Genealogy Report: Ancestors of Lillian Mae Washington
Ancestors of Lillian Mae Washington
4.Darlington Washington38, born 1806 in Barnwell Co., SC; died Aft. 1860 in Parker Co., TX39,40.He was the son of 8. Thomas Washington and 9. Nancy Darlington.He married 5. Elizabeth Greenwood 02 September 1826 in St. Clair Co., AL41.
5.Elizabeth Greenwood, born Abt. 1811 in TN42,43; died Abt. 1832 in AL44.She was the daughter of 10. John Greenwood and 11. Unknown.
Notes for Darlington Washington:
--These are my notes (or I credit others)which I have seen copied without reference to me; feel free to use them, but please cite me--
There are many confusions about Darling Washington, whose name I first heard as a child in the Gainesville, Texas, home of my grandparents, the Marshalls. My grandmother Lillian told me her grandfather was Darling. She said he was married to Sally, and that Sally was her dad's mother. Who Washington married and when is something of a jumble; even in death there is mystery as to how he died, and his tombstone is in two pieces of different ages, and signed by "a friend...."
His true first name seems to be Darlington, and I have come, by now, 1999,to believe that Darling was a diminutive nickname; he was called Darling.While my grandmother (his granddaughter) called him Darling, others say it is the fuller Darlington.See, inter alia, Frances Armaly, op. cit.And also Margaret Washington Thompson, <Mrg590@aol.com> op. cit. But most convincing is the marriage record filed in Rusk Co., Texas:"Darlington Washington to Miss Jane Yancy. Issued License 3rd March 1846 Solemnized 5th March 1846 by Jos E Glas...(?) Justice Peace" He is also Darlington Washington in the Benton (St. Clair) County census of 1840. These speculations are important, for it might mean his mother Nancy was a Darlington.Others believe the name derived from a well known preacher of the area and time, Darlington Peeples, or some such.
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Long says Darling married a Sally Losander in Sep 1826 in St. Clair Co., Ala. Margaret Thompson has a court listingnaming his marriage to Elizabeth Greenwood the same month. (Others have cited this as well.) Based on this documentation, I side with Elizabeth. While my grandmother said her grandmother was Sarah, I think she was referring to the second wife of Darling, Sally Losander, who probably raised young James Russell Washington.In Long's unpublished, xeroxed hand-typed report, he writes:
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p184"Darling Washington born 1806 in South Carolina died post 1859 in Parker County, Texas married 1st in September 1826 in St Clair County, Alabama to Sally Losander.There were six children by this marriage as shown by Benton County, Alabama census of 1840.
1 white male 30-401 white female 20-30
1 white male 15-201 white female 5-10
1 white male 10-15
1 white male 5-10
2 white males under 5
(editor: I am unable to validate all these children, and wonder if two were not his but ones he was watching after? We know James Russell, b 1828, so aged 10-15; Nancy, b 1832, 5-10; John, b 1837 and William, b 1840, so 2 in the 0-5 block. The blocks we have no children for are 1 white male 5-10 and 1 white male 15-20. Who are these boys? The 15-20 would be born 1820-1825 before his marriage to Elizabeth Greenwood. This is likely a relative or a laborer in the home. The 1 5-10 is a deeper puzzle, and might be a child who died after the census counted him. Terisa Washington has kindly sent me a xerox of the original pages.)
The year of Darling Washington's migration to Rusk Co., Texas is not known nor is it known whether Sally Losander Washington, his wife, died before he went to Rusk Co.Certainly Jane was his wife by 1850 in Rusk County and on the census.[see below for Sally]
Census of Rusk County, Texas in 1850, taken Nov. 23d, 1850 (I have a xeroxed copy of the original sheet courtesy of Terisa Washington, 2003 and I have amended the entry below to conform)
Darling Washington .......................44 M.....Farmer 1000..........S.C.
Jane ...............................................34 F.....................................Unknown
J. Russell .......................................22 M.....Farmer....................Ala
Nancy .............................................19 F......................................Ala
John ................................................13 M....................................Ala
William ...........................................10 M....................................Ala
Malvina ............................................4 F......................................Texas
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(I added John Washington to the 1850 census above as Long had mistakenly omitted him.... and later with the actual record at hand see that he is there... Long also omitted the birth states of the last four listed, which I have added from the census. Note that Malvina was born in Texas, and as she is four, this must date their arrival before November,1846.)
