Upson County GaArchives Biographies.....Flewellen, Thomas 1799 - 1889 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Archie Colburn acolburn@tyler.net January 23, 2005, 3:30 pm Author: Archie Colburn THOMAS FLEWELLEN Thomas Flewellen, son of Archelaus and Nancy Flewellen, was born 29 March 1799. He married Francis Maria Drake, daughter of Dr. John Hodges Drake and Frances Williams, on 15 September 1823 in Warren County, Georgia. Frances Williams, mother of Maria Drake, was the sister of Elizabeth Williams, wife of Shadrack Flewellen. In addition, Dr. John Calvin Drake, brother of Maria, married Mary Ann Flewellen, who was the youngest sister of Thomas Flewellen. Thomas and Maria Flewellen moved to Upson County, Georgia, in 1825 and had eleven children. Two of the children, Nicholas John Hodges and Charles B. died in infancy. The remaining children were Frances Carolina, Thomas Archelaus, Eugenia Louisiana, Mary Martha, Sarah Cebell, Elizabeth Virginia, Enos Russell William, Wilbur Fisk, and Joseph John Calvin Drake. The first deed to Thomas Flewellen in Upson County was 25 Nov 1825 and covered Lots 80 and 81 of the 10th District. A few years later he bought Lots 82, 90 and 91 of District 10D and kept these lands until 1849. At that time he sold this property and bought 1012.5 acres, being Lots 145, 146, 160, 161 and 162 of the 10th District from the Estate of Kinchen P. Thweatt. He kept these lands until 9 Jan 1854. Thomas Flewellen was the sheriff of Upson County from 1828 to 1830 and a representative from that county in 1832 and 1833. He was state senator in 1851 and 1852 and a Justice of the Inferior Court from 1853 to 1854. In the spring of 1854, Thomas moved to Camden, Arkansas, accompanied by most of his family. The conditions in Arkansas were not very good and Thomas left the next year for Smith County, Texas, where he had been promised some land. At this time, Thomas had sent his wife, Maria, and some of the younger children back to Thomaston, Georgia, until they got the place in Texas ready. Thomas Flewellen was a lay Methodist preacher and there is a story that back in Thomaston, the other preachers liked to meet at his home because he made the best wine. One day he bought a piano and after that several of the preachers refused to enter his house because of the presence of the piano. There is a later story in the Dallas Herald of 29 January 1862, where the editor tells of a trip to Marshall and staying with Mr. Flewellen enroute where they enjoyed great hospitality and homemade wine of Warrenton grapes. Family letters show that their life in Texas was far more difficult from that in Georgia. In 1869, Thomas mentions in a letter that he was thinking of moving to Honduras. Frances Cary, daughter of Thomas and Maria Flewellen, stated that her father read almost incessantly. Maria Drake Flewellen died 21 October 1861 and Thomas Flewellen died at the age of 91 on 13 November 1889. They are both buried in the Flewellen-Thweatt Cemetery near Lindale in Smith County, Texas. JAMES FLEWELLEN James Flewellen, son of Archelaus and Nancy Flewellen, was born 27 Sep 1796. He married Elizabeth Persons on 19 November 1818 in Warren County, Georgia. She was the daughter of Thomas Turner Persons and Sally Williams (who was the sister of Frances and Elizabeth Williams). The children of James and Elizabeth Flewellen were Edward Archelaus, Robert Turner, James Persons and Sarah Anne. James Flewellen first appears in 1820 in the census of Warren County, Georgia. In 1821 James moved to Tuscaloosa, Alabama, where Robert was born. They moved back to Georgia, near Macon, in 1829. A newspaper account states that James Flewellen, age 31, died 18 November 1829 at Macon and that he was wounded at Warrior Plantation in a fight with a man named Cohorn. One article states that the widow and her children then moved to Culloden in Monroe County, Georgia, but the 1840 census shows her living in adjacent Upson County. On 8 Oct 1845 Elizabeth Flewellen sold 4 acres in Culloden to George W. Persons. The 1850 census shows Elizabeth in Monroe County. Prior to the Civil War, Robert Turner Flewellen and James Persons Flewellen both moved to Texas