•

•

•

•

•

•

•

• I

•

•

Local History & Genealogical Society COOPll.ATINO WITH THI DALLAS PUILIC LlllAIT

VOLUM[ 111 . Mn 1957

TABLE OF COOENTS

MEMBERSHI P ROSTER loCAL Hr STORY AND GENEALOGI CAL Soc1 ETY

OuR TRI P TO TEXAS IN 1849 BY RACHEL H. LucE

INDEXES PERTAINING TO GENEALOGICAL MATERIAL IN THE DALLAS PUBLIC LI BRARY

NORTH CAROLINA DEEDS BY JOHN PLATH GREEN

THE TIMES OF loNG AGo (BARREN Co., KY. ) BY FRANKLIN GOR IN

AEQUESTS FOR INFORMATION

THE OR I Gl N OF SOME OF THE DALLAS STREET NAMES BY MRs. GEORGE F. CARLI SLE

RECENT Gr ns TO THE GENEALOGI CAL DEPARTMENT -DALLAS PuBLI o L1 BRARY

LOCAL Hl STORY At-V GEt-EALOOICAL SOCICTY DALLAS, TEXAS

INSIDE FRONT COVER

PAGE 1

PAGE 5

PAGE 8

PAGE 11

PAGE 15

PAGE 16

INSIDE BACK COVER

PRES •• " ••• ". JOHN PLATH GREEN V 1 OE PREs ••••• JOHN D. THORNTON V1 CE PRES ••••• CHARLES L. SYRON VICE PRES ••••• MRS. W. 0. ALVIS D 1RECTOR •••••• MRs. GEORGE P. CARLlsLE D l RECTOR" •• " MRS. MARGARET B. PRATT

SEc ••••••••••• llo11s. w. GRAEME Dr xoN

TREAS." •••• " MRs. c. lEsLIE BIRT DIREOTOR •••••• MARGARET SORUGGS CARRUTH DIRECTOR •••••• MRs. Lr LLI AN SCHWERTZ

Eo1roR1 MRs. V. N. BuRGEss

MEMBERSHIP ROSTER • Adams , Mrs • Chas • D. 4005 Glenwick r:;;ne LA 1- 9180 Alvis , Mrs . W. 0 , 4133 Stanhope LA 8-9257 Anthony , Mrs . John W. 1622 Nolte Drive WH 6-3633 Barrett , Mrs . Linnie W. 3337 Blackburn LA 1- 4706 Baker, Mrs. L. W, 4221 Greenbrier EM 8- 4923 • Birt , Mrs . c. Leslie 3401 Bryn Mawr EM 1- 4751 Boon, Mrs . John D. 3648 Haynie LA 1--0989 Br ewer , Mrs . George W. 4301 Edmondson LA 8-6612 Bruton, Miss Ada 8040 Bruton Drive EV 1- 1080 Burgess, V. N. 3557 Centenary Drive EM 3- 3162 Burress, Mrs . Walter M. P. o. Box 38, Tyler, Texas

~ Carlisle, Mrs . George F. 5544 Vickery Blvd , TA 3- 7825 Carruth , Mrs . Margaret S . 3715 Turtle Creek LA 1-1543 Gaven, Mrs . William 4129 University Blvd . LA 1- 2703 Chamber s, Mrs , W. B. Drawer 88, Sanger, Texas Grane , Mrs . Ho,·1ard H. llOl N, Mallard St " Pales tine, Texas Coleman , Mrs . Y. B. 6422 Vickery Blvd . TA 7-6857 • Collins, Carr P" Jr . Fidelity Union Life Bldg . RI 1- 1921 Council , Mrs . Frank 1710 Small St .

Grand Prairie, Texas AN 2-1736 Dawley , Mrs . J , w" Jr . 3517 Princeton LA 8-7276 Dixon, Mrs . W. Graeme 3612 Asbury LA 8-1433 Fife , Miss Maggie May 5335 Merrimac TA 3-4824 • Ford , Mrs. Gus . L. 6725 Golf Drive LA 1-2600 Garlington, Miss Marie 42'Yt Normandy LA 6-5585 Green, John Plath 1625 Kirby Bldg , RI 7-4851 Hanley , Mrs . R. D. 4025 Southwestern EM 1-4212 Hayley, C. C. 708 W, lOth St , Wll 6- 2826 Hilterbrand , Mrs . Robt. c. 2530 Garapan Dr . l1H 2-1312 • Harrison, Hastings 1027 National City Bldg . RI 1- 5694 Holland, Mrs . W, E. 14401 Pres ton Road AD 9-2125 Hood , Mrs . M. M. 4219 Junius TA 3-<>432 Hudspeth, Mrs . I.eta S . 3ll7 Live Oak St . TA 3-3785 Johnston, Miss Ava Rt . 5, Box 598 CH 7- 2270 Jones, Mrs. Henry o. , Sr . 3210 Oliver St . LA 8- 5493 • Kearney, Mrs . R. rr. 4937 Swiss Ave , TA 4-0641 Kucera, Mrs. A. Edgar 4317 Westway LA 1-4882 Langley, Mrs. 'li . G. 5001 Drexel Drive LA 8-6442 Laughter, Miss Vernon 3621 Southwestern EM 1- 0598 Lockett, Mrs . P. C. 4624 Southern FL 1-1429 Looney, Mrs . Olas. 4328 Lorraine LA 1-4328 • Lutrell, Mrs . Jas . D. P, O. Box 8737 WH 2- 3329 Maness, Mrs . Felix H. 4 702 Linds ley TA 3-7813 McCracken, Mrs . Jos . H" Sr . 4401 Highland Drive LA 1- 9496 McDonald, Mrs . John C. 3705 Normandy LA 8-1791 Miller, Miss Ada 4810 Alan Dale FL 2-3041 Mitchell, George C" Sr . 8400 San Fernando Way DA 1- 1503 • Morris, Mrs . Harry Joseph 4118 Shenandoah LA 1-5844 Outlaw, Mrs. Rex Co . 4317 Hanover EM l-2'Yt6 Owen , Mrs. J . P. 3525 Bryn Mawr m 1- 5259 Padgitt, Mrs . Sullivan 8539 San Fernando DA 1-2842 Peoples, Mrs . H. L. 5440 Vanderbil t TA 7-6166 Powell , George C, 919 Mercantile Bank Bldg . RI 7-8788 • Pratt , Mrs . Margaret B. Dallas Public Library RI 1-9071 Prestridge, Mrs . Arthur 3728 Park Lane FL 7-7792

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

.. •

•

MEMBERSHIP ROSTER,CONTINUEO

Ray , John lirtbur Riser , Mrs . J . C • Roggenbrod , Mrs . Roland Row, Mrs , Edna Savage, Wallace Schwertz , Mrs . Lillian Sellingsloh, Mrs . D. R, Smith , Mrs . Wallace M. Stanley, Miss Allie M. Stover, Mrs . Elizabeth Syren, Chas . L. Taylor , Mrs . Emma Crutcher Thomas, Mrs . Cullan F. ' Thomas , Miss Frances Thor nton, John D. Tomlin, Mrs . Marie Turner , Mrs . Maurice C. \i'alker , Dee Brown Walk.er , Mrs . Dee Brown Walk er , Miss Mary Ethel 17ard , Mrs . Lola Blair Vlilkerson, Miss Mabel Young , Mrs . Bentley Zehner, Mrs. IT . C.

Box 103, llbitewrigbt, Texas 5441 Willis Ave , 5614 Lindell 4921 Li ve Oek 2220 Republic Nat 1 l Bk . Bl dg . 438 Mayrant Drive

4167 Par k Lane 925 S. Brighton

3323 Mocki ngbird Lane 3430 McFarlin 3502 Lindenwood 1025 N. Bishop 6601 Hunters Gl en Road 66o6 Tremont 3209 Mockingbird Lane 3308 Rosedal e 3820 Gillon 5918 Vanderbilt 5918 Vanderbilt 4420 llest11ay 2045 Pleasant Drive 423t Neches 5007 Horseshoe Trail 114 ll. Pembroke

TA J-7784 TA 7- 2933 TA J-3713 RI l - 3633 17H 6-7583 FL 2:-3479 Wll 2:-4016 u 6-3228 LA l - 3256 LA l-5841 1111 6-9292 LA l - 5822 T, l - 5723 u. 8-2994 LA 8-6704 LA l -1854 TA 6-2419 T.\ 6-2419 LA 8-8280 EX l - 3642 Wll 2:-9246 FL 2:-2o62 WH l-5285

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

-· •

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

.. •

•

"OLR TA I P TO TEXAS IN 1849"

(WARRI CK COUNTY. INDIANA TO l.oCKHART, TEXAS)

Bv THE GREAT-GRANDMOTHER OF MR. JOHN EMBREE FRENCH 4628 WELDON

IN THE YEAR 1849, QUITE A NUMBER OF CITIZENS OF WARRICK COUNTY, INDIANA, MADE UP THEIR MINDS TO MOVE TO TEXAS AND AS MY fATHER-IN-LAW, ABNER LucE, SR., HAD

VI SITED TEXAS TWI CE TO LOOK OVER THE COUNTRY TO SEE I f IT WOULD DO TO MOVE ro; or COURSE THEY ALL CAME TO HJM, AND AS HE WAS DELIGHTED WITH THE COUNTRY THEY ALL SOLD

OUT TO COME IN THAT YEAR• THERE WAS A LONG TRAi N Of WAGON$ STARTED WI TH BANNERS

FOR TEXAS •

My FATHER-IN-LAW COULD NOT GET Off UNTI L LATER AND WAS COMING BY WATER. THE LEADERS OF THI S CROWD ALL AGREED TO MEET AT SEGUI N, TEXAS. THEY ALL BEGGED FATHER LUCE TO SEND ALL THE LADY FOLKS W I TH THEM SUT HE WOULD NOT AGREE TO IT AND

HE REGRETTED VERY MUCH BHORE WE ALL GOT HERE •

ON THE FIRST OF 0cTOBER, 1849, WE ALL PUSHED OUT FROM NEWBURG, INDIANA, ON THE OH I 0 Al VER • THERE WERE NO EM I GRANTS IN THE CROWD, SUT FATHER luCE AND Hl S FAMi LY CONSI STED OF Hl S OLDEST SON, MATTHEW R. AND SAM AND FRANK AND DAVID ALL GROWN AND DAFA TO, 12 YEARS OLD, AND THE LADY FOLKS WAS MYSELF AND MOTHER-IN-LAW

AND Miss ELIZABETH AND Miss ARIMINTA LUCEo As FATHER HAD THREE WHAT WAS CALLED FLAT BOATS, HE HIRED HANDS TO COME WITH US. We HAD ONE COLORED SERVANT ALONG, AND I HAD A BASE, WHO IS NOW MRS. A.A. ELLISON, OF SAN ANTONIO. SHE AND MYSELf ARE THE ONLY LIVING ONES Of OUR CROWD THAT LEFT FOR TEXAS.

FATHER AND SONS HAD ONE BOAT LOAD OF LI VE STOCK AND WHI LE HE RUN DOWN TO NEW ORLEANS TO SELL IT, HE RENTED A flELD TO TURN HIS HORSES IN AND LEfT US ATA PLACE CALLED GAINs?LAHDING, SEVERAL Ml LES BELOW THE MOUTH OF RED R1vrn. HE HAD BOUGHT US THE rJ NEST HORSES HE COULD Fl ND, NEAR ONE HUNDRED HEAD, ON WH I CH HE LOST,

THINKING HE WOUlD ri LL THIS COUNTRY WITH fl NE HORSES, BUT THE PEOPLE PREfERRED

THEIR TEXAS PONIES, AND THERE WAS NO SALE FOR F'INE HORSES.