I wonder where Longfound theLosander marriage? He does not mention any documentation, butputs her marriage in the exact month of the recorded marriage to Elizabeth Greenwood.
(Later-- the two marriages are in the St. Clair Co. register beside each other-- one blotted but clearly Darling Washington.... and both in September 1826, apparently.... this must be a mis-entry and is discussed below.)
Darling Washington "of Benton Co., Ala.," patented two pieces of land in Calhoun Co., Alabama, on August 1st, 1837. The General Land Office Record shows the first of these two as:
AliquotSec/Blk TownshipRangeFract.Sect.MeridianAcres Counties
1SESW18/15-S7-ENHUNTSVILLE 39.79CALHOUN
About all this from E R Walt:
"As a descendant of Darlington Washington, I appreciated your research on line regarding the Washington family.It has given me much to work on. I might be able to shed some light on Mr. Long's reference to Darling's marriage to a Sally Losander, which puzzled me also.I finally found a record which might be the source of the mistake. In the printed record of marriages in St. Clair Co. Alabama there is a reference to the marriage of a Sally Losan to a Darling Bl (ink spot) on Sept. 1836.This is the only explanation I could find for Mr. Long's statement.
Mr. Long also failed to include my great great grandfather John R. Washington who was on the 1850 Rusk Co. census between Nancy and William.He was 13 and born in Alabama.John died of sickness in Indian Territory on Jan.1, 1865 while serving in Bourland's Texas Border Cavalry during the War for Southern Independence."
Editorial note: I now think, with Ed Walt, that Darling may have been married three times, 1st, to Elizabeth Greenwood in 1826, 2d to Sally (or Sarah) Losander in Sep 1836, and finally, 3d, to Jane Yancy in Rusk Co., TX. I am going to reinsert Sally in the tree;mostly because my grandmother mentioned her grandmother Sarah. If I later find that Emma Lucille Spence's mother is Sarah, then I may revert, and assume that my grandmom was referring to her other grandmother. Ah, well......(but see below for all this to be questioned!) (and, oh dear, I later learn that I think Emma's mother is a Sarah...)
E. R. Walt: "In light of your grandmother's memory of her grandmother's name being Sarah,I'm having 2nd thoughts about dismissing Long's research. I checked the 1830 and 1840 Ala.censuses and found no one who's name started with Bl...with the 1st name of Darling. (ed.: I think the Bl is a typed entry meaning a blot on the written original files....) Is it possible he married Elizabeth Greenwood in '26 and upon her death married Sally Losan(der) in '36 and Long merely missed the date ? The 1850 Rusk Co. Census shows Nancy born in '31 followed by John in '37. That's a long spell between children for that time unless he was between wives. What do you think? Regards, Ed"
(and I have since seen the actual written entries for these marriages to Salley and to Elizabeth, and they are still confusing, but the blot is Washington. No doubt... Darling Washington.)
Then there is this interesting note from Margaret Thompson of Ala., Feb., 2000:
"I was going through all of those old papers Sunday and I came across this from Mary Jackson back in October 1999 when she was working at an old library and searching stuff for Edward Washington's line.She refers to Marie King who married and became Marie Garland as a deceased genealogist in Oklahomawho worked on the DarlingWashington line. "I found the girl to whom Darling Washington was married being called clearly,'Sallie (Sarah) Lorain'b. 1810 in Tennessee....even the Bicentennial Book straight out of Love County, OKshows Russell Washington's parents as being Darling Washington and Sallie Losander so keepthat in mind as we go along.The place where she is being called 'Sallie Lorain' is in a hand written interview done by Marie Garland, the deceased genealogist from the Marietta, Okla area, who was Marie King before she married Garland, so she's mighty close kin to that bunch.... Naturally, she (Marie) is concentrating on Russell/Darling/W.E.and J.C. Washington , the Marietta, Ok. and Cooke County, Tex. branch."I wanted to know if you were familiar with Marie Garland's work? (ed.: no.) Margaret"
To add further confusion to this discussion, I now have (March 2000) a photocopy of the St. Clair record of marriages for the period of note. Paulette Gilchrist Of Ala. was so kind to send the copy to me.At the end of a handwritten page of ten three-columned entries, one marriage per row, in the ninth row and the tenth are:
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License Issued this 2nd day of Sept 1826, Darling Washingtonto Elizabeth Greenwood, Solemnized 21st Sept1826
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License issued Sept 9, 1826, Darling Washington to Salley Losann, Solemnized Sept 21st 1826, B. James Thomason
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These records are in the same hand, and while the second "Washington" entry is blotted, it still appears to be Darling Washington. The Losann could be some other set of letters, but to my eye most closely appears as Losann or, perhaps,Lorain. But I also note on the handwritten 1830 St Clair census that Darling's next door neighbor with the right-aged daughter is a John Lowrance! John Lowrance is 40-50, has a boy 10-15, three girls 5-10, one 10-15 (our Salley?), and his wife who is 40-50. There are also three Lawsons in St. Clair Co.,of which Robert Lawson has two daughters of appropriate age to be our Salley. The other male is John Lawson, who has a girl younger than 10, so it is possible by 1826 at 16 she marries Darling. Jincy or Jency Lawson is also listed as a head of household, but she is carried in some data as the wife of a Lawson, or widow, and has no girls.
