A Texas Family: The Barclays from Rowan Co NC in 1756 to Tyler Co Tx in
200

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here is my book.  It is the story of my father's family, but it has all of
the barkley stuff from rowan co NC to east Texas in the preface and all of
the other various barkley/barclay research in the appendix.  It's Title is

A Texas Family the Barclays

from Rowan County North Carolina in 1756 to Tyler County Texas in 2000

the man who brought three generations of his family to Texas in 1834 was
Walter Barclay b. in Rowan Co NC, son of Robert and Leah Barkley.

A Texas Family: The Barclays

From Old Rowan County North Carolina

to Tyler County Texas

1756 to 2000

Revised January 1, 2000

THE JAMES WALTER BARCLAY FAMILY STORY

Walter Barclay and Laura Pool Barclay

of

Tyler County

1871 to 1998

Includes extensive appendix, 1165 to the present

Incorporating notes on the McQueen and Pool families and

Information about the schools and elected officials of Tyler County

A Book

Copyright Pending

AUTHORS

Dr. Teddy LaVerne Barclay Pope, a Granddaughter

(born October 1, 1939, in Hardin County, Texas)

BS, M.Ed., Ed. D.

Dennise LaVerne Pope, a Great Granddaughter

(born May 14, 1971, in Tarrant County, Texas

died October 28, 1999, Tyler Co Tx, b Mt Zion)


WORD PROCESSORS

Donald Gerald Barclay, a Grandson

(born December 24, 1936, in Lake Charles, Louisiana)

Paulette Norsworthy Barclay (Donald's Wife)

(born August 2, 1943, in Beaumont, Texas)

CONSULTANTS

George Willis Barclay, Sr.

(born February 22, 1904, died August 13, 1996)

Mrs. Ruby Emily Vinson Barclay (George's wife)

(born October 24, 1907)

copyright pending 1999

About the Authors

Dr. Teddy L. Barclay Pope, BS, MEd, EdD, was born in Batson, Texas, and
reared in Beaumont, Texas. She was educated in the Beaumont public
schools, Lamar University, Sam Houston State University, the University
of Houston, and Texas A & M University. She spent most of her adult life
in Houston and Bryan, where she was an educator for thirty-six years. She
is the mother of Dennise LaVerne Pope and Perry B. Pope, Jr. She writes
non-fiction as a hobby.

Dennise LaVerne Pope was born in Fort Worth, Texas and reared in Houston
and Bryan, Texas. She was educated in the Houston Spring Branch and Bryan
Public Schools. She spent her adult life in Houston and Woodville, where
she was employed as a teacher aide and nurse aide. She was the beloved
only daughter of Dr.Teddy L. Barclay Pope and Dr. Perry B. Pope, Sr, and
a seventh generation Texan. She researched non-fiction historical items
as a hobby. Dennise was deceased October 28, 1999 in Harris County, and
buried at Mt. Zion Cemetery, Chester, Tx, in Tyler County November 1,
1999.

Disclaimer

Every effort has been made to verify the information provided in this
book. Even so, it may contain some errors. Also, additional information
continues to turn up that is not in the book. For these things, the
writer apologizes. It is expected that the book will be distributed
widely. It is requested that additions or changes be made as additional
appendix at the end of the book or the end of the floppy disc. The name
of the person making these additions or changes should be given, and the
date.

Family members are encourged to write their own family histories and add
it to their own book. It is recommended that information that might be an
embarrassment not be included. For the use of future generations, the
date of birth, location and the name of the person married is helpful..

Foreword

The Barclays were said to be the first white men to set foot in Tyler
County around 1828, before Texas Independence and days of the Republic.
This paper includes their story, to the current generation in 1998.

Preface

The orginal Barclay in America, from who the Barclays of Tyler County
descended, was Robert Barkley, married to Leah Madison Barkely (the
second choice of the maiden surname of Leah is Todd). They lived in Rowan
County, North Carolina (now Davidson Co.) before 1755. One of their sons
was Walter b. 1774. He and wife Elizabeth McQueen Barclay, originally of
Madison County, Kentucky, (daughter of John McQueen and Nancy Crews
McQueen and granddaughter of Dougal McQueen who came to Philadelphia
America in 1716 as a prisoner of war) migrated to East Texas and then to
Tyler County with their eight sons and three daughters, two
daughters-in-law and several grandchildren, accompanied by some Negro
employees. Elizabeth McQueen's brother, Milton McQueen and his wife ?
Simmons and some Negro employees, and Elizabeth's sister Jane McQueen
Bean and her children and sister Spicey McQueen Taylor and her husband
also went to east Texas in the early 1830's. In Tyler County (first part
of the Atoscosita district and then Called Menard) the Barclays grew in
number and prospered. Details are in the appendix.

At the time of this writing it is unclear as to who was the father of
Robert Barkley of Rowan County, NC, but other Barkleys in America were
Henry Barkley of Rowan Co NC, a possible brother, a younger Robert
Barkley of Rowan Co NC, a possible nephew, several other sons of Henry
Barkley of Rowan Co NC, and several children of Margaret Kerr Barclay
Brown of NJ, including Margaret Barclay King and her six children and
Samuel Barclay.

The focus of this book is the story of the James Walter Barclay and Nancy
Laura Pool Barclay family. Walter was in the fourth generation descended
from the first Walter Barclay in Tyler County. In Texas, the Barclays
used the spelling of the name with a C, rather than a K. His father was
James Walter and his mother was Mary Mahaffey, the second wife of James
Walter Barclay. His grandparents were Robert Barclay, son of Walter
Barclay and Elizabeth McQueen, and Sarah McKinsey. There have been four
more generations since then. Walter and Laura had fourteen children.
Eleven lived to adulthood. James Walter Barclay was in the fifth
generation of Barclays clearly identifiable in America, descended from
the original Barclay of this strain, Robert Barclay of Rowan County,
North Carolina.

In this paper, a second and third Barclay families of interest are
discussed. They were closely related and interwoven with the Walter
Barclay Family. The second family was the Henry Franklin Barclay family.
Henry was Walter's brother. Henry married Laura's sister, Clara Pool.
Together Henry and Clara had eight children. These Henry Barclay children
were double first cousins to the Walter Barclay children. After Clara's
early death, Henry had a second wife, Lee Barclay, who had a son. There
was a third wife, Viola Victoria Light, who had three children with
Henry. She survived him. The children of Lee and Viola were first cousins
to the children of Walter and Laura Barclay.

The third family was the James "Jim" Barclay family. Jim married Laura
and Clara's mother, Alice Delila Riley. Alice Riley Pool Bourn was twice
widowed when the girls and her two other children were young. She married
Jim Barclay. Together, Jim and Alice Barclay raised seventeen children.
Four were Pools, one was a Bourn son and twelve were their Barclay
children. Alice and Jim Barclay were grandparents to the Walter Barclay
children. All of the children raised by Alice and Jim Barclay were aunts
and uncles to the Walter Barclay children. These children were two
generations that overlapped. Jim Barclay managed the Peach Tree holdings
of John Henry Kirby. The Walter Barclay family lived at Mt Zion.

The Henry Barclay family lived in Houston County. The Jim Barclay family
lived at Peach Tree at Chester, Texas. The Walter Barclay family lived at
Mount Zion, south of Chester, Texas.

Barclays are now four generations, and more than one hundred and twenty
five years, removed from Walter and Laura, Henry and Clara, and Jim and
Alice. The children grew up and raised families in east Texas. Children
of daughters had other last names, but were equally related. Below are
listed the children.

Other First Cousins Laura's other sister was Frances Ludy Pool. The
children of Laura's brother, John Riley Pool, and Ada Fondren were as
follows: Herman, Vestle, Charles, Selma, Lester, Bower, Centril and Clara
Pool. Pools generally lived into their eighties, according to Jack Pool
of San Antonio. Only his father, Herman Pool, lived to be 102 years of
age. The children of Laura's brother, Willis Daniel Bourn, and his wife,
Ethel Stuart, were: Cecil, Wayne, Edna and Bessie Bourn.

The other first cousins were the children of Walter's brothers and
sisters, Henry, Ben Ross, Dr. Robert L. Cruse, Betty (Morgan), Falby
(Lockhart and Russell) and the children of Walter's half brother and
sister, Buck and Sally (Mann).

Most of these early east Texas parents gave their children good names.
They might have been named after relatives or friends or neighbors, given
the surname of another related family member as a first or middle name,
or named for presidents or other prominent persons. In everyday life,
many of these went by nicknames, such as; Watt, Grey Watt, W. W., Slim,
or Jim.

The children of Jim and Alice Delila (Riley) Barclay; Henry and Clara
(Pool) Barclay and J.Walter Barclay and N. Laura (Pool) Barclay are as
follows:

James "Jim"and Alice Delila Riley Pool Bourn Barclay's children were:
The Pool children; Laura, Clara, Frances Ludy, and John Riley Pool. The
Bourn son, Willis Daniel Bourn. The Barclay children; Josh, Mary, Ellen,
Leila, Hattie, Edna, James Lacey, Ida, Mable, Charles and John Henry
Kirby Barclay. There were seventeen in all. This was the largest family
in the area, and Alice Delila Riley Pool Bourn Barclay was said to have
had the most children in the area.

Henry Franklin Barclay and Clara Pool Barclay's children included; Cass,
Laura, Alice, Martha Jean, Bower, John and Watt. Henry had a second wife,
Lee Barclay, who was the mother of Bert H. Barclay. There was a third
wife, Viola Victoria Light Barclay, who was Henry's widow, the mother of
Lacy, Eunice and Reagan Barclay. There were twelve children of Henry
Franklin Barclay in all.

James Walter Barclay and Nancy Laura Pool Barclay's children were;
Myrtie, Clara, Mary, Clyde, Eula, James (Buck )Buchanan Barclay, Joshua
(Josh), Riley, Robert, George, Ora and Lora, Louise and Feagin

And Henry Feagin Barclay. There were fourteen in all.

Families Related by blood and marriage to the Barclays of Tyler County
were: Adams, Allen, Allison, Allums, Anderson, Bean, Beaty, Bennett,
Berry, Best, Bevil, Borderlon, Boyd, Boyett, Bradshaw, Carlton, Chitwood,
Callie, Clegg, Cook, Courtney, Cruse, Dismuke, Dotson, Dunman, English,
Flowers, Fondren, Ford, Foster, Fuller, Graham, Goran, Harris,
Hendericks, Hodges, Holloway, Honeycutt, Howell, Huffey, Jones, Jordan,
Kankin, Keyes, Kincaid, Kiner, King, Knight, Lawson, Ledbetter, Lee,
Lewis, Lindman, Linsay, Little, Luce, Mahaffey, Mann, Marshall, Marthis,
Massey, Massingill, Miller, Mills, Moore, Montgomery, Morgan, Moss,
McAllister, McBride, McKinney, McKinsey, McNeil, McQueen, Norsworthy,
Oakley, Peers, Phillips, Pittman, Pool, Pope, Powell, Ray, Reeves,
Reisinger,Riley. Rigsby, Tiley, Seaman, Seale, Seasauk, Simmons, Sims,
Smith, Stuart, Stuce, Sturrock, Swearingen, Tomkins, Tindall, Todd,
Turner, Vincent, Vinson, Watson, Wilson

The Descendants of James Barclay b. 1816 and Virginia Ann America Foster
Barclay

Of Tyler County, Texas - 1908 est

The McQueen brothers and sisters who came to Texas;

David, Milton, Elizabeth, Spicey and Jane (from Dona Porter)

(David came to Texas and went back to Ala on business and died while
there).

These settlers were all brothers and sisters and their spouses, and their
children were nephews and nieces to the aunts and uncles, and cousins to
each other. Also cousins with them were Squire Cruise and his wife and
their children.

