A Texas Family: The Barclays from Rowan Co NC in 1756 to Tyler Co Tx in 200 APPENDIX ==================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Teddy Barclay Pope, Ed. D. TPope77497@aol.com ==================================================================== 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.. APPENDIX 1 BARCLAY INFORMATION TO JULY 19, 1964 The ancestry of the Barclays of Ury and Mathers is to be found in Burke's "Peerage and Gentry" down to John Barclay, the third son of Robert Barclay of Ury and his wife, Christian Mollison. This John, who was born at Ury 8-20-1687, was sent to Dublin to manage the shipping interest of the family. There Burke leaves him. His line has been traced by R. Burnham Moffat in "The Barclays of New York: Who They Are and Who They Are Not," and was made easy by the fact that Ury, made a free barony in 1679, was entailed, and it was necessary to obtain an act of parliament to free it in order that sale of some of the land could be made in 1805. At that time all possible heirs were interviewed for signature of the documents. These records show that John Barclay of Dublin married 2) Ann Strettell, born in Dublin 12-23-1694, died 2-21-1971 in Dublin, daughter of Amos Strettell, merchant, and his wife, Experience. The marriage was 3-19-1713. They had two sons, Robert and John. Robert was born 1-19-1717/18 (calendar change makes this date variable) and no further mention is made of him. John is mentioned with deeds until his marriage to a Catholic, and after that no mention is made of him at all. Under date of 11-3-1955, Capt. Robert E. Barclay, Geerings, Warnham, Sussex, England, wrote to Mrs. Barclay Megarity, 4110 Watt, Waco, Tex. that there are two conflicting documents in the family archives and until it can be ascertained which is correct, the American Branch of the family cannot be listed in Burk's. Of these documents, one says that Robert died while very young; the other that he displeased the family and was cast off. There is no record in the Society of Friends in Dublin of the death of Robert, only of his birth, and the Friends kept detailed records, as did the Barclays who were fanatical Quakers. John, the younger son was cast off, without even a mention from the day of his marriage. The book, "A History of the Barclay Family with Pedigrees from 1067 to 1933" in three volumes, by Charles W. Barclay, uncle of the present chieftain, lists Robert. There is no other Barclay by the name of Robert at that time who is not accounted for but this particular Robert. The family legend, which has proven true in most points, contends that Robert of Rowan County, N.C. was the grandson of Robert Barclay of Ury and that no other member of his immediate family was in America. The Barclay Bible, in the possession of Speck Resinger of Woodville, had the pages torn out when examined in 1961. On those pages were the record of decent. John Barclay of Dublin owed the "Barclay Frigate" which was provisioned in Dublin 4-2-1742, and the "Diana" of Dublin, provisioned 2-24-1743. He was allowed shipment of wheat to Barbadoes 10-16-1741. It is probable that young Robert took one of these vessels to the colonies following trouble with his family. Pictures of French and British Frigates are available today, and the Barclay Frigate probably looked very much like one of them. The story of Robert Barclay of Rowan County, N. C. is taken from facts found in the "History of the Liberty Baptist Association" by Elder Henry Sheets, and Lawson's "History of North Carolina," as well as the colonial records of Rowan County, N. C. Robert Barclay of Rowan was born 1-9-1717/18 in Dublin Ireland. He came to America and settled sometime before 1755, as in that year the Baptist congregation of Malapan, New Jersey, which had formerly been members of the Quaker sect, went to North Carolina under the guidance of Rev. John Gregory, and, with two other denominations, built a church which they called the Jersey Church. The other denominations fell by the wayside and the church became, and is today, Baptist. The American Revolution, two earthquakes, and time have destroyed many of the graves there, but as some of the children of Robert Barclay are buried in that churchyard, it is supposed that he is, also. Deed Book 4, page 617 Rowan County, N. C. shows that on 4-4-1761, and proved in court in 1762, Robert Barclay was granted 708 acres by the Earl of Granville, the only lord proprietor of North Carolina who had not ceded his rights back to the king. The average grant at that time was 200 acres. To receive more, a man had to be of importance, of good birth. By 1778 Robert Barclay was paying taxes on 894 acres of land, and there are records of his doing jury duty, acting as surveyor, overseeing road construction, etc. Robert had land grants in Kentucky, also, these being given to his sons Walter and Robert. Disposal of all of the Barclay land is accounted for in the Rowan records. Robert was evidently a very sick man for some time prior to his death. His will, dated 12-5-1786, states that he is weak in body but strong in mind, but he was not able to sign it, merely marking it with an "X". As he had served in civic capacities which required an education, he did not do this because of illiteracy. The will was probated in 1788, being in Will Book C, page 121, Rowan County, N. C. records. It mentions his wife, Leah, his sons Samuel (the oldest, who inherited the home place, according to the law The Will of Robert Barclay (Will Book C, pgs 121-122 Rowan Co, NC, probated 1788) In the name of God, Amen. I Robert Barkly of the State of North Carolina & County of Rowan threw the abounding mercy & goodness of God tho' weak in body but yet of sound mind & disposing memory to make, constitute ordain and declare this my last will & testament in manner and form following viz: First I will & order that all my debts & funeral charges be paid and dischargedby my Executors hereafter named. I give and bequeath to my wife Leah Barkly during her lifetime the plantation whereon I now live, the third of it & her bed & furniture & one cow also the third part of my moveable estate in money. I give and bequaeth to my eldest son Samuel all my rite of that land lying on the north side of Richard's creek called Weaver Davis place and ten pounds in money if he takes up my bond, if he does not, the land is to be sold & the money to be divided among the rest of my children. I give and bequeath to my son David Barkly eight shillings. I give to my son John one sorrel mare & fifty pounds in money. I give to my daughter Margaret eight shillings. I give to my daughter Elizabeth one black cow & one feather bed & furniture. I give to my daughter Cathrine one spotted heifer and three sheep. I give to my daughter Mary 1 red cow with a white face. I give to my daughter Rachel one brindle cow. I give and bequeath to my three sons Robert William & Walter all the remainder of my land together with the home plantation after the come to the years of twenty and one to be equally divided amongst them if either of them shall die before they come of age, it shall fall to the others they all three are to be bound to trades of their own choosing. I give and bequeath to my grandson Robert Barkly five pounds when he comes of age. I will that the Mill & land belonging to it and all the residue of my estate to be sold and equally divided amongst my four daughters and grandson, Elizabeth Cathrine, Mary, Rachel & Robert Todd. I will that part of this should be given to my grandson Robert Todd in Schooling what is allowed sufficient and I do hereby declare this and this alone to be my last will & testament and do constitute & appoint Benjamin Todd & Peter Todd Executors thereto in witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal this twenty fifth day of December in the year 1786 Robert Barkley (his mark & seal) Witnesses: Joseph Todd Thomas Todd John Hendrickson s of primogeniture under which the colony operated), David, John, Robert, William and Walter, and daughters Margaret, Elizabeth, Catherine, Mary and Rachel. William died, leaving his property to his brothers Walter and Robert. Records show that Catherine married a Hendrickson, Margaret and Mary married Todd Brothers. Leah is on the 1800 census, but the Barclay line there died out with her grandsons. There was another Robert Barclay in Rowan County at the same time, but his name was always spelled "Barkley" and he was a Presbyterian, living in the western section of the county. A descendant was Senator and Vice-President Albin Barclay of Kentucky, another Adlai Stevenson. This line has been thoroughly traced by its historian, William D. Kizziah of Salisbury, N. C. Walter Barclay was born in 1774 in North Carolina, according to the 1850 census of Tyler County, Texas, page 18, dwelling 130. He and his brother, Robert, went to Kentucky to take up land grants of their father, which they later sold, recording the sale in Rowan County. Deed book 23, page 14, 1-29-1814, states that Joseph Haden of Rowan County let John Darr of Rowan have 183 acres on Richard's Creek adjoining Benjamin Todd, Thomas Adams, Caleb Campbell and George Fezor, being part of a track originally owned by the deceased Robert Barclay, which Walter and Robert Barclay let Thomas Durham have 5-18-1789. Vol. 17, Deed Book, page 327, dated 10-2-1797, shows that Robert and Walter Barclay sold by deed made in Kentucky two tracts of land in Rowan County. There was only one Walter Barclay on the tax rolls of Kentucky during that year. On page 27, Madison County, Kentucky Records printed by the Kentucky State Historical Society, the marriage of Walter Barclay and Elizabeth McQueen is recorded as occurring 1-27-1804. She was born in Richmond, Madison County, Kentucky, in 1790, according to the same source. At that time, James, Joshua and John McQueen were paying taxes in Kentucky, having come over together from Scotland. They moved afterward to Tennessee as some of their children are listed as being born in that state. It was obviously the second marriage for Walter as he was 30 years of age at that time, his wife was 14, and a son, Peter, who remained in Kentucky, is mentioned as his child, but not as their child. The 1820 census lists Walter Barclay in Tennessee, the l830 census lists him in Alabama, just across the line from Tennessee, where he had lived at Hoover's Gap. His sons Anderson, James and Robert remained in Tennessee, coming directly from there to Texas. Younger sons, Jerry and Milton, were born in Alabama. Family tradition has it that Walter and his older sons came to Texas in 1826, deciding to go back for their families. Anderson received land grants in 1828. There is no record of the others, officially, until 1834. Walter settled first in Nacogdoches, then moved to Town Bluff, the presence of the Barclays there being on record in the University of Texas archives. Later he moved to the farm owned by his son, James, out from Woodville, having a separate house a few hundred yards from that of James. Walter died there in 1858, according to the minutes of the Bethel Baptist Church. He is listed on the 1850 census of Tyler County as having property worth $2,000.00. Elizabeth McQueen Barclay is listed on the 1860 census as living with her son, Melton, (Milton) and having property in the amount of $l,000.00. She died 5-15-1863 and her estate was administered by her son, James, according to records in Woodville. Children of Walter Barclay and Elizabeth McQueen were: Anderson, Walter, Polly, James, Jeremiah Todd, Robert, Louise, William and Milton. The latter was named for uncle, Milton McQueen. Walter and James married Fosters; Jerry married Elizabeth Ann Rigsby, daughter of a Foster and niece to the other women. The "Todd" in Jeremiah's name came from the Todd Family into which his aunts married in North Carolina. They were sons of General Todd of Pennsylvania, and relatives of Mary Todd, who married Abraham Lincoln.. The McQueens were descended from the Scottish Clan of that name. The Descendants of James Walter Barclay Sr. (2nd): A. Descendants of his first wife: (Martha Foster) Buck, Sally (Man), B. Descendants of his second wife: (Mary Jane Mahaffey) Henry, Ben Ross, James Walter (3), Dr. Robert L, Cruse, Betty (Morgan), Falby (Lockhart & Russell). The Descendants of James Walter Barclay Jr.(3rd) and Nancy Laura Pool: A. Myrtie, Clara (died in infancy), Clyde, Mary (Sims), Eula (Jordan), James Buchanan, Joshua, Robert, Riley (died in infancy), George Willis, Ora (Fuller), Lora (died in infancy), Louise (Turner), Henry Feagin. Walter Barclay (1) was buried in Millstreet, near Woodville. Walter Barclay (2) and Walter Barclay (3) were buried at Mt. Zion near Chester. Walter (1) was the grandfather of Walter (2) and the greatgrandfather of Walter (3 by Margaret Barclay, Waco, Texas (Add by TLBP, Robert Barclay and Sara McKinsey Barclay's descendants were Lacy Milton, Walter, Robert, Hames F. and Henry A. and Sarah. Robert is buried at Cruse Cemetery. Sara McKinsey Barclay Mc Queen is buried at ? Cemetery. APPENDIX 2 WHO ARE WE? The Barclays of Scotland are claimed to be a branch of the English house of Berkeley of Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire and derived from John, son of Roger de Berkeley, who came to Scotland with Malcolm Canmore, King of Scotland, and his Queen, Margaret. King Malcolm bestowed on John the lands of Towie near Turrif. John had three sons, Walter, 1st of Gartley, Alexander, Towie II and Richard Ardrossan. The Berkelys have one of the two oldest pedigrees in England, going back prior to the arrival of The Conqueror, and since the Barclays are just the Berkelys gone north, the Barclays possess one of the oldest pedigrees in Scotland. Sir Walter de Berkely, Gartley III, Lord Redcastle and Inverkeillor was Chamberlain of Scotland from 1165 to 1189. Sir John de Berkely, Gartley VII and Sir Walter de Berkely, Gartley VIII both signed the Ragman Roll in 1296. Alexander de Berkely, Mathers I, second son of Andrew de Berkely, Gartley IX was granted Mathers in 1351 when he married Katherine Keith, sister of Sir William de Keith, the Great Marischal of Scotland. Their son Alexander was the first to adopt the Barclay form of the surname. John Barclay of Johnston the second son of David, Mathers IX was ancestor of the Barclays of Johnston and Balmakewan. While George Barclay of Bridgeton and Jackton, second son of George, Mathers X, was ancestor of the Barclays of Bridgeton. Sir George Barclay, Gartley XIX, "Barclay of that Ilk" was Steward of the house of Mary, Queen of Scots. In 1621, John and Peter Barclay settled in Riga on the shores of the Baltic. Michael Andreas Barclay, born 1761 and descended from Peter in five generations, entered the Russian Army. In 1806, he was in command of one of the divisions sent to support the Prussians against the French. In 1810, he was made Minister of War and in 1812, he commanded the Russian Armies that defeated Napoleon and forced him to retreat from Moscow. In 1815, the Czar made him Field Marshall Prince Michael Barclay de Tolly. A Sir George Barclay was second in command of James IV forces in the Highlands. He was one of two emissaries sent by the Highland Chiefs to receive release from their sworn fidelity to James so they could align with William and save bloodshed. Sir Robert Barclay, K.G.B., served as adjutant to the Duke of Wellington. Captain Robert Barclay, R.N., served in Nelson's fleet at the Battle of Trafalgar. Robert Barclay, Urie II, 1648-1690, became the famous Quaker apologist. He with George Fox and William Penn conceived the idea of a city of brotherly love to be built in America, where Quakers fled. Robert Barclay's second son John left Urie and came to London and was apprenticed to a City Company where he became a merchant and rich man. His second wife was the daughter of John Freame, Goldsmith, whose premises in Lombard Street became a banking center. This is the site of the present headquarters of Barclay's Bank. (Robert Barclay of Rowan County, N.C., grand father. A message from a descendant of the founder of Barclay bank is on the internet, describing her descent. Lt. Colonel Walter Patrick Barclay, father of our present chief, died of wounds received while commanding the sixth battalion of the Black Watch in North Africa during World War II. The present chief of the name Barclay is Peter C. Barclay. Robert Barclay of Rowan County, North Carolina's Grandfather. Robert Barclay of Rowan County, North Carolina's Uncle Other son, John, went to Dublin to oversee shipping investment of family. John's son, Robert, went to America and eventually to Rowan County, North Carolina APPENDIX 3. Barclay History Peter C. Barclay, chief of the name of Barclay, of Towie Barclay and of that Ilk was born in Rome, Italy, on February 26, 1938, where his father, Lieutenant-Colonel Walter Patrick Barclay, the Black Watch, was Assistant Military Attaché. Educated at Eton College, Peter Barclay did his National Service with The Black Watch, serving in Germany and Scotland. In 1967, he succeeded his second cousin once removed, Theodore Bruce de Tollie Barclay, as Chief of the name Barclay. Peter is a Life Member of the National Trust for Scotland and a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Carpenters, one of the City of London Livery Companies from which the Lord Mayor is chosen annually. He resides in London. Barclay History Roger de Berchelai came to England with William the Conqueror and was granted Berkeley Castle in Gloucestershire. In 1069, his son, John de Berchelai, accompanied Margaret (later St. Margaret) to Scotland. In gratitude for his service, King