But how can Darling marry two different women the same day? Could he and Elizabeth have gotten their license to marry on the 2d and she died before the ceremony the 21st? So he married her after her death, and married Salley too?? What a mystery!I think there is a clerical error here, or a later rendering of the records copied together and bunched up and mistranscribed?
So we still cannot be sure who is the mother of James Russell Washington born in 1828. Which of these women was his mother?Ed Walt adds: "...I tend to believe he married Elizabeth in '26 and Sally in '36 and there was a transcribing error somewhere.I also believe that Lorain is probably the correct name."(Editor: I have adopted this construction as of March, 2000, except I have come to believe it is Sally Lowrance, his neighbor, whom he marries.... There are no Lorain(e)s I could find in St. Clair in 1830, but later?Further, I went tonight back to this record, Jan. 5th, 2003, and think the Greenwood license is dated 1836, and wrongly placed on this sheet in a later collection of licenses for the record....)
On my questions, Paulette adds, in March 2000 that "...in 1826 and 1836, there is no record of any other Darling Washington in St. Clair Co.John Washington had a daughter named Darling (ed.: a nickname?)and that is the only other Darling that I have found in the county, ever! I have seen the record of his purchase of land in Benton Co. His land purchase was in 1837. I guess you have found his children there. I haven't looked myself. I have James Russell as being born in 1828 and Nancy M. in 1831.... The Greenwood family seems to believe that Darling was married to Elizabeth; I have seen correspondence from them. I guess the whole mystery just gives you something to ponder over.... Paulette"
In January, 2003, Terisa Washington Baker, <steviewilsonfamily@sbcglobal.net>, a descendant of Darling's, carefully sorted through vast numbers of records in the Clayton Library in Houston, Texas. Her labors are invaluable, checking original photocopied and microfilmed census and mortality tables. Among her findings are these:
" ...the 1830 St. Clair Co. census for Darling Washington only shows 4 people in the household, 1 male under 5, 1 of 20 under 30; 1 female under 5 and one female of 15 and under 20 (if this was his wife she was young if under 20) - however in 1840, as Oneta stated, he'd had a few more children:2 males under 5, 1 male of 5 under 10, 1 male of 10 under 15, 1 male of 15 under 20, and 1 male of 30 under 40.Females were 1 of 5 under 10 and one of 20 under 30.
"There appears to be 2 extra young males in the household in 1840.In other information I was reading in Pat's writings, I do recall that no one could account for the children of his sister (was it Cynthia McKinney?) who died.Maybe he took some in?(Ed.: I don't know, but I think Cynthia lived until about 1859)
"There isn't a Darlington entry on the census page of 1820 as a surname, but on the same page 2 down from our Darlington is a George Washington whose household appears to include only himself between 20-30 and a woman same.None others.Then further down is John Washington with 1 male under 5, one male of 30 under 40, 1 female under 5, 2 females of 5 and under, 1 female of 30 under 40.
She adds here in 2004 that "Well, yesterday I scanned the following pages from 1830 going forward and there is an entry in St. Clair on the next page for Edward Washington with a male of thirty and under forty and of five and under ten and of fifteen and under twenty.Right under that is an entry for a Darling Jones family and then the next to the last entry is Thomas Washington with one male under ten, of fifteen and under twenty, of twenty and under thirty and one of fifty and under sixty."
"In the 1840 census I didn't find any other Washingtons at all except Allen and I looked hard but the film was horribly dark and I looked a long time.
