| 8. | Stella Rosa Moore  (2.Rebecca2, 1.Mrs.1) was born on 31 Mar 1860 in Marlin, Falls Co, Texas; died on 31 Dec 1952 in Houston, Harris Co, Texas. Other Events and Attributes:
- Census: 9 Aug 1860, Marlin P.O., Falls Co, Texas
- Census: 10 Aug 1870, Navasota, Grimes Co, Texas
- Census: 11 Aug 1870, Harris Co, Texas
- Residence: 1879, Marlin, Falls Co, Texas; marries
- Residence: 1880, Marlin, Falls Co, Texas; son born
- Residence: 1885, McLennan Co, Texas; marries
- Residence: 1886, San Antonio, Bexar Co, Texas; Rudolph born
- Residence: 1888, Falls Co, Texas; Albert born
- Residence: 1889, San Antonio, Bexar Co, Texas; Nina born
- Residence: 1897, 1011 Ruiz, San Antonio, Bexar Co, Texas
- Residence: 1899, San Antonio, Bexar Co, Texas
- Census: 1900, San Antonio, Bexar Co (Ward 3), Texas
- Residence: 1903, 923 East Virginia Avenue, San Antonio, Bexar Co, Texas
- Residence: 1905, 1405 Caroline, Houston, Harris Co, Texas
- Census: 1910, Houston, Harris Co (Ward 3), Texas
- Census: 1930, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Co, California
Notes:
From: "roccie hill"
To: "Sherry"
Sent: Sunday, June 16, 2013 9:31 PM
Subject: sleuthing
Dear Sherry,
I have been doing some more sleuthing around the subject of what happened to the children of William Calhoun Moore and Eliza Green Moore during and just after the Civil War. You may recall that I am the great great grandaughter of them, and the great grandaughter of Stella Moore. I have never been able to find Stella on a census after 1860 (when she was almost 1) and before 1900.
I know that William was living with his sister, Ann America Moore Kelly, in Grimes County, Texas in 1850 as he appears on that census.
I know that Eliza and William were married in Matagorda Texas in 1851, and I have obtained a copy of the not very informative marriage license of theirs.
I know that they were living, with 4 children, in Marlin, Falls County, Texas for the 1860 census.
I know that William Calhoun joined the 13th Texas Cavalry (Edwin Waller Jr) and Company B (Hightower) of the CSA, and that when he returned to Texas after the war, his wife, Eliza, was dead, and his children were scattered around.
From Runie's writing, we know that he went to look for them in Alabama, even though he was from Georgia and Eliza was from Mississippi.
And we know that he found them somehow, and brought them back with him and a new wife to Marlin.
Well, I was working on my grandmother, Stella's daughter, and uncovered a marriage license for her, where Stella's maiden name was listed as Taliaferro. My grandmother had always told me that 'we were Tolevers', but I could never figure out why she thought that. Tolever, of course, was an Americanization of the Italian name Taliaferro, and no one had ever said we were Italian. My grandmother staunchly believed we were Irish and German (the German being Olenbush, my great grandfather).
So how, then, could Stella have had a maiden name of Taliaferro? Well I found a census from Navasota, Grimes County, Texas (see above), listing a Taliaferro family with a daughter named Stella, who was the same age as my Stella would have been. That was the census of 1870. She was not with the family in 1860, nor in 1880, and I can't find a record of her birth or death as a Taliaferro. So I am wondering if that might be my great grandmother, and perhaps she was 'adopted' during the war years by a family near to William Moore's sister's place in Grimes County.
Of course, I will have to keep sleuthing and uncover some more sources that point this way. It may all be speculation on my part, but it's the closest I have come to an explanation of the mystery.
That is my update for now. If you have any information or thoughts about how I can cross-verify or disprove this, do let me know.
And have a wonderful summer!
Best,
Roccie Hill=
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From: roccie hill
To: Sherry
Sent: Saturday, June 22, 2013 10:36 PM
Subject: news!!!
Hi Sherry,
I have been communicating with a fellow named Scott. He gave me access to his family tree, where he had Stella Taliaferro listed. I found this message in his records. It dates from 2011:
"email from Aunt LaDoris..... I recently discovered that Stella Taliaferro, was the adopted daughter of Cowper Shelton Taliaferro and Anna Rebecca DeBerry. Her name prior to adoption was Moore. 1870 census indicates she was 10 years old, indicating her probably birth as 1860. This information has not been documented by me. Do you have additional information to share on Stella Moore-Taliaferro?"
and I just responded to him with this information:
"Dear Scott,
Thank you so much for allowing me access to your family tree. I have been researching tonight and found this old message there:
"email from Aunt LaDoris..... I recently discovered that Stella Taliaferro, was the adopted daughter of Cowper Shelton Taliaferro and Anna Rebecca DeBerry. Her name prior to adoption was Moore. 1870 census indicates she was 10 years old, indicating her probably birth as 1860. This information has not been documented by me. Do you have additional information to share on Stella Moore-Taliaferro?'