#1)ELIZABETH MCQUEEN = b 1790 Madison Co KY; d 15 May 1863 Tyler Co TX;
bur Hart Cem, Tyler Co TX; m Walter BARCLAY (son of Robert & Leah
Barkley) 29 Jan 1804 Madison Co KY; Walter = b 29 Apr 1775 Rowan Co NC; d
25 June 1857 Tyler Co TX; bur Hart Cem, Tyler Co TX;

Elizabeth and Walter had (11) children - Robert Barclay who md Sarah
McKinsey, Anderson Edward Barclay who md Sarah Ann Prather, Nancy Barclay
who md John Deason, John McQueen Barclay who md Louisa Jane Pruitt, James
Barclay who md Virginia Ann Foster, Mary "Polly" Barclay who md 1)John T.
Henderson & 2) James Bevins, David Milton Barclay who md Mary Jane Enloe,
Jeremiah Todd Barclay who md Eliza Ann Rigsby, Louisa Jane Barclay who md
Hamley Gennings, William Barclay & Milton Barclay.

#2) SPICEY MATILDA MCQUEEN = b 1793 Madison Co KY; d 7 Feb 1855 Orange Co
TX; m Owen TAYLOR abt 1809 TN, prob Franklin Co; Owen = b 1785 prob
Wilkes Co GA; d Aug 1854 Orange Co TX;

Spicey & Owen had (7) children - Leuriny Taylor who md 1) William Lewis &
2) John Allen; John McQueen Taylor who md 1) Nancy A. P. ? and 2) Mrs.
Nancy Loving; Helen Taylor who md Sam Belt; Jane Ann Taylor who md Jehu
Bevil; Elzyra Taylor who md 1) Argalus Parker & 2) William Charles Rabey;
Nancy Matilda Taylor who md 1) James Green Jr. & 2) William Pruett & 3)
Patrick H. Pinson; Willmetta Taylor who md Wm D. Pierce; Henrietta Taylor
who md Charles S. Hunt & George Taylor.

#3 JANE MCQUEEN = b 22 June 1801 Madison Co KY; d 29 Dec 1880 Tyler Co
TX; bur Magnolia Cem, Tyler Co TX; m Leroy D. BEAN 10 Apr 1816 Franklin
Co TN; div abt 1835 Franklin Co TN; Leroy = b abt 1793 TN; d 29 Apr 1869
Coffee Co TN; he m2) Lucinda MARCHBANKS 1839 Hillsboro, Coffee Co TN;

Jane & Leroy had (9) children - Capt. John Thomas "Jack" Bean md 1) Nancy
Minerva Foster & 2) Narcissa Jane Fulghum; George P. Bean md. Eleanor
Burke; David M. Bean; Milton J. Bean md Susan H. Nicks; Nancy J. Bean md
a man named Hooker, first name probably Robert or Carroll; Elizabeth A.
Bean md Lemuel S. Walters; a daughter possibly named Catherine who md a
man named Green; James W. Bean, and Martha A. Bean who md Lewis Smith;

#4 DAVID CREWS MCQUEEN = b abt 1801 Madison Co Ky; d abt 1830-31 while on
a business trip to Alabama; m Cynthia W. CAMDEN (dau of John W. CAMDEN)
abt 1818, prob Franklin or Coffee Co TN; Cynthia = d by 1847 Coffee Co
TN; ( came to Texas but went back on a business trip to Ala and died
while there. Wife and children did not come to Texas).

David and Cynthia had (4) children - John Francis McQueen who md Delilah
Lowry; Susan McQueen who md William Burrows; and Mary Jane McQueen who md
Robert C. McFarland;

#5 MILTON MCQUEEN = b 1808 prob White Co TN; d 18 Dec 1864 Tyler Co TX
prob heart attack; m1) Susan SIMMONS (dau William Simmons & Susanna
Mayberry) bef 1831; Susan = b 1814 Franklin Co TN; d 5 June 1854 Tyler Co
TX of pneumonia; Milton m2) Sarah (MCKINSEY) BARCLAY (widow of Robert
BARCLAY) 2 Jan 1855 Tyler Co TX;

Milton & Susan had (10) children - Elizabeth McQueen who md William Smith
"Billy" Parks; Tranquilla McQueen who md Thomas Rock; Nancy McQueen who
md. Lacy Milton Barclay; John Robert McQueen who md 1) Sarah Barclay & 2)
Nancy Fulghum & 3) Louanza Johnson; Susan Jane McQueen who md Frederick
Dominy; Catherine "Cati" McQueen who md 1) E. P. Jacobs & 2) James
Felder; Amanda McQueen who md W. W. Orr; James K. Polk McQueen who md 1)
Mary Mahaffey & 2) Sarah Jane Lowe; Tennessee Ann McQueen who md Emile
Corbello (alias Ancil Cole Corville); Sarah McQueen who md. E. P. Gill;

This picture is of David A. Barclay, son of Walter Barclay's elder son
Samuel. and his wife Mary David. David settled in Falls County, Texas.
Other Barclays who settled in Falls county were Walter and Elizabeth
McQueen Barclay's son David and his wife Jane Enloe and their children
and William Anderson Barclay, son of Jeremiah Todd Barclay and Elizabeth
Rigsby Barclay.

Crest Badge:

Out of a chapeau azure

turned ermine a hand

holding a dagger, proper.

Motto:Aut agere aut mori

Either action or death.

TABLE OF CONTENT

1. Part One -- Walter and Laura

Laura

Walter

Their Farm

2. Part Two -- The Children

Sisters

Brothers

3. Part Three

Moma Passed Away

Papa Passed Away

4. Part Four -- Mt. Zion Area

Church

Cemetery

School

Appendix

1. Barclay Information From Walter Barclay in Scotland, 1165 to 1998.

2 Barclay -- Who Are We?

3. Barclay History.

4. Jersey Lands Information

5. The Lawsons of Georgia, Last Page

6. News article 1943

7. Walter Barclay

8. Elizabeth Mc Queen Barclay

9. Robert Barclay

10.. Anderson Barclay

11. John Barclay

12. David Barclay

13. William Barclay

14. James Barclay

15. Jeremiah Todd

16. Milton Barclay

17. Mary "Polly" Barclay

18. Louisa Barclay

19.Nancy Barclay

20. Pensions of the Army of the Republic (AOR)

21 DAR Information

22. Your Barclay correspondence

23. Your Pictures

24. Your Maps

25. Barclay Activities

 1. Notes - Barclay

 2. Notes - Pool

 3. Notes - McQueen

 4. Notes - Mahaffey

 5. Notes - Miscellaneous

BARCLAY

Probably of English origin, many of the name of Barclay were found in
Scotland during the 12th century, one Walter de Berchelai holding the
high office of Chamberlain in 1165. The Barclays of Mathers,
Kincardineshire, trace their descent from Theobald de Berkeley, who
flourished under David I. Other important branches of the family were the
Barclays of Collairne, of Preston, Ayrshire, of Ardrossan and of Tolly,
Aberdeenshire, who retained possession of their lands from the 12th to
the 18th century. From this family was descended the Russian
Field-Marshall, Prince Barclay de Tolly, who , in 1812, opposed Napoleon
when he marched on Moscow.

INDEX

Part I Who were Walter and Laura?

1. Lineage

2. Source of Land

3. Children and Others

4. Data About the Old Place

5. House and Furnishings

6. Porches

7. The Well

8. Grounds

9. Chores

10. Cotton

11. Tenant Farm

12. Return to Old Place

13. Animals

14. Schooling

Part II The Barclay Children

Sisters:

15. Myrtie

16. Clara

17. Mary

18. Eula

19. Ora

20. Lora

21. Louise

Brothers:

22. Clyde

23. Buck

24. Josh

25. Robert

26. Riley

27. George

28. Feagin

Part III. Deaths

29. Moma Died

30. Papa's Old Age

31. Papa Died

32. Lineage Summary

33. Old Place Passed Down

34. Myrtie On the Old Place

35. Last Brother Died


Part IV. Mt. Zion Area

36. Mt. Zion Church

37. Mt. Zion School

38. Pre-College and College


Part V. Who Are We?

39. Barclay Information

40. Who are we?

41. Barclay History

42. Kin and neighbors

43. Jersey Lands, N. C., Information

44. News articles, 1943

45. Walter Barclay and Elizabeth Mc Queen Barclay

46. Robert Barclay

47. Anderson Barclay

48. James Barclay

49 Jeremiah Barclay

50. Milton Barclay

51 War Pensions

52. DAR Information

53. Notes

54. Comments from Barclay/Barkley One Name Study

Who Was James Walter Barclay?

He lived in Mt. Zion area, Chester, Texas, on 112 acres of farm land,
part of the Harmon Frazer Survey. He was born on March 3, 1871, married
Laura Pool on September 5, 1889, and died on Sunday, December 18, 1944.
His children were as follows:

Sons: Daughters:

Clyde Barclay, August 7, 1893 Myrtie Barclay, Sept. 7, 1890

James (Buck) Barclay, Jan. 22, 1897 Clara Barclay, Dec. 1, 1891 (baby)

Joshua (Josh) Barclay, August 17, 1898 Mary Barclay, April 18, 1894

Robert (Bob) F. Barclay, June 2, 1900 Eula Barclay, August 3, 1895

Riley Barclay, October 11, 1901 Ora Barclay, June 1, 1905, twin

George Barclay, February 22, 1904 Lora Barclay, June 1, 1905, twin

Henry Feagin Barclay, May 14, 1911 Louise Barclay, August 3, 1907

Note: Walter's brother Henry first married wife Laura's sister Clara.
Their children were double first cousins.

James Walter's Lineage

Robert and Leah Barkley were living in Rowan County, N. C. before 1755.
Robert Barkley's (b. 1718) country of origin was Scotland. Strong
evidence points to his having originated in Americ a generation or two
before that. Family tradition is that he was the grandson or grandnephew
of Robert Barclay, the famous Quaker Apologist, in Urie, Scotland. Walter
Barclay b. 1774 came from Rowan County North Carolina (Jersey area);
Elizabeth McQueen from Richmond (Madison County), Kentucky. Elizabeth
McQueen was the daughter of John McQueen and Nancy Crews and
granddaughter of Dugal McQueen. These were James Walter Barclay Jr. b.
1871's great grand parents. Robert Barclay b. 1805 was born in Kentucky
or Tennessee. James Walter Sr. b. 1831 was born in Tennessee or Arkansas.
James Walter Jr b. 1871 was born in Tyler Co., Texas.

Grandfathers                    Grandmothers

Country of origin - Scotland

1) Robert Barclay of Rowan Co. N. C. b. 1718 d. 1788 1) Leah Madison
Barclay of Rowan Co d. 1800 Rowan Co NC

2) Walter Barclay b. 1774 / d.1858 2) Elizabeth Mc Queen b.1790/d.1863

3) Robert Barclay b. 1805/ d.before 1850 3) Sara McKinsey b. 1807/d. ?

4) James Walter Barclay b.1831/ d.1899 4) Mary J. Mahaffey Powell b. ?/
d.?

5) James Walter Barclay Jr. b.1871/ d.1944 5) James Walter Barclay Jr. b.
1871/d.1944

* James Barclay and Virginia Foster also had a son named James Walter,
b.1849, d.1904. He was considered by the writer as not eligible to be the
father of James Walter (b.1871)as both James Walter Barclay and his wife,
Katerine Kincaid, were too young to have been James Walter's parents and
also the parents of his four older brothers and sisters. James Walter and
Mary J. Mahaffey are buried at Mt Zion cemetery, with the DOB being 1831
and DOD being 1899 on the tombstone. Mt. Zion cemetery is the burial
place of the descendants of this line of Barclays, and is located within
one mile of James Walter b. 1831's farm. This Walter was known as Grey
Watt. The death certificate in the Tyler County files signed by Dr. Watt
Barclay shows James Walter Jr.'s mother to have been Mary Mahaffey, not
Katherine Kincaid, the wife of the Walter born in 1849. A third Walter, a
cousin, was known as Black Watt. This third Walter, William Walter, was
the son of Anderson Barclay, and was about the same age as Robert's son
James Walter.

Who Was Nancy Laura Pool?