"... I went ahead and looked at the mortality records of St.Clair/Benton Co. for the year preceding the 1850 census just for curiosity's sake. Found no Washingtons.I can go backward on those; they recorded the deaths one year prior to each census.
".... finally, the Orangeburgh District, SC 1790 census shows Edward with 2 males of 16 and older, 2 males under 16 and 6 females; all free white. John Darlington is on column 3 with a family of 2 males of 16 and older, 1 male under 16 and 2 females." (Ed.: this is surely Nancy's family)
Thanks, Terisa!
By 1841, Darling Washington was in the Republic of Texas. (A note-- this makes anyone descended from Darling and a male eligible for membership in the Sons of the Republic of Texas...)
The document shown below is courtesy of ER Walt of Texas, another descendant of Darlington.
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The Republic of TexasNo. 92
County of Nacogdoches4th Class
This is to certify that Darling Washington has appeared before us this board of land commissioners for the county aforesaid and provides according to law that he arrived in this Republic in December, Eighteen Hundred and forty one, that he is a married man and having never exercised a certificate for the quantity of lands for which he applies , is entitled to a conditional grant of six hundred and forty acres of lands, in accordance with an act of Congress approved Jan. 4, 1841.
Given under our hands at Nacogdoches this fourth day of July, 1842
AttestWm Hart C.G.N.C.
O. L. Holmes (?) Clerk County& ex ofo P.A.L. Com.
Court and Ex Officio ClkA. Stone Assist? Comr.
Board of Land Com.
Document in the Texas General Land Office, Austin, Texas.
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Note that each county in the Republic had a local division of the land office in the form of a Board of Land Commissioners.Class 4 certificates were given out after the Class 3 priveleges were extended to those arriving after 31 Dec 1839 but before 1 Jan 1842. The conditions were more strict: the settler had to live on his land 3 years before an unconditional certificate could be issued by applying for it in his home county. See: 1840 Citizens of Texas, Vol. 3, Land Grants, by Gifford White, Austin, Texas, 1988.
In 1850 Darling was in Rusk Co where the census finds his family. He is listed as owning a thousand acres.
Darling Washington 44
Jane Washington 34
J Russell 22
Nancy Russell 19
John Russell 13
William Russell 10
Malvina Russell
Note the middle name Russell. I wish I knew where it comes from. J Russell is my great granddad and was called Russ.
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Subject:
Re: Darlington's land
Date:
Sat, 1 Nov 2003 17:58:33 -0800
From:
Frances Armaly sends this note about Parker County in November, 2003: "Pat, I sent an article... I may have overlooked. It was where you can find Darlington's selling his land in ... Rusk Co. He sold his land on May 15th, 1852. It is in Rusk Co. Deed Books Volume H, page 320.... I do know that my M.O. Barton and Nancy moved there around the same time.... Hope all is well with you and yours, and pray your son did not have to return to Iraq.... Frances"
Frances also sends this: ".... in the Hill Cemetery, Parker Co., Tex., is the grave ofD. (or Darlington?) Washington and Jane (Yancy?) Washington. D. "aged about 50 years," and Jane "aged about 45 yrs."She kindly sent me a photo of the tombstone, a handsome tallgrey granite marker. These ages would put his death at about 1860, so he must have died soon after the census,and his Jane not long afterwards. They are not in the 1870 census, but are in the 1860.
This census pages taken at the Gamma Post Office have the Hills, Herrings, Bartons and Maberrys in some number. The census for the D Washington farm includes D Washington, 53, farmer, estate of 1800 dollars, born in SC; J. Washington, female domestic, 44, born Virginia; W. Washington, male, 18, farmer, born Ala; M. Washington, female, 13, born Texas; G. Washington, male, 10, born Texas; S. Washington, female, 8, born Texas; J. Washington, male, 6, Texas; E. Washington, female, 4, Texas; and a laborer named Keen. This is certainly Darlington Washington.
Frances adds: .... "I believe the date of death for them should be about 1861-1862.... And (importantly) because he is living near where Lemuel Barton and Waddy Barton and M.O. Barton lived and Lemuel's wife died.... near the Brazos river in Parker Co., I think I can safely surmise, that when the Indians attacked and killed the women there some of the other people, like our Darlington Washington, were murdered also."
