Showing posts with label Johnson County. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Johnson County. Show all posts

Monday, October 8, 2018

Monday Is for Mothers: Sarah Elizabeth Chappell (1830 - 1917)

Sarah's father Abram Heath Chappell was the brother of Sarah Heath Chappell Hardy (my great great great grandmother) which makes her one of my first cousins, four times removed.

[Posted to her Ancestry.com family tree by suzannepatton1]


Sarah was born in Cotton Valley, Macon County, Alabama, and that's probably where she met and married James Campbell Gambill Russell Patton*who had begun his teaching career there and that's where the couple's first child was born in 1851. 

Sarah and J.C.G.R. had six children, only three of whom lived to maturity. After her husband's death in 1912 Sarah moved from her home in Grandview, Johnson County, to Waco, McLennan County, Texas, where her youngest son Abram Chappell Patton had established himself as a successful business man and community leader. 

The abbreviated biography in the first paragraph of Sarah's obituary doesn't completely agree with existing information we have for her husband.**

[31 Mar 1917, Page 11 - Waco Morning News at Newspapers.com]


She's buried with J.C.G.R. in Grandview Cemetery.

[Findagrave.com memorial #31497872; photo added by Judi W #46932124]


Here's how we're connected:

[Ancestry.com]


*He's always referred to as J.C.G.R. Patton.
**As you can see he was a well-respected teacher and Methodist Episcopal minister.


[From manuscript at Layland Museum in Cleburne Texas "The Churches of Grandview" and clipping from article written by Al Smith published in the "Texas Christian Advocate," and information given by Mrs. Virginia Heath Freeman, Cleburne.
Posted to her Ancestry.com family tree by suzannepatton1 ]



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Monday, June 25, 2018

Monday Is for Mothers: Elizabeth "Betsy" Mrs. Taylor (About 1805 - After June 1, 1850)

This page of the 1850 U.S. Census for Washington Township in Johnson County, Iowa, is literally the only record we've found that names this maternal great great great grandmother and all this tells us is that she was born about 1805 in Ohio.

[Year: 1850; Census Place: Washington, Johnson, Iowa; Roll: M432_185; Page: 130B; Image: 267
Ancestry.com. 1850 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch. Original data: Seventh Census of the United States, 1850; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M432, 1009 rolls); Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29; National Archives, Washington, D.C.]

[Detail of above]


Her husband Job died in August of 1850 and there's some evidence that a neighbor Jacob Hull became the children's guardian after that.

Here's how I'm related to her:

[Ancestry.com]



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Thursday, February 22, 2018

Final Settlement of the Estate of Job Taylor

Johnson County, Iowa, Probate Court, Book 5, 26 Sep 1853, page 201, Estate of Job Taylor (FHL microfilm ??); digital image, Ancestry.com database, Iowa, Wills and Probate Records, 1787-1997, image 471 (https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/9064/007592130_00001 : 20 February 2018).
A continuation of the estate records of Job Taylor (1800-1850).

Transcription

Estate of Job Taylor decd.

On the 26th day of September 1853 came William
Manatt administrator of Job Taylor late of Johnson Co.
decd, and made his final settlement of his adm-
inistration of said estate, wherefore it appeared to
the Court that said administrator had received from
the sale of personal property belonging to said decd,
the lien??? of $324.47
Interest recd thereon $24.91
Total amt recd $349.38

Said Adm has paid out as ??uots,
on claims against said estate,                           $78.31
Paid Adm for his Service + expence                    28.50
$106.81
Leaving for distribution to heirs $242.57

Paid Guardian of said heir a??cts 219.07
Bill for Board ?? of the head? paid
to Wm Manatte as per bill                                 23.50

$242.57
Said adminstrator is thereupon discharged from further liability
in the proceeding.




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Tuesday, February 20, 2018

Money Claims Against the Estate of Job Taylor Deceased

Johnson County, Iowa, Probate Record, Book 5: page 17, Money Claims Against Job Taylor Deceased, Nov. 1851, FHL microfilm 985943; digital image, Ancestry.com database Iowa, Wills and Probate Records, 1758-1997, Johnson County Probate Record, Vol 5, 1851-1857, image 376 (https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/9064/007592130_00001 : 20 February 2018).




