Milton Mayes White (Lewis), (MU)

Milton married Mrs. Theresa (..) White [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
D.C. Mayes White, age 66, married, rancher, Cattleman,
born in Hankamer, Texas; address Anahuac, Chambers Co, Texas; father (left blank); mother Mary Etta Mayes, born Double Bayou, Texas; died of perforation of stomach, peptic ulcer
informant, Ella White, Anahuac

Mayes married Rainey Branch, (B) on 17 Jan 2010 in Chambers Co, Texas. Rainey (daughter of Jacob Branch, (B) and Betty Baker, (b)) was born on 29 Jan 1884 in Texas; died on 28 Dec 1961 in Chambers Co, Texas; was buried in Martha Godfrey Cem, Double Bayou, Chambers Co, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1920, Chambers Co (Precinct 3), Texas
• Census: 1930, Chambers Co (Precinct 3), Texas

Notes:

daughter of Jacob Branch (Apr 1854 LA) and Betty Baker (Feb 1864) TX
Married 1: Burton Lewis 20 Jun 1898, Chambers Co;
married 2, (..) Jackson; children Maud Augustine Jackson (18 Jan 1904) Chambers Co, TX and Bernice Jackson (abt 1910) Chambers Co, TX
married 3: Mayes White abt 1916.

1920 Chambers census: Lewis Rainey 35 widowed servant
Jackson, Maud 26
Lewis Bernice 10
Lewis Robert

1930 Chambers:
Lewis, Raney, 46 widow
Robert 12
Milton 10
Furel 8
Jarrel 6
James, Job 44 Lodger

Census:
47 Lewis Rainey Self Female Mulatto 35 abt widowed Texas Texas Texas servant house
47 Jackson Maud Daughter Female Mulatto 16 abt 1904 Single Texas Texas Texas
47 Lewis Bernice Daughter Female Mulatto 10 abt 1910 Single Texas Texas Texas
47 Lewis Robert Son Male Mulatto 2


Census:
Lonis Rainey Head Black 46 abt 1884 Texas
Lonis Robert Son Black 12 abt 1918
Lonis Milton Son Black 10 abt 1920
Lonis Furel Son Black 8 abt 1922
Lonis Jerrel Son Black 6 abt 1924


Died:
D.C. Rainey Lewis, colored, widowed; father Jacob Branch; mother Betty Baker, informant, Bernice Jackson

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 17 Jul 1850, Chambers Co, Texas
• Census: 18 Jul 1870, Chambers (Subdivision 17) Co, Texas
• Census: 16 Jun 1880, Turtle Bayou, Chambers Co, Texas

Notes:

Census:
residence 385 (widow of John White, bro of James Robert & Parmelia)
White, Martha 43 head 1817 Louisiana 10,000 41,000
John O. 19 1841 Texas farmer
Robert D. 16 1844 Texas farmer
James C. 14 1856 Texas Farmer
Joseph C. 12 1858 Texas
Mary Ann 10 1850
Martha W. 8 1852 Texas

next door:
(Assuming David is her brother - not verified he is child of Elisha.)
residence 386:
Wallis, David 38 1822 LA
Susannah Wallis 37 1823 Ireland
David 18 1842 LA
Caroline Wallis 16 1844 LA
Francis 14 1846 female LA
Emily 11 1849 LA
Altha 8 1852 LA
William 7 1853 LA
Anna 8/12 1859 TX
Henry 3 1857 TX
Ann M. Barrow 61 1799 Ireland

residence: 387 vacant

next door:
Residence 388
White Jas T. 31 1829 farmer 3,000 20,000 Texas
Amanda 33 1827 Mississippi
Jas T. 6 1854 Texas
Robert M. 3 1857 Texas
Amanda 2 1858 Texas