Malcolm (Canmore) granted him the lands of Towie in Aberdeenshire. Nine hundred years of Barclay history in Scotland descend from John's three sons, Walter, Alexander and Richard. Sir Walter de Berkeley, Gartley III, Lord Redcastle and Inverkeillor, was Great Chamberlain of Scotland, 1165-1189. Alexander de Berkeley, Gartley IX, became Mathers I in 1351 when he married Katherine Keith, sister of the Earl Marischal. Their son, Alexander, was the first to adopt the Barclay form of the surname. Sir George Barclay, Gartley XIX, was Steward of the household of Mary, Queen of Scots, and a later Sir George was second in command of James IV forces in the Highlands in the 1680's. Michael Andreas Barclay de Tollie defeated Napoleon as Field Marshal under the Czar. Barclays served with Nelson and the Duke of Wellington. Robert Barclay, Urie II, was the famous Quaker apologist in the late 1600's. His second son became a merchant in London, marrying the daughter of John Freame, a goldsmith of Lombard St., site of the present day Barclay's Bank. CURRENT OFFICERS IN NORTH AMERICA Of the Clan Barclay President Bruce H. Barclay Vice-President William I. Barkley Secretary/Treasurer Susan Barkley McIver Trustees: John R. Barclay Susanne C. Barclay Carolyn L. Barkley, FSA, Scot George H. Hawkins, Sr. Curtis L. McIver Sally Barclay Rhodes Commissioners: Mid-Atlantic Region William L. Barkley Northeast Region Bruce H. Barkley Northwest Region Robert D. Barclay Canadian Elizabeth Barclay-LaPointe Genealogist/Historian Carolyn L. Barkley, FSA, Scot Newsletter Editor Bess E. Williams Membership Inquiries Susan Barkley McIver 7844 Lake Forest Drive Richmond, Va. 23235 Telephone (804) 745-0902 Genealogy Inquiries: Carolyn L. Barkley, FSA Scot Coordinator, Barclay One-Name Study 2509 Placid Place Virginia Beach, Va. 23456-3743 1-757-468-5829 Statement from Carolyn L. Barkley, 12/1/98. There is not yet an established connection between the Governor of New Jersey in 1600's, and the Barclays in New Jersey, but they are Scott, not Irish. I get inquires about the Robert and Leah strain from all over the United States. Some went from North Carolina to other states. It is the major strain of Barclays in the United States. They all know the names when they call and write. Sam Houston was related to the Barclays in Kentucky. When asked about David Crockett and Daniel Boone, Carolyn said Sam Houston and David Crockett were cousins, and Daniel Boone was a neighbor in North Carolina. Another line of Barclays are given below: Descendants of Walter I De Berkeley 1 Lord Gartley b: 1079 in Towie, Banffshire, Scotland d: 1112 in Gartley, Banffshire, Scotland .... + b: 1133 in Towie, Banffshire, Scotland d: 1210 in Towie, Banffshire, Scotland Father: Mother: .. 2 Roger V De Berkeley b: 1159 in Towie, Banffshire, Scotland d: 1226 ........ +Barbara Berkeley b: 1161 d: 1189-1255 m: 1177-1206 Father: Mother: ...... 3 Lord Towie De Berkeley b: 1185 in Auldhaven, Cullen Castle, Banffshire d: Aft. 1299 .......... 4 Lord Cairny b: 1270 in Cairny, Fifeshire, Scotland d: June 24, 1314 in Btl Bannockburn, Sterlingshire, Scotland ................ + b: 1275 in Cairny, Fifeshire, Scotland d: 1304-1369 m: 1289-1309 Father: Mother: .............. 5 Lord Calairnie b: 1300 in Carny, Fifeshire, Scotland d: Bef. 1372 .................... + b: 1305 in Cairny, Fifeshire, Scotland d: 1334-1399 m: 1319-1348 Father: Mother: .................. 6 Lord Colaimie b: 1330 in Colcarney, Kinross, Scotland d: 1398 ........................ + b: 1333 in Colcarney, Kinross, Scotland d: 1360-1427 m: 1349-1377 Father: Mother: ...................... 7 Henry Berclay b: 1356 in Collairmie, Dunbog, Fifeshire, Scotland d: 1386-1447 ............................ + b: 1360 in Collairmie, Dunbog, Fifeshire, Scotland d: 1386-1454 m: 1375-1405 Father: Mother: .......................... 8 David De Berclay b: 1382 in Collairmie, Dunbog, Fifeshire, Scotland d: 1453 ................................ + b: 1385 in Collairmie, Dunbog, Fifeshire, Scotland d: 1412-1479 m: 1401-1430 Father: Mother: .............................. 9 David V Barclay b: 1408 in Collairmie, Dunbog, Fifeshire, Scotland d: 1453 .................................... +Helen Douglas b: 1410 in Pierston, A., Scotland d: 1438-1504 m: 1426-1447 Father: Mother: .................................. 10 David VI Barclay b: 1434 d: 1460-1525 ........................................ +Margaret Douglas b: 1436 d: 1460-1530 m: 1452-1482 Father: Mother: ...................................... 11 David Barclay VII b: 1456 in Scotland d: 1502 ............................................ + b: 1460 d: 1486-1554 m: 1475-1496 Father: Mother: .......................................... 12 David VIII Barclay b: 1482 in Collairmie, Dunbog, Fifeshire, Scotland d: Bef. 1536 ................................................ +Marion b: 1484 in Innermeath, Scotland d: 1512-1578 m: 150-1525 Father: Thomas Stewart Mother: Janet Keith .............................................. 13 David IX Barclay b: 1508 in Collairmie, Dunbog, Fifeshire, Scotland d: September 1547 in Battle of Pinkie, Scotland .................................................... +Janet Sandiland b: 1510 in St. /monance, Fifeshire, Scotland d: 1534-1604 m: 1526-1543 Father: Mother: .................................................. 14 David Barclay b: 1530 in Collairmie, Dunbog, Fifeshire, Scotland d: August 09, 1587 ........................................................ +Margaret Wemyss b: 1535 d: September 1608 m: 1549-1575 Father: John Wemyss Mother: Margaret Otterburne ...................................................... 15 David L. II Barclay b: 1557 in Collairmie, Dunbog, Fifeshire, Scotland d: August 08, 1613 ............................................................ +Helen Balfour b: 1562 in Pittendreich, Midlothian, Scotland Father: Ld Pittendreich Balfour Mother: Margaret Balfour .......................................................... 16 David IV Barclay b: 1586 in Collairmie, Dunbog, Fifeshire, Scotland d: January 28, 1655/56 ................................................................ +Anne Riddle b: 1595 in Riddle, Roxburghshire, Scotland d: 1675 Father: John Riddle Mother: Jean Anstruther .............................................................. 17 John Barclay b: 1640 in Callairnie, Dunbog, Fifeshire, Scotland d: January 1683/84 .................................................................... +Jean Isobel Gordon b: 1649 in Cairnbarrow, Aberdeenshire, scotland Father: John Gordon Mother: .................................................................. 18 Anna Barclay b: Abt. 1662 in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland d: August 26, 1758 ........................................................................ +Mungo Buchanan b: Abt. 1662 in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland d: April 03, 1687 in Madleigh, Essex, England m: January 21, 1686/87 in Edinburgh Parish Edinburgh Midlothian Scotland Father: Mungo Buchanan Mother: Barbara Leckie ...................................................................... 19 John Buchanan b: June 27, 1689 in EDINBURGH, MIDLOTHIAN, SCOTLAND ...................................................................... 19 William Buchanan b: February 05, 1690/91 in EDINBURGH, MIDLOTHIAN, SCOTLAND ...................................................................... 19 Barbara Buchanan b: March 04, 1691/92 in EDINBURGH, MIDLOTHIAN, SCOTLAND ...................................................................... 19 James Buchanan b: March 19, 1692/93 in EDINBURGH, MIDLOTHIAN, SCOTLAND ...................................................................... 19 George Buchanan b: July 07, 1696 in Auchentorlie Dumbarton, Scotland d: April 23, 1750 in Druid Hill, Baltimore, MD ............................................................................ +Eleanor Rogers b: 1717 in Auchentorlie Dumbarton, Scotland d: 1758 in Druid Hill Park Baltimore MD m: November 10, 1729 Father: Nicholas Rogers II Mother: Eleanor ...................................................................... 19 Mungo Buchanan b: October 18, 1687 in EDINBURGH, MIDLOTHIAN, SCOTLAND d: December 03, 1699 ...................................................................... 19 Archibald Buchanan b: November 29, 1701 in EDINBURGH, MIDLOTHIAN, SCOTLAND ...................................................................... 19 Robert Buchanan b: May 10, 1703 in EDINBURGH, MIDLOTHIAN, SCOTLAND APPENDIX 4. Jersey Lands North Carolina Information by Teddy L. Barclay Pope Dec./1998 The location where Robert (b. 1718, d. 1788) and Leah Barclay of Rowan County, North Carolina, lived has been researched. It is near a recreational park area. It would probably make a nice vacation attraction if going in that direction anyway. The Barclay farm was located in a one hundred thousand acre Jersey church grant called Jersey Land, near Jersey Baptist Church. Jersey is now in Robertson County and is near Lexington. It is off Highway 85 and North Carolina Highway 8. The river that made this spot so wonderful is the Yadkin River. Jersey Baptist Church is active. It is one of the largest in the area with 500 in membership and 280 average attendance. Jersey Church is at one end of the two mile long Jersey Church road. The neighborhood grade school for Jersey Land School is at the other end. High school students go by bus to Lexington, seventeen miles away. The Jersey church was established before 1755. Settlers came from Hopewell and Manalapan, New Jersey and the "Old School" Hopewell Baptist Church near Princeton, which was established in 1715. Jersey Land escaped ravage by the British in the American Revolution because of heavy rain and a swollen Yadkin River. They camped there and viewed Jersey Farms with spyglasses but finally gave up and went elsewhere. The minutes of the Jersey church before 1784 were lost, but Robert's son, Samuel, and his wife, Mary, are named in the minutes as joining by "experience". The Barclay sisters, who married Todd brothers, were also named. Other Barclays in the area were Margaret Barclay King and her eleven children and Samual, her brother, and his family. There is also an older cemetery with no markers at all. In the cemetery there are many stones so old the names are not readable. The church secretary said that may be the reason the Barclays there are not on the cemetery list of readable names. Captain Robert Barclay served in the military with North Carolina troops in the American Revolution. If planning to go there on a trip, call the toll-free information directory and get the number for the North Carolina tourist information. Ask for a vacation package. It will contain a map and a list of other nearby attractions of historical significance, relating to the Civil War era. Also, Daniel Boone grew up north of Jersey land, on the Yadkin River. There are some Boone attractions, including a cave. Additional information about Barclays is not likely to come from either Jersey Baptist Church or Old School Baptist Church at Hopewell. Both were emphatic of never hearing of such a thing as being Quakers who turned into Baptist. It is likely to have been that some Quakers themselves became Baptist and not the whole meeting. The Games - There are large meetings called "The Games" of Clans of Scot descendants that meet all over the country and Canada. Up to twenty thousand people attend. The largest in the United States is in North Carolina in September. Officers of Clan Barclay attend about nineteen games a year and carry their Barclay tent. It is draped with the Barclay tartan in yellow and black. This floppy disc book on Microsoft Word will be available at the games to interested parties. APPENDIX 5. THE LAWSONS OF GEORGIA Other Relatives and Neighbors Due to the fact that each family unit wanted to use the names "William," "John," and "Roger", it was hard to separate the Lawsons in America. Also, a misprint in a reference book caused much confusion, but after eleven years, the picture emerges quite clearly. The Lawsons in America were descendants of the Lawsons of Brough, or Burgh, Hall, Yorkshire. (1)The arms are at. a chevron between three martlets sable. Crest: two arms embowed, couped at the elbow, vested ermine cuff as supporting the hands ppr. a ring gold, gemmed gu within the rim the sun in splendor gold. Mottor: Leve et reluis. Patronymics Brittanica states that Lawson means "son of Lawrence", and that the patriarch was John Lawson who lived in the time of Henry III and was Lord of Tawlesgrave, York. >From him, the existing baronet is lineally descended. The arms were patented during the time of Elizabeth I. Brough (pronounced Broog) was originally written de Breux. In the 12th century, it was changed to de Burgh, sometimes de Burg. It means "stronghold", coming from the Roman ruins discovered in a field which is now called "The Burrs" at Brough. The old Roman Road ran through the place going through Stamford Bridge, across the ferry to Riding, and down Ermine Street on to Lincolnshire. (2) The de Burgh Family came over with William the Conqueror. One branch became the Earl of Ulster, marrying into the Plantaganets and eventually furnished a king. The other branch stemmed from the man who was one of the signers of the Magna Carta at Runneymeade. The Lawsons were for generations seated at Burwell and afterward at Alindell, Northumberland, then at Brough Hall, Yorkshire. WILLIAM LAWSON of Cramlington, tempus Henry VI, married Agnes, daughter and co-heir of William Cramlington, and had a second son, THOMAS lAWSON of Cramlington, who died in 1489. He married Isabella, daughter of Killinghall of Middleton, St. George^Òs. Their son, SIR RALPH LAWSON, was knighted by James I on 7-23-1603, married Elisabeth, daughter and sole heir of Roger Brough of Brough Hall, Catterick, Yorkshire. They had two daughters (Jane married Thomas Rokeby of Mortham, and Alice, wife of Thomas Ingleby of Lawkland) and three sons. Their eldest son, ROGER LAWSON, was seated at Heaton, new Newcastle-on-Tyne, whick was afterwards sold. He died in London during the lifetime of his father. He married Dorothy, daughter of Sir Henry Constable, Knt. of Burton Constable, Yorkshire. She died in 1632 at St. Anthony^Òs near Newcastle, which belonged to the family. They had numerous issue. Their eldest son, HENRY LAWSON, of Brough Hall, married Anne, daughter of Robert Hodgson of Heburne, County of Durham. He died in 1636. Among issue, he had Roger, who died young, and Henry, whose widow married the Earl of Deruntwater, and whose daughter, Isabella, married Sir John Swinburn. His Heir, JOHN LAWSON, was captain of the horse in the service of Charles I. Brough Hall was sequestered and sold by Cromwell and he was banished in 1653. Charles II saw that Brough Hall was returned to him and created him Baron of Brough 7-6-1665. In 1660, he married Catherine Howard, third daughter of Sir William Howard of Naworth Castle, Cumberland, sister of Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Carlisle, and a great-great-granddaughter of the fourth Duke of Norfolk through his son, William. She died 7-4-1668.