Mary E. "Mollie" Booth

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1870, Karnes Co, Texas
• Census: 1880, Karnes Co, Texas
• Census: 1900, Austin, Travis Co, Texas

Notes:

A feud between Booth and Ursin Guedry of Hardin Co led to the revenge slaying of the latter. Guidry allegedly killed two of his brothers, Reuben M and Robert Franklin Booth, on Aug 17, 1851. The feud was popularized in a story by J. Frank Doe. John Anderson Booth served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War.

John Anderson Booth
Guedry/Booth Family Tevis Feud

One of the most well-known family feuds in Texas history was started with the construction of a road from the Sabine River to Tevis Ferry. It used to be the practice to either pay a tax... or a man could help in the construction of a road.

In 1851 this road was being built along the property of the Guedry and Booth families. These families had been friends, but the sons got into a fight while building the road.

The Booth brothers were killed and although thought to be self-defense, a 3rd Booth brother, John, threatened revenge. Ten years passed. The families moved 300 miles apart with the Guedrys living in Hardin County. John traveled to the Big Thicket in 1861 being very careful to record his time of departure and return in the family Bible. He was found not guilty of the murder because he had made the round trip in 4 days and the Texas Rangers did not think it was possible.

John had only one son who was killed several years later by Guedry's two sons. He later lost his fortune and died in Austin in a home for Confederate Soldiers. (Landrey 1976)
- The Neches River, outdoorstudies.com



Census:
J A Boothe 37 1833 Texas
Lina Boothe 37 1833 Mississippi
Millis Lawlom 12 1858 (male)
John Lawlom 10 1860 Texas
Mary Boothe 2 1868 Texas
Lula Boothe 7/12 1869 Texas
Rose Boothe 20 1850 black domestic servant
Willis Boothe 14 1856 male black domestic servant


Census:
Jno. A. Booth 46 1834 widower Texas Louisiana Louisiana
Mary E. Booth 12 dau 1868 Texas Texas Mississippi
Lela Booth 10 dau
Robert F. Booth 7 son




Census:
John A. Booth 66 Jul 1833, widowed Texas MS SC
inmate in home for Confederate soldiers.



Died:
San Antonio Light
October 1, 1907

Funeral services for the late John A. Booth, the aged confederate veteran, who died Saturday at his home in Austin, were held yesterday from the home of his sister, Mrs. Mary A. Shardein, 204 Arsenal street, and were largely attended. The services were conducted by Rev. Brooks I. Dickey of the Westminster Presbyterian church. The pall bearers were all members of the Albert Sydney Johnston camp, confederate veterans, and were as follows:
C. K. Gruvic, C. A. Denny, Thomas Smith, E. E. Rutledge, L. A. Harper and E. R. Rowley. The interment was made in the Alamo Masonic cemetery.

John married Mrs. Lina (or Sina) (..) Lawhon about 1867. Lina was born in 1833 in Mississippi; died before 1880 in Karnes Co, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900
about John Anderson Booth Name: John Anderson Booth
Gender: Male
Birth Year: 1833
Spouse Name: Cawthorn

Robert married Elizabeth "Betsy" White about 1832. Elizabeth (daughter of James Taylor White and Sarah Cade) was born on 08 Feb 1814 in Louisiana; died in Dec 1890 in 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