PIONEER FAMILIES OF ANDERSON COUNTY, TEXAS ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: East Texas Genealogical Society and Beverly Odom August 8, 2002 http://www.usgwarchives.net/ ************************************************************************ Reprinted from ETGS Quarterly Summer 1990 Vol.. 14, No. 2 By Estelle Corder, Larue, Texas In the Brushy Creek Community is one of the earlier Churches of Christ in East Texas. While proof of the beginning of the church at Brushy Creek is not known, we know the church was meeting or began to meet early 1850, when Silas Scarborough's family moved into the country from Union County, Arkansas. In the book, "GOSPEL PREACHERS WHO BLAZED THE TRAIL", is a write-up on Silas Scarborough. "Silas Scarborough was born in Arkansas, November 10, 1829. Obeyed the Gospel at the age of sixteen. At the age of twenty he married Miss F.A. Blackshear. To them five children were born - one now living (in 1911). At the age of twenty-one he moved to Anderson County, Texas. In 1850, he moved to what is now Hood County, Texas. His first wife died in 1859. They day Texas seceded from the Union, he married Mrs. M.D. Heart. To them five children were born." The children of Silas Scarborough and Frances Algelina (Blackshear) Scarborough were: (1) L.W. Scarborough, born 7 Aug. 1851 in Anderson County and died, 6 Nov. 1853 in Anderson County, Texas. (2) Victoria Texas Scarborough, born 28 Dec. 1852 in Anderson County, Texas and died 26 Feb. 1875. (3) Louella C. Scarborough, born 15 Dec. 1854, married 7 July 1871 to _______Hightower, and moved to Seattle, Washington. (4) Sarah F. Scarborough, born 5 Aug. 1857 in Anderson County, Texas, married in August 1872 to _____Eaker. (5) John Franklin Scarborough, born 10 Dec. 1859 in Hood County, Texas, married 14 Dec 1884 to Miss Mary Amazona Perry. (Daughter of Doc Cornelius and Izabel Jane Abercrombie Perry.)The children of John Franklin and Mary Amazona Scarborough were (1) William Calvin Scarborough, born 1886 in Hood County, Texas; (2) Thomas Daniel Scarborough, born 1888 in Hood County; (3) Ollie, born 1890 and died 1891; (4) Mayme Scarborough, born 1892 in Quannah, Hardeman County, Texas; (5) John Franklin Scarborough, born 1894; and L.A. (Dick) Scarborough born 1900. Silas Scarborough's children by his second marriage to Mrs. Mary Heart were: (1) King, (2) Jim (3) Paschael (4) Ida (5) Bessie At the time of his death in 1921 in Mineral Wells, Texas, Silas Scarborough, has preached the gospel for over seventy years. Silas Scarborough was the eldest son of John Scarborough and Sarah Conn. Both families can be found in the 1850 census of Union County, Arkansas. Silas appears in the home of his parents with brothers and sisters, James, age 18; Sarah, age 13; Louisa J., age 10; John, age 8; Samantha, age 6; Cornelia, age 6 and Lewis, age 2, all born in Arkansas. Yet he was counted again after he married as he appears as head of household at the age of 21, wife Frances, age 16. It is not known if Silas Scarborough came to Anderson County, Texas, at the same time as his father and mother. John and Sarah Scarborough bought land from P. O. Lumpkin from the P. O. Lumpkin Survey on 27 Jan. 1853 for $800.00. John and Sarah Scarborough sold this tract of land on 27 Mar. 1854 for $5,000 to M. Wren. On 28 Apr. 1855, John and Sarah Scarborough bought the north half of the John G. Legg Survey from Mrs. Elizabeth Tannehill, wife of Benjamin F. Tannehill for $600.00. (Deed Book F, Page 66) In Deed Book J, page 583, John Scarborough, bought 320 acres of the eastern half of the 640 acre tract of Phillips Walker. This seems to be not recorded until the time of the sale of the tract of land to William Chelsey Pickle for $800.00 on 20 Jan. 1860. WILLIAM CHELSEY PICKLE William Chelsey Pickle was born 20 Oct. 1820 in Anderson County, South Carolina and died 4 Nov. 1884 in Anderson County, Texas. He married 1st Mary (Murphey) Pickle, circa 1841 and they had twelve children. William