Mary Etta Mayes, (Mulatto)

Notes:

Died:
TX Death Cert:
Mary Etta Mayes, negro, wid.
Husband: Robert White
Father: Josh Mayes, TN
Mother: Martha Godfrey. TN
Informant: Pearl Jackson

Mary married Robert White about 1866 (not married) in Turtle Bayou, Chambers Co, Texas. Robert (son of James Taylor White and Sarah Cade) was born on 18 Nov 1823 in Louisiana; died on 14 Oct 1903 in Chambers Co, Texas; was buried in White's Cem, Chambers Co, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
From naming patterns, appears Mary E. Hayes, is mother of his children. She is listed as cook/housekeeper, following the list of Mulatto children. 2nd born is named Mary E., and last son is named Hayes. Children listed as parents born LA/TX, which fits as Mary E was born in TX and Robert was born in LA.

From naming patterns, appears Mary E. Hayes, is mother of his children. She is listed as cook/housekeeper, following the list of Mulatto children. 2nd born is named Mary E., and last son is named Hayes. Children listed as parents born LA/TX, which fits as Mary E was born in TX and Robert was born in LA.

1. Katie Josephine S. White, (MU) was born on 03 May 1866 in Turtle Bayou, Chambers Co, Texas; died on 17 Feb 1941 in Eagle, Chambers Co, Texas.
2. Annie White, (MU) was born in 1869 in Chambers Co, Texas; died after 1870.
3. Mary E. White, (MU) was born in 1870 in Turtle Bayou, Chambers Co, Texas; died after 1880.
4. Estella E. "Stella" White, (MU) was born on 03 Mar 1871 in Turtle Bayou, Chambers Co, Texas; died on 13 Sep 1948 in of, Houston, Harris Co, Texas; was buried in Anahuac, Chambers Co, Texas.
5. Fannie M. White, (MU) was born in 1873 in Turtle Bayou, Chambers Co, Texas; died after 1880.
6. Mabel White, (MU) was born in 1875 in Turtle Bayou, Chambers Co, Texas; died after 1880.
7. Minerva F. White, (MU) was born in 1877 in Turtle Bayou, Chambers Co, Texas; died after 1880.
8. Mayes White, (MU) was born on 07 Jul 1879 in Turtle Bayou, Chambers Co, Texas; died on 28 Jan 1946 in Anahuac, Chambers Co, Texas; was buried on 29 Jan 1946 in Anahuac, Chambers Co, Texas.

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

Garner married Elizabeth Jackson about 1806 in of, Tennessee. Elizabeth was born in 1786 in Virginia; died after 1860 in of, Double Bayou, Chambers Co, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]