Nancy Laura Pool was the daughter of Alice Delila Riley and Josh Will.
Pool. Josh W. Pool was the son of Nancy Durden Pool frazer and William
Pool. Josh W Pool died young, and left a widow and four Pool children,
her sisters being Clara and Frances Ludy Pool, and her brother being John
Riley Pool. The Riley's country of origin was Scotland, with other
contribution through marriage of Germany and Ireland. The Pool's country
of origin was Ireland or England. Laura was born on December 27, 1873.
She married James Walter Barclay on September 5, 1889. She died on
February 22, 1924. Her children were as follows:


Birth dates                             Date of death

08/07/1893 Clyde Barclay 03/07/1970

01/22/1897 James B. Barclay (Buck) July 1948

08/17/1898 Joshua (Josh) Barclay 10/31/1988

06/02/1900 Robert F. Barclay 10/21/1976

10/11/1901 Riley Barclay 06/15/1902

02/22/1904 George W. Barclay 08/13/1996

05/14/1911 Henry Feagin Barclay 09/03/1963

09/07/1890 Myrtie Barclay 06/10/1974

12/01/1891 Clara Barclay 10/28/1892

04/18/1894 Mary Barclay 10/22/1914

08/03/1895 Eula Barclay 03/28/1968

06/01/1905 Ora Barclay 08/14/1905

06/01/1905 Lora Barclay 01/06/1933

08/30/1907 Louise Barclay 07/??/1967

note: Laura's sister Clara married Walter's brother, Henry. The
children are double first cousins.

Laura's Lineage

Grandmothers: Grandfathers:

1) Jemima Berry (Chactaw/Creek Indian) 1) William Edward Riley

2) Delila Shivers 2) John Shonos Riley

3) Alice Delila Riley 3) Josh W. Pool

4) Laura Pool 4) Laura Pool

Nancy Duren Pool Frazer, wife of William Pool and mother of Josh W. Pool


A Texas Family: The Barclays

PART 1 Walter and Laura

WALTER

James Walter Barclay was born March 3, 1871. He was the son of Walter
Barclay and Mary Mahaffey Powell Barclay of Tyler County, Texas. His
brothers and sisters were Henry Franklin, Ben Ross, Dr. Robert L. Cruse,
Betty (Morgan) and Falby (Lockhart & Russell). His half brother was Buck
and his half sister was Sally (Mann). Buck and Sally's mother was Martha
Jane Foster, sister of Virginia Foster, the wife of Walter's uncle, James
Barclay. Walter married Laura Pool on Friday, September 5, 1889, when he
was 18 years of age. Walter was of medium build with brown hair. He had
typical Barclay facial features. He had little education.

As an adult, James Walter was called Walter by his wife, his parents and
his sisters. He was called Uncle Walter in the community and Mr. Barclay
in town. He was called Papa by his children and Grand-daddy by his
grandchildren.

James Walter Barclay was descended from the Walter Barclay and Elizabeth
McQueen strain of Barclays who first arrived in Tyler County around 1826.
That original Walter Barclay was the son of Robert and Leah Barklely of
Rowan County, North Carolina (Now Davidson County). Elizabeth McQueen was
descended from Dugal McQueen, POW 1716) Walter, like all Barclay men, was
serious and strong willed. He did not put up with foolishness from the
children. He was a disciplinarian. He was reliable, and a man of his
word. Many Barclays were known for having a temper. There were no wimps
among them.

Barclay men did not allow the use of bad words or swearing. The worst the
women or children heard from them was "dog take it" or "dog gone it" and
only if he was extremely perplexed. A bad person might be called a
"booger". The absolutely strongest term ever heard was "son-of-a-gun".
Words that stood for other words were not allowed, such as "gosh", "gee"
or "golly". They did not allow the word "lie" to be spoken, or the term
"shut up" to be used.Slang such as; "Shaw", or "Get Out" were used by
adults, only.

He remained on the farm until shortly before his death at the hospital of
Dr. Watt Barclay in Woodville, December 18, 1944. He is buried at Mount
Zion cemetery. He was preceded in death by his wife, Nancy Laura Pool
Barclay, his father and mother, James Walter and Mary Mahaffey Barclay,
and father's first wife, Martha Foster. He is buried at Mt. Zion
Cemetery with his parents, wife and many of his children.

LAURA

Laura Nancy Pool Barclay was born Friday, December 27, 1873. Her parents
were Josh Willis Pool and Alice Delila Riley Pool, of Tyler County. Her
brothers and sisters were John Riley, Clara and Ludy. Her Bourn brother
was Willis Daniel Bourn. Her twelve Barclay half-brothers and sisters
were; Josh, Mary, Nancy, Ellen Amanda, Lacey Champion "Do", James
Franklin, Ida, Hattie, Mable, Charles and John H. Kirby. When Laura was
sixteen years of age, she married James Walter Barclay of Tyler County.
Her sister Clara married Henry Barclay, Walter's brother. Her mother's
third husband was "Jim" James Barclay. Jim Barclay was the stepfather who
raised Laura when her own father was shot dead.

Laura was a pretty girl. She had a corseted 19" waist. As an adult she
had a trim figure and long thick brown hair. In the family portrait, she
was around thirty-five years old and had delivered thirteen of her
fourteen children. All were live births. Feagin arrived around two years
later. Laura was an active leader in the Mt Zion Community. She led in
raising funds for the cemetery fence. She delivered babies for others.

Laura was in good health when she died at age fifty-two on February 22,
1924. By then, six of her older children had left home and George was
away in college. Her daughter Myrtie and three younger children, Ora,
Louise and Feagin, were still at home.

She is buried at Mount Zion beside her husband, James Walter Barclay, who
she preceded by twenty years.

THE FARM Walter and Laura made their home in the Mt. Zion Area, four
miles south of Chester. It was known as the Walter Barclay Place, and
later by the family as the "Old Place". Walter bought the land from Uncle
Henry Barclay. It was originally about 112 acres of blackland located off
the current highway US 287, on Bob Belt Road in the larger Harmon Frazer
Survey (Named for early settler Harmon Frazer and stepfather of Nancy
Laura Pool's father, Josh W Pool). Later, about fifty additional acres
were purchased. Harmon Frazer received a pension (bounty warranty of 320
acres) for service in the Texas War for Independence from Mexico. Frazer
served under Col. F.M. Weatherred, then Capt. The old place and the
neighboring property that was later zoned into Chester, was claimed for
the pension. Harmon Frazer had come with his wife and six children from
Tennessee. After the wife died of yellow fever, Harmon Frazer married the
Widow Pool.

Walter and Laura's farm was in the same vacinity of Walter's father J.
Walter (born 1831) and family farm. Bill Barclay told of the following
incident. In 1980, George Willis Sr. guided Bill Barclay, Bower and Dona
English's son, to Mount Zion Cemetery, pointed at the monument next to
that of Walter and Mary Mahaffey and said, "that is your grandfather
Walter's grave. He was Grey Watt". Next, they went into a fenced off area
owned by a timber company. Then, they went into an old house. There was a
cook stove in it. Bill found a coin the size of a dime dated before the
Civil War. George said "this was my grandfather's house".

On his farm, Walter raised cotton. There were also two large gardens. As
was common practice, almost all of the food for the family was grown on
the farm. Cows produced milk and beef; hogs produced pork. Chickens
produced eggs and meat. Hogs were killed (called a hog killin') after
weather turned cold in the fall. The next day was Smoke House Day. They
used every part of the pig but the squeal. The ground up parts were
stuffed into entrails casing for sausage. Cornmeal was ground from
Barclay corn at the mill. They always had one row of popcorn.

Pear and fig trees and blackberries, haws and strawberries provided
fruit. Bread was biscuits and cornbread. Yeast breads were made when
flour was available. A start was saved from one batch to the next.

Water for all uses came from the well in the back far away. The location
of the well was selected by a water witch. It had to be drawn in a bucket
and carried uphill several times a day. Slop jars with lids were used
inside at night. The outhouse was used during the day.

Food was cooked on a wood stove. Earlier, the living room had been heated
by a fireplace. Later, it was heated by a wood stove. Light was provided
by kerosene lanterns. Later there was a gas refrigerator and a telephone.
It was jokingly said that the Barclay girls sewed and ironed with one
hand on the telephone listening in on the party line.

Transportation in and out was by foot, horse, mule or wagon. The distance
to church and school at Mt. Zion was about 1.5 miles. The distance
between Mt. Zion Church and Chester was four miles. The Gulf pipeline ran
through the Barclay woods.

CHILDREN Walter and Laura had fourteen children. Three died as babies.
They were Clara (named after Moma's sister), Riley (who was born between
Robert and George) and Lora (Ora's twin). Later these were referred to
as Moma's babies.

The eleven children who lived to adulthood were as follows: Clyde, James
Buckanan (Buck), Josh (Joshua), Robert, George Willis and Feagin (Henry
Feagin). The girls were as follows: Myrtie (the oldest), Mary (died in
childbirth), Eula, Ora (Lora^Òs twin), and Louise. Mary Barclay children
have similar faces. Their noses look alike. It^Òs called a Barclay nose.
In later years, Myrtie told grandchildren "you have Barclay toes". As the
story goes, most Barclays had toes with a large big toe and graduated
smaller toes. There are a very few tall Barclays. Tall Barclays have a
second toe longer than the big toe.

OTHERS Two foster sons were raised by the Barclays. Jack was the first,
then Gus Shelby, known as Sonny Boy. Jack and Sonny Boy came from a boys
home near Paris, Texas. A Negro farm worker, who had a cabin on the
place, was named Ennis. He lived there with his wife and their daughter,
Louise, named for the youngest Barclay daughter,

Louise Barclay Turner, and a son, Claude. The Barclays occasionally
boarded teachers and had relatives there on long-term visits, or one that
helped Walter Barclay on the farm, including Euphia Wisenbacker, a
teacher at Mt Zion, and kin, Loney Barclay and Travis Nowlin.

HOUSE AND FURNISHINGS The Barclay home was a dog trot house, set back
from the road. Parts of the house are more than one hundred years old. It
was built by a carpenter and added on to several times.

The front door led from the porch into the house. The entrance door led
into the dog trot. This door was closed in cold weather, and left open in
warm weather. On the left was the living room, the largest room of the
house. It was large enough for a seating area and two double beds. There
were ladder-back straight chairs and rockers. Seats were made of deer
skin and leather woven strips, which were made on the farm. Some of the
furniture was hand-made with hatchet and hand saws.

When the older girls reached courting age, Mrs. Barclay used some of her
egg and butter money to order an oak parlor set. It cost $5.00, which she
paid at $l a month. She ordered the set from the Ladies Home Comforter.
It was to spruce up the livingroom. The set consisted of a rocker and
straight chair (with leather seats and backs), and a table. The pieces
are still in use.

The fireplace room was used for gathering, socializing, family living,
getting warm, handwork, dominos and as a sleeping area. The Barclays
played a lot of dominoes there but no cards. Moma did not want the
children to play cards, so they would not buy any for them. Some of the
children made decks of cards from cut-up cardboard boxes.

The dining room had a dark, heavy carved buffet and a long rectangular
table with benches. Mr. Barclay sat at the end of the table. Mrs. Barclay
and Myrtie were the main cooks.

In the kitchen were built-in cabinets across one wall, with dishes on top
and pots and pans below. Several tables were pulled out for food
preparation, dishwashing and eating. There was a screened-in pie safe for
baked goods, a walled-in pantry and a wood cook-stove.

The kitchen had two back doors, one leading to the back porch and one
directly to the outside, where there were steps. A small vegetable garden
was to the left. Further out was a two-holer outhouse.

PORCH A porch extended around the back. On the porch were two
face-and-hand washing areas, consisting of a shelf placed between two
posts. On the shelf was a dishpan for water. Above were a water dipper
and feedsack towels. There was a shallow well beside the back porch next
to the storage room and smokehouse that supplied a little water.

THE WELL Water for cooking and face and hand washing was brought up from
the main well down the hill several times a day. It was a constant
problem and an effort to keep an ample supply of water drawn from the
well and in the kitchen. Much later there was a cistern for rain water.
When asked why they did not have a cistern sooner, George said that they
did not need one as they had plenty of kids to draw and haul the water.
They went to the well to wash the clothes and take baths. Water for this
purpose was used more than once. There was also a spring on the property
that supplied some water for the animals during the rainy months. You
will remember that the animals and the gardens also had to have water.
The cotton depended on rain.

Next to the kitchen and on the back porch was a storage room for tools
and feed. The smokehouse was nearby. A chicken yard and coop were in the
yard. Some of the pieces of furniture, such as the tables and benches,
were handmade using hatchets and handsaws.

The right side of the house had two bedrooms with windows. The girls^Ò
room was the larger. It had a walled-in closet and work areas for
ironing, sewing and quilting, and two double beds for sleeping. The quilt
box was in the girls^Ò room. The quilting frame was attached to the
ceiling.

