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USA > Texas > Anderson County > 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 69
USA > Texas > Limestone County > 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 69
USA > Texas > Navarro County > 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 69
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His widow and three children, Williamn J., Benjamin G., and Eva, now the wife of Samuel W. Walker, survive. The daugh- ter is a resident of the city of Mexico,
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where her husband has been engaged for a number of years in the mercantile bnsi- ness. Benjamin G. is editor of the Corsi- cana Courier-Observer, and William J. is a leading attorney of that place.
ILLIAM BONNER, one of the pioneer settlers of Freestone county, was born in Alabama in 1820, the son of William and Ann (Joel) Bonner, natives of South Carolina, where they were married and later removed to Alabama. The grandfather of our subject was James Bonner, a native of Ireland, who came to the colonies prior to the Revo- lutionary war and took part in it on the American side. The nanie of his wife was Mary Lard, also a native of Ireland, and they reared a family of nine children, as follows: William, John, Andrew, Samuel, James, Margaret (married Robert Jones); Mary (married Joseph Jones); Elizabeth (married Samuel Young) and Sarah, who died unmarried. William and John came to this State, but James removed to Indiana in 1836, and settled eighty miles south of Indianapolis, while no other member of the family moved any further went than Alabama.
In 1818 William Bonner removed to Alabama, although his family did not go there until 1819. Before finally locating for life he made a number of changes, first settling in Monroe, then in Wilcox, Ala- bama, and in 1852 removing to Texas, where he located, in Williamson county, not coming to this county until 1854. His occupation was that of farming from
his boyhood days. Although he was a man of limited education he was one of excel- lent judgment. He served in the war of 1812, and participated in the battle of New Orleans, holding the position of Captain. He was permitted to live until 1877, and he died in this county, July 1, in his ninety- fifth year. The mother of our subject passed away at the age of forty-four, in 1842; both were members of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church. They had reared a family of twelve children, although only ten lived to maturity, these being: Eliza, the widow of James Robinson; Mary, widow of Rev. Joseph McCreary ; onr sub- ject; Rev. Thomas J., of Palestine; Mar- garet, deceased, wife of Rev. Pressey Robinson; Sally, deceased, wife of Robert Hynes; James, a resident of Alabama; Martha, wife of Dr. James I. Bonner, of Fairfield; Susan, widow of Andrew Bonner; Keziah, widow of Archibald Huckaby, and Samuel, deceased while small.
Onr subject received a common-school education and commenced life for himself at the age of twenty-one, although he re- mained with his father attending to his business for two or three years longer. He accompanied his father to this State, and in 1854 settled within 300 yards of where he now resides. Mr. Bonner was reared to farm life, and has always followed that occupation. He was an extensive stock- raiser for some years, and at the beginning of the war was well fixed financially. He did not enter the army during the war, but continued running a mill for the benefit of the war widows, as the soldier widows were called. The first land purchased by Mr. Bonner in this county was timber, for which
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he paid 82 per acre. He now owns 260 acres, and has given his children each a farm.
He was married, in 1842, to Miss Mary McArthur, of Alabama, a daughter of John and Christiana (Gordon) Mc Arthur, natives of South Carolina. Her death oc- cnrred in 1874, and she had been a mem- ber of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church. Mr. and Mrs. Bonner had been the parents of ten children, as follows: Thomas O., of this county; William Mc- Arthur, deceased; John E., of this county; James G., of Navarro county; Charles A., of this county ; Ervin B., of Navarro county ; Carrie, wife of Thomas Robinson; and three others who died in infancy. Mr. Bonner for many years has been a member of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church, and is well known and mnch re- spected throughout the county, having been connected with many of the features of its growth.
AMES M. WEAVER, one of the most influential farmers of Navarro county, was born in Georgia, April 21, 1848, a son of Frank D. and Harriett (Rake- straw) Weaver, natives also of Georgia. The parents came to Texas in 1850, locating in Rusk county, where the father engaged in farming and stock-raising. During the late war he was a member of Company D, Colonel Terrell's brigade, served on the west side of the Mississippi river, and participated in the battles of Mansfield, Yellow Bayou, and in all the engagements and skirmishes during Banks'
raid in Louisiana, and in his retreat out of the State. After the close of hostilities, Mr. Weaver found his stock lost and his thirty slaves freed. In 1874 he removed to Waco, later to Bremond, next to Ennis, again to Bremond, and then to Walnut Springs, where he still resides. He and his wife were the parents of eleven ehil- dren, namely: Isom, deceased; Ann E., deceased, was the wife of Lum Wright; Frank B., of Eastland county; Mollie, de- ceased, was the wife of Reuben Price; Texana, deceased; Mattie, widow of Clay Powell; Elizabeth, wife of William Clen- ens; Tina, now Mrs. Luther Price; Au- , gustus, of this county, and Samuel H., also of Navarro county. The mother died in 1886, aged sixty-two years, and the father afterward married Mrs. Simmons.