and Elizabeth moved with them to Independence in Washington County, Texas. She died there 31 May 1886. CEBELL FLEWELLEN Cebell Flewellen, daughter of Archelaus and Nancy Flewellen, was born 18 May 1801. She married Thomas Persons on 15 July 1819 in Warren County, Georgia. They had one son, Thomas Flewellen Persons. Cebell died 4 Jul1820. MARTHA ANN FLEWELLEN Martha Ann Flewellen, daughter of Archelaus and Nancy Flewellen, was born 3 November 1805. She married John William Persons on 25 November 1823 in Warren County, Georgia. They had four children, John, Augustus, Anna Elizabeth and Amanda Melvina. This last child died at about the age of six. John William Persons was the son of Thomas Turner Persons and Sallie Williams. Martha Ann died 10 December 1805 in Culloden, Monroe County, Georgia. ENOS RUSSELL FLEWELLEN Enos Russell Flewellen, son of Archelaus and Nancy Flewellen, was born 13 May 1810. He married Susan W. Jones on 15 October 1829 in Upson County, Georgia. They had eleven children, being Enos Archelaus, Junius, George, Charles, Martha E., James Randall, Mary Antoinette, Georgia, Susan Zuleika, William Jones and Mollie. The eldest child, Enos Archelaus, died at the age of three, Charles died at about fourteen, and Junius died at the age of twenty. Enos R. Flewellen and his wife are shown living in Upson County in 1830, but by 1840 he had moved his family to Crawford County, Georgia. By 1850 he had moved to Barbour County, Alabama, where he remained until late in life, when he moved to adjacent Russell County, Alabama, where he died on 1 September 1884 at the home of his daughter, Georgia Mitchell. Susan Jones Flewellen had died 3 July 1877. Both Enos R. Flewellen and his wife are buried in Linwood Cemetery at Columbus, Georgia. MARY ANN FLEWELLEN Mary Ann Flewellen, daughter of Archelaus and Nancy Flewellen, was born 25 November 1820 in Warren County, Georgia. Since she was only three when her father died and seven when her mother died, she probably was living with a brother or sister in Upson or Monroe Counties until her marriage. On 3 April 1839 in Culloden, Monroe County, Georgia, she married Dr. John Calvin Drake, son of Dr. John Hodges Drake and Frances Williams. Frances Maria Drake, sister of Dr. John Calvin Drake, had married Thomas Flewellen, brother of Mary Ann Flewellen. Mary Ann and John Calvin Drake moved to Thomaston in Upson County, Georgia. They had twelve children, Nicholas John, Thomas Russell, Mary Frances, John William Calvin, James Hodges, Martha Ann Flewellen, Mary Louisa, Caroline Cebell, Archelaus Augusta, Edward Albert, Flewellen Lee, and Ida Evelyn. In their later years Mary Ann and John Calvin Drake suffered both physical and financial problems. In 1869, Mary Ann had written her niece, Frances Cary, that she was in ill health and her husband was very feeble, weighed only 108 pounds and had trouble walking about the yard. He must have recovered because in 1880, Mary Ann described how he was engaged incessantly attending the sick in Thomaston during a measles epidemic. A letter in 1897 from Edward A. Flewellen states that he went to see them and "It is a sad place to visit for the doctor has been paralyzed for several years. Is almost helpless and can't talk so as to be understood, and it is with great difficulty that he can eat anything without being strangled. My aunt Mary Ann, has become partially blind. Can't read nor write, but can see enough to get about the house and attend to her domestic matters after a fashion. It is hard times with them, too, and I am afraid it will be worse." They had both been in ill health for some time. Mary Ann died 27 April 1902 in Thomaston, her husband having died 8 April 1898. CHILDREN OF THOMAS FLEWELLEN AND FRANCES M. DRAKE THOMAS ARCHELAUS FLEWELLEN Thomas Archelaus Flewellen, the eldest son of Thomas and Maria Flewellen, was born in Upson County, Georgia, on 27 February 1829. In a letter dated 3 March 1852, from his mother to his oldest sister, Frances Cary, it is stated that he had just returned from a trip as clerk on a steamboat. This would have been just prior to his marriage on 17 October 1852 to Victoria Monroe Thweatt in Upson