Henry John Stricker, Jr

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1920, McLennan Co, Texas
• Census: 1930, Waco, McLennan Co, Texas

Notes:

Informant on his mother's d.c. in 1968.

"Henry John Stricker Jr., b. 29 August, 1903, in Waco, md. 1) Mary Josephine Hackbusch, in 1929. (Divorced) Md. 2) Mamie Keeling 5 August 1953. My husband and I visited Henry and Mamie in 1984; they were very sweet people. Uncle Henry died 5 March 1993 in Waco; I can't find a date for Mamie's death, but I believe it was by 1990, and Henry then remarried his first wife. Henry and his first wife adopted 2 children; I don't have see any notes about them."
from Paula Deming 13 Apr 2011

Census:
age 16, single, living with parents

Census:
Henry J Stricker 26 1904 age married 25 Texas Texas Texas advertising management
Mary J Stricker 22 1908 age married 21 Alabama Missouri Iowa




Died:
Texas Death records
Henry John Stricker died 5 Mar 1993 in McLennan Co.


Buried:
Stricker, Henry John, Jr - has no stone but is confirmed buried to the left of the three stones in the family plot.
Keeling, Mamie Rea Stricker (Mrs. Henry John, Jr.) also unmarked and in this plot.

Henry married Mary Josephine Hackbusch on 29 Jun 1929 in Waco, McLennan Co, Texas, and was divorced before 1953 in Waco, McLennan Co, Texas. Mary was born in 1908 in McLennan Co, Texas; died after 1991 in of McLennan Co, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Henry married Mamie Rea Keeling on 5 Aug 1953 in McLennan Co, Texas. Mamie was born on 13 Feb 1896 in Calvert Co, Texas; died on 25 Dec 1989 in Waco, McLennan Co, Texas; was buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Waco, McLennan County, Texas, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Henry married Mary Josephine Hackbusch on 18 May 1990 in McLennan Co, Texas, and was divorced on 10 Jan 1991 in McLennan Co, Texas. Mary was born in 1908 in McLennan Co, Texas; died after 1991 in of McLennan Co, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
Name: Mary J Hackbusch
Gender: Female
Marriage Date: 16 May 1990
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1908
Age: 82

Spouse: Henry J Stricker
Spouse Gender: Male
Spouse Est Birth Year: abt 1904
Spouse Age: 86

Marriage County: Mc Lennan
Marriage State: Texas

Source: Texas Marriage Index, 1966-2002


Divorced:
Name: Henry J Stricker
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1904
Age: 87
Spouse's Name: Mary J [Stricker]
Spouse's Estimated Birth Year: abt 1910
Spouse's Age: 81
Divorce Date: 10 Jan 1991
Marriage Date: 16 May 1990
Number of Children: 0
COUNTY: Mc Lennan

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Central Christian Church, Waco, McLennan Co, Texas
• Residence: 1894, 625 South 9th, Waco, McLennan Co, Texas
• Residence: 1900, Clay btw Plum & Spring, Waco, McLennan Co, Texas; to 1901
• Census: 16 Jun 1900, Waco (Precinct 1), McLennan Co, Texas
• Census: 29 Apr 1910, Waco, McLennan Co, Texas
• Census: 27 Jan 1920, McLennan Co, Texas
• Census: 1930, 1620 North 15th St., Waco, McLennan Co, Texas; D.C.

Notes:

family story from Kris Banvard, Henry's brother "Herman lived in Arlington, Texas in a big two story house. He enticed his brother, Henry, to come to Arlington and open a fruit store/newsstand. Henry went broke in less than a year and moved back to Waco."

also, told of Henry John Stricker, Sr.:
He was a cabinet maker and then was part owner of a furniture store. He had to quit school at age 9 to to to wrk when his father died. In 1899 he was making $9 per week at Mailander's Furniture Store in Waco. After 1912 he worked as a cabinet maker for Stratton Furniture Company (they may have taken over from Mailander). He became a shipping clerk, then a chief salesman. By about 1919, he was a partner, buying into the store at $10 per week."


Religion:
Very active in the church, he was an elder and was featured in the 4 Mar 1928 edition of The Lookout, Magazine of Christian Education, published in Cincinnati, for the boys' class he taught at Central Christian. The story is headlined "Thoe Old Gang o' Mine."
"Henry Stricker, Sr., of Waco, Texas, thinks of the class of boys he teaches at Central Christian Church as "that old gang o' mine." An unusual spirit of comradeship exists between him and all the boys of the group. He spends much time and energy for the class and enjoys the activities and associations just as much as the do the boys..."


Residence:
Stricker Annie B (wid W.), r 625 S 9th
Stricker Henry J., appc upholsterer, h. Mrs. A.B. Stricker.
Stricker Herman, trav slsmn, h. Mrs. Annie B. Stricker
Stricker Peter W., appc plumber J.S. Brazelton & Co, h Mrs. A.B. Stricker
Stricker Walter W., clk John Cummins, h. Mrs. A.B. Stricker.
625 South 9th, Waco, McLennan Co, Texas

Residence:
Stricker Henry J., wks (works) compress, r. ns (north side) Clay bt (between) Plum, Spring, E. Waco.

Census:
Stricker Henry J head Jan 1886 20 married 1 yr
TX Germany Germany ?nnchemical
Runie wife May 1881 19 m 1 yr TX Georgia Missouri
Walter W son Jan 1890 9 Texas Texas Texas

Census:
Henry J Stricker 29 m 10 yrs cabinet maker
Runie Stricker 28 4 births 3 living
Henry Stricker 6 1904 son
Mary Stricker 4 1906 dau
Eugene Stricker 2 1908 son
Mary M Moore 66 1844 mother in law widowed MO KY MO


Census:
Stricker, Henry J b 1880 age 40 TX self, married Germany, Germany
Henry J age 1904 16 Texas
Mary A 1906 14 Texas
Eugene M, 1909, 11 Texas
Mary M Stricker (Moore) 76

Died:
d.c. Henry J. Stricker Sr., age 50, lived in city 45 years.
residence 1620 North 15th st.
furniture dealer, Stratton-Stricker Company
born in Texas; died of leukemia, at home at 4:30 a.m.
father Werner Stricker, Germany
mother, Annie Barbara Franz, Germany
informant, Mrs. Runie Stricker, Waco, Texas

note from Kris Banvard:
He died of Leukemia. The obit says he had been ill about two years and been confined to his home for two weeks. It is said he was too weak to attend his mother's funeral; she died a few weeks before he did. Henry is listed as the 'informant' on Anna Barbara's death certificate. I don't know whether that meant he felt strong enough to go down there or did it over the phone or through a proxy.

Henry married Runie Mable Moore on 10 May 1899 in Marlin, Falls Co, Texas. Runie (daughter of William Calhoun Moore and Mary Madden Jones) was born on 30 May 1881 in Battle, McLennan Co, Texas; died on 06 Oct 1968 in Waco, McLennan Co, Texas; was buried on 09 Oct 1968 in Oakwood Cemetery, Waco, McLennan County, Texas, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1900, Waco, McLennan Co, Texas; moved to
• Census: 16 Jun 1900, Waco, McLennan Co, Texas
• Census: 17 Jan 1920, Waco (Ward 6), McLennan Co, Texas
• Residence: Dec 1930, 1620 North 15th St., Waco, McLennan Co, Texas; husband's D.C.
• Residence: 1968, 1625 Wooded Acres, Waco, McLennan Co, Texas; D.C.

Notes:

Family info is that Runie Mabel Moore had about three years of education when she left school altogether but was said to have about a seventh grade education when she left school. She was a telephone operator for Waco Telephone Company before her marriage when there were about 200 lines and the operator had to remember all the numbers. She liked to tell about that. Mary Banvard says, "Hello, operator, get me the Jones." None of that, "What number, please?" I remember as a child."

Residence:
Calculated on D.C. which stated she had lived in Waco 68 yrs, in 1968.

Census:
Henry J Stricker head Jan 1860 20 m 1 yr TX Germany Germany
Runie wife May 1881 19 1 birth 1 living Texas GA MS
Walter W son Jan 1891 9 [sic] Texas Texas

Census:
17 Jan 1920
Henry J Stricker 40 Texas Germany Germany merchant furniture
Bunie M Stricker 38 [37] 1902 Texas Georgia Missouri
Henry J Stricker 16 1904
Mary A Stricker 14 [17] 1906
Eugene M Stricker 11 1909
Mary M Stricker 76 1844 wid Missouri Kentucky Kentucky

Died:
d.c. Runie Mable Stricker, age 87, widowed, residence, 1625 Wooded Acres, Waco; lived in Waco 68 yrs.
died at The Regis hosp, 400 Austin Ave, Waco
father William Moore; mother Mary Madden Jones
informant H.J. Stricker, Jr.

Notes:

Married:
Texas Marriages 1873-1973

from the notes of Kris Banvard,
"Their marriage license was obtained in McLennan county, but they were married in in Marlin, Falls County. They were married at 2:00 p.m. at the home of Mrs. H.G. Houghton, aunt of the bride. According to the newspaper clipping I have announcing it, the wedding 'will be a quiet affair, only relatives and a few friends being expected.' The couple will live in Waco, the clipping said, "Mr. Stricker having prepared a home for his bride in that city."