Several double beds were in every room. Some had iron bedsteads. A
bedstead might be the headboard from one long-ago bed, and the footboard
from another one, maybe found on the trash heap. Bedding consisted of
cotton mattresses made from cotton raised on the Barclay farm. Pillows
were made of cotton and feathers. Some of the quilttops were made of
scraps from old suits. Others were finely-stitched patterned quilts, such
as the double wedding ring and Texas star, made from remnants of dress
goods.

The boys^Ò room was smaller and had wall-to-wall beds. In the back of the
bedroom side of the house was the honeymoon room. It had a window and an
entrance onto the back porch. Inside the windowed room was a bed. A wire
was nailed to the corner walls as a place for the clothes to hang. A
shelf was also secured to the wall in the corner. Much later, a bedroom
was built for Myrtie on the left side of the house at the front, next to
the livingroom. It was built by Lawrence Lee and had many windows and a
walled-in closet. The reason was so that she would be near Papa in the
fireplace room, when he was old and ailing.

The house was built of long leaf yellow pine. Parts of it are from other
houses. Long leaf yellow pine is a strain of pine that is superior in all
ways to loblolly, but it takes longer to grow. The virgin forests of
Tyler County were long leaf pine, but they were replanted in loblolly so
that another forest would be available for harvesting in forty five
years.

A small house on one acre was built across the road. It was built for
Clyde, Molly (Pittman), and Ruth. They lived in it three times, and two
or more of their children were born there. Ferrol(Fuller) and Ora, then
George and Ruby (Vinson) also lived there.

The front porch was wide and extended across the entire front of the
house. It had a large porch swing with a magazine rack on the end. It
hung from the ceiling by "S" hooks and chains. It was a courting swing.

GROUNDS The yard was fenced to keep the cows away from the house and
yard. There were beautiful flower beds. Some years the whole front was
plowed up and planted with flowers. The fence was made of barbed wire and
wood posts. Crypt Myrtle trees were at the front corners and still bloom
today.

In the back yard, there was a chicken yard and chicken coop, a smokehouse
and a pecan tree. To the left of the yard was a large cow pen and barn
for large animals. There was also a pigpen. On the grounds were several
creeks and branches. One was Cow Pen Creek, another was Blackland Branch,
a dry branch.

CHORES During the night, Mr. Barclay could be heard snoring loudly. The
day started at four a.m. in the morning, when he hollered for the boys
(by name) to get up, make the fires and feed and milk the cows. Barclay
children had specific daily chores, such as keeping the wood box filled,
bringing water from the well and feeding and milking the cows. The girls
helped Mrs. Barclay with the cooking, sewing, laundry and care of the
younger children. The girls also worked in the fields when it was needed.
After Mrs. Barclay died, Myrtie became the main cook.

The boys helped Mr. Barclay farm. Walter was a good farmer. Once, when
George was nearly grown, he told of an incident that occurred about 1922.
Popa noticed that George was having some difficulty plowing with his new
plow. When they stopped for lunch, Popa went over, jerked up George^Òs
plow and sawed off the ends of the handle. When they returned to plowing,
it plowed easier and straighter.

Life on the old place revolved around the cotton. Mrs. Barclay was the
main cook and raised the family. They said Moma could serve a good meal
if she didn^Òt have anything but vinegar and corn meal to cook with. She
earned money for her needs by selling extra eggs, when she had them,
along with butter and milk. (The taste of the butter varied according to
the kind of feed the cows got).

COTTON The field was prepared and the cotton planted in April and May
each year. It was picked in September. The start and finish of school
(which was about seven months long) was determined by cotton

Picking cotton was hard work. Hard on the hands and hard on the back.
Five dollars a day could be earned by a fast picker before 1930. The
amount picked determined the pay. They used sacks to hold the cotton and
drug the sacks along behind them.

In 1905, a serious thing happened. It is described in more detail in a
paper by George W. Barclay, Jr., see file on Barclay,George and Ruby.
Since the boll weevil had devastated cotton in other states in the South,
Walter switched to a strain thought to be resistant to the weevil.
Johnson grass got into the crop. That crop and the fields were ruined.

Walter and his young sons could not have begun to have chopped it out.
There were too few of them and they were too small. All the boys except
Clyde were under 10 years old. Walter let cows loose into the fields to
eat the Johnson grass, then moved off the land. It took six years for
cows to eat the grass.

TENANT FARM While cows ate the Johnson grass, Walter took the family to a
tenant farm on John Henry Kirby property near Chester. They had ten
children (George was one year old) and Laura was pregnant with twins.
Three more children were born at the tenant farm.

Walter tenant-farmed that black land river bottom farm with excellent
soil. It was smaller in size than his own farm had been. He paid the
landlord, John Henry Kirby, one-third of the cotton and one-fourth of the
corn. While on the tenant farm, the children went to the Chester schools,
with Myrtie, Clyde, Mary, Eula, Buck, Josh, Robert and George attending.
Ora, Lora, Louise and Feagin were born while at the tenant farm.

RETURN TO THE OLD PLACE The family returned to the old place in 1912.
George was eight, Robert was ten, Josh was twelve, Buck was fourteen,
Clyde was about nineteen and Myrtie was 22. Although the sons had helped
farm the tenant farm, they were now older, bigger and better able to farm
the big farm. The only Johnson grass left was around the trees and posts.
They chopped it out.

The old place was larger and more profitable but it was more work than
the tenant farm. Walter said that one family could not cultivate more
than one hundred acres.

Over the years, there were some medical problems: Childbirth, Buck^Òs
sick leg that required having the bone scraped several times by a doctor,
ground worms and the usual illnesses. A toll was taken on the family when
three babies died in infancy. The Chester doctors were Dr. Cain, Dr.
Coker and Dr. George.

On the farm, children were an economic asset. George recalled hearing men
say in town, "Well, we got us a new hand at our house today."


ANIMALS The Barclays loved their animals. In addition to the horse, Old
Dutch, and the mule, Old Mandy, there were some dogs and cats. Myrtie had
two Boston terriers and a poodle, along with the tick hounds for hunting
and working dogs. Mr. Barclay treated his dogs well. He was not a big
eater and always finished first. While the others were still eating, he
would take big chunks of cornbread from the table and throw it to the
dogs.

The dogs were allowed into parts of the house. Myrtie named the chickens
and called them by name when she fed them. She talked to the dogs and
cats. She might say, "You, Sir, what are you doing in the house?"

The hogs ran loose to root for themselves in the woods. They didn^Òt feed
them too much, or they would burst open. They were pinned up just prior
to the hog killin day in the winter.

The cows were choosy about who they would allow to milk them. Some of the
boys were not allowed to. The cows would fight them by kicking, switching
their tail and mooing.

SCHOOLING Important aspects of family life were the church and school.
The Barclay children went to Mt. Zion school when they were on the old
place, and Chester schools when they were on the tenant farm.

Mt. Zion school was a high-quality one-room school until about 1916, when
it became a two-room school. Chester was classified as a first-class
school. Schools were classified by the state. Rural schools were placed
in every area that had twenty-five children of school age.

Walter Barclay served as a school trustee, as was Jim Vinson and others.
As a one-teacher school, Mt Zion went through grade nine and then ten.

In those days there were eleven grades in Texas. To attend college, it
was necessary to get the missing grades before starting college work.
This was done at Woodville or at a college, but it did necessitate
boarding in town. The four-year teacher colleges (which were normal
schools for teachers before 1923) had pre-college. Either way, it was
necessary to board. But at college, you could get a teacher certificate.

Eula and Feagin went to Woodville to finish their grades. George (and
cousin D. C. Peters), Ruby (George^Òs wife), and her sisters, Zelda and
Jimmy Vinson, Ora and her husband Ferrol Fuller, and Louise all went to
Stephen F. Austin for pre-college and college. There were so many
Barclays in the classes, including Cass and his baby brother and baby
sister, that the math teacher said for Cass and all the rest of the
Barclays to go to the blackboard.

PART II


THE FAMILY^ÒS CHILDREN The young people had an opportunity to meet other
young people at school, at church, among their relatives and at socials.
Interesting romances occurred among the children.

THE SISTERS There were three big sisters and three little sisters (and
Clara, who died as a baby).

MYRTIE did not marry until she was sixty, around 1953. She married Burl
Platt, a widower, who was about eighty-five years old. Mr. Platt came
courting after Myrtie left the farm and was living at Chester. He asked
her to marry and she agreed. They lived at his place on Highway 287. It
was a nice house with a beautiful view from the front porch. Myrtie told
Ruby that Mr. Platt had told her he didn^Òt see why a sweet woman like
her was just now getting married. Ruby said, when she and George visited
Aunt Myrtie and Uncle Burt, that his pasture was so pretty that it made
her wish she was a cow with a big stomach.

Myrtie was a good cook. She made biscuits in a Dutch oven on the back of
the stove. She stewed a tough squirrel with gravy for a delicious
breakfast, along with hot biscuits. She made excellent bread pudding from
leftover bread, which she served with a lemon sauce. She also made
wonderful prune and chiffon cakes. Being the oldest, and the authority
figure after Moma died, no one had ever thought of her as sweet.

She had a rule she never broke. She did not break it on the old place and
she was not going to break it for Mr. Platt. She did not fire up that
stove and cook two full meals in one day. The marriage was short-lived.

Myrtie was in the Eastern Star. She liked to visit the kin, but after a
short time she would have to go back to feed her chickens and dog. Once
Dr. Watt sent the Virginia Ford, who worked in the office, to take Myrtie
to the picture show . They watched the Shoot^Òem up twice, and then
stayed for the midnight movie. Around 1948 another relative came by
headed for a trip to Mexico. They said to Myrtie, "Come go with us". In a
few minutes, she got ready to go and went with them.

CLARA was born December 1,1891. She died October 28, 1892. She is buried
at Mt. Zion Cemetery. She died as a baby She was named after her
mother^Òs sister, Clara Pool.

MARY was about sixteen, when one Friday her beau, Larkin Sims, came to
school with two horses. When school let out, the Barclay children went
home without Mary. Mr. Barclay asked; "Where^Òs Mary"? When he got the
story out of them, Walter got out the buckboard and went after Mary and
Larkin Sims. He caught them before they got married and brought Mary
home. After a serious talking to, and questioning, he said; "Barclay
girls do not run off to get married". The congregation was invited to a
wedding that Sunday, after services, at the Walter Barclay Place. The
wedding took place on the front porch with guests in the front yard.
Horses and wagons were further out. Mary was the second oldest, and the
first to marry.

Several years later, Oct. 22, 1914, when she was twenty, Mary died in
childbirth. She gave birth to twins. One died and one (Mary Lou Sims)
lived. Mary^Òs baby was buried in her arms at Mt. Zion. She was the first
adult in the family to die. It was a sad occasion. Lillus, Mary^Òs older
child, was the first grandchild in the family. She and Mary Lou visited
on holidays and during summer at the Barclay home. Mary Lou Sims married
James McAlister.

Mary was her father^Òs mother^Òs name.

EULA How Eula met Quinton Jordan is not within memory, but it is supposed
that it happened when she was in school or teaching at Woodville. Eula
was as pretty as a princess. She married "up" financially, to Quinton
Jordan, who was in oil. He died around 1978. They had no children. Eula
tried to encourage George and Louise to set their sights higher
financially, but they had their own ideas, which disgusted Eula.

Eula took Louise to live with her when Moma died. Louise was miserable
and went back to Popa at the old Place. Eula and Quinton lived in
Beeville. Eula died March 28, 1968, and Quinton died in 1978. They had no
children.

LORA, Ora^Òs twin was born June 19, 1905 and died August 14, 1905. She is
buried at Mt. Zion Cemetery.

ORA, Lora^Òs twin, was born June 19, 1905. Ora went to see Aunt Ruby and
Cally, quite a long way off, perhaps in the Town Bluff Jasper area. Aunt
Ruby caught on that Ferrol Fuller was going to come get Ora and they were
going to run off and get married.