County, Georgia. Victoria's two brothers, Kinchen and James, married two sisters of T. A. Flewellen (Eugenia Louisiana and Elizabeth Virginia). T. A. and Victoria Flewellen had three children, Junius Jefferson, Eliza Harris and Maria Antoinette. T. A. Flewellen accompanied his father in the family's move to Camden, Arkansas, in 1854 and again the next year when they moved to Smith County, Texas. During the Civil War, T.A. was a private in Company D, 13th Texas Volunteer Cavalry. Victoria Flewellen died 5 June 1868 and is buried in the Flewellen-Thweatt Cemetery near Lindale, Texas. The Dallas Herald noted in February, 1870 that T.A. Flewellen was one of the managers for the Tyler area of the Piedmont Arlington Life Insurance Company. On 19 July 1870, T.A. married Henrietta (Hettie) Marshall in Rusk County, Texas. Shortly thereafter he moved his family to Longview, Texas. T.A. and Hettie had one child, Mattie (7 4). In 1878 1879 he was the Mayor of Longview. T.A. Flewellen died 17 June 1893 and is buried in Greenwood Cemetery in Longview. His widow, Hettie, continued to live at their home at 206 South Center Street in Longview until her death in 1916. FRANCES CAROLINA FLEWELLEN Frances Carolina Flewellen, daughter of Thomas and Maria Flewellen, was born 29 September 1824. Within the family she was referred to as "Big Sis". She refers to entering her first school while the family was living at the "Butte place" near the Upson camp ground. Sometime after 1834 she was sent to live with the family of her uncle Russell Flewellen at Culloden in Monroe County to attend school for a couple of years. After her family moved into Thomaston, she went to school there and then was sent to the Georgia Female College at Macon. The year before, about 1838, Thomas Flewellen took his family to North Carolina to visit his in laws, staying a month or two. From there Frances took a trip of a couple of weeks to Philadelphia with her father, her uncle Calvin Drake and her aunt Louisa Drake. Her father considered leaving her in school in Philadelphia to which she was opposed. On this trip, Thomas Flewellen and Calvin Drake went on to New York. Prior to going north, Thomas Flewellen had tried to get Frances into school at Salem, N.C. but was unsuccessful. Frances also described a trip she made with her uncle Calvin Drake by ship from Charleston, S.C. to Wilmington, N.C. It seems everyone got seasick. Upon arriving at Wilmington, she described how they rode on a railroad where the coaches where drawn by horses or mules and the men had to sit on top. Frances never finished her education and married when she was 16. She married a lawyer, John J. Cary, on 3 September 1840 in Upson County, Georgia. At first they lived in Thomaston, and sometime after 1850 moved to Macon. Between 1856 and 1857, Frances Cary and her family moved to Texas, eventually settling in Rusk County. Frances and John Cary had five children, Sarah Alice, Frances, Ada, Georgia and Mary Eugenia. Fannie died at age 16 in 1861 and Georgia died at age 3. A letter in 1859 to Fannie Cary refers to her sisters Sarah, Ada and the "babe". Another letter in 1869 to Frances refers to Sallie, Ada, Mary Eugenia and the little one. John Cary was evidently much involved in politics, which Frances described as "the bane of my life". Once a man took offense to something John Cary said and told him if he opened his mouth again he would kill him. John Cary opened his mouth as wide as possible and the fellow stabbed him. Fortunately the wound was not fatal. While living in Texas he got into a political scrape and got clubbed over the head, resulting in a fractured skull. He died around 1871 and sometime after that Frances moved to Smith County to live with her father. After his death, Frances moved to Mineola to live with her daughter, Sarah, and her family. Frances Cary died 14 May 1906 in Mineola, Wood County, Texas, and is buried in the Mineola City Cemetery. EUGENIA LOUISIANA FLEWELLEN Eugenia L. Flewellen, daughter of Thomas and Maria Flewellen, was born 15 March 1832. She married Kinchen P. Thweatt 27 April 1852. From a letter written by her mother, it sounds as though the couple elected to take a $100 