposing memory, and calling to mind the uncertainty of life do make, ordain and establish this my last will and testament in the manner following. This is to say:

First of all I commit my soul to Almighty God who gave it and my body to the dust to be buried in a Christian like manner at the expense of my executors out of my estate, nothing doubting but I shall remember it arain at the general resurrection.

CD C J O O

2. 1 will and bequeath to my beloved wife, Elizabeth Rush, two feather beds and

5fl "I lavwood County (now Macon County) Record Book B," page 125.

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furniture, six chairs, three trunks, my looking glass, her side saddle and bridle and as many of my German books as she may think proper to take; as much kitchen furniture as may be thought necessary, her spinning wheel and an old negro woman named Jenny, during her natural life or widowhood.

And it is my will that my executors cause the house where David Dawsey (Dorse)') now lives be repaired in such manner that it be a comfortable dwelling house and that my wife at my decease, or at the expiration of the lease which David Dawsev now has for said land, should my decease occur previous to that time, be removed to that place and be decently maintained out of my estate by my executors during her natural life or widowhood, that she be furnished with a sufficient of meat, corn, meal, flour, sugar, teas, coffee and any other kind of provision suitable to her condition in life. And that she be constantly furnished with a good milch cow and her wood ready cut and hauled convenient to the house.

3. I will and bequeath to my daughter Elizabeth Gray, and the heirs of her body, one negro girl named Silva, and her 1 child Prince, valued at 5300. And also all the land on which Stephen Gray now lives during the life or widowhood of my wife Elizabeth, she paying an annual rent of forty bushels of corn for the same.

4. I will and bequeath to my daughter Julian Rush, and the heirs of her body, one negro boy named Peter, valued at $300, and choice of my horse beasts at the time of my decease, two cows and calves, six chairs and as much kitchen 5 furniture as her other sisters had when they left me.

5. I will and bequeath to my son Charley Rush, and the heirs of his body, one negro man named Frank, valued at $500 and fifty dollars in cash more than the rest for service performed by him.

6. I will and bequeath to my son Johnathan Rush $500 in cash.

7. I will and bequeath to my daughter Polly Sellers, and the heirs of her body, one negro girl named Seri, equal to $280.

8. I will and bequeath to my daughter Lydia Thomas, one negro girl named Sarah,

valued at $260.

9. I will and bequeath to my daughter Sally Alauney, one negro boy named Ellick,

valued at $260.

10. I will and bequeath to my son, George Rush, and the heirs of his body, one negro man named Jim, valued at $400.

11. I will and bequeath to my son, John Rush, and the heirs of his body, one negro man named Isaac, his wife, Nancy, and their children Fanny and Hannah and the old

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woman Jenny at the death or marriage of my wife, Elizabeth, valued at $900.

12. I will and bequeath to my son Jacob Rush, and the heirs of his body, one negro woman named Lilly and her child, Henry, valued at $400.

13. I will and bequeath to my daughter Ann Van Dyke, and the heirs of her body, one negro _rirl named Silvv, valued at $150.

14. I will and bequeath to my son William Rush, at the age of 21, one negro man named Franklin, valued at $170. Said negro to remain in possession of John Sellers until my son arrives at the age of 21 years, and should my son die before the age of 21, and without issue, then the said boy is to be sold by my executors and the money divided among all my children hereinbefore named, agreeable to the manner hereinafter specified for the division of my estate.

I also will and bequeath to my son William Rush one hundred dollars in place of a horse, saddle and bridle and I desire should my decease happen before my son William arrives at the age of 21, that my son John be his guardian and have the management of his property.

15. I will and bequeath all my personal property not herein specifically bequeathed, to be sold at public sale by my executors during the life or widowhood of my wife Elizabeth; and at her death or marriage all my lands to be sold by my executors, either at public or private sale at their discretion, and also that all the personal property hereinbefore bequeathed to my wife during her life or widowhood be also sold by my executors.

That my executors, out of the sale of my personal property not bequeathed and the money and debts due me after paying specific legacies and defraying the necessary expenses, pay over the balance to my children commencing with those who have the lowest legacies in such manner to make each one's portion as nearly equal as may be, estimating them agreeable to the value hereinbefore set upon each one's bequest.

And at the death of my wife, Elizabeth, pay over the money arising from the sales of the property and arising from the rents of the land to my children Elizabeth Gray, Juliana Rush, Charley Rush, Johnathan Rush, Polly Sellers, Lydia Thomas, Sally Mauney, George Rush, John Rush, Jacob Rush, Anna Van Dyke and William Rush in such manner as to give each one an equal share of my estate, taking into consideration the specific bequests hereinbefore given, and the values set upon them, and the amount paid to each out of the sale of my personal property and the debts and money on hand.

And should my estate not be sufficient to make all their portions equal to the largest bequest heretofore given to any one of my children then those who have received the largest bequests are to refund to the estate until each ones portion shall be equal.

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Nevertheless the fifty dollars given to Charley, the hundred dollars given to William and the horse and cows given to Juliana are not to be considered in valuing these bequests.

And I hereby nominate and appoint Zebulon J. Thomas and John Sellers executors of this my last will and testament, hereby revoking all former wills by me made.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal the 22 day of February, 1827.

George Rush (Seal)

Witnessed by Joshua Roberts David Dorsey

For some reason it does not appear that John Sellers served as an executor. Instead the estate was administered by Zebulon Thomas and Isaac Mauney. They closed the estate in 1833, but two deeds, executed in 1831 were not recorded until 1841.

The total value of the estate was not ascertained. There is evidence of a distribution of $933.50 in cash to each of twelve heirs, malting a total of this distribution $11,202.00.

Issue of George Rush and Alary Bushong:59

i. Maty Julianna Rush, born 16 September 1784, Rockingham County, VA, died 23 February 1868 at Franklin, NC.

+ ii. Charles George Rush, born 8 February 1786, Lincolnton, Lincoln County, NC, died 9 December 1857, Tuskegee, Alacon County, AL, married (1) Elizabeth DeBardeleben, who died 21 December 1826, (2) Sarah (Norman) Walton, widow of Timothy Walton, born 25 June 1794, Lincoln County, GA, and died 3 May 1859 in Tuskegee, Macon County, AL.

iii. Elizabeth Rush, born 24 February 1786/87, Lincoln County, NC, died 24 May 1850, married Stephen Gray,

iv. Johnathan Rush, born 16 December 1787 died 8 March 1870 near Greenville, TN married Alargaret Rush, his cousin.

v. Mary (Polly) Rush, born 11 September 1789, died in Franklin, NC 30 May 1859, married in Lincoln County, NC, John Sellers, born 10 November 1796, died in Franklin County,

N C 14 May 1857. vi. Lydia Rush, born 10 February 1791, died 3 November 1868 in Franklin, NC, married

Zebulon J. Thomas in Lincoln County, N C 17 November 1818.

vii. Sarah (Sallie) Rush, married Isaac Alauney in Lincolnton, Lincoln County, N C on 24

59 George Rush children data reflected in Rush Memoirs as provided by George Dexter Rush, who questions several of the birth dates. Note the disparity of some dates.

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September 1814.

viii. George Rush, born September 1796, died 16 May 1856 at Ruddells Mill, KY, married (1) Jane Anderson, born 27 January 1796, died 8 September 1838, (2) widow of Nicholas Smith, (3) Nancy Powell,

ix. John Rush, born 24 February 1797, died 1 February 1882 near Rome, GA, married Martha Camp,

x. Jacob Rush, born 1798, died 1854 at Lincolnton, Lincoln County, NC, married Clarissa Shuford on 7 January 1825.

Issue of George Rush and the widow Elizabeth Harry: xi. Ann Elizabeth Rush, born 18/19 Alarch 1807, died in GA 24 June 1898, married W. L.

Van Dyke, xii. William Rush, born 1809, died 1836 in Sumter County, AL, married Lenora Turner in

1830, in Spartanburg, SC.

Genera t ion 560

CHARLES G E O R G E RUSH5 (George, Karl/Charles, Hans Georg, Johannes) was born 8 February 1786 in Lincoln County, Nor th Carolina, and died 9 December 1857 in Tuskegee, Macon County, Alabama. He married first, E L I Z A B E T H D e B A R D E L E B E N , who died 21 December 1826; and married second, Sarah Norman, widow of Timothy Walton, born 25 June 1794, Lincoln County, Georgia and died 3 May 1859 in Tuskegee, Alacon County, Alabama.

Charles George Rush was probably born at his home near Lincolnton, North Carolina, although the Charles W. Rush, I, family Bible says Charlotte, which would be in nearby Alecklenburg County. He was born the year after his parents migrated from Rockingham County, Virginia. He learned the trade of blacksmith in his youth, but his life work was that of a planter. He was raised in the Lutheran Church but he joined the Methodist church in 1805. Charles George was a captain in the militia of North Carolina and went by that title for the rest of his life.

I lis first wife was Elizabeth DeBardeleben. They came to Alabama in 1818, perhaps after living a short while in Georgia, with at least two of their children and settled in Autauga County on the west side of the Alabama River at a point later known as Washington Ferry or Washington's Landing. Early settlers entered Autauga County after the Creek Indian War terminated in 1814 with the Battle of Horseshoe Bend. They sought farmland and homesteads in the fertile soil of the area. The influx of settlers resulted in the formation of Alabama Territory separate from Mississippi in 1817. The area was originally part of Montgomery County, but the territorial legislature at St. Stephens created the new county of Autauga on November 21, 1818. Alabama became the 22nd state on December 14, 1819. The former Indian village of Atagi had been abandoned. In 1817 white settlers established the town of Washington on the Atagi site. This town was named for George Washington and would also be known as Washington Ferry due to the river crossing at that point.

The major portion ot this generation's information comes from "Rush Memoirs."

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Charles George Rush established a blacksmith shop with four forges at Washington. There is a deed on record at the Autauga County Courthouse in Prattville executed in 1824 by which Charles George and his wife, Elizabeth, bought out the interest of the widow of Alexander Graham. The property was owned joindy by Graham, John Matthews and Charles George Rush, lt was issued to them in a land grant signed by President James Monroe. Charles George seems to have had quite a few land transfers and there are many deeds on record in Autauga and Alontgomerv Counties. Charles George and his first wife had at least four children, the last one being the author's ancestor, David Charles Rush, born Alarch 4, 1824. Elizabeth DeBardeleben Rush died in 1826.

In 1827 Charles George married Sarah (Norman) Walton, widow of Timothy Walton. Sarah and Charles George lived first in Montgomery County, Alabama where he purchased a plantation at a place known then as Oak Grove, about ten miles east of the city of Montgomery. The census of 1830 lists Charles George as a head of household in Montgomery County. The household consisted of: 1 male between the ages of 0 and 5 years (Benjamin Andrew) 3 males between the ages of 5 and 10 years (David Charles, William, and ?) 1 male between the ages of 10 and 15 years (George) 1 male between the ages of 20 to 30 years (unknown) 1 male between the ages of 40 to 50 years (Charles George) 1 female between the ages of 0 to 5 years (Amanda) 2 females between the ages of 10 to 15 years (unknown) 1 female between the ages of 15 to 20 years (unknown) 1 female between the ages of 30 to 40 years (Sarah) 23 slaves.

From Alontgomery County they moved in about 1836/1837 to what is now Macon County and bought a plantation three miles south of Tuskegee. In the dispute of the church in the early 1830's he stood for the established church, the Episcopal Methodist, as opposed to the Protestant Methodist Church. Anson West, in his "History of Alethodism in Alabama,"61 described this phase of Charles George's life.

. . . he erected a chapel on his plantation for the use and benefit of the Negroes. There they were preached to, and there the Negro children were catechized and instructed regularly. The great majority of the Negroes on his plantation were religious, and cases of adultery, lying and stealing among them was rare . . . In the government of his slaves Mr. Rush was controlled by the same sense of justice and mercy which controlled him in the government of other persons under his care. He considered himself responsible to God, who made all men for their well being, in this and the life to come. He required his overseers to attend church on Sunday and held them under strict orders not to use any type of cruel punishment in their correction. He also required the overseer and the slaves to be properly dressed for church." West describes him as, ' . . . a man of even temper, truthful, honest,

61 West, Anson, "A History of Methodism in Alabama," Nashville, TN, Publishing House Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1893.

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dignified, serious, cheerful, proper, of steady habits, industrious, attentive to affairs, economical, possessing sound judgment, and great wisdom.' West also says he was limited in literary attainments, but made up for that in industry. He tells of a time in his youth when Charles George Rush worked in a distillery through the brandy-making season. ' . . . while he was engaged in that business he was convicted and regenerated, and confirmed in the Lutheran Church, the church of his ancestors, and he continued in the business of distillation until his contract expired. He never for a moment considered the business derogatory to the Christian Character, or destructive in moral integrity.' . . . Captain and Airs. Charles Rush were noted for their charities, and raised, including their own children and grandchildren and orphans, forty children.

The following is a story from Charles Andrew Rush, son of John Wesley Rush, about Charles George.

He was a devout Christian, and had a childlike faith in prayer. O n one occasion, there had been a long season of no rain. The neighborhood was called together in Tuskegee to pray for rain. At the appointed time, all assembled. He came with a shawl, a custom of the time, and an umbrella. As he started in the church, one of the men smiled and said, 'Captain, why the umbrella and the shawl?' 'Have we come to pray for rain?' asked Charles George. 'Yes,' the man replied 'Well, when I ask my Father for the things I need, I expect to get them.' The record says that before they left the church, a heavy rain was falling.

He wanted his slaves well fed, comfortably housed, and clothed, and also well taught in their Christian obligations. O n one occasion, Bishop Andrew was asked to preach to Rush's slaves. After the sermon, one of their church leaders was asked, 'How did you like the Bishop's sermon?' 'Oh,' the Negro answered, 'he doos pretty well, but he cain't preach like Marse Wes an' Marse Billy. Dey's so smart an 'edicated we cain't unnerstan' haf 'dey sez, but de Bishop, shux, we kin unnerstan' everthin he say.' Alarse Wes and Alarse Billy were two recent graduates of Emory.

Charles George Rush was especially kind to the stranger, the widow and the orphan. Once when a new settler had come into the community, he began to inquire where he could get some corn. He was told to go to Captain Rush, who always had plenty of corn. Grandpa told him 'Yes, I have corn. How much do you want, and have you the money to pay for it?' 'I want one hundred bushels, and I have the money to pay for it.' 'Well," said Grandpa, 'I can't let you have it. My corn is for the unfortunate people who do not have the money to pay for it. I let them have what they need and they pay me out ot their next year's crop.'

He was friend ot the widow and the orphan. He was made guardian for a large number of orphans. Among others, the LeGrand children. Not long after the LeGrands moved into the neighborhood, Mr. LeGrand died. O n his deathbed he sent for his friend and said, 'I am going to die. I want you to promise me that you

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will care for my wife and children.' The promise was made.

Not long after this, the widow sickened. 'Captain,' she said before she died, 'you have been so kind to me and my children in our sorrow and bereavement, I feel sure my orphaned children will be safe in your care.' There were several children - all girls but one. Milton was a boy in his middle teens. All the children were bright and attractive, and gradually the girls were permitted to go into homes of people of culture and refinement as members of the family.

Over each he kept a vigilant watch. Not obtrusively, but with attention. On one occasion, visiting one of the girls, he observed that the girls of the family were wearing silk gloves. His girl had on cotton gloves. He carried her to the store and bought her a pair of silk gloves. A very gentle reminder that she was to be treated exactly the same as the other girls.

Dr. Amzi Godden was a druggist in Marion, Alabama. He was a close friend of Charles George Rush. One day he saw Milton with Grandpa and asked if he might take Milton home with him. 'I will take him into my store and teach him the drug business, and treat him like my own son.' After some deliberation, Grandpa consented but said, 'You must be sure that he is treated like your own son.' So Milton went to Marion. He wrote Grandpa frequently and seemed very happy in his new home.

When he had been some months in Marion, Milton wrote home a very cheerful letter telling about his work and the kindness with which he was treated. Grandpa and Grandma both read the letter, and she remarked, 'Milton seems very happy. I am so glad.' 'Yes,' answered Grandpa. After a silence of some time, he said, 'Vife, I am going to see Alilton tomorrow.' 'But, Air. Rush, why?' 'Well, 1 just feel like I want to see the boy and hear him say, 'Pa, I'm glad to see you.'

Early the next morning, he called for his saddle horse and set out for Marion. The distance to be traveled was something over one hundred and fifty miles, but what of it? He was going to see the son of his friend, his own adopted son, and rejoice with him in his new work and home.

Alilton was delighted to see him. With shining eyes and outstretched hand, he hurried to meet his Pa. After some minutes of conversation, he returned to his work in the store. Grandpa sat quite still in deep study until Godden came in. 'Godden,' said Grandpa, 'I'm taking Milton home with me.' 'Why?" asked Godden. 'Has Milton complained?' 'No, but I am not satisfied that you have done as you promised me.' Mr. Godden was very much surprised. 'Why do you say that?' 'I noticed Milton was wearing brogans. If he were your own son here where the young ladies from Judson College come in every day, he would not be wearing shoes like that. He goes home with me.' His sense of propriety and justice was outraged.

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In the Methodist Discipline, no special provision was made for the family of the preacher. Charles George Rush was a Steward on the Tuskegee Circuit. The Stewards met to arrange for the support of the preacher for the coming year. They made the assessment of one hundred and fifty dollars for the preacher, seventy-five for the upkeep of his horse, and seventy-five for the preacher's wife. The business over, the motion to adjourn was about to be put when Rush said, 'Wait, we have forgotten something. We made no assessment for family expenses.' 'But the Discipline says nothing about that.' 'So much more the reason why we should act,' came the answer. They made an assessment for two hundred and fifty dollars for family expenses. He was a just man.

On one occasion, a son . . . Charles I think it was . . . came to see him. 'Pa, Mr. Shaw and I are having trouble. He has come too far over on my side of the property line.' Charles was quite excited. 'Be quiet, son,' said Grandpa. 'I will be over before long and we will settle it. Mr. Shaw has always been a reasonable man.' Charles returned home and in due time his father arrived. Carefully he listened to both sides, looked over the disputed ground, and decided in favor of Air. Shaw.

He was a man who did not believe in wasting anything. One day he came in and said, 'Vife, you are enough to break any man.' 'Why, what is the matter, Mr. Rush?' A s I came through the lot shucks were scattered everywhere. In the chicken yard corn is all over the ground. Waste, waste, waste.' She waited until he calmed down a bit, then c]uietly asked this question, 'Mr. Rush, when God is giving us a crop of peaches, or of apples, or of plums, does He just put on the tree the exact number of blooms that are to make fruit?' He looked at her a moment and then said, 'Oh, go on, Vife, give them all you want to.'

He was a man whom people trusted. One morning a company of planters started out with their samples to sell cotton. As they were riding along on the way to Alontgomery, one man remarked, 'Captain Rush, when you sell your cotton don't forget you promised us one hundred dollars on our new church.' Another spoke up and said, 'You promised us fifty on the school-house.' Still another said, 'You promised us seventy-five on our new church.' One more said, "You promised us fifty on our church, but these fellows are going to take all your crop, so we will wait until next year for ours.' 'I will pay you all when I sell tomorrow,' said Grandpa.

On the morrow, a stranger joined the group. 'Is there a Captain Rush with you?' he asked. 'I am Captain Rush,' said Grandpa and the stranger handed him a note. Grandpa read the note speedily, then turned to his companions. 'You all go along and sell your cotton. This is a note from a very sick friend. He has asked me to come, and I shall stay as long as he needs me. I will come to Alontgomery later.' His companions continued to Alontgomery and Grandpa went to his friend.

The friend proved to be in a dying condition. He asked that Grandpa become the guardian of his children and the executor of his will. Grandpa consented and stayed

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with his friend until all the papers had been drawn and signed. The afternoon of the second day he returned home. His traveling companions had returned from Montgomery with a fair price for their cotton. Before Grandpa left for Montgomery, he received word that the price of cotton had risen considerably. The increase was more than enough to allow him to meet all his commitments. He always thought of that visit to his dying friend as the hand of God taking care of His child.

The following is from Annie Douglas Mitchell, granddaughter of John Wesley Rush.

It has been my observation that when families begin to look up their ancestral background, they usually start with the most prominent side of the family. My mother's maternal grandfather was Bishop James Osgood Andrew, and her paternal grandfather was Capt. Charles George Rush, a planter in Alabama, who had been apprenticed as a blacksmith. Aiuch has been written about the Bishop but little of the planter. However when my aunts went to look up their records in order to join the Daughters of the American Revolution, it was through the Rush family that they found the basis for membership in the organization.

Once I heard my mother's sister Ellen say 'Sister, why do you tell people that Grandpa Rush was a blacksmith by trade?' Aly mother's answer was quite characteristic, 'Because that was what he was, and he never wanted to forget it himself. Perhaps he was thinking of the verse of scripture that says, Be ye clothed with humility; for God resisteth the proud and givetb strength to the humble. Our grandfather was proud of honorable things, but had no false pride.

Aly knowledge of the Rush history is by no means authentic. I do know that Charles George Rush lived in Georgia. He moved to Alabama in 1818 and settled in Autauga County. He was married and when quite young was left a widower with five or six small children. He married a widow who had about the same number of children and they moved to Alontgomery County, Alabama. Our grandfather, John Wesley Rush, was born near Alt. Aleigs, in Alontgomery County, Alabama, and later the family moved to Macon County near Tuskegee.

Charles George Rush was a very devout Christian. He had bought a large plantation and had (some) slaves that he had brought with him from Georgia, (or at least had brought some of them, to work and be cared for as well by him and his devoted wife.) He soon became one of the most beloved men in that part of Alabama. When any one was in need of financial or spiritual help, they instinctively turned to Capt. Rush, or Uncle Charlie as he was affectionately called by many. When his children or stepchildren needed help they came home and received aid and encouragement. When the Alethodist church wanted to build a Camp Ground in that part of Alabama, Capt. Rush and other planters took their slaves to the location and built a very large shelter. Most of it was put together with pegs instead of nails. When I was in College in 1900, this shelter was still standing and being used each summer.

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(diaries George Rush died 8 December 1857. Sarah Norman Rush died 3 May 1859. They are both buried in the family graveyard in Tuskegee, Alacon County, Alabama. The inscription on his gravestone reads as follows. &

Charles George Rush was born in North Carolina, February 8th, 1786. He joined the church in 1805 was appointed a Steward of the Church in 1826 which office he held until his death. He died Dec. 9th, 1857 in calm and holy triumph. A man of great decision and firmness of character, an ardent lover of the people of God, emphatically the friend of the widow and the orphan.

(The above is inscribed on the front of the marker.)

Here lies C. G. Rush the orphan's friend and we the children of W. C. & J. G. Legrand are numbered with the many for whom he cared. He is gone but his memory will ever be cherished by the orphans. "Blessed are the merciful for they shall obtain mercy." (The above is inscribed on the back of the marker.)

The will of Charles George Rush62 reads as follows.

I, Charles George Rush of Alacon County and State of Alabama, make, declare and publish this my Last, Will, and Testament, hereby revoking all others at any time heretofore by me made.

Item 1st.

I give and bequeath unto my wife Sarah Rush, the following property mainly Judith, Nelson, Plenty, Lina, and her offsprings to wit: Oliver, Gilbert, Jane, Lousia, Sally, Richard, and all others hereafter born to her. Alargaret and her offsprings to wit: Sophy, Josephine, Sarah Ann, and all others hereafter born to her. And the following other property; one ax, cart & yoke oxen, carriage and a pair of horses or mules, three milk cows, and as many stock hogs, as my son, Benjamin A. Rush may set apart for her; also my household, and kitchen furniture and all pervisions to supply the family who may be with her for one year.

Item 2nd

I give and bequeath unto my wife during her natural life the piney wood place on which I now reside. Should my wife however desire to live in Tuskegee, and my place on which I now reside can be sold without injury to my Estate in the opinion of my Executors, then my Executors are hereby authorized and empowered to sell my place on which I now reside, at such time or times, in such manner and upon such times, as they may seem meet, and make letters to the same and do all other things in the process, as fully and completely as myself, and purchase with the proceeds of said sale a house and lot in Tuskegee to be held and occupied by my wife during her life.

'- "Macon County, Alabama Records Book 6," 1855-1858, page 772.

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Item 3rd

It is my will and desire that all my property real and personal which I may own at the time of my death except my slaves and my piney woods place and the property given to my wife in item 1st, Shall be sold by Executor at public outcry or private sale at such time or times and upon such times and in such manner as to them shall seem meet, and convey and make letters to the same, and do all other things necessary in the premises as fully and completely as I could myself.

Item 4th.

Whereas heretofore I have given to George B. Rush, property to the amount of thirty six hundred and thirteen dollars; to my daughter Julia Cox property to the value of one thousand dollars; to my son William Rush property to the value of fourteen hundred twenty five dollars; to my son David Rush property to the value of twenty two hundred and seventy five dollars; to my daughter Amanda Harris property to the value of one thousand & thirty one dollars and to my daughter of the said Amanda Harris to namely Amanda H. Harris a negro boy named Gilbert valued at six hundred dollars, making in all to the said Amanda A. Harris in right of her mother, now dec'd Sixteen hundred and thirty seven dollars; property to my son Benjamin A. Rush valued to the amt. of thirteen hundred and seventy five dollars; to my daughter Ellen Ashley property to the amount of thirteen hundred and seventy five dollars; to my son John W. Rush property valued of thirteen hundred and fifty dollars; and whereas it is my will and desire that all my children should be made equal in the division of my estate, it is my will and desire that all my slaves not given to my wife in item 1st and the proceeds of all my real and personal property provided to be sold in item third shall be divided among my said children, Share and share alike, namely the following kin of my son George B. Rush to wit: Louisa Ann Rush now Mrs. Mooney, Sarah Rush and Charles G. Rush to inherit and receive their father's share and portions of my estate in cash only, not property items, along with my other children Julia, William, David, Benjamin A., John W., Ellen and my granddaughter Amanda A. Harris in right of her mother are to bring into hotchpot all accounts for the property which each has respectively received and according to the valuation of the same made in this will the above named kin of George B. Rush, to represent their father, and account for what he has received; and Amanda Harris for what both she and her mother has received and then all equal division to be made between them share divisions to be made by three disinterested persons to be named and appointed by my Executor. If in the division of my negro property a fair and equal division cannot be made without Separation of man and wife then my Executors are authorized and empowered to sell so much of my property in families as may be necessary to make a division.

Item 5th.

It is my will and desire that which ever place, either my pine woods on which I now reside or the house and lot provided to be purchased in item 2nd, may be owned at the death of my wife shall be sold by my Executor having the same power and authority as to the time, manner and times of said sale herein before named and mentioned in the sale of my

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property, and the proceeds of said sale to be equally divided between my children Julia, William, David, Benjamin A., John W., and Ellen, my granddaughter Amanda A. Harris in right of her mother, Laura Ann Alooney, Sarah Rush and Charles G. Rush, children of my son George B. Rush, to receive their father's share and portion.

Item 6th.

It is my will and desire that Benjamin F. Howard shall be and I do hereby nominate and appoint him my Executor of this my last will and testament, and in case of the death of the said Benjamin F. Howard it is my will and desire that Thomas C. Pinckard shall be and I do hereby appoint him my Executor of this my last will and testament.

In testimony whereof I the said Charles G. Rush, have hereunto set my hand and seal this 7th day of September A.D. 1857.

Charles G. Rush (Seal)

There was a codicil to this will.

Whereas I Charles G. Rush of the County of Alacon State of Alabama on this 26 day of September A.D. 1857 in and by which I gave and bequeath to the following kin of my son George B. Rush to wit: Laura Ann Alooney, Sarah Rush and Charles G. Rush all their father's portion of my estate, now therefore, I do by this my writing do hereby declare to be my codicil to my said last will and testaments, to be taken as a part thereof, order and declare that my will is that my son George B. Rush's portions of my estate be divided among the children above mentioned of said George B. Rush as follows to wit: the said Laura Ann, Sarah and Charles G. Rush as from his estate they are to bring his said property into hotchpot at a valuation to be approved by Executor (unto?) that portion of my estate bequeathed them in the right of their father, and then an equal distribution to be made between the said Laura Ann, Sarah and Charles G. Rush and lastly it is my desire that the codicil be annexed to and made a part of this my last will and testament as aforesaid to all intents and purposes.

In witness whereof, I the said Charles G. Rush have hereunto set hand and seal as for a codicil of this my last will and testament this 26th day of September A.D. 1857.

C. G. Rush (Seal)

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ESTIMATED VALUE OF PROPERTY OF THE ESTATE OF C. G. RUSH, deed.

Plow and mule Medlay Morgan lorn Jake Kit " John horse 34 Hogs 21 Cattle 1 Yoke oxen 1 set smith tools 1 lot old iron plows 1 lot plows & plow stocks 1 waggon 12 Bu peas 490 Bu. corn Boiler 7000 lbs. fodder 1 broad ax 1 Logchain 4 axes 1 waggon 5 hoes 4 bags ground peas 1 lot oats 5 Pr plow Furnature in Parlor Furnature in front room

" Mrs. Rush " boy's room

12 chairs Table furniture Chest of tools Kitchen furnature Contents of smoke house Contents of Dairy Buggy and harness Carrage and harness Lot farming tools Isom Ann

132.50 145.00 95.00

160.00 75.00

177.00 40.00 63.00

126.00 40.00 10.00 15.00 20 00 75.00 12.00

367.00 12.00 70.00

2.00 1.50 3.00

60.00 1.00 8.00

75 ea. 6.25

135.00 130.00 75.00 80.00 10.00 80.00

6.00 40.00

3000.00 30.00 50.00

250.00 10.00

650.00 1000.00

1 Ox Cart 37 Hogs 10 cows 200 Bucorn 1500 lb fodder

15 bu green beans Bob Coleman Gilbert Jane Louisa Salley Dick Sophy Josephine Sarah Ann Lina Plenty Nelson Judy Alargart Jim Lily Maria & child Anderson George Kit Francis Oliver Jane Christmas William Nancy Sulley Cuff Peace July Rhina Dilly Mary

6.00 50.00

120.00 174.00

15.00 5.00

30.00 400.00 900.00 850.00 700.00 525.00 375.00 225.00 500.00 500.00 150.00

1300.00 1200.00 1200.00 900.00 900.00

1050.00 50.00

350.00 750.00 450.00 500.00 225.00

1250.00 450.00

750.00 600.00 250.00 925.00

1000.00 400.00

900.00 750.00

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Issue of Charles George Rush and Elizabeth Debardeleben: i. George B. Rush married (1) Susan James Matthews, born 10 Alarch 1814, Morgan County,

GA, and (2) Judy Tucker. ii. Julia Ann Rush, born 1816, died 1877 married William Cox. iii. William Rush, born 26 Dec 1820, married (1) on 8 September 1846 Eliza Douglas

Bennet, died 11 July 1855, (2) on 26 November 1864 Alarilda Roberts Townsend, born 10 April 1848.

iv. Alary Rush married Barton Stone. + v. David Charles Rush, born 4 Alarch 1824, Autauga County, AL, died 25 June 1867, buried

Greer-Rush-Nelson Burying Ground on Columbus AFB, Lowndes County, MS, married on 19 December 1850 Susan Elizabeth Greer, born 14 February 1831, Lowndes County, MS, died 7 November 1889, Columbus, Lowndes County, AIS, buried Greer-Rush-Nelson Burying Ground.

Charles George Rush and Sarah Norman Walton had four children. vi. Amanda E. Rush, born 1828, Alontgomery County, AL, died 26 July 1844, married John

G. Harris, vii. Benjamin Andrew Rush, born 2 June 1830, Alontgomery County, AL, died 5 June 1903,

married (1) Martha Pace in Harris County, Georgia, (2) Ellen Rivers of Suggsville, Alabama.

viii. John Wesley Rush, born 22 Alarch 1833, Oak Grove Mount, Montgomery County, AL, died 6 October 1905, Covington, GA, married on 25 April 1854, in Oxford, GA, Octavia Osgood Andrew, born 28 November 1835, died 6 November 1917.

ix. Alary Ellen Rush married Felix Ashle.

Genera t ion 6

DAVID CHARLES RUSH6 (Charles George, George, Karl/Charles, Hans Georg, Johannes) was born 4 March 1824 in Autauga Count)', Alabama, and died 25 June 1867 in a drowning accident in the Buttahatchee River near Columbus, Mississippi. He married63 19 December 1850, Lowndes County, Mississippi, SUSAN E L I Z A B E T H GREER, born 14 February 1831, Lowndes County, Mississippi, died 7 November 1889, Lowndes County, Mississippi. Both are buried in the Greer-Rush-Nelson Burying Grounds on what is now Columbus Air Force Base, Mississippi.64

David Charles Rush was the fifth child of Charles George Rush and Elizabeth DeBardeleben Rush. He was born about six years after his family had settled near Prattville, Alabama. When he was less than three years old, his mother died. Shortly after this, his father re-married to a widow with children of her own. Nevertheless, David Charles must have had a good childhood, with many children around, as his father and stepmother also adopted several children in addition to their previous families and four children of their own. Other than these circumstances, we do not know much of his early life. He probably went to Lowndes County, Alississippi to visit his sister, Julia Ann

""' "Mississippi Genealogy and Local History, Volume 2," 1970, page 10 references Lowndes Co Book 3, page 344. "' Letter to author dated 19 June 1987 from Wing Historian, 14th Fighter Training Wing, Department of the Air Force, provided detailed background and location information on the cemetery.

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Rush, who married William Cox, a planter in that area. There he met his future wife.

At age 26, he married Susan Elizabeth Greer on 19 December 1850 at her father's residence in Lowndes County. She came from a large Greer-Nash family and her father, Henry Greer, owned a plantation north of Columbus, Mississippi. Both of her parents had long established family lineages. In the 1850 Census,65 Henry (age 50, born GA) reported owning 690 acres with his wife Essa (37, born SC), Susan Elizabeth (18), and five other children. In the 1860 Census,66 the Henry Greer, Jr. family shows Henry and his family, and listed at the same location are David C. Rush, age 37, his wife Susan, and children: Blanche (Julia Blanche, age 9), Helen (Essie Helen, or "Helia," age 6), and Sarah (Sarah Anne, age 2). Both families apparently lived together near Caladonia, Lowndes County, Afississippi, which is about 15 miles north of Columbus. "The Greer house was located near the intersection of the Barton's Ferry-Caledonia Road and the Old Columbus-Aberdeen Road," according to Clayton Greer of College Station, Texas, a Greer family researcher.

Most of what we know of David Charles Rush comes to us from his daughter, Julia Blanche. The following sketch67 is by Julia Blanche Powell, apparently written for local publication shordy before her death in 1939 in Waco, Texas.

DAVID CHARLES RUSH - Born Alarch 4, 1824, died June 25, 1867

David Charles Rush was the son of Charles George Rush, who came from North Carolina to Alabama, malting his home in Tuskeegee (sic). A large family was the heritage of this great man, all prominent officials in the Alethodist Episcopal Church South. Dr. John Wesley Rush, who married Octavia Andrew, daughter of Bishop James Osgood Andrew, one of the younger sons, was a Alethodist minister and President of an Alabama Female College. The father of David Charles Rush was a man of great decision and character. He was a friend of the widow and orphan. Besides rearing a large family of his own, he took into his home five orphans whose parents had died in their childhood. The marker on his grave was placed by the LeGrand family and on his tombstone in the family cemetery in Tuskeegee (sic), Alabama, may be seen the following inscription: (see Charles George Rush)

David Charles Rush when a young man came from Alabama to Mississippi with his oldest sister, Julia Ann Rush, who had married a wealthy Alississippi planter, William Cox. Shortly after making his home in Mississippi he married Susan Elizabeth Greer, daughter of Henry Greer, Sr, a Mississippi pioneer.

David Charles Rush, like his father, was a stern man - a man of good works, a builder of schools and churches. Five children were born to David and Susan Rush, as follows: Julia Blanche Rush (Mrs. J.B. Powell, Waco, Texas); Essie Helen Rush, deceased,

65 "Census of 1850, Lowndes County, Mississippi," Family #192. 6 "Census of I860, Lowndes County, Mississippi," Family #370.

Paper in possession of author and may have been written for a Waco, Texas historical organization.

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(Mrs. Robert Stoddard, later Airs. Robert Houston, Aberdeen, Afississippi); Sarah Ann Rush, deceased, (Mrs. Leonard Burke, later Mrs. Dorsey Gilmore, Memphis, Tennessee); Henry Greer Rush, (Marlin, Texas); and Charles Wesley Rush, (Marlin, Texas).

David Charles Rush enlisted in the war between the States as a private in Company "C," 2nd Battalion, Alississippi Infantry, under Captain Randle Blewett, Columbus, Alississippi, in 1861. At the surrender he was in the Consolidated 48th Mississippi Regiment under Thomas Harrison, Adjutant. He was sent to Virginia, where he fought under General Robert E. Lee in the battles around Richmond, Seven Pines, and Fair Oaks. He surrendered with Lee at Appomattox. After the surrender, the railroads having been torn up by Sherman in his march to the sea, David C. Rush had to walk all the way from Virginia to his plantation near Columbus, Mississippi.

The negroes on the plantation were all rejoiced to see 'Alarse Davy.' Soon the Emancipation Proclamation was issued by the President, and David C. Rush called all the plantation negroes together and told them they were free and could from now on go and come as they pleased, or they could remain as hired laborers on the plantation. Not one chose to leave. All worked co-operatively under the over-seers, worked as free men and received their pay, and were happy. The owners of the Greer estate having died during the war and immediately thereafter, David Charles Rush was appointed administrator of that estate. Before completing his task, he was drowned in his own mill-race on the Buttahatchie River.

The editor added comments on Julia Blanche:

This sketch was written by Mrs. J.B. Powell, (Julia Blanche Rush Powell of Waco, Texas). Airs. Powell is the oldest of the five children of David C. Rush. She was reared in the atmosphere of the old south of pre-war times. She knew at first hand much of the war and the Reconstruction days, enjoying the luxuries of the old southern plantation as well as experiencing the hardships of war and the Reconstruction period. It was her privilege to receive a college education in the home of Dr. John Wesley Rush and his wife Octavia Andrew Rush, of Marion, Ala. Her Father, David Charles Rush, was drowned while she was away from home at College. Marrying a Confederate veteran, Smith Powell of Columbus, Mississippi, she came to Texas with her family ot three sons and settled near Waco. Here she has lived to be 88 Years ot age - a long life of activity and rich memories.

Research into Civil War records on David Charles Rush has been difficult because the official records at the National Archives contain only his service from 1864 through Lee's surrender in April 1865.6S However, we know from his daughter David Charles Rush enlisted in Blewett's Company in

,s Confederate service information obtained from the following sources: (1) "Archives of Mississippi Confederates," Roll 420, The National Archives; (2) "Military I listorv of Mississippi, 1803-1898," by Dunbar Rowland, The Reprint Company, Spartanburg, SC, 1988; (3) "Compendium of The Confederate Armies, Mississippi," by Stewart Sifakis, 1995;

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1861.

The 2nd Alississippi Infantry Battalion was originally organized as a five-company unit in Jackson, Mississippi, in the summer of 1861. Blewett's Company enlisted at Columbus in July 1861, with 105 men signing up from Lowndes County. The unit moved to Richmond, Virginia and, not long after, was mustered into service. An order was issued by the War Department (CSA) on 16 October 1861: "The following independent companies of Mississippi Volunteers will constitute a battalion: Captain Lee's, Captain Blewett's, Captain Love's, Captain Crutcher's, Captain Blackwell's."69 John G. Taylor was in command of the battalion, which was reported as embracing seven companies on 13 December 1861. Shortly afterward, the battalion was ordered to Yorktown and as of 1 February 1862 they were on garrison duty at Dam No. 1. The battalion was involved in the Siege of Yorktown from 5 April-4 May 1862. They were detached from any brigade and were in Early's division, D. H. Hill's Corps. On 19 April they were reported as 275 effectives, armed with Enfield rifles, under General Rodes, in the entrenched line near Yorktown again. With a Florida regiment "they made a brilliant sortie from the lines, dislodging the enemy from the Palmentry Peach Orchard." They evacuated that line on 4 May, and marched through the streets of Williamsburg on 5 May, but were called back by a Federal attack on General Longstreet. They were sent to the right of Longstreet's line and went into the fight at 5 PM on 5 May, suffering 5 killed, 30 wounded, and 6 missing. They fell back on Richmond and later in May were placed on outpost duty on the Williamsburg Road and were in frequent skirmishes. In preparation for the attack that brought on the battle of Fair Oaks, or Seven Pines, on 31 May, the 2nd Battalion, about 300 strong, were deployed as skirmishers and advanced through the tangled undergrowth and ponds and bogs of the forest, finding and driving back the Federal skirmishers. Many of the Mississippians became mingled with the battle lines and became separated from their unit. Five privates were recommended for the badge of honor, and casualties were 1 killed and 26 wounded. They were involved in the Seven Days Battles, 25 June—1 July 1862, and the 2nd Battalion again went into battle on 27 June at Beaver Dam Creek, or Gaines Mill, advancing toward Cold Harbor. They were in battle again that day on the Chickahominy near Gaines's house. The Alississippi brigade, under heavy fire, charged up a steep hill upon a Federal command posted in the edge of a forest, forcing the enemy back in hand-to-hand fighting. The 2nd Battalion Commander, Lieutenant Colonel Taylor, and David Charles Rush's company commander, Captain Blewett, were killed in this fighting. In the two battles the battalion lost 22 killed and 91 wounded. On 30 June, near Alalvern Hill, units of the battalion were involved in battles at Glendale, Nelson's Farm, Frazier's Farm, Charles City Crossroads, New Alarket Crossroads, and Wills Church, Virginia. On 23 July 1862 they were assigned to the Sixth Brigade, Longstreet's Division, Army of Northern Virginia. This brigade fought in the Second Battle of Alanassas (Second Bull Run) on 30 August, fighting in the vicinity of the stone house. The brigade loss was 26 killed and 142 wounded. The 2nd Battalion was then involved in the Alaryland Campaign from 6 to 22 September 1862. They took part in an action at Maryland Heights, Maryland, 12-13 September, and in the siege and capture of Harper's Ferry, West Virginia on 13 September. They then participated in the Battle of

(4) "Forty-Eighth Regiment-Infantry," Jackson CWRT monthly newsletter, Series 16, Volume 1, page 7, The Jackson Civil War Roundtable, Inc., Jackson, MS, September, 1978; (5) Regimental Histories of the Second Mississippi Infantry Battalion and the Forty-eighth Mississippi Regiment, files of the Confederate Research Center, Hill Community College, Hillsboro, TX. 69 Sifakis, Stewart, "Compendium of the Confederate Armies, Mississippi," Facts on File, Ine, New York, 1995, Pages 70-71.

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\ntietam, Sharpsburg, Maryland, on 16-17 September, and the battalion loss was 5 killed and 55 mnded. From 26 October to 10 November the battalion participated in operations in Loudon,

Faquier, and Rappahannock Counties, Virginia. In mid-November 1862 the 2nd Alississippi Infantry Battalion was mustered out of service, and the units were mustered into a new regiment designated the 48th Alississippi Infantry.7"

We aren't sure how much of this fighting David Charles Rush participated in. Julia Blanche mentions Fair Oaks, or Seven Pines, yet fails to mention other major battles in 1862. He may have been wounded in the fierce fighting or may have mustered out with the 2nd Alississippi Infantry Battalion. We can assume that he was with his wife, Susan, probably at the Greer plantation, in late February 1863 - nine months before the birth of his youngest son, Charles Wesley Rush, I, born 1 December 1863. When Henry B. Greer, Jr. died intestate in 1860, David C. Rush was named administrator. The author believes he participated in estate affairs during 1863 and into 1864, perhaps remaining out of military sendee by justification of wounds or with legal right as estate administrator. In the 3 February 1864 report, the value of the whole Greer estate in the final accounting was 528,904.24, of which 521,200 was in slave property.

David Charles Rush re-enlisted in Columbus as a Private in Company D, 1st State Troops, on 18 August 1864. Then, in Columbus, on 28 November 1864, he re-enlisted in Company C, 48th Alississippi Infantry Regiment and re-joined the surviving members of the 2nd Battalion. The Regiment had been created at Fredricksburg in late November 1862 assigned to the Army of Northern Virginia. By the time David Charles joined them, the)' had fought numerous engagements and were positioned in siege operations around Petersburg and Richmond. He next appears on a Register of the General Hospital, Howard's Grove, Richmond, Virginia, admitted on 23 February 1865 with "remittent fever," transferred to Farmville (one register says "Danville," but Farmville is probably correct) on 4 April 1865. On one Register entry he is listed as assigned to Company C, Harris' brigade, Captain Chuckelfoot's Company; while on another Register he is listed as being in Company G. Given the confusion of the time, this is understandable. During the last of October 1864 the 48th Alississippi was south of Richmond at the engagement of Hatcher's Run. From 5-7 February 1865 they participated in the battles of Dabney's Alills, Hatcher's Run, Armstrong's Mills, Rowanty Creek, and Vaughn - all immediately south of Richmond. When David Charles left the hospital and rejoined the unit on 4 April 1865 at Farmville, General Robert E. Lee's Army was just days from surrender. The last official record lists D. C. Rush, Private, Company C, 48th Regiment, Mississippi, ". . . appearing on a List of Prisoners of War, belonging to the Army of the Confederate states, who have been this day (list dated 13 April 1865) surrendered by General Robert E. Lee, C.S.A., Commanding said Army, to Lieut. Genl. U.S. Grant, Commanding Armies of the United States. Paroled at Lynchberg, Va., April 15, 1865."

David Charles Rush then walked back to his home near Columbus, probably arriving in late May or June 1865, where he began to pick up his life. He was 41 years old; his wife, Susan, was 34; his oldest child, Julia Blanche, was 14; and his youngest child, Charles Wesley Rush, I, the author's grandfather, was one and a half years old. Exactly two years later, on 25 June 1867, he drowned in his own millrace on the Buttahatchie River.

711 Ibid, Sifakas, pages 138-139.

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On 1 August 1867, grantors of the Greer-Rush estate conveyed two acres for a church and cemetery to the trustees of Andrew Chapel. The present day cemetery on Columbus AFB where David C. Rush is buried is known as the Greer-Rush-Nelson Burying Grounds, and is owned by the city of Columbus and Lowndes County. There are 45 marked/5 unmarked graves in the plot and the Ait-Force maintains it. The author placed a veteran's marker on David Charles Rush's grave on 3 May 2004.

Issue of David Charles Rush and Susan Elizabeth Greer:71

i. Julia Blanche Rush, born 30 Nov 1851, Columbus, Lowndes County, AIS, died 30 October 1939, Waco, McLennan County, TX, married on 21 December 1870 Smith Powell, born 21 June 1845.

ii. Essie Hellen Rush, born 4 October 1854, Columbus, Lowndes County, MS, married (1) on 21 November 1875 Robert Stoddard, born 16 August 1850, died 10 September 1929, and (2) Captain Robert Houston,

iii. Sarah Ann Rush, born 17 January 1858, Columbus, Lowndes County, AIS, died 23 June 1924, Memphis, Shelby County, T N , married (1) on 3 October 1883 Leonard Burke, born 26 June 1856 and (2) Dorsey Gilmore.

iv. Henry Greer Rush, born 12 December 1860, Columbus, Lowndes County, MS, died 23 Alarch 1944, Alarlin, Falls County, TX, married on 12 February 1889 at Columbus, AIS, George Mable Cole, born 10 January 1865, died 4 February 1952.

+ v. Charles Wesley Rush, I, born 1 December 1863, Columbus, Lowndes County, MS, died 9 October 1949, Marlin, Falls County, TX, married on 23 April 1889 in Marlin, Falls County, TX, Hinda de Graffenried, born 7 July 1869, Roundtop, Fayette County, TX, died 17 May 1960, Marlin, Falls County, TX.

Genera t ion 7

CHARLES WESLEY RUSH, I,7 (David Charles, Charles George, George, Karl/Charles, Hans Georg, Johannes), was born 1 December 1863 near Columbus, Lowndes County, Mississippi, and died 9 October 1949 in Marlin, Falls County, Texas. On 23 April 1889, in Alarlin, he married H I N D A d e G R A F F E N R I E D , born 7 July 1868 in Roundtop, Fayette County, Texas, and died 17 May 1960, Marlin, Falls County, Texas.72 Both are buried in the Rush family plot in Calvary Cemetery, Marlin, Texas.

Charles Wesley Rush I, was born on the family plantation in Lowndes County, Mississippi when the Civil War had been going on for two years. He received his first name from both his father and grandfather, and his middle name from his father's brother. His father served in the Civil War and was killed in a drowning accident when Charles was 3 1/2 years old. The family suffered hard times in the aftermath of the Civil War, with the non-slave estate value falling from $7,700 in 1864 to just $640 in 1870.73 Charles left Mississippi in 1880, at age 17, in search of work. He ended up in Falls

71 Bible of Susan G. Rush in possession of author. 72 Births, deaths, marriage data from the Rush family Bible and written testimony of I linda Rush, in possession of the author. 73 "Census of 1870, Lowndes County, Mississippi" shows that the value of Susan Greer's household was S640, whereas the 1864 probated estate value (not counting slaves) was $7,700.

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County, Texas, initially living with either Essa Greer Clay or Emma Greer Wilkins, both sisters of his mother and both thought to be in Falls County at that time (also in Falls County at that time were John Greer and Crawford Greer, brothers of Charles Wesley Rush's grandfather, Henry B. Greer, Jr.). Charles then worked for a Air. Gaines (probably Sidney Gaines, who married Jenna deGraffenried) near Chilton in Falls County. In 1881 he made his way to Alarlin where he was befriended by Captain H. G. Carter, for whom he worked in a cotton yard for two years. In 1885, after a year at Marvin College in Waxahachie, Texas, he went to work in a Alarlin hardware store owned by Tom S. Sims. Later he worked in the hardware business of W. AI. Gunnell. In 1891 he formed a new hardware store with his brother, Henry G. Rush, the store known as Rush Brothers Hardware. In 1894 they added a partner, Walter Gardner. In 1900 they moved to a new building (still standing) on Alain Street, and in 1901 they added one more partner, J.W. Bartlett, the firm legally named Rush, Gardner, & Bartlett. Charles W. Rush was prominent in Alarlin and Falls County affairs during his almost 70 years in the area. He was a Trustee on the Board of Alarlin Independent School District for a number of years; Chairman of the Draft Registration Board during World War I; Chairman of the Liberty Bond Drive; Chairman of the Falls County American Red Cross; and he served as a director and President of the Marlin Chamber of Commerce and Commercial Club. He was an original proponent of the development of Falls County roads. He was known prominently throughout the state by those engaged in the hardware and furniture business, and was an original member of the Texas Hardware and Implement Association. Charles W. Rush married Hinda de Graffenried on 23 April 1889 in Marlin. They had five children. He died in Alarlin on 9 October 1949. He and his wife are buried in the Rush family plot, Calvary Cemetery, Marlin.

From an interview with Charles Rush in "The Daily Democrat" newspaper, Marlin, Texas, 4 Alay 1939 (interviewed after their 50th wedding anniversary).

Why, I've sold hundreds and hundreds of buggies, wagons, saddles, and harness. And coal-oil lamps,' Mr. Rush said in a reminiscent mood, 'and incidentally, our firm sold the first three automobiles that came to Falls County — old Number 1, 2, and 3 — before the time it was necessary to register cars. They were one cylinder Pope-Hartfords. The buyers were the late Dr. W. H. Allen, Dr. J. C. Snead, and Dr. J. W. Torbett. But hardware business was our line — and while we investigated the sale of automobiles, sold a few and later, some accessories and tires, we've stayed with our line.' Mr. Rush is an enthusiastic golf player and derives special satisfaction in defeating younger men in years at the game. He has a keen sense of humor and is known for his firm convictions and tolerance of others. Pressed for a comparison of conditions in 1889 and 1939, he said, 'Well, everything is much better and more luxurious now than then. Fifteen dollars a week was a high salary for a young man to draw in 1889. I worked a long time for that amount - or less - and, believe it or not, saved most of it. And another thing - we worked hard those days. There were no short working days or holidays or maximum hours and minimum wages. We worked early and late - and kept at it.

Excerpts from an interview with Charles and Hinda Rush in "The Daily Democrat" newspaper, Marlin, Texas, 23 April 1949 (interviewed for their 60th wedding anniversary).

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. . . Mr. Rush is 86 years old. Mrs. Rush is 80 . . . Mr. Rush continues to go to the office of the Rush-Gardner and Bartlett hardware firm he founded here 58 years ago with his brother, the late Henry Rush. He usually goes to his office two hours or so each morning. On any fine day this Spring, Mrs. Rush can be seen working with her flowers in the yard of their home at 326 Capps Street. Their hair whitened by the years, both are erect and straight of limb. . . . Born two years before the end of the Civil War, in the Mississippi of the Old South, Mr. Rush, in mein and manner, still carries the stamp of dignity that era gave to its menfolk. A native Texan, Airs. Rush, likewise, carries the mark of the pioneer Texas woman. That is an indelible imprint of strength and daintiness combined; of heartiness and gumption, yet of graciousness and charm; of a beauty that mellows with living; and, finally, of an apparent deference to their menfolk. The word 'apparent' is used advisedly.

