Posted on: Llano County Queries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Tx/Llano/394 Surname: Hallmark, Massey ------------------------- My husband's great,great,grandmother was Callie Hallmark. She is said to be the daughter of Jasper Newton Hallmark. Don't have any information, but this site might help you. http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Tx/Kimble/130 Good Luck! Penny

Posted on: Llano County Biographies Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Tx/LlanoBios/23 Surname: Metts, Ricks, Bragg ------------------------- Redden METTS, Jr was born 31 Mar 1831, Telfair Co, GA, son of Redden, Sr. He married Jincy CATO, 10 Feb 1853 in Irwin Co, GA and they lived in Putnam Co, FL in 1860; St Johns Co, FL in 1870; and in Llano Co, TX 1880-1900. They are the parents of Mary Jane b 1857, FL; Martha C. b Dec 1859, FL; Louise (Lucy) b May 1864, FL; and possibly a son John who was listed as 4 yrs oldin the 1870 census. Martha C. married Daniel RICKS about 1878 and Louisa (Lucy) married William P. BRAGG, 15 Feb 1883. Nothing further on Mary Jane and John.

Posted on: Llano County Biographies Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Tx/LlanoBios/22 Surname: RICKETSON, KUYKENDALL ------------------------- Eli and Jemima Jane Adams Ricketson (see previous bio.) had a son, Berrien, born May 3, 1880 in Llano County, TX. Berrien Ricketson married Carlos Eva Kuykendall in 1898. They had, at least, two children: 1. Wesley I. Ricketson, born October 15, 1899 2. Myrtle Ricketson born 1901.

Posted on: Llano County Biographies Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Tx/LlanoBios/21 Surname: RICKETSON, KUYKENDALL, ADAMS ------------------------- Eli Ricketson (Allen, Joseph, Timothy, Timothy, Jonathan, William) was born November 11, 1840 in Coffee County Georgia and died in Llano County,TX, January 29, 1922. He married Jemima Jane Adams, February 1861, Coffee County, Georgia. She was the daughter of William Adams and Sarah Fletcher. They were in Llano County by 1880. Eli's brothers Aaron and Hiram were in Burnet County by 1870 and by 1880 Benjamin Franklin and David were also in Llano County. Eli and Jemima Jane Ricketson had ten children, including Malinda Ricketson, born July 14, 1866 in Berrian County, Georgia. She married William H. Kuydendall, April 5,1890 in Llano County, TX. He was the son of Joseph Allen Kuydendall. The children of Malinda Ricketson and William H. Kuydendall are: 1. Louis D. Kuydendall, born January 1891 2. Emmett Kuydendall, burn January 1893 3. Willie Kuydendall, born October 1894 4. Linnie Kuydendall, born 1897 5. Lorene Kuydendall, born 1899

I am James T. Maxwells granddaughter. My grandfather was an ill man in the summer of June 12, 1912. He was 77 years old. He had prostate cancer, and cancers on his face. He suffered incontinence, and was terribly embarrassed about it. In fact he didn't want to live that way, and committed suicide. It was not a "doomsday sign due to the drought that summer." The family had known that he had been ill for sometime, and watched him where ever he was able to go. He slipped away one day went down in the back of the house to a beautiful place where a small spring fed creek continually ran, under huge pecan trees, and cut his throat with a razor. One of his daughters found him, and she said, he had the saddest look in his eyes that she had ever seen. He was dying and could not talk to her. The family carried him to the house, but it was to late to help him, he was dead. He first was buried in old Bluffton Cemetery and then he was moved later due to Buchanan Lake, to new Bluffton Cemetery. Suicide is not a trivial thing and should never be categorized that a person is mentally unstable, for some people know exactly what they are doing and mean to leave this earth due to trauma or illness. It makes for interesting reading. but sometimes life becomes unbearable for them. My grandfather was one of these people. James T. Maxwell had been in the Civil War, and he came to Texas after the war was over with his wife Elsie Spillers and their five children. They came from Yell County Arkansas. And behold, he was a Union Soldier. Which he suffered with all the days of his remaining life, he was shunned for it. Even by some family members. I hear even today that no American Flag has been placed on his grave during Memorial Day. I live in Florida and I don't get to visit Tow or Bluffton, like I would like to. I am 74 years young and not in able to do as much as I used to. There are other relatives living in the area all up in their years. After Elsie died, he married my grandmother Minta Minnie Oden from Kingsland, and they had seven children my mother Lilla was his youngest daughter. She knew many stories about the family and kept them written down in a book, not in book form but in notes about things she wanted to remember herself. and there to was a scrap book that I remember as a child, and I received after her death. She died in 1989. The James T. Maxwell family was very close and very private, you might say a little clannish.. But they were a family that laughed and cried together. None could laugh and joke more than the Maxwell daughters with their blue eyes shining sometimes with tears of joy. Most of this family is buried in Bluffton Cemetery. There are not many of us still around, but I love my family and will defend them till the day I die. No one should ever push their way in and tell stories that are questionable. If questions were asked of the family I am sure they would have been glad to tell the true story. My Grandfather James T. Maxwell. No are not ashamed of him, none of us. Maybe this will make some re-think suicide. Its not pretty or easy to deal with, but that is what he wanted. I believe in my heart that he was too tired and too sick to want to live any longer. Medical care for cancer was unheard of in those days. Faye74@exit18.com Lillie Faye Hershaw Kelly December 06, 2001