gift from her father instead of a big wedding. After their marriage, Eugenia and Kinchen Thweatt moved with the family to Arkansas and on to Texas. They had no surviving children but did have one child in 1854 that died in infancy. Eugenia died 12 October 1863 and her husband died 4 December 1876. Both are buried in the Flewellen-Thweatt Cemetery near Lindale in Smith County, Texas. MARY MARTHA FLEWELLEN Mary Martha Flewellen (Mollie), daughter of Thomas and Maria Flewellen, was born 14 June 1834 in Upson County, Georgia. She accompanied the family in their move to Camden, Arkansas, which is probably where she married her husband, Ezra Nathaniel Hill. On 3 March 1855, Eugenia Thweatt, sister of Martha, wrote to their mother in Georgia and asked whether Mollie "went on to Georgia or was in Camden". She lived for a time in Arkansas as shown by letters between Mollie and her husband. Her first child, Minnie (or Mariah) was born 21 October 1855 in Arkansas. A letter dated 29 Nov 1857, shows Nat Hill in Austin and his wife probably in Camden. In February of 1859 Mollie and Nat Hill were living in Galveston. During the Civil War, Mollie apparently moved back to Texas with her family. A second child, Henry Flewellen Hill, was born 4 March 1864, but died 26 August 1873. It is unclear what happened to Ezra Nat Hill. In 1860, 1870 and 1880, Mary Hill was shown as living with her father in Smith County, Texas. Minnie Hill married Columbus L. Copeland on 18 Dec 1878 and in 1900 and 1910, Mary Martha Hill is shown living with her daughter and her family. Mary Martha Hill died 7 August 1919 and is buried in the Flewellen-Thweatt Cemetery near Lindale in Smith County, Texas. SARAH CEBELL FLEWELLEN Sarah Cebell Flewellen (Belle), daughter of Thomas and Maria Flewellen, was born 24 November 1836. She married John C. Fowler on 14 October 1858 in Smith County, Texas. Belle and John C. Fowler had two children, Wilbur F. (12 Dec 1862 - 1 May 1901) and John Coleman (23 Jul 1859 - 28 Jul 1922). Belle died October 1864 and is buried in the Flewellen-Thweatt Cemetery near Lindale in Smith County, Texas. John C. Fowler and his sons, Coleman and Wilbur moved to Panola County, Miss. and are buried in the Eureka Cemetery there. ELIZABETH VIRGINIA FLEWELLEN Elizabeth Virginia Flewellen, daughter of Thomas and Maria Flewellen, was born 26 Dec 1826. Within the family she was known as "Little Sis". On 12 December 1849 she married James Thweatt in Upson County, Georgia. James Thweatt was a farmer, but in the 1880 census he lists his occupation as "fishing". Virginia and James Thweatt had five children, Thomas Flewellen, Mary Eliza Frances, Maria Louisa Victoria, William Arnold and Mattie Bell. The last two died in infancy. Elizabeth Virginia Thweatt died 20 December 1888 and her husband, James, died 13 May 1892. Both are buried in the Flewellen-Thweatt Cemetery near Lindale in Smith County, Texas. ENOS RUSSELL WILLIAM FLEWELLEN Enos Russell William Flewellen, son of Thomas and Maria Flewellen, was born 26 September 1840. In March of 1855, Russell was in Texas with his father helping to get their place ready, but by July he apparently had been sent off to school. In 1860 he was living back in Smith County, Texas, with his parents. When the Civil War began, he was a student at Emory College at Oxford, Georgia. His father was in Georgia on a visit at the time and wanted Russell to finish school, but finally gave in and allowed him to join the army. He enlisted July 1861 in Co. F, 12th Alabama Infantry. According to his sister, Frances Cary, he was in the Seven Days battle around Richmond. After the war, Russell returned home. A letter dated 23 December 1866 from Victoria Flewellen, his sister in law, talks about Russell planning to leave for New Orleans. According to the letter he left on horseback with one suit of clothes in his saddle bags and told his brother, Willie that he was going to Mexico and never expected to return. After starting he changed plans and left the horse in Tyler and took the stage to Marshall and from there proceeded to New Orleans. Victoria stated that her husband, Thomas, expected that Russell would return that night and marry a