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Frances ('Fanna') Callaway

Entry in Bartlett family bible about Frances and Jesse's marriage, courtesy of Ruby Lynn Shelton.

• Father: Thomas Callaway Jr.^1,2,3,4,5 b. 1753, d. 27 Mar 1819
• Mother: Jude Ann _____^1,6,7,8,9,10 b. c 1756, d. 21 Feb 1823

• Birth*: She was born on 29 February 1792 in Buncombe County, North Carolina.^11,12,13,14
• Marriage*: She married Maj. Jesse Bartlett, son of Nicholas Bartlett and Mary Martin, on 7 September 1810.^15,12,13
• Death*: She died on 20 September 1840 in Washington County, Texas, at age 48.^16,17,18,19
• Burial*: Interment was in Washington County, Texas.²⁰

• Note*: One source says that she was born on 29 Feb 1792 in Greenville, Greenville County, South Carolina. She is thought to have remarried after Jesse's death, much against the wishes of several of her children. Some sources say that she died on 19 Sep 1840 or 17 Dec 1840.^{17,21,22,23,24}

• Last Edited: 29 Jan 2024

• Charts: Descendants of Jesse Bartlett and Frances Callaway, Pedigree of Roger F. Bartlett Sr.

Nicholas Bartlett

• Father: William Bartlett¹ b. 1710, d. 8 May 1762
• Mother: Margaret _____²

• Birth*: He was born on 25 January 1742 in Maryland.^3,4
• Marriage*: He married Mary Martin in 1766.⁴
• Death*: He died on 14 January 1814 in Knox County, Tennessee, at age 71.⁵

• Note*: They probably married in Virginia. They first settled in Rockingham County, Virginia. In the fall of 1784, Nicholas and Mary and their six children left the Greenbrier colony (then in Rockingham County) and moved to Tennessee, settling a few miles south of Knoxville. This area was then in what was called the State of Franklin, having once been part of North Carolina, and then was on the frontier and subject to trouble with the Cherokee. In 1785 he built a grist mill on Stock Creek, in what then was Greene County and in 1792 became Knox County, and soon the mill was fortified to provide safety from Indian attacks for settlers in the vicinity. Blount County was created from Knox County south of Knoxville in 1795 with "Bartlett's Station" lying on the county line. Nicholas owned a large amount of land and gave much of it to his children before his death. His will took care of only those children who had not received gifts of land from him while he was alive. Nicholas was associated closely with Jeremiah Pearce in Virginia. Four Bartlett daughters married Pearce men, apparently two of them brothers and the other two cousins.^4,6,7

• Last Edited: 3 Apr 2022

• Charts: Pedigree of Roger F. Bartlett Sr.

Mary Martin

Sign at Shaker Cemetery, Logan County, Kentucky. (Click on image to enlarge it.)

• Birth*: She was born in May 1746 in North Carolina.¹
• Marriage*: She married Nicholas Bartlett, son of William Bartlett and Margaret _____, in 1766.¹
• Death*: She died on 15 July 1837 in Shakertown (South Union), Logan County, Kentucky, at age 91.^1,2
• Burial*: Interment was in Shaker Cemetery, Shakertown (South Union), Logan County, Kentucky.¹

• Note*: • Although some records show that she lived from 1746 or 1747 to 1837, a family tradition is that she almost reached her 100th birthday. After Nicholas died, Mary lived with a daughter, Esther Hunt, who had settled near Edwardsville, Madison County, Illinois, in 1813. She lived there nine years, then moved to the home of another daughter, Mary Pearce, at the Shaker community of South Union in Logan County, Kentucky, where she died and was buried. She was blind in her last years.
  • She "was always greatly beloved, very religious, and blind for many years."^3,4

• Last Edited: 6 Jul 2022

• Charts: Pedigree of Roger F. Bartlett Sr.

Thomas Callaway Jr.

• Father: Capt. Thomas Callaway Sr.^1,2,3 b. 12 Oct 1712, d. Feb 1800
• Mother: Mary Baker^4,5 d. 1778

• Birth*: He was born in 1753 in Halifax County, Virginia.^6,7,8
• Marriage*: He married Jude Ann _____ in 1768 in Bedford County, Virginia.^9,10,11,12
• Death*: He died on 27 March 1819 in Knox County, Tennessee.^{13,14,15,16,17}

• Last Edited: 15 Oct 2017

• Charts: Pedigree of Roger F. Bartlett Sr.

Jude Ann _____

• Birth*: She was born circa 1756 in Virginia.¹
• Marriage*: She married Thomas Callaway Jr., son of Capt. Thomas Callaway Sr. and Mary Baker, in 1768 in Bedford County, Virginia.^2,3,4,5
• Death*: She died on 21 February 1823 in Knox County, Tennessee.^6,7

• Note*: Her original surname is uncertain. It has been speculated that it may have been Farrar, Saunders (or Sanders), or Shadrack, as those names seem to have first appeared in the Callaway family after her marriage, and the use of Farrar as her second son's middle name lends some weight to the thought that that was her surname. Some believe it was Moffit. She died at the home of son John, evidently having lived the last part of his life with him.^3,8

• Last Edited: 23 May 2002

• Charts: Pedigree of Roger F. Bartlett Sr.

Eliza Bartlett

Eliza Bartlett McFadin's tombstone, Leakey Floral Cemetery, Leakey, Tex., courtesy of Larry Sweeney.

• Father: Maj. Jesse Bartlett^1,2 b. 5 Dec 1791, d. 1 Feb 1838
• Mother: Frances ('Fanna') Callaway³ b. 29 Feb 1792, d. 20 Sep 1840

• Birth*: She was born on 16 July 1811 in Knox County, Tennessee.^4,5,6,7,8
• Marriage*: She married Nathan Arnett McFadin, son of William David McFadin and Mary Elliott, on 24 December 1829 in Schuyler County, Illinois.^{9,10,11,12,13}
• Death*: She died on 20 October 1898 in Leakey, Real County, Texas, at age 87.^14,15
• Burial*: Interment was in Leakey Floral Cemetery, Leakey, Real County, Texas.^16,17

• Last Edited: 22 Aug 2013

• Charts: Descendants of Jesse Bartlett and Frances Callaway

Nathan Arnett McFadin

Nathan A. McFadin, from Judges of the Republic of Texas.

• Father: William David McFadin^1,2,3 b. 14 Aug 1764, d. 12 Jun 1835
• Mother: Mary Elliott^4,5,6,7 b. 15 Aug 1770, d. 24 Sep 1848

• Birth*: He was born on 3 January 1804 in Knox County, Tennessee.^{8,9,10,11,12,13}
• Marriage*: He married Eliza Bartlett, daughter of Maj. Jesse Bartlett and Frances ('Fanna') Callaway, on 24 December 1829 in Schuyler County, Illinois.^{14,15,16,17,18}
• Death*: He died on 18 February 1870 in Clinton, DeWitt County, Texas, at age 66.^19,20,21

• Scrapbook*: "LOST SUBSCRIBERS.—We understand some wiseacres have lately been circulating a report, that we have lost upwards of a thousand subscribers owing to our opposing the election of Gen. Houston [as president of the Republic of Texas]. We have lost only nine subscribers, owing to this cause, viz: Thomas F. McKinney, Dr. Hunter, Thomas Trimmer, A. McFadden, J. Bartlett, T. J. Rucker, James Walker, J. D. Burks, and H. Higgins. . . . We assure our subscribers we wish the patronage of none who desire to control our political sentiments . . . ."²²
• Note*: In 1832 he migrated to what then was Mexico and now is Washington County, Texas. He fought in the Battle of San Jacinto in 1836 as a private in Capt. Hay Kendall's Company and was elected a justice of the peace in Washington County in 1841. In 1868 he moved to Dewitt County, Texas.^23,19,24

• Last Edited: 10 Oct 2019

• Charts: Descendants of Jesse Bartlett and Frances Callaway

Nancy Bartlett

• Father: Maj. Jesse Bartlett^1,2 b. 5 Dec 1791, d. 1 Feb 1838
• Mother: Frances ('Fanna') Callaway³ b. 29 Feb 1792, d. 20 Sep 1840

• Birth*: She was born on 2 September 1812 in Knox County, Tennessee.^4,5
• Marriage*: She married Dr. James W. Crawford on 6 September 1838 in Washington County, Texas.^6,7,8
• Death*: She died on 28 August 1867 at age 54.
• Burial*: Interment was in Galveston, Galveston County, Texas.

• Obituary*: Among the victims of the yellow fever at Galveston, we find the name of Mrs. N. B. Crawford, of whom the Telegraph gives the following notice:
  “She was born in Knox county, Tennessee, in the year 1815; the wife of Dr. J. W. Crawford, who died in Washington county, Texas, in the year of 1856; the daughter of Major Jesse Bartlett and Frances Calloway [sic], who emigrated to Texas in an early day. Major Jesse Bartlett was one among the first Texians to resist Mexican oppression, and served as an officer in the army under Gen. Sam Houston during the struggle for Texas Independence. Mrs. Crawford was one of the oldest Texians in the State, and resided the largest portion of her life in Washington county, Texas. Some years previous to the war, she moved to Hempstead, where she remained until the close of the war, and then removed to Galveston where, up to her death, she kept the Crawford House. She leaves a son and daughter and many relations and friends to mourn her sore loss. Thus so untimely the community has lost one of its most benevolent servants, Christianity one of the most consistent Christians, and a family a devoted mother."⁹
• Note*: She was married in a double ceremony with her sister, Louisa. She operated the Crawford House in Galveston, Texas and died there in a yellow fever epidemic. A son and a daughter survived her.¹⁰

• Last Edited: 31 Aug 2011

• Charts: Descendants of Jesse Bartlett and Frances Callaway

Dr. James W. Crawford

• Marriage*: He married Nancy Bartlett, daughter of Maj. Jesse Bartlett and Frances ('Fanna') Callaway, on 6 September 1838 in Washington County, Texas.^1,2,3
• Death*: He died in 1856 in Washington County, Texas.⁴

• Last Edited: 31 Aug 2011

• Charts: Descendants of Jesse Bartlett and Frances Callaway

Joseph Callaway Bartlett

Joseph Callaway Bartlett's tombstone, Rice Cemetery, Rice, Tex.

