Individual Notes
Note for: Warren Lee Griffin, 16 MAR 1912 - 15 AUG 1988
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Individual Note:
Warren Lee Griffin
(March 16, 1912-Aug 15,1988)
Warren Lee Griffin was born on March 16, 1912 near Quanah,
Texas, close to Lake Pauline. His parents were Bert Lee Griffin
and Ester Levonia Williams. Warren had one brother, Johnny
Elree, who died on April 11, 1989 in Oklahoma City. Bert was an
oil field pumper at this time around Quanah. Warren started
school at San Jacinto school in Wichita falls, Texas. He went to
Regan Junior High and graduated from Wichita Senior High School.
He attended Hardin Junior College in Wichita Falls for two years
and then went to the University of Michigan to a court reporting
school for a little over two years.
His first job was sacking groceries at a local grocery store
in Wichita Falls. After several odd jobs in Wichita Falls,
Warren moved to Ft. Worth as a rate clerk for the Ft.Worth &
Denver Railroad. After a couple years he went to work as an
assistant to the court reporting staff at the county court house
in Ft.Worth. Through advancement he became the court reporter
for the grand jury. Warren's step-father, Walter Baldwin, was
also a court reporter in Wichita Falls at this time. While
Warren was working in Ft,Worth, Mr. Baldwin past away in Wichita
Falls. While at the funeral for Mr. Baldwin, Warren's mother and
the Judge that Mr. Baldwin was working for convinced Warren to
move back to Wichita Falls in 1945 and fill the vacancy that Mr.
Baldwin had left. Warren continued in the court reporting
business until 1975 when he retired after having a stroke on July
29,1975
Warren met Rosa Lee Walsh at a dance at Lake Wichita and
later married her on Easter Sunday, March 28, 1936. Warren and
Rosa Lee had three children, Nikki Lynn, Judy Kay,and Cindy Lou.
Warren and Rosa Lee divorced in 1966. Warren enjoyed several
years of retirement before passing away on August 15, 1988 in
Wichita Falls, Texas. Warren is burried in the Riverside
Cemetary in Wichita Falls, Texas.
Individual Notes
Note for: Rosa Lee Walsh, 7 NOV 1918 - 16 APR 1979
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Individual Note:
Rosa Lee Walsh
(Nov 7,1918-Apr 16,1979)
Rosa Lee Walsh was born on Nov.7,1918 in Newcastle, Texas at
the family home. Her parents were Oscar Leonard Walsh and Rosa
Emiline Pearson. Rosa Lee was the youngest of seven children.
When Rosa Lee was born there was flue in the household and Rosa
Lee's mother who had a broken ankle from falling off of a wagon
wheel, came down with the flue and then developed pneunomia and
she died seven days after giving birth to Rosa Lee. At this time
they were living in a very large house in Newcastle that had 4
bedrooms upstairs and 5 bedrooms downstairs and somebody sick in
every room. Rosa Lee's father,Oscar Leonard Walsh, was the
deputy sheriff of Newcastle at this time.
After Rosa Emiline's death, her sister Annie Belle and her
husband Amos Ivey asked Oscar if they could help by taking Rosa
Lee and raising her. Oscar agreed to this but told Annie Belle
and Amos that they could never adopt her. The rest of the young
children were raised by their grandmother,Leona Walsh, on a farm
near Murray,Texas. Rosa Lee was named after her mother,Rosa
Emiline, and her grangmother,Leona Tackett.
Annie Belle and Amos took Rosa Lee to Wichita Falls,Texas
where they raised her. Amos was in the oil field business as a
rig builder. Sometime in the early 30's Amos fell from a rig and
was killed. As it turned out , Amos was to be the only father
that Rosa Lee was to know. Sometime later Annie Belle married
Darrell Hendrickson,who was working on the railroad between
Wichita Falls and Breckinridge Texas. They lived off and on in
Wichita Falls and Breckinridge for the next several years.
In 1936 Rosa Lee met Warren Lee Griffin at a dance at Lake
Wichita. On Easter Sunday of that year they were married in
Wichita Falls,Texas. Rosa Lee and Warren had three
children,Nikki Lynn,Judy Kay,&Cindy Lou. Rosa Lee and Warren
raised their children in Wichita Falls. Rosa Lee went to beauty
school and worked as a beautician for many years in Wichita
Falls. Rosa Lee and Warren were divorced in 1966.