Aunt Ruby put Ora into the buckboard and took her home immediately.
Walter did allow her to marry Ferrol, but it took place at home later
that same day. Ora and Ferrol lived on the Old Place, first in the little
house. Then they went on to college at SFA. Ora and Dan had one child,
Dan. Ora became ill around 1932, and died of pneumonia Jan. 6,1933 at
about twenty-eight years of age. Dan came to visit George shortly before
his (Dan^Òs) death, around 1993.

LOUISE was sweet on Omar Turner. Omar adored Louise. He was one of the
four Turner brothers. They had one older sister, who was married when the
Turners came to Mt. Zion. Omar^Òs brothers were as follows: John, who
married Arbie Parks; Merril, who married Blanch of San Antonio; Milton,
who married Roberta Durham of Woodville.

Around 1925, some of the brothers and sisters were living with their
spouses at the Old Place. Ora dared Louise and Omar to go get married, so
they did. Afterwards, back at the house, Travis Nowlin (who was staying
with the Barclay^Òs) broke a raw egg, playing around with it. The boys
had bet Nowlin that he could not break an egg by pushing the two ends
together. It broke and splattered onto Louise, who was wearing Ruby^Òs
dress. It was new and her best dress. She had to wear it that way, as the
stain would not come out.

Omar was a devoted husband. The best husband Ruby said she ever saw. Omar
was a Church of Christ preacher and worked for Gulf Oil at Overton. He
called Louise "Mother" after the children came.

Louise and Omar adopted two daughters, Oleda and Betty Jo. When Louise
was about forty-three or forty-four, she had a stomach tumor that needed
surgery. Wanting a second opinion, Louise and Omar came to see Dr. Watt
Barclay in Woodville. Watt examined Louise and congratulated Omar,
calling him "Popa". A few months later, Curtis Ray arrived, a surprise to
all as he was Louise^Òs first baby, a tumor.

Louise and Omar, who lived in Vidor and then Buna, were killed when their
car hit a train in July of 1967, shortly after Curtis Ray^Òs marriage.

Oleda married Austin Musclewhite and they had four children. Her
whereabouts are not known at this time. Betty Jo married William
Scholfield. They had three children, Nancy, a second daughter, and a son.
They lived in Las Vegas many years, and then at Redlands, Texas, near
Lufkin. They may be back in Las Vegas.

Curtis Ray married Elizabeth Dobson. They lived at Richmond, Texas
(Houston), and have three girls; Christian, Aaron and Lindsay.

It is not known if Louise was named for a family member, but one of two
sisters in the Walter Barclay and Elizabeth McQueen Barclay family was
named Louisa.

THE BROTHERS There were three big brothers and three little brothers.
About 1948, George and Ruby, Josh, Buck and Lettie, Cousin Walt and
Myrtle and Feagin gathered at Louise and Omar^Òs place at the pump
station at Overton. Oleda was there with her fourth baby, a newborn.
Louise^Òs son, Curtis Ray, was about six months old. The Barclay baby,
Feagin, from St. Louis, was there. It was one of only two times Feagin
had been seen since he left home and went to work with the railroad in
St. Louis. They would never see him alive again. A wonderful time was had
by all.

There was a lot of joking and no arguments. Josh brought a whoopee
cushion and played tricks with it that no one liked, but he thought were
funny. Feagin told Harry Truman jokes and the joke about the cat dying
from running out of gas. Different ones went to Shreveport, Louisiana, to
a fair, to see the oil field and to a swimming lake with big gold fish in
it. Several of their children were there. It was really a nice time for
all.

It was a shock to get a telephone call just a few days after returning
from Overton. Buck had died of a heart attack in July of 1948. Dr. Watt,
wife Mirtle and daughter Beverly were there visiting.

All of the Barclay brothers, and Ora and Louise, started off with their
spouses at the Walter Barclay Place. There was a honeymoon room at the
back of the house. There was also a little house across the road that
they used when newly married. (until they got their own place.)

CLYDE was born Saturday January 7, 1893. He married Molly Pittman, born
Aug. 19, 1898. They had five children: Ruth, Raymond, Ralph, James Edmond
and Doyle. At first Clyde was a logger and later he went with Gulf
Oil.They lived in the little house three times. Two, or three of their
children were born there.

Molly died of cancer December 26, 1942. Doyle was pretty young so he went
to live with Granddaddy and Aunt Myrtie at the Old Place. Clyde went to
Paducah, Kentucky. He was a pipe fitter and stayed in Kentucky until his
death in the 1960^Òs.

Ruth, born Sept. 10, 1919, married Paul Goran of South Carolina. She was
a nurse in World War II. She had one child, a daughter Ruthie, who
married Priest Fuller. They had two daughters, both living in South
Carolina. Ruth died young on Jan. 18, 1959 of a heart attack.

Raymond, born July 3, 1922, married Inez Holloway. They lived in Baytown
where he worked for Exxon. After retirement, they lived in Colmesneil for
many years, then moved to Fredricksburg where they live now. Their
children were as follows: Vicki Lynn, (deceased) who married C. D. Ray;
Cathy, who married Gary Harris. (They live in San Antonio with their
children, Raymond, Gary and Molly Ellen.);and Nancy, who married Lawrence
McNeil. (Their children are twins Jennifer and Jessica and son Mac.)

Ralph, born Jan. 29, 1924 married Lorraine Hendrick of Houston. They
lived in the Galena Park area of Houston. Ralph died at age fifty-five on
Feb. 14, 1979, the day he retired. His widow lives at Galena Park.

James Edmond born Jan. 22, 1927, married Annie Mary Tindall. They lived
in Nacogdoches and had three sons; James Jr. and Eddy of Houston and Jay
of Nacogdoches. James Edmond is deceased.

Clyde Doyle born around 1930 married Frieda Vernadine of Pt. Arthur. They
live in Pt. Neches and have two sons, Danny and David. Danny married
Marie Elaine Hernandez and they have a daughter, Elizabeth. David married
Susan Carlton of Pt. Arthur. Her daughter is Kimberly Underhill.

BUCK James Buchanan (Buck) Barclay married Lettie Vincent. They lived at
Vinton and Meridian, Louisiana. Buck was a chief electrician with Gulf
Oil. They had one child, Paul, born in 1926. Paul married _?. Their
children were _? Paul has been deceased ten or fifteen years.

Buck was exceptionally nice, and everyone liked him. Buck died early, in
July 1948 as previously mentioned. Lettie worked at the Capitol in
Louisiana in some capacity for several years before her death in 1952.
Both are buried at Mt. Zion.

James Buchanan was named for his father and grandfather.

JOSHUA (Josh) Walter Barclay married Ruthell Luce. They lived at
Hull-Daisetta and had one child, a son named Walter Phillip. They adored
him and were very proud of him. Their son married Carol Ann Watson of
Mart, Texas. They live in Portland. Their children are as follows: Walter
Phillip Jr., who married Patty Wilson of Houston. Their daughter Katy Ann
Barclay, who also lives in Portland. Phillip and Carol Ann also had a
daughter named Elizabeth. She married Jeffery Reiners of Florida. Their
only child was named Jennifer Ruthell. Josh was high in the Masonic Lodge
and Ruthell was very active in the Eastern Star. She and her mother were
pretty and socially prominent. She had beautiful antique furniture.

Ruthell died young of cancer, around 1946. Josh^Òs second wife was Dora
Best, from a prominent Woodville family, whose first husband was Pete.
They lived at Longview. Josh worked for Gulf Oil as a Field Supervisor.
They built a lovely retirement home in Kilgore, Tx.. Josh died October
31, 1988. Dora died October 20, l992. Ruthell and Watt^Òs wife, Mirtle,
helped put on a big Eastern Star meeting in Woodville. Ruthell^Òs picture
was in the paper titled "Pretty lady visits". Ruthell was holding baby
Phillip.

By middle age, Josh and George bore a strong resemblance, except for
wearing different kinds of hats. Josh wore a tan five-gallon hat. So did
Feagin.

Robert said that his brothers, Buck and Josh, were "Big Shots". He said
George that sometimes acted like a Big Shot. Josh and Buck were both
managers with Gulf Oil, but they were always big shots, even as boys.

Josh was named for his mother^Òs father and his own father.

ROBERT FRANKLIN married Sallie Haynes. They had five children; Robert Lee
(called Sonny), Laura Rose, Donald Gerald, Joe Walter and Sarah Elizabeth
(called Sissy). Sallie was a registered nurse, graduating in the first
class at Hotel Dieu (1929) in Beaumont, Texas. Robert was with Gulf Oil
and worked as an oil field rough-neck so they lived in several Gulf Oil
Camps in Texas and Louisiana. Among those were Big Sandy and Village
Mills, before going to north Beaumont in the French area. Robert always
had a garden, chickens and a barn and milk cow. The milking was shared
between Robert, Sallie and Donald. Each cow produced an average of four
to five gallons per day. Donald^Òs love for milk started back in those
days. He still drinks a gallon per day. Robert^Òs place in Beaumont was
on about an acre and had many flower beds.

Sallie was a cheerful happy mother. She and all of her children laughed a
lot. Robert had various business endeavors including a neighborhood
grocery store in front of his property on Pine St. in north-end Beaumont.
His son Donald built Robert and Sallie a new home in August of 1963,
located in Lumberton, Texas. Robert died October 21, 1976, and Sallie
died fifteen months later on January 30, 1978. They are both buried at
Mt. Zion.

Robert Lee, the oldest, was called Sonny by the family. He married Betty
McBride in June of 1964. They had no children. Born Nov. 29,1929, he died
August 17, 1996. He was a retired draftsman with Harding and Lawler Steel
Corp. His wife, Betty, lives in their home in Lumberton.

Robert was named for his great grandfather and his great great grand
father. Those two were named for Robert Barclay of Rowan Co. NC^Òs
grandfather, Robert Barclay, the apologist, who is extensively written
about elsewhere. See the life of Robert Barclay on the internet for
specific information. He came to NJ and served as governor and then
returned to Scotland.

Laura Rose and husband Charles Todd (Laura^Òs second husband) live in
Conroe, Texas. There are no children from this marriage. Laura married
Teddy Berry in 1956. Laura was a refined lady. She was congenial and bore
a resemblance to her mother. She is retired from Exxon Corporation, after
being employed twenty years with that firm. They had three children;
Dona, David and Paul. Dona, who lives in Spring, Tex. has no children.
She is employed with Compaq Corp. David, an architect `with a BA degree
from the University of Houston, is employed with an architectural firm in
Houston. His wife, Jodie has a BS degree in Occupational Therapy from the
University of Houston. They have four children. Paul, a journeyman
commerical plumber resides in Lakeland, Florida and works in the Orlando
area.

Donald Gerald married Paulette Norsworthy in February of 1965. Donald was
one of the few tall Barclays. They presently live in Bridge City. They
had two children, Scott and Stacey. Scott and his wife, Tresa, reside in
Ft. Worth, Texas, where Scott is a Doctor of Osteopathy and does family
practice. Stacey is single and lives in Houston, Texas. She is employed
by Enron Capital & Trade Resources Corp. as a senior accountant. Donald
is a recent retiree from Texaco Chemical (was previously called Jefferson
Chemical), with thirty five years service and also another four years in
the same plant with Huntsman Corp.

Joe Walter, the youngest Barclay grandson, married Kathryn Keyes of
Beaumont. She is a graduate of South Park High School. Joe is employed
with Occidental Petroleum on an offshore gas platform. They presently
live in Nacogdoches. They have no children. Joe has a Barclay physique
and facial resemblances.

Sarah Elizabeth was called Sissy by the family. She married Gayle
Bordelon in 1957. Though out her life she was a talented artist. She was
a hairdresser in Beaumont and then in Houston. She had no children. She
lived her last years in Woodville, where she died of cancer on August 6,
1992. She is buried at Mt. Zion on the Walter Barclay row.

Robert, Sallie and their children were very active at North End Baptist
Church of Beaumont before moving to Lumberton in 1963.

RILEY died as a baby. He was born Friday, October 11, 1901, and died
Sunday, October 15, 1902. He was named after the Riley family and the
grandmother Alice Delila Riley, Laura Pool Barclay's mother.

GEORGE was born on February 22, 1904, and died August 13, 1996. He was
picked out by Ruby as her boyfriend when they were at Mt. Zion School.
Ruby was about eight and George was twelve. They married in 1924 and
George went to Stephen F. Austin State Teachers College for pre-college
and college. He then taught school in for ten years at Shiloh, Mt. Zion,
Caney, Cherokee and Concord, and at Batson in Hardin Count ten years,
where George (BS, SFASTC and MA, SHSTC) was high school principal and
coach.