Mrs. Rush thought it only proper to tell the facts in connection with Mr. Rush's coming to Texas . . .[He] didn't agree. He waved a hand and said no one would be interested in those things. Airs. Rush, of course, deferred to her husband - in the manner of Texas women — and the matter was thus brought to a close - for the time being. A few moments later, while Air. Rush was filling his pipe and reminiscing, Airs. Rush proceeded with her story, quietly and as an aside so as not to interfere with her husband's train of thought. . . . Mr. Rush's thoughts suddenly took a new turn in his reminiscing. Interrupting Airs. Rush's conversation, he said, 'It's no fun growing old.' 'What he means,' Mrs. Rush volunteered, 'is that we miss having children — ours and the neighborhood children — in and out of our house at all hours. That is what we miss most of all — youth around us. That's what Air. Rush means when he says it's no fun growing old.'

From a hand written letter by Hinda de Graffenried Rush, dated 22 April 1950 (six months after Charles W. Rush died).

A small part of the life of a truly self made man - whose motto was 'Honesty and fair dealing.'

Charles Wesley Rush was born Dec 1st 1863 on a small farm in Miss, near Columbus. His father was drowned when he was about three years old. His mother was left with three daughters & two sons, he being the youngest child. As long as he could remember his greatest desire was to have an education. In those days schools were very scarce & crude, so about all he got, was to read & write a little. When he was 15 years old - hoping to make money enough to go to school - he worked for a man on a near by farm one spring and summer and with the money he made he went to school in Columbus, Miss, for a few months and the next spring & summer he worked on another farm and made $60.00. When he got home with his money he found a relative there from Texas, who persuaded him to come to Texas with him. He arrived in Marlin with $3.00. Was met by a son of his uncle in a wagon, who was hauling groceries to a small store near their home west of the Brazos river. He was received with open arms by his aunt, his mother's sister. But to his surprise he found

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her with six or seven children, and living in a two room log house, an opening in one end for a chimney, with a wagon sheet hanging over it. So of course his first work was to help build a dirt and stick chimney, and help the boys pick cotton to earn his board. You can imagine how his heart sunk to his feet when he realized there was nothing in sight there for a living for him and he would have to hit the road and try to find work somewhere to make a living for himself. With some help from his uncle (his mother's bro. in law) he walked and rode for weeks. And finally after so long, he stopped at Col. Gaines' at Chilton, Tex. who told him he needed a man the following Spring to help put in his crop but couldn't pay him until the crop was gathered. So of course he accepted as he had to have a place to eat. He lived in the Gaines family, and was treated very nice, and eventually got his money. After the summer was over he was out of a job again, so with an extra suit of clothes tied in a bandana handkerchief, he hit the road again. With no place in view except to go by to see his aunt, but fortunately he heard Capt Carter needed a man in Marlin to run his cotton yard, his first streak of real good luck. As he got the job for $15.00 a month and a good home in the Carter family. Airs. Carter was like a mother to him. Capt Carter was real kind and gave him helpful advise. Each month he put all of his $15.00 in the bank except $1.50 which he gave to a negro woman to do his laundry.

So after about two years Capt C. was sending his boys to Aiarvin College at Waxahachi, so advised him to go too. Also told him if his money gave out to check on him. He went only part of the year, came back to Alarlin with no job, but stayed in the Carter home a short time, and soon got a job with Air. Tom Sims in his hardware store where he worked for I don't know how long for $50.00 per month. Mr. and Mrs. Sims were grand to him and he made many friends, and soon came to be one of the leading young men of the town. This is where I (Hinda deGraffenried) came in the picture. My mother moved to Marlin from Chilton the last part of 1887. The next day after we got there I met him for the first time. I already had many friends here, but after quite a while I decided he was the truest and one of them all, so on Apr 23rd 1889 we were married, at which time Air. & Airs. Sims gave us a big reception at their home. At the time of our marriage he had only $300.00 and a job for $50.00 per month. Right at once we put the $300.00 as first payment on a little home. I think we gave only $500.00 for it. Our first baby Chas Wesley Rush Jr. was born March 12 1890. Several months after his birth, Mr. Sims decided he would go out of business later on. So I am sure it was thru his advice or consent, Mr. Rush got a job with Wm Guemel (Gunnell) Hardware Co. for $78.00 per month. We spent quite a happy year and a half in our little home with our first baby. O n September 8, 1891 he died. Late that fall after his death we sold our home. His Bro. Henry G. Rush living next door sold his home, so they bought the Sims Hardware stock, and started Rush Bros. Hardware Co. I can't remember the exact date, but am sure it was the Fall of 1891. They struggled alone for several years without even a porter, did wonderfully well, but later on with ambition to do better, they decided to take in a partner, Mr. Walter Gardner. So for a no. of years they went by the name of Rush Bros & Gardner and had J. W. Bartlett for a book keeper. They were going so well Mr. Bartlett decided he would like to have some stock too, so after selling him stock

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they changed the name again to Rush, Gardner, Bartlett Co. Tho after Mr. Bartlett's death C. W. Rush bought Air. Gardner's stock which gave him controlling interest. Am sorry I can't remember dates. As so many things have taken place since Rush Bros, first started business. They made several moves, added furniture, and at one time undertaking. They sold the undertaking to H. G. Rush. Their last move was into the building they are now in which was built and now owned by Rush Gardner Bartlett Co.

The next few years after the death of our first baby we were blessed with four more sweet children - Gussie, Dimple, Sallie Burke & Henry. It was his ambition to educate them. His girls made teachers and Henry finished Business and book keeping in Poughkeepsie N.Y. He wanted his boy to grow up and work in the store with him. The first job he gave him was to sweep the sidewalk in front of the store when he was 10 years old (His Dad paid him out of his own pocket). After he finished school he worked in the store some at times, after his Dad bought the Gardner stock and got control, he was able to give him a permanent job, as Vice President & assistant manager. Just before his death October 9, 1949 he gave me his assurance that Henry was fully capable of managing the business and for me to go to him for all advise. Aug. 1950. (Note at bottom: 'My Mother was 82 years old when she wrote this. H.D.R.')

From "My memories of 'Pappo' (Charles W. Rush) and 'Nannie' (Hinda Rush)," by grandson Wayne Broehl ("Junior"), March 2, 1994.

My brother Buzz ('Bubbie') and I spent at least several weeks at Nannie and Pappo's house every summer from age one to age eighteen. [Author's note: 1922—1940] One summer, when our mother and father went to a Rotary Convention in Nice, France, we spent most of the summer in Marlin, under the complete charge of them. When I was eighteen and Buzz was seventeen we drove our own little 1936 Ford all the way from Illinois for a visit of about a month. Needless to say, the earlier days were spent close to 326 Capps Street, building massive toy car roads in the sandbox out back (near the side of the old garage that housed Pappo's 1930 Ford Model A Coupe), putting the cat next door in the U.S. mailbox out front on the corner (Nannie had a fit over this), and eating tons of Nannie's sugar cookies [which] would already be baked — maybe 200 or so — and put in the lower drawer of one of the kitchen cabinets, one with a tin sliding top. In the evening, after dark, almost every night, Pappo would get the Ford out, Buzz and I sitting on the front seat next to him, and go out to 'Rabbit Alley,' the easternmost street in Marlin, right at the edge of the country. Invariably, we would see one or two rabbits in those two or three blocks. Then we would drive downtown to see the long freight train go through town, about 8:15 P.A1. The store was simply wonderful - we would spend hours there, roaming all over (especially in the fishing department). Henry was always there, too, and both of us adored him just as much as Pappo (I think the two of them had an enormous influence on our growth as children). Pappo would come home every noon, and we would have the big meal of the day. Then Pappo would go into the bedroom and

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take a nap - usually an hour or so. Everyone had to be very quiet then. In the evenings, he would sit in the rocking chair in the back sitting room, reading the Dallas News and listening to the radio. He would seldom play with us, in the conventional sense, but he interacted with us all the time. Truly a wonderful man! On the other hand, Nannie was involved with us all the time, and really watched over us like a mother hen. She and 'Old Emma,' the maid for just about all these years, were in the kitchen almost all the time during the morning, but Nannie had eyes in the back of her head, and always knew where we were. She was so interested in us, telling us so many stories and little bits of Marlin history. And she was so loving. . . . 1 loved our many summers there and have deep fondness for Nannie and Pappo. They were truly great grandparents. Alay God continue to bless them!

From "Charles and Hinda Rush," by grandson Charles Rush Broehl, March 1994.

My contact with my grandparents Charles and Hinda Rush were limited to our yearly visits to Marlin for a month or so every summer, but we always stayed with them in the little house on Capps Street, so our contact was infrecjuent, but concentrated. Nannie always seemed so glad to see us, and Pappoo, too, although he was much more reserved about it. One of the first things she did was to call Sally [Williford] and Henry to tell them we had arrived. I can still hear Nannies' voice as she gave the operator Sally's number: '2-1-8.' And after supper Pappoo sitting in his chair by the radio, filling his pipe from the red Prince Albert can, and lighting and relighting his pipe with wooden matches. Mart)' nights after supper he would go out and work in his garden, which was quite a good size; hoeing the weeds out, and watering the vegetables. Nannie was always buzzing around making sure everyone was enjoying the visit, and telling Emma how to do everything. The big meal, of course, was dinner at noon, and Emma would bring in the food, which always included a big, steaming bowl of grits. And always a blessing before we ate.

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Memories of my grandfather, Charles W. Rush, by grandson Dick McMahan, 6 June 2008.

1 would have to say my most outstanding memory of Papoo comes from the mid to late 1930s and involves Senator Tom Connally [Thomas Connally, 1877-1963: US House of Representatives 1917-1929 and US Senate 1929-1953] of Alarlin. He was one of the real power brokers in Washington during the early 1900s. The senate was not in session during the summer and Senator Connally came back home to Alarlin for the summer. One summer I spent several weeks with Papoo and Nannie. Several times in the late evening, Senator Connally called Papoo and invited him for a drink. Papoo and I would walk to his house. When we got there, the door would be answered by Senator Connally's manservant and we would be ushered into the Senator's office-sitting room. The servant brought a Hot Toddy to Papoo and Senator Connally and a lemonade to me. I felt like such a grown up. I also knew without a doubt that I was in the company of a great and important man. I think that this says something about how Papoo felt about his grandchildren. I doubt that man\- men would have included a child in his visits to this important figure. Papoo

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did not play with his grandchildren, but he spent lots of quality time with us.

Nannie was the real caretaker and expert on childcare. The story was told that one of the (grandchildren's) mothers asked Nannie how she was able to get us to do what she wanted so easily. She replied, 'It's easy. You just find out what they want to do then tell them to do it.' In my mind, it's hard to separate Nannie and (the maid) Emma. I think that Emma was there during my entire childhood. It must have been sad when they parted.

From "Memories of Nannie and Granddaddy Rush," by granddaughter Dimple Williford Welch, July 2008.

I also grew up playing up and down the stairs at the store, and the real treat was to ride the big freight elevator. Everybody called Granddaddy, 'Mr. Charlie.' I spent (many) Sunday afternoons sitting in chairs outside the Country Club clubhouse with Nannie's lady friends waiting for Granddaddy to finish his round of golf. Then we would go home and eat leftovers from the big Sunday lunch and listen to Jack Benny and Amos and Andy on the radio. I remember hearing about Pearl Harbor at their house after one of those Sunday dinners. When I spent the night during the winter, Nanny would warm a flannel blanket in front of the gas stove and put it in between the cold sheets. Then she would tell me stories about her childhood until I fell asleep. One of the stories was about her walking to school barefoot, carrying her shoes so they wouldn't get dusty. Her family had a well down by the road in which was a jar of buttermilk (suspended) by a rope for passersby. Nanny said that as a young lady being 'courted' by young men meant receiving notes hand-delivered by servants since there were no telephones. They were very formal requests for permission to call. Naturally, the visits were well chaperoned. Nanny had a rose garden beside the house with bushes full of pink cabbage roses which she cut for the house and paired with asparagus fern. The black maid, Emma, walked to and from work every day and was paid the handsome sum of $4.00 a week. They also had a yard man, Will, who was fed on the back porch in a tin plate. They called each other 'Miss Hinda' and 'Air. Rush.' Another memory 1 have is Emma bringing Granddaddy a Toddy before lunch - a jigger of whiskey in a little fruit juice glass and a little glass of water as a chaser. When Granddaddy was in the hospital and very ill, he told one of his children he was ready to go because they had taken away his Toddy. I really feel lucky I was around my grandparents throughout my childhood - they were great role models and a big influence on my life.

From "Alemories of Granddaddy Rush," by grandson Charles W. Rush III, December 2008.

Granddaddy died before I was ten years old, but I do remember some things. I would see him at The Store -Rush, Gardner & Bartlett - where I spent a lot of time running up and down the wooden steps and swinging from ropes on the old freight elevator. Granddaddy smoked a pipe, and he would break off straws from the brooms sold in the store and use them to clean out the tar that accumulated in his pipe stem. Daddy warned me not to pick them up because they were very dirty. Granddaddy would buy me bottle drinks that were sold from a red Coke machine in

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the store for a nickel. Although Granddaddy was very old he would come into the store every day. 1 recall his bow tie, dark suit, and a vest with a gold chain attached to his pocket watch. I can still remember his laugh. I found his very elaborate signature on store papers and tried to copy it since my name was the same. He had a beautiful handwriting that I compared to John Hancock's we find on the Declaration of Independence. At his home, Granddaddy liked to have me sit on his knee, and he would tell me stories of when he was my age. I remember him saying that he had hunted rabbits for his family to eat, and I wanted to be a rabbit hunter also. Once, I asked him if he had any money in his pocket, and he gave me a fifty-cent coin. He laughed when I asked, 'Is that all you have?' Nannie told me that was all Granddaddy had in his pocket when he walked to Texas from Mississippi as a boy. I remember Granddaddy's fingers curled into his palm and hurt when I tried to straighten them (probably a disease called Dupuytren's Contracture). He was very partial to me because 1 was the youngest grandchild and the only male with the Rush name. At his funeral, I had to leave the Adams Funeral Home service because I was crying so hard. After researching his life and times, I know my Grandfather was a successful, self-made man who worked very hard in his life. I think he was very demanding of my father, Henry Rush. He was an astute businessman. Everyone liked and respected 'Mister Charlie,' as he was called. I wish I had known him as an adult.

The children of Charles Wesley Rush, I and Hinda deGraffenried were.74

i. Charles Wesley Rush, |t\, born 12 Alarch 1890, Alarlin, Falls County, TX, died 8 September 1891, Marlin, Falls County, TX.

ii. Susan Augusta Rush, born 15 November 1892, Alarlin, Falls County, TX, died 18 March 1986, Whitney, Hill County, TX, married on 20 December 1919 in Waco, McLennan County, TX, Walter T. McAIahan, born 6 December 1892, Fowler, Bosque County, Texas, died 25 August 1963, Whitney, Hill Count)', TX.

iii. Dimple jenna Rush, born 4 N o v 1895, Alarlin, Falls County, TX, died 11 January 1973, Peoria, Peoria County, IL, married (1) on 7 June 1917 in Memphis, T N , Irby Curry, born Marlin, Falls County, TX, died (KIA) 10 August 1918 in France, and (2) on 22 October 1920 in Waco, McLennan County, TX, Wayne G. Broehl, b o m 26 May 1893, Pana, Christian County, IL, died 25 August 1964, Peoria, Peoria County, IL.

iv. Sallie Burke Rush, born 28 May 1899, Marlin, Falls County, TX, died 17 March 1985 Marlin, Falls County, TX, married on 21 June 1923 in Alarlin, Falls County, TX, Samuel Williford, born 15 March 1898, Carrollton, Carroll County, MS, died 17 September 1971, Marlin, Falls County, TX.

+ v. Henry David Rush, born 10 August 1902, Marlin, Falls County, TX, died 10 April 1982, Marlin, Falls County, TX, married on 17 September 1927 in Alarlin, Falls County, TX, Octavia Lillian Allen, born 3 December 1903, Alarlin, Falls County, TX, died 16 November 1987, Marlin, Falls Count)', TX.

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Genera t ion 8

HENRY DAVID RUSH8 (Charles Wesley, David Charles, Charles George, George, Karl/ Charles, Hans Georg, Johannes) was born 10 August 1902 in Marlin, Falls County, Texas and died 10 April 1982 in Marlin. He married OCTAVIA LILLIAN ALLEN on 17 September 1927. She was born in Marlin 3 December 1903 and died in Waco, McLennan County, Texas 16 November 1987. Both are buried in the Rush family plot, Calvary Cemetery, Marlin, Texas.

Henry David Rush was born to parents who had suffered hard times and succeeded through hard work. He had three sisters and his stern father was determined that they would all have a good education. Henry graduated from Marlin High School at age 16 in June, 1919. He entered Texas A & AI College, a military school very prominent in Texas. In his second year at college, he began dating 16-year-old Octavia Allen from Alarlin. Henry finished his third year at A & M, then, under the direction of his father, traveled to Poughkeepsie, New York in 1923 where he completed a six-month business course at Eastman College. He apprenticed for a short time with Winchester Arms in New Haven, Connecticut. From 1926-1931 he traveled as a representative for the International Silver Company, Texas and Louisiana District. In 1927 he married Octavia Allen whom he had been dating since they were teenagers. Henry joined his father's hardware firm in Marlin, Rush, Gardner & Bartlett, in 1931 as First Vice President, then served as President from 1949-1967 when he retired. Active and prominent in this business, he was elected President, Texas Hardware and Implement Association 1946-1947, having served as VP 1945-46. He served as Director of the Alarlin Chamber of Commerce and of the Rotary Club. During World War II, he served as chairman of several War Bond drives. Henry and Octavia had many friends during their years in Marlin. He died as a result of complications from an operation for throat cancer on 10 April 1982.

The following are excerpts from a memoir written by Octavia Rush on 22 April 1982.

September 17, 1927, Henry and Octavia Allen were married in a 10:00 a.m. ceremony at the First Alethodist Church in Marlin. . . . The reception was at Oakland Place, home of the Aliens. . . . They left by car for Houston and points in the Valley. The day after the wedding, Henry had a wire from one of his bosses who didn't know he was on his honeymoon to leave immediately for Wichita Falls to straighten out some business there. So he left me after we had been married only two days. . . . Henry came back several days later. We then drove to the Valley where I had my first plane ride. A beautiful sight. When we returned to Marlin we stayed in my parents' home until after Christmas. The house was so cold that winter with only fireplaces for heat, Henry would start the fire in the living room by pouring 'White Lightning' (boodeg whiskey) on the wood. In 1930, International Silver offered him the managership of their retail store in St. Louis, Missouri. On our way his father called us in Dallas to tell Henry that he had to buy out the Gardner and Bartlett interests in Rush, Gardner, and Bartlett and could not do so unless Henry would return to Marlin to run the store. On our twenty-fifth wedding anniversary Henry gave me a beautiful silver service, on the thirtieth a strand of pearls, our fortieth an aquamarine ring. On the fiftieth he gave me a trip to Europe, then the children and grandchildren had an anniversary dinner for us at the Rose Tree in Rosebud. On

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Christmas he surprised me with a lovely diamond cluster dinner ring. March 4, 1980, Dr. Ronald Johnson operated on Henry for a small malignant tumor in his neck at Hillcrest Hospital in Waco. [Henry was in hospitals and a nursing home for the next 23 months] He went to sleep Saturday evening April 10, 1982 and did not wake up. At I .lmwood [nursing home], not a day passed he did not tell me how much he loved me.

The following is a list of assets/estimated value of the Henry David Rush (Social Security numbei

450-09-1815) estate at the time of his death, 10 April 1982 as inherited by his wife, Octavia Aller

Rush.75

432.28 acres farmland $216,140 Home 25,000 Home furnishings 5,000 1975 Chrysler automobile 1,000 Life Insurance 7,000 Bank, CDs, Money Market 54,500 Savings and Loan 25,000

"Memories of My Father," by Charles W. Rush, December 2008.

I look back more than fifty years and remember my father, Henry Rush, as a loving parent at home and a popular businessman and friend to many in Alarlin. He was also a man under considerable stress in business. His poor health in his later years was a factor in all our lives.

One of my earliest memories is sitting in Daddy's lap while he's driving his 1940 Ford truck. I'm trying to steer while looking through (not over) the steering wheel. Daddy would take me to Sunday School, then pick me up. We would go to Curry's Drug Store where I would eat a chocolate Sunday while reading comic books. Daddy and his pals would be in the back of the store, telling stories, smoking and drinking whiskey. Those were great times for me because I was with him on our special day.

My Daddy loved hunting and fishing, and he instilled that love of the outdoors in me. An early memory is fishing with him from the banks of the Guadalupe River near Kerrville. 1 thought my line had snagged a 'willy pad,' but he insisted I had a fish. Together we pulled up a huge bass. He told all his friends the story, his wonderful smile lighting up his face. When I was about six years old he began teaching me to shoot. I had a bolt-action .22 rifle and plinked away at a backyard stump. Shortly after, he taught me to shoot a shotgun, a .410 Fox single-shot with a hammer. Small as I was, I would sling my leg over the barrel to break open the piece and eject a spent shell. When I was about twelve years old he presented me with a Winchester Model 21, 12 gauge double-barrel shotgun. He had sold this gun to a Marlin policeman, who subsequently took it to Houston and hocked it in a pawn

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shop. Daddy bought the pawn ticket and sent a hardware store employee to Houston to retrieve the expensive gun. We hunted doves, ducks and quail many an afternoon and weekend. He was always very proud of me and let me know it. On one occasion, his old hunting partner, Jimmie Oltorf, did not believe Henry when he told Jimmie that we had killed ducks roosting in Big Creek Bottom - 'Ducks don't roost there,' he said. That weekend the three of us hunted in those woods, not seeing anything during full daylight. So my father and Jimmie left for the car. I stayed. The ducks began coming in after the sun went down and I killed ten, dragging them out with string tied to their necks. Jimmie was amazed. My father gloated, laughed and hugged me. It was a good story of his for years.

My Daddy was always very proud of me, attending my basketball games in High School and taking an interest in my college activities. He was especially proud of me as I progressed through the Air Force ranks. But he was also a sick man in the 1950s and 1960s due to his alcoholism. After many treatments, he finally put the whiskey aside in his late sixties, a significant feat of will power. But sixty years of smoking cigarettes killed him with throat cancer. His personal demons aside, my Daddy was loved by many, especially his family, and provided us a good life in a time that was wonderful for me to grow up in.

Henry and Octavia Rush had three children: i. Irene Irma Rush, born 21 December 1932, Marlin, Falls County, TX, died 4 May 2003,

Temple, TX,76 married on 3 February 1951 in Alarlin, TX, Dick Gordon Garrett, born 16 May 1931, Falls County, TX. They divorced in 1981.

it. Charles Wesley Rush, II, born 22 June 1938, died 24 June 1938, Alarlin, Falls County, TX. iii. Charles Wesley Rush, III, born 25 December 1939, Marlin, Falls County, TX, married (1)

on 21 December 1964 at Brunswick Naval Air Station, ME, Wanda Wray, divorced November 1966, married (2) on 6 April 1968 in Wurzburg, Germany, Cynthia Olive Gerwig, born 21 November 1942, Baltimore, MD.

Genera t ion 9

CHARLES WESLEY RUSH9 , III (Henry David, Charles Wesley, David Charles, Charles George, George, Kar l / Charles, Hans Georg, Johannes) was born 25 December 1939 in Alarlin, Falls County, Texas. He married, first, on 21 December 1964 at Brunswick Naval Air Station, Maine, Wanda Wray. They divorced in November 1966. Charles then married on 6 April 1968 in Wurzburg, Germany, CYNTHIA OLIVE GERWIG, born 21 November 1942, Baltimore, Maryland, daughter of Dr. Walter H. Gerwig and Olive Bowman.

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Charles Rush graduated from Alarlin High School in 1958. He received a Bachelor of Business Administration from Texas Technological College in January 1963 and joined the US Air Force. During a 28-year career, he was assigned to US bases in Maine, Texas, Alabama, Virginia, Arizona, California and Colorado. He served in wartime in Vietnam, and in peacetime duties in Germany,

"Waco Tribune-Herald," 6 May 2003, obituary.

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Saudi Arabia and Spain. He and his wife retired in Colorado where he enjoyed hiking, skiing and

writing fiction.

The following is an autobiography by Charles Wesley Rush, III, December 2008.

My early years were spent in a wonderful time, place and family environment. I was born on Christmas morning, 1939, in Marlin, Falls County, Texas. Alarlin was a town of less than eight thousand that was twenty years past its prime and fame for hot mineral waters that cured many ills. The town sits on oak-covered hills five miles east of the Brazos River. When I was growing up, the town had many churches and two hotels, one a towering building built by Nicky Hilton. Black folks lived to the south of commercially thriving Main Street, whites to the north. Aly father's hardware store was a prominent establishment in Marlin.

From Day One I was surrounded by an extended family, centered around my sister, mother and father, my mother's mother and my father's parents. A typical Thanksgiving gathering would be at my Grandmother Allen's Victorian home, with her cooking on two stoves - one wood burning and one electric - and my mother and her sister, Anna Paul Hartzog, assisting. The men — my father, Howard Hartzog, and Uncle Lea Allen - talking and smoking in the living room. The Rush and Hartzog kids would be running through the large house or playing in the yard. The dinner would be traditional turkey, or sometimes duck or goose killed by Howard or my father. Christmas mornings would be at the smaller Rush household of my grandparents and attended by my father's two sisters, Sallie and Gussie, and their families. All the children were older than I, but Christmas was special since I got double presents for my birthday. Chicken and dumplings cooked by Emma, the maid, was my favorite dish.

We lived in a three bedroom, two bath house built in 1940 at 318 Maryland Street. The small yard had an unusual pecan tree in front that had grown from a cut stump into a mature tree with seven trunks. I had a free run of the neighborhood, riding my Western Flyer bike, terrorizing the birds with my Red Ryder BB gun, and playing with miniature cars and soldiers. On Sundays I attended Sunday School at the Episcopal Church. Reverend Goddard also led our Scout Troops. I finished grades 1-5 in the old castle-like elementary school, spent one year in the new replacement school, then the next six years in Alarlin High School (two of those years were Junior High). I played baritone horn in the school band and lettered on the high school golf and basketball teams. I was the junior class vice president, then senior year president. Those were wonderful years with cars strongly influencing our social lives. I learned to drive my Daddy's 1952 Ford when I was 12 years old. At age 14 1 got a 1940 Ford and installed the first seat belts on any car in our family. During my junior year, I got a 1951 Ford and customized it with a white paint job, trimmed with red 'pin stripes.' These vehicles were a big boost for dating girls. Some of my most impressionable recollections in growing up relate to hunting doves, ducks and quail in the countryside and fishing for bass in the Country Club Lake. I was a 'B' student in high

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school, receiving As in English and Cs in science. During the summers 1 worked in my Father's hardware store, was lifeguard at local swimming pools, and in the summers of 1957 and 1958 I worked as a wrangler on a guest ranch near Buena Vista, Colorado.

In 1958 I entered Texas Technological College in Lubbock. Texas Tech was about the right distance away for my adventuresome spirit and was small - about 5000 students. I joined a fraternity, Phi Delta Theta, and had a great time socially, while posting mediocre grades. I graduated in January 1963 with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree. John F. Kennedy had been elected President in 1960. Events during his administration - and my college junior and senior years - included the Bay of Pigs Invasion, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the building of the Berlin Wall, the Space Race, and early rumblings of the Vietnam War. In his January 1961 inaugural address President Kennedy spoke of the need for all Americans to be active citizens, famously saying, 'Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.' These events, the break-up with a serious girlfriend, and my desire to travel the world resulted in my joining the US Air Force, being commissioned in June, 1963 after three-months at Officer Training School, San Antonio, Texas.

My first assignment was in Brunswick, Maine, a quaint New England town. Topsham AFS was a few miles out of Brunswick and was the home of the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) very modern air defense control center for the Northeastern United States and the Eastern part of Canada. There were about 100 officers, US and Canadian, who were responsible for running this center. As a new second lieutenant, I utilized a large network of radars to control F-101, F-102 and F-106 air defense interceptors against any unknown aircraft and trained with the pilots on a daily basis. Midway through my first year I joined up with three other lieutenants and lived in a rental house on Yarmouth Island, about 20 miles away. The location was beautiful in the summer and cold in the winter, defined by vacation homes, rocky coves and lobster fishermen. During the summer of 1964 I dated a young (just turned 18) girl named Wanda Wray, and we were married in December 1964. I worked long shifts and enjoyed a lot of fun with a good group of folks. In the spring of 1965 the Southeast Asia war heated up, and I received orders for Clark Air Base, Philippines.

In July 1965 I departed for my new adventure on the other side of the world. Clark AB seemed like a bastion of colonialism, with its rich green jungle scenery, well-kept lawns, and red tiled buildings. I soaked it up and thought this was what I had joined the Air Force for. Exotic places, people, sights, and smells. No sooner had I settled in than the Tactical Control Group that we were assigned to called 100 of us together and told us we had been reassigned to bases in Southeast Asia. My name was called for an assignment to Tan Son Nhut Air Base, South Vietnam. Saigon in August 1965 was beyond anything that I had imagined. The air base bustled with activity. Our radar site was behind a huge supply dump and next to the morgue. The equipment was an old Korean War-era mobile radar with operations from a tent. The

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mission consisted of controlling the hundreds of aircraft flying in the central part of South Vietnam on a daily basis. These sorties included air-to-ground fighter support, reconnaissance aircraft of all types, airlift, and medical evacuation of wounded troops. On more than one occasion that year I helped aircraft in distress and one pilot of an 0 - 2 Birddog bought me drinks for hours on the top of the Brink's Hotel for saving his life by diverting rescue aircraft and fighters to his location after he was shot down. Wanting to see more of the country, I was able to catch rides on C-123 and C-130 'trash haulers' going to remote sites to resupply the troops, I also flew combat missions in an F-102 interceptor, an A-1E World War II aircraft flying close air support, and a Super Connie EC-121 airborne warning and control airplane flying off the coast of North Vietnam. Saigon was an old French Colonial city that had charm but was dirty and overrun with the war traffic. The Tu D o Street bar girls swarmed around the GIs and tried to get them to spend money on 'Saigon Tea' (iced tea priced as whiskey) and their favors. Halfway through the year I went on an R&R (Rest & Recuperation) to Bangkok, Thailand and enjoyed being a tourist in that interesting city. In Vietnam I was exposed to hostile fire only once. During an attack by Viet Cong on Tan Son Nhut AB in the early months of 1966, mortar rounds dropped all around our operations tent, but our portion of the base wasn't overrun as were the airfield areas. When I returned to the US, Wanda filed for a divorce, and my brief marriage ended.

I arrived at my new assignment, a radar site in West Germany, in late August 1966. Wurzburg is an old city on the Alain River about halfway between Frankfurt and Nuremberg in Northern Bavaria. It has a wonderful castle on a hill overlooking the

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town. Many of the city's buildings were new since the town was destroyed in World War II. In an old German base on the edge of the city, the US Army Third Infantry Division had its headquarters, and the US Air Force had a very small mobile radar site consisting of three officers and 40 enlisted men. I initially moved into the Batchelor Officer Quarters (BOQ) and made an important discovery — it was filled with young, good-looking, single school teachers who taught at the Department of Defense school on base. I also made friends with a group of Air Force officers from a nearby base and a few Army officers. We enjoyed wine tests, parties and traveling around Germanv. We skied at Saint Johann or Kitzbuhl, Austria. I began steadily dating a school teacher that I had met in the B O Q when I first arrived, Cynthia Olive Gerwig. Cindy knew I was serious when I asked her to keep my new Porsche sports car while I went on leave to the States. We were engaged on 28 January 1968, and on 6 April 1968 we were married twice: a legal ceremony in the Wurzburg Rathaus (courthouse) and a religious service in the Leighton Barracks church. Aly best man was a fellow Air Force officer, Jim Koza. Cindy and I honeymooned south through Bergesgarten, Germany; Cortina, in the Italian Alps where they were still skiing; Florence, where Cindy got sick and I just missed seeing Michaelangelo's "David"; around Naples, where we picnicked on the slopes of Mt Vesuvius; Rome, seeing all the tourist sights; and back through Switzerland, where we put our car on a train and rode through the Alpine Tunnel. While living in a small town 10 miles from base, Cindy and I continued to have a wonderful time traveling, partying, and

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working throughout the next year and a half in Europe. As a new captain, 1 took over the command of the radar unit with Jim Koza as my Ops Officer. My unit was the first to airlift a new mobile tactical radar in Europe and set it up immediately for operations. We made many ground deployments, traveling by truck (the famous "deuce and a ha l f ) through German villages and sleeping in tents in the mud and rain. I often thought of the prior generation of soldiers who had fought through World War II in that same cold and wet environment. We returned to the US in August 1969 after four years overseas to a world that had experienced a lot of change: anti-war protests, assassinations of Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King, civil rights changes, and music that had evolved from Elvis and the Beatles rock and roll, to Woodstock protest songs and Janis Joplin. I was assigned to Bergstrom AFB, Austin, Texas, 90 miles south of Alarlin.

We left Germany a few weeks after Neil Armstrong walked on the moon. En route, I met Cindy's folks, Dr. Walter and Olive Bowman Gerwig. And she met mine in Marlin. At Bergstrom AFB we lived on base in a small two-bedroom duplex. My initial job was on the Tactical Control Group staff, and I found that 1 knew a lot more than many of my contemporaries because of my varied background of N O R A D , Vietnam, and European tactical radar operations. There were several WWII vets in the Group, including one who had flown on the famous Doolittle Tokyo raid. I got a good taste for staff work and went on several exercises to Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona and Panama. On 2 October 1970 at the base hospital, Cindy was rolled out of the delivery room with a baby boy, Trevor Allen Rush, and life for us had changed forever. In January 1971 I got a chance to go to Squadron Officer School (SOS) in Montgomery, Alabama, and off we went in a Volkswagon bus with a three-month-old baby in the back seat. SOS was my first exposure to the total Air Force, and I now got a chance to learn about many other segments of the Sendee. The faculty was hand-picked and the competition in my student peer group was fierce. I loved it, and when I was offered a job coming back to Maxwell AFB, Alabama, I immediately accepted. I felt I now had more focus on a career in the Air Force.

We arrived at Maxwell AFB in September 1971. We bought a house in Prattvillc, 10 miles north of Alontgomery (in later years I was to discover through genealogical research that my great-great-grandfather, Charles George Rush, had settled in the same location in 1818). Our three-bedroom house was really nice, but we thought the monthly house payments of $208 were sure to break us. As faculty at SOS, I put in long hours preparing for student seminars in leadership, effective communications, and military history. The students were sharp and the faculty members were guys (and later, girls) who had had been hand picked for this assignment. I learned a lot, not just academically, but also how to interface with folks who demanded good leaders. Our second son, Jason Lee Rush, was born 15 January 1974, completing our family. About this same time I was selected for promotion to major, along with 15 of my fellow instructors, and we rented the National Guard Armory for a promotion party, hired a band and cocktail waitresses with short skirts,

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and invited half of Maxwell AFB. Later that year I obtained a Alaster of Public Administration Degree from Auburn University (all As this time), then attended Air Command and Staff College. When I finished that school, orders came through for Saudi Arabia. In July, 1975, Cindy and I went to Hurlburt Field, Florida, where I attended an indoctrination school for Air Force personnel going to the Middle East. At the school 1 met Colonel (later Lt. General) Tom Baker who would be my boss over the next year. 1 prepared Cindy and the boys as best I could for a long year in Prattville without me. Our next-door neighbors, the Giannonis, would help out Cinch' tremendously over the next year.

In July, 1976, I flew into Daharan, Saudi Arabia, which was a shock to my sensibilities. Initial impressions were dirt, sand, heat, and shouting, unorganized Arabs. After settling into the US Military Training Mission (USMTM) in Riyadh, I started to enjoy the new sights and people. Aly job was to advise the Royal Saudi Air Force (RSAF) on air defense methods, planning and procedures. The Saudi mind-set was that they had the money, and thev hired people to do their work for them: American and British contractors and foreign nationals from other Arabic/Islamic states. I was caught in the middle. Major complicating factors were the Islamic attitude of whatever Allah wants to happen, is going to happen, and there is no use planning for anything. My direct counterpart was Prince Bandar bin Abdullaziz, the youngest son of the founder of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Bandar's brothers or half-brothers included: the King, the Minister of Defense, the Head of the National Guard, and various other key officials of the country, most of whom I met during the year. Bandar was present approximately half the time I was there, the other part of the time he spent in luxury in Europe and the US, but nevertheless, everything I tried to do to help his Air Force staff had to go through him for approval. Riyadh in those days was still a large town in the desert, being built into a city. I spent a lot of time in the shopping areas. There I bought gold jewelry and antiques, but mostly I just looked at the sights. I was often chosen to guide dignitaries around. O n one

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memorable trip I guided Jim Stafford, Vance Brand, and Deke Slayton, American Astronauts. They were making a world tour after their record-breaking joint space flight with the Russians in the Apollo-Soluz Program. I traveled around Saudi Arabia to Jidda, Khamis Mushayt, and Tubuk. Outside of Jidda I snorkeled in the beautiful Red Sea reef areas. In Khamis I bought an old rifle and a Yemeni silver dagger. From Tubuk 1 brought back a piece of the railway that Lawrence blew up in 1917 when he was helping the Arabs throw out the last of the Ot toman Turks. I was fortunate to get back to the United States twice during the year, once escorting 125 Saudi youngsters from Dhaharan to San Antonio for military training. During the 25 hour

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flight, I stopped one fellow who wanted to go outside and pray to Allah, as he had done five times a day all of his life. In the summer of 1976, Tom Baker helped me get an assignment to Headquarters, Tactical Air Command, Langley AFB, Virginia. After selling our Prattville house, Cindy, the boys (now 6 and 2 1/2), and I headed to the East Coast in August 1976.

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returned between 1800 and 1900 hours. I supported tactical radar control systems development, and traveled around the country. I was selected to be on a team flying to Saudi Arabia and North Yemen to plan for radar deployments. We stayed in Saana, North Yemen, which is a city of stone houses and stoned people (many of the workers chewed a narcotic leaf all day). The Russians and the Americans were competing for Yemen's political favors and our team members were pawns on the board. While we were there, someone tossed a grenade into the compound of our Saudi Allies. We briefed the American Ambassador in his old stone building. 1 noted a high window with a Jewish star, remnant of the Jewish merchants and others who had once lived in Yemen. The hard work at TAC Headquarters paid off in 1979 when I was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel, my silver leaves being pinned on by Major General Larry Welch, who later became Air Force Chief of Staff. At the end of my Langley AFB tour, I received an assignment to Luke AFB, Arizona, to be Commander of the 607th Tactical Control Training Squadron. In reflection, it was too bad that I couldn't take more advantage of the location to enjoy the area. Virginia is not only a beautiful state, but also the cradle of my family beginnings on both my parents sides.

We piled the family into our 23-foot Recreation Vehicle/Mobile Home, with lots of books, toys, and Leggos for the kids, and headed south and west in August 1979. Our house in Glendale, Arizona was small, but had a major attraction - a swimming pool. Duty as a Commander was great. I had 150 people working for me and doing a good job of training new lieutenants to be radar controllers. I had been at Luke AFB for about six months when I received a phone call from the assignments folks offering me a job in Madrid, Spain, with several months in Spanish language school. Cindy and I decided we wanted the travel experience despite the job being less satisfying than my command position at Luke AFB, so in August 1980 we traveled to Alonterey, California for language training.

Alonterey was a beautiful area and the language training was tougher than I expected. Cindy monitored the program, learning a lot. We traveled the California coast and got to know Cindy's sister, Kathy and her "significant other," Mark Goldman, who were in San Francisco. The kids survived the temporary school setting in Monterey, but we were all ready to go overseas by late Spring 1981. On leave to Texas, I said goodbye to my ailing Father, realizing I might never see him again.

I arrived in Aladrid, Spain in June 1981, and Cindy and the boys arrive one month later. I was assigned in the dual role of Deputy Director of the Joint Air Control and Coordination Center, and as the Deputy Director for Command and Control, 16th Air Force, US Air Forces, Europe. I shared Directorship in the joint air defense center with a counterpart who spoke no English. I had 10 USAF officers who were fluent in Spanish. Our job was to advise the Spanish Air Force controllers and to control the USAF F-4 fighters assigned to the 401st Tactical Fighter Wing at Torrejon AB. Spain had recently evolved from years of dictatorship under General Franco, and some of the military were not too happy about the "new democracy."

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The Americans and the Spanish military in the control center maintained good relations except when the British invaded the Faulkland Islands, which Argentina had just taken away from them. We sided with, and provided significant support to, the Brits, and the Spanish were very pro-Argentine. I advised my guys to not talk politics, do their job, and keep a low profile. The political tension eventually passed. I was fortunate enough to be noticed by Major General Bill Clement, and I came out on the Colonel's List in 1983. The Rush family did a lot of traveling while on this assignment. With the exception of the northern coast and the mountain areas between Spain and France, we visited most areas on the Iberian Peninsula, to include Portugal. We explored many old castles and churches and enjoyed their beauty and history. Segovia, Cordoba and Granada were our favorite places. We also had two great trips to German)', and Cindy and I went on a memorable one through Morocco, where we visited Fez, Marrakech, and Rabat. I went briefly to Gibraltar and Turkey and 30 days to Brindisi, Italy on Air Force trips. Cindy was the Officers Wives Club Overseas Tours director and enjoyed a couple of trips to London, England. While in Madrid, we collected and refinished old furniture. We obtained eighteen roll-top desks, selling twelve and keeping six. To our sorrow, both Cindy's father and mine passed away during our time overseas.

My next assignment took us to Southern California and Alarch AFB. I managed to adjust to the air pollution from the exhausts of millions of vehicles. We lived in a house on base that was large enough to accommodate most of the 18,000 pounds of household furnishings we had accumulated. My job was the Director of the N O R A D Southwest Sector Operations Control Center responsible for the air defense of all Southwestern US airspace. I had returned to the job area that had given me my initial start in the Air Force 21 years and 5 ranks previous. The years had not resulted in much change in this mission. N O R A D had been left behind in a time warp preparing to fight the last war. The secondary mission area that was exciting was detection of drug-smuggling flights across the Mexican Border. Cindy's mother was close by in Hemet, California, and we spent time with her. Each Summer we traveled to Texas to see my mother. My running program, starting with a 26.2 mile marathon in Spain, resulted in me completing three more marathons in Southern California. My sister, Irene, called me one November morning in 1987 to tell me that Mother had died from a heart attack. What a wonderful role model my Mother had been to me all my life. Our son, Trevor, was accepted to the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. I wrangled a job at Headquarters, North American Air Defense Command, N O R A D , Peterson AFB, Colorado. An old Alarlin friend was the Director of Civil Engineering at the Air Force Academy and got us on the list for base housing there. In the summer of 1988 we were off for what would be my last assignment in the Air Force.

My initial impression when we arrived in Colorado Springs in late summer 1988 was how blue the sky seemed to be. We moved into a nice house on the Air Force Academy. Trevor was a "Doolie" and Jason just entering Academy High School on base. My job for N O R A D , at Peterson AFB, was short-lived, as I got caught in a

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power struggle between two general officers who wanted me for special projects. 1 ended up working in US Space Command for a Navy Admiral on a project to plan how strategic offense and strategic defense forces would work together. This subject was closely aligned with the project President Reagan had begun for defense against a ballistic missile attack on the United States. In this job I traveled to the Pentagon and Offutt AFB, Nebraska on numerous occasions. By now I was a senior colonel and really enjoyed what I was doing. However, my three-year tour was up in the summer of 1991 and the Air Force, in its wisdom, asked me to retire. At my retirement ceremony, Major General Larry Fortner did the honors and friends from nearly every assignment over the past 28 years honored me by attending. I was very proud of my Air Force career and the leadership opportunities it offered me. 1 was also very cognizant and thankful for the role Cindy had played in supporting my career. The list of awards and decorations on my retirement discharge is as follows (descending order): Defense Superior Service Medal, Bronze Star Medal, Meritorious Service Aledal with 3 Oak Leaf Clusters, Joint Service Commendation Medal, Air Force Commendation Medal with 2 Oak Leaf Clusters, Air Force Outstanding Unit Award with 1 Oak Leaf Cluster, Combat Readiness Medal, National Defense Service Medal with 1 Bronze Star, Vietnam Service Medal with 3 Bronze Stars, Air Force Overseas Short Tour Ribbon with 1 Oak Leaf Cluster, Air Force Overseas Long Tour Ribbon with 1 Oak Leaf Cluster, Small Arms Expert Ribbon, Air Force Training Ribbon, Republic of Vietnam Gallantry Cross with Palm, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal.

Cindy and I made the decision to stay in Colorado Springs. We bought 10 acres on the north boundary of the Air Force Academy and built a nice a house, moving in December 1991. I obtained a job with SRS Technologies and jumped into another career. O n a Government contract, I first supported my former Air Force associates on Peterson AFB, then ran a team on a large contract at Schriever AFB supporting the Strategic Defense Initiative. The work was boring, but I made friends with an ex-Navy pilot, Jack Airlie, with whom I made a hiking trip to Peru and Alachu Pichu in 1995. Finally, I told Cindy I couldn't work at the job anymore and had to figure a way to get out of it. We decided to sell our "forever" house, split the 10 acres in two, and build a smaller house on the adjacent 5 acres, moving in December 1995. In August 1996, I retired again, and we were off on new adventures in life.

My retirement years have been interesting and relaxing. From my long-time study of my family genealogy, I became intrigued with the stories of my three ancestors who fought in the Civil War and decided to tell their tales in a historical fiction format. 1 became involved in the Pikes Peak Writers group in Colorado Springs and eventually published several short stories and two book length works, the best being One Turn Of The Cards. I also hiked many trails in Colorado's high country, finishing the 482-mile Colorado Trail in 2007. While skiing, I had met a great friend, Bob Albrecht, who has hiked, camped, and skied with me for several years. For the past ten years, Cindy and I have had a camping trailer (5th wheel) and we belong to a great group of fellow campers with whom we have camped all over the West.

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I grew up in Texas during a wonderful time with loving parents who provided me a solid foundation in life. I made some fortunate choices that placed me on a path to serve my Country and define mine, and my family's, lives. My best decision was to marry Cynthia Gerwig, who not only has stood by me through thick and thin, but also delivered two wonderful sons into our world and encouraged them on successful careers in life.

What more could a man ask for?

Charles W. Rush, 111 Colorado Springs, CO, 25 December 2008

Charles and Cynthia (Cindy) Rush had the following children: i. Trevor Allen Rush, born 2 October 1970, Bergstrom AFB, Travis County, TX, married

Kathanne Alarie Orendorff, born 14 May 1967, Aleadowbrook, PA. They have two daughters: Marina Abigail Rush, born 11 April 2001, San Diego, CA, Piper Kelsie Rush, born 3 February 2004, Jacksonville, FL.

ii. Jason Lee Rush, born 15 January 1974, Maxwell AFB, Montgomery County, AL, married Shannon Marie Perrault, born 8 May 1977, Denver, CO.

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+ 1. Johannes Risch1 (1646-1717) married Anna Margaretha Becker. 2. i. Anna Elizabeth Risch (1671-1737) married Johan Jacob Purper. 3. ii. Johann Peter Risch (1672-1672). 4. iii. Johann Michael Risch christened 25 Alarch 1673, died 1711 in Germany, married Eva

Elisabeth Heringer. 5. iv. Johann Jacob Risch (1675-ca 1727) married (1) Eva Alargaratha Petri, (2) Anna Eva

Maus . 6. v. Johann Franciscus Risch (1679-1682). 7. vi. Anna Maria Risch (1681-1748) married Johann Peter Faeg. 8. vii. Johann Nicol Risch (1683-). 9. viii. Johann Wilhelm Risch (1685-).

+ 10. ix. Johann (Hans) Georg Risch (1686-1757) married Maria Barbara Purper. 11.x. Anna Catharina Risch (1689-). 12. xi. Anna Barbara Risch (1689-1746). 13. xii. Anna Eva Risch (1690-1778) married Johan Jacob Fuchs.

+ 10. Johann (Hans) Georg Risch2 (1686-1757) married Maria Barbara Purper. 14. i. Anna Magdalena Risch (1711-1713). 15. ii. Johann Jacob Risch (1713—1775) married Wagner. 16. iii. Johann Adam Risch (1716-1718). 17. iv. Anna Eva Risch (1718-1722). 18. v. Johann Michael Risch (1720—1734) married Elisabeth Barbara Purper. 19. vi. Johannes Risch (1723-1773).

+20. vii. Johann Karl Risch/Charles Rush (1725-1806) married Anna Elizabeth Seuss. 21. viii. Johann Peter Risch (1728-1728). 22. ix. Johann Nicolaus Risch (1729-1732).

+20. Johann Karl Risch/Charles Rush3 (1725-1806) married Anna Elizabeth Seuss. 23. i. John Rush (1753-1835) married Anna Alarie Nicholas. 24. ii. Anna Elizabeth Rush (1753/4-1806) married Alatthais Lair.

The author constructed this Rush genealogical table over a number of years from family records and correspondence with a number of researchers. For the most part, this data has not been verified by original source data and interested researchers are encouraged to do so. The author especially appreciates the following sources: Rivers Peterson, Dorothy Boyd-Rush, Elizabeth Lipscomb, and George Dexter Rush, Jr.

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+25. iii. George Rush (Ca. 1755-1831) married (1) Mary Bushong, (2) Elizabeth Harry. 26. iv. Elizabeth Rush ( - Ca.1806) married Fredrick Hanger. 27. v. Peter Rush (176.3-1815) married Barbara Hanger.

23. John Rush4 (1753-1835) married Anna Marie Nicholas. 28. i. Catherine Rush (1776-1802). 29. ii. Elizabeth Rush (1777-1805) married Peter Eiler. 30. iii. Mary Magdelene Rush (1779-1839) married Jacob Koogler. 31. iv. Jacob Rush (1780-1864) married Catherine Dundor. 32. v. Sarah Rush (1782-1855) married Samuel Garrett. 33. vi. Barbara Rush (1789-1875) married John Koogler. 34. vii. Margaret Rush (1791-1852) married Johnathan Rush (1787-1870). 35. viii. Anna JMizabeth Rush (1792-1857) married Whitmore. 36. ix. John Rush (1794-1842) married Mary Nichols.

+25. George Rush4 (Ca. 1755-1831) married (1) Alary Bushong, (2) Elizabeth Harry. 37. i. Mary Julianna Rush (1784-1868).

+38. ii. Charles George Rush (1786-1857) married (1) Elizabeth Debardlaben, (2) Saraf Norman Walton.

39. iii. Fdizabeth Rush (1786-1850) married Stephen Gray. 40. iv. johnathan Rush (1787-1870) married Margaret Rush (1791-1852). 41. v. Mary (Polly) Rush (1789-1859) married John Sellers. 42. vi. Lydia Rush (1791—1866) married Zebulon J. Thomas. 43. vii. Sarah Rush (1793—) married Isaac Alauney. 44. viii. George Rush (1796-1856) married (l)Jane Anderson, (2) Smith, (3) Nancy Powell 45. ix. John Rush (1797-1872) married Martha Camp. 46. x. Jacob Rush (1798—1854) married Clarissa Schuford. 47. xi.'Ann Elizabeth Rush (1807-1898) married W. Louis Van Dyke. 48. xii. William L. Rush (1809-1836) married Leonora Mahala Turner.

27. Peter Rush4 (1763-1815) married Barbara Hanger. 49. i. Hannah Rush (1788-1872) married Robert Beaton. 50. ii. Peter Hanger Rush, Jr. (1791-1870) married Susannah Fulcher. 51. iii. David Rush (1792-1850) married Susan Waserman. 52. iv. Jacob Rush (1794—) married Elizabeth Ward. 53. vii. Anna Rush (1798—) married John Warman. 54. v. Elizabeth Rush (1799-1836) married Joseph Points. 55. vi. George V. Rush (1803-1860) married Amelia King.

56. vii. Henry Eidson Rush (1808-1890) married (1) Alary Jane Gordon, (2) Sarah Frances I Ienning.

j .Jacob Rush'1 (1780-1864) married Catherine Dundor. 57. i. Nancy Rush (180.3-1829) married. 58. ii. Anna Rush (1804—) married Bear. 59. iii. Mary Rush (1806-1839) married John Bear (Baer).

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60. iv. John Joshua Rush (1811-1847) married Annie Meyerhoeffer.

36. John Rush5 (1794-1842) married Alary Nichols.

61. i. Charles Richard Rush (1821-1907) married Catherine Scott. 62. ii. Elizabeth Ann Rush (1823-1900). 63. iii. Harriet Jane Rush (1825-1896).

64. iv. Mary Catherine Rush (1827-1900) married (1) Nathaniel Green Bowers, (2) Isaac Rittenaur.

65. v. Frances Romanza Rush (1829-1908) married George Whitfield Mauzy. 66. vi. Margaret Arabella Rush (1832-1843). 67. vii. Jacob Robert Rush (1834-1843). 68. viii. Josephus Branson Rush (1836-1863). 69. ix. Sara Arabella Rush (1838-1843). 70. x. Virginia Rebecca Rush (1841-1843).