(13) John died l0-26-1698. Their Grandsons, HUGH LAWSON, son of John Lawson who went to Ireland and married Mary McConnell, daughter of John McConnell and ______? Caldwell, a cousin of Cromwell, came to America in 1727, first to Lunenburg County, Va., then to Rowan County, North Carolina, where he died about 1770. He married Margaret Moore. (3) and JOHN LAWSON of St. Peter^Òs Parish, Virginia, having gone there from Lunenburg, and the husband of Judith Lawson, who married (2) Francis Timberlake of Lancaster County on 3-9-1730. John^Òs son, JOHN LAWSON, was baptized 3-8-1690 in St. Peter^Òs Parish (4). He married Mary ______?. John, a surveyor, died between 1740 and 1749. Mary Lawson of Lunenburg, later of Halifax, left a will in Halifax dated 10-15-1749, showing daughter, Margaret, of Granville, North Carolina, wife of John Boyd, sons being Travis, John, William and David. (5) WILLIAM LAWSON was born in Halifax County, Virginia, in 1740. He married Jane Banks in Halifax County on 5-24-1759. (6) William was granted two hundred acres of land in Wilkes County, Georgia, in 1784. (7) He is listed in the DAR records as being a First Lieutenant in the Second Virginia Regiment, Captain Quarles Company. He had eight hundred and seventy-five acres in Wilkes County and five hundred and seventy-five acres in Washington County, having petitioned on 3-25-1784 that he was a Revolutionary soldier and wanted bounty in Washington, County, Georgia. He owned land along Shoulderbone Creek a few miles from where it flows into the Oconee River and so did the Fosters. William had claims Nos. 1863 of l-14-1783 for two hundred acres; 1994 of 11-20-1784 for two hundred acres; and 285l of 4-1-1780 for one hundred acres for service in the Virginia Continental line as a private. William^Òs will (8), dated 4-30-1799, and proved 10-25-1800, showing that he died in 1800, names his wife, Jane, sons John, Thomas, William, Mumford, Dudley, David, Francis and daughters Sarah (Thomas), Mary (Slaughter), Margaret (Bullock) and Jane. His daughter, JANE LAWSON was born in 1790 in Hancock County, Georgia. (9) She married William Lewis Foster in Wilkes County, Georgia, on 3-11-1808. (l0) In 1799, Jane was named in the will of her father to receive a negro man and negro woman, a bed and furniture, a horse and saddle, two cows and six calves. She lived in Wilkes/Hancock/Washington Counties, Georgia (11) until after 1820, when she and her husband and children moved to Monroe County, Georgia. The family moved to Texas after 1837, and between that date and 1845, her husband died. On 9-1-1845, she petitioned for a land grant, saying that she was a widow, that the family had lived in Texas for over three years, that the grants petitioned by her late husband, William Lewis Foster, were community Property and that she was entitled to the certificates. A six hundred and forty acre grant was made, and another grant of a great deal more was made as court records indicate several leagues. One grant was in Liberty County and one in Galveston County, but they were finally claimed in Angelina and Houston Counties, running together. She made a deed to James Barclay and one to William John Lawson (supposedly a son by a cousin) previous to making her will, in which she left her property to her son, William Lewis. Oil was discovered on the property later and when the Kirby Lumber Company and the Houston Oil Company were attempting to "take it over", Napoleon Barclay, son of James, led the court fight to retain possession of it. Descendants, which were numerous, received one hundred and sixty acres each. Children of Jane were: William John Lawson, James (who was married and had five children when they came to Texas), Shepp, William, Appless (who married (1) a McGuire (2) Russell Sims, a cousin of her Ogden son-in-law), Sarah (married Napoleon Charlton), Nancy (married Jack Beam), "Polly" or Mary (married Lewis Rigsby), "Betsy" or Elizabeth (married William Ferguson), "Jenny" or Virginia (married James Barclay), and Lewis. Dates of William Lewis Foster are unknown but in the 1880 Census of Tyler County, Mary Foster Rigsby lists her father as being born in Virginia. He died in Texas. MARY FOSTER (Known as Aunt Polly) was born in Wilkes County, Georgia in 1816 and married in Monroe County, Georgia on 1-9-1831 to Lewis John Rigsby. In 1840 they moved to Texas and lived in Angelina County, then Tyler County. She studied the science and practice of medicine, specializing in the treatment of women, and treated the ill in her community all of her life. She was much beloved for her charitable works. She died in Tyler County on 5-3-1893. Lewis Rigsby was born in North Carolina in 1802 and died in Tyler County on 7-27-1892. (12) Children were: Elizabeth Ann (married Jeremiah Todd Barclay), Jeff, Sarah Jane (married (1) a Burke (2) a Millener), John Lewis, Franklin, Wyley (married Sallie Good), Shep, Monroe (married Mildred Bradshaw), Emily, Anne (married Jim Goolsbey), Frankie and William. She had one set of triplets and several sets of twins in this group. WOODLIEF FOY BARCLAY was born at Barclay, Texas on 12-24-1882 and died in Waco, Texas on 4-5-1957. He is buried on the Barclay plot in Temple, Texas. He married Margaret Helen MacGregor on 8-4-1904. Children of this union: Margaret MacGregor and Martha Louise. ELIZABETH ANN RIGSBY was born 7-13-1833, in Monroe County, Georgia, and died 1-21-1890, in Barclay, Falls County, Texas. She was married 1-10-1849 to Jeremiah Todd Barclay (born 7-1-1826 in Alabama) who was killed on election day, 8-3- 1850 by a disgruntled candidate named Hanks. She married on 1-15-1857, Thomas Franklin Herring (9-12-1833 to 188_). Children of this last marriage were Lewis, Cora (married Jake French), Charles, Clinton, Lawrence Rice. She was an accomplished violinist and taught music to all of her children. She had them read classics and the dictionary as they could not go to college. WILLIAM ANDERSON BARCLAY was born in Tyler County on 12-23-1849 and died in Waco, Texas, on 10-24-1927. He married Martha King Ledbetter (born 9-2-1851 in Tennessee, died 7-16-1934 in Temple, Texas), and both are buried on a family plot in Temple, Texas. Children of this union were Isaac Cramer (died in childhood), Goodhue Wilson, Rigsby Ledbetter, Woodlief Foy and Bernice Martha (married James B. Whitley; only child, James Barclay, died at Corregedor, Phillipines in World War II). was born at Barclay, Texas on 12-24-1882 and died in Waco, Texas on 4-5-1957. He is buried on the Barclay plot in Temple, Texas. He married Margaret Helen MacGregor on 8-4-1904. Children of this union: Margaret MacGregor and Martha Louise. VIRGINIA ANN AMERICA FOSTER was born in Georgia on 2-1-1827 and died in Texas on 10-15-1867, She married James Barclay (born 2-11-1816 in Tennessee, died 12-14-1873 in Tyler County, Texas) in 1841. Their daughter, PHOEBE ARIZONA BARCLAY was born 4-13-1859 in Tyler County, Texas, and died 11-10-1947. She married T. B. Bevil (born 9-12-1856, died 4-5-1940) on 2-12-1880. Their granddaughter, By Margaret Barclay, Waco, Texas, around 1964 HAZEL BEVIL married Carl Hickman. See attached notes for references. NOTES 1. "History of Halifax County" by Carrington, page 226. Habersham Chapter, DAR of Georgia, Virginia Magazine of History, Vol. IV, pages 313, 314, and William and Mary Quarterly, Series I, Vol. 18, page 237, state that the Lawsons spread out over Virginia but all were descendants of Roger Lawson of Brough Hall. 2. Book on derivation of English names, University of Texas library. 3. John Goodwin Herndon^Òs excellent account of the Lawsons states that Hugh Lawson was born in Ulster, came to America in 1727 aboard the "George and Anne", lived for a while in Chester, Pennsylvania, moved to Virginia in 1743, became presiding judge of the first court of Lunenburg County, a member of the Virginia Assembly 5-5-1746, remained in Lunenburg until at least 1753, obtained land grants in Rowan County, North Carolina in 1755 and 1757, a three hundred and fifty acre grant in 1759. He died in Salisbury, North Carolina, where his will is recorded. 4. Meade^Òs "Churches of Virginia" which states, also, that he was a cousin of Hugh Lawson of Lunenburg. 5. Will Book 1, Halifax County, Virginia, page 36; Cumberland Parish Register, page 316. 6. Tyler Historical Quarterly, Vol. 16, page 117; Halifax Marriage Bonds. George Mays was surety. 7. Wilkes County Records, Book 3-E, page 242. This was in Hancock County after 1793. In 1795 Jean (Jane) Lawson made a tax return for her husband, William, for nine slaves, four hundred and ninety-two acres in Hancock County. 8. Hancock County, Georgia Will Book AAA, page 20. 9. 1850 Census of Texas. 10. Wilkes County, Georgia First Marriage Book, page 52. Early Records of Wilkes County misprints this date as 1818. All other 1818 marriages are shown as taken from later pages. 11. These counties were all formed out of each other and the boundaries changed back and forth for several decades. 12. Newspaper clipping at time of her death. 13. See Burke^Òs "Peerage and Gentry" and Doyle^Òs "Complete Peerage" for Howard lineage. Lineage as printed in several books, supplied by the Hugh Lawson line, is incorrect for marriages and descent during the Plantagenet period. A complete chart has been compiled and verified by Doyle, Burke, and the "Extinct Peerage" by Margaret Barclay, 4110 Watt, Waco, Texas. APPENDIX 6. News Article /The graves of Walter and Elizabeth Barclay, "born 17-- and married January 25, 1804, Richmond, Kentucky " will be marked soon. The Barclay-Barkley Society for Texas has ordered a marker for these two old Barclay graves at the old Barclay cemetery at Hart Mill near Woodville. The Beaumont Enterprize,1943 The markers are expected to arrive within 30 days, although no formal dedication will be held until the time when war rationing of gasoline will permit the attendance of members of the family from distant places. The oldest living descendent of the two Barclays to be commemorated is Mrs. Phoebe Arizona Bevil, now living at Warren with her daughter, Mrs. Charles Masterson. Mrs. Bevil is a granddaughter of the first immigrants to Texas, being the daughter of their son, Judge James Barclay, whose wife was Virginia Ann America Foster. Mrs. Bevil has one son, Dr. Jack Bevil of Hull, Texas. Lack Information Because of lack of information on the exact date of the death of this Kentucky-wed couple, the graves were not marked by late descendants. On the death of Elizabeth McQueen Barclay, the Bible passed on to the families of others and was lost. It is hoped that throught this publicity, if the old Bible still exists, information will be available from its pages for completion of other data to for family records and markers. Sam Houston was a friend of the Barclays and interested Elizabeth and Walter in coming to Texas. They lived for a time in Tennessee. Their children were as follows: John, Anderson, Robert, David, William, James, Jerry-Todd, Melton, Walter, Polly and Louise. The Barclays made their next home in Alabama. Sam Houston persuaded Walter to act as convoy in moving the Alabama Indians to Texas. They settled first in west Texas and then moved to the Barclay settlement near Woodville. Lived With Son After the death of Walter, Elizabeth McQueen Barclay lived for a time with her son, Judge James Barclay, in the old Barclay home still standing near Woodville. This old home was in its original condition until recent months. The front porch flooring has been replaced by concrete. This old log manor house of pre-republic days was built by a member of the Hanks family, who was a cousin of Abraham Lincoln, for Judge Barclay. The Barclay slaves and Alabama Indians helped in its construction. Several governors were guests there and sat on the old porch. One was Governor Pease. Sam Houston was also a guest several times. Judge Barclay was appointed by Sam Houston as the first government representative of the Alabama Indians. He spoke their language fluently, and on the visits of Sam Houston, the Indian chiefs with Sam Houston and Barclay held their pow-wows just under the hill from the old log home. Later, James Barclay became representative to the Texas legislature. He rode horse or muleback to Liberty and caught the stagecoach from their to the capitol. As judge of old Menard County (now Tyler), he oftentimes was gone from home for long periods. As a protection to his family, he had caused to be built a dugout hideaway across Cypress Creek. This was done as a precaution against wild bands of straggling Indians and other marauders. When during his absence such were noted, a warning was sounded by the trusty Alabamas to the Barclay family. The slaves, led by "Old Aunt Luzanne and Buck", led the family to Cypress Creek and packed or swam them across. At such times, Elizabeth McQueen Barclay was bundled up in the arms of the slaves and set safely across on the bank with the other members of the Barclay family; also, the wife of James, who was before her marriage Virginia Foster. This member of the family never weighed more than ninety pounds and it was a favorite saying with the personal slaves that "Massa Jim^Òs wife wasn^Òt no bigger than a piece of soap after de washin^Ò!". When it came time to pack her across the creek, she was told that they could easily carry across "two of her." Many Descendants There are many descendants of these two oldest members and many did their part for their country and freedom in this war, one having joined the RAF early and died in the service. This was George Frederick Johnston, great-great-grandson of the original pioneers. Mayor Watt Barclay of Woodville, George Boyd of Woodville, Virginia Boys of Warren, Mrs. Eva Kelley of Hillister, Lim Bullock of Hillister, Mrs. C. M. Redman of Pt. Arthur and others have served on the memorial committee, Mrs. Redman did the research. His brother, Henry A. Barclay, by then twenty-one, was still single and farmed his own place. In the intervening ten years brother Walter had married a young lady then 25 years of age who was born in Georgia and they were the parents of a daughter and two sons. Thus given the information available from the census to the title examiner as he or she traces down the ownership of a tract of land from one generation to another, sorting out who inherited from who and how the families of these early pioneers developed as they settled the "new ground" which was Tyler County at that time. With the coming of title insurance, the orders for the preparation of an abstract of title have just about ceased, except from oil companies and persons who are interested in exploring for oil and gas. An abstract of title is simply a copy of every legal document filed for record in either the District Clerk^Òs office or the County Clerk^Òs office having to do with a specified tract of land. An abstract of title is prepared by first making up a list of the legal documents from the abstract records mentioned above. In olden times, it was necessary for someone to go to the County Clerk^Òs office and District Clerk^Òs office and laboriously copy each legal document on file. Related to Senator Barkley (who became Vice-President) Robert Barkley, Sr., and son were commemorated in late years for Revolutionary service in North Carolina. At that time, Alben Barkley of Kentucky, dedicated the monument erected by the DAR. Alben Barkley of Kentucky is also a descendant of this Robert Barkley, Sr., of Rowan County, North Carolina. Prior to North Carolina, the Barkleys (Barclays) lived in Virginia and Pennsylvania and were pioneer immigrants with the Rowans and the Todds into North Carolina. Robert^Òs will names Benjamin Todd as executor and witnesses were John Hendrickson, Joseph Todd, Thomas Todd, Walter and Elizabeth McQueen^Òs marriage in Madison County (Richmond), Kentucky, lists William Todd as witness. One of Walter^Òs sisters married a Todd. The Filson club Louisville has furnished a copy of the record of this old marriage of Walter Barclay. William D. Kizziah, registrar of deeds, furnished a copy of the old Robert Barkley will from the records of the present Salisbury, Rowan County, North Carolina courthouse. Mrs. Cynthia Ann Maupin of Illinois, a Todd-Barclay descendant, sent a pencil sketch of the old Todd log home in Kentucky. This sketch is copied from an original made "fifty years ago from memory." These Barclays and Todds lived neighbors across Muddy Creek, near Richmond, Kentucky. The old Barclay home in Kentucky was purchased for a loom factory, moved away and restored to its original condition. Its chimneys are rock instead of the earlier method used in Texas of chinking. The Kentucky residences were similar log houses to the old James Barclay home near Woodville, Texas, except each had two stories, and the Todd home had no dog-trot hall. The Barclay home of Kentucky had originally a dog-trot, although some later resident had this enclosed. The family Bible sought for further dates and information is thought possible to have passed on to descendants in Bell or Robertson County, Texas. It came down the long trek with the Barclay wagon train which was comprised of Barclays, slaves and Indians, arriving in Texas before the republic. The Barclays being devout, according to their traditions, stopped often along the way for family prayer and council. At such time the old family Book was their beacon to light an oftentimes dark and treacherous path. The old Barclay cemetery at Hart Mill is obscure and thick with undergrowth and can be reached through a dense wooded area, not altogether unlike it was when the original pioneers found it. A small bridge used to cross over the old mill pond is said to have grown rickety and it is hoped that future generations will remember and help to keep this burial place in the future. Barclays came before Texas was a republic, establishing one of the most prominent families in east Texas. By Nell Barclay Redman, Pt. Arthur, Texas THE BARCLAYS by W. H. Barclay descended from Robert Barclayb.1772 son of Robert Barclay of Rowan County, North Carolina before 1755 revised in July, 1982 revised again by Carl Locke, 1992 (1) 1067 - 1610 A. D. comments David Barclay of Mathers, Scotland. (2) 1610 - 1686 Col. David Barclay, from Gordonsturn and Ury Estates, Scotland (3) 1648 - 1690 Robert Barclay, ^ÑApologist" Ury Castle, near Aberdeen, Scotland. (4) 1672 - 1748 Robert Barclay, son of above, Ury, Scotland. Laird of Ury. (5) l600 - Robert Barclay, son of above, grandson of Apologist, Ury & ? (6) - 1786 Robert Barclay, son of Aboe of Ury and Rowan Co., N. C. (7) 1758? - 1846 Robert Barclay, son of Rowan Co., N. C. Also lived in MO. (8) 1812 - 1900 / 1 Derrett Hubbard Barclay, son of above, along with the others 1) David Barclay, father of Col. David Barclay, stated that there had always been a Barclay Group. About 150 men and their families moved from North Ireland around 1067 to Mathers Province, Scotland, this no doubt for religious and economical reasons. This was after the Crusades, and a Robert I was first king of Scotland before the wars with the Normandy Saxons and British groups. 2) Col. David Barclay, son of above, married Lady Katherine Gordon, a relative of the Stuart^Òs of Holland from which came Princess Elizabeth of Holland and James I and II of the United Kingdom eventually. lady Gordon owned "Gordonstun" later to become a Boarding School for boys and in which the present Prince of Wales spend part of his boyhood. to Col. David and his wife, lady Gordon, was born Robert the Apologist in 148. Col David had become a Quaker. Lady Gordon died in 1674. Col. David died at Ury in his son^Òs home, which had been purchased and built for his son, in 1686. 3) Robert the Quaker ^ÑApologist" as he was known, born to above in 1648. married Christian Mollison 1670, had 3 sons, Robert 1672, David 1682, john 1687, and 5 girls. A book was written by Eldon Trueblood on this Robert the Apologist, with comments about the others, while attending Cambridge in England, which will not be attempted for summary herein. This Robert became Laird of Ury. Thus the beginning of No. (4). 4) Robert, Laird of Ury, married Elizabeth Braine 1696. 