girl named Mary Jones. Victoria went on to say that it was generally believed that he would return in February to marry the girl, but she did not think so. It seems as if he had proposed and then decided to leave. Whatever happened, he next appears in Washington County, Texas, where his cousin, Robert Flewellen, resided. The records of Washington County show that Russell married Mrs. Mattie Weems on 9 December 1868. She was originally Mattie Drake, but had married R. S. Weems in 1867. Weems died a few months later and she married Russell. The 1870 census shows them living in Washington County, where he was a farmer. The records show that Russell and Mattie Flewellen had thirteen children, several of whom died in infancy. The surviving children were Ann Gertrude, E. R., Alice Belle, Maud, Walter Dewitt, Edgar Poe, Johnnie and Edna Pearl. E. R. may have died at an early age. In a letter written in 1874, Russell mentions they have twin babies, who apparently did not survive or at least one did not. Sometime after this Russell moved his family to Rains County, Texas. Russell died 6 November 1900 in Rains County, Texas and his wife, Mattie died 27 January 1913. Shortly after Russell's death, his widow and children filed suit in Smith County against Martha Hill, Francis Cary, Wilbur Flewellen and some other parties. They felt that Russell had not gotten his share of the lands belonging to his parents. Part of the problem arose from the fact that Maria Flewellen had died intestate in 1861 and her husband, Thomas, had deeded various tracts after her death. Since she died intestate, her children would have inherited her community interest. WILBUR FISK FLEWELLEN Wilbur Fisk Flewellen, son of Thomas and Maria Flewellen, was born 1 Feb 1843 in Upson County, Georgia. When the Civil War began, he enlisted 13 January 1861 in Dallas, as a private in Company K, 3rd Texas Cavalry. The records show he was stationed in Mississippi in 1862. In October, 1864, his uncle in Alabama, Enos Russell Flewellen, refers to Wilbur having been there. His sister, Frances Cary, stated that he was shot in the hip and carried behind someone on horseback for about 20 miles before receiving aid. He was taken prisoner while in bed with the wound, remaining a prisoner until after the war. In 1868 he entered medical school in New Orleans and graduated in 1870. While in New Orleans his leg began hurting him again. One of the doctors there extracted the ball from his leg. Later the leg still bothered him and he had to use a buggy in his practice. Wilbur returned to Smith County, where he resided for about two years. He married Ophelia Graham on 13 July 1870 in Rusk County, Texas. They had twin daughters, Emma O. (who died in infancy) and Elizabeth Ophelia. Ophelia died 3 October 1871 and is buried in the Flewellen-Thweatt Cemetery near Lindale in Smith County, Texas. After the death of his first wife, Wilbur migrated to Fayette County, Texas, where he married Mary Elizabeth Hill on 11 April 1875. He remained in Fayette County seventeen years, moving to Belton, Texas, on December 1, 1889. Wilbur and Elizabeth Flewellen had seven children, Lucy, Wilbur Logan, Hugh Legrand, Nola B., Victor H., Frederick Carl, and Lonnie Hill. About 1914, Dr. Flewellen was involved in a shootout in Temple. Wilbur Flewellen, a son of Dr. Wilbur Flewellen, was returning by train from Brownwood and Dr. Flewellen heard that a deputy sheriff planned to ambush Wilbur at the train station. There had been trouble between these men before and the deputy shot at Wilbur with a shotgun about ten days prior. Dr. Flewellen got his ten gauge shotgun and another son, Fred Flewellen (with a 30 30) and they proceeded to the station. The deputy sheriff and his group were warned but tried to force the Flewellens from the station anyway. When the deputy took a bullet in the chest, it ended the shootout. Wilbur Flewellen died 8 April 1925 and is buried in the North Belton cemetery in Belton, Texas. Mary Elizabeth Flewellen died 18 April 1935. JOSEPH JOHN CALVIN DRAKE FLEWELLEN Joe Flewellen, son of Thomas and Maria Flewellen, was born 12 February 1846 in Upson County, Georgia. When the family moved to