A memorial and biographical history of Navarro, Henderson, Anderson, Limestone, Freestone and Leon counties, Texas from the earliest period of its occupancy to the present time, together with glimpses of its prospects; also biographical mention of many of the pioneers and prominent citizens, Part 47

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Mr. Whitcomb was married to Miss Mary E. Thurmond, of Washington county, Arkansas. She is a native of Davidson county, Tennessee. They have two chil- dren, James Dudley and Walter Earl. Our subject joined the Presbyterian Church in 1874, and has been a zeal- ons member of it ever since. He is a pleasant, genial gentleman.

Frank C. Oliver, a leading merchant of Groesbeck, Limestone county, is a son of Roderick and Tampe (Darley) Oliver, both born near Nashville, Tennessee, where they were married. After marriage they moved to Marshall county, Mississippi, in 1846, came to Texas and settled in Freestone county, where the mother died in 1852, aged fifty-one. The father also died there, November, 1857, at the age of fifty-seven. He was a farmer and stock-raiser and botlı he and his wife were people of modest, un- assuming ways. For many years they were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The family of these two parents consisted of eight children, namely: John E., who died a few years since, at Weather- ford, this State; Frank C., our subject; William W., who died some years since, in Limestone county; Thomas J., now a resident of Dallas; Martha Ann, wife of Thomas Harper, of Freestone county; Nar- cissa, wife of M. Stroud, of Hill county; Lucy, wife of M. N. Miller, of Groesbeck, Limestone county, and Rosena, who was married to L. B. Boyd, of Freestone county, but is now deceased.

The eldest of these children now living and the subject of this sketch was born in Hardeman county, Tennessee, March 21, 1827, and was reared in that county and in Marshall county, Mississippi, whither his parents moved during his youth. He was brought up on a farm and came to Texas, with his parents, at the age of nine- teen, and took up his residence with them in Freestone county. In September, 1850, he married Lucretia Miller, a daughter of Andrew Miller of that county, but a native of Washington county, that State. Her

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parents were formerly from Louisiana.

Shortly after his marriage he engaged in the merchandise trade, at Fairfield, Freestone county, as a member of the firm of Oliver & Robertson, and continued in this same business until the outbreak of the war. He then closed out his interest and engaged in farming and stock-raising in Freestone county, during the war. In 1866 he removed to Limestone county, where lie continued in the same business until January, 1885, at which time he again embarked in the mercantile business, in partnership with his son, John E., in Groes- beck, under the firm name of F. C. Oliver & Son. They handle furniture, hard- ware and all kinds of agricultural imple- ments. This is a large establishment and the firm does a large and prosperous busi- ness.

Mr. Oliver reared five children, namely: T. W .; John E., who is a successful stock- grower of Limestone county and interested in the mercantile business, as already stated; " D," who is the assistant cashier of the First National Bank, of Groesbeck; Walter W., a stock trader and real-estate dealer of northwestern Texas; Mary, a young lady yet with her parents; and Thomas W., the oldest child, who died in Limestone county a few years ago, leaving a family.

Mr. Oliver is not only an old citizen of the counties of Limestone and Freestone, but is one of the solid, substantial men of the latter, a representative of an honored name and a most excellent man in every way.

Captain W. P. Brown, our present sub. ject, is the son of William A. and Margaret (Tnbbeville) Brown, the former a native of

Pendleton district, South Carolina, who accompanied his father, David Brown, to Lauderdale county, Alabama, when a young man, and thence to Wilkinson county, Mississippi, where he married in 1834. He moved then to Tallahatchie county, Mississippi, thence to De Soto county in the same State, and in 1849 to Texas, set- tling in December of that year on a farm one mile north of old Springfield, the county seat of Limestone county, and re- sided the rest of his life there, dying in October, 1875, in the sixty-ninth year of his age. Although he had followed an agricultural life he had found time to at- tend to the demands made upon him by his fellow-citizens, filling the office of County Treasurer of Limestone county at an early day.