FATHER LUCE HAD MADE THE TOWN OF NEWBURG, iNDIANA IN EARLY TIMES. HE SETTLED THERE AND THE PLACE WAS CALLED SPRINKLESBURG AND FATHER LAID OFF A NEW TOWN AND CAL LED IT NEWBURG AND HAD BEEN A LEADI NG Cl TI ZEN OF THAT P LACE AND WHEN THE

NEWS WENT OUT WE WERE GOING TO START FOR TEXAS, MANY WAS THE FAIEND OR KINSFOLK TO SEE US OFF. I THINK EVERYONE NEAR THERE WAS ON THE BANK OF THE OHIO RIVER TO WAVE US A FAREWELL. WE COULD SEE FOR THREE Ml LES AND THEN THE RI VEA MADE A TURN AND

THEY WERE STILL STANDING THERE. IT LOOKED LIKE A WHITE CLOUD WAVING A LAST FARE-WELL •

WE HAD A PLEASANT TRIP DOWN THE OHIO RIVER AND DOWN THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER• SOMET I MES STEAMBOATS WHO KNEW WHO WE WERE ,WOULD COME NEAR TO WAVE US GOOD•BY •

WELL, AS I REMARKED BEfORE, WE STOPPED AT GAINS? LANDING, THERE THEY PAID OFF 3 CAPTAIN$ $100.00 A PIECE AND THEY TOOK A STEAMBOIU AND WENT BACK. FATHER LUCE TOOK TWO HANDS AND DAVID AND WENT ON DOWN, WITH THE STOCK BOAT AND WE LI VED IN OUR BOAT FOR Sl X WEEKSo THERE WERE RI CH PEOPLE THERE, AND THE OLD PLANTERS WERE ACQUAINTED WITH FATHER AND HE TOLD THEM HE LEFT US IN THEIR CARE AND WE CERTAINLY HAD A GAY TIME. I SAW MORE CHAMPAGNE DRANK THAN I EVER DID BEFORE, MOST TOO MUCH.

SOME OF THE CAKES WERE BAKED IN NEW YORK. IVE WENT TOA PARTY NEARLY EVERY NIGHT AND THERE I DID MY LAST DANCING. My HUSBAND DID NOT DANCE, SUT HE WOULD HOLD THE

-1-

• BABE WHILE J WOULD DANCE. A LADY SAID, "I KNOW WHY YOUR HUSBAND IS 50 KINO TO YOU,

HE KNOWS HE IS TAKING YOU WHERE YOU WILL NEVER SEE ANYTHING SUT INDIANS,o • WELL, FATHER CAME BACK. HE TOOK THE HORSES AND PUT THEM BACK IN THE BOAT

AND THEN TI ED THE BOAT TO OUR BOAT, AND HI RED A STEAMBOAT TO TAKE US BACK TO THE

MOUTH or THE RED R1 VEA, AND AS rLAT BO ATS DO NOT RUN UPSTREAM, WHEN WE GOT TO THE

MOUTH or RED Rt VEA THEY TOOK THE HORSE S OUT Of THEIA BOAT' THAT Is TWO Of' THE HORSES. As THE RI VEA HAD A LEVEE ON BOTH SIDES, AND ON TOP Of THAT WAS A ROAD.

THEY Tl ED OUR BO AT AND THE HORSES SOAT FAST TOGETHER AND THEN Tl ED A ROPE TO THE •

BOATS AND PUT A HORSE ON THE LEVEE ON E ACH SIDE AND STARTED UPSTAEAM.

WE TRAVELED rAST , AS THE HORSES WERE WAN TING OUT AND THEY rAIRLY RAN. WE

WENT A LITTLE rASTER THAN WE LI KED, BUT THEY EACH ONE HAD A YOUNG MAN TO RIDE ON

HIS BACK TO KEEP HIM rROM GOING TOO FAST .

WELL, WE WENT THAT WAY UNTI L WE GOT TO BAYOU LArouRCHE. THEN THEY TOOK THE

HORSES OFF AND PUT THEM IN THEIR BOAT AGAIN. TIED THE HORSE 80AT BEHIND THE rAMILY

BOAT AND ALL THE MEN GOT ON TOP or THE BOATS WI TH SPIKES TO KEEP THE BOATS rROM

STRIKING SHORE AND STARTED DOWN THAT BAYOU LIKE A HURRICANE. IT WAS VERY HIGH AND

RUNNING SWIH. THE PEOPLE ALONG THE SHORE DID NOT KNOW WHAT IT MEANT. THE MEN

SAID, THOSE THAT WERE HIAED, THAT IT WAS THE MOST DANGEROUS PIECE or WORK THEY HAD

EVER SEEN.

WE GOT DOWN TO A Bl G PLANTATI ON IN loUI Sl ANA WHERE THERE WAS WHAT WAS

CALLED A TEXAS ROAD. FATHER AND SONS HAD PREPARED FOR OUR TRIP BY LAND• HAD FOUR

WAGONS THAT HAD NEVER BEEN PUT TOGETHER. THEY WERE ON TOP or THE BOATS. ONE

WAGON WAS A FOUR HORSE WAGON AND ONE BUGGY WI TH DOUBLE COVERS AND A NEW HARNESS.

EVERYTHI NG NEW RIGHT rROM THE SHOP. THEY TOOK THE MEN FOLKS QUI TE A WHI LE TO PUT

THE WAGONS TOGETHER, PUT UP THE BOWS AND PUT ON THE COVERS WH I CH WAS MADE IN

NEW YORK, NOT A DROP or RAI N COULD GET IN. THE PE OP LE SAID THEY HAD NEVER SEEN

SUCH A TURNOUT BEf'ORE.

IT WAS A WARM PRETTY AFTERNOON WH EN THEY GOT EVEAYTHING READY TO START,

THEY CONCLUDED TO GO OUT AS FAR AS THEY COULD THAT EVEN! NG TO SEE HOW THE HORSES

WOULD GO, AND THEY WENT Pl TCHI NG. THE FOUR-HORSE WAGON WAS THE BAGGAGE WAGON AND

H AD OUR TENT I N IT•

WE GOT OU T 8 OR 10 Ml LES, PUT UP OUR TENT rOR THE MEN TO SLEEP IN, THE LADY

FOLKS SLEPT IN THE WAGONS, AND WHEN WE GOT UP NEXT MORNING, IT WAS RAINING AND IT

RAI NED FOR 21 DAYS. I DO NOT ME AN ALL THE TIME, BUT SHOWERS EVERY DAY. WE WERE

IN THE PINE WOODS, HAD TO STAV IN THE BEATEN AOAD OR YOU WOULD MIRE UP. WE FINALLY

GOT TO THE SABi NE RIVER, AND EACH ONE WANTED TO BE Fl RST TO CROSS OVER TO SAY HE

WAS FIRST IN TEXAS,

THE SASINE WAS HIGH, ALL THE SOTTOMS COVERED WITH WATER AND WE HAD TO BE

FERRIED !), MILES, THAT IS WE GOT IN THE FERRY BOAT, AND WENT DOWN STREAM 5 MILES

AND THEN LANDED, AND AS THE FERRY BOAT COULD ON LY CARRY ONE SOAT ( WAGON ?) AT A

TIME AND IT TOOK A D AY FOR EACH BOAT, WE WERE THERE FOR SEVERAL DAYS, THE HORSES

HAD TO BE FERRIED OVER TOO , AND IT A LL TOOK TIME.

AFTER WE GOT OVER WE WERE IN A WI LDERNESS. A MAN CAME TO OUR TENT AND SAID

HE COULD SAVE us 40 Ml LES or TRAVEL, HE HAD A PRIVATE WAY, AND THEY TOLD HIM THEY

WOULD GIVE IT (sic) WE fOUND OU T AFTERWARDS IT WAS A fOOLISH TRADE· THE ROAD WAS

BAD, AND WHI LE WE WERE SO WELL fl XED FOR TRAVEL, THE 40 Ml LES AROUND WERE A GOOD AOADe WE F'OUND OUT THAT WE TOOK THE WORST ROAD, TOO LOW DOWN .

-2-

•

•

•

•

.. •

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

.. •

•

THE FIRST TOWN WE SAW IN TEXAS WAS GREENVI LLE (?) AND THERE WE MET A

FAMILY FROM EVANSVILLE, I NDIANAt HE WAS A DENT I ST. WE STAYED THERE UNT IL

HE FIXED SOME OF THEIR TEETH, WE CROSSED THE BRAZOS RIVER AT HUNTSVILLE •

A FTER WE GOT OUT or THE Pl NE WOODS WE HAD A PLEASANT DAi VE. WE WOULD OFTEN

SPEAK OF OUR FAIENDS THAT STARTED BEFORE WE DID AND WONDER HOW MANY WE WOUL.D

SEE WHEN WE GOT TO SEGU IN, WHERE WE WERE TO MEET, AGREEABLE TO PROMI SE• WE

HAD NEVER HEARD FROM THEM, OR THEY FROM us, AND ON THE 4TH DAY OF MARCH 1850, WE DROVE I NT O SEGUIN, AND TO OUR SORROW WE FOUND SUT FEW OF THE CROWD TO WEL­COME US, SUT THEY WERE SO HAPPY TO SEE US AS THEY WERE AFRA I D THAT WE HAD

BEEN LOST , So MANY THAT HAD PROMISED TO MEET US AT SEGUIN HAD DROPPED OUT

ON THE WAY, SOME AT ONE PLACE AND SOME AT ANOTHER. THE FAMi LIES THAT WERE

THERE WERE J, J, THORNTON, GEO, DAY, HORACE NEELYt A MR, HANCHENS AND TWO

MR . NORTONS, THERE M IGHT HAVE BEEN SOME OTHERS, BUT I HAVE FORGOTTEN . THEY

ALL TOLD US WHAT A PLEASANT TRI P THEY HAD, THEY CAME THROUGH THE I NDI AN

TEARI TORY, AND HOW DELi GHTED THEY WERE TO BE HEAE •

THERE WAS A SMALL COLONY ON THE C I BOLO RI VEA, WE MO VED ON THERE AND STOPPED FOR THE SUMMER. WE FOUND THE COLONY NICE PEOPLE, I T WAS ABOUT 18 Ml LE S FROM SAN ANTONI O , AND WE LEFT WORD AT HOME FOR OUR MAIL TO BE SENT

THERE, AND THE NEXT TH I NG WAS TO GO TO SAN ANTON I 0 AND HEAR FROM HOME I F

POSSIBLE . ON ACCOUNT OF iNDIANS NO ONE COULD GO ALONE, BUT THEY SOON MADE

UP A COMPANY AND WENT AND BROUGHT IT OUT AND IT WAS ENOUGH, THE POS TM AN HAD

BEEN TOLD TO KEEP IT UNT IL WE CAME •

I AM WR IT ING TH IS FOR MY GRANDCH I LDREN AND I F I WAS A GOOD WR I TER

WOULD LOVE TO WR I TE THEM A BOOK ON THE SAME SUBJECT, BUT W I LL STOP AS TH IS

Is THE BEST I CAN no •

I HAD FORGOT TO TELL THAT WHEN YIE WERE AT GAi NS LANDING, FATHER TOOK

OUR FURN I TURE AND HOUSE HOLD TH I NGS TO NEW 0R LE ANS AND SH I PPED THEM ACROSS

THE GULF TO I NDI ANOLA . IT WAS LATE IN THE SUMMER WHEN WE GOT THEM. SOME

WAS LOST AND WE NEVER GOT THEM, I T WAS FOOLI SH FOR US TO HAVE SH I PPED SO

MUCH . I HAD A $100.00 PARLOR STOVE THAT WAS RUI NED BE FORE WE GOT A CAB IN

TO PUT IT IN, BUT DUR CARPETS AND SUCH THINGS WERE USEFUL. MY NICEST CAR-

PET I USED FORA PARTIT I ON I N THE FIRST HOUSE I LIVED I N . FATHER LUCE

KNEW WE WERE BRINGING TOO MUCH, BUT HE WAS AFRA I D TO TELL US FOR FEAR WE

A LL WOULD NOT COME . HE WOULD SAV, 11 BRING ALL YOU WANT, I WI LL PAY THE FREI GHT 11

•

WELLt I N THE FALL OF 1850 WE MOVED TO loCKHART AND I HAVE LI VED HERE CONTINUOUSLY EVER SINCE. SOME or THE COLONY MOVED HERE TOO AND WAS DUR NEAR NEIGHDORS AND or COURSE ALL THE OLD ONES HAVE PASSED AWAY, SUT

SOME or THE I R GRAND OH I LDREN LI VE HERE VET AND FEE L NEAR TO ME.