Then they moved to Beaumont for 23 years, where George was with the
Beaumont schools as teacher, coach and principal. Their children are as
follows: George Jr., born October 1, 1929, at Nacogdoches; Ruby Nell,
born April 8, 1931, at Chester; and Teddy LaVerne, born at Batson,
October 1, 1939.

George and Ruby retired to Woodville where they lived 31 years before
George^Òs death in 1996. In retirement, George managed his property, was
the last Tyler County School Superintendent, worked with the Democratic
Party and Historical Society, gardened and played dominoes.

George was a seventy-two-year member of the Masonic Lodge. George and
Ruby were married seventy-two years. They had about the longest marriage
of anyone in the vacinity, ever.

George Jr. was first a chemical engineer, then a medical doctor for
thirty-five years. He and his first wife, Shirley Anderson of Dallas, had
four children; Ada Catherine LaVerne, George Willis III, James Michael
and Walter Christopher (their mother is Shirley Anderson Barclay of
Dallas). His second wife of twenty-six years is Chloeteele Ford Smith
Barclay of Woodville. Chloeteele^Òs daughter is Fayanne Smith Barclay.
Her father is Jimmy Smith (deceased). They live in the west end of
Beaumont.

Cathy and brother Trey (George Barclay, Jr.) live in Washington state.
Cathy has five children. James and Walter live in Dallas. Fayanne lives
in Austin.

Ruby Nell married Gene Seale. She was a sweet and pretty blond. She was
the middle child and is full of grace. They lived in South America seven
years and then Dallas for thirty-eight years. They had three children;
Lamar (E. L. S., III), Keith Ross and Suzanne. Lamar married Terry
McNeil. They live in Houston. Their daughter is Ann Seale. Keith married
Roxanne Boehme. They live in Dallas. Their children are Michelle and Mark
Seale. Suzanne married James Knowles. They live in California. Their
children are Jeremy and twins, Emily and Jennifer.

Ruby Nell was in real estate and then in the antique business. Gene was a
mechanical engineer, and owned his own large equipment business, G S and
Associates.

Teddy LaVerne was born October 1, 1939 in Batson, Texas. Teddy was the
youngest grandchild in the Walter Barclay family. She married Perry B.
Pope of Houston. They lived in Houston and Bryan. Their children are
Dennise LaVerne and Perry Jr.. Dennise lives in Woodville and Perry Jr.
is in college in Virginia. After six years of teaching, Teddy was a
school administrator with the State Department of Education, Houston
schools and Bryan schools, for 30 years. Perry was high school principal
with Houston schools, Bryan schools and Spring Branch schools.

George Willis Barclay was named George because it was a typical Scot name
in Scotland, the best known being Sir George Barclay, high chamerlain of
the castle of Mary, Queen of Scots. He was named Willis after his uncle
Daniel Willis Bourn, his mother^Òs half brother.

Henry FEAGIN was the baby of fourteen children. He was like a little doll
and they adored him. Feagin was about fourteen when the mother, Laura
Pool Barclay, died. After high school graduation, from Woodville High
School, Papa, George, Ruby and other family members celebrated the
graduation of the last child of the family with dinner at the Frank
Barclay boarding house. Feagin left home to work with the railroad in St.
Louis, Missouri. They saw him only a couple of times afterward, at
Popa^Òs funeral and Louise^Òs home, told of elsewhere.

Feagin died September 3, 1963 of a heart attack. He and his wife, Ann
Davis, had no children. George and Josh went to his funeral in St. Louis.
It was a large funeral with many high-ranking officers in the railroad
and the Masonic Lodge A.F.&A.M, which Clyde was associated with in
leadership roles. The neighbors and his co-workers had many nice things
to tell his brothers about Feagin and made them feel better, as they had
seen so little of him after he grew up.Ann moved to Conroe and lived
there until her death around 1995.

Henry Feagin went by his middle name. He was named Henry for his uncle,
his father^Òs brother. His middle name may have been for a prominant
family in the Chester area who owned the general store that later became
Veal^Òs.

The children of James Walter Barclay and Laura Pool Barclay were deceased
in this order: Clara, Riley and Lora (as babies), Mary, Ora, Buck,
Feagin, Clyde, Louise, Eula, Myrtie, Robert, Josh and George in 1996.
There are a number of graves of babies of other families as well as the
three Barclay babies in the Mt. Zion Cemetery. It is not now known what
those babies died of, but they did not have shots then and did not have
the immunities of older children. Dysentery, measles and pneumonia were
hard on babies.

PART III Moma, Then Popa Passed Away

MOMA DIED On Monday, February 25, 1924, Laura Barclay was out milking and
feeding the cows. She came in and said that she was dying, like her
mother did. She called her children (Myrtie, Ora, Louise and Feagin)
around her and told them she loved them and to be good children. Then she
was gone.

Myrtie, who was about thirty-three years old at the time, called Chester,
where Popa had gone to buy feed. The telephone operator called from place
to place, telling them to tell Uncle Walter to go home, that Mrs. Barclay
was dying. It was said that he loped Old Dutch the entire four miles to
the Old Place, but when he got there, Laura was gone.

It was the custom in those days to sit up with the body until it was
buried. It took several days for the children to all get there. It was a
cold and bitter winter. Laura^Òs body was lying in state in the front
bedroom (the boys^Ò room) with no heat. Mrs. Ada George Vinson and others
took turns sitting up with her, as women sat with women and men sat with
men. Quinton Jordan, Eula^Òs husband, would bring in hot wrapped bricks
to help warm Mrs. Vinson. Ruthell, Josh^Òs wife, made a new dress for
Moma to be buried in. George was at North Texas State Teachers College.
He said he dreamed of church bells ringing the night before she died. He
came home by train.

After Moma died, Myrtie was the lady of the house. Popa lived as a
widower twenty more years. These grandchildren were born before Moma
died; Lillus and Mary Lou Sims (and the twins that died), Mary^Òs
children, and Ruth Barclay, Clyde^Òs daughter, and Raymond and Ralph,
Clyde^Òs sons.

The first Walter Barclay family reunion took place at the Old Walter
Barclay Place around 1936. Barclays and their kin by marriage gathered in
large numbers at this reunion that lasted all week-end and included
barbecuing a been side. Guests included Napeoleon Bonaparte Barclay, son
of James Barclay, the last of his generation, the third in Texas, who
died the following year. This reunions continued for forty years, ceasing
after the 1967 reunion. Later reunions were at Kirklin Springs, on
Sundays. Reunions were the second Sunday in July and included visiting, a
business meeting, speakers and lunch, fun and fellowship. They presented
the flag and did the pledge. All the women brought theie lunches to
share. The lunch was served on the back of two tables. There was fried
chicken and dumplings, roast, ham, all kinds of fresh vegetables,
tomatoes, bread, rolls, biscuit, cornbread, baked beans, potato salad,
tea, coffee, every imaginable kind of cake, pie and cobbler. Cousin Watt
Barclay would bring cold watermelons. Around 1943, prizes were given
(colored-glass mugs) to the youngest grandchildren, Joe Walter (Robert^Òs
son) and Teddy LaVerne (George^Òs daughter). Family branches that were
represented in later years were these Barclay families; Walter, Henry,
Jim and Howell. Everyone related or friends or neigbors with were
invited, and some of the descendants of Laura Pool's brother, John Riley
Pool, came to the Barclay reunion, their being cousins. The pictures
shown below appeared in the Beaumont Sunday Enterprise about 1936 on the
day of or around the day of the reunion. An article accompanied the
pictures telling of the Barclays and the reunion. That particular reunion
was held at the old home place of Walter Barclay. It lasted two or more
days. They bar b qued a beef and many stayed over night on the place. It
was reported that several hundred came to the reunion.

There were pictures from earlier reunions before 1910 at the James
Barclay place near Harmony, on the hill, under the big oak where the
Alabama Indians camped. (see picture earlier in this book of the
Descendants of James Barclay b. 1816 and Virginia Ann America Foster
Barclay.

POPA^ÒS OLD AGE Walter farmed the Old Place until 1938, when his help
left. By then, all of the children, except Myrtie, had left home. He was
sixty-eight years old. Myrtie kept house for Mr. Barclay until he died in
1944. He was bedridden in his last years. He stayed in the living room,
and sometimes the dining room. Myrtie stayed near him nights, in the new
room that was built for her for that purpose.

It was war time. Gas was rationed. Tires were bad. Various ones would go
to see him when they could. The grandchildren recalled visiting
granddaddy. He had a boy doll with a rattler head. It was later called
the "granddaddy^Òs doll". He would say, "come over here, and sit by me.
You can play with the "granddaddy doll^Ò". Then he would shake it. So, a
frightened child would sit next to him on the bed and play with the doll.
This occurrence caused the youngest grandchildren to remember him.

POPA DIED James Walter Barclay died at Watt Barclay^Òs hospital Sunday
Dec. 18, 1944. His funeral was at Mt. Zion, where he was buried next to
Laura Pool Barclay. Walter^Òs mother was shown as Mary J Haffery, and
abbreviation of Mary Jane Mahaffey, on his death certificate. Walter left
his farm and a stand of pine to be divided among his children, with half
going to Myrtie, and the rest divided equally among the other children or
their heirs. The land is valued at time of writing at $1275 per acre.
Average price for pine in 1997 was $350 per thousand board feet

Around 1957, monuments were placed at the graves of Walter and Laura, and
markers for the babies that died in infancy. George bought them, and paid
back taxes on the property, as part of the encouragement to his brothers
and sisters to sell their acres to him. Indirectly, Walter and Laura^Òs
farm paid for them.

LINEAGE SUMMARY James Walter Barclay (born 1871) was the son of James
Walter Barclay (b.1831 the son of Robert Barclay b. 1805 and Sarah
McKinsey, who was the son of Walter Barclay (b 1774) and Elizabeth
McQueen Barclay, b. 1790. Walter Barclay (b 1774) was the son of Robert
Barclay (b. 1718) and Leah Madison Barclay of Rowan County, North
Carolina. Robert was the grandson or grandnephew of Robert Barclay of
Urie Scotland, the Quarker Apoligist, the line of decent being through a
son or brother of Robert or John Barclay who went to America, likely east
Jersey. He was not Irish. Some of his close kin, other Barclays, were
Scots living in Ireland overseeing the family shipping business. One of
the ships was the "Barclay Frigate". Another was the "Diana". A visitor
to the British Islands today would no Barclays in Dublin. In Scotland,
every city has many Barclays in the telephone books. The McQueens, from
who Dugal McQueen, Elizabeth McQueen's greatgrandfather, was straight
from Scotland, arriving in America in 1716.

James Walter Barclay, b. 1871,'s son, Robert Franklin Barclay, named one
of his sons after his father, That son is Joe Walter. George Willis
Barclay, Jr., named two of his sons after James Walter Barclay b. 1871,
Walter C. Barclay and James Michael Barclay. James Walter Barclay b.
1871's other son, Joshua Barclay, named his only son Walter Phillip
Barclay, who named his only son Walter Phillip Barclay, Jr.

In Scotland and in Dublin, Barclays were Quakers. They became Baptists in
Rowan County NC, if not before, in America.

Some interesting Barclays and kin were as follows:

1. See Clan Barclay and Barclay Bastion for various connections in
Scotland

2. Two of Robert Barclay of Rowan County, North Carolina^Òs daughters

married Todd brothers, sons of General Todd of Pennsylvania.

This family included Mary Todd, wife of Abe Lincoln. (She married

Abe against the family^Òs wishes.) They are mentioned in the minutes of
the

the Jersey Church Cemetery, N. Carolina, along with brother Samuel and
his wife Mary, 1787

3. The Barclay who was the original designer and contractor of the New

York City Subway around 1860.

4. The moviestar, Steve McQueen (who was descended through the McQueens)

5 Cousin Adali Stevenson ( U.S. Senator)

6. Cousin Sam Houston

7. Cousin David Crockett of Kentucky and Tennessee

8. Neighbor of father of Daniel Boone of North Carolina.

9. The founders of the Barclay Bank.

10. An enormous new castle has been built on an island in the British

Islands by Barclay Brothers.