+38. Charles George Rush5 (1786-1857) married (1) Elizabeth Debardlaben, (2) Sarah Norman Walton. 71. i. George B. Rush married (1) Susan Matthews, (2) Judy Tucker. 72. ii. Julia Ann Rush (1816-1877) married William Cox. 73. iii William Rush (1820-1871) married (1) Eliza Douglas Bennet, (2) Marilda R.

Townsend. 74. iv. Alary Rush married Barton Stone.

+75. v. David Charles Rush (1824-1867) married Susan Elizabeth Greer. 76. vi. Amanda Rush (1828-1844) married John G. Harris. 77. vii. Benjamin Andrew Rush (1830-1903) married (1) Martha Pace, (2) Ellen Rivers. 78. viii. John Wesley Rush (1833-1905) married Octavia Osgood Andrew. 79. ix. Mary Ellen Rush married Felix Ashley.

40. Johnathan Rush5 (1787-1870) married Margaret Rush (1791-1852). 80. 1. William Brightberry Rush (1812-1890) married (1) Elizabeth Bird Hill, (2) Malinda

Earnest. 81. ii. Julianna Rush (1814-1862) married Rev. William Scull. 82. iii. Alary Elizabeth Rush (1817-1906) married Alfred Brabson. 83. iv. John Levi Rush (1820-1850) married Louiza. 84. v. Margaret Jane Rush (1821-1835). 85. vi. George Nimrod Rush (1824-1897) married Maty Elizabeth Thomas. 86. vii. Henry Sylvester Rush (1827-1904) married Nancy Catherine Weems. 87. viii. Nancy Catherine Rush (1830-) .

45. John Rush5 (1797-1872) married Martha Camp. 88. i. Julia Ann Rush (1824-1906) married Rev William Hickey. 89. ii. Elizabeth Rush (1826-1896) married Riley J. Johnson. 90. iii. George T. Rush (1827-) married Ellen Gravly. 91. iii. Alary J. Rush (1829-1889) married Alfred R. Coulter. 92. iv. Margaret V. Rush (1831-) .

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93. v. Hosea Camp Rush (1832-) married Mattie Arbogast. 94. vi. Sarah Jane Rush (1836-) married Richard Zuber. 95. vii. Charles Wesley Rush (1838-1912) married Annette Bascom. 96. viii Alartha Frances Rush (1840-) married Thomas Burney. 97. ix. Martha Rush (1844-) .

48. William L. Rush5 (1809-1836) married Leonora Mahala Turner. 98. i. Ann Rush (18343-1903) married Isham Brown. 99. ii. William L. Rush, Jr. (1835-1900) married Lou Ann Bates.

50. Peter Hanger Rush, Jr.1 (1791-1870) married Susannah Fulcher. 100. i. William J. Rush (1819-1893). 101. ii. Mary Jane Rush (1820-) married Robert Bickle. 102. iii. John Hangar Rush (1821-1899) married Anna Alelvina Smith.

51. David Rush5 (1792-1850) married Susan Waserman. 103. i. Peter Hangar Rush (1821—) married Sarah Clasby.

55. George V. Rush5 (1803-1860) married Amelia King. 104. i. William Rush (1824-) . 105. ii. Henry Harrison Rush (1826-) married Elizabeth Coleman. 106. iii. Peter S. Rush (1828-) married (1) Alary Susan Webb, (2) Mary Flood. 107. iv. Charles Rush (1830-1918). 108. v. George V. Rush (1832-1918) married Sarah Jane Taylor. 109. vi. John Rush married Ann E. 11(1. vii. Mary Jane Rush (1838-) married John Bagby. 111. viii. Benjamin E. Rush (1841-ca 1850). 112. ix. Augustus Alexandria Rush (1845-1915) married EmuellaJane Tucker.

56. Henry Eidson Rush5 (1808-1890) married (1) Mary Jane Gordon, (2) Sarah Frances Henning. 113. i. George Henry Rush (1833-1892) married. 114. ii. Esteline Rush (1835-) . 115. iii. MaryC. Rush (1838-) . 1 16. iv. Martha C. Rush (1844-1914). 117. v. William T. Rush (1844-1914) married Caroline Bayles.

60. John Joshua Rush6 (1811-1847) married Annie Meyerhoeffer. 118. i. Lucy Catherine Rush (1839-Ca. 1890) married Christen Bauzerman. 1 19. ii. Jacob H. F. Rush (1846-1915) married Leuemma Delila Royer.

61. Charles Richard Rush6 (1821-1907) married Catherine Scott. 120. i. Virginia Seal Rush (I8645-) married C L . Hendrick. 121. ii. Joseph Branson Rush (1866-) m Elizabeth Irwin. 122. iii. Ella Florence Rush (1869-) married (1) George W. Hopkins, (2) Layton B. Yancey. 123. iv. Effie Rebecca Rush (1870-) married Wirt P. Killian.

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124. v. Alary Catherine Rush (1884-) married Alvin L. Barger.

71. George B. Rush6 married Susan Matthews. 125. i. Louisa Ann Rush married Mooney. 126. ii. Sarah Rush. 127. iii. Charles G. Rush.

73. William Rush6 (1820-1871) married (1) Eliza Douglas Bennet, (2) Matilda R. Townsend. 128. 1. Charles Rush (1847-) . 129. ii. Edward Warren Rush (1849-) . 130. iii. William H. Rush (1850- ). 131. iv. George Alexander Rush (1852-1929) married Lelia Adams. 132. v. Eugene Thaddeus Rush (-1877) . 133. vi. Josephine Elizabeth Rush (1868-) . 134. vii. John Fletcher Rush (1874-) .

+75. David Charles Rush6 (1824—1867) married Susan Elizabeth Greer. 135. i. Julia Blanche Rush (1851-1939) married Smith Powell. 136. ii. Essie Helen Rush (1854— ) married (1) Robert Stoddard, (2) Robert Houston. 137. iii. Sarah Anne Rush (1858-1924) married (1) Leonard Burke, (2) Dorsey Gilmore. 138. iv. Henry Greer Rush (1860-1944) married Alable Cole.

+ 139. v. Charles Wesley Rush, I, (1863-1949) married Hinda de Graffenried.

77. Benjamin Andrew Rush6 (1830-1903) married (1) Martha Pace, (2) Ellen Rivers. 140. i. Charles Stevens Rush (1853-1854). 141. ii. Mary Ellen Rush (1855-1895) married John Peterson 142. iii. T o m Pace Rush (1857-) married Sallie Herring. 143. iv. John Wesley Rush (1858-1914) married Mattie Jackson. 144. v. Benjamin Andrew Rush, Jr. (-1928) married Daisey Smith. 145. vi. William Edgar Rush (1865-1908) married Ida Joe Fort. 146. vii. Rivers Andrew Rush (1869-) married Mamie Fowlkes. 147. viii. Leila Rush married Thomas D. Kemp.

78. John Wesley Rush6 (1833-1905) married Octavia Osgood Andrew. 148. i. Sarah Amelia Rush (1855-1857). 149. ii. Emily Elizabeth Rush (1857-1938) married Thomas Douglas Mitchell. 150. iii. Mary Henrietta Rush (1860-1940) married Franklin Norris. 151. iv. Charles Andrew Rush (1862-1944) married Julia Rosaline Roebuck. 152. v. Mattie Ellen Rush (1845-1940) married Robert W.M. Sturdivant. 153. vi. Octavia Amanda Rush (1868-1969) married Nathan Benton Holt. 154. vii. Estelle Perry Rush (1870-1964) married Richard P. Lester. 155. viii. John Osgood Rush (1878-1934.) married Mathilde Baquie.

85. Charles Wesley Rush6 (1838-1912) married Annette Bascom. 156. i. John Prebble Rush (1867-1952) married Laura Lee Watts.

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157. ii. Howard Camp Rush (1868-1944) married (1) Daisy Wright, (2) Alice Burns.

158. iii. (Infant) Rush (1869-1869). 159. iv. Robert Lee Rush (1871-1871). 160. v. (Infant) Rush (1874-1874). 161. vi. Addie Miller Rush (1875-1900) married Thomas Perry. 162. vii. (Infant) Rush (1877-1877). 163. viii. George Bascom Rush (1878-1857) married Louise Husbands. 164. ix. Emoree Rush (1882-1947) married William Glad.

99. William L. Rush, Jr6 (1835-1900) married Lou Ann Bates. 165. i. William Benjamin Rush (1857-1917) married. 166. ii. Edgar Howard Rush (1858-1928) married. 167. iii. Samuel Claude Rush (1864-1941) married. 168. iv. George Dexter Rush (1867-1944) married Ida Caroline Roberts.

1 12. Augustus Alexandria Rush6 (1845-1868) married Emuellajane Tucker. L69. i. Minnie Bell Rush (1874-) . 170. ii. Sallie E. Rush (1877-) . 171. iii. Henry W. Rush (1881-) married Ruby Elizabeth Weast. 172. iv. Augustus Tucker Rush (1884—1961) married Florence Margaret Canning. 173. v. Mary E. Rush (1888-) . 174. vi. George B. Rush (1891-) . 175. vii. Grade O. Rush (1894-) .

1 19. Jacob II. F. Rush" (1846-1915) married Leuemma Delila Rover. 176. i. Thomas Albert Rush (1867-1954) married Lelia Elvina Mugg. 177. ii. Fannie Virginia Rush (1869-1954). 178. iii. Anna Bell Rush (1870-1954) married Lester B. Lacey. 179. iv. Sara Ellen Rush (1872-1966). 180. v. Sadie Lorina Rush (1874-1955). 181. vi. Jacob Floyd Rush (1877-1939) married Blanche Violet Rock. 182. vii."John Samuel Rush (1880-1881).

183. viii. Joseph Robert Rush (1882-1959) married Hannah Alatilda Streid. 184. ix. Carrie Christine Rush (1884—1973) married Emmanuel Tack. 185. x. Charles Cleveland Rush (1886-1972) married Flossie Bell Grant.

+ 139. Charles Wesley Rush, III7 (1863-1949) married Hinda de Graffenried. 186. i. Charles Wesley Rush, Jr. (1890-1891). 187. ii. Susan Augusta Rush (1892-1986) married Walter AIcAIahan. 188. iii. Dimple Jenna Rush (1895-1973) married (1) Irby Curry, (2) Wayne G. Broehl. 189. iv. Sallie Burke Rush (1899-1985) married Samuel Williford.

+ 190. v. Henry David Rush (1902-1982) married Octavia Lillian Allen.

142. Tom Pace Rush" (1857-) married Sallie Herring. 191. i. Tcllie Rush married Walter Fisher.

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192. ii Carney Rush married Robert Frenchman. 193. iii. Benjamin A. Rush. 194. iv. Thomas Herring Rush. 195. v. Theodore Roy Rush.

143. John Wesley Rush7 (1858-1914) married Alattie Jackson. 196. i. Ethel Rush married Frank Harrell. 197. ii. Mamie Rush. 198. iii. Nell Rush married J.S. Blair. 199. iv. Harry Rush. 200. v. Alice Rush married Wallace Poff. 201. vi. Mattie Rush married J.J. Van Pelt. 202. vii. Clara Rush married Pat Ellieton Barrance. 203. viii. Frances Rush married A.A. Linn.

144. Benjamin Andrew Rush,Jr7 ( -1928) married Daisey Smith. 204. i. Walter Rush.

145. William Edgar Rush7 (1865-1908) married Ida Joe Fort. 205. i. Joseph Rivers Rush married (1) Annie Judkins Bullock, (2) Frances Hodnett. 206. ii. Claude Ellen Rush. 207. iii. William Edgar Rush married Sadie Sturdivant. 208. iv. Leila Marie Rush. 209. v. Charles Stephen Rush married (1) Elenor Fuller, (2) Katherine Summers Harper.

146. Rivers Andrew Rush7 (1869-) married Mamie Fowlkes. 210. i. Lucille Rush married Clyde Conyers Hunter. 211. ii. Rivers Ashley Rush married Clarabelle Wilson. 212. iii. Alary Knight Rush married Edward Robinson.

151. Charles Andrew Rush7 (1862—1944) married Julia Rosaline Roebuck. 213. i. Richard County Rush (1888-1962) married Bertha Mae Lopez. 214. ii. Charles Wesley Rush, Sr (1890-1976) married Dorothy AlcFaddin. 215. iii. Rosalind Octavia Rush (1893-1973) married Robert Park Davison. 216. iv. Annie Elizabeth Rush (1897-) married Nimrod Davis Denson, Jr. 217. v . John Alfred Rush (1900-) married (1) Ada Louise Simpson, (2) Clara Upchurch. 218. vi. James Andrew Rush (1904—) married Emily Frances Hardy.

155. John Osgood Rush7 (1878-1933) married Mathilde Baquie.

219. i. Adeline Rush (1911-) married. 220. ii. John Osgood Rush ( 1913-1941) married. 221. iii. George Rush (1915-) married.

156. John Prebble Rush7 (1867-1952) married Laura Lee Watts. 222. i. John Paul Rush (1893-1978) married Kathleen Rollins.

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223. ii. Alan Lee Rush (1895-1908) 224. iii. Samuel Lovick Rush (1899-) married Miriam Watters 225. iv. Charles William Rush (1902-) married Lois Luke 226. v. Annie Laurie Rush (1905-) 227. vi. Aleen Waters Rush (1909-) married Noah Woodard. 228. viii. Mary Levon Rush (1912-) married Hugh Alilner.

168. George Dexter Rush7 (1867-1944) married Ida Caroline Roberts. 229. i. Margaret Inez Rush (1890-) married Clarence Lee Hammett. 230. ii. (Infant) Rush (1892-1893). 231. i. Bernice Elizabeth Rush (1894-1952) married Samuel Earl Elledge. 232. iv. Nora Nathalie Rush (1896-1965) married James A. Hall. 233. v. Annie Leila Rush (1897-) married Lelion Dexter Elledge. 234. vi. Lillian Bee Rush (1898-) married Charles Everett Jones. 235. vii. George D. Rush (1901-1901). 236. viii. Ida Roberts Rush (190.3-) married Lawrence Gary Maddox. 237. ix. George Dexter Rush, Jr. (1905-) married Kate Smith. 238. x. Polly Rush (1907-) married James R. McClung. 239. xi. William Edward Rush (1913-) married (1) Maude Smiley, (2) Irene Hughes. 240. xii. Martha Harriett Rush (1916-1916).

172. Augustus Tucker Rush7 (1884—1961) married Florence Alargaret Canning. 241. i. Virginia M. Rush (1915-) married Titus Harry Lang. 242. ii. Augustus Jack Tucker Rush (1917-) married Helen Marjorie McDonald.

181. Jacob Floyd Ruslrs (1877-1939) married Blanche Violet Rock. 243. i. Richard Casper Rush (1924—) married Lucie Cunningham.

183. Joseph Robert Rushs (1882-1959) married Hannah Matilda Streid. 244. i. Elwood Rose Rush (1905-) married Ruth Chilton Hoover. 245. ii. Randolph Charles Rush (1909-1961) married Alabel McKenzie. 246. iii. Lorena Gladys Rush (1910-) married Silas Clinton Nicholas. 247. iv. Robert Emmanuel Rush (1912-1955) married Katherine Pearl Dean.

185. Charles Cleveland Rush* (1886-1972) married Flossie Bell Grant. 248. i. Charles Cleveland Rush, Jr. (1921-) married Alargaret Granruth . 249. ii. James Wallace Rush (192.3-) married Mabel Spence Watson. 250. iii. Oldson Grant Rush (1925-) married (1) Jewell Lee Campbell, (2) Dorothy Boyd. 251. iv. Laird Lorain Rush (1927-) married Alarthajanuarye Sandy.

+190. Henry David Rush8 (1902-1982) married Octavia Lillian Allen. 252. i. Irene lrma Rush (1932-2003) married Dick Gordon Garrett. 253. ii. Charles Wesley Rush, II (1938-1938).

+254. iii. Charles Wesley Rush, III (1939- ) married (1) Wanda Wray, (2) Cynthia Olive Gerwig.

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213. Richard County Rush8 (1888-1962) married Bertha Alae Lopez.

255. i. Mary Ann Rush (1917-) married (1) John West Beswick, (2) William Ravenscroft. 256. ii. Lettye Mae Rush (1921-) married (1) Eugene Walser, (2) Robert W. Page.

214. Charles Wesley Rush, Sr8 (1890-1976) married Dorothy McFaddin.

257. i. Charles Wesley Rush, Jr. (1919-) married (1) Jacqueline Turgeon, (2) Jaunita LaVonne Davis.

258. ii. Robert Heyward Rush (1922-) married Emilee Walton. 259. iii. Sally Lou Rush (1938-1980) married James Mitchell Bailey.

217. John Alfred Rush8 (1900-) married (1) Ada Louise Simpson, (2) Clara Upchurch. 260. 1. John Alfred Rush, Jr. (1930-) married Betty Ann Green. 261. ii. Elizabeth Bryan Rush (1934- ) married (1) William Holland Kemp, (2) John David

McCoy.

262. iii. Charles Andrew Rush (1938-) married Lorraine Birdsong. 263. iv. Lois Clare Rush.

218. James Andrew Rush8 (1904—) married Emily Frances Hardy. 264. i. Emily Rosalind Rush (1937-) married Phillippe Van Dyke Moore. 265. ii Agnes Elizabeth Rush (1939-) married James Wolcott Bowles.

222. John Paul Rush8 (1893-1978) married Kathleen Rollins. 266. i. Paul Wesley Rush (1921—) married Alary Lou Kern. 267. ii. Hazel Hope Rush (1923-) married William Lynch. 268. iii. Annie Lee Rush (1930-) married Richard W. McClure.

224. Samuel Lovick Rush8 (1899- ) married Miriam Watters. 269. i .John Watters Rush (1934—) married Gaynell Hopkins. 270. ii. Samuel Thaddeus Rush (1939- ) married Nancy Alathis.

225. Charles William Rush8 (1902-) married Lois Luke. 271. i. Charles Daniel Rush (1922-) married Eleanor Johnson.

237. George Dexter Rush, Jr.8 (1905-) married Kate Smith. 272. 1. George Dexter Rush, III (1945-) . 273. ii. (Infant) Rush (1947-1947).

239. William Edward Rush8 (1913-) married (1) Alaude Smiley, (2) Irene Hughes. 274. i. Judeth Caroline Rush (1935-) married William Warner Bassett. 275. ii. William Edward Rush (1936-) married Alta Nomea Shannon. 276. iii. Garry Roosevelt Rush (1941-) married Luida L. Parnell.

242. Augustus Jack Tucker Rush8 (1917-) married Helen Marjorie McDonald. 277. i. Augustus John Rush (1942-) married Susan Marie Meyer.

278. ii. Laurie McDonald Rush (1944-) .

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245. Randolph Charles Rush9 (1909-1961) married Mabel McKenzie. 279. i. Anthony Randolph Rush (1931-) . 280. ii. Robert Leroy Rush (1934-) . 281. iii. Carlene Gladys Rush (1936-) married Joseph McKenzie. 282. iv. Leon Gene Rush (1938-) . 283. v. Curtis Ward Rush (1940-) . 284. vi. Shirley Ann Rush (1945-) married William Brent. 285. vii Linda Kay Rush (1952-) .

248. Charles Cleveland Rush,Jr9 (1921-) married Alargaret Granruth. 286. i. Susan Elaine Rush (1956-) .

249. James Wallace Rush" (1923-) married Mabel Spence Watson. 287. i. James Wallace Rush, Jr. (1957-) .

251. Laird Lorain Rush9 (1927—) married Martha Januarye Sand)'. 288. i. Deborah Paige Rush (1951-) . 289. ii. John Stephen Rush (1953-1953).

+ 254. Charles Wesley Rush, III" (1939-) married (1) Wanda Wray, (2) Cynthia Olive Gerwig. +290. i. Trevor Allen Rush (1970-) married Kathanne Orendorff. +291. ii. Jason Lee Rush (1974—) married Shannon Perrault.

257. Charles Wesley Rush, Jr" (1919- ) married (1) Jacqueline Turgeon, (2) Jaunita LaVonne Davis.

292. i. Michelle Rush (1946-) married J.R. Liset. 293. ii. Suzanne Rush (1948-) married M. Oken. 294. iii. Stephen Andrew Rush (1954—) married Kelli Logan.

258, Robert Heyward Rush" (1922-) married Emilee Walton. 295. i. Robert Heyward Rush, Jr. (1950-) married. 296. ii. Charles Walton Rush (1953-) married.

260. John Alfred R u s h j r " (1930-) married Betty Ann Green. 297. i. Ethel Louise Rush (1953-) married. ' 298. ii. John Alfred Rush, III (1955-) married. 299. iii. George Andrew Rush (1958-) married. 300. iv. Carl Dunaway Rush (1958-) married. 301. v. Elizabeth Inez Rush (1963—) married.

262. Charles Andrew Rush" (1938-) married Lorraine Birdsong. 302. i. Elizabeth Rush ( I 9 6 0 - ) married. 303. ii. Charles Andrew Rush (1961—) married.

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266. Paul Wesley Rush" (1921-) married Alary Lou Kern. .304. i. Paul Wesley Rush (1959-) . 305. ii. Arthur Kern Rush (1961-) . 306. iii. Laura Katherine Rush (1964—). 307. iv. Alison Lee Rush (1968-) .

269. John Watters Rush9 (1934-) married Gaynell Hopkins. 308. i. Laura Alaria Rush (1968-) . 309. ii. John Watters Rush, II (1973-) .

270. Samuel Thaddeus Rush9 ( 1939-) married Nancy Mathis. 310. i. Lucy Miriam Rush (1972-) . 311. ii. John Thaddeus Rush (1977-) . 312. iii. Sally Elaine Rush (1980-) .

271. Charles Daniel Rush9 (1922-) married Eleanor Johnson. 313. I. Lee Ann Rush (1953-) .

276. Garry Roosevelt Rush1" (1941-) married Luida L. Parnell. 314. i. Connie Beth Rush (1961-) married.

+290. Trevor Allen Rush10 (1970- ). +315. i. Marina Abigail Rush (2001-). +316. ii. Piper Kelsie Rush (2004-).

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VOLUME I, A P P E N D I X B

GREER LINE

The GREER family has a very distinguished heritage and is linked to the Rush family through Susan Elizabeth Greer who married David Charles Rush. The Greer line78 is shown below:

1. Sir William Grierson1 married Nichola Maxwell. 2. Sir James Greer,2 born 1604 married Mary Browne. 3. James Greer,3 born 1627, Damfriesshire, Scotland, married Ann Taylor.

4. John Greer,4 born 1682, died 1750, married Sarah Day. +5. i. Aquilla Greer (1719-1790) married Elizabeth Smith Bandy Haynes.

6. ii. Benjamin Greer. 7. iii. Joseph Greer.

+5. Aquilla Greer,5 born 1719 Surrey Co, VA, died after 8 April 1790 in Green Co, GA, married before 1743 in Baltimore Co, M D Elizabeth Smith Bandy Haynes who died after 1790 in Green Co, GA. Aquilla served in the Revolution.79

8. i. Mary Greer married Henry Haynes, JR. +9. ii. James Greer (1742—1832) married Ann Haynes Lowe. 10. iii. Aquilla Greer, Jr. (1744-) . 11. iv. William Greer (1748-) married Jane. 12. v. Elizabeth Greer, married Starkey. 13. vi. Vinson Greer. 14. vii. Delia Greer (1758-) married Captain Parmenas Haynes. 15. viii. Asel Greer married Polly Lowe. 16. ix. Benjamin Greer. 17. x.Joseph Greer.

+9. James Greer,6 born 15 January 1742 in Baltimore, AID, died 13 June 1825 in Clarke Co, GA, married Ann Nancy Haynes Lowe, born . l May 1744 in VA, died 1832 in Lowndes Co, MS. James Greer was a lieutenant in the Bedford Co, VA militia during the Revolution.8" 8I

78 Letters from Charles Hackett to author, May-August 1987. Hackett obtained much of his Greer family data from Clayton Greer, an English professor at Texas A&M and son of Bayliss (Bahlis) Greer. 79 "Texas Society, Daughters of the American Revolution, Volume II, D-H," 1976, page 879. Note that Aquilla's children included in reference. 80 "Texas Society, Daughters of the American Revolution, Volume II, D-H," 1976, page 879-880. Note: includes children.

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18. i. Parsha Greer (1767-) married Nicholas Hawkins. + 19. ii. Henry Greer (1769-1849) married Susan Tillery.

20. iii. David Greer (1772-) married Alary Haynes. 21. iv. James Greer (1774-1851) married (1) Susan Searcy, (2) Rachel Williams. 22. v. Diana Greer (1776-) married (1) Travis George,(2) William Caveniss.

23. vi, Nancy Greer (1777-) married Neely McCoy. 24. vii. Elizabeth Greer (1779-) married _Beesley. 25. viii. Sarah Greer (1780—) married Henry AlcCoy. 26. ix. Aquilla Greer (1782-) married Patsy Arnold. 27. x. Priscilla Greer (178.3-) married Robert Stuart. 28. xi. Lucy Greer (1784—) married Fullilove. 29. xii. Delila Greer (1786-) married (1) Bailey George (2) William McNees.

+ 19. Henry Greer, Sr,7 born 11 October 1769, married Susan Tiller)-.82 83

+30. i. Henry G r e e r j r . (1799-1860) married Essa Utoxy Nash. 31. ii. John Greer. 32. iii. Crawford Greer. 33. iv. Dick Greer.

21. James Greer,7 born 21 September 1774, died 8 October 1851, Duvall's Bluff, Arkansas, married (1) Susan Searcy (2) Mrs. Rachel Williams.84

.34. i. Elizabeth Greer (1799-) .

35. ii. Ann Haynes Greer (1801-) . 36. iii. David S. Greer (1804-) . 37. iv. Diana Greer (1806-) . 38. v.Jane Greer (1808-) . 39. vi. Robert Searcy Greer (1811-) . 40. vii. Sally Low Greer (1813-) . 41. viii. James Madison Greer (1816—). 42. ix. Susannah Greer (1818—). 43. x. Henry Greer (1820-) . 44. xi. Aquilla Greer (1822-) . 45. xii. Mary Greer (1824-) . 46. xiii. Elkanah Greer (1825-) . 47. xiv. Martha Greer (1829-) .

26. Aquilla Greer,7 born 5 January 1782, married Patsy Arnold.85

"Family Records, Mississippi, Revolutionary Soldiers," Mississippi Society, DAR, State Board of Management, 1953-1956, pages 128-129, Includes additional data on James Greer family. : Dr. Clayton Greer, a descendent, believes the US Army destroyed the Henry Greer, Sr, tombstone in Lowndes Co,

MS during WWII and Dr. Greer replaced it in Lowndes County. 83 Ibid, "family Records, Mississippi, Revolutionary Soldiers." Reference differs on Henry Greer, Senior's children from researcher Clayton Greer. Adds Joshua, Samuel, Susan and Nancy, and leaves outjohn and Dick. 84 Ibid. "Family Records, Mississippi, Revolutionary Soldiers." ^ Ibid. "Family Records, Mississippi, Revolutionary Soldiers."

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48. i. Aquilla Greer. 49. ii. William Greer. 50. iii. James Greer.

51. iv. Deliah Ann Greer married Allen C. Vanderford. 52. v. Elizabeth Greer married David D. Stuart. 53. vi Emily Greer married John W. Cook. 54. vii. Alartha Greer married William Jackson.

+30. Henry Greer, Jr,8 born 11 February 1799 in VA, died 29 October 1860, Lowndes Co, MS, married Essa Utoxy Nash, born 27 December 1812, died 25 September 1864, Lowndes Co.86

+55. i. Susan Elizabeth Greer9 (1831-1889) married David Charles Rush. ' 56. ii. Abner Greer (1832-1855). 57. iii. James Newton (1835-1837).

58. iv. Julia Elizabeth Greer (1837-1917) married John Bean. 59. v. Mary Ann Greer (1840-1841). 60. vi. Henry Daniel Greer (1842-1848).

61. vii. Bayliss Tiller}' Greer (1846-1926) married Josephine Carlisle. 62. vi. Esse Jane Greer (1848-1915) married William Coon Clay. 63. vii. John William Greer (1850-1852). 64. viii. E m m a Theodosia Greer (1853-1922) married Charles Wilkins.

61. Bayliss (Baylis, Bayless) Tillery Greer,9 born 5 November 1846, died 31 January 1926, married Josephine Carrie Carlisle, born 1846, died 22 August 1870.

65. i. James Carlisle Greer (1869-1869). 66. ii. Susan Estelle Greer (1878-1878). 67. iii. Sallie Essie Greer (1880-1955) married Albert Taylor. 68. iv. Henry Phillips Greer (1883-) . 69. v. Earl Abner Greer (1886-1951) Olive May Lightfoot. 70. vi. Jim Lewis Greer (1889-1919). 71. vii. Lillian Ozella Greer (1892-1952) married Robert Snavely. 72. viii. Clayton Greer (1897-) married Jane May Johnson.

69. Earl Abner Greer,1" born 1 October 1886, died 1 December 1951, married Olive May Lightfoot.

73. i. Carl Henry Greer. 74. ii. Alary Adel Greer married Jack Fife. 75. iii. Howard Greer. 76. iv. Dorris Greer married Frank Graham.

86 After the death of his father, Henry, Jr., changed his name to Henry, Sr., which is on his gravestone in the cemetery on Columbus AFB, MS.

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VOLUME I, APPENDIX C

NASH LINE

ESSA UTOXY NASH (also spelled Essie Eudoxia87), the mother of Susan Elizabeth Greer, above, who married David Charles Rush, had noteworthy Nash, Pyles and Long ancestors who fought in the American Revolution.

The NASH family is of considerable antiquity.88 This family name is spelt variously as Neish, Naish, Nash, and appears originally to have been Ash. It possessed estates in the County of Worchester, England, before the time of Edward III, 1312. They have intermarried frequently with the noblest families of three kingdoms, one of the family having landed and settled in Ireland under the Earl of Pembroke in 1171. Richard Nash in 1696 married the daughter of Sir Rowland Berkley. Many of their alliances have been with the nobility of Viscount Guillamore, the Earl of Cardoran, Earl of Ulchester, Viscount Hassarne. The author of this Rush genealogy has not confirmed this line to the European Nash families noted above, but rather, reports the Nash family as reflected below from documents from the David Charles Rush and Susan Elizabeth Greer family and other researchers. One researcher89 shows a John Nash arriving in Virginia from Wales, British Isles, and his son, William Nash, dying in Culpepper County, Virginia about 1754. William's son, John Nash, was born in 1739 in Virginia, and served in the Virginia line. A statement of the Archivist, the State Librarian of Virginia, reads, "I certify that the name of John Nash appears in a manuscript list of Virginia troops of the Continental line in the Revolutionary War, preserved in the Virginia State Library, and known as War Volume 4, and on page 291 thereof. The reference briefly states that John Nash, infantry soldier, received in person on February 1, 17?2 (unclear date), back pay amounting to 1036 (unclear) pounds." This was dated September 30, 1910. signed by H.J. Eckendode, Archivist. John Nash married Polly Harrison Long 16 June, 1792. Polly Harrison Long was the daughter of Reuben Long (who died sometime after 1791), and Maty Harrison Long (family tradition says that she was a relative of Gen. Wm. Henry Harrison). The American Nash/Rush ancestral line is as follows:

1. John Nash1, born in Wales, died in Virginia.

87 Spelling found on the back of a photo of Henry B. Greer, Jr. found in the files of Charles Wesley Rush, I by the author. Information on rear of photo (from an original ambrotype of 1840) partially traces the Greer, Long, Nash and Piles ancestral lines. 88 In addition to the photo reference above, the author found a genealogy on the Nash, Long and Greer families in the files (hereafter cited, "Williford") of Sallie Rush Williford, daughter of Charles W. Rush, I, upon her death. This and future Williford references will also mention specific family references, e.g. for Nash: "Landed Gentry, England, Ireland & Scotland," by Lincare. 89 Nash and Long genealogy charts received from D. R. McPherson of Canyon Lake, Texas.

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2. William Nash2 , died in Culpepper County, Virginia about 1754, married Betty, who died in

Culpepper county about 1772.

3. John Nash3, born 6 July 1739, Culpepper Co, VA, died 25 March 1795, Abbeville Co, SC, married Polly Harrison Long, born 1752, died about 1820. He served with the Virginia Troops of the Continental Line during the American Revolution.9"

4. i. Reuben Nash, born about 1770, married Nancy Nash. +5. ii Abner Nash, born 27 July 1773, died 23 November 1834, married Elizabeth Pyles..

6. iii. Ezekiel Nash, born 1776, married Elizabeth Norris Pope. 7. iv. Theadoshe Nash. 8. v. Betty Nash. 9. vi. Melinda Nash, born 1787, married Thomas Tarrant.

10. vii. Lusenda Nash. 11. viii. Mertilday Nash married Joshua Talbert. 12. ix. Nimrod Nash married Elizabeth Conner.

4. Reuben Nash4, born about 1770, married Nancy Nash (cousin). 13. i. John Nash married Miss Hodges. 14. ii. Valentine Nash married Miss Hodges. 15. iii. Alary Nash married Air. Richardson. 16. iv. Ophelia Nash married John Nash (cousin).

+5. Abner Nash4, born 27 July 1773, Culpepper Co, VA, died 23 November 1834, Lowndes Co, MS, married Elizabeth Pyles, born 10 May 1777, Abbeville District, SC, died 29 October 1840, Lowndes Co, MS."1"2

17. i. Alanson Nash, born 17 August 1796, married Jane Lindsay. 18. ii. Deiclamia Nash, born 21 September 1798, married John Brownlee. 19. iii. Gabriel Eaveans Nash, born 16 August 1800, married (10 Pricilla (Nash?), (2) Ann

Halbert, (3) Frances Sanders, and (4) Edney Petty. 20. iv. William Whittled Nash, born 2 November 1802, died 8 September 1871, married

Nancy Wright Dobson. 21. v. Julius Junius Nash, born 23 December 1804, married Nancy Eddings. 23. vi. Theodotia Nash, born 22 December 1806, married (1) Ebenzer Petty, and (2) Allen

Cox. 24. vii. Ryland Henry Nash, born 26 February 1809, married Peachy Cox.

"Texas Society, Daughters of the American Revolution, Volume III, I-Q," 1976, page 1573; and "Daughters of the Revolution Lineage Book, Volume 67," 1908. "' Pyles and Abner Nash family data from, "Genealogy of the Dodson (Dotson), Lucas. Pyles, Rochester, and Other Allied Families," by Silas Kmmctt Lucas, Jr., privately published in Birmingham, Alabama, 1959, pages 181-188 (hereafter cited, "Lucas"). 92 Ibid. Williford files. Notes on the Abner Nash family in these files vary as reported in 1876 by Ira Norris Nash, son of Ezekiel. 1 Ic lists the following children: (i) Lansing Nash married miss Lindsey, (ii) Gabriel Nash married Miss Halbert, (iii) William Nash married miss Dotson, (iv) Julius Nash married Miss Eddings, (v) Biling Nash married Miss Cox, (vi) Newton Nash married Miss I Ienry, (vii) John Nash, (viii) Theodocia Nash married Mr. Petty, Mr. Cox, (ix) Diadamia Nash married Mr. Brownlee, (x) Essie Nash married Mr. Greer, and (xi) Nancy Nash married Mr. Lacy.

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25. viii. Nimrod Newton Nash, born 27 January 1811, married Elizabeth Emaline Henry. +26. Essa Utoxy Nash,5 born 27 December 1812, died 25 September 1864, Lowndes County,

MS, married Henry B. Greer, Jr., born 11 February 1799 in VA, died 29 October 1860, Lowndes Co, MS. Their daughter, Susan Elizabeth Greer, married David Charles Rush.

27. x. Nancy Harrison Nash, born 27 December 1814, married Franklin Lacey. 28. xi. Sally Richardson Nash, bom 6 April 1817, died 18 April 1817. 29. xii. John Abner Nash, born 28 October 1821, died 7 September 1845. 30. xiii. Polly Ann Long Nash, born 29 September 1824, died 23 July 1844, married Samuel

Williams.

6. Ezekiel Nash,4 born 1776, married Elizabeth Norris Pope. 31. i. Ira Norris Nash married.93

12. Nimrod Nash4 married Elizabeth Conner.94

32. i. Reuben Nash married Aliss Short. 33. ii. Abner Nash. 34. iii. John Nash married Aliss Hobbs. 35. iv. Nimrod Nash, Jr., married Miss Compton. 36. v. Elizabeth Nash married William Glover. 37. vi. Melinda Nash married Thomas Tarrant. 38. vii. Lucinda Nash married Air. Brolies. 39. viii. Alatilda Nash married Joshua Halbert.

93 Ibid, Williford 94 Ibid. Williford.

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PYLES LINE

The PYLES family lineage95 runs maternally through Susan Elizabeth Greer, her mother Essa Utoxy Nash, and her mother, Elizabeth Pyles. That line is:

1. Vincent Godfrey Pyles (Piles)1, born 1682, Essex County, Virginia, died 1742 in Essex County, married, about 1710 in Essex County, Rebecca Harwar.

+2. i. Samuel Pyles, born about 1711 in Essex County, Virginia, died about 1787 in Essex County, married Mrs. Ann Williams.

3. ii. Conradus Pyles. 4. iii. John Pyles, died 1757. 5. iv. Ludovicus Pvles, died 1761, Essex County.

+2. Samuel Pyles2, born about 1711 in Essex County, Virginia, died about 1787 in Essex County, married Mrs. Ann Williams.

+6. i. Reuben Pyles, born about 1742-45 in Essex Co, VA, died about 183.5-1840 in Abbeville District, South Carolina, married Ester (Hester) Rochester, born about 1752 in Westmoreland County, Virginia, died about 1812-1814 in Abbeville District.

7. ii. Williamson Pyles. 8. iii. (female) Pyles married Jones.

+6. Reuben Pyles3, born about 1742-45 in Essex Co, VA, died about 1835-1840 in Abbeville District, SC, married Ester (Hester) Rochester, born about 1752 in Westmoreland Co, VA, died about 1812-1814 in Abbeville District, SC. Reuben Pyles served as a Private in the Abbeville, SC Troops during the American Revolution.96

9. i. Sarah Pyles, died 11 May 1841, married William Dodson. 10. ii. Abner Pyles, born 9 June 1772, died about 1822, married (1) Elizabeth Shackelford,

(2) Pamelia Mitchell, (3) Susan Hatter, (4) Mrs. Stone.

11. iii. John Pyles, born 9 July 1774, married Ruth Jones. + 12. iv. Elizabeth Pyles, born 10 May 1777 in Abbeville District, SC, died 29 October 184m in

Lowndes Co, MS, married Abner Nash, born 27 July 1773, Culpepper Co, VA, died 23 November 1834, Lowndes County, MS.

13. v. William Pyles, born 20 May 1780, died 1844, married Elizabeth Rosamond.

' i , Ibid. Lucas. See also, ancestry.com. '"' "DAR Patriot Index, Volume III, P-Z," Gateway Press. Baltimore, MD, 2003, page 2193.

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14. vi. Nancy Pyles, born 20 May 1780, died married (2) George Barmore. 15. vii. Reuben Pyles, Jr., married Elizabeth Hayes. 16. viii. Fssie Pyles, married (1) Isaac Beckwith, (2) David Davenport, (3) Stephen Douglass. 17. ix. Mary Pyles, born 22 May 1789, died 13 June 1832, married John Clinkscales. 18. x. Lewis Pyles, born 22 August 1800, married (1) Catherine Weatt Perrin, (2) Alalinda

Blackburn.

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L O N G LINE

The L O N G family lineage runs through Susan Elizabeth Greer's mother, Essa Utoxy Nash, her father, Abner Nash, and Abner's mother, Polly Harrison Long. That line is:97

1. Jeremiah Long.1

2. Gabriel Long,2 born about 1687, married Alargaret Harrison.98

3. Richard Long,3 born about 1708 in Virginia, died about 1762 in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, married Elizabeth Garrett.

4. Reuben Long,5 born 1730, died 1792 in Culpepper Co, VA, married Mary Harrison who was born in VA. He was a Lieutenant in the Virginia Continental Line during the American Revolution.99 1,KI

5. i. Nicholas Long (1750-1825). 6. ii. Gabriel Long (1751-1827).

+ 7. iii. Polly Harrison Long6, born 1752, died about 1820, married John Nash, born 6 July 1739, Culpepper Co, VA, died 25 March 1795, Abbeville Co, SC

8. iv. Nimrod Long (1754-1819). 9. v. Peggy Long (1756-1815).

10. vi. Fannie Long (1760-1796). 11. vii. Evans Long (1761-1819). 12. viii. Anderson Long (1762-1840).

1.7 Ibid. McPherson. See also Ancestry .com for Reuben Long ancestry tree. 1.8 Note that ancestry.com carries Margaret Harrison's line back to 15th century England. '''' "Daughters of the Revolution Lineage Book, Volume 67," 1908, and "Lineage Book, Volume 80." See also "DAR Patriot Index, Volume II," Gateway Press. Baltimore, MD, 2003, page 1677. "'" Ibid. Williford. These Rush family papers state, "Reuben Long served as a private in Captain Gabriel Long's company, with a Virginia Regiment commanded by Colonel Daniel Moran, Revolutionary War. 1 Ic enlisted August 2, 1776, and served in the organization up to 1779. - records of the War Department, Washington, D. C."

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VOLUME I, APPENDIX F

AMERICAN MILITARY ANCESTORS

American Revolution

Johann Karl Risch/Charles Rush3 (1725-1806), Virginia Militia101 in Augusta County, Virginia.

George Rush, (Ca.1755-1831), a private from Virginia in Captain Henry Lee's Company in the First Regiment, Light Dragoons, Continental Troops, Commanded by Colonel Theoderick Bland.1112

Aquilla Greer, (1719-1790), took oath in Henry County, Virginia, Virginia Continental Line."13

James Greer, (1742-1825), Lieutenant in the Bedford Co, Virginia militia.1"4

John Nash (1739-1795), Virginia Troops of the Continental Line.1"5

Reuben Pyles, (1742-1835), Private in the Abbeville, South Carolina Troops.1"6

Reuben Long, (1730—1792), Lieutenant in the Virginia Continental Line.1"7

American Civil War

David Charles Rush (1824—1867) Private, Co. C, 2nd Battalion, Mississippi Infantry, and Private, Co C, 48th Alississippi Infantry Regiment.1"8

101 "DAR Patriot Index," NSDAR, Washington D C , 1966, p. 586. See also, Revolutionary War Patriots plaque in the Peaked Mountain Church Cemetery, McGahaysville, Virginia. 1112 DAR "Roster of Revolutionary Ancestors, Vol IV, R-Z," 1976, page 1853. 103 "Texas Society, Daughters of the American Revolution, Volume II, D-H," 1976, page 879 m Ibid., pages 879-880. 105 "Texas Society, Daughters of the American Revolution, Volume III, I-Q," 1976, page 1573; and "Daughters of the Revolution Lineage Book, Volume 67," 1908. 106 "DAR Patriot Index, Volume III, P-Z," Gateway Press. Baltimore, MD, 2003, page 2193. 1117 "DAR Lineage Book, Volume 67," 1908, and "Lineage Book, Volume 80." See also "DAR Patriot Index, Volume II," Gateway Press. Baltimore, MD, 2003, page 1677. 108 Confederate sendee information obtained from the following sources: (1) "Archives of Mississippi Confederates," Roll 420, The National Archives; (2) "Military History of Mississippi, 1803-1898," by Dunbar Rowland, The Reprint Company, Spartanburg, SC, 1988; (3) "Compendium of The Confederate Armies, Mississippi," by Stewart Sifakis, 1995; (4) "Forty-Eighth Regiment-Infantry," Jackson CWRT monthly newsletter, Series 16, Volume 1, page 7, The Jackson Civil War Roundtable, Inc., Jackson, MS, September, 1978; (5) Regimental Histories of the Second Mississippi Infantry

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Vietnam War

Charles Wesley Rush, III, Colonel, US Air Force, 1963-1991.

Battalion and the Forty-eighth Mississippi Regiment, files of the Confederate Research Center, Hill Community College, Hillsboro, TX.

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RUSH FAAIILY PICTURES

Charles George Rush (1786-1857)

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Henry B. Greer (1799-1860)

Susan Greer Rush (1831-1839)

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Children of David Charles and Susan Rush L-R Top: Charles Wesley Rush, I & Henry Greer Rush

L-R Bottom: Julia Blanche, Sarah Ann & Essie Helen Rush

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Charles Wesley Rush, I (1863-1949) Hinda deGraffenried Rush (1868-1960)

Home of Charles & Hinda Rush Marlin, Texas

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Charles W. Rush, I

Henry David Rush (1903-1982)

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Henry and Charles Wesley Rush, III

Octavia Allen Rush with Irene Irma & Charles Wesley Rush

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Charles Wesley Rush, III (1939-)

J Jf

Charles Wesley Rush, III

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Charles Wesley & Cynthia Gerwig Rush Trevor Allen & Jason Lee Rush

Trevor Allen Rush (1970- ) & Kathy Orendorff Rush

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Jason Lee Rush (1974- ) & Shannon Perrault Rush

The deGraffenried Family, Volume II §7

VOLUME II

RUSH FAMILIES: The Genealogy of Charles Wesley Rush, III

THE deGRAFFENRIED FAMILY

This Volume constitutes the second section of my family genealogy and history. On my paternal side, my father's mother was a deGraffenried, and I trace this family through her. An American descendant accomplished a major genealogical work on this family in 1925.llW This work forms the basis of this Volume and, unless otherwise noted, is the primary reference for tracing my directdine deGraffenried family through seventeen generations in Switzerland and America. The deGraffenried family has been one of the most honorable families in Switzerland since about 1191. In that year, Birchtold V established the town of Bern on an island of the Aar River as a strong fortress from where he could dominate the countryside. Among his followers we can trace the family deGraffenried, Uolricus and Cuno de Gravinsried being the first mentioned in that same year. By 1350 the family was well established in and around Bern. From 1352 to 1798 eighty-six deGraffenrieds were members of the Swiss House of Representatives and very closely connected with the history of Bern.

Generation 1

BURKHARD deGRAFFENRIED1 was probably born about 1325 near Bern, Switzerland. He is described in the Chronicles of Frauen-Kappellen and various other records as being active from 1356 to 1377. Burkhard was a member of the House of Representatives in 1363 and Treasurer in 1377. He was also appointed special envoy and ambassador for the government during this time. Burkhard deGraffenried married AIARGARETHA VON BALAIARRIED.

Burkhard and Alargaretha deGraffenried had at least one child: + i. Peter deGraffenried married first, Margaretha Veller and second, Verena von Gysenstein.

Generation 2

PETER deGRAFFENRIED2 (Burkhard) married first, AIARGARETHA VELLER and second, Verena von Gysenstein. Peter had four children:

i. Margaretha deGraffenried.

"", deGraffenried, Thomas P., "History of the deGraffenried Family, From 1191 To 1925," privately published in New York, 1925.

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ii. Lucia deGraffenried married Herr Balmer. iii. Ann deGraffenried married Henry von Speichingen.

+ iv. Nicolas deGraffenried married Anna Hetzel von Lindenach.

Genera t ion 3

NICOLAS (NIKLAUS) d c G R A F F E N R I E D ' (Burkhard, Peter) is first mentioned in records in 1418. He was a judge at Chablais in 1425 and a member of the House of Representatives at Bern in 1427. In 1466 Nicolas was the owner of a castle at Neuenstadt. In the Chronicles of Leu he is described as "Chevalier dc Marsilly" and a count)' justice in the sendee of the Duke of Savoy in Chablais. In the same chronicles he is mentioned as a member of the House of Representatives in 1429. Nicolas married ANNA H E T Z E L V O N L I N D E N A C H and they had two sons and two daughters:

i. Anna deGraffenried married first Bernhard Balmer and second Johann von Aluhleren. ii. Clara deGraffenried married Lienhart Kistler. iii. Peter deGraffenried, who was married and had two sons.

+ iv. fohann deGraffenried, born about 1430 and died in 1511. He married Anna von Emswyl.

Genera t ion 4

J O H A N N dcGRAFFENRIED 4 (Burkhard, Peter, Nicolas) was born about 1430. As early as 1448 he was a member of a military expedition against Friberg. In 1465 he was a Burger, and in 1476 he inherited a fourth part of the Dominion of Burgistein from a cousin, his brother Peter inheriting a similar fourth part then later transferring it to Johann. That same year Johann became Governor of Laupen. In 1492 he sold his share in the Lordship of Burgistein. In 1500 he declared a lordly fortune for taxation. He died in 1511.

[ohann deGraffenried married ANNA V O N EMSWYL and she bore him twelve sons, a number of whom diecl gallant deaths during the Burgundy Wars in the Battle of Grandson in 1476. Only one son was left to carry on the family name. The surviving son of Johann and Anna deGraffenried was:

+ iv. Venner Niklaus deGraffenried was born in 1447 and died in 1557. He had five wives: Barbara von Ringenberg, Benedetta Alatter, Barbara von Kunriet, Maria de Blonai, and Catherine Karrin (Kerr).

Genera t ion 5

NIKLAUS dcGRAFFENRIED 5 (Burkhard, Peter, Nicolas, Johann) was born in 1447. He is often referred to as Venner Niklaus. According to family tradition, as the fourth son he was bound for the priesthood. When all his male siblings were exterminated in the Battle of Grandson, Niklaus traveled to Rome and obtained papal consent to renounce his Holy Orders for the purpose of marrying.

Niklaus deGraffenried became very active and influential in Swiss politics. In 1495 he was a member ot Council and Governor of Schenkenberg. He became Lord Banneret in 1496. He became Governor of Aelen in 1509 and again in 1519. He was re-elected to the Swiss Assembly four times. Niklaus acquired significant land holding during his lifetime. He died, at the age of 110, in 1557.

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Niklaus deGraffenried's five wives were: Barbara von Ringenberg, Benedetta Matter, Barbara von Kunriet, Alaria de Blonai, and Catherine Karrin (Kerr). These marriages produced three sons:

i. Johann Rudolf deGraffenried, born 1505, died 1559. ii. Niklaus deGraffenried.

-f- iii. Peter deGraffenried, born 1507, died 1562.

Genera t ion 6

PETER d e G R A F F E N R I E D 6 (Burkhard, Peter, Nicolas, Johann, Niklaus) was born in 1507. Peter inherited from his father the estates of Chivron, St. Tryphon, Aluhleren and Niederblacken. He also owned the castle and lake of Holligen. In 1540 he was elected to the governorship of both Romainmotier and Yferton. In 1559 he was elected to the Swiss Assembly. Ancient archives of the family record that he stood very high among the people of his generation. He died in 1562.

Peter deGraffenried was married to ELIZABETH LEENHERR. They had three sons and tout-daughters. Their second son was:

+ ii. Anton deGraffenried, born 1545, died 1611/12, married first, Marie Leuensprung, and second Susanna Abbuhl.

Genera t ion 7

ANTON d e G R A F F E N R I E D 7 (Burkhard, Peter, Nicolas, Johann, Niklaus, Peter) was born in 1545. He was Lord of Chivron, St. Tryphon, Muhleren and Niederblacken. In 1570 he was Lord Mayor of Aarwangen. In 1578 he was elected a member of the Assembly and Governor of Saanen. In 1586 he was again a member of the Assembly. Between 1588 and 1607 he acted as special representative for his government to settle various political disputes and disturbances within the country. He died about 1611-1612.

Anton deGraffenried married twice. His first wife was Alarie Leuensprung, and the second was Susanna Abbuhl. Anton had eight sons and six daughters.

i. Anton deGraffenried, born 1573, died 1628, married Barbara von Zehenden. + viii. Abraham deGraffenried, born 1580, died about 1620, married Ursule de Diesbach in

1600.

Generat ion 8

ABRAHAM deGraffenried8 (Burkhard, Peter, Nicolas, Johann, Niklaus, Peter, Anton) was born the eighth son of Anton in 1580. From his father he inherited the estates of Chivron and St. Tryphon. Abraham received one-half of the estate of Worb as a marriage gift. In 1613 he acquired the estate of Romainmotier. In 1620 he is mentioned as a captain of a Bernese company under the command of Colonel Caspar von Muhlinen when they marched on an expedition to conquer the Veltins. In the Battle of Tirano, the Bernese regiment was overwhelmed and defeated, with Colonel von Muhlinen and nearly all his captains falling in battle. Presumably, this included Abraham deGraffenried.

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Abraham married URSULE de DIESBACH in 1600. They had five sons and one daughter. i. Abraham deGraffenried, born 1601.

-Hi. Christopher deGraffenried, born 1603, died 1687, married first, in 1630, Anna von Muhlinen; second, in 1648, Barbara Augsperger; and third, in 1659, Alaragaretha Tscharner.

iii. Hieronymus deGraffenried, born 1608, married Justina Bucher. iv. Hans Rudolph deGraffenried.

