Those Places Thursday

This was a family picnic at a swimming hole probably taken at a place where my dad and mom's families worked. A place only known to me as the Garrett Ranch. I remember it only vaguely as a small child. It was a working ranch and not sure who the owners were or why my parents and other aunt's & uncle's worked there. I was not even born when this was taken apparently. I am not positive that this is where this photo was taken.

~Trish~

Wordless Wednesday

Since I missed this yesterday I am posting a photo of my parents headstone.

~Trish~

Tombstone Tuesday

This is Robert Armstrong McGough born 1 MAY 1854 • Union Parish Louisiana and died 3 OCT 1908 • Farmerville, Union Parish, Louisiana. My GG Grandfather. Son of Joseph McGough and Mary Ann Taylor. The McGough's are from County Down, Ireland as are the Carson's who married into the McGough family,

~Trish~

Sentimental Sunday

Katie Irene Willis and Samuel Willis. Two young children born to George W and Sarah Jane (White) Willis. Katie was born   NOV 1896 • Louisiana  about died about 1901 • Dallas County, Texas. She and Samuel are both listed in 1900 living in Police Jury Ward 5, Ouachita, Louisiana but both have disappeared by 1910. Samuel was born FEB 1899 • Louisiana 
If Katie died in Texas, George and Sarah  must have been visiting someone. I have not found a birth or death record for either one. Sarah lost 3 children who died young.  

Sibling Saturday:

My mother's family. Annie(her mother), Rob (her father), Jay(the oldest), Bud( 2nd), Ruby(3rd), Mary(4th), Betty(5th and my mother), Thelma(6th).

~Trish~

Friday's Faces From the Past

Joseph "Joe Daniel" Hudson (my great grandfather, mom's dad's father)  born 9 NOV 1877 • Farmerville, Union Parish, Louisiana and died 3 MAR 1916 • Farmerville, Union Parish, Louisiana. He was the son of John Thomas Hudson and Susannah Jane Goyne. He was born in eastern Union Parish near Farmerville. On 12 March 1902, Joe Hudson married Mary Elizabeth McGough (Aug 1885 – after 1930), the daughter of Robert Armstrong McGough and Sarah Ann Elizabeth Ward. Joe and Lizzie farmed near Farmerville in 1910. He died in 1916 during a typhoid fever epidemic, along with his younger sister and brother. He and Lizzie had two children, John Robert Hudson (mom's dad) and Thelma Hudson. He was a very good looking young man.  My profile picture is his mother who was also very adorable. 

~Trish~

Treasure Chest Thursday

These were given to me by mom. She made a turkey in this pan every year. She also used it throughout the year for other things. I remember her getting the roaster and this turkey platter at a Five and Dime store when I was young. We shopped for everything there.  She gave me these after she stopped cooking because I was the only one of the kids that would ever use them.  And yes I did. My husband and I use to make the holiday dinners and have my parents over. They enjoyed coming because I was the only one of the girls to to have family gatherings.

~Trish~

Those Places Thursday

While doing research on my father's mother's dad, James Harve Smith born 23 OCT 1879 • Knox County, Tennessee and died 13 JUL 1959 • Clarendon, Donley, Texas I discovered that there were still Smith family living in Stony, Texas. So.... I said to my husband, lets take a little drive. Harve Smith was someone my dad always talked about, aka..."Grandpa Harve". My great grandmother, Josie Mosier had been married to Harve just a short time and they had 3 girls , the oldest being my grandmother, and a infant son who died young. Josie divorced Harve and late re-married to a Funderburg brother of my dad's dad. But trying to locate Harve while doing research has been a hard  hill to climb. Finally I did get a breakthrough and I found that he later had lived in and around the towns of Decatur and Ponder Texas. So we took a drive up there and asked some questions of a lady out in her yard. She made a phone call to one of the Smith's who lived in this tiny area. We were invited to their home. We located this fence along the road going into Stony and took a few pictures. After talking and telling all I knew of my Smith side and getting info and photos of their Smith side, I was told that this fence was on property of another Smith relative. I did not get a chance to stop and talk to these people. The building here was an old store that sat just down the road at one time but was bought by this relative and moved onto his property and he has been adding all these  old saw blades, horseshoes, wheels and whole lot of stuff to it.  Love the old windmill. Love to photograph them.


~Trish~

Wordless Wednesday

My mysterious Great Grandpa, George Washington Willis. Born 10 NOV 1865 • Mississippi and died 5 OCT 1941 • Monroe, Ouachita, Louisiana. Great Grandma Sarah Jane White born 28 AUG 1875 • Winfield, Winn Parish, Louisiana and died 3 MAY 1965 • San Jose, Santa Clara, California.  Married 25 Sept 1894 • Mineola, Wood, Texas. These are my mother's, mother's, parents. Grandpa, your birthplace is unknown for certain because almost every census gives a different state, however, your youngest son's death certificate says Mississippi.  I have four census and they each give a different state! Are you trying to be elusive for me? Supposedly........Sarah had one son prior to her marriage to George out of wedlock. Or so goes the stories that were told to cousins when we were growing up. The story goes that "Granny Willis" met and fell in love with a married man, got pregnant and then he would not leave his wife. So she married George, possibly under protest. They married, had a family. He raised the oldest boy, Jack Brady,  as if he were his own. That's him behind George. We were always told she was mean and spiteful to her husband George so I can only imagine that you  must have been a ball to live with. Anyway many years later and a few great grandchildren later who do genealogy, we find that that was a story that you most likely made up. And little did you  know that in 1910 you  revealed the truth yourself!!! There it is, the census record shows that you  both had had a previous marriage. Granny, how could you lie about it.  I will always be searching the family tree for any clues. And though I have not found the marriage record for either one of the marriages for you or Grandpa Willis, YET, I will not quit. So thank you for telling the truth in 1910 and for not lying to the census taker. As for Grandpa, I will keep digging until I can locate his birthplace and his parents.....