3 sons Robert 1699, John, 1701, David 1710, plus 5 girls. The Laird died 1747. Herein No. 5 and 6 can be combined. 5 & 6) Robert 1699 - 1786. Suggest born at Ury, went to Rowan Co., N. C. 1748 plus or minus. ENTER LORD GRANVILLE, PRIME MINISTER OF ENGLAND UNDER KING JAMES II. One of the prior Robert^Òs was a friend of the King and spent one summer visiting him. Lord Granville owned some lands in the American Colony, which he did not return to the crown when he resigned before the Revolutionary. War. Also the King had personal lands and title appeared to be known as King Lines. John, the brother acquainted with he Lord, possibly looked after his estate in Scotland, and made a deal to come to the Colony and sell properties for the King and the Lord. Abstract records indicate some of the transactions 1759-63, as an example, but does not preclude prior transactions, just the ones that are known. You ask why didn^Òt he get married sooner? Being Scotch, you know the answer, couldn^Òt afford it sooner, and it was a custom for men to wait later in life before marriage. Remember these boys were going through Industrial Revolution oat home, the Renaissance, Reformation, Indian, French Wars, and finally Revolutionary War of the Colonies 1776-79. He apparently lmarried a young lady for name of Leah ____. So it was not impossible for her to be bearing children to him ate in his life. - Eusibius Hubbard, a Captain, said that the Cornstalk Battalion was called into service in 1777,which was old for our Robert, but he was known to have been a Captain also. My father, Noah Sterling Barclay, stated to me that two brothers came t o North Carolina from SCOTLAND (not Ireland) both having large families which the Family Groups show. Henry is name suggested for the brother living in Orange County, N>R>? Three sons make an impression at least. Samuel 1758? married Mary Davis 1784, inherited the homestead 1786 - 88, for Robert, the brother from Missouri and Walter, the brother form Woodville, Texas, both returned to Rowan Co. to help settle the estate. THIS IS A FACT. However, the birth date of the last two just does not meet date requirements, as their father gave them land in Kentucky, which they only retained a short time and disposed of before separating and going to Mo. and Texas, etc. Walter arrived in Texas 1826. Robert of Mo. will be handled in clause No. (7). This Robert, the Rowan Co., one, joined a Jersey Church as it was called the Jersey Church, which had been a Quaker Church at Malapan, n. J. Two other groups, namely Baptist and Campbelites, joined with he minister, Rev. john Gregory, and determined it as a Baptist. later, Thomas and Alexander Campbell withdrew and joined with Barton Stone in what was later known as the Christian Church (Disciples) at Boynton , C. C. about thirty miles north of Robert^Òs home on Buffalo Creek. So he could not have reasonably been a Catholic or the John Barclays^Ò (Robert 1717-18) unaccounted for. Besides, he had enough money to purchase livestock and other real and personal property from Andrew Pitts on Oct. 13, 1759 to begin some form of agriculture. It took him two years to get title from Lord Granville in England to 708 acres on Buffalo Creek. At the same time, John Beard purchas4ed 280 acres adjoining his, both paying 10 English Sterling Shillings, both transactions being recorded on April 4, 1761. The John Barclay^Òs , brother and nephews of the Apologist ran the family Mercantile and Shipping Business out of Dublin, Ireland. The David family went to England and was a successful business man. It is possible that he or his off-spring started the Bank of England. met a young lady from Salisbury, NC Rowan county, last week, and she stated that Barclay^Òs Limited, and located in the area, was a branch of the English bank, and that she was aware of where Buffalo Creek was. As to the other Robert Barclay in the area at the same time, have been able to determine who he was. One of the John Barclay^Òs in Penn. or NY, who drove the first nail in the first building at Cornell University., had a Robert who migrated to Rowan Co. and was a shoemaker, as advised by two sisters in Iowa by rescent correspondence. Little imagination would be required to write a book o this man, since one has already been written on the Apologist. It is almost a miracle that so much information is still available. Therefore, I hereby declare that Robert of Rowan Co. N. C. n C. was the great grandson of Robert Barclay the Quaker Apologist. 7) Robert Barclay, son of Robert Barclay of Rowan Co., n. C., along with his brother Walter, must have been born earlier in the sequence of births, since they would have needed to be 18 or 21 years of age to have ownership of land in Kentucky in 1784. Robert could have married Mary Hubbard in Va. or Mo. before coming to Mo. and briefly settling near Clinton, MO., wherein he declared or homestead on a tract of land on a tributary to the Mo. river, which frequently became inundated. He later acquired two tracts of land 3 1/2 miles wet and about six miles north of Columbia, MO;, on a creek named for him later and still bearing the name. It would not be too far from the Univ. of MO according to one of the Deans of Tulsa Univ. Evidently, the Davidsons and Atteberry^Òs were neighbors since there was so much intermarriage of the children of each. Robert is reported to also have been in the service of his county? From this marriage to Mary Hubbard came among others, Derrett Hubbard Barclay, or extended grandparents, who conceived 16 children, 12 of which lived to some age of accountability, and from which has grown urge to compile a history, along with some of his brothers and sisters. Family Group resumes will follow, but as previously stated, I am proud to be a Barclay. W. H. Barclay APPENDIX 7. Walter Barclay and Elizabeth McQueen Barclay Walter Barclay (b. 1774) was the son of Robert Barclay of Rowan Co. N. C. and Leah Barclay. Leah's maiden name is unknown. Robert and Leah had around eleven children. Samuel was the oldest, and inherited all the land, according to English law. William died. Walter and his brother Robert went to Kentucky, where Robert owned some other land. They stayed there about ten years. Walter may have had an earlier marriage and a son from that marriage named Peter born before 1804. When Walter was 30 years of age, he married Elizabeth McQueen, who was fourteen years of age in 1804. After the birth of several children, they moved into Tennessee, and then to Alabama. Walter's brother Robert stayed in Kentucky. Peter stayed in Kentucky (Richmond, Madison Co). There are many descendants in Kentucky and Tennessee. By the time the Barclays came to Texas, there were these children; Robert, Anderson, James, Jeremiah-Todd and Milton, and two girls, Julia and Polly. There were also the wives of Robert and Anderson, and some children. Robert's wife was Sarah McKinsey, and their children who came to Texas with them were Lacy Milton, Elizabeth, Walter, Robert, and James F. Children Henry and Sara were born in Texas. Anderson and his wife and some children, including William Walter and Anderson Jr. and maybe John and David who came with them to Texas. Others were born in Texas. Elizabeth Mc Queen Barclay's two brothers, Milton McQueen and -- McQueen also came with the Barclays. They were not all living in the same state. Some came from Kentucky, some came from Tennessee and some came from Alabama. Also, Walter had originated in North Carolina. Therefore, the conflicting information about where the Barclays came from to Texas. James was a very young man, and did not marry until he had been in Texas several years, when he married Virginia Foster. Jeremiah, a child when he came to Texas, did not marry until 1849, when he married Elizabeth Rigsby. Milton did not marry and died at age 30. The fact that the parents as well as older sons and their children and younger sons who were children all came is why there are differing numbers of generations alive now in Texas and other places. There were greatgrand children of Walter and Elizabeth Mc Queen Barclay who were the grandchildren of Robert and Sara McKinsey by their son Lacy Milton and his wife Nancy Mc Queen, Milton's daughter, before 1850. So, by 1850, there were already four generations of Barclays in Tyler County. Here is the order. Walter b. 1774, Robert b. 1806, Lacy Milton, then Lacy Milton's four children, for example. On the other hand , the son of Jeremiah Todd, William Anderson, was the third generation, etc. APPENDIX 8. Robert Barclay APPENDIX Robert Barclay From: News Article, Tyler County Booster, Thursday, November 22, 1979 There are the censuses of Tyler County for the years 1850, 1860 and 1870, telling us who lived in the county in those days, where they were born, their ages and occupation and the value of their real estate. We note for instance in 1850 that Sara Barclay, the widow of Robert Barclay, was forty-three years of age and was born in Kentucky. She was the owner of real estate valued at six thousand dollars, a mighty sum of money in that year. Living with her were four sons; Walter, age 19; Robert, age 16; James F., age 13, all born in Arkansas; Henry A., then age 11 and born in Texas and her daughter Sarah, a girl of 10 in 1850. Each of the children had attended school at some time during that year. Her oldest son, Lacy M. Barclay, then twenty-four years of age and born in Arkansas, also, had already married. His wife, Nancy, was then sixteen years of age. She had been born in Tennessee. They were married during that year and lived down the road in dwelling house #7, near Sarah, who lived in dwelling house #26 on the government^Òs record. By the time of the next census, Robert Barclay had married a young lady born in Texas who was then eighteen years of age and they were the proud parents of a one-year-old daughter. Robert had acquired $2,500.00 worth of real estate and $1,225.00 worth of personal property. His brother, Henry A. Barclay, by then twenty-one, was still single and farmed his own place. In the intervening ten years brother Walter had married a young lady then 25 years of age who was born in Georgia and they were the parents of a daughter and two sons. Thus given the information available from the census to the title examiner as he or she traces down the ownership of a tract of land from one generation to another, sorting out who inherited from who and how the families of these early pioneers developed as they settled the "new ground" which was Tyler County at that time. Robert Barclay (b. 1806) was the oldest son of Walter (b. 1774) and Elizabeth McQueen. He came to Texas after the others. He died before age forty, around 1840. He left a will, an estate of six thousand dollars worth of land and several children, including Lacy Milton and Walter (b. 1831). Robert^Òs widow, Sara, then married Milton McQueen. Robert and Sara's children were: Lacy Milton, Elizabeth, Walter (James Walter, b. 1871, who married Martha Foster and later Mary J Mahaffey Powell) Robert, James F, Henry Anson and Sara. Lacy Milton disappeared. Wife, Nancy McQueen, died. James Walter, b. 1831, was thought to have raised Lacy Milton's and Nancy's eight children along with his own eight. This writer, Teddy Barclay Pope, thinks that Robert was the father of James Walter b. 1831, from whom James Walter b. 1971 (wife Laura Pool) and brother Henry (wife Clara Pool).are descended, Robert having been James Walter b. 1871 and brother Henry's grandfather. APPENDIX 9. Anderson Barclay - from various sources with some repeats Anderson Barclay was the second oldest son of Walter Barclay b. 1774 and Elizabeth Mc Queen Barclay. He was in the battle of the Bexar (county)in December of 1935. in San Antonio, at the location of the battle of the Alamo in February of 1836. He was also in Sam Houston's army for independence. He received pensions of land for both of these activities. Anderson had a family when he came to Texas with a son named Walter William and several others. Walter Williams was known as an adult as WW. Anderson's family concentrated in the Chester area and are mentioned in the legal records. Apprendix notes names descendants of Anderson. There were many more in addition to those named. From the pension applications from the service in the army of the republic (AOR). Anderson Barclay, Tyler Co., approved June 23, 1871. Age 63 in 1870. Served in Captain M. B. Lewis^Òs company and Col. B. R. Milam^Òs regiment which engaged in the battle of San Antonio in 1835. Received bounty warrant #3396 for 320 acres. Stephen Williams and Hanable Good, of Jasper Co. knew that Barclay served in AOR in 1835. James T. Priest and W.W. Whitehead certified A. Barclay, Sr. was living in 1873. . A Chester Barclay family: Anderson Barclay Jr. (d.1890) married Mary Seamans. Children were Fremon, Tom, Dexter, Clarance, Lee, Alvin and Stella. Alvin married Annie Boyett. Children were Verna, Aline (Elton Barclay), Ruby (Albert Jordan), Louise (Joe Chitwood), Clayton (Nata Fuller). Verna^Òs children were Evelyn (Dodson), Connie (Bennett), and Jerry (Kathy Cook). Aline^Òs children were Milton, Wayne and Margie (Moss). Others were Ruby, (Albert Jordan), Louise (Joe Chitwood), and Clayton (Nata Fuller). . Anderson Edward Barclay was born in 1807/8 in Franklin County, Tennessee to Walter Barclay of Rowan County, North Carolina, and Elizabeth McQueen of Richmond, Madison County, Kentucky. He was the second son. He served in the Battle of Bexar in December of 1835. He received six hundred and forty acres for his service. He joined Sam Houston^Òs Army and received twelve hundred and eighty acres in Hutchinson County, Texas for his service. He had three hundred and twenty acres in Newton County, Texas in 1838. In the 1840 census, he had 3,353 acres, one slave and one horse, valued at $4,400. Anderson Edward was born in 1807, married in 1829 and died after 1870. His children were: W. W. (William Walter), who served in the Confederate Army and married Elizabeth Futch, b. 5/22/1832, married 3/24/1853 and died 11/04/1908; John; Elizabeth; Mahaley F.; Anderson, Jr. (b. 8/9/1845), who married Mary J. Seaman 12/13/1871 (d. 11/26/1898); Jerry, G_____? daughter, Andrew and Artelia. APPENDIX 10. James Barclay James Barclay The most well-known nineteenth-century Texas Barclay was James Mac Barclay, born 2/11/1816, son of Walter (born 1774) , and husband of Virginia Foster Barclay. He was the first white man to set foot in Tyler County (then Menard district). He was a folk hero of the era. Listed below are some things about James Barclay: In 1852, James Barclay purchased the John Wheat Survey, southwest of the present city of Woodville, and moved his family to this location at the junction of Big and Little Cypress Creeks. About 1841, the members of the Alabama Indian tribe, who were residents of the "Fenced-In Village" at Indian Village at Peach Tree near Chester, had begun drifting southward and established a village on the John Wheat Survey. James Barclay was very active in community and political affairs in Tyler County. He was the sheriff and the County Judge. Probate records indicate he was named as executor of many area citizen^Òs estates. In addition, he was twice elected to the Texas legislature. He was elected as the District 34 representative in the Eighth Legislature, which met in November, 1859 and adjourned April 9, 1861. Sam Houston was governor during that session. James Barclay, Sam Houston, and thirteen other members of the legislature resigned their offices rather than take an oath of allegiance to the Confederate States Government. B. F. Ross served the unexpired term of James Barclay. James Barclay was again elected to the Tenth Legislature which covered the period November 22, 1863 to November 15, 1864. James Barclay is also credited with serving as the first Indian Agent of the Alabama Indian tribe which is now located between Woodville and Livingston. At that time, they were located in the Warren area (Village Mills). In Sam Houston^Òs writing, there is a letter replying to James Barclay, who was very concerned about the harsh treatment the Alabama Indians were receiving at the hands of white settlers. James Barclay, through Sam Houston, was instrumental in obtaining the original land for the Indian tribe. The James Barclay farm stands today. It was built in Tyler County, Texas in 1842. It is out the Woodvill to Livingston Highway about five miles. Then five miles down a dirt road to the left of the highway. The farm has a Texas Historical Society marker. The house is built of hand hewn logs and of the dog-trot style. The middle is closed in. The house is lived in today. Fireplaces are at both ends and the original plantation bell is mounted on a tall post. James and Virginia Foster Barclay had twelve children. From the pension applications of the AOR ( army of the republic) James Barclay, Tyler Co., Jun 1874. Age 58 in 1873. He volunteered in Jul 1836 for service in Capt. Ingraham^Òs company raised in Jasper. Gideon J. Goode and William Byerly, both of Jasper Co., were acquainted with Barclay and served in same expedition with him. Barclay was born in Tennessee and came to Texas in 1834. He died 14 Dec. 1873 after his wife died in 1857. His children filed for the pension and were named: Avarilla Risinger (adminx.), Mary L. Beatty, Jane E. Bullock, J. Walter Barclay, Phoebe A. Barclay, William F. (X) Barclay. They all resided in Tyler County. John M. Taylor was mentioned as an applicant. APPENDIX 11. Jerimiah Todd Barclay Jeremiah Todd was named for the Todd family which his father's sister had married into (son of Gen. Todd of Penn., also related to Mary Todd who married Abe Lincoln, against the family's wishes.