This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Miller, Modesette, McLaughlin Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hkB.2ACE/9802 Message Board Post: Rockdale Reporter, Thur., 17 Aug 2006 Blanche Miller Modesette, 91, of Rockdale died Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2006 at Manor Oaks Nursing Home. Graveside services were held 10 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 10, at Pleasant Hill Cemetery with Rev. John Warren of St. John’s United Methodist Church officiating. She was born Jan. 6, 1915 in the Pleasant Hill Community to Emil and Mytle (McLaughlin) Miller. Mrs. Modesette, a homemaker and she lived most of her life in Austin and Bartlett. She was also a musician and loved playing the piano. She often played for the Senior Citizens Center and the nursing home. Mrs. Modesette was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Gayle Tarver Modesette, on July 23, 1988; a daughter, Judy Gayle Modesette. on Dec. 14, 2003; a sister, Eleanor Jenkins; and two brothers, Reginald Miller and Pat Miller. Survivors include two daughters, Betty Morton and husband Lloyd of Rockdale and Alice Edmondson and husband Billy Don of Marble Falls; a sister, Ethel Lanford of Austin; six grandchildren, Sandra Satcher and husband C.H., Linda Morton, Rhoni Collier, Evan Edmondson and wife Mandy, Darla Farmer and Philip Payne; eight great-grandchildren, Susie Hubnik, Scotty Matthews, Ethan, Carli and Greyson Edmondson, Mitch Surovik, Alyssa Lord, Ricky Meitzen; and six great-great-grandchildren, Dakota and Katy Hubnik, and Jessica, Wyatt, Bradley and Byron Surovik; also, numerous nieces and nephews. Memorials may be made to the Pleasant Hill Cemetery Fund.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hkB.2ACE/9177.3.1 Message Board Post: Jennie: Thanks so much for that info. John Albert, Laura's younger brother, is my great grandfather, making us Second cousins. I have always guessed that Abigail's parents were Silas Wilson and Rachael(Roberts) Wilson. Is that information contained in the family Bible?

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Nelson, Burden Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hkB.2ACE/9177.3 Message Board Post: Laura Nelson is my great grandmother--I have the family Bible with the marriage certificate completed married William Carroll Burden July 1, 1885 in Davilla Milam Co I have Abigail Rachael Wilson Nelson died 8-29-1904 buried Hamblen Cemetery W M Nelson (William Monroe Nelson) is also buried there--he never married. email me if you have other ?s Jennie

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: SANFORD Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/hkB.2ACE/9298.1.1.1.1.1.2 Message Board Post: Julia -- Thanks so very much for sharing the information you have. I should say that the evidence concerning "Mary Elizabeth Sanford" is that in which I have the least confidence. I knew that there was a daughter named Elizabeth and I found in an online source called "Tennessee Marriages 1787-1866," [available at genealogy.com] the marriage between George W. Thompson and Elizabeth Sanford. She is identified in subsequent censuses as M. E. or Margaret E. What caused me some pause about that evidence is that the marriage took place in Rutherford County, not Williamson County. On the other hand the census records clearly show this couple and their children subsequently living in Williamson County. I think I am more inclined to believe that the Elizabeth T. that you cite is in fact the proper daughter Elizabeth. I am told, but cannot verify, that the parents of Reuben Sanford were James Sanford, born 1769 in Virginia, died November 2, 1849 in Williamson County Tennessee; and Sarah Sallie Nance, born July 14, 1767 in Virginia, died in Williamson County Tennessee date unknown. I believe you are correct that my ancestor William moved from Virginia to Tennessee with the Sanford family rather than the Wood family. By the way,the 1870 census for Milam County Texas, enumerates six persons described as "colored" with the surname Sanford and born in Tennessee. Four of these are males all born not later than 1850. This suggests to me that these individuals accompanied Mary would Sanford and her children to Texas in about 1854. The 1870 census was the first one to list blacks by name. Again thanks for your assistance; it is truly appreciated.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hkB.2ACE/9298.1.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Second paragraph: name should be Mary Jane Sanford, not Mary Jane Davis. Sorry. Julia

