Family Group Sheet for Henry Clifton Courts, Sr / Frances "Fanny" Smith (F240) m. 31 Dec 1874 : Our Family History

Male
Henry Clifton Courts, Sr

Birth	5 Jul 1854	Sabine Pass, Jefferson Co, Texas
Death	18 May 1938	Beaumont, Jefferson Co, Texas
Burial		Magnolia Cem, Beaumont, Jefferson Co, Texas
Marriage	31 Dec 1874 [1]	Beaumont, Jefferson Co, Texas [1]
Other Spouse	Ulalaya Lena Gentz \| F241
Marriage	24 Feb 1892	Beaumont, Jefferson Co, Texas
Father	James* Madison Court \| F203 Group Sheet
Mother	Julia* Ann Sparks \| F203 Group Sheet

Female
Frances "Fanny" Smith

Birth	1854	Texas
Death	Between 1890 and 1891	Port Arthur (Aurora), Jefferson Co, Texas (yellow fever epidemic -prob)
Burial
Father	Thomas Floyd Smith \| F11256 Group Sheet
Mother	Ella Ann Lowrey \| F11256 Group Sheet

Female
Ella M. Courts

Birth	1877	Jefferson Co, Texas
Death	Between 1890 and 1891	Port Arthur (Aurora), Jefferson Co, Texas (yellow fever epidemic -prob)
Burial

Unknown
(5 other children) Courts

Birth	Between 1878 and 1889	Sabine Pass
Death	Between 1890 and 1891	Port Arthur (Aurora), Jefferson Co, Texas (yellow fever epidemic -prob)
Burial

Notes

story told by Kirby Courts and apparently by several other Courts family members:
"Cliff had six children in a previous marriage. The family died of yellow fever in the epidemic of the 1880s. My father Coley said, his father would never talk about his first family."

Jun 12 1880 he is shown in Aurora (Port Arthur) with wife Fannie and Ella M. age 3, living one residence away from James & Julia. Record of his marriage to Fannie was 31 Dec 1874. The other children had to have been born between likely after 1878/9 and bef about 1890. It would take about 10 years to have 5 more children; so the deaths must have been about 1890-91.

Family: Henry Clifton Courts, Sr / Frances "Fanny" Smith (F240)