(They said he wouldn't amount to anything.)Jeremiah-Todd was the fourth son of Walter Barclay and Elizabeth McQueen Barclay. He was a child when the family came to Texas. He married Elizabeth Rigsby. They had a baby son named William Anderson Barclay. On election day, 1850 , Jeremiah Todd was shot dead by a Mr. Hanks in an incident that was unrelated to the election. There was some story about an argument and JTB telling Mr. Hanks that the evidence was buried in a blue bottle and trying to get Mr. Hanks to go with him and look at the evidence. Instead, Mr. Hanks shot him dead. Others went afterward to dig up the blue bottle, and sure enough, there was the evidence. A warrant was put out on Mr. Hanks and a posse followed. James Barclay was the sheriff. There were some other Barclay men in the posse. They camped out near Rosebud and Lott Texas for several weeks while hunting Mr. Hanks. People who knew they were there referred to their camp as the Barclays. There put in a crop, one story told, and later when back and harvested it. They did not find Mr. Hanks. There returned to Tyler County. Elizabeth Rigsby Barclay returned with her baby son to her people. She remarried. When son William Anderson Barclay was ten years old, he boarded a wagon train headed for Tyler county. When he got to the Mt Hope area on the Old Spanish Trail (Chester area), word was sent to James Barclay that he had a nephew on the train. James could either come get him, or he could be bonded to another man on the wagon train, which would pay for his transportation, and he would ride on further west with the wagon train. James Barclay went and got W. A. and took him to live on his farm. He stayed there until he was sixteen years of age and then, riding a mule and carrying the Bible James gave him for guidance, he headed out for Falls county to see what had become of Mr. Hanks. When he got there, he found out that Mr. Hanks was dead of another cause. W. A. got a job, traded his mule for a horse when he was able and prospered. He ended up with a big general store and a plantation of 2,000 acres. The town referred to him as big man Barclay, and they officially named the town by his name, which it had been called informally before. Time passed, and Texas put in a blue law. The law was new. One cotton season, it was time for the crop to be picked, and pickers came in by the wagonloads. They needed supplies. Mr. Barclay told his general store manager to open by the store and give the pickers the supplies they needed. It was a Sunday night. The sheriff went over and gave Barclay a citation. Barclay's position was that the blue law applied to selling, and he wasn't selling the supplies, he was giving it to them. The citation stood. It made Mr. Barclay so mad, he closed his store and opened another one in a nearby settlement. After the store was gone, people had no reason to go there, so the settlement shrank, the blacksmith shop closed, etc. In old age, WA passed his plantation down to his oldest son, who had no interest in running it, having other business endeavors. The running of the plantation was passed down to the second son, who had little experience or knowledge of how to run it. In the 1920's it was divided into small farms of 60 acres and sold to people, most of whom still have the farms to day, held by their descendants. They grow corn. The Barclays moved to Waco and Temple. Today, there is a settlement of six or seven houses. There are no children, but if there were, they would go to Rosebud or Lott schools. They get their mail delivered by Buddy, to a big box and the all go pick up their mail at the box. Buddy is a postal carrier out of Rosebud. There are no businesses or anything other than houses. It is in the vacinity of Temple, Texas. There is a Barclay cemetery, but there are no Barclays buried in it, as they went to Temple and Waco. A the turn of the century, there had been 100 children enrolled in the Barclay school, which was big enough to have several teachers, about the size of Chester schools at that time. WILLIAM ANDERSON BARCLAY was born in Tyler County on 12-23-1849 and died in Waco, Texas, on 10-24-1927. He married Martha King Ledbetter (born 9-2-1851 in Tennessee, died 7-16-1934 in Temple, Texas), and both are buried on a family plot in Temple, Texas. Children of this union were Isaac Cramer (died in childhood), Goodhue Wilson, Rigsby Ledbetter, Woodlief Foy and Bernice Martha (married James B. Whitley; only child, James Barclay, died at Corregedor, Phillipines in World War II). was born at Barclay, Texas on 12-24-1882 and died in Waco, Texas on 4-5-1957. He is buried on the Barclay plot in Temple, Texas. He married Margaret Helen MacGregor on 8-4-1904. Children of this union: Margaret MacGregor and Martha Louise. APPENDIX 12. Milton Barclay Milton Barclay was named for his uncle, Milton McQueen, his mother Elizabeth McQueen's brother. a Mc Queen brother and sister, Jane McQueen Bean, came with the Barclays to Texas). Milton was a child when the Barclay's came to Texas, not a whole lot older than the oldest children of brothers Robert and Anderson. Milton lived in a house with his parents on the property of brother James, after they moved to Tyler county from Town Bluff. After Walter died, Milton continued to live with Elizabeth Mc Queen Barclay until his own dead, early, when he was about thirty years of age. It is unknown what he died of, or much more than this about his life. APPENDIX 13. Republic of Texas Pension Application Abstracts (AOR). paper by W.C. Lindsey About Harmon Frazier connection with the Barclays - Indian agent to the Cherokee at the request of Sam Houston. Owned land Old Walter Barclay place was on. Harmon Frazier's wife died who was the mother of his six children. His second wife was the Widow Pool, mother of several children including Josh W Pool. He left after awhile, after some rough incidences with the Cherokee who attacked his farm. He signed his land over to Barclays. Deed to the old place showed the land to have been owned by Uncle Henry, when J. Walter (wife Laura Pool) brought it, around 1895. Harmon Frazier, Tyler County 28 Mar. 1874, approved. In May 1836 at Milam, Sabine Co.., he joined in company with Col. F. M Weathered and his sons William and Frank. They went to Victoria and were attached to Capt. Teal^Òs company (though Teal at that time was in prison at Matamoros). In June they went to Goliad and attached to Capt. James Cheshir^Òs company. He received a bounty warrant for 320 acres. Walter Barclay and W.D. Kincaid, Tyler Co. , aff. service. Frank M. Weatherred, Hill Co., service of applicant and said that he, the app., and his brother and father joined Capt. Teal (or Poe^Òs) company at Victoria. He said that he and his brother, Wm. C. Weatherred, were going to file their pension papers in Austin. James W. Scott, Hill Co., met applicant in 1829 in Tennessee and later met him again in Victoria. Frazier came to Texas in July 1835. He lived west of the Neches among Indians, but was forced to leave with his wife and six children in April 1836 across the river to General Gaines and returned to the Army. Anderson Barclay, Tyler Co., approved June 23, 1871. Age 63 in 1870. Served in Captain M. B. Lewis^Òs company and Col. B. R. Milam^Òs regiment which engaged in the battle of San Antonio in 1835. Received bounty warrant #3396 for 320 acres. Stephen Williams and Hanable Good, of Jasper Co. knew that Barclay served in AOR in 1835. James T. Priest and W.W. Whitehead certified A. Barclay, Sr. was living in 1873. Virginia Foster Barclay died on October 15, 1857. James Barclay died in December 1873. They are buried in the Hart Mill Cemetery in Tyler County , Texas. APPENDIX 14. DAR Information Accompanying the above paper by W. C. Lindsey was an article from an undated edition of Beaumont Enterprise which gives more details on the Barclays. According to this article, Robert Barclay, Sr. (father of Walter Barclay b. 1774) and a son were commemorated in later years for revolutionary service in North Carolina. There are two documents in this collection that verify the revolutionary service of Captain Robert Barkley and Lieutenant John Barkley in North Carolina. Therefore, any descendant of either Robert Barkley, Sr. or John Barkley should be eligible for admission to the National Society of the American Revolution. Or, if they are already members through the revolutionary service of another ancestry they should be eligible for a supplemental bar for their membership medallion. It appears from the article in the Beaumont Enterprise and other documents in this collection the spelling of the surname of Walter and his sons who migrated to Texas was changed then from Barkley to Barclay. APPENDIX 15. Your correspondence about Barclays APPENDIX 16. Your pictures APPENDIX 17. Your Maps APPENDIX 18. Barclay activities The Barclays Go to Texas Have an Early Texas Pageant. Have scenes like this. Write a narrative for a narrator to read. Have the actors wear costumes. Have at school. Charge one dollar a ticket. l. Sam Houston (b. 1790) and Davy Crockett telling James (b. 1816) and Robert (b. 1806) about Texas. Get land from Mexico, nearly free. Without taxes for seven years. Grow cotton and corn. Cherokee Indians were manageable. 2.. Father (Walter) and sons (Robert, James and Anderson) riding stick horses around, looking over the Texas wilderness. Conversation appropriate to the situation. Go back for families. 3. Wagon train coming from Alabama to Texas, gathered around campfire, reading from Elizabeth McQueen^Òs bible and praying for guidance. Father and mother, Walter and Elizabeth McQueen, children Jeremiah Todd and Milton. Robert and wife, Sara McKinsey, their sons, Lacy Milton and James Walter. Two black employees. Several Indians. Talk about Anderson and James coming from Tennessee and Kentucky to meet them in Texas. 4. Cross the river on a raft (ferry) at Town Bluff. 5. Build a log cabin. James (b. 1806), Indians, slaves. 6. James married Virginia Foster (b. 1827) at her home. Parents, neighbors, relatives gather. Dress in Sunday clothes. Have preacher. 7. Virginia Foster teaching the children. Use Bible, a few classic books. For example: Shakespeare, Greek mythology, dictionary, copy of U. S. Constitution, list of spelling words. Practice letters and arithmetic, drawing in dirt with stick. Sit at kitchen table or in yard. 8. Mealtime: pots hanging in the fireplace - dip food from pots onto wooden bowls. Beans, boiled pork, Irish potatoes baked in ashes from logs. 9. Chop down trees, plow ground, plant cotton seed in rows. (Walter and boys) 10. Alabama Indians warn Virginia Foster and Elizabeth McQueen and slaves of Cherokee activity when James is away. Slaves and Indians swim river carrying women and children to hide in cave. 11. James (1816) and Virginia Foster prospered and had twelve children (whose descendants are in the eighth generation today.) 12. Close with family at the reunion of 1910, line up for a photograph. Sisters seated in the front, brothers standing behind them. All about fifty to seventy years of age, 1910. "Box" camera on tripod, photographer under big black cloth. An Early Texas Theme Wedding (or Mock Wedding) Can be done as a program at school or church for a fund raiser. Charge one dollar a seat. 1. Select a location: historic church, home living room, front yard or park (or stage, if a mock wedding or fund raiser). 2. Collect artificial decorations, such as greenery from Christmas trees and wreaths, white gold decorations from Christmas such as balls, angels, birds, etc. Collect Texas items such as boots, hats, lanterns, etc. 3. Buy, borrow or make appropriate musical tapes. Either contemporary music, such as The Lord^Òs Prayer, Wind Beneath My Wings, etc. Special selection might be vocal solo without accompaniment. See hymnal. His Eye Is On the Sparrow or The First Morning (morning has broken, like the first morning, black bird has spoken, like the first bird). 4. Ask guests to bring lunch to spread, folding chairs, food items of staples for a "pounding" for the new couple, and signed family recipe cards. 5. Refreshments of assorted bakery cakes, nine-inch, sliced. Tea in the coolers. 6. Pictures: designated guests bring loaded cameras. Leave undeveloped film with mother of the bride. 7. Wedding attire: (1) Church clothes (2) Men in dark suits, women in ball dresses, assorted (3) Frontier or pioneer type. Invite guests to wear Texas-type attire. 8. Reception line: usual, plus some special guests with name tags. Walter and Elizabeth McQueen Barclay, James Barclay and Virginia Foster, Robert and Leah Barclay of Rowan County, North Carolina. 9. Have honeymoon at campsite at state park or beach. 10. Wedding day agenda: Mail invitations, including map, instructions of what to bring. If mock wedding, put up signs and begin ticket sales. 9:45 decorate and rehearsal, arrange chairs 10:45 early guests mingle, have refreshments of coffee and bread pudding, wedding party dresses for wedding 11:15 ceremony 12:00 reception and spread lunch 1:00 party, group singing*, dancing, games (London Bridge, Drop the Handkerchief, Washers) 2:30 guests depart 11. Flowers: artificial wild flowers or yard roses from Wal-Mart. 12. Thank-you notes, divide among bride, mother and sisters. All sign bride^Òs name. Mail the next week. * Songs like "Three Blind Mice", "Old Mac Barclay Had A Farm", "Old Mill Stream", "Amazing Grace", "The Old Rugged Cross", "Old Olive Tree", "Bringing In the Sheaves", "Blessed Be the Tie That Binds", "Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot", etc. APPENDIX 19. Notes 1. Reverend Elton Trueblood wrote a biography about Robert Barclay, the apologist, cohort of William Penn. Elton Trueblood was a professor at Eartham College in Richmond, Indiana. 2. Sisters, Cloteele Ford Smith Barclay and Virginia Ford Barclay Ashworth, were from Woodville, Texas. They married Barclay doctors. Virginia Ford married Bower Barclay b. before 1898. Children were Walter Barclay and Virginia Barclay. Cloteele Ford married Dr. George Willis Barclay, Jr., b. 1929 of Beaumont. 3. Dr. R. B. Barclay (dentist) of Woodville and Hattie Bob Barclay Mann were sister and brother. Hattie Barclay Mann^Òs son is David Mann (furniture store). His wife is Jane Mann. (Sixth generation) 4. Hopewell, N. J. township has the "Old School Baptist Church that was established in 1715. The Baptists that went to Jersey Church and Jersey Land in North Carolina came from that church. It is about fifteen miles from Princeton, N. J. The only Barclay listed in the telephone book was Albert Barclay. Mrs. Barclay had no knowledge of any connection with the Barclays of North Carolina. She knows of no other Barclays in the area. There are Barclays, children of Robert and Leah Barclay of Rowan County, North Carolina, in the minutes of Jersey Church, North Carolina in 1784. There are no Barclays living in the area now. There are some in Lexington, seventeen miles away. 5. Teddy Barclay Pope plans to contribute profits from the sell of discs about the Barclays toward a marker for Robert (b. 1774) and Leah Barclay in the North Carolina cemetery and a roof for Mt. Zion Church. 6. Some Chester area Barclays are as follows: Robert Barclay and Edna Stuart Barclay had thirteen children (Fourth generation). The children and their spouses were Dick (Vadna Flowers), Beavis (Edit Stuce), Howell (Edna King), Sam (Mayanna), Blundy (H. Seaman), Sally (John Seaman), Lucy (J. T. King), Fie, May (Naacy Platt), Essie (Wesley Knight), Elton (Aline Barclay). Dick and Vadna^Òs descendants were Reese, Paul, Johnnie Mae (Maxine Seaman), Dorothy (Flowers), Paul (Best), "Slick". Elton and Aline^Òs descendants were Milton, Wayne and Margie (Moss). Howell and Edna^Òs descendants were Ida, Gladys (Powell) and Flora. Beavis and Edit^Òs descendants were Gladys and Neil. Sally and John^Òs descendants were Talmade, (Bryant) Loftin, Ivandell (Snow). May and Noey^Òs descendants were Novell, Lloyd and Conner. Essie and Wesley^Òs descendants were Opa and Arline. 7. A Chester Barclay family: Anderson Barclay Jr. (d.1890) married Mary Seamans. Children were Fremon, Tom, Dexter, Clarance, Lee, Alvin and Stella. Alvin married Annie Boyett. Children were Verna, Aline (Elton Barclay), Ruby (Albert Jordan), Louise (Joe Chitwood), Clayton (Nata Fuller). Verna^Òs children were Evelyn (Dodson), Connie (Bennett), and Jerry (Kathy Cook). Aline^Òs children were Milton, Wayne and Margie (Moss). Others were Ruby, (Albert Jordan), Louise (Joe Chitwood), and Clayton (Nata Fuller). 8. Joe Thomas (b. 1917) married Pearl Rees. Their children were Steven Douglas, Beth Ann (Kankin), Robert and Darrell, David Thomas (Julie) and Andrew, Charles, Jennifer and Brad. 9. R. E. Allison^Òs grandmother was America Virginia Barclay. 10. Jo Ada Allums was the daughter of W. W. Anderson and Sara Stella Cruse. W. W. Anderson was James Barclay^Òs grandson. Jo Ada Allums was the mother of Dr. Allums of Beaumont. 11. Napoleon Bonaparte (b. 1854), son of James and Virginia Foster, married Martha Boyd. Their children were Bronson, Eva, William Thomas (b. 1887). Married Devilla Elvira Courtney (Charlie, Buddy, Pamela, Charlene and Paul), Richard D. and Viola. Ana Marie (b. 1918) married Richard Marshall (Gwendolyn, Richard Donnell). 