Posted on: Llano County Biographies Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Tx/LlanoBios/19 Surname: MAXWELL, DAVIS, LOFLAND, PARKS, WATSON, COFFEY, TRENTHAM, PATTON, PULLEN, SPILLERS, ODEN, CORNELIUS, MARR, PARKER, CHADWICK, BEAL, WOLF, AIKMAN ------------------------- Among the first non-German settlers in Llano Co. were the descendants of Isaac D. Maxwell and Nancy L. Byler, who married in Bedford Co. TN and lived there briefly before moving west with Isaac's brother, John H. Maxwell and wife, Elvira Byler, who was Nancy's sister, to become early residents of what became Lauderdale Co. TN. By the end of 1840, Isaac D. and Nancy had 6 children--Delcenia H., Mary B., Solomon G., James Taylor, Isaac Byler, and Elvira Ella. Some time in 1841, Nancy Byler Maxwell died, leaving Isaac D. with a houseful of minor children. No wonder in Feb. 1842, Isaac remarried Mary Ann Parker. The same fate fell on John H. Maxwell when wife #1 Elvira Byler died in the 1830's, leaving him with minor heirs as well--Abraham ABRAM B., Elizabeth, Bedford C., and John. John H. also remarried, but the name of his second wife has not as of yet been proven. Several more children were born to this relationship--William, Nathan H., Elvira, and Jane. In 1844, both John H. and Isaac D. made the decision to leave Tennesse and move to Yell Co. AR. It was here that both men would live out the rest of their lives, but by the year 1880, all but one of Isaac's children and many of John H.'s descendants would relocate in Llano Co. TX. The first Maxwell descendant to make the transition was Isaac D.'s second daughter, Mary B., called AUNT POP, who left Yell Co. AR when her husband, Edward W. NED Davis, and his family made the trek to first Williamson CO. TX in 1852, then on permanently to what became the Tow/Bluffton area of Llano Co. around 1853. The family settled on the southern side of the horseshoe bend of the Colorado River on the Christian Lange survey, adjacent to Ned's other Davis siblings who occupied the greater northern portion of the bend on the Franz Gross survey. It was here that the couple raised their children--Nancy, Delcenia Elzira, Nola P., Caleb A., Viola, and Joseph JOE. In April 1870, Mary B. Maxwell Davis found herself a young widow when NED died of pneumonia. He was buried in the original Bluffton Cemetery along with 2 of his other children who died in their youth--Margaret and Edward A. Aunt Pop remained in Llano Co. for another decade, but when her children gradually began to seek their fortunes elsewhere, she joined Viola, now Mrs. Charles R. Crews, and lived out her life in Runnels Co. TX where she is buried in Ballinger in the Crews plot. Coming to Llano in Sept. 1854 was Mary B.'s youngest brother, Isaac Byler IKE Maxwell, at age 17, whose biographical details have already been described elsewhere. During the Civil War, Yell Co. AR was a very unstable environment with many skirmishes and both Northern and Southern activity in and out of the county. In 1863, Delcenia H. Maxwell's husband, Wilburn Lofland, was home on leave, and while standing on his front porch, he was fatally shot by a Yankee bushwhacker. For safety reasons, Delcenia was sent to Llano CO. TX to live with her sister and brother for the duration of the war. However, once the war was over, she returned to Yell Co. AR where she lived, unmarried, until her later years when she answered the call for help from a recently widowed son who needed his mother to care for his young children in Rockwall Co. TX. Delcenia died there and is buried at Chisholm. Solomon G., called HORSE, because of his large size and strength--at least 6'6", around 250-300 lbs., came to Texas prior to 1860, settling in Parker Co. TX, where he married Jane COFFEY, and began his family. Prior to 1870, he joined the other Maxwell descendants in Llano Co. TX, bringing with him, his mother-in-law, Delia/Delila Trentham Coffey and his wife's brother, John H. Coffey. The land he purchased also fronted the Colorado River, so he decided to take on a project that would both serve the community and provide his family with financial means. He built and operated the first ferry used to cross the Colorado River in the area, a venture that continued with his son, Richard DICK Maxwell, in later years. Other children born to Solomon G. and Jane were Mary Byler Maxwell(m. Patton); Martha MATTIE (m. Watson); and Betty (m. PULLEN). Although all the girls married local men, only Dick and his family still have descendants in the county. When Uncle John H. Maxwell and his son, Abram B. Maxwell, both died between 1875-1878 in Yell CO. AR, the last child of Isaac D. Maxwell, James Taylor JIM Maxwell and his wife, Elsie Spillers, sold their Arkansas property and made a permanent move to the Colorado River area of Central Texas. Coming