11. William C. Barclay, age 20, of New York. Executed by Mexicans during
war of Independence

(Texas) on ship in New Orleans Harbor

12. John Barclay, Battle of San Jacinto

13. Peter Barclay, (b. around 1800) Madison Co., Richmond, Kentucky. May
be a son

from a first marriage of Walter Barclay (b. 1774)

14. Captain Robert Barclay, N.C., Revolutionary War, 1776

15. Anderson Barclay (uncle) first battle of the Alamo (began Dec.,
1835).

16. James Barclay, Texas Army Capt. Ingraham Company, raised in Jasper,
Texas, east Texas folk  hero, sheriff, judge, agent to the Alabama
Indians and congressman.

17. Senator William Barclay, Ala., 1821-1836.

18. Governor Barclay, N.J. 1600s. this was Robert Barclay of Urie, the
Quaker Apologist. No connection made with Robert Barclay of Rowan Co.,
N.C. at

this time, but it is being researched by some New York Barclays.

19. Walter Barclay (b. 1831, d. 1899), Alabama, son of Robert and Sarah
McKinsey. Close relative,

Tyler Co., Walter Barclay (b.1849, d. 1904). Son of James and Virginia
(Foster) Barclay. Close         relative of William Walter Barclay, son of
Anderson Barclay of the Chester area

20. Jeremiah Todd Barclay (b. 7-1-1826 in Alabama, d. 8-3-1850), younger
son of Walter, grandson

of Robert and Leah, was shot dead on election day, 1850, at age 21 by Mr.
Hanks in a      disagreement unrelated to the election. A warrant for murder
was put out on Mr. Hanks. Older         Brother James was elected sheriff that
day. A posse went after Mr. Hanks but did not locate    him. They camped at
a place the nearby people called Barclay, because there were several
        Barclay men in the posse. Jeremiah Todd Barclay^Òs wife was Elizabeth
Ann Rigsby,     age     seventeen. Son was William A. Barclay, age eight
months. She went back to her    family  along with her baby son. Later, she
married again.

21. William Anderson Barclay, aged ten, hopped a wagon train from Alabama
to Texas, and stayed    with Uncle James. At age sixteen, he set out to
find his father^Òs killer and bring him in in the       Waco/Temple area.
Killer Mr. Hanks was already dead. W. A. got a job, prospered, and stayed
to      start a town with a 2000-acre cotton plantation, country store etc.
.T he people a named the town            Barclay, Tex.

22. Dr. Watt Barclay, major doctor in Tyler Co., from operating on
kitchen tables to x-rays.

Instrumental in forming Tyler County Hospital.

23. Many Barclays in Richmond, Kent (Madison Co.) area descended from
Walter^Òs brother Robert.

24. Notable Barclays in Tyler Co. in the early 1900s were; Howell, R.L.,
L.H., James Walter,

Lee B., Napoleon B., W. W. Anderson, Watt, Bishop, John Henry Kirby
Barclay.

 1. Tyler County Barclays in the Civil War

 2. Family of Stephen Foster, the song writer, his father being named
    Barclay after the grandmother's family, and the Foster sisters who
    married James Barclay and Walter Barclay

 3. James Madison, President of the United States, possible connection
    yet to be studied with Leah Madison Barclay of Rowan Co NC

 4. Lendon B Johnson, President of the United States, descended from the
    Barkley Cowan family of Rowan and Lincoln Cos NC

 5. James Polk, President of the United States, descended from the
    Barkley Knox family of Rowan and Lincoln Cos NC

 6. Mary Todd, wife of Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States,
    related to same Todd family of the Todd family daughter of Robert and
    Leah Madison Barclay married into in Rowan Co NC.

 7. Albin Barclay, Senator from Kentucky and then Vice President of the
    United States

 8. Barclay, one of the founders of the Christ of Christ

 9. Barclay, Ambassador to New York City from England

10. Barclay, Second Rector of Trinity Church in New York City

11. General Omar Bradlely, WW2, Allied Forces, descended from the
    McQueens.

Note: Relatives wishing to visit the graves of Tyler County Barclays
might want to review the

cemetery book at Whitmeyer Genealogical library at Heritage Village,
Woodville, Texas. Mt.

Zion is only one of several cemeteries where Barclays are buried.

For information about some well known famous Barclays, see Charles
Barclay materials. Current Chief of the name Barclay is Peter C. Barclay
of London (born 1938).

George Willis Barclay, Jr., reported that on his visit to Scotland and
Ireland in 1994, he looked for Barclays in the telephone books. In
Dublin, there were only two Barclays listed and they were businesses. One
was Barclays Bank. In Scotland, there were pages of Barclays in each
city. Thus concluding that Barclays are Scots and not Scotch-Irish. Laura
Rose Barclay Todd reported finding no Barclays in Dublin in 1998.

OLD PLACE PASSED DOWN The Old Place was left to the children, half to
Myrtie and the rest divided among the children and their heirs. In order
to keep the place together, George, who already had his own part, bought
the parts of Myrtie, Josh, Louise, Mary, Ora, Feagin, and Robert. Doyle,
Clyde^Òs son, purchased the parts of Clyde, Buck and Eula. George and
Ruby passed it down to George Jr., Ruby Nell and Teddy. The house is on
George W. Barclay Jr.^Òs part.

The virgin forest was of long leaf pine, called yellow pine. The
replacement pine was loblolly, as it grew faster. Timber was cut in 1903,
1948, and George Willis Barclay, Jr.^Òs, was cut in 1995 and 1998 (pine
was clear cut, seedlings were planted). One acre in forty to fifty years
grew about 2.6 thousand board feet of saw timber on the old place.

Some deer hunting takes place on the Old Place by invitation and approval
by family members. There is game activity on the Old Place. There are
does but few bucks. Two or three deer harvested in a season is considered
a good year. Squirrels are scarce. Some wild and domestic pigs run in the
woods. Other wildlife are rabbits, armadillo, rats, lizards, songbirds
and snakes. Dogwood bloom in late March. There are many species of
hardwood, including oak, pecan, wild peach, cedar, sweet gum and hickory.
The ratio of hardwood to pine is 1:5.

MYRTIE ON THE OLD PLACE Myrtie and Walter^Òs grandson, Doyle (Clyde^Òs
son) lived at the Old Place after Walter died, and until Doyle graduated
from Chester High School and went to the Navy. Myrtie had the timber cut
in 1948 to help with her expenses. Myrtie raised chickens, had a
vegetable garden, baked biscuits and cornbread, drank warm soda water and
got five dollars a month from each her brothers.

On the Old Place, Myrtie had no transportation, no radio, no newspaper,
no electricity and only cistern water, with no one to haul it. The well
finally went dry. She had no refrigeration and wood had to be chopped for
heat and cooking. She did have a dog, a calendar, lanterns, a Bible and a
gun. Doyle lived there six years. The neighbors, Bob Belt and his family,
were a big help just being there. Myrtie kept up with all the children
and grandchildren.

When Myrtie was about sixty, she left the Old Place and moved to Chester.
She had a brief marriage to Burt Platt. Then she moved to Woodville,
where she lived in a house across from the post office until her death in
1974. She died at the Tyler County Hospital.

THE LAST BARCLAY BROTHER DIED All of the children of Walter and Laura
Barclay were deceased by 1992, except for George. Robert died in l976 and
Josh died in 1992. George, the last of this generation, died in 1996.
Buck, Robert and their wives, Lettie and Sallie, Mary and George are
buried at Mt. Zion. Ruby, George^Òs wife, lives in Woodville at their
home, as of February 1, 1998.

Of the grand children of Walter and Laura, Lillus and Mary Lou Sims
(Mary^Òs children) are the oldest, if they are living. If not, Raymond,
Clyde^Òs son, is the oldest. Curtis Ray Turner, Louise^Òs son, is the
youngest. The spread of years is about thirty-five years between the
birth of the first and the last.

Of the great grandchildren, the oldest were the children of Oleda Turner
Musclewhite, Louise^Òs daughter. Oleda^Òs eldest child was born around
1944. The children of Curtis Ray Turner, Louise^Òs son, the youngest,
Lindsay Turner having been born in 1989 .

There are many great grandchildren, but only a few boys to carry on the
Barclay name.

 PART IV Mt. Zion Area

MT. ZION CHURCH The church is a large white frame one-room building of
about fifteen hundred square feet. It was built at Mount Hope and moved
around one hundred and twenty six years ago to Mt Zion. The church was
called Mt Zion at both places. of long leaf pine. It has many glass
windows and the steps are wooden. Inside, it has an arrangement of
benches facing the cemetery. The pulpit and chairs were in the front.
Areas within this building were used for Sunday School, as well as church
services.

The church had a pump organ first and later a piano. Outside, planks were
placed between limbs of trees for serving food. There was a Christmas
tree at the church each year and the children got a gift from the tree.
Some families and friends exchanged their gifts at the church.

Services were held when a preacher could come. Craig Fortenberry preached
there the most often. Preacher Huff and his son, Tommy Huff, also
preached there. In the summer, there was a long revival. There were
singing schools with a box supper afterwards for the young people.

The whole Barclay family went to church. No one stayed home. Since most
of the families of the congregation were large, there were many babies.
Babies were given a soap suppository before leaving home and, if fussy, a
sugar teat during the service. Hungry babies were nursed. They were
placed on pallets under the family bench and in the aisles.

At church, Barclay women and girls dressed fashionable. They wore their
hair in braids with pompadours, using rats and back combing, called
ratting. They had large bows in the back of their hair. Young women might
pinch their cheeks and lips to add color. Dresses had full sleeves, full
skirts and small waists. Some wore tight corsets on Sunday. Men dressed
nicely in their Sunday best. Most of their clothes were made at home,
washed in heated well water with homemade soap and ironed with sad irons.

Baptisms were held at Russell Creek at the Gulf pump station area, near
the bridge.

Baptists and the Church of Christ shared the Mt. Zion building. The
Baptists were the larger congregation. The Baptist had their preachers,
who were shared with the Baptist congregation at Chester, and the Church
of Christ had their preachers. Each congregation had revivals and singing
schools. The Baptist also went to the Church of Christ services, and the
Church of Christ members went to the Baptist services. The Baptist called
the Church of Christ members "Camelites". A difference in the services
was that Baptist used instrumental music and the Church of Christ did
not.

CEMETERY The cemetery is the final resting place of many families from
the area. Some of the family names appearing on the markers in the
cemetery are; Barclay, Riley, Vinson, Bush, Pool, Parks and Barnes and
others.

Ada Vinson and Mrs. Masselin (wife of bossman at Gulf pumpstation) raised
funds for the addition and improvement of the cemetery. Laura Barclay
helped raise money for the fence. Many people have helped maintain the
church and its grounds. George Barclay was one of the organizers for the
permanent fund. Donations to the Mt. Zion cemetery fund may be made to
Linda Hayes, daughter of Garland and Jimmy (Vinson) Hayes, of Woodville.
Clifton Vinson maintains the grounds. His wife, Marie, and Mr. & Mrs. L.
C. Howell (Naomi) held garage sales in the l990^Òs for paint and a new
roof. Volunteer labor was used.

With proper maintenance, the church could last three hundred years as
those on the east coast have. It is suitable for meetings if provision is
made for seating and music. The benches were removed several years ago.
Although it is the oldest church building around, it has not received a
historical marker because of an additional made to it.

The last family funerals took place in the late fifties and early
sixties. After that, the custom was to hold a service elsewhere and have
a graveside service at the cemetery. Many members of the Walter Barclay
Family are buried at Mt. Zion, along with Walter and Laura and Walter^Òs
father and mother. Baptisms were held at Russell Creek at the Gulf pump
station.

MT. ZION SCHOOL was located between the church and the Old Place. The old
school was a one-room school of grades one through seven. It was a
one-teacher school with up to twenty-five students. Students started
school in grade one at age seven. Some were kept home another year until
a younger child was old enough to go to school along with the older
child.

In around 1916, a new school building was built. It was a state-qualified
two-room school with two teachers. This new school was built by a
specific state plan with five hundred dollars from the state. It had
outhouse facilities for boys and girls, a wood-burning stove and a cloak
room. Teachers were Euphie Wisenbaker of Woodville, who was beautiful and
had beautiful clothes, Mary Lou Parks, Mrs. Hill, Sam Peters, Charlie
Barclay, George Barclay, Bronson Owen and others.

The books were purchased by the parents of the students. Library books in
the school were the classics and must have come from some place official.
Former students were complimentary of the instructional program but said
it depended on the teacher. Students said; "I went to school to Miss Ruby
or Mr. George", using the first name of the teacher.

These Mt. Zion teachers were very young. It was likely their first job.
It was also probable that they had only one or two semesters of college
work. Teacher certification was granted with one semester of college and
renewable each year with additional college work done in the summer.
Certification was done in this manner because of a shortage of teachers
state-wide.

The school year was about seven months long. Many students came the first
day to get their seats and then didn^Òt come back for a month when the
cotton was in. School let out in April for students to prepare the fields
and plant the cotton.

Some teachers brought books with them. One year a teacher brought an
algebra and a geometry book with her. The following year, the teacher did
not know algebra or geometry, so the students taught him. When a former
teacher was asked how reading was taught, the answer was: "These were big
children, about seven or eight, when they started school. Most of them
had already been taught to read at home by older brothers and sisters."
It is likely they learned to read by memorizing individual words, a
method called "word recognition". A lot of adding was done in their
heads. Teachers taught as they had been taught. They moved all the
students forward a grade each year. Since they were in one room, some
students did their own work and also the work of the next grade.

George spoke of one year having a fine young woman teacher with a degree.
She brought with her two big fine books about King Cotton. The boys
refused to read the books. They said they knew more about cotton than the
books did. Since they plowed cotton, planted cotton, chopped cotton,
picked cotton and lived cotton, they were not going to read about cotton
at school. When the teacher continued to give assignments about King
Cotton, which they wouldn^Òt do, George and D. C. Peters got the books
and hid them up under the building. She asked everyone where the books
were but they were not to be found. The last day of school, the boys put
the books where the teacher would find them.

The new school had outhouses whereas the old school had none. In the old
school, children were excused to go to the woods, with boys on one side
and girls on the other. George reported that one day several boys left to
go into the woods. Actually, they were running through the woods playing
foxes and hounds. Finally, the woman teacher went to find them. When they
saw her coming, they dropped their britches and bent down. When she saw
them, she ran back to the building and never looked for them again after
that.

Charlie Barclay, married to Gertrude Morgan, told of a year when he was
teacher at Mt. Zion when all the big boys, including Robert and George,
and the girls played hooky on Halloween Day. He lined the boys up the
next day as if to whip them, with George first. He swung back with a
paddle, scaring everyone, then dropped it, laughing. After all, he got a
holiday, too. He told that story every year at the Barclay Reunion.

Students ate lunches outside when weather permitted. Myrtie packed the
Barclay children^Òs lunch in a syrup bucket. It was the envy of many
children. She packed fried ham, boiled eggs and biscuits or cornbread,
with syrup poured in a hole in the center of the biscuit.

SCHOOL CLOTHES - The students wore warm clothes and longhand^Òs in the
winter. Many girls were not allowed to take their long stockings off
until May l. Heavy winter clothes were passed down from child to child in
a family. It was commented that it got pretty smelly when some of the
boys got close to the stove in the winter, wearing clothes that had been
coming to school for years on various children.

Boys wore knickers until age sixteen. Many boys walked to town to buy
their first pair of long pants on their sixteenth birthday.Students wore
their nicest clothes on Friday. Girls had long braids as few bobbed their
hair before 1925.

PLAYGROUND - Outside activities at school included playground games. Ora
and Louise were good at games. One sport was stickball. The ball was made
by rolling up twine to the desired size and hitting it with sticks. Boys
and girls played mumble peg and washers. Girls also crocheted.

George and D. C. Peters made a model farm under the building. Barclay
boys made a spinning Jenny of a cross-section of a log, mounted on a
stump and made to spin. Children grabbed hold of it and spinned.

SOCIAL ACTIVITIES - Social gatherings included dances that lasted all
night. Jim and Ada Vinson played harmonicas at these dances and Jim
called sets. Families carried their children along and put them on
pallets in the back of the wagon.

Some group work activities were log rollings, hog killings, barn raisings
and quiltings. Young people had josy parties in the homes. When a farmer
needed help, he called in his neighbors and kin. They came over, bringing
the whole family. A big meal was served. Ladies quilted.

Later, Mt. Zion school students were moved into Chester, around 1930, and
when the county schools consolidated.. The Mt. Zion school building was
eventually moved away to be used elsewhere.

Mt. Zion Church stands where it was moved to one hundred and twenty-eight
years ago.

A Tyler County Church, Cherokee Baptist Church


PRE-COLLEGE AND COLLEGE After completing school at Mt. Zion, students
went on to Woodville or pre-college for the last grades before entering
college. In later years, Mt. Zion area students went to Chester schools.
Tyler County schools were consolidated in 1930. There had been fifty-five
grade schools. See George W. Barclay^Òs book at Sam Houston Archives at
Liberty for more about this. Heritage Village is another source, also.
Consolidation brought school buses to bring the children to an
eleven-grade school that provided teachers with degrees and state
textbooks. The twelfth grade was added in 1945.

A Tyler County School, The Buxton School at Peach Tree

The Gulf Pump Station at Chester was located in the Mt. Zion area. On the
Woodville to Chester Road, it is on the left side, about a mile and a
half before seeing the Mt Zion church on the right side, near Bob Belt
Road. These pictures were of the construction of the Gulf Pump Station at
Chester around 1909.. They were contributed by Rob Pickett's children.


CONCLUSION - Nationwide, Barclay is not a large family. There are only
about two thousand families in the United States. The largest
concentration of Barclays in Tyler County is not typical. Tyler County
was good to the Barclays.

SOURCES - To the family members, a heartfelt "thank you".

1. George W. Barclay, Sr., Woodville, deceased

2. Ruby Vinson Barclay, Woodville, (409) 283-2657

3. George W. Barclay, Jr., Beaumont, (409) 892-7967

4. Ruby Nell Barclay Seale, Dallas, (219) 348-2196

5. Raymond Barclay, Fredricksburg, (830) 997-6750

6. Laura Rose Barclay Todd, Conroe, (409) 856-7431

7. Curtis Ray Turner, Richmond, (713) 343-0240

8. Dennise LaVerne Pope, Woodville, (409) 283-2157

9. Teddy Barclay Pope, Woodville, (409) 283-2657

10. Margaret Barclay, Waco, Research Assistant

11. Walter Phillip Barclay, Jr., Portland, (512) 643-5764

12. Donald G. Barclay & wife Paulette, Bridge City, (409)735-9576

13. Doyle Barclay, Pt. Arthur, (409) 962-5022

14. Virginia Ford Barclay Ashworth, Woodville. (First husband was Bower

Barclay. Mother of Walter and Virginia "Sissy" Barclay.

15. Beverly Barclay Collie, Beaumont, (409) 8356635). Daughter of Dr.

Watt Barclay and wife, Mirtle.

16. Bill Barclay, Houston, (713) 973-9366. Son of Bower Barclay and Dona

English Barclay.

17. Nell Barclay Redman, Pt. Arthur, deceased, descendant of James and

Virginia Foster.

18. Jerry and Ralph Barclay, 113 Applecreek Lane, Kent, (606)623-6454,

descended from Peter, son of Walter or Robert,

19. Carolyn Barkley, Co-ordinator of Barclay/Barkley One Nome Study,

Virginia, 2509 Placid Place, Virginia Beach, Va. 23456, (754) 468-5829.

20. Pam Schultz, Secretary, Jersey Church, Lexington, N.C. (336)
357-2721.

21. Dorothy B. Peterson, dec. Memphis, Tenn., descend of Sen. Wm. Barclay

of Arkansas.

22. Robert A. Petrek, Lott, Texas (Barclay, Texas).

23. Historian, Barclay Community, Lott, Texas (Barclay, Texas).

24. Mrs. Blanche Risinger, Woodville, Texas (owner of log home of James
Barclay,

inherited by Risingers). Mrs. "Spec" Risinger.

 1. Evelyn Scurlock, Ivanhoe near Woodville, Texas (409) 283-7180.

26. Blanch Shaw (Don) (409)283-7518, Sissy (Blanch Risinger^Òs daughter.

27. Jack Pool of San Antonio, son of Herman Pool (tel. 210-734-6366)

28. Tyler County Booster

29. Beaumont Enterprise, Beaumont, Tex.

30. Sam Houston Archives at Liberty, Tex.

31. Shivers Library, Woodville, Tex.

32. Tyrell Public Library

33. Mona Vinson Bush, Chester, Texas.

34. Alabama Couchatta Reservation Resources.

35. Heritage Village, J. Whitmyer Genealogical Library, Woodville, Texas

(409)283-2272

36. Mrs. Dottie Johnson, Tyler County Booster

37. Garland Hayes, Woodville, Texas

38. Mr. and Mrs. James Riley, Woodville, Tex. (409) 283-5373

39. Josh David and son Bob, Chester, Texas.

40. Museum at Hopewell, N. J., Beverly Weigl, (609) 466-0103

41. Old School Baptist Church, Hopewell, N. J.

42. Mrs. Jeanette Lynch, Calvary Baptist Church, Hopewell, N. J.

43. Rev. Morris Hollifield, retired pastor, Jersey Baptist Church,
Lexington, N. C.

44. Liberty Baptist Association, Lexington, N. C.

 1. Linda Hayes, Woodville, Texas

 2. Sharon Hargrove of Washington State, wife of great grandson of James
    Barclay

 3. Martha Hood, great granddaughter of Henry F Barclay and Viola
    Victoria Barclay

 4. Dona Porter, descendant of Dougal McQueen, John McQueen and Nancy
    Crews and McQueen researcher, writer of three books about these
    families.

This is the best information that I have been able to gather about the
Walter Barclay and Laura Pool Barclay Family to date, February 1, 1998.

All rights are reserved by the writer, including the right of
reproduction for commercial purposes, in whole or in part in any form,
The exception is for educational purposes and family use. In that case,
give credit to the author and publisher.

Teddy L. Barclay Pope, Ed. D

Appendix

1. Barclay Information From Walter Barclay in Scotland, 1165 to 1998.

2 Barclay -- Who Are We?

3. Barclay History.

4. Jersey Lands Information

5. The Lawsons of Georgia, Last Page

6. News article 1943

7. Walter Barclay and Elizabeth Mc Queen Barclay

8. Robert Barclay

9. Anderson Barclay

10. James Barclay

11. Jerimiah Todd

12. Milton Barclay

13. Pensions of the Army of the Republic (AOR)

14. DAR Information

15. Your Barclay correspondence

16. Your Pictures

17. Your Maps

 1. Barclay Activities

 2. McQueen Notes

 3. Pool Notes

21. Other Notes

Note: It is recommended that individuals hole punch their own copies of
this book and then place in a notebook. Personal items may then be added.
Extra care may be taken by placing a plastic sheet between each page and
not allowing the book to leave the home.

Barclay - Barkley Family Reunion

to Be Held Today

July, 1936

Beaumont Enterprise ( excerpts have been

edited and restructured

byTlBP,June,1999

Many Houstonians Will Attend Chester Gathering; Memorial Service Stated

A number of out of town guests Sunday will attend the annual
Barclay-Barkley family reunion in the park at Chester, with Dr. Watt
Barclay, mayor of Woodville, and president of the Barclay-Barkley Family
association, presiding.

A memorial service will be held for members of the family who have died
during the year. A memorial of the late John Henry Kirby will also be
read. Mr. Kirby, who was reared at Peach Tree Village and was a neighbor
during his youth of the Barclay families, was a guest of honor at the
family reunion each year for many years.

Especial honor will be paid this year to the family of Walter Barclay and
to the Foster family. Three of the Barclay men in the first Barclay
family in Texas married Foster women.

"Uncle Walter" Barclay of Chester will occupy the seat of honor at the
reunion. Walter Barclay of Chester and the Mount Zion area has a cotton
farm where he and his wife Laura Pool Barclay raised a family of fourteen
children. Many of them and their families will be at the reunion Sunday.
Others there will be members of the families of Walter Barclays' brother
Henry and cousin, Jim Barclay.


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