Bertha Sanford Elizabeth Turley

Sanford married Elizabeth "Eliza" Dunman on 18 Sep 1872 in Galveston, Galveston Co, Texas. Elizabeth (daughter of Martin White Dunman and Elizabeth McLaughlin) was born on 3 Jun 1843 in High Island, Galveston Co, Texas; died in 1895 in Galveston, Galveston Co, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1880, Bolivar Point, Galveston Co, Texas; Crainer

Notes:

Elizabeth Dunman is shown in several trees to have married Frank E. Crainer, showing her in 1880 census in Bolivar:
Frank Crainer 39 1841 bricklayer Texas
Eliza 37 wife 1843 -- -- --
Martha 10 dau 1870 TX -- --
John 7 1873 son TX -- --
Henry 4 1876 son TX -- --

However, the death record for Henry says his mother is Eliza Simpton.
Dates of the births of Crainer children overlap with dates of her children with Sanford Turley.


Census:
1880 Bolivar Point, Galveston Co, Texas
Frank Crainer 39 1841 bricklayer Texas
Eliza Crainer 37 1843
Martha 10
John son 7
Henry son 4
Henry Townsend 18 laborer
Corlene Dunbar 48

Martin married Elizabeth McLaughlin on 18 Jan 1829 in Louisiana. Elizabeth (daughter of James McLaughlin, (immigrant) and Marie Lucinda Carr) was born in 1816 in St. Martin Parish, Louisiana; died on 8 Nov 1887 in Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Protestant

Notes:

...James Dunman, brother to the bride (1800)
Signed marriage investigation for George Borrel & Anne White on 1 Apr 1801.
spons: bt of John White (Jesse & Jeanne Dowman) his nephew, 13 Nov 1810.
wit: marriage of Susanne White (John & Celeste Gambill) to John Lee 27 Feb 1811. Also a Joseph Dunman

James married Sarah White on 5 May 1801 in St.Martin Parish, Louisiana. Sarah (daughter of John* White and Sarah Davenport "Sally"* Gambill) was born in 1784 in Natchez District, Mississippi; died on 10 Apr 1828 in Mountville, Louisiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Catholic

Notes:

White, Sara (Jean of N.Carolina & Sara Gambie of N.Carolina) bt. 5 May 1801 at age 17 yrs (SM Ch: v. 5, #372)

White, Sara (Jean & Sara Gambel m Jacques Donman (SM Ch)

White, Sarah (John of North Carolina & Sarah Gambil of North Carolina) bt 5 May 1801 at age 17 yrs old. Pats: James Taylor White & Elizabeth Pou; Mats: John Gambil & Sarah Dempot all of Virginia; Spons: George Borrel & Marie Donman. Fr. Michel Bernard Barriere (SM Ch: v. 5 #372)

White, Sara born in Natches, a Catholic (John & Sara Gambil) m 5 May 1801 Jacques Dowman, a Protestant (dec John from Ireland & Jeanne Kilkrist from North Carolina) not entered in SM church registers (NI Ch: OA #9)

White, Sara of Natchez (John Whait & Sara Gambil of North Carolina and living in this parish) "Informacion de Solteria Producida" - (Marriage Investigation regarding the freedom to marry) dated 5 May 1801 James Dunman, a Protestant, from Pansacola (Pensacola) and living in this parish for many years (dec John Dunmon of Ireland & Jane Kilkris of North Carolina and living in this parish) Signed: Frederic Tenhold, Thomas Fletcher, John White, John Gretion, all of this parish. Fr. Michel Bernard Barriere (SM Ch: Marriage Investigation: Folio D, #30)

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: Abt 1822, Liberty Co, Texas
• Residence: 18 Jul 1831, Nashville, Falls Co, Texas

Notes:

James McLaughlin served in the Army of the Republic of Texas. He received bounty warrant No. 609 on 29 Nov 1837 and others....

