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During that struggle the sympathy of Mr. McIntyre was naturally with the South, and
he therefore enlisted in the Confederate army, in MeIntosh's regiment, in which he participated in the battle of Springfield. He was then put in charge of a body of scouts and spies, his duty being to hover near the enemy's lines and gather information for his commander. He was with Quantrell when the ravages of war visited the enemy at Law- renee, Kansas, and did anty in many other trying places.
After the elose of hostilities the bitter feel- ing engendered by the war was so intense in Missouri, Mr. MeIntyre concluded to cast his lot with the Texans, making the journey by water from New Orleans to Galveston. Althongh our subject had accumulated some little means before the war, he was left with comparatively nothing, but with a stont heart he immediately set out to find work. In June, 1865, he was appointed overseer of the large plantation of Nathan Davis, near Brenham, and so completely did Mr. McIn- tyre capture the good will of the father and love of his only daughter that December 21, of that year, she became his wife. The father-in-law had died a month previous to that event, leaving our subject administrator of the estate. Mr. McIntyre continued to reside in that vicinity many years, engaged in speculating in cotton and real estate, and in the handling of the latter has been most beneficial to his State. He seeured large traets of land, converted the same into acre lots, and interested himself in colonizing it with settlers. In 1872 Mr. MeIntyre pur- ehased the William Armstrong tract of 1,600 acres, where he built his present substantial home, and has added 400 acres to his orig- inal purchase. He now has 450 acres of his place nnder cultivation. Beautiful in situ- ation, rich in soil, and well kept, Mr. Meh- tyre has one of the best ranches in Texas.
M. B. Norman
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Our subject and wife have the following children: Texanna (wife of J. B. Powell), s Robert, Walter, Mordecai, James, Mary E., Frank R., Charlie and George Whitfield. Robert resides in Indian Territory; Morde- eai lives on Berry's creek, in Williamson connty, and the remainder reside at or near their father's home. Mr. MeIntyre is a Democrat in political matters, and is a de- vont member of the Methodist Church. He is liberal with his means in matters of educa- tion and religion, and the beautiful little church in his community is principally the gift of himself and wife.
M B. NORMAN, a farmer residing at Rice's Crossing, Williamson county, Texas, is one of the representative men of this vicinity. The family, of which this gentleman is a member, dates back to South Carolina, where his grand- father Norman was born, reared, married and brought up his family, the names of his chil- dren being Thomas, Benjamin, Martin, Zach- ariah, Isaac, and a danghter.
Isaac Norman, the father of our subject, was born in 1819 and was reared on a farm. IIe had only a limited education, but received a thorough training in a blacksmith shop, which was run in connection with the farm. When a youth he was left an orphan, and afterward went to Alabama, where, in 1840, he married Catherine, daughter of William and Mintie (Payton) Davis. Mrs. Catherine Norman was the oldest of her family, followed by James, Jane (who married Benjamin Northam), and John. Isaae Norman and his wife had nine children: W. M., born in 1841. died in the Confederate army; Martha, born in 1843, is now Mrs. Thomas Peoples
of Georgia; A. P., born in 1845, served two years during the war in the Confederate army, and is now a resident of Williamson county; Mary, born in 1847, is the wife of Thomas Bryan, Williamson county; Amanda, born in 1849, is the wife of J. D. Smith, Williamson county; Josephine, born in 1851, married II. P. Pearson, and died, leaving a family of five children; Emma, born in 1853, is the widow of John Wilson, Williamson county; M. B., the subject of our sketch, was born in 1856; and Louisa, born in 1858, is the wife of Alexander Bryan, Williamson county. The father of this family was a man of great industry, fair business judgment, and succeed- ed in his undertakings in life. During the war he was a member of the Alabama State troops. He died, after a lingering illness, May 13, 1868. The mother resides with her son, M. B.
M. B. Norman was born in Fayette county, Alabama, May 10, 1856. IIe had only a limited education, as at the early age of twelve he began hustling for himself. In the winter of 1872 he resolved to come West, and in January of the next year he journeyed by rail to New Orleans, by boat to Galveston, and by rail to Manor, Travis county, and by wagon to Williamson county, where he arrived in February, and where he has since lived, engaged in farming. For the first nine years he rented land, but in 1881, on Christ- mas Day, he became the owner of his present farm. This farm was originally a part of the Wilson Coke headright, Hopkins league, and contains 419 acres, 250 of which Mr. Norman enltivates, in 1892 producing 115 bales of cotton. In company with M. R. Kennedy, of Taylor. Mr. Norman had erected a gin on the place, worth $3,000. 1 month before the season of 1892 closed, the gin burned to the ground, the loss being complete, as 10
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insurance was on it. In the early part of 1893 they replaced the old gin with one at a cost of $6,000, this being one of the most complete gins in the county, having all the modern appliances.
