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James D. Estes

• Birth*: He was born circa 1786.¹
• Marriage*: He married Eunice Williams, daughter of Nimrod Williams and Christiana Griffin.^2,3
• Death*: He died on 27 December 1851 in Washington County, Texas.⁴

• Note*: He was born in Tennessee or Virginia, was in Missouri by 1820 (where he worked in silver mines), and moved to Texas after 1825. He was an early resident of Fort Bend County, Texas. He died from yellow fever during an epidemic. His probate estate was valued at more than $7,000.^5,6

• Last Edited: 29 Jan 2024

• Charts: Pedigree of Roger F. Bartlett Sr.

Eunice Williams

• Father: Nimrod Williams^1,2,3,4,5 b. 10 Feb 1750, d. 18 Feb 1820
• Mother: Christiana Griffin^6,7,8,9 b. 1758, d. 1811

• Marriage*: She married James D. Estes.^10,11
• Death*: She died before 1851.^12,13

• Note*: She must have died before her husband's death in late December 1851, as she does not appear to be listed as an heir to his estate.¹⁴

• Last Edited: 29 Jan 2024

• Charts: Pedigree of Roger F. Bartlett Sr.

Burwell Edmundson¹

• Marriage*: He married Patsy Mooring, daughter of Burwell Mooring.
• Marriage*: He married Sallie Taylor.

• Last Edited: 3 May 2020

Lemuel Sugg^1,2

• Father: John Sugg b. 1732
• Mother: Elizabeth Murphrey

• Birth*: He was born on 17 February 1776.³
• Marriage*: He married Nancy Hardy, daughter of Lemuel Hardy Jr. and Mary Sutton, in 1802.³
• Death*: He died on 14 November 1852 in Greene County, North Carolina, at age 76.³

• Last Edited: 16 Jul 1996

Nancy Hardy^1,2

• Father: Lemuel Hardy Jr.
• Mother: Mary Sutton

• Birth*: She was born on 24 March 1772.³
• Marriage*: She married Lemuel Sugg, son of John Sugg and Elizabeth Murphrey, in 1802.³
• Death*: She died on 22 October 1844 in North Carolina at age 72.³

• Last Edited: 16 Jul 1996

Lemuel Edmundson¹

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

• Birth*: He was born on 19 June 1842 in Walker County, Texas.
• Death*: He died on 18 June 1844 in Walker County, Texas, at age 1.

• Last Edited: 3 May 2020

William John Wright Edmundson¹

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

• Birth*: He was born on 9 July 1845 in Walker County, Texas.^4,5,6,7
• Death*: He died on 22 December 1914 in Navarro County, Texas, at age 69.⁸
• Burial*: Interment was in section E, Rice Cemetery, Rice, Navarro County, Texas.^9,10,11

• Note*: Some sources give 19 Dec 1914 as his death date. In the Civil War he served in the Confederate Army as 3rd Sgt. Co. A Volunteers 17th Brigade under Capt. James W Barnes.^12,13,14

• Last Edited: 3 May 2020

Josiah ('Joe') Edmundson¹

• Father: Wright Edmundson^2,3 b. 8 Jan 1808, d. 12 Jul 1860
• Mother: Edith Sugg^4,5 b. 25 Jul 1815, d. 5 Oct 1899

• Birth*: He was born on 23 September 1854 in Chatfield, Navarro County, Texas.^6,7,8
• Marriage*: He married Eudora Ernestine ('Dora') Pickering, daughter of Ira Pickering and Sara Jane Wilson, on 5 June 1892 in Rice, Navarro County, Texas.^9,10,11,12
• Death*: He died on 8 November 1952 in his home, Tupelo, Navarro County, Texas, at age 98.^{13,10,7,6,8,14}
• Burial*: Interment was on 11 November 1952 in section E, Rice Cemetery, Rice, Navarro County, Texas.^15,16,17,14

• Obituary*: "Joe Edmundson Services Sunday
     "Funeral services for Joe Edmundson, 98, who died at his home in Tupelo Saturday were held Sunday at 3 p.m. from the First Baptist church at Rice. Burial was in the Rice Cemetery.
     "The rites were conducted by Rev. Jack Bell, pastor of the church and Rev. G. C. Henry, Baptist minister.
     "A native of Chatfield, he had resided in Northeast Navarro county all of his life.
     "Surviving are a son, J. W. Edmundson, Anthony, N.M; two daughters, Mrs. R. B. Burdine, Tupelo, and Mrs. J. E. Ayers, Dallas; three grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
     "Pallbearers were John Bowden, R. M. Bowden, Clark McMullan, Pleas Mitchell, Ralph Wheeler and Ernest Cummings.
     "Corley directed."¹⁸
• Note*: • He lived in northeastern Navarro County, Texas all his life.
  • They farmed near Tupelo, Texas. He lived with his daughter, Maud, and her husband, Baxter, from 1935 until his death in 1952.^19,20