Rosa Lee died on April 16,1979 in Wichita Falls, Texas. She
was cremated and her ashes were spread over Lake Graham,where she
was living at the time,by her children.
Individual Notes
Note for: Bert Lee Griffin, 12 SEP 1883 - 20 MAY 1950
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Death Note: Source: Death Certificate
Individual Note: Bert Lee Griffin
09/12/1883--05/20/1950
Bert Lee Griffin was born September 12, 1883 in
Corsicana,Tx. His father died the next year, leaving his mother
to care for several small children. When his mother,suffering
from depression, was put into the State Hospital at Terrell, Tx.
he was sent to live with Smithey relatives on a farm near Wolf City, Tx.
As soon as he was old enough , he ran away to the oil fields in
east Texas around Kilgore and Dangerfield.
In 1906 he married Ester Williams in Oak Grove, Texas and
they moved to the Quanah,Texas area following the oil field work.
Bert and Ester had two sons, Johnny and Warren. Bert and Ester
divorced and Bert moved to Madil, Ok. His second wife's name was
Lily Nichols. In Madil, Bert raised chickens commercially and he also
had a domino parlor in downtown Madil. Bert died in May of 1950
in Madil and was buried at the Woodlawn Cemetary there.
Individual Notes
Note for: Ester Lavonia Williams, 27 JUL 1890 - 28 DEC 1961
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Individual Note: Esther Baldwin was the Worthy Grand Matron of the Order of the Eastern Star of Texas in 1949. Her husband, Walter Baldwin was the Past Grand Patron of the Grand Chapter Of Texas.
Individual Notes
Note for: John Fielding Griffin, 3 JUL 1838 - 19 NOV 1884
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Individual Note: John Fielding Griffin
07/03/1838--11/19/1884
John Fielding Griffin was born on July 3, 1838 in Conway Co.
Ar. We cannot be sure, but we think that he was living with the
William Roberts family in 1840. On the 1840 Conway Co census,
William Roberts has one more male under 5yrs old living with him
than he had children.
William Roberts left Conway Co Ar. about 1845 on his way to
Texas. In 1850 John F Griffin was living in the household of
William Roberts in Corsicana,Tx. John married Fidelia Elizabeth
Smithey on September 4, 1867 in Corsicana Tx. John and Delia had
seven children that lived to adulthood.
John F Griffin Jr was born on June 2, 1868 in Corsicana, Tx.
Family rumor has it that John Jr forged his father's name and
sold the family property and left Corsicana, never to be heard
from again. Some time in the early 1900-1910 era a woman from
somewhere in Ga. placed an ad in the Corsicana paper and asked
for information about John F Griffin Jr. She was contacted by
Hattie Griffin and the lady said that she had been married to
John F Griffin Jr in Ga. We have not been able to find out
anything else about him.
William Richard Griffin was born Dec. 2, 1869 in Corsicana,Tx.
All I know about William is that he lived and died in Burleson,Tx.
and that he had only one son, William Clarence Griffin.
John and Delia had three daughters, Maggie, Hattie, and
Ophelia. Maggie married Ransom Dowell and lived in Ardmore,Ok.
Hattie married a John Burns and lived in Corsicana Tx. Ophelia
married Daniel Webster Nowlin and lived in La.
Edward Quit Griffin was born Dec. 19, 1878 in Corsicana,Tx. Ed
lived in Abilene,Tx where he raised his family.
Bert Lee Griffin was born September 12, 1883 in
Corsicana,Tx. He married Ester Williams on Jan. 28,1906 in Oak
Grove,Tx. Bert and Ester had two sons, Johnny Elree and Warren
Lee .
John and Delia lived on Jefferson St. in Corsicana,Tx. On
the 1880 census he listed his occupation as a farmer and he
states that the birthplace of his parents was Ms. John and Delia
owned several pieces of land in and around Corsicana.