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: SANFORD, WOOD Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hkB.2ACE/9298.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Thanks so much for the additional information. Most of my info agrees with yours. I did not have a Lucretia listed as a daughter, but if she married before the 1850 census, that might explain that. I do have a daughter named Sarah Frances Sanford b. ca 1825 who married Allen J. Davis. They had 5 children and both died in Milam Co., TX. Mary Jane Davis was born 1829 in TN and married Stephen M. Davis. They had 7 children and died in Milam Co., TX. I do not have a Margaret Elizabeth who married a Thompson but I do have an Elizabeth T. who married James H. Holtzclaw 2/4/1857 in MIlam Co., TX. I also have a Martha Ann Sanford born 1830 in TN. I have no further info on her. I do not have any info on the parents of Reuben Sanford who died in 1846. However, the father of Mary (Polly) Wood was Johnson Wood. (His wife was Frances Thompson but I have no further info on her.) Johnson Wood was a member of Wilson Creek Bapt. Church in Triune TN. I do know that this church had members of both races and the church records are available from the LDS on a microfilm #0987750. I have a transcription of his Will and the inventory of his estate, dated June term 1845, Williamson Co., TN. There are 20 slaves named but the only William was about 4 years old. His Will states: "it is further my will and desire that for the dutiful ____ and faithful services rendered to me in my old age by my negro woman Dicey that she be set free and I wish my Executors to attend to same". The other slaves were to be divided amongst his children. There was a later suit which mentions that some of the slaves had belonged to Johnson's children's grandfather (I don't know whether this! is their Wood or Thompson grandfather). Johnson Wood's father was Stephen Wood who died in 1781 in Lunenburg Co., VA. I have a very short synopsis of his Will which does not mention the slaves by name. My guess is that William came with the Sanford family rather than the Wood family. We could probably trace him through the Williamson Co., Archives, which is in the basement of the old Post Office Bldg, in downtown Franklin. It's possible the Sanford family also went to Wilson Creek Church. I'll dig some more to see if I have anything else which might be relevant. If you want the names of Johnson's slaves or copies of any of the material I have, I would be happen to get it to you. Julia

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/hkB.2ACE/9298.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Julia -- Thanks again for your information. I'm not a descendent [more about that later], but I have learned quite a bit about the children of Reuben Sanford and Mary Wood Sanford. As you will see, I have been particularly interested in the son you saw on the 1860 Census with Mary identified as "Henry." You state that you believe that Reuben Sanford died in 1846 in Williamson County. Indeed, my information is that he died in 1846 in Nolensville in Williamson County. I have been told by a descendant [more about her later too] that the rest of the family moved to Milam County, Texas, in 1854. I have identified Reuben and Mary Sanford's children as follows: -- Archer Wood Sanford born Williamson County Tennessee about 1820. He was married twice: first to a woman named Sarah Brown, and then in 1850 two a woman named Mary Ann Wood. The relationship of Mary Ann Wood to Archer's mother Mary Wood is unknown. Archer and Mary Sanford appear in the 1860 census of Milam County with their children, Henry, born 1853; and Atry, born about 1858. -- John T. Sanford, born Williamson County Tennessee, December 1822. He married a woman named Nancy T. Hay, on December 5, 1855. They moved to Burnet County Texas. -- Lucretia Sanford, born Williamson County Tennessee about 1825. She married a man named Hale P. Hazard. They appear in 1880 census of Milam County Texas with Lucretia's nephew Daniel H. Sanford who went on to become a very prominent citizen of Milam County. -- Reuben Henry Sanford, born Williamson County Tennessee, April 1832, died Milam County Texas 30 June 1910. this is the son who appears as "Henry" with Mary Wood Sanford in the 1860 census of Milam County. He appears in subsequent censuses under alternate names of Reuben and Henry.he was married twice. His first wife was named Catherine (last name unknown) who died in Milam County sometime between 1860 and 1870. They had a daughter named Susan who was born in 1862. He then married a woman named Martha Minor in 1871. They had two daughters together, Sallie, born 1872; and Catherine, born in 1877. -- Margaret Elizabeth Sanford, born Williamson County Tennessee, about 1834. She married a man named George W. Thompson. Their children were: Sarah Francis Eliza Sanford, born Williamson County Tennessee about 1855; James P. S. Sanford born Williamson County Tennessee about 1857; George T. Sanford, born Williamson County Tennessee about 1862; Moses G. Sanford born Williamson County Tennessee about 1865; William T. Sanford born Williamson County Tennessee about 1867; Sidney Sanford born Williamson County Tennessee about 1869; J. M. Sanford, a daughter, born Williamson County Tennessee about 1873;AG Sanford, a son, born Williamson County Tennessee about 1877. -- Reuben and Mary also had two other daughters than I have only been able to identify as "Daughter A" born about 1826-1830; and "Daughter B" born about 1835. As I mentioned above I am not a descendant of Reuben and Mary Sanford. However, among the four slaves that appear in the early censuses with Reuben's family was a man named William born in Virginia about 1810. When Reuben's family moved to Milam County in 1854, William went with them. After emancipation and he took the surname Sanford. William Sanford is my second great-grandfather. He died in Milam County Texas in 1916 at age 106. He is the oldest person buried in the city Cemetery in Rockdale Texas. I also mentioned that I knew a descendant of Reuben and Mary. I had posted a query on a note or site and got a reply from a woman named Sharon. Sharon said that (1) Reuben and Mary's youngest daughter, the one I have identified as "Daughter B," was her great-grandmother; and (2) Reuben Henry's second wife Martha, was the sister of Reuben Henry's brother-in-law "James" and that this James was Sharon's great-great-grandfather. For various reasons I have lost contact with Sharon but if you e-mail me I will pass along an e-mail address I have for her and perhaps you will have luck communicating with her.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Carter, Long, Stevens Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hkB.2ACE/306.326.1132.1.1 Message Board Post: Sorry I can not help with information on Frank Stevens. but do have a question about the Annie M. Long. Do you know if she had any sisters? As I am trying to find parents for Minnie Long who married Elbert Carter in Milam Co., and family said they might have moved to Williamson Co for awhile. She died after the birth of their 4 th daughter and little is known about her. Their daughter then marries into the Stevens family. Have you heard of Minnie? Any help would be appreciated.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hkB.2ACE/4642.2.1.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Lujuan, I have Elzie and Elbert are brothers and Lucy Prior Carter sister ,she married Robert Wiley Stevens s/o Andrew Stevens and Elizabeth Margaret Rogers . Do you have the same information ? Truman

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Carter--Stovall Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hkB.2ACE/4642.2.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Hi Truman, I do not have any info on the James R Stevens line. I did not know that Elzie Carter was a second husband to Delila Jane. the story in my family was that elzie was at a school board meeting and got into a fight and was either injured or killed. Wish I knew more. I am sure there was an item in some newspaper at the time. good hunting, Lajuan Pruett Boyle (direct line of Mary Ann Carter and Judge Wm Poole Stovall) (Mary Ann being the sister of Elzie Carter)

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Carter Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hkB.2ACE/9801 Message Board Post: Hello, Alexander Carter is my direct line and today, I say a posting about A. Carter's death which was an item in the Galveston Daily News in l873. I guess that you posted it Nov 28, 2002. The thread has collapsed. Could someone please send me a copy of the item that was in the newspaper. I would love to have that. We never could figure out were he was buried. I know that he gave the land for the Sandy Creek Baptist Church. I have checked the cem behind the little white frame church, but never found his grave. His wife is buried in Mills Co Tx. Thank you so much for any help you can give and I hope you can find the news article so that all my family can read about him. Lajuan Pruett Boyle--his great great granddaughter

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hkB.2ACE/4642.2.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Hi Ann, Thanks for the reply, Yes I'm still looking for any information on Mary and her brother James R. Stevens/Stephens. Are you related to either ??You may contact me direct at : truman30@aol.com

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hkB.2ACE/4642.2.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Truman, Are you still looking for the Stephens? Mary Stephens, daughter of Delila Hill and James Stephens married Alexander Marion Daily 10/18/1877 in Milam County, Tx. They had one child, James J. Daily born 1879. He married Essie ? about 1899 and had five children. Ann

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Schiller, Kellner Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hkB.2ACE/9800 Message Board Post: Galveston Daily News - Fri., 27 Jun 1884, p. 5, c. 4 Horrible Tragedy at Bryant Station [Special to The News] Buckholts, Nov. 6 - An inoffensive old Bohemian named Bernard Schiller, his wife and daughter, aged 15 months, were all murdered by some unknown party or parties at Bryant Station, 5-miles from this place. A brother of the murdered man, who had not seen him for several years, came here to see him last Saturday and not finding anyone at home went to a neighboring Bohemian's house and stayed there, thinking they were off on a visit. Returning the next day, and still finding no one, suspicions were aroused and some of the neighbors, looking through the window, saw blood on the bed, floor and stove. They broke into the house, the door being locked and the key gone, and found undoubted evidence of murder. Then the search for the bodies commenced and was terminated yesterday by finding the remains buried, face downward, by the side of an oat-stack, about 100 yards from the house. They were evidently preparing to go to bed when murdered, as the old man had one shoe off and the woma! n and child were both in their nightclothes. The child was killed by a blow from a club or some similar weapon, crushing the entire skull while the man and wife were both shot in the head. From the advanced stage of decomposition when found, the murder was committed nearly a week ago. Charles Kellner was arrested last night on suspicion and is now in jail awaiting further developments. The coroner's jury adjourned this morning, after deliberating all night, without a verdict. The man arrested is also a Bohemian and has been seen about the house several times since the disappearance of the Schillers and told parties who inquired where the folks were that they were hunting pecans on the bottom. When the neighbors first broke into the house they found a life insurance policy for $1,200. The party or parties who committed the murder evidently returned to the place afterward as the insurance policy, shotgun and a pistol were missing when the corner's jury made its examination. Another Account Cameron, Nov. 6 - Three corpses were bound buried in the yard of a Bohemian named Schiller, near Bryant Station, about 12-miles from Cameron. They proved to be the bodies of Schiller and his wife and child. A fire had been built over the place of interment. A horrible murder is evident and the grand jury is investigating the matter.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hkB.2ACE/9799 Message Board Post: Looking for information on James Berle(Burl) and Carrie H. Jackson - from Mississippi - James was born in MS in 1866 and died in TX in 1927, 9 Jan. Anyone who has info of ANY kind please respond - bettyejj59@aol.com. Thanks.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: SANFORD, WOOD Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hkB.2ACE/9298.1.1.1 Message Board Post: This is some information I have on Reuben Sanford. The 1880 census for some of his children show his state of birth as TN. I show his date of death as July 1846. I think it is most likely that he died in Williamson Co., TN but others have said Milam Co., TX. It looks to me like the rest of the family moved to Milam Co. shortly after his death, but it's possible he was down there obtaining property when he died that the rest of them eventually moved to. I've found no record of him in Milam Co. 1830 Williamson Co., TN Census Reuben Sandford 0 2 0 1 0 1 2 1 0 0 0 1 4 slaves 1840 Williamson Co., TN Census Reuben Sanford 1 wm 5-10 2 wm 15-20 1 wm 40-50 2 wf 5-10 2 wf 10-15 1 wf 30-40 4 slaves Location of Liberty Hill Community Ten miles west of Rockdale, Texas on 908 Farm to Market Road go about eight miles. You will come to a cross road where two stop signs are. Take the left hand road and go until you come to an intersection and turn left and go about two blocks where the church and cemetery are located. The home owners were and are ... Sanfords. Mary (Polly) Wood was born 1799 in Lunenburg Co., VA and died 1867 in Milam Co., TX. Here is some info on her: 1850 Williamson Co., TN Census, shows born VA. 1860 Milam Co., TX census with son Henry. What is your connection to this Sanford/Wood line? I'd like more info on the children of Reuben and Mary if you are a descendant.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: McCarty Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hkB.2ACE/6402.1 Message Board Post: Ovid D McCarty is buried in the Wesley Chapel Cemetery in Erath County, Tx - 1867 - 1951. Also buried there is Ernest P McCarty 1862 - 1941 and Levenia C McCarty 1876 - 1966. Ernest and Ovid were born in Louisiana. Need info on these two guys. In 1900 the two sons of O D (Hubert and O D) were living with their grandparents in Milam County. The census on line is smudged and I can not read it. Who were the grandparents? This would be parents of wife #1 Ada B (unknown) Thanks.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: SANFORD Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/hkB.2ACE/9298.1.1 Message Board Post: Julia-- Thanks very much for your reply. I have very little on Mary Wood, and I'd be very grateful to receive anything you can share about her ancestry. I do show her marrying Reuben Sanford on July 6, 1820, in Williamson County Tennessee. I also have some information that she may have been born in about 1799 in Virginia. But that's all I have on her. Thanks again.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Matl Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hkB.2ACE/5492.2 Message Board Post: That is my aunt. Can you help me find Information on her father John Matl b. 12 May 1883? He had brothers that lived up around or in Temple, Tx.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hkB.2ACE/5492.1 Message Board Post: That is my aunt. Could you help me to find information on her father John Matl, b. 12 May 1883? Also who his brothers were? they lived up around Temple, Texas.