Residence 389
Robert White 36 1824 Louisiana farmer 3,000 19,000

Residence: 390
Barrow John S. 24 1836 farmer 3,000 600 Texas

Residence: 391
Barrow, Benjamin (Ben Franklin,
"Ben the Bearhunter" 52 1808
farmer 11,290 26,000 Louisiana
Pamila (Permelia Jane White) 40 1820 Texas
Benjamin F. 21 1839 Texas
Sarah 17 1833 Texas
Mary Ann 15 1835 Texas
Josephine 12 1838 TX
Solomon 10 1850 TX
Robert C. 7 1853 TX
Pamila J. (Permelia Jane) 4 1856 TX
LaGrange, Z 21 1839 Laborer Louisiana


Census:
residence 108
White, Robert 47 1823 Louisiana
Mayes Ettie 23 1847 Mulatto TX
Mayes Josephine 3 1867 Mulatto TX
Mayes Annie 1 1869 Mulatto TX
Mayes William 18 1852 Mulatto TX


residence 105 (brother)
White James 41 1829 farmer 3833, 1355 TX
Amanda 48 1822 MS
Taylor 15 1855 TX
Robert 18 1852 TX
Amanda 11 1859 TX
Sarah 9 1861 TX
Josephine 5 1865 TX
Forest 2 1868 TX


Census:
White, Robert 57 stock raiser LA VA SC
White, Josephine S. 13 1867 MU dau TX LA TX
White, Mary E. 10 1870 MU dau TX LA TX
White, Stella E. 9 1871 MU dau TX LA TX
White, Fannie M. 7 1873 MU dau TX LA TX
White, Mabell 5 1875 MU dau TX LA TX
White, Minerva F. 3 1877 MU dau TX LA TX
White, Mayes son 11/12 1879 (Jul) MU TX LA TX
Mayes, Mary E. 34 1846 MU cook housekeeper TX TN TN
Ramon, Jerry 56 1824 (B) servant farmer LA unk unk
White, William 23 1857 MU servant farm hand TX LA LA

Robert married Mary Etta Mayes, (Mulatto) about 1866 (not married) in Turtle Bayou, Chambers Co, Texas. Mary (daughter of Joshua Jackson Mayes, (white) and Martha Mayes-Godfrey, (B)) was born in Jun 1846 in Texas; died on 30 Dec 1943 in Eagle, Chambers Co, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
TX Death Cert:
Mary Etta Mayes, negro, wid.
Husband: Robert White
Father: Josh Mayes, TN
Mother: Martha Godfrey. TN
Informant: Pearl Jackson

Notes:

Married:
From naming patterns, appears Mary E. Hayes, is mother of his children. She is listed as cook/housekeeper, following the list of Mulatto children. 2nd born is named Mary E., and last son is named Hayes. Children listed as parents born LA/TX, which fits as Mary E was born in TX and Robert was born in LA.

From naming patterns, appears Mary E. Hayes, is mother of his children. She is listed as cook/housekeeper, following the list of Mulatto children. 2nd born is named Mary E., and last son is named Hayes. Children listed as parents born LA/TX, which fits as Mary E was born in TX and Robert was born in LA.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1900, Chambers (District 8) Co, Texas

Notes:

Census:
Branch Jacob Head Black Male Apr 1853 47 Married 21 1879 Louisiana Louisiana Louisiana
Branch Bettie Wife Black Female Feb 1864 36 Married 21 1879 Texas Texas Texas
Branch Milton Son Black Male Jan 1880 20 Single Texas Louisiana Texas
Branch Raney Daughter Black Female Jan 1884 16 Single Texas Louisiana Texas
Branch Iren Son Black Male Aug 1891 8 Texas Louisiana Texas
Branch Tara Daughter Black Female Dec 1894 5 Texas Louisiana Texas
Carter Nelson Brother Black Male Sep 1879 20 Single Texas Louisiana Louisiana
Louis Annis Niece Black Female Jan 1882 18 Widowed

Jacob married Betty Baker, (b) in 1879. Betty was born in 1864 in Texas; died after 1900 in of, Turtle Bayou, Chambers Co, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 23 Sep 1950, Liberty Co, Texas