Other Events and Attributes:

• Immigration: 9 Mar 1858, "The Laura," Bremen, Germany; New York, New York
• Military: Between 18 Apr 1866 and 19 Apr 1869, Texas
• Census: 28 Aug 1870, Robertson Co (Precinct 1), Texas
• Census: 1880, Robertson Co, Texas
• Residence: 1890, Waco, McLennan Co, Texas

Notes:

Immigration:
This is the translation Ancestry did of the info on the page. (I don't know what Archive name and archive collection means)
Name: Werner Stricker
Birth year:1843
Birth place: Vegesack
residence: Vegesack
date mustered: 9 Mrz (Mar) 1858

Ship: Laura
Port of Departure: Bremen
Destination: New York, New York
Archive Name: Bremen Staatsarchiv
Archive collection: 4,24-E.7 Musterungslisten der Schiffe, geführt vom Bremer Wasserschout, 1837 Juli- 1873 Mai

Military:
Register of Enlistments - United States Army

Werner Stricker,
Enlisted Apr 19 1866
born Bremen Germany
age 23
clerk
blue eyes
light hair
light complexion
height 5 feet 6 inches
13 Infantry
Discharg'd Apr 19 1869 at Fort Sully

Census:
residence 135
Franz, Bettie 48 housekeeper, 500 Baden
father and mother of foreign born checked
Franz, Anna B. 10 1860 Baden
Franz, Peter 8 1862 Texas

residence 196
Stucker, Warner 25 1845 Bremen
Stephenson, Andrew 22 1848 London

(Ancestry translated Franz as Frank)

Census:
W. Stricker 37 merchant Prussia Prussia Prussia
A.B. Stricker 26 Prussia Prussia Prussia
H. Stricker 4 daughter Texas
Walter Stricker 2 Texas
Henry Stricker 5m Texas
Barbara Franz 53 mother in law Prussia Prussia Prussia
Peter Franz 18 bro in law Texas Prussia Prussia Prussia
Jacob Kling 45 boarder baker Alsces Alsces Alsces
M. Klein 27 boarder clerk in store Prussia Prussia Prussia


Residence:
Name: Walter Stricker
Location 2: Mrs. A. B. Stricker
Business Name: R. H. Gray
Occupation: driver
Year: 1890, 1891
City: Waco
State: TX

----------

Name: Walter W. Stricker
Location 2: Mrs. Anna B. Stricker
Business Name: I. Loewenstein
Occupation: clerk
Year: 1892, 1893
City: Waco
State: TX


Died:
As recorded in the journal called "Texas Girlhood," written by Mary Ann "Nona" Stricker, his granddaughter, "When Papa was but nine years old, his father, an itinerant German baker, had drunk a glass of cold water one summer afternoon, lain down to rest, and died, as we children were told, because the ice water froze the marrow around his heart. We were never clear as to the exact nature of the anatomical area involved, but it was a long time before I could drink a glass of ice water and then lie down without misgivings s to the certainty of my subsequent arising."

Walter married Anna Barbara Franz on 24 Aug 1870 in Robertson Co, Texas. Anna (daughter of Peter Franz and Barbara (..) Franz) was born on 25 Sep 1853 in Kassel, Germany; died on 24 Nov 1930 in Waco, McLennan Co, Texas; was buried on 26 Nov 1930 in Greenwood Cem, Waco, McLennan Co, Texas, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Immigration: 2 Jan 1858, "The Julius," Bremen, Germany; New Orleans, Louisiana
• Census: 16 Jul 1860, Robertson Co (Precinct 3), Texas; P.O. Sterling
• Census: 28 Aug 1870, Robertson Co (Precinct 1), Texas
• Census: 1880, Robertson Co, Texas
• Residence: 1894, 625 South 9th, Waco, McLennan Co, Texas
• Census: 1900, McLennan Co (Precinct 1), Texas

Notes:

As written by granddaughter Mary Ann "Nona" Stricker in her journal, Texas Girlhood, of her grandmother who was widowed with seven young children, "Grandma also had to find salaried employment. She spent long hours sewing uniforms for college students at Baylor University, leaving her own mother, Grossmutter Frans, to tyrannize over and harangue the seven fatherless Strickers."

Immigration:
Anna Francis 2 Jan 1858 4 Female Bremen, Germany Julius New Orleans, Louisiana M259_45
Barbara Francis 2 Jan 1858 30 Female Bremen, Germany Julius New Orleans, Louisiana M259_45
Peter Francis 2 Jan 1858 34 Male Bremen, Germany Julius New Orleans, Louisiana M259_45 locksmith


Census:
Peter France 36 1824 Bavaria blacksmith 100, 300
Barbary 33 1827 Bavaria
Anna B. 7 1853 Bavaria
John 3 1858 Bavaria


Census:
residence 135
Franz, Bettie 48 housekeeper, 500 Baden
father and mother of foreign born checked
Franz, Anna B. 10 1860 Baden
Franz, Peter 8 1862 Texas

residence 196
Stucker, Warner 25 1845 Bremen
Stephenson, Andrew 22 1848 London

(Ancestry translated Franz as Frank)

Census:
W. Stricker 37 merchant Prussia Prussia Prussia
A.B. Stricker 26 Prussia Prussia Prussia
H. Stricker 4 daughter Texas
Walter Stricker 2 Texas
Henry Stricker 5m Texas
Barbara Franz 53 mother in law Prussia Prussia Prussia
Peter Franz 18 bro in law Texas Prussia Prussia Prussia
Jacob Kling 45 boarder baker Alsces Alsces Alsces
M. Klein 27 boarder clerk in store Prussia Prussia Prussia


Residence:
Stricker Annie B (wid W.), r 625 S 9th
Stricker Henry J., appc upholsterer, h. Mrs. A.B. Stricker.
Stricker Herman, trav slsmn, h. Mrs. Annie B. Stricker
Stricker Peter W., appc plumber J.S. Brazelton & Co, h Mrs. A.B. Stricker
Stricker Walter W., clk John Cummins, h. Mrs. A.B. Stricker.


Census:
(District 1, east of Brazos River excl Waco City)
Annie B. Stricker 47 Sep 1853 widowed Germany Germany Germany
10 births, 7 living, immigrated 1859 (41 yrs ago)
can read/write/speak English
Walter W Stricker Jan 1878 22 Texas
Peter W Stricker Sep 1882 17 Texas
Annie D.C. Stricker Nov 1884 15 Texas
Hellen B. Stricker 14 Jan 1886 Texas



Died:
d.c., Mrs. Annie Barbara Stricker, age 77, widowed; 1620 North 15th St. Waco in Waco for 42 years
born Germany; father Peter Franz, Germany, and mother Barbara - - - , Germany.
informant, H.J. Stricker, Waco, Texas

(died at Stricker's home)




Buried:
Greenwood Cemetery:
STRICKER,Annie Franz F 1854 1930
married 1874 Mr. STRICKER father: FRANZ

Notes:

Married:
Texas Marriages 1837-1973
Werner Stricker Annie B Franz 24 August 1870, Robertson, Texas

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1850, Grimes Co, Texas
• Census: 9 Aug 1860, Marlin P.O., Falls Co, Texas
• Military: 1862, Falls County, Texas
• Other-Begin: Abt 1865, Alabama (possibly); per journal
• Census: 11 Aug 1870, Harris Co, Texas
• Census: Jun 1880, McLennan Co (District 106), Texas
• Census: 8 Jun 1900, Marlin (Ward 1), Falls Co, Texas
• Residence: 8 Jun 1900, Coleman Street, Marlin, Falls Co, Texas

Notes:

Related in the journal written by his granddaughter, Mary Ann "Nona" Stricker, "Texas Girlhood, she writes, "Years earlier her father (Runie, her mother) had returned home to Alabama from four years of fighting for the South to find his wife dead and his children scattered - he long knew not where. A lasting injury, suffered when his abdomen was pierced by a saddle horn during a cavalry charge, added to his woes. But he gathered the pieces of his broken heart and health, and with a characteristic masculine capacity for recovery rushed off to Texas and into a second marriage. Soon he had added to his adventure two more children and a divorce."

Note, no census records record him in Alabama. His first wife did die, and from census records, it appears he was in Texas. He did remarry and lived in Harris County near his 2nd wife's extended family, along with children from the first marriage. Unknown where this misinformation generated.

The journal continues...
"Undaunted either by age, ill health, or by previous matrimony catastrophe, and perhaps impelled by a fear of an approaching old age unsoftened by feminine companionship, William Moore went in search of a third wife. It wasn't long before he met and married Grandma (Mary Madden Jones Norton),a childless widow of thirty-six who had spent the Civil War years mothering several orphaned brothers and sisters."

__________________________________


http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/th/read/TAYLOR/1998-12/0912965886


____________________________
from Paula

I think I may have a breakthrough on William Calhoun Moore's ancestors, too, using some of the information you had sent to me. I eliminated the notion about Zachary Taylor this afternoon, but used his supposed kinswoman to find the proper family for her. Phillis Taylor, born in 1754, married Joshua Moore, and their son Samuel is William Calhoun's father, it looks like that at any rate. The family was all born in Delaware, then packed up and moved to Georgia. Phillis' grandfather was William Taylor of Somerset, Md. (died by Oct. 1773); Joshua's parents are Joshua Moore and Temperence Wailes.

At least, that's what this more plausible genealogical chart looks like. It comes with copious notes, and the notes are very confusing and use several varieties of enumeration, and I'm still trying to sort that out. These charts don't PROVE anything, of course, but is makes no claim to important people, includes much of a family that was already in that Rogers family tree on rootsweb (but the date errors are gone). Nothing has been proved, with this new genealogy, but one census record for William C. Moore did indicate that his father was born in Delaware. That sounded like a mistake to me, but I tucked it into a cubby hole in my brain as a possible clue. :)

Here is the web page. I'm sure you want to see it!

http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/th/read/TAYLOR/1998-12/0912965886

Yours, Paula


Census:
John Kelly 39 Georgia
Ann Kelly 24 (Ann America Moore) Georgia
Lucy G Kelly 12 Georgia
Franklin B Kelly 8 Georgia
Daniel Kelly 0 Texas
Wm C Moore 19 1831 Georgia (bro to Ann America)
H Loftin 38 1812 South Carolina


Census:
Moore, W.C. 28 farmer 1370, 500 GA
Eliza 26 MS
E. 8 female TX
James 4 TX
Lucy 2 TX
Rosa 11/12 TX (Stella Rosa)
Nancy Dodd 21 AL



Military:
From: "Roccie"
To:
Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2012 4:26 AM
Subject: Wc Moore info


Hi Sherry,
Here's a little more I found out. He fought for the confederacy as part of waller's regiment mustered out of falls county. He was in company b (Thomas Hightower's company), and this was a cavalry regiment. Moore was a sergeant.
All the best,
Roccie=

6/16/13 (Roccie)
"when he returned to Texas after the war, his wife, Eliza, was dead, and his children were scattered around."