Genera t ion 9

CHRISTOPHER deGRAFFENRIED l , (Burkhard, Peter, Nicolas, Johann, Niklaus, Peter, Anton, Abraham) was born in 1603. In his youth he was in the bodyguard of Prince Henry Frederick of Orange and in 1630 he was in the Piedmontese service. He was a member of the Sovereign Council in 1635, Representative in Wallis in 1641, Mayor of Nidau in 1642, Senator in 1651, General Quartermaster in the Peasant War in 1654, and a member of the War Council in 1656. In 1657 he was made Lord Banneret, then Lord Commander of the Waadt in 1659, and Lord of Worb in 1668. I le was Chaplin of the Assembly in 1669, Ambassador to the Archbishop of Basil in 1671 and Commander-in-chief of the Bernese German Provinces in 1683.

Christopher deGraffenried firmly established his family in the estate of Worb. He, along with brothers Hieronymus and Hans Rudolph, inherited a half interest in the estate and subsequently bought the remaining shares from his brothers. In his last will and testament he specified that his descendants forever hold ownership of the estate, as it has remained to modern days. He died in 1687.

Christopher married three times. He married first, in 1630, ANNA V O N AIUHLINEN; second, in 1648, Barbara Augsperger; and third, in 1659, Maragaretha Tscharner. Christopher and Anna had three sons and three daughters. The second son of Christopher and Anna deGraffenried was:

+ iv. Anton (Anthony) deGraffenried, born 1639, died 1730, married Catherine Jenna, and, in 1669, Susanna Lombach.

Genera t ion 10

ANTON (ANTHONY) dcGRAFFENRIED 1 " (Burkhard, Peter, Nicolas, Johann, Nildaus, Peter, Anton, Abraham, Christopher) was born in 1639 and died in 1730. He was Lord of Worb, \\ ikartswyl and Trimstein and held numerous public positions. Lord Anton was a man who never sought the public eye and endeavored to live his life with quiet attention to his duties for the state. Twice he was elevated to governorship: in his youth of Aelen, and in his old age of Murten.

Anton deGraffenried married twice, first to C A T H E R I N E J E N N A (JENNER), who died in 1669. I le then married Susanna Lombach. Anton had seven sons and daughters. Anton and Catherine had one son and one daughter.

+ i. Christopher deGraffenried, born 15 November 1661, died in Worb in 1743, married Reginia Tscharner.

ii. Anna Margaretha Dorothea Salome deGraffenried, married 1696, Sigismund deSteiger.

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Generat ion 11

CHRISTOPHER deGRAFFENRIED 1 1 (Burkhard, Peter, Nicolas, Johann, Niklaus, Peter, Anton, Abraham, Christopher, Anton) was born into the noble Swiss house of deGraffenried on 15 November 1661 and his descendants are the most numerous of this family in America. He was one of the most illustrious men of his times: a citizen of Bern, honorary citizen of London, Governor of Yverton, Lord of Worb, member of the Order of Sunshine, Knight of the Purple Ribbon, Master of Arts, Doctor of Law, and Landgrave of North Carolina. He is described as ". . . high-strung, full of adventure, brilliant, of charming personality, dashing and full of go, and in matters pertaining to money and expenditures wholly irresponsible."

During his whole life, misfortune went hand in hand with brilliancy and achievement. His mother, Catherine Jenna, died soon after his birth. His stern father, Anton, sent him off at the age of seven to the strictest of schoolmasters to learn Latin, which was the only language he was allowed to speak while at the school. He spent seven years at the school and then rebelled and ran away. He was sent to school in Geneva in order to learn what a young cavalier should know. At the age of 18 he entered into studies at Heidelberg where he excelled in both school and social activities, and where he was introduced at court. When certain indiscretions and his superiority with the sword in dueling came to light, he was terminated after one and a half years at Heidelberg. He then went to Holland where he finished his studies in law, history, and mathematics two years later.

Christopher was then invited to England to work for a man of Parliament. After several tips and downs, he made friends with the Duke of Albemarle and from then on moved within the circle of nobility. He was introduced to King Charles and fell in love with the niece of the Duke of Buckingham. However, about this time his father received rumors that discredited Christopher, and he demanded his return to Worb. Instead, he traveled to Paris and became a member of the French court, later graciously received by King Louis XIV. Finally, after ten years of travel and adventure, he returned to Bern in the year 1683.

His family thought that it was time for him to settle down and proceeded to make an arrangement for him to marry a young lady from a very distinguished Swiss family, REGINIA TSCHARNF.R. The wedding took place on 25 April 1684. This turned out to be a good union. Christopher became Governor of one of the Swiss provinces in 1702, but the position did not turn out to be lucrative and when his term ended in 1708 he was in debt. He became dissatisfied with conditions at home and began to think about seeking his fortunes in the New World.

He made his way again to England, where he had maintained friendships. At this time, many people (Palantines) had come to England from Germany and Switzerland in the hopes of getting to the New World. Christopher obtained a grant from the Queen to establish a colony of mainly Swiss Palantines in Carolina. His grant was for five thousand acres on the Neuse and Trent Rivers in what is now North Carolina. His colony was named New Bern, and he was known as the Landgrave of Carolina, or more commonly, The Landgrave. But his effort was fraught with disasters ranging from

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disease, Indian wars (at one time he was captured and his surveyor tortured to death),11" to political civil wars within the Colonies. He spent the years 1709-1713 unsuccessfully trying to develop this colony, but ended up returning to England as a failure and in debt. On his return, he had to sneak out of England for fear that his debtors would imprison him. And thus, he returned to Bern in December 1713. No one welcomed the prodigal son, and he did not have sufficient funds to clear his debts and name in the courts.

Anton deGraffenried, Christopher's father, died at Worb in 1730 leaving Christopher the inherited life estate in the Lordship of Worb. Christopher transmitted the Lordship to his son, Franz Ludwig, in 1740. Christopher died in 1743 shortly after his 82nd birthday. He was laid to rest in the family church at Worb. Christopher never knew what a success story his colony at New Bern turned out to be. For over 20 years, beginning in 1765, it had the distinction of being the capital of the state of North Carolina. In 1896 New Bern held a celebration in honor of Baron deGraffenried and his founding of the city.

Christopher and Reginia Tscharner had thirteen children, including at least two sons: + i. Christopher deGraffenried VI, born 1691, Worb, Switzerland, died 27 October 1742,

Prince Edward Co, VA, married on 22 February 1714 in Charleston, S.C. Barbara Needham, who died 26 June 1744.

ii. Franz Ludwig (Francis Lewis) deGraffenried, born 1703, Worb, Switzerland.

Genera t ion 12111

CHRISTOPHER dcGRAFFENRIED 1 2 (Burkhard, Peter, Nicolas, Johann, Niklaus, Peter, Anton, Abraham, Christopher, Anton, Christopher), described in genealogical tables as Christopher VI, was born in Worb, Switzerland in 1691 and was the son of The Landgrave, Baron Christopher V. He probably came to America with his father in 1709. When the Landgrave left America in 1713, Christopher VI stayed to oversee his father's affairs. He was the first of the deGraffenrieds to settle permanently in America. On 22 February 1714 at Charleston, South Carolina, he married BARBARA N E E D H A M TEMPEST, said to be the daughter of the distinguished Sir Arthur Needham of Wymondslcy, Hertfordshire, England. She was born in 1688, her mother's maiden name being Wingate. Christopher made the following entry in the family Bible: " We were married in Charleston, S.C, in America, Feb. 22, 1714. God bless us and our issue. We moved first to Phila. to Maryland and lastly to Va."

I lis father, The Landgrave, left his affairs in a hopeless condition and Christopher VI was left with practically nothing in the way of worldly goods. His early years in America were difficult and his debts were great. Fortunately, he rose out of this state of affairs and was able to pay off all debts.

1111 Bernheim, G. D., "History of the German Settlements and the Luthern Church in North and South Carolina," 1975, pages 68-77. See also, deGraffenried, Thomas P., "History of the deGraffenried Family, From 1191 To 1925," pages 74-140 for a personal account by The Landgrave of his trials in America. 1 ' ' http://www.degraffenreid.org/pages/4/page4.html?refresh= 1136349481613 provides additional data for Christopher VI. See also, "Americans of Gentle Birth," by Pittman; "The Family of Christopher De Graffenried IV," by Irene Bush Spence, Camilla, Ga., 1968; and "Baron Christopher de Graffenried V, His Ancestors and Descendants 1191 to 2001," by Betty Thomas, Yvillo Publishing Co, Gulfport, MS, 2003.

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Christopher VI settled permanently in Prince Edward County, Virginia. They maintained a residence in Williamsburg and were early owners of what came to be known as the "Pitt-Dixon House."112

They are said to have lived in considerable style and entertained lavishly. The Virginia Gazette for February 18th to 25th, 1736 states: "This is to give notice to all gentlemen and ladies that Mrs. Barbara deGraffenried intends to have a ball on Tuesday, the 26th of next April, and an assembly on the 27th, in Williamsburg, for which tickets will be delivered out at her home."

Christopher VI's latter days were prosperous and he owned much land, some of which he owned jointly with his only son and heir, Tscharner deGraffenried, to which he left a very comfortable estate. It is recorded in the family Bible that Christopher VI died at his plantation on the James River "on Sunday at sunrising, October 27th, 1742" and that "Barbara his wife departed this life on the 26th day of June, 1744."

Christopher VI and Barbara had only one child:

+ i. Tscharner deGraffenried, born 28 November 1722, Williamsburg, VA, died Feb/March 1794 in Lunenburg Co, VA; married (1) Maty Baker, (2) Sarah Lowry, (3) Eliza Allen, and (4) Lucreca Towns.

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TSCHARNER d e G R A F F E N R I E D 1 3 (Burkhard, Peter, Nicolas, Johann, Niklaus, Peter, Anton, Abraham, Christopher, Anton, Christopher, Christopher), sometimes called Anthony Tscharner, was born 28 November 1722 in Williamsburg, Virginia. He was the first deGraffenried born in America. His father made the following entry in the family Bible:

In Williamsburg, Va., 48 Alinutes past 6 o'clock at night on ye 28th Nov. 1722 my wife was brought happily to bed of a son, God bless him. He was baptised by Commissary Blair ye 12th Dec. following on ye first Faire ever held in ye aforesaid city. His godfathers were ye Hon. Nathaniel Harrison, Hon. Cole Diggs, Hon. Philip Ludwell and Lady Harrison. His name Tscharner.

Tscharner married four times,113 having children by each wife. Tscharner is the common ancestor of most of the deGraffenrieds in America. He married first, in 1742, MARY BAKER (1723-1760), daughter of Colonel Henry Baker of Nansemond County, Virginia and Chowan County, North Carolina. The family Bible recorded this marriage as follows: "Tscharner deGraffenried and Mary Baker his wife were married by the Rev. Henry Selbeck on ye 5th day of July Anno Domino 1742."

Tscharner and Alary appear to have settled in Lunenburg County, in the south-central area of Virginia, soon after their marriage. The first evidence found shows Tscharner being granted 404 acres of land on the north fork of the Swiss River in Lunenburg county in 1743. Tscharner inherited land from his father and also purchased extensive holdings in real estate in Lunenberg County and

1,2 "Colonial Williamsburg Guidebook. 1960, page 29. 113 Wulfeck, Dorothy Ford, "Marriages of SomeVirginia Residents, 1607-1800, Vol I," Genealogical Publishing Co, Ine,

1986, page 248.

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elsewhere in Virginia. He was known as "The Baron" or the "Count deGraffenried," and also as "Tscharner the Elder" in some Lunenburg County records to distinguish him from his son Tscharner, born in 1752. In those county records his and his family's name seems to always be spelled "deGraffcnreidt." Tscharner and Mary had at least nine children, two dying in infancy. Mary appears to have died about 1756.

Tscharner married the second time in 1758 to Sarah (Rusk) Lowery and they had one child. She may have died before 1760 because Lunenburg County records show that Tscharner married Elizabeth (Allen) Embry, widow of William Embry, on 10 February 1760. However, the deGraffenried biographer states that the\' were married in 1763, and the birth of their first child in September 1764 seems to support the later date. Her estate, or the disposition thereof, apparently took years to setde because Tscharner and Elizabeth were involved in estate legal proceedings on 16 December 1764 and again on 11 August 1768. Tscharner and Elizabeth had three children. The last record of Elizabeth is dated 11 June 1778.

Tscharner married, in 1783, his fourth wife, Lucretia (Towns) Robertson (also spelled "Roberson" by his biographer). In an interesting document in the Lunenburg County Deed Book No . 13 and dated 10 May 1781,114 it is recorded:

I, Tscharner DeGraffenreidt of Lunenburg, bind myself to Lucretia Robertson of Lunenburg in the sum of 200,000 (pounds)....Lucretia Robertson has agreed this day to marry Tscharner DeGraffenreidt...(goes on to say that she is granted the power to dispose of her late husband's - Francis Robertson's - estate).

Intriguingly, on an earlier page in the same deed book is this statement:

1, Tscharner DeGraffenreidt of Lunenburg, for and in consideration of the love that 1 have for my grandson, John Robertson DeGraffenreidt, I hereby grant my grandson a negro boy named Soloman, now in possession of his father, William DeGraffenreidt. Signed April 12, 1781, Tscharner DeGraffenreidt.

Tscharner was a planter with high standing in the community. Alanv deeds and land transactions can be found in the Lunenburg County records,115 which show that he dealt in land, tobacco, and slaves. Tscharner is listed in 1782 with 28 slaves in "Virginia Tax Payers, 1782-87." He and his wife, Elizabeth, gave his son, William, 300 acres of land in Cumberland Parish on 27 July 1776. They also gave his son, Francis, considerable land in June 1778. We find a sale of a slave and 8,000 pounds of tobacco to Tscharner in February 1782. Tscharner served as a Justice of the County Court of Lunenburg for two terms, in 1764-65 and again in 1781-83.

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:: 'Lunenburg County, Virginia Deeds, 1777-1784," TLC Genealogy, 1991,

s See also: Bell, I.andon, "Sunlight On The Southside, Lists of Tithes, Lunenburg County, Virginia, 1748-1783," Genealogical Publishing Co, Ine, 1974; and "Lunenburg County, Virginia Will Book 2, 1760-1778," TLC Genealogy, 1991; "Lunenburg County, Virginia Deeds, 1771-1777," TLC Genealogy, 1990; "Lunenburg County, Virginia Deeds, 1784-1787," TLC Genealogy, 1990; "Lunenburg County, Virginia Deeds, 1787-1790," TLC Genealogy,'1991; and "Lunenburg County, Virginia Deeds, 1790-1795."

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Tscharner may have participated in the Revolutionary War116 and is listed as a Lunenburg soldier, probably in a militia unit. His son, Tscharner, Jr., of Lunenburg County, Virginia was a sergeant in a company of the Continental Virginia Line commanded by Col Abraham Buford. At the Battle of Hanging Rock in the Waxsaw Setdement in South Carolina (29 May 1780) he was badly wounded. As a result he was maimed for life and never married.

In 1788 Tscharner deGraffenried appointed an attorney for prosecuting "my claim and title as heir at law to the late Landgrave Christopher de Graffenreidt, Canton of Bun (Bern) in Switzerland, now deceased, in and to certain lands, issues, and profits in the state of Pennsylvania." He brought suit in Switzerland for the casde and estates of his grandfather, the Landgrave, but after many years of litigation, he was denied this right because of his foreign birth.

By 1791 Tscharner, almost 69 years old, began to make provisions for his death. On 24 April 1791 he entered into a legal agreement between himself and Holcott Townes, possibly his wife Lucretia's son, and his sons Tscharner, Christopher, Allen, and William, whereby the family estate ". . . lying in Lunenburg on the North Meherrin River, and containing about 435 acres" would be run by Townes after Tscharner's death for the benefit of Lucretia. After Lucretia's death or marriage, this land would go to Tscharner and Christopher or their children. Should they have no living children, Allen would inherit the property or, if Allen should have no living children, then William would inherit the property. (One wonders if William, the eldest, was out of favor with his father.) On 30 October 1792 Tscharner conveyed to his son, Christopher, all rights and entitlements conveyed by his grandfather, Baron Christopher deGraffenried in North Carolina. Again, on 21 November 1792, Tscharner conveyed claims in North Carolina to his sons Christopher, Metcalf, and William. And in July 1793 he appointed his attorney to transact all business regarding his lands in Kentucky. His last deed entry was the grant to his son William of a Negro girl slave on 3 February 1794. Tscharner deGraffenried died in Lunenberg County, Virginia in February or March 1794. His will is dated 8 February 1774, and was probated 10 April 1794.

Tscharner deGraffenried is the common ancestor of most deGraffenrieds in America. He sired sixteen children (fourteen lived to maturity) with four wives. By his first wife, Alan' Baker:

i. John deGraffenried, born 24 April 1743, died 26 April 1743. ii. Baker deGraffenried, born 6 August 1744, married Sarah Vass. iii Molly deGraffenried, born 2 April 1746, died 27 December 1747. iv. Francis deGraffenried, born 24 February 1747, died October 1815, married (1) Alary Walton, (2) Ermine Boswell.

+ v. William deGraffenried, born 22 Alarch 1749, Lunenburg Co, VA, died 1809, Lunenburg Co, VA, married 25 December 1772 Elizabeth Robertson,

vi. Tscharner deGraffenried, born 9 February 1752. vii. Mary deGraffenried, born 15 December 1753. viii. Sarah deGraffenried, born August 1755. ix. Martha deGraffenried.

116 Ibid. Wulfeck.

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By his second wife, Sarah (Rusk) Lowry: x. Metcalf deGraffenried, born about 1760, married Mary Ann Maury.

By his third wife, Eliza (Allen) Embry:

xi. Allen deGraffenried, born 18 Septemberl764, died 7 January 1821, married Sarah

Thomas. xii. Regina deGraffenried married on 30 April 1785 Charles Patteson. xiii. Christopher deGraffenried married Hannah Sartor.

By his fourth wife, Lucretia (Towns) Robertson xiv. Lucretia Jones deGraffenried. xv. Catherine Jenner deGraffenried. xvi. Nancy Needham deGraffenried.

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WILLIAM deGRAFFENRIED 1 4 (Burkhard, Peter, Nicolas, Johann, Niklaus, Peter, Anton, Abraham, Christopher, Anton, Christopher, Christopher, Tscharner) was born 22 March 1749 on his father's estate in Lunenberg County, Virginia. He married E L I Z A B E T H R O B E R T S O N on 25 December 1772. She was born in 1749 and her father was Francis Robertson.117

Like his father, Tscharner, William was a planter. However, he appears not to have been as prominent as his father. He is mentioned in Lunenburg County Deed Books for sales of land in 1778, 1785, 1791 and 1792. On 9 April 1794, he appointed his half brother, "Metcalf DeGraffenreidt of Kentucky," to transact all his business in Kentucky "especially my entry and survey on Red River." He died in Lunenberg County in 1809.

William and Elizabeth had at least seven children. i. John Robertson deGraffenried, born before April 1781, Lunenberg County, VA.

+ ii. Tscharner deGraffenried, born 1 May 1791, Lunenberg Co, VA, died 3 October 1833 in VA, married on 5 March 1822 Susan S. Crowder, born 2 January 1805, Mecklenburg Co, VA, died 24 March 1839.

iii. Elizabeth Needham deGraffenried, born ca 1792 in VA, died 1864 in Frankfort, KY, married in 1794 in Petersburg, VA, Joseph Gray,

iv. William deGraffenried, born 1794, Lunenberg Co, VA, died near Osco, Louisiana 23 October 1877, married Nancy (Ghee) Tomlinson December 1824.

v. Mary deGraffenried married William Tidwell. vi. Nancy deGraffenried. vii. Ann W. deGraffenried married James Smith, Jr. in Mecklenburg Co, VA September

1815.

17 Ibid. Wulfeck, page 249. See also, "The Old Free State, History of Lunenburg County and Southside, Virginia," by Landon C. Bell, Genealogical Publishing Co, Inc.

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Genera t ion 15

TSCHARNER d e G R A F F E N R I E D 1 3 (Burkhard, Peter, Nicolas, Johann, Niklaus, Peter, Anton, Abraham, Christopher, Anton, Christopher, Christopher, Tscharner, William) was born in Lunenberg County, Virginia 1 May 1791. He died in Virginia 8 October 1833.118 He married on 5 March 1822 in Mecldenburg Co, Virginia, SUSAN S. CROWDER, born 2 January 1805, and died 24 March 1839.119 The Reverend William Richards officiated at their wedding. Her parents were Godfrey and Susan Crowder.

Tscharner and Susan had five children:120

i. William G. deGraffenried, born 20 February 1823, VA, died 15 January 1866, TX. ii. John P. deGraffenried, born 14 October 1824, VA, died August 1831.

+ iii. Fleming Taylor deGraffenried, born 17 November 1826, VA, died 15 November 1869, Fayette Co, TX, married on 1 October 1852 in Fayette Co, TX, Augusta Georgia Townsend, born 30 December 1833, Fayette Co, TX, died 8 January 1907, Falls Co, TX.

iv. Joseph P. deGraffenried, born 30 January 1829, VA, died 3 January 1840. v. Thomas Tscharner deGraffenried, born 6 May 1832, VA, died 16 August 1875, Falls Co, TX, married on 18 March 1867, Adrienne Townsend, born 1848, Roundtop, Fayette Co, TX.

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FLEMING TAYLOR deGRAFFENRIED 1 6 (Burkhard, Peter, Nicolas, Johann, Niklaus, Peter, Anton, Abraham, Christopher, Anton, Christopher, Christopher, Tscharner, William, Tscharner) was born in Virginia 17 November 1826. He was educated in Virginia for the medical profession. He immigrated to Texas sometime after medical school, as did two of his brothers — William and Thomas Tscharner deGraffenried - both of who were in the medical profession. He married AUGUSTA G E O R G I A T O W N S E N D in Fayette County, Texas on 1 October 1852.121 His brother, Tscharner, married his wife's sister Adrienne Townsend, also in Fayette County. Not much is known about Fleming Taylor deGraffenried's life in Fayette County, although much is known about his wife's family. He died 15 November 1869 in Roundtop, Fayette County, Texas and is buried there. Augusta married a second time to William P. Minter, a Confederate veteran. She died in Alarlin, Falls County, Texas, on 8 January 1907 (for more about this interesting woman, see Appendix B to this Volume).

Fleming Taylor and Augusta had eight children: i. Susan Sabrina deGraffenried, born 22 November 1853, Fayette Co, TX, died 12 January

1854, Fayette Co, TX. ii. William Thomas deGraffenried, born 6 February 1855, Fayette Co, TX, died 3

nti deGraffenried Family Bible in the possession of Fleming deGraffenried of Houston, TX in 1994. Author's analysis of the handwriting and inscriptions reflect this was a Bible originally given by Susan Crowder, widow ol Tscharner deGraffenried, 1.0 her son, William G. deGraffenried, in 1837 who passed it down through the family. 119 Ibid. deGraffenried Bible. 1211 Ibid. Birth data from the family Bible. 121 Ibid. deGraffenried Bible.

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Septemberl867. iii. Stephen Shelton deGraffenried, born 29 March 1857, Fayette Co, TX, died 15 May

1866.12-iv. Tscharner deGraffenried, born 23 February 1859 in Colorado Co, TX, died 12 November

1927, TX, married Leila Jackson in Falls Co, TX. v. Garland deGraffenried, born 7 April 1861, TX, died 24 July 1906, Chilton, Falls Co, TX, married on 14 August 1893 Lee Bedelle in DeWitt County, TX.

vi. Fleming Taylor deGraffenried, born 18 June 1863, TX, married Lillie Gains, vii. Catherine Jenna deGraffenried, born 19 October 1865, TX, died 6 July 1910, Marlin,

Falls Co, TX, married Sidney Gaines. + viii. I linda deGraffenried, born 7 July 1868, Fayette Co, TX, died 17 May 1960, Alarlin, Falls

Co, TX, married 23 April 1889 in Alarlin, Falls Co, TX, Charles Wesley Rush, born 1 December 1863, Lowndes Co, MS, died 9 October 1949, Marlin, Falls Co, TX.

Genera t ion 17

HINDA dcGRAFFENRIED 1 7 (Burkhard, Peter, Nicolas, Johann, Niklaus, Peter, Anton, Abraham, Christopher, Anton, Christopher, Christopher, Tscharner, William, Fleming Taylor) was born 7 July 1868, in Roundtop, Fayette County, Texas. She came to Falls County, Texas with her stepfather, mother, brothers and sisters when she was about six years old, settling near the present day town of Chilton. The family moved to Marlin about 1887, and she married CHARLES WESLEY RUSH, I, there on 23 April 1889. After a full life, she died on 17 May 1960, in Marlin.123 The following sketch124 from about 1958 is in her own words (comments in parens by the author). See also, Volume I, Charles W. Rush, I.

A SMALL PART O F T H E FULL HAPPY LIFE O F H I N D A de G R A F F E N R I E D RUSH, WHOSE AIOTTO IS T O TRY T O D O U N T O O T H E R S AS I W O U L D HAVE T H E M D O U N T O ME.

1 was born at Roundtop, Fayette County, Texas - July 7th 1868. My mother was Augusta Georgia Townsend deGraffenried. Her parents were Stephen Townsend and Sabrina Robinson (sic: correct spelling, Robison - see Appendix C to this Volume) Townsend. They came to Texas in 1833 in covered wacons from Georgia

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(sic: they came to Texas from Florida in 1831, Stephen having been born in South Carolina and Sabrina in Georgia. They met and married in Jefferson County, Florida). My mother was born Dec. 30, 1833 shortly after they came to Texas. They lived at Roundtop in Fayette County, Texas for many years after my mother grew to be a young lady. Three deGraffenried brothers came to Fayette County. All three were doctors. They were raised and educated in Virginia - one a surgeon, one a dentist, and my father Fleming Taylor deGraffenried, was a M.D. October 1st 1852 my mother and father were married. They had 8 children. They lost their first three

--' Ibid. Death date in the Bible differs from that given (1861) in the major reference book of the deGraffenried family. 123 Obituary, "Mrs. C. \\". Rush's Funeral Rites Held Wednesday," The Daily Democrat, Marlin, TX, May 18, 1960, p. 1. '-'' From author's personal files.

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children which left three boys and 2 girls, I being the youngest. My father, Dr. F T . deGraffenried, died when I was 18 months old. I have no memory of my father but hearing my mother talk about him made me feel that he was the grandest man in the world. I feel that my life really started when my mother sold her property in Fayette County and moved to Falls County where she had a sister, Airs. Gaither (Florida Townsend), living. I can well remember our moving through the country in covered wagons. We camped at night and I heard the owls hooting. I got in my mother's lap and put my head under her arms and cried. Another eventful thing on that trip - 1 saw a train rolling through the country, the first I had ever seen. I was about 6 years old then.

When we first arrived in Falls County we lived in a small home just south of where Chilton is now. There was no Chilton then. The nearest post office then was Bentley, about 2 miles east of where Chilton is now, and my mother bought a large tract of prairie land about half way between Mooresville and where Chilton is now. She had a nice big comfortable home built where we lived until moving to Marlin. I can't remember the dates exactly, but I think we came to Marlin in 1887. My life in the country was very, very happy. My mother held open house for the young people at all times. Our girl and boy friends would come from miles around and we would dance and have a good time. One of my brothers played the French harp and, believe it or not, I played the accordion for them to dance some, not often as I loved to dance too much myself Our amusement those days was almost always in the homes of our friends where they would let us dance. Sometimes we would go 12 or 15 miles in a buggy — cars had never been heard of then. We had no modern conveniences but had as good as the best for those times and didn't realize there could ever be any better. We had cows in the pasture and all the milk and butter we needed, chickens and eggs, hogs that furnished all the hams, bacon, sausage and lard we needed, and fruits and vegetables. My mother bought flour and sugar by the small barrel, and sacks of green coffee, which she had parched in a wood stove and ground in a coffee mill nailed on the wall. We never hesitated to bring our friends home at any time as we always had food in the house. We didn't go to the grocery store every morning and bring a little sack of groceries home like we do now with all our modern conveniences. She even sent corn to the mill to grind for our meal, and used kerosene lamps. Outside the amusements in our homes we looked forward to going to prayer meeting on Wednesday nights and church on Sunday. We had no picture shows, no electricity, no gas, no phones, and no cars.

We had pretty good schools for those times. We went to Mooresville and Chilton to school on horseback or in a buggy. I can't remember the exact date, but I think it was in 1885 and 1886, I went to the Colonel Institute, a small Methodist college in San Marcos, Texas. This was another bright spot in my life. My mother was then Mrs. W. P. Alinter, having married again several years after my father's death. Some time after that two of my brothers and my sister married. After being left a widow again (sic: Augusta and W.P. Alinter separated and later divorced. See Augusta's sketch in Appendix B), my mother decided to sell her farm and move to Marlin -

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another bright spot in my life. 1 already had a lot of young friends in Alarlin, so the day after we moved, one of my good friends, Dr. L. P. Robertson, brought CHARLIE RUSH to see me. I had never seen or heard of him before, but I heard and saw a lot of him after that. Nothing but rood could ever be said of him. We soon became good friends, and on the 23rd of April 1889 we married in the Episcopal Church in Marlin, after which we had a reception for the wedding party at my mother's house. The next night Mr. and Mrs. Tom Sims gave us one of the biggest receptions ever in Marlin, had an orchestra from Waco, and we danced most all night. It would take too long to describe our long life together, of more than 60 years with our sweet children. We had five children. Lost our first when he was 18 months old - Charles Wesley Rush, Jr. Then we had Gussie, Dimple, Sallie Burke, and Henry David Rush.

'Memories of Nannie Rush," by grandson Charles W. Rush, April 2009

My grandmother, Hinda Rush, whom I always called 'Nannie,' was one of those small, gentle characters every child loved. Her home was directly across the street from the old Marlin grammar school, and on many days after classes I would leave school, barge into her house saying, 'Nannie! I'm here! D o you have any cookies?' I frequendy spent the night at her house. She would read me stories and tell me about things she did when she was a little girl. When it was cold, she would heat a blanket over the gas stove and tuck it under my feet. The maid, Emma, had been with the family a long time,and 1 always asked her to fix chicken and dumplings for dinner. When I reached Junior High, my friend, Kay Harter, would come to Nannie's with me. In later years, Kay and several of her girl friends would visit Nannie. My grandmother instilled in me an early appreciation of family history and passed on to me family letters and mementos. Later in life, as I worked on my family history, I came to appreciate Hinda's strong constitution and beliefs in God, family and country.

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VOLUME II, APPENDIX A

deGRAFFENRIED LINE125

1. Burkhard deGraffenried1 (abt 1325- ) married Margaretha von Balmarred. +2. i. Peter deGraffenried married Alargaretha Veller and Verena von Gysenstein.

2. Peter deGraffenried2 married Margaretha Veller and Verena von Gysenstein. 3. i. Margaretha deGraffenried. 4. ii. Lucia deGraffenried married Herr Balmer. 5. iii Ann deGraffenried married Henry von Speichingen.

+6. iv. Nicolas deGraffenried married Anna Hetzel von Lindenach.

6. Nicolas deGraffenried3 married Anna Hetzel von Lindenach. 7. i. Anna deGraffenried married first Bernhard Balmer and second Johann von Muhleren. 8. ii. Clara deGraffenried married Lienhart Kistler. 9. iii. Peter deGraffenried, was married and had two sons.

+ 10. iv. Johann deGraffenried bom about 1430 and died in 1511. He married Anna von Emswyl.

10. Johann deGraffenried4 (abt 1430-1511) married Anna von Emswyl. + 11. iv. Venner Niklaus deGraffenried (1447-1557) married (1) Barbara von Ringenberg, (2)

Benedetta Matter, (3) Barbara von Kunriet, (4) Maria de Blonai, (5) Catherine Karrin (Kerr).

11. Venner Niklaus deGraffenried5 (1447-1557) married (1) Barbara von Ringenberg, (2) Benedetta Matter, (3) Barbara von Kunriet, (4) Maria de Blonai, (5) Catherine Karrin (Kerr).

12. i. Johann Rudolf deGraffenried (1505-1559). 13. ii. Niklaus deGraffenried.

+ 14. iii. Peter deGraffenried6 (1507-1562) married Elizabeth Leenherr.

14. Peter deGraffenried6 (1507-1562) married Elizabeth Leenherr.

+ 15. i. Anton deGraffenried (1545-1611/12) married (1) Marie Leuensprung, (2) Susanna

Abbuhl.

15. Anton deGraffenried7 (1545-1611/12) married Alarie (1) Leuensprung, (2) Susanna Abbuhl.

16. i. Anton deGraffenried (1573-1628) married Barbara von Zehcnden.

12 5 deGraffenried, Thomas P., "History of the deGraffenried Family, From 1191 A. D. to 1925, privately published, 1925. Except as noted, this reference is the source for the deGraffenried lineage.

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+ 17. ii. Abraham deGraffenried (1580-abt 1620) married Ursule de Diesbach .

17. Abraham deGraffenried8 (1580-abt 1620) married Ursule de Diesbach. 18. i. Abraham deGraffenried (1601-) .

+ 19. ii. Christopher deGraffenried (1603-1687) married (1) Anna von Muhlinen. (2) Barbara Augsperger. (3) Alaragaretha Tscharner.

20. iii. Hieronymus deGraffenried, born 1608, married Justina Bucher. 21. iv. Hans Rudolph deGraffenried.

19, Christopher deGraffenried" (1603-1687) married (1) Anna von Muhlinen. (2) Barbara Augsperger. (3) Maragaretha Tscharner.

+22. i. Anton (Anthony) deGraffenried (1639-1730, married (1) Catherine Jenna, (2) in 1669, Susanna Lombach.

22. Anton (Anthony) deGraffenried10 (1639-1730) married (1) Catherine Jenna, (2) in 1669, Susanna Lombach.

+23. i. Christopher deGraffenried (1661-1743) married Reginia Tscharner. 24. ii. Anna Margaretha Dorothea Salome deGraffenried, married 1696, Sigismund deSteiger

23. Christopher deGraffenried" (1661-1743) married Reginia Tscharner. +25. i. Christopher deGraffenried VLborn 1691, died 1742, married Barbara Needham.

26. ii. Franz Ludwig (Francis Lewis) de Graffenried (1703-) .

25. Christopher deGraffenried VI12 (1691-1742) married Barbara Needham. +27. i. Tscharner deGraffenried born 1722, diedl794 married (1) Mary Baker, (2) Sarah

I .owry, (3) Eliza Allen, (4) Lucreca Towns.

27. Tscharner deGraffenried13 (1722-1794) married (1) Mary Baker, (2) Sarah Lowry, (3) Eliza Allen, (4) I .ucretia Towns.

28. i. John deGraffenried, born 1743, died 1743. 29. ii. Baker deGraffenried, born 1744. 30. iii Molly deGraffenried, born 1746, died 1747. 31. iv. Francis deGraffenried, born 1747, died 1815, married (l)Mary Walton, (2) Ermine

Boswell. +32. v. William deGraffenried, born 1749, died 1809, married Elizabeth Robertson.

33. vi. Tscharner deGraffenried, bornl752. 34. vii. Mary deGraffenried, born 1753. 35. viii. Sarah deGraffenried, born 1755. 36. ix. Martha deGraffenried. 37. x. Metcalf deGraffenried, born about 1760. 38. xi. Allen deGraffenried, born 1764, died 1821, married Sarah Thomas. 39. xii. Regina deGraffenried married Charles Patteson. 40. xiii. Christopher deGraffenried married Hannah Sartor. 41. xiv. Lucretia Jones deGraffenried. 42. xv. Catherine Jenner deGraffenried.

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43. xvi. Nancy Needham deGraffenried.

32. William deGraffenried14 (1749-1809) married Elizabeth Robertson. 44. i. John Robertson deGraffenried, born 1781.

+45. ii. Tscharner deGraffenried, born 1791, died 1833, married Susan S. Crowder.126

46. iii. Elizabeth Needham deGraffenried, born 1792, diedl864 married Joseph Gray. 47. iv. William deGraffenried, born 1794, died 1877, married Nancy (Ghee) Tomlinson. 48. v. Maty deGraffenried married William Tidwell. 49. vi. Nancy deGraffenried. 50. vii. Ann W. deGraffenried married James Smith.

45. Tscharner deGraffenried15 (1791-1833) married Susan S. Crowder. 51. i. William G. deGraffenried , born 1823, died 1866. 52. ii. John P. deGraffenried, born 1824, died 1831.

+53. iii. Fleming Taylor deGraffenried, born 1826, died 1869, married Augusta Georgia Townsend.

54. iv. Joseph P. deGraffenried, born 1829, died 1840.

55. v. Thomas Tscharner deGraffenried, born 1832, died 1875, married Adrienne Townsend

53. Fleming Taylor deGraffenried16(l 826-1869) married Augusta Georgia Townsend. 56. i. Susan Sabrina deGraffenried, born 1853, died 1854. 57. ii. William deGraffenried, born 1855, died 1867. 58. iii. Stephen Shelton deGraffenried, born 1857, died 1866.127

59. iv. Tscharner deGraffenried, born 1859, died 1927, married Leila Jackson. 60. v. Garland deGraffenried, born 1861, died 1906, married Lee Bedelle. 61. vi. Fleming Taylor deGraffenried, born 1863, died 1941, married Lillie Gains. 62. vii. Catherine Jenna deGraffenried, born 1865, died 1910, married Sidney Gaines.

+63. viii. Hinda deGraffenried, born 1868, died 1960, married Charles Wesley Rush, I.

55. Thomas Tscharner deGraffenried16 (1832—1875) married Adrienne Townsend. 64. i. Thomas deGraffenried. 65. ii. Alary deGraffenried, born 1868, married Alark W. Harwell. 66. iii. Fleming Taylor deGraffenried, born 1869, died 1914, married Rebecca Mears. 67. iv. Adrienne deGraffenried.

59. Tscharner deGraffenried17 (1859-1927 married Leila Jackson. 68. i. Catherine deGraffenried, born 1887, died 1910, married Donald Fish.

69. ii. Gail deGraffenried, born 1889. 70. iii. Mary deGraffenried, born 1891, married Sam Jacks FAans. 71. iv. Kenneth deGraffenried, born 1892, died 1964.

126 deGraffenried Bible in the possession of Fleming deGraffenried of Houston, TX in 1994. Author's analysis of the handwriting and inscriptions reflect this was a Bible originally given by Susan Crowder, widow ol Tscharner deGraffenried, to her son, William G. deGraffenried, in 1837 who passed it down through the family. 127 Ibid. deGraffenried Bible.

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72. v. Alice deGraffenried, born 1894, married Karon Crunk. 73. vi. Fleming Taylor deGraffenried, born 1896.

74. vii. Earl deGraffenried, born 1898, died 1963. 75. viii. Helen deGraffenried. Born 1900. 76. ix. Tscharner deGraffenried, born 1902. 77. x. Byrd deGraffenried, born 1905. 78. xi. Neil deGraffenried, born 1907. 79. xii. Ada deGraffenried, born 1909.

61. Fleming Taylor deGraffenried17 (186.3-1941) married Lillian Gains.12" 80. i. Tscharner deGraffenried, born 1884, died 1962, married (1) Bertha Livingston, (2)

Lillian Dunn. 81. ii. David deGraffenried, born 1891, died 1986, married (1) Loyne Gray (2)Ethel Rogers. 82. iii. Brian Marsh deGraffenried, born 1897, died 1935, married Lucille Bowman. 83. iv. Gaines deGraffenried, born 1905, died 1991, married Ola Inez Bradley. 84. v. Lillian deGraffenried, born 1908, died 1991, married Jack Owen.

66. Fleming Taylor deGraffenried17 (1869—1914) married Rebecca Alears. 85. i. Adrian L. deGraffenried. 86. ii. Thomas T. deGraffenried.

80. Tscharner deGraffenried18 (1884-1962) married (1) Bertha Livingston, (2) Lillian Dunn. 87. i. Eloise deGraffenried, born 1908, married Harry Wagner. 88. ii. Maria deGraffenried. 8'). iii. T. C, deGraffenried, born 1921 married Mary Baxley.

81. David deGraffenried1S (1891-1986) married Lonnie Gray. 90. i. Lucy deGraffenried.

82. Brian Marsh deGraffenried18 (1897-1935) married Lucille Bowman. 91. i. Brian Marsh deGraffenried, born 1924. 92. ii. Nancy deGraffenried, born 1930.

83. Gaines deGraffenried18 (190.5-1991) married Ola Inez Bradley.

93. i. Fleming Taylor deGraffenried, born 1941, married Patricia Alarie Dickerson. 94. ii. Thomas David deGraffenried, born 1945, married (1) Jamie Sue Casey, (2) Marsha

Ann (Lee) Davis.

94. Thomas David deGraffenried19 (1945- ) married (1) Jamie Sue Casey, (2) Alarsha Ann (Lee)

'•* Fleming Taylor and Lillian Gaines deGraffenried Family Bible, in the possession of Fleming deGraffenried of I louston, TX in 1994.

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Davis. 95. i. Dixie Lee deGraffenried, born 1981.

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T O W N S E N D LINE129

The Townsend family has a long heritage and is linked to the deGraffenried family as a result of Augusta Georgia Townsend marrying Fleming Taylor deGraffenried. Due to an excellent Townsend genealogy and their prominent role in early Texas history, the author has included supplemental information on this family. Townsends appeared early in the thirteen colonies, first settling in Massachusetts in 1637, then moving into Maryland and Virginia in the latter half of the 1600s. There was a Benidictus Townshend who appeared in South Carolina in 1765 and may have had two sons, John and Light. There was also a Thomas Townsend, born in 1732, who came to Greenville, South Carolina from Pittsylvania County, Virginia. He died in Greenville in 1796 and had a son, Light Townsend. Thomas Townsend of Greenville and the author's ancestor, Light Townsend of the Marlboro District, South Carolina, may have been related. The author's known Townsend line is shown below.

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LIGHT T O W N S E N D 1 probably came from Pittsylvania County, Virginia to the Alarlboro District of South Carolina about 1740, settling on the Pee Dee River. He may have come with bother John Townsend and John's wife, Courtney. In 1775 men living in St. David's Parish organized a group of soldiers and elected Robert Lide their captain.13" Light and John Townsend were among these sixty men. Light is listed as a private in Benton's Regiment in 1782.131 This regiment was a part of Marion's Brigade, under the celebrated Revolutionary War General Francis Marion, known as, "The Swamp Fox." Light Townsend is listed in "Marion's Alen," compiled by W. W. Brodie. In several court records of land transactions in 1775, Light, John and Courtney did not write their names, but rather, made their marks. Light Townsend and his wife, DELILIAH, were the parents of at least six children:

i. John Townsend, born 1760, married Keziah Hays.

ii. Rhoda Townsend. H- iii. Thomas Townsend, born 1765, died in 1828, married Elizabeth Stapleton.

iv. Light Townsend, born 1770, died 1851, married Phoebe Carter. v. William Townsend.

129 Unless otherwise noted, the Townsend family information is derived from the following source: Tulia Townsend, Wyatt, "The Seven Townsend Brothers Of Texas, 1826-1838: A Genealogy," Aus-Tex Duplicators, Austin, TX, 1974, Library reference 929.2, T663. 130 "South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine," Volume 2, Number 4, October 1901, pages 264-265. 111 South Carolina Archives, "Townsend, Light."

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vi. Man' Townsend, married William Stapleton.

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THOMAS T O W N S E N D 2 (Light) was born in South Carolina in 1765. He married ELIZABETH STAPLETON in Marlboro County, South Carolina in January 1795. Thomas sold fifty acres of land for fifty dollars to William Coxe on 1 February 1802. This land was on Wolf Trap Branch and the deed states this was on the lower portion of three hundred acres that Thomas had acquired from Light Townsend by inheritance. Both Thomas and Elizabeth are shown in deed transactions in Marlboro County in 1813 and 1814. Thomas Townsend served during the War of 1812 in Captain Duke Hamilton's Volunteer Troop of Light Dragoons, Major Frederick Freeman's Squadron, Georgia Cavalry.132 In 1816, they sold their land in South Carolina and moved to Mcintosh County Georgia. In the 1820 Census, they were living in Mcintosh County, Georgia, with eight sons and one daughter. The US Government granted both Thomas and his brother, Light, land in Florida for their service during the War of 1812. Thomas's land grant reads in part, ". . . land in Jefferson County and the Territory of Florida granted by the United States of America to the said Thomas Townsend and bearing date the first day of May, One Thousand Eight hundred and Twenty-Six for service in the War of 1812, August 1813 to Alarch 2, 1814." Thomas served as a private in Captain Duke Hamilton's Volunteer Troop of Light Dragoons, Major Frederick Freeman's Squadron, Cieorgia Cavalry from 20 August 1813 to 2 March 1814. The family moved to Florida in 1824 and Thomas died in Jefferson County, Florida, in 1828. When the children of Thomas and Elizabeth Stapleton Townsend were married, each was given a Bible to record his own family records. Several of these Bibles have survived. The children of Thomas and Elizabeth were:

i. Asa Townsend, born 14 December 1795, Marlboro County, SC, married Rebecca Harper, Mcintosh Count)', GA.

ii. Thomas Roderick Townsend, born 9 February 1797, married Nancy Pamelia Ann Dean, Mcintosh County, GA.

+ iii. Stephen Townsend, born 17 January 1800, died 29 October 1851, married Sabrina Robison 27 January 1827, Jefferson County, FL.

iv. Mary Elizabeth (Polly) Townsend, born 12 May 1802, married Alexander Middleton. v. Spencer Townsend, born 14 April 1806, married Louise Dillard. vi. Light Townsend, born 1808, married Emma Wallace Ewing 20 January 1830. vii. Moses Townsend, born 1811, married Mrs. Nancy Caldwell. viii. William T. Townsend, born 1814, married Mary McNeil. ix. Stapleton Townsend, born 22 February 1817, married Eliza Callaway.

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STEPHEN T O W N S E N D 3 (Light, Thomas) was born on 17 January 1800 in South Carolina. He married SABRINA ROBISON (see Appendix C) in Jefferson County, Florida, on 27 February 1827. Their marriage records are the first ones recorded in Jefferson County.133 Stephen served on the Jefferson County Superior Court Grand Jury in November 1828 and again in November 1829 for

i : Letter from the US War Department, Adjutant General's office to Mrs. William Wyatt, 14 September 192£ lelterson County Marriage Records, 1827,Volume 1, page 1. 1.V1

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two cases. The latter case must have not been too serious, as the jury found the defendant guilty for assault and battery and fined him "six and a quarter cents." Stephen also served as the TaxReceiver for Jefferson County in 1829. Stephen and Sabrina bought land in Jefferson County in 1829 through 1831. Listed in the Jefferson County records134 135 with Stephen are his brothers'Asa, Aloses, and Thomas R. Townsend, as well as his father-in-law, John G. Robison. Shown on the 1830 Jefferson County Census136 are Stephen and Sabrina Townsend, their two children (one male, one female -both under five), five other males (thought to be Stephen's brothers), and four slaves.

In 1831 the Townsend brothers elected Thomas R. and Spencer B. Townsend to travel to the Mexican state of "Tejas" on an exploratory mission to check out lands offered to Anglo settlers by the Mexican Government. The brothers returned with a very favorable report and, by late 1831, Stephen, Sabrina and his six Townsend brothers decided to move to Texas. Also joining them were Sabrina's parents, John G. and Frances Robison, and Sabrina's brother, Joel W. Robison. A deciding factor for Stephen migrating from Florida to Texas may have had to do with his legal problems. On 25 November 1830 he and others (to include Light Townsend and Isaac Townsend) were indicted for "assault and false imprisonment." This case was tried and dismissed on 24 May 1831, but Stephen was indicted again for assault and battery on 25 May 1831 by the same court. This time he was found guilty and fined $5. Also on 25 May 1831 there were a series of suits and counter suits involving Stephen which resulted in him being tried, with his brother Moses, on 5 December 1831 in the Superior Court at Monticello with the result that they were found guilty for "breach of contract" and fined $205.44.

Stephen and Sabrina Townsend are thought to have arrived in Texas, via New Orleans, in late December 1831. They probably first settled in the town of San Felipe. Stephen took part in an Indian fight in the Spring of 1833. On 16 June 1833 Stephen and Sabrina Townsend arrived at Alina, near current day Bastrop, and were registered in Benjamin Milam's "Register of Newly Arrived Families" which showed him as a 35 year old farmer from South Carolina with a family of five. Sometime in 1835, he and his family moved to Colorado County, Texas. Fighting Indians became one of his main concerns during this time. In the book, Chronicles of Fayette, Sabrina Townsend tells the following story of an event which happened in March 1835. "A negro woman walking with her boy from Townsend's to the present Warrenton was killed by Indians who were hidden in a large live oak tree; the boy was taken along by them." In the same book, Sabrina tells about two men, named Edwards and Manlove, who were attacked by a force of about 30 Indians. Edwards was killed but Manlove escaped and by dark made it to Stephen and Sabrina's home. John G. Robison, Sabrina's father, found Edwards and buried him. By July 1835 the attacks had become so serious that the settlers formed a special company led by Captain John York, with Stephen Townsend as one of his lieutenants, to counter the Indians. The company attacked and destroyed a "Keechi" village, which stopped the Indian attacks until September 1835, when the Indian raiding began again. Stephen Townsend was at the Battle of Concepcion in October 1835, the Texans led by Stephen Austin and Jim Bowie defeating Alexican General Cos. In December 1835, Stephen Townsend was

134 Jefferson County Chancery Book A, pages 3, 12, 13, 21, 23, and 30. 135 Jefferson County Deed Records, Vol A, pages 040, 189, 190,196, 201. 1361830 Jefferson County, Florida Census, page 157. 137 Freytag, Walter P., "Chronicles of Fayette: The Reminiscences of Julia Lee Sinks," pages 22-2.3.

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commissioned by the Provisional Government of Texas to raise a scouting party, which he commanded until 1 February 1836. On 1 February 1836 Stephen was again put in command of another special company, called a "Ranging Company."138 This was later shortened to "Ranger Company" and, thus, he was one of the very first Texas Rangers. He was called into the main army of the Republic of Texas on 12 March 1836 because of General Santa Anna's attacks on the Texas garrisons at the Alamo and at Goliad. When General Sam Houston's Army came through I larrisburg, Stephen Townsend's scouting party united with him under Captain William Smith's cavalry and remained with the army during the "Runaway Scrape." The)' were with General Houston in the Battle of San Jacinto on 21 April 1836.139 14tl 141 The Townsend family has the distinction of having a larger representation present at this battle than any other family. His brother-in-law, Joel Robison, was credited with capturing, and saving the life of, General Santa Anna after that battle. According to stories that Stephen Townsend's son, Samuel, heard his father tell, the Townsend brothers got permission from General Houston as he lay wounded under a tree after the battle, to eo and find their families who were hiding from both the Indians and the Alexican Army on the banks of the Sabine River. Stephen was discharged from the Texas Army on 20 November 1836. There continued to be an Indian threat and Sabrina's father and uncle were killed and scalped in February 1837.

Stephen Townsend served as sheriff of Colorado County in 1837 and 1838.142 O n 23 January 1838 Stephen received a land grant for a league (4,428 acres) and a labor (177 acres) of land from the Colorado County Land Board. For his service in the Army of Texas, he received a grant of 960 acres in Johnson County on 16 January 1839.143 Colorado County Tax Records show that they lived in Colorado Count)- until at least 1840. They moved to Fayette County by 1842. He was a member of the Masonic Lodge. The 1842 Fayette Count)' Tax Rolls show they owned 1,151 acres valued at SI, 160 and three city lots valued at Sl,500. They also owned two slaves. On 6 October 1845 Stephen received another land grant from the Republic of Texas for a league of land and a labor of land. There are several other land transactions recorded in Fayette County records for Stephen and Sabrina Townsend through 1847 showing that the)' speculated in land, but by 1850 the Tax Rolls show them owning only 411 acres and having a total net worth of $2,865. O n 5 April 1850 Sabrina paid $900 to her brother, Joel W. Robison, for two male slaves. On 14 October 1850 Stephen purchased a "lot ot slaves," further identified as being 18 slaves. Sabrina and Stephen resold these slaves. The 1850 Census144 shows Stephen and Sabrina with seven of their children, plus two other adults. On 28 July 1851 Stephen received another land grant from the State of Texas for his participation in the Battle of San Jacinto.145 He immediately resold this 640 acres to his son-in-law, James C. Gaithcr who married Florida Townsend. Stephen Townsend was elected sheriff of Fayette

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is Dixon, Sam I louston and Louis Wiltz Kemp, "The Heroes of San Jacinto," The Anson Jones Press, Houston, TX 936, page332.

Wade, I louston, "Fayette County I leroes of San Jacinto," LaGrange (ournal, July 25, 1935. 1 •"' Ray, Worth Stuckey, "Austin Colony Pioneers," The Pemberton Press, 1970, pages 267-268.

"Founders and Patriots of the Republic of Texas, Book III," published by The Daughters of the Republic of Texas, Austin, TX, 1985. 142 184(1 Census of Colorado County, Republic of Texas.

11 Miller, Thomas Lloyd, "Bounty and Donation Land Grants of Texas, 1835-1888," University of Texas Press, Austin, TX, page 644. 144 Seventh Census of the United States, 1850, Fayette County, Texas. 145 Ibid. Miller, page 858.

