From: <KTrouvat@aol.com> To: <TXCORYEL-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, November 05, 2001 5:18 AM Subject: {not a subscriber} MCCAIN, COOKE, HARLAN, GARRARD > Hi List Folks, > > Looking to share information with anyone researching the McCAIN families of > Ellis County, TX, connected to COOKE, HARLAN or GARRARD families of > Robertson, Limestone or Coryell Counties, TX. > > My great great grandfather, Peter E. McCain and his brother Jacob came to > Ellis Co. in 1870's from Marshal Co. AL by way of Red River Co, TX. > > Peter E. McCain's son Rufus A. McCain married Sophronia Eudora (Dora) GARRARD > IN 1876, probably in Ellis Co. She was about 15 years old. They settled in > Milford. > > Sophronia (Dora) Garrard was an orphan whose parents Tom GARRARD and Jane > (WILDS) COOKE? had died in a fever epidemic in Calvert, Robertson Co. in > 1873. Thomas GARRARD was residing in Springfield, Limestone County at the > 1850 census and in Coryell County with wife Jane and the beginnings of their > family at the 1860 and 1870 censuses. > > Jane Wilds was possibly a daughter of Jane HARLAN'S first marriage to > Augustus W. COOKE, early settler and first surveyor of Robertson County. > > When her parents died in 1873, the 11-year-old Sophronia (Dora) was sent to > live with relatives in Ellis Co., perhaps a member of the COOKE family? > > Would anyone know of a connection between Augustus W. COOKE of Robertson Co. > and Wilds K. COOKE of Limestone? > > > 1. MCCAIN (b.1790-TN?;d.1830-,TN) > sp: Sarah (b.1790-,TN;m.1814;d.1850-,AL) > 2. Martha A. MCCAIN (b.1815-,Roane,TN) > 2. Sarah Adaline MCCAIN (b.1817-,Roane,TN) > sp: Alexander HALL(m.1847) > 2. Nancy MCCAIN (b.1820-,Roane,TN) > sp: William WIGGS (b.1816-,,NC;m.1850) > 2. Jacob MCCAIN (b.1823-,Roane,TN;d.1900-,Ellis,TX) > sp: Elvira CLOUD (b.1827-NC;m.1845;d.1858-,,AL) > 3. Malissa E. MCCAIN (b.1846-AL) > 3. William Lafayette MCCAIN (b.1847-AL) > 3. Nancy Adeline MCCAIN (b.1850-AL) > 3. Mary Ann MCCAIN (b.1851;d.1917-near New Hope,Madison,AL) > sp: George Calhoun FRAME (m.1877) > sp: William WEBB (m.1900;d.1938) > 3. Martha A. MCCAIN (b.1853-AL) > 3. Peter E. MCCAIN (b.1855-AL) > 3. Sarah E. MCCAIN (b.1857-,Marshall,AL) > sp: Eliza Rebecca CRETCHER (m.1867) > 3. Lucy D. MCCAIN (b.1868-,Madison,AL) > 3. Walter W. MCCAIN (b.1869-,Madison,AL) > 3. James Henry MCCAIN (b.1871-,Madison,AL) > sp: Daisy WALLACE (b.1871;m.1891) > 4. Nettie L. MCCAIN (b.1892) > 4. Floyd J. MCCAIN (b.1894) > 4. William J. MCCAIN (b.1896) > 4. Elsie M. MCCAIN (b.1899) > 4. Aaron Dawson MCCAIN (b.1901) > 4. Henry Curtis MCCAIN (b.1903) > 4. Charles Medford MCCAIN (b.1905) > 4. Elva Rebecca MCCAIN (b.1908) > 4. Ruth MCCAIN (b.1914) > 4. Ruby MCCAIN (b.1915) > 3. Mary E. MCCAIN (b.1874) > 3. Anna J MCCAIN (b.1876-,,AL) > 3. Lula MCCAIN (b.1879-,,TX) > 2. Peter E. MCCAIN (b.1830-,Roane,TN;d.1907-Maypearl,Ellis,TX) > sp: Tranquilla KING (b.1831-,TN;m.1850;d.1910-Maypearl,Ellis,TX) > 3. Rufus Andrew MCCAIN > (b.1852-Guntersville,Marshall,AL;d.1942-Milford,Ellis,TX) > sp: Sophronia Eudora GARRARD > (b.1862-,Coryell,TX;m.1876;d.1941-Milford,Ellis,TX) > 4. Annie MCCAIN (b.1878-Milford,Ellis Co,TX;d.1966-Italy?,Ellis,TX) > sp: HARRIS > sp: George OLIVER > sp: S. A. TODD (b.1876;d.1958) > 4. "Bettie" T. MCCAIN (b.1880-Milford,Ellis Co,TX;d.1901-Milford,Ellis,TX) > 4. Johnnie W. MCCAIN (b.1883-Milford,Ellis Co,TX;d.1958-Dallas,TX) > sp: Frank F. HENSLEY (b.1888;d.1950) > 4. Thomas E. MCCAIN (b.1886-Milford,Ellis Co,TX;d.1904-Milford,Ellis Co.) > 4. Jessie G(ladys) MCCAIN (b.1887-Milford,Ellis Co,TX;d.1889-,Ellis Co,TX) > 4. Ethel Loraine MCCAIN (b.1888-Milford,Ellis Co,TX) > sp: Jim HENSLEY > 4. Lucia Gladys MCCAIN (b.1891-Milford,Ellis Co,TX;d.1975-Dallas,TX) > sp: Sanford A. JOHNSON (b.1894-Mertens,Hill,TX;d.1951-Dallas,Dallas,TX) > 4. Ruby Lee MCCAIN (b.1895-Milford,Ellis Co,TX;d.1980-Dallas,TX) > sp: FEW > 4. Pauline M. MCCAIN (b.1897-Milford,Ellis Co,TX;d.1975-Dallas,Dallas,TX) > sp: Hurd HORTON > 4. Horace MCCAIN (b.1899-Milford,Ellis Co,TX;d.1971) > sp: Rachel PIERSON (b.1893;d.1980-,TX) > 3. Jacob A. MCCAIN (b.1856-Guntersville,AL;d.1937-,Fisher,TX) > sp: Martha Lue HENRY > 3. Thomas C. "Pomp" MCCAIN (b.1857-Guntersville,AL;d.1904-Milford,TX) > sp: Elizabeth MILLER (b.1861;m.1880;d.1942) > 3. Mazie Addie MCCAIN (b.1859-,Marshall,AL;d.1937-Maypearl,Ellis,TX) > sp: James P. THOMAS (m.1880) > 3. Sarah Ann Eliza MCCAIN > (b.1861-Guntersville,Marshall,AL;d.1900-Milford,Ellis,TX) > sp: William Worth DARROW (m.1878) > 3. Mary Tranquilla MCCAIN > (b.1867-Guntersville,Marshall,AL;d.1946-Italy,Ellis,TX) > sp: Robert Darling HARRIS (m.1883) > 4. Ollie HARRIS (b.1884-Italy,Ellis Co,TX;d.1969-Italy,Ellis Co,TX) > sp: Oliver WINDHAM (m.1905) > 4. Isham Green HARRIS (b.1886-Italy,Ellis Co,TX;d.1937-Italy,Ellis Co,TX) > sp: Ruth JONES (m.1911) > 4. Henry HARRIS (b.1888-Italy,Ellis Co,TX;d.1974-Waxahachie,Ellis Co,TX) > sp: Callie SCALLY (m.1913) > 4. Roger Peter HARRIS (b.1890-Italy,Ellis Co,TX;d.1960-Italy,Ellis Co,TX) > sp: Eva HICKMAN (m.1917) > 4. Leona HARRIS (b.1892-Italy,Ellis Co,TX) > sp: E. Mills REVIER (m.1915) > 4. Ralph HARRIS (b.1896-Italy,Ellis Co,TX;d.1952) > sp: Wilma MADDOX (m.1917) > 4. Jerome Bonaparte Rankin HARRIS (b.1898-Italy,Ellis Co,TX;d.1987-Italy) > sp: Hazel BATEMAN (m.1922) > sp: Ottie Davis BURBANK > 4. Robert January HARRIS (b.1901-Italy,Ellis Co,TX;d.1959-Italy,Ellis Co) > sp: Ruby Hicks BUMPAS > 3. James MCCAIN (b.1869-Guntersville,AL;d.1880-,TX) > 3. Amanda E. MCCAIN (b.1872-,Ellis Co,TX;d.1953-Dallas,TX) > sp: M. Clay CORNWELL Dr. > 3. John D. MCCAIN (b.1873-,Ellis Co,TX;d.1940-,Ellis Co,TX) > sp: Minnie O. FONDROW > 4. Geneva MCCAIN > sp: GLENN > sp: Minnie HENDERSON > > > Regards, Karen Trouvat > >