The mother of our subject is still living, and W. P. is one of her family of eight children. The record is as follows: Mary A., the wife of J. J. Cullison, now resides at Fairfield; our subject; Laura C., who died unmarried; Elizabeth, who married L. Steele, and is now deceased; Albert G., deceased; and Joseph is also deceased. The subject was born in Tallahatchie county, Mississippi, December 12, 1837, was reared in this county until the age of twelve, at that time coming to Texas with his parents. His youth was spent on his father's farm, one mile north of Spring- field, in Limestone county. He received a meager, common-school education, attend- ing school about three months in the winter season, as was the custom. In the sum- mer of 1861 he entered the Confederate service, helping raise a company of which he was made First Lieutenant; but after a

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few months this company was disbanded, and he returned to Limestone connty, where he joined a party of five persons and went to Galveston and entered the coast service, in which he remained about six months, and then returned home and entered into a company which was being organized at that time by M. McGee, our subject becoming second lieutenant of this company. He went at once to the front and was assigned to duty in Arkansas, un- der General Hindman. At Fort Smith, Arkansas, Captain McGee died, and the first lieutenant, Jesse P. Alford resigned, and the command of the company devolved upon our subject, he succeeding to the po- sition both by promotion and election. He commanded the company from that on un- til the close of the war, taking part in a number of skirmishes in the Indian Terri- tory and in the second campaign in Mis- sonri, being active until the surrender.

When the war was over he returned home and began trading in stock and land until the spring of 1866, when he and Captain J. W. Stevens engaged in the mercantile business at Springfield, and he was so engaged there until 1873, when Captain Brown moved to Mexia still in the sanie business. In 1875 he moved to Groesbeck, and in 1876 he was elected Treasurer of Limestone county, and was successively re-elected until 1882, when he was elected County Clerk, and is now serving as such, having been re-elected every two years. He is one of the oldest public officials in the county, and is a man who stands high in the esteem of the citi- zens of Limestone.

In 1890 our subject entered the mercan-

tile business as a member of the firm of W. P. and W. W. Brown at Groesbeck, dealers in a general line of drugs. Captain Brown was married in Limestone county, in May, 1864, while on a leave of absence home during the war. The lady of his choice was Miss Mary Stephens, a daughter of J. W. and R. E. Stephens. Mrs. Brown is a sister of John W. Stephens, well known in the county. Captain and Mrs. Brown have had ten children.

For a number of years he has been a member of the Masonic fraternity, has the respect and confidence of the whole com- munity.

Dr. J. D. Rankin, Sr., a prominent phy- sician and surgeon of Groesbeck, Texas, is our subject. He was born in Purdy, McNary county, Tennessee, September 11, 1825. He was reared there and received a preliminary education in the schools of his native place, and entered the practice of medicine as a licentiate in his native place in 1845. In the fall of that year he camne to Texas and settled at Henderson, Rusk county, where he remained in the practice of his profession until 1849, when he re- moved to Palestine, Anderson county.

In 1862 our subject was appointed as- sistant surgeon in the Confederate army, Colonel B. Warren Stone's regiment, under General Richard Taylor, in Morton's di- vision. Toward the latter part of the war he was surgeon in charge of the division hospital of General Morton, at Iberia. After the war, our subject practiced his profes- sion at Palestine until 1869, when he moved to Springfield, Limestone county. He has since resided in this county, and has fol- lowed his profession, first at Springfield,

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and, after the removal of the county seat to Grosbeck, at the latter place.

Dr. Rankin has been an active practi- tioner, and is well known to the medical fraternity throughout the State. For a number of years he has practiced at this place in the summer, and at Galveston during the winter, and was professor of Theory and Practice in the Texas Medical College and Hospital at Galveston. He is a member of the Texas State Medical As- sociation, and has contributed largely to the literature of the profession. For some time he was the editor of the Texas Medi- cal Journal, and is the anthor of a number of important papers, among them the fol- lowing: " Miasınatic Haemogastric and Haematuric Fever;" "Acnte and Chronic Dysentery ;" " Organic and Inorganic mat- ter contrasted philosophically, physiolo- gically and anatomically ;" " Is there a vital principal in man or not?" " The proof that Chloral is not converted into Chloroform be- fore it produces its therapeutic effects, considered from a physiological and thera- peutical standpoint." All of these valua- ble contributions have been published in Texas medical journals. Since 1869 Dr. Rankin has held the chair of Theory and Practice of Medicine in the Texas Medical College at Galveston. From 1869 to 1873 the Doctor was professor pro tem. of Ther- apeutics in, and has been president and dean of, the same institution.

Dr. Rankin has made a considerable po- litical record also. He has been a candidate for Congress twice against Hon Roger Q. Mills, in 1882-'86, on the Greenback ticket, and was an elector in his Congres- sional district for Weaver, later for Butler

and still later for Streeter. He was chair- man of the State Executive Committee of the Greenback party in 1880.