From the Clayton Library, Houston, Texas
"MUSTER ROLLS OF TEXAS REVOLUTION"

Page 63: Capt Logan's Company. We are detailed to guard the Camp at Harrisburg. James & William McLaughlin.

Page 153: Muster roll of Capt Barron's Co., B, 1st Reg of Texas Rangers:
James McLaughlin, First Sargent

Receipt for division of spoils taken at Battle of San Jacinto, by Capt William M. Logan's Company:

We are quartered near Harrisburg, May 10, 1836. We the undersigned received of Capt Logan, $223 cash, $140.12 goods spoils taken in the battle of the 21st at San Jacinto.

/s/ William McLaughlin
/s/ James McLaughlin

From the Logan Papers, Original is framed and located at the Sam Houston Regional Library, Texas State Library at Liberty, Texas.

Residence:
In about 1822, James and his brother William left Louisiana with their wives and children, and moved west into the Republic of Mexico . They settled on the Trinity River in what is now Liberty County , Texas . Liberty County is in the extreme southeast portion of Texas .

James and Lucy would have three additional children; Emily, Elizabeth and David while living in this area.

In the summer of 1821, Stephen Austin, at the invitation of the Mexican government, explored parts of Texas with the intent of establishing a colony of Americans in Mexico . The area that Austin decided was best suited for his colony, was south of the Camino Real, and between the Colorado and the Brazos . This is in the area where the McLaughlin brothers were already living.

When Austin returned to Louisiana to advertise for settlers, he found around a hundred letters awaiting him at Natchitoches . The word was already out: Land and Texas , and the price of foreign citizenship seemed no obstacle in the applicant?s way.

In order for the colonist to receive their land grants it was necessary for them to swear an oath of allegiance to Spain . (After Mexico received independence from Spain the oath was changed to reflect an allegiance to Mexico .) This seemed like a small price to pay for vast amounts of land. To those families who wished to engage in farming they were given one labor (177 acres) and for any family who planned to raise stock, they were given one sitio or legua (about 4,428 acres).

Austin ?s first settlers, although only 297 land grants were made, were called the ?Old Three Hundred.? These families were able to choose some of the best farming land in Texas . Not all of them prospered or survived, but out of this group came the first Anglo planter-gentry in the province. Most of these people came as farmers from the United States , but a substantial number arrived as men of means.

James and William McLaughlin, who were already living in Texas , became part of the second Austin colony and settled near the mouth of the Brazos River in what was then Milam County . This area would later be part of Falls County . Each of them received a grant of 340 acres from Austin . When James joined the Austin Colony he was forty-nine years of age and his wife Lucy was age thirty-three.

In the early records found in the Texas State Archives there is one dated April 7, 1828 which contains a registry of families in Stephen F. Austin?s Colonies that include:

Vol 1, Page 10

Wm McLaughlin, ?(living) at the crossing of Town Road on Buffalo Bayou above Pine Point?.

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Residence:
In another document dated July 18, 1831 I find:
Vol 1, Page 31

James McLaughlin, ?(he is) 49 years of age, Lucy Kerr (sic) my wife, 33 years of age, 4 males, 1 female children moved from Trinity?.

In May 1834 a town was laid out on the west bank of the Brazos River at the falls of the river, in what is now Falls County , Texas . This town was called Nashville , but it no longer exists. Only two families were living there at the time; James McLaughlin and Dr. Robert Davidson.

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James married Marie Lucinda Carr in 1817 in St. Martin Parish, Louisiana. Marie (daughter of Joseph Carr and Nancy* Ann White) was born on 16 Apr 1797 in St. Martinville, St. Martin Parish, Louisiana; died after 1850 in Liberty Co (probably), Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Car, Marie Lucinda (Joseph of Jamaica & Ana White of North Carolina) b 16 Apr 1797
(SM ch 45, # 288)

Notes:

Married:
On January 13, 1821 in St Martin Parish, Louisiana District Court (Item #551), Lucy Carr (alias) Lucy McLaughlin filed for divorce from James McLaughlin.

