Do you have anything on the parents of Jackson McElroy? Dortha ----- Original Message ----- From: "Callie Waits" <calliewaits@digitex.net> To: <TXERATH-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 10:18 PM Subject: Re: [ERATH] King--McElroy--Hardie > Hello > Thanks for writing. This is very interesting History. > My line of Kings are from Bottom to top: > Josephine King married Jackson H. McElroy. Her parents were William King > and > Winnifred Hardie King. They had 13 children. > Josephine > Sarah > Mary > Laurvicy > Theophilus James > Argent Aurora > Frances Arena > Georgeann > Katherine Elizabeth > Nancy > Susan Armenta > William Robert Edgar Lee King > Jennetta Belle > William's parents were Bennet and Mary "Polly" ? King. Bennet king was > from > S. Carolina and moved to Georgia. William was in Stewart County GA and > Dale > County Alabama before coming to Texas. William had some siblings, I only > know of John Jehu and Hiram. Josephine died at age 29 and is buried at > Hico > TX, Winnefred is buried at White Church Cemetery close to Glen Rose TX. > William left her and last 2 children and they never heard from him again. > Some say he went to Oklahoma. > Thanks again for the info. I appreciate your going to so much trouble for > me. > Callie > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Charles A.Wyly" <wyly1@juno.com> > To: <TXERATH-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 8:57 PM > Subject: Re: [ERATH] King--McElroy--Hardie > > >> Hi, >> Which Kings?In the Txerath Archives is a note which indicates that Dr. >> King of Tarleton was not related to the King Family of the former >> Missouri Governor King, whose descendants were attorneys and ran the King >> and Brauer Title and Abstract on the east side of the Stephenville >> Courthouse Square. They were apparently Sevier Distant cousin of the Wyly >> family in Erath County. >> >> Nancy Sevier, daughter of Gov. and Col. John Sevier of Tennesse and >> leader in Rev. War Battle of King's Mountain, North Carolina was the >> sister of Elizabeth Sevier, , the mother of Sarah Hawkins Clark, who >> married James Rutherford Wyly in the Governor's Mansion(? Marble Springs >> Log Cabin ?)when Col, Sevier was Governor at Knoxville. he had 17 >> children. One was killed at King's Mountain Battle by Maj. Patrick >> Ferguson's Loyalist Tory Militia. >> >> Nancy married Walter King, B. 1764, Virginia. He and Seviers ran a >> Sullivan County Iron Works, Tennessee. . One of this family was engaged >> to Sam Houston when she died. >> >> Children of Nancy ands Walter were >> >> 1. Walter King, left Tennessee Descendants. >> 2. Amanda, B. 1798 and married in MissouriHusbaands were a Bayless and a >> Brazeale, who was killed in Misouri by a Mormon group. >> >> 3. Gov. Austin Augustus King, B. 9/28/1801, Tennessee MarRied 1. NANCY >> HARRIS ROBERTS, 2. MARTHA WOODSON, . He buried in Misouri and as a >> District Judge had sat on the trial of Navoo, Mo. Mormons before they >> started to Utah. Gov. King had10 children. His sister was head of the >> House when he was Governor. William's son William m. a Pence in Mo and a >> Clark in Stephenville, Texas. >> >> 4. William Rufus King, >> 5. Maria >> 6.Sarah >> 7. Nancy >> 8. Louisa, b. 1811, married a Cox, he died and she married his brother. >> 9. and other children are listed of Gov. King- with several descendants >> in Erath County, Texas. >> next Generation-Thomas Benton King, m. Clara Bingham in Erath County and >> was a Stephenville Teacher, and Judge appx. 1900He was in Texas >> Legislature, 1919. >> Austin Augustus King #3 was a Stephenville Newspaper publisher and never >> married, >> >> several more pages of Kinf Descendants in Erath County- too many to list >> tonight. They should be in the Sevier or King family trees in Rootsweb. >> Some rumor says that these Kings were related to the owner of the King >> Ranch, who left Missouri as a Merchant Seaman from a Missouri port- but >> this has not been positively documented.Supposedly a Shipping Company did >> some financing of the King Ranch. I also had a Cousin on Wyly Line- >> MATTIE ROBERTS SOMERVILLE who died in 1990's and I have