James M. Weaver received only a lim- ited education, and at the age of nineteen years began life for himself as a stock- raiser, receiving $12.50 per month. He worked for wages in the stock business four years, and was then employed by W. N. Bradley, of Wortliam, as a clerk in a general merchandise store seven years; then worked for Bond & Bro. two years; and in 1883 purchased 519 acres of his present farm, paying $2,500 for the place. He has since added 315 acres of pasture land to his original purchase, and now has 300 acres of his place under a fine state of cultivation, with a splendid residence, etc. In addition to his farming interests Mr. Weaver is also engaged in breeding Clydes- dale horses, having fine mares of that breed.
He was married, in 1874, to Miss Mary Epps, a native of this county, and a daugh- ter of Henry and Seline (Bennett) Epps.
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The father came from Tennessee to Texas when a small boy, settling in the southern part of the State, but in early days came to this county and engaged in stock-rais- ing. Mr. and Mrs. Epps were the parents of nine children, as follows: George, de- ceased, and his family reside in this county ; Thomas, of Navarro county; Emily, widow of Oliver Anderson; Mary, wife of our subject; Charles, a resident of Hale county ; Fannie, deceased; Henry, wife of Jolin Longbotham; Lee, deceased; and Bettie, wife of James Polette. The father died in 1880, and his wife in 1875. Mr. and Mrs. Weaver have had six children: Mollie, Bessie, Willie, George T., Augustus and James C. Mr. Weaver is a member of the K. of H., Wortham Lodge, and takes an active interest in the Democratic party, although he never seeks political prefer- ment.
OSEPH P. ANDERSON, one of the leading farmers of Freestone county, was born in Coosa, now Elmore county, Alabama, May 15, 1852, and was the oldest child born to James E. and Ca- therine E. (Timmerman) Anderson, natives of Virginia and South Carolina, respect- ively. The Anderson family came from Virginia, of Scotch-Irish parentage, and the Timmermans from South Carolina, origi- nating in Germany. The parents of our subject were married in Alabama, where Mr. Anderson, Sr., was a large planter. He removed to Louisiana in 1882, settling in Bienville parish, Louisiana, where he is still engaged in conducting a plantation.
Their family were as follows: the oldest is our subject; Mary E., deceased, wife of William Goodson; W. D., a merchant of Winkler, Texas; Lina and Oscar, de- ceased; B. L. and C. L., twins, the latter marrying Robert Osley, of Lonisiana; the youngest, Ernest, is still at home.
J. P. Anderson, our subject, received his early education in his native State, com- pleting his course at the State institution called Auburn College and also known as the East Alabama College. He left school at the age of twenty and adopted teaching as a profession, coming to this State in 1872, and teaching here nine years. Eleven years of his life were spent as a teacher. He engaged in farming in connection withi teaching in 1881, having in 1879, pur- chased his slightly improved farm of 156 acres upon which he moved in 1880. Since that time lie has added to his orig- inal purchase until he now owns 1,200 acres. His first purchase cost him $6 an acre, the other tracts varying in price ac- cording to location and improvement. He now as 800 acres of his land in a fine state of cultivation, with good residence, out- buildings, etc. Mr. Anderson also has a steam cotton gin on his farm in which he gins from 500 to 600 bales yearly. Besides the farm above mentioned Mr. Anderson owns 800 acres more of land in this and Navarro counties, 300 acres of which are in a fine state of cultivation.