Other-Begin:
comment: Texas Girlhood, pg 3, written by his granddaughter- stated he had returned to Alabama "from four years of fighting for the south to find his wife dead and his children scattered he knew not where."

(from Paula)
His wife had died in '64, she was last known to be in Texas, having had a child in 1863 in Texas. Had she moved to Alabama with the children while he was in the war? What was the connection to Alabama? He was from Georgia and she from Mississippi; but their first child was born in Texas 1851.

Whatever the facts that had played out about 'Alabama' seem to not be known now, but he obviously did find his children as they were all livng with him and his 2nd wife by the 1870 census in Harris county. He had married her in 1866.

His war record has not been found.

Census:
residence 633
Moore, W.C. 39 1831 Georgia farmer
Moore, Rebecca 38 1832 Indiana
Moore, E.P. 18 1852 Texas (Evelyn Polk)
Moore, James 14 1856 Texas
Moore, L.J. 12 1858 Texas (Lucy)
Moore, Shella 10 1860 Texas (Stella? Rosa)
Eliza 3 1867 Texas
Pellot Abraham 10 1860 Texas (white)
(Must be R Gabriel, Rebecca's son b 18 Jan 1860)


Residence 634
Baker, M.M. 65 male 1805 Tennessee farmer
Baker, T.A. 43 male 1827 Ohio
Baker, George 8 1862 Texas


residence 630
Pillot Edmond 62 1808 black male VA
Pillot, Mary 45 1825 Mulatto Tennessee
Pillot, Sallie 13 1857 Mulatto Texas
Pillot, Landis 9 1861 female Mulatto TX
Eliza 6 1864 Mulatto TX
Margareth 4 1866 Mulatto TX
Sophie 11/12 1870 black Texas


residence 639
Deschaumes, Francis 48 1822 France
Deschaumes, Mary 29 1841 Texas
Deschaumes, Caroline 17 1853 Texas
Deschaumes, Emilie 15 1855 Texas
Deschaumes, Julia 14 1856 Texas
Deschaumes, Augusta 12 1858 Texas
Deschaumes, Alfred 10 160 Texas
Deschaumes, Victoria 8 1862 Texas
Deschaumes, Henry 4 1866 Texas
Davis, David 13 1857 Texas
Davis, Mary 11 1859 Texas
Davis, Lucy 9 1851 Texas
Deschaumes, Marianna 11/12 1869 Texas
Barclay, P.O. 19 1851 Louisiana

comment: Texas Girlhood, written by his granddaughter- stated he had returned to Alabama "from four years of fighting for the south to find his wife dead and his children scattered he knew not where."

His wife had died in '64, she was last known to be Texas, having had a child in 1863 in Texas. Had she moved to Alabama with the children while he was in the war? Whatever the facts that had played out about Alabama seem to not be known now, but he obviously did find his children as they were livng with him and his 2nd wife by the 1870 census in Harris county. He had married her in 1866.


Census:
Jun 1880 McLennan Co (District 106), Texas

Moore, W.C. 49 1831 farmer Georgia -- --
Mary M. 36 1844 Missouri Missouri Missouri

("W" in W.C. Moore, faded and handwriting looks like "N" C. Moore.)


Census:
08 Jun 1900 Marlin, Ward No. 1, Falls Co, Texas

res 118 Moore, William C May 1831 69 married 20
Georgia, Delaware Georgia
Mary M wife Nov 1842 57 married 20 2 births 1 living Missouri Illinois Illinois
(her parents were not born in Illinois. She would have known that. Andrew also stated in his 1880 census that father was born in Illinois and mother in Texas)

next page:
308 Capps
residence 126
Walter E Hunnicutt 34 Jun 1865 Texas TN TN
Mattie Hunnicutt 25 Jun 1874 Alabama
Emmitt K Hunnicutt 4 Oct 1895 son
Mary Watley 30 black servant divorced Texas
Mattie Crawford 24 black servant widowed Texas
Charlie Crawford 6 black son of Mattie


Buried:
Greenwood Cemetery, Waco (Bellmead),McLennan Co. Texas
Submitted by Nancy K. Carter ppp@theplaces.com
http://files.usgwarchives.net/tx/mclennan/cemeteries/greenwood.txt

MOORE,W. C. [CSA] male born 1840 died 1864 m MOORE,Mary M.
(CSA = Confederate States of America)

MOORE,Mary M. born 1843 died 1920 married MOORE,W.C. [CSA]

(note: we have his b.d. as 1831 from census and he was alive in 1900 census. Dates are not correct on this Greenwood Cemetery transcription.)

William married Mary Madden Jones on 10 Jun 1880 in McLennan Co, Texas. Mary (daughter of Mabra* Madden Jones, Rev and Sarah* Lovelady) was born in 1843 in Missouri; died on 05 Oct 1920 in Waco, McLennan Co, Texas; was buried in Greenwood Cem, Waco, McLennan Co, Texas, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 20 Aug 1850, Victoria, Victoria Co, Texas
• Residence: 15 Jan 1856, Manahuilla, Dewitt Co, Texas; per letter
• Religion: 7 Aug 1856, Yorktown, Dewitt Co, Texas; joined Christian Church
• Residence: 14 Dec 1856, Yorktown, Dewitt Co, Texas; per letter
• Residence: 6 Feb 1860, Dewitt Co, Texas; per letter
• Residence: 11 Jul 1860, Dewitt Co, Texas; per letter
• Census: 13 Jul 1860, Dewitt Co, Texas
• Residence: 14 Aug 1861, Middletown, Goliad Co, Texas; per letter
• Residence: 10 Oct 1862, Middletown, Goliad Co, Texas; per letter
• Residence: 22 Dec 1862, Middletown, Goliad Co, Texas; per letter
• Residence: 8 Dec 1866, Terryville, Lavaca Co, Texas; per letter
• Census: 1870, Texas; cannot find
• Residence: 17 Oct 1870, Oak Hill (near LaGrange), Fayette Co, Texas; per letter
• Residence: 18 Dec 1870, Oak Hill (near LaGrange), Fayette Co, Texas; per letter
• Residence: 25 Mar 1871, Oak Hill (near LaGrange), Fayette Co, Texas
• Residence: 23 Apr 1871, Oak Hill (near LaGrange), Fayette Co, Texas; per letter
• Residence: 25 Aug 1872, Oak Hill (near LaGrange), Fayette Co, Texas; per letter (Rabb family)
• Residence: Abt May 1877, maybe Oak Hill (near LaGrange), Fayette Co, Texas
• Census: Jun 1880, McLennan Co (District 106), Texas
• Residence: Between 1886 and 1887, Waco, McLennan Co, Texas; not in city directory
• Residence: Between 1892 and 1893, Waco, McLennan Co, Texas; not in city directory
• Residence: Abt 1894, Palestine, Anderson Co, Texas; per journal
• Census: 08 Jun 1900, Marlin (Ward 1), Falls Co, Texas
• Residence: 8 Jun 1900, Coleman Street, Marlin, Falls Co, Texas
• Other-Begin: 10 Jun 1901, Waco, McLennan Co, Texas; reunion
• Residence: Abt 1914, Burleson Co, Texas
• Other-Begin: 1918, Family Reunion, Palestine, Anderson Co, Texas; summer
• Census: 17 Jan 1920, Waco (Ward 6), McLennan Co, Texas

Notes:

A letter from Mary (apparently written around 1863-1864) goes thus: "We are all about to leave this country. Pap (James) and Grandma talk of going to the mountains. They have sold their cattle." There seems to have been a terrible drought that caused many people to leave that area.
Added in a postscript at the beginning of the letter is, "I have got the sweetest little brother. He can sit alone. He is as fat as a pig." That must have been Henry at several months old.
Apparently she had been married previously to a Mr. Norton. They had moved to Oak Hill near LaGrange, Texas. After several years, they moved to North Texas, then moved back. Mary was living in Burleson Co about 1914. According to the n item, Mary had married a Moore and Sue had married a Linthicum.
Mary never had any children (by choice), and I am of the opinion that the friction between her and Mabry was because she married and did not continue to take care of his "four little motherless boys" as she put it (which would have been Cyrus abt 11, Stephen abt 9, Andrew abt 6, Henry abt 1).
Anyway, she tried to get one of the boys, as George and Sue did. In another letter, she complains that Mabry had given George and Susan a brother to keep, but had refused to give her one.
Mabry farmed the boys out at times, some of them to my great-grandmother Susan. But the 1870 Census reveals that Stephen and Andrew were living with Mabry and Martha then, as well as daughter Nancy and Nellie (b 1864 & 1868) and the 1880 lis a son Joel A, born November 28, 1874.

Stephen's letter of Jan 19 1916 mentions "Mary, Sue and myself reside here" - Waco, McLellan Co.

After Mary was widowed and in her senior years, she lived with her daughter Runie and family, the Strickers. Granddaughter Mary "Nona" Stricker wrote a journal entitled "Texas Girlhood" and wrote of her grandmother,
page 36
"Grandmohter was a wonder despite several disabling physical afflictions with which she lived for many years. One of these ailments directly influenced the expansive rotundity of her unrestrained middle - all stomach to our anatomically untutored minds. She found irrepressible joy in living, and laughed long and often with such gusto that her "stomach" shook without solemnity, much to our delight. Though sevent-five and mostly sedentary, Grand had the appetite of an adolescent boy. How she enjoyed food! And why not? She still had all her own teeth, and a handsome set they were although no dentist had ever had a closeup of them.

"Grandma's chief source of joy was her family of brothers and a sister. When we were very young we used to wonder why she and great aunt and Susie always cried when they met after being separated for even a short (page 37) while. Grandma and these brothers and this sister she had mothered formed in their later yers the nucleus of the Jones family reunion. How they adored each other and reveled in being together - Mary (Grandma),Stephen, Cyrus, Andrew, Henry, and Susie. The several half-brothers and sisters were also welcomed, as were, of course all the children, grandchildren, and in-laws. They loved to sing and enjoy most of the songs of the Sacred Harp. First, the notes of the traditional Do-Re-Mi and Fa-sol-la tunes were named and sung. Then the words.