Since my great grandmother, Stella, was the daughter of Eliza and William Calhoun Moore, I think we have a fit! I am so excited, and hope that we might work together to piece the story of her life together. She was born in 1859/60 to Eliza Green, about whom I know little, and William Calhoun Moore, who came from Georgia. His sister, Ann America Moore, had married a Kelley also from Georgia, and was living in Grimes County. William went to live with his sister when he was 19, in 1850 and was recorded on the census then in Texas. In 1855 he married Eliza, and they moved to Marlin, Falls County, where they had 4 children and were living in 1860. He mustered out of Marlin, leaving his wife and children behind. He fought in Hightower's Company B of Waller's 13th Texas Cavalry on the western bank of the river in Louisiana (battle of bonne carre, for example). When he returned to Marlin, his wife had died (I don't know how), and his children had been scattered. He found them, and brought them back to Marlin, where Stella was married in 1879 to Hiram Hunnicutt. Hiram died about 2 years later, but not before Stella gave birth to a son, Hiram Lee Hunnicutt. Stella then disappeared for a few years, and eventually married my great grandfather, Rudolph Olenbush, in Waco. They moved to San Antonio, where they lived, and then Houston. They had four children. Hiram Lee left the household to fight in the Sp American war, and changed his name back to Hunnicutt from Olenbush. He seems never to have returned. There is an Albert Olenbush buried in Marlin, who died in 1892, and lived for only 4 years...I assume that was another of Stella's children. My own grandmother, Nina, was an accomplished musician and seamstress, and I understand that Stella was an excellent dressmaker.
If you have other information about Stella, I would be so very grateful to learn of her years with the Taliaferro family. Thank you so much!
Best,
Roccie Hill"
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
Census:
Name: Stella Taliaferro
Age in 1870: 10
Birth Year: abt 1860
Birthplace: Texas
Home in 1870: Navasota, Grimes, Texas
Race: White
Gender: Female
Post Office: Navasota
Household Members: Name Age
Cowper Taliaferro 37 1833 Virginia real estate agent
Anna Taliaferro 32 1838 Texas
Olive Taliaferro 11 1859 Texas at school
Stella Taliaferro 10 1860 Texas at school
George Taliaferro 46 1824 VA carpenter
Ellen Deberry 58 1812 SC at home
John Smith 46 carpenter Baveria
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
Residence:
Name: R H Olenbush
Residence Year: 1897
Street Address: 1011 Ruiz
Residence Place: San Antonio, Texas
Occupation: Slsmn
Publication Title: San Antonio, Texas, City Directory, 1897
Residence:
Olenbush, R.H. Slsmn Waters Pierce Oil Co, r 1011 Ruiz.
Census:
Rudolph Olenbush 45 Aug 1854 married 21 yrs in 1879 Missouri Germany Germany
Stella Olenbush 40 Mar 1860 Texas Georgia Texas
Hiram (Hunnicutt) Olenbush son (step-son) 19 Sep 1880
Rudolph Olenbush son 14 May 1886
Nina Olenbush daughter 11 Oct 1888
James Olenbush son 9 Sep 1890
Jack Olenbush son 8 Feb 1892
Residence:
Name: R H Olenbush
Residence Year: 1903
Street Address: 923 E Virginia Ave
Residence Place: San Antonio, Texas
Occupation: Trav Slsmn
Publication Title: San Antonio, Texas, City Directory, 1903
Residence:
Name: R H Olenbush
Gender: M (Male)
Residence Year: 1905
Residence Place: Houston, Texas
Spouse: Stella Olenbush
Publication Title: Houston, Texas, City Directory, 1905
Olenbush Rudolph H. trav slsmn r 1405 Caroline. 3.
Olenbush Stella (Mrs R.H.) dressmkr Mrs. A.D. Cotton. r. 1405 Caroline.
Census:
Philip Warlick 29 head TX NC TN railroad yard clerk
Annie Warlick 29 wife TX VA OK
Mary Warlick 3 daughter
Rupert Barry 16 son
Foreman Grace 32 boarder widow 2 births 2 living Michigan Canada (English) Canada English
Atelle (Stella) Olenbuck 49 boarder widow 8 births 5 living USA USA USA
Nina Olenbucke 20 boarder USA USA USA
T W Johnson 46 lodger single MO ENG ENG
Census:
Nina Price 37 div m at 17 y.o. Texas Missouri Texas
Cecelia Price 18 daughter single
Stella Olembrish 70 wid mother 1st m at age 17 Texas Georgia Texas
Stella married Hiram Taylor Hunnicutt on 25 Jun 1879 in Falls Co, Texas. Hiram (son of Winfield Scott Hunnicutt and Lucinda Smith) was born on 21 Dec 1854 in Falls Co, Texas; died on 3 Mar 1881 in Marlin, Falls Co, Texas; was buried in Blue Ridge Baptist Church Cem, Blue Ridge, Falls Co, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
- 15. Hiram Lee Hunnicutt was born on 21 Sep 1880 in Marlin, Falls Co, Texas; died on 25 Oct 1970 in Farmington, Washington Co, Arkansas; was buried in Fayette National Cem, Fayetteville, Washington Co, Arkansas.
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Stella married Rudolph H. Olenbush on 5 Jul 1885 in McLennan Co, Texas. Rudolph (son of (..) Olenbush) was born in Aug 1854 in St. Charles Co, Missouri; died between 1905 and 1910 in San Antonio, Bexar Co, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
- 16. Rudolph Olenbush was born in May 1886 in San Antonio, Bexar Co, Texas; died after 1900 in of, San Antonio, Bexar Co, Texas.
- 17. Albert H. Olenbush was born in 1888 in Falls Co, Texas; died in 1892 in Marlin, Falls Co, Texas.
- 18. Nina Olenbush was born on 21 Oct 1889 in San Antonio, Bexar Co, Texas; died on 8 Aug 1977 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles Co, California.
- 19. Jack Olenbush was born in Feb 1892 in San Antonio, Bexar Co, Texas; died after 1900 in of, San Antonio, Bexar Co, Texas.
- 20. James Olenbush was born on 30 Sep 1893 in San Antonio, Bexar Co, Texas; died in Oct 1979 in Leander, Williamson Co, Texas.
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