with them were their children, another Isaac D., Sarah Jane, Nancy, Mary Delcina, and James William Spillers Maxwell. When Elsie died early in 1881, Jim married Minta/Minnie, called "Aunt Mint", Oden. The older children did not approve of their father's remarrying, so even though most had married into Llano Co. families, all left the county except for James W.S. who still has descendants here today. James Taylor JIM and Minnie Oden Maxwell raised a large family which included Lou, Pleasant El, Zella M., Ellie, John Jackson, Lora L., and Liller Estelle. In June, 1912, James Taylor, who had developed some mental instability in his later years, over-reacted to a drought in the area at the time as a doomsday sign, took his own advice, and slit his own throat in a dry creekbed on his own property. Ironically, relatives related that it rained the day of his funeral. Members of the James Taylor Maxwell family still live in Llano Co. today with the names of Morgan, Milliron, Key, Bauman, Walton, among others. Although the youngest child of Isaac D. and Nancy L. Byler Maxwell, Elvira Ella, called ELLIE, was in and out of Texas following the Civil War, she and husband, Capt. Jordan Stokes Parks, returned to their home in the Yell CO. AR area (actually, just across the line in Scott CO. AR near Parks, AR) prior to 1870 when Jordan died. Ellie is listed as a widow on the census in that year with the following children: Annie L.; Alexander ALEX Thomas; Delcenia DELLA; William Jordan; Isaac H.; and Robert BOB Parks. Shortly thereafter, Ellie also moved to Llano CO. TX., living near her brother, Ike Maxwell. In 1889, Elvira Maxwell Parks decided to remarry--John Samuel Watson, an already twice-widower on the Burnet CO. side of the river, whom Ellie had known back in early Yell Co. AR. The marriage only lasted a few years because John S. Watson died in 1891, leaving Ellie a widow known the rest of her life by many as "Aunt Ellie Watson." Ellie continued to live in Llano Co., but around 1905, she went to visit her son, William Jordan Parks, in Wise Co. TX, near Alvord. That area of Texas is aptly titled "tornado alley," because while she was there, Ellie lingered inside the house longer than she should have with an impending tornado on the loose. Failing to reach the safety of the shelter where the other family members were, she was killed, and is buried in the Hopewell Cemetery, Alvord, TX. Most of her descendants in Llano Co. today stem from her son, Alex Parks who m. Arcena CENA/CENIE Davis. Although many of John H. Maxwell's children died young or never married, several of his descendants also came to the Llano Co. area prior to 1880. Following the death of son, Abram B. Maxwell, John H.'s minor grandchildren, under the guardianship of Abram's oldest son, Thomas A. Maxwell m. Harriet Marr, came to TX about the time James Taylor Maxwell did. These minor children included John William who m. Sarah Wolf in Llano Co.; Viola Ann m. in Llano Co. Wm. Hardin Oden; Mary J., whose Arkansas fiance also came--Ben Aikman; Malcolm C. MACK; and Abraham, Jr. Not to be outdone was Thomas A. Maxwell's oldest sister, Elvira who had married John Allan Marr, Harriet's sister. Elvira Marr and two of her infant children are buried at Bluffton. Eventually, most of these children removed their families to either Oklahoma or areas of Texas near Oklahoma. Remaining permanetly, however, was MACK Maxwell, whose home was located near the original Bluffton up until the community was covered by Lake Buchanan. Although Mack had 3 different wives--Mary C. Chadwick, Lenna Davis, and Mary Parker Beal--he was left with no children to survive beyond a few years. Two more of John H. Maxwell's family also moved to Llano Co. Son, John Maxwell, from marriage #1 to Elvira Byler, never married, and spent most of his life in various adventurous activities in California and other parts unknown. However, as he grew old, he sought more security, especially the security of family, causing him to seek Llano Co. for his place of residence at the time of his death. He lived with his Bluffton area relatives, dying at age 69 in 1905. He, too, is buried at Bluffton. Another daughter of John H. Maxwell by wife #2 was Elvira Maxwell, who married as a young teen in Yell Co. AR to William Cornelius. She died in 1860, still in her teens, but left one child, John William Cornelius. When the other Maxwells left Yell Co. AR pre 1880, John William Cornelius came with them to Llano Co. and married a Llano Co. native, Telitha Davis, daugher of early settler, M.D.L. Davis. All the Corneliuses in this area today are descendants of his. The fact that this biography is a mini-novel is indicative of the impact the two Maxwell lines of Isaac D. and John H. Maxwell had on the development of the early days of Llano County.

