I am forwarding to [email protected] a request for information about OLIVER. Please contact Dee Colvin directly at [email protected] . Thanks - Travis Hardin On 4 Nov 2001, at 18:06, Charles and Dee Colvin wrote: > Because of name similarities, places of birth, known names of siblings and her > own children's names...it is very convincing this is the parents and siblings > of Sarah Alice OLIVER b. 19 Oct 1850 GA. She was the tenth (10th) and > youngest child in the family. Widow's pension papers state they came to Texas > when Sarah Alice was 13 (1863) They were known to have been in Alabama. 5 > Jan 1875 Sarah Alice OLIVER married James Knox Polk Shelton in Ellis County > TX. First child, James Virgil was born in Hempstead, TX (Waller County) 19 > Oct 1875. Listed on the 1880 Smith Co TX Precinct 7 (Starrville) as J. P. > Shelton and Alice with children: (James) Virgil, Minnie, Lilly, William C. and > Archie. Any information on this family would be greatly appreciated. > Sincerely, ~~Dee Colvin in North East Texas > > William C. OLIVER md Elsey WHITTINGTON 11 May 1828 in Pike Co. GA > > On the 1850 Cherokee Co. AL census, page 125 893/893 > > William C. OLIVER age 46 GA (I think this may be William Chapman Oliver) > > Aisley age 41 GA (I think this may be Emma Alice nicknamed Alicey) > > William 19 GA > > Frances 16 GA (could be Frances Josephine, Sarah Alice had a sister Josie) > > Thaddius 14 GA > > Rebecca 12 GA (Sarah Alice had a sister Rebecca) > > Virgil 10 GA (Sarah Alice had a son James Virgil) > > Charles 8 GA > > James 5 GA (Sarah Alice had a brother James and they called him Jimmy) > > Sterling 4 GA > > Emma 2 GA (Emma was Sarah Alice's mother and this child could be her namesake. > > > Also, her name could be Emma Josephine, the one called Josie > > William and Aisley were both born in GA. This could be the family of Chapman > OLIVER and Emma WHITTINGTON who had 10 children. Sarah Alice was born 19 Nov > 1850 after the census. The granddaughter of Sarah Alice told me Sarah Alice > was the youngest of the 10. With a daughter named Emma (named after mother??), > and Alice had siblings Rebecca, Jimmy (James??) and Josie. The 9 children on > the 1850 census makes Sarah Alice Oliver the youngest of 10 children. > > James Oliver (brother of Sarah Alice) married a girl from West Texas who was > attending a finishing school in Starrville. Her name was Ansofia _________. > They had two daughters (Alice who married a Johnson and they lived outside > Colorado Springs, TX) (their daughter Johnnie married a Walker and they lived > outside Happy, TX) Alice lived in Grand Saline TX at one time and one of her > girls (Jewel) married a man by the name of Conine. Another girl (Sybil) lived > in Houston and I think she married a man with the name of Conine, too. Both > Alice and Johnnie had sons too, but don't know their names. Rebecca had a > drygoods store in Ft. Smith Arkansas at one time and Minnie (Shelton, JKP's > daughter) worked for her. Rebecca had a son that was a doctor in Dallas, his > name may have been Rossman > >