Texas in 1855, he remained in Georgia with his mother until the place in Texas was ready. Joe Flewellen joined Company H, 35th Texas Cavalry Regiment of the Confederate Army in the spring of 1864 and served for 1 1/2 years. His sister, Frances, mentions that he was stationed in Galveston. According to Civil War records, in the spring of 1864 the 35th Texas Cavalry was moved to the north part of Louisiana where they took part in several minor actions. In the spring of 1865 the 35th Texas Cavalry returned to Texas and were sent to Galveston. After leaving Galveston, the regiment moved to Harrisburg where it was disbanded. Joe Flewellen married Emma C. Richardson on 15 February 1870 in Rusk County, Texas. Joe and Emma Flewellen stayed in Smith County on the family farm and had eight children, Charles Wilbur, Thomas Junius, Francis Elizabeth, Adnie, Mary Jo (Josie), Helen May (Nell), Alice Emeer and Porter Edward. Joe Flewellen died 8 June 1917 and his wife died 14 May 1930. Both are buried in the Flewellen-Thweatt Cemetery near Lindale in Smith County, Texas. CHILDREN OF JAMES FLEWELLEN AND ELIZABETH PERSONS EDWARD ARCHELAUS FLEWELLEN Edward Archelaus Flewellen, son of James and Elizabeth Flewellen, was born 17 September 1819 in Warren County, Georgia. He was educated at Randolph Macon College, Virginia and graduated from Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, in 1854. He practiced medicine in Thomaston, Upson County, Georgia. When the Civil War began, he was commissioned a major and his first posts were in Florida. In 1862 he was made medical director of the Army of Tennessee by General Bragg. As a result of the strain of his duties, his health began to deteriorate and he resigned his post in November, 1863, but was not relieved until February, 1864. On 2 July 1864 he was made Inspector of Hospitals and was Chief Surgeon. He held that position until the end of the war. After the war, he was appointed as Superintendent of Public Works of Georgia in 1872 and was put in charge of two small railroads. He was elected to the state constitutional convention in 1877. After his public service, he returned to Upson County to private life. In 1896 he was elected a state senator for a two year term. Edward A. Flewellen never married. It was Edward A. Flewellen who wrote the article about the Flewellen family in 1860 that appeared in the history of Warren County, Georgia. Edward A. Flewellen died 9 December 1910 in Thomaston in Upson County, Georgia. ROBERT TURNER FLEWELLEN Robert Turner Flewellen, son of James and Elizabeth Flewellen, was born 2 October 1821 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The family moved back to Macon, Georgia the next year. James Flewellen died in 1829 and the family moved to Culloden in Monroe County, Georgia. Robert read medicine in the office of his uncle, Dr. John Calvin Drake in Thomaston. He attended one course of lectures in the Medical College of Charleston, S.C. and another at the University of New York. He graduated from the latter in 1845. He returned to Culloden and began to practice medicine. On 3 February 1848 he married Caroline Elizabeth Bivins in Monroe County, Georgia. A newspaper article reported that a Robert Flewellen had murdered Uriah T. Lockett on 28 September 1848. Robert Flewellen is described as "6 foot, 1 inch with a dark complexion". Robert had also been involved in a lawsuit about this time and wrote his brother, Edward A., from New York concerning the suit. Robert next appeared in San Francisco, California, arriving there on the ship "Columbus" from New York on 6 June 1850. The ship had left New York on 12 February 1850. The 1850 census shows Robert's wife, Carrie and their young son, Robert Jr., living with Robert's mother, Elizabeth Flewellen, and his brother, Edward A. Flewellen, in Monroe County, Georgia. On 9 Jul 1851, Robert T. Flewellen executed a Power of Attorney to his brother Edward that is recorded in Monroe Co., Ga. It shows Robert living in Eldorado County, Calif. In 1853 Robert migrated to Chappell Hill, Washington County, Texas with his wife Carrie. She died there 12 July 1854. In two letters in 1854 from Enos Russell Flewellen to