I rORGOT TO MENT I ON THAT FATHER LUCE HAD A S l STER THAT CAME DOWN

TO GAINS LANDING WITH us, SAID SHE COULD NOT BARE TO SEE US START, SO SHE

TOOK HER SON THOMAS, QUI TE A YOUNG MAN, HANDSOME AND GAV•

AUNT NETTY EVERTON WAS VERY PICOUS, SHE MADE THEM TIE UP THE BOATS

ON SUNDAYS AND SHE WOULD CALL INTO THE BOATS AND HAVE PRAYERS, MUCH TO THE

ANNOYANCE or THE THAEE CAPTA I NS . SHE WANTED Sl NGI NG, BUT AS THEAE WERE NO

SI NGERS IN THE CROWD t BUT THE CAPT Al NS AND MYSE Lf t AND AS THE CAPT Al NS WERE

MADE TO HAVE TO STOP ON SUNDAYS, WE DID NOT HAVE MUS I C .

THIS THOMAS EVERTON IN AFTER YEARS MOVED TO TEXAS AND DIED A FEW

YEARS AGO AT LULING IN THIS COUNTY . HIS DAUGHTER, MRS . JENNIE CLARK, RUNS

-3-

AN 0RPHAN'S HOME AT THAT PLAGE NOW, WHJCH ISA CREDIT TO HERSELr AND COUNTRY .

THE NAME OF HER 0RPHAN 1 S HOME IS BELL HAVEN,

I WAS 90 YEARS OLD THE 15TH OF LAST MARCH,

RACHEL H. LUCE

Ml CRO-FI lMI Jlli I S NOT TOO EXPENSI VE, MANY MEMBERS AND FRI ENDS ARE HAVI NG OLD

RECORDS MICRO'-fl LMED AND DOING THEIR OWN RESEARCH RATHER THAN HIRING

SEARCHES TO BE MADE AT THE SOURCE. THIS MI CRO-FILM IS USUALLY GIVEN

TO THE DA LLAS PUOLI C li ORARY liHERE IT BECOMES A PART OF THE EVER I NCREASI NG RErERENCE AND RESEARCH SECTI ON or THE L1 ORARY .

I lll NOI S RESEARCH

I / ALTER R. SANDERS, 605 N. llALNUT STREET, LITCHFIELD, ILLINOIS, HAS UNDERTAKEN THE WONDERrUL TASK or ASSEMBLI NG rAMI LY fl LES AND Hl STORY

OF ALL FAMILIES WITH ILLINOIS BACKGROUND , PLEASE SEND HIM ANY INFOR~ MATION YOU HAVE ON YOUR fAMILIES THAT HAVE COME THROUGH ILLINOIS. ANY

I NrORMAT I ON YOU CAN FURN I SH HI M W I LL BE MOST HE LPfUL AND GREAT LY APPRE­

C I ATED .

THE L1 BRARY HAS RECEI VED MANY Gl rrs or EXCELLENT BOOKS AND

PERIODICALS FROM INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE PURCHASED THEM ONLV TO FIND THE I NrORMATION I S NOT ON THEIR rAMI LY.

I r YOU HAVE GOOD RErERENCE BOOKS WHICH ARE NOT ON YOUR rAMI LY, PLEASE GIVE THEM TO THE DALLAS Puouc LIBRARY r OR GENERAL USE . MAVBE

SOMEONE ELSE 's Gl rr WI Ll HELP vou TOO.

THE GENEALOGI CAL DE?ARTMENT OF THE DALLAS Puall c L1 BRARY HAS SET UP A Fl LE OF FAMi LY 81 BLE RECORDS. THE l1 BRARY HAS MANY F.\MI LY Hl STORY SECTIONS WHICH HAVE BEEN REPR ODUCED FROM VARIOUS rAMILY BISLES AND ARE

REQUESTING THAT FRIENDS WHO WANT TO PUT THEIR RECORDS IN THE LIBRARY HAVE

PHOTOSTATI C COPI ES MADE OErDRE fl LI NG .

- 4-

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

-· •

•

•

•

•

•

•

.. •

•

IMJEXES PEPTAINlt\G TO GENEA L(X;ICAL ~IATERIAL I N THE DA LLAS PUB L! C LI BRARY

A. GENERA L 1 . AME:RI CAN A!fil F.NGLI Sli GENEALOGI ES JJi ~ lJ ORARY Q.[ CONGR E SS COMPI LED

SY DR. AND MRS . C . K. J ONES - 1954 - ON Ml CROCARDS 2 . COLEMAN ' S GENERA L INDEX TO PRI NTED PED ! GREES ( E NG LI SH)

3. fl L1 sT Q[ SoME AMERJJ'~!! 1i_E,sALOG iEs WH I CH HAVE BEEN PR I NTE!! .lli BOOK FORM - THOMAS A LLEN GREEN

4. Li STS Q[ TITLE S Q[ GENEA LOG I CAL~ .lli ~ ~ .Afil2 KI NDREP \tloR KS - (coMPAN I ON TO "AMERIC AN GENEA LOG I ST") MuN SELL

5. THE AMERICAN GENEA LOG ! CAL I NDEX - R I DER , (48, Vo Ls . ), THI S I S THE S I MPLEST TYPE OF I NDEX TO MAN Y, MANY VO LUMES OF F AM ILY HISTOR IE S

AND OTHER TYPES o r RECORDS . IT I s ARRANG ED ALPHABET I CA LL Y OY

F AM i LY NAMES ( Wi TH CROSS RE FERENCES TO OTHER SPELLI NGS OF THE NAME)

AND UNDER EACH NAME A LPHAOE TI CA LLY OY THE G I VEN NAME, WI TH ARE -

FERE NCE TO A VO LUME AND PAGE I N WHI CH TH AT NAME HAS APP E ARED. WE HAVE ON LY A FEVI or THE OOOKS I NDEXED 1 N IT BUT I T I s A MOST USE­

FUL GU I DE AS TO WHERE TO LOOK FOR THE RECORDS or A FAM i LV . THEN, roa , I T IS POSS I D LE T O HAVE THE RE FERENCE$ CHECKED I N THE LI ORAR IE S

WHICH OWN COP IE S OF THE BOOKS " THI S RESEARC H MUST OE PA I D FOR,

TH OUGH, UN LE SS ONE H AS FR I ENDS OR RELATI VE$ WHO CAN DO THE WORK "

LI BRAR I ANS DO NOT HAVE THE TI ME TO DO RE SEARCH BEC AUSE OF THE

OTHER ROU TI NE WORK "

6. THE AMER IC AN GENEA LOG I CA L - B ! OGRAPH I CA L I NDEX - R I DER. TH! S ISA ill SE'RiESOF THE AMER I CAN GENEA LOG I CAL INDEX (usTED ADOVE) WITH A S LI GHT CHANGE OF TITLE" I T Vl lLL I NC LUDE ALL THE NAME S FOU ND I N

TH AT SER IE S AND NAMES FROM MANY ADD ITI ONA L VO LUMES· THE NAMES WH I CH

APP E ARED I N THE GENEA LOG I CA L CO LUMN OF THE BOSTON TRANSCR I PT F'OR

A NUMBER OF YE AAS WI LL BE I NC LUDED I N IT. EIGHTEEN VO LUMES HAVE

APP E AR ED .

7. B ! OLI OGRAPHI A GENEA LOG I CA AMER I CANAI AN ALPHASET I CA L I NDEX TO AMER I CAN GENEA LOG IE S AND PED I GRE E S CONTA I NED IN S T ATE, COUNTY AND

T OWN H I STOR IE S, PA I NTED GENEA LOG I ES AND KI NDRED WORKS - 3RD E:::>.,

REV. & ENLG. - DANI EL S . DURRIE - (1886). B . D.A.R. RESE ARCH

1. H!STOR ICAL AND GENEA LOG I CA L lloRKS - I N THE D . A . R. L! BRARY, WASH­INGTON, D. C:- - --- --

2. ~ .Qf. l.t!.[ RoLLS Q! HONOR ( ANCES TOR ' s INDE X) IN THE LI NE AG E

BOC>KS - 4 VOLUMES • 3. GENEALOG I CA L GU I DE, MASTER I NDEX OF GENEA LOGY I N THE D.A.R .

MAGAZI NE VO L, 1-84 , SUP . TO GENEA LOG I CA L GU I DE, VOL, 85- 89;

1950 - 1955 C" DAUGHTERS Q.E I!iS FOUNDERS M:ill PATR I OTS fil AMER I CA, ~ 50C I ETY

Q!: --~ lQ Li NEAGE BOO KS, VO LS. 1-25. D . GEORG ! A

1. CATA LOGuE Q[ ill GEORG! A Soc1 qY, D.A.R. L1 ORARY (COMP . OY M. G.

BRYAN--1 954-1 955) I N THE GEORG I A DEPT. OF ARCH I VES 8: H I STORY, ATL AN T A, GEOR G I A.

E. I LLI NO ! s

1. CouNTIES Q[ ILLINOI S; THEIR <lR I GI N AND EVOLUTI ON - CHAR LE S F. CARPENTER

2 , ~ lQ ill TR ANSACT I ONS Q[ ill ILLI NO I S STATE Hi STOR i CAL SOCIETY Atm DTHER Puou CAT I ONS Q[ l~ I LLI NO I s STATE H 1 STOR ! CAL l!..illl.JlB.r -J AMES N . ADAMS, VO LS. · 1.1: li .

3. GENERAL I NDEX TO J OURNA L Qf.. ill lWJ!Q!..§ STATE H1 STOR ! CA L Soc 1 EJY -J AMES N. ADAMS - VO L. I - XX!/ •

-5-

4-. CoLLECTt ONs QI !!:!.!i. ILLI NO t s ~ HtsTOR t CAL Lt oRARY - TRAVE L

AND DESCRIP TI ON OF COUNTY HISTOR IE S - CLARENCE VJA LWOR TH A LVORD . 5. /i !d..fil Qf .!fil. GENEALOG I CAL~ .L!:! .!fil. I LLI NO I S STATE H1 STOR! CAL

~ - GEORG • A L. OsooRNE

6. COLLECTIONS QI !!:!.!i. ILLI NO I S ~ HtSTOR I CAL L I ORAR V, NEWSPAPERS

AND PERIOD I CA LS OF ILLI NO I S, 18 14-1879 - FRANK LI N WILLI AM Scon, VoL . V I.

F. KE NTUCKY

1. lli!.LJ:l.t: .IQ .!fil. MANUSCRI PTS Qf .!fil. KENTUCKY H 1 STOR ! CAL Soc1 ETY -G. GLENN CLt FT

2. KENTUCKY P APERS - DRAPER COLLECTION OF MANUSCR I PTS - IN WI SCONS I N

Ht STOR I CAL SOCIETY.

3. Ifil. NEWSPAPERS Mill ~ Qf FRANKFORT , KENTUCKY - Wt LLARD RousE J 1 LLSON

G. MARYLAND

1. .8!; .l.!illu .IQ .!fil.~ RECORDS Qf MARY LAND-GENEALOGI CA L1 fu.Q­GR APH l CA L, Ht STOR IC AL - MRS . ELE ANOR PHILIPS PASSANO

H. M I CHIGAN

1. DnR0 1 T ful2.l..ul .ElIB GENEALOGI CA L REsEARCH MAGAZ I NE - CuMU LATI VE

I NDE x . VO LS. I - X ( M i CROFI LM): VOLS . X I - XV (BOOK).

I. M t SSOURI

1. Ifil. M1ssouR 1 HtsTORICAL Bufil - INDEX. VoLs. I-XXV I; VoLs. XXV I­X LV .

2 . GENEALOG I CAL MATERI AL Mm LocA L ~ .L!:! !!:!.!i.~· .bQ.!/.u PuoL1c

li ORARY GEORG I A GAMORI LL. J. Nsw ENGLAND AND NoRTHERN RECORDS

1. E.!..tml1:lli Jd..fil Qf GENEALOGI ES AtJll T OWN Al:!!l loCAL Hl STOR ! ES CONTA! N-

1.!i@ F AM i LY RECORns .L!:! !!:!.!i. PUBLIC Li oRAR Y Qf !!:!.!i. Qur Qf BosroN,

Mlli· 2 . JACOGUS .L!illll IQ GENEALOGICAL PER I OD I Ci.tS - VOL . I •

.l..!:mil TO GENE ALOG I CAL ~.!A.!J! - VOL 11 •

.l..!1!lu TO GENEALOGI CAL PERi OD t CA Ls - VoL 111 • ("My OwN I NDEx")

3. ~ ~ - COMP. AND ED ITED FOR THE GENERA L SOCIETY OF

MAY FLOWER DESCENDANTS - McAUS LAN, 2 VOLS.