Notes:

White, Jacques Telleur (Jean of N.Carolina & Sara Gambil of N. Carolina) b 28 Jul (SM Ch.: v.5, #371)
White, James Taylor (John of North Carolina & Sara Gambil of North Carolina) bt 5 May 1801 at age 12 yrs old on 28 Jul 1801. Pats: James Taylor White & Elizabeth Pou; Mats: John Gambil & Sara Dempot all of Virginia; Spons: Jessie White & Mary White. Fr. Michel Bernard Barriere (SM Ch v.5, #371)

White, James T - native of this parish (major son of dec. John Whyte, inhabitant of lower Vermillion & Sally Gambell) m 26 Jan 1813 Sally Cade, native of this parish (minor daughter of dec James, inhabitant of Vermillion and Polly Michols) Wits: Shadrach Porter, Henry Jackson, Emanuel D'Asperemont. Fr. Gabriel Isabey (SM Ch: v.5 #281)
There was a James Taylor (Jacques Taleur) who spons bt of Ruben, James Taylor White's nephew (child of William & Aimie Comstock).

James Taylor White was in Chambers Co. before the TX Revolution and it was at his ranch that the Turtle Bayou resolutions were drawn up, an early confrontation of Texans and Mexicans.

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James Taylor White, who settled at Turtle Bayou near Anahuac in 1818, was the first significant cattleman along the upper Texas coast.15 An early, anonymous writer credited White?s herd as numbering 3,000 head in 1831,16 whereas another writer quoted the herd?s size at 10,000 head in 1840. This writer claimed that when White died in 1851, he had $150,000 banked in New Orleans, the proceeds of his cattle sales there.17
W.T. Block - History of Jefferson County, Chapter XI
http://hans.wtblock.com/wtblockjr/History%20of%20Jefferson%20County/Chapter%2011.htm
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Handbook of Texas
WHITE, JAMES TAYLOR (1789-1852). James Taylor White (known as Taylor White), cattleman and rancher, son of John and Sarah (Gambel) White, was born on July 28, 1789, in Louisiana. During the 1780s his family probably moved to Louisiana from the Carolinas, where his grandfather had received a land grant in 1757. Taylor White married Sarah Cade, daughter of James and Polly (Nichols) Cade, on January 26, 1813, at St. Martin of Tours Church in St. Martinville, Louisiana.

In 1828 White drove his small herd of Spanish, or longhorn, cattle along the old Opelousas Road to Texas; he settled near Turtle Bayou. His cattle grazed on land bordered on the west by Galveston Bay and on the south by the Gulf of Mexico. The Turtle Bayou Resolutions were signed near his home. By 1840 White had acquired 4,605 acres of land in Liberty (now Chambers) County and paid taxes on 1,775 head of cattle and forty-five horses.

During the late 1830s or early 1840s, White began driving cattle to New Orleans. He deposited money from the sales of these cattle at banks in New Orleans and eventually put much of it back into the business of raising cattle. He attributed his success to his hard work and single-mindedness. He was also known to be innovative in his techniques. For example, he burned the land periodically to make way for new grass for his animals, a practice unheard of in his time.

White came to be known as the Cattle King of Southeast Texas. Two cattle brands, the JTW and the Crossed W, have been associated with White's Texas ranching operation. The Crossed W was reportedly willed to White by his father, also a cattleman, who died in 1806. Some sources claim that as of the late 1930s, both were among the oldest continuously used cattle brands in the state.

James Taylor White and his wife had seven children. He died, probably of cholera, in March 1852 at his home. In a nearby family plot he is buried with his wife, who died nine days later.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Frontier Times, March 1936. Jewel Horace Harry, A History of Chambers County (M.A. thesis, University of Texas, 1940; rpt., Dallas: Taylor, 1981). Gifford E. White, James Taylor White of Virginia (Austin, 1982).