Ed Walt, op. cit., visited the grave in March, 2000, and writes that "It's in the Hill Cemetery, on the West edge of Gilbert Pit Road about 5 miles South of I-20. It's in the far SW corner of Parker County just West of the Brazos river. Thestone is about in the middle of the Graveyard and about 30 feet from the Westside.The top stone appears to be fairly new...maybe about 1900...and says,"In memory of D. Washington, aged about 55 years and his wife Jane, aged about 45 years".The top stone sits on a base that appears much older withthe inscription, "erected by a friend".There's no date on either stone butit is located about 10 feet from the grave of "infantHerring" with a date of 1863 and a notation that it was the first grave at Hill Cemetery.The rest of the graves in the area date from the mid 60's to early 70's."
I was there in August 2005, and Ed's description is accurate. The exit is at mile 391 on Interstate 20. To go south down Gilbert Pit Road, you first drive through what appears to be a private ranch entry and cattle guard, but that gives way to the public road as you continue. I clocked the cemetery at about four miles south of the I-20 ramp. A sign at the cemetery notes that for information on the Hill Cemetery, call Bobby Woodruff, 817-594-6365, or Mary Chenault, 817-646-2930. It also notes that the annual meeting there is the 2nd Saturday in June each year. The cemetery is in very nice condition. Darlington's stone is smaller than I imagined, about two feet (plus) high.
Concerning the possibility that Darling was killed by Indians, we know the Comanches were active in Parker County in the 1860s. But, Ed Walt notes that while he has never seen anything about Darlington being killed by Indians, his youngest son, William, was wounded by Comanches in Parker Co. and a companionkilled in 1860. He cites the book,"Indian Depredations in Texas" as prettycomprehensive, but does notmention Darling.He adds that"Parker Co. was just about depopulated of anglo settlers during the war by the Comanches and Kiowas and I suspect many people were killed whose names never made the local papers."And Frances Armaly notes that"... I must tell you, the tale (of Indian killings)was told by Melvina many times and repeated by my gr. grandma Mary Elizabeth Barton Bailey."
Based on all this, I think it entirely possible that Darling was killed by Indians, but it seems undocumented by other than family lore, as is so often the case. Frances Armaly firmly believes it so. By the Parker County 1870 census, there are no Washingtons remaining at all.
More About Darlington Washington:
Burial: Hill Cemetery, Gilbert Pit Road south of exit 91 on I20,Parker Co., TX
Notes for Elizabeth Greenwood:
In the 1880 census, "Rees" Washington in Texas, married to Emma who was born in Kentucky,says his mother was born in Tenn. Since his father's other wives were not, Elizabeth becomes my great great grandmother!
Children of Darlington Washington and Elizabeth Greenwood are:
| 2 | i. | James Russell Washington, Sr., born 09 August 1828 in St. Clair Co., Alabama; died 17 February 1899 in Black River Ranch, Carlsbad, New Mexico; married (1) Sarah E. Jones 15 January 1854 in Tyler Co., TX; married (2) Emma Lucille Spence 27 September 1865 in Cooke Co., TX. | ||
| ii. | Nancy M. Washington45,46, born 1832 in St. Clair Co., Alabama47; died 10 May 1886 in Trickham, Coleman Co., TX48; married (1) Manelius Oliver Barton 13 June 1850 in Henderson, Rusk Co., TX49,50,51; born 04 June 1828 in Pickens Co., SC52,53; died May 1865 in Mexico or Brown Co., TX54,55; married (2) John Lewis McDowell Aft. 1865 in TX?; born Abt. 1830; died Abt. 15 May 1868 in Williamson Co., TX shot by Mr. Edmondson outside a grocery. |
| Notes for Nancy M. Washington: Nancy remarried a McDowell, but shows as awidow in the 1870 census, Parker Co., Texas.Her children are from Frances N. Armaly, op. cit. Frances also sends the following tale, in which Mary is Nancy Washington Barton, and the daughter is Mary. I have noted that in the story: _________________________________ "Santa Anna's Peak,"by Leona Bruce "Although Coggin and Parks and others had raised their cattle on Home Creek since the 1850's, probably the first white family living on the creek were the Barton's, who arrived with small children, the year uncertain. Mrs Gay, "Into The Setting Sun,"gave the year 1862,but Pink (from Pinckney)Barton, a son, told late in life that it was 1867 or 1868. However both may be correct, because of the strange conditions of the early years. Living with the Bartons was Dave Brown, a boy whom they had reared, and who later married a Jenkins girl at Trickham.And another member of the household was an old lady, Aunt Vinnie Washington, possibly a relative (ed.: yes, see Melvina