4 . NEW ENGLAND Hi STOR ! CAL Al:!!l GENEALOGI CA L RECORDS - I NDEX TO VO LS.

1-50 ; 4 VOLS. (1 VoL. -- SuOJECTS "'PLACES; 3 VOLS. - PERSONS}. K. NEW JERSEY

1 . GENERAL I NDEX .IQ .!fil. DOCUMENTS RE LATING !Q !!:!.!i. CO LON ! AL H1 STORY OF THE ST ATE OF NEW JERSEY - 1ST SER . IN 10 VOLS.

L. NEW YORK

1. ~A~A~r=A~~~~~~~ ~L~~~G~:~:~~AL SOURCE$ .E!IB NEW YORK lli.Y

2. ~.~o~ :~:~ ~~~~~~;·~~R~E~o(~SV~s~)URCHES .L!:! ~ Xlfil ~ M. NORTH CAROL I NA

1. COLONIAL Al:!!l ~ RECORDS Qf NORTH CAROLINA - I NDEXES (4 VoLs.)

2. OFFt CI AL PuoLICATIONs Qf .!fil. CoLONY Mill §.u.u; Qf !:lfllil!:! ~ -MARY Lt NDSAY THORNTON

3. Ifil. H t STOR I CAL RECORDS Qf NORTH CAROLINA - THE COUNTY RECORDS -

ALAMANCE THROUGH YANCEY - CRt TTENDEN AND L ACV, 3 VoLs. N. PENNSYLVANIA

1. THE PENNSY LVANI A MAGAZ I NE QI HtsTORY A!fil B10GRAPHY, VoLs . 1-75,

I NDEx OF.

2 . Ifil. SCOTCH -l!l..!..fili Qf NORTHAMPTON COUNTY, e.a., VOL. 1 - PRESTON A. LAURY; I NDEX TO.

3. lli!.LJ:l.t: ~ PUOLISHED ARCH I VES Qf PENNSYLVANIA COVERING !!:!.!i. .13!! VO LUMES OF COLON I AL RECORDS AND ARCHIVE S - SERIES I-I X - HENRY

HOWARD EDDY. -6-

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

.. •

•

•

•

•

•

•

••

•

•

4. VARI OUS INDEXES WITHIN THE SERIES OF THE PENNSYLVAN I A CoLONIAL RECORDS (16 VoLs. - HAVE 11 Vo Ls.)

PENNSYLVANIA ARCHIVES, 9 SERIES (112 VOLS . )

5. ~ IQ GENE ALOG I CAL MATER I AL .L.!1 PE NNSY LVANI A ARCHI VES - SERIES 1- 6 - INDIANA STATE Li ORAR Y.

6. lfillll IQ~~ Q[ JQ.,,QQQ IMMIGRANTSj GERMAN, Sw1ss, DUTCH, AND FRENCH - INTO PENNSYLVANIA, 1727- 1776 SUPPLEMENTING THE I.

DAN IELRUPP . SH I P loADVOLUME - M . v. KOGER

o. SOUTH CARO LI NA

1 . ~ IQ~ STUDY .e!J!l READING Q[ SOUTH CAROLINA H1 STOR Y -

J. H. E ASTEROY, 2 Vo Ls .

2. ~ ~ GAZETTE - NAME INDEX (M ICROF I LM)

P . TE NNESSEE

1 . 'flR ITING S Q!:! TENNE SSEE COUNTIES, No. 1 - TENNESSEE STATE LI ORARY

AND ÅRCH I VE S

2 • .l..tiw IQ~ FIR ST~ VO LUME S Q[ ~ (afil TENNESSEE H l STOR l­

ill Soc1pv PUOLICATIONS .

3. ~ .e!J!l ~ MouNT AI N EaEill - D RAPER CoLLECT I ON OF MANUSCR IPrs, W1sCONSIN H1 sr0R 1c~ L Soc 1Erv .

Q. . UNITED STATES

1 . PRELi Ml NARV I NVENTORY Q[ ~ L AND. ENTRY PAPERS .Q.[ ~ GENERA L

L AND Qrrm - HARRY P . YOSHPE AND PHI L I P P. BROWER

2. SPECIAL .b.lill • No. 8, P OPULATI ON SCHEDULE S 1800- 1870, VOLUME­

INDEX TO CouNT IE S AND MAJ OR C1T1Es.

3. PREL I MI NARY INVE NTORY Q[ ~ RECORDS Q[ ~ADJUT ANT~ OFFICE - Lue I LLE H . PENDE LL AND ELI ZAOETH BE THE L.

R. VIRGINIA

1. PRESTON .il.@ ~ EaEill - DRAPER COLLECTI ONS OF MANUSCR I PTS, W1sc0Ns 1N H1sroR1CAL Soc1ETv.

2. V1RGINIA H1sT OR1CA L .!..llilQ_- E. G. SwEM, 2 VoLs .

3. VIRGIN I A GAZETTE I NDEX 1736- 178o - LESTER J. CAPPON AND STEL LA

F. Durr, 2 VoLs.

4 . ~ EMIGRANTS IQ~ - w. G. STANARD .

5. SAFFEL'S 1!ll Q[ VIRGIN I A SOLDIERS l.!1 ~ REVOLUTI ON - J. T • McA LLI STER, INDEX TO.

6. a .!$&.:!'.IQ SOUTHERN PEDIGREE S, V I RG INI A COUNTY RECORDS - WILL I AM

ARMSTRCNG CROZ I ER.

7. PERSONAL~ .L.!1 HENING ' S STATUES 1!..! ~ Q[ ~AND SHEPHERD'S CONTINUATION - JOSEPH J. CASEY .

8. lfillll IQ V 1 RG I NI A GENEALOGIES - STEWART S . WEST VIRGINIA

1. 2l!!§. !.!!Jlu IQ ill!! GRANTS .L.!1 ~VIRGINIA

HEf\RY CABANISS Af!l fil§. DESCEf\DANTS OY J OHN PLATH GREENE, K1RBY Bul LDING,

DALLAS, TE XAS, 1956, GENERAL I NDEX A LLIED FAM I L I ES: ALLEN, AUSTELL,

BARNES, BLANTON, BoRDEAs, BorJEN , BYERS, CAOANJ ss, CLJ NE, Co CHR AN, E LLI on, FAY SSOUX, GETTYS, GREEN, GREER, HOFFER, JONES, lAMIR AND , LANDRUM, lATT I MOR Et

MAcAvov , MAHA FFE Y, MAR TI N, MATTHEws, MOORE , PHILBECK , Posr oN, PowELL, RowE, RUD AS ILL, StMMONS, SPANGLER, STOCKTON, SWANDA, THURMAN, VIA LL, WH I SNANT, W1 LLI AMSON, WRIGHT.

- 7-

NffiTH CAROLI NA DEEDS

BY

J OHN p LATH GREEN

INFORMATI ON TO OE OBTAINED FROM DEEDS MAV BE DIVIDED INTO THREE

LARGE CATEGOR I ESi

1} Oov1 ous INFORMATI ON .

2) CONCEALED INFORMATION .

3) PRESUMPTIONS.

As TO OBVI OUS INFORMATI ON , THE FOLLOW I NG IS MOST VALUAOLES

1.

THE DEED WI LL DESCRIOE THE COUNTY WHEREIN THE PROPERTY 15 LOC ATED

AND GENER AL LY WI LL DESCRI 13E THE TRACT 13Y METES AND OOUNDS AND OY REFERENCE

TO A RIVER, STREAM OR ROAD. ALMOST EVERY DEED MAKES REFERENCE TO AT LE AST

ONE OR TWO NE I GHOOR ING TR AC TS OF LAND . TH I 5 I NFOAMAT I ON IS IMPOR T ANT

AS GENER ALLY A NEIGHBORING TRACT OF LAND IS ALSO OWNED BY THE GRAN TOR OR

GRANTEE •

2.

THE FIRST CLAUSE or THE DEED GENERALLY WI LL RECITE THE COUNT1Y AND

STATE o r RESIDENCE o r EACH PARTY, GRANTOR AND GRANTEE. THIS INFORMATI ON IS

RELI ADLE AND MAV DE USED TO SUPPORT PEDI GREES.

TH I S I NF°ORMAT I ON IS IMPORT ANT AS WI LL BE SHOWN HEREAfTER •

4.

IT I S I MPOR TANT TO NOTE WHETHER OR NOT THE CONS I DERAT I ON SHOWN IS FOR LOVE AND AF°fECTI ON, A NOMINAL CONSIDERATION, OR OTHERWISE . GENERALLY,

A FATHER WI LL OONVEY TO HIS SON FORA NOMINAL CONSIDERATION OR FOR LOVE

AND ArFECTION. IT MAV OE TH AT A REC ITED CONSIDERATION ALSO IS USED TO

SERVE ASA MEASURE o r A PARTITION OF THE FATHER 1 S EST ATE AMONG HIS

CHILDREN DURING HIS LIFETI ME.

5.

SOME DEEDS WI LL REC I TE TH AT THE GRANTEE I S THE CHI LD OF THE GRANTOA,

OR OTHER RE LAT I VE• 0THER DEEDS W I LL REC I TE THAT THE GRANTORS THERE I N ARE THE

HEIA$ OF A CERTAIN PERSON, NAMING HIM, AND IND I CATING THE FRACTI ONA L PORTION HELD BY EACH. SOME DEEDS ALSO RErLECT THAT EITHER THE GRANTOR OR GRANTEE IS

A MARRJ ED PERSON AND THE NAME OF Hl S SPOUSE.

-8-

•

•

•

•

•

•

.. •

•

•

•

..

•

•

•

•

•

••

•

•

6 •

PARTICULAR ATTENTION SHOULD BE PA.ID TOA METHOD IN WH ICH

A PERSON WHO IS UNA BLE TO WR I TE HIS NAME MAKES HIS MARK e IT HAS

BEEN FOUND THAT A GREAT NUMBER OF PERSONS MADE Dl STI NCTI VE MARKS

EACH TIME THAT AN INSTRUMENT WAS SIGNED . THESE DISTINCTIVE MARK-

INGS GENERALLY WERE PRESERVED BY THE CLERK OF THE COURTAECORDING SUCH INSTRUMENT•

EVJDENCE AS TO THE F"INANCIAL, PO LITI CA L, OR MILITARY LEADER­SHIP IN THE COUNTY MAY BE ASCERT A INED BY THE USE OF A TITLE OR MAJOR, CAPTAIN, ETC. IN DESCRI 8 1 NG A PAR TY TO A DEED e

B. CoNCEALED INFORMATION :

SOMETIMES INFORMATION CAN BE OBTAINED FROM A DEED BYA PERSON

WHO UNDERSTANDS THE LAWS OF THE STATE IN EFFECT AT THE TIME OF THE

DELIVERY or THE DEED. FOR INSTANCE, WHENEVER A WIFE .JOINS HER HUS­

BAND IN THE EXECUTI ON Of A DEED, IT MEANS EI THER THAT THE HOME STE AD

I S BEi NG CONVEYED OR THAT THE PROPERT V BELONGED TO THE WI FE AND THAT

SHE I NHER I TED IT fROM HER PEOPU: OR HAD IT Gl VEN TO HER• GENERALLY,

THE LANGU AGE Of THE DEED Wl LL ALLOW THE SEARCHER TO ASCERTAIN WH ICH

fACT IS PRESENT •

c. PRESUMPT I ONS:

LOGICAL PRESUMPT IONS MAV BE DRAWN FROM VARIOUS BITS or INFOR-

MAT I ON CONTAINED IN THE DEED. THE fOLLOWING AREA fEW:

1) A W!TNESS TOA W1LL E!THER I SA RELAT I VE ORA NE IGH BOR .