"Our five room house was headquarters for one year's retunion. Of course we couldn't sleep them all, but though parcelled out to other relatives at night, the whole crowd ate, sand and enjoyed each other at our house during the days of the customary week. When Grandma died at seventy-seven, the joyous circle was broken, and it seemed to be understood there would be no more Jones family reunions."
(complete journal attached)

Some samples of the sounds of Sacred Harp singing are here:
http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/~mudws/sounds/



Birth:
birth date from 1900 Falls Co, census.

Census:
20 Aug 1850 Victoria, Victoria Co, Texas
1850 - Victoria Co census:
M.M. Jones 30 Blacksmith 300 KY
Sarah 30 MO
G.W. Jones 9 MO
Mary A 7 TX
Susan M 4 TX
Nancy J 2 TX
Richard Bonum 22 Blacksmith MO (b 1828)
Catherine Seber 9 DEU (Germany)

next door, John (37) and Catherine (39) Seber, from Germany. Probably the Jones had taken in their child for some neighborly reason

Census:
residence 298
Mabra Jones 40 1820 blacksmith 3500 1500 Kentucky
checked "attended school within the year"
Sarah 39 1821 Missouri
George W. 19 1841 Missouri
Mary M 17 1843 Missouri
Susan D. 13 1847 Texas
Cyrus 8 1852 Texas
Stephen L. 6 1854 Texas
Andrew 3 1857 Texas
M.H. 5/12 1860 Texas

residence 302
James Lovelate 62 1798 minister 300 1,000 Tennessee
Nancy 60 1800 South Carolina

(Ancestry translators had the Jones name spelled Louer, Mabre and Lovelady was written as Lovelate.)


Residence:
Mary talks of a Rabb family in a letter to her aunt Susan Bounds Butts.

1860 Dewitt Co, Texas
residence 298 - Mabra and Sarah Jones
residence 299 M. and Elizabeth Parker
residence 300 A.H. and Elizabeth Parker

residence 301 (parents of Malissa Jones Rabb)
Enoch Jones 74 1786 farmer Delaware
Nancy Jones 67 1793 N Carolina
Lewis B. Jones 1838 22 Mississippi
Ulesses Rabb 29 1831 Texas <<<
Malissa Rabb (Jones) 27 1833 Mississippi
Paul M. Rabb 10/12 1859 Texas
N.B. Steddom 1847 Texas (grandson Napoleon Bonepart Steddum/Steddom, son of Mary)

residence 302 Lovelate (Lovelady) James & Nancy
residence 303 G.W. & Ellena Jacobs
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1870 West of Caldwell Road, Fayette, Texas
pg 15
residence 89
Ulyses Rabb 39 1831 Texas farmer 100
Malissa Rabb 37 1833 Mississippi
L B Rabb 13 1857 Texas
P M Rabb 11 1859 Texas
R H Tollmson 17 1853 Texas
Nancy Jones 75 1795 North Carolina

also res 15
J.W. Rabb 35 TX
Kittie 22 TX
Mina 1 1869
Wm J. 1/12 1870
also res 132
Rabb, Virgil S. 30 miller and Dulce 21 TX

(Mary (Jones) Norton not in this township)
_______
1880 La Grange, Lafayette Co, Texas
location listed is the county jail
Rabb U. White Male 47 abt 1833 Self (Head)Self Married
jailer, sheriff Texas Pennsylvania Pennsylvania
Rabb M. White Female 36 abt 1844 Wife Married Mississippi Massachusetts Massachusetts
Rabb Lee White Male 21 abt 1859 Son Single Texas Texas Mississippi
Rabb Paul White Male 20 abt 1860 Son Single deputy sheriff Texas Texas Mississippi
(also listed 8 prisoners)
____________________
http://bkatbird2.tripod.com/id2.html (source of picture)
"Ulysses Rabb, son of Thomas J. and Serena (Gilbert) Rabb was born on Aug. 12, 1830, in the Colorado Dist. of Stephen F. Austin's Colony. He was known to family and friends as "Wit" Rabb. He served as Sheriff of Fayette County from 1876 to 1880. He died on Jan. 14, 1887."
________________
http://camelotrr.com/heathcock.org/genealogy/ps07/ps07_389.html
Melissa Edna Jones b 12 Jun 1833 MS
father Enoch Jones 1785 NC - >1860 Walker Co, TX
mother Nancy Swain 1793 - >1870
m Ulesses Rabb 18 Aug 1855 Dewitt Co.
children Lee Bell 1857-1936
notes: It appears that Melissa Edna Jones was first married to Absolem Tumlinson but they must have divorced after the birth of Mary Ellen Tumlinson in 1850. She married Ulysses Rabb in Colorado in 1855. Her children by both husbands were living with Melissa's parents, Enoch and Nancy (Swain) Jones, at the time of the 1860 census (see miscellaneous note on the record of Enoch Jones). Absolem Tumlinson remarried and lived until 1889.

Enoch Jones 23 Oct 1785 NC
d aft 13 Aug 1860 Walker Co, TX age 74
father Ebenezer Jones 1763 - 1862
mother Mary Wroten 1762 - 1829
m Nancy Swain b 29 Jul 1793 NC

Name Ebenezer Jones , GGG Grandfather
Birth 21 Jan 1763, Kent County, Dover, Delaware278,279
Death 9 Mar 1862, Washington, Daviess Co, IN278 Age: 99
Burial Odd Fellows Cemetery, Washington, IN280
Burial Old City Cemetery, Washington, IN

Ebenezer Jones son of Zachariah Jones and Ellen Smith
Name Zachariah Jones, GGGG Grandfather
Birth ca 1735
Death 1789, Mispillion Hundred, Kent Co DE Age: 54
Ulysses Rabb: 1830 TX - 14 Jan 1887 Fayette TX (age 57)

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Nancy Swain b 29 Jul 1793 NC
father Elizar Swain
mother Ann Swift

1780 Tyrrell County, North Carolina
Eleazar Swain
Name on a petition, 20 Oct 1779, to the General Assembly from inhabitants of Tyrrell County asking that the county be divided to form a new county called Buncombe County because of the difficulty in a...
also signed that petition:
Cornelus; John, John, Lovick?

1800 Eleazar Swain
Washington Co, NC
10 in his household:
male age 45 and over 1
female 26-44 1
male 16-25 1
female 10-15 2
females <10 2
slaves 3

also John Swain
1810
Capt Joseph Lewis, Washington Co, NC
& Thomas Swain

Residence:
Frances living in Red Rock, dates her letter simply "May." Guessing this is about 1877. She writes to Susan Bounds Butts
"Pap started down to Lavaca about two or three weeks ago. He went by Mary's. I expect he will stay there some time. I got a letter from Mary the same day I got yours. She was well and doing well."
Leonard surmised Mary was in Burleson, but that would not be enroute from Red Rock to Lavaca. Perhaps this was after Nancy died, or perhaps it was after Mr. Norton died. Mary might have still been living near LaGrange.

Census:
Jun 1880 McLennan Co (District 106), Texas

Moore, W.C. 49 1831 farmer Georgia -- --
Mary M. 36 1844 Missouri Missouri Missouri



Residence:
bet 1886 and 1887
Stephen Jones is not listed in 1884 edition of city directory
Henry Jones is not listed
(No Jones in our family is listed)
Moore - William C and Mary (Jones) are not listed
Lithicum - none listed
Stapp - none are listed
Stricker - none are listed


Residence:
from "Texas Girlhood" by granddaughter, Mary Ann "Nona" Stricker, "When Mama (Runie) was bout ten the family went to live with Grandma's younger brother in Palestine, Texas. This didn't prove to be the promised land either. To make the arrangements business like, Grandma was to do the cooking for the combined families, which numbered some eleven Jones and Moores. Things bumped along the inevitably rough road until Mama, with a child's lack of discretion, caused a conflagration with consumed the slight store of amenities left."
note: this would be her baby brother Henry and his family. The story relates an altercation between Runie and Ethel, Henry's oldest child.

attached journal for the related incident, page 4)

Census:
08 Jun 1900 Marlin, Ward No. 1, Falls Co, Texas

res 118 Moore, William C May 1831 69 married 20
Georgia, Delaware Georgia
Mary M wife Nov 1842 57 married 20 2 births 1 living Missouri Illinois Illinois
(her parents were not born in Illinois. She would have known that. Andrew also stated in his 1880 census that father was born in Illinois and mother in Texas. However, 1920 she states both parents born in Kentucky)

Other-Begin:
(see notes about reunion on her father Mabra Madden Jones page)

Census:
17 Jan 1920
Henry J Stricker 40 Texas Germany Germany merchant furniture
Bunie M Stricker 38 [37] 1902 Texas Georgia Missouri
Henry J Stricker 16 1904
Mary A Stricker 14 [17] 1906
Eugene M Stricker 11 1909
Mary M Stricker 76 1844 wid Missouri Kentucky Kentucky

Died:
d.c. age 77, widow, retired, born Missouri
father, Mabra Madden, b Kentucky
mother's maiden name: Sarah, birthplace -- don't know
informant, Mrs. H.J. Stricker, Waco, Texas
(this would be her daughter)

Mary's granddaughter, Mary, called Nona, wrote a journal called "Texas Girlhood." Mary, age 77, was living with her daughter Runie and Nona was 15 years old. She wrote of that night when Mary died, "When Grandma died at seventy-seven, the joyous circle (yearly reunions at alternating homes) was broken, and it seemed to be understood there would be no more Jones family reunions.
"One midnight in 1921, I was startled awake by cries of discress. I called Mama and Papa and we rushed to Grandma's room. But she was already only partially conscious. After seventy-seven years, her merry heart had just stopped beating. She couldn't have known for long that the time for her departure had come. And that was well. she loved life but not for the material blessings it had bestrowed on her. The only tangible legacy she left us was, rather appropriately, a piano. She had made what seemed at the time an even trade when she deeded Uncle Henry a lot in south Houston for the charred remains of a piano, the interior of which he had rehabilitated. Papa remade and refinished the exterior. It was something of a disappointment to the eye, but its tone made one forget that."