Washington), andHen Mayberry, a freed slave, was with them through some of the years, as will be told later on. They first lived near Camp Creek, plowing and for a small field and probably branding maverick calves as was legal and a wide custom. After the Civil War, the carpetbag governor,E.J. Davis, had his hated State Police who took whatever they wanted without thought of pay, kept the legally elected officers from conducting the county courts, and arrested anyone who resisted, shooting them if they tried to escape.The rumor came to the frontier that every former Confederate soldier was to be shot, and as this included almost every man in that area, several of them decided to reach Mexico to live for awhile, and Barton and his family thought it best to go along.Some had ox-teams, some horses, and some mules.None had camp equipment... (or) maps, and none had ever been where they planned to go. But they set out, and after a few days the old wheels on the wagons began to show wear and to break, which forced the whole train to stop and wait while the repairs were made. Someone had told them of the waterless distance between the Concho and the Pecos,and filled every vessel, even the iron teakettles with water,but there would be no water for the horses and cattle. Far out towards the Pecos, a wagon wheel was crushed in going off the ledge on that roadless journey. The men worked frantically but could not get the rim to hold up. The water was gone, the children were crying, the stock weak and gaunt. Three men set out with buckets on horseback, and got back with a little water to find the train on the road but the people were near death. Bailey Barton, then a boy of 8 or 9, told of the terrible plight many years later. He had never forgotton that the tongues of the children were so swollen that they could not swallow a sip of water, but only a sip at a time.All were saved, but when they reached the bluffs of the Pecos some of the stock were lost in a stampedefor the water. They... reached Mexico, probably near Eagle Pass and found conditions bearable there. The next year Barton and two other men started back to Home Creek to find out if it were safe for them to return.Months passed without news from them:in fact they were never heard from again. Nancy (the author calls her Mary)Barton made a brave decision, "I'm going back to Home Creek!" she told the others."I know my husband would be back by now, if he had lived.I'm bound to have some cattle there. My cabin is there, and I'm going to take my children and go back ". All the others decided to come back with her. They started with four wagons, but by the time they reached the Concho three of the worn out vehicles had to be abandoned, and all crowded into Nancy's (ed.: author saysMary's)wagon, hoping they would not meet up with any Indians. Back on thecreek they called home, they found the cabins standing, and among the wild cattle were some in their own brands.Farther up the creek were LemBarton, Nancy's (ed.: author saysMary's) brother-in-law and the Mayberry'swhose daughter, LemBarton's first wife,had been mutilated by Indians in Parker County in 1862. Nancy (Mary) Barton, had courage enough to begin again. The little field was plowed and corn was planted, some wild hogs were butchered and salted down, and coming to help them in 1868 or 1869 was Hen Mayberry,whom we have mentioned. The Bartons probably would not have been able to stay on Home if Hen had not been with them.A middle-aged man whohad lived all his life on the frontier, he forsaw many dangers and saved them from others.Bailey, as an old man, told when he and Pink, in their early teens , rode to the Feavish place to visit, while Hen went to Trickham for the mail.But the boys soon saw Hen coming, his horse in a dead run,with several Indians chasing him.They whipped up their horses, and Hen, a better rider than all yelled and shouted to let the Feavish family know they were coming. The Feavish family saw the situation and came out with guns which stopped the Indians and turned them back. Hen taught them always to keep at least one saddle-horse hobbled, in case of Indian attack, which occurred often. One day the two boys went to get the hobbled horse, not far from the house, when there came running another of their horses with a rawhide rope around it's neck,just gotton loose from the Indians. The boysran into acedar-brake and hid themselves,the Indians came and got both horses without seeing Pink and Bailey. Hen tried to provide food for them all to eat. Besides farming the little field and getting fish from the creek, he would take a wagon and his trained cow-dogs and camp alone over on Hay creek.At daybreak, he would turn the dogs loose, when they would track down and bay some of the wild hogs which