• Father: Maj. Jesse Bartlett^1,2 b. 5 Dec 1791, d. 1 Feb 1838
• Mother: Frances ('Fanna') Callaway³ b. 29 Feb 1792, d. 20 Sep 1840

• Birth*: He was born on 7 August 1814 in Knox County, Tennessee.^4,5,6,7,8,9
• Marriage*: He married Amanda Monroe Estes, daughter of James D. Estes and Eunice Williams, on 18 April 1839 in Washington County, Texas.^{10,11,12,13,14}
• Marriage*: He married Martha Ann Elizabeth Norvell, daughter of George Norvell and Nancy Hudnall, on 19 June 1856 in Navarro County, Texas.^15,16,17
• Death*: He died on 11 September 1888 in the home of his son, J. M. Bartlett, Navarro County, Texas (near Rice), at age 74.^{4,6,18,19,8,9}
• Burial*: Interment was in section E, Rice Cemetery, Rice, Navarro County, Texas.^20,21,22

• Scrapbook*: "LOST SUBSCRIBERS.—We understand some wiseacres have lately been circulating a report, that we have lost upwards of a thousand subscribers owing to our opposing the election of Gen. Houston [as president of the Republic of Texas]. We have lost only nine subscribers, owing to this cause, viz: Thomas F. McKinney, Dr. Hunter, Thomas Trimmer, A. McFadden, J. Bartlett, T. J. Rucker, James Walker, J. D. Burks, and H. Higgins. . . . We assure our subscribers we wish the patronage of none who desire to control our political sentiments . . . ."²³
• Obituary*: "JOSEPH C. BARTLETT.
     "RICE, Tex., Sept. 11 [1888].—Joseph C. Bartlett, Esq., aged 75 years, died to-day at the residence of his son, Jesse M. Bartlett, near this place."
  _____
  
     "Death of an Old Texan.
     "Special Telegram to the Statesman.
     "Corsicana, September 12 [1888].—Joe Bartlett, a Texas veteran, died at his home near Rice yesterday, and the Odd Fellows of this city left this morning to take part in burying their brother. Mr. Bartlett was one of our oldest citizens. He leaves behind him in the county but two of his old war associates."^24,25
• Note*: With his father, he served in the Army of the Republic of Texas during the 1836 Texas Revolution. His eight-year-old bag horse was 'lost in service' on 15 Jul 1836, for which he was reimbursed $125. On 10 May 1838 the Secretary of War for the Republic issued bounty warrant 3291 to him for 320 acres of land for service in the Army of the Republic from 18 Jun 1836 to 18 Sep 1836. Pursuant to the warrant he patented 320 acres in Lampasas County on 11 Sep 1845. He and Amanda moved to present Navarro County, Texas (then part of Robertson County) in the same year, when the area was just being settled and was still somewhat the frontier. They first lived at Taos (Porter's Bluff) on the Trinity River. In 1846 he was appointed Navarro County tax collector by his friend, Sheriff James Allen Johnson. He also served the county as justice of the peace in the 1860's and was the first postmaster of Rice, serving from 2 Oct 1872, when the post office was established, to 23 Nov 1875. Federal census records for 1850 give his occupation as farmer and the value of his real estate as $3,000; the 1860 census shows his land holdings had increased to $4,000 and his personal estate was valued at $1,200. The family moved from near the Trinity westward to a farm three or four miles south of present Rice, building their home on a site now on the north side of Farm Road 1126, about a mile west of the railroad tracks. He died at the home of his son J.M., probably on this same farm near Rice, on 11 Sep 1888. When his first wife, Amanda, died in 1851, at age 29, Joseph, then 37, they had four young children, the oldest then being 11. About five years later, he married Martha Ann Elizabeth Norvell, who died at age 45, when Joseph was 60. He was remembered by a niece for his gentle, polished manners, his love of books, and his careful training of his children.^26,27,28

• Last Edited: 29 Jan 2024

• Charts: Descendants of Jesse Bartlett and Frances Callaway, Pedigree of Roger F. Bartlett Sr.

Amanda Monroe Estes

Taos (Porter's Bluff), Tex., 1860, from Navarro County History, vol. 1.

• Father: James D. Estes^1,2 b. c 1786, d. 27 Dec 1851
• Mother: Eunice Williams^3,4 d. b 1851

• Birth*: She was born on 6 June 1822 in Tennessee.^5,6,7
• Marriage*: She married Joseph Callaway Bartlett, son of Maj. Jesse Bartlett and Frances ('Fanna') Callaway, on 18 April 1839 in Washington County, Texas.^8,9,10,11,12
• Death*: She died on 18 October 1851 in Navarro County, Texas, at age 29.^13,14,15,16

• Note*: She died of yellow fever.¹⁷

• Last Edited: 29 Jan 2024

• Charts: Descendants of Jesse Bartlett and Frances Callaway, Pedigree of Roger F. Bartlett Sr.

Martha Ann Elizabeth Norvell

• Father: George Norvell¹ b. 18 Oct 1783, d. 19 Nov 1850
• Mother: Nancy Hudnall² b. c 1794

• Birth*: She was born on 4 March 1829 in Virginia.^3,4
• Marriage*: She married Joseph Callaway Bartlett, son of Maj. Jesse Bartlett and Frances ('Fanna') Callaway, on 19 June 1856 in Navarro County, Texas.^5,6,7
• Death*: She died on 3 December 1874 at age 45.^8,9

• Note*: Written below her death date in the Bartlett-Callaway bible is "Blessed are the pure in spirit for they shall see God."⁸

• Last Edited: 6 Aug 2013

• Charts: Descendants of Jesse Bartlett and Frances Callaway

Clementina Bartlett

Clementine Bartlett Millett, courtesy of Jill Moody Maninger Ayling.

• Father: Maj. Jesse Bartlett¹ b. 5 Dec 1791, d. 1 Feb 1838
• Mother: Frances ('Fanna') Callaway b. 29 Feb 1792, d. 20 Sep 1840

• Birth*: She was born on 29 December 1815 in Knox County, Tennessee.^2,3
• Marriage*: She married Samuel L. Millett on 17 January 1833.⁴
• Death*: She died on 1 February 1907 in Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas, at age 91.⁵
• Burial*: Interment was on 3 February 1907 in City Cemetery, San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas.^6,7

• Note*: It is believed that she was buried in lot 53 of section A of City Cemetery No. 1 in San Antonio, Texas, but there is no marker for her in that plot.⁷

• Last Edited: 1 Aug 2021

• Charts: Descendants of Jesse Bartlett and Frances Callaway

Samuel L. Millett

Samuel Millett's tombstone (center), Riverside Cemetery, Seguin, Tex., by Roger Bartlett. Stone at left is that of his daughter, Allie. Stone at right was placed by State of Texas.

• Birth*: He was born on 6 April 1801 in Norway, Oxford County, Maine.
• Marriage*: He married Clementina Bartlett, daughter of Maj. Jesse Bartlett and Frances ('Fanna') Callaway, on 17 January 1833.¹
• Death*: He died on 11 November 1863 in Seguin, Guadalupe County, Texas, at age 62.^2,3
• Burial*: Interment was in Riverside Cemetery, South River Street, Seguin, Guadalupe County, Texas.⁴

• Note*: • He graduated from Bowdoin College in Maine and came to Texas in Apr 1831, was granted land in Austin's second colony on 20 Apr 1832, and was at the Battle of San Jacinto on 21 Apr 1836 as part of Mosely Baker's Company D of the First Regiment.
  • He became a school teacher, at $400 a year.
  • Decades later a former student remembered: "In 1835, Samuel Millett, originally from Maine, taught school for six months in Kennard's Prairie, five miles from our home. I was one of his pupils and boarded with the teacher. This was the longest term of my schooling. During this time I studied only English grammar and geography with short lessons in John Walker's Dictionary. I used Lindley Murray's English Grammar and John Adams' Geography. These two books were doubtless the best of their kind that had ever been published. The geography and its accompanying atlas were separate volumes, and the maps, showing the natural division by watercourses, were far preferable to those now published [circa 1910-1913], which nearly obliterate the courses of streams by giving the chief prominence to railroad lines. Geography, as then taught, was an indispensible adjunct to the study of history."
  • He traveled overland to California in 1849 with an expedition to the gold fields and returned to Texas two years later.
  • “MILLETT, Samuel—Company D, First Regiment, Texas Volunteers. He was born in Maine in 1799. He came to Texas in April, 1831. He received one league in Austin’s Second Colony, November 20, 1832. After the Revolution he received a donation."^5,6,7,8,9

• Last Edited: 23 Jan 2022

• Charts: Descendants of Jesse Bartlett and Frances Callaway

Juda Louisa Bartlett

Louisa Bartlett Winkler's tombstone, Oakwood Cemetery, Corsicana, Tex.