her records from >> West Monroe, La. of her Alabama- Ga- Miss. King , Quillian, Sparks, >> McCarty, Hall, ancestors and kin. - half a File box full. >> she was a Certified Geneaologist active in DAR in West Monroe and >> Natchitoches, La. and also has Louisiana Edwards, and Cleveland >> connections. >> >> >> For more info, go to Stephenville or Tarleton for the following book- In >> Waco we can get a copy on loan from Univ. of Tennessee at Knoxville- >> sometimes Ebasy has a copy for sale. >> Book is SEVIER FAMILY HISTORY- WITH LETTERS OF Gen. John Sevier (he >> REPRESENTS Tennessee IN hall OF state IN Washington d.c. and served in >> 1st, 3rd, and another U.S. Congress and was Tennessee Gov. at least 6 >> times..Also Gov. of the rejected State of Franklin ( East Tennessee- West >> North Carolina. ) he appointed my Wife's Ancestor Jeremiah Jack of >> Holston , Tenn as first sheriff and County Commisioner of Knox County >> Tenn. they often visited in the historic Ramsey House of Holston on >> Sunday nights. >> >> Half the book is Family Tree pages of Sevier Descendants from the >> parents of Marie D'Xavier and Dr. Juan Jasso of Navarre, Aragon, and >> Pamplona ( Burbons and Basque) down to a few dozen families in Erath >> County on various lines, sent in by family researchers and recorders. The >> Book is appx. 500 pages and includes Graves, Hawkins, Kay, Clark, >> Hatchett, and many other names in Erath County today. This traces the >> Hugenot Xaviers to England where they joined Sevier kin who had already >> Anglicized the name. >> >> Confused yet?I am - too much info in this book. And yes, Recently said >> that our Major William Clark who married Elixabeth Sevier, was the baby >> brother of George Rogers Clark of Lewis and Clark Expeditions up the >> Missouri. Bosque is a Basque word adopted by Spanish and Basque Soldiers >> in honor of Grecian Del bosque or Bosque Del Rondo - the Clerk of the >> Royal Court of Navarre. Documents in the Sevier Family History are signed >> that way. Crests in this book include, Conway, Craig, Davis, Douglas, >> Eskeridge, Ewing, Hawkins, Sawyer, Warren, and of St. Francis Xavier. >> Also McNeil history . >> , >> Charles A. Wyly >> >> By Nancy Sevier Madden and Cora Bailes Sevier >> Second printing, 1982 >> >> >> William Augustus King (5 Generations from Col. and Gov. John Sevier, of >> Knoxville, Tennessee) was City Attorney of Richmond, Missouri, before >> moving to Texas. He had 2 children by first wife and 1 by second Wife. >> Daisy Dean King was born 10/10/1879, Spotted Fawn Ranch, Erath County, >> Texas and son Edward King m. !. Maude Cochran in Cleburne, Texas 2. >> Thelma Doss, 3. M. Mary Evelyn Howie. Jaunita was born to Wife #1. >> >> On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 10:55:46 -0800 Callie Waits <calliewaits@digitex.net> >> writes: >> > Hello Erath County Researchers, >> > I am new to this list. >> > I am researching King, Hardie, McElroy,and other connecting names >> > to these. >> > I would like any information that you are willing to share and I >> > will share >> > what I have. >> > Respectfully >> > Callie >> > >> > >> > >> > ==== TXERATH Mailing List ==== >> > --- Author Retains Copyright --- >> > -- Copyright 2005 Author -- All Rights Reserved >> > Post to List: TXERATH-L@rootsweb.com http://www.selfroots.com >> > Unsubscribe request To: TXERATH-L-request@rootsweb.com >> > ARCHIVES: http://searches2.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl >> > >> > >> >> >> >> ==== TXERATH Mailing List ==== >> --- Author Retains Copyright --- >> -- Copyright 2005 Author -- All Rights Reserved >> Post to List: TXERATH-L@rootsweb.com http://www.selfroots.com >> Unsubscribe request To: TXERATH-L-request@rootsweb.com >> ARCHIVES: http://searches2.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl >> > > > > ==== TXERATH Mailing List ==== > --- Author Retains Copyright --- > -- Copyright 2005 Author -- All Rights Reserved > Post to List: TXERATH-L@rootsweb.com http://www.selfroots.com > Unsubscribe request To: TXERATH-L-request@rootsweb.com > ARCHIVES: http://searches2.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl >