Lelia, I checked what I have but when you get a chance, could you check on the following John C. Eldridge in Washigton County, Texas. With him having a son named Bouling Eldridge...I would think that these families in Washington County, Texas might be descended from the Eldridge "Pocahontas" Line. 1850 WASHINGTON COUNTY, TEXAS Page 301 O.? B. Eldridge - 23, male, white, Doctor, born in Virginia Sarah - 18, female, white, born in Tennessee William - 2, male, white, born in Texas John - 1/2, male, white born in Texas (Note: Index says H.B.E. Eldridge. Not sure about the "O", the E was picked up in the name Eldridge.) Page 302 ELDRIDGE, J. C. - 39, male, white, Farmer, born in Virginia A. F. - 35, female, white, born in North Carolina John - 17, male, white, born in Virginia V. - 14, female, white, born in Virginia Marv - 10, male, white, born in Virginia Bolivar - 9, male, white, born in Virginia Francis - 8, male, white, born in Virginia T. - 5, male, white, born in Virginia JACKSON, Hester - 16, female, white, born in Alabama PERRY, J. S. - 13, female, white, born in Texas RAWLESS, C. - 13, female, white, born in Texas Mary - 14, female, white, born in Mississippi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------------------- 1860 WASHINGTON COUNTY, TEXAS Page 153 ELDRIDGE, John C. - 49, male, white, Farmer, born in Virginia Amanda - 45, female, white, born in South Carolina Virginia - 20, female, white, born in Virginia Bouling - 18, male, white, born in Virginia Frank - 16, male, white born in Virginia Thomas - 14, male, white, born in Virginia Mildred - 8, female, white, born in Texas ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------------- 1870 WASHINGTON COUNTY, TEXAS Page 251 ELDRIDGE, J. C. - 59, male, white, Farmer, born in Virginia H. F. - 54, female, white, Keeping House, born in Virginia Milldnd - 18, female, white, born in Texas ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------- 1880 WASHINGTON COUNTY, TEXAS Page 016 ELDRIDGE, John C. - 69, white, male, Farmer, born in Virginia, father born in Virginia, mother born in Virginia Nora - 48, wife, white, female, Keeping House, born in Maine, father born in Maine, mother born in Maine Source: Actual film of Census ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------- JOHN C. ELDRIDGE WILLIAM PENN, WASHINGTON CTY, TEXAS WILLIAM PENN, TEXAS. William Penn is on Jackson Creek and Farm Road 390 (here the route of the La Bahia Road), twelve miles northest of Brenham in northern Washington County. The site is three miles south of Hidalgo Bluffs, the Brazos River site of the Hidalgo settlement during the Republic of Texas. It was originally a Mexican land grant to Old Three Hundred settler Isaac Jackson and was purchased in 1839 by another Old three Hundred member, John G. Pitts. The area was also settled in 1849 by Virginian JOHN C. ELDRIDGE who named the settlement after the steamboat "William Penn", which called at the nearby ports Warren and Washington in the 1850s. About 1850 Robert Hallum, an early Texas builder, constructed ELDRIDGE House at William Penn. It is the only house designed by Hallum that still survives. Until 1903, when the house was purchased by German immigrant Henry Muegge, it was a center of social activity in the area. Originally William Penn was a plantation settlement composed of Anglo-Americans and blacks. Before the Civil War German immigrants moved in; they later became the dominant ethnic group. ....... Source: "Texas Handbook on Line"