Buried:
Greenwood Cemetery, Waco (Bellmead),McLennan Co. Texas
Submitted by Nancy K. Carter ppp@theplaces.com
http://files.usgwarchives.net/tx/mclennan/cemeteries/greenwood.txt

MOORE,W. C. [CSA] male born 1840 died 1864 m MOORE,Mary M.
(CSA = Confederate States of America)

MOORE,Mary M. born 1843 died 1920 married MOORE,W.C. [CSA]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Immigration: 2 Jan 1858, "Juilius," Bremen, Germany; New Orleans, Louisiana
• Census: 16 Jul 1860, Robertson Co (Precinct 3), Texas; P.O. Sterling

Notes:

Immigration:
Anna Francis 2 Jan 1858 4 Female Bremen, Germany Julius New Orleans, Louisiana M259_45
Barbara Francis 2 Jan 1858 30 Female Bremen, Germany Julius New Orleans, Louisiana M259_45
Peter Francis 2 Jan 1858 34 Male Bremen, Germany Julius New Orleans, Louisiana M259_45 locksmith


Census:
Peter France 36 1824 Bavaria blacksmith 100, 300
Barbary 33 1827 Bavaria
Anna B. 7 1853 Bavaria
John 3 1858 Bavaria

Died:
Surname: Peter Franz
Year: 1870
County: Robertson CO.
State: TX
Age: 47
Gender: M (Male)
Month of Death: Jun
State of Birth: Bn
ID#: MRT197_110371
Occupation: GUNSMITH
Cause of Death: DYSENTERY

Peter married Barbara (..) Franz about 1850 in Prussia. Barbara was born in 1827 in Prussia; died after 1900 in of, Waco, McLennan Co, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Immigration: 2 Jan 1858, "The Julius," Bremen, Germany; New Orleans, Louisiana
• Census: 28 Aug 1870, Robertson Co, Texas
• Census: 1880, Robertson Co, Texas

Notes:

Immigration:
Anna Francis 2 Jan 1858 4 Female Bremen, Germany Julius New Orleans, Louisiana M259_45
Barbara Francis 2 Jan 1858 30 Female Bremen, Germany Julius New Orleans, Louisiana M259_45
Peter Francis 2 Jan 1858 34 Male Bremen, Germany Julius New Orleans, Louisiana M259_45 locksmith


Census:
residence 135
Franz, Bettie 48 housekeeper, 500 Baden
father and mother of foreign born checked
Franz, Anna B. 10 1860 Baden
Franz, Peter 8 1862 Texas

residence 196
Stucker, Warner 25 1845 Bremen
Stephenson, Andrew 22 1848 London

(Ancestry translated Franz as Frank)

Census:
W. Stricker 37 merchant Prussia Prussia Prussia
A.B. Stricker 26 Prussia Prussia Prussia
H. Stricker 4 daughter Texas
Walter Stricker 2 Texas
Henry Stricker 5m Texas
Barbara Franz 53 mother in law Prussia Prussia Prussia
Peter Franz 18 bro in law Texas Prussia Prussia Prussia
Jacob Kling 45 boarder baker Alsces Alsces Alsces
M. Klein 27 boarder clerk in store Prussia Prussia Prussia

Samuel married Lucy Green Ward on 21 Jan 1821 in Greene Co, Georgia. Lucy was born on 19 Dec 1802; died on 31 May 1834. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1840, Platte Co, Missouri
• Residence: 1844, Cass Co, Texas; came to Texas
• Residence: 1847, Victoria Co, Texas; moved to
• Religion: 28 Mar 1849, First Christian Congregation, Victoria, Victoria Co, Texas; church formed
• Occupation: 1850, Victoria Co, Texas; blacksmith
• Census: 20 Aug 1850, Victoria, Victoria Co, Texas
• Census: 20 Aug 1850, Victoria Co, Texas; Agriculture
• Residence: 1852, Manahuilla Minnuvee Creek at Buzzard Roost Country, Dewitt Co, Texas
• Occupation: 1855, Victoria Co, Gonzales Co, Dewitt Co, Texas; blacksmith, preacher, judge
• Property: 9 May 1855, Dewitt Co, Texas; from Peter C Ragsdale
• Residence: 15 Jan 1856, Manahuilla, Dewitt Co, Texas; per letter
• Residence: 7 Aug 1856, Yorktown, Dewitt Co, Texas; per letter
• Residence: 14 Dec 1856, Yorktown, Dewitt Co, Texas; per letter
• Property: 10 Mar 1857, Yorktown, Dewitt Co, Texas; 1 acre from Marx Weil
• Occupation: 1860, Dewitt Co, Texas; blacksmith
• Residence: 6 Feb 1860, Dewitt Co, Texas; per letter
• Residence: 11 Jul 1860, Dewitt Co, Texas; per letter
• Census: 13 Jul 1860, Dewitt Co, Texas
• Residence: Bef 14 Aug 1860, Terryville, Lavaca Co, Texas
• Residence: 14 Aug 1861, Middletown, Goliad Co, Texas; per letter
• Residence: 10 Oct 1862, Middletown, Goliad Co, Texas; per letter(?)
• Residence: 22 Dec 1862, Middletown, Goliad Co, Texas; per letter(?)
• Residence: 8 Dec 1866, Terryville, Lavaca Co, Texas
• Occupation: 1870, Lavaca Co, Texas; blacksmith
• Census: 02 Jun 1870, Halletsville P.O., Lavaca Co, Texas
• Residence: 18 Dec 1870, Halletsville, Lavaca Co, Texa; per letter
• Residence: 25 Mar 1871, Oak Hill (near LaGrange), Fayette Co, Texas; per letter
• Residence: 23 Apr 1871, Halletsville, Lavaca Co, Texas; per letter
• Residence: 25 Aug 1872; per letter
• Occupation: 1880, Lavaca Co, Texas; farmer
• Census: 16 Jun 1880, Lavaca Co (Precinct 5), Texas
• Census: 21 Jun 1900, Palestine, Anderson Co, Texas
• Other-Begin: 10 Jun 1901, Waco, McLennan Co, Texas; Reunion
• Other-Begin: 1919, Waco, McLennan Co, Texas; reunion
• Research Notes: Abt 1978; from Olive Massie

Notes:

According to the Organization of the First Christian Congregation, his name was Mayberry, shortened to Mabry or Mabra, but spelled "Mabarie" by Margaret Ann Butts Cooley.

A blacksmith by trade, came to Texas in 1844. 1852 probably time that Loveladys and Jones moved over into Dewitt County on the Manahurla Minnuvee Creek, also called Buzzard Roost Country.
Olive Massie stated that he had "served as county judge of Gonzales for several years"(?)
____________
Known Chronology of Mabra and Lovelady family
1820 b KY (Mabra)
1821 - Mo - Sarah born
1831 - Platte Co Mo - Sarah's parents organize Salem Christian Ch
1835 - Jackson Co Mo - Jane Lovelady m Jackson Butts 29 Jan
1840 - MO - m Sarah Lovelady
1841 - MO - George born
1843 - MO - Mary born
1844 - TX - came to Texas - Cass Co.
1845 - Victoria Co - (in-laws James & Nancy, Board of First Christian Ch)
*1846 - M.M. Jones & James Lovelady shown in Cass Co, TX (near Arkansas) "Republic of Texas Poll List for 1846 - Mullins, 1984)
1846 - Victoria Co - Susan born (not verified)
1847 - Victoria County, only a few months after the Indians made their last famous raid to the coast country and burned Linnville, five miles south of Victoria. He soon accummulated some capital from the blacksmith business and invested in cattle, establishing a ranch in Goliad County.
1847 - - Jane Lovelady Butts d Aug 31
1847 - Victoria Co - Ann Lovelady m Alfred Allee Lee 4 Nov
1848 - Victoria Co - Nancy b (not verified. Nancy J. listed in 1850 Victoria Census as 2 yrs old, b in TX; is not listed in 1860 Dewitt Census)
1849 - Victoria Co - tax receipt for Jackson Butts
1849 - Victoria Co - listed as member of Org of 1st Christian Congreg Mar 28
1850 - Victoria Co census:
M M Jones 30 Blacksmith 300 KY
Sarah 30 MO
G.W. Jones 9 MO
Mary A 7 TX
Susan M 4 TX
Nancy J 2 TX
Richard Bonum 22 Blacksmith MO (b 1828)
Catherine Seber 9 DEU (Germany)
1852 - Goliad Co - Cyrus born Mar 1
1852 - Victoria Co - James Lovelady sold house to Edward Fink Apr 24
1852 - - Jackson Butts married Susan Bounds
1852 - Dewitt Co - Mabra moved - Manahuila Minnuvee Creek, Buzzard Roost Country.
1855 - Dewitt Co - Stephen born 14 November
1855 - Manahuila, Dewitt Co, Texas - Mabra Jones and James Lovelady there
1856 - Yorktown, DeWitt Co, Texas - Mabra there
1857 - Victoria, Dewitt Co - Andrew born 14 April
1860 - Dewitt Co - Mabra sold cattle and planning to move back across the river.
1860 - Lavaca Co - George in school in Goliad
1860, Feb - Henry born (1860 census taken in July states he was 5/12 yrs old.)
1860 Jul - boarder John F. Graves, age 25, blacksmith from Virginia
1863 - Dewitt Co - Sarah died
1863 - Lavaca Co - married Martha Ponton
1864 - Lavaca Co - Nancy "Nannie" born
1867 - Middletown, Goliad Co, Texas - made their move prior to this date. Move was
made just before Wed Aug 14 1867
1868 - Lavaca Co - Nellie born
1870 - Lavaca Co - Census: Nancy, Nellie, Stephen & Andrew w/Mabra & Martha
Laura and Tom born (twins?)
1870 - Goliad Co - Cyrus at age 18, living w/ relatives
1871 - Lavaca Co - Mabra officiated at marriage of his ftr-in-law Dr. Joel Ponton and Harriet Koonce Oct 1
1874 - Lavaca Co - Joel A born (Nov 28)
1880 - Lavaca Co - Anna born
1883 - Lavaca Co - Alice (Alsie) born
1886 -Lavaca Co - John born
1900 - Palestine, Anderson Co


Census:
Platte County, Missouri
only date in the records is on first page in handwriting about swearing to the census tally and is dated 23 Nov 1840.
Ancestry scans numbering, this is page 28 of 92

Name: Stephen Jones
County: Platte
State: Missouri
Free White Persons - Males - 15 thru 19: 2
John (18), Thomas 19
Free White Persons - Males - 20 thru 29: 1 Mabra (20)
Free White Persons - Males - 40 thru 49: 1 Stephen (48)
Free White Persons - Females - 5 thru 9: 2
Emmeline (4) Eliza (10 - b.d.?)
Free White Persons - Females - 10 thru 14: 1
Susan (16? - age discrepancy)
Free White Persons - Females - 20 thru 29: 1
(could be Nancy or Nancy could be married and this is Sarah Lovelady who was b 1821 - depending on months, she could have been 19 at this time. Mabra is not in any census records on his own; and he is accounted for here.
Sarah is not accounted for in her father James Lovelady's
census record in this same county. Looks like Mabra and Sarah are newly weds and living with his father.