To the Honorable Seth Lewis, Judge of the District court in and for the Parish of St. Martin.

The petition of Lucy Carr, alias Lucy McLaughlin, wife of James McLaughlin of the Parish of St. Martin with respect, represents that about seven years ago, she was lawfully married to James McLaughlin & that for some time, she derived from the marriage connection, the happiness she had in view in forming it.

But your Petitioner begs leave to state that for three or four years past, Mr. McLaughlin has given himself up to continuous dissipation:

? That a constant and habitual state of intoxication, has rendered him morose & quarrelsome ? that he has often insulted, beat and abused your petitioner.

? That his whole conduct, his excesses, vile treatment, and outrages are such as to render the life of your petitioner, as the wife of McLaughlin, wretched and insupportable.

? Your petitioner further represents that she has three small children [Elizabeth b: ca 1816, William b: ca 1818 & Stanton b: ca 1820] by Mr. McLaughlin, the oldest of which is only five years old, that they are at present and have been for sometime past, wholly supported by the labor and exertions of your petitioner.

? That your petitioner has been obliged to abandon the house of her husband, and take up a temporary residence with her brother, where herself and children now are.

? That your petitioner and her marriage with Mr. McLaughlin and since various articles of paraphernalia property from her mother, among which were hogs, five gentle cows & calves, besides other cattle, a part of which has been squandered and dissipated by her husband, that a tract of land of four (illegible) front with the ordinary depth, lying upon the Grass Isle (illegible) in said Parish of St. Martin bounded above by William Carr & below by Levi Campbell, was purchased by Mr. McLaughlin since your petitioner?s marriage with him, which was paid for by your petitioner?s mother, though the deed may have been given directly to her husband and that the price of the land was (illegible) upon the amount coming to your petitioner out of her deceased father?s estate.

? That Mr. McLaughlin has already, contrary to the expectations and request of your petitioner, sold many articles belonging exclusively to her, among which is a yoke of work oxen, worth eighty dollars and that Mr. James McLaughlin threatens to sell the land as soon as he can find a purchaser.

? These provisions considered, your petitioner therefore prays that the Mr. James McLaughlin may be duly cited to appear before your Honorable Court to answer to the foregoing petition, and that your petitioner may be legally separated, as well in property as in bed & board from him, and that all her matrimonial rights may be restored.

? She also prays that the house of her brother, William Carr may be assigned as her domicile during the continuation of this suit and that she may be permitted to retain in her possession her three children.

? Your petitioner further prays that the Mr. James McLaughlin may provisionally & definitively be inhibited & enjoined from intimidating or interfering with your petitioner or her children or her property that he may be officially inhibited and enjoined from selling the tracts of land & that on the final hearing of this case the written title of the same, if any, that Mr. McLaughlin has deeded to insure to the benefit of your petitioner & that she may be restored to the property & (illegible) of the same.

? Your petitioner prays that the defendant may pay the cost of this suit & also she prays for what other relief as equity & justice demand.

John Brownson
Attorney for the Petitioner

Personally appeared before me, the undersigned authority, Lucy Carr, alias Lucy McLaughlin, and made oath that the facts set forth in the foregoing Petition as of her own knowledge are true & that this states as of the knowledge of others, she believes to be true.

Lucy (x her mark) McLaughlin


B. Martel, Justice of the Peace for the Parish of St. Martin, Louisiana

December 19, 1820

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Filed in the court January 13, 1821

This divorce petition was obviously withdrawn, because in about 1822, James and his brother William left Louisiana with their wives and children, and moved west into the Republic of Mexico . They settled on the Trinity River in what is now Liberty County , Texas . Liberty County is in the extreme southeast portion of Texas .

James and Lucy would have three additional children; Emily, Elizabeth and David while living in this area.

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