As far as John Wiley "Jack" Brady,  I have tracked down his real father through the U.S. Social Security Applications and Claims Index. Shows his father as Kelley Brady and his mother as Sarah White.  His birth date and his birth place, Munroe, Ouachita,  Louisiana, match up.

~Trish~

Working on the Smith Family

I have been absent for a while, taking a break. We took an extended trip up North for a while to visit family and since coming back I have been working on my dad's mother's family. My dad would mention "Grandpa Harve" Smith often but being a kid I did not pay attention to the stories. Since coming to Texas I have learned quite a lot about Harve and his family and also visiting the  Krun Jackson Cemetery in  Denton County. His parents, George Washington Smith and Emily Rebecca Barker, both buried in this cemetery along with many other Smith Family, were married in Knox County, Tennessee, where extended family lived many years. There is a story on Find A Grave that George was born on a river boat while his parents were enroute between the two counties on the Ohio River. He was born Mar 1, 1850 in East Tennessee, the oldest child of  six children born to William Smith and Ellen (Meyers) Smith, who, in 1850 are living in Hamilton, Tennessee and in 1860 are in District 7, Hawkins, Tennessee . William's parents were David Smith of Virginia and Elizabeth "Betsy McGill of Tennessee. William's grandparents were (Louther Smith and Barbara Louderback but I have not confirmed the grandparents of  William Smith), all of Hawkins Co., TN.

William married Ellen Myers also of Hawkins Co., TN, but for a short time early in their marriage they lived in Hamilton Co., TN. It appears George and all his siblings were born in  Hawkins County.

According to the 1830 census of Hawkins County, Tn., David H Smith has 2 males under 5, 1 male between 5 and 9, and one 20 thru 29,  2 female under 5 and 1 between 30 and 39 for a total of 7 in this household. So his wife must have been a bit older than him.

In the 1840 census of Hawkins County, he has an older female so it appears that his widowed mother is probably living with them. 1 male under 5, 1 male 30 thru 39, 2 female under 5, 1 female 10 thru 14, 1 1 female 15 thru 19, 1 female 30 thru 39 and 1 female 60 thru 69.

According to the Tennessee Marriages to 1825, David married Betsy McGill 30 Dec 1823in Hawkins County. Then William was born in 1824, which is the one male age 5 thru 10 in the 1830 census, then another son John born 1823, which would be the one male under 5. He had 2 daughters who were born before 1830 and under 5 years and one other who was born between 1830 and 1840. I have not accounted for the females yet. David and Elizabeth are both still alive in 1860 in Hawkins County and son John is living at home with them and possibly a daughter named Nancy.

                                  

1. Will of William PHIPPS - Hawkins Co., TN -...

   genealogytrails.com/tenn/hawkins/willabstracts2.html

In the Hawkins County, Tennessee
Wills

Random Will Abstracts
Hawkins County, Tennessee Marriages and Wills, by Lucy Kate McGhee
Transcribed by, Vickie Bryan 

1..Louther Smith August 13, 1821
Wife - Barbara Smith
Heirs - David Smith

2..Peter Smith October 8, 1808
Executor - John Smith
Heirs - Joshua Smith, Samuel Smith, Able Smith, John Smith 

3.. Samuel Smith September 6, 1798
Wife - Ann Smith
Executors - Samuel Smith and James Law
Heirs - Henry Law, Joseph H. Smith, heirs of Thomas Smith

4.. Alexander Smith August 10, 1842
Executor - Alexander Smith Jr.
Heirs - John Smith, Alexander Smith, Joseph Smith, Elizabeth Hicks and heir, Wm. Smith, George Smith

5.. William Smith May 7, 1805
Wife - Elizabeth Smith
Executor - Samuel Smith
Heirs - Sally Smith, George Smith, Wm. Smith, Joel Smith, Betsy Smith, Peter Smith, John Smith, Samuel Smith

**The marriage of  Louther Smith and Barbery Loudeback is recorded in the abstract of the records of old Linville Creek Baptist Church, beginning on page 48, Rev. John Alderson

*Married June the 28, 1791 in Green Brier County, West Va.*
Just a note from my research on William & Samuel: Samuel Smith is shown on Fold3 as being in Co "B" of the 12th Calvary and on a "recruiting service since 22 Oct 1863" and a "deserter since 29 Feb 1864" and then detached in Leavenworth, Kansas since June 28,1865. His age is 41 as of Oct 7, 1865 which would put his birth at about 1824. The record stated he was charged with desertion and restored to duty without trial but with loss of pay in Oct 1865 in Leavenworth(per letter in his file-41 pages). Shows his residence Carter County, Tenn, married, and nearest living relative as "Nancy" Smith. William, also in Co. "B" died at Camp Gillem Tenn May 28, 1864. His notes say William A not H. His age is 43 in 1863, puts his birth at about 1820. He apparently was captured at Jackson, Miss Aug 6, 1863 and confined at a hospital in Richmond, Va Sept 7-10, 1863. His file 43 pages. ** I have not yet figured where these two fit in  to my lines**