Total - All Persons (Free White, Free Colored, Slaves): 8
Persons Employed in Agriculture: 4
Free White Persons - Under 20: 5
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 3
Total Free White Persons: 8
Total All Persons - Free White, Free Colored, Slaves: 8
_____________________
(ancestry scans numbering - pg 22 of 92)

James Lovelady
Free White Persons - Males - 40 thru 49: 1 James (43)
Free White Persons - Females - 15 thru 19: 1 Ann (1821-1825)
Free White Persons - Females - 40 thru 49: 1 Nancy (40)
Total - All Persons (Free White, Free Colored, Slaves): 3
Persons Employed in Learned Professional Engineers: 1

Girls: Sarah (19) - probably newlywed living with Mabra at Stephen's.
Jane: age unk, but married 1835; so she's gone.
Ann: age unk, she married in 1847 - this is Ann.


Free White Persons - Under 20: 1
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 2
Total Free White Persons: 3
Total All Persons - Free White, Free Colored, Slaves: 3

Religion:
We the undersigned, entertaining the same views of Christian Doctrine, Practice & Church Government, do hereby organize Ourselves into a corporate body as contemplated by an act of the Republic of Texas, approved Jan. 30th 1845. Do authorize the appointment of Trustees in Certain Cases and adopt the name of "The First Christian Congregation of Victoria". In order that we may receive the benefits of said act, we hereby constitute and appoint Felix B. Webb, Mayberry M. Jones, James Lovlady, Ann Allie and their successors in Office a board of Trustees to take & hold such property both real and personal for the use & benefit of said Congregation, has may hereafter be conveyed to the same. In testimony whereof we hereunto affix our names this 28th day of March A. D. 1849.

Signed,
Nancy Lovelady
James Lovelady
Felix B. Webb
Sarah Jones
M. M. Jones
Jackson Butts
Ann Allie


Census:
1850 - Victoria Co census:

Residence 6 (pg 1)
Jones M M 30 abt 1820 Male Kentucky blacksmith
Jones Sarah 30 abt 1820 Female Missouri
Jones G W 9 abt 1841 Male Missouri
Jones Mary N 7 abt 1843 Female Texas
Jones Susan M 4 abt 1846 Female Texas
Jones Nancy J 2 abt 1848 Female Texas
Bonum Richd 22 abt 1828 Male Missouri
Seber Catharine 9 abt 1841 Female Germany


residence 5 (pg 1)
Seber John 37 abt 1813 Male Germany
Seber Catharine 39 abt 1811 Female Germany


residence 16 (pg 3)
Butts Jackson 38 1812 Missouri
Butts Cathrine 21 1829 Tennessee
Butts Margaret 13 1837 Missouri
Butts John W 9 1841 Missouri
Butts A J 7 1843 Male Texas


residence 55 (pg 7)
Saml Middleton 44 1806 South Carolina
Mary Middleton 34 1816 Missouri
Elizabeth Middleton 15 1835 Texas
-William C Middleton 12 1838 Texas
-John Middleton 10 1840 Texas
Frank Middleton 8 1842 Texas
Amanda Middleton 3 1847 Texas

- William and John mentioned in one of Mary's lettere, that they had gone to a big church meeting



Census_Year 1850
Microfilm # 432-916
State TX
County Victoria
page line

240a 1 Lovelady James 53 Tenn pg0232a.txt
240a 2 Lovelady Nancy 50 S.C pg0232a.txt


232a 12 Jones Fielding 40 Ky pg0232a.txt
232a 34 Jones G.W. 9 M.s* pg0232a.txt
232a 32 Jones M.M. 30 Ky pg0232a.txt
232a 35 Jones Mary N. 7 Texas pg0232a.txt
232a 37 Jones Nancy J. 2 Texas pg0232a.txt
232a 33 Jones Sarah 30 M.'s* pg0232a.txt
232a 36 Jones Susan M. 4 Texas pg0232a.txt
232a 38 Bonum Rich.d 22 M.s* pg0232a.txt

232a 31 Seber Catharine 39 Germany pg0232a.txt
232a 39 Seber Catharine 9 Germany pg0232a.txt
232a 30 Seber John 37 Germany pg0232a.txt

1 16 16 Butts Jackson 38 M Labourer M.s*
REMARKS: Missouri
2 16 16 Butts Cathrine 21 F Ten
3 16 16 Butts Margaret 13 F M.s X
4 16 16 Butts John W. 9 M M.s X
5 16 16 Butts A. J. 7 M Tex

Richard Bonham with family in 1850 in Victoria.
in 1860 family in DeWitt (Clinton Twp) and Richard Bonham is too. (Jones & Lovelady not in Clinton though)
This time staying with
Oliver H. Stapp 42
Margaret 36
Caleb 9
Edward 11
Darwin 2
Laura 6
Dora 4
J Armstead 29 male
Richard Bonham 30 Missouri



1846 - Texas Census
1850
232a 12 Jones Fielding 40 Ky pg0232a.txt
1860
Fielding Jones 52 1808 Kentucky
Mary A. Jones 28 1832 Mississippi
James J. Jones 3, 1857 Texas
1860 - Victoria, Slave Schedule

Occupation:
Blacksmith by trade per census records, but he was also a preacher alongside his full-time preacher father-in-law, James Lovelady. Per family info, he was also county judge for several years in Gonzales county.

Property:
320 acres from Peter C. Ragsdale.
filed in Clinton, Dewitt Co, Texas, May 8 1855
Deed Record Vol F, Page 397 on May 10, 1855 by James N. Smith, Clerk - (bio of James N. Smith in Handbook of Texas.
https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fsm27


Note: Clinton is a ghost town in DeWitt County, in the U.S. state of Texas.[1]

Clinton was once the county seat of DeWitt County.[2] A post office called Clinton was established in 1849, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1886.[3]
(Wikipedia)

Clinton county seat starting in Aug 1850. Court was held in a log house until a log courthouse was built at a cost of $400 in 1852. A frame building was erected in 1855 and followed by a two-story courthouse in 1858.
https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hrc70

location of property
18 mi N 30 m W of Goliad
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Peter Chapple Ragsdale
3 Feb 1810 VA - 12 Mar 1882 San Marcos, Hay Co, Tx
son of Nimrod Ragsdale (1778 - 1835) and Mary Ann Chapple
Peter had a brother named William JONES Ragsdale.
Ragsdales are ancestors of Donna Foster's mother's line while her father's ancestors include Obed Lovelady (she is 7th cousin to Sherry thru Loveladys).
Peter Ragsdale might have been some kin to Mabra - maybe?


Property:
Purchased 1 acre on upper portion of Yorktown from Marx Weil for $65.

Marx Weil and family found in 1860 census, Goliad, Goliad Co, Texas census:
M. Wal (mistranslated from Weil) 48 1812
merchant, 1000; 10,000 France
Sarah 40 1820 merchant Bavaria
Edward 16 1844 merchant France
Selma 8 1852 Mississippi

Immigration to New Orleans
Passenger List taken on Board the Am. Ship Dumbarlon whereof Pendleton is Master, at the Port of Havre and bound for New Orleans
26 Feby 1848
Marx Weil age 36 France
Sarah 28 France
Edward 3 France

Residence:
Mary wrote to Susan, "Poppa preached at one of the houses close by, but we started to come home, met some more coming, all went to Dr. Throckmortons on the Cabeza to dinner. Poppa went one way us the other. We did not hear any preaching. I did not think there would be any person there. If it had not been so cold I think we would have had a good congregation."
(letter attached)

Census:
1860 Dewitt Co, Texas, Clinton P.O.
pg 36
residence 298
Mabra Jones 40 1820 blacksmith 3500 1500 Kentucky
checked "attended school within the year"
Sarah 39 1821 Missouri
George W. 19 1841 Missouri
Mary M 17 1843 Missouri
Susan D. 13 1847 Texas
Cyrus 8 1852 Texas
Stephen L. 6 1854 Texas
Andrew 3 1857 Texas
M.H. 5/12 1860 Texas
John F. Graves 25 1835 blacksmith Virginia

residence 299
Parker, M. 59 1801 Georgia
Elizabeth 49 1811 Tennessee
Amanda 17 1843 Texas
Mary T. 15 1845 Texas
Susan 10 1850 Texas
Isiah 8 1852 Texas
M.A. 5 1855 female Texas

residence 300
Parker, A.H. 23 1837 Texas
Elizabeth 23 1837 Alabama
Mary 1/23 1860 Alabama

residence 301
Jones, Enoch 74 1786 Delaware
Nancy 67 1793 North Carolina
Lewis B. 22 1838 Mississippi
Rabb Ulesses 29 1831 Texas
Rabb Malissa 27 1833 Mississippi
Tumlinson, Robert F. 7 1853 Texas
Rabb, L.B. 3 1857 Texas
Rabb, Paul M. 10/12 1859 Texas
Steddom, N.B. 13 1847 Texas

residence 302
James Lovelate 62 1798 minister 300 1,000 Tennessee
Nancy 60 1800 South Carolina

residence 303
Jacobs, G.W. 37 1823 Mississippi
Ellena 35 1825 Mississippi
Nancy T. 8 1852 Mississippi
Emeline E. 6 1854 Texas
Mary 2 1858 Texas

residence 304 (prob not related)
Stewart, Joseph 44 1816 Tennessee

(Ancestry translators had the Jones name spelled Louer, Mabre and Lovelady was written as Lovelate.)