• Father: Maj. Jesse Bartlett¹ b. 5 Dec 1791, d. 1 Feb 1838
• Mother: Frances ('Fanna') Callaway b. 29 Feb 1792, d. 20 Sep 1840

• Birth*: She was born on 10 September 1818 in Knox County, Tennessee.^2,3
• Marriage*: She married John C. Neill on 6 September 1838 in Washington County, Texas.^4,5,6
• Divorce*: She and John C. Neill were divorced on 23 July 1842 in Texas.⁷
• Marriage*: She married Thomas Ingles Smith, son of Bird Bowker Smith and Rhoda Ingles, in Navarro County, Texas.^8,9,10
• Marriage*: She married Judge Clinton McKamy Winkler, son of David Tate Winkler and Lavinia Gates Owen, on 24 December 1848 in Porter's Bluff, Navarro County, Texas.^11,12,13,14
• Death*: She died in November 1861 at age 43.¹⁵
• Burial*: Interment was in section A, Oakwood Cemetery, Corsicana, Navarro County, Texas.^16,17

• Note*: She was six or seven years old when the family moved from Tennessee to Illinois and fourteen years old when they arrived in Texas in late 1831. Her marriage to her first husband, John C. Neill, was in a double ceremony with her sister, Nancy; they were divorced four years later by act of the Congress of the Republic of Texas.^18,7

• Last Edited: 29 Apr 2018

• Charts: Descendants of Jesse Bartlett and Frances Callaway

John C. Neill

• Marriage*: He married Juda Louisa Bartlett, daughter of Maj. Jesse Bartlett and Frances ('Fanna') Callaway, on 6 September 1838 in Washington County, Texas.^1,2,3
• Death*: He died after July 1842.⁴
• Divorce*: He and Juda Louisa Bartlett were divorced on 23 July 1842 in Texas.⁵

• Note*: Although some sources refer to Louisa as his widow, they divorced in July 1842 and therefore his death must have occurred after that date. He probably was the John Neal who served in Henry Wax Karnes's Second Cavalry Regiment from 29 Feb to 30 Apr 1836, including participating in the Battle of San Jacinto on 21 Apr, and in Captain Hill's company from 30 Apr to 30 May 1836. He also may be the John C. Neal who lived in Washington-on-the-Brazos in 1836 and with several others agreed to rent for three months the building where the convention that declared Texas independence was to meet (on which the group defaulted).^6,7,5

• Last Edited: 21 Aug 2011

• Charts: Descendants of Jesse Bartlett and Frances Callaway

Thomas Ingles Smith

Thomas I. Smith, from Taylor's Navarro County History.

• Father: Bird Bowker Smith¹
• Mother: Rhoda Ingles²

• Birth*: He was born on 30 May 1800 in Virginia.³
• Marriage*: He married R. Hogsett.³
• Marriage*: He married Juda Louisa Bartlett, daughter of Maj. Jesse Bartlett and Frances ('Fanna') Callaway, in Navarro County, Texas.^4,5,6
• Death*: He died on 30 March 1848 in Austin, Travis County, Texas, at age 47.³

• Scrapbook*: "TOWN OF CORSICANA,
     "The permanent County Seat of Navarro County.
     "THE attention of the PUBLIC is respectfully invited to the sale of Lots in this town, which will commence on the first Monday in May [1848], and continue from day to day until the Lots are disposed of. The terms of sale will be twelve and eighteen months credit with approved security.
     "The town of Corsicana, is situated in the county of Navarro, that beautifully undulating portion of the country between Chambers and Richland creeks, abundantly supplied with springs and timber of the best quality. It is 16 miles from Porter’s Bluff, 16 1-2 miles from Bazzette , and continue from day to day until the Lots are disposed of. The terms of sale will be twelve and eighteen months credit with approved security.
     "The town of Corsicana, is situated in the county of Navarro, that beautifully undulating po, and continue from day to day until the Lots are disposed of. The terms of sale will be twelve and eighteen months credit with approved security.
     "The town of Corsicana, is situated in the county of Navarro, that beautifully undulating portion of the country between Chambers and Richland creeks, abundantly supplied with springs and timber of the best quality. It is 16 miles from Porter’s Bluff, 16 1-2 miles from Bazzette , and continue from day to day until the Lots are disposed of. The ter[sic], and 17 miles from Buffalo, at all of which places there are now good ferries on the Trinity river, and roads open from each of them to Corsicana, and thence in the direction to Austin and Western Texas.
     "Arrangements have been made for the immediate erection of suitable county buildings.
     "THOS. I. SMITH,
     "WM. F. HENDERSON,
     "E. MELTON,
     "J. M. RIGGS,
     "JAMES JOHNSON,
        "Commissioners.
     "March 9, 1848."⁷
• Note*: He was born in Tennessee and moved to Texas in 1836, after the Battle of San Jacinto, to serve in the Army of the Republic of Texas. In 1842 he enlisted as a private in a volunteer company and was wounded at the Battle of Salado Creek on September 18. When the Somervell expedition was announced the next month, he enlisted as a private in the South Western Army, later was elected a third lieutenant, and stayed with the army until it reached the Rio Grande; he then returned to San Antonio and thus avoided capture in the Battle of Mier and subsequent possible execution in the "black bean incident." The next year, 1843, at Gov. Sam Houston's direction, he led the party that removed the state's archives and attempted to move them from Austin to Houston in the unsuccessful Archive War. Later that year he moved to a farm on Chambers Creek in what is now Ellis County, Texas. He led a party that scouted for hostile Indians in the Wichita Mountains in 1844, and likely was the Thomas Smith who served as a lieutenant in the Robertson County ranger force for most of 1845. In the fall of 1845 he was a commissioner who negotiated peace treaties with ten Indian tribes, the last Indian treaty of the Republic of Texas. In the summer of 1846 he raised a volunteer company, Smith's Battalion of the Texas Mounted Volunteers, which he later commanded as a major, that defended the western frontier against Indian raids. His battalion mustered out of federal service on 17 Aug 1847, and he returned home, probably to Navarro County, where he commanded a ranger company on Richland Creek. He died of "winter fever." His biography in The New Handbook of Texas states that he and "Mary Louise (Bartlett) O'Neill, the widow of John C. O'Neill," had three children, but no information on the children has been found. His biography in Annie Carpenter Love's History of Navarro County states that he had a son, Thomas I. Smith, who died in childhood and was buried near what is now First Avenue in Corsicana.^8,9,10

• Last Edited: 5 May 2016

• Charts: Descendants of Jesse Bartlett and Frances Callaway

Judge Clinton McKamy Winkler

Clinton McKamy Winkler, from Putman's Navarro County History, p. 87.

• Father: David Tate Winkler^1,2 b. 1792, d. Feb 1849
• Mother: Lavinia Gates Owen³ b. 1801, d. a 1960

• Birth*: He was born on 19 October 1821 in Burke County, North Carolina.^4,5,6
• Marriage*: He married Juda Louisa Bartlett, daughter of Maj. Jesse Bartlett and Frances ('Fanna') Callaway, on 24 December 1848 in Porter's Bluff, Navarro County, Texas.^7,8,9,10
• Marriage*: He married Angelina Virginia Smith, daughter of Bird Bowker Smith and Rhoda Ingles, on 7 January 1864 in Richmond, Virginia.^11,12,13,14
• Death*: He died on 13 May 1882 in Austin, Travis County, Texas, at age 60.^15,5,6
• Burial*: Interment was in section A, Oakwood Cemetery, Corsicana, Navarro County, Texas.^4,8,5

• Obituary*: "Austin, May 13 [1882].—Judge C. M. Winkler, of the Court of Appeals, died here at 1 o'clock this morning, from flux, with which he was taken down last Tuesday evening, and peacefully and easily, surrounded by his wife and children and all the members of the Courts. Deceased was born in North Carolina, in 1821, and came to Texas in 1840, settling in Franklin, now Robertson county, where he commenced the study of law under Chas. H. Raymond. From 1840 to 1846 he was connected with the courts, first as deputy clerk and afterwards as clerk, and in the latter year he entered upon the practice of law. In 1848, he moved to Corsicana, which city was his home during the remainder of his life. Entering the war in command of a company from Navarro county, he participated in the battles of Seven Pines, Gaines's Mill, Second Manassas, Sharpsburg, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, and many lesser engagements. He was severely wounded in the right thigh at Gettysburg, and was soon after promoted to the rank of Colonel. As a soldier his career was brilliant as his services in civil life were eminently useful.
     "At a bar meeting in the morning—Judge John Hancock presiding, Mr. Dudley Wooten, secretary—a committee, composed of Hon. J. H. McLeary, attorney-general, Major A. M. Jackson, Governor E. J. Davis, Judge A. S. Walker, Judge Samuel A. Wilson, and Judge A. W. Terrell, was appointed to prepare and report proper resolutions of condolence and respect for the memory of the deceased. The following resolutions were reported and unanimously adopted:
     "Whereas the Hon. C. M. Winkler, judge of the Bench of Appeals of the State of Texas, has departed this life in the midst of his usefulness, and while engaged in the faithful discharge of the responsible duties intrusted to him by the people of the State; be it
     "Resolved, 1. The bar in attendance now not only give utterance to their own sentiments, but echo those of their bretheren [sic] throughout the State of Texas, in deploring the death of the deceased judge as a public calamity of no ordinary moment.
     "2. That so long as unselfishness, patriotism, unsullied integrity and fidelity to every trust and duty, whether public or private, shall be held in esteem, that long and wide the name and memory of C. M. Winkler be enshrined in the annals of Texas and the hearts of her people, and the secretary of this meeting is instructed to communicate to them these resolutions.
     "3. That we tender the family of the lamented deceased our most heartfelt sympathy in their bereavement and sorrow.
     "In addition to the above proceedings Major C. S. West was appointed to present the resolutions and action of the meeting to the Supreme Court of this State, Major A. M. Jackson was selected to perform the same duty in the Court of Appeals, and Attorney-General McLeary in the Commission of Appeals. Major W. M. Walton, Judge John Hancock, Colonel A. S. Peele, and Judge Samuel A. Wilson were selected to act as pall-bearers. The Court of Appeals went with the remains this afternoon to Corsicana."¹⁶
• Note*: His parents owned a small farm in North Carolina and moved to Indiana in 1835. He migrated to Texas at age 18 and settled in Franklin in July 1840, where he was deputy county clerk of Robertson County from 1840 until 1843, when he became clerk pro tem of the district court. The next year he was admitted to the bar in Robertson County in 1844 and was elected district clerk. He is said to have had a role in causing the 1st Texas Legislature to create Navarro County in 1846, is credited with sponsoring legislation to make Corsicana the county seat, and moved to the new county in 1847. He represented Robertson County in the House of Representatives of the 2d Texas Legislature. He practiced law during the 1850's and in 1861 joined half a dozen others in organizing the secession effort in the county. He commanded the Navarro Rifles, which became Company I, 4th Regiment, of Hood's Texas Brigade, the only Texas infantry unit in the Army of Northern Virginia under Gen. Lee. He was severely wounded at the Battle of Gettysburg, participated in campaigns in Tennessee, Virginia, and Pennsylvania, and attained the rank of lieutenant colonel. As a lieutenant colonel he was in command of the 4th Texas Infantry when it surrendered at Appomattox. After the Civil War he represented Navarro, Ellis, Hill, and Kaufman Counties in the 13th Texas Legislature and was elected one of the three judges of the Texas Court of Appeals, in which position he was serving when he died. He was grand master of the Texas Masonic lodge in 1870 and was state Democratic executive committee chairman and was active in party efforts to end Reconstruction. He and Louisa had three children, and he and Angelina, who was from Richmond, Virginia, had six children. He was a lifelong Methodist. Winkler County in West Texas is named for him.^17,4,18