C. Pickle and Mary Murpehy Pickle are buried in the Olive Branch Cemetery at Brushy Creek. Since William Chelsey Pickle and family were members of the Church of Christ it is thought that John or Silas Scarborough were minister of the church where the Pickle family worshipped. The children of William Chelsey Pickle and Mary Murphy Pickle were: (1) William Murphey Pickle - 15 Nov. 1842-26 Apr. 1917 (2) Charity Elizabeth Pickle - 4 May 1845-1 Mar. 1918 (3) Lucinda Jane Pickle - 3 Jul. 1847-12 Dec 1907 (4) James Albert Pickle - 2 Jan. 1850-13 Nov 1912 (5) Nancy C. Pickle - 17 Mar 1852-____1908 (6) Charles C. Pickle - 29 Aug 1854-29 Jul. 1903 (7) Martha L. Pickle - 2 Feb. 1857-4 Aug 1931 (8) Chelsey Robert Pickle - 12 1859-1 Feb. 1905 (9) Rutha Ann Pickle - 25 Jul. 1861-Aug. 1947 (10)Mary Tulula Pickle - 22 Sep. 1863-19 Apr. 1944 (11)Jacob Nathaniel Pickle -12 May 1866-4 Mar. 1955 Twin (12)Obediah J. Pickle - 12 May 1866-27 Jan. 1944 Twin William Chelsey Pickle, married 2nd to Almedia (Huddleston) Boyce on 8 Apr. 1868. They had three children: (13)Sarener Lavina Pickle - 21 Jan. 1869-Mar.1886 (14)Josiah Littlefield Pickle - 28 Oct. 1871-14 Sep. 1945 (15)Almedia Savilla Ann Pickle - 8 Feb. 1874 -8 Sep. 1875 Almedia Huddleston Boyce Pickle died in April 1887 and is buried in the Sand Flat Cemetery in Henderson County, Texas and Sarener Lavina and Almedia Savilla Ann Pickle are buried in the Olive Branch Cemetery in Anderson County, Texas. THOMAS WYLIE Witness to the Scarborough-Pickle deed was Thomas Wylie and William Elkins. The early Wylie families in Anderson County were members of the Church of Christ. It is thought that this family worshipped with the group at the old Hopewell Church. Thomas Wylie was born ca 1827 to Samuel and Nancy Wylie. Samuel Wylie (1793-7 Nov. 1873) and Nancy Wylie (14 Apr. 1793-31 Dec 1870) are buried in the old Foster Cemetery in Anderson County. Their children were: (1) Green Lee Wylie (2) Rachael Adeline Wylie (3) James Wylie (4) Jane Wylie (born 21 Oct. 1821) (5) Thomas Wylie (6) Nancy A. Wylie (7) Mary E. Wylie (born 18 Jul 1837) Thomas Wylie married Lucy Caroline Richardson around 1848 and they had three daughters: Eleaner J. Wylie (born ca 1849 in Texas), Mary O. Wylie (born ca 1854 in Texas) and Clarinda Wylie (born ca 1862 in Texas). The exact year of Thomas Wylie's arrival in Texas is not known, but is thought to have traveled with his sister Nancy A. Wylie (why had married Lucy Caroline Richardson's brother, John M. Richardson). WILLIAM M. ELKINS William M. Elkins came to Anderson County, Texas in 1857. He was born 11 Mar 1817 in Tennessee and married Sarah Cantrell ca 1836 and had twelve children: (1) Martha - born 1837, married Abram Barrett) (2) Caroline - born 1841 (3) Andrew Calvin - born 1842, married Martha Wallace (4) Mary A. born - 1844 (5) Nancy A. - born 1846 (6) Margaret Paralee - born 1848, married Thomas Know Wallace (7) Sarah E. - born 1850, married J. F. Craven (8) William Barton - born 1854 , married Mary Elizabeth Lee (9) Edmund S. - born 1856, married Irene Milton (10) Daniel H. - born 1858 (11) John C. - born 1860 (12) Abraham Leroy - born 1864 William and Sarah Cantrell Elkins lived on the A. Mitchell Survey until each died and are buried in the old Hopewell Cemetery at Brushy Creek. The Cantrell and Wallace families worshipped at the old Hopewell Church of Christ location. The church still owns the church property, which is across the highway from the Hopewell Cemetery. Additional information is needed for the families that worshipped at the Hopewell church. Note: The Scarborough family research was done by Mrs. Mildred Wosnig Floyd, mother of Mrs. Curtis Gauntt, LaRue, TX. Mr. Theron Pickle, Poynor, furnished the Pickle family research. - compiled by Jack Richard Pickle. The Wylie family research appears in A SEARCH FOR DAVID by Dr. A. R. Pruit, Fredericksburg, Texas. The Elkins family research came from the book PIONEER FAMILIES OF ANDERSON COUNTY. (Now out-of-print)