(Ancestry translators had the Jones name spelled Louer, Mabre and Lovelady was written aas Lovelate.)


Census:
Mabra M Jones 50 blacksmith 400, 300, Kentucky
Martha 24 keeping house Tennessee
Stephen 16 works on farm Missouri ck'd cannot write
Andrew 13 works on farm Texas Texas ck'd cannot write
Nancy 6 Texas
Nellie 2 Texas




Residence:
Mary laments she does not know where his post office is.
"I knew Pa and George did not want to hear from me for they knew where to write to me and the knew I did not know where their Post Office was. I have written to Pa three or four times and he has never replied. I cannot bear to give up the boys but I guess they have forgotten me, or want to."
Going by address from last letter and 1880 census, he was probably still in Lavaca County.

Census:
1880 Lavaca (pg 460)
Mabra M Jones 1819 61 KY VA VA farmer
Martha Jones (Ponton) 32 1848 TX
E. Nannie 15 1865 TX
Laura 9 1871 TX
A. Joel 6 1874 TX
J. Thomas 2 1878 TX
Ponton, T. James 27 1853 Brother-in-law 1870 works on farm



Census:
Palestine, Anderson Co - Precinct 2, Vol 1 Ed 8 Sheet 11, Line 40; living in Palestine; according to census,
Mabry May 1813 in Missouri; age 87 years; married 37 years, Missouri, Missouri, Missouri
Martha Sept 1852 (47 years old), 9 births, 7 living
Anna, Oct 1880 19
Alsie September 1883 16
John Aug 6 13

Note: Martha birth in error. Marriage was 1863, which if Martha b 1852, only 11 years. Headstone shows born 1844.


Other-Begin:
The following was furnished to Olive Massie by Nell Donaldson, daughter of Nellie Jones Wooten. She also furnished to Olive the picture of MM Jones in 1978.

Jones Family Reunion of 1901
Father and Seven Children Meet in Waco After a Separation of 35 Years

The Convention of the Christian Church in this city last week furnished the occasion for a family reunion which was enjoyed with intense delight by the participants.
Mabra Madden Jones, who lives near Palestine, Texas met seven of his children in this city and the father, brothers, and sisters spent the week together. It was the first time they had all been together since 1866, thirty-five years ago. Atat time the youngest was only six years old and the oldest was twenty-five. All had seen each other since that time but at different times and places.
The elder Jones is eighty-one years old and his children, seven in number, all live in Texas, but in different parts are as follows:
Dr. George W Jones of Proctor, Texas
Mrs. Sue M. Linthicum, 618 Earle St, East Waco
Mrs. Mary M. Moore, 1102 Columbus St, Waco
Cyrus Y. Jones, 575 Orleans St, Beaumont, Tx
Stephen L. Jones, 701 So. 17th St, Waco
Andrew P. Jones, Helbig, Jefferson Co, Texas
Henry M Jones, Palestine, Tx

Mabra Madden Jones, father of the five sons and two daughters named above, was born in Kentucky, in 1820. He moved to Missouri and in 1840 was married to Miss Sarah Lovelady, daughter of Elder James Lovelady. In 1844 he removed to Texas staying in Cass Co. until 1847, when he proceeded to Victoria, only a few months after the Indians made their last famous raid to the coast country and burned Linnville, five miles south of Victoria. He soon accumulated some capital at the blacksmith business and invested in cattle, establishing a ranch in Goliad Co. His first wife, Sarah, the mother of these seven children, died in DeWitt Co. in 1860 and in 1863 he married Miss Martha Ponton in Lavaca Co. Nine children blessed this union, seven of whom are still living.
At the close of the war between the States, the children of the first marriage separated and while they all remained in Texas; some of them are now living four hundred miles apart. They have occasionally visited each other, and all have visited their father; though this is the first reunion of the family. The father and the eldest son had not seen one another in twenty-four years. George, Cyrus and Henry had not seen one another in twenty-six years. All the others had not met in the last ten years.
The week had been passed in one continual and unbroken round of pleasure in which grand children and great grand children participated.
The father and seven children were photographed in a group and another interesting group was made with the Elder M.M. Jones, his daughter, Mrs. S.M. Linthicum, her daughter, Mrs. Runie M. Moore, and Mrs. Moore's daughter, Miss Ollie representing four generations.
The reunion will adjourn today, but the family recorded a pledge that if possible it shall be repeated every year in the future.


***************
10 Jun 1901 Waco, McLennan Co, Texas
reunion
Waco Times-Herald 1901
Mon., June 10 (8-4): Jones family reunion at Waco. Mr. and Mrs. Jones of Palestine met seven of his children. First time since 1866. Elder Jones is 81. The children: Dr. George W. Jones, Mrs. Mary M. Moore, Mrs. Sue M. Linthicum, Cyrus Y. Jones, Stephen L. Jones, Andrew P. Jones, Henry M. Jones, Mabra Madden Jones was born in Kentucky in 1820. To Missouri 1840, and married Miss Sarah Lovelady, daughter of Elder James Lovelady. In 1844, to Texas; blacksmith. Wife died in DeWitt county in 1860. In 1863, married Miss Martha Ponten in Lavaca county



Other-Begin:
Jones Family Reunion in Waco
ca 1919
A reunion of the Jones family,or a part of that big family is in progress this week in Waco. Nineteen members of the family from other parts of the state are here and are the guest of Stephen L. Jones, and his sisters; Mrs. Mary M. Moore and Sue M. Linthicum and their families.
The visitors are Henry M. Jones and wife, their two daughters and grand daughter, also their son L.M. Jones, wife and baby. J.W. Jones, brother to Stephen L. Jones. Henry M. Jones from Palestine.
Mrs. Reb Wooten, son and daughter from Fairfield, Tx. Mrs. Wooten is sister of the three Waco Jones.
Andrew P. Jones another brother from Beaumont.
Cyrus Y. Jones of Beaumont who was unable to attend on account of illness of his wife, is represented by his grand daughters; Misses Madge and Blanche Spinks and their friend, Mrs. Leah Stewart.
Mrs. F.F. Jones of Stephenville, widow of George W. Jones, the eldest of the brothers and their son J.B. Jones and wife of Valley Mills, were in attendance.
The reunion began Sunday and will end next Sunday. Most of the time is spent at the residence of Stephen L. Jones, 701 So. 17th St., occupied by himself and his two nieces, Mrs. J.J. Harris and Mrs. Runie Moore. Monday afternoon the entirch went to the top of the Amicable building and had a view of the city and surrounding country. Wednesday all were guest of Mrs. H.J. Stricker, daughter of Mrs. M.M. Moore, and thursday they enjoyed a visit to Cameron park. Friday they are taking in the 4th of July celebration at Cotton Palace Park.
These family reunions are held every year, alternating between Waco, Palestine, and Beaumont. Next year it will be at Beaumont. The first one was held in Waco in 1901.


Buried:
Mabra and Martha buried in East Hill Cem, Palestine, Texas
GPS coordinates of N 31.7635 and W -95.6169
This location is 85 feet east of a row of large pine trees, and 25 feet north of South Street.

Mabra* married Sarah* Lovelady between Jun 1840 and 23 Nov 1840 in Platte Co, Missouri . Sarah* (daughter of Rev. James* Lovelady and Nancy* Linville (maybe), (dau?)) was born in 1820 in Missouri; died between 1860 and 1863 in Dewitt Co, or Lavaca Co, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1840, Platte Co, Missouri
• Religion: 28 Mar 1849, First Christian Congregation of Victoria; church formed
• Census: 20 Aug 1850, Victoria, Victoria Co, Texas
• Residence: 15 Jan 1856, Manahuilla, Dewitt Co, Texas; per letter
• Residence: 7 Aug 1856, Yorktown, Dewitt Co, Texas; per letter
• Residence: 14 Dec 1856, Yorktown, Dewitt Co, Texas; per letter
• Residence: 11 Jul 1860, Dewitt Co, Texas; per letter
• Census: 13 Jul 1860, Dewitt Co, Texas

Notes:

(From Leonard B Meyer)
July 24, 1997
Dear Sherry Sharp:

Your letter came yesterday, and some material from Wilma came today. I told my wife Ruth that it seems I have acquired another fan in Wilma, that making two, Ruth being the other one! I am glad that what I have contributed is appreciated,d I appreciate what I have received also.

Perhaps I should make it clear how I acquired this much information regarding such a limited time span. A few years ago, I got possession of a bunch of old letters and documents far long enough to transcribe them by hand, into three bindef legal paper. I started out trying to learn more about the Butts family from which I am descended, and from there the search proliferated into the Lovelady, Bownds (Bounds?) and other families.

My great-grandfather, Jackson Butts, married Jane Lovelady as his first wife. She died August 31, 1847. He married a second wife, Catherine Poland, who died within a year or so, then in 1852 he married Susan Bownds who was my great-grandm. So, you see, there is no blood relationship between me and the Loveladys, except for Jackson's oldest daughter Margaret Ann, who was Jane's only survivor who had children. But Pappy Lovelady wrote to Jackson and Susan as son and daughter, Mary Jones addressed her as "beloved aunt," and Stephen wrote to my grandfather as "Cousin Berry."

I think there is no doubt that the Loveladys, Buttses, and Joneses were in Victoria County in 1844, as one of Jackson's sons, Andrew, appears as born in Texas about that time. Also I have a copy of a handwritten receipt which goes "Receif Jackson Butts the sum of five dollars in full of his state and county tax for the year 1849 - F.U. Fordham, Ass & Coll, V.C., Victoria County."

Also, Ann, the youngest Lovelady girl, married Alfred Allee November 4, 1847. And I have a copy of the Bill of Sale of the home of James Lovelady to Edward Fink, Lot #1, Block 117, Range 8, Victoria, April 24, 1852.