Mr. Norman was married in Williamson county, September 12, 1882, to Nettie, dangli- ter of Samuel Mayhall, formerly of Illinois. The have three children, Annie, Lady and Irene.
Politically, Mr. Norman affiliates with the Democratic party. He and his family are Methodists, of which Church he is a Steward.
ACKSON MOLERRAN, a farmer re- siding on Jones Prairie, Milam county, is a native of what was then Jackson, now Clay, county, Tennesse, where he was born January 9, 1837. IIe is a son of Jolm H. MeLerran, who was born in the same State, in the year 1805, the latter being a son of one of the first settlers of Tennessee. About 1827 John MeLerran married Dorcas Jarvis, a danghter of Bennett and Sarah (Cochran) Jarvis, who were Virginians by birth. Ben- nett Jarvis served in the war of the Revolu- tion. The children of John II. and Dorcas McLerran were: Bennett, who died in the Confederate army; Polly II., who was mar- ried to William Matthews and died during the Civil war, in Hopkins county, Texas; Beersheba, who died ummarried, in 1851, at the age of eighteen; Argyle, who died in 1889, in Louisiana; Washington, who died in 1870, in Hill county, Texas; Micam, who was killed by the guerrillas in Clay county, Tennessee, during the late war; Jackson, the subject of this notice; Sarah, who was mar- ried to Whit. Denton and died in 1880, in Burleson county, Texas: Benajah, who died
in Clay county, Tennessee; William H., who died in infancy; and Elizabeth, who died at the age of seventeen. In 1849 Mrs. Mc-1 Lerran died, and Mr. John H. MeLerran took for his second companion Miss Nancy Maines, a daughter of Thomas Maines, and by this union had three children: John and James, who reside in Monroe county, Kentucky; and Ilettie, now Mrs. Price of Fannin county, Texas. The father died in Monroe county, Kentucky, in 1866.
The subject of this notice was reared in Clay county, Tennessee. In 1835 he married Miss Martha J. Richards of that connty and shortly afterward moved to Pike county, Illinois, and settled on a farm. Ilere in 1863 he lost his wife. In 1865 Mr. MeLerran en- tered the Federal army, enlisting in Company F, Forty-seventh Illinois Infantry, and served with this command during the remainder of the war and until December, 1865. In 1868 he came to Texas and settled in Milam county, and here the following year married Miss Nancy Jane Bounds, a daughter of Henry Bounds. This lady died December 25, 1873, and a year later Mr. McLerran married her sister, Miss Emma. By his first marriage Mr. MeLerran had three children: John M., who now resides in Park City, Montana; William H. and Alva, who are now deceased. By his second marriage Mr. MeLerran had two children: Marietta and Hettie, both of whom are deceased. By his last marriage hic has two children: Roxie and Casca, who re- main still with their parents.
Mr. MeLerran's father, Henry Bounds, was a native of North Carolina; and her mother, whose maiden name was Asepath Smith, was a native of Georgia. Mrs. MeLerran is one of twelve children, as follows: Mary, who was married to Jordan Hinson; James, who died in Texas, January 21. 1591; William, who
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resides in Grimes county, this State; Willis, who died in youth; Martha, who was married to B. T. Pool, and died in Milam conuty, Angust 12, 1889; Fannie, who was married to Argyle Melerran and lives in Milam county; Isaac, who died in the Confederate army, June 7, 1863; John, who died during the late war; Nancy Jane, now deceased, formerly the wife of Jackson MeLerran; Emma, the present Mrs. MeLerran: Ellen, who was married to Joseph Kemp and resides in Falls county, Texas; and Susan, who was married to Dixon Hinson and resides in Milam county.
The bulk of what Mr. MeLerran owns has been made since he came to Milam county, He has been engaged all his life in farming and stock-raising, and now owns a farm of 613 acres lying in the north part of the conuty, ninety acres of which is in enltivation and which is well improved. He has never held any public positions; is a Republican in polities, and he with all his family are mem- bers of the Baptist Church.
AMES B. MULDROW, of Baileyville, Milam county, Texas, is really an in- teresting character. He came to Texas about 1848, at this time being young, ain- bitions and adventurous. The war between the United States and Mexico was just closing, and General Scott was on his way from Vera Cruz to the capital city, storming everything in his path. Our yonng subject thought that he would like to become a hero also and thus share in the triumph of the Federal arms, and accordingly enlisted and was was kept waiting orders to join the army in ;
more troops were dispatched to that country, and hence no military glory from that war belonged to our subject.