He was the founder of the Renters' Homes Association, and was elected presi- dent of it in August, 1889, the date of its foundation. Three years later he was re- elected to the same position, and at all times he has been recognized as its head and chief. The purpose of this association is to secure the passage of a bill by Con- gress directing the Secretary of the Treas- ury to issue full legal tender paper money and coin gold and silver withiont limit, and loan to homeless persons to pay for homes and material to improve said homes, and to pay for unpaid homes in the country, in towns or cities, on twenty years' time, at one per cent. per annum, the interest and one-twentieth part of the principal to be paid annually, the loans to be continued by the Government until fifty per cent. per capita is put in circulation, the Govern- ment retaining a lien upon the real estate so purchased and the material as a security for the money so lent. The association is regularly organized, holds the meetings at stated times, has a plan of operation for- mulated, distributes literature and is, push- ing its claims before the public. Its supporters are unalterably opposed to communism, socialism, nihilism, George- ism and similar isms. They believe in doing things according to law, and allow every man to hold all he lias heretofore ob- tained, but insist that theirs is the only feasible plan of meeting the contest between capital and labor and of putting the worthy poor on anything like an equal footing with the rich in the contest for bread and butter.

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The Doctor is an enthusiastic advocate of the plan and has contributed a number of articles to the public prints on the subject.

Dr. Rankin was married to Miss Mar- garet A. Mabry, a daughter of David Ma- bry, in 1847, at Palestine, Texas. This lady died in 1862, and in 1872 he married Miss T. J. Stronde, a daughter of Logan A. Stronde, an old citizen of Limestone county. By his first marriage the Doctor was the father of one son, Dr. J. D. Ran- kin, Jr., his associate in practice, and one daughter, Emma Jackson; and by his last marriage he has one son, Dake, thirteen years of age, and one danghter, Tinkie, yet at school.

KOSSE,

named in honor of the Houston & Texas Central Railway's chief engineer, was the terminus of a part of 1869-'70, and went through the same sort of over-growth and congestion at first that Groesbeck did, and with practically the same people, as far as those are concerned who followed the terminus. Indeed, by 1880 it was larger, slightly, than Groesbeck, having, as it did, a population of 476. It was laid out and business located on the west side of the track. Among those of its earliest citi- zens who became permanent ones may be mentioned Dr. B. F. Ousts, J. L. Mark- ham, H. C. Markham, W. R. Hammond, A. J. Burleson, and a few others. By 1890 it had a population of 647. It is incorporated.

It has a good bank-the Merchants and Farmers', and has several secret societies- the Masons, the Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias, and the Knights of Honor.

Its press began with the News, and several equally unsuccessful efforts fol- lowed, until in Angnst, 1885, Mr. J. O. Jones established the Cyclone. This is now owned and successfully conducted by Mr. J. T. Robison.

Kosse, of course, has charge of her own schools, of which she is justly proud.

Thomas L. Curry, a prominent citizen of the above village, is the son of a Geor- gian by the name of Thomas Curry, who was born in that State in 1799, went thence to Tennessee with his parents, thence to Mississippi, and from there to Texas in 1834. He first located in what was then Robertson county, moved thence to Falls county in 1852, and there bought a farm. When he first landed in Texas his horses were stolen by the Indians and he was compelled to return East and buy oxen. He became a very successful stock- man, but lost everything by the war. He was a self-made, well informed man, of good habits, chaste in his talk, very chari- table, and a member of the Democratic party. He belonged to the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, in which he was a consistent member. His death occurred in 1885. His father was Thomas Curry, a native of Georgia, and a farmer, who after the death of his wife emigrated to Texas. The Curry family are of Irisli de- scent, who came to America in colonial times and settled in Georgia. The mother of our subject was Matilda (Rogers) Curry, a native of Tennessee. She died in 1881, and was the daughter of Larkin Rogers, whose ancestors were natives of Ireland. The marriage of our subject's parents took place in 1823, and twelve children were

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the result of this union, as follows: Eliza Jane, deceased, wife of W. C. Powers, of Tennessee; Martha and Mary were twins, the former the wife of Captain G. H. Love, of Tennessee, and Mary was the wife of Noah McChustian, of Brazos county, Texas; . Rebecca was the wife of Green B. Duncan, of Texas; Elizabeth was the wife of F. M. Powers, of Texas; our subject; Susan, wife of Robert Lampbert, of Ellis county; Joseph was killed at Valverde, Mexico, in the late war, in which he was a member of Sibley's Brigade, under Captain Lang, of Falls county; Minerva is the wife of A. J. Erwin, of Honey Grove, Texas; Matilda was the wife of G. T. Gentry, of Falls connty; Sarah was the wife of John Tay- lor, of Falls county; and John W., who died young.

Our subject was born in Mississippi in 1833, and came to Texas when but a few months old, and remained with his parents until 1862. He then enlisted in the Con- federate service. He had but a limited education, as his life had been spent with the stock. He belonged to Company F, Captain Bennett, Elmore's regiment, and was in Galveston the most of the time, on account of sickness. In 1863 he returned to his father's home, and then received a beef detail, and drove cattle until the close of the war. He then returned home, and remained here until 1868, when he located in Falls county, on his own farm, and en- gaged in farming and stock-raising. Here he resided until 1880, when he removed to Bremond, on account of the school ad- vantages. After two years he removed to Kosse, where he has since resided.

He was married, in 1861, to Miss Eliza-

beth Ethridge, a native of Louisiana, who came from there to Texas with her parents. She died in 1866, a good Christian woman. Three children were born to her: Joseph L., mail agent on the Cotton Belt from Waco to Texarkana, who resides at Waco; William G. resides at Wheelock, Robert- son county, and is a bookkeeper for Mitchel Brothers; and Thomas G. is in the drug business at Bremond. Mr. Curry was married again, in 1871, to Miss Florence E. Brown, a native of Louisiana, a daugh- ter of Dr. A. Foy and Caroline Brown, and five children have been added to the family, namely: Maggie, E. A. Foy, Hardy P., Callie L. and Duke B.

Our subject began for himself in 1856, and now has 1,100 acres, 250 of which is under cultivation, fifty cattle, fifty horses, as many mules, and also possesses town property. In politics he is a Democrat, and is a solid, thrifty man, and both he and his wife are members of the Methodist Church.

A. W. McDaniel, a prosperous farmer near Kosse, Limestone county, was born in Attala county, Mississippi, in 1835. His father was born in South Carolina, in 1790, but when a inere boy emigrated to Georgia, then a new country. There he married Sophia Williams, after which they moved to Mississippi. The children born to this union are: J. W .; J. H .; Jonas, deceased; Augustus, deceased; James, who died in Arkansas during the war ; Emily, deceased; A. W., our subject; Amanda; Charlie, Martha and an infant, deceased; and J. A.

A. W. McDaniel was reared and re- ceived his education in his native county, but, being desirous of seeing the West and

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finding a home in that new country, he joined A. W. Brown's company at twenty years of age, and came by wagon to Shelby county, Texas. Mr. Brown still resides in that county. Onr subject then continued his journey on foot, requiring three weeks to make the trip to old Utah, in Limestone county ; $35 was the extent of his earthly possessions. He made two crops with his brother, J. H. McDaniel, now deceased, but added nothing to his short supply of funds. Trading in those days offered some remuneration for labor, and Mr. McDaniel engaged in that occupation one year, going from interior points to Houston. He drove on the shares, and made $3 per day. In 1860 he married and contracted for a farm of 200 acres south of Kosse, which he improved, bnt disposed of when he came to his present farm, in 1885. IIe now owns 460 acres of fine black land, all under fence and eighty acres cultivated. The place is well stocked, and is a con- venient and comfortable home. After the call for more troops, Mr. McDaniel en- listed in Colonel Bass' regiment, and served in Indian Territory, Arkansas and Missouri. They participated in many hard- fought battles, were in many skirmishes, and in the spring of 1865 the command returned to Texas and disbanded near Houston. The horrors of the war had re- duced our subject's resources to only a few cattle, a neglected farm, and a wife and two children almost destitute. He made a crop during the year of 1866 with a half shovel plow and a pony team, one of which was borrowed. Five bales of cotton were gathered and sold, to be paid for when the broker received returns from his ship-

ment, but the returns never came, and Mr. Mc Daniel lost it all. The following year he was more fortunate, and began pros- pering.

He has never sought public preferment, desiring to remain quietly at home with his family and his private business. He ® is a warm friend of public education, and has served many years as Trustee of his school district. He was married in Janu- ary, 1860, to Adeline, a dangliter of Charles Mckinley, a native of Georgia. Our sub- ject and wife have had twelve children, viz .: Jennie (deceased), James, Lillie, Albert, Burris (deceased), Isa (deceased), Henry (de- ceased), Zachary, Annie, Preston, William and Tommie. Religiously, the family are Methodists, and socially, Mr. McDaniel affiliates with the A. F. & A. M.

THORNTON

arose between Kosse and Groesbeck, on the railway about a decade later than those two places. It had so vigorous a growth, too, that in 1880 it was even then quoted with having 182 inhabitants. It grew slowly but steadily so that in 1890 the census gave it 466, and it still continues to push forward.