Estate of Job Taylor deceased

And now to wit: November 1851
Came William Manatt administrator of the 
estate of the said Job Taylor deceased and 
presented vouching for moneys disbursed in pay-
ment of claims against said Estate amounting
to Forty Eight dollars and eighty five cents
which account is passed to his credit on 
page 17 of Book of Executors accounts.




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Saturday, February 17, 2018

Job Taylor Died Intestate in Johnson County, Iowa

Oh goody!  Some more info on my elusive 4th great grandfather, Job Taylor (1800-1805).  Johnson County, Iowa, Probate Record, Book 4: page 24, Record of the Estate of Job Taylor, 1850; FHL microfilm 985943; digital images, Ancestry.com database Iowa, Wills and Probate Records, 1758-1997, Johnson County, Probate Records, Vol 3-5, 1847-1857 (https://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=9064 : 17 February 2018), image start 298.  


Record of the Estate of Job Taylor. Wm. Manatt Ad.

1850 26 State of Iowa Letters of Administration
Johnson County

The State of Iowa, to all known these presents shall come greeting
Know ye that whereas Job Taylor late of the county of Johnson in the state of Iowa died intestate as it is said on or about the 29 day of Aug. 1850 having at the same time personal property and real estate in this state, which may be lost, destroyed, or diminished in value, if speedy care be not taken of the same.-  To the end therefore that said property maybe collected and preserved for those who shall appear to have a legal right or inerest therein, we, do hereby appoint William Manatt of the county of Johnson Administrator of all and singular, the goods and chattels, rights and and credits, of the said deceased, with full power and authroity to collect and secure the property and debts belonging to said estate, in whose hands a possesion the same may be, in this state, and to fully Administer and settle said estate, and in general to do and perform all other acts which now are or hereafter may be required of him by law as administrator as aforesaid.
[Seal]
In Testimony whereof, I, Daniel G [S?] Warren Judge of Probate in and for the county of Johnson, have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court at Iowa City in said county this 26 day of Sept. A.D. 1850.
Daniel L. Warren
Judge of Probate
___
carried over


25
Record of Estate of Job Taylor. Continued.
1850
Sept. 26 State of Iowa, Johnson County // ss. Administrators Bond.
Know all men by these presents, That we, William Manatt as principal, and Jacob Hull as securities, of the county of Johnson and state of Iowa, are held and firmly bound unto Daniel S. Warren as Judge of Probate in and for said county of Johnson, and his successors in office in the penal sum of two hundred dollars, lawful money of the United States, for the payment of which well and truly to be made and performed, We, bind ourselves, our heirs, executors, andministratos and assigns, jointly and severally, firmly by these Presents, signed with our hands, and sealed with our seals, this 26 day of Sept. A.D. 1850. = The condition of this obligation is such, that whereas the above bound William Manatt, has been appointed administrator of the estate of Job Taylor late of Johnson county deceased. = Now if the said William Manatt, shall make and return unto the Probate Court for the county of Johnson within three months, a true Inventory of all the real estate, and all the goods and chattells, rights and credits, of the deceased, that have or shall come to his possesion or knowledge, and shall administer accordig to law and the goods, chattels, rights and credits, of the deceased, and the proceeds of all his real estate that may be sold for the payments of his debts which shall come at any time to his possession, or to the possession of any person, for he shall render upon oath a true account of his administration within one year, and at any time when required by the Judge of Probate, shall pay any balance remaining in his hands with(?) settlement of his accounds, to such persons as the Judge of Probate shall direct, and deliver the letters of administration into the Probate court, in case any will of the deceased shall be hereafter duly proved and allowed, then and in that case these presents and everything herein expressed shall be absolutely null and void, otherwise to be and remain in full force and virtue.
This is to certify that I
have examined this bond and do hereby approve the same and the securities Sept. 26. 1850.
William Manatt [Seal]
Jacob Hull [Seal]

Daniel S. Warren, Judge of Probate
Iowa City, Iowa


Record Continued.= Warrant of Appraisement,
1850
Sept. 26. State of Iowa, Johnson County // ss.

To James Shaff, Henry Bogers [Rogers?], and Wm. Gathercole
you are hereby appointed to appraise on oath the
estate and effects of Job Taylor late of Johnson
county deceased.
When you have performed that serice you will
deliver this warrant and your doings in pusuance
thereof to William Manatt, adminitrator of said deceased,
that he may return the same to this court.
[seal]
In witness whereof, I. Daniel S. Warren, Judge
of Probate, in and for said county of Johnson,
have hereunto set my hand and affixed the
seal of said court at Iowa City this 26 day of
Sept. A.D. 1850,
Daniel S. Warren, Judge of Probate

Oath to Appraisers,
We and each of us do solemnly swear, that we
will well and truly appraise the estate and effects
of Job Taylor, late of Johnson County. deceased, to
the best of our ability and understanding so help us God.

James Shaff
Henry Rogers (Bogers?)
William Gathercole


1850 Inventory and appraisement Bill
Oct. 7 Of the property of Job Taylor Dec'd $
One cooking stove $12, =one bureau $9. 21.00
one clock $2, = one table $2, 4.00
one lot shoe makers tools + 5 shears 3.50
Knife Bowl and Knife Box 1.00
A lot of capenters [sic] tools 3.00
A lot of pot-mettle 3.00
Crockery wear $3, Barrells $1, 4.00
Old Irons $3, One axe $1, horse gearing $6 10.00
Loom accoutrements 2.00


27
Continued
Record of the Estate of Job Taylor
1850
Oct. 7. Spinning Wheel $1, Carpet $2, $3.00
looking glass, 50. C. Molds yc[?], 37.   .87
one short gun $4, one rifle gun $8. 12.00
Flax and Toe[?] $1, -3 bags or sacks, 50. 1.50
one horse carriage $20, = one horse wagon $18 1/2 38.50
lumber $2.37. Wheat + oats in stack $30 32.37
lots of Hoggs $18, = 4 Beds + bedding $12 30.00
one yoke of oxen $45. = 2 cows $20 65.00
three calves $6, = 1 yearling heifer $5.50 11.50
8 Sheep $8, = 2 ploughs $7. 15.00
2 scythes + cradle $2.50. 19 lbs. Bolls[?] $7, 12 1/2 9.62 1/2
corn.......... 9.00
_____

We James Shaff Henry Rogers + William
Gathercole do here certify that the above
articles was duly appraised by use as the prop-
erty of Job Taylor Deceased, on the 7 day of October A.D. 1850.

James Shaff
Henry Rogers Appraisers
William Gathercole


Washtub and board not sold
one tea kettle not sold
spools not sold



Record continued, Order for sale of personal property. 28
1850
Sept. 26. State of Iowa, Johnson County. ss
To William Manat Administrator of the estate of Job Taylor, late of Johnson county deceased,
it appearing to the satisfaction of this court that
it becomes necessary to sell the personal property belong.
to said estate to pay the debts there of and the costs of
administration
These are therfor in the name of
the state of Iowa, to authorise, instruct and empower
you, to sell at public or private sale, the personal
property belonging to the said estate of the said
Job Taylor, deceased, and for so doing this shall
be your sufficient order.

[seal]
In witness whereof, I have here unto
set my hand and affixed the seal of
said court at Iowa City this 26 day of
Sept. 1850.

Daniel S. Warren, Jude of Probate.


Sale of the Bill of the Estate of Job Taylor
1850
Oct. 8
Wm Manatt, one Pickling tub $0.12 1/2 [might be $11.12 1/2]
Lewis Van Buskirk one Barrell   .15
Wm. Manatt, one small Barrell   .25
Wm. Britten half Bushel + Basket   .05
Thomas Watters, pot, hooks, and dipper   .55
Lewis Van Buskirk, one shovel   .65
James Watters, one log-chane 2.25
A. W. Young, one chane + tramel   .60
"  "  "     Trace chanes   .38
Clark Lemly Basket + Irons   .75
Jerry Highett one Big kettle 2.85
Clark Lemly 2 axes + clevis[?]   .55
S. A. Watters. hoe, shovel + lantern   .26
R. W. Gray, Cooking stove etc 15.50
Lewis Van Buskirk one Bureau 9.25

