Artemesia "Elma" Mayes

Notes:

Birth:
Texas Birth Index
Name Elma Mayes
Date of Birth 16 Jul 1945
Gender Female
Birth County Chambers
Father's Name Herbert Mayes
Mother's Name Linda Williams
Roll number 1945_0007

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1930, Chambers Co, Texas

Notes:

Census:
1930 Chambers Co, Texas
Herbert Mayes 22 1808 Negro Texas single boarder
did not attended school, can read/write.
Father and mother born in Texas
laborer tie mill
Living with Spencer Loran (corrected to Toran)
47 (Black) and wife Maud (Black) 35 and children.

Herbert married Linda Williams, (black). Linda was born on 2 Oct 1915 in Hankamer, Chambers Co, Texas; died on 19 Mar 1972 in Galveston, Galveston Co, Texas; was buried in Brown Cem, Hankamer, Chambers Co, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
Name Linda Mayes
residence Hankamer, Chambers Co, Texas
Birth Date 2 Oct 1915
Birth Place Texas
Gender Female
Race Negro
housewife, married
Residence Hankamer, Chambers, Texas
Father Ben Williams Texas
Mother Sarah Kirkwood Texas
Age at Death 56
Death Date 19 Mar 1972 age 56
Death Place Galveston, Galveston, Texas, USA
heart failure
recurrent pulmonary emboli
U of TX Regional Medical Branch, length of stay 32 days
bur Brown Cem, Hankamer, Texas

Edra married Hester Brown, (black). Hester was born on 14 May 1883 in Hankamer, Chambers Co, Texas; died on 18 Apr 1958 in Hankamer, Chambers Co, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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