Our subject was married, December 8, 1879, to Miss Alice A. Sweatman, a na- tive of Georgia, daughter of Shade and Eliza (Manning) Sweatman, who came to this State in 1866, and engaged in farming and stock raising. They had five children,
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named: Benjamin, a stockman now of Cor- sicana, Texas; Rebecca, wife of U. F. Rob- erts of Navarro county, Texas; Alice, wife of subject, born October 14, 1862, in Thomas county, Georgia; Robert; and Mattie, wife of J. B. Steele, a planter of Freestone county, Texas. Mr. Sweatman died in this State in 1868, and liis widow married Hugh McCann, of Navarro county, and two children were born to them: Ida, wife of J. H. Hendly and Andrew M. still at home. Mrs. McCann still survives and resides in Navarro county. Mr. and Mrs. Anderson have had two children, namely: Monnie L., born June 9, 1881, and Shade E. June 4, 1888. Mrs. Ander- son is a member of the Missionary Baptist Church. Politicaly Mr. Anderson is a leading Democrat of his section of the connty. Financially Mr. Anderson is con- ceeded to be one of the most successful men of his section of Freestone and Na- varro counties, although he landed here with only $17 and had to discount this at twenty per cent. for gold. From that small beginning he has amassed a great deal of property, although it required in- domitable energy to remove the obstacles he often found to be in his way.
A. GERMANY, a progressive farmer near Personville, Limestone
O county, was born in Copiah county, Mississippi, in 1834. His father, John Germany, was born in Georgia in 1807, was a successful planter of Mississippi, and at the age of twenty-five years married
Elizabeth Harmon, a native of Tennessee. They were the parents of eight children, only two of whom still survive: T. A., our subject; and Mrs. G. M. Rogers, of Hill county. The paternal grandfather of our subject, James Germany, was born in Georgia, but moved to Mississippi when it was yet a Territory. The great-grandfather came from England and settled in Georgia when only twelve years of age.
The school days of the subject of this sketch were spent in working for the aid and comfort of the family, and at the age of twenty-one years he began independent operations. The following year he came to Texas and engaged in teaming between the upper counties and Houston, working first for a share of the profits and later as superintendent of the outfit. He followed that occupation four years, and during that time inanaged to save a small sum of money. When the Civil war broke out, Mr. Germany enlisted in the Twelfthi Texas, under Major Farrar, but was soon trans- ferred to Ellis' company, and his com- mand participated in the campaign against General Banks, in which there was a con- tinuous skirmish for forty-two days. In the spring of 1865 they returned to Texas and were disbanded on the Little Brazos river. Onr subject then came again to Limestone county, and rented the place which he now owns, contracting for the same in 1868, of Warren Clayton. The farm now contains over 300 acres well im- proved and 200 acres under a fine state of cultivation. Mr. Germany has never been a public man in any sense, but is interested in public education, and lias served as Trustee of the School Board many times.
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In the spring of 1865 he married Fall- nie, a daughter of J. Reaves, a native of Georgia and a farmer by occupation. Our subject and wife have had eight children, namely: Willis, deceased; Dr. John, whose sketch appears in this work; Mattie, wife of George Owens; Eureka, wife of Dr. Shell; Robert F., Amera, Arthur, Mason, Marvin and Juel.
HAWKINS, a progressive and high- ly respected farmer of Limestone county, was born in Macon county, Georgia, in 1833, a son of Benjamin Haw- kins, a native of South Carolina, born in 1800. In early life he moved to Georgia, where he married Miss Sarah Wright, and they had four children: J. L., the eldest in order of birth; Ellfa, wife of J. Reaves, of Leon county; Isabel, deceased; and the subject of this sketch. The father died in 1837 and the mother in 1865.
P. Hawkins, our subject, came to Texas. in 1854, locating near where he now lives. He was then a young man, and the new- ness of the country and healthfulness of the climate seemed to promise that an en- ergetic young man could succeed here. When the invasion of the South was threat- ened by the North, Mr. Hawkins enlisted, in 1862, in Colonel Sweet's regiment, Gen- eral Polignac's brigade, and was detailed as wagonman in the medical department, under Dr. Shaw. He served four years with only three days' leave of absence, and when the teams were finally disbanded they were near Wheeler, Texas. They met the men returning with the news of
the surrender, and amid the scramble for plunder our subject got a horse and other articles of less value; and came home at once. Before he entered the service he owned several hundred head of cattle, but after his return only about twenty could be found. Mr. Hawkins now owns a well- improved farm, and is one of the most suc- cessful agriculturists in the county. He is a public-spirited mau, is in sympathy with public education, and is a liberal con- tributor to all worthy and laudable enter- prises.
In 1857 he married Mary, a daughter of Aaron Turner, a Methodist minister and farmer in Leon county, Texas. They are the parents of the following children: Eugenia, deceased; Louisa, wife of T. J. McLennan; D. A., is the next in order of birth; Luther, deceased; and Thomas, an artist by profession and a graduate of Hill's Business College. He has developed special fitness for a pen artist, ranking among the highest in the class of 1892, and gives great promise for the future.