-Handbook of Texas online
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http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=juuledwards&id=I33

Census:
White, J. Taylor 65 1785 Louisiana
Sarah 55 1795 North Carolina
Robert 27 1823 Louisiana farmer
Joseph 24 1826 Louisiana farmer
James 21 1829 Texas farmer
Brashear, Norvelle, 21 1829 Louisiana Teacher

next door:
White John 33 1817 Louisiana farmer
Martha 30 1820 Louisiana
Sarah 10 140 Texas
John 9 1841 Texas
Elizabeth 8 1842 Texas
Robert 6 1844 Texas
James 4 1846 Texas
Joseph 2 1848 Texas
Mary Ann 0 1850 Texas

James married Sarah Cade on 26 Jan 1813 in St.Martin Parish, Louisiana. Sarah (daughter of James Cade and Polly Nichols) was born in 1795 in St.Martin Parish, Louisiana; died on 14 Mar 1852 in Turtle Bayou, Chambers Co, Texas; was buried in White's Cem, Chambers Co, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She was the daughter of James Cade and Polly Nichols.

Daughter Sarah's d.c. states she was born in South Carolina.

Notes:

Married:
St Martin's Church,

The Records of this Church certify, under date of 26 jan 1816 to the marriage of James T Whyte, legitimate son of the late John Whyte and Sally Gambell to Sally Cade, legitmate daughter of the late James Cade and Polly Nichols. Said record is signed by Rev Gabriel?. Witnesses, Shadrack Porter, Henry Jackson*, Emmanuel D'Aspermont

Transcript made 22 Mar 1972, and reproduced in James Taylor White of Virginia

(note by Adam Edwards
* I believe this Henry Jackson might have been the brother of Humphrey Jackson, who married James Taylor White's sister, and who's son, by his second wife, married the youngest daughter of J T White and Sarah Cade

St Martin's Church,

The Records of this Church certify, under date of 26 jan 1816 to the marriage of James T Whyte, legitimate son of the late John Whyte and Sally Gambell to Sally Cade, legitmate daughter of the late James Cade and Polly Nichols. Said record is signed by Rev Gabriel?. Witnesses, Shadrack Porter, Henry Jackson*, Emmanuel D'Aspermont

Transcript made 22 Mar 1972, and reproduced in James Taylor White of Virginia

(note by Adam Edwards
* I believe this Henry Jackson might have been the brother of Humphrey Jackson, who married James Taylor White's sister, and who's son, by his second wife, married the youngest daughter of J T White and Sarah Cade

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1859, Chambers Co, Texas ; tax roll
• Census: 1900, Chambers Co (District 7), Texas
• Census: 1910, Chambers Co (Precinct 1), Texas

Notes:

Joshua Jackson Mayes, one of the largest cattle ranchers of the county during his lifetime, was born in 1823 in Franklin, Williamson County, Tennessee, a son of Garner and Elizabeth (Jackson) Mayes. He came to Texas with his parents and siblings sometime around 1837. They traveled by flatboat down the Mississippi and on into Galveston Bay, but the boat sank at the mouth of Double Bayou. Under such inauspicious circumstances, the Mayes family established themselves on the banks of Double Bayou.

Mayes was one of two men from present-day Chambers County to serve in the Mexican War of 1846. He enlisted at Liberty on May 15, 1846 and served in Captain Hall's Company B, Second Regiment, Texan Mounted Volunteers. The only other man from the county known to have served was James Taylor Dunman, who would later become his father-in-law.

Mayes fought in the battles of Monterrey, Buena Vista and Chapultepec in 1846 and 1847. His regiment was commanded by Colonel George T. Wood, who later served as governor of Texas.

He returned here after the war and began cattle ranching. The 1850 Agricultural Census Schedule showed him with 11 horses and 150 cattle.