12. Another Barclay Family: Warren Area. James Barclay and Virginia Foster^Òs son, William F. (b. 1861), married Ida Phillips. Their children were John, Nell (Redmond), Harvey (Slim), Jack and Humpy. Harvey (Slim, b. 1898) married Daphne Vernon Barclay. Their children were Lemerel Harvey (Sonny) Barclay, Jr. (married Frances Bradshaw) and William (Cooter) Barclay (b. 1937) married Edith Honeycutt. Their children were Kelli Jane and Lori Kay. Jack, son of William F., had a daughter, Arpa Jack. 13. Other kin: Judge William B. Oakley (b. around 1860) had a Barclay mother. So did W. W. Anderson, David Mann, R. E. Allison, Barclay Dismuke Some pictures that you might like copies of at the genealogical library at Heritage Village in Woodville, Texas are: James and Virginia Foster^Òs children in 1910.; picture of the James and Virginia descendants (1910); picture of Walter (b. 1871) and Laura Pool Barclay family, 1908; article from Beaumont Enterprise with twelve (12) significant Barclay men pictured; Howell, Dr. R. L., L. H., Mrs. Hansbrough, James Walter, Lee B., Napoleon Barclay, Dr. Watt, Bishop, John Henry Kirby and Judge William B. Oakley. 14. Mail other family information to: Barclay One Name Study, Clan Barclay International, 2509 Placid Place, Virginia 23456-3743. Include all known information. 15. There were several marriages between Barclays and Cruse, English, Seaman, Pool and McQueens. 16. The spouses of James Barclay and Virginia Foster^Òs children were: Elizabeth (Charles Bullock), Avarella (Landon Risinger), Mary Louise (Thomas Beaty), Sara Anderson (James D. Lindsay), Phoebe (Thomas Bevil), Napoleon Bonaparte (Martha Boyd), Charles (Donna Dunam), Tennessee Ann (W. B. Anderson), James Walter (Katherine Kincade), Elizabeth (died young). 17. Robert Barclay (b. 1806) was the oldest son of Walter (b. 1774) and Elizabeth McQueen. He came to Texas after the others. He died before age forty, around 1840. He left a will, an estate of six thousand dollars worth of land and several children, including Lacy Milton and Walter (b. 1831). Robert^Òs widow, Sara, then married Milton McQueen. Robert and Sara's children were: Lacy Milton, Elizabeth, Walter (James Walter, b. 1871, who married Mary Powell and Mary Huffey) Robert, James F, Henry Anson and Sara. Lacy Milton disappeared. Wife, Nancy McQueen, died. James Walter, b. 1831, was thought to have raised Lacy Milton's and Nancy's eight children along with his own eight. 17b. James "Jim" Barclay (married to Alice Delila Riley Pool Bourn Barclay), was Lacy Milton^Òs son.Walter Barclay, b. 1774, and Elizabeth McQueen, b. 1790, raised ten children. They are as follows: Robert, Anderson, John, James, David, Jeramiah Todd, Milton, William, Nancy and Mary (Polly). James Barclay (son of Walter, b. 1774) and Virginia Foster raised eleven children. They are as follows: Phoebe Arizona (Bevil), Sara Anderson (Lindsey), Avarella Barclay (Risinger), Elizabeth (Bullock), Elizabeth America (died early), Charles Bullock, Napoleon Bonnaparte, William F., John, Tennessee Ann and James Walter (b. 1849, d. 1907, married Katherine Kincaid). 18. Frank Barclay married Bennie__. Their daughter was Mary Barclay Dismuke. Mary^Òs son was Barclay Dismuke of Woodville. 19. Alvin Barclay^Òs siblings and spouses were: Frenson Barclay (m. Cora Lewis), Waynard (Arthur Lee) and Weldon. Tom Barclay married Mary Maggie Seasack. Their children were Joe Thomas, Leo (Peters), and Sara Frances. Dexter Barclay, Inez Mildred, Thornton Smith, Clarence Barclay Hershell married Joyce Sturrock and Winfred married Janice. Lee Barclay married __ Massey (Helen Lee). Their children were Erlene, Ofie, Lea, Claude, Jr., James Edwin and Kenneth. 20. Hal Barclay and Sheriff Bishop "Bish" Barclay were brothers. 21. Colmesneil area relatives are: Thomas Walter Barclay, Joe Thomas Barclay and Pearl Reeves, Steven Douglas Barclay, Beth Ann Barclay (Robert Kankin), Darrell Kankin Barclay, David Thomas Barclay (Julie), Andrew, Charles, Jennifer and Brad. 22. John Barclay and David Barclay of the second generation need additional research. David died in Mexico in 1845. They are mentioned in several county records including Masonic lodge min. at Mt. Hope. 23. Anderson Edward Barclay was born in 1807/8 in Franklin County, Tennessee to Walter Barclay of Rowan County, North Carolina, and Elizabeth McQueen of Richmond, Madison County, Kentucky. He was the second son. He served in the Battle of Bexar in December of 1835. He received six hundred and forty acres for his service. He joined Sam Houston^Òs Army and received twelve hundred and eighty acres in Hutchinson County, Texas for his service. He had three hundred and twenty acres in Newton County, Texas in 1838. In the 1840 census, he had 3,353 acres, one slave and one horse, valued at $4,400. Anderson Edward was born in 1807, married in 1829 and died after 1870. His children were: W. W. (William Walter), who served in the Confederate Army and married Elizabeth Futch, b. 5/22/1832, married 3/24/1853 and died 11/04/1908; John; Elizabeth; Mahaley F.; Anderson, Jr. (b. 8/9/1845), who married Mary J. Seaman 12/13/1871 (d. 11/26/1898); Jerry, G_____? daughter, Andrew and Artelia. 24. Note: See #7 for descendants of Anderson Jr., (b. 1845) 25. Six things Barclay children should be taught.The Barclays came from Scotland. Barclays were Quakers in Scotland and Baptist in America. Robert and Leah Barclay were settled in Rowan Co. N. C. before 1755 (now Davidson Co.).Walter was Robert and Leah^Òs son. He married Elizabeth McQueen. Walter and his sons came to Tyler County before 1830. James Barclay was the first white man to step foot in Tyler County. 26. In recent conversation with Carolyn and Bo Barkley of One Name Study, Carolyn thinks that Robert Barclay of Rowan Co., North Carolina and Robert Barkley of Rowan Co., N. C. were one in the same. The earlier report that the other Robert, named Robert Barkley would not have been our Robert because he was a Presbyterian, does not prevent him from being our Robert Barclay ancestor. The Presbyterians had also had some property for an early church in the area where Jersey church was, and Robert^Òs name may have appeared on some paper work. Also, the spelling of the name seemed interchangeably. Sometimes it was spelled one way, and sometimes the other. Others who wrote the name down might have written it as they were accustomed to writing it. She also said that she doubted that Robert Barclay was the son of John Barclay in Dublin. She thinks he still is likely the grandson of Robert Barclay, the Quaker apologist, but through another decent. A further interesting factor she commented on was that Margaret Kerr Barkley of New Jersey remarried after Mr Barkley (first name not known) died. Margaret^Òs daughter and six children and son migrated to Rowan Co N. C. The son^Òs name was Samuel. Our Robert Barclay^Òs first son was named Samuel. Samuel is a very unusual Barclay name. There are several coincidences here that might point to Robert being related to these N. J. Barkleys, rather than an isolated Barclay in the geographic area. If that is the case, Our strain of Barclays were likely in the United States one or two generations earlier than if Robert Barclay had been the first one in America. That was not bad news. That was good news. APPENDIX 20 Other A Man Called James ^Å^Å^Å^Å. the James Walter Barclay Story Introduction James Walter Barclay b. 1816 in TN, d. was the son of Walter Barclay b.1774 Rowan County, North Carolina d. Tyler County Texas and Elizabeth McQueen Barclay b.Feb 11, 1790 Madison County, Kentucky d. Tyler County Texas. His brothers and sisters and their spouses were Robert b. 1805 d. who married Sarah McKinsey, Anderson who married Sarah Prathar, John b. 1814 Tn who marriedLouisa Jane Priutt b. 1829 Tn d. 1881, David, Jerimiah -Todd, Milton, Mary b.1818 Ala who married James Beven b.1816 Ky and Louisa J. b.1828 Ala who married Humley Jennings b. 1828 Md. Barclay and his wife, Virginia America Foster, made their home in the Harmony area of Tyler County, near Woodville, Texas. Their home stands today, having had continuous occupancy by descendants. His children and their spouses were; Jane Elizabeth b. 1841 who married Charles W Bullock, whose first wife was Isabella Scott, Arvarilla b. 1893 d. 1932 who married Landon Risinger (casulty of the Civil War), and, Mary Lewis b. 1845 d. 1933 who married Thomas Boston Beaty, Sara Anderson b. 1847 d.1936 who married James Lindsay, James Walter Jr. b. 1850 d.1907 who married Katherine Kincaid, Tennessee Ann b. 1851 da. 1935 who married William Allison, John M. b. 1851 da. 1905, Napolean Benapart b. 1856 d. 1936 who married Marta Estell , America b. 1858 d. 1884 married , Phoebe Arizona b. 1859 d. 194 thomas Beaty Bevel, William F b. 1861 d. 1904 married Ida Phillips, Charles B. b. 1866 d. married Durham. James W Barclay is conceded to be the first white man to step foot in Tyler County. He was the agent to the Alabama, Chautaha, and Muskagee Indians, and considered by them to be their white father. He supported his family with the earnings from his farm. He was a pioneer settler in Tyler County and a founding father of Woodville, Texas. His attainments in public service included; tax assessor and collector, sheriff, county judge and congressman. He introduced the legislation that established the reservation for the Alabama Indians on the property that they called the Jim Barclay village in Polk County near Wood Creek and Bear Creek, half way between the east Texas cities of Woodville in Tyler County and Livingston in Polk County. Barclay served in congress during the session when the vote came for sessession, which led to the war between the states, called the Civil War. He and only a handful of others voted against sessission, because it would be a war against the united states which texas could not win, and it would cost Texas lives. He would not sign the oath to the confederacy and resigned his office.that day. Later he was re-elected by his constiuency. James Barclay and the Alabama Indians from The Sunday Enterprise, Beaumont December 15, 1935 ( edited by TLBPope 1/1/1999) Dr. W.W. Anderson of Kountze told the story of the Alabama Indians as his grandfather James Barclay told it. The story is told by Dr.W.W. Anderson of Kountze as told by his grandfather, James Barclay, who was among the first few white men in what is now Tyler County. James Barclay, veteran of San Jacinto and Indian agent for the Alabamas, and appointed by the Republic and Texas gave details to J.R. Bevil of Kountze before his death in the seventies. It sheds light on the Alabamas when they were seeking a permanent home. They settled in Polk County, were granted ownership by Texas. Today they number about 250. One of the first white men to see the Alabamas in Texas was James Barclay. A young man, he came from Hoover^Òs Gap, Tennessee to seek a new home and got in the scrap with Mexico. He and his father were warm friends and distant kin of Sam Houston in Tennessee. Barclay first found the Indians at Peach Tree Village. They became friends. Barclay followed the cause of the Texas Republic in 1836. Fascinating is the picture of James Barclay stumbling across the Alabamas at Peach Tree village in the early days of 1835. Few white men had penetrated east Texas. He was accompanied on his lonesome westward trek by Josiah and John Wheat, prominent figures in pioneer Tyler county. At Peach tree village the trio met a Mr. Hanks, who settled near Emilee on the Neches below Rockland. By 1837, the floodgates of immigration opened from the United States, and covered wagons poured in from Louisiana, for every part of Texas, but mostly along the Sabine, Neches, the Angelina and the Trinity. In 1837 the Alabamas moved from Peach Tree village. White men made it uncomfortable for them and they moved south and east to the forks of Big and Little Cypress Creeks in what became Tyler County. That location was home of the earliest Texas Indians on record, and camping place of the Cherokees. Barclay himself had to do with the selection of the camp site, because the government of Texas appointed him Indian agent to the Alabamas. Barclay, who returned to Tennessee for his family, moved to the Cypress Creek forks with the Indians.He was regarded by the red men as their foremost white friend. While building his log cabin on the creek bank he lived with them. Dr. Anderson did not know his famous grandfather. He was friends with s o many men who knew him well that it seems as if he got the story from Barclay. The Kountze physician lived for a time in the log house which James Barclay built in 1847 above the Cypress forks. The house remains today in one of the most beautiful natural settings in all of east Texas..... the sturdy dwelling , one of the finest remaining relics, in the east Texas pines, is where some of Texas^Ò most famous figures visited. One day while working at home, several braves approached Barclay. They were running, and excited. He picked up his rifle and followed while they told their story. A severe fever beset the tribe. Dr. Anderson believes it was malaria, which attacked the white man and Indian alike in the history of east Texas. Indians were dying. Malaria alone did not kill them as fast as their own methods of cures, however. "Often", my grandfather told it, said Dr. Anderson, "the Alabamas, hot with fever, would submerge their entire bodies in the nearest stream, leaving only their noses out of water. They would leave the stream, and chill. Often pneumonia would follow". Charley Thompson, the chief who died in the tribal village on ^ÑBear Creek" was probably the last man who could have given some of the original Alabama words. The Indians were highly excited, " he said. " In those days they wore feathers and put war paint on their faces." They were in full war regalia that day the group of bucks visited my grandfather. There was almost a state of civil war at the Indian village The divisions became hostile with each other. They went for Barclay. The Indians had not lived in teepees for years but in wooden huts. Superstition cost human life. The Alabamas did not occupy the Cypress Creek land more than five or si x years. In 1852, they moved. Barclay had much to do with this. They marched into one of the densest parts of the piney woods, on the edge of the Big thicket. They became peaceful, and were not heard from again for five years. In 1859, when Texas had been a state about 14 years, the American government began its greatest push to remove Indians to the Indian territory. The tale is well known. They were promised the state to become Oklahoma. The Alabamas^Ò chief was Antone - one of the most stalwart figures in the Alabama story. Antone was against immigrating. Texas ordered Barclay to take representative members of the tribe to the territory to select a new home. In an overland march, James Barclay and Charles Bullock, later distinguished in the war between the states, Dave Lindsey, Tyler county^Òs first school teacher, Ben Ross and others went with Chief Antone and one or two men from each of the principal Alabama families. They set out horseback and were gone several weeks. The party returned. For sure the Alabamas would not go to Indian territory of their own volition. Dr. Anderson thinks the peaceful Alabamas were frightened of the Apaches, Comanches, Sioux and other warlike tribes there. They told Barclay and his friends, "No want to live here". Back they came. Dr. Anderson gave account of how the Alabamas come into legal possession of their tribal lands. Houston had long been Barclay^Òs friend from Tennessee, before Houston was governor there. After his arrival in Texas, Houston visited Barclay. Through visits which followed, Houston, always a friend of the Indian, came to know the Alabamas. Through Houston^Òs influence, the state gave the Indians their land. The bill was introduced in the Texas legislature, in either 1858 or 1859 by James Barclay. He had been elected to the legislature, but retained his Indian agency--as the white father of the Alabamas. "It was passed by a substantial majority" and the Alabamas remained in east Texas. Their name means "^ÑHere We Rest." A startling statement of Dr. Anderson's was the Alabamas may have been among the Indians first seen by Christopher Columbus in the West Indies in 1492. James Barclay, as he told and retold it, said Chief Antone told him how the Indians came to the United State from "Somewhere in the West Indies". It is a version of their migration probably not before brought to light, but Barclay believed it, and accepted it as fact. They fought with Jackson, Chief Antone said, in the Seminole wars. The tribe was split in half near New Orleans. Its wanderings are left t o meager notes, and the story as told. It is certain they lived in Alabama. Some of them from Mississippi, driven westward, settled in Louisiana, known as the Coushattas--a remnant which has not retained its Indian bloodlines. The Alabamas are virtually pure. Chief Antone died in Texas followed by Chief John Scott, whose grave is in the cemetery of the Alabamas on Bear creek. Chief Antone lived to be 108, and John Scott was104 when he died. Two Indians ruled the Alabamas for almost two centuries. The story of James Barclay grows in the folklore tale of east Texas. He fathered the Alabamas, and it is difficult to imagine what they would have done without his generous and friendly aid. Barclay was laid to rest in 1873 and. Enoch Rowe was appointed the Alabama agent, and then James Dendy, serving until the eighties. After that no one in particular watched over the Alabamas. They became servants of the settler, were mistreated and their livestock stolen. When the Rev and Mr. C. W. Chambers/ Charmers, Presbyterian missionaries, came in 1900, these practices ceased. As a boy Dr. Anderson recalls them well. The old Alabama story is a mystery. Even the names and how they got them-MCConnico, Battise, Thompson, Pancho, Scott. East Texas should give thanks