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Descendants of Edward Ground - August 2006

46. ALICE MAY⁶ GROUND (EDWARD⁵, ROBERT⁴, ROBERT³, EDWARD², ROBERT¹) was born 28 Oct 1871, and died Aft. 1936 in res Los Angeles, CA 1936. She married .. SHADOWMY Unknown in Los Angeles, CA. He was born Unknown in or Shadomy, and died Unknown.

Child of ALICE GROUND and .. SHADOWMY is:

VINCENT⁷ SHADOWNEY, b. Unknown; d. Unknown.

47. RHODA E.⁶ BOYDSTUN (DRUSILLA⁵ GROUND, ROBERT⁴, ROBERT³, EDWARD², ROBERT¹) was born 11 Jul 1840 in Abingdon, Knox Co, IL, and died 30 Aug 1876 in or 1876; Dallas or Ellis Co, TX. She married JOSEPH E. KELLEY 28 Mar 1867 in Pleasant Valley Dallas Co TX; Triple Ceremony at home by T.A. Witherspoon Eld.. He was born 21 Aug 1845, and died 23 Apr 1919 in Midlothian, Ellis Co, TX.

Children of RHODA BOYDSTUN and JOSEPH KELLEY are:

	i.		MINNIE⁷ KELLEY, b. 27 Sep 1867; d. 14 May 1923, Cisco, Eastland Co, TX.
	ii.		VERDA VIRGINIA KELLEY, b. 15 Jun 1872; d. Unknown; m. DAVE RUMPH, 26 Feb 1920; b. 24 Dec 1875, of Fort Worth, TX; a physician; d. 14 Jan 1930, Cisco, TX.

48. JULIA ANN⁶ BOYDSTUN (DRUSILLA⁵ GROUND, ROBERT⁴, ROBERT³, EDWARD², ROBERT¹) was born 04 May 1843 in Abingdon, Knox Co, IL, and died 23 Aug 1883 in Dallas Co, TX. She married JOHN RAPE 29 Jan 1862 in Dallas, Co, TX, Married at home by A.M. Dean, son of JACKSON RAPE and ELIZA SUMPTER. He was born 18 Sep 1842 in Sangamon Co, IL-CSA Veteran, and died 21 Jun 1926 in Dallas Co, TX.

Notes for JOHN RAPE:
Lera Kate Powell, in the Sumpter family submission to the History of Mansfield, Texas, names children of Jackson Rape and Eliza Jane Sumpter, the oldest being Jehu. This may be another name, or an error for John Rape.

In 1855, at the age of 12, John Rape moved with his parents from Illinois, through Missouri, Indian Territory (now Oklahoma), into Texas, where they settled one mile south of Cedar Hill and a short distance from Pleasant Valley. John Rape joined the ordinance department of the Confederacy in 1862 and was stationed at Lancaster, Texas, making pistols. From there, he was transferred to Marshall, Texas. Later, he was sent to Tyler, Texas, where he was put on the bench to dress and repair broken rifles. He was discharged at Tyler and had to walk home to Cedar Hill. When he was within 12 miles of his home, a member of his family met him, bringing a horse for him to ride the rest of the way.

Shortly after his return home, he took the wagon and six yoke of oxen and drove to Houston for a new threading machine. He made the trip in 3 weeks, which was considered quite fast in those days. Julia Ann Boydstun and her husband, John Rape, resided at Cedar Hill, Texas, and had 6 children.

Sources of information for this family:
Memorial & Biographical History of Dallas County, Texas
US Census - Dallas Co, TX 1860, 1870, 1880

Children of JULIA BOYDSTUN and JOHN RAPE are:

157.	i.	MARY ALICE⁷ RAPE, b. 30 Jan 1863, Cedar Hill, Dallas Co, TX; d. 03 Feb 1937, Dallas Co, TX.
	ii.	IDA JANE RAPE, b. 14 Feb 1868, unmarried; res w/Mary Alice after JH Stewart died; d. 16 Jul 1936, Dallas Co, TX.
	iii.	ROBERT JACKSON RAPE, b. 24 Dec 1869, unmarried; d. 20 Sep 1872, Dallas Co, TX.
158.	iv.	WILLIAM JACOB RAPE, b. 12 Jun 1872; d. Jun 1934, died of tuberculosis.
159.	v.	OMA DRUSILLA RAPE, b. 19 Apr 1875; d. Unknown.
160.	vi.	HUGH EDGAR RAPE, b. 18 Jul 1879; d. Aug 1971, Texarkana, TX.