• Last Edited: 26 Sep 2019

• Charts: Descendants of Jesse Bartlett and Frances Callaway

Thomas Nicholas Bartlett

• Father: Maj. Jesse Bartlett b. 5 Dec 1791, d. 1 Feb 1838
• Mother: Frances ('Fanna') Callaway b. 29 Feb 1792, d. 20 Sep 1840

• Birth*: He was born on 22 March 1820 in Knox County, Tennessee.^1,2
• Death*: He died on 15 September 1834 in State of Coahuila and Texas, Mexico, at age 14.^3,4

• Note*: He was about five years old when the family moved from Tennessee to Illinois and was age eleven when they arrived in Texas in late 1831.⁵

• Last Edited: 24 Oct 2022

• Charts: Descendants of Jesse Bartlett and Frances Callaway

Jesse Marshall Bartlett

• Father: Maj. Jesse Bartlett^1,2 b. 5 Dec 1791, d. 1 Feb 1838
• Mother: Frances ('Fanna') Callaway³ b. 29 Feb 1792, d. 20 Sep 1840

• Birth*: He was born on 17 June 1822 in Knox County, Tennessee.^4,5
• Death*: He died on 4 February 1851 at age 28.⁶

• Note*: It appears that he served six weeks as a private (mounted volunteers) in the Bastrop Company in the Pasquez campaign, an expedition to San Antonio under the command of General Edward Burleson, in the spring of 1842. In the Mexican War he served for a year, from 2 Aug 1846 to 17 Aug 1847, as a private in Thomas J. Smith's Company, Texas Mounted Volunteers. He received warrants for eighty acres of bounty land for his service.^7,8,9,10

• Last Edited: 28 Dec 2018

• Charts: Descendants of Jesse Bartlett and Frances Callaway

Frances Emmaline Bartlett

Frances Bartlett Porter and Col. Robert Porter, from Navarro County History, vol. 6.

• Father: Maj. Jesse Bartlett¹ b. 5 Dec 1791, d. 1 Feb 1838
• Mother: Frances ('Fanna') Callaway b. 29 Feb 1792, d. 20 Sep 1840

• Birth*: She was born on 3 January 1824 in Knox County, Tennessee.^2,3,4,5,6
• Marriage*: She married John Beldin on 23 October 1839 in Harris County, Texas.^7,8,9,10
• Marriage*: She married Col. Robert H. Porter, son of James Porter and Catherine Walker, circa 1842.¹¹
• Marriage*: She married Dr. Richard L. Tate on 23 July 1850 in Navarro County, Texas.^12,13
• Death*: She died on 5 July 1912 in the home of her nephew, J. M. Bartlett, Rice, Navarro County, Texas, at age 88.^14,15
• Burial*: Interment was on 6 July 1912 in an unmarked grave in the Rice Cemetery, Rice, Navarro County, Texas.^16,15

• Obituary*: "VENERABLE LADY DEAD.
     "Mrs. Emma Tate, Aged 89 Years, Dies at Her Home Near Rice.
     "Mrs. Emma Tate, aged 89 years, and a resident of this county and the Rice community for many years, died there yesterday afternoon, and the remains were buried in the local cemetery there today. The deceased was an aunt of Mrs. Sam R. Frost of Corsicana and Mrs. Frost, Mrs. A. N. Justiss, Mrs. George E. Jester and Miss Boyd Frost attended the funeral. Deceased was also an aunt of Mrs. S. J. Norvell, whose husband died almost at the same hour, and of J. M. Bartlett, a prominent citizen of Rice."¹⁷
• Note*: She was an infant when the family moved from Tennessee to Illinois and was not quite eight years old when they arrived in Texas in late 1831. She died in the home of her nephew, J. M. Bartlett, in Rice, where she lived in her later years, and was buried in an unmarked grave in J. M. and Mollie Bartlett's plot at the Rice cemetery.^18,19

• Last Edited: 29 Dec 2021

• Charts: Descendants of Jesse Bartlett and Frances Callaway

John Beldin

Flag of the New Orleans Greys.

• Birth*: He was born circa 1812 in New York.^1,2,3
• Marriage*: He married Frances Emmaline Bartlett, daughter of Maj. Jesse Bartlett and Frances ('Fanna') Callaway, on 23 October 1839 in Harris County, Texas.^4,5,6,7
• Death*: He died on 15 September 1841 in Houston, Harris County, Texas.^8,6
• Burial*: Interment was in City Cemetery on West Dallas Avenue, Houston, Harris County, Texas.^9,10,11

• Note*: • He arrived in Texas on 25 Oct 1835 as a member of W. G. Cooke's company of "New Orleans Greys."
  • He was at the fall of Bexar in Dec 1835, in which he was wounded while spiking a cannon, and at the Battle of San Jacinto on 18 Apr 1836 in Amasa Turner's Company B.
  • After the Texas Revolution (1836) he lived in Houston, where he died of congestive fever. A newspaper report of his death said he was buried in the City Cemetery on West Dallas Avenue in Houston. That burial ground apparently is now part of Founders Memorial Park, a small cemetery on West Dallas Avenue. A search of that cemetery in August 2011 failed to locate a marked grave for him, but there were many unmarked graves and many others that were marked with a stone inscribed "unknown."
  • He was issued a bounty certificate for 320 acres of land for serving in the army from 22 Oct 1835 to 16 Dec 1835; a donation certificate for 640 acres for participation in the Battle of San Jacinto, and a headright certificate for one-third of a league of land. The Congress of the Republic of Texas granted him a league of land for having been permanently disabled while serving in the Texas army.
  • “BELDEN, John—Company B, Volunteers. A native of New York, he was a member of the Volunteer Grays from New Orleans, which arrived in Texas, October, 1835. He received one-third of a league of land issued by the Harris County board after the Revolution.”.^12,13,14,15

• Last Edited: 18 Jun 2019

• Charts: Descendants of Jesse Bartlett and Frances Callaway

Col. Robert H. Porter

Frances Bartlett Porter and Col. Robert Porter, from Navarro County History, vol. 6.

• Father: James Porter¹ b. 9 Mar 1777, d. 16 Aug 1860
• Mother: Catherine Walker² b. 22 Jan 1783, d. c 1860

• Birth*: He was born in South Carolina.³
• Marriage*: He married Frances Emmaline Bartlett, daughter of Maj. Jesse Bartlett and Frances ('Fanna') Callaway, circa 1842.⁴
• Burial*: Interment was in Liberty Hill Cemetery, Navarro County, Texas.⁵
• Death*: He died on 16 December 1849 in Shreveport, Caddo Parish, Louisiana.^6,7,8

• Scrapbook*: • "PORTER’S BLUFFS.
     "To the travelling community, and those wishing to look at the country near the three forks of Trinity river.
     "THE undersigned having settled on a bluff on the west bank of Trinity river, ten miles above Buffalo and ten miles below the mouth of the East fork of the river, and having opened roads, built bridges, and put in a ferry boat, which cannot be surpassed by any ferry or road on Trinity river; the distance being very much shortened, would respectfully invite Travellers to come by, and examine for themselves.
     "He would also inform travelers, that he will keep a
        "HOUSE OF ENTERTAINMENT.
     "His table will be furnished with the best the country affords; his stables will also be well furnished with plenty of corn and fodder, and movers can be supplied with corn, fodder, potatoes, &c., on reasonable terms.
     "TRAVELLERS will find this a direct Route from the Eastern and North Eastern counties of Texas, as well as the Northern and Western States generally, to Austin, San Antonio, &c.
        "R. H. PORTER."
  • "We are authorized to announce PORTER’S BLUFF, upon the Trinity River, in Navarro county, as a contesting locality for the location of the seat of government for the State, at the election in 1850, required by the 35th article of the 3d section of the Constitution."^9,10
• Note*: He was an early settler at the Falls of the Brazos in present Falls County, Texas. He signed as a witness an Indian treaty signed at Tehuacana Creek on 9 Oct 1844. Having received land on the Trinity River in what is now northeastern Navarro County for his service in the Texas Revolution, in 1848 he platted the town of Taos on it with the expectation that it would become an important shipping point. It also was known as Porter's Bluff and was one of the earliest settlements in the county. A ferry began operating, and the town grew to have a blacksmith shop, several stores, and a sawmill and to serve as a port for small steamboats, or packets, that operated on the river before the Civil War. Arrival of the railroad in the 1870's killed the river traffic. A post office operated there from 1900 to 1904 under the name Porter's Bluff. The community was a ghost town by 1930. He appears occasionally as Maj. Porter or Col. Porter, but the basis for his titles is not known. In the year he died (of cholera), 1849, he was taxed for ten surveys of land, twenty-five slaves, and a buggy, probably a large estate for that time.^11,12