that the Alabamas are part of its story - they fit into many chapters of the rich east Texas lore. They fought under Captain Bullock of "Band Luck Creek^Ò fame, in the War Between the States. They were half wild, however, and General Churchill sent them home from Arkansas Post on the Arkansas river. Numerous men and women still living saw the Alabamas in Woodville trading. They camped at Village Mills at Holland after Barclay^Òs death. They were first to discover petroleum at Saratoga. Fletcher Cotton, who said the Alabamas brought tar to the Holland camp, back tracked them one day and found where they got it. The Saratoga Oil field was not developed for sixty more years, nor was the Spindletop Oil field in Beaumont. Taken from the Texas History Online Project, a joint endeavor by the University of Texas Library and the Texas Historical Association BARCLAY, JAMES (1816-1871). James Barclay, legislator, county official, and Indian agent, was born in Tennessee on February 11, 1816, the son of Walter and Elizabeth (McQueen) Barclay. In 1826 he came to Texas with his father and brother, but they all returned to Tennessee the same year. In February 1836 the family settled permanently in Texas. On April 16, 1841, Barclay married Virginia Ann Foster; they eventually had twelve children. Barclay was one of the earliest settlers in what is now Tyler County. In 1852 he bought land in the John Wheat survey that included a village of the Alabama Indians. These Indians had begun moving southward about 1840 from their Fenced-In Villageqv in northwestern Tyler County to a location on Cypress Creek. The Alabamas referred to this village as Jim Barclay Villageqv and continued to live there after 1852 with Barclay's permission. After the organization of Tyler County in 1846, Barclay served in many of the county's elective positions. He was elected the first tax assessor-collector; in 1850 he was elected sheriff; and he was the county's chief justice during terms that began in 1856 and 1858. On February 3, 1854, Barclay and Samuel Rowe were appointed commissioners to purchase a tract of land for an Alabama Indian reservation in Polk County. This land is now a part of the Alabama-Coushatta Indian Reservation. On May 12, 1858, Governor H. R. Runnelsqv appointed Barclay agent for the Alabama, Coushatta, and Pakana Muskogee Indians. From November 7, 1859, to February 13, 1860, he served as the Tyler County representative in the Texas legislature. He returned to the legislature in December 1863 to represent Tyler and Hardin counties and served on several legislative committees, including Indian Affairs. During the administration of Governor Pendleton Murrah,qv Barclay served a second term as agent for the Polk County Indians, from November 9, 1864, until he was replaced on August 29, 1865, by A. J. Harrison, an appointee of provisional governor A. J. Hamilton.qv Barclay continued to operate his large plantation and to participate in civic affairs until his death at his Tyler County home on November 14, 1871. He was buried in the Hart Cemetery, three miles south of Woodville. BIBLIOGRAPHY: Members of the Legislature of the State of Texas from 1846 to 1939 (Austin: Texas Legislature, 1939). J. E. and Josiah Wheat, "The Early Days of Tyler County," Tyler County Dogwood Festival Program, 1963. James E. and Josiah Wheat, "Tyler County and the Texas Republic," Tyler County Dogwood Festival Program, 1967. Dorman H. Winfrey and James M. Day, eds., Texas Indian Papers (4 vols., Austin: Texas State Library, 1959-61; rpt., 5 vols., Austin: Pemberton Press, 1966). Howard N. Martin Seven Generations Have Resided in 'Old Home Place' Tyler County Lifestyle, 1999 p. 13 By Deanna Tubb In 1842, Tyler County was a much different place than it is now. For one thing it was called Menard District and was a part of the Republic of Texas. Town Bluff was really the only town nearby. The Alabama-Coushatta Indians split their time between Peach Tree Village in Chester and a place they called Fenced In Village on Big Cypress Creek. The winters were spent camping in Peach Tree Village, while Fenced in Village was the summer camp. It was on the spot that overlooks Fenced In Village that Indian agent James Barclay built his home. This site has one of the most picturesque views in all of Tyler County. Barclay had come to Texas from Tennessee in a covered wagon with the rest of his family. He arrived in Woodville in 1826 with his parents and settled first at Wolf Creek. Before being appointed Indian agent by Sam Houston, Barclay served as the sheriff of Menard District. Later in his life he held the offices of tax assessor, tax collector, county judge, state representative, and commissioner. To say he was a leader in Tyler County would be an understatement. When Barclay had picked the spot for his home place, he hired Isaac Gant from the nearby Gant Community to build it. Gant, along with a crew of Indians, harvested may large yellow pine trees with which to build the house. The logs were then hand hewn to 18 inches and split, then dovetailed, so that they would fit together perfectly. Gant must have been an excellent craftsman, because the Barclay home is still standing. It is the oldest house in Tyler County that has been continually occupied by the same family. The present resident, Mrs. Herman Risinger, Sr., is the widow of James Barclay's great grandson. Other Barclay descendants, beginning with James' daughter Averilla, have occupied the home for seven generations. The house is a masterpiece of primitive architecture. The original structure consisted of four rooms with a dog trot hall. Additions have been made, but all have been done without disrupting the look or the spirit of the home. It was perched upon the hill at just the right angle to catch Eastern breezes. One side of the dog trot hall served as living quarters for Barclay and his wife Virginia Foster Barclay. The other side housed Barclay's office. As an Indian agent, Barclay had many responsibilities. Indian agents were civil officers who were responsible for executing Indian laws and treaties as well as keeping the peace between the Indians and their white neighbors. These agents served as a sort of liaison between the government and the Indians. Indian agents had to be somewhat special. Since their control over the Indians was theoretical as best, they relied on their personalities and powers of persuasion to do their jobs. Most good Indian agents were loved and respected by the Indians, and Barclay was no exception. During the life of James Barclay, Sam Houston and other statesmen were guests at the dog trot house. Many Indian children played on the porch, probably with the Barclay children. A wooden bench still one the porch today is carved with a game board. The children would play a game called fox and geese with kernels of corn and the design carved into the bench, while their parents talked business with Barclay. The porch itself is somewhat of a marvel. It too, is made entirely of hand hewn logs. One log stretches the entire length the 30 foot porch, serving as a cross beam for the top of the porch. The house is located on what used to be called the Alabama-Coushata Trail or the Spanish Trail. This was a very important thoroughfare for those traveling to Hardin County. Not too far from the Barclay home lies the site of the Indian ball park. The Indian ballpark was a large clearing where the tribe would gather and play a game involving a long stick and a ball made of leather or other skins, similar to lacrosse. Sadly, vandals have wrecked the ball park in recent years. After Barclay's death, his daughter Averilla, Mrs. Landon Risinger occupied the house. Barclay is buried in Tyler county in the hart Mill Cemetery, off First Tower road. The house has come to be known as the Barclay-Risinger home. When Mrs. Herman Risinger, Sr. moved into the old home place, she had big ideas. The new bride was a city girl, but quickly became accustomed to the realities of country living. For eight years, the couple lived in the house with no electricity, drawing water from the well. They were instrumental in bringing electric power to the outlying areas of Tyler County. Over the years the home has been featured in may newspaper and magazine articles, and television news specials. There are two plaques affixed to the front of the home. The first is from the Texas Historical Commission, designating the house as an historical landmark. The second was placed by the John champion Chapter of the National Society of Colonial Dames, 17th Century of Bellaire, Texas. One of James Barclay's great-great granddaughters is a member of the society. The members of the organization researched the history of the home and put a short version of it on the plaque. This honor was bestowed upon the dwelling in 1996 in a ceremony that was attended by may area dignitaries, including county Judge Jerome Owens and Chief Oscala Clayton Clestine. Many descendants of James Barclay call Tyler County home. They live and work here and have a great love for their community. Roots run deep in Tyler county. A plaque recently placed on the old home place reads the James Barclay Place, 1842. hand-hewn Pine. Oldest home in county. Built by area's first Indian agent, an appointee of President Sam Houston. Conclusion: James Barclay and his wife Virginia Ann Foster, his brothers and their wives and sisters and their husbands were members of the Walter Barclay and Elizabeth McQueen Barclay family, one of the earliest families in east Texas and the Menard district that became Tyler County. His legacy lives in his many descendants, his home that stands today and the presence of the Alabama Indians who reside near his home in Harmony county to this day. Some of the co harts of James Barclay were Harmon Frazier, Dave Linsay, Charles Bullock, Josiah Wheat and his brothers, Anderson Barclay and Robert Barclay. Latest Update 2/1/99 By : Teddy L. Barclay Pope, signed Latest Update 2/6/1999 By Teddy Barclay Pope, signed AN INTERVIEW WITH MY PARENTS MR. AND MRS. GEORGE W. BARCLAY ON SEPTEMBER 7, 1991 BY GEORGE W. BARCLAY, JR. An Interview, was written by Dr. George W. Barclay, Jr.,(b. 1929), based on a personal interview in 1991 with his father and mother, GWB SR and Ruby E. Vinson Barclay. George Willis Barclay, Sr (b. 1904), was the last county school superintendent. He held office 1975 to 1979. It contains various topics about Tyler County, such as cotton, timber, hunting and community living, as well as information about the nineteen years he spent in several different rural schools of east Texas as teacher, coach, principal and superintendent About the writer: George Willis Barclay, Jr. was educated in the public schools of Batson and Beaumont, Texas. He was a chemical engineer before serving in the army. He practiced medicine in Snyder, Texas, before returning to Beaumont, where he practiced as a cardiologist for more than twenty-five years. In retirement, he has enjoyed hobby writing, fishing and developing his properties in Tyler county. Table of Content and Index GWB SR. lineage. Original Mt. Zion Church Building. The Boll weevil and Johnson grass. Location of a piece of John Henry Kirby place used for tenant farms. Difference between tenant farming and share cropping. Children started school at age 7. The one room school The two room school Logging, the timber business, Mr. Carter. Normal schools are made into teacher colleges. Pre-college described Teacher certification An elopement described. Length of school term Shiloh and Caney Wages for cotton picker, price of cotton, logger, teacher Gulf Oil, pump station Prosperous times, prices, 1929 Birth of GWB JR. College activities Stock market crash Prohibition Depression Prices Concord Little farm in Chester and house described Description of a larger school, modern BS degree conferred WW II Compare farming town and oil town. Beaumont Retirement in Woodville Masonic Lodge Bullocks, Georges, Peters, Vinsons Pools, other Barclays Location of the old Henry Barclay Place Gulf Oil The last deer The last yellow pine Wild Life Services of a young man owed a father until age 21. W.W.I, WW II Crops Electricity Literacy Travel time T Ford, roads Cost of land Raising chickens Football Cost of giving birth Prices Wages for cotton picker, price of cotton, logger, teacher. Two room school house Batson, roads Hull, Saratoga, Sour Lake, Moss Hill Beaumont Schools Batson, WW II Politics Lumber business Size of timber Cotton fields Prices Wages AN INTERVIEW WITH MY PARENTS, MR AND MRS GEORGE W BARCLAY AND RUBY VINSON BARCLAY ON SEPTEMBER 7, 1991 By Geroge W Barclay Jr. George W. Barclay, Sr., was born at Chester on 2-22-1904. He was the eighth child who lived to adulthood. (others were Myrtie, Mary, Eula, Clyde, Buck, Josh, Robert, Ora, Louise, Feagin). His father was James Walter Barclay Jr. (Uncle Walter), who was born March 4, 1871 and died in 1944. His mother was Laura Pool Barclay, who was born January 12, 1873 and died in 1924. They lived on a blackland farm, approximately 10 miles northwest of Woodville and approximately 5 miles southeast of Chester, Texas, between Mt. Zion church and Bob Belt Road. The Pools, Barclays, Peters and Vinsons all lived in farming settlements close to Mt. Zion Baptist Church, which now sits on Highway 287, approximately 5 miles south of Chester. The Mt. Zion church is the oldest standing church in Tyler County. It was built in 1845 near Mt. Hope, and was moved to its present location in 1870. The cemetery, on the hill behind the Mt. Zion Baptist church, dates back to 1870, or before. Most of the people buried there are related by direct kin or marriage. My father, George, was 1 year old in 1905, when his father, James Walte r Jr. shut down the old farm place because of Johnson grass. It was 1905, and the boll weevil had swept across the south, killing off the cotton. Uncle Walter, as he was known to most of the people in Tyler County, switched to a cotton strain that was resistant to the boll weevil, but the Johnson grass overran his cotton. He moved his family to land owned by John Henry Kirby, one mile northeast of Chester. It was a black bottom land farm, and he stayed there with his family and equipment, and tenant farmed that piece of land until 1912. Now, it is divided into 4 parts and owned by George and Ruby^Òs children and Doyle Barclay. Returning to the old farm, my dad attended Mt. Zion school second grade . In 1905 when my granddad moved to the John Henry Kirby place above Chester , he share cropped at what you call a third and a quarter. He gave twenty-five percent of the corn and thirty three percent of the cotton to his landlord. This type of farming was different from a regular share cropped, with no investment, who usually gave 50% of the crop to the landlord. According to my dad, my grandfather^Òs theory was to leave the land untold, and turn the cows loose, and let them eat up all the Johnson grass. When they returned to the old farm some 6 years later, the cows had eaten all the Johnson grass except for that growing around the stumps and threes, which they had to chop down. He said that when he told his friends that he was moving back to the ol d farm, they teased him and told him and told him that he was going to the "sticks". To the people living in Chester, living out in the country was considered living in the sticks. My dad (George Sr.), attended school at Chester in the first grade at the age of 7. That spring, his father moved the family back to the old farm. He resumed cultivating the old farm continuously, until he retired when all of his help left him, around 1938. Returning to the old farm, my dad attended Mount Zion school, starting in 1912, in the second grade. It was a one teacher school located on the old dirt road running from Mount Zion church to the Barclay farm, where the house still stands. It was located about 1 mile southeast of Mount Zion church. As were all rural schools in those days, it was a one room, one teacher school, and went up to the 7th grade. Around 1916, it was converted to a 2 teacher school, and reclassified as a first class public school, and offering grades 5 through 9. My dad worked for his father on the farm, and attended Mount Zion school through the 9th grade , finishing in 1921. My grandfather, Walter, took my dad, George, to see Mr. Carter, who ran a large sawmill at Camden, Texas, and got my dad a job in the logging business. because he was educated, George was assigned the job of scaler. After the cutters had cut the trees, he would measure the diameter of the tree and the length of the logs, and mark the trees where they were to be sawed. He was paid the standard wage in that day for a logging man, which was $1.50 per day. After one and a half years in the logging business, and helping his dad bring in a crop, my dad joined his friends and his cousin DC Peters. They caught a train to North Texas State Teachers College in Denton. NTSTC had previously been designated a normal school for preparing teachers, but with an act of the legislature, it was made a four year college. My dad was 19 when he finished the equivalence of the 11th grade of high school at NTSTC. After taking the state teachers certification exam 3 times, he passed it and received his elementary school teachers certificate in 1924 at the age of 20. My dad taught his first year at Shiloh, a small rural community west of Woodville, in the fall of 1924. He was 20 years old at the time. After he received his first monthly pay check, he married my mother, Ruby Vinson, his childhood sweetheart, in November 1924. Ruby was the daughter of James and Ada Vinson. She was the