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County in 1850. O n 29 October 1851 he broke up a fight between a Harwood Vaughn and other men. Later, Vaughn walked up to Stephen and "plunged a Bowie knife in the stomach" of Stephen, which "caused his death in about 20 hours." Vaughn fled but was later captured near Lone Oak, Arkansas. Thomas Townsend went after the prisoner and returned him to Fayette County where he had to protect him from a lynch mob. The prisoner was tried and sentenced but was later released to go into the Civil War. N o record of his service has been found.146 Stephen and Sabrina Townsend had the following children:147

i. Florida Townsend, born about 1828, Jefferson County, FL, married James C. Gaither 19 October 1848, Fayette County, TX.

ii. John Winfield Townsend, born 17 January 1830 in Jefferson County, FL, married (1) Georgia Ann Harrison 25 July 1856 in Fayette County, TX, (2) Carolina AI. Brockway; he-died 23 October 1898, Duval County, TX.

iii. Frank Townsend, born 1831, died 1832, Jefferson County, FL. iv. Joel Townsend, born 1832, died before 1850

+ v. Augusta Georgia Townsend, born 20 December 1833 in TX, married (1) Fleming Taylor deGraffenried on 1 October 1852 in Fayette County, TX, (2) William P. Minter. She died 8 January 1907.

vi. Frances E. Townsend, born July 1837 in Colorado County, TX, married Patrick Hargon on 22June 1854; she died lOJuly 1921.

vii. Mary Townsend, born 1841 Fayette County, TX. viii. Sabrina Anna Townsend, born 1843, Fayette County, TX, married Daniel R. Jacks, 4 April 1861

ix. Samuel Lucky Townsend, born 6 January 1845, Fayette County, TX, married Betty Little 18 Alarch 1869; he died 18 February 1934, Houston, Harris County, TX.

x. Adrienne Townsend, born 1848, married Thomas Tscharner deGraffenried. xi. Stephen Townsend, born about 1850.

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AUGUSTA G E O R G I A T O W N S E N D 4 (Light, Thomas, Stephen) was born 30 December 1833148

in Texas, probably at Mina, near current day Bastrop. Only two years old, she was with her mother, Sabrina, and other settlers fleeing both the Indians and the Mexican Army during the "Runaway Scrape" in the Spring of 1836. After the famous Battle of San Jacinto, Sabrina's brother and Augusta's uncle, Joel Robison, was credited with capturing General Santa Anna and was given his gold brocaded vest, which was used for years at family weddings.149 Augusta spent her early years at the Townsend Setdement, now Roundtop, Fayette County. This was on the old Upper La Bahia Road between the Brazos and Colorado Rivers. She married DR. FLEMING TAYLOR

'"' "The Townsend File." La Grange, Texas Public Library. 147 Stephen and Sabrina Townsend's family information consolidated from above source, deGraffenried family Bibles, and Ruby Robison Penton, "Samuel Robison of Washington County, Georgia," published by Tad Fvans, Savannah, Georgia, 1994, page 110. 148 Handwritten note bv her daughter, Hinda deGraffenried Rush. I4,) "Legend of Santa Anna's Vest Supported," Ft. Worth Star Telegram, Fort Worth, TX, ca. 1965. See also, "Niece of Texas Hero Lived In Marlin For Years," The Marlin Democrat, 1926.

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D E G R A F F E N R I E D in Fayette County on 1 October 1852,15" the Reverend William Pones officiating. They lived in Roundtop and had eight children before Dr. deGraffenried died 15 November 1869, She is shown with five of those children, ages 2-12, in the Census taken in November 1870.15' That same Census shows a farmer, W. P. Alinter, living in the same household, and Augusta married him 4 January 1871.152 In 1872 they migrated to Falls County, Texas, probably due to two of her sisters (Florida and Adrienne) and their families having moved to the same area (see Hinda deGraffenried, Volume II). W. P. and Augusta Alinter had one child, James Alinter,153

but by 1884 they had separated and were divorced 5 July 1887.154 In an interesting note, a relative stated,155 "Mother (Augusta's daughter) was intrigued by the fact that (W. P. Minter) was a gentle and much more learned and cultivated Va. Gentleman than anyone around them. Truth be known, I always felt he escaped from the dominant Granny Gus. The deG. family felt that her Townsend background was not up to theirs. Are not individuals fascinating?"

In 1887 Augusta Minter moved to the town of Marlin, Texas and ran a hotel-boarding house. The following is from the memoirs of Dr. Torbett, a prominent Marlin physician.1-"16

Work on the Bethesda Bath House was completed and the institution was opened for business on March 11, 1898 . . . Soon after the Bethesda Bath House was completed, I began taking my meals with Mrs. A. G. Alinter, who ran the Commercial Hotel - the largest hotel in Alarlin at that time. She was a short, stout woman, with a strong character, and was loyal to her friends as long as she lived. She was a friend to me, and I appreciated her beyond words, since I was a young man trying to build up a business in a new town.

Mrs. Minter told me of an adventure she had when, as a child of three, she rode behind her oldest sister, Florida Townsend, at the head of Sam Houston's army while they were being pursued by Santa Anna. At the time the Battle of San Jacinto was raging, they were standing on the banks of the San Jacinto River. They had agreed to jump in it the Mexicans won. The next day after the battle was won, her uncle, Joel W. Robison, and five other men in a squad, found Santa Anna hiding in a clump of grass after he had abandoned his horse. They had no idea of his identity until after the\- had captured him and carried him into the camp of General Houston, where other Mexican prisoners exclaimed, 'EI Presidentel' (The President!).

I5" Grammar, Norma Rutledge and Marion Day Mullens, "Fayette County, Texas Marriage Records, 1838-1871," Texas State Archives, 1955. 151 1870 Federal Census, Fayette County, Texas. |-': Fayette Count}-, TX, County Clerk Records, Volume D, page 48. 153 James Minter lived and married in Mexico. Genealogical data in possession of the author. 1,4 Information on W.P Minter contained in the Roster of the Texas Confederate Home in Austin, TX: Born in 1844 in

Virginia, veteran of 16th AL Infantry, came to TX 1866, died 14 Jan 1911. These records show him as a widower. His wife told his children he was dead. But the following records his divorce: "Civil Minutes of Falls County, Volume K," page 1 1. See also military service records of the 16th Alabama Infantry. '5 Note written by Sidney Gaines Goodwin, whose Mother, Jenna deGraffenried Gaines, was a daughter of Augusta

Georgia Townsend (deGraffenried) Minter. To Irene Rush Garrett, 1989. 156 www. roots web.ancestrv.com/~txfalls/.

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In 1900 the Census shows Augusta at "The Galveston Orphan's Home, Corner of 21 s t St. and Avenue AI, Galveston, Texas."157 She was there on 8 September 1900 when Galveston was struck by a hurricane, killing approximately 8,000 people, the greatest natural disaster in United States history. Augusta survived and returned to Marlin to run her boarding house until her death in Marlin, Falls County, Texas, on 8 January 1907. She is buried in Calvary Cemetery, Alarlin, in the Rush plot.

The following article is believed to be from The Dallas Morning News, about January 13-15, 1907:

D E A T H O F A P I O N E E R / M R S . AUGUSTA G E O R G I A AIINTER WAS BORN IN TEXAS IN T H E YEAR 1833/HAD HAIRBREATH ESCAPES

Indians Were Troublesome and on One Occasion, at Least, She Got to Safety in the Nick of Time

Special to The News.

Marlin, Jan. 13 - The remains of Mrs. Augusta Georgia Minter were interred in Marlin Cemetery yesterday afternoon, witnessed by a very large assembly of sorrowing friends and many relatives sorely grieved. She died of pneumonia Jan. 8 at Chilton, in the western part of the county, and the body was withheld from burial awaiting the arrival of her son from Mexico.

Beneath the hallowed mound that marks the last resting place of this subject reposes the adored remains of one who witnessed the varied and romantic scenes through which Texas has passed from almost a wilderness to its present high state of development. Deceased was born in Colorado County, Texas, at Round Top, in 1833. Her maiden name was Miss Augusta Georgia Townsend. Her parents came to Texas in 1830 (sic), when the perils of the hour in the then wild and unsettled country demanded settlers of courage and heroism. Her early life was cast amid the trying vicissitudes of cruelty and treachery enacted by savage Indians then roaming the country and brutish Mexicans doing the wicked (bohoets?) of the "Prince of Butchers." She was a granddaughter of John R. Robertson (sic), who was mercilessly scalped and murdered by a band of Indians near Round Top and within a mile of his home and her birthplace. Joel W. Robertson (sic) was her uncle, he being one of the party of soldiers who were sent out to scour the country, and it was he who observed a mud bespattered, abject-looking Mexican standing on the bank of a ravine, who was captured and carried before Gen. Houston, the prisoner taking Gen. Houston by the hand and bowing low, said: 'I am Gen. Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna.'

Deceased had many heroic relatives, whose names appear in Texas history, and it is said as much blood of her family was spilt in wrestling the Texas Government from Alexican misrule as that of any other family. To her young ears were related the startling accounts of Santa Anna invading the interior of Texas; siege and fall of the Alamo; Goliad massacre; battle of San Jacinto, and then later the glad tidings of

1900 Federal Census, Galveston County, Texas, Dwelling 255.

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treaties with Santa Anna; Mexican troops withdrawn; Houston President; etc. But other trials continued with the redskins. When a child but 3 or 4 years old her mother, with several other small children and an old colored servant, were alone when they were startled by the approach of Indians murder bent. Her mother mounted one horse with several of the children and the old colored woman on another horse with the other child, and all fled for their lives, escaping to the woods in safety and finding a place of successful hiding, She could relate many other events of equally as stirring nature as this in which she had experience.

Deceased had eleven brothers and sisters, only two of whom are now living — S.L. ' J CD

Townsend of Beaumont and Mrs. Frank Hargon of Llano. Deceased was married at Round Top to Dr. F T . De Graffenried in 1853 (sic: married 1 October 1852) and some years after his death to W.P. Minter, now deceased (sic: W. P. Minter died 14 [anuary 1911). She was the mother of ten children, five of whom survive her, namely: T.C. and F T . De Graffenried and Mrs. S.J. Gaines, who reside in the western part of this county; Mrs. C.W. Rush of Alarlin, and Dr. J.G. Minter of Oaxaca, Mexico. She had resided since 1873 in Falls County, about twenty years of this time in Marlin. She had been a consistent member of the Methodist Church for many years, and her death was that of a true Christian in whom the faith had triumphed to the end.

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ROBISON LINE1 5 8

The Robison family has a long heritage and is linked to the deGraffenried family as a result of Sabrina Robison marrying Stephen Townsend, their daughter being Augusta Georgia Townsend who married Fleming Taylor deGraffenried. Due to an excellent Robison genealogy and their prominent role in early Texas history, the author has included supplemental information on this family. The origin of the first Robisons in America is not clear. The most probable account is that at the close of the American Revolution, Chief McNeil of Scotland moved to America. Soon after, Major Robison, an officer in the British Army and one of Chief McNeil's most devoted friends, sailed to join his clan chief. On the voyage, both Major Robison and his wife died, leaving five children: Elizabeth, Maty, John, Walter and Samuel. Different people adopted the children. Samuel Robison was adopted by Chief McNeil and later married his daughter, Maty McNeil. However, the primary Robison family researcher'39 found no records to support the above.

Genera t ion 1

COLONEL SAAIUEL ROBISON 1 was born in Scotland in 1768. According to one source, as an orphan after his parents died during the voyage to America, Samuel was adopted by his Scottish clan Chief AlcNeil. The first known residence of Samuel Robison was Washington County, Georgia. In late 1787, Samuel married MARY MCNEIL, the daughter of Chief AlcNeil. Samuel and Mary's first child was born in Washington County in November 1788. And all of Samuel's seventeen children were born in this county. Samuel Robison was first on the Washington County militia roles in 1793. He was commissioned lieutenant in 1798. In 1799 he was named as a tax collector for the county. In 1801 he received a land grant of 400 acres for serving in the State Militia. At that time he and Alary had five children. With the invention of the cotton gin in 1793, a transformation occurred whereby every acre possible was planted in cotton and planters frequently imported slaves to care for the crops. Samuel Robison received more land grants in 1810. In 1806 and 1810 Samuel Robison was a Representative to the Georgia State Legislature. On 6 January 1812, he received a commission as an Ensign in the 214 th District of Alilitia by the Governor of Georgia and in 1813 he was identified as being in the 2nd Regiment of Georgia State Troops. He fought in the Creek Indian War of 1813-1814. Samuel's sons, John G., Llewellen, and Samuel, Jr. fought in the War of 1812. Samuel served eight years as a Justice of the Inferior Court. His wife, Alary McNeil Robison, died in 1813 leaving ten children. Samuel was married a second time to Nancy ? and their first child was born in 1815. The first population census for Georgia was enumerated beginning January 1821 and shows Samuel

158 Penton, Ruby Robison, "Samuel Robison of Washington County, Georgia," published by Tad Evans, Savannah, Georgia, 1994, furnishes the majority of this Robison family history. Hereafter cited, "Penton." 159 Ibid.

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Robison's household with three of Nancy's children and four of Mary McNeil's children in residence. Four of the older children were married with families and appear in the 1820 Census. Samuel owned 23 slaves at this time. The 1828 Washington Count)' tax records show 575 acres in the Samuel Robison estate. On 9 February 1828, Colonel Samuel Robison made his last will and testament and about three days later he died. Although the Washington Count)' records were burned in an 1855 fire and, later, by General Sherman in his march through Georgia during the Civil War, a copy of Samuel's will was filed in Jefferson County, Florida, where several of his children had gone after his death.

Samuel and Mary McNeil Robison's children: i. Elizabeth Clarks Robison, born 1788, Washington County, GA, married George Sessions ca. 1809, she died 1 January 1854, Leon County, FL.

+ ii. John G. Robison. born 1789, Washington County, GA, married Francis Sabrina AlcNeil ca. 1808, he died February 1837, Fayette County, TX.

iii. Samuel Robison, born 1792, Washington County, GA, died 1871. iv. Llewellen M. Robison, born 1794, Washington County, GA, married Amelia Coleman 24 June 1819, he died 1837, Wilkerson County, GA.

v. Sarah Robison, born 1800, Washington County, GA, married Thomas Hardyman, she diedca. 1851.

vi. Alexander Irwin Robison, born 1801, Washington County, GA, married Amanda Fitzallen Talbot ca. 1839, he died 23 October 1863.

vii. James M. Robison, born 1804, Washington County, GA. viii. William H. Robison, born 1806, Washington County, GA, married Elizabeth Wise

Fisher, ca. 1832/1833, he died before December 1877. ix. Winfield Wright Robison, born 1809, Washington County, GA, married Susan Ellison

Harris 10 May 1838, he died October 1865. x. Neill Robison, born Februaryl811, Washington County, GA, married Eliza Ann Mathis 25 March 1830, he died 12 May 1875, Blanco County, TX.

Samuel and Nancv Robison's children: xi, Thomas R. Robison, born ca. 1815, born 1815, Washington County, GA, married Sarah

.Ann Howard ca. 1836, he died April 1870, Marengo County, AL. xii. Martha Ann Robison, born ca. 1817, Washington County, GA, married James R. Pickett ca. 1836, she died ca. 1844/1845.

xiii. Walter Robison, born ca. 1819, Washington County, GA, died February 1837. xiv. Robert Coleman Robison, born 1821, Washington County, GA, married Ann Elizabeth Currey, he died 1864.

xv. Amanda Blount Robison, born 18 October l823, Washington County, GA, married B. B. Fields 6 July 1841, died 21 February 1877.

xvi. Joseph R. Robison, born 11 November 1824, Washington County, GA, married Lucy Ann Cochan Winburn 22 November 1849, he died 20 June 1860.

xvii. Algernon Sidney Robison, born 31 May 1826, Washington County, GA, married Martha Jane McNeil 17 January 1850, he died 29 Alarch 1899.

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Genera t ion 2

JOHN G. ROBISON 2 (Samuel) was born in the latter part of 1789, Washington County, Georgia. He may have been schooled at home, but he was an educated person. John G. Robison married FRANCIS SABRINA MCNEIL (McNeill) about 1808. Based on Census data, she was born about 1790. No relationship between his mother, Alary McNeil, and Francis has been established. There were a number of McNeill families in Washington County who received bounty land for serving in the American Revolution. During John G. Robison's youth, Indian depredations were common. John G. and his brother, Samuel, probably fought in the Creek Indian War of 1813-1814, and 4 ,h

Sgt. John G. Robison, his brothers 2 Lt Samuel Robison and 2 Lt Llewellen Robison, were all three signed up in the 2nd Regiment of Infantry, Georgia Militia, commanded by Colonel Jett Thomas. National Archives records state that John G. served in the War of 1812. An extract of muster rolls show he served as 4th Sergeant in Captain David Rosser's company of infantry, of the 2nd Regiment of Georgia State Troops from 10 October 1814 until 15 Alarch 1815. In 1818 and 1820 Washington County records show him as County Surveyor, and 1818 through 1821 he was Captain of General Military District 90. On 29 January 1821 John G. Robison was appointed a Justice of the Peace in GMD 90. By 1825, John G. Robison, with one of his brothers and two of his sisters, migrated to Leon County, Florida, which later became Jefferson County. On 10 May 1826, records at the Office of the Postmaster General in Washington D. C. show that John G. Robison established the first post office, later known as the Monticello Post Office. The History of Jefferson County, Florida states, "At its earliest stage, the only available place (near Monticello) for the transaction of business was the log house of John G. Robison, the first white settler, whose rude habitation was not only the post office and general stopping place, but the earliest judicial building. . . . Monticello, formerly named Robison, was surveyed for the county seat of Jefferson County in 1828. The site was originally an Indian town that soon took on a new appearance with the sale of lots to incoming farmers. Soon the shipment of cotton, tobacco, pecans and general produce became a bustling trade." Based on Census data, John and Frances may have had two children die during these years, but it is known that two daughters and one son survived. In 1831, John G. Robison, his daughter, Sabrina Robison Townsend, his son-in-law, Stephen Townsend and several Townsend brothers and their families decided to migrate westward to "Tejas." They departed Florida after 6 December 1831, traveling overland to New Orleans. There the families booked passage to Texas on the schooner, Dart, a 61-foot vessel with two masts. Mexico forbid slavery, so John G. had his few slaves declared indentured servants for life before departing for Texas. Before leaving New Orleans, John G. "purchased a large iron pot to cook hominy for his slaves." This pot has been passed down through the generations.16" John G. and his family arrived in Texas by the end of December 1831 as shown by his land grant Headright Certificate. They setded first on the San Benard River in present-day Brazoria County. About this time, the white settlers were beginning to experience major problems with the Alexican Government that would lead to open rebellion. On 26 June 1832, John G. and his son, Joel W. Robison, joined 160 other Texans on Board the schooner Brazoria and attacked the Mexican fort at Velasco.161 162 163 This battle resulted in a Alexican defeat and withdrawal of Alexican

1611 The quote was found on a written piece of paper from Hinda deGraffenried Rush, granddaughter of Sabrina Robison Townsend. Commander (USN) and Mrs. Trevor A. Rush of Charlottesville, VA currently (2009) own the iron pot.

"Record of Southwest Texas," Goodspeed Brothers, Publishing, 1894, pages 328-330. lf.1 " t

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troops to San Antonio. In 1833 John G. and his family settled on the west bank of Cummings Creek in present day Fayette County. John G. and his extended family fought several Indian battles in the vicinity in 1834 and 1835. In 1836 Texas won their independence from Mexico as a result of the Battle of San Jacinto. Although John G. apparently was not in this battle, his son, Joel, is credited with capturing the Emperor, General Santa Anna, after that fight. Santa Anna presented him with his military vest with its gold brocade, which was used for many years in the family for special occasions such as marriages.164 On 5 September 1836, John G. Robison from the Colorado District was elected to the First Congress of the Republic of Texas.163 I66 In February 1837, John G. Robison and his half-brother, Walter, were ambushed, killed and mutilated by Indians near his home in Fayette County. His son, Joel, discovered their bodies.167 The two Robisons were buried in the Florida Chapel Cemetery at Round Top, Texas. There are no remaining markers for their graves. Francis is thought to have died before 1846. The known children of John G. and Frances Robison are:

+ i. Sabrina Anna Robison, born ca. 1809, married Stephen Townsend 27 January 1827, she died ca. 1870.

ii. Mary McNeill Robison, born 22 October 1813, married John E. B. Morris, 5 Alarch 1828, she died September 1870.

iii. Joel Walter Robison, born 5 October 1815, married Emily Anna Alexander, 20 November 1837, he died 4 Autrust 1889.

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Genera t ion 3

SABRINA ANNA ROBISON 5 (Samuel, John G.) was born about 1809 in Washington County, Georgia. She moved with her parents to Jefferson County, Florida about 1825. On 27 January 1827, she married Stephen Townsend in Jefferson County, Florida, and their marriage record is the first recorded in that county. While their lives together are addressed in the Stephen Townsend narrative in Appendix B of this Volume, there are some stories recorded specifically by Sabrina. These include the following. "(In March 1835) a negro woman walking with her boy from Townsend's to the present Warrenton was killed by Indians who were hidden in a large live oak tree; the boy taken along with them." Sabrina tells about two men named Edwards and Manlove who were attacked by a force ot about 30 Indians. Edwards was killed but Alanlove escaped and by dark he arrived at Sabrina's and Stephen's home. Stephen and his brother, Moses, plus John G. Robison found Edward's body and buried him. Byjuly 1835 the attacks became so serious that a special company of Anglo settlers was organized, with Sabrina's husband as a lieutenant. The company attacked and destroyed a Keechi Indian village. Stephen Townsend was commissioned again later that year to

'-' Weyland, Leonie Rummel and I louston Wade, "An Early History of Fayette County," The Texas Collection, Baylor University, page 14. '"'' Ray, Worth Stuckey, "Austin Colony Pioneers," The Pemberton Press, 1970, page 268. IM "The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume VI, July 1902 to April 1903," Austin, Texas, 1908, pp. 241-24A See also news article, "Legend of Santa Anna's Vest Supported," Fort Worth Star Telegram, Section seven, page 4, ca. 1965.

5 The Journal of the First Congress of Texas on page 1 shows that "J. G. Robertson" was representative from the count)- ot Colorado. Elsewhere this Journal spells his name, "Robinson."

Ibid., Weyland, page 18. "' Ibid., kuvkend.ill, J. 11., "Reminiscences of Early Texas," Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, VI, Julv 1902 to April 1903 page 246.

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raise a "ranging Company" to launch a series of attacks against marauding Indians Stephen was in command of this Ranging Company until 12 Alarch 1836. This was one of the first companies of the famous Texas Rangers. Sabrina and her children fled east ahead of the invading Mexican Army in April 1836 while the men in her family were fighting under General Sam" Houston. Stephen Townsend was stabbed 29 October 1851 and died "about twenty hours later." The estate was filed for probate shortly thereafter showing the following inventory: league of land in Gillespie Count)', 400 acres on the homestead in Fayette County, cattle and slaves; totaling $7,700. At the end of 1858 the estate showed 300 acres, value $2,000; four slaves, value $2,500; three horses and mules, value $100; and 50 cattle, value $300. The 1860 Census shows Sabrina still living near Round Top with real property (including slaves) of $6,000 and personal property of $5,510. Four of her children are still in her household. The last record of Sabrina Robison Townsend is on the 1869 Fayette County tax roll when she was living on her 200 acre tract. The exact date of her death is not known.

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VOLUAIE II, APPENDIX D

AMERICAN MILITARY ANCESTORS

American Revolution

Light Townsend, a private in Benton's Regiment, Alarion's Brigade, under the celebrated Revolutionary War General Francis Marion, known as The Swamp Fox. "Marion's Men," compiled byW.W. Brodie.168

Tscharner deGraffenried is listed as a Lunenburg County, VA soldier, probably in a militia unit.16''

War of 1812

Thomas Townsend served during the War of 1812 in Captain Duke Hamilton's Volunteer Troop of Light Dragoons, Major Frederick Freeman's Squadron, Georgia Cavalry.170

Samuel Robison. On 6 January 1812, he received a commission as an Ensign in the 214th District of Militia by the Governor of Georgia and in 1813 he was identified as being in the 2nd Regiment of Georgia State Troops. He fought in the Creek Indian War of 1813-1814.171

John G. Robison served in the War of 1812. An extract of muster rolls show he served as 4th Sergeant in Captain David Rosser's company of infantry, of the 2nd Regiment of Georgia State Troops from 10 October 1814 until 15 Alarch 1815.172

Texas Revolution

John G. Robison, from the Colorado District, was elected to the First Congress of the Republic of Texas173

Stephen Townsend. He was at the Battle of Concepcion in October 1835, the Texans led by Stephen

168 "Marion's Men," compiled by W. W. Brodie. 169 Wulfeck, Dorothy Ford, "Marriages of Some Virginia Residents, 1607-1800, Vol I," Genealogical Publishing Co, Ine,

1986, page 248, 17,1 Letter from the US War Department, Adjutant General's office to Mrs. William Wyatt, 14 September 1928. 171 Ibid., Penton, page 25. 172 Ibid., Penton, page 89. 173 Ibid, Penton, page 97.

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Austin and Jim Bowie defeating Alexican General Cos. In December 1835, he was commissioned by the Provisional Government of Texas to raise a scouting party, which he commanded until 1 February 1836. On 1 February 1836 Stephen was again put in command of another special company, called a "Ranging Company."174 This was later shortened to "Ranger Company" and, thus, he was one of the very first Texas Rangers. He was called into the main army of the Republic of Texas on 12 March 1836 because of General Santa Anna's attacks on the Texas garrisons at the Alamo and at Goliad. When General Sam Houston's Army came through Harrisburg, Stephen Townsend's scouting parry united with him under Captain William Smith's cavalry and remained with the army during the "Runaway Scrape." They were with General Houston in the Battle of San Jacinto on 21 April 1836. 175 176 177

74 Dixon, Sam Houston and Louis Wiltz Kemp, "The Heroes of San Jacinto," The Anson Jones Press, Houston, TX 1936, page 332. 1 '5 Wade, I louston, "Fayette County Heroes of San Jacinto," LaGrange Journal, July 25, 1935. 176 Ray, Worth Stuckey, "Austin Colony Pioneers," The Pemberton Press, 1970, pages 267-268.

' "Founders and Patriots of the Republic of Texas, Book III," published by The Daughters of the Republic of Texas, Austin, TX, 1985.

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VOLUME II, APPENDIX E

DEGRAFFENRIED FAMILY PICTURES

Christopher deGraffenried (1661-1743)

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Augusta Townsend deGraffenried (1833-1907)

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VOLUME III

RUSH FAMILIES: The Genealogy of Charles Wesley Rush, III

THE ALLEN FAMILY

This Volume constitutes the third section of my family genealogy and history. On my maternal side, my Mother was an Allen, and I trace this family through her. As of the writing of this book I have documented my direct-line Allen family through six generations in America.178

Generation 1

JAMES ALLEN' was born about 1735-1740 in Isle of Wight County, Virginia, just west of the present-day city of Norfolk. The county is on the south bank of the James River and was originally settled by the English from the Jamestown settlement. James married MARTHA BROWNE before 1764, probably in Southampton County, Virginia, which was created from Isle of Wight County in 1748 on the Virginia-North Carolina border. James died in October 1803 in Greensville, County, Virginia, west of Southampton County. In 1808, Martha went to Northampton County, North Carolina, just south of Greensville County, Virginia, with her son, Benjamin. James may have been the son of Randall Allen who died in Isle of Wight County in 1785 (sons: John, Arthur, James and William).179 18() There is some indication a Major Arthur Allen, who was a prominent citizen in Isle of Wight County from about 1679 to 1702, was perhaps the grandfather of James. But this data has not been proven. One researcher has Martha Browne born about 1740 to Thomas Browne and wife Tabitha. Thomas Browne was born about 1685 in Virginia and died January 1786 in Southampton County, Virginia, naming his daughter, Alartha, in his will. James Allen was the executor of the estate. Thomas Browne's parents were John Browne, bom about 1660 and died 1721 in Isle of Wight County, and his wife Bridgett Williams.181

The children of James Allen and Alartha Browne were: i. Aaron Allen, ii. Timothy Allen.

-Hiii- Benjamin Franklin Allen, born 9 November 1779, Brunswick County, VA, died 13

178 Original Allen family data provided in correspondence between the author and Ernest Allen Connally of Alexandria,

VA between 1980 and 1994. I71) Chapman, Blanche Adams, "Wills and Administrations of isle of Wight County, Virginia, 1647-1800," Volume 3, Genealogical Publishing Co, Baltimore, MD, 1975, p. 27. 180 1790 Census, State of Virginia. 181 Thomas King, Houston Texas, letter to author dated 17 November 1993.

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December 1827, Limestone County, AL, married on 7 January 1802 in Sussex Co, VA,

Mary Wilburn, born 10 November 1782, Sussex County, VA, died 26 September 1860,

Limestone County, AL.

Genera t ion 2

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ALLEN2 (James) was bom 9 November 1779 in Brunswick County, Virginia. 1 le was born in that part of Brunswick Count)' that became Greensville County when it was formed in 1782.

Benjamin married MARY (POLLY) WILBURN on 7 January 1802 in Sussex County, Virginia.182

Benjamin and Polly lived near his parents until his father and tvvo older brothers died. In 1808, he moved south a few miles to Northampton County, North Carolina, taking his mother, Martha, with him.

Mary Wilburn was born 10 November 1782 in Sussex County, Virginia. She was the daughter of William Wilburn, a Revolutionary War veteran183 born 7 August 1760 in Sussex County, Virginia, who died about 1811 in Sussex County. He was the son and heir of William Wilburn whose will was entered into probate in Sussex County, 29 August 1782. His father was John Wilburn, born 1702, died 1771 in Sussex County. Mary Wilburn's mother was Sarah Bonner, born 23 May 1760 in Sussex County, and died about 1797 in the same county. Sarah's parents were John Bonner and Sarah Hicks.184 Note that Margaret Fennel's (Mary Wilburn's daughter-in-law who married John Franklin Allen) Bonner ancestor line is the same. See Appendix B to this Volume.

Between 1814 and early 1817, Benjamin and Mary moved to Limestone County, Alabama. These lands were the traditional hunting grounds of the Cherokee and Chickasaw Indian tribes and were

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rich in game. The Tennessee River and its many creeks and stream tributaries assured a plentiful water supply. The town of Huntsville, several miles east, had been platted out in 1810. With the relentless spread ot settlers westward, the nearby town of Athens was incorporated in 1818 and became the seat ot Limestone County.185 Benjamin purchased 79 acres near Athens on 9 February 1818 where they farmed.186 In 1820 he is listed as head of a family of ten people.187

Benjamin Allen died at age 48 on 13 December 1827 in Limestone County, Alabama. Mary Wilburn Allen died over 30 years later on 26 September 1860 in Limestone County, Alabama. At the time of her death, 77-year-old Mary was living with her son, Robert Bonner Allen and his family. They were

s- Knurr, Catherine Lindsay, ""Marriage Bonds and Ministers Returns of Sussex County, Virginia, 1754-1810," 1952, page 2. 1S' Gwathmey, John G., "1 listorical Register of Virginians in the Revolution," Diet;. Press, 1938. ;s-' Ibid., Thomas King. 1(5 Smith, Davis and T. A. Land, "Northern Alabama, I listorical and Biographical," 1888 reprint by The Reprint

Company, Spartanburg, SC, 1976, page 72. s" Cowart, Margaret Matthews, "Old Land Records of Limestone County, Alabama," privately published in Huntsville,

AL, 1984, page 111. 18 Census ot 1820, Limestone County, AL.

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listed in the Census as farmers with $6,000 in real estate and $25,000 in personal property.188 The Allen graves are near Tanner, five miles south of Athens, Limestone County, Alabama. Benjamin and Alary had at least eight children. 18y

The children of Benjamin Allen and Mary (Polly) Wilburn were:190

i. Benjamin Hicks Allen, born 1802, Greensville County, VA, died September 1830, Limestone County, AL, married on 25 January 1827 in Madison County, AL, Cornelia Ann Petty,

ii. James Wilburn Allen, born 10 January 1804, Greensville County, VA, died 1 October 1858, Athens, Limestone County, AL, married on 14 November 1827 in Madison County,

AL, Matilda Lanier,

iii. Elizabeth Mayfield Allen, born 17 February 1806, Greensville County, VA, died after 1860, Limestone County, AL, married on 21 September 1830 in Limestone County, AL, Asa Allen.

+ iv. John Franklin Allen, born 2 December 1809, Northampton County, NC, died 18 November 1886, Springfield, Limestone County, TX, married (1) on 19 December 1833 in Morgan County, AL, Margaret (Fennel) Love, born 27 May 1814, Wake County, NC, died 6 March 1855, Trinity, Morgan County, AL, married (2) on 7 October 1856 in Lawrence County, AL, Cornelia Frances Sale, born 4 September 1834, died 19 April 1865, Limestone County, TX, and married (3) to Elcana (Heaton) Smith,

v. Rebecca R. Allen, born 19 January 1814, Northampton County, NC, died 29 July 1856, Limestone County, AL, married in 1831, Limestone County, AL, Robert N. Malone.

vi. William Tynes Allen, born 23 April 1817, Limestone County, AL, died 5 Alay 1866, Athens, Limestone County, AL, married in 1843, Giles Co, TN, Elizabeth Harriet Alassie.

vii. Alartha Browne Allen, born 12 July 1819, Limestone County, AL, died 1890, Madison County, AL, married on 16 November 1836, Limestone County, AL, Samuel Jouett Pettus.

viii. Robert Bonner Allen, born 28 March 1822, Limestone County, AL, died 8 January 1889, Pleasant Hill, DeSoto County, MS, married on 22 May 1850, Limestone County, AL, Amelia E. Mitchell.

Genera t ion 3

JOHN FRANKLIN ALLEN^ (James, Benjamin Franklin) was born 2 December 1809 in Northhampton County, North Carolina. At a young age, he migrated to Limestone Count)', Alabama, with his parents and siblings. He grew up in a farming family.

At age 24, John Allen married AIRS. ALARGARET (FENNEL) LOVE on 19 December 1833 in Morgan County, south of Decatur, Alabama.191 Shortly afterward, on 1 June 1835 they purchased the same 79 acres John's father had bought in 1818 in Limestone County and on which, presumably,

188 1860 Census, Limestone County, Alabama, District 2, page 35. 189 "Heads of Families, Census of 1820, Alabama," showing Benjamin Allen, Limestone County, with 10 in family. Also confirmed in letter from Ernest Allen Connally. 11,(1 Letter from Ernest Allen Connally to Boliver L. Allen, 30 Sep 1972. 191 Morgan County, AL marriage records, Book A, page 243.

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thcv started farming.192

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Margaret was born 27 May 1814 in Wake County, North Carolina, near Raleigh. She was the daughter of Wylie Fennel and Sarah Fox. Wylie's parents were John Fennel and Ann Curtis Harris. Sarah's parents were John Fox and Selah Bonner (Note that Selah was the sister of Sarah Bonner who married into the Wilburn line above. See Appendix B to this volume.) Margaret Fennel married first William Wilburn Love, her second cousin, who died 30 July 1832 at the age of 27, and is buried in the Fennel Cemetery (sometimes called the Davis Cemetery) near Trinity, Alabama. Eighteen months afterward, Margaret and John Allen were married.

Although the Aliens probably first farmed in Limestone County, Alabama, Margaret inherited a plantation in Morgan County from her father, Wylie Fennel. The house was called Summer Seat. John Franklin and Margaret Allen lived their married life together farming this plantation near Trinity, Alabama (5-6 miles west of Decatur). For over twenty years the)' lived at Summer Seat, during which time they lost a two-year-old son and a 14-year-old daughter. Alargaret died at age 40 after giving birth to her tenth child on 6 March 1855. The cemetery is on a slope of the hill where Summer Seat house stood. Her grave is marked by a marble monument in the form of a slender altar with an open book on top.

Life changed significantly for John Allen after Alargaret's death. He must have had concerns about raising his family, and his newborn daughter died three months after the mother passed away. John established a relationship with 21-year-old Cornelia Sale who lived in a neighboring Alabama county. Perhaps to start a new life, John first went to Limestone County, Texas with his sons, Benjamin Wylie Allen and John William Allen, plus some Negroes to purchase 800 acres of land in an area called I lonesr Ridge.193 Leaving his two sons to improve the land, he then returned to Alabama to marry Cornelia Sale on 7 October 1856 in Lawrence County, Alabama. John returned to Limestone County, Texas with his family and new wife to settle.

Cornelia Frances Sale was born 4 September 1834. When she married John, she took on the raising ol his children. Although Benjamin Wylie, at the time age 22, and John William, age 19, remained in Texas when their father returned to Alabama to marry again, as a young new wife Cornelia assumed

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responsibility tor a household with five children ranging from 17 to a four-year-old.

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John Allen was a farmer, age 50, who was born in North Carolina, and had $3,500 in real estate, $9,000 in his personal estate. Four of Margaret's children and two of Cornelia's were in the household. John possessed 17 slaves,195 12 females ranging from age 60 to one-year-olds, and five males, from age 50 to a one-year-old. Two of the slave females, ages 19 and 3, were listed as mulattoes. The slave labor would have greatly assisted the Allen family in developing their new home and growing farm and agricultural products.

192 Ibid., Cowart, page 235. "' Ibid., Earnest Allen Connally letters.

1,11 1860 Census, Limestone County, Texas. 195 I860 Census of Limestone County., Texas slave schedule.

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An early Texas pioneer described the settler's homes of the 1840s and 1850s. "The houses were all built of logs, notched at the ends and filled in between with sticks and clay called chinking or daubing. Doors were made from rough planks hewn out of logs, roofs from riven shingles two'feet long and made the same way. There was no glass for windows and settlers had only what nails they had brought from their old homes in the States, so windows were merely openings sawed out of the logs and provided with rough sliding panels."196

The Aliens were not completely isolated in their new location. The nearest town was the Limestone County seat, Springfield, incorporated in 1848, about eight miles from them. The town had a thriving racetrack, a number of saloons and stores, two hotels, a blacksmith shop, a tailor shop, two schools and a Masonic Lodge. Trading was done by exchange and money had no particular value. A pair of shoes sold for the equivalent of SI.75 and eight yards of calico for $2.00. A cow and her calf was legal tender for $10.00, and there are examples of persons paying for fifty acres of land or more with five cows and calves. Chickens and hogs often served as change. The town was by-passed by the Houston and Central Texas Railroad, then fires destroyed the courthouse in 1873, sealing the doom of the town. Nothing is left of Springfield today.197

If pioneer life was difficult for the males of the families, it was more so for the females. Having taken on the responsibility for raising five children of John's, Cornelia died at age 30 on 19 Apri 1 1865 eight-and-a-half years after she and John married and two months after giving birth to her fourth child.

John Allen soon married again to Mrs. Elcana Smith (nee Heaton) on 17 June 1866. Elcana would have had to assume care for Cornelia and John's four children plus two or three of Margaret and John's children. In 1880, the Census shows John, farmer, age 70, and Elcana, age 77, living in the same residence with John and Cornelia's children.198

John Franklin Allen died a few weeks short of his 77th birthday on 18 November 1886, in Limestone County, Texas and is buried with his last two wives in Honest Ridge Cemetery. The date of death on his tombstone is incorrect. There are the following tombstone recordings''w in the Honest Ridge Cemetery located at Central Institute, about nine miles northwest of Groesbeck, a similar distance southwest of Alexia, and two miles west of Lake Mexia: J.F. ALLEN, b. 12-2-1809, d. 11-17-1876 (error on tombstone, correct day and year, 18 November 1886 reflected in the family Bible), Cornelia L. Allen, b. 9-4-1834, d. 4-19-1865, wife of J.F. Allen, Elcana Allen, b. 10-27-1804, d. 10-18-1892, wife of J. F. Allen.

The children of John Franklin Allen2"" and Margaret Fennel were: i. Benjamin Wylie Allen, born 27 October 1834, Trinity, Morgan County, AL, died 19

196 Hamptone Steele, "History of Limestone County, Texas, 1833-1860." 197 Ibid., Steele. 1981880 Census, Limestone County, Texas. 199 "Limestone County, Texas, Cemetery Surveys, Vol 1, Honest Ridge Cemetery," date unknown, located in th.

Groesbeck, TX Public Library. 21111 Following information from the John F. Allen Bible in possession of Ernest Allen Connally.

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August 1907, Kosse, Limestone County, TX, married Alarinda M. Busby,2"1 born 22

January 1835, died Alarch 1875, Kosse, TX. + ii. John William Allen, born 12 January 1837, Trinity, Morgan County, AL, died 7 February

1919, Marlin, Falls County, TX, married on 13 February 1866 in Alarlin, Falls County, TX, Mary Hamilton McCain, born 5 February 1847, DeSoto County, AIS, died 13 June 1933,

Marlin, Falls County, TX. iii. Mary Fennel Allen, born 28 December 1838, Trinity, Morgan County, AL, died 29 August 1854, Trinity, Alorgan Count)-, AL.

iv. James H. Allen, born 28 December 1838, Trinity, Morgan County, AL, died after 1881,

Limestone County, TX. v. Celia Rebecca Allen, born 23 January 1841, Trinity, Morgan County, AL, died 25 Alarch

1868, Jones Prairie, Alilam County, TX, married on 8 March 1859 in Limestone County, TX, James Nance,

vi. Robert Alalone Allen, born 29 December 1843, Trinity, Morgan County, AL, died 1 January 1846, Trinity, Alorgan County, AL.

vii. Nelson Hix Allen, born 19 August 1846, Trinity, Morgan County, AL, died 25 March 1917, Iredell, Bosque County, TX, married in 1868 in Limestone Co., TX, Alary Ann Cozby.

viii. Richard Samuel Allen, born 8 January 1849, Trinity, Alorgan County, AL, died 19 January 1870, Trinity, Alorgan County, AL.

ix. Margaret Matilda Allen, born 30 December 1851, Trinity, Morgan County, AL, died 19 December 1931, Bronte, Coke County, TX, married in 1865 in Limestone County, TX, George Columbus Lasswell.

x. Martha Louise Allen, born 5 March 1855, Trinity, Alorgan County, AL, died 15 June 1855.

The children of John Franklin Allen and Cornelia Frances Sale were:2"2 2"3

xi. Edward A. Allen, born 29 August 1857, Springfield, Limestone County, TX, died 18 December 1931, Groesbeck, Limestone Co, TX, married Nancy E. Hall.204

xii. Julia Catharine (or Cornelia) Allen, born 28 November 1858, Springfield, Limestone County, TX, died 12 September 1931, Groesbeck, Limestone County, TX, married John Sidney Gayden.

xiii. Cornelia Lewis Allen, born 13 November 1860, Springfield, Limestone County, TX, died 22 June 1953, Groesbeck, Limestone County, TX, married William Ruffin Wimbish.

xiv. Amelia Eugenia Allen, born 8 February 1865, Springfield, Limestone County, TX, died 26 October 1952, Groesbeck, Limestone County, TX, married William Thomas Cox.

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JOl IN WILLIAM ALLEN' (James, Benjamin Franklin, John Franklin) was born 12 January 18372"5

1 Separate source, Thomas King of I louston, TX, lists "Marinda Long." •'• Ibid., letters from Ernest Allen Connally and Thomas King. 'John F. Allen Family Bible, in possession of Ernest Allen Connally in 1993. 1 Thomas King lists wife as "Nancy E. Faulkenberrv." 5 Family Bible of John \V, Allen, This Bible was purchased by John Allen shortly after his marriage and has been

maintained and passed down through the generations. Now in possession of Charles \V. Rush.

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in Trinity, Morgan County, Alabama. He grew up on a plantation, Summer Seat, inherited by his family from his mother's father. The environment most probably was that of a hard-working farm family, although slaves would have performed much of the labor. John William grew up in a large family with a brother two-and-one-half years older, and seven younger siblings. But when he was nine he lost a two-year-old brother, and at 17 lost his 14-year-old sister. Shortly after he turned 18 his mother died in childbirth.

That year, 1855, his father decided to migrate to Texas, in search of a new start and cheap land. John, his older brother, father and several slaves made the trip together. After securing 800 acres of land, John's father returned to Alabama to marry again, leaving his two sons to start the new farm for the family. The several slaves left with John and his brother were valuable to help with the labor of clearing farmland. A strong worker would sell for up to $2,000 in gold in Texas at that time.2"6

Limestone County, Texas, where John and his older brother were left to fend for themselves and start clearing the new land, was only slightly removed from the edge of the Texas frontier in 1855. Texas had gained her independence from Alexico in 1836 and on 29 December 1845, President Polk had signed the document that merged Texas into the United States.2117 Limestone County was formed in 1846 from Robertson County. The first county seat was Springfield. In the fall of 1855, the county was only recently civilized. Near the Allen property nine years prior, Comanche Indians had killed five settlers and captured five more.2"8 A nearby ford of the Navasota River was called, "Comanche Crossing." Alost of the Indians were either farther west or on reservations at this time. However, a few years later Indian raids into this area began again and continued until the mid-1860s.2"9

John's family, including a new step-mother, returned in late 1856. In 1858, John W. Allen came of age, and his father gave him $100.00 in gold and a Negro male slave, representing his portion of his mother's estate. He followed his older brother into the vicinity of southern Limestone County and bought land near Bald Hill in adjacent Falls County, which had been created in 1850 from Milam and Limestone Counties.210 John worked this land for several years.

Then, in early 1862 with news of Civil War battles in Virginia circulating, John W. Allen joined many other Texans signing up in Texas regiments. This began what would be for him, as it was for many persons, a life-defining experience. He traveled twenty-five miles south to Cameron, Milam County, and volunteered for duty as a private with the Milam Grays. Lieutenant Smith enlisted him on 15 March, 1862. This unit had departed Texas for Virginia a few months earlier and been designated Company G, Fifth Texas Infantry, Hood's Brigade, Longstreet's Corps, Army of Northern Virginia.211 He was shipped out of Galveston, probably arriving to his company in time for their first engagement at West Point, Virginia, 7 May 1862.

21,6 Fehrenbach, T.R, "Lone Star, A History of Texas and the Texans," McMillan Company, New York, 1968/ 2,17 Ibid., Fehrenbach. 2118 Texas Parks & Wildlife brochure, "Old Fort Parker State Historical Park." 2119 Ibid., Fehrenbach. 2111 Ibid., Ernest Allen Connally. 211 Civil War Official Records, Confederate, 5 Texas Infantry.

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John W. Allen participated in a scries of skirmishes and battles during the Peninsula Campaign. The most tierce fight was the Battle of Gaines Mill, 27 June 1862.212 In that battle, Hood's Brigade re-enforced several brigades that had been battered by Union forces entrenched on a hill and supported by some 25 artillery pieces. Hood's men, with the Fifth Texas on the far right, attacked the hill across open ground. The enemy had three lines of breastworks and the Confederates fought hand-to-hand with fixed bayonets, defeating the Union forces and capturing 14 field pieces. The Fifth Texas captured an entire Yankee regiment.213

()ne must wonder what twentv-five-year-old John W. Allen felt during the terrible charge and

fighting. One Fifth Texas soldier submitted the following report.

()ur men were formed and, having delivered three volleys without any decided effort, were ordered to lie down . . . Soon, the order 'fix bayonets' was ringing in the ears, scarcely had the ringing of steel died away, when the word 'charge' came thundering down the lines. Volley after volley came pouring in . . . One short leap over the small stream that intervened and the brave boys were on the ascent. Terrible havoc was created, men fell literally by the hundreds, but still onward rushed the impetuous Texans

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The Fifth Texas Regiment had 77 soldiers killed or wounded in the battle at Gaines Mill. The Fourth Texas, fighting in the middle of the line of attack next to the Fifth suffered 269 casualties, over one-fourth of the Regiment.21"'

Two months later, John W. Allen participated in his last fight as a soldier of the Confederacy. General Robert E. Lee moved his Army into Northern Virginia. On 29 August 1862, in the Battle of Second Manassas, Hood's Brigade engaged the Federals in an evening attack that lasted until soldiers could not determine triend from foe. As one soldier put it, "It was dark and we drove (the Yankees) about one-quarter of a mile, when, getting bewildered in the darkness some of our men began firing into one another and it was quite awhile before they realized their mistake."216 In the afternoon of 30 August, the Fifth Texas drove a New York regiment through the woods. "We followed closely upon their heels," recalled Fifth Texas Private Campbell, "and after passing through the woods . . we were halted by the magnificent . . . array of a Yankee line of battle . . . composed of the (5th) New York Zouaves." In quick succession, Hood gave orders. Fix bayonets. Fire. Charge. Campbell wrote, ". . .

12 Simpson, Colonel I larold B., "Hood's Texas Brigade in Poetry and Song," Waco, 1968, pages 24—27. In the summer ot 1918 at the annual Reunion of the Old Setders and Confederate Veterans Association of Falls Countv, the poem, "1 lood's Charge at Gaines Mill," by Mrs. P.S. Summers of Marlin, was read and subsequently published in the local press anil by Colonel Simpson. It included a dedication to John W. Allen.

1 That John \\". Allen participated in 1 lood's charge at Gaines Mill is confirmed in "Official Records, War of the Rebellion, Volume XI, Part II," page 568. To read more on the battle, see, Policy, J.B., "Hood's Texas Brigade," pages 40-70, reprinted by Press of Morningside Bookshop, Dayton, Ohio, 1988, and Hood, Lieutenant General John B., "Advance and Retreat," pages 25-30, Reprinted by Da Capo Press, New York, 1993. 2,1 Supplement To Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Part I, Volume 2," pages 430-431, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1994. 215 Simpson, Colonel I larold B„ "1 lood's Texas Brigade: A Compendium," page 535, Hill Jr. College Press, Hillsboro, Texas, 1977. 21" Year)', Mamie. "Reminiscenses of the Boys In Gray, 1861-1865," 1912,

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the smoke of our guns had hardly rose from our pieces when at the command 'charge,' we made for the Zouaves." A soldier of the Fourth Texas who witnessed the spectacle later wrote, ". . . we looked at the hillside there in our rear, nearly an acre of which that regiment (5th Texas) had covered with killed or wounded Zouaves . . . whose gaudy uniforms gave the scene . . . the appearance of a Texas hill-side when carpeted in the spring with wild flowers." Fifth New York Zouaves casualties totaled nearly 300 of the 500 soldiers engaged in the 10-minute slaughter.217 During these two days of fighting, the Fifth Texas suffered more casualties than any of Lee's regiments - 15 killed, 245 wounded, and 1 missing.218

John W. Allen was one of the fallen on the Alanassas battlefield. He was wounded on 30 August 1862 in the left arm, probably by a .58 caliber bullet (Minie ball), and taken to Warrenton, Virginia with other casualties. There, an Army surgeon amputated his left arm.21'' To imagine the scene of the battlefield surgeon's tent, the following is provided.

An upper arm amputation, as was done on Stonewall Jackson . . . had a mortality rate of about 24%. . . T h e wait for treatment could be a day, maybe two and that was not out of the ordinary. And when treatment was finally done on the poor soldier, it was not done antiseptically. . . . Careful hand washing by the surgeon of the Civil Wat-was not even done. The doctors wore blood-splattered clothes. When something was dropped, it was simply rinsed in cool, often bloody water. Thev used sponges that had been used in previous cases and simply dipped in cold water before using them again on the next person. . . . The injuries to be dealt with were dreadful and the fault of the soft lead Minie Ball. With the capability to kill at over 1,000 yards, this soft lead bullet caused large, gaping holes, splintered bones, and destroyed muscles, arteries and tissues beyond any possible repair. Those shot with them through the body, or the head, would not be expected to live. . . . Taking his bone saw the doctor would saw through the bone until it was severed. He would then toss it into the growing pile of limbs. The operator would then tie off the arteries with either horsehair, silk, or cotton threads. The surgeon would scrape the end and edges ot the bone smooth, so that they would not work back through the skin. The flap of skin left by the surgeon would be pulled across and sewed close, leaving a drainage hole. The stump would be covered perhaps with isinglass plaster, and bandaged, and the soldier set aside where he would wake up thirsty and in pain, the 'Sawbones' already well onto his next case."22"

John W. Allen was discharged from the Confederate Army in October, 1862. The discharge certificate lists him as 5 feet, 11 Vi inches, having a fair complexion, gray eyes and gray hair, and a farmer by occupation.221 The color of hair might well have been due to his stressful, though short,

217 Skoch, George, "The Bloody Fifth," Civil War Times Illustrated magazine, November/December 1991, pages 36-43. 218 Simpson, Colonel Harold B., "Hood's Texas Brigade: Lee's Grenadier Guard," pages 134-157, Landmark Publishing, Inc., Ft. Worth, Texas, Forth Printing, 1999. 2,9 Official CSA Records, J. W. Allen, Company G, 5th Regiment Texas Infantry. 2211 "A Description of Civil War Field Surgery," http://ehistory.osu.edu/Liscw/fcatures/medicine/cwsurgeon/amputations.cfm. 221 Official Records, Company A, 5 TX Infantry, CSA, Certificate of Disability For Discharge, dated October 11, 1862.

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rime in the Confederate States of America Army. He returned to Texas with a disability that would

affect him the rest of his life.

