My ancestors, James M. ENLOE & wife, lived around Van Alstyne, and their daughter, Nancy ENLOE, married James Avory FREEMAN. Nancy & James had children: James Lemuel Freeman, Hortense Freeman who married a MORRIS, and Genevieve "Jenny" who married Arthur ENGLAND. James Avory Freeman's mother remarried a MORTON or MARTIN, that lived in or near Sherman, TX. Would like contact with the MORTON or MARTIN family. Thanks, Sallie

Researching Houseman/Housman/Housmon surname from in and around Van Alstyne. Obituary: Mrs. Sophronia Housman died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. John Marr, in this city on May 7, 1900, and the remains were laid beneath the sod in the Van Alstyne cemetery on the following day. Deceased was born in Illinois (Schuyler County) in (August 16) 1832, but when only a prattling child, her father, John Durall, moved to Texas and, with his little daughter, settled near Greenville, Hunt County (between 1840 & 1842). Here the happy period between sunny child-hood and hopeful womanhood was innocently spent and when the bud had blossomed full grown, she was married to James Housman (on April 20, 1848 in Hopkins County), whose joys and sorrows she shared in life and by whose side she now sleeps in death. Soon after her marriage she moved to Illinois, her native state, where they resided until 1884, when they returned to Southern climes and located at Van Alstyne, Tex., where one year later the husband passed into the mystic beyond (on December 10, 1885). Mrs. Houseman has lived in Van Alstyne since the death of her husband, where she has ever emphasized the blessed hope of immortality by her many deeds of Christian charity, she being a member of the Baptist church since childhood. Five children (of 7) survive here: Mrs. John Marr (Ida Mae) and G.W. (George Washington) Houseman of this city, S.H. (Sylvester H.) Houseman of Princeton, Mo., (Mrs.) W.J. (Mary F.?)Thurman of McKinney and Mrs. S.J. (Eliza) Bridwell of Streator, Ill. The writer has been intimately acquainted with G.W. Houseman of this city and S.H. Houseman of Princeton for a number of years, and takes pleasure in saying their rugged honesty and good citizenship are rarely equaled and never surpassed. With this brief sketch of this dutiful daughter, loving wife and exemplary mother we commend the spirit to God who gave it, and offer our sincere sympathy to grieving relatives who yet remain on this side of death's dark abyss. A Friend. Many Thanks! Chris Durall Morgantown, WV