RELATIVE$ WERE USED WHEN A PARTITION Of A PARENT 1 S ESTATE WAS BEING

MADE OR WHETHER BROTHERS WERE DIVIDING THEIR LAND BETWEEN THEMSELVES.

THE NAME OF A NE I GHBOR WAS USED WHERE SUCH NE I GHBOR OWNED L AND AD­

JOi NI NG THE TR AC T CONVEYED.

2) THE D ATE Of THE Fl AST DEED IN A COUNTY MEANS ONE Of

TWO THI NGS:

El THEA THAT DATE MARKS THE APPROX!MAT!ON OF THE TIME

THAT THE GRANTEE ENTERED THE COUNTY. ff THE GRANTEE1

S

PARENTS WERE ALRE ADY IN THE COUNTY, THEN GENERALLY IT MEANS

TH AT HE HAS RECENTLY MARRIED OR BECOME Of AGE.

3) THE DATE OF A LAST DEED OF A PART I CULAR PERSON IN A

COUNT Y MAV MEAN EITHER THAT THE PERSON DIED SHORTLY THEREArTER OR

MIGRATED ELSEWHERE1 THESE PRESUMPT I ONS ARE TRUE PARTJCULARLY WHERE

THE PERSON SOUGHT WAS A SPECULATOR IN LAND.

-9-

4) WHERE A PERSON OTHER THAN THE GRANTEE OF LAND MAKES

A CONVEYANCE THEREOFt IT IS ONLY LOGICAL TO PRESUME THAT SUCH

GRANTOR IS AN HE I R OF THE ORIG I NAL GRANTEE OR TH AT A DEED HAS BEEN

LOST. GENERALLY, THE LANGUAGE OF THE DEED ITSELF WJ LL BE EVIDENCE AS TO WHICH FACT OBTAINS.

· fl .

THE NORTH CAROLINA ÅRCHI VES HAS PUOLI SHED A THREE VOLUME

DESCR I PTI ON OF OFfl C I Al RECORDS RECORDED IN THE VAR I OUS COUNT I ES OF

NORTH CAROLINå ON PAGE OF VO LUME 1 I SA DESCRIPTION OF "LAND DIVISIONS'!. THESE LANDD'I VI S I ONS ARE SOMET I MES FILED IN THE DEED

RECORDS AND SOMETI MES ARE FILED AMONG SPECIAL PAOCEEDINGS . IT IS MY

RECOMMENDATION THAT BOTH BE SEAR CHED . DtVISIONS WERE MADE NECESSARY WHEAE A PERSON Dl ED OWNI NG LAND WJ THOUT LE AV I NG A WI LL. UN LESS A

VOLUNTARY CONVEYANCE WAS MADE BY THE HEIRS AMONG THEMSELVES, THE COURT

AP?OINTED COMMISSJONERS WHO DIVIDED THE LAND EQUALLY AMONG ALL OF THE

HEIRS. THESE RECORDS ARE MOST VALUABLE AND SHOULD BE SEARCHED FOR VERY CAREFULLY .

Ill.

LAND I S DESCRI BED IN DEEDS OF RURA L TRACTS OF LAND BT REFERENCE

TO METES AND BOUNDS • THE CAL L Gl VES A Dl RECT I ON Fl AST FOLLOWED BY A UNIT OF MEASUREMENT. FOR IN STANCE, N 60 E 100 POLES. THIS MEANS THAT

YOU PUT YOUR COMPASS ON NORTH AND MEASURE Sl XTY DEGAEES IN A CLOCK-

Wl SE DIRECTION ONA COMPASS. 5UCH LINE WI LL MARK THE DIRECTION TO BE TAl<EN FOR THE CALL. You MAV THEN COUNT OFF THE NUMBER OF POLES. FOR

YOUR INFORMATIONt MOST OF THE NORTH CAROLINA DEEDS DESCRIBE LAND BY

THE USE OF PO LES. A POLE MEASURES 5.5 YARDS. SOMETIMES A CHAIN IS

REFERRED ro. A CHAI N REPRESENTS 22 YARDS AND WHEN CHAI NS ARE USED, A

MEASUREMENT OF LES S THAN ONE CHAI N IS CALLED A LI NI<, WHI CH MEASURES

7 .92 INCHE S . I HAVE FOUND IT HELPFUL TO Dl AGRAM THE SE CALLS AND TO PLACE PROPER REFERENCE$ TO STREAM CROSSINGSt TREES, Hl LLS, AND ADJOINING PROPERTY OWNERS.

STEVENS FAMi LIES OF W1 LKINSON CouNTY, GA . Bv MABEL McDAN IEL AND ELIZABETH ANN WR IGHT, 5443 VICKERY BLvD., DALLAS 6, TEXAS. PARTIAL

I NDEX OF NAMES: ALLEY, ANDERSON, BAI LEY, BAKER, 'BARCLAYt BERRY, BLACKt

BLOODWORTH. BLOUNTt BR ADDY, BRADFORD, BRANTLEY, BROCKMANt BROWN, BRYANS,

BURKE, BYINGTON, BYNUM, CALDWELL, CAMPt CAPPSt CARROLL, CHAMOLISS, CLARK

Co1LE, COLLINS, CoNLEY, CowART, Cox, CuRRIN, DEFORE, DEMPSEY, DoNADLSON,

DRAUGHORNE, D uPREEi EsTEs, EvANSi FLETCHER, FLoon, FouNT AIN, Fox, GANTTi

GILLON, G1LMAN, GREENE, GRIER, HALL, HAMMOCK, HARRIS, HARRISON, HAZEL­

HURSTt HJLESi Hoo1<s, HoovER, HuGHEs, HuRSTi HusER, IRBY, IRVINE, IRWINi

JOHNSON, JUSTICE, KENTt KILROY, KITCHENSt KNIGHTt KAIEGER, LAMB, l.AVENDERt

LE AP TROT, LEE, LoCKHART, loNG, loNGLEY, lowE, McDANIEL, MADDOXi MERCERi

M IMBS , NELSON, NOGALES, O'CONNORt 0UPHANT, CMENt PACE, PAGE, PAGETT,

PARKER, P1PKIN, POUNDS, PRINCE, RABB, RAINES, REEVES, REID, RICHEY, ROBERTSON, ROGERS, ROZIER, RUNDELL, SANDERS, SCHIRM, SCHOONMAKER, SOONYERS,

SEDGWICKi SENTERi SMITH, STEVENS, STILES, STRANGEi •TRONG, STuees, TAYLORi

TINSLEYt THOMPSONt T OM LINSONt TRAVIS, TURNERt UTLEYt WALl<ER, WARD, WHITEt

WHITTLE, W1LLIAMs, W1LLIAMSON, WooTEN, WR1GHT, YouNG, Y0 uNGE, SEWADSKI .

-to-

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

••

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

.. •

•

(BARREN COUNTY, KY.)

BY FR ANK LI N GoRB I N, Pus. 1929 AT Lou 1sv 1 LLE , KY. BY JOHN P . MORTON

* & COMPANY, INC. THI S BOOK I S REPR I NTED FROM A SERIE S OF PAP ER S APPE AR I NG I N THE GLASGOW

~ (BARREN COUNTY, KENTUCKY) I N 1876.

PAGE 1 IN MARCH 1798, THERE WERE ON LY fOUR r AM ILIES RESIDING WITHIN

THE LI MIT S o r SA ID COUNTY -- JUDGE J OHN HALL, LI V ING ON BEAVER

CREEK, NEAR ELK HO LE , TWO AND A HALF Ml LE S FROM GLASGOW; MRS .

WR I GHT, A WIDOW, AND AN ANCESTRESS OF A NUMEROUS F AM ILY, MANY OF

WHOM ST I LL RES I DE I N VI AR REN AND BARREN CO UNT I ES ( ONE BE I NG AT

PRESENT A STATE S EN ATOR rROM WARREN, A LLEN AND EDMONSON COUNTI ES) ;

A MR . Scan, WHO LIVED NEAR THE HEAD or BEAVER CREEK, AND ON E OTHER MAN WHOSE NAME I S FORGOTTEN. T OWARDS THE GLOSE OF MARCH OF

THE SAME YE AR t TWO ACCESS I ONS WERE MADE TO THE NUMBER -- MR. J OHN

GOR I N AND HIS FATHER-I N-LAVJ, MR . FRANKLIN.

PAGE 4 THE COUNTY WAS ORGAN I ZED IN 1799. THE r! RST COUNTY COURT WAS HELD

AT HENRY RENICK' s , NINE M l LES E AST or GLASGOW, •

PAGE 7 THE SECOND AND THIRD BARREN COUNTY CouRTS WERE HELD AT THE HOUSE

o r J OHN McFERR AN, E sQ . , ABOUT TWO Ml LE S rROM GLASGOW, ON THE

lE XINGTON ROAD . DURING ONE or THE SITT ING$ or THE COURT , DANIEL CuRo AND W1 LLI AM LOGAN BEi NG SURVEYORS, WERE APPO I NTED TO LOCATE

THE COUNTY SEAT or BARREN . 11 11 THE TOWN RECE I VED I TS NAME rROM G LASGOW, V I RGI NI A AND NOT G LASGOW,

ScoTL AND .

" 11 THE EARLIEST SETTLER S, AFTER THE TOWN WAS ORGAN ! ZED, WERE HENRY

M ILLER AND JOHN MATTHEWS WITH THEI R FAM ILIE S IN THE LATTER PART

o r THE YEAR 1799. FROM THE YEAR 1799 TO 1805 THERE WERE MANY ACCE SS I ONS TO GLASGOW 1 S INH AB IT ANTS, TO- WIT: JAMES AND WI LLIAM

M ILLER, MERCHANTS, WITH THEIR BROTHER , ARCH I BA LD, FR OM I RELAND;

JOHN MAY FIELD , JR . ; JOHN ANDERSON, BLACKSMITH; WILLI AM WELSH ;JOHN

AND JOE L 5HAW, HATTERS; THOMAS AND 8. T • D I CKERSON, AND OTHERS .

PAGE 19 FOR MANY REASONS THE SETTLEMENTS WERE SC~ TTERED, SOMET IME S Ml LE S

APART; FOR INSTANCE, PEOPLE WERE OrTEN INfLUENCED TO LOCATE IN A WE LL WATERED SECTI ON WH ERE SPA I NGS WERE P LENTY. I N THE DARRENS THE RE WERE BUT FEW SPA I NGS AND LI TTLE TI MBER FOR FE NC I NG AND

HOUSES. So FAMILIES AND FRIENDS WHO DESIRED TO DE NEIGHBORS AND ,

MAV BE, FEAR I NG ROAM I NG f ND I ANS, WERE FORCED, NOTW ITH STAND I NG THEIR

WISHES TO LI VE I N SEPARATE NE I GHBORHOODS . THE LAND IN SOME SECTIONS , PART I CU L AR LY ON WA TER COURSES, WAS COVERED FOR MILE S WITH MILITARY

PAGE 20 SETTLEME NTS WERE MADE ALL OVER THE COUNTY rROM 1798 TO 1800. THOSE PERSONS WHO LOCATED IN THE I MMEDI ATE V I c IN I TY or GL ASGOVI ,

WERE :--GEORGE BERRY, JOSHUA W1 NN, SANDERS ', HI GG I NS ' , WR I GHTS ',

JOHN FoRRESTER, JOHN AND JENN I NGS McDAN IEL, PYROM,

JOSEPH BAI NTON, ___ BEASLEY, GEORGE WATERS, BAUGH,

EU BANK, &:c., ON THE NORTHWEST S I DE OF TOWN . JAMES FR ANK LIN, J OHN

C LACK, MRs. C LACK, GEORGE WHITE, JOHN FRANK LI N, J OHN Moss, SAMUEL

BE LL, J AM ES FoRaEs, JOHN Mc FERRAN , DUD LE Y RouNDTREE, JAs . R1TCHEY,

W1 LLI AM loGAN, GEORGE VI . FLETCHER, FREDER I cK Moss •

-11-

ON GREEN R I VER' AROUND WOODSONV ILLE' THOMAS WOODSON SETTLED;

81Ros, ROWLETTS, AMos, &c., ABOVE ON THE RIVER, W1 LLIAM RICHARD­

SON' WHO HAD EI GHTEEN BEAUTI FUL DAUGHTERS' ALL or WHOM, BY THE BY'

MARR I ED,WELLt AND TWO SONS. AARON ALDERSON, WHO WAS THE FATHER

OF TWO PREACHERS, ONE A METHODIST, THE OTHER A BAPTIST. --­EDGAR, __ GOFFS, VIM. J. WOOD, THE FATHER OF THE LATE GEORGE

T. WooD. HENRY HALEY, IN A GROVE NEAR PREW ITT' S KNOB -- NEAR BY,

JAMESONS, MURPHYS, 0wENS, W1 LSONS, ROBERT H l NDMAN, JOSEPH fviARTI N,

AND OTHERS. THREE Ml LES THI S St DE, THE LOCKS, AMONG WHOM VIAS THE

REv. JACOB LocK, A BAPTIST PREACHER •••• ON BEAVER CREEK, JuDGE

JOHN HAL L • • •• HAD FOUR SONS AND SEVERAL DAUGHTERS . H1 S SON,

MICHAEL w •••• THE HARLOWS, BENJAM I N CRENSHAW, FLEMING SHORT,

11". H. AND R1 CHARD COLE AND OTHERS, WERE THE NEI GHBORS OF JUDGE J.