I le most probably tried to resume his farming in eastern Falls County. But then he moved into the town of Marlin 'where he met MARY HAMILTON (MOLLY) MCCAIN, the daughter of a

Tennessee war refugee, Dr. A.F. McCain and his wife, Francis A. Alann McCain, (see Appendix C to this Volume). Mary McCain was born 6 February 1847 in DeSoto Count)', Alississippi. According to family oral tradition, she was reported to be 1/4 Cherokee.222 John W. Allen married her in Marlin on 13 February 1866.223 The first two children of John and Mary Allen were born in Falls County. But the Reconstruction Era in Texas was difficult for all. To understand citizen feelings, the following is quoted from an article written after the war.224

Very soon the Federal Government got its reconstruction machinery in order . . . what a revelation. Two Negro companies were quartered in Richmond. . . . Elections were held their own way, and there was a Negro senator, representative, sheriff, both county and district clerks, county commissioners, and justices of the peace . . . where any white man held a position it was a miserable scalawag home product that was ready to out-Judas Judas. . . . why should we not still despise the name of (President) Grant and (Texas Governor) E. J. Davis. . . . During the height of reconstruction the good people of Limestone County had terrible experiences that they will never forget. And Brazos and other counties had their best men shot down by the mongrel 'State Police' of Edmund J. Davis. . . . our whole country was one military despotism, and armed bands of State Police, both white and black, shot down, murdered and plundered at will. . . . some who could not stand it smote the smiter, and became outlaws and refugees . . . others, old men and families born and bred on the soil of .America, sacrificed (all) to leave the land of their birth and find some more peaceful clime where they might die in quiet . . .

Given the turmoil ot the Reconstruction, John W. Allen and his family joined John Guy and his wile, Mary Allen's sister Lavonia (Levinia) Tennessee AlcCain Guy, in migrating to California in 1869-1870. Mary's father had recently died leaving a wddow and three children at home, and most

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probably Mary's mother, Frances McCain, and her children were on the trip. An overland trip from Centra] Texas to the San Francisco area would have been very difficult for these travelers in 1869. The John \\". Guy family settled first in Contra Costa County where they show up in the 1880 Census living in Nortonville, California. The two younger children of John and Mary Allen were born in Contra Costa County, California. But John and Mary decided to return to Texas about 1876. Family oral history says that their two-year-old daughter, Fannie Lillian, died on the return trip, 14 June, 1876. She is buried in Marlin. Francis Mann McCain, Mary and Levinia's mother, died in Contra Costa County on a trip in 1888 to visit her daughter, Levinia Tennessee Guy, and is buried in the Alhambra Cemetery near Concord, California.225

222 Letter to author from his Mother, dated |uly 1974. '-:; Bible of John W, Allen. 21 Chilton, F.B., Official Minutes of Hood's Texas Brigade Thirty-ninth Annual Reunion, article, "A Glance Backwards

- Lest We Forget," page 304, privately published in Houston, TX, 1911. 225 (.bituary, Contra Costa Gazette, April 7, 1888.

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John and Alary Allen lived in Marlin, Texas, for the rest of their lives. They show up in the 1880 Census as J. W. Allen (43), AI. H. Allen (32), Lea E. (13), Walter H. (11), W. 'w . Allen (9) and F. A. McCain (50). In 1892 Alary Allen is listed as having a hotel in Marlin and her son, Walter H. Allen, is shown as a druggist.226 The 1900 Census227 shows they lived at 339 Perry Street in Marlin and had two boarders and two servants reported living in the same dwelling with them. This house sat on about 20 acres near the corner of Perry and Norwood Streets. Their granddaughter, Mary Louise Allen, born in 1899 and somewhat biased toward her grandmother wrote:228

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Grandfather Allen . . . fought in the first (sic) battle of Bull Run and had lost half of his left arm. He never did any work. Grandmother Allen ran a boarding house in Marlin. After they returned from California . . . she bought 20 acres in Marlin -raised chickens & cows. Uncle Lea (Allen) built a house for her. . . .(My father & Mother) built 3 cabins for her to rent. . . . As soon as I started working I sent my grandmother $5 a month. I put electricity into the house. I had a bathroom put in.

John and Mary Allen were present for much of the early developments in Marlin and Falls County. One of the first electric plants in the county was constructed in 1890 and, "Not long afterward, two copper wires were strung to a business street and one or two stores lighted. . . . the first automobile owned in Falls County was bought by I.J. Nathan in 1904 . . . the automobile was a 2-cvlinder Oldsmobile with regular couch seats - cranked from the front by hand. . . . In the mid-1890s , a traveling entertainer demonstrated a "talking machine.' Thomas A. Edison had invented it."22'1 About 1905, Dr. Walter H. Allen, John and Alary's son, received the second automobile in Marlin, according to his wife, Nettie Allen.23" And John W. Allen watched the flight of the first airplanes to fly in the county in 1915.231 The event that must have impacted the Aliens, as it did all persons living in Alarlin, was the 1894 sinking of a 3,300-foot-deep well by the city in search of a source of drinking water. Instead, the hot artesian water that flooded out was heavy with minerals that proved beneficial to the health of persons bathing in and drinking the water.232 Soon, people seeking cures streamed in to the city and hotels and boarding houses were in demand. Mary managed one of these establishments, as well as using her home for boarders.

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John W. Allen had a variety of jobs and interests in his life. He farmed in Falls County and worked as a druggist in Marlin.233 He was very active in the Willis L. Lang Camp of Confederate Veterans and participated in several reunions of Hood's Texas Brigade.234 In the summer of 1918 at the annual Reunion of the Old Settlers and Confederate Veterans Association of Falls County, the poem "Hood's Charge at Gaines Mill," by Mrs. P.S. Summers of Marlin, was read and subsequently

22f' Census of 1880, Falls County, TX, page 5, family 49, and "Marlin, 1851-1976," Marlin Chamber of Commerce Bicentennial Committee, Library Binding Company, Waco, Texas, 1976, page 28. 227 1900 Federal Census, Falls County, TX, Marlin District, Series T623, Roll 1632, Page 50. 22s Maty Louise Allen letter to Charles Rush, 21 March 1989. 22'' "History of Falls County, Texas," Roy Eddins, Editor, privately published, 1947, pages 189-190. 230 Ibid., Eddins, page 194.' 231 Ibid., Eddins, page 198. 232 Ibid., "Marlin, 1851-1976," pages 33-37. 233 " p

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es of Falls County," Eakin Press, Austin, TX 1987, page 232. Chilton, F. B., "Official Minutes of Hood's Texas Brigade, Monument Dedication and thirty-ninth Annual Reunion,"

Privately Published , Houston, TX 1911, pages 293-306.

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published in the local press with this dedication: "In memory of John W. Allen of Texas/Who blazed the way with 1 lood/Gave an arm ro enrich the valley/The valley where Richmond stood."233

The Aliens enjoyed long lives. John W. Allen died at the age of 82 on 7 February 1919 and was buried in Calvary Cemetery, Marlin, Falls County, Texas.236 At the time of his death he was listed as "Occupation: clerical, drug store."237 Most probably this was the Allen Drug Store run by his son, Lea Earnest Allen. The local paper stated, "It was a beautiful tribute the Reverend Knickerbocker paid the Southern Confederacy and the Confederate soldiers, dead and living, at the funeral service of veteran J. W Allen."238 Mary lived in the same house on Perry Street until her death at age 86 on | tine 13, 1933.239 She is buried beside her husband, her daughter, Lillian, and her father, Dr. A. F McCain. In Calvary Cemetery, Marlin. In 2003 the author placed a memorial CSA placjue on John W .Allen's grave.

The children of John William Allen and Mary Hamilton AlcCain were:24" + i. Lea Earnest Allen, born 23 November 1866, Marlin, Falls County, TX, died 16 May 1934,

Brenham, Washington Co, TX, buried Marlin, Falls County, TX, married on 10 November 189? in Marlin, Falls County, TX, Irene Irma Jones, born 3 June 1873, Alarlin, Falls County, TX, died 24 May 1954, Marlin, Falls County, TX.

ii. Walter Hance (Hanz) Allen, born 18 September 1868, Marlin, Falls County, TX, died 16 May 1922, Marlin, Falls County, TX, married on 18 January 1889 in Alarlin, Falls County TX, Nettie Falconer, born 14 September 1876, MS, died 29 June 1956, Alarlin, Falls County, TX.

iii. William Watkins /Mien, born 6 August 1871, Pacheco, Contra Costa County, CA, died 9 |une 1925, Washington D . C , married on 15 June 1898 in Howard County, AID, Frances Belle Linthicum, born 1870 Howard County, AID, died 1962, Howard County, MD.

iv. Fannie Lillian Allen, born 27 February 1874, Contra Costa County, CA, died 14 June 1876.

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LEA EARNEST ALLEN' (|ames, Benjamin Franklin, John Franklin, John William) was born in Marlin, Texas, 23 November 1866.2'11 Shortly after his brother, Walter Hance Allen, was born in September 1868, Lea traveled with his parents and some of his mother's family to California. We can only imagine the difficulties of these families traveling overland, with small children, 2000 miles to California in 1868/69. From the age of about two-and-a-half to about age ten, Lea Allen lived in Contra Costa County, California (a younger brother was born in Pacheco, a few miles from Concord). He returned to Marlin in 1876, with his parents and his siblings: Walter, William, and

'"' Simpson, Colonel Harold B., "Hood's Texas Brigade in Poetry and Song," Waco, 1968, pages 24—27. " Ibid, |. W. Mien Bible. Note that the certificate of death, which has a number of errors, states date of death as 6 Feb

1919. 1 Texas Department of Vital Statistics Standard Certificate of Death, dated .March 6, 1919.

1W "The Daily Democrat, Marlin, Texas, February 10, 1919. ; Texas Department of Vital Statistics Standard Certificate of Death, dated [uly 8, 1933.

2*' Ibid, J. W. Allen Bible. '• Ibid. J. W. Allen Bible and tombstone in Calvary Cemetery, Marlin TX.

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Fannie. Two-year-old Fannie died along the way, and she is buried in Marlin.

Lea Allen spent the next seven years growing up in Marlin. Both Marlin and Falls County were developing during this time. Records show that the pre-Civil War county population numbered 3,614 people and that this number had increased to 16,520 by 1870 with more arriving every day. Most of the arriving men had fought for the Confederacy.242 In 1870 the railroad reached Marlin and the city grew and prospered. It was still somewhat rough. In October, 1878, a city ordinance was passed forbidding the carrying of ". . . any pistol, dirk, dagger, sling shot, sword cane, spear, brass knuckles, Bowie knife, or any other kind of knife manufactured or sold for the purpose of offense or defense . . ."243 Lea Allen attended college at Texas A&M, where he graduated with a Mechanical Engineering Degree in 1887 with the highest grades in mathematics ever earned at that time.

Lea Allen returned to Marlin to work as a bookkeeper for Nash-Robinson Lumber Company. On 10 November 1897 he married I R E N E IRAIA J O N E S of Alarlin244 (See Volume IV). The family lived briefly in Alart, Texas, where Lea worked in the lumber business. In 1908 he moved the family, now-including three children, to Llano, Texas to become the manager of a lumber company. A few years later they moved back to Alarlin, and Lea Allen bought a drug store, which he named the Allen City Drug Company.

About this time, 1911-1912, Irma Jones Allen's father, Civil War veteran Billy Jones, built the Allen family a large house 200 yards from the Victorian Jones house. The Allen home was located across the road east of the present-day Veterans Administration hospital water tower. The author fondly remembers this home. It was a two-story Victorian, with formal entry hall, sitting, living and dining rooms. Upstairs were the main bedrooms, and the upstairs hallway was lined with glass-fronted book cases filled with books. The kitchen had a wood cooking stove, and a later-added electric stove, that Irma Allen used to produce wonderful Christmas and Thanksgiving dinners tor the extended family. The Allen house burned down in the 1960s.

Lea Allen's drug store was first on Live Oak (Main) Street, then moved to Winter Street. The Winter Street location was furnished with a marble-topped bar and swivel seats. Ice cream and sodas from a fountain were dispensed to customers. A large mirror behind the bar added a touch of decoration. The pharmacy was located in the rear of the store, where Lea Allen also had an office with a small safe about three feet square. The floor of the drug store was made of two-inch tiles.

Lea Allen was very active in Marlin affairs. He was the President of the Marlin Alumni Association of Texas A & M and President of the Marlin Business League (later the Chamber of Commerce). He was one of the first Presidents of the Marlin Elks Club, a forerunner of the Marlin Rotary Club. During his life, Lea was an interested spectator in all sports, following the teams of Marlin High School, Texas A&M, and the New York Giants. He was a member of Marlin's Methodist Church. About 1929, he became a wool buyer and sold pecans from local crops. He died of a heart attack at age 67 on 16 May 1934 in Brenham, Texas, while on a business trip. He was buried in Calvary

242 Ibid, Eddins page 175. 243 Ibid, "Marlin 1851-1976," page 18. 244 Marriage License, Falls County, TX.

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Cemetery, Marlin, Texas. !45

In 1947, Irma Allen filed an application to receive an insurance policy payment that she had not known about, stating Lea Allen died intestate. She stated that many of his papers burned up in a fire at his business years before. Irma Allen lived for twenty years after her husband's death, dying in the home of her daughter, Octavia, 24 May 1954.246

The children of Lea Earnest Allen and Irene Irma Jones were:247

i. Irene Irma Allen, born 7 August 1899, Marlin, Falls County, TX, died 31 May 1931, Austin, Travis County, TX, married on 29 June 1922, Daniel F. Searight, b o m 4 November

1887. ii. Lea Earnest Allen, born 13 November 1900, Marlin, Falls County, TX, died 18 Alarch

1960, Marlin, Falls County, TX. f— iii. Octavia Lillian Allen, born 3 December 1903, Alarlin, Falls County, TX, died 16

November 1987, Waco, McClellan County, TX, buried Marlin, Falls County, TX, married on 17 September 1927, Henry David Rush, born 10 August 1902, Marlin, Falls County, TX, died 10 April 1982, Marlin, Falls County, TX.

iv. Anna Paul Allen, born 11 November 1910, Marlin, Falls County, TX, died 9 October 1967, Marlin, Falls County, TX, buried Port Lavaca, Calhoun County, TX, married on 4 May 1935 in Marlin, Falls County, TX, Howard Gallemore Hartzog, born 11 April 1901, d'olosa, Kaufman County, TX, died 18 May 1968, Marlin, Falls County, TX, buried Port Lavaca, Calhoun County, TX.

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OCTAVIA LILLIAN ALLEN" (James, Benjamin Franklin, John Franklin, John William, Lea Earnest) was born 3 December 1903 in Marlin, Falls County, Texas248 and lived there most of her life. Some of her first memories, as a five or six-year-old, were playing in the cool clear waters of the Llano River.24" After her family moved from Llano back to Marlin when she was about seven years old, she attended Marlin schools, graduating in 1921.250

During her formulative young years, Octavia grew up in an extended Jones-Allen family consisting ot both sets of grandparents, parents, brother and sisters, aunts, uncles and first cousins. But she was strong!) influenced by her grandmother, Octavia Riplev Jones, and her strong-willed mother, Irene Irma Jones (See Volume IV). "I know so much about my mother's people," Octavia Allen wrote,23 ' "because 1 lived with Grandma Jones from the time of (Billy Jones's) death in 1912 until I

:" Undated obituary, thought to be from the Marlin Democrat, between May 17-24, 1934, and Texas Department of Vital Statistics Standard Certificate of Death, dated May 16, 1934. •'l" Certificate of Death, Texas Department of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, State File No. 22308.

1 Ibid, J. W. Allen Bible. Note that this Bible record was maintained by Allen family members for 100 years. 21s Falls County, TX Birth Record Books, Volume 1, page 5 and Allen, Rush Families Bible Records. -4,) Oral history from Octavia Allen Rush to her son Charles.

"Marlm Public Schools From the 1840s to 1960," compiled by the Marlin Ex-Students Association, Editor, Roy Eddins, privately published, 1960. ' , : Octavia Allen Rush letter to son, Charles, dated [uly 1974.

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was sixteen. We left for her homeplace in (Craig County) Virginia every summer and came back to Marlin when school started Their (Octavia Ripley Jones's family) homeplace was a large one and included one large cold spring and a group of springs close together of different minerals. One of the (Ripley) brothers sold a hilltop to a company who built a resort there called 'Virginia Mineral Springs.' The farm was near Newcastle and about sixty miles from Roanoke."

Octavia had a gay time during her teen years in Marlin, enjoying dances at the Arlington Hotel and socializing with many friends. In a letter from one of her best girl friends, Tallulah "Toots" Holloway writing from Lampasas to Octavia in New Castle during the summer of 1919, it mentions Marlin friends that miss her, among them Henry Rush.232 Automobiles were becoming important to everyone by now, and 15-year-old Octavia wrote in a letter to her father, "Don't let the Buick run away while I'm gone, for my heart does the trapeze act every time I see a car of that make."233

Shortly after her seventeenth birthday, Octavia began a serious relationship with her friend, Henry Rush of Marlin. He was at that time in his second year at Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College (Texas A & M).

After graduating from Marlin High School in June, 1921, Octavia Allen attended Texas University in Austin. She was in Tri Delta sorority, and majored in history. She and Henry corresponded regularly and got together for football games and in Marlin. The biggest football rivalry in Texas was the annual Thanksgiving Day game between the University of Texas and A & AI and Henry mentioned the 1921 and 1922 games frequently in his letters.

But Octavia had to leave college prematurely as her family did not have the funds to continue her education. She turned to teaching school, first as a substitute teacher in Marlin schools then in East Texas. A job application to the Houston, Texas school district reveals much about Octavia.231 In the summer of 1925, she was 21 years old, 5' 3" tall, weighed 110 pounds, and was affiliated with the Methodist Church. She had 31 college credits toward a degree in history*, to include courses in English, math, social science, physical education and education (teaching). She also noted she had six years of private piano lessons. Her teaching experience included six months in Alarlin schools and nine months in Toledo, Texas. Her previous salary was $1080 for the school year and she aspired to receive §100 a month for the job in Houston.

Regarding the years in the early-mid 1920s that included her East Texas teaching experience, Octavia

wrote the following:

I was given that Fall of 1923 a one-room schoolhouse on the banks of the Sabine CD

River on the eastern most point of Texas where today is the magnificent dam between Texas and Louisiana on Toledo Bend. That Fall and the winter of 1924 I was marooned among the pines, but having nowhere to spend my salary, 1 had a good time the next summer blowing it all at the University of Colorado. . . . After the

252 Letter from Tullulah Holloway to Octavia Allen, postmarked July 17, 1919. 251 Letter from Octavia Allen to Lea E. Allen, Sr, postmarked June 7, 1919 from Virginia. 254 Application Blank, Houston City Schools, Houston, Texas, undated but probably completed by (ktavia in the Summer, 1925.

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(Fall 1923) train trip from Marlin via Beaumont to Newton, I was escorted in a jalopy by no less than the Newton County sheriff over my first 'corduroy' road. A road built of cross ties and sand. . . In 1924 radios were beginning to be a drawing card for a few select houses. My introduction to one was listening thru headphones to 'Amos and Andy' over a set that Arthur Threadgill had built. . . . In 1924 cotton was still king in Texas and the Texas Cotton Palace was the event of the year. A million dollar parade (1 attended) marked the opening of the Cotton Palace in Waco. . . . Bv 1924 the Klu Ivlux . . . had political control of 7 states. . . . Bootlegging and rum running had become rampant after the 1920 Prohibition Amendment (sic: the Eighteenth Amendment was ratified January 1919). . . . Speakeasies flourished in every city. Visiting my brother in Chicago, the downstairs speakeasy served whiskey in coffee cups. . . . But for all of that, 1924 was a year of firsts. (Some of them were) airmail service - aviation airships - air flight around the world - cellophane manufactured - execution with lethal gas - first woman governor - ice cream cone invented - contact lenses - talking pictures of presidential candidates — radio broadcast by a President . . . So you see, we weren't dizzy flappers all the time. (But) our parents were frowning on cheek-to-cheek dancing, the Camel Walk and the Black Bottom. In 1923 skirts began to ascend again and by 1924 knees were definitely 'in.' . . . even older women were bobbing their hair . . .Lipstick & rouge, which were almost unthinkable in 1920, were seen on millions of women.2 5 5

Alter a long friendship that turned into a courtship, Octavia Allen married H E N R Y D A V I D RUSH (See Volume I. September 17, 1927 in Marlin, Texas. Although Henry had been living in Marlin and working in the family hardware store of Rush, Gardner and Bartlett during his and Octavia's courtship period, soon after their marriage he accepted a job as a traveling salesman for the International Silver Corporation. But in 1931, Henry's father made him a partnership offer tot-working in the hardware store and the two returned to Marlin. In 1932 rhev had a daughter, Irene Irma, named after Octavia's mother. In 1938, a baby boy lived for several days then died. And on Christmas Day, 1939 their son Charles Wesley was born and named for Henry's father.

Octavia lived in Marlin tor the rest of her life. She became a member of the Episcopal Church that die Rusli family .mended. Episcopal Reverend (later Bishop) Percy Goddard became a life-long friend ot the family. Henry served as both junior and Senior Warden of the Church, and Octavia .unhorcd "Centennial History, St. |ohn's Episcopal Church, 1876—1976." Octavia was a charter member ot the Marlin Literary Club and active until her death.

In the 1930s and 1940s Marlin was an ideal small town for Octavia to raise a family. No t only did she have a large family support structure there, but the town itself was thriving. A business infrastructure had been built around both an agricultural community and the healing powers of hot mineral waters. It had good schools and hospitals and, in 1930, Conrad Hilton had built one of his first grand hotels in the city. During World War II, Henry was deferred from the draft due to age

" t-̂ cta. ia Viler Rush nt >tes enrided, " l'Lll24 - The State, Nation, International Scene," dated October 26,1973, believed '- »otes from i presentation to the Marlin Literary Club, in which she was a life-Ions member.

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and marital status but was very active in War Bond drives. Octavia's children thrived, with Irene marrying Gordon Garret when she was 18 years old then raising four children and ten grandchildren in the local area, much to Octavia's delight. Her son, Charles, also had two children and lived in many places during his Air Force career.

When Henry died in 1982, Octavia continued to live in the home that they had built in 1940 at 318 Maryland Street until her death of a heart attack, November 16, 1987 in a Waco hospital shortly before her eighty-fourth birthday.256 She had a great number of friends and was always a popular and social woman. She was buried in the Rush plot in Calvary Cemetery, her parents and grandparents buried not far away.

Memories of Octavia, by son Charles W. Rush, April 2009:

Today, at the ripe age of 69, I can close my eyes and sec my Mother's smile and hear the sound of her laughter. While both my parents were positive influences in my life, I believe my core strength came from Mother. She was the one I came to for hugs. She was the disciplinarian who switched my bare legs with a hedge stripped of leaves after I threw rocks at my sister, who washed my mouth with a bar of Ivory soap when I cursed a neighbor boy. She was the one who insisted I learn my English studies and gave me encouragement in everything I did. She became my role model when dealing with family hardships. She was the parent I could talk to about life.

Octavia Allen Rush was a slim beauty as a young girl, but I remember her saying, 'Three children left me fat.' By the time I was a teen, I had sprouted past her 5'3" height. A distinguishing feature of Octavia's were her eyes: one brown and one blue. She had many lady friends and was an expert bridge player. She smoked 1-2 cigarettes and day and usually had a bourbon and coke after dinner. She loved ro travel and drove her Mother, my sister, Irene, and my cousin, Alartha 1 lartzog, to Virginia the summer of 1947 to see where her grandmother and she had spent several summers. We also traveled together to the Colorado mountains several summers. My Mother celebrated her 80th birthday visiting us in Madrid, Spain. And, pertinent to this work, it was my Mother who worked with me on a Christmas visit when she was 76 years old to develop family genealogy charts.

Octavia Allen Rush was a role model to many, especially to me.

256 "Marlin Daily Democrat," 16 November 1987, page 3 obituary. McLennan County, Waco, TX, Certificate of Death, 18 November 1987. Note also her Social Security #464-56-1522,

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ALLEN LINE

1. James Allen' (ca 1735- ) . 2. i. Aaron Allen. 3. ii Timothy Allen.

+ 4. iii Benjamin Franklin Allen (1779-1827).

4. Benjamin Franklin Allen' (1779-1827) married Mary Wilburn. 5. i. Benjamin Hicks Allen (1802-1830) married Cornelia Ann Petty. 6. ii. James Wilburn Allen (1804-1858) married Matilda Lanier. 7. iii. Elizabeth Mayfield Allen (1806-after 1860) married Asa Allen.

+ 8. iv. John Franklin Allen (1809-1886) married (1) Margaret Fennel Love, (2) Cornelia Frances Sale, (3) Elcana Heaton Smith. 9. v. Rebecca R. Allen (1814-1856) married Robert N. Malone. 10. vi. William Tynes Allen (1817-1866) married Elizabeth Harriet Massie. 11. vii. Martha Browne Allen (1819-1890) married Samuel Jouett Pettus. 12. viii. Robert Bonner Allen (1822-1889) married Amelia E. Mitchell.

8. John Franklin Allen* (1809-1886) married (1) Alargaret Fennel Love, (2) Cornelia Frances Sale, (3) Elcana Heaton Smith.

13. i. Benjamin Wylie Allen (1834-1907) married Marinda M. Busby. + 14. ii. John William Allen (1837-1919) married Mary Hamilton McCain.

15. iii. Alary Fennel Allen (1838-1854). 16. iv. James H. Allen (1838-after 1881.) 17. v. Celia Rebecca Allen (1841-1868) married James Nance. 18. vi. Robert Malone Allen (1843-1846). 19. vii. Nelson Hix Allen (1846-1917) married Alary Ann Cozby. 20. viii. Richard Samuel Allen (1849-1870). 21. ix. Margaret Alatilda Allen (1851-1931) married George C. Lasswell. 22. x. Martha Louise Allen (1855-1855). 23. xi. Edward A. Allen (1857-1931) married Nancy E. Hall. 24. xii. Julia Catharine Allen (1858-1931) married John Sidney Gayden. 25. xiii. Cornelia Lewis Allen (1860-1953) married William R. Wimbish. 26. xiv. Amelia Eugenia Allen (1865-1952) married William T. Cox.

14. John William Allen' (1837-1919) married Alan' Hamilton AlcCain.

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+ 27. i. Lea Earnest Allen (1866-1934) married Irene Irma Jones. 28. ii. Walter Hance (Hanz) Allen (1868-1922) married Nettie Falconer. 29. iii. William Watkins Allen (1871-192.5) married Frances Linthicum. 30. iv. Fannie Lillian Allen (1874-1876).

27. Lea Earnest Allen' (1866-1934) married Irene Irma Jones. 31. i. Irene Irma Allen (1898-1931) married Daniel Hardeman Searight. 32. ii. Lea Earnest Allen (1900-1960).

+ 33. iii. Octavia Lillian Allen (19043-1987) married Henry David Rush. 34. iv. Anna Paul Allen (1910-1967) married Howard G. Hartzog.

28. Walter I lance (Hanz) Allen5 (1868-1922) married Nettie Falconer. 35. i. Willis Lang Allen (1900-1976) married Lillian E. Hard. 36. ti. Walter Hamilton Allen (1905-1979) married (1) Mary F. Ward (2) Betsy Sehon. 37. iii. Emily Allen (1907-1936). 38. iv. Boliver Lea Allen (1912-1977) married Virginia Barganier.

2(). William Watkins Allen3 (1871-1925) married Frances Belle Linthicum. 39. i. Mary Louise Allen (1899-) . 40. ii. Frances Clark Allen (1902-) married Ray H. Coombs.

35. Willis Lang Allen" (1900-1976) married Lillian E. Hard. 41. i. Willis Lang Allen (1929-2000) married Alary Arch Aloore. 42. ii. Richard Lea Allen (1931—) married Brigitte deCoix.

36. Walter I lamilton .Allen" (19045-1979) married (1) Mary F. Ward (2) Betsy Sehon. 43. i. Walter Allen (1935-1969). 44. ii. Emily Allen married Michael Nutcher. 45. iii. Ward Lang Allen (1941-2008) married Sylvia Marchman.

38. Boliver Lea Allen" (1912-1977) married Virginia Barganier. 46. i. Virginia Allen (1941-) married Bernard Edward Breihan. 47. it. Richard Lang Allen (1946-) .

45. Ward Lang Allen7 (1941-2009) married Sylvia Marchman. 48. i. Andrew Hamilton Allen (1969-) married Kathy Kyser. 49. ii Walter Lang Allen (1974-) .

48. Andrew Hamilton Allen8 (1969-) married Kathy Kyser. 50. i. Noah Hamilton Allen (2000-) . 51. ii. William Lang Allen (2006-) .

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WILBURN, BONNER, FOX, WEST LINES2 5 7

The WILBURN line links to the Allen line through John Franklin Allen who married MARY WILBURN. Mary Wilburn was born 10 November 1782 in Sussex County, Virginia. She was the daughter of William Wilburn, born 7 August 1760 in Sussex County, Virginia, who died about 1811 in Sussex County. He served in the American Revolution.258 He was the son and heir of William Wilburn whose will was entered into probate in Sussex County, 29 August 1782. His father was John Wilburn, born 1702, died before 1773259 in Sussex County. Mary Wilburn's mother was Sarah Bonner, born 23 May 1760 in Sussex County, and died about 1797 in the same county. Sarah's parents were John Bonner and Sarah Hicks.2"" Note that Alargaret Fennel's (Mary Wilburn's daughter-in-law) Bonner ancestor line is the same.

1. John Wilburn,1 born 1702, died 1771. 2. William Wilburn,2 died ca. 1782.

3. William Willburn,3 born 7 August 1760, died ca. 1811, married Sarah Bonner, born 23 May 1760, diedca. 1797.

4. Mary Wilburn,4 born 10 November 1782, married John Franklin Allen, born 9 November 1770, died 13 December 1827.

The B O N N E R family has a long heritage and is linked to the Allen family in two ways. SARAH BONNER was the mother of Alary Wilburn who married Benjamin Franklin Allen. Sarah Bonner was born 23 May 1760 in Sussex County, VA, and she died about 1797 in Sussex County. She married William Wilburn. John Franklin Allen, the son of Benjamin Franklin Allen and Mary Wilburn, married first, Margaret Fennel Love. Margaret's mother was Sarah Fox, born 1776 in Brunswick County, VA, died 1 August 1834 in Morgan County, AL, who married Wiley Fennel. Sarah Fox's mother was SELAH B O N N E R , born 15 December 1756, Sussex County, died before 1807, Greensville County, VA, who married John Fox. Selah and Sarah Bonner were sisters. The

257 Bonner, Fox and West line basic information provided by Thomas King of Houston, TX, in a letter to the author dated 17 November 1993. Thomas King's data was supplemented from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on-line Ancestral Files This data has not been proven by the author. Some of the Wilburn data was proven by Martha Hartzog, an Allen descendant. 258 "Virginia Soldiers of the American Revolution," by Hamilton J. Eckenrode (VA State Lib & Archives), also "Historical Register of Virginians in the Revolution," by John G. Gwathmey (Dietz Press, 1938). 259 "Sussex County, Virginia Will Books A-F, 1754-March 1779, by William Lindsay Hopkins, p. 56. John Bonner 111's will cites following surnames: Fox, Wilborne, /Mien, showing familial relationships. 2r'" Ibid., Thomas King.

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Bonner line is shown below.

1. Richard Bonner,' born 1615, England. 2. fohn Bonner,"'born 1640-1650, Virginia. 3. John Bonner II,' born 1690, VA, married Jane Cooke in 1722.

4. fohn Bonner 111,' born 1723-1725, Surry County, VA, died 1804, Sussex County, VA, married

Sarah Hicks in 1804.2r'' + 5. i. Selah Bonner,' born 1756, died before 1807, married John Fox, born 1742, died 1795. + 6. ii. Sarah Bonner,' born 1760, died about 1797, married William Wilburn, born 1760, died

ca. 1811.

The FOX line, mentioned above, also has a long heritage and is linked to the Aliens. John Franklin /Mien' married first, Margaret Fennel Love. Her mother was SARAH F O X who married Wiley Fennel.

1. I lenry box,' born 1521, England, married ? Naves about 1544. 2. William Fox,"' born 1545, England, married Anne Lane in 1568. 3. Henry Fox,' born 1578, died 1625, England, married Elizabeth Pickerwell in 1665. 4. |ohn Fox, Sr.,' born about 1602, died 1665, England, married Pdizabeth Convers. 5. |ohn Fox,' born 1626, England, died 16 April 1682, Virginia, married Alargaret Thomas on 2

April 1661. 6. I [entry Fox," born 1650, London, England, died 17 November 1714, Surry County, VA, married

Anne West, born about 165.5-1657, Gloucester County, VA, died after 1708. 7. Henry fox, born 1675, New Kent County, VA, died 1740-1750, King William Count)', VA,

married Mary Kendrick. 8. William Fox,'s born 1710, King William County, VA, died 1764, Brunswick County, VA, married

Sarah Avent. l). |ohn Fox,' born 1742, Brunswick County, VA, died 10 Alarch 1795, Greensville Countv, VA,

married Selah Bonner. 10. Sarah Fox,'" born 1776, died 1834, married Wiley Fennel.

The WEST family, linked to the Fox, Love and Allen families, can be traced back many generations. ' - CD

John Franklin Allen married first, Margaret Fennel Love. Her mother was Sarah Fox. Sarah Fox's great-great-grandfather, Henry Fox, married A N N E WEST. See also Volume IV, Appendix G for West family links to another of the author's ancestors.

1. Thomas West,' born after 1251, died 1 November 1343, England, married Eleanore Cantilupe in 1328.

2. Thomas West," born 1330. Died 3 Sep 1386, England, married Alice Fitzherbert. 3. Thomas West,' born about 1362, died 17 August 1405, England, married Joan de la Warre in

1390.

4. Reynold West / born 28 October 1430, died 27 August 1451, England, married Margaret Thorley before 1421).

-'"' I lopkins, William, "Lindsay Sussex County, Virginia Will Books A-F, 1754-March 1779," p. 16:

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5. Richard West,' born 28 October 1430, died 10 March 1475-1476, England, married Catherine Hungerford in June 1451.

6. Thomas West/' born 1457, died 11 October 1525, England, married Eleanor Copley about 1500. 7. Sir George West,7 born 1510, died 1538, England, married Elizabeth Morton. 8. William West/' Lord de la Warr, born 1520, died 30 Dec 1595, England, married Elizabeth

Strange.

9. Thomas West,9 Lord Delaware, born 1555-1556, died 24 March 1602, England, married Anne Knollys/Knowles on 19 November 1571.

10. Captain John West,'" Governor of Virginia, born 14 December 1590, England, died 1659, West Point, King William County, VA, married Anne Claibornein in 1613.

11. John West ," born 6 June 1632, York County, VA, died 1689-1691, VA, married Unity Croshaw on 4 November 1664.

12. Anne West ~ married Henry Fox.

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MCCAIN LINE

Arthur Forbis McCain,262 was the father of Mary Hamilton McCain. John William Allen married Mary McCain. Arthur Forbis McCain was born 10 May 1812263 in North Carolina.264

The North Carolina McCains were plentiful and the ancestral lines are not clear. But one researcher265 shows Arthur Forbis AlcCain's parents as Hance McCain (1760-about 1824) and Jane Forbis. Hance McCain's parents were Alexander McCain and Sarah Hamilton. Jane Forbis' parents were Arthur Forbis and Lydia Steele. The author obtained a family tree266 that shows an Alexander McKean/McCain, born about 1740 married Sarah Hamilton in 1758. A brother and a sister also married into the Hamilton family. The chart shows Alexander's father as Hugh McKcan, born about 1700, who married Mary Hamilton.

The information for Arthur Forbis McCain is more definitive. In addition to Census data showing he was born in North Carolina, we find documentary evidence of A.F. McCain in Haywood County, Tennessee in 1831. There are recordings of land, livestock, and slave transactions 1831—1840, as well as guardianship responsibilities for minor heirs of James B. Cockrill in 1831. In 1834, A.F. McCain is listed as constable of Haywood County and participates as jury member several times. Again, in 1840 A.F. McCain was elected to serve as constable for Haywood County.267

Arthur Forbis McCain was married twice. Census data268 shows that A.F. McCain was a widower in 1840, with three children, eight slaves and living with the family of James Alann who had a wife and two children. We assume that A. F. McCain had first married about 1831 based on the ages of his children in a later Census.269 One researcher states that Arthur F. McCain married an A. E. Cockrel on 30 November 1830.270 Still another researcher271 shows that A. F. AlcCain married first to Mary

262 Much of the McCain family information comes from a series of correspondences between the author and 111-12 McCain family relatives betweenl987-1995. The majority is unproven and further research should be accomplished. In some instances, a primary data source is provided. 263 A. F. McCain gravestone, Calvary Cemetery, Marlin, Falls County, TX. 2M Federal Census of 1850, DeSoto County, Mississippi, Dwelling and Family 377, page 787. 2fo www.ancestry.com. 2f'6 Mailed to Charles Rush by Paul McCain of Sapula, OK, origin of family tree is unknown.

Haywood County, Tennessee Court Minutes, 1831-1840 as transcribed by the WPA project 1938-1941. Federal Census of 1840, Haywood County, TN, page 401 as transcribed in "Ansearchin News," Volume 20, Number

1, a Tennessee genealogical magazine. M Ibid., 1850 Census/ 2711 Letter to the author from Paul McCain, Sapula, OK, dated 7 January 1995.

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Ann Cockrill who died in 1840.

A. F. McCain married his second wife, Frances Mann, about 1844 in Haywood County. Frances Mann was born about November 1825 in Virginia.2"2 Between 1845-1850 the family moved to DeSoto County, Mississippi. Between 1854 and 1857 the family moved again, and in the 1860 Federal Census they lived in Prairie County, /Arkansas.

Not much is known about the family during the Civil War. We have a family story of the family "being dispossessed by Federal troops in Tennessee in 1863,"273 and "held on a Yankee gunboat for several days, either on the White or Tennessee Rivers."274

About 1865-1866, A. F. McCain led the family to Texas, where they lived briefly in Fort Worth, then settled in Marlin where A. F. McCain had the title "Doctor." He died 17 August 1868, according to one researcher2"5 in Arkansas, but was brought home and buried in Calvary Cemetery in Marlin, Texas. Frances was left with three young children at home: Albert Forbes almost 3, Texana (Anna) age 7, and Elizabeth Arabella (Lizzie) age 10.

Mary Hamilton McCain, A. F. McCain's daughter, married Confederate veteran John William Allen on 13 February 1866 in Marlin. The Aliens and several of the McCains left Texas in late 1868 or early 1869 and migrated to Contra Costa County, California. Mary's sister, Levinia Tennessee McCain had married John W. Guy and they joined this trip. Possibly Frances McCain and her three young children were part of the group. John Allen, Alary AlcCain Allen and their four children returned to Marlin in 1876. One of their children, Fannie Allen age 2, died on the return trip. Most probably this returning group also included Frances and her three children. Mary's sister, Anna McCain, in 1877 married James Hodges in Falls County, Texas.276 Elizabeth McCain also married in halls County. Frances Mann McCain, Arthur Forbis McCain's wife, died in Contra Costa County, California where she was visiting her daughter, Lavonia/Levinia Tennessee McCain (Mrs. John W.) Guy, about 4 /April, 1888 and is buried in the Alhambra Cemetery in Alartinez, California.277

The children of A. E. McCain and his first wife (probably Alary Ann Cockrill) were: i. William A. McCain, born 1832 in Tennessee, ii. Sarah j . McCain, born 1834 in Tennessee, iii. Lewis McCain, born 1836 in Tennessee.

The children from A.F. McCain's second marriage to Frances Mann were:278

iv. Lavonia/Levinia Tennessee McCain, born December 1844 in Haywood County,

- ' www.ancestry.com. ' 2Contra Costa Gazette newspaper obituary', 7 April 1888, and Census of 1860, Prairie County, AR, Series M653, Roll 48, page 146. 271 Letter from Ernest Allen Connally, Alexandria, VA, 30 September 1972. r i Letter to the Author from Mary Louise Allen, Washington, D.C, 29 December 1987. ""Paul McCain, Sapula, OK. 276 Families of Falls County," Eakin Press, Austin, TX 1987, page 232. 2 Contra Costa Gazette newspaper obituary, 7 April 1888.

s Information for children of A. F. McCain compiled from data given in Federal Census of 1850 and 1860 cited above

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Tennessee, married John W. Guy, probably in Falls County, Texas, died in Turlock, California on 26 Alarch 1925.279

+ v. Alary (Molly) Hamilton AlcCain, born 6 February 1847 probably in DeSoto County,

Mississippi, married John W. Allen 13 February 1866 in Marlin, Falls County, Texas, and died there 13 June 1933.28"

vi. Frances A. (Fanny) McCain, born 24 May 1849 in DeSoto County, Mississippi, died in Marlin, Texas, 19 January 1912.281

vii. Leanna AlcCain, born about 1850/51 in DeSoto County, Alississippi. viii. Wallace Layfayette McCain, born 21 October 1853,282 in DeSoto County, Mississippi,

married Nancy Ann Jones, ix. John Wesley AlcCain, born 1/2 February 1857, in Arkansas,285 married (1) Mary Mann,

(2) Alargaret Olive Jordan, died 6 January 1934. x. Elizabeth Arabella AlcCain, born about 1859 in Arkansas, married John Fletcher Harris.284

xi. Texana (Arana/Anna) AlcCain, born 6 March 1861 in Arkansas, married James Josiah

Hodges about 1877 in Falls County, Texas, died 11 July 1939, buried in Live Oak Cemetery, Falls County, Texas.285

xii. Albert Forbes AlcCain, born 15 September 1865 in Ft Worth, Texas, married (1) Mollie Edith Henderson Irwin, (2) Annie Alma Moore, died 19 January 1950 in Sapula, Oklahoma.286

27'' Federal Census of 1900, Contra Costa County, California, District 411, Sheet 12, Page 250, and Contra Costa County Historical Society records. 21,11 Family Bible of John W, Allen, in possession of Charles W. Rush. 281 Gravestone in Calvary Cemetery, Marlin, TX. 282 Birth data provided in letter to author from Gertrude Duncan, Loomis, CA, dated 26 Feb 1988. 283 Ibid., letter from Gertrude Duncan. 284 Letter to Charles Rush from Dorothy Harris Hopkins, Corinth, MS, dated 1993. 285 Families of Falls County," F.akin Press, Austin, TX 1987, page 232. 28,1 Ibid., letter from Gertrude Duncan.

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AMERICAN MILITARY ANCESTORS

American Revolution

James Allen was born about 1735-1740 in Isle of Wight County, probably served in the American Revolution.

William Wilburn, born 7 August 1760 in Sussex County, Virginia, died about 1811 in Sussex County. He served in the American Revolution.287

American Civil War

John W. Allen, 12 January 1837 in Trinity, Alorgan County, Alabama, died 7 February 1919 in Marlin, Falls County, Texas. He served in Company G, 5th Texas Infantry, Hood's Texas Brigade.288

21,7 "Virginia Soldiers of the American Revolution," by Hamilton J. Eckenrode (VA State Lib & Archives), also "Historical Register of Virginians in the Revolution," by John G. Gwathmey (Dietz Press, 1938). 288 Civil War Official Records, Confederate, 5 Texas Infantry.

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ALLEN FAMILY PICTURES

John Franklin Allen (1809-1886)

Margaret (Fennel) Love .Mien (1814-1855)

Rush Families

A I A A A A I A A A A A A A A . . . • C A . ^ - . ^ Ac

( , / ' " ' J / / J , NIARUN, TCXM. I

Francis Mann McCain (ca. 1825-1888 )

Lea Earnest Allen, Sr. (1866-1934)

Lea Earnest Allen, Sr.

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(L-R from top) Lea E. Allen, Jr. (1900-1960), Octavia Allen (1903-1987), Irene Allen (1899-1931), Irma Jones Allen (1873-1954), Anna Paul Allen (1910-1967)

Lea E. Allen, Sr. (1866-1934), Octavia Ripley Jones (1848-1938)

Home of Lea & Irma Allen Marlin, Texas

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Octavia Lillian Allen (1903-1987)

Octavia Allen & Charles W. Rush, III

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V O L U M E I V

Charles Wesley Rush, III Cenea/ogy

T H E J O N E S FAMILY

This Volume constitutes the forth section of my family genealogy and history. On my maternal side, my Grandmother was a Jones, and I trace this family through her. The following genealogy follows my directdine Jones family through five generations in America, and maternal branches farther. Due to the common surname, my Jones lineage prior to the Generation 2 listed below is debatable, and the genealogies in this volume are based primarily on the research conducted by a Jones, descendant, Churchill Jones Bartlett.289 A working paper by a Jones family genealogist290 lists a lineage possibility of a John Jones who came to Virginia in 1720 from Alontgomery County, Wales. This same genealogist feels strongly that Stanfield C. Jones was John's (Generation 2 below) brother, and that Stanfield C.'s son, William J. Jones, was Churchill Jones' (Generation 3 below) first cousin. A family tradition is that brothers John (Generation 2), Watts and Stanfield Jones had a father named George Jones. The DAR has accepted a line of descent from George through his son, Stanfield C. Jones, and grandson, Richard G. Jones.2 9 ' The following is based primarily on the Churchill Jones Bartlett research, which lists Henry Jones, versus George Jones, as Generation 1. The differences require more investigation.

Genera t ion 1

HENRY J O N E S ' is the earliest member of our Jones lineage that is identified. In 1915, Churchill Jones Bartlett prepared a Jones genealogical paper showing Henry as the father of John, grandfather of Churchill. Researcher Bartlett was the grandson of Churchill Jones (below), as well as a Texas legislator and Secretary of State and derived much of the information on his family from his mother, Sarah Jones Bartlett, supplementing this with searches of family-possessed records, tombstone

289 Bartlett, Churchill Jones, "The Jones Family," 1915. Copy in files of Charles W. Rush. Churchill Bartlett, a grandson of Churchill Jones, had access to much of the Churchill Jones family Bibles and documents trom bis mother and his Jones aunts and uncles. He also compiled a separate genealogy, "Descendants of Henry Jones of Virginia - Soldier of the American Revolution," undated, which expands the James Jones-' descendant lineage. In addition, Churchill Bartlett maintained a Record Book of Falls County genealogies. Both genealogical charts and the Record Book were used for this Volume. With the exception of the John |ones descendants, the data has not been corroborated and further research is necessary. 2',nJones, Thomas W., "Some Joneses Of Virginia," 1 February 1985. Compiled by Thomas Jones of Fairfax, VA. Copy in author's files. 2'" Ibid. Thomas Jones email to author 18 August 2009.

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searches, and discussions with other (ones family descendants. Henry probably lived in Caroline County, Virginia and may have been born about 1735.292 Henry may have fought during the Revolution.293 Researcher Bartlett shows Henry had at least two sons.294 295

+ i. John (ones, born about 1760, died 1833, married (2) Mary Sanford ii. James (ones

Genera t ion 2

|( )l IN (ONES"' (Henry) is identified with more certainty than his father. John Jones was born about 176(1 and married about 1780. He died in 1833. According to family oral history and recorded in two (ones family biographies,296 John (ones fought in the American Revolution. He may have been present at the Battle of Brandywine in 1777. His grandson, William H. Jones (below) stated he fought with Genera] Marion, the "Swamp Fox."297 Willam also said that his father, Churchill, was the oldest son of (ohn (ones, who was a native of Caroline County, Virginia. William also stated that [ohn (ones and his brother, James, both fought in the Revolution. After peace was declared, John returned to his plantation and devoted himself to agricultural pursuits up to the time of his death. In 1789, |ohn was taxed on 162 acres in a Caroline County, Virginia land transaction and in 1802 John transferred the same 162 acres to Benjamin Monday.298 Prior to 1805 John (ones' daughter, Alary, married William Daffan. By the early 1800s John's first wife had died leaving him several daughters, and he had remarried to MARY SANFORD. In 1807 John Jones was taxed on 283 acres - 200 from Elijah Catlett, 83 from William Young - in Caroline County. And in 1808 John Jones' daughter, Mildred, was married to Alexander Williamson in Farcjuier County.299 In 1808 a Caroline County chancery case shows (ohn trying to straighten out a purchase of land bought in about 1794 in Stafford Co, with Alexander Williamson as co-bondsman.3"" John owned slaves to labor on his plantation. In 1810 he was taxed on seven adult male slaves and eight horses or mules. In 1815 Caroline County records show John taxed on 283 1/2 acres described as "adjoining John T. Woodford, 16 miles northeast ot the courthouse." In 1818 John added 90 acres, purchased from George Doggett, brother-in-law to Stanfield (ones who married Elizabeth Doggett.3"1 The researcher, Tom (ones, speculates that Stanfield may have been a brother to John Jones as the two

12 Montgomery, Rosalis, "The Churchill (ones-Green-Batde Heritage," privately published, 2nd printing December 1992.

11 Gwarhmey, John 1 I., "I listorical Register Of Virginians in the Revolution, Soldiers, Sailors and Marines, 1775-1783," Richmond, VA. 1938. Pp. 426-427.

"Pin Pictures from the Garden of the World: A Memorial and Biographical History of McLennan, Falls, Bell and Coryell Counties, Texas," The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago, 1893, page 647.

h Bartlett identities a Watts Jones line in his "Record Book," and one family member believed Watts was a son of Henry Jones. In an October 2009 email to the author, Tom (ones states Watts may have been a brother to John and Stanfield, their father being George (ones.

: ' Ibid. "Pen Pictures," and Oltorf, Frank Calvert, "The Marlin Compound," University of Texas Press, 1968, page 42. Ibid, "Pin Pictures," page 647. Note: assumption is that William Flenrv Jones, son of Churchill, was personally

interviewed tor this sketch ot his lather and grandfather; as well as for his own sketch. s Ibid. Tom Jones email to Charles Rush, 22 June 1996. This researcher provided a variety of John Jones data from

Caroline County records. -"' Ibid, Tom |ones email.

" Hopkins, William Lindsay, "Caroline County, Virginia Court Records, 1742-1833, and Marriages 1787-1810," Richmond, Virginia, 1990, pages 57—58. 1111 Ibid. Tom lones email.

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appear associated in multiple records, but family researcher Churchill Jones Bartlett lists Stanfield as a son of James and nephew to John Jones.3"2 The marriage record of Ann F. (ones, sister of Churchill Jones, to Aylett Dean in Caroline County, Virginia, dated 28 October 1819, states that she is a daughter of John Jones and gives Stanfield Jones as security.3113 Researcher Tom Jones provided the author the following.3"4 In 1820 John added 556 1/2 acres purchased from Hay Battaile. In 1822 he added 173 acres purchased from William Young's estate. John (ones' land now totaled 1103 acres. In 1830 John's Caroline County tax increased because he had built a house on his land. John (ones was also paying taxes on 21 slaves over the age of 12, but his livestock was down to 3 horses/mules. John Jones was last listed on the tax rolls in 1833, paying 53.24 tax on 22 slaves over the age of 12, and on 4 horses/mules. The 1830-1836 Minute Books of the Liberty Baptist Church of Caroline County has the notation, "John Jones 1833 deceased." Also on the list of church members were Mildred (Jones) and Alexander Williamson, and Elizabeth (Daffan) and Gordon Cash - John's daughter and granddaughter and their husbands. The last church business meeting John attended was on 26 August 1832. The Liberty Baptist Church was located where today is the US Army's Fort A.P. Hill. The Virginia Herald, published in Fredericksburg on 29 March 1834 carried a notice for claims against the John Jones estate, Sanford Jones, Executor. In 1834 the tax for the 1103 acres, 22 slaves and 4 horses/mules was charged to the "John Jones Estate." In 1835, 398 1/2 acres were transferred from John Jones' estate to Sanford Jones, his son and executor of his estate, and in 1837 John's estate paid taxes on 703 acres. In 1838 John's estate sold 534 acres to William H. Farrish, leaving 169 acres to be taxed in 1839 and 1840, paid by Sanford Jones (then living in Conecuh County, Alabama). A scrap of John Jones' will was found by researcher Tom Jones in the loose papers of a lawsuit, Jones v. Jones, Caroline County, 1844, in the Library of Virginia. This lawsuit is cited in "Caroline County, Virginia Court Records, 1742-1833, and Alarriages 1787-1810," by William Lindsay Hopkins, Richmond, Virginia, 1990, page 58. This suit arose as a result of the death of Stanfield Jones. The scrap of will identifies John's grandsons, George, John & Austin Robinson, and gives them a piece of land "purchased of Mark Harding laying on Mount Swamp" and two slaves. The Robinsons were the children of Sallie Jones and Austin Robinson, Sr. The rest of the John Jones will has not been found. The will ot the husband of John Jones' daughter, Mary, who married William Daffan, mentions his children's inheritance from their grandfather John Jones. The will of the father-in-law of Sallie Jones, John Jones' daughter who married Austin Robinson, also mentions his grandchildren's inheritance from their grandfather John Jones. An 1848 Caroline County deed, from George T. Robinson and John A. Robinson of Sumter County, Alabama to Stanfield H.C.B. Jones refers to a 222 acre tract of land (purchased of Alark Harding in Alount Swamp) devised to them by the will of their grandfather, John Jones.3"5 Note that Stanfield H.C.B. Jones was a son of Stanfield Jones.

John Jones married twice. The first wife probably died about 1800. He married again to Alary (Moly) Sanford before 1805. John and his wives had the following children:

i. Mary Jones, was born in Caroline County, VA and died before 1823,3"6 married William P. Daffan, born 1777, Westmoreland County, VA.