At John's death, Delia was left with several young children
to raise with no means of support. This sent Delia into a state
of depression. Delia's own brother had her commited to the State
Hospital at Terrell, Tx. She was in the hospital from 1891 to the
day she died, Nov 4, 1933, 42yrs. The three youngest children
were sent to live with Smithey relatives on a farn near Wolf City,Tx.
After John's death, H G Roberts, William Robert's son asked
to be made adminstrator of John's estate because of money loaned
to him during his lifetime and for his last illness. Hawkins G
Roberts was made the administrator of John Griffin's estate.
Individual Notes
Note for: William Richard Griffin, 2 DEC 1869 - 14 JAN 1936
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Individual Note: Death certificate states that he died on 01/19/1936
Individual Notes
Note for: Hessie Francis Rountree, 16 NOV 1859 - 4 AUG 1940
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Individual Note: On death certificate it states that Hessie's mother was Margaret Roundtree.
Individual Notes
Note for: William Edgar Williams, 22 FEB 1896 - 2 APR 1974
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Individual Note: ED WILLIAMS
Williams funeral
Scheduled
Thursday
A Wichitan 50 years, Ed Williams 78 of 1116 Amber, died Tuesday in a city hospital.
Services will be at 2 p.m.' Thursday in the Lamar Baptist Church with the Rev. 'Robert Norsworthy pastor officiating. Burial will be, in Rosemont, Cemetery under direction of Owens & Brumley Funeral Home.
A retired oil field and carpenter worker, Williams was born Feb. 22, 1896 in DeKalb Tex.
Survivors include his wife Emma a daughter Miss JanetIta Williams of Wichita Falls-,and two sisters, Mrs. Mary Edwards of Wichita Falls and
Mrs. 1. B. Jenkins of Quanab,
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Note for: Elihu (Eilgh) M Williams, 8 NOV 1830 - 22 MAY 1865
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Individual Note: Marker Dedication Service
by: Son of The Confederacy
Saturday November 20, 1999
Williams Cemetary
Elihue M Williams was born on the 18th day of November 1830 in South Carolina to Thomas Barnes Williams and Hannah Pinson Williams. The family moved to Georgia around 1832, according to the earliest deed records. Elihue married Mary Ann ( POLLY ) Hinesley on August 22, 1849 in Carroll County, Ga. Polly's parents were Alford and Nancy Phillips Hinesley. The children of Elihue and Polly were listed in the census of 1860 as follows: Octavia Williams, Arcory Williams, John Henry Crentillion Williams, Robert T Williams, and James M Williams. James M was changed to James L sometime there after.
Elihue served in the Confederate Army in the 1st Georgia Regiment, Company E from Carroll County. Elihue died on May 22, 1865. After his death his brother Henry Roland Williams helped the family and watched over them. Mary Ann (Polly) Hinesley Williams died November 22, 1872. The children of Elihue and Polly have scattered across the country from New Mexico to Carrollton, Ga. Today there are descendants from John Henry Crentillion Williams and James L Williams in attendance at the ceremony.
by: Larry Anthony Bishop
( Great, Great, Grandson )
The Death of Elihue Williams
by: Anthony Bishop
11/20/1999
Elihue went to the war ( Civil War) and fought for the South. He didn't stay the duration of the war, he was discharged because of rheumatism. Even though he was young, he came home. He was in the service with some people from this area and one of them was named Martin Boon ( Mort). Mort came back after the war and heard some stories or tales about Elihue and his wife. We have no idea if Elihue was sweet on her or what. Supposedly the story that I was told by Ms Roberta Sticher was that Mort Boon came to the house one day about noon, Polly was fixing lunch and Elihue and Uncle Bobby and Uncle Jimmy, that was Elihue's boys, Robert T and James L, were down in the woods cutting firewood. James L, my ancestor, went bach to the house to eat lunch while Elihue and Robert T stayed down in the woods cutting wood. Mort Boon comes in, he's invited in for lunch because they knew him. They invite Mort Boon in and he eats lunch. When he gets done with lunch he excuses himself, walks back down behind the house where they are cutting wood, and a shot rings out. The one they called Uncle Bobby came running up out of the woods and told them what had happened. He said that Mort Boon had shot Elihue where the suspenders cross in his back. He shot him in the back.