• Last Edited: 31 Jul 2017

• Charts: Descendants of Jesse Bartlett and Frances Callaway

Dr. Richard L. Tate

• Birth*: He was born circa 1817 in Alabama.^1,2,3,4
• Marriage*: He married Frances Emmaline Bartlett, daughter of Maj. Jesse Bartlett and Frances ('Fanna') Callaway, on 23 July 1850 in Navarro County, Texas.^5,6

• Note*: His name appears as R. L. Tate in some records. It has been speculated that he had died by 20 May 1857, as that is when Emmie patented land in Navarro County in her own name, but he was alive in 1861 if he is the Dr. Tate in this article: "Last week we were shown, by Dr. Tate, the horn of a snake killed in Trinity River bottom in 1851. It is 15 1/2 inches long, very black, rather crooked, and covered to within about three inches of the point with a succession of raised rings. The snake when killed was some twelve feet long. Did anyone ever see a horned snake that could beat this?" In addition, he and Frances appear in the 1870 census for Denton County, Texas, living in or near Lewisville (with daughter Florence), in which he is described as a physician with a personal estate of $300, and in the 1880 census for Navarro County, living on Main Street in Corsicana (with daughter Florence and her husband and children), in which again he is described as a physician.^7,8,9,10

• Last Edited: 29 Dec 2021

• Charts: Descendants of Jesse Bartlett and Frances Callaway

James Farrar Bartlett

• Father: Maj. Jesse Bartlett b. 5 Dec 1791, d. 1 Feb 1838
• Mother: Frances ('Fanna') Callaway b. 29 Feb 1792, d. 20 Sep 1840

• Birth*: He was born on 9 May 1826 in Illinois.^1,2
• Death*: He died on 14 January 1846 at age 19.³

• Note*: • Not much is known about James.
  • Most likely he is named for two of his mother's brothers, James Marshall Callaway (1790-1865) and John Farrar Callaway (1773-1848).
  • He was five years old when the family arrived in Texas from Illinois in late 1831.⁴

• Last Edited: 12 Sep 2020

• Charts: Descendants of Jesse Bartlett and Frances Callaway

Henry Clay Bartlett

• Father: Maj. Jesse Bartlett b. 5 Dec 1791, d. 1 Feb 1838
• Mother: Frances ('Fanna') Callaway b. 29 Feb 1792, d. 20 Sep 1840

• Birth*: He was born on 17 March 1828 in Illinois.^1,2
• Death*: He died on 4 January 1848 in Mexico at age 19.³

• Note*: • He was not quite four years old when the family arrived in Texas in late 1831 from Illinois.
  • In the Mexican War he served as a corporal in Company G of the First Regiment, Texas Mounted Volunteers. He was mustered into federal service on 25 May 1847, received a disability discharge on 11 Jan 1848, and was mustered out of service on 1 May 1848.
  • He died in Mexico after drinking from a poisoned well.^4,5,6,7

• Last Edited: 12 Sep 2020

• Charts: Descendants of Jesse Bartlett and Frances Callaway

Lucien Lusk Bartlett

Lucien L. Bartlett's tombstone, Rader Cemetery, Kaufman County, Texas, courtesy of Frank Everett.

• Father: Maj. Jesse Bartlett^1,2 b. 5 Dec 1791, d. 1 Feb 1838
• Mother: Frances ('Fanna') Callaway³ b. 29 Feb 1792, d. 20 Sep 1840

• Birth*: He was born on 28 November 1829 in Illinois.^4,5,6,7,8
• Marriage*: He married Martha Jane C. ("Mattie") Richardson, daughter of Goin C. Richardson and Nancy J. Harrison, on 12 May 1852 in Navarro County, Texas.^9,6,10,11
• Death*: He died on 22 December 1892 in Kaufman County, Texas, at age 63.^12,5,13
• Burial*: Interment was in Rader Cemetery, Kaufman County, Texas.^14,15,16

• Scrapbook*: “Maj. L. L. Bartlett has just returned from New Orleans with a stock of 18 or 20,000 dollars worth of goods, selected with the utmost care, as to the wants of the people and at prices that will not fail to satisfy all.”.¹⁷
• Note*: • He worked for a while as a surveyor in the area that is now Fort Worth, Texas but because of Indian harrassment of his family while he was gone he moved to Chatfield and opened a dry goods store. While Lucien was in Shreveport buying goods, a competitor, who had a store a couple of miles down the Trinity River, burned down Lucien's store. The arsonist was lynched and Lucien moved to Van Zandt County, where he was a teacher and merchant and lived in Wills Point.
  • He died of neck cancer.
  • A family history says he died in 1896.^18,19,20,21

• Last Edited: 18 Sep 2018

• Charts: Descendants of Jesse Bartlett and Frances Callaway

Martha Jane C. ("Mattie") Richardson¹

Martha J. Richardson Bartlett's tombstone, White Rose Cemetery, Wills Point, Tex., courtesy of Charles O. Richardson.

• Father: Goin C. Richardson^2,3 b. 29 Mar 1804, d. 22 Jan 1870
• Mother: Nancy J. Harrison^4,5 b. c 1814, d. 31 Dec 1881

• Birth*: She was born on 31 March 1833 in Greene County, Alabama.^{6,7,8,9,10,11,12}
• Marriage*: She married Lucien Lusk Bartlett, son of Maj. Jesse Bartlett and Frances ('Fanna') Callaway, on 12 May 1852 in Navarro County, Texas.^13,14,15,16
• Death*: She died on 19 July 1891 in Wills Point, Van Zandt County, Texas, at age 58.^17,18
• Burial*: Interment was in White Rose Cemetery, Wills Point, Van Zandt County, Texas.^19,20,10

• Note*: One source gives 19 Jun 1891 as her death date. Another says she died on 18 May 1891 in Wills Point, Texas.^21,22

• Last Edited: 18 Sep 2018

• Charts: Descendants of Jesse Bartlett and Frances Callaway

Cornelia Caroline Bartlett

• Father: Maj. Jesse Bartlett b. 5 Dec 1791, d. 1 Feb 1838
• Mother: Frances ('Fanna') Callaway b. 29 Feb 1792, d. 20 Sep 1840

• Birth*: She was born on 2 March 1833 in State of Coahuila and Texas, Mexico.^1,2,3
• Death*: She died on 25 October 1833 in State of Coahuila and Texas, Mexico.^1,2

• Note*: She was the last child of her parents and the only one born in Texas. She died at age seven and a half months and probably was buried on the family property in what then was the State of Coauhila and Texas in the Republic of Mexico and now is Washington County, Texas. Ann McFadin Miller thought her death date was 26 Oct 1833.⁴

• Last Edited: 3 Apr 2022

• Charts: Descendants of Jesse Bartlett and Frances Callaway

Frances Callaway ('Fannie') Bartlett

Fannie Norvell's tombstone, Rice Cemetery, Rice, Tex., courtesy of Jerry Herring.

• Father: Joseph Callaway Bartlett¹ b. 7 Aug 1814, d. 11 Sep 1888
• Mother: Amanda Monroe Estes² b. 6 Jun 1822, d. 18 Oct 1851

• Birth*: She was born on 17 December 1840 in Washington County, Texas.^3,4,5,6
• Marriage*: She married Joseph A. Love on 2 June 1859 in Navarro County, Texas.⁷
• Marriage*: She married Samuel Johnson Norvell, son of George Norvell and Nancy Hudnall, on 3 October 1865 in Navarro County, Texas.⁸
• Death*: She died on 6 March 1913 in Powell, Navarro County, Texas, at age 72.^9,10,11,6
• Burial*: Interment was on 7 March 1913 in section E, row 7, Rice Cemetery, Rice, Navarro County, Texas.^9,12,13,14

• Obituary*: "Died at Powell Yesterday.
     "Mrs. Frances Norvell, aged seventy-two years, died at Powell yesterday afternoon [6 Mar 1913] at 1:30 o'clock and the remains were brought here this morning and taken to Rice for interment.
     "The deceased was a sister of J. M. Bartlett of Rice and is survived by four grown children, S. J. Norvell, an attorney of Corsicana, Mrs. Dr. Carter of Powell and J. B. and T. J. Norvell of Rice. Mrs. Norvell had been a resident of Navarro county for many years, and was greatly esteemed by a large circle of friends."¹⁵

• Last Edited: 8 Aug 2015

• Charts: Descendants of Jesse Bartlett and Frances Callaway

Joseph A. Love

• Marriage*: He married Frances Callaway ('Fannie') Bartlett, daughter of Joseph Callaway Bartlett and Amanda Monroe Estes, on 2 June 1859 in Navarro County, Texas.¹
• Death*: He died on 19 August 1859.²

• Last Edited: 26 Aug 2011

• Charts: Descendants of Jesse Bartlett and Frances Callaway

Samuel Johnson Norvell

Sam Norvell's tombstone, Rice Cemetery, Rice, Tex., courtesy of Jerry Herring.