J. E. Barron, the leading merchant of Thornton, and a prominent farmer and stock-raiser of Limestone county, was born in San Augustine county, Texas, in 1838, a son of David and S. C. (Mayfield) Barron, natives of Alabama and Tennessee. The parents came to Texas in 1836, locating in San Augustine county, where the father followed farming. In 1837-'38 he was en- gaged with the rangers in driving the In- dians further west, and was a soldier in the

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Mexican war, but took no part in the late war. He came to Texas with some of its most famous men, among them being Ben- jamin Mccullough and a number of the Burleson family. Mr. Barron removed from San Augustine county to Angelina county, this State, and in 1854 located near Steel's creek, Limestone county, where he en- gaged in stock-raising. He afterward se- cured 1,280 acres of land in Van Zandt and Henderson counties, next settled ten miles north of Marlin, Falls county, where he died in 1868, aged fifty-six years. His wife survived him until 1889, dying at the home of our subject, in her sixty-ninth year. Mr. and Mrs. Barron were the parents of four children: J. E., our subject; G. B., a stock-raiser of McLennan connty; W. P., deceased, and his family reside in that county; and Mary J., who died at the age of ten years.

J. E. Barron, whose name heads this sketch, began life for himself at the age of twenty-one years. In the spring of 1861 he joined Company K, Twelfth Cavalry Regiment, under Colonel Parsons, and par- ticipated in the battles of Langley, Crosby Ridge and Searcy, Arkansas. He was afterward engaged in securing arms for the army during the battles of Yellow Bayou and Mansfield ; was in the remainder of the engagements until General Banks was completely housed behind his gun boats; after the campaign of Louisiana, re- mained on the Red river and at Shreveport several months; and then went into winter quarters in Grimes county, for about six weeks. At the close of the war Mr. Barron was at Sterling, Robertson county. He was then obliged to commence life anew.

His father gave him twenty-five acres of land, which he placed under cultivation, and engaged in stock-raising. In 1871 he purchased 100 acres of land in Limestone county, where he immediately took up his residence. He now owns 4,100 acres, with 200 acres cultivated and the remainder in pasture, where he has about 800 head of cattle and a drove of horses. He also has landed interests in Robertson county, and a beautiful home in Thornton. In 1883 Mr. Barron engaged in the mercantile business in this city, and he now carries a general stock of from $8,000 to $10,000, doing an annual business of about $30,000. He employs from two to four men the year around.

Our subject was married in 1859, to Miss Elizabeth Chisum, a native of Cherokee county, Texas, and a daughter of John and Polly (George) Chisum, natives of Illinois. They came to this State in 1833, and the father was a soldier in the war for its inde- pendence. Mr. and Mrs. Barron have had six children, viz .: Frances, wife of G. W. Woodley, of this county; Mary J., now Mrs. J. W. Woodley, of Thornton; J. M., who married Miss Addie Brooks; Der- villa A., wife of E. C. Moody, of Limestone county; and W. C. and B. B., at home. Mr. Barron is a member of the A. F. & A. M., Thornton Lodge, No. 486.

TEHUACANA

is situated near the Houston & Central Tex- as Railroad, five miles from Mexia station, and is the seat of Trinity University, Cumberland Presbyterian, which was founded in 1870, and now has about 300 students. There are several churches in

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the place, a mannfactory of cotton presses, etc. The population is about 500.

See a subsequent chapter on schools for a more extended account, with illustration, of the university; also the sketch of H. A. Boyd for the part taken by him in the founding of that institution.

It will be in place here to notice at length one of Tehuacana's prominent citi- zens,-Captain Wade.

Captain T. W. Wade, a leading citizen of Tehuacana, Limestone county, Texas, was the son of Noble and Margaret Wade. The elder Mr. Wade was a native of Logan county, Kentucky, born in 1808, and was reared and married in that county. Margaret Weir, whom he first married, was also a native of that county, born about 1810. Noble removed from Logan county, Kentucky, to the vicinity of Griggsville, Pike county, Illinois, about 1834, and resided there until 1846, when he came to Texas and settled at Chatfield, Navarro connty. He purchased a piece of land there from Robert Porter and took up his residence on it, becoming one of the first settlers of the locality, and there he remained until 1872, when, in company with his son, the subject of this sketch, lie removed to Tehnacana, where he died in 1887. He had lived an active life as farmer and stock-raiser and was a plain, unassuming, Christian gentleman, having professed religion at an early age, during the great revival that swept over Kentucky under the auspices of the Cumberland Pres- byterian Church, and he then united with the Cumberland Presbyterian, of which he was ever after a consistent member, and for twenty years or more prior to his death

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Author: Publication date: 1893 Publisher: Chicago, Lewis Publishing Co. Number of Pages: 954

Author:
Publication date: 1893
Publisher: Chicago, Lewis Publishing Co.
Number of Pages: 954