Mort Boon was captured for killing Elihue, but he escaped and went west and was killed in Texas in a knife fight.
Henry Roland Williams, Elihue's brother, looked after the family after that.
This story was told by Anthony Bishop to Nick Griffin at the Marker Dedication Ceremony at the Williams Cemetery in Carroll County, Ga on November 20, 1999.
Individual Notes
Note for: O L Walsh, 18 NOV 1916 - 14 MAR 2003
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Burial: Date: 17 MAR 2003
Place: Memory Gardens, Farmington, NM
Individual Note: Autobiography by 0 L Walsh given to Nick Griffin on August 16, 1997.
8 Dec 1985
"I" Oscar L Walsh Jr am about 60 years late getting started on my journal. It would be nice if I could turn back the pages of time & start myJournal when I first learned to write, Of course there would have been a few things I would have had to leave out for the sake of self preservation.
I was #6 of a family of 7 children born to Oscar L & Rosa Walsh. I lost a brother & sister A.J. & Mildred before I was old enough to remember them. I lost my Mother when I was hardly 2 years old. Nov 14, 1918. My youngest sister Rosa Lee was born Nov. 7 just 7 days before Mother passed away. Dad passed away June 22 1967 & my sister Rosa Lee passed away 16 April 1979. At this time there is four of us left in our family. Myself & three sisters Johnny, Sylvia & Bernice. Bernice & Sylvia in Artesia & Johnny in Las Vegas, Nev.
Now back to my early days. Up until I was 8 or 10 years old Dad moved around from one place to another. That I was in & out of many different schools. When my Grandfather Walsh passed away it left Grandmother alone so we moved back on the old homestead with Grandmother Walsh. I finished my school days at Murray Texas. Up until my last year of high school, Dad sent me to Eliasville Texas to finish high school. That school year lasted about -3 or 4 months. I talked Dad into letting me drop out & come home. I realize now that was the wrong thing to do , but at that time I thought I was smart enough to know what was best for me. I didn't stay at home very long, Dad was by himself most of the time. All of my sisters at this time were married & moved away.
Feb.5, 1986
I had decided the Army was the place for me. This was in 1936. 1 had a little trouble with Dad. He did not think much of my Army idea, but after about a month I talked him into letting me go. So I take off for Oklahoma City to join the Army. This was quite an experience for me. It was the first time I was ever out from under Dad's wing. It took me about a week to get my date of birth varified by Dad. But finely I got into the service.
It was hard for me to get adjusted to all of the money I was making, $2 1.00 a month. U. Sam furnished most everything so it was not to bad at that time.
I spent three years in the Army & almost reinlisted for another three, I don't know if I fliped a coin or what, but any way I didn't stay.
When I got out of the service I came to Artesia, NM. I had a sister out here & Dad had left the old homeplace, so I didn't have a real home to come to & I went to work in the oil fields in Artesia. I had two jobs making $10.00 a day. Intheyearof 39 that was a lot of money. Ileft Artesia & went to Lubbock Texas. I had a few $s in my pocket & I guess I was like all young guys of that age. Always looking for & thinking the grass is greener on the other side of the hill.[I got ahead of myself] I went to Odessa Texas when I left Artesia & went back to work in the oil fields. The grass was not as green as Artesia
While in Artesia I met a little girl, Mary Jane Altizer. I decided she was the one for me, so I went to work trying-to prove,that I was the one for her. We were married Jan 26 1941 and shortly afterwards I was called back into the Army. I first went to Ft. Sill Ok. I spent a few days there& then was sent to Camp Rucker Alabama. A brand new camp. We activated the 8 1 st Inf. Div. I was there for several months and then was sent on a Cadre [a Nuckelus of Officers & men needed to tran a new Military Unit] to camp McAim Miss. Another brand new camp, There w6 activated the 87th Inf. Div. I spent the rest of my time in the Army in this Div.
From Miss. We were sent to Ft. Jackson S. C. and trained there for several months. From Ft. Jackson we were sent to Port of Embarcation in N.Y. We were loaded on the Queen Elizabeth for England.
