Thanks...got it saved in a safe place now! Ann -----Original Message----- From: Possum <possum@gulftel.com> To: TXBELL-L@rootsweb.com <TXBELL-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Tuesday, April 27, 1999 9:46 PM Subject: Fw: [TXBELL-L] Chalk: Robert Lewis; Whitfield, William Roscoe | |Mary Ann you sent this on the Chalk family on the 27th... |Debbie |---------- | | |Pg. 386 | |Robert Lewis Chalk | |Robert Lewis Chalk, son of William Roscoe Chalk and Frances Omsgy |Blackburn, |was born August 25, 1841, Maury County, Tennessee. He came to Bell County |with his parents in 1851. On November 18, 1861, he enlisted for Civil War |service at Belton as a private in Company F, 6th Texas Infantry, under |Captain H.E. Bradford. Later, he was promoted to corporal and then to |sergent. A regiment was organized at Victoria, with Colonel R.R. Garland |in |command. | |In spring 1862 the company marched to Arkansas Post, Arkansas and arrived |about September 1. He fought in the Battle of Arkansas Post and was |captured January 11, 1863, when the Confederate forces were defeated. He |was taken to Camp Butler Prison, near Springfield, Illinois, but escaped |and |joined the Missouri Volunteers, North Missouri, and was first lieutenant in |Captain Marion West's company. | |After the war, Chalk received a law degree at Lebanon, Tennessee. On |August |3, 1870, he married Anne Margaret Butcher in Comanche, Iowas, where she had |been born on August 16, 1851. Her family moved there from Randolph County, |West Virginia. Her parents were Edward G. Butcher and Sarah Ann Wilson of |Virginia. They were descendants of Honorable John Hart, who signed the |Declaration of Independence; Sir Warham St. Leger, a member of Virginia |House of Burgesses in 1609; and Governor Richard Bennett of Virginia. |After |their marriage, Robert Lewis Chalk practiced law in Belton for many years. |He was a Mason and the family were members of the Methodist Church. | |Children of this marriage were: Sarah Minna who married William Thomas |Scott II, then Harry Hyman; George Otis who married Mary Elizabeth Nunn; |Robert Lee; William Edward; and Lelia Blanche who married Robert Lee |Dalton. Mrs. Anne Butcher Chalk died December 25, 1891 and her marked |grave |is in South Belton Cemetery. | |On January 21, 1897, at Killeen, Chalk married Mrs. Sophia Walker Manning, |born January 22, 1862, in Bastrop. After their marriage, Chalk was mayor |of |Killeen for several years. One daughter, Nora Ethel, was born of this |union. She married William Frederick Page. Chalk died July 7, 1914, in |San |Antonio and his marked grave is in South Belton Cemetery. The second wife, |Sophia Manning Chalk, died in Killeen. By her previous marriage she had |one |daughter, Dell, who married J.M. Gray at Killeen on February 14, 1916. | | |Pgs. 386 - 387 |<Picture: "Major Whitfield Chalk served as the first sheriff of Williamson |County and in 1848 built the first mill on Salado Creek."> | |Whitfield Chalk | |Major Whitfield Chalk, son of William Chalk and Elizabeth Williams, was |born |April 2, 18ll, Hertford County, North Carolina. After being ordained a |minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church, he immigrated to Texas in 1833. |By 1842 he was a resident of the municipality of Milam. While living here |he served as a lieutenant in J.G.W. Fisher's company which repulsed Adrian |Woll"s invasion of San Antonio. | |On October 17, 1842, he enlisted for the Somervell Expedition and was |commissioned a major. He was a member of Mier Expedition and was among |those captured; however, he escaped with Caleb St. Clair from Mier on the |evening the Texans capitulated, December 25, 1842. They hid under stacks |of |cane and, after terrible hardships, finally returned home. | |Whitfield was commissioned a major on August 5, 1844, in Second Regiment, |First Brigade, Republic of Texas Militia, by General Sam Houston, President |of the Republic. While holding this office, Chalk married Mary Fleming on |August 9, 1847. | |For services rendered to the Republic of Texas, Chalk received a grant of |320 acres of land in Milam County. Evidently, after their marriage, the |Chalks resided in the western part of Milam County, which was later divided |into Williamson and Bell Counties. After Williamson County was created |March 13, 1848, Major Chalk became the first sheriff of the new county. | |Whe the census of 1850 was taken, Whitfield Chalk and family were listed in |Milam County, probably in that part which became Bell County on January 22, |1850. He gave his occupation as millwright. He and his brother, Ira, had |built the first mill on Salado Creek. The family was living in Bell County |in 1860 and he gave his occupation as milling. | |Later, this family lived in Brenham, Texas, and by 1873 were residents of |Lampasas County. He died May 19, 1902, in that county and his wife died |there on January 1, 1903. In 1944 the federal government erected a marble |marker at his grave commemorating his service in the Mexican War. Major |and |Mrs. Chalk were the parents of nine children. | |Page 387 | |William Roscoe Chalk | |William Roscoe Chalk, son of William Chalk and Elizabeth Williams, was born |August 28, 1816, Hertford County, North Carolina. Elizabeth was the |daughter of Rev. William Williams and Catherine Elizabeth Roscoe, who |pioneered from Tidewater, Virginia. The Chalks moved from North Carolina |to |Maury County, Tennessee, when our subject was a child and later he owned |502 |acres of land at the head of Cathey's Creek, District No. 1, Tenneessee. |Here, he was ordanined a Methodist Episcopal minister. | |Frances Omsby Blackburn and W.R. Chalk were married September 27, 1838, |Maury County, Tennessee. She was born there February 21, 1821, daughter of |Captain John Porter Blackburn and Nancy Churchwell. He fought with General |Andrew Jackson in the War of 1812. She was the granddaughter of Captain |Ambrose Blackburn of Revolutionary fame and whose ancestor was Colonel |Thomas Blackburn of Rippon Lodge, Virginia, eight miles from Mt. Vernon, |where Colonel Blackburn was buried in 1758. Two of his daughters married |nephews of Colonel George Washington and are buried at Mt. Vernon by |Washington's Tomb. | |This Chalk family moved to Bell County, Texas, in 1851. In the 1860 census |he was listed as a carpenter. During the Civil War he was appointed in |1864 |to the Home Guard. In the 1870 census he gave his occupation as farming. | |W.R. Chalk, a Master Mason, died March 4, 1893 in Belton, Texas and his |wife |died there on April 25, 1875. Their marked graves are in South Belton |Cemetery. Their family included the following children: Robert Lewis; |John |William Douglas who married Jennie Geneva Bell; Nancy Elizabeth; Virginia |Octavene who married William Taylor Lee; Ellis Blackburn who married Mrs. |W. |Bell; Mary Frances; Valera Katherine; and Florence Itaska who married John |David Earnest. | | | | |==== TXBELL Mailing List ==== |Please Keep Messages To Matters of Bell County Genealogy Or | History Interest! 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