HA LL.

PAGE 21 loWER DOWN ON BEAVER CREEK WAS SIMEON BURFORD, ELIJAH ROGERS, DAVID

WARREN, JOHN ALLEN, SAMUEL STROTHER, JOHN RoDEs. ST ILL LOWER DOWN

liAS JOHN MAY FI ELD. HE HAD MANY CHI LDREN.

ON S I NKING CREEK, JACOB WR tGHT LOCATED THE SECOND TIME. H 1s NEIGH -BORS WERE ___ Moonv, JOHN AND J AMES K1RTLEY, ____ DOWNS, ___ CusTAR AND MORDI CAL CONVERS .

SOUTH OF BEAVER CREE K AND THE SOUTH FORK, OPP OS I TE THE RES I DENCE

OF JOHN MAYFI ELD SR.' Rev. ALEXANDER DAVIDSON' A BAPTIST PREACHER

SETTLED; ALSO CoL. SAMUEL MuRRE LL , GEORGE B LAI N, HA I DEN TRIGG,

JAMES MATTHEWS, C LEMENTS MONT AGUE, EVERETTS, JOHN SANDERS, THOMAS

WINN, RENFROES, HARD I N DAV I S, BR I TTS, RALSTONS, DRANES, COLEMANS,

EMERSONS, K JNCHE LOES, TINSLEYS, WHEE LERS, FUR LONGS, LE AVE LLS, AND

OTHEAS.

PAGE 22 •• .THOSE WHO SETT LED ON THE NORTH SIDE OF BEAVER CREEK, BETWEEN

CREEK 's M t LL (NOW DENTON ' s) AND GREEN R1 VER WERE' MOTHER CHAPMAN

• •• HER SONS, W1 LLI AM AND NEAL CHAPMAN, PALMER HALL, MOSES CooK,

THE MONROES, B I RDS, JOHN G LAZEBROOK, CREWS . HOOPER CREWS •••••

DESCENDANT •• WAS AND I S CELEBRATED METHOD I ST M l NI STER BOTH IN

KENTUCKY AND I LLI NOI s . EPHRAIM PuCKETT, DOYLES, CoATES, THOMAS

BOSTON, GtGSONS, GREERS, AND NEAR BY DAV I D DENTON, WITH H I S SONS, WILLI AM, CHARLES, THOMAS, ISA AC AND DAVID B . , SETTLED AT MERRY

0AKS , THEN I N WAAREN COUNTY, AFTERWARDS ADDED TO BARREN, WHERE

THOMAS DENTON KEPT A GOOD HOTEL ••• SOU TH AND BELOW THE REV. A LEXANDER DAVIDSON ' S RESIDENCE, WERE CAPT. W1 LLIAM EDMUNDS, REUBON

CoONEY, R I CHARD BRIDGES, lsAAC DAVIDSON, STRINGFIELD,

JAMES DODO, J OHN DUFF, vl 1 LLI AM SETTLE • •• JONiiTHAN JEWELL ON BARREN R I VER, JOSEPH LEWIS, GEORGE li . PAGE, SIMEON VIH ITE , WI LLI AM WA LDEN, 0BADI AH BA I TT, JOSEPH HENDEASON, W 1 LLI AM GLAZEDROOK,

___ GRUBBS, JAMES Wt LLI AMS, FATHER OF JOHN AND MATTHEWS lit LLI AMS;

THOMAS CO LEMAN, SOLDIER OF REv ••••••••

li lLLI AM DEPP •• SETTLED CLOSE TO HAtDEN TRIGG ••• • • THEN MOVED TO

G LOVER's CREEK • •• FATHER OF •••PETER AND JOEL W. DEPP, BESIDES SEVERA L OTHER CH I LDAENo

PAGE 23 ON BoYD ' s CREEK DANIEL CuRD, THE SURVEYOR OF BARREN CouNrv, AND THE

SON- I N-LAW OF HA I DEN TR I GG, MADE HIS SECOND SETTLEMENT, (HJS FIRST

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

.. HAV ING BEEN ON THE NORTH SIDE OF BEAVER CREEK, NEAR HARI LAH P.CRUMP) •

AT THE P LAG E ON WHICH ALANSON BRIGG, HJS BROTHER -J N-LAW LIVED AND

D I ED. ABOVE HIM, AMOROSE BARLOW, JOSHUA BARLOW, MRS.

GALLOWAY, HER SONS GEORGE AND JOSEPH; THE MANS FIELDS H'iGHERUPTHE

CREEK; JOHN 0. MoRRISON, CHRISTOPHER TOMPK INS ••• THE TOLLES,

THOMAS AND STEPHEN BEAUCHAMP, JESSEE WE LLS, HOLMAN SLAYTON, DAN IEL

SNODDY, THOMAS BR ANS FORD • • • •

-12-

•

•

" •

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

SETTLED ON F ALLE N TI MBER, A BRANCH OF SKEGG ' S CREEK -- MOSES

AND OTHER PEDENS, JAS. FOSTER, REV. ANDREW NUCKOLS, A BAPTIST PRE ACH ER , WM . BE LL, W1 LLI AM AND OTHE R GLOV ERS, W1 Lll AM BAI LE V, THE N1CHO LS ' , BURCHS, PATAJCK McMANNS, PERKJNS', ROBERT DOUGHERTY, B l G W1 LLI AM REN I CK, B. T. D 1 CKERSON, JOHN HAMMI L , JOHN AND

S TE PHEN BENNETT, B 1G \i l LLI AM ANDERSON, JOSEPH HlGDON, REV. I SHMAEL

HIGDON, THE PuRSLEYS, THOMAS CHR•STMAS, J OSEPH DOUGHERTY, JAMES

\ 11 LLI s, T HOMAS RoNZEE , SAMUEL MARSHA LL , JEsSEE T oNEv, OF BovD's

CREEK •• ••••

0THER SETT LEMEN TS WERE MADE UPON SKEGG ' S CREEK DY CO L. W1 LLI AM

Lov 1 NG, LAWRENCE G 1 LLOCK, JAMES G1 LLOCK, REV. JOHN H. BAKER, THE

CAR TE RS,JAMES FISHER, W1LBURNS, DENHAMS, 81GGEAS, Qu1G LEY S,

N 1 CHO LS ' , JOSEPH VIOOTEN .

PAGE 24 Nor BEING ABLE TO D I ST I NGU I SH THE SETTLEMENT$ MADE UPON PETER'S

AND OTHER CREEKS AND ON 81G BARREN RIVER, WE GI VE THEM COLLECTJVELY. THEY WERE MADE BY DR. A. D. RODERTS, THE CARVERS, THE ELMORES,

GoonMANs, BeAvrns, RI CHARD FuLCHER, F1 sHrns, R1cHARD BAILEY, BewLEvs, THE VI H1 TNEvs, T1 NS LEv s, UR1 AH McC LELAND, I sAAC AND ERASMUS TRAcv,

JAMES FRAZ IER, YOUNGS, MtDD LETONS, BEAMS, JAMES BARTON, BROOMS,

GEORGE BusH, SANDER S ' , FRANC 1 s', REUOEN FRANKLIN, BRAT CHER S ,BR t DGES ,

ToMuNs, McG 1NNEss ' , CAP r . JAcoa PEcK, THE WooDs, AsA ELus, CoL.

W1 LLI AM ELu s, Cu FTON RODES, LE ONARD H. MAuRv, THE SM 1 TH S AND OoADI AH VIADE.

AMONG THE EARL I EST SETTLER $ IN THAT PART OF MONROE COUNTY TAKEN

OF F OF BARREN WERE THOMAS COMos, Co L. HuGH BROWN, CoL. SAMUEL

CARPENTER, J ACOB GoOilt.4AN, Co L. JAMES Fu PPEN, THOMAS Fu PPEN, E s Q.

Co L. JAMES CH 1sM, REV . J OHN loNGDON, REv. JOHN Mu LKE Y, REV. JACOB

CH I SM, SAMUEL MARRS, NATH AN BREED , W1 LLI AM HOWARD, THOMAS MEANS,

RE v . PH1 u P MuLKE Y, CAPT . GEORGE BusHONG, HENRY BusHONG, JOHN G .

BAILEY, BEN G 1sr, DAN IEL HESTAND, R I CHARD BRAV, JACOT louGH (Low), WE LC OME MAR TI N, BENJAM I N HALSELL, JOHN MAR TI N, HI S TWIN BROTHER

WILLI AM MARTIN, FRANK LI N HILL, WILLI AM MAXEY, GRANOFATH ER OF SAM

BELL MAXEY, NOW MEM • • OF LJ. S. SENATE FROM TEXAS, JOSEPH H ALL ,

BucK ANDREWS, CoL. DAVID HARDIN, KAvs, JosEPH WoorEN,

EDWARD PuRCELL, THE FATHER o r ouR'i5'R." PuRCELL, SAMUE L AND J AMES

W1 LSON, THE McPHERSONS, HOWARD MER CER, G1nEON MAYFIELD.

ON THE NORTH s 1nE o r BEAVER CREEK, ABE L HA I NON, REV. J OHN HowE, DAN IEL CuRo, HAV ILAH P . CRUMP, W1LL1 AM AND HENRY REN ICK , EDWARD

YOUNG, ISAAC WREN, MOSES Cox, ROOERT FIELD , JOEL YANCY, FREDERICK

SM I TH, ELI SHA DEWEESE, ÅNDRE\V BE ARD, JOHN JONES, THOMAS MAGGARD,

JOHN K1 NG, JOSEPH AND SO LOMON DUNNAGAN, SHADRACH GAR I SON, JOHN Ror AN.

Ar BLUE SPR 1 NG GROVE, JOHN ROBERTSON, THE RooERTS, HuGH McMAHAN, HENRY Coo1<, JoHN BuR1<s, THOMAS HARDY, J AMES HowE LL , W1 LLI AM

EDWARDS, A LE XANDER EDWARDS, CADER EDW ARDS, GABR IEL AMENTo

Ar BEAR llA LLOW, PHI LIP MAXEY, ADJACENT THER ETO DAV I D GARV IN ,

ROBERT GARNETT, WM . DOUG LAS$.

ON BEAVER CREEK ADOVE THE CO LUMB I A RO AD , I NCLUDI NG THE S l NKS OF

BEAVER, AND SURROUND I NG COUNTRY: McCoy, FRANC I S L AT I MER, --

COCHRAN, GEORGE DOUG LASS, FATHER o r W1 lll AM AND SAMUE L DouG LASS,

JOHN AND HuGH SM ITH , EsEK IEL NEW LAND, JAMES REN I CK, DAV I D CRAWFORD

PAGE 25 LEv1 NEWOERRY, JAMES NEVILLE , J OHN AND SHEROD BvBEE, W1 LLI AM BELL,

THOMAS Ev ANS, LE ONARD HA LL , THE WooDs .

ÅBOVE, ON THE CO LUMB I A ROAD, JOHN CROW, I N THE SAME NE I GHBORHOOD,

CORNELIUS DEWEESE, SAM MA LONE, R I CHARD WAGGENER AND SONS, JOHN GRANGER (CRENSHAW), THOMPSON CRENSHAW, WM.B I SHOP,R ICH ARD SHIRLEY •

-1 3-

CONT. PAGE 25 THE DALE S, EDWARD Gt LL, STEPHE N R ATL! rr, THE AsKEws, THE J AGGERS,

THE DEWI TT S . Ar THE HE AD OF THE S l NKS OF BEAVER CREEK , LI VED JOHN

Scon , THE FI RST SET TLE R.

ON THE HE AD WATERS OF MARROWBONE ' SKEGG' s' No Boo AND GLOVER ' s

CREEKS, SETTLED 0 BAD I AH WHITE , M ICH AEL BRANSTETTER , J OSEPH H AR VEV,

w ... . I. P ACE , PHILI P V. YOUNG, J OHN s. GEE , GEORGE AND REUBON

D OO LEY, WM . SM ITH, CA LLED " AM ER I CA , 11 WM . NUNN, AMBROSE H UFFMAN ,

WM . 8 AR NETT , PLE ASAN T WHITLOW, HE NRY BYRAM, C LEMENT HILL , _ _ _

HARPER, S TE PHEN FRANKLI N, THE W I TTYS, LEE AND McCANN B YOEE , J OHN

HENRY AND ABSALOM T UDOR. THE T uDORS WERE SA I D TO OE DESCENDANTS

OF THE ROYA L FAM i LY OF T UDORS OF GRE AT BR ! T AI N • • •••

ON No Boo CREEK , AOOVE AND BELOW THE ROAD TO T OMP KI NS VI LLE , SETTLED

THREE BROTHERS, J OHN, Wt LLI AM AND VIA LTE R Co uRTS, J OSEPH T UNST ALL, HI S SONS J OSEPH T. AND LEONARD H . TUNSTALL , ___ HUFFMAN ,

_ _ _ HO LSC L AW, J OSEPH AND JOHN Rt TTE R, • • • • • DAV I D

L YON AND TH E Vi t LSONS .

THE CE NTER OF TH E NEX T SETTLEMENT AOOV E WAS EDM UND ROGERS 1 t NE AR

E DMUNTON . AROUND HI M WERE THE C LARKS, REV. ROBERT STOCKTON, AGNER

HAM i LTON, NOAH BARTON, MRS. ROGERS, THE MOTH ER OF Bt RD AND DR . P AGE 26 GEORGE S, J OHN P AR I SH, JOHN POO L , THE READS, THE TERRYS, B t RD RO GERS ,

THE FATHER OF • • • W1 Lll AM B . ROGERS , Cox, Mel NTE ERs ,

THE H I LLS, THE RU NN I ONS, THE HARP ERS, rH'E"iWYMANS, W I LLI AM FROGGET. THE CouRr s' , TuNST ALLs, PooLs, RoGEAs ' , SrocKTONs, HAMi LTONS, AND OTHE RS HAD MAN Y 13 E AUTI FUL DAUGHTE RS. THE SE TWO NEIGH BORHOODS, No Bos AND EDMUN TON' fROM RE LAT I ONSH I p AND OTHER CAU SE S ' AFFI LI ATED '

V I S I TED AND ASSOC I ATED MORE TOGETHER TH AN ANY OTHER NE I GHOORHOCDS

I N THE COUNTY . THE Y HAD FRE QU ENT SOC I AL AND DANC I NG PAR TI E S. THE

O LDE R ONE S WOU LD DANCE THE OLD V I RG I N I A JIG S AND REELS T O THE

GRE AT ADM I RA TI ON or THE YOUNGER PORT I ON or THE COMPANY ••• WE

MU ST E XC E PT R E V . ROB ERT 5 TOCKTON, AONER H AM i LTON AND THEI R F AM i LIE S

FR OM DANC I NG , AT LE AST THOSE or THEM THA T WERE MEMOER$ or CH URC HE S .

T HE STOCKTONS WERE B APT I STS AND THE HAM i LTONS PR ESBYTE R I ANS .

THE G1 LLI LANDS •• • NE AR POP LAR loG MEET I NG HOUSE , IN SOUTHERN

PAR T or COUN T Y . J ACOO W1 LSON PURCHASED TH EI R SETTLEMENT $, AND

AFTERWARDS SO LD THEM, WITH OTHER LANDS AD JO I N I NG T O DAV I D M. T AYLOR.

A80UT 1811-1 812 J OSEPH WARDER SETT LED, WI TH A LARGE FAM i L Y OF

CHI LDREN, ON BE AV ER CREE K WHERE THE COMUMB I A ROAD CROSSES JT. J OHN,

WA LTE R AND Wt LLI AM Hl S SONS, WERE BAPTI ST PRE AC HERS . Hl S OTHER

SONS, J OSEPH AND HE NRY, WIT H H I S SONS-I N-L AW , A LE XANDER , E VANS ,

ZACHE US QUE SE NBERRY, A ME THOD I ST PRE ACHER, AND C LEME NT Hl T CH SETT LED

NE AR H I M . Nor LONG AFTERWARD, OR BEFORE , OTH ER QUE SE NOURYS , THE

BRYANS, 11 1 Lll s ' AND THORNTON SETTLE LOCATED ABO VE THE CREE K.

I N NAM I NG THE E AR L Y SETTLERS, WE MAY HAVE OM I TTED T O MENTI ON SOME

or THEM, AND OTHERS WE MAV NOT HAV E LOCATED ACC URATELY.

THI S AND THE PRE CED I NG NUMOER EMBRACE MANY SETTLEME NT $ MADE OET WEEN

THE YE ARS 18o2-1 812. TH E POPU LAT I ON OF B ARREN COUNT Y I N 1810 WA S 4, 784.

-14-

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

" •

•

•

•

•

.. •

•

REQlESTS FCR I NFCFhiAT I Clll

SouTHE AS TERN Sr ATE s :

PffilT , JAMES S . AND CHAR LE S A . IN FLU VANNA Co . , V A. AROUND 1830 • M i ss MAGGIE FirE , 5335 MERR I MAC, DA LLAS, T EXAS .

COLLI NS, STACY OORN SPARTENBURG, s.c . , 1 786, TE XAS, M I SS I SS I PP I AND s.c ... CARR P . CO LLI NS , JR . , P . O. Box 25 8o, DA LLAS, TE XAS.

ELAM, WILLI AM JEffERSON - V I RG I NI A • • • J OSEPHI NE ELAM HAVLEY , 708 W.10 TH

STREET, DA LLAS, T EXAS . ALEXAf\DER , D oRcAs JANE WHO MARR I ED B . C .DE AN AT BEN TON CouNrv, ALABAMA, ON

7/28/1842 • •• MRS . V . N . BuRGESS, 3557 CENTENARY DR., DA LLAS, TE XAS . LAUGHTER , M I CHAEL HuNr' s FATHER, WARREN Co . ,N.C. --wANT NAMES OF PARENTS

M 1 ss A u CE VERNON l AUGHTER, 362 1 SourHWESTERN B LvD . ,DA LLAS, TE XAS MATHE\.S, W1 LLI AM, NANCY, MAR TH A - SouTH CARO LINA, M1 ss 1 ss 1 PP ! • • • MR,s .

LILLI AN LUCAS SCHWERTZ, 438 MAYRANT DR I VE , DA L LAS, TE XAS • T AYLCR, T HOMAS MAJ ORS, MARR I ED 1830, MONTGOMERY, A LAOAMA • •• MRS . LILLI AN

Lu CAS ScHW ERT Z, 43!MAYRANT DR 1 vE , DA LLAS, TE XAS. MASSEY, W1LL1 AM ooRN 1 8oo 1N SouTH CARO LI NA, MARR I ED EuzAoErH P Arro N?,

D I ED 1N S i MPSON CouNrv, M1ss 1ss 1PP 1 AFTER 1850 ••• MRS.HE NRY O. J ONES,

SR . , 32 10 Ou vER STREET , DA LL AS 5, TE XAS . DCDSCTll, Eu sHA, SR. - V1RG 1N1A, HALIFAX AND P 1nsY LVAN I A Co • •• •• •

MRs. WA LL ACE GRAEME D 1 xoN, 3(;1 2 AsouRY, DA LLAS, TE XAS . WCMACK, CHAR LE S - V 1RG I NIA, HALI FAX Co ••• MRs. V•A LL ACE GRAEME D 1xoN,

361 2 AsouRY, DA LLAS, T EXAS. WI LKERSCTll, D uDLEV BORN MARCH 8 , 1 8 75 , GRANV I LLE , N . C. ,PERSON Co . , N . C .

AND HA LIFAX Co., VA. ro CHR I STA I N Co. AND GRAV ES Co . , KY • •••

M i ss MADEL W1LKERSON, STAT I ON K, DA LLAS 2, TE XAS • HESTER, RooERT , REv . SoLD 1ER, oORN GRANV I LLE Co . , N.C . I N 1759, DIED I N

OR NEAR GREEN Co.,GEORG I A I N 183o • s . HE MARRIED CELI A DAN IEL , A WI DOW

OF J OHN DAN I EL OF GRAN V I LLE COUNTY , NOR TH CARO LI NA • • • MAR IE 0. E CHOLS T OM LI N, 11 1 7 NOR TH HASKE LL , DA LLAS, T EXAS.

FARRAR, WI LLI AM, THOMAS AND GEORGE - V I RG I NI A, SOUTH CARO LI NA AND MI SS I SS I PP I ,

MRs . Eu ZADETH M. Sr ovrn , 3430 Mc F AR LI N BLvD . , DA LL AS 5, TEX AS · BLANTOO, lsAAC ooRN 1N NoR r H CARO LI NA, u vED 1N T ENNESSEE, WA LKER Co .,

A LADAMA AND CHERO KEE COUNTY, TE XAS • • • MRS. WA LLAC E M. SM ITH , 925

SOUT H BR I GHTON, DA LLAS 8, TE XAS. K l NG, CE LI A, OORN SEPTEMOER 26, 1796 I N ~OUTH CARO LI NA, MARR I ED J OHN SCHROC K

•• • MRs . D . R. SELLI NGS LOH , 4 16 7 PARK L ANE , DA LLAS, TE XAS •

M 1DD LE A TL AN TI C STATES:

CAP LI NGER ( COPLINGER, KAP LI NGER, KEP LI NGER, CEP LI NGER) - PENNS YLVAN I A , V 1RG I NI A, VIEST VIRG I NIA • • • CHAR LES L. SYRON, 3502 LI NDENWOOD, D ALLAS , TE XAS .

HOVER, PO LLY - PENNSY LVAN I A OR NEW YORK STATE, MARR I ED NA TH AN IEL DODGE •• MRS . GLADYS DODGE B I RT, 340 1 BRYN MAWR DR . , DA LLAS, TE XAS •

D AV I S, CHAR LES - PENNSYLVAN I A • • • LLOYD M. CAMPBELL, 3 1 9 MED i CA L AR TS

BLDG . ' DAL LAS, T EXAS .

NEW E NG LAND STATE S: BGilES, W1 LLI AM AND E LI ZAOETH • NEW HAMPSHIR E AND MASSACHU SETTS , CAME IN

18o6 • • • MRs . MARY VAN Ou rL AW , 43 17 HANOVER Sr. , DA LLAS, TE XAS • lliCREHOUSE, HANNAH - CoNNECr 1cur · ••• MRs . F LOY L. OsoORNE CAMPOELL,

6281 McCOMMAS AvE. , DA LLAS, T EXAS . PARKER , L YDIA - CoNNECT 1cu r •• • MRs . F LOY L. OseORNE CAMPDELL , 6281

McCOMMAS AVENUE , DA LLAS, TE XAS •

-15-

THE ORIGI N OF SOIJ1E OF THE DALLAS STREET NAMES

BY MRs. GEORGE F. CARLI SLE

JOHN HENRY BROWN AS STR EET COMMI s -S l ONER, ALDERMAN AND MAYOR OF DALLAS DUR I NG THE 1870's AND 188o's WAS RE­SPONS! OLE FOR NAM I NG THE EARLY $TREET S

OF DALLAS FOR THE PIONEER fAMI LIES. THESE RECORDS WERE Gl VEN TO MRS. GEORGE F. CARLISLE OY PIERRE MITCHEL, GRANDSON OF JOHN HENRY BROWN.