_____
$34.21 1/2


29

Record of Job Taylor estate continued
1850
Oct. 8 Amount brot forward $34.21 1/2
Richard Patterson one clock   4.85
Alfred Marshal one Breakfast table   1.00
Ira A. Parker 8 largest hogs 16.00
"   "  "      12 Shotes   6.85
Wm. Manatt, one sett breast chains    .31
A. W. Young one square + 1/2 inch auger    .70
Jerry Highett, one drawing knife    .45
Samuel Oliver 2 augers and dividers    .70
A. P. Templeton one hand saw   1.00
L. P. Young, 2 chisells + auger    .75
James Shaff, Little Spinning wheel    .52
S. A. Walters 2 candlesticks,
              candle molds, sausage stuffer    .37 1/2
Alfred Marshall one coffee mill + boiler    .35
M. W. Budd one tin pale one wooden pale    .50
A. W. Young, 2 wooden boles + tin pan    .45
Jerry Highett, one sifter and 2 battles    .35
Alfred Marshall Stone Churn    .45
Clark Lemly 2 crocks, 2 Jugs, one pitcher    .31
Wm. Van Buskirk one sett plates    .60
"   "   "       one sett Tea-cups + saucers    .45
Thomas Watters one sett Tea saucers    .25
"      "       plates, Tea cups + saucers    .15
J. Stilling 5 plates    .35
Jacob Hull shelf ware    .18 3/4
Wm. Van Buskirk 3 chairs   1.80
John Maples 3 chairs   1.00
Richard Patterson 3 sacks   1.31
Samuel Oliver loom geares   1.37 1/2
Richard Patterson 2 reeds   1.20
Ira Parker a lot of flax   1.27
S. P. Young carpet   2.05
Charles Edmundson, one Rifle gun   9.05
A. W. Young smooth bon[?] rifle   5.00
John Maples one sett britchen   1.10
Clark Lemly sett britchen   1.40

_____
carried forward $98.74 1/4



30

Record of Job Taylor estate continued

1850
Oct 8 Amount brot forward $98.74 1/4
Clark Lemly lines    .45
Richard Patterson 2 Bridles and hatters    .80
S. P. Young one horse collar   1.00
Wm. Snider one horse collar    .70
Wm. Van Buskirk Washtub, board + tea kettle    .65
"   "   "       One Mourning scythe   1.05
Alfred Marshall one scythe + cradle   1.05
Thomas Watters knives fork and spoons   1.35
Clark Lemly one box chest    .37
Hiram Wasson, Buggy + harness 29.12 1/2
Lewis van Buskirk Door latches    .21
Alfred Marshall one 2 horse wagon 25.05
Lewis van Buskirk one sled and lumber   1.40
Henry Rogers, The West stack of wheat   9.50
"     "       Middle stack   "  "   9.75
"     "       East   "       "  " 10.00
Lewis Van Buskirk lot sheaf oats   2.65
Samuel Ledenbucker [?] Pitchfork    .40
J. Stillings A lot of corn in field 12.00
S. P. Young one Bell    .50
James Watters one yoke oxen 53.00
John Maples 2 calves   7.55
Clark Lemly one heifer   8.45
Wm. Turnip [?] ??? One Red Cow 13.75
Samuel Oliver one line back cow 13.37 1/2
John Maples 8 sheep 11.00
Wm. Van Buskirk one play. $5.80.=shovel plow, 85. 6.65
Clark Lemly one red calf   3.87

_____
$324.46 3/4
I hereby certify that the above is a
true list of the property sold at the sale of Job Taylor Deceased, this 8th day of Oct. 1850.
fees $1.25

Wm. L. Griffiths, Clerk of said sale



William Maynatt administrator of Job Taylor Dec.

has Credit for the following receipts - for
money paid on debts vs. said estate.
paid David Bunker 1.19
"    Daniel S. Warren 3.00
"    Wm Maynatt 11.33
"    Jacob Hull 4.00
"    S. Workman for Tax 1.58
"    Wm Griffith 2.00
"    do do 10.00
"    W. H. Rouseau 12.50
"    J. R. King 1.25
"    Thomas Waters 2.00
Administrators allowed 24.00

_____

$72.85

This account transfered to
page 17 Executors accounts.






