BIOGRAPHY:  H. W. Melton and Family - Smith County, TX

Contributed by Dr. Alma Moore Freeland
Submitted by East Texas Genealogical Society
P. O. Box 6967, Tyler, TX 75711

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Note from Dr. Freeland:  This clipping was written by my father, 
John R. Moore.  It appeared in THE TROUP BANNER, the local 
newspaper about 1910 while the J. R. Moore family also resided
in Troup.

H. W. Melton and Family

H. W. Melton was the son of Denson Crow Melton, who was a native
planter of Georgia.  Young H. W. Melton was born Oct. 14, 1829, 
eight miles north of Covington, Newton County, Georgia.  In
1846, having learned of the many and great advantages that the
grand old Lone Star State offered, he resolved to come to Texas,
so he bade adieu to loved ones and set out for his new abode.  On
arriving here he made his first stopping place near the eastern 
boundary of Smith County.  Not long after his arrival here, in 1849,
he was married to Miss Mary Hulsey, who lived about eleven miles
west of Henderson. Their union was blessed with seven children, 
three of whom survive.  In 1861 - June 1 - his wife was taken from 
him by death.  Then the great Civil War came up, and on 
Dec. 25, 1861, he enlisted, and served his countgry well.  During
those four long years not a wound did he receive.  At the close
of the war in 1865 he married Miss Tabitha Daniels.  She proved
an affectionate wife and a loving mother.  God again blessed him
with seven children by this wife.  Several of these children
are today living, while the rest have "gone on."

In 1869 he moved to Van Zandt County, where he resided til 1877, 
and then moved to Indian Territory, where he lost his second 
wife by death Jan. 2, 1880.  He soon afterward married Mrs.
Elizabeth Wallace, a widow.

Since 1902 he has been spending his time with his children here
in Texas.  At present he is near Troupe, Tex., at the home of his
daughter, Mrs. A. J. Moore.

He has fourteen children, forty-five grandchildren and thirty-one
great-grandchildren.  His health is very good, and his heart and 
eyesight are both good.  He takes great delight in hunting and
fishing, for now he often walks six miles to fish, and he catches
them, too.  May he yet live a longer and happy life, is the wish 
of the writer, his greandson - J. R. Moore, Troupe, Tex.