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Individual Notes
Note for: Mann Darius Tackett, 13 SEP 1815 - 26 OCT 1863
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Individual Note: CAPT. MANN DARIUS TACKITT
Only six of the children are known to this writer, however. They were:
1. JOSEPHUS HOWELL TACKITT, b. 1839, Pope Co., Ark.
and d. ca 1930? in Texas.
2. MARY E. TACKITT, b. ca 1842, Pope Co. , Ark.
3. JANE E. or EMILY J. TACKITT, b. 1844, Pope Co. , Ark.
(May be twins, accounting for the 7th child, or just
known by different names during their life.)
4. CALEB W. TACKITT, b. 1846, Pope Co. , Ark. (This
son probably the one known by his family as Dock.)
5. WILEY ALBERT TACKITT, b. 3 Aug. 1850, Pope Co. , Ark.,
m. 7 July 1875 in Young Co. , Tx to Mary Elizabeth
Culwell. He died 1934. One of their sons, also named
Mann Darius Tackitt, b. 9 Sept. 1895, was last known
living at Albuquerque, New Mexico.
6. LEONA TACKITT, b. ca 1856, Jack Co. , Tx. was m.
to John W. Walsh in 1881 in Y3ung Co. , Texas.
In 1854, four years after the death of his father, Lewis, Mann Darius moved to Texas, following his brother, Rev. Pleasant. Many articles have been written in area histories regarding the life of Mann Darius in Texas, many of which contain many inaccuracies. The most illuminating article, and probably the most accurate as it appears to have been derived from an interview with J.H. Tackitt, eldest son of Mann Darius, was the previously referred to article which appeared in the 1924 Frontier Times as written by W.K. Baylor. Following are excerpts from this article:
"In 1854, Capt. Tackitt moved to Parker County, Texas, and settled about 12 miles north of Weatherford, in a howling wilderness of the first order, and where it was 'dangerous to be safe,' as the old frontiersmen used to say. Whether Capt. Tackitt was ever on a frontier prior to this time or not he was on one now, good and strong, with all the accessories.
Here the Tackitts lived for four years. In 1858 they moved to Brown's Creek in the southeast corner of Jack County, in the neighborhood where the counties of Jack, Wise, Palo Pinto and Parker corner. In this move the Tackitts merely changed their place of abode, but not their relation to the frontier. At this last place they
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lived until Oct. 26, 1863, and during the intervening years had raised a nice herd of stock horses and cattle.
A short time before Capt. Tackitt moved to Texas, his brother, Rev. Pleasant Tackitt, had preceeded him and settled in Collin County. On his journey Capt. Tackitt
stayed a short time with his brother, then resuming his IL
journey, landed in Parker County, as before stated."
It is also probable that Mann Darius stopped for a stay with his first cousin, HILYARD TACKITT, b. 1808, who had settled in Hunt County, Texas in 1844, having migrated down from Sangamon Co. , Illinois. References in the Rev. Pleasant Tackitt family writings note that Pleasant had stopped to visit with Hilyard before moving on further west into Texas.
Further quoting from W.K. Baylor's article:
"Early in 1861, at the beginning of the war between the states, the regiment of Col. Henry E. McCullock took possession of all United States forts along our frontier. The term of service of this regiment was ready to expirethey being 12 months troops- and to meet the pressing emergency, on Dec. 21, 1861, a law was passed calling into the state service, for special protection of our frontier, a regiment of men. These troops were to be stationed outside of the settlements at posts 25 miles apart, on a direct line from a point on Red River in Montague County, to a point on the Rio Grande, and thence down that river to its mouth. This entireorganization'was to be made up of men already living in the counties to be protected. The intention was to have only hardy, brave men, who would be directly interested in giving good protection to their own homes and also to keep those who wished to avoid Confederate service from moving to that part of the state. Among the very first who nobly responded to his country's call was Capt. Tackitt, who, with a company of 40 men, faithfully patrolled the frontier, giving assurance and protection to the frontier people and their property.