ILLIAM G. AINSWORTH .- The subject of this sketch was born in Mississippi, in 1845, his parents being James and Amanda (Ruffin) Ains . worth, the latter of whom was a daughter of William and Sarah (Baggett) Ruffin, the father a native of South Carolina, and the mother of Georgia, The Ruffin family were pioneer settlers of Mississippi. The Ainsworthı family are of English ancestry, and the founders of the family in this
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conntry settled in Sonth Carolina. The subject's grandparents were Thomas and Sarah (Finch) Ainsworth, and the former served in the war of 1812, under General Jackson. The subject's father, James Ainsworth, was born in Alabama, in 1812; removed to Mississippi with his parents when quite young, and settled where he now lives. He early engaged in farming and stock business, and in both pursuits has been very successful. He is a man of exemplary habits, and for years has been prominently identified with the Baptist Church. Our subject's parents were mar- ried in 1841, and became the parents of thirteen children, as follows: George W., a farmer and merchant of Jasper county, Mississippi; Harriet is the wife of Jeffer- son Fanning, a farmer in Mississippi; sub- ject; Elizabeth is the wife of B. F. Rich- ardson, a Mississippi farmer; James L. is a merchant in Mississippi; Marthia Ann is the wife of Abe Montgomery, a Mississippi farmer; Eliza Ann, wife of Andrew Shoe- maker, a Mississippi farmer; Amanda J. is at home with her parents; John M., de- ceased, was a resident of Limestone county at the time of his death; Thomas Jefferson is a teacher in Mississippi, a graduate of a college; and Piney H., who remained at home with her parents. Two children died in infancy.
Our subject was born in Mississippi in 1845, and remained with his parents until the outbreak of the war, when he started to join the Eighth Mississippi Regiment, Company E, but was discharged on account of a crippled neck. He was afterward con- scripted, and was assigned to provost-gnard duty. While on the way to the battle of
Cross Roads, he received injuries in a rail- road wreck, which relieved him from further service.
When our subject reached the age of twenty-one he started to Texas, and came by team, driving a wagon for another man. He was thirty days on the way, and first landed in Freestone county, where he first worked by the month, and in 1867 he bonght a team and began freighting from Navasota, which he continued until July. Then he worked by the job until the spring of 1869, and then made a crop with his uncle, on shares, and in the fall of 1868 his marriage occurred.
He was married in 1868 to Miss Nan- cy Jane Brown, a native of Louisiana, who moved from there to Texas. She was the daughter of A. J. and Mary Brown, natives of Alabama. Mrs. Ainsworth was a member of the Baptist Church, and was a good woman, and died May 3, 1879. She left five children, namely: James F., Nancy E., Amanda A., William W., and the fifth child, who died in infancy. Mr. Ainsworth married a second time, July 4, 1880, to Miss Frances Jane Burleson, the daughter of Wiley Burleson. Seven chil- dren have been added to the family by this union, namely: Ada Melinda, Ida Lucin- da, Lulu Eva, Mary Lee, William W., Frances Jane, and the youngest, nnnamed.
After his first marriage our subject rented land in the eastern part of Falls county, and continued to reside there for six years. He then bonght eighty-five acres on Blue Ridge, Falls county, lived there two years, and moved to Limestone connty in 1876. In 1881 he bought a farm of 200 acres, where he resided until 1891 ,
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when he removed to his present place. He began life for himself when twenty-one years old, having then a pony and $135. He now has 1,0642 acres, 210 of whichi are under cultivation; has 100 cattle, fifty horses and mules, and has a ranch in Crockett county of 3,840 acres, on which he has fifty head of cattle.
In politics he is a Democrat, and was County Commissioner in 1887-'88-'89-'90. He is a Master Mason, and a member of Utah Lodge, No. 132. Both our subject and his wife are members of the Baptist Church, in which he has been a Deacon for eleven years.
EORGE W. LATIMER, deceased. - Our subject was one of the earliest settlers of the county of Anderson, Texas. He was born in Boyle county, Kentucky in 18- and was already a man growu and a carpenter by trade when he came to the State in 1852. He first located in the town of Henderson, remaining one year, and then came to this city. At that time Palestine was a small place, although it was in a flourishing condition, as it had two fine schools and several churches. Mr. Latimer formed a partnership with Mr. Ratliff in contracting and assisted in the building of the first courthouse of the county. He either erected or assisted in the erection of several of the best private houses of the place, and they are yet standing, in the old portion of the town. During the late war he was one of the leading contractors of Palestine. At the beginning of the struggle he did not
enter the army, but before its close he gave his services and this was the probable cause of his death.