In the statement in the summation sent by Wilma regarding the organization of the First Christian Congregation in Victoria, about James and Nancy being on the board, there is a little error. Those named, James and Nancy, Jackson, Sarah any Jones, A. Allee (Ann had already died) and perhaps Felix Webb, were the whole congregation!

It must have been in 1852 that the Loveladys and Joneses moved over into Dewitt County on the Manahurla Minnuvee Creek, also called Buzzard Roost Country.

There was quite a lot of communication between the Joneses and Butts families in the '50s. In 1860, George was going to school in Goliad. A letter from Mary goes thus: "We are all about to leave this country. Pap (James) and Grandmaf going to the mountains. They have sold their cattle." There seems to have been a terrible drought that caused many people to leave that area. Added in a postscript at the beginning of the letter is "I have got the sweetest little brother. He can sit alone. He is as fat as a pig." That must have been Henry at several months old; and it is apparent that Sarah must have died soon after Henry's birth. So my date of 1860 must be an error of reading an indistinct date.

So, Mabry and Mary, and perhaps others moved to Terryville, on the line between Dewitt and Lavaca Counties. But Susan Mariah must have married to A Wiggins and was still living at Middletown or Weesatche. Susan later lived at Hoss Bluffrty County and urged George to come out there, as that area needed a doctor and singing school teacher. But that was in 1872, after the war! Instead, he seems to have married Frances Bosworth and was living near Schulenburg in Lavaca County. From there, in connection with the Bosworth family, we find him living up in Central Texas, Red Rock, Pettytown, maybe San Saba and finally Stephenville. He and Frances are buried in West End Cemetery, Stephenville, Erath Co, Texas.

I have no date for Mary's marriage, but she and Mr. Norton moved to Oak Hill near LaGrange, Texas. After several years, they moved to North Texas, then moved back. Mary was living in Burleson County about 1914. According to the reuni, Mary had married a Moore, and Sue had married a Linthicum.

Mary never had any children (by choice), and I am of the opinion that the friction between her and Mabry was because she married and did not continue to take care of his "four little motherless boys" as she put it. Anyway, she tried toe of the boys, as George and Sue did. Mabry farmed the boys out at times, some of them to my great-grandmother Susan. But the 1870 Census reveals that Stephen and Andrew were living with Mabry and Martha then, as well as daughter Nancy and Nellie (b 1864 & 1868) and the 1880 lists a son Joel A, born November 28, 1874.

I am confused about the children of Martha listed as being born in Chambers Co, after Nancy (Nannie) and Nellie, also Joel A. I know nothing about Laura, Tom, Anna, Alice and John, but those named above were in the 1870 and 1880 Lavaca Cos records and must have been in Lavaca Co at that time. Also, it is a matter of record that Mabry officiated at the wedding of his father-in-law, Dr. Joel Ponton, to Harriet Koonce on October 1, 1871, near where I now live in Lavaca Co. However, it may well explain Stephen's reference to having been to Beaumont on one occasion.

Incidentally, I have noticed that Mabry and Sarah had a daughter Nancy J, born 1848, next after Sue. About the name ---- in the document about the Organization of the First Christian Congregation, the name is Mayberry, which no doubt is t, shortened to Mabry usually, but spelled Mabarie by Margaret Ann Butts Cooley.

I have just been checking the list of Mabry's children and the dates given for their births seems to have been made from a faulty memory. Assuming, I think correctly, that the three families came to Texas in 1844, it seems obvious that Ge841 and Mary 1843 were born in Missouri, but there is some doubt about Susan 1846 and Nancy 1848, though I think they were born in Texas. But Cyrus 1852, Stephen 1854, Andrew 1857, were born in Texas because the document of the Organization of the First Christian Congregation in Victoria has the names of M.M. and Sarah, date of March 28, 1849. Henry was not listed in the census of 1860, so his birth date 1863 is probably correct. It is on record that Cyrus Jones was in Goliad Co in 1870, age 18, seemingly living with relatives after the breakup of the Jones family. But in a letter from Mary she wrote that Susan Mariah (Margaret Ann Butts spelled Mariar) wrote that Mr. Wiggins had "joined the church" and that Cyrus intended to. I wonder if this Cyrus was one of the Wiggins children. In this letter Mary complains that Mabry had George and Susan a brother to keep, but had refused to give her one.

As far as I had known previously, Margaret Ann, Jackson's daughter, Sue Wiggins, and George were the only Lovelady descendents, and I am glad to find there were others. I have been trying to find some of the Jones descendents for some ythout success.

I was born, not many miles from where the Joneses and the Loveladys lived, in Goliad County, at a later date, Dec 7, 1906. From that you will notice that I will be 91 on my next birthday. My handwriting has deteriorated considerably spied these letters.

I am sending this information for you to consider, before I send any copies. I will have to go through the letters to find some that will illustrate what I have written. But as I wrote Wilma, I have three binders full of writings, ant want to let them get away, possibly in the mail. I have suggested that Ron Lehde, who lives in Victoria, copy those he wants to, but she/Wilma reports that his copier is in need of repair. Since Sherry Sharp has a son John in Houston, I might make the same offer to him. Or I might leave the material at my son's place, 30211 Charlie Lane, Magnolia, Texas 77355. Maybe something can be arranged.
Sincerely,
Leonard B. Meyer
----




Birth:
1830 census
Free White Persons - Females - 5 thru 9: (1821-1825) 2
Sarah (9, gave b.d. as 1820 in 1850 and 1860) Jane cannot be less than 1820 due to her marriage date. Sarah must have been younger than 1820.

1840 census, newlywed living with Stephen Jones
Free White Persons - Females - 20 thru 29: (1811-1820) 1
(could be Nancy Jones; or Nancy could be married and
this is Sarah Lovelady who was b 1820 (1821?) - depending on months, she could have been 19 at this time

Census:
census closed out 23 Nov 1840

Name: Stephen Jones
County: Platte
State: Missouri
Free White Persons - Males - 15 thru 19: 2 John (18), Thomas 19
Free White Persons - Males - 20 thru 29: 1 Mabra (20)
Free White Persons - Males - 40 thru 49: 1 Stephen (48)
Free White Persons - Females - 5 thru 9: 2 Emmeline (4) Eliza (10 - b.d.?)
Free White Persons - Females - 10 thru 14: 1 Susan (16? - age discrepancy)
Free White Persons - Females - 20 thru 29: (1811-1820) 1
(could be Nancy; or Nancy could be married and
this is Sarah Lovelady who was b 1820 (1822?) - depending on months, she could have been 19 at this time
Mabra is not in any census records on his own; and he is accounted for here.
Sarah is not accounted for in her father James Lovelady's
cenus record in this same county. Looks like Mabra and Sarah are newly weds and living with his father.


Total - All Persons (Free White, Free Colored, Slaves): 8
Persons Employed in Agriculture: 4
Free White Persons - Under 20: 5
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 3
Total Free White Persons: 8
Total All Persons - Free White, Free Colored, Slaves: 8

_____________________

James Lovelady
Free White Persons - Males - 40 thru 49: 1 James (43)
Free White Persons - Females - 15 thru 19: 1 Ann (1821-1825)
Free White Persons - Females - 40 thru 49: 1 Nancy (40)
Total - All Persons (Free White, Free Colored, Slaves): 3
Persons Employed in Learned Professional Engineers: 1

Girls: Sarah (19) - probably newlywed living with Mabra at Stephen's.
Jane: age unk, but married 1835; so she's gone.
Ann: age unk, she married in 1847 - this is Ann.


Religion:
Victoria, Crossroads of So TX, (1982), FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF VICTORIA, TEXAS
In Deed Book 4, page 145, Victoria County Courthouse, the following entry was made 28 March 1849

"We the undersigned, entertaining the same views of Christian Doctrine, Practice & Church Government as those held by the Denomination usually called Christians, do hereby organize Ourselves into a corporate body as contemplated by an act of the Republic of Texas, approved Jan. 20th 1845. Do authorize the appointment of Trustees in Certain Cases and adopt the name of 'The First Christian Congregation of Victoria'. In order that we may recieve the benefits of said act we hereby constitute and appoint Felix B. Webb, Mayberry M. Jones, James Lovelady, Ann Allie and their successors in Office a board of trustees to take & hold such property both real and personal for the use & benefit of said Congregation, as may hereafter be conveyed to the same. In testimony whereof, we hereunto Affix our names this 28th day March A. D. 1849."
Signed, Nancy Lovelady
James Lovelady
Felix B. Webb
Sarah Jones
M. M. Jones
Jackson Butts
Ann Allie


Census:
20 Aug 1850 Victoria, Victoria Co, Texas
1850 - Victoria Co census:
M.M. Jones 30 Blacksmith 300 KY
Sarah 30 MO
G.W. Jones 9 MO
Mary A 7 TX
Susan M 4 TX
Nancy J 2 TX
Richard Bonum 22 Blacksmith MO (b 1828)
Catherine Seber 9 DEU (Germany)

next door, John (37) and Catherine (39) Seber, from Germany. Probably the Jones had taken in their child for some neighborly reason

Census:
residence 298
Mabra Jones 40 1820 blacksmith 3500 1500 Kentucky
checked "attended school within the year"
Sarah 39 1821 Missouri
George W. 19 1841 Missouri
Mary M 17 1843 Missouri
Susan D. 13 1847 Texas
Cyrus 8 1852 Texas
Stephen L. 6 1854 Texas
Andrew 3 1857 Texas
M.H. 5/12 1860 Texas

residence 302
James Lovelate 62 1798 minister 300 1,000 Tennessee
Nancy 60 1800 South Carolina

(Ancestry translators had the Jones name spelled Louer, Mabre and Lovelady was written aas Lovelate.)

Notes:

Married:
U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900
Name: Mabry Madden Jones
Gender: Male
Birth Place: KY
Birth Year: 1820
Spouse Name: Sarah Lovelady
Spouse Birth Year: 1820
Marriage
Year: 1840
Marriage State: MO
Number Pages: 1

appear to be married and living with Mabra's father, Stephen in census dated November, 1840.