49. NANCY JANE⁶ BOYDSTUN (DRUSILLA⁵ GROUND, ROBERT⁴, ROBERT³, EDWARD², ROBERT¹) was born 18 Jun 1845 in Abingdon, Knox Co, IL, and died 24 Jan 1931 in Lubbock, TX. She married DANIEL DAVIE 28 Mar 1867 in Dallas, Co, TX; Triple Ceremony at home. He was born 08 Apr 1843 in Missouri, and died 29 Aug 1906 in Midlothian, Ellis Co, TX.

Notes for DANIEL DAVIE:
Daniel Davie enrolled at Hempstead, Texas, as a Private in W.G. Veal's Company and Ellis Rangers, Parson's Regiment, Texas Volunteers 28 Oct 1861. He was age 18 when he was mustered into the service at Camp Herbert. He subsequently transferred to Company F, 12th Regiment, Texas Cavalry. He was present at muster from 30 Sep to 31 Dec 1863, the last roll on file.

He married in 1865 at Pleasant Valley to Nancy Jane Boydstun, part of a triple ceremony of three sisters. The Davies lived first in Ellis County, then Breckenridge, Texas. In 1893, they lived near Mansfield, Tarrant County, Texas. He had purchased the farm adjoining the farm of the Wolcott family.

In 1902, the Davies purchased 3 sections of land when the Panhandle of Texas was placed on the market by the state of Texas and moved with the Wolcotts to west Texas where they stocked their land with Hereford cattle.

In 1905, the Davies sold their land and moved to Midlothian, Texas, because of ill health. Daniel Davie died in 1906 at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Raleigh Martin.

Children of NANCY BOYDSTUN and DANIEL DAVIE are:

	i.		EMMA LEONA⁷ DAVIE, b. 1868; d. 19 Feb 1872.
161.	ii.		ANNIE LAURA DAVIE, b. 20 Feb 1870, Ellis Co, TX; d. 27 Nov 1954, Lubbock, Lubbock Co, TX; bd Lubbock, TX.

50. SUSAN CAROLINE⁶ BOYDSTUN (DRUSILLA⁵ GROUND, ROBERT⁴, ROBERT³, EDWARD², ROBERT¹) was born 20 Sep 1847 in Abingdon, Knox Co, IL, and died 12 Dec 1929 in Roswell, NM. She married SAMUEL COPE HOUSE 17 Mar 1867 in Dallas, Co, TX; Married at home, son of PETER HOUSE and SARAH COPE. He was born 04 Apr 1841 in White Co, TN, CSA TX, and died 1899 in Mansfield, Tarrant Co, TX.

Notes for SUSAN CAROLINE BOYDSTUN:
Susan Caroline Boydstun was one year old when her family moved from Illinois to Texas and settled at Pleasant Valley in Dallas County. She died in Roswell, New Mexico at the home of her daughter, Mrs. J. Carper. She married in the same ceremony as her sisters, Rhoda and Nancy Jane, in her father's house at Pleasant Valley.

After Samuel House's death, Susan Caroline continued to live in her home in Mansfield, but in the year 1902, when her sisters and their husbands moved to Lubbock, Texas, she sold her home at Mansfield and followed her kin to the new country. The stay in west Texas was short, but the settling at Midland was of longer duration. After the marriage of her youngest child and the deaths of her sister, Mary Margaret and husband William Henry Wolcott, Susan Caroline sold her home in Midland and lived the rest of her years with her daughter in Roswell, New Mexico.

Notes for SAMUEL COPE HOUSE:
Samuel C. House came to Texas with his brother, Oliver Pitt House, in the year 1859 and settled in Johnson County, Texas near Mansfield. Their father followed in the spring of 1860.

Samuel House joined the Confederate army in the beginning of the Civil War at age 18. He fought in most of the major battles, and was captured at Missionary Ridge and held prisoner for six months at Chicago. All of his war service was in the most fiercely contested battles. The Battle of Missionary Ridge was perhaps the most bloody of the war with 19,000 killed on the Confederate side, and an equal number on the Federal. Data from the reminiscences of Samuel House to his nephew, Otis House, of Mansfield, Texas: "The reverberation of Grant's guns at this battle of Missionary Ridge was the signal of the beginning of the end of the Confederacy." Samuel House never retreated, but stood his ground until he was captured. It is something for his heirs to remember.