were plentiful there. When he had killed, cut up, and salted several, Hen would go back to the cabins with good fresh meat. Hen had been given to Lem Barton's wife as her dowery, had cared for the Barton children after their mother's murder, and later tended a baby boy of Earle Y. Brown.... Pink and Bailey were big boys when their mother decided to move farther up the creek. Most of the land was free., and she pre-empted some and bought some more, near the crossing later named Idlewild. Nancy ( Mary) Barton died in her middle-age and is buried in Trickham. The daughter married a man named Bailey,who did not live many years, and Pink and Bailey took her and her four children back home to live. They all lived to a very advanced age, the brothers with keen memories of the Indian fight,United States Cavalry on the Military road, the trip to Mexico, and the Texas Rangers who camped near their cabins.Hen Mayberry, who was much the oldest,lived to be one hundred and five yrs of age, dying in 1920, and was buried on the ranch as he wished, his grave with a granite marker under the branches of an old oak tree near the ranch house." About this tale, Frances Armaly, Mary Barton's-- Nancy's daughter-- descendant, says: "...Mary is the daughter, not the mother, who was Nancy. (I agree). Manelos did die in Mexico, and was wrapped in swaddling cloth, and brought home to Home Creek to be buried.These are only my thoughts, and my mother's, and sisters'." I agree with Frances. I think the author confused Nancy with Mary.Nancy Washington Barton was the mother on the Pecos and with her were her children, including daughter Mary Barton. Frances sent me this letter from the web at http://members.aol.com/sinelson/mcdowell.html Written by Nancy Ann WASHINGTON BARTON MCDOWELL, widow of John Lewis McDOWELL. Lewis McDOWELL is buried in the Cox cemetery about 22 miles north of Brady, Texas. State of Texas May the 15th 1868 Mr. James Dikes Williamson county Texas Dear Son & Daughter it is with a trimbling & aching heart that I seat my self this morning to drop you a few lines Dear children it greaves me to tell you that your kind father is ded he died last Monday well I say died he was killed me & him went up on Murkewater last Friday on a visit So our friends said lets all go down and take a dram So they went down to the Grocery but it was a long time before they could get him drink & then he wouldn't drink with no one but Ben Barton he said he was all the friend he had So he drank one dram after another till he got so drunk that he didn't know any thing at all well we was at Bartons & he was drink all night Sunday & on monday morning I seen he was goodeal better So he started back to the Grocery I told him to not go there to stay & drink some good strong coffee that making for him & then by twelve o clock we could start Home but he said no I will drink coffee when I come back So on he went but alas he never come back again for as he walked out of the grocery there was a dutchman standing at the corner of the house & he ran against your Pa & kicked him down & he was on his nees trying to get up when old edmonson ran to the door & shot him in the back This was done at close of day edmonson left that night wee dont know where he went but the people is after him & I hope they will get him & stretch him to the first lim they come too he spoke three times & said poor little orphans children was every word he said he was burried by the side of your mother. Well James we are all well excepting one of the boys has a fever Sarah & the children is well they want to to see you very bad James come as soon as you can & bring us some bread stuff if you can for we are about out & there is none in the country hardly Sarah say she wants you & Lizzy to come out here soon as you can & see us all & be shure & fetch some bread stuff with you come soon as you get this So I will come to a close by saying come soon & fail not. From your Mother Yours trulyNancy Mcdowel To James Dikes I assume the children are the children of McDowell by an earlier marriage. Nancy Ann was a widow of Barton by about 1865 and must have married McDowell in the months before he was shot. Frances says that after McDowell's death she went back to the name of Barton. She and M. O. Barton are listed together in the 1850 Rusk District census, taken 23 Nov. 1850, just below the Darling Washingtons. |