Posted on: Llano County Biographies Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Tx/LlanoBios/17 Surname: MAXWELL, DAVIS, GARRETT, TOW, JOHNSTON ------------------------- In the summer of 1854, Edward W. NED Davis and his father William K. BILLY Davis returned to Arkansas on a business trip. Billy Davis died in Arkansas, but before NED left the state, he returned to his former home in Yell Co. AR to visit family and friends. It was here that the decision was made for his 17 year old brother-in-law, Isaac Byler IKE Maxwell, to return to TX with him. Receiving a mule from his step mother and the rifle that had belonged to his father from his oldest brother, the young strapling 6 ft. 1 in. lad left his Arkansas home for a new life in a new land. According to Ike himself in an interview at age 93, he and NED crossed the Colorado on Sept. 8, 1854. Ike's first employment in the new land was, like everyone else in the area, either directly or indirectly connected to the Salt Works operation at present day Tow. Ike's job was to cut firewood to use to boil the water in the large salt vats. Llano Co. became an official county toward the end of 1856. It is said that the first marriage license issued after the county was created was for Ike Maxwell and Margaret Melcenie (MAGGIE) Davis, the youngest sister of NED. In July of 1859, their first child was born, James Lafayette JIM Maxwell. Two more children would come in the next few years, William Isaac (called DOUG-pronounced DOOG), and Nancy Ella ELLIE Maxwell. In December of 1866, Ike took his young family to help with crops in the Field Creek area--probably to help and visit with Maggie's brother, Benjamin F. Davis, who had settled there pre 1860 with his wife's family--the Johnstons. On Dec. 24, 1866, for whatever reason, Maggie died. Ike made her coffin out of wood, placed her body in a wagon along with the children, and took her body back to the other side of the county for burial in the Tow Cemetery. About a year later, Ike married a second time. This time to Abigail C. GARRETT, who was related to the Tow early settler Merrill Simpson Garrett, although the exact relationship has not 100% been proved. Abigail would bear Ike several more children, several which died as infants, & Nathan H., who died in pre-adolescence. Other children included John B.; who settled in New Mexico as a married adult, Margaret M. MAG, who ended up in Merced Co. CA by the 1920's; Mary, who was accidentally killed with a gunshot to the back shoulder when her husband and brother-in-law were scuffling; and Dock, who lived out his life in Burnet. Abigail and an infant son who was about 7 days old both died in April, 1878, and were buried together in the same grave. Ike married for the third time in 1879 to the niece of his first wife--Mary Elzira Davis, oldest child of Maggie's brother Caleb A. Davis and Sarah Ann Tow Davis. Born to this union was Mark and a twin brother who died; Bertha, who died as a young child; Clyde; Solomon SOL, who ended up in NM; Ernest ERN; and McGary, who died as a young man around 1919. Ike Maxwell lived a long life--to age 94--most which was in Llano Co. During this time, he made quite an impact on the area and its development. On several occasions, he served as a county commissioner to Pct. 2. During the time the State Capitol building was to be constructed, he represented Llano and several adjoining counties as the area's state representative in Austin. As a legislator, he was the person responsible for encouraging the structure to be made of Texas granite as opposed to limestone. When this was decided, it was Ike who saw that the granite came from Burnet Co., and since he was also on the state prison committee, it was decided to use prison labor to move the granite. When the capitol was completed, a coin with Ike's name was placed inside the cornerstone, and Ike was given a memorial of granite used in the capitol as a momento, which is still in the family today. In the Austin area, he became known as "Old Granite Ike." In addition to Ike's civic achievements, he was also an early day gospel minister, performing scores of marriages in both Llano and Burnet Co, not to mention the many funerals and pulpit sermons. He was originally associated with the Disciples of Christ, which later became Church of Christ. In his old age, his eyesight was poor, so he had his granddaughter, Honerhea Maxwell, read scripture to him. He continued to preach--sitting down--right up until his later days when he became physically unable. And, through the years, since persons attending services had some distance to travel, he always had them in his home for Sunday dinner. Ike died Dec. 15, 1931, being one of the first persons to be buried in the New Bluffton Cemetery, which had been purchased from Ross HOLLAND to re-inter the bodies that had to be moved from their original grave sites in areas that would soon be covered by the rising waters of the Colorado River once Buchanan Dam was completed. One of these places was the community of Bluffton, which received its name from Ike Maxwell himself in honor of his former Yell Co. home in Bluffton, Arkansas. He was 94. His widow, called Aunt Mary IKE to distinguish her from another Mary Maxwell in the area known as Aunt Mary MACK, continued to live on Ike's Confederate Pension he had received for service as a frontier scout in Llano Co. during the Civil War. She died in 1938 and is buried beside him in the New Bluffton Cemetery.