Thomas Flewellen, the writer relates that Robert had Carrie's obituary published in a Georgia paper and Enos Russell felt this was foolish. Apparently there was still some trouble back in Georgia involving Robert and reason not to publish his location. Letters show that Robert maintained his contact with his cousins in Smith County, Texas. On 25 April 1860, Robert married Eugenia Andrews in Houston, Texas. She was the daughter of John D. Andrews and Eugenia Price. In 1861, Robert was elected to the Texas Legislature from Washington County. In 1872 he was elected president of the Texas Medical Association. Robert and Eugenia Flewellen moved to Houston in 1875, residing at 410 Austin Street. Robert and Eugenia had several children, but only two survived, John D. and Edward A. Flewellen. In 1878, Robert was elected to the Texas Legislature from Harris County, Texas. He introduced the bill for the charter of the first medical college in Texas, which was founded in Galveston. Robert died 5 January 1899 in Houston, Texas, and Eugenia died 17 May 1923. JAMES PERSONS FLEWELLEN James Persons Flewellen, son of James and Elizabeth Flewellen, was born 1 March 1828. For some reason, James was nicknamed "Lump". James attended West Point and graduated in the class of 1850. He served in the U. S. Artillery under General Magruder, but resigned his commission 2 November 1854 after a cannon exploded and he lost his sight in one eye. James married Sarah (Sally) Eliza Everett on 24 October 1854 in Fort Valley, Houston County, Georgia. James and Sarah had eight children, but only three survived infancy, Mary Beaufort, James Edward and Bessie. After his marriage, he settled in Crawford County, Georgia, but sold his land there in November, 1856, and joined his brother, Robert, in Washington County, Texas. A letter dated 25 October 1856 from Enos Russell Flewellen to his brother, Thomas, stated "Lump Flewellen sold out on Flint River, will leave in a few days pack and package for Texas, in Robts section has never seen the country, what a foolish move". The records of Washington County show a deed dated 15 February 1858 from Anson Jones to J. P. Flewellen. This place was known as "Old Barrington". This house was later moved from its original location to Independence State Park at Washington on the Brazos. The Washington Collegiate, Female Institute of Washington County was incorporated in 1860 and James and Robert Flewellen were both trustees. In December of 1861, the Texas Legislature approved the charter of the Texas Manufacturing Company to be located in Washington County. James and Robert Flewellen were among the incorporators. During the Civil War, James was given a commission as a Major, but he stayed in the area around Washington County as superintendent of conscripts. Sarah Flewellen died 22 February 1881 in Washington County. James P. Flewellen died 21 April 1909 in Charlottesville, Virginia while visiting his son. SARAH ANNE FLEWELLEN Sarah Anne Flewellen, daughter of James and Elizabeth Flewellen, was born in 1824. Sarah Anne married Dr. Joseph A. Holland on 16 April 1844 in Jasper County, Georgia. The 1850 census shows them living in Barbour County, Alabama. Sometime between 1858 and 1860, they moved to Washington County, Tex. Sarah and Joseph Holland had four daughters, Charlotte Ella, Julia Ida, Sallie A. and Anne. Russell Flewellen mentioned visiting Sarah (or Sally) in Independence, in Washington County, Texas, in a letter dated 19 June 1874. According to Russell, Sally had two single daughters and one lived with her mother and the other taught school. He mentions a third daughter, who is married. The letter does not name any of the daughters. Charlotte Ella Holland (1849 1911) graduated from Baylor College and taught there. At that time Baylor was located at Independence, Texas and did not move to Waco until 1886. Charlotte Ella married Dennis Call Jr. & they lived in Orange, Texas. Julia Ida Holland (1852 1942) married Dr. Frank A. Shepherd. In 1880, Sarah is shown living in Washington County, Texas, with the family of her daughter, Ida Sheperd. Sarah Anne died 13 Apr 1881. 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