Children of SUSAN BOYDSTUN and SAMUEL HOUSE are:

	i.	ELMA⁷ HOUSE, b. 1868, Mansfield, Tarrant Co, TX; d. 1868, (or 1871).
162.	ii.	EFFIE HOUSE, b. 12 Sep 1871, Mansfield, Tarrant Co, TX; d. 21 Feb 1926, Midland, TX.
163.	iii.	SALLY HOUSE, b. 19 Aug 1873, Mansfield, Tarrant Co, TX; d. 23 Mar 1912, Midland, TX.
164.	iv.	OLLIE HOUSE, b. 1875, Mansfield, Tarrant Co, TX; d. 1940, Fort Worth, Tarrant Co, TX.
165.	v.	MARGARET HOUSE, b. 23 Sep 1887, Mansfield, Tarrant Co, TX; d. Aft. 1940, (living in Roswell NM 1940).

51. MARTHA VIRGINIA⁶ BOYDSTUN (DRUSILLA⁵ GROUND, ROBERT⁴, ROBERT³, EDWARD², ROBERT¹) was born 04 Jul 1852 in Dallas Co, TX, and died 16 Mar 1903 in Mansfield, Tarrant Co, TX. She married ANDREW JACKSON DUKES 13 Nov 1873 in Ellis Co, TX; Book C/73; Church of Christ, son of ROBERT DUKES and ELIZA HALL. He was born 11 Apr 1841 in Independence, Jackson Co, MO, and died 28 Dec 1921 in Mansfield, Tarrant Co, TX.

Notes for ANDREW JACKSON DUKES:
Andrew Jackson "Dutch" Dukes was born in Independence, Missouri, on April 11, 1841, the son of Robert Sherard Dukes and Eliza Hall.

He joined the cause of the Confederacy December 26, 1862, and served as a private in Company D, 12th Missouri Cavalry in the Civil War. He was present at muster January and February 1864, was taken prisoner in New Orleans in General E. K. Smith's surrender to Maj. Gen. E.R.S. Canby on May 26, 1865. Dukes was paroled 14 Jun 1865 at Shreveport, Louisiana. According to William F. Dukes, A.J. "had an argument with an enemie's ball during the Civil War before he came to Mansfield. Dad (A.J. Dukes II) said the other day that A.J. told him he was firing at Union soldiers, his rifle at his shoulder and in his hands when he himself was hit. A.J. said that the ball hit his hand first then went into his chest." According to another story, A.J. Dukes claimed the 12th Missouri Cavalry didn't have enough horses to be called a cavalry.

After the war, he returned to his father's home in Kearney, Clay County, Missouri. He was recorded on the 1870 U.S. Census there, occupation, Trader.

As the story goes, A.J. Dukes went to Mansfield, Texas, attracted by stories told him by his superior officer in the cavalry, Captain Johnson. He arrived with 50 cents in his pocket.

Dukes first worked for wages and board for other settlers. As he saved money, he bagen to buy what was known as "black land," when sandy land was preferred for its ability to grow good gardens and orchards. Some of this land was bought for 25 cents an acre, and it dramatically gained value when crops such as cotton began to be propagated in the area.

It was in Mansfield that Dukes met Miss Martha Virginia Boydstun at a dance in the Spring of 1873. When he saw her enter the ballroom with her escort, he turned to the gentleman standing near him and said, "Who is the lady in the door? Introduce me to her. She will be my wife or I will never have one."

A.J. Dukes and Mattie Boydstun were married on November 13, 1873 at the home of her sister, Mary Margaret Boydstun Wolcott. Little Annie Laura David, three years old when Aunt Mat married, made the assertion in 1935 that she possibly was too young to remember the wedding, but, "I certainly remember the 'enfare;' I never before had seen so many pies and cakes."

Martha Virginia Boydstun was the daughter of Jacob Gardner Boydstun and his wife, Drusilla Ground, who were early area settlers.

The Dukes had the distinction of owning Mansfield's first bathtub. The bathtub, having arrived from St. Louis by wagon train, was too big for the kitchen, and the solution was to build a brick bathhouse. Water had to be heated in the kitchen and carried to fill it.