At some time prior to the above Dec. 21, 1861- date, it is found
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that M.D. Tackitt is Captain of a unit noted as "The lack County Company of Minute Men. " Other records note this unit as "Rangers. " According to family writings, a descendant of Mann Darius, named Tommie L. Tackitt, of Floresville, Texas, is (or was) in possession of a document written by Mann Darius Tackitt in his own handwriting that is the "Quarterly return of the service of the Jack County company of minuit (sic) men commanded by Capt. M.D. Tackitt of the quarter beginning Oct. 16th and ending Dec. 31st A.D., 1861". It is said that this report is written on a piece of paper 2 yards long and folded in half-then in half again, and reports written on 3 pages. Among those so mentioned is 2nd Sergt. J.H. Tackitt, M.D. Tackitt's eldest son.
W.K. Baylor further writes in the Frontier Times:
"In Feb. , 1863, in order to meet the requirements of the Confederate States army regulations, that each regiment should be composed of ten companies, the frontier regiment was disbanded and from the same material another regiment composed of ten companies was formed, known as the Mounted Regiment of Texas State Troops, but commanly called the Frontier Regiment.
". . Capt. Tackitt's company, being supernumery, and he being over military age, retired from service and went home and resumed the business of ranchman, which business he followed until killed by Indians on Oct. 26, 1863. "
To Just live to the age of 48 was certainly not unusual on the frontier with but minimum medical care available and in the case of this area of Texas, the threat of Indian depredations was of continuous concern to the settlers. Certainly Mann Darius led a full life up to the time of his death but one can speculate as to what accomplishments might this man have earned had he lived the long life of most of the rest of his family, many of whom lived into their 80's and 90's. The account of Mann Darius Tackitt's death as told by his son, Joe, and as written by W.K. Baylor follows:
"Early in 1863, the Indians stole nearly all of Capt. Tackitt's saddle and work horses. And early in the fall of this year these demons of the desert stole all of his
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stock horses , being about 25 head. On Qct.26, 1863, in the early afternoon, Joe H. Tackitt went in a southwesterly direction from his home to hunt stock. Shortly afterwards Capt. Tackitt went northward on the same mission. He had gone about a mile from home when he came in contact with a large body of Comanches, some 15 or 20. Being so greatly outnumbered, he turned back and started towards home. The horse he was riding was an old brokendown plow horse and of course the Indians gained on him from the very start and were evidently shooting arrows at him. Seeing that he could pot escape by running, he dismounted at a large oak tree in order to protect himself as much as postible. He was now within a half mile of his home. The Indians shot about 200 arrows at him from all side$, some of them from quite a distance, as they were laying flat on the ground, others came with sufficient force to enter the ground and stand partly erect. Finally the Indians completely surrounded him so that the tree could afford him no protection. They were running around the tree and their helpless victim, drawing in the circle all the time. This was shown by the fact that the ground was badly torn up by the Indian's horses' feet for more than twenty feet all around the tree. Capt. Tackitt had several minor wounds and two mortal ones. One arrow struck his right arm midway between the elbow and the point of the shoulder and entered his body and rendering it useless. There was a lance wound on the left side of the neck which penetrated his lungs and likely his heart. He was not scalped, for a wonder, but was stripped of clothing, except his underwear. His horse was lanced and after lingering between life and death many days, finally died.
Capt. Tackitt was armed with a double barreled gun, one side being a rifle and the other a shotgun, and a gragoon sixshooter. At about 3 o'clock in the afternoon the Tackitt family heard eight shots, seven of them clear and distinct, and one, the last one, much less distinct. Later on Joe H. Tackitt came home and was told of the shots and told that the family feared that his father had been killed by the Indians. At once he and a younger brother, Caleb, went in search of their father and went direct to him and found him dead as above described, his gun and pistol gone. The two boys returned home, reported what they had seen, took a wagon and team and brought the body d their father home.
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Joe H. Tackitt at once left for Veal's Station to have a coffin made and a grave dug. On the next morning after Capt. Tackitt was killed several of the neighbors who had been notified, knowing that Capt. Tackitt was well armed and that he had fired eight shots, felt sure that he must have badly wounded or killed one or more Indians. So they took the trail from where he was killed and after following it about a half mile, off to one side they saw a dead Indian and nearby small pools of blood, showing that others had been wounded. The dead Indian had been struck with three buckshot in the region of the left nipple and was instantly killed, his heart having been struck. One of the party placed a rope around the Indian's neck, mounted his horse, wrapped the rope around the horn of his saddle, and headed towards the Tackitt Ranch. When they got to the ranch, out near the cow pen they leaned him against a large postoak tree and at a respectable distance practiced shooting at him. Were these good citizens? They were
About 15 years after Capt. Tackitt was killed his gun was found, the stock completely decayed and the barrel and locks ruined by rust.