3112 Ibid. Churchill Jones Bartlett. 303 Letter from Mrs. Barrie Dean Rosier, Jones family researcher, to Charles Rush, dated 22 February 1983. 04 Ibid. Tom Jones email.

3115 "Caroline County Deed Book 46," Page 381. 306 Researcher Anne Rupert email to Charles Rush 6 January 2004. Her Jones data from Barrie Rossier.

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ii. Mildred (ones, born about 1790 in VA3"7, married Alexander Williamson, born about

1784. iii. Ann (ones, born in Caroline County, VA, married Aylett Dean 11 October 1819 in

Caroline County.3"8

+ iv. Churchill (ones, born 25 (anuary 1805, Caroline County, VA, died 25 October 1869, Falls County, TX, married in 1830 in Conecuh County, AL, Susan Tomlinson, born 29 July 1811, Washington Count)', GA, died 25 September 1862, Falls County, TX.3"9

v. Sanford (ones, born about 1806, Caroline County, VA, died 16 June 1849, Conecuh

County, AL, married Susan Ashley.31" -'" vi. Sarah P. (Sallie) (ones, born Caroline County, VA, died 1833, married in Caroline County 2 March 1823, Austin Robinson, Sr.3 '2

vii. [udith Jones

Genera t ion 3

CIIRLCHILL JONES' ' (Henry, John) was born 25 January 1805 at his father's Cherry Walk plantation, Caroline County, Virginia. Churchill attended Rappahannock Academy near his home. After his graduation he left for Alabama to seek his fortune.313 Ending up in Conecuh County, Alabama in mid- 1820s, according to a county history:314

He . . . began teaching at Gravella. He soon found a charm in the agitated politics of the county, and ardently espoused the cause of the Whig Party. As the standard bearer of that party, he was sent to the (Alabama) Legislature for several consecutive sessions. 1 le was regarded as possessing uncommon shrewdness in business, and within a few years after he came to the county he was the possessor of no mean wealth. . . . In manners, Mr. Jones was affable and communicative.

Churchill married SUSAN T O M L I N S O N , born 29 July 1811,315 in Conecuh County in 1830. She was the daughter ot (antes Tomlinson and Nancy Dees, the family having emigrated from Washington County, Georgia.316 Churchill was Conecuh Circuit Clerk in 1837. In 1839, he was a founding member ami first Vice President of Evergreen Academy.317 He was elected to the Alabama

"' 'Census ot 1S50, Sumpter County, Alabama," page 264 v"s Ibid, Anne Rupert. "'" Multiple family sources. "" Ibid. Anne Rupert.

"Conecuh Count)' Headstones, Vol II," Tbe Heritage Committee of FA-ergreen, Conecuh County Library, 1981-1982, Old Beuiah Cemetery. 1,2 Ibid, Anne Rupert. '';! Ibid. Frank Calvert Oltorf, page 42. ; ' Riley, Rev. B. F., "History of Conecuh County, Alabama," privately published, Columbus, GA, 1881, pages 158-159.

1 Susan Tomlinson Jones birth and death dates from her tombstone in old (ones Cemeterv, Falls County, Texas. '•' ["omlinson Family Genealogies in possession of author. Churchill (ones Bartlett compiled a Tomlinson genealogy

that is used in Appendix C. R.tbb, Young Madison, "Early I listory of What Is Known As The P.vcrgreen Beat," Texas State Archives. Note that

this document also includes the names of Tomlinson, Clarkson and Stallworth family members who later came with

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legislature in 1841, 1842 and 1843.318 There is a family story that a man struck Churchill in the eye with a cane during a fight on the floor of the Legislature, and he was blinded in that eve for the rest of his life, wearing tinted glasses.319 Family historian, Frank Oltorf writes, "An impressive looking man with reddish blond hair and sky blue eyes, Churchill Jones was a patriarch at forty. He and Susan had eight children . . ,"32" Churchill's brother, Sanford Jones, who had joined him to live in Conecuh County, died in 1849. The 1850 Census321 shows Churchill and his family, with nephew, Austin Robinson, and son-in-law William A. Dean living next door. That same year Churchill toured Texas in search of land. He first acquired land in Alontgomery County and sent Avlett Dean as overseer to manage that property.322 He saw the Falls of the Brazos River in Falls County, and in July 1850 purchased 28,000 acres of land on both sides of the river for $15,000. The area was well known to early adventurers, prospectors, hunters and Indian fighters. "We'll meet you at the Falls of the Brazos," the early travelers said.323 The earliest report states there was a trading house at the Falls in 1819.324 In the winter of 1835-1836, the missionary preacher, Z. N. Morrell, was to meet his friend Davy Crockett, for a bear hunt at the Falls. Crockett did not show, but Morrell provided a description of the Falls. "The river at this time (January) was very low at this point—not over knee deep to our horses—the falls about ten perpendicular feet, and the water below them abounding with fish."32-"' Churchill returned to Alabama and organized forces to send to Texas to develop his land. His brother-in-law, Aylett Dean, was sent as his agent in 1850 to Montgomery County with forty slaves, oxen and equipment. Aylett's son, William A. Dean, replaced him as Churchill's Montgomery County agent in 1852.326 Churchill sent his brother-in-law, George Daffan and Churchill's oldest son, James, age 22, as overseers of about 100 slaves and equipment to the Falls of the Brazos. Churchill's two nephews, brothers George and Austin Robinson accompanied Daffan, They arrived at the site of the Falls plantation February 18, 1851.327 Son James apparently acted as Churchill's on-scene representative, keeping his father informed with his own letters back to Alabama. Several of Churchill's early letters of instruction to his overseers survive, and are included in Appendix B.328

Churchill came out to inspect the operations each year and to acquire more land. He received a license to operate a ferry using flatboats in February 1852 for the following fees: "For a man and

Churchill Jones to Falls County, Texas. It also mentions the Travis family, the same family as William B. Travis, commander of the Alamo. 318 Ibid. Riley, pages 110-111. 319 Story related by Frank Oltorf to the author. 3211 Ibid, Oltorf, page 42. 121 "US Census of 1850, Conecuh County, Alabama," Dwelling 384. 122 Churchill Jones files, The Center For American History, The University of Texas, Austin Texas. This interesting set of letters document Churchill's correspondence to Aylett Dean, George Daffan and James Jones dictating bow they should manage the two Texas plantations until he could move from Alabama to Texas. See Appendix B. 323 Ibid, Oltorf, page 5. 324 Brown, John Henry, "History of Texas from 1685 to 1892," 2 Volumes, St. Louis, L. L. Daniell, 1892. 325 Morrell, Z. N., "Flowers and Fruits From the Wilderness," reprint of 1872 edition by Baylor University Press, Waco, TX, 1976, pages 39-42. 32(1 Ibid. Rosier letter, 22 February 1983. 327 Date documented in Churchill Jones letter dated September 12, 1853 to son, James. See Appendix B to this Volume. 32K Original letter by Churchill |ones to son, James, dated 6 September 1859, in author's files. Additional letters are in Churchill Jones files, University of Texas. See footnote above.

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horse, 25 cents; horse and carnage of any kind, 50 cents; carriage and two horses, $1.00; four horse wagon, $1.25; six horse wagon, $1.50; footman, 10 cents; and loose horse, 10 cents."329 Double was to be charged when the river was above fifteen feet of low water, and citizens of Falls County were to be charged half price at all times. Churchill wrote letters of instructions to his son, James, for managing the work on the plantation. These letters reflect that he was very educated, a knowledgeable and stern businessman, and concerned about the details of the move and transfer of his cotton plan.ation(s) from Alabama to Texas. Churchill ordered son James and Daffan to begin the home plantation buildings on the West side of the Brazos River by Rush Springs - later renamed (ones Springs.

Churchill (ones and his remaining family arrived in Texas in late 1853, after several months delay due to concerns of Yellow Fever sickness in New Orleans and Galveston. He acquired at least 40,000 acres for his Falls plantation operation and was one of the largest slave owners in the state. In 1860, he is listed as having 127 slaves, $200,000 in real property, $153,150 in personal property, and producing 1,000 bushels of corn and 312 bales of cotton.33" When the Civil War loomed, he opposed Session and hosted his friend Sam Houston, former Governor of Texas, when he came to Falls County to speak out against this act. Yet when War broke out, he sent two sons to the fighting aud supported the effort with agricultural products and supplies. His wife, Susan, died of sickness during the Civil War, 25 September 1862. Shortly after the Civil War ended, he applied to President Andrew (ohnson for General Amnesty, having taken the Oath of Amnesty as a preliminary step.331

The Reconstruction Government ordered him to deed each of his slave families forty acres of land and a team of animals to cultivate. Falls County deed records reflect that after litigation, each of the former slave families had about eighteen acres instead of the full forty.332 Churchill died several years later on 25 October 1869.333 Both he and his wife are buried in the Jones family cemetery in Falls County, Texas.

Churchill and Susan (ones had eight children:334

i. |ames Sanford (ones, born 27 April 1827, Conecuh County, AL, died 25 October 1880, Falls County, TX.

ii Sarah Kendrick Jones, born about 1834, Conecuh County, AL„ married (1) George E. Green, (2) Zenas Bartlett.

iii. Lucinda M.Jones , born 17 June 1836, Conecuh County, AL, died 18 April 1876, Falls County, TX, married Frank Stallworth.

iv. Jane V Jones, born 15 June 1838, Conecuh County, AL, died 13 March 1868, Falls County, TX, married Austin Robinson.

t v. William Henry Jones, born 13 August 1842, Conecuh County, AL died 9 September 1912,

'"•'" Ibid, "Pen Pictures," page 1S7. i3" "Southwestern I listorical Quarterly, Volume LXV, Number 1," (1861 to 1S65), July 1, 1961. , ; | Churchill Jones letter to President Andrew Johnson, dated September 27, 1865 with letter of transmittal to Texas

Judge J. I I. Bell, requesting presentation to Texas Governor Hamilton, National Archives microfilm in files of Hillsboro Confederate Research Center.

, : Rupert, Anne Henderson, "The Henderson Family-From Joseph of Revolution," Ancestry.com, ID # 15081. '" Dates on Churchill Jones tombstone Jones cemetery west of Falls on the Brazos, Falls County, TX. ;t Churchill Jones family data from a variety of sources, to include Bartlett and Oltorf references above, W. H. |ones

family Bible, and tombstone information.

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St Louis, M O , married (1) on 7 June 1864 in Conecuh County lsadore Tomlinson, born 7 December 1844, died 25 October 1867 in Falls County; married (2) on 8 June 1870 in Falls County Octavia Ripley, born 15 February 1848 in Craig County, VA and died 8 February 1938 in Falls county.

vi. Amanda Jones, born 19 January 1844, Conecuh County, AL died 8 June 1874, Falls County, TX,335 married A. E. Watson.

vii. Churchill Augustus Jones, born about 1846, Conecuh County, AL, died 1921. viii. Arthur Paul Jones, born 17 July 1848, Conecuh County, AL, died 4 March 1880, married Alazie Coates.

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WILLIAAI H E N R Y J O N E S ' (Henry, John, Churchill) was born 13 August 1842, Conecuh County, Alabama.336 His father named him William Henry Harrison after the Whig Part)' US President, although the Harrison was dropped in later years and William Henry was known by his family as "Billy." Billy grew up near Evergreen, Alabama, living on the family plantation. Other families that were interrelated and in that area were the Sanford Jones, and the Robinson, Tomlinson, Daffan and Stallworth families. When Billy Jones was 11 years old, his father moved the entire family to the Falls plantation in Falls County, Texas. By this time the Indians and the buffalo had moved west, Texas had been in the Union for eight years, and the fighting with Mexico was over. There were many settlers in the area and the new town of Marlin was five miles east of the Falls. George Daffan, Billy's uncle, James Sanford Jones, Billy's older brother, and his Robinson cousins, George and Austin, had established the successful beginnings of the plantation to include a home for the Jones clan. Billy spent the next 5-6 years there, then attended Rudersville Military School in Fayette County, not far from LaGrange, Texas until Spring, 1861. With the fires of Secession spreading through Texas, nineteen-year-old Billy volunteered to fight for the Confederacy. He and his cousin, Austin Robinson, were recruited in Falls County for a cavalry company and on 25 September 1861, in Houston, he enlisted in Captain Thomas Harrison's Company A, Terry's Texas Rangers, 8th Texas Calvary. Billy Jones was elected as 2nd Lieutenant. He brought along a sen-ant (slave) with him for at least part of the war.337 Terry's Rangers fought primarily in the Western Theater of the Civil War. Billy Jones was present at the Battle of Shiloh, April 1862. The Terry Rangers were under Nathan B. Forrest when he captured Murfreesboro in July, 1862. In the Fall, 1862, the Confederate forces under General Braxton Bragg invaded Kentucky. Austin Robinson was shot and captured there, later returning in a prisoner exchange. Billy was present at the Battle of Perryville, Kentucky. In January, 1863, he was involved at the Battle of Murfreesboro (Stones River), Tennessee. Throughout the summer of 1863 the Terry Rangers were fighting skirmishes and battles in Tennessee. In September they supported the fighting at Chickamauga.338 Lieutenant Jones was wounded during a skirmish with the 1st Wisconsin Cavalry at Mossy Creek, Tennessee 12 January

335 Ibid. Rupert. 336 Bible of William Henry Jones, in possession of Charles W. Rush. 337 "Asks Pension at Age of 127," Waco Sunday Tribune-Herald, City News Section, pages 1 and 11, March 15, 1936. Interview with a former Churchill Jones slave who claimed to have been with "his master" and collected bodies off the battlefields. 338 "Regimental History of the 8th Texas Cavalry," Confederate Research Center, Hill College, Hillsboro, Texas

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1864339 and was carried to his Grandfather Tomlinson's in Evergreen, Alabama to recover from his wounds.31" 3 " A 1933 War Department letter states, "Company Muster Roll for January and February 1864, last on tile, shows him absent wounded on 30 days furlough from February 14, 1864. I le was retired to the Invalid Corps, Provisional Army Confederate States October 5, 1864. He was surrendered by Lieutenant General R. Taylor, C.S.A., and paroled at Selma, Alabama June 6, 1865."342 A family story adds that, many years later, the Alinnie ball that had entered his shoulder came out of a sore on his back. In the United Daughters of the Confederacy files is an application by Irene Irma ((ones) Allen that states, "Wm. H. (ones enlisted 7 Sept 1861 in Company A, Terry's Texas Rangers, as a private. He was promoted to 2nd Lt on 12 Sept 1861. (Remarks section) My father was in the battles of Perryville, Ky-Chicamauga, at Alurfresboro and was wounded at Moss(y) Creek, Tenn in '64. Under the command of N.B. Forrest, Armstrong, Joe Wheeler and Gen Thomas I [arrison."343 On 7 June 1864 in Conecuh County, AL, William Henry Jones married Isadore Evaline Tomlinson, born 7 December 1844, a daughter of Aaron Tomlinson and Ann Daff. She was Billy's first cousin, his Mother and her Father being siblings.344 Billy and Isadore had two sons and both died. She died in childbirth 25 October 1867 in Falls County. In the old Jones cemetery in Falls County, there is a footstone is marked "I.J., 7 Dec 1844, d. in Marlin, Tex., 25 Oct. 1867." There are two small unmarked graves nearby. This is most probably the grave of Isadore and her two children. Billy wrote the following poignant letter eight months after Isadore's death.

June 11, 1868 Marlin, Texas Mv Dear Aunt,343

I am proud to acknowledge the receipt of your highly appreciated letter of the 7th. & you have no idea how gratifying it was for me to hear from you all once more. Aunt .Ann, you must not expect a long letter from me as I never teel in a writing mood now a days. My misfortunes have been so great that it is impossible for me to concentrate my mind long enough to write a letter. I have no news to write you, times are dull, crops are very good considering the long dry spell we are having. We are needing rain very much. Without a rain pretty soon, crops will be cut short. You asked me in your letter to send you word when I was married. It was on the 7th. day of June, 1864, Augustus (ones was born on the 7th. day of June, 1865.346 He left us the 20th. of July, his Ma on the 25th of October, 1867. I have not got their pictures

"The War ot the Rebellion: A Compilation of Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies," Washington Government Printing Office, 1891, page 71. "i! Ibid, "Pen Pictures," page 622. :!I Jones family researcher, Frank "Posh" Oltorf, says Billy Jones was carried to his aunt's, Ann Daff Tomlinson, who was Isadore Tomlinson's mother.

12 War Department letter in possession of author. Also, Parole document No. 77, signed, "W. H. (ones, 2nd Lt, Co. A, 8th Texas Cav," at Selma, Alabama, 6 |une 1865. "'' Texas United Daughters of the Confederacy Application #51249, Irene Irma (Jones) Allen. " bible Record of Aaron Bryant Tomlinson and Angelina Daff, from "The Collins Bible," publisher Reed & Barber,

I lartford, CT (no date). h Written to Ann Daff Tomlinson, Billy's aunt and mother-in-law, who was the mother of Isadore. Copy of the letter

provided to the author by Don McPhereson, Canyon Lake, Texas, in 1998. ,46 The day after Billy Jones was paroled at Selma, Alabama.

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but will get them soon from Aunt Bettie & then I will send you copies. I will also try & send you that hair you asked for. I have only one consolation Aunt Ann & that is, I know that my little family is in Heaven. Oh! How proud 1 was of mv little family, everybody thought so much of them. Isadore was loved by all that knew her. She & my sister Jane347 were devoted to each other, but now they are numbering among the angels of heaven. It was but a short time after the death of Isadore that that sister Jane lived. She died of the same cause.348 Please excuse this short letter for I cannot write anymore. Give my best to all & let me hear from some of you often. 1 have not heard from Jim Johnson & wife since they left us. This leaves all the family well. As for myself I am sick more or less all the time. Answer immediately.

Your most affectionate Nephew & Son-In-Law, William

On 8 June 1870, in Marlin, Falls County, Texas, Billy Jones married OCTAVIA RIPLEY, from Craig County, Virginia, the daughter of Hilleary Ripley and Rebecca Eakin of Craig County. Octavia was born 15 February 1848349 in Newcastle, Virginia. She was most probably in Marlin visiting her sister, Irene, who married John Watkins, who had moved to Falls County in 1859 and was in the 5th Texas Cavalry during the Civil War. The two Ripley sisters also had a brother, Paul Ripley, who had moved to Waco, Texas and served in the 4th Texas Infantry. After the War, Billy Jones lived his life in Marlin as a planter. In a discussion with Billy Jones for a biography in the earl)' 1890's, the interviewer concluded, ". . . he now owns a good plantation of 3,000 acres, 1,000 of which is under a tine state of cultivation."3-"'" He sent his two daughters to school in Virginia. When they were married, he built homes for their families in Alarlin. During his generation, the Churchill Jones estate of approximately 40,000 acres was divided and much of it was sold, to include Billy Jones's share. He was active in Falls County's Willis L. Langc Camp of Confederate Veterans and attended several reunions of Terry's Texas Rangers. Billy Jones died 9 September 1912 in St Louis, Missouri, after a heart attack3-11 on a train returning to Texas from Craig, County, Virginia. Octavia lived many more years, dying 9 February 1938 in Alarlin. They are both buried in Calvary Cemetery, Marlin, Texas. In 2003 the author placed a memorial CSA plaque on his grave.

William and Octavia had two daughters:352

+ i. Irene Irma Jones, born 3 June 1873, Alarlin, Texas, died 24 May 1954, Marlin, married on 10 November 1897 in Alarlin, Lea Earnest Allen, born 25 November 1866, Marlin, died 16 May 1934, Brenham, Texas.

ii. Anna Paul Jones born 23 March 1883, Marlin, Texas, died 20 March 1950, Alarlin, married Earle Smith, born 4 February 1881, died 20 March 1959, Alarlin.

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347 Billy's sister, Jane Jones, married Austin Robinson whose mother was Billy's father's half-sister. ,4S They both died in childbirth, their babies with them. 349 "\v/ H.Jones Family Bible," in possession of Charles W. Rush. 350 Ibid, "Pen Pictures," page 622. 351 "Missouri State Board of Vital Statistics Certificate of Death," District #791, File # 30992, dated 9 September 1912. 352 Family data from William H.Jones Bible, in possession of author.

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[RENE IRMA (ONES'" (Henry, (ohn, Churchill, William Henry) was born 3 June 1873 in Marlin, Texas. Her parents sent her east to grade school on the grounds of Hollins College, Roanoak, Virginia where her father built a house called, "The Texas Cottage." The college was about 25 miles from her mother, Octavia's, family home. Irene Irma, who was called by her middle name, graduated from Hollins College then attended the Baltimore Conservatory of Music and Art in Baltimore, Maryland where she studied charcoal and oil painting.333 Returning to Texas, Irma Jones married on 10 November 1897 in Marlin, Lea Earnest Allen, a son of a Confederate veteran, who was born 25 November 1866, Marlin, and died 16 May 1934, Brenham, Texas on a wool-buying trip (see Allen family in Volume 111). For the remaining twenty years, Irma Jones Allen lived in Marlin. There was Little money left in her husband's estate and she sold some of her Jones-inherited land to make ends meet. During World War II, she rented out her Victorian home. Her son, Lea, had returned home to live after a failed marriage and his stint in the US Marine Corps, and he occasionally worked to help with finances. Irma and her sister, Anna Paul (Jones) Smith, bought small vacation homes in Ward, Colorado, that the families enjoyed for a number of years. Irma's Alarlin home was a gathering place for her daughters and their families during the 1940s and early 1950s. Irene Irma Jones died 24 May 1()54 in the home of her daughter, Octavia Allen Rush and is buried in Calvary Cemetery, Alarlin.354

"Memories of Miss Irma" By Martha Hartzog, October 2009

I referred to my grandmother as "Mimi." Around Marlin, Texas, she was always called "Miss Irma." Miss Irma died when I was about 13 years old, and I have many memories of her and she left a lasting legacy in my life.

She had immense dignity and presence. Ice blue eyes which could be exceedingly kindly or very cold. Always kindly and loving to a grandchild, though. My grandmother would regularly make the rounds of the town, visiting her friends, her O O J CD '

extended web of cousins, to sit and talk and perhaps play cards. She prepared two special treats for her grandchildren: peppermint ice cream and lemon meringue pie. I remember the ice cream in the cold aluminum ice trays with crushed bits of peppermint candy peeking out. The generous dinners prepared by her cook always featured wonderfully light biscuits, fried chicken, ham.

1 spent the summer in Marlin living at her Big House when I was seven. Then I spent a halt year at school - the third grade - again living at her house. She would have been in her 70s then and what an act of love (and stamina) to take in a rambunctious grandchild 7 or 8 years old.

Many ot the memories ot my grandmother are wrapped up in her house. A large, two-story Victorian house, white of course, simple on the outside, as was the style when it was built in the early 1900s, but full of Victorian detail on the inside. Now in

>3 Notes by her daughter, Octavia .Allen Rush, about 1981. ''•'' "Certificate of Death, Texas Department of health, Bureau of Vital Statistics," State File Number 22308, Recorded I tine II, 1954.

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my mind, I walk up the stairs to the second floor of my grandmother's house. Two landings, two directions. A secret servant's door on the second landing, opening to narrow stairs down to the kitchen. Upstairs a generous central hall gives off to three bedrooms. In the Blue Bedroom is an elaborate late Victorian bedroom set. N o one ever stays in the Blue Bedroom, named for the medium blue color of its walls. It is a little dark and mysterious. There is a stereopticon on the marble topped dresser with various scenes of Europe. Bookcases with lots of books line one wall of the landing. An old 'Turkey Rug' lies on the floor. A wicker chair is there somewhere on that landing. I can smell the sweet smell of that house now, wallpaper, old books, old leather, wicker.

The summer I stayed with her, I slept in the small bedroom at the corner of the house. It was originally a maid's room. I lost a tooth that summer and she crept into my bedroom as the 'tooth fairy' to leave a dime under my pillow. In the 'Lady's Power Room' I would sit in front of the white painted dressing table with the tree mirrors, two of which would tilt inward for a view of the side of the face and tippet-torso. There was a long strand of jade green beads I loved and a necklace of crystal triangles, one black, the other clear. Miss Irma advised me to always wear shoes so my feet wouldn't get too large, to wear a hat to protect my skin against the sun, and to keep cream on my elbows. She wore clothes of the finest fabrics. She said that in September you had to change to Fall clothes, even though it was still hot in Texas.

I read all through the books in the upstairs library that ran along the landing. I sat in the litde sewing room and sewed simple items like my mother had taught me. There was a storage room off to the side of the blue bedroom that was lull of fabulous items. A pair of dainty white kid dancing shoes. A hoop skirt. Large trunks full of clothes. A sidesaddle. The Tiffany-like hanging lamp over the dining room table was green glass with silhouettes in metal of windmills. A huge elaborately decorated sideboard with mirrors held crystal bowls and French china — white with pink roses. We ate on her Haviland Limoges dishes - a creamy white with pink roses. Aly brother and I always played with toys she kept in a wooden box - lead soldiers and a lead fleet.

The house was set in a beautiful grove of oak trees and the railroad tracks ran on the other side of the road in front of it. The trains went by with loud and exciting shrieks. There were white flags and purple larkspur on the grounds. A chicken coop in the back, where Uncle Lea would wring the chicken's neck for Sunday dinner, and the poor thing would flap around headless for a bit.

Miss Irma couldn't go up the stairs at the time I remember her because of her heart. She had had the house re-wallpapered though, almost every room an exuberant, blooming William Alorris-type pattern. Delphiniums, roses, snow drops - the colors rich and bountiful. My Uncle Lea's room had wallpaper of wonderful, strong palms, whipping in the breeze. Green against a cream background. His bed an iron one. The smell of Bull Durham, roll-your-owns, permeating everything. The cigarettes would

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later give him cancer of the esophagus.

In the broad welcoming entry hall spindle lattices divided the front part of the hall from the back. Every one of the gas fireplaces in the house was surrounded by beautiful large rectangular glazed tiles. In the hall was a fireplace alcove sporting hunting dog tiles in a dark green. In my grandmother's downstairs bedroom, once the parlor, there were pale pink ladies or children's heads, in a sort of Classical mode.

I am now my grandmother's age when I was born, her third grandchild. Nothing of what I say here is particularly new or fresh. But the details are mine. Are ours.

"Memories of Grandmammy Allen," by Charles W. Rush October 2009

My earliest childhood memories are closely tied to my grandmother, Irma Jones Allen, whom I called, 'Grandmammy.' She and my Mother were very close, and Grandmammy's home was a five-minute walk from ours. I was constantly at her place, playing in the large yard or in one of the many rooms of the house. The yard was about three acres with a big chicken pen. The house was an old Victorian with lots of interesting places to explore and play. When I was six or seven, I would ride my bike down a little lane that cut through the woods (owned by Grandmammy and her sister) to her house. However, in 1947 the US Veterans Administration wiped out the 20 acres ot woods and began building a large VA Hospital across the street from her home. Another good place for a young boy to play. When I was about twelve, my family built a horse barn behind the chickens, and I had a cow pony there tor several years, until cars replaced him. For some reason, I remember Grandmammy as more stern than loving, though I know I loved her very much. She could put terror into me with a (justified) scolding, as her facial features would bore into me. A little later I would be running through her house and see her gentle smile.

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My Mother and I spent several summers in Colorado with her, and I remember the chipmunks eating the seeds from Rocky Ford cantaloupe that Grandmammy would buy on our way from Texas to the mountains of Colorado. Uncle Lea would make furniture from aspen wood. Grandmammy was a very educated person and a talented artist. Her charcoals of drinking horses and a birddog with game in its mouth were favorites of mine. She also had her prejudices, 'Damnvankees' and people ot color among them. This is no surprise, given the times in which she grew up. Probably some of my most favorite memories as a child were playing with my cousins in Grandmammy's house and yard, for example catching lightning bugs and placing them in fruit jars, after which we would go inside with all the grownups. As I look back at those fond memories, Irma Allen stands out with her strength of character in my family.

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J O N E S LINE3 3 5

1. Henry Jones ' (ca 1735- ) .

+2. i. John Jones, born about 1760, died 1833, married (2) Maty' Sanford.

3. ii. James Jones.

+2. John Jones" (ca 1760-1833) married (2) Mary Sanford.

5. i. Alary Jones, died before 1823, married William P. Daffan, born 1777.

6. ii. Mildred Jones, b o m about 1790 in VA married Alexander Williamson, born about

1784.

7. iii. Ann Jones, married Aylett Dean 28 October 1819.

+8. iv. Churchill Jones, born 25 January 1805, died 25 October 1869, married Susan

Tomlinson.

9. v. Sanford Jones, born about 1806, died 16 June 1849, married Alary Ashley.

10. vi. Sarah P. (Sallie) Jones, died 1833, married Austin Robinson.

11 vii. Judith (ones.

1 r T 2 356

3. James Jones

12. i. William Jones.337

13. ii. Stanfield Jones (1780-1844) married (1) Elizabeth Doggett, (2) Prucilla Allsup.

355 Bartlett, Churchill Jones, "The |ones Family," 1915. Churchill Bartlett also compiled a separate genealogy, "Descendants of Henry Jones of Virginia — Soldier of the American Revolution," undated, which expands the James Jones descendant lineage. The author uses the Bartlett data as a primary source, however there is conflicting data and this is reflected in the below footnotes. Copies of Churchill Jones Bartlett's genealogies and Record Book are in possession of Charles W. Rush. 356 Note that the James Jones line is not clear and researchers conflict, especially in regard to the various Stanfield Joneses. The following pages from Churchill Bartlett's Record Book were used by the author: page 57, pages 155—163 and pages 263—265. Researchers should be cautious and confirm this data. 3,7 Note that Jones family researcher, Thomas Jones, believes that this William is actually the son ol Stanfield and Elizabeth Jones. He writes, "A transcript of a Bible record filed with her DAR application by one of Stanfield Jones' descendants (claiming that Stanfield was a son of George Jones) shows that William was born in 1810, married (1) Sarah S. Wharton in 1832, and (2) Susan Cattlet in 1863. His children were the same ones shown for William and Sarah (Wharton) Jones on the (Churchill Jones Bartlett genealogy of Henry Jones) chart you sent. The application for William's second marriage - in the loose papers in the Caroline Court House - show that his parents were Stanfield and Elizabeth Jones. William also shared in Stanfield's estate, and a wide range of records - including census records and the distribution of William's estate - and the chronology convincingly indicates that he was Stanfield's son, not his brother as the chart shows. For a good account of William's family, see "Astride the Old San Antonio Road," a history of Burleson Co., Texas. " Reference email to Charles Rush, 22 June 1996.

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+ 8. Churchill (ones' (1805-1869) married Susan Tomlinson. 14. i. fames Sanford Jones, born 27 April 1827, died 25 October 1880. 15. ii Sarah Kendrick Jones, married (1) George E. Green, (2) Zenas Bartlett. 16. iii. Lucinda M. [ones, born 17 June 1836, died 18 April 1876, married Frank Stallworth. 17. iv. Jane V. (ones, born 15 June 1838 died 13 March 1868, married Austin Robinson.

+ 18. v. William Henry Jones, born 13 August 1842, died 9 September 1912, married (1) Isadore Tomlinson, (2) Octavia Ripley.

19. vi. Amanda (ones married A. E. Watson. 20. vii. Churchill Augustus (ones. 21. viii. Arthur Paul Jones married Alazie Coates.

9. Sanford (ones' (ca 1806-1849) married Mary Ashley. 22. i. Mary Sanford Jones married Ed Alartin.

13. Stanfield (ones''338 (1780-1844) married (1) Elizabeth Doggett, and (2) Prucilla Allsup. 2.3. i. Richard G. (ones, born 1809, married Jane Brewer. 24. ii. William I. (ones, born 1810, married Sarah Wharton. 25. iii. |ane E. (ones, born 1819/1820. 26. iv. Stan tied H. C. B.Jones, born 1831/1832. 27. v. Mary Julia (ones, born 1823, married John W. Daffan.

+ 18. William Henry (ones' (1842-1912) married (1) Isadore Tomlinson, (2) Octavia Ripley. +28. i. Irene Irma Jones, born 3 June 1873, died 25 May 1954, married on 10 November 1897,

Lea Earnest Allen, born 25 November 1866, died 16 May 1934. 29. ii, Anna Paul Jones. Born 23 March 1883, Alarlin, Texas, died 20 March 1950, Marlin,

married Earle Smith.

21. .Arthur Paul (ones married Mazie Coates. 30. i. Pearl Jones married (1) Percy Rains, and (2) Hal St. Clair.

23. Richard G. [ones'', born 1809, married Jane Brewer.339

31. i. Napoleon Bonaparte Jones, born 20 August 1832, married (1) Alary Sorrell, (2) Sue Hodges.

32. ii. Sebastian Stanfield (ones, born 6 April 1834 married Francis Prewitt. 33. iii. Columbia Wilson (ones, born 23 February 1836. 34. iv. Walter Scott Jones, born 29 March 1838, died (KIA) 27 June 1862. 35. v. Richard Hampton Jones, born 29 April 1840, died 27 June 1894, married (1) Lucy

Prewitt, (2) L. Canarian. 36. vi. Sidney (ones, born 23 (tine 1842.

37. vii. Ann Elizabeth Jones, born 21 November 1845, died 4 May 1916.

iH Ibid. Thomas Jones lists Stanfield's children as: Richard G. (b. 1809), William I. b. 1810), Jane E. (b. 1819/1820), Mary Julia (b. 1S23), and Stanfield 11. C. B.Jones (b. 1831/1832). '" For this family, see "Families Of Falls County," Falls County Historical Commission, Eakin Press, Austin, Texas,

1987, paire 258.

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38. viii. Sarah Francis Jones, born 2 May 1847. 39. ix. James K. Polk Jones, born 21 January 1850. 40. x. William Poindexter Jones, born 9 May 1852, died 29 April 1947, married Willie Riley. 41. xi. Byrd Louis Jones, born 1858.

24. William I . J o n e s / born 1810, married Sarah Wharton.36" 42. i. Lawrence Jones married Alargaret Billington.

31. Napoleon Bonaparte Jones, ' born 20 August 1832, married (1) Maty Sorrell, (2) Sue Hodges.361

43. i. Alex Jones. 44. ii. Val Verde Jones married Sallie Jones. 45. iii. Belle Jones married Buffalo Smith. 46. iv. Andrew Jones married Cornelia Abernathy. 47. v. Bertha Jones married D. V. Hester. 48. vi. Alice Jones married J. C. Alundine. 49. vii. Rosa Jones married J. P. Massy. 50. viii. Johnnie Jones married Alary Arnold. 51. ix. Susie Jones married H. Drowmer. 52. x. Robert Jones. 53. xi. Alinnie Jones. 54. xii. Willie Jones.

32. Sebastian Stanfield Jones ' , born 6 April 1834 married Francis Prewitt.362

55. i. Joseph Jones married Abi Curler. 56. ii. Stanfield Jones married Perla Chapman. 57. iii. Charlie P.Jones married Alice Bibee. 58. iv. Stella Jones married Dozier Moore. 59. v. Annie Jones married Medford Chapman. 60. vi. Luther Jones married (1) Corrie Sturman, (2) Alaggie Hedrick. 61. vii. James Jones.

35. Richard Hampton Jones,'" 363 born 29 April 1840, died 27 June 1894, married (1) Lucy Prewitt, (2) L. Canarian.

62. i. Sallie Jones married Val Verde Jones (cousins, see above). 63. ii. Sidney Jones. 64. iii. Katie Jones married A. C. Glass. 65. iv. Leonard Jones.

3(10 Bartlett, Churchill Jones, "Descendants of Henry Jones of Virginia - Soldier of the American Revolution," page 5. This genealogical chart, probably developed in the 1920s by the researcher, is used exclusively for the William I. Jones family. 361 This family from the Churchill Jones Bartlett Record Book. 362 Ibid. Bartlett. 363 Ibid, "Families of Falls County," page 259.

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40. William Poindcxter Jones'", born 9 May 1852, died 29 April 1947, married Willie Salina Riley.364

66. i. Annie Maude Jones married Hershel Dilworth. 67. ii. Richard Poindexter Jones, born 27 July 1880, died 30 July 1968, married Lela Carter. 68. iii. Thomas Riley Jones, born 27 July 1880, died 25 April 1912, married Annie Marshall. 69. iv. Bvrd Bradford Jones, born 5 December 1884, died 2 Alay 1875, married Alarietta Kay. 70. v. Clyde Mortimer Jones, born 2 March 1887, died 7 June 1968, married Lillian

McMillan. 71. vi. Austin Brewer Jones, born 22 April 1889, died 21 January 1970. 72. vii. Howard Montie Jones, born 11 July 1891, died 15 January 1985, married Alable

Wallace. 73. viii. Walter Lee Jones, born 11 February 1893, 28 January 1953, married Enid Marie

Lyon. 74. ix. Chester E.arl Jones, born 18 February 1895, died 3 October 1972, married Ivy Guinn. 75. x. Katie Aline (ones, born 5 November 1896, died 11 August 1983. 76. xi. Millard Vivian Jones, born 31 August 1898, married (1) Ida Lapointe, (2) Ida Collins. 77. xii. Willie Columbus Jones, born 20 October 1901, died 4 September 1970, married

()rville Groner. 78. xiii. Odis Ponder Jones, born 17 November 1905, died 2 September 1981, married

Lenora Echols.

42. Lawrence Jones' married Margaret Billington.36"1

7(). i. Virginia Jones. 8(1. ii. Stanfield Jones married Columbia Smith. SI. iii. Adeniram Jones married Nannie Elliston. 82. iv. Margaret Elizabeth Jones married James R. Purcell. 83. v. Charles L. [ones Married Millie Buckner. 84. vi. John C. Jones married (1) Civilla Ryan, (2) Alties Nelmo. S3, vii. Edwin (ones. 86. viii. Walter S. Jones married Tunnie Jackson.

44. Val Verde (ones" married Sallie (ones. 87. i. Valle Jones. 88. ii. Geneviere [ones. 89. iii. Clarice Jones.

46. Andrew [ones'1 married Cornelia Abernathy. 90. i. Katie |ones. 91. ii. Emmett [ones.

50. Johnnie (ones" married Mary Arnold. 92. i. Sam |ones.

93. ii. [ohnny (ones.

M Ibid., "families of Falls County," page 259. '"'" Ibid., Bartlett, " Descendants of 1 Ienrv Jones."

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55. Joseph Jones'' married Abi Curler. 94. i. Joe Jones married Addie Chapman. 95. ii. Lawrence Jones married Emily Hinds. 96. iii. Charlie Jones married Mattie Brewer. 97. iv. Abi Jones married Hugh Johnson. 98. v. Ada Jones married Jake Pivar 99. vi. Prewett Jones married

56. Stanfield Jones' married Perla Chapman. 100. i. Frank Dewitt Jones. 101. ii. Jane Elizabeth Jones.

57. Charlie P.Jones' married Alice Bibee. 102. i. Stanfield Jones married Catherine Woodson. 103. ii. Hardin Jones. 104. iii. Alabel Jones married Barton. 105. iv. Charlie Jones.

60. Luther Jones' married (1) Corrie Sturman, (2) Maggie Hedrick. 106. i. Paul Jones. 107. ii. Stanme Jones. 108. ii. Jacks Jones. 109. iv. Maryarlie Jones.

68. Thomas Riley Jones/ born 27 July 1880, died 25 April 1912, married Annie Marshall. 110. i. Clifton Jones. 111. ii. Marshall Jones.

80. Stanfield Jones'5 married Columbia Smith. 112. i. Irving Jones. 113. ii. Ernest Jones. 114. iii. Emmie Jones. 115. iv. Columbia Jones.

84.John C.Jones'5 married (1) Civilla Ryan, (2) Aides Nelmo. 116. i. Bessie Jones married John S. Collins. 117. ii. Civilla Jones married Walter Werner. 118. iii. George Jones married Yardley. 119. iv. Helen Jones.

86. Walter S. Jones* married Tunnie Jackson. 120. i. Sallie Jones married Clif Collins. 121. ii. Margaret Jones married Will Collins. 122. iii. Alary Jones married Andrew Taylor. 123. iv. Sallie Jones married Charles Bower.

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CHURCHILL J O N E S LETTERS

The following letters dated 1849 and 1853 relate to Churchill Jones guidance to the overseers of his Texas plantations, before his arrival in that state from Alabama. Copies of the letters may be found in the Churchill Jones files, The Center For American History, The University of Texas, Austin Texas.

Septr 6 th /49

I have designated the following negroes which Jas. S. Jones is to take out of the plantation when he leaves me and goes to himself, to wit, Sandy, Lucey & all their children being five in number also a boy named Ellis, to have and hold as his own property, & also for his services rendered me in my business from December 1850 to 1st January 1858 have paid him by letting him have the following negroes a boy called King Thornton (?) & his wife Clarissa and their two children, also Harry & his wife Martha together with all of his expenses to that date (1/58).

(signed) Churchill Jones

Evergreen, Oct. 22, 1849 State of Alabama, Conecuh County

Know all men by these present that, I, Aylett Dean of the state and county aforesaid have this day agreed to take all the negroes belonging to Churchill Jones now on his plantation on the Conecuh River known formerly as the R and A plantation named as follows: Edmond, Big Peter, Hampton, Charles and Celia, George, Little Peter, Big Maty, Joane and four children, Elisa, John, Augustus, Aylett, Tommy and children, Reuben, Miloc, Moses, Perry, Little Ben, Kitty and child Judy, Big Peter, Big Ben, Sarah and children, Alargaret and infant, Cloea and children, Caleb, Nelson, and Martha, negro boys jack, John, William, Elles, and Millis, negro woman Harriet and six children, negro woman Lydia and two children together with mules and horses of even' description, wagons and all other traveling implements to whatever part of Texas he may purchase land and work them on the same terms which we worked them on Conecuh.

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A. Dean

.Attest: Austin Robinson

(From Churchill [ones to George Daffan)

Evergreen, July 25th, 1853

George I I. Daffan, Esq. Falls of the Brazos

George,

I received a letter from (son) James at Lake Creek Farm, Montgomery County, which gave me very bad encouragement as to any prospects for a crop at the Falls. He does not charge you, however, with neglect of duty or want of energy in managing his business. In fact, the way he writes about your business habits, I am flattered more than otherwise, and 1 hope it is all so. I know he fully believes what he says about you. Well, if it has turned out so you have failed to get but very little crop planted, you understand that there is plenty to do of other things. Of course, if what few you have to cultivate is managed as nice as a garden, it will make some more on that account, and in truth if you make plenty of corn (which James says you will) if there is not much cotton planted, it may be as well from the fact that there is so much of other matters to do which must be done, although I stand in need of a good cotton crop.

It is hardly necessary for me to rehearse what is to be done. You seemed from your talk last winter to know very well. The winter quarter in the Bottom I presume you are building, and as busy as you can be about it. I hope so at least. That is the biggest job before you - mule lot, shelter, and sacks and troughs and corn cribs. I want the hands moved into the bottom by the first of October, if possible.

|ames wrote me you were building cotton houses. There will not be many cotton houses needed. I want the cotton hauled to the gin house, gined and packed as fast as you pick it. This is a matter I will want understood and no variation. Get everything ready tor gining and packing before you commence picking as soon as there is any cotton to pick. Try and save every lot of what little you make. There is a cotton bale shelter to build, though as 1 before stated, it is unnecessary I think to name all the jobs that are absolutely necessary and compelled to be done. Get on tanning there. 1 think you know. The main thing is to put your best judgment in full exercise and follow it up with you physical energies untiringly. I want you to take a good deal ot pains in building the winter quarter in the Bottom. Put up good houses and well laid ott. You have to dig a well on one of the highest knobs at the Bottom quarter. 1 will close this subject by saying I hope you will spread yourself in doing the

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very best you can in all these matters, in expediting and getting through all this sort of business.

The next thing I will call your attention to is, as you will make a very short corn crop, to take great care of your old corn. Do not have a peck wasted. Do not forget this. Have no more feed thrown away than you can possibly help. Hold on to it.

James says he failed to get the cistern full of water. This I hate also. I think the quantity of rain you had there in May, it might have been filled with proper attention. You know now what quantity of cement it takes to make a cistern. We have to make two more large cisterns next winter. One where my family will live and one at the winter quarter in the Bottom. I do not suppose it took all six barrels you had there to cement the one you have made. When Mr. Blane's wagons commence to haul off cotton, I want you and James to make an estimate of how much more it will take to cement two large cisterns and for James to write to Air. House, a merchant in Houston, to send you as many barrels as you will want. Mr. Blane is well acquainted with Air. House. He can give you his name. I want you and James to make some arrangement with the wagons to haul all your freight from Houston up there and try and get it done cheaper. I think you can get them to haul for $1.50 per hundred. Get it done as cheap as you can. If you want nails or iron or anything of the kind, James can write to Mr. House for it. You ought to know by this time what kind of ploughs suit to cultivate the land best, whether sweeps are of any use or not. 1 wrote you some time ago to let me know about the rope and bagging there. I suppose you have rope and bagging enough there to pack over 100 bales. I sent enough to pack 200. Let me know all about this immediately so that if any more be needed there, I can send it. Attend to this.

James said nothing about losing my flat at the ferry there. I suppose he was ashamed to name it as he and you ought to be. It was pure carelessness certainly. George, I am afraid you have got the negroes to like you and not tear you. If this is the case, you cannot get on nor take care of anything. They must know when you speak they have

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to obey, and to do this you have to stand square up to them and show yourself master. You cannot coax a negro to do his duty. You have to force him, and if they only like you and not fear you they will soon hate you and get tired of you. That is the nature of negroes, but to make them fear you and like you both you can do anything you like with them. I expected nothing else but to hear of the boats getting away. You were more careless last winter while I was there about the boat than anything else. They did not half the time fasten it to the long chain. I expect that negroes are running to marlin of nights. It might have got oft that way. I would like to know what you do for a flat now. You let it cost the building of it more than any flat I ever heard of - §85 besides my own labor and feeding hands, which would make it about $175 or $180. These sort of losses hurt. I want a good flat there if you will pay attention and make the negroes take care of it. In fact, we are compelled to have one. Could you and James take hands and build one. As to the way that Bough works and charges, it is too outrageous, He hardly earns what he eats. He does

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nothing scarcely in a day. 1 am tired of feeding lazy white men to do nothing. If you could get an active man that would push through with the job and do it quick so as to cost only a fair price, I would like it. You must make some arrangements somehow.

Tell Mr. Blane to have his wagons ready to haul off the cotton, if you make any. As last as you gather it, gin and pack it, but mind you the cotton must be branded in my mark thus: C [ones. Send to Allen and Bagbv at Houston to be sent to James Paul at Galveston, The cotton remains my cotton and subject to my control until sold. The net proved are then to be paid to the credit of Mr. Blane and the four Marlin boys or men. You understand this. Mr. Blane has nothing to do with the cotton until sold except get wagons to haul it off at SI per hundred, That is the contract. You and lames see Mr. Blanc and tell him he must get Power of Attorney from the four n.ariins to receive their portion oi the money, authorizing me to pay over their part to Mr. Blane. Take notice of this.

Toll lames ro see Dr. Kilabrew and get an order from him or directions from him for me to leave that money in Now Orleans for him, with his name in full, and send to mo, as 1 cotno through in October, 1 will leave it there for him.

I want to hear whether Mr. Dobbs has gathered any of my stock or not, and how your stock of hogs came on, lames fails to write anything about this.

|ames said as soon as he got back ho was going to employ a white man and go to work on .he cabins for n.v family. Tell him I want him to have very little to do with employing white men. Thev do not earn anything. I can't see how Tidwell could '....-..e .i :".'.'. or SS1'1 or. mo ti.cre. 1 want to know though, and see the work.

1 wrote :.' |ames some ::t..e back that I wanted cabins put up for us to go in first, a.-.o. ov.:'..-. at:or 1 got there. Two cabins IS feet square, 12 feet apart and covered tin. . • an i --: with rib poles 3 foot broad nailed on 6 pnv. nails.

• sha writs aroses in :. few days again. Do the best you can. Give my best wishes to Mi Pc . md the same fot all of you.

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P S George, tn to manage due sickness if YOU have much there as well as you can. I • s " - ." llfidence i your judgment, in that vou commenced last winter to make

: : '- negjwwcs 5s up their houses and keep clean. I hope vou continue that as that is sja. -a fori

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James to have put up for us to go when we get there. Two split logs of post oak 18 feet square, 12 feet apart, bodies 10 or 11 feet between floors high, hewed down a little outside and inside if they can do it, topped off with nice rib poles under one roof covered with 3 foot boards nailed on with 6 pny. nails - chimneys of split logs above the mantle piece and then split sticks and mud to the top fire place logged so as to rock up inside above the mantle pieces. The two pens floored above and below but not the passage between. Kitchen and servant houses the same

way. Smoke house as large as it can be made, body 17 or 18 feet high, and logs to hang on every two feet after the first 7. In covering with 3 foot board you show one foot. This house must be put on the ground where I will want my dwelling house. Put a few feet back in the rear to one end, near enough though for the kitchen and business houses. I think the chimneys of the houses should be set East and West. I mean of the double house, though I will leave it for your judgment, lt requires a good deal of care about arranging the houses of a lot to be convenient, especially kitchen and smoke houses. There is a good deal of taste and judgment in arranging the houses of a lot with proper order and convenience so as to appear well. First lay off the lot and then plan how the houses ought to be set. Stick the stakes where my main dwelling house will be, and then go on to arrange how you will set the houses I have named above to be built first.

I suppose you have not forgot to have turnip patches and collards. You must have a good flat built some way and move the Ferry where you were speaking, below, and fix a rope across.

I want to know if those interrogations ever got there to you. It makes no difference about your answering until I come out. Keep this long letter to read occasionally as it contains a good deal as to how I want you to get on. Tell James I will arrange about the paving of the taxes as soon as Capt. Paul gets back to Galveston from the Country. Put this letter in your trunk and refer to it occasionally.

C.Jones

(From Churchill Jones)

Evergreen, August 4th, 1853

[as. S. Jones

Falls of the Brazos

Dear Son,

Your letter of the 4th of July was received some time back written at Montgomery (County, Texas). I wrote George H. Daffan at the Falls on the receipt of it. I am in

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hopes that George is far advanced with the winter quarter in the Bottom, as he failed to get a crop for the hands to cultivate. It is true I stand in need of a good cotton crop, but if the time is well used and improved in building and improving the plantation, perhaps it may be as well. I hope you and George are just doing your very best. If there is but very little crop made, occupy the time of the hands. You both know what to do to work them to full advantage, and it will require your full attention. To go on right you must have no idlers about you to draw your attention from business. I want you and George to keep your business separate - George attend to building the quarters and other houses in the Bottom, and you putting up cabins for us to go in when we get out there, when I expect to build.

I gave George a description of how 1 want you to build the cabins for us to commence in. My main dwelling house I do not wish begun until I get there. Build as I directed in my letter to George. I would cut down the trees and hew them off on each side to about ten inches thick, and then line and split so as to have the logs about five inches thick and every log sawed off at both ends exactly 18 feet or longer. You can get them all exact in length though, so as to frame up even corners with fiat notches and square shoulder. You should make a pattern of a piece of plank so that every end of the logs will be framed the same size. Start the house level and it will go up level. Have each tenon end of the logs to the shoulder, as long as your logs are thick - say five inches - so as to make full and even corners. You understand what 1 mean. Every log can be framed on the ground before you put up one chimney and all. 1 wrote vou that you might put the top on with rib poles and nail on three foot boards showing one foot. If you can rafter it as quick as rib poles, do so. I leave that with you. I want it done the quickest way so they are comfortable and tight and will not leak.

You speak of hiring a white man. I think vou had better leave white men alone. I am tired of feeding idle lazy loafers to do nothing and pay them big bills when they leave. Tell George 1 shall want to see in his books how Tidwell could make a bill of $80 against me, at $25 for every 20 days he worked full. He was to keep an account in his book ot every day and piece ot a dav that he worked. Tidwell came to work there the 10th of January and from the way you write me, he left the 10th of June. I le was there about five months in all. Well you wrote me he was laid up sick two months or over, l ie must have lost at least a half a month in bad weather. Say sickness and lost time was about two and a half months. Well he worked two and a halt months which would be $62.50. You ought to have charged him S25 for board

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1 [owever, it I see work there, all will be right.

As tor cotton houses, George need not build many of them. I want the cotton hauled to the gin house and gined and packed as fast as it is picked. This must be attended to. See Mr. Blane and tell him to have the wagons engaged to haul off to

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Capt. Paul at Galveston. You understand the contract between us. The cotton is to be marked thus <C. Jones> so as to known from the cotton in Alontgomery (County). This crop goes in my mark and sent under my control and direction until it is sold. Then the money or net proved are paid to the credit of Mr. Blane and the four Marlin boys. Mr. Blane is to have it hauled to Houston for $1 per hundred. That is, I am to pay no more than that. Get Air. Blane to let you see the written contract as to this crop of cotton. Air. Blane has nothing to do with the cotton, only to get the wagons to haul it to Houston. It goes to market in my brand and under my control and direction until sold. The proceed will then be paid to their credit. See Mr. Blane and have a right understanding about all this. And tell Mr. Blane he will have to get a full power of attorney in a legal form for the four Alarlin boys so as to collect their portion of the money. Take the wagon receipts for the cotton and tell them to take Allen and Bagby's receipts all in my name. You will have to be very particular about all this. Thomas Harrison, Esq. knows all about the contract. He can explain everything to you. When you have a chat with Mr. Blane cm this subject, write me what he says.

