O'QUIN (O'QUINN) FAMILY REUNION - Rusk County, TX

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Originally published in the East Texas Family Records, Volume 4, 
Number 2, Summer 1980, by East Texas Genealogical Society. 

O'QUIN (O'QUINN) FAMILY REUNION

The O'Quin family reunion will be held July 4-5-6, 1980 at the Holiday 
Inn in Duncan, Oklahoma.  This is a national reunion for the descendants
of John and Rhoda (Horton) O'Quin.  John 0 'Quin was a Revolutionary 
War soldier.  He was born 13 June 1754 in Halifax County, North 
Carolina, and died 6 January 1836 in Muscogee County, Georgia.  He was 
married to Rhoda Horton 7 October 1790 in Kershaw District, South 
Carolina.  They were the parents of nine children:  Bryant, Daniel, 
John Jr., Emily, Sarah, Allen, James Jefferson, Tabitha, and Mary.

Many Rusk County peop1e descend from the son, John O'Quin Jr. who was 
born 1795, South Carolina, and died 1870 Angelina County, Texas.  
John Jr. and his wife, Candace Leaptrot (or Liptrat) O'Quin lived for 
a time in Rusk Countv during the 1850's.  One of their sons, Daniel,
made it his permanent home.   This Daniel was born 2 January 1825 in 
Washington County, Georgia where he married Lacy Giles.  They settled 
near New London, Texas and lived the remainaer of their lives there, 
being buried in the Pleasant Hill Cemetery.  Daniel served in the 
Confederate States Army, Co. D. 13th Regiment, Texas Volunteers.

Two children of Daniel and Lacy Giles O'Quin lived out their lives in 
Rusk County.  They were Martha Ellafair, who married Josiah Murphy 
(Joe) Hunt and Daniel Webster "Webb" O'Quin wno married Martha Seiber.
One son, Thomas Jefferson "Tom" O'Quin married Mary Eliza Thompson
and went to Indian Territory and lived at what later became Marlow,
Oklahoma.

Another daughter, Maryann Elizabeth, married Andrew Leopard, and the
Leopard family at Church Hill became their descendants.

Three daughters of John Jr. and Candace O'Quin also reared their 
families in Rusk County.  They were:  Ann, who married Hardy B. 
Thompson; Camillia, who married Doctor Franklin Giles; and Henrietta, 
who married (1) George Cooper and (2) James M. York.

Rusk County could furnish quite a "turn out" for the reunion.  After
all, many of us are a "wee bit O' Irish" because of John O'Quin!

For further details contact:  Mary Frank Dunn, Route 2, Box 190, 
Henderson, Texas 75652.  Telephone:  889-2303.