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Monday, December 5, 2016

Monday Is for Mothers: Nannie Freeman (1857-1934) Writes a Letter to Mrs Abernathy

From an issue of the Finders Keepers publication, page 90.
Page 91.



As more things are digitized and put online, more cool stuff pops up.  My 2nd great grandmother Nannie (Freeman) Warren's letter to a Mrs. Abernathy is an example.  I found it at The Portal to Texas History, under the search term "Nannie Warren" and located in the Johnson County Genealogical Society's publication, "Finders KeepersVolume VIII No. 3 and 4, starting on page 90 of the publication.

Nannie discusses her frontier experience, moving from a comfortable existence in the Cotton Valley, Alabama area to the rustic Johnson County, Texas in 1870:


South Bend Texas
August 24 1931
Dear Mrs. Abernathy
I'm very much afraid you will be disappointed in what I can write of our frontier experience of the long ago.  My Father and Mother Henry Hill Freeman and Elizabeth Turner Freeman were born in Ga. where they were married in 1840.  A few years later they moved to Tuskegee Alabama where they lived until they moved to Texas.
They arrived in Johnson County Texas Sandflat community in Feb. 1870. situated about equally distant from Cleburne Alvarado and Grandview.  Father Mother and daughters made the trip on train and boat--spending one night on the gulf.  The sons, J.C. and W.W. Freeman, came in a wagon in company with five other wagons.  We left the train at Calvert to complete the way in wagons as that was as far as the rail road extended.  There I heard my first cursing--the driver of the freight wagon cursing his mules.  We left a community of cultured people with lovely homes, fine churches and excellent schools--said to be an exceptionally good neighborhood.  At Sandflat we found few neighbors, primitive social companionship, inferior schools, poor church facilities, log cabins and many other provoking or laughable surprises according as one took them.  The country was being changed from a cattle range to homes and farms--some very small farms had been made a? log cabin with an enormous fireplace served both for church and school at Sandflat during winter, and brush arbors, or church services during summer.  Really the schools were very inferior often the teachers incapable and terms short.  The houses were open the seats uncomfortable.  It was not until time brought changes that our community produced some very fine people--none that I can recall that have achieved high honors but many good substantial citizens.  The farm wagons were the only conveyance for travel. At church everybody met, the people generally were helpful and kind--a custom I'm told always present in new settlements.  We got our mail from Cleburne until years later Cuba post office was established in the Millican and Donevant surveys.  Improving it was a task indeed--wire fencing had not come, rails from the trees had to be made for fencing, wells dug--land plowed with ox teams etc etc but the country was every new and healthy and every body was suffering almost the same inconveniences.  Our cotton had to be carried to the nearest railroad station at first over one hundred miles, which moved and got nearer as the years went.  When it was marketed supplies for family use were brought back.  Our family was always given somewhat to reading--news papers even taken and read and the church paper always.  We also had a lot of books.  Oh yes we had plenty singing schools where the young people met and sang and planned to get married.
I recall some of the people are found on arrival--The Laramores-Boatwright Boyd, Byars, Harrison, Powel and others.
My father was an intelligent christian gentleman and his influence for good was felt in the upbuilding of the community.  He attended faithfully to his church obligations and I think a church was hardly built in an adjoining neighborhood during his life there without a contribution from him--regardless of the denomin[ation].  I surely believe that if your own fine father was present he would bear me out in what I've said as my Father and he were each very appreciative of the other.  Mrs Abernathy Mary (my daughter) suggests that I tell you that our school seats were puncheons (I don't know how to spell it) and how we entertained our beaux in such small houses but we got married any way.
 I think you will be tired of this and will close, with kindest regards,
Mrs. Nannie Warren
(nee Miss Nannie Freeman)
When Nannie wrote this she was a widow (husband James Chappell Warren Sr had died in 1924) and lived with her youngest child, Mary (Warren) Nance (1899-1973) and her family.  Her first child, Mattie Lizzie Warren, had died in 1889 and her son James Chappell Warren Jr (my great grandfather) had died in 1923 (his child Tracy Warren, my biological grandfather, was living with his mother Letta Estella Porter and her family in Dallas, Texas).  Nannie's other son, Hill Freeman Warren (1891-1956), was a physician in New London, Connecticut.





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