• Last Edited: 3 May 2020

Eudora Ernestine ('Dora') Pickering¹

• Father: Ira Pickering² b. 1834, d. 11 Sep 1897
• Mother: Sara Jane Wilson³ b. 1839, d. 1 Feb 1873

• Birth*: She was born on 1 February 1873 in Rural Shade, Navarro County, Texas.^4,5,6,7
• Marriage*: She married Josiah ('Joe') Edmundson, son of Wright Edmundson and Edith Sugg, on 5 June 1892 in Rice, Navarro County, Texas.^8,9,10,11
• Burial*: Interment was on 18 December 1914 in section E, Rice Cemetery, Rice, Navarro County, Texas.^12,13,14,15
• Death*: She died on 18 December 1914 in the family home, Tupelo, Navarro County, Texas, at age 41.^{4,16,17,18,15}

• Obituary*: • “Woman Badly Burned Near Rice.
     "Special to The News.
     "Rice, Navarro Co., Texas, Dec. 17 [1914].—News reached here late yesterday that Mrs. Dora Edmondson, wife of W. J. Edmondson of the Tupelo community, while in her back yard cooking out a kettle of lard, sustained severe burns when her dress caught fire. It is said there is little chance for her recovery.”
     • “Edmondson—Corsicana, Texas, Dec. 18 [1914].—Mrs. Joe Edmondson, aged 41, died at the family home in the Tupelo community, this morning at 1 o’clock, as a result of burns received several days ago. The remains were laid to rest at Rice this morning.”.^19,20
• Note*: Her mother died on the day she was born.⁴

• Last Edited: 12 Jun 2019

Julia Edmundson¹

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

• Burial*: Interment was in Chatfield, Navarro County, Texas.
• Birth*: She was born on 11 February 1838 in North Carolina.
• Death*: She died in 1857 in Waxahachie, Ellis County, Texas.
• Marriage*: She married Frank Killiam on 4 February 1868 in Chatfield, Navarro County, Texas.

• Last Edited: 3 May 2020

Frank Killiam¹

• Marriage*: He married Julia Edmundson, daughter of Wright Edmundson and Edith Sugg, on 4 February 1868 in Chatfield, Navarro County, Texas.

• Last Edited: 2 Apr 1995

Burwell Edmundson^1,2

Burwell Edmundson, from Navarro County History, vol. 2, p. 387.

• Father: Wright Edmundson³ b. 8 Jan 1808, d. 12 Jul 1860
• Mother: Edith Sugg⁴ b. 25 Jul 1815, d. 5 Oct 1899

• Birth*: He was born on 27 January 1842 in Walker County, Texas.^5,6,7
• Marriage*: He married Jane Tabitha Heys on 25 November 1869 in Chatfield, Navarro County, Texas.^8,9
• Death*: He died on 31 January 1942 in Rice, Navarro County, Texas, at age 100.^5,6,10
• Burial*: Interment was in section E, Rice Cemetery, Rice, Navarro County, Texas.^11,12,13

• Note*: He was born about four miles east of Huntsville, Texas, on Harmons Creek, where his parents farmed and his father operated a blacksmith shop and a mill powered by a water wheel. Burwell remembered being told, at age 5 or 6, by a bearded, old wheelwright that if he lived to be as old as the wheelwright he would see people flying through the air. The family moved to near Chatfield in 1854 and two years later moved to Waxahachie, where they operated a ranch, blacksmith shop, and grocery store. Burwell worked carrying the mail by horse between Waxahachie and Athens in 1857, and in 1858 the family moved to Waco, where Burwell's father operated a hotel until he died in 1860. Burwell remembered seeing Cynthia Ann Parker at the hotel after she was taken from her Indian family. He, his mother, and his siblings moved to a farm in Navarro County, between Chatfield and Porter's Bluff. He enlisted in the Confederate Army in August 1862 and was at the Battle of Vicksburg. He was released by the Union Army on July 10, 1863, about a week after the surrender, and Burwell walked most of the way back to Navarro County while suffering from malnutrition. After a two-month rest, he reported to Galveston and served on guard duty there until the end of the war. He then returned to Chatfield and worked driving cattle to Shreveport and New Orleans until 1869. After their marriage, Burwell and Jane lived for a couple of years in a log cabin between Chatfield and Porter's Bluff, then moved in 1871 to a farm about 4-5 miles south of Oak Grove, in Ellis County, where the children attended school, and in 1894 moved to Rice, where he and Jane lived the rest of their lives.