I said to J.H. Tackitt: 'Joe, what became of the dead Indian?' 'I don't know,' he replied. 'The last I saw him he was still leaning against that tree.'
J.H. Tackitt, who furnished me with this scrap of unwritten history, is the oldest son of Capt. Tackitt and was born in 183 9, and served three years in the Confederate Army. He is a typical frontiersman and ideal citizen, and although he is now in his 86th year, 'his eye is not dim, nor his natural force abated.' so to speak.
Shortly after Capt. Tackitt was killed and the family moved to comparative safety, J.H. Tackitt joined the company of Capt. Joshua Caldwell and was sworn into the Confederate service for three years or during the war. The headquarters of this company was at Decatur, in Wise Count. "
Emeline (Wright) Tackitt, Mann's widow, remarried late in life
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to John S. Beaman, a son of Peters colonist, Samuel Beaman 16
She is buried in the Russell Cemetery on the present Paul Deats
ranch property in Young County, Texasl7, having died I April
1884.18
16Barbara Ledbetter, Russell Cemete is Unrecorded , The Graham News (Graham, Texas), July 28, 1966, p. 9. In the article, Mann's grandaughter, Mrs. Ruby Myers, notes that she cannot locate Emeline's grave, but that she is buried in this cemetery.
17 ibid
181n a 14 July 1964 letter to this writer from another granddaughter, Mrs. Willie Tyre of Lamesa, Texas, is found: "Grandmother is buried in Young Co. , Texas. I have been to her grave and I hope I can go back sometime to see if I can locate it. "
TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN
/Z /7
know ye that ( M D Tackett)
t - ---
a private of Captain DAVID West's Company ( B ) Battalion
,of Arkansas voltinteers, aged thirty years, who was
rnustered into the service of the United State, July 1846; to serve for twelve
Months, unless sooner discharged, is, hereby hunorably discharged froin the
,volumteer service of the United States by order of the Secretary of War,
LIEUT. Col Commanding
Balla ion Arkansac Volunfccirs,
FORT GIBSON) C. N. April 18417.
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Murray, Texas 3/24/1914
Publishqr Leader,
Graham, Texas:
Enclosed you will find an old letter which my father wrote to my mother when he was in the Mexican War. I thought it might be of interest since it was written over sixtyseven years ago.
Mrs. John Walsh
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Fort Gibson, Ark
March the first, 1847
Mrs. Emeline R. Tackitt,
Dear Wife:-Being blessed with another oppertunity of sending you a letter I embrace it with gladness. I will in the first place say that I am in very good health at this time and cirtenly hope that this letter may find you and the children enjoying the same inestemable blessing. There is nothing of importance around in these digings since I last wrote only General Arbuckle has ordered Col. Loomis to furlow ten men out of each company for thirty days so that they can go home and see about making a crop and there will be ten men from our company start home in the morning, amongst them will be Willis . Benefield* and I will send Dolly home by him as I find it is two expencive to keep her here for it will be some time before I can get the chance to come home if I do before my time is out on account of my staying so long when I Was at home but I will try to get off in April or May if I have good luck. I want you to try and get some oats sown if possible if you can so that we will have something to feed on next winter if we should nead it, for I can tell you my work is a very dry subject to support a family on, you may depend. I am chopping wood for the company and I find my health is a grate deal better than it was when I done nothing. It has been a very cold winter up in this country for the wind is always blowing on these prairies.
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CAPT. MANN DARIUS TACKITT
There is no chance of our being discharged before tne first of July I recon. Tell father and mother and Nathan I want to see them very bad and tell them to do the best they can and take care of the things until I come home. Caleb* and his ladies is well.
Well tell Henderson* it is now tattoo and I must bring this letter to a close so I will wish you and the children a good night sleep that you may not be lonesome but cheerful when you awake and try and bare with patience such things as we cannot avoid . Its about ten years since we were married and my love for you is not in the least deminished, but is stronger every day. Write to me as often as you can. You see I can write no more so farewell.