• Father: George Norvell¹ b. 18 Oct 1783, d. 19 Nov 1850
• Mother: Nancy Hudnall² b. c 1794

• Birth*: He was born on 20 January 1829 in Virginia.^3,4,5,6
• Marriage*: He married Frances Callaway ('Fannie') Bartlett, daughter of Joseph Callaway Bartlett and Amanda Monroe Estes, on 3 October 1865 in Navarro County, Texas.⁷
• Death*: He died on 5 July 1912 in Navarro County, Texas (near Rice), at age 83.^8,9,10,5,11
• Burial*: Interment was in section E, row 7, lot 32, Rice Cemetery, Rice, Navarro County, Texas.^12,13,14,15

• Obituary*: "OLD CITIZEN DEAD.
     "S. J. Norvell, Sr., Had Lived in Navarro County Since 1850
     "S. J. Norvell, Sr., a citizen of Navarro county since 1850, died at his home near Rice late yesterday afternoon [5 Jul 1929], aged 83 years, and the remains were interred there this afternoon.
     "Deceased is survived by his wife and four grown children, Mrs. Dr. Carter of Powell, S. J. Norvell, Jr., of Corsicana and T. J. and J. B. Norvell of Rice."¹⁶
• Note*: In the Civil War he served in the Confederate Army in Co. E, 12th Texas Cavalry.¹⁷

• Last Edited: 8 Aug 2015

• Charts: Descendants of Jesse Bartlett and Frances Callaway

Thomas Smith Bartlett¹

Believed to be Thomas Smith Bartlett. Courtesy of Michael Pickel.

• Father: Joseph Callaway Bartlett^2,3 b. 7 Aug 1814, d. 11 Sep 1888
• Mother: Amanda Monroe Estes^4,5 b. 6 Jun 1822, d. 18 Oct 1851

• Birth*: He was born on 1 October 1843 in Washington County, Texas.^6,7,8
• Marriage*: He married Sally Edmundson, daughter of Wright Edmundson and Edith Sugg, on 1 September 1870 in Navarro County, Texas.^9,10,11,12
• Death*: He died on 3 November 1922 in Malakoff, Henderson County, Texas, at age 79.^13,14
• Burial*: Interment was in an unmarked grave in the Rice Cemetery, Rice, Navarro County, Texas.¹⁴

• Obituary*: BARTLETT—Malakoff, Henderson Co., Texas, Nov. 5.—Thomas S. Bartlett, an old citizen of Malakoff, formerly of Rice, died here Friday. Mr. Bartlett was 78 years old. He is survived by three sons, J. C. Bartlett of Wichita Falls, J. W. Bartlett of Bardwell and T. A. Bartlett of Malakoff, also one daughter, Mrs. Hettie Drummond of Corsicana. He was buried in Rice Cemetery.¹⁴
• Note*: He was a farmer in Navarro County, and it was said that he lived his entire life without leaving Texas. He was on the first board of trustees of the First Baptist Church in Rice, Texas, established in 1875. It is known from a newspaper obituary that he was buried in the Rice Cemetery, but no marker has been found and it is assumed that he was buried in an unmarked grave beside the marked grave of his wife.^15,16,17

• Last Edited: 10 May 2014

• Charts: Descendants of Jesse Bartlett and Frances Callaway

Sally Edmundson¹

Sally Edmundson Bartlett, courtesy of Michael Pickel.

• Father: Wright Edmundson² b. 8 Jan 1808, d. 12 Jul 1860
• Mother: Edith Sugg³ b. 25 Jul 1815, d. 5 Oct 1899

• Birth*: She was born on 12 April 1847 in Walker County, Texas (near Huntsville).^4,5,6,7
• Marriage*: She married Thomas Smith Bartlett, son of Joseph Callaway Bartlett and Amanda Monroe Estes, on 1 September 1870 in Navarro County, Texas.^8,9,10,11
• Death*: She died on 15 April 1895 in Corsicana, Navarro County, Texas, at age 48.^4,5,6,7
• Burial*: Interment was in section E, Rice Cemetery, Rice, Navarro County, Texas.^12,13,14

• Note*: Her name is sometimes spelled Sallye or Sallie.

• Last Edited: 3 May 2020

• Charts: Descendants of Jesse Bartlett and Frances Callaway

James Edward ('Jimmie') Bartlett^1,2

James Ed. Bartlett, courtesy of Ralph Bartlett.

• Father: Joseph Callaway Bartlett³ b. 7 Aug 1814, d. 11 Sep 1888
• Mother: Amanda Monroe Estes⁴ b. 6 Jun 1822, d. 18 Oct 1851

• Birth*: He was born on 4 November 1845 in Washington County, Texas.^5,6,7,8,9
• Marriage*: He married Piercy Lee Edmundson, daughter of Wright Edmundson and Edith Sugg, on 25 November 1869 in Chatfield, Navarro County, Texas.¹⁰
• Death*: He died on 1 March 1926 in Santa Anna, Coleman County, Texas, at age 80.^11,12,9,13
• Burial*: Interment was on 3 March 1926 in Santa Anna, Coleman County, Texas.^14,15,16

• Scrapbook*: "J. E. Bartlett has removed here [Rice, Texas] and has built a residence near the schoolhouse."¹⁷
• Obituary*: Two Deaths at Santa Anna.
  Special to The News.
  SANTA ANNA, Texas, March 4.—J. E. Bartlett, 80, a pioneer citizen of this section, died and was buried here Wednesday. . . .¹⁵
• Note*: His middle name may have been Edmond or Edmund. In the latter part of the 19th Century he lived in Rice, Texas, where it was reported in 1894 that he had built a residence near the schoolhouse. Later he farmed near Santa Anna, Texas but lived in town. Sons Ed and Will farmed with him until their marriages. He was on the first board of trustees of the First Baptist Church in Rice, established in 1875, and was a deacon in the First Baptist Church in Santa Anna for many years. After Piercy died, Jimmie and his granddaughter, Mary McCorkle, maintained the family home. He was affectionately called "Uncle Jimmie" in the community in his later years. In a 1925 pension application to the State of Texas he swore that he had enlisted in Company E, 12th Regiment, Parson's Brigade, Texas Cavalry on 1 Feb 1864 and was discharged four months later, on 10 Jun 1864 "by reason of chronic sore eyes." He also swore that at the time of application he owned a home of $1,800 assessed value and no other property. Although in response to the state's inquiry the U.S. War Department responded it had no record of his service, the state approved the pension.^18,19,20

• Last Edited: 29 Feb 2012

• Charts: Descendants of Jesse Bartlett and Frances Callaway

Piercy Lee Edmundson¹

Piercy Lee Edmundson Bartlett's tombstone, Santa Anna Cemetery, Santa Anna, Tex., courtesy of Diane Ellington.

• Father: Wright Edmundson² b. 8 Jan 1808, d. 12 Jul 1860
• Mother: Edith Sugg³ b. 25 Jul 1815, d. 5 Oct 1899

• Birth*: She was born on 26 June 1849 in Walker County, Texas.^4,5
• Marriage*: She married James Edward ('Jimmie') Bartlett, son of Joseph Callaway Bartlett and Amanda Monroe Estes, on 25 November 1869 in Chatfield, Navarro County, Texas.⁶
• Death*: She died on 26 August 1924 in Santa Anna, Coleman County, Texas, at age 75.^7,4,5
• Burial*: Interment was in Santa Anna, Coleman County, Texas.⁸

• Last Edited: 3 May 2020

• Charts: Descendants of Jesse Bartlett and Frances Callaway

Fannie Charity Walker¹

Fannie Walker Loop, courtesy of Jack and Barbara Bartlett.

• Father: German Walker^2,3 b. 29 Oct 1832, d. 26 Oct 1916
• Mother: Isa Fontaine Williams^4,5 b. 8 Jul 1837, d. 28 Jun 1909

• Birth*: She was born on 2 November 1868 in Simpson County, Mississippi.^{6,7,8,9,10,11}
• Marriage*: She married David Marion Loop, son of William Washington Loop and Sarah Catherine Naudain, on 29 June 1896 in Navarro County, Texas; They were married by Rev. J. W. Jennings of Kerens, Texas.^12,13,14
• Death*: She died on 4 October 1942 in the family home, Rice, Navarro County, Texas, at age 73.^{15,16,17,18,19,10}
• Burial*: Interment was on 5 October 1942 in the Loop and Walker plot, section C, Rice Cemetery, Rice, Navarro County, Texas.^{20,18,19,21,22}

• Obituary*: "MRS. FANNIE LOOP DIED RICE SUNDAY; BURIAL MONDAY
     "Mrs. Fannie Walker Loop, aged 73 years, widow of the late D. M. Loop, died at the family home in Rice Sunday morning following a short illness.
     "Funeral services were held Monday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock from the First Baptist church in Rice with burial in the Rice cemetery. The rites were conducted by Rev. W. H. Day and Rev. C. O. Hightower.
     "Surviving are four daughters, Mrs. Carl Heather, Rice; Miss Kellie Loop, librarian, Dallas; Mrs. R. F. Bartlett, Jr., Fort Knox, Ky., and Mrs. Hugh Gallemore, Fort Worth; three grand children, and two brothers, E. B. Walker, Ennis, and H. S. Walker, Mobile, Ala., and other relatives.
     "Pallbearers were T. D. Queen, Bob Mahaley, W. C. Mahaley, Byron Harwell, Jeff Harwell, M. E. Cummings.
     "Corley directed arrangements."²³
• Note*: It appears that they were married by Rev. J. W. Jennings of Kerens, Texas, although one version is that the marriage was performed in the bride's home by her father, German Walker, a justice of the peace. She died of hypertension and coronary occlusion.²⁴

• Last Edited: 25 Apr 2023

• Charts: Descendants of Christian Loop Jr. and Eva Airhart, Descendants of John Elias Naudain and Three Wives, Descendants of Lt. Isaac Walker and Elizabeth Stuart, Pedigree of Fannie Walker Loop

German Walker¹

German Walker, courtesy of Dorothy Bartlett.

• Father: Willis Walker^2,3,4 b. 1795, d. a 28 Oct 1850
• Mother: Charity Berry^5,6,7 b. 1798, d. 1833

• Birth*: He was born on 29 October 1832 in Simpson County, Mississippi.^{8,1,9,10,11,12,13}
• Marriage*: He married Isa Fontaine Williams, daughter of Isaac Williams and Mary ('Polly') Fountain Griffith, on 14 December 1852 in Lawrence County, Mississippi.^{14,15,16,17,18,19,13}
• Death*: He died on 26 October 1916 in Rice, Navarro County, Texas, at age 83.^8,1,20,21,13
• Burial*: Interment was on 27 October 1916 in the Loop and Walker plot, section C, Rice Cemetery, Rice, Navarro County, Texas.^22,1,21,23

• Obituary*: "JUDGE GERMAN WALKER SUCCUMBS TO OLD AGE
     "Judge German Walker, the oldest citizen of the Rice country, died Thursday afternoon at 3 o'clock, after lingering at death's door for several days. Several months ago Mr. Walker fell while attempting to rise from his chair, and since then had gradually grown weaker. Until this accident he was in good health and was remarkably strong for a man of his age.
     "German Walker was born Oct. 29, 1832, in Simpson county, Mississippi, and was married in 1852 in the same county. In January, 1882, he moved to Chatfield and resided there until about 16 years ago, when he moved to this place, where he has resided continuously since except for several extended visits to Mississippi and Alabama after the death of his wife 7 years ago.
     "Judge Walker served the cause of the Confederacy during the entire time of the Civil War as captain Company H Sixth Mississippi regiment. He rendered valuable service to the cause and took part in many important battles, the most notable of which was the battle of Shiloh. He had many narrow escapes from death and in this battle was shot through the cap.
     "After the war, during the reconstruction days, he played a prominent part in restoring the country to law and order. He served three yeas in the Mississippi Legislature during this period, and here as in private life and on the battlefield, gave to his country his best service. He also served Simpson county, Mississippi, two years as tax collector and assessor and nine years as sheriff. It is said that during this entire term as a peace officer he never drew a gun in the discharge of his duties. After moving to Texas he served this precinct for 16 years as justice of the peace, and the office has never been more efficiently filled. Judge Walker belonged to that fast vanishing type of old Southern gentlemen. For sixty two years he was a member of the Masonic order, and until ill health prevented it was a regular attendant to all its meetings.
     "Judge Walker was the father of eleven children, six of whom survive. They are as follows: H. S. Walker of Mobile, Alabama; Mrs. A. C. McLaurin of Silver Creek, Mississippi; Mrs. T. R. Harwell of Hamlin, Texas; Mrs. D. M. Loop, Miss Sallie Walker and E. B. Walker of this place. Besides his children there are 32 grand children and ten great grand children.
     "Judge Walker has a large number of friends who mourn his death. He was a gentleman in every respect, had the respect and admiration of all who knew him and led a clean moral life. Besides losing its oldest citizen, Rice has lost a man whose life's work seemed to be to bring cheerfulness to all, and whose long and useful life was due to temperance in all his habits.
     "Funeral services were held at the home of D. M. Loop Friday afternoon at 2:30, conducted by Revs. R. W. Nation and M. A. Roberts. Interment took place at Rice cemetery with Masonic honors."²⁴
• Note*: He served several terms as sheriff and tax collector, probate clerk, and tax assessor of Simpson County, Mississippi and was a member, in 1871-1874, of the Mississippi House of Representatives. They moved to Navarro County, Texas in January 1882 and farmed near Chatfield. He was a justice of the peace there for ten years until he resigned. He is listed on a muster sheet of 24 Aug 1861 as third lieutenant, Co. H, 6th Regiment, 2nd Brigade, Mississippi Volunteers, commanded by Colonel J.J. Thornton, Provisional Army under General Polk. In his 1913 application to the State of Texas for a soldier's pension, he stated that he did not have income reaching $150 per year or assets of more than $1,000, that he was not able to engage in an occupation (at age 81), that he had enlisted in Co. H, 6th Mississippi Infantry on 21 Aug 1861, served as a 1st Lieutenant in Co. H, later served in Co. B, 4th Mississippi Cavalry, and was paroled by federal authorities on 12 May 1865, "account of the war being closed." From the Rice Rustler, 11 Nov 1910: "The subject of this sketch is a true representative of the old south aristocracy—gentlemanly, dignified and courteous. . . . His early life was passed among the pleasant surroundings of a rural home, but one where the public school facilities were very limited, indeed; and as the judge himself expresses it his last school days were passed in a desparate [sic] struggle with the oldtime blue-back speller. . . . The judge is proud of the fact that he is grandfather to thirty-two children and great grandfather to ten children, living in the States of Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas. . . . Judge Walker is an incessant reader and keeps well abreast of the current events of the day. He can call to mind and talk entertainingly of all the prominent political leaders who figured in the history-making epochs of the country during the past sixty years. He served in the Confederate army for four years. Mr. Walker is a well preserved man for his age, which he attributes to always enjoying a clear conscience and to temperate living—that is to say, he always ate and drank anything he desired." He was living with daughter Fannie when he died.^25,26,27

• Last Edited: 22 Jan 2022

• Charts: Descendants of Lt. Isaac Walker and Elizabeth Stuart, Pedigree of Fannie Walker Loop

Isa Fontaine Williams

Isa Fontaine Williams Walker's tombstone, Rice Cemetery, Rice, Tex., courtesy of Jane Hall.

• Father: Isaac Williams^1,2 b. 22 Mar 1809, d. 4 Oct 1903
• Mother: Mary ('Polly') Fountain Griffith³ b. 26 Oct 1816, d. 23 May 1889

• Birth*: She was born on 8 July 1837 in Lawrence County, Mississippi.^4,5,6,7,8,9
• Marriage*: She married German Walker, son of Willis Walker and Charity Berry, on 14 December 1852 in Lawrence County, Mississippi.^{10,11,12,13,14,15,9}
• Death*: She died on 28 June 1909 in the family home, Rice, Navarro County, Texas, at age 71.^4,6,8,9
• Burial*: Interment was on 28 June 1909 in the Loop and Walker plot, section C, Rice Cemetery, Rice, Navarro County, Texas.^16,17,18

• Obituary*: Died in Rice.
  Mrs. German Walker, aged 70 years, wife of Esquire German Walker of Rice, died at the family home there last night after a lingering illness and the remains were interred there this afternoon at 4:30. Deceased is survived by her husband and several children, namely, Mrs. T. R. Harwell of Mildred; Ethel B. Walker of Corsicana, Mrs. Dave Loop and Miss Sallie Walker of Rice, and two sons in Mississippi.¹⁹
• Note*: A newspaper obituary dated 28 Jun 1909 states that she died "last night" and was buried at 4:30 in the afternoon on 28 Jun. Her grave marker says she died on 28 Jun 1909. Perhaps "last night" means during the early morning hours of 28 Jun or the late night hours of 27 Jun.²⁰

• Last Edited: 1 Jul 2019

• Charts: Descendants of Lt. Isaac Walker and Elizabeth Stuart, Pedigree of Fannie Walker Loop

Willis Walker

• Father: Rev. Francis Walker^1,2 b. 8 Jul 1758, d. 11 Mar 1846
• Mother: Charity Elizabeth Bush^3,4 b. c 1771, d. bt 1820 - 1828

• Birth*: He was born in 1795 in Edgefield County, South Carolina.^5,6,7
• Marriage*: He married Charity Berry, daughter of German Berry and Susannah Bailes, on 29 July 1819 in Wayne County, Mississippi.^8,9,10
• Marriage*: He married Martha E. Brinson on 13 October 1835 in Lawrence County, Mississippi.^11,12,13
• Death*: He died after 28 October 1850 in Mississippi.^6,14

• Note*: He was reared in South Carolina and moved to Wayne County, Mississippi in 1818 and to Simpson County, Mississippi soon after 1819. He and Martha were married by his father, Rev. Francis Walker. One source says that he and Martha married on 6 Jun 1836. Another source says that he died in 1848.^15,16

• Last Edited: 19 Jul 2020

• Charts: Descendants of Lt. Isaac Walker and Elizabeth Stuart, Pedigree of Fannie Walker Loop

Charity Berry

• Father: German Berry^1,2 b. 1766, d. 25 Apr 1834
• Mother: Susannah Bailes^3,4 b. 1780, d. 24 Aug 1863

• Birth*: She was born in 1798 in Simpson County, Mississippi.⁵
• Marriage*: She married Willis Walker, son of Rev. Francis Walker and Charity Elizabeth Bush, on 29 July 1819 in Wayne County, Mississippi.^6,7,8
• Death*: She died in 1833 in Simpson County, Mississippi.^9,10

• Last Edited: 19 Jul 2020

• Charts: Descendants of Lt. Isaac Walker and Elizabeth Stuart, Pedigree of Fannie Walker Loop

Rev. Francis Walker¹

• Father: Lt. Isaac Walker² b. 1721, d. 1807
• Mother: Elizabeth Stuart^3,4 b. c 1733, d. a 26 Aug 1791

• Birth*: He was born on 8 July 1758 in Prince George's County, Maryland.^5,6
• Marriage*: He married Charity Elizabeth Bush, daughter of Richard Bush and Mary Prescott, circa 1790 in Edgefield County, South Carolina.^7,6,8
• Marriage*: He married Elizabeth Weathersby, daughter of Isham Weathersby and Sarah Thomas.
• Death*: He died on 11 March 1846 in Simpson County, Mississippi, at age 87.^5,6
• Burial*: Interment was in Roscoe Berry Cemetery, near old Westville, Simpson County, Mississippi.^9,10

• Note*: He and two brothers, Joel and Ezekiel, moved to Edgefield (old 96th) District, South Carolina about 1780. He and Charity moved on to Wayne County, Mississippi in 1818, and they were in Simpson County, Mississippi by 1840, settling on Silver Creek and being among the county's earliest settlers. He founded Strong River Baptist Church, four miles southwest of present Pinola in Simpson County, with two others and was its first pastor. He was ordained about 1800 in South Carolina.