Posted on: Llano County Biographies Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Tx/LlanoBios/15 Surname: Kuykendall, Ricketson ------------------------- Eva Kuykendall Ricketson of Llano (born 4/24/1881, died 7/15/1971 in Lavaca county) was the mother of "Son", Myrtle (Lady Cochran) and Bessie (the younger). Myrtle had no children (at least none living), Bessie had two sons, my father Walter Ben Thurmond, Jr. and his younger brother Gene Berrien Thurmond who passed away in 1989. Bessie's sister Myrtle (Lady), born 10/10/1900 passed away in June of 1980. Bessie also passed away sometime in 1980's but I have not yet located her death certificate. She was living in Lavaca county at the time of her death but was interred in a family plot in Harris county. Also, have noted a Wesley Ricketson born 10/15/1899, died 10/1965 in Little Rock, Ark. His SS# was issued in Texas prior to 1951. Will secure copy of application asap.

Posted on: Llano County Queries Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/genbbs.cgi/USA/Tx/Llano/393 Surname: Cooper, August, Zacher, Talberg, Greenstone, Augustczyk ------------------------- Tell me more about your Cooper and August families. I have a Lewis Cooper that married Kate (Kitty) August. Kitty died in 1927, buried in NY. Lewis took his twin sons to Illinois and that's the last we heard of them.

Looking for the burial place of Redden(Redding) METTS, Jr. b 1831 and died between 1900-1910probably in Llano Co. His wife Jincy (b 1824) died 1880-1900 in Llano. Redden is listed in the 1880 and 1900 Llano Co census, but his wife does not appear in the 1900. Would greatly appreciate someone checking Llano Cem records. Nancy in AZ

Llano Co. subscribers, I am in search of the burial site of Ms. Mary Watkins. Mary M. Clark was first married to James Sexton in 1859 in Bell/Williamson Co. James died about 1864 and Mary then married David Watkins in Williamson Co. They then moved to San Saba Co. The latest that I have found them is on the 1900 census of San Saba Co. David died in 1904 and is buried in the Oatmeal cemetery in Burnet Co. I have not been able to find the death date nor the burial place of Mary. Here is my question. Does anyone have access to the Llano Cemetery Book. I contacted Sue Ashby and she said that she will not be back home until the first of March. Her copy of the book is at home. Can anyone provide the information from that book. Also, is there a listing in that book for Malinda (Horn) Pankey, wife of Edward Pankey. I believe that I have been told that Malinda died in 1878 and is buried in the Blufton Cemetery. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Keith Reed 1101 Crowley Rd. Arlington, Tx., 76012