Like so many of the brave men in both armies at that time, he had to endure ex- posure to which he had never been accus- tomed, came liome sick and died Sep- tember, 1865. Mr. Latimer was mar- ried in 1843, to Miss Deborah A. Van Noy, a native of Kentucky and a daughter of William and Celia (Peck) Van Noy, which family with the Latimer fam- ily were among the first settlers of Ken- tucky and both settled near Harrodsburg, that State. The Peck family had been away back among the early settlers of Vir- ginia. The Pecks were of Virginia origin and the Van Noys of Holland descent, The Latimers had gone to Kentucky at a date not known, and there the father of our subject became a settler and wealthy farmer near Perryville, where he reared a family of seven children. Two of the brothers of our subject moved to the State of Iowa, but George was the only one wlio turned his footsteps toward the southwest. The father of Mrs. Latimer was a soldier in the war of 1812 and was at the battle of New Orleans, a fifer in the Kentucky Volunteers. He reared a family of four children, as follows: Mr. Latimer; Mary L., the wife of William Davis of Houston ; Maggie B., the wife of Phil. T. Allen of Austin, Texas; and Lizzie T. who in life was the wife of William Averytt of this city.
To Mr. and Mrs. Latimer nine children were born, as follows: Mary, the wife of Joseph Davis of Houston; William and John, deceased; Nannie, the widow of
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William Morris; James M. and George W. of this place, the rest dying in infancy.
Our subject was regretted by a large · circle. Ile had long been a leading man in this part of the county and from his long residence and kind and pleasant manner was well and favorably known. George W. Latimer, Sr., was one of the fine men whose loss the county deplored.
Among the prosperous young business men in the city is George W. Latimer, the senior member of the firm of Latimer, Ezell & Co., livery men. He was born in this eity, in 1861, and is the son of the la- mented George W. Latimer, whose sketch appears. He was educated in the schools of the city and began life for himself at the age of nineteen years, at that time en- gaging in the mercantile business, which he conducted for fifteen months. In 1882 he engaged in the livery business and con- tinued for two years, but during 1886 our subject engaged in teaming. The present firm was formed in 1888, with P. W. Ezell, and now the business is conducted under the name of Latimer & Ezell, and is well patronized in the vicinity.
W. CALHOUN, a well-known farmer of Anderson county, Texas, came with his stepfather to Texas in 1855. The stepfather settled where the town of Woodbury now stands, in Hill county, and there our subject grew to man- hood, almost entirely reared on a farın. He received a common schooling, and so determined was he to improve his advan- tages, that when but a boy he engaged to
carry the mail between Waco and Weath- erford, a long and lonesome ride for a brave man, and still more so for a lad. Hill county was very sparsely settled at that time, and the few houses were small and far apart. He remained under the care of his stepfather until the war opened, and in 1861 he enlisted, entering Company A, Twelfth Texas Cavalry, under Captain Jo- seph P. Ware, in the Trans-Mississippi Department, and saw some hard service through Texas, Louisiana and Arkansas, and was never wounded, although he camne near having his horse shot from under him; and neither was he captured, al- though he went entirely through the war. He made but one visit home, on a clothing detail. He had some sickness, such as chills and fever, but was generally ready for every call of duty, and was at Hemp- stead at the time of the surrender. He then returned home, and found his mother and stepfather had removed from Hill to Anderson county, and therefore he re- mained here. The first season after the war he spent in improving himself in his books, after which he engaged in freight- ing on shares, and later in clerking, and in 1873 opened a general merchandise store at old Mound Prairie. For twelve years he carried on business at this place, and then bought this 200-acre farm, where he has since resided. Although he found a little improvement here when he came, he has been very busy opening up more land and repairing and renovating the building. He now has seventy-five acres in a good state of cul- tivation, which he sometimes manages himself, and sometimes rents, making
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satisfactory crops of cotton, corn and oats; also raising abundant home supplies and choice bacon for sale. Mr. Calhoun has given quite a good deal of attention to the raising of mules, and is able to show some very fine ones, and has a large stock of cattle on the range.
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