• Last Edited: 10 Jun 2018

• Charts: Descendants of Lt. Isaac Walker and Elizabeth Stuart, Pedigree of Fannie Walker Loop

Charity Elizabeth Bush¹

• Father: Richard Bush^2,3 b. c 1725, d. c 1 Feb 1803
• Mother: Mary Prescott^4,5 d. a 1797

• Birth*: She was born circa 1771.⁶
• Marriage*: She married Rev. Francis Walker, son of Lt. Isaac Walker and Elizabeth Stuart, circa 1790 in Edgefield County, South Carolina.^7,6,8
• Death*: She died between 1820 and 1828 in Simpson County, Mississippi.⁶
• Burial*: Interment was in Old Francis Walker Cemetery, Simpson County, Mississippi.⁶

• Last Edited: 22 Aug 2004

• Charts: Descendants of Lt. Isaac Walker and Elizabeth Stuart, Pedigree of Fannie Walker Loop

German Berry^1,2

• Father: John Berry
• Mother: _____ _____

• Birth*: He was born in 1766 in North Carolina.³
• Marriage*: He married Rebecca Dearman.⁴
• Marriage*: He married Susannah Bailes in South Carolina.^3,4,5
• Death*: He died on 25 April 1834 in Simpson County, Mississippi.³

• Note*: He married Susan Bailes after his first wife, Rebecca Dearman, died.⁴

• Last Edited: 23 Jul 2022

• Charts: Pedigree of Fannie Walker Loop

Susannah Bailes^1,2

• Birth*: She was born in 1780 in North Carolina.³
• Marriage*: She married German Berry, son of John Berry and _____ _____, in South Carolina.^4,5,3
• Death*: She died on 24 August 1863 in Simpson County, Mississippi.^4,6
• Burial*: Interment was on 24 August 1863 in Copiah County, Mississippi.

• Note*: "German Berry and his wife Susan the grandparents of Richmond Walker, Hon. L B & German Walker, settled the place now owned by L W Berry about 70 years ago. He having died many years ago, and his children having settled elsewhere, his widow Mrs. Susan Berry remained on the place until her death which occurred during the war, about 1864. She was the only white person on the place but had several slaves with her. It was known among her relatives that she had accumulated some money, but no one knew where she kept it; and after her death a search was made about her residence in every place where it was thought the money could be found but all to no purpose. It was so well known that she had money that the search was pursued and the unlikely places were being ramsacked [sic] and overhauled. There was a back room to the house which she used as a store room for plunder, such as broken chairs, unused furniture, bee gums broomstraw &c. where the hens often made nests, the door being sometimes fastened with a chain and ordinary pad lock. Believing that the money was stored away somewhere about the house, the search was prosecuted into this unlikely apartment, the old furniture was thoroughly examined the broomstraw overhauled the baskets of quilt rags were examined and nearly all hopes of finding the hidden treasure had vanished, when German Walker, who was somewhat experienced in executing search warrants, took a hens nest out of an old bee bum where a hen had hatched a brood of chickens, and found in the bottom of the gum about $1500, in gold, which was quite a sum of that coin during the war as that article was then very scarce and hard to get."⁷

• Last Edited: 23 Jul 2022

• Charts: Pedigree of Fannie Walker Loop

Benjamin Michaux Clopton¹

Benjamin Michaux Clopton, from Kansas Kin, courtesy of Pat Clopton Wheeler.

• Father: Walter Clopton Jr.^2,3 b. c 1785, d. 1840
• Mother: Martha Ann Duffer^4,5 b. 22 Dec 1808, d. 25 May 1862

• Birth*: He was born on 1 October 1828 in Wilson County, Tennessee.^6,7,8,9,10
• Marriage*: He married Mary Elizabeth McLin on 25 December 1849 in Rutherford County, Tennessee.^11,12,13,14
• Marriage*: He married Texanna Tennessee Lynn, daughter of Benjamin F. Lynn and Julietta F. Moore, on 26 February 1857 in Freestone County, Texas.^15,14,16,17
• Death*: He died on 7 April 1900 in Navarro County, Texas, at age 71.^18,14,16,19
• Burial*: Interment was in row 2, section L, Oakwood Cemetery, Corsicana, Navarro County, Texas.²⁰

• Scrapbook*: "Sold His Stock.
     "RICE, Tex., March 24 [1890].—Mr. B. M. Clopton, druggist, has sold his stock of goods to Mr. J. A. Lockey [Lackey?]. Mr. Clopton's health is such that he decided to attend to it only for a time."²¹
• Obituary*: "CLOPTON—Corsicana, Tex., April 7 [1900].—B. M. Clopton Sr., an old citizen of Corsicana, who came to Texas in 1848, died at 6:30 tonight."²²
• Note*: In 1850 he was working as a tailor in Rutherford County, Tennessee. He opened the first drug store in Rice, Texas moving there from nearby Chatfield about 1872, when the railroad reached Rice. On 19 Apr 1862 he enlisted at Springfield, Texas as a private in Company B, Nelson's Regiment, 10th Texas Infantry. He was captured 11 Jan 1863, was hospitalized at Petersburg, Virginia until April, and was exchanged 5 May 1863. The 1870 census for Navarro County, Texas describes him as a merchant and values his real property at $4,000 and his personal property at $300; it indicates the family was living near Chatfield.²³

• Last Edited: 18 Jul 2020

• Charts: Descendants of Benjamin Clopton and Agnes Morgan, Pedigree of Roger F. Bartlett Sr.

Mary Elizabeth McLin

• Birth*: She was born in 1827 in Tennessee.¹
• Marriage*: She married Benjamin Michaux Clopton, son of Walter Clopton Jr. and Martha Ann Duffer, on 25 December 1849 in Rutherford County, Tennessee.^2,3,4,5
• Death*: She died circa November 1850 in Rutherford County, Tennessee.

• Note*: She died when her daughter, Mary, was born, when she and Benjamin had been married about a year.

• Last Edited: 25 Aug 2006

• Charts: Descendants of Benjamin Clopton and Agnes Morgan, Pedigree of Roger F. Bartlett Sr.

Texanna Tennessee Lynn

Texanna T. Clopton's signature dated 2 Jun 1910 on Confederate widow's application for pension.

• Father: Benjamin F. Lynn b. 11 Mar 1804, d. 14 Jan 1881
• Mother: Julietta F. Moore b. 30 Mar 1807, d. 16 Jun 1864

• Birth*: She was born on 24 December 1837 in Red River County, Texas.^1,2,3,4
• Marriage*: She married Benjamin Michaux Clopton, son of Walter Clopton Jr. and Martha Ann Duffer, on 26 February 1857 in Freestone County, Texas.^5,6,7,8
• Death*: She died on 13 July 1915 in the home of J. L. Clopton, Hope, Hempstead County, Arkansas, at age 77.^9,10,11,12,4
• Burial*: Interment was on 15 July 1915 in row 2, section L, Oakwood Cemetery, Corsicana, Navarro County, Texas.^13,14

• Obituary*: "LADY DIES IN ARKANSAS.
     "Remains Will Be Interred Here Tomorrow.
     "Mrs. Texana T. Clopton, aged 77 years, and who had resided here for the past seventeen years, died last night in Hope, Ark., after a lingering illness. The remains will arrive here tonight at 10:30 over the Houston & Texas Central railroad, accompanied by W. W. Clopton of Corsicana and J. L. Clopton of Hope, Ark., at whose home where the end came, and the remains will be interred tomorrow afternoon at 4 o’clock in Oakwood.
     "Surviving the deceased are four children and many grandchildren. Her children are Mrs. J. M. Bartlett, Rice; Charles Clopton, Salt Lake City, Utah; J. L. Clopton, Hope, Ark., and W. W. Clopton, Corsicana.
     "The deceased had made her home with Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Clopton here for many years. She was a woman of strong character and was highly esteemed by all who knew her. For many years she had been a devoted member of the Methodist church and lived her religion throughout her long life.
     "The funeral will take place from the W. W. Clopton home, corner West First avenue and North Beaton street and Rev. J. W. Fort will officiate."¹⁵
• Note*: • In her June 1910 application for a widow's pension, based on her husband's Civil War service, she stated that she then was living in Corsicana, Texas and had lived in Texas all her life.
  • Her obituary stated that she had lived in Corsicana the last seventeen years of her life.
  • From her obituary: "She was a woman of strong character and was highly esteemed by all who knew her. For many years she had been a devoted member of the Methodist church and lived her religion throughout her long life."^16,17,18

• Last Edited: 18 Jul 2020

• Charts: Descendants of Benjamin Clopton and Agnes Morgan