Posted on: Llano County Queries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Tx/Llano/392 Surname: Ricketson, Kuykendal ------------------------- My great grandmother was Eva Ricketson (maiden name believed to be Kuykendal) she had two daughters Bessie and Lady (I think Lady was really a Myrtle) and a son, whom I only knew as Uncle Son. Bessie was married to Ben Thurmond and had two sons Walter and Gene and Lady married Rupert Cochran. Son was married to a lady named (I think) Margaret or Marguerite and disappeared some time after her death. Would like to trace family and hopefully find out what became of Son. Eva grew up in Llano and I believe that is where Son lived when his wife died. I know there are cousins in the area but have no names to go on. Any information would be much appreciated.

Posted on: Llano County Queries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Tx/Llano/391 Surname: Pointer, Isenhower, Blevins ------------------------- The Isenhower families moved to Cass County, Texas from Montgomery County, Arkansas. They moved about,Barnett (who married Polly Pointer), probably died in Johnson County, Texas,his son John was born in Texas in 1854-5, and Polly's first child with Squire Blevins was born in 1857. Found: in "Montgomery County, " (Our Heritage)" Caroline Pointer died in childbirth, in Montgomery County in 1850, she was thirty years old.(page 299) A George Pointer was murdered in march of 1850, as he worked in his fields, he was falsy accused of a crime by the "Regulaters". The Judge disbanded the Regulaters (page 290)

Posted on: Llano County Queries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Tx/Llano/390 Surname: TRENT, COGGIN, CONNOR ------------------------- All marriages in Llano Co. prior to 1880 were lost in a courthouse fire. However, I am interested in information on the TRENT family. I know the mother was named Jane and that there were several children living with her as a widow in Llano Co. in 1870, including your Isaac Riley, and again in 1880. Implications are that several of her children did not marry, or were quite old when they married. Daniel H. Trent m. Emily Harriet COGGIN, a daughter of James Coggin, and sister to Marina Coggin CONNOR, John R. COGGIN, and Andrew Jackson (Jack) COGGIN, but Emily died shortly before the 1870 Census, leaving Daniel with seveal small children. Eventually, Daniel and these children end up in Mills Co. TX, area of Goldthwaite. I would be interested in the whereabouts of Jane and the rest of her descendants after Llano Co. for a research project I am doing. I am not a descendant, but this family is included in my research, and I am indirectly related to the COGGIN family through the WIVES of John R. and A.J. COGGIN. Karylon A. Russell, Box 823, Llano, TX 78643 krussell@moment.net

Posted on: Llano County Queries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Tx/Llano/389 Surname: BILBERRY, BILBREY, HUFFMAN, MEDLOCK, PATE ------------------------- Susan: I have done a lot of original research on the MEDLOCK family you mentioned in your post. I have been to the county courthouse and county clerk's office in Bell, Llano, Gillsepie, Mason, and Burnet Counties in TX, places the MEDLOCKs lived at various times. Please email me directly to exchange info. I have a lot of information you did not post and vice versa. I can answer some, but not all of your questions.

Posted on: Llano County Queries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Tx/Llano/388 Surname: isenhower ------------------------- I do not think Andrew is in our line. We have most of the Isenhower family, births and such, but lost some of them along the trails they followed. Husband's branch started in N.C. - to Missouri - Arkansas - Texas, - in Navarro County, Cass, Johnson and Callahan. It seemed they traveled back and forth, so we could have lost some along the way. My mothers line of Gunn were in Bell County, I have most of them, They were around Temple in Troy.