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| Notes for Manelius Oliver Barton: The below is kindly furnished by Frances Armaly: Subject:M.O. Barton, 18 Jul 1999, from:Frances Armaly <frana@gateway.net> Dear Pat, I wish I could send you this in the proper form. I do not have a Familytreemaker yet.And I'm fairly new at this computer business. But here goes. Darling's full name is Darlington Washington.Nancy M. Washington was the daughter of Elizabeth Greenwood as far as I know.I found a full page of the Greenwoods on the family tree.Nancy went by Nancy Ann.Why I don't know.She married M.O. Barton and the date is correct.She died 10 May, 1886, and is buried in Trickham, Coleman Co.,Texas (ed.: see below for information on this town). She is buried with most of the Washingtons. Others listed are Lizzie (Elizabeth Washington) Maberry,a 1/2 sister to Nancy,Born 1852. d. 1879"wife of D.W. Maberry" K38.W.P. Barton, b. May 10, 1854, d. Aug. 15,1886. "Our Brother" K39.(This isNancy's son William Pinckney Barton). Nancy Ann (Washington) Barton, died May 10, 1886"54 years"K40.John M. Barton, b.Dec. 25,1859, d. Sept.1, 1880K41.Son of Nancy Barton: Geo. Washington, (George), Dec. 25, 1852 -Oct. 20,1880 I think is a twin to Lizzie.1/2 bro.Mrs. Sarah Brown (Washington) Nov.28,1856 - Apr. 21,1882 K43,she is also 1/2 sister. Miss Vinia Washington b.March 25,1849 - Oct.28,1904.Melvina-Not Malvina, but my mother said she went by Valentine.If you go to the Parker Co. 1860 census you will see all these people under Darlington Washington and Jane (Yancy) Washington.By 1870,M. O. Barton was dead and Nancy had remarried a McDowell, but already widowed. Some say Barton died in the war, but he may be one of those with the families on the Mexican border in about 1867. Under the Census in Parker Co.,M.O. and Nancy had 5 children listed. 1. Mary Elizabeth Barton b. Dec. 13, 1852 some say Houston Harris, Tex. I don't think so. I think in Parker. d. June 1879,Coleman Co., Tex.I have photo's of all my family, but two.I don't have M.O. and Nancy and Manelos their baby. This is my gr. grandmother.M.O. Barton's full name is, Manelius Oliver Barton. Mary Elizabeth Barton m. M.B. Bailey June 15, 1879. They had 4 children. 1. Minnie M. Bailey-died at twenty. 2. Annie Dehlia Bailey b.10 May 1882, Tex. d. 25 March 1928, Dallas Co.,Texas, this is my grandma. 3. Ida Tabitha Bailey-died at 50-never married 4. Andrew Franklin Bailey Annie Dehlia Bailey married a James Henry Jackson, 1900. They had three children. 2. W.P. Barton 3. Andrew Pinckney Barton 4. Manelos Barton 5. John C.(M) Barton 6. Bailey Anderson Barton. These Bartons are quite famous. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------- © The Texas State Historical Association, 1997,1998,1999. Last Updated: February 15, 1999, Comments to: <comments@www.tsha.utexas.edu> TRICKHAM, TEXAS. Trickham, the oldest community in Coleman County, is located on Mukewater Creek and Ranch Road 1176 in the southeastern part of the county, twelve miles southeast of Santa Anna. The settlement acquired a post office in 1879. An apocryphal storyrelates that Bill Franks, who operated a store in the area, petitioned for apost office at the store under the name of "Trick'em" because of his habitof selling creek water instead of whiskey to cowboys who stopped by. Several residents of the Trickham area, including Charlie McCain, Dave Upton, and Jake Dofflemyer, were killed by Indians in the turbulent 1860s and 1870s. However, with Indian troubles waning and a post office established, Trickham grew by 1884 to include a population of seventy-five, several stores, a hotel, two cotton gins, two churches, a blacksmith shop, steam-planing mills, and a school. The population reached 150 by 1892, then declined to 100 in 1914, when thecommunity had three general stores, a cotton gin, a blacksmith, a doctor,a druggist, and a telephone company. The Trickham school closed in 1936, but the population rose from seventy-nine in 1930 to 125 in 1940and did not decline until the mid-1960s. The last general store and gasoline station closed in 1976, and the post office closed in 1979. A population of twelve was reported both in 1970 and 1980. In the mid-1980s the Trickham Union Church, founded by pioneer Baptist preacher Noah T. Byarsqv in 1878 and converted to a union church in 1903, was serving Methodists, Baptists, and Cumberland Presbyterians. The former school building was a community center used by a weekly quilting club and other groups. The only local industry was the Howell Martin Dairy.In 1990 Trickham had a population of twelve. BIBLIOGRAPHY: Leona Banister Bruce, Trickham, Texas: ANeighborly Chronicle(Salado, Texas: Anson Jones Press, 1966). Fort Worth Star-Telegram, November 12, 1979. Beatrice Grady Gay, Into the Setting Sun: A History of Coleman County, Texas, (1936?). San Angelo Standard Times, January 7, 1980. 1860 Rusk County census, he and Nancy have five children. |
| Marriage Notes for Nancy Washington and Manelius Barton: In Rusk Co. marriage register. The license names her father as "Darlington Washington," another example establishing his given name. . |