M.D. Tackitt
*Perhaps some Pope County historian will be able to identify who the subjects noted as Willis Benefield, Caleb, and Henderson. were. Perhaps the reference to Caleb is a pun intended toward his brother-in-law, Caleb Davis Jr. , as he was also in the War, although it is not known by this writer if he was in the same company as Mann Darius.
We have few details on the life of Mann Darius Tackitt between the years of 1846 and 1854. In May of 1848, Mann Darius, along with a John W. Rye, James P. Boon, Isaac R. Anthony and James S. Ellis, applied for Bounty Land, as was their due for service in the Mexican War (Mexican War Record file of M.D. Tackitt). In 1848, Sept. 9, Mann was granted his Bounty Land of 160 acres as per Warrant No. 26,189 (see reproduced record in this report.1 T h e r e is nothing in the Bounty Land papers which indicate the location of the land or how and when it was disposed of. In 1849, Mann purchased about forty acres of land from his brother, Moranda, for $150 in Pope County.
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Note for: Annie Bell Pearson, 26 DEC 1898 - 17 NOV 1980
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Individual Note: Annie Hendrickson
BRECKENRIDGE - Anni B. Hendrickson, 81, a longtim resident of Breckenridge, died
at 7:15 p.m. Monday at Stephens Memorial Hospital. Services will be at 10 a.m Wednisday at Melton Funerai Home Chapel of Memories.
I The Rev. Jim Chandler, pastor of First United Methodist Church, will officiate. Burial will be in Breckenridge Cemetery.
Born Annie Bell Pearson Dec. 26, 1898, in Austin, she married Deral N. Hendrickson in 1932 in Wichita Falls. He died May 21, 1950. She,had lived in Breckenridge many years and had also lived in Cisco. She worked at the North Ward School cafetei ia and Wright's Grocery. She was a member of First UntiedMethodist Church and the Mackey Wesley Sunday school class.
She was preceded in death by a daughter.
Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. Tommy Bacon of Cisco and Mrs. Rex Alison
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Note for: Barnwell David Bassford, ABT 1810 - AFT 1886
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Individual Note: B D Bassford was the first District Clerk of Travis Co. Tx. in 1840 and for several more years. He was the original purchaser and patentee of lot # 3, blk # 43, Austin, Tx. located in the 400 blk and east side of Congress Ave. B D Bassford and Robert Love were the original purchasers and patentees of lot # 12, blk # 43, N.E. corner of 4th and Colorado Sts in Austin Tx.
B D Bassford is buried in the Cemetery of West Travis Co.
The city of Austin was founded in 1839.
On the 1860 census of Travis Co, Tx. B D Basford states that his occupation is a stone mason.
On the 1840 census of Tx, B D Bassford lists his place of birth as Vr. ( I wonder if this should be Vt)
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Note for: Lewis Tackitt, ABT 1770 - FEB 1850
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Individual Note: Tackett Family Page also gives info as follows:
Lewis Tackitt, 1770-1850, assumed son of Christopher Tackett, marr. Mary
Elizabeth Bashum in Virginia. This family then moved down the Ohio River
with stops in Vanderburgh Co., IN, Scott Co., MO and thence to Pope Co.,
AR where this couple died. Many in the next generation settled in Texas.
Their known children were: Nathaniel, Rev. Pleasant, Rev. Moranda,
Elizabeth Tackitt Davis, Martin, Sarah Louisa Tackitt Benefield Bewley &
Capt. Man Darius Tackitt. [Many in the family of Martin Tackitt died in
the infamous 1857 Mormon massacre of the Fancher Wagon Train at Mt.
Meadows, UT, now known as The Mountain Meadows Massacre. Martin's
grandchildren, Emberson Milum Tackitt & William Henry Tackitt were among
those few (17 children) to survive the massacre.]
By Emily Davis: Lewis Tackett died of Bronchitis in Pope Co., Ark. Feb. 1850.
This family joined the westward movement andm migrated from Va. to Wayne Co., Ky; then to Tenn., Ind., and Scott Co., Mo. and then into Pope Co., Ark. and lived four miles east of Dover in Pope Co., Ark.