Josh was married on March 2, 1853 to Miss Sarah Dunman, daughter of James Taylor and Rachel (Wallis) Dunman. During the next few years, they purchased property and settled on Dorr's Island, located on the west side of the Trinity River near Wallisville. This property is now known as Mayes Island. Many live oak trees planted by J. J. Mayes are still visible.

The Mayes cattle ranch became one of the largest in the county and grew to include several thousand head of cattle. He served as county commissioner from 1862 to 1866. During the Civil War, he also served in a local Confederate military unit.

He and his wife Sarah were the parents of fourteen children. Six lived to adulthood including: George Joshua, who married Charlotte Gordon; William Fields "Bill," who married first to Molly Van Pradelles and second to Fannie Kuhlenthal; Rachel Minerva, who married Sheriff Gibson C. Davis; Elizabeth Jackson "Lizzie," who married Dr. Thomas J. Shelton; Jackson, who married Mary Louise Wooten; and Effie Clarice Mayes, who married Archie Middleton. Eight children died as infants or without issue. These included Molly Wilmeth, Frank Hardin, Richard Aron, Henry Dunman, Jonie Cora, Woodson R., Annie Viola and Lanis Edley.

Joshua Jackson Mayes died at Wallisville on January 10, 1912 and was buried in the Wallisville Cemetery.
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Garner married Elizabeth Jackson and she was born in Amelia, Virginia in 1785. They were married in Knox Co.,
Tennessee on June 6, 1808 and some time in the early 1800's moved to Williamson co.Franklin, Tennessee. In and around 1836 Garner loaded his family up and moved to
Double Bayou, Texas. This was at that time Liberty Co., Texas, but it is now Chambers County, Texas. This is positioned between Houston and Beaumont Texas on the
coast. Have you ever heard of this crew? I would love to figure out who my Garner Mayes' mother and father are,,,,Let me hear from you,
Garner and Elizabeth brought a black woman to Texas named Martha Mayes and she married a Zacariah Godfrey.
Virginia

http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/TXCHAMBE/2003-10/1066411347

Census:
Joshua J Mayes 77 Tennessee Virginia Virginia
Sarah A Mayes 64 Texas Louisiana Louisiana
George J Mayes 48 son widowed
Woodson Mayes 28 son single
Louis E Mayes 21 son single
Effie Mayes 23 daughter single
Clinton Mayes 22 grandson Texas
Joshua G Mayes 14 grandson Texas
George V Mayes 4 grandson Texas
Frank H Mayes 3 grandson Texas
Ina V Mayes 19 granddaughter Texas
Lucile Mayes 11 granddaughter Texas
Mary Mayes (Wooten) 23 daughter widow TX FL TX
Lizzie Shelton 38 dau married Texas Texas Texas
Garner Long 55 white servant Texas New York TN


Census:
Joshua J Mayes 87 1823 TN VA VA
George J Mayes 56 widowed Texas
Sarah Mayes 74 Texas Louisiana Louisiana
Clinton Mayes 31 single grandson
Joshua Mayes 23 single grandson

Joshua married Martha Mayes-Godfrey, (B) about 1841 (slave) in Chambers Co, Texas. Martha was born in 1822 in Tennessee; died in 1905 in Double Bayou, Chambers Co, Texas; was buried in Martha Godfrey Cem, Double Bayou, Chambers Co, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Martha came to Texas as a slave to the Mayes family. Many years late she donated land to build St. Paul's United Methodist church and a cemetery that bears her name., the Martha Godfrey Cemetery. Her grave stone indicates she was born c1812. However, all the census records indicate she was born about 10 years later. Besides, she would have been too old, were she born 1812, to have had many of the children attributed to her.
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=juuledwards&id=I19390

(a descendant says she was with George Mayes instead of Joshua -- however, daughter Mary's Death Cert states her father was Josh Mayes.

http://genforum.genealogy.com/godfrey/messages/684.html
Martha Godfrey 1800 Tx
Posted by: L. Carrington Date: January 25, 2000 at 09:56:37