In 1890, Dukes bought the residence of John C. Collier, located west of what was Mansfield Male and Female College from 1870 and 1887. The Dukes alternately called this home "the house on the hill" and "Lonepine." It is located on a sharply rising slope (at the foot of which lived Frances Ralston and her family, one of Roberta Dukes' favorite pals) which provided an excellent view of the then little village of Mansfield. Behind the house, the hill sloped gently down to the edge of the banks of Walnut Creek. In the yard was a pine tree of huge proportions, hence the name, "Lonepine."

The house at 401 East Elm had 15 rooms, many fireplaces, and twelve "outside doors." The main entrance door is at least 8 feet high, and heavy pine and oak woodwork abounds. Major alterations were made during their residence, including the installation of the first indoor plumbing in Mansfield. Three children were raised in this home: Martha Lena Dukes, born October 25, 1874; Leonidas Sherard Dukes, born August 25, 1876, and Roberta Drusilla Dukes, born November 1, 1889.

In an upstairs room, Mattie kept a collection of sea shells, fish scales, and mounted birds of all kinds. She took sea shells and fish scales and dyed them different colors and put them together with wire and formed them into flowers.

Dukes and his family spent most of the hot summer months at their home, "Luff," in Flour Bluff near Corpus Christi. The children were required to go to school only from September to February. Despite sporadic studying, the children were well educated. Lena and Lon studied at Ad-Ran-Jarvis College, and Roberta went to New York City to study music and voice. The Dukes enjoyed fishing. Mattie once caught a 6' 1" tarpon, which A.J. had mounted and put in a glass showcase on the front porch of the house on the hill.

Mattie Dukes died on March 16, 1903, and was buried in the Mansfield Cemetery.

Dutch Dukes considered himself a good judge of character and helped people he believed in. There are many stories about gifts and loans to friends, neighbors, and organizations, but Dukes believed in helping people without fanfare. For example:

One night, A.J. saw a man stealing corn out of his corn crib, grabbed his break-top 38 Smith & Wesson, shot the man and wounded him. When A.J. saw who the man was, he hitched up the horse and buggy and drove to Ft. Worth and put the man in the hospital. He never revealed the identity of the man he shot.

A.J. walked to town every day and sat on a bench in front of the grocery store and talked and joked with friends or sat in the First National Bank, of which he was a stockholder and director. The long walk to town from Lonepine finally convinced Dukes in 1909 that he should trade houses with Dr. William B. McKnight, whose home was only one block from downtown, on the corner of Oak and North Streets (then Cardinal Road). It was originally the home of Dr. Julian T. Feild, one of the founders of Mansfield.

Upstairs in the old McKnight house were three bedrooms and a bathroom. Downstairs was one bedroom, living room, large dining room and kitchen. In the kitchen was a huge iron stove with 8 eyes on top, two ovens below, a warming oven above, and a coil in the fire box that heated the water in the hot water tank. By 1941, the old McKnight home had been torn down and three rent houses built from the material obtained.

In this beautiful home, reminiscent of Jeffersonian architecture, A.J. Dukes died of pneumonia on December 28, 1921. He was buried beside his wife in Mansfield Cemetery.

Lena Dukes married on April 24, 1893 to William Silas Poe. They had one child, Andrew Jackson Poe. Lena Dukes Poe died of "slow fever" on April 27, 1894, when the child was only a few days old. Andrew Jackson Poe never married.

Lon Dukes married May 30, 1898, Margaret Alanzie Hopson. They had two children, Andrew Jackson Dukes and Mattie Faye Dukes.

Roberta Dukes married September 23, 1918, Jewell Moser Richardson. They had one child, Jackson Moser Richardson.

Children of MARTHA BOYDSTUN and ANDREW DUKES are:

166.	i.	MARTHA LENA⁷ DUKES, b. 25 Oct 1874, Mansfield, Tarrant Co, TX; d. 27 Apr 1894, Mansfield, Tarrant Co, TX.
167.	ii.	LEONIDAS SHERARD DUKES, b. 25 Aug 1876, Mansfield, Tarrant Co, TX; d. 25 Feb 1940, Fort Worth, Tarrant Co, TX.
168.	iii.	ROBERTA DRUSILLA DUKES, b. 01 Nov 1889, Mansfield, Tarrant Co, TX; d. 09 Jan 1948, T. E. Schumpert Sanitarium, Shreveport, Caddo Parish, LA.

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