• Last Edited: 3 May 2020

Jane Tabitha Heys^1,2

Jane Tabitha Heys Edmundson, from Navarro County History, vol. 2, p. 387.

• Birth*: She was born on 5 March 1851.^3,4,5
• Marriage*: She married Burwell Edmundson, son of Wright Edmundson and Edith Sugg, on 22 November 1869 in Navarro County, Texas.^6,7,8
• Death*: She died on 14 May 1927 in Rice, Navarro County, Texas, at age 76.^3,4,5,9
• Burial*: Interment was on 15 May 1927 in section E, Rice Cemetery, Rice, Navarro County, Texas.^10,11,12,13

• Note*: "AGED RICE WOMAN LEAPS TO DEATH TO AVOID SNAKE IN CAR
     "Mrs. Jane Edmondson, aged seventy [sic], of Rice, Texas, was fatally injured Saturday afternoon when she became frightened by the discovery of a snake in the car and jumped from the automobile. She died at 8:30 Saturday night, and funeral services were held in Rice Sunday afternoon.
     "The car was driven by her daughter, Mrs. H. C. Bartlett. The accident occurred on the Rice-Ennis road about one mile from Rice. Mrs. Edmondson saw the snake as it crawled out from under the front seat toward her, and she jumped with fatal results."¹⁴

• Last Edited: 2 May 2020

Frances Edmundson¹

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

• Burial*: Interment was in Rice, Navarro County, Texas.⁴
• Birth*: She was born on 14 February 1836 in North Carolina.
• Marriage*: She married William Pigg in 1858 in Waco, McLennan County, Texas.
• Death*: She died on 16 August 1911 in Waco, McLennan County, Texas, at age 75.

• Last Edited: 3 May 2020

William Pigg¹

• Marriage*: He married Frances Edmundson, daughter of Wright Edmundson and Edith Sugg, in 1858 in Waco, McLennan County, Texas.

• Last Edited: 8 Sep 1996

Nancy Ren Edmundson¹

• Father: Wright Edmundson^2,3 b. 8 Jan 1808, d. 12 Jul 1860
• Mother: Edith Sugg^4,5 b. 25 Jul 1815, d. 5 Oct 1899

• Birth*: She was born on 7 October 1840 in Mississippi.
• Death*: She died on 19 April 1884 in Rice, Navarro County, Texas, at age 43.⁶
• Burial*: Interment was in section E, Rice Cemetery, Rice, Navarro County, Texas.^7,8

• Last Edited: 3 May 2020

Edith Edmundson¹

• Father: Wright Edmundson^2,3 b. 8 Jan 1808, d. 12 Jul 1860
• Mother: Edith Sugg^4,5,6 b. 25 Jul 1815, d. 5 Oct 1899

• Birth*: She was born on 21 July 1851 in Walker County, Texas.^7,8,9
• Death*: She died on 5 October 1935 in Navarro County, Texas, at age 84.^10,11,12,9
• Burial*: Interment was in section E, Rice Cemetery, Rice, Navarro County, Texas.^13,14,9

• Last Edited: 3 May 2020

Burwell Mooring¹

• Last Edited: 23 Sep 2020

Sallie Taylor¹

• Marriage*: She married Burwell Edmundson.

• Last Edited: 6 Apr 1995

John Sugg¹

• Father: Aquilla Sugg

• Birth*: He was born in 1732.
• Marriage*: He married Elizabeth Murphrey, daughter of John Murphrey and Elizabeth Harrison.

• Last Edited: 8 Jan 1998

Elizabeth Murphrey¹

• Father: John Murphrey
• Mother: Elizabeth Harrison

• Marriage*: She married John Sugg, son of Aquilla Sugg.