I wrote you about meeting us at Houston the last of October with two wagons to J CD CD

help us up to the Falls. Upon further reflection on the subject, I think you will hardly have the chance to do so. We will want some cabins to go into when we get there, and it will take all the time of yourself, hands, and wagons, but 1 think you can make good arrangements with the wagons that Mr. Blane gets to haul all of our beds and CD CD CD CD

other furniture we may bring to Houston. See Air. Blane and have a talk with him on this subject. I do not see how you can have the wagons come and you cannot leave to come yourself. You will have to be busy to get us some shelter ready by the time we get there. I have given you an idea of how to build so as to do it in part. I also gave George a full description how I wanted you to build first for us.

I shall want cement for two large cisterns. One where we will live and one in the CD

Bottom at the winter quarter. You know how much cement it takes tor one, and you can make an estimate of how much more you will need and send it to Mr. House, a merchant in Houston, for it. Air. Blane can give you his name. If you should need nails or anything, you can write by the wagons for them and perhaps you had better make arrangement about getting salt from them too, unless you can get it as cheap up there. Look into this. By this time you and George ought to know what kind of ploughs that land needs to cultivate it. And you should make out a bill of iron and send for by the wagons that haul cotton off to make such as it requires. Look into all thee things so as to have the hauling done before winter while vou can get it done cheaper. Try to think and make good arrangements for all this.

I suppose of course you are making some arrangement for another Ferry flat, but it is of no use unless there is some white man to see that it is taken care of. A boat will be needed there. In fact, there must be one there. The travel will be considerable across there this fall and winter. You should have a good flat and let it be known back to Springfield and the Trinity River.

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1 sent whiskey, flour, sugar, etc. to you last May. I would like to hear whether you got all safe or not. The whiskey I sent for medical purposes and not as an every clay beverage. Take care of everything. There was over 400 pounds of sugar. You will use yen' little of that quantity by the time we get there. The lard take care of for your Mother. You have plenty of butter for you all to use. Let me hear all about the stock, cotton, and hogs and whether you were able to get any or not. Write me whether pork will be plenty or not next winter.

Dr. Killabrew must send me his written authority to place that money in new Orleans with his signature on it. As I come through in October I will leave it there for him. As soon as Capt. Paul returns in October to Galveston you can write to him to pay the amount of taxes if it is wanting.

Tell George if he makes any cotton to commence picking as soon as there is any to pick, and what little he makes to try and save it all and as it ought to be. The corn crop you should save as soon as it gets dry enough, though it ought to be fully dry. Take good care of your fodder. Have all four of the wagons put in running order and get as many yoke of oxen well broken as you can. Write me word about making arrangements with the cotton wagons to haul our articles we move from Houston to the Falls.

It vou should have much sickness there you and George, with the use of Doctor Gun's Book, can do all that any of the Doctors you have there can. If you should have dysentery or bloody flux give doses ot oil with from one to two teaspoons of spirituous turpentine and from 30 to 60 drops of laudanum. Give as often as necessary. Then a tea made of dewberry briar root and post oak bark, any astringent and healing tea. Give no calomel or Blue Mass in this disease. It is death. Eat and drink but little. Keep the bowels open with oil, turpentine, and laudnum as above.

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importance. There has been a great deal ot sickness in the country here and some deaths. Old man Hopkins died the other day. We have some sickness ourselves but on the mend. Give my best wishes to Mr. Bell and all. I remain

Your father, Churchill Jones

Evergreen, Alabama, September 5th, 1853 | as. S. | ones, Esq.

Dear Son,

Your letter dated at Marlin 9th of August is just to hand. You spoke of a good deal ot sickness which 1 am sorry to hear, though you say there is no serious case. Give all

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the attention you can to the sick. You can manage the cases by cleaning the stomach well first with emetics and then with pills made of equal parts of calomel, aloes, and rhubarb, and then followed with bitter teas. The bitter weed you showed me down in the bottom last December is very good. Have a tub full made at a time and make them drink it rapid all the time. After the stomach is well cleaned, should the negroes be taken with dysentery or bloody flux, you must not use calomel or blue mass. It is perfect death. I wrote you before about this and do not forget. Oil, spirits of turpentine and laudanum - begin with 2 spoons full of oil, 1 tea spoon of spirits of turpentine, and 30 to 60 drops of laudanum - then small doses of soda and salts. One half teaspoon of carbon of soda and 2 teaspoons of salts mixed together in sage tea given as the emergency requires. If bad cases, give often, and use astringent teas made of post oak bark, running dewberry briar root. The tea should be made strong. Give anything that will heal the bowel, eat little and drink no cold water. Give injections of soapsuds and oil with some laudanum in it.

(From Churchill Jones)

Evergreen, Sept. 12th, 1853

Jas. S.Jones, Esq.

Dear Son,

I wrote you last Monday in answer to your letter mailed at Houston the last of August, giving you some instructions about business. I shall have to take Air. Dobbs testimony in the suit between C. H. Sterns, Adm., and myself commenced by Sterns, and I have directed the attornies at Galveston to file interrogations to Mr. Dobbs as to the land he lives on to prove that Sterns sold him that land on long time and that subsequently Sterns made a lav sale to me, including that same land, and transferred to me Mr. Dobb's obligation for the amount he agreed to pay. The interrogations will be addressed to you at marlin to be taken by L. B. Barton, Esq. or any Judge or Justice of the Peace. I want you to see Dobbs and let him see the interrogations, so as to prepare his recollection to answer, though I do not wish him to answer until I get there. I want to be present when his testimony is taken. You can hold on to the interrogations until I come unless I write you hereafter to have them answered. Take good care of them. C. H. Sterns swears in his suit that on the 27th day of Feb. 1851 I gave him two notes in Houston Which he says he lost. I want also to prove by Mr. CD _ ' L J

Dobbs that I was at the Falls of the Brazos the 27th of Feb. 1851, very sick. I left there the 4th of Alarch for Alabama. The 5th day of Alarch 1851 1 was with Mr. Dobbs at Camron and sent you a pair of boots by him and wrote you a letter. By referring to that letter you will see that it was written the 5th of Alarch, the da)' after I left the Falls. I expect Air. Dobbs has some paper he got at Camron with that date. You examine his papers and let him see, so as to refresh his mind. The letter I wrote to you by him on the 5th of March from Camron will do it. Look it up and let him

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see it. I expect he has some merchant's account of that date. Try to find out. You will recollect that you all got to the Falls of the Brazos on Tuesday the 18th of Feb. 1851. I left there that day two weeks for Alabama in company with Sterns, Frank Dean and a land looker, which was the 4th day of March 1851. Try to get Air. Dobbs prepared on that point.

1 have written at different times to you and George about building houses for us to go in when we get there, and suggested the idea of building the out houses first for us to go in, as they can be built in much less time, and we can make out very well in them for a while. I have given you my notions about the plan of the out houses and the way to lav off the lot. Stake off first the place for our main building and then begin at one end of it a suitable distance off and begin to build as I directed and run back. The main thing is to get some comfortable cabins ready quick for us. I would prefer to be there when our main building is commenced. Notice the plan of the lot in pencil mark I sent you, and if you can improve upon it in arranging the out houses to look right and convenient, do so. The front of the lot I leave to your judgment to arrange. Get George to spend his opinion on it also.

1 have written also about George having the quarter in the Bottom built, gathering the crop, having a good flat at the Ferry, tools of the plantation all in place, and wagons in order. All these things I presume you have taken good notice of, which renders it unnecessary tor me to say anything more about them. And there are many other things 1 cannot think of which you and George no doubt will. George

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commenced last winter while I was there to make the negroes keep themselves clean, keep their houses clean, and beds fixed up. Tell him I hope he has kept it up.

1 have charged you to be very careful with what corn you have. If you have any to sell, 1 want you to sell all vou can as emigration comes in. A good ferry flat will draw a great deal that way.

1 have written you not to meet us with two wagons as I first named, knowing you will not have time to leave our buildings as I want them ready so that we can go in when we get there. I want you to write the prospect of getting our house furniture waggoned up to the Falls. 1 shall bring very little besides our beds, and I want some cedar or ash sawed or split out for bedsteads. You ought to try about the lot with a dip organ tor water. George understands how to do it. Tidwell showed him how and so did Mr. Moss. Try and get a good well of water.

1 want you to write me the prospect of getting stock hogs mixed in with pork hogs.. Also about getting one or two hundred head of stock cattle to put with Mr. Dobbs . As 1 have named to you before, you might get a good deal of information from travelers on that subject and get the names of men who own large stocks of hogs and cattle and their post-office and write them and know how they sell, the lowest price tor stock hogs well mixed with killing hogs, also cattle. In that way you could learn by writing.

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The letters I have written you, I requested you keep for reference. Answer them as 1 requested. Tell Mr. Bell the Philyows say they do not owe him anything and will not make the boots and shoes he told me to ask them to make and send him. There has been a great deal of sickness in this country and still a great deal. Dr. R. H. Talliaferro is dead. Was buried yesterday. Old Dr. Watkins is also dead. I cannot say what time we will start for Texas. We will have to wait for frost to come and the yellow fever to subside in New Orleans. It will be November I expect. Give Our best wishes to Air. Bell and all. I will write shortly again.

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James, get the wagons from about Marlin going to Houston to always inquire at both ware houses for anything I may have there to go to the Falls. Everything in my mark.

Your father, Churchill Jones

P. S. I have written you about getting cement enough for two more large cisterns, salt, nails, iron, and such, and as much as we may need. I suppose you will attend to it. Tell George Daffan to do his best in saving cotton and get it ready for market as Mr. Blane stands in need of the money. Also to do his best about the winter quarter in the Bottom every chance he has to work at it.

(From Churchill Jones to James S.Jones)

Evergreen, October 17th, 1853

Jas. S.Jones, Esq.

Dear Son,

Your letter to your mother came to hand last mail, and as she is writing to you I thought I would drop you a few lines in the same envelope.

You said to me in your last letter that Parson Blane spoke of carrying the cotton down the Brazos River in a flat boat and said he could get insurance on it. If he can, it will be the best way to get it to market. You can say to Air. Blane that we will help

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to build the flat in the event you make 200 bales.

In Mr. Dobbs agreement and mine to raise a stock of cattle together, I was to have put in another 100 head or the rise this year so as to make the stock 300 head this year. If you can get them any way, I want you to do it. If you cannot, say to Mr. Dobbs I will get more next year so as to make it all good. After I get there, we will have a better chance to hunt up cattle and buy the. If the interrogations to Mr. Dobbs from Galveston should get there before I do, you can hold on to them until I come. I cannot say now what time we will get there. I am fearful on account of

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yellow fever in New Orleans and Galveston. It will be late the last of December

perhaps before we get there. I want to start if we can the last of November. It will

depend upon frost.

I am in hopes you have a good ferry boat and will let it be known back to Springfield on the Trinity River so that immigration will pass there. I was glad to hear that the health of that country there was better than last year. If you should have any cases of pneumonia, the great secret of the cure is to have the patient keep warm and comfortable, give emetics, sweating tea, tonics, and use no calomel or Blue Alass. In this disease, it is death. In case of flux or common dysentary use no calomel or Blue Mass - it is certain death. Give an occasional dose of oil with 1 or 2 teaspoons of spirituous turpentine and from 20 to 60 drops of laudanum. Be governed by size and age. Use soda and salts freely in broken doses - 1/2 teaspoon of soda and 1 teaspoon of salts (Epson) in cup of warm sage tea, followed by astringent teas made of running or dewberry briar root and post oak bark, is the treatment. I gave you a receipt (recipe) in a letter before.

I hope George is going on first rate with the business of the plantation. I know he can do it if he will, provided he does not let the negroes fool him in the business. They will do it if they can. But he certainly has learnt enough about them before this not to allow it, but to have full work done every day. The cotton, what little is made, I want every lock saved and gined and packed in order. The seed to plant must not be heated. Recollect this both of you and save the best long staple seed. Attend to this. George must try and keep up picking cotton as fast as it opens, tell him.

George commenced last winter to make the negroes keep themselves and houses clean and see to it. 1 hope the stock of hogs has been better managed, and I hope you will be able to get what we want on good terms. Try and have a pen of fat hogs by the time we get there. I have ordered 7 bolts bagging, 6 coils rope, 25 ea Get some wagon from about Marlin to engage at Houston for it and inquire for other things. Give my best wishes to all. I will write again shortly.

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Your father, Churchill (ones

P. S. In my last letter to you I wrote you in regard to hiring some white man to help you, provided he was a handy ingenious man and one that would work as a man ought to do and accomplish a good days work every day. That sort of man, of course, keep all the time it you can get one a reasonable wages, or even two of them it you can get them. There is a great deal to do. You will be very apt to see young men, emigrants, now passing, that you can get very low. If you can, hire as many as you can work to an advantage. If they get lazy, discharge them forthwith. Have that understood well when you hire them.

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said was intended to bring your and George's minds fully to bear on the importance of looking well to the interest of the business there generally and not allow yourselves to be deceived by trifling white men. It is your interest more than mine to look well into these things and take care. It is George's interest also to see my interest is closely represented by him, and that the business of the plantation goes on right, and full business be done even- day and not be deceived in it. If he manages everything right and makes a full showing of business for the force, of course it will enable me to do the same for him. If the business turns out little and not much, of course it will be the same with him, but I feel George is making things count. Tell him not to be deceived in saving and taking care of what cotton he makes and to have as much saved every day as any set of hands does and have it put into bales as fast as picked and be careful of fire about the gin house. Notice that all the time both of you. Be particular in selecting and taking care of the planting seed. Do not let them heat.

C.Jones

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V O L U M E IV, A P P E N D I X C

T O M L I N S O N LINE3 6 6

The Tomlinson line is linked to my direct lineage through Susan Tomlinson (1811-1862), the wife of Churchill Jones (1805-1869). Her family had moved to Conecuh County, Alabama from Washington County, Georgia, about 1820. Several of the Tomlinsons moved from Conecuh County to Falls County, Texas. William Henry Jones (1842-1912), son of Churchill, married first Isadore Tomlinson, Susan's niece. Isadore died and none of their children survived. The below shows this Tomlinson line in America. Additional research is needed to verify.

1. Bryant Tomlinson1 (ca 1765- ) married ca. 1783 Sallie Kendrick (ca. 1765— ).;i67

2. i. Moses Tomlinson. 3. ii. Gerald Tomlinson. 4. iii. Sallie Tomlinson married Harrderson.

+5. iv. James Kendrick Tomlinson (1788-after 1864) married ca. 1810 Nancy Dees (1785— aft. I860).368

+5. James Kendrick2 Tomlinson (1814-1865) married Nancy Dees. 6. i. Jordan Tomlinson married Nancy Gerald. 7. ii. Aaron Bryant Tomlinson (1808-1853) married 1842 Ann Daff((1822- ).369

8. iii. James K Tomlinson (1814-1865) married ca. 1842 Sarah Jemima Stallworth (1819— 1872).370

9. iv. William Dwight Tomlinson married Georgia Perryman. + 10. v. Susan Tomlinson married Churchill Jones.

7. Aaron Bryant Tomlinson3 married Ann Daff.371

11. i. William Jordan Tomlinson (1843-) married Emily Delilah Baine. 12. ii. Isadore Evaline Tomlinson (1844-1867) married William H.Jones (1842-1912).

"'fl In 1980, the author obtained a Tomlinson genealogy of three pages from John Tomlinson living in Falls County, Texas. This genealogy was titled, "Descendants of Bryant Tomlinson and Wife of North Carolina," compiled by Churchill Jones Bartlett, Marlin Texas, 1916. This genealogy was used as the primary of this appendix. It contained no birth, death or marriage dates, and more research is required. Footnotes below indicate supplemental data. *'7 Data provided the author by Frank Oltorf, Marlin, Texas in 1993. 368 Ibid, Frank Oltorf. lf,,) "Bible Record of Aaron Bryant Tomlinson and Wife Angelina Daff, "in possession of Mrs. J. J. Patterson, Andalusia, Alabama, copy dated 1986 in files of author. 3711 Ibid, Frank Oltorf. 171 Ibid. Bible of A. B. Tomlinson records family birth, marriage and death dates.

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13. iii. Theodosia Augusta Tomlinson (1846-) . 14. iv. James Aaron Tomlinson (1849-) married Theodosia Overstreet. 15. v. Nancy Tomlinson (1851-) married Reuben McCrary. 16. vi. George Daff Tomlinson (1853-1854).

James K. Tomlinson3 married Sarah Stallworth.3 '2

17. i. James Eldridge Tomlinson, born 11 January 1843, died 29 April 1888, married Emma Perry 1 October 1868.373

18. ii. Billie Tomlinson. 19. iii. John Tomlinson married Christian McPherson. 20. iv. Augustus Tomlinson married Lizzie Landrum. 21. v. Eldridge Tomlinson married Elba Landrum. 22. vi, Amanda Tomlinson married Horace Young. 23. vii. Lutie Tomlinson married Elmo Landrum. 24. viii. Robert Lee Tomlinson married Bettie Ethridge.

9. William Dwight Tomlinson3 married Georgia Perryman. 25 i. [ames Tomlinson married Laura Jeanette Holloman.

26. ii. Augustus Tomlinson374 married Bettie Burke. 27 iii. Betsy Tomlinson375 married Cole Crosby.

1 1. William Jordan Tomlinson4 married Emily Delilah Baine. 28. i. Mary Elizabeth Tomlinson married William Bolton. 2C). ii. Paul Tomlinson.

17. James E. Tomlinson4 (18443-1888) married 1868 Emma D. Perry (1845-1919).376

30. l. William A. Tomlinson (1869-1932) married 1898 Hallie Peoples (1880- ). 31 ii. James Tomlinson (1871-1910).

32. iii. Albert Tomlinson (1872) married 1898 Bennie Ethridge (1875-) . 33. iv. Mary Eliza Tomlinson (1875-) married 1899 Shields Key.

19. John Tomlinson4 married Christian AlcPherson. 34. i. Sallie Tomlinson married William Seymore. 35. ii. Mary Tomlinson married Kinningham.

20. Augustus Tomlinson4 married Lizzie Landrum. 36 i. Minnie Tomlinson married C. L. Trice.

37. ii. James Benjamin Tomlinson married Mary Curry. 38. iii. William Eldridge Tomlinson.

•: Thejames k. Tomlinson data from Tomlinson researcher, Ernie Wentrcek of Bryan, Texas. ' 'James Eldridge Tomlinson Bible, copy in author's files.

1 Note that Wentrcek source has this Augustus Tomlinson as the son of James and Nancy Dees Tomlinson. 5 Note that Wentrcek source has this Betsy Tomlinson as the daughter of James and Nancy Dees Tomlinson.

1 '' Bible of James Eldridge Tomlinson records this family's dates.

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21. Eldridge Tomlinson4 married Elba Landrum. 39. i. Isadore Tomlinson. 40. ii. Carrie Tomlinson. 41 iii. James Tomlinson.

42. iv. Clifton Tomlinson. 43. v. Joseph Tomlinson.

24. Robert Lee Tomlinson4 married Bettie Ethridge. CD

44. i. Ruth Tomlinson. 45. ii. Albert Lee Tomlinson.

25. James Tomlinson4 married Laura Jeanette Holloman. 46 i. Cariile Inez Tomlinson.

47. ii. Willie Dell Tomlinson married Reginald Wise. 48. iii. Jeptha Tomlinson married Fannie Rabb. 49. iv. Charlie Tomlinson.

26. Augustus Tomlinson4 married Bettie Burke. CD

50. i. Florence Tomlinson. 51. ii. Augusta Tomlinson.

30. William A. Tomlinson5 married Hallie Peoples. 52. i. Harley Tomlinson married (1)L. B. Chilton (2) Linthicum. 53. ii. John Tomlinson. 54. iii. Perry Tomlinson. 55. iv. Nida Tomlinson married John Peevey.

37. James Benjamin Tomlinson-'' married Mary Curry. 56. i. Eldridge Tomlinson. 57. ii. Joseph Tomlinson.

48. Jeptha Tomlinson5 married Fannie Rabb. 58. i. Walter Tomlinson. 59. ii. Georgia Tomlinson married R. L. Landrum. 60. iii. Annie Laurie Tomlinson. 61. iv. Clifton PerrymanTomlinson. 62. v. Lida Alice Tomlinson. 63. vi. Olga Weltmer Tomlinson. 64. vii. Charlie Tomlinson.

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VOLUME IV, APPENDIX D

KENDRICK LINE377

The Kendrick line is linked to my direct lineage through Susan Tomlinson (1811-1862), the wife of Churchill Jones (1805-1869). Susan Tomlinson Jones's grandfather, Bryant Tomlinson, born about 1765, married in 1783 Sallie Kendrick, born about 1761 in Granville County, North Carolina. The Kendrick lineage is an old and distinguished English line.

1. Sir David Kenwrick1, Lord of Britian (AKA Kenrick; AKA David ap Cynrig), born 1325 at Anton Burnell, Shropshire, England; died aft 1356.

2. David Kenwrick, II2, born 1351 at Ashley, Staffordshire. England; died after 1385; married 1384 Alary.

3. John Kenwrick3, born 1385 at Ashley, Staffordshire, England; died 1459.

4. John Kenwrick4, II, born 1417 at Ashley, Staffordshire, England; KIA 23 September 1459 in the Battle of Blore heath during the War of the Roses; married Ashley, heiress to Woore Manor, born 1421.

5. John Kenwrick, III5, born 1449 at Ashley, Staffordshire, England; married 1474 Alice Tillesley, bom 1453.

6. i. John Kenwrick, born 1475. +7. ii. William Kenwrick, born 1477.

+7. Sir William Kenwrick6, Groom of the Bedchamber of King Henry VIII, born 1477 at Ashley, Staffordshire, England; died 1537 at Sheustone, Salop, England; married 1502 Margaret Morris, bom 1481; died 1537.

8. i. Richard Kenwrick, born 1503. +9. ii. Thomas Kenwrick, born 1505. 10. iii. Humfridus Kenwrick, born 1508.

+9. Thomas Kenwrick7, born 1505 at Burnell, Shropshire, England; married 1536 Margaret Taylor, born 1509.

377 This entire Kendrick line comes from Ernie and Ginger Wentrcek, P. O. Box 1652, Bryan, Texas. All data should be v eritied by separate sources.

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11. i. Richard Kenwrick, born 1537 at Anton Burnell, Shropshire, England; married before

1566 Agnes Norton, born 1541. 12. ii. Nicholas Kenwrick, born 1567.

+ 13. iii. [ohn Kenwrick, III, born 1569.

+ 13. fohn Kenwrick, III s born 1569 at Woore Manor, Shropshire, England; died 1627 at Staffordshire, England; married 1592 Elizabeth Lodge, born 14 December 1574; died 17 December 1646.

14. i. Humphrey Kenwrick, born 1596, died before 1628. 15. ii. Richard Kenwrick, born 1597, died before 1628. 16. iii. Andreas Kenwrick, born 1597, died 1650, married Mary Whiteway. 17. iv. William Kenwrick, born 1598, died before 1628. 18. v. Matthew Kenwrick, born 1599, married Rebecca. 19. vi. George Kenwrick, born 1600, died ca. 1648, married Jane. 20. vii. Edward Kenwrick, born 1602, died after 1652, married Susanna Cranmer.

+ 21. viii. John Kenwrick, born 1604, died 29 August 1666, married Anna Sawtell. 22. ix. Thomas Kenwrick, born 1609. 23. x. [ana Kenwrick, born 1610. 24. xi. Dorothy Kenwrick, born 1612, married Mr. Keeling. 25. xii. Bridget Kenwrick, born 1614, married Samuel James. 26. xiii. ]ames Kenwrick, born 1614.

+21. John Kendrick, I V , born 1604 at Mucldestone Parrish, Staffordshire, England died 29 August 1666 at Newton Massachusetts; married 1635 at Boston, Alassachusetts, Anna Sawtell, born 1609 at Woore Manor, Shropshire, England, died 15 November at Boston. John immigrated to New England aboard the ship, James, with four of his brothers.

+ 27. i. George Kendrick, born 1633.

+27. George Kendrick10, born 1633 at Woore Manor, Shropshire, England, died 1700 at Glouster County, Virginia; married ca. 1669 at Glouster County, Virginia, Jane?

+ 28. i. John Kendrick, born 1670 at Abington Parish, Glouster County, Virginia, died 1715-1722.

+28. John Kendrick, V " , born 1670; died 1715-1722 at King William County, Virginia; married ca. 16()4 at King William County, Virginia, Mary Turner, born at Iving William County, Virginia. Either earlier or later, John may have married Rebecca Wet, born 1673.

29. i. John Turner Kendrick, born 1695, died 1778; married (1) Charity Lewis, (2) Sarah. + 30. ii. William Kendrick, born 1704, died 1777; married (1) Mary Burwell, (2) Sarah Jones.

31. iii. Mary Kendrick, born 1709.

+ 30. William Kendrick12, born 1704 At Ware Parish, Glouster County, Virginia, died January/February 1777 at Bute Count)' (later became Warren County), North Carolina, will probated may 1777; married (1) in 1729 Mary Burwell, born 1705 at King William County, Virginia, died 1732; and (2) in 1732 at King William County, Virginia, Sarah Jones, born July 1714 at Lower Parish, Isle of Wight County, Virginia, died 1796 at Edgecombe, Warren County,

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Georgia (cousin to Martha Washington). 32. i. Jacob Kendrick, born 1730, died 1794, married Anne Fox. 33. ii. Burwell Kendrick, born 1731, died 1777.

+34. iii. James Kendrick, born 1733, died 1796; married (1) Presilla, and (2) Susannah Roberson.

35. iv. John Kendrick, born 31 July 1735, died 16 December 1811; married Amy Fox. 36. v. Mar\f Kendrick, born 12 April 1738, died 9 November 1795; married William Fox. 37. vi. Benjamin Kendrick, born 1739, died before 1777; married Sarah. 38. vii. Rebecca Kendrick, born 1742, died after 1763; married Mr. Nicholson. 39. viii, Sarah, born 24 December 1744, died before 1793; married Benjamin Thornton. 40. ix. Alartha Kendrick, born7 January 1746, died 14 February 1831; married Captain

William Wood. 41. x. Alartin Kendrick, born 1747, died before 1800; married Susannah Thompson. 42. xi. Jones Kendrick, born ca. 1750, died ca. 1817; married Margaret. 43. xii. Isham Kendrick, born 1755, died 17 March 1818; married (1) Elizabeth Tucker, (2)

Elizabeth Duncan.

+34. Captain James Kendrick13, born 1733 at Isle of Wight County, Virginia, died 1796 at Wilkes County or Washington County, Georgia, buried in Washington County; married (1) Presilla, and (2) in March 1755 at Granville, County, North Carolina. Susannah Roberson, who died 14 December 1802 at Wilkes County, Georgia. James served with his brother, John Kendrick, in the Granville County, North Carolina Militia, and were present on 8 October 1754 for the Great Aluster during the French & Indian War under the command of Captain Richard Coleman. Captain James Kendrick served in the American Revolution and for his services received a land grant in Georgia. James and Susannah had the following children:

44. i. William Kendrick, born 1755, died 27 February 1838; married (1) Elizabeth Ann Thompson, (2) Alargaret Watts.

45. ii. John Kendrick, born 1756, died 14 December 1802; married Martha Montgomery. 46. iii. Burwell Kendrick, born 1760, died May 1817; married Mary Catherine Dowd.

+47. iv. Sarah "Sallie" Kendrick, born 1761; married Aaron Bryant Tomlinson. 48. v.James Kendrick, born 1765, died 1831; married Tabitha Rogers. 49. vi. Benjamin Kendrick, born 1769, died 1804; married Ruth Harvey. 50. vii. Martin Kendrick, born 1772, died 1812; married Georgia Jane Whitehead 51. viii. Jones Kendrick, born 16 December 1778, died 21 February 1845; married Susan Vail

Bull.

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D E E S LINE 3 7 8

The Dees line is linked to my direct lineage through Susan Tomlinson (1811-1862), the wife of Churchill Jones (1805-1869). Susan Tomlinson Jones's father, James Kendrick Tomlinson, bornl788, died after 1864, married about 1810, Nancy Dees, born 1785 and died after 1860. The Dees lineage is an old Scottish line.

1. Andro Deas1 , b o m ca. 1600 at County Angus, Scotland, near the River Dee, died at County Angus; married July 1620 Agnes Speid, born 1604, died 1635.

2. i. Agnes Deas, born 27 march 1621. 3. ii. Richard Deas, born 1626.

+4. iii. Thomas Deas, born 7 July 1632; married Janet Thomson.

+4. Thomas Deas2, born 7 July 1632 at Brachin, County Angus, Scotland; married ca. 1653 Janet Thomson, born 1636.

+5 . i. Andrew Deas, born 1654, died after 1676; married Margaret Davidson. 6. ii. James Deas, born 1657, died after 1698; married Catherine Thomson.

+5. Andrew Deas3 , born 1654 at Aberdeen, Scotland near the Dee River, died after 1676; married 11 February 1670 at Abbotshail, County Fife, Scotland, Margaret Davidson, born ca. 1656.

7. i. Robert Deas, born 1670; married Marjory Thomson. 8. ii. John Deas, born February 1671. 9. iii. William Deas, born December 1671.

10. iv. James Deas, born 8 march 1673; married Christiana Brown. 11. v. Helen Deas, born 1674.

+ 12. vi. Emanuel Deas (Dees), born 1675, died 1723; married Ruth Potts. 13. vii. Andrew Deas, born 1678; married Sarah Allison.

+ 12. Emanuel Dees4, born 1675 at Monikie, County Angus, Scodand, died ca. March/April 1723 at Isle of Wight County, Virginia; married Ruth Potts, born 1679 England. Emanuel was a transportee in 1696 in a grant to Thomas Nesham in James City County, Virginia.

14. i. Emanuel Dees, II, born 1705, died 1770; married Elizabeth Pace. 15. ii. William Dees, born 1706, died 1755, married Alary Braswell.

178 This entire Dees line comes from Ernie and Ginger Wentrcek, P. O. Box 1652, Bryan, Texas. All data should be verified by separate sources.

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+ 16. iii. John Robert Decs, born 1710, died 1789; married Mary Bryan. 17. iv. Daniel Dees, born 1715, died 1750. 18. v. James Decs, born 1720, died 1790; married Susannah.

+ 16. [ohn Robert Dees5, born 1710 at James City County, Virginia, died 1789 at Johnson County, North Carolina; married ca. 1733 at Johnson County Alary Bryan, born 1710 at Johnson County, North Carolina.

i. John Robert Decs, born 1738, died 1795. ii. Joel Dees, born 14 April 1749, died 28 March 1846; married Tabithajernigan. iii. Shadrack Dees, born 1753, died 1797; married grace Barefoot. iv. Nathan Decs, born 1757. v. Boiling Dees, born 1760, died at Edgefield District, South Carolina; married Ann Read ford.

I') +20

21 22 23

+ 20. Joel Dees'', born 14 April 1749 at Johnson County, North Carolina, died 28 Alarch 1846 at Baldwin County, Alabama; married ca. 1789 at Edgefield District, South Carolina Tabitha Jernigan, born 1750. Joel Dees enlisted in the North Carolina Militia in 1776. He served under General Francis Marion at Brown Marsh, North Carolina in 1781, and fought in the Battle of Guilford Courthouse on 15 Alarch 1781. He was at Yorktown when Cornwallis surrendered on 19 October 1781.

24. i. Joel Dees, born 1790, died 1850; married Susan Williams. 25. ii. James L. Decs, born 1792, died 7 July 1866.

+27. iii. Nancy Dees, born 1794 at Johnson County, Nor th Carolina, died after 1860 in Conecuh County, Alabama,; married in 1810 At Warren County, Georgia, James Kendrick Tomlinson.

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RIPLEY A N D EAKIN LINES3 7 9

The Ripley and Eakin lines are linked to my direct lineage through Octavia Ripley. O n 8 June 1870, in Marlin, Falls County, Texas, William Henry Jones married Octavia Ripley, from Craig County, Virginia, the daughter of Hilleary Ripley and Rebecca Eakin of Craig County. In a depart from format, I have included memories of a family trip to Craig County by Ripley/Eakin descendant, and the author's first cousin, Alartha Hartzog. This is followed by the family lineages.

"Ripley Memories," by Alartha Hartzog October 2009

My grandmother's mother, Octavia Ripley Jones, had lived through the Civil War in a small settled area north of Roanoke, Craig County, near the county seat, New Castle, Virginia. The area was spared the actual battles until in 1864 David Hunter cut a swath through the area, but it lost its share of young men and suffered the hardships of the whole South. Octavia's sister, Irene, had come to Texas with her husband John Watkins several years before the war. Her brother Paul Ripley was already in Waco, clerking in a mercantile store. When the war broke out, Paul joined Hood's Texas Brigade, and their brother Napoleon (Poly) Newton Ripley came down to Texas to sign up with him in the 4 th Texas Infantry. They both survived the war and Paul was at Appomattox Courthouse at the end of the war. Poly returned to Virginia and Paul to Waco. Irene Ripley's husband, John Watkins, also joined a Texas unit, the 5th Texas Cavalry, and survived the war. Octavia, the youngest of a large family, was sent to Texas after the war to be with her sister Irene. There she met and married the widowed Confederate soldier, Billy Jones. They had two children, my grandmother, Miss Irma, and her sister, Anna. The family maintained very close ties with Craig County well into the 20th Century, with a tradition of frequent trips back to Virginia. The two daughters of Billy Jones and Octavia Ripley Jones were sent to Hollins College in the 1890s. Octavia and her sister Irene Ripley had attended Alethodist schools in the area - identified in letters as being in Blacksburg, Christiansburg, and Fincastle - during the 1850s. Correspondence exists from the early 1850s between John Watkins and Irene Ripley while she is away at school 'over the mountain,' and there is a letter from Rebecca Ripley, their mother, after the War

379 Except as noted, the source for all Ripley ancestor data is, "The Ripley Family Odyssey," by Robert W. Ripley, privately published, 1995.

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discussing how to pay education bills. While the girls apparently did not attend I lollins, which was initially established in 1842 as Valley Union Seminary and then became Hollins in 1852, they did receive an education at schools nearby and at a time when young women were not always educated. Octavia Ripley and Bilh' Jones continued this tradition of education for their daughters in the 1890s. During the school term, Octavia and her husband lived in Roanoke near the school in a house that would become known as 'the Texas Cottage.' Octavia Ripley Jones would have been delighted to be so near her relatives in Craig County

The summer I spent at my grandmother's house, 1947 or 1948, my grandmother and my Aunt Octavia Rush decided to take a tip to Virginia to visit Hollins in Roanoke as a possible college for my cousin, Irene Rush. My grandmother, my Aunt driving a new 1947 Plymouth, two 7/8-year olds (myself and my cousin Charles), and a lovesick teenager (Irene), sitting in the back seat. What a brave journey. I don't remember much about the trip, but a few things stand out in my mind.

Miss Irma led us to Hollins, the site of her schooling in the 1890s and the hoped-for destination of the youngest Irene, who said she would not like the school when she was sent there because it was full of 'all those rich girls.' I don't remember Hollins, but 1 have a furtive, but resilient memory of walking behind Miss Irma up a mountain path in Virginia, and she stooping to pick a bunch of wild strawberries for us as she must have often done as a girl visiting the Ripleys and Eakins with her mother, Octavia Ripley Jones. When we got to where the Ripley and Eakin cousins lived in Craig Count)', Charles says he remembers being shown bullet holes in the house walls where the Yankees fired their guns. All I remember is the grownups sitting on chairs out doors talking to one another while we kids tumbled down soft green slopes.

The Ripley Lineage:

1. James Ripley', born ca 1765 in Downs County, Ireland, died March 1807 in Botetourt County, Virginia; married 8 August 1787 in Botetourt County, Virginia Anna West, born 19 February 1764 in Montgomery County, Maryland, died 26 Alarch 1803 in Botetourt County.

2. i. Benjamin Ripley, born 1788 in Botetourt County, Virginia, died 1839 in Jackson County, Illinois; married 17 March 1811 Susannah C. Pier.

3. ii. Verlinda Ripley, born 30 November 1791 in Botetourt County, Virginia, died 4 Alarch 1856 in Jackson County, Illinois; married 24 June 1816 William Eakin.

4. iii. James Ripley, born 1793 in Botetourt County, Virginia, died after 1870; married 1 March 1815 in Botetourt County, Virginia, Polly Henry.

5. iv. Alcey Hilleary Ripley, born 1 January 1797 in Botetourt County, Virginia, died 3 April 1878 in St. Clair County, Illinois; married (1)19 April 1820, John B. Robinson, (2) 25 October 1825, John B. Murray.

6. v. William Ripley, born 1798 in Botetourt County, Virginia, died 1843 in St. Clair County, Illinois; married 19 May 1820 Elizabeth Ann Murray.

7. vi. George P. Ripley, born 1799 in Bedford County, Virginia, died 1855 in Madison

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County, Illinois; married 2 December 1830 in St. Clair County, Illinois, Alartha Pierce Randle.

+8. vii. Hilleary Ripley, born 16 September 1801 in Bedford County, Virginia, died 3 August 1864 in Craig County, Virginia; married 4 January 1827 in Virginia Rebecca Eakin.

+8. Hilleary Ripley2, born 16 September 1801 in Bedford County, Virginia, died 3 August 1864 in Newcastle District, Craig County, Virginia; married 4 January 1827 in Virginia Rebecca Eakin, born 14 Alarch 1803 in Botetourt County, Virginia, died 6 Alarch 1886.

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9. i. Hilleary Young Ripley, born 8 September 1829 in Craig County, Virginia, died 16 June 1874 in Craig County; married 2 December 1852 Harriet Amanda Eakin, born 1833, died 1902.

10. ii. James Ealdn Ripley, born in Craig County, Virginia, died 1894 in Bartow, Florida. 11. iii. Irene Ripley, born in Craig County, Virginia, 20 November 1832, died 19 January

1886 in Bartow, Florida; married 16 January 1855 John W. Watkins, born 15 January 1834, died 22 November 1890.

12. iv. Alildred Ripley, bom in Craig County, Virginia,, 14 February 1834, died 1898 in Alarlin, Falls County, Texas; married (1) in 1887 John W. Watkins, (2) Samuel Ham.

13. v. Paul Alilton Ripley, born in Craig County, Virginia, 25 December 1836, died 24 March 1924 in Tacoma, Washington; married 3 January 1867 in Virginia, Emma Isabella Watkins, born 29 August 1841, died 1927.

14. vi. Anna West Ripley, born in Craig County, Virginia, 17 November 1838, died 12 February 1921; married 10 Alarch 1866 Charles Robert Price, died 1915.

15. vii. Thomas Jefferson Ripley, born in Craig County, Virginia, 17 November 1840, died 26 December 1861.

16. viii. Napoleon Newton Ripley, born in Craig County, Virginia,, 4 September 1843, died I October 1910 in Newcastle, Craig County; married 27 April 1880 Virginia Price.

+ 17. ix. Octavia Ripley, born in Craig County, Virginia, 7 February 1847, died 8 February 1938 in Alarlin, Falls County, Texas; married in 1870 William H.Jones.

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The I '/akin Lineage:

1. William Eakin1, probably born in Ireland, died ca. 1766 in Nockamixon County, Pennsylvania married Ishabel Morrison.380

2. i. Thomas Eakin. 3. ii. Joseph Eakin. 4. iii. Redmon Eakin, KIA Revolutionary War. 5. iv. William Eakin.

+6. v. Nathan Eakin, born at sea 20 September 1757, died 18 September 1823, Botetourt County, Virginia; married 2 June 1785 Susanna Preston, born ca 1769/1770, died after 1834. '

7. vi. Samuel Eakin. 8. vii. Robert F.akin. 9. viii. Jean Eakin.

10. ix. Ishabel F_akin.

6. Nathan Eakin2, born aboard ship to America on 20 September 1757, died 18 September 1823, Botetourt County, Virginia; married 2 June 1785 in Botetourt County Susanna Preston, born ca 1769/1770 in Bedford County, Virginia, died after 1834 in Botetourt County.381 He was a soldier in the /American Revolution,382

1 1. i. Mary Eakin, born 16 April 1786; married David Price. 12. ii. Thomas Eakin, born 1787, died ca. 1861/1862; married Mary. 13. iii. William Eakin, born 8 November 1789, died 4 July 1838 in Jackson County, Illinois;

married 24 June 1816 in Botetourt County, Virginia, Veriinda Hilleary Ripley, born 30 November 1791 in Botetourt County, Virginia, died 4 Alarch 1856 in Jackson County, Illinois.

14. iv. Isabella Eakin, born 1791, died 1864; married in 1816 Samuel (Soloman) Broiles. 15. v. Nancy (Agnes) Eakin, born 1793; married William Walker. 16. vi. Nathan Eakin, born 1795, died 1850 in Alonroe County, West Virginia; married Gilley

I lawkins. 17. vii. Samuel Eakin, born 1797, died ca. 1841/1842; married Eleanor Preston. 18. viii. Preston Eakin, born 1798, died 1834. 19. ix. Stephan Eakin, born 1701, died 1875; married in 1826 Martha Walker.

+20. x. Rebecca M. Eakin, born 14 March 1803 in Botetourt County, Virginia, died 6 Alarch j ' CD >

1886 in Craig County, Virginia; married 4 January 1827 Hilleary Ripley, born 16 September 1801 in Bedford County, Virginia, died 3 August 1864 in Newcastle District, Craig Count)-, Virginia.

21. xi. Susanna Eakin, born 1805, died ca 1869/1870 in Jackson County, Illinois; married (1)

Data provided by Martha Hartzog, Austin, Texas. William Eakin's will dated 1766, Nockamixon County, Pennsylvania Will # 1 196, mentions wife, daughters and sons. Note that sons Redmon and Nathan are listed as DAR Patriots, Nathan being proved by descendant Martha Hartzog. DAR #778171 Martha Ann Hartzog. Wl List naming the children of Nathan and Susanna Eakin and their birth years found in the William H.Jones Bible, and handwriting identified as that of Octavia Ripley [ones. List in possession of author. 382 DAR #778171 Martha Ann Hartzog

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in 1824 George Walker who died ca 1835/1836, and (2) in 1837 Barkley Nutter who died ca 1860.

22. xii. Joseph Eakin, born 1807; married in 1831 Alartha Ann Hawkins. 23. xiii. John J. Eakin, born 1811, killed by Indians in Runnels County, Texas about 1838.

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WEST A N D HILLEARY LINES 3 8 3

The Ripley and Eakin lines are linked to my direct lineage through Octavia Ripley. On 8 June 1870, in Marlin, Falls County, Texas, William Henry Jones married Octavia Ripley, from Craig County, Virginia, the daughter of Hilleary Ripley and Rebecca Eakin of Craig County. The father of Hilleary was James Ripley, born ca 1765 in Downs County, Ireland, died March 1807 in Botetourt County, Virginia. He married 8 August 1787 in Botetourt County, Virginia, Anna West. Anna's mother was Verlinda Hilleary and her father Benjamin West.

The West lineage: 384

1. Joseph West1, born ca. 1670 in Maryland, died 23 November 1731, Prince Georges County, Maryland; married in Alarch 1694 Rebecca Mears, born 1764 Prince Georges County, Alaryland.

2. i. William West, born 25 September 1695 in Prince Georges County, Maryland, died 1750; married Ester Duvall.

3. ii. Mary West, born ca. 1703; married Joseph Kelly. + 4. iii. John West, born ca. 1705 died ca. 1766; married Francis Osbourne. 5. iv. Benjamin West, born ca. 1707; married Susanna Stockett.

+4. John West2, born ca. 1705 died ca.1766; married Francis Osbourne, born ca. 1709, died before 1769.

6. i. Joseph West (Rev War soldier). 7. ii. William West (Rev War soldier). 8. iii. Basil West; married Phebe (Rev War soldier).

+9. iv. Benjamin West, born 17 February 1729, Alontgomery County, Maryland, died 1820, St. Clair County, Illinois; married in 1760, Verlinda Hilleary. (Rev War soldier)

10. v . John West, born ca. 1730, died ca, 1791; married Rachel Perry, died 1819 in Kentucky. 11. vi. Osbourne West, born ca. 1732; married 19 November 1778 Dorcas Trail (Rev War

soldier).

+9. Benjamin West3, born 17 February 1729 in Montgomery County, Maryland, died 1820, St. Clair

383 Except as noted, the source for all West and Hilleary ancestor data is, "The Ripley Family Odyssey," by Robert W. Ripley, privately published, 1995. 384 Yhe Maryland Wests come from ancient houses dating back to William the Conqueror and other royals of Europe. See "Americans of Gentle Birth, Volume 1," by Mrs. H. D. Pittman, Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore, 1970, pages 69,336,337.

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County, Illinois; married in 1760 at Hagerstown, Frederick County, Maryland, Verlinda Hilleary, born 5 March 1735 in Hagerstown, died Ca. 1824/1825 in St. Clair County, Illinois. Benjamin West was on the staff of General George Washington during the Revolutionary War.

12. i. Henry Hilleary West.383

+ 13. ii. Anna West, born 19 February 1764 in Alontgomery County, Maryland, died 26 March 1803 in Botetourt County, Virginia; married 8 August 1787 in Botetourt County, James Ripley.

14. iii. Hilleary West, born 12 October 1765. 15. iv. Verlinda West. 16. v. Tilghman West, born 20 September 1773 in Alontgomery County, Maryland, died 7

July 1851, St. Clair County, Illinois; married Mary Ann Mitchell. 17. vi. Washington West, born 19 February 1778 in Alontgomery County, Maryland, died 9

September 1863 in St. Clair County, Illinois; married Francis Mitchell. 18. vii. Francis West, died ca. 1820 in St. Clair County, Illinois. 19. viii. Sarah West, died ca. 1820 in St. Clair County, Illinois.

16. Tilghman West' , born 20 September 1773 in Montgomery County, Maryland, died 7 July 1851, St. Clair County, Illinois; married Mary Ann Mitchell.

20. i. Ann M. West, born 5 March 1804, died 1836, married Richard Randall. 21. it. Saria V. West, born 12 December 1805. 22. iii. Sarah H. West, born 22 March 1807; married 10 October William P. McKee. 23. iv. Mary M. West, born 23 January 1809; married 30 September 1820 Rev. John Hogan. 24. v. Henry H. West, born 1 November 1810; married 1837 Aliss White. 25. vi. Benjamin J. West, born 23 August 1812; married 7 June 1836 to Luisa. 26. vii. Edward M. West, born 2 May 1814,; married Julia Atwater. 27. viii. Elizabeth F. West, born 17 May 1818. 28. ix. Francis E. West, born 8 November 1819. 29. x. Tilghman West, born 4 April 1821. 30. xi. Susan V. West, born 16 December 1824; married Dr. J. N. Banks. 31. xii. Samuel West, born 1 November 1828.

17. Washington West4, born 19 February 1778 in Montgomery County, Maryland, died 9 September 1863 in St. Clair County, Illinois; married Francis Mitchell, born 27 February 1791, died 24 August 1819.

32. i. Edward William West, born 20 September 1815, died 29 March 1906; married (1) Armanda Paul, (2) Armanda Gregory.

33. ii. Benjamin West, born 1816, died 9 February 1902; married Catherine Hiel. 34. iii. Francis West, born 1818; married 1835 John Flanagan.

s" Children of Benjamin and Verlinda West also mentioned in "Americans of Gentle Birth, Volume 2," by Mrs. H. D. Pittman, Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore, 1970, page 65.

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The Hilleary lineage:386

1. Thomas Hilleary1, born 1616 in England, came to Maryland in 1639, died February 1697, Prince Georges County, Maryland; married (1) unknown, and (2) in 1684 Eleanor Sprigg, born 1660, died 22 November 1741.

Thomas and wife (1) children: 2. i. Thomas Hilleary. 3. i i john Hilleary. 4. iii. Mary Hilleary married Benjamin Berry. 5. iv. Elizabeth Hilleary married Robert Lyles. 6. v. Frances Hilleary married Thomas Wilson. 7. vi. Eleanor Hilleary married (1) Baruch Williams and (2) John Pratt.

Thomas and Eleanor's child: +8. vii. Thomas Hilleary, Jr., born 1686, died 1728.

8. Thomas Hilleary, Jr.2, born 1686, died 1728; married in 1706 Eleanor Young. +9. i. Thomas Hilleary, born 1707; married 9 November 1727 Sarah Odell. 10. ii. John Hilleary; married 18 December 1735 Margaret King. 11. iii. William Hilleary; married in 1735 Margaret Crabb. 12. iv. Henry Hilleary, born 15 February 1726; married 1 December 1751 Cassandra

Magruder. He was a Rev War soldier. 13. v. Sarah Hilleary. 14. vi. Elizabeth Hilleary.

I 9. Thomas Hilleary3, born 1707; married 9 November 1727 Sarah Odell, born 1709, died 1754. 15. i. Eleanor Hilleary, born 20 September 1728, died 1824. 16. ii. Thomas Hilleary, born February 1730, died 1730. 17. iii. Thomas Hilleary, born 9 August 1731. 18. iv. Sarah Hilleary, born 10 November 1732, died 17January 1807; married Joseph West.

+ 19. v. Verlinda Hilleary, born 5 March 1735 in Hagerstown, died Ca. 1824/1825 in St. Clair County, Illinois; married in 1760 Benjamin West born 17 February 1729 in Montgomery County, Alaryland, died 1820, St. Clair County, Illinois.

11. William Hilleary3; married in 1735 Margaret Crabb. 20. i. Sarah Hilleary. 21. ii. Margaret Hilleary. 22. iii. Eleanor Hilleary. 23. iv. Thomas Wright Hilleary. 24. v. Ralph Hilleary. 25. vi. Jeremiah Hilleary. 26. vii. John Hilleary.

386 Robert Ripley data on Hilleary line supplemented by Bowie, Effte Gwynn, "Across The Years In Prince George's County, published by Garrett and Massie, Richmond, Virginia, 1947, pages 456-469.

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12. Henry Hilleary3, born 15 February 1726; married 1 December 1751 Cassandra Alagruder. He was a Revolutionary War soldier.

27. i. Walter Hilleary, born 1752, died 1824; married Elizabeth Magruder. 28. ii. John Hilleary; married Verlinda Williams. 29. iii. Nathan Hilleary. 30. iv. Dennis Hilleary, born 1755. 31. v. George Hilleary, born 1755, died 1815; married Rebecca Alagruder. 32. vi. Sarah Hilleary married Edward Wheeler. 33. vii. Susanna Hilleary, born 1758; married Bennett Gwynn. 34. viii. Eleanor Hilleary, born 1758; married Thomas Woodward. 35. ix, Cassandra Hilleary, born ca. 1759, married Richard Beall. 36. x. Henry Hilleary. 37. xi. Rebecca Hilleary, born February 1761; married Stephen Belt. 38. xii. Ann Hilleary; married Samuel Wheeler. 39. xiii. Elizabeth Hilleary, born January 1763; married James Waring.

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AMERICAN MILTARY ANCESTORS

American Revolution

John Jones was probably born about 1760, died 1833/1834, Caroline County, Virginia. John Jones probably fought in the American Revolution as a Captain of the Caroline County Militia.387

Nathan Eakin, died 18 September 1823, Signed oath of allegiance in Pennsylvania in 1777. Received land grant in Botetourt Co. VA in 1783. Submitted to Virginia Publick Claims for 1 cart. DAR #778171 Alartha Ann Hartzog claimed ancestor.

Benjamin West, born 1729, Montgomery County, Maryland, died 1820, St. Clair County, Illinois, was an aide on General Washington's staff.388

Captain James Kendrick served in the American Revolution and for his services received a land grant in Georgia.389

Joel Dees enlisted in the North Carolina Militia in 1776. He served under General Francis Marion at Brown Marsh, North Carolina in 1781, and fought in the Battle of Guilford Courthouse on 15 Alarch 1781. He was at Yorktown when Cornwallis surrendered on 19 October 1781.390

387 Gwathmey, John H., "Historical Register of Virginians In The Revolution, Soldiers, Sailors, Marines, 1775-1783," The Dietz Press, Richmond, Virginia, 1938, page 437 388 DAR application, approved by the National Board of the DAR, 14 April 1951. Americans of Gentle Birth by Mrs. II. D. Pittman (Athens GA: Iberian Pub. Co.), pp. 70-71; wills of Benjamin and Verlinda; DAR #398811 Frances Flanagan Larralde for Benjamin's birth. 389 Ernie and Ginger Wentrcek, P. O. Box 1652, Bryan, Texas. 3911 Ibid. Wentrcek

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Susan Tomlinson Jones (1811-1862) wife of Churchill Jones

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Hilleary Ripley (1801-1864) father of Octavia Ripley Jones

(Clockwise L-R) Octavia Ripley Jones (1848-1938), Irene Irma Jones (1873-1954), William H . J o n e s

(1842-1912), Anna Paul Jones (1883-1950)

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William H. Jones (1842-1912)

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Octavia Ripley Jones (1848-1938)

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Irene Irma Jones (1873-1954)

Irene Irma Jones