THE FOLLOWI NG STREETS WERE NAMED FOR1

AKARD, ~/. c., CUSINESS MAN. CHANGED FROM SYCAMORE

ADA IR , DR. 11. w., EARLY DOCTOR

A LI.EN, DR . R. w. ' EARLY DOCTOR

BEAl.MC!'JT' DR. G. ' EARLY DOCTOR BCGEL, Juuus, C1rY TAX CoLLECTOR SOLL, HENRY, FRENGH Co LON I sr BCl'P, JAGOC, EARLY SETT LE R BRCl'«R, MRs . Lucy a: 3 soNs, CAME 1845 BRYAN, J OHN NEELY, FIRST CITIZEN BULLINGTON, JAMES, CONFEDERATE SOU:IER,

CAME 1852.

CABE LL , w. L. ' CONFEDERATE GENERA L , MAYOR

CARUfH, WALTER a: W1 LLI AM, GAME 1852 CANTEGRAL, FRANCO! s, FRENCH COLON I ST CENTRA L , FOR H <!: T C RA I LWAY COC~ELL, A LE XANDER, CAME 1845 COLE, DR . J OHN, FI RST PROBATE JUDGE,

GAME 1843. COOHRAN, FAMi LY CAME 1843 COLLI N' THREE OROTHERS' ALUERT' JAMES

AND THOMAS, CHANGED FROM ffaLNVT COCMBS, FAMi LY CAME 1843

CROCKETT' JOHN ~1 . ' MAYOR ' LT .GOVERNOR' CAME 1845.

CR<YÆJUS, J. w. , OUSINESS MAN, MAYOR EAKIN, JOHN J . , CAME 1849, GAPT.MEX I CAN

WAR

ERVAY' HENRY S"CHANGEO FROM OLE ANDER FERR I S, WARREN A., SURVEYED DALLAS

COUNTY 1840 FIELD , SAMUEL, FIRST HEALTH u FF1crn,

SuRGEON CoN FEDERACY FLOYD, TWO EARLY FLOYD FAMi LIE S

GANO, R . M" GENERA L CoNFEDERATE ARMY GRIFFI N, REv. TH ACKER t ORGAN I ZED FIRST

CHR I ST I AN CHURCH, 1846

GOOJ, JOHN J.' MAYOR GR I GSBY' FOR GRi GSOY FAM i LY. DALLAS

OU ILT ON GR I GSOY SURVEY.

-1 6-

HALL, H. H . AND ORO THERS HAR\ICXD, ALEXANJ"lER, COUNTY CLERK,

GAPT . CONFEDERATE ARMY . HAS~ LL , HORAT I o, SERVED MEXICAN

WAR AND CONFEDERATE ARMY • HA\i KI NS, AR THUR G1 OSON HORD, W1 LLI AM H. CHI EF Jusn er.

CHANGEO FROM CARONDO LET . HIBTON , ENOCH, EARLY SETT LER LANE, J OHN w., GAPT. CON FEDERATE

ARMY, MAYOR, l.EGI S LA TOR

LATl~ER, JAMES w., FI RST EDITOR , CH IEF JUSTICE 1852, GAME TO TEXAS 1834, DIED 1859.

LA\IS, JOHN M.' D l STRI GT &: COUNTY CLERK l.EAR, DR . P. W. , EARLY DOCTOR I.El/MON, W. H . , GAPT . CONFEDERATE

ARMY, Bus1 NESS MAN

LEONARD, FOR FAMi LY, CAME 1843 MARI LLA, FOR MAR I LLA I NGRAM YOUNG .

CHANGEO FROM COLUMB I A MASTEN, REV. w. K . ' METHODI ST Ml NI S­

TER, NOW N . Sr . PAUL Sr. MART IN, GAPT . w. P . , MEXICAN WAR AND

CONFEDERATE ARMY . MASON I C, FOR MASON I c CEMETERY ESTAD­

LI SHEO 1855 NUSSBALllER, JACOO, FRENCH COLON I ST McCOY, J OHN C . , CAME 1845, DISTRICT

JUDGE MURPHY, W. L. , BUS I NESS MAN PATTERSON, JAMES M., CH1 EF Jusr1 CE

FOR 12 YEARS

PORTER' FOR PORTER AKARD PRYCR, DR. SAMUEL B., FI RST DALLAS

MAYOR, SuRGEON CONFEDERATE RMY.

SANGER, ALEX.' EARLY STORE OWNER SEEGAR, DR. J . A . , EARLY DOCTOR STCJ.E, B . llARREN, CoL . CoNFEDERATE ARMY SVllSS, NAME OY Sw1ss COLONISTS WI Ll.EMET, DR . F. L. ,FRENCH Co LON I ST THOMS, J OHN, FIRST CH I EF Jusr1cE,

GAME 1842 YOUNG, REV. VJ .M.C.' METHOD I ST Ml NI STER.

CHAPLAI N CoNFEDERATE ARMY.

NAME CHANGED FROM PO LK.

EDITOR 'S NOTE: PLEASE SEND I N THE

NAMES or STREETS AND OTHER LAND­

MARKS THAT HAVE OEEN NAMED FOR

YOUR FAMi LY.

•

•

..

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

"

•

•

•

•

•

.. •

•

RECE NT G i FT S TO TH E GENE A LOGY D EPARTMENT - D A LL AS Puou c LI ORAR Y

U . S . CENSUS POP ULATI ON SCH EDU LE S, A L ADAMA - 1 85 0 , CHEROKEE - CONEC UM COUN T I ES -­J, U . DA Y

C L AR K , MRS . BA LFOUR H. , CO LON I AL 6 1 DLE RECORDS AND W1 LLS -- DAUGHTER S OF THE AMER I CAN Co LON I STs, TE XAS Soc 1En.- -- - --

R 1n GE WA Y, HERO ERT, H1 sTOR Y .at:!!2 GENEALOGY Q.E. l.!:!.S. CO LLI NS F AM i LY Q.E. CARO LI NE COUNT Y, l!'..l..!lfil.! -- CARR P . CO LLI NS, J R ,

CAMPOEL L , DOUG LAS, ill P uR IT AN .Ll! HO LL ANr, E NG L ANfl ANDAMEAI CA. 2 VO LS. -­

TE XAS 6RANCH OF THE SONS AND DAUGH TERS OF THE P1 LGR I MS .

W I LLI SON, GEORGE F . , SA I NTS A!iQ STRANGERS -- TEXAS BRANCH OF THE SONS AND

DAUGHTERS OF THE P 1 LGR I MS .

GEOLE R, E RNE ST , TH E P L YMOU TH ADVENTURE -- TE XAS BRANCH OF TH E SONS AND DAUGHTE RS OF M P1 LGR I MS . - --

K I NG, ~~ TI ME S Q[ fl S I GNERS Qf .I!:!i MECK LE NOURG D ECL ARAT I ON Q.E. I NDEPENDENCE -- ANOM .

M I CRO FI LM OF 8 10 GRAPHI CA L AND Ht S TOR I CA L MEMO I RS OF WESTERN ARKANSAS, GOODSPEED ' S -- MRS . D . ~T;;;;;;-- - - - -- ---

CoNOVER, CHAR LOTTE REE VE , C~ .I!:!i F ORE FATHERS Q.E. Q.Q.b . ROOER T PATTERSON

AND COL . J OHN JOHNSTON - - MRS . J OHN SP EL LMAN •

T HRE'E vEAR sliOsCRIPTiQ;To TH E V J RG I NI A GE NEALOG I s r -- ANOM.

KNORR, KA THE R I NE , MARR I AGE s QE PowHAT AN CouNTY. V 1RG 1N1A -- MRs . GEORGE DuBRuL.

S UPP LEMENT TO THE S I MS I NDE X TO L AND GRANT S I N WES T V 1 RG I N I A - - ANOM.

CRow, JEWELLLo rLA~H~YDFT'H'E F AM ILY o;;: Lo r u.ND I N AMER I CA --

TEX AS BRANCH OF THE SoNs AND DM:iG'HTERs'OFTHE Pi LGR 1t:ffi OY MRs . CRow .

SM I TH, CH AR LE S D . , h. F AM ILY B 10GRAPH Y , TH E STORY OF EDWARD WILLI S AND

J ONN I E RODERT SON AND THE I R TEN CH I LDREN -- MAR J I E E , NEAL,

LINK, PAXSON, LI NK F AM i L Y -- i-INOM .

H 1STORY OF F1 R"S"TPR~A I AN CHUR CH OF MORR I STOWN, NEW J ERSE Y -- MRS .

CHAR LE S LOONE Y .

MEMOR I A L$ OF THE DEAD I N BOSTON • • • K 1NG 1 S CH APE L BUR I A L GROUND -­

NORMAN SMITH

Wooos, RE V. EDGAR, A L OEMAR LE, COUNTY , V I RGIN I A - - MRS. CHARLES loONE Y ~

MANNING AND A LLI ED F AM ILIE S DY ELI ZADETH ANN VIR 1GH T , 5443 V 1CKERY B L vD . ,

D AL L AS, T E XAS, 1956 . GENERAL I NDEX . A LLI ED F AM i LIE S; hCAEE, ADAMS ,

ANDERSON, ANGE L L, hP FFE L , AT KI NSON, BA ILEY, BA I N, BATCHELOR, BEE LE A , BELCHER,

Bo Yo, BREWI NGTON, BuRKE, BuRNE T Ts, BUT LER, CA LDWELL , CA LHOuN, CAR TER, CHAPMAN ,

CHEE LY, CHERVENKA, CHuMMEY, CL ARK, C LE t-1ENT, C L1 cK, CO LLI NS, CoNNER, Coo K,

CORTI MELl.-1, Cox, CRANFORD, CRAW FORD, CROMAR TI E, DAv 1s, D 1CKMAN, D 1MM I CK, D r xoN ,

DR 1 VEA, D u cKwOR TH, DuGGAN, DuNCAN, E DENS, E L LENGA, E PP Es, E vANS, F A l LS, Fo uT v ,

FRANC t s, FRAZ IER, FRENCH, FRY, FuL LE R, Fu TCH, GARV, GJLMORE, G L AZE, GOOD LOE ,

GORDON, Gou LD I NG, GRA YSON, GREE NLEE , GR I DER, HAD!".llCK, HAMR I CK, H ARR I NGTON,

H AY, HE AD LEE , H 1GG 1Ns, HooKs, HOR TON, HowE, HowELL , HuoER, HuEv, HuGH ES, JAME S ,

JE STER, JETER, J OHNSON, KARR , K I NG , L ATHAM, L AWSON, LI NK, L I TTLE, LOHMEYER,

L ONLON , McCANN, McPHERSON, MANN I NG, MARDERRY, MARSH , MAYNARD, MAYS , ME ADOR ,

M l LLER, M l LLS, MOORHE AD, MOSELEY , MUMOERSON, NORMAN, 0SMENT , 0.-JENS, PARKER ,

PETTY, P1 LLANS, PORTER , PR t EST, RE1 n, R 1 KE, RoornTs, RocERT SON, ROGERS, Rou sE,

R o urn , RuNNELLS, Ru ssELL , ScH1 CK, ScHOONMAKER, Scorr, S 1Ms, SM 1 LEV , SM ITHW I CK ,

S TE ELE , S TEPHENS, S TE VENS, STE~JART , STONE H AM, S ru cKERT, S r uRD I VANT, S unnERTH ,

SWE ATMAN , T AY LOR, T I MS, V 1EREGGE, WA LKER, WATK I NS, WAVER, ~'JELDON, W1 LLJ AMSON,

W1 L LI AMSON, W1 LLI NGHAM, W1 LLS, W1 LSON, W1 NTON, WOMACK , Wooo , WooowARD, WA ! GHT,

WURTLE, YA TE S, YOUNGQU I ST •

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

~·

•

•