• Last Edited: 8 Jan 1998

Aquilla Sugg¹

• Father: George Sugg d. 1734

• Last Edited: 6 Apr 1995

George Sugg¹

• Father: William W. Sugg

• Death*: He died in 1734.

• Last Edited: 6 Apr 1995

William W. Sugg¹

• Last Edited: 6 Apr 1995

Lemuel Hardy Jr.¹

• Father: Lemuel Hardy
• Mother: Elizabeth Parrott

• Marriage*: He married Mary Sutton, daughter of Thomas Sutton and Elizabeth Chancey.

• Last Edited: 22 Nov 1997

Mary Sutton¹

• Father: Thomas Sutton b. 15 Mar 1699, d. 3 Feb 1750
• Mother: Elizabeth Chancey b. 8 Dec 1701

• Marriage*: She married Lemuel Hardy Jr., son of Lemuel Hardy and Elizabeth Parrott.

• Last Edited: 22 Nov 1997

Lemuel Hardy¹

• Marriage*: He married Elizabeth Parrott.

• Last Edited: 6 Apr 1995

Elizabeth Parrott¹

• Marriage*: She married Lemuel Hardy.

• Last Edited: 6 Apr 1995

Thomas Sutton¹

• Father: Joseph Sutton b. 6 Aug 1673, d. 18 Jan 1723
• Mother: Parthenia Durant b. 1 Aug 1675

• Birth*: He was born on 15 March 1699.
• Marriage*: He married Elizabeth Chancey, daughter of William Chancey and Deborah Symons.
• Death*: He died on 3 February 1750 at age 50.

• Last Edited: 8 Jan 1998

Elizabeth Chancey¹

• Father: William Chancey
• Mother: Deborah Symons

• Birth*: She was born on 8 December 1701.
• Marriage*: She married Thomas Sutton, son of Joseph Sutton and Parthenia Durant.

• Last Edited: 8 Jan 1998

William Chancey¹

• Marriage*: He married Deborah Symons.

• Last Edited: 6 Apr 1995

Deborah Symons¹

• Marriage*: She married William Chancey.

• Last Edited: 6 Apr 1995

Joseph Sutton¹

• Father: Nathaniel Sutton b. c 1637, d. 29 Dec 1682
• Mother: Deborah Austine

• Birth*: He was born on 6 August 1673.
• Marriage*: He married Parthenia Durant, daughter of George Durant and Ann Marwood, on 18 June 1695.
• Death*: He died on 18 January 1723 at age 49.

• Last Edited: 30 Nov 2003

Parthenia Durant¹

• Father: George Durant
• Mother: Ann Marwood

• Birth*: She was born on 1 August 1675.
• Marriage*: She married Joseph Sutton, son of Nathaniel Sutton and Deborah Austine, on 18 June 1695.

• Last Edited: 30 Nov 2003

George Durant¹

• Marriage*: He married Ann Marwood.

• Last Edited: 6 Apr 1995

Ann Marwood¹

• Marriage*: She married George Durant.

• Last Edited: 6 Apr 1995

Nathaniel Sutton¹

• Father: George Sutton b. c 1620, d. 12 Apr 1669

• Birth*: He was born circa 1637.
• Marriage*: He married Deborah Austine on 12 August 1668.
• Death*: He died on 29 December 1682.

• Last Edited: 6 Apr 1995

Deborah Austine¹

• Marriage*: She married Nathaniel Sutton, son of George Sutton, on 12 August 1668.

• Last Edited: 6 Apr 1995

George Sutton¹

• Birth*: He was born circa 1620.
• Death*: He died on 12 April 1669.

• Last Edited: 6 Apr 1995

Nathaniel Tilden¹

• Marriage*: He married Lydia Huckstep.

• Last Edited: 6 Apr 1995

Lydia Huckstep¹

• Marriage*: She married Nathaniel Tilden.

• Last Edited: 6 Apr 1995

John Murphrey¹

• Father: Michael Murphrey
• Mother: Elizabeth Hampton

• Marriage*: He married Elizabeth Harrison, daughter of Hon. Benjamin Harrison and Elizabeth Burwell.

• Last Edited: 6 Apr 1995

Elizabeth Harrison¹

• Father: Hon. Benjamin Harrison b. 1673, d. 10 Apr 1710
• Mother: Elizabeth Burwell b. 1677, d. 1734

• Marriage*: She married John Murphrey, son of Michael Murphrey and Elizabeth Hampton.

• Last Edited: 6 Apr 1995