This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Lawhon/Menefee Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kkB.2ACE/984 Message Board Post: We found Martha A. Lawhon in the 1860's census, living with her brother, Rev. Richard A. Menefee as his housekeeper but cannot find any information about her after that. Does anyone know if she died in Texas, where she is buried, if she remarried or moved back to Georgia?

Kay_Murdock@Baylor.edu wrote: >We found Martha A. Lawhon in the 1860's census, living with her brother, Rev. Richard A. Menefee as his housekeeper but cannot find any information about her after that. Does anyone know if she died in Texas, where she is buried, if she remarried or moved back to Georgia? > Mary <metg62@hotmail.com> responded: Kay, The Nacogdoches County Families book(1986) has a writeup on Rev Richard Menefee and his family--No mention of his sister Martha. He was b.December 1,1809 in Jackson county,Ga. m. Mary B. Collier June 23,1831 in Upson county Ga. d.April 16,1893 is buried on the campus of Chireno School(he donated land for the church - which became the present day school) Home still standing(1986) on his original land in Texas about 5 miles south of Chireno-Nacogdoches county. ******* There is a George Menefee b.1805 in Elbert county,Ga. d.1882 in Nacogdoches,Tx. S/O George and ElizabethTatum Menefee. George and his father were both blacksmiths. Kay, First there is a mention in Nacogdoches County Famlies - F1186 of Martha Ann Hardeman who married Luther Allen Lawhon. That article states that she was born in 1804 and was the daughter of John Hardeman and Ann "Nancy" Collier who married March 26, 1792. My source is a little different. It is ROBERT TERRELL COLLIER, His Ancestors and Descendants, by Vaughn Ballard, 1986. A very famous compiler who never makes misteaks ;-) Anne 'Nancy' Collier, daughter of Vines Collier, was born Wednesday, January 6, 1771? and by one account died April 16, 1875. No mention was made that she would have been 104. She was living with her son, Richard, at Talbot County Georgia, in 1850 and listed her age as 79. She was not with Richard in Texas in 1860. We do know that she married John Hardeman in Wilkes County, Georgia, on March 26, 1792. She would have been 21 if the birth date were correct. John Hardeman died in 1804. His will identified his 5 children. After the death of John Hardeman, Anne married George Menefee, of Palmetto, Georgia, on July 27, 1807. He was a widower with four children by his first wife. George and Anne's first child, Martha, was born in 1808. Anne would have been 38. They then had Richard in December 1809 and four more children whose birth dates are not known. George Menefee was born about 1760 and died in Talbot County, Georgia in 1837. His will was proved in 1841. Nancy (Anne) Collier Hardeman Menefee's children: By John Hardeman-- 1. Elizabeth (Betsy) Hardeman was born on December 25, 1794 in Oglethorpe County and died October 23, 1870. She married 1) her cousin Charles Smith and 2) Welcome Parks. 2. John Hardeman married 1) Pauline Hill and 2) Mrs. Sophia Lucas. 3. Thomas Hardeman was born April 15,1794 and married Sarah Blewett Sparkes on October 6, 1821. 4. Robert Vines Hardeman was born c.1802 and died May 18, 1872. He married Elizabeth C. Henderson. 5. Benjamin Franklin Hardeman was born October 18, 1802 and died March 25,1872. Both Robert and Benjamin Hardeman served in the State Senate and House of Representatives, as did several of their children and grandchildren. 6. Isaac Hardeman was born in 1804 and died in 1829. He apparently was born after his father died since he was not mentioned in the will. By George Menefee-- 7. Martha Menefee was born in 1808. She married a Lawhorn, probably in Talbot County, Georgia. He probably died before 1860, for she was living with her brother, Richard, in Nacogdoches, Texas in 1860. Two of her children were with her then, Richard Lawhorn, born 1842, and Elizabeth Lawhorn, born 1848. Elizabeth married William C Wilson in Nacogdoches, on 31 August 1864. Her Uncle Dick (Menefee) performed the ceremony. 8. Richard Alexander Menefee was born December 1, 1809 in Jackson County, Georgia and died April 16, 1895 in Chireno Nacogdoches County, Texas. He was Anne and George's first son and married Mary B. Collier, sister of Robert M. Collier and aunt of Robert Terrell. Uncle Dick, as he was known, became a Methodist Minister in Georgia in 1839. He was assigned to the Caswell Amercus circuit in 1844 and 1845, then to the Thomaston circuit in 1846. For the 1850 census, he and his family were in Talbot County, Georgia. Mary died there in 1852. He later moved to the M! elrose, Texas circuit and established the Methodist Church in Chireno. He was buried under the pulpit of the new church that was being built in Chireno. The church has since been removed and his monument remains on what is now the high school campus at Chireno, Texas. Uncle Dick and Aunt Mary Collier Menefee's children were: .................. More than you wanted to know. Vaughn