> I have started a new mailing list called > TX-ROLLCALL. It is a mailing list for anyone who just wants to post > surnames and dates in hopes of connecting with others researching the > same surnames in Texas > > To subscribe to this list - have your members send the word subscribe to > > TX-ROLLCALL-L-request@rootsweb.com or > TX-ROLLCALL-D-request@rootsweb.com for the digest form. When they get > their confirmation, they can then send their query to > TX-ROLLCALL-L@ROOTSWEB.COM > > I look forward to helping this list grow and become another tool for > those researching in Texas. > > Kathleen Burnett > List Mom > > > > >

Posted on: Llano County Queries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Tx/Llano/387 Surname: Isenhower ------------------------- I am working on the Little Flock Cemetery in Bell County Texas (near Temple). I have a James Andrew Isenhower b. 7-19-1846 d. 6-17-1879 parents are J.D & M.A. Would he possibly be a part of the family you are working on? I would like to be able to list his parent's names and his wife if he had one. Kathy Brisbin Kvbrisbin@earthlink.net

Posted on: Llano County Queries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Tx/Llano/386 Surname: Pointer Isenhower ------------------------- 1850 census, Montgomery County,Arkansas BARNET ISENHOWER age 29 b. Missouri Mary Ann age 21 Sarah age 2 Elizabeth Ann age 6mo. We had lost track of this family, until we received the answer to my query. Certainly we were pleased to know she was in Llano County, Texas. The letter from all of you have helped. The Isenhower family moved from Arkansas to Johnson County but we had no news of Barnett our great Uncle. Moses went back to AR. and joined the Confederate Army, died at Fort Thompson on Island #10 in 1862. He was 38 but told them he was 35. Valentine came to Texas located in Navarro County then to Callahan County. Mahala was in Missouri in 1860 her husband was a teacher also Justice of the peace. Martha, Emmaline and we think Martha were in Arkansas then moved to Texas. The Mother, Sarah died on the trip to Texas. The above children were the children of John and Sarah (Bayly) Isenhower The other son Josiah E. moved and worked in Louisana. He died in 1868 and was sent back to Missouri to be buried.

Posted on: Llano County Queries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Tx/Llano/385 Surname: POINTER, BLEVINS, ISENHOWER ------------------------- Re your message regarding the Blevins of Llano Co. TX It would appear that the Mary Ann "Polly" Pointer who married Barnett Isenhower and later Squire Blevins was most likely the daughter of John Pointer and his first wife Evelina Capehart. There are only two Pointer families that I am aware of in the Montgomery Co. AR area in that timeframe. In 1840 John Pointer is found in Pulaski Co. MO 30-40, 1 F 30-40, 1 f 10-15, 2m 5-10, 1 f 5-10, 2 m <5, 1f <5. He married Evelina Capehart in Gasconade Co. MO on 8 April 1827. On the 1840 Census, they are located near the Frederick Capeharts, and a Butler family. John's brother George Pointer, married Ruth Butler, also in Gasconade Co. MO. Both George and John Pointer moved to Montgomery Co. AR. George was killed in 1850 in AR. His widow Ruth Pointer is not far from John Pointer as shown in the 1850 census. George's daughter Mary is in residence with Ruth on this census. Mary was born in 1832, according to the census and thus could not be the Mary Pointer who married Barnett Isenhower. John Pointer is shown as follows on the 1850 Census in Montgomery Co. Both his first and second wives have died. 1850 Montgomery Co. AR Family #10/10 Pointer, John 44 M KY Farmer John 18 M MO Frederick 15 M MO Mila 13 F MO George 11 M MO Eliza T. 9 F MO Sam'l 6 M MO James M. 2 M AR [Son of his second wife] Bartlett,Henry 6 M AR [Stepson] The 1840 Census had shown two daughters who are missing from this record: one born between 1825-1830, another born between 1830-1835. Mary Ann (Polly) would fit the profile of the oldest of these two daughters. John's daughter Eliza Jane married Lorenzo Dow Meek; his son, Frederick Marion Pointer, married Diana Jane Blevins, and his son, George, married Elizabeth Meek. These families all moved to Texas. The parents of John Pointer were William Pointer and his wife Sarah. William left a will in 1820 in Gasconade Co. MO naming his children. William was the son of George Pointer Sr. whose wife's name is not proven and he most likely had several wives. He is known to have served in frontier militias, owned land on the Green River in KY, his children married in various counties in KY before the family moved to MO c. 1810. Several members of this family signed in 1812, an early petition from the Gasconade Co. area which later became MO. Those listed in the petition are believed to be sons/grandsons of George Pointer Sr., but not all of them have been proven by documentation.