Mr. Muldrow came to Texas by water. Ile boarded a vessel named the Yacht at New Orleans bound for Galveston, bat at the mouth of the Mississippi river the boat col- lided with a small vessel and was disabled. After a delay of fifty hours the Palmetto came along and carried the passengers of the wrecked schooner to their destination, putting our subject on land in time for a good Christ- mas dinner at the old Tremont house iu Gal- veston, in 1847. The father of Mr. Muldrow had preceded him to Texas by three years, and was located in Grimes county, whither he also went and engaged in overseeing. In 1851 he found himself in Washington connty, similarly occupied, and here he remained oue year, and in 1852 returned to Grimes county, and in 1856 he brought a lot of cattle to Milam comity and placed them on a range, returning to Grimes county. Soon he again became an overseer, discontinuing this busi- ness only when he took up his residence in Milam county in 1858. He continued in the stock business, barring the war period, until 1872, when he closed ont to Travis Pool and removed to Hamilton county, Texas, and be- gan the improvement of a farm on the Cow Honse. The country was wild and sparsely settled, and the Indians were dangerously near and on the war path, and hence Mr. Muldrow returned with his family to Milam county in the fall of the same year, and since then he has not moved. He is the owner of 705 acres of land, 190 acres of it being in enltivation, and cotton being his favorito erop. In 1891 he produced thirty-four bales, and
mustered in at Mobile, Alabama. Here he the same the following year.
In 1863 our subject volunteered for service the field, but the orders never came, as no under the flag of the Confederacy, in Captain
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MeNalley's scouts, in Green's brigade, and Louisana and Arkansas were the States in which the command operated for the most part. When General Taylor was ordered to Mobile our subject was selected with seven- teen others to go as an escort. They were foreed to attempt swimming the stock aeross the Mississippi, and in the attempt our sub- jeet lost his horse and baggage. In 1864 Captain McNalley's sconts with those of Cap- tain Terry were on the Little Missouri river, and from there they were ordered to Nacog- doches, Texas, and a short time later were disbanded at Brenham.
Mr. Muldrow was born in Wilcox county, Alabama, April 30,1824. His father, Will- iam Muldrow, was a Sonth Carolinian by birth, from Darlington district. He was a farmer and died in 1854, at the age of sixty- six. Ilis first wife was a Miss Thompson, by whom he had two children: Sarah, who became the wife of J. M. Burgess; and Re- becca, who married first Robert MeCanse, and the second time Jesse Odom. For his second wife Mr. Muldrow married Martha Stanley, and by his second marriage Mr. Muldrow had the following children: Elizabeth, de- eeased, married James C. Slead; James B., subject; Martha, deceased, married Samnel Windom; William, deceased; and Mary, de- eeased. Mrs. Muldrow died in 1844.
The grandfather of our subject was named James Muldrow, a native of South Carolina, and he was abont sixteen years of age when the war of the Revolution closed, and re- membered well those trying times, and de- lighted to relate tales of those days. Six of his brothers were of the patriot band. James Muldrow marrie 1 Miss Hines and had eight children, six girls and two boys. The subject Ed A. Martin was reared in Warren conn- ty, Kentucky, and educated in the public and of this sketch married, December 5, 1849, Henrietta D., the daughter of William F. | select schools of that county. He attended
Zimmerman of Washington county, formerly from Darlington district, Sonth Carolina: one child was born to this union, Joseph B., who is now a resident of Milam county. The mother died May 15, 1854; and his second marriage occurred December 19, 1860, to Miss Louisiana, a daughter of J. S. Holloway of Lonisiana, who married Mary Martin and bad seven children. By this second mar- riage Mr. Muldrow became the father of James Robert, William E. and Sammel T. The family belongs to the Baptist Church, in which Mr. Muldrow has been Clerk.
D R. ED A. MARTIN, for more than thirty years a practicing physician of Milam county, is a native of Kentucky, born in Franklin, Simpson county, September 28, 1824. His parents, Edward B. Martin and Mary D. Bigger, were Virginians by birth but were reared in Kentucky. The father was a physician and devoted his life to the practice of his profession. He died before reaching middle age, near Bowling Green, Warren county Kentucky, in 1835. The mother survived till 1866, dying at Pa- ducal, the same State. The subject of this notice is the second of four children born to Edward B. and Mary D. Martin, and the only one now living. An elder and a younger brother, Joseph B. and William B., died in Bowling Green, Kentucky, where they had lived many years and where the latter was the Clerk of the Cirenit Conrt for several terms. The only sister, Fannie R., died at Padneah, the wife of William A. Bell.
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lectures at the Louisville University in 1852; in 1853 he went to Missouri, and practiced there abont a year, when he returned to Ken- tucky and graduated in medicine at the Louisville University in March, 1855. After this he took up the practice in Clinton county, Missouri, and followed it there until 1859, when he came to Texas and located in the spring of 1860 in Milam county. IIe has been a resident of this county since. For more than a third of a century he has prac- tieed his profession here, being now one of its pioneer members. At an earlier day he lived in Cameron, but since January, 1868, he has resided in the northwest part of the county near the village of Davilla. In addi- tion to the practice of medicine he has done a large amount of church work, being a licensed minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Sonth.
The Doctor has been twice married and is the father of six children. His first marriage occurred in Hart county, Kentucky, the lady being Miss Sophronia W. Reynolds, a daugh - ter of David Reynolds and a native of Gar- rard county. This lady died near Davilla, Milam county, in May, 1879, leaving five children : Belle Redford, now Mrs. White, of Milam county; Fannie C., the wife of R. S. Porter, of Cameron, this county; Sarah C., the wife of William Fowler, of Bell county, this State; and Richard and John Alexander, farmers of this county. The Doctor's second marriage took place in Bell county, this State, when he wodded Miss Mary E. Jones, a native of Louisiana but for many years a resident of this State. One son, Jones, has been born to this union.
Dr. Martin is well known in Milam county and greatly esteemed not only as a physician but as a citizen. He is a type of the old school of medical practitioners,-one
who sees in his profession only opportunities to do good and who subordinates considera- tions of self to his sense of duty as a mem- ber of a learned body. An earnest Christian and devont member of the church he loses no opportunity to help his fellow-man where- ever his services can be of aid. He is a Royal Arch Mason and an Odd Fellow.
KOSEPII P. GREENLEES .- The subject of this sketch is the son of John and Isabella Greenlees, who were natives of Ireland, born about the first year of this cen- tury. His parents were married in their native country and emigrated some time in the '30s to the United States, settling first in Greene county, Alabama, whence they moved later to Suinter county, of that State, where they spent the remainder of their lives. The father was a planter, a man of some means, a plain and unassuming citizen. He was a type of his race, qnick-witted, genial and fond of sports, being a trained athlete and a boxer of wide repute in early and middle life. In later life he became an active and consistent member of the Presbyterian Clurch, whose ordinances and customs he observed rigidly from that date until his death. He was a strong Democrat and held the usual number of local offices. He died in August, 1855, aged fifty-nine. His wife, whose maiden name was Isabella Dixon, was a strict Pres- byterian. She survived her husband four years, dying in 1859. in the sixty-third year of her age. The issue of their marriage was ten children, four girls and six boys, namely: William, who died unmarried; Jane, who was married to John C. Campbell, and is now deceased: Hugh, who lives in Sumter county, Alabama; Isabella, who was married to Jo-
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seph Eakens, of Lauderdale county, Missis- sippi; Margaret, who was married to Absa- lom Burton and lived in Kemtper county, Mississippi ; Mary, who was married to George Calvert and lives in Kemper county, Missis- sippi; Jolm, who resides in Lauderdale coun- ty, Mississippi; David, who was killed at the battle of Nashville, Tennessee, in 1864, in the Confederate army; Joseph P., the sub- ject; and Charles, who died at the age of five years.
Joseph P. Greenlees was born in Sumter county, Alabama, December 9, 1838. IIe was raised in that county and received the rudiments of a common English education in the schools of the same.
In April. 1861, he entered the Confederate army, enlisting in Company E, Captain Rob- ert Blount, Fifth Alabama Infantry, com- manded by Colonel R. S. Rhodes. Being inustered in at Pensacola, Florida, he went with his command to the army then forming in Virginia. He was at the first battle of Bull Run, his command reaching the field in time to throw a few shells and witness the rout that has rendered that engagement famous in the history of the late war. Fall- ing back from Bull Run under Early, he missed the Seven Pines fight, where he was on detail duty. He took part in the engage- ments at Gaines' Mill, and Malvern Ilill of the Seven Days' fight. His command was left at Hanover Junction to watch Burnside, and did not join Lee until after the second Manassas. Entering the Maryland campaign, Mr. Greenlees was in the engagements at Boonesboro mountains, and later at Sharps- burg. He missed the engagement at An- tietam, but rejoined his command and took part in the battles of Chancellorsville and Gettysburg. In the last named engagement he lost his right arm and was disabled from
further service. Being left on the field, he was taken prisoner by the Federals and held in field hospital abont two weeks, when he was transferred to Baltimore and thence to David's island, New York, where he was kept in prison till September 16, 1863. At that date he was exchanged at Akins Land- ing on James river and returned home.
In the fall of 1865 Mr. Greenlees left Ala- bama and went to Mississippi, locating in Lauderdale county, where he held the posi- tion of Deputy Sheriff for three years. En- tering a commercial college at New Orleans,. at the end of this time he took a commercial course, and later embarked in the insurance business, which he followed in Mississippi, Lonisiana and Arkansas for four years. In 1873 he came to Texas, and, settling at Waco, continned in the same line for abont four years. Having married, he settled on a farm on the edge of the Brazos bottom, in Milam county, and here he has since resided, and has been actively engaged in agricultural pursuits. March 18, 1877, Mr. Greenlees married Mrs. Sallie Stoneham, widow of Henry B. Stone- ham, a daughter of Grey and Elizabeth Man- ning, who were natives of Florida. Mrs. Greenlees' parents emigrated from their na- tive State to Butler connty, Alabama, soon after marriage. They subsequently moved to Clark county, Arkansas, and came thence to Texas. The father lost his life by aeci- dent in Milam county while on a visit here. His family, consisting of his widow and four children, shortly afterward moved to Texas. Mrs. Manning died in Calvert, Robertson connty, in 1884. The father and mother were members of the Baptist Church. The stock from which they descended was of Scotch-Irish origin. the progenitors settling in this country at an early date. Mrs. Green- lees is one of thirteen children, two of whom
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died in infancy, the remainder reaching ma- turity. These are: William, who died in Arkansas, leaving one child; Lorena, who was married to Isaac Stewart and died in Bowie county, Texas, leaving five children; Elizabeth, who was married to Young Taylor and lives at Lott, Falls county, Texas; Sallie (Mrs. Greenlees); Ililery, who lives in Clark county, Arkansas; Lydia, who was married to George White and is now deceased; Wiley, who died in Collin county, Texas; Martha, who was married to William Stephens and lives in northwest Texas; Georgie, who was married to George White and is now de- ceased; Etta and Grey, who reside at Cal- vert, Robertson county. Mrs. Greenlees was born in Clark county, Arkansas, where she was also reared. She was married to Henry B. Stoneham, of that county, in 1865, and by this union had five children: Joseph; Etta, now Mrs. W. J. Brewington, of Hill county, Texas; Ilenry; John, who died at the age of nineteen; and Charles. Mr. and Mrs. Green- lees have had three children: Harry Lee, Albert Sidney and Walter Engene, the last two being twins. The religious connection of the family is with the Baptist Church, their membership being in the Caddo Church, near Baileyville. In politics Mr. Greenlees is a Democrat, having cast his first presiden- tial vote for John C. Breckenridge in 1860.
OIIN O. FRINK, a real-estate dealer and farmer of Taylor, was born in Co- Imbus county, North Carolina, in 1843, a son of John and Annie J. (Gore) Frink, natives also of that county. The Frink family came to this country from Scotland previous to the war for Independence. John Frink died in his native State in 1891, and
his wife departed this life when our subject was quite small. They were the parents of ten children, all of whom lived to years of maturity. One was killed in the Confederate army, and another also died during the war. Our subject and one brother were the only ones of the family to come to Texas, and the latter afterward returned to Georgia, leaving John O. the only representative.
The latter attended the common schools of North Carolina, but his education was in- terrupted by the breaking out of the late war. In 1861 he joined Company II, Eighteenth, North Carolina Infantry, under Colonel Rat- cliff, and later under Colonel J. D. Barry, of Wilmington, North Carlonia. Ile took part in all the battles with Stonewall Jackson from the seven-days fight around Richmond to Gettysburg, after which he was promoted to the position of First Lieutenant, and was taken prisoner at Chancellorsville, but ex- changed about ten days later. In 1864, at Spottsylvania, Mr. Frink was again taken prisoner, was taken to Fort Delaware, and next to Morris island, in front of Charleston. At the latter place Mr. Frink was one of 500 commissioned officers who were taken some time in June or July and placed in front of the United States troops on their attack upon that city. They gave as their reason for this act that the Confederate soldiers had United States prisoners in the Confederate prison barracks, whom the officer in command of the United States forces claimed were under di- rect fire from the Government forces. Of the 500 officers, only one was wounded, which was caused by a bomb bursting over the little bunch of prisoners. They were afterward taken to Fort Pulaski, where they spent the winter of 1864-5, and in the following spring returned to Fort Delaware. They were pa- roled in June, 1865. Mr. Frink was furnished
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