oldest of 5 children, Ruby, Zelda, Jimmy, Mona and Aldridge. My mother had celebrated her 17th birthday on October 24, 1924, and had finished the 10th grade at Mount Zion. In October, she had her 17th birthday and in November, she married my father. The state law at that time was that a man had to be 21 and a woman had to be 18 years old to get a marriage license. My dad was 20, and my mother had just turned 17. He wanted to ask permission from my grandfather Vinson to marry mother, but she would have nothing of it, and they decided to elope. He wrote a note and signed it for his father. He got permission from his father with the note, and rode a horse to Woodville and bought a marriage license for $3.00. He presented the note from his father which he had written, and told the clerk that my mother was 18 years old. After securing their marriage license, he went back to Chester, picked up my mother at Mount Zion. She got on the back of the pickup and they rode to Chester looking for the preacher. Her parents apparently did not know that she had gone. When they got to Chester, they found out that the minister was visiting in Huntington and was not planning to be back. My dad talked a friend into taking his car and going to Huntington to pick up the minister and bring him back to Chester to perform the wedding. Interestingly enough, the preacher who came back to perform the wedding for my and dad had performed a similar wedding for my grandfather Vinson years before. He was a friend to both families. ` In December, or early January after Christmas, my mother journeyed to Nacogdoches and entered Stephen F. Austin State Teachers College, where , in the spring of 1925 and summer of l915 she got her high school diploma and certificate to teach elementary school. She was 17 years old at the time. In the fall of 1925, my mother returned and taught school at Shiloh with my dad. Shiloh was by then a two teacher school. The church at Shiloh, where they had their school, still stands. It is used by some members of that community. In 1927, they both taught at Caney, a rural community in Polk county about 5 miles east of Chester. They rented a room. In understanding this, one must realize that the school year was only about 7 months. The average rural school year in the state of Teas at that time was seven months. This was determined by the habits of the farmers. The months, generally, that the students went to school were October through March. School would get started in some places in early October and in April the students were turned out to plow the fields and put in the crops. The start of school was delayed in the fall in order to pick the cotton, which they picked up until October. In 1928 my dad taught at Shiloh, and apparently my mother did not teach that year. They were living back home. They lived some of the time with the Vinsons, and some of the time with the Barclays. Times were good. Cotton was 40 cents a pound. A cotton picker could make $5,00a day. In 1907, Gulf Oil had run a pipeline through Tyler County, and put a pump station at the George Vinson place, about 1 mile from the Mt Zion church. Working on the pipeline, or at the pump station, paid about $5.00 a day . In comparison, as logger made $1.50 per day working very hard, from sun up to sun down in the woods. In 1929, both my mother and father taught at Cherokee community, which is about 5 0r 6 miles northeast of Woodville, close to Billums creek at the site of the old Cherokee Indian village. It was a two teacher school, composed of my mother and father. Many members of the Woodville community still living were their students at that time. You must remember that, in those days, with the exception of a few merchants and professional people living tin the towns, that most people lived in the country and made their living by farming. These small schools were placed with in walking distance of these farming communities. In 1924, at Mt Zion, my dad made $150.00 per month, and in 1929, at Cherokee, my dad was paid $l150.00 a month and my mother was paid $85.00 a month. 1929 was a very prosperous year in southeast Teas. Jobs were available. My dad^Òs four older brothers had gone off to work in the east Texas oilfields. The Gulf pipeline had been laid, and Gulf was hiring locally for the pump station and pipeline. cotton was 40 cents a pound, and framers prospered. The lumber business had not yet declined, and provided an additional opportunity for employment. My dad, who was 25 years of age in 1929, vowed that he would never teac h school for $150.00 a month again. Since he and mother were both working and everybody seemed to the prosperous, he bought a new 1929 Ford T model roadster with a rumba seat. It cost him $418.00, which is the same as he paid for a 1926 Ford touring car, which he traded in on the roadster. That spring, after buying the new car, my dad bought 20 acres of land 1 mile from the Chester pump station gate, and built a house on that land. it is of interest that he paid $20.00 an acre, or $400.00, for the land. The lumber for the house that he bought at the Camden Carter sawmill, cost $100.00. He paid a carpenter $250.00 to build the house. The house had an adjacent garage, and a pitcher pump on the back porch. In the summer of 1929, my mother discovered that she was pregnant with me. My dad made application for a full-time job with the Gulf Oil Corporation, and, that fall, when they had not acted on his application, he borrowed some money from my granddad Vinson and he and mother went to school at Stephen F. Austin State Teacher College at Nacogadoches. On October 1, l929, I was born at 2:00 a.m. in the morning, and delivered by Dr. Stephen Tucker and his wife, who was a registered nurse. My dad and mother were renting from a Mr. Palmerly, who was a barber in Nacogdoches. I later performed a physical examination on Mr. Palmerely in 1964 at Snyder, Texas, and he gave me a very detailed description at the whole birthing process. He has been standing out on the front porch with me day, and his wife had been helping Dr. Rucker^Òs wife with my mother when I was born. Incidentally, Dr. Tucker^Òs fee was $25.00. That was probably the only year he went a full two semester year to a four year college. Not only did he make the football team at Stephen F. Austin that year, but he also was on the Dean^Òs list for good grades. Even though the stock market crashed in New York City on October 29, it^Òs significance was not apparent to the people in Texas yet. One other thing I might add of interest was that prohibition was repealed in 1929, but that didn^Òt have much affect on the law abiding citizens of southeast Texas, since Tyler County was dry, and I suspect that Nacogdoches county was dry, too. It probably didn^Òt have an affect on the bootleggers who were making corn whiskey down in the river bottom around Spurger and Fred, and various places in Angelina and Nacogdoches county, because they went right on making and selling their white lightening. After finishing a full year of college in 1929 and 1920, my dad returne d to Chester and helped his dad put in a crop. Then he spent the entire year in politics, and ran for the Tyler County School Superintendent job. He ran against Bronson Owen and lost. He went back home, and again helped his dad put in a crop and pick cotton. At that time, the depression became apparent to all over the United States. There were no jobs available. On October 1, l929, I was born at 2:00 a.m. in the morning, and delivered by Dr. Stephen Tucker and his wife, who was a registered nurse. My dad and mother were renting from a Mr. Palmerly, who was a barber in Nacogdoches. I later performed a physical examination on Mr. Palmerely in 1964 at Snyder, Texas, and he gave me a very detailed description at the whole birthing process. He has been standing out on the front porch with me day, and his wife had been helping Dr. Rucker^Òs wife with my mother when I was born. Incidentally, Dr. Tucker^Òs fee was $25.00. That was probably the only year he went a full two semester year to a four year college. Not only did he make the football team at Stephen F. Austin that year, but he also was on the Dean^Òs list for good grades. Even though the stock market crashed in New York City on October 29, it^Òs significance was not apparent to the people in Texas yet. One other thing I might add of interest was that prohibition was repealed in 1929, but that didn^Òt have much affect on the law abiding citizens of southeast Texas, since Tyler County was dry, and I suspect that Nacogdoches county was dry, too. It probably didn^Òt have an affect on the bootleggers who were making corn whiskey down in the river bottom around Spurger and Fred, and various places in Angelina and Nacogdoches county, because they went right on making and selling their white lightening. After finishing a full year of college in 1929 and 1920, my dad returne d to Chester and helped his dad put in a crop. Then he spent the entire year in politics, and ran for the Tyler County School Superintendent job. He ran against Bronson Owen and lost. He went back home, and again helped his dad put in a crop and pick cotton. At that time, the depression became apparent to all over the United States. There were no jobs available. Gulf Oil stopped hiring. Oil went down to 5 and 10 cents a barrel, cotton went from 40 cents a pound to 25 cents, and eventually down to 5 cents a pound. The farmers could not sell their livestock. My dad had previously vowed in 1929 hat he would never teach for less than $50.00 a month again, but in 1930, Brandon Owen sent word to him that if he would come back to Cherokee and teach, they would use him as a second teacher, and they would pay him $60.00 a month. My dad took the job and taught the school year at Cherokee in 1930 and 1931. Apparently, my mother did not teacher that year. She became pregnant with my sister Ruby Nell, and, on April 8, l931, gave birth to Ruby Nell at their little farm at Chester. Dr. Caddie was present at the birth of my sister. His fee was $25.00 in cash. My dad offered him a heifer, but Dr. Caddie would not take the heifer, because he would have to feed it. So, my dad paid him the precious $25.00 in cash. In the fall of 1931, my dad accepted the position of Superintendent of the Concord School in Angelina county. Concord was a small rural school with 5 teachers and 3 school buses. It was located in the Angelina river bottom, east of Zavalla. My dad was superintendent at that school for two years. He was 27 years of age when he started there, and had the only automobile in the community. This was at the height of the depression, and many people were unemployed, broke, and many of them were hungry and malnourished. Even adults went without shoes. My dad felt like, economically, his decision to be superintendent at Concord had been a mistake. The people were impoverished, and on a lower socio-economic level than any he had grown up with in Tyler County. This occurred at the worst part of the depression. However, my dad said it was not as bad as the dust bowl depicted in the movie The Grapes of Wrath. In addition to being superintendent, he provided automobile transportation for the sick people, and ran other errands of similar nature for the community it In addition to being superintendent, he taught classes . When he left Concord, he was 29 years old, and I was three. My sister was one year old. My mother had fun in Concord, since the people treated her so well. She shed tears when they left. My mother pointed out to me that the people in the Angelina river botto m lived mostly by putting hogs in the woods and growing some corn. They would hunt and fish for game, and make cone syrup. People at the table ate cornbread, fried bacon, and syrup with some milk or coffee. Some grew vegetables. In Tyler County, most of the farmers had their milk cows which m provided milk for their families. One man she know grew only peanuts, so all he ate was peanuts. Such vices as co-habitation was unheard of in the strict Baptist communities of Tyler County, in the vicinity of Chester and Woodville, where my parents grew up. Again, I would like to point out that there were at least a quarter of a million people in Texas at that time unemployed, and that starvation was common across the entire south, if not across the entire nation, in the big cities. My dad resigned as superintendent at Concord, after two years, even thought they made him a promise to bring in an additional teacher, and make other improvements. My dad went back to his little farm in Chester, and put in a garden that summer. I was nearly 4 years old and can remember those days fairly well myself. It was a nice farm, my dad had chickens, we had a bee three, he had a nice garden, and we had a mule. Some of our distant cousins, the McQueens, lived right across the row. They had a young daughter named Dagma, who was bout 12 years old that I became close friends with. You will remember that the Barclays are relatives of the McQueens. (note Walter Barclay b. 1774 married Elizabeth McQueens Madison County Kentucky in 1804.) In the late summer of 1933, my dad journeyed to many places, looking fo r a teaching job. There were none in Tyler County, and only one opening in west Hardin county. He went to Batson in Hardin County. In the summer of 1933, and as was the custom in those days, went to see each member of the school board individually. He accepted a job with the Batson school district in 1933, and stayed there until 1942. We moved to an old farm house approximately three-fourths of a mile west of the school, where my dad had a large garden, a milk cow and a bunch of chickens. We never did raise hogs, with one exception, I raised a hog when I was about 11 years old as a pet. My dad was principal of the high school, coach of athletics and drove the early morning school bus. The afternoon school bus was driven by Mr. Boud, the school custodian. Batson had a modern school with eleven grades. It had a large auditorium, a chemistry lab, biology and home economics lab, a library, a large gymnasium, which was unusual in those days, and tennis courts. After a couple of years, my dad put in a football field and track with all the other additional facilities for track and field events. In 1936, my dad got his Bachelor of Science degree from Stephen F. Austin State teachers college in Nacogdoches. During my entire childhood, my dad went to school every summer, except the summer of 1935. That summer he worked for the Gulf pipeline at the pump station in Sour Lake for $5.00 a day, which to us seemed like a high salary. His salary at Batson was $90.00 a month teaching school. My mother did not work, since my sister and I were both small. In 1936, we moved from our farm house to a house my dad purchased in the old town of Batson, located adjacent to the Yust family and the Rogers family. Our immediate next door neighbors were the Gaskeys. My dad paid $450.00 for that house. I started out in the first grade at Batson and went through the seventh grade, when we moved there in 1942. Prior to his leaving in 1942, the school board elected my dad Superintendent after H.A. Hefner, who had been the Superintendent, resigned to take a similar job in Graham, TX a town near Breckenridge. After my dad got his Bachelors degree at Stephen F. Austin, he switched to Sam Houston State teachers college in Huntsville, which was closer to Batson than Nacogdoches. He went t o school every summer, except the summer of 1942, when he worked in the shipyard in Beaumont. He eventually got his Masters degree in Administration at Sam Houston State teachers college, in 1945. The Batson years was a happy time for our family, even though we were in a depression. Batson was a oil field town, and there was electricity in the house. In the town proper, where we lived, there was relative prosperity. If you have to choose between living in an oil town and a farming town, choose the oil town every time because the people have more money. Also, the tax base is richer and the schools have more facilities. I will get back to Batson later on. In 1941, on December 7th, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, and the United States was at war. My dad finished out the school year, and in the summer of 1942, we moved to Beaumont, in Jefferson County. My dad worked at the shipyard that summer, and went to work in the Beaumont Independent School District in the fall of 1942 as a full-time coach and physical education teacher. In those days, the coaches taught physical education every period, and then coached football, basketball, track and various other sports after school hours. My dad eventually became the principal of David Croquet high school, and subsequently, after an administration change, spent his last 16 years in the Beaumont system as a teacher at Beaumont High School. he taught American History, Social Studies, and Civics. My mother never taught again. When the kids grew up, she went to work for Montgomery Ward and worked for them about 11 years as a clerk until Wards closed and left Beaumont in 1965. We were all members of Calgary Baptist Church, on the corner of Niches and Corley, our entire stay in Beaumont from 1942, on. Our only residence was 1635 Cartwright Street. My dad retired from the Beaumont school system at the age of 62, in 1965, and moved to Woodville, Texas, where he built a retirement home on Johnson Street. He became active in retirement by becoming precinct chairman of the democratic party, member of the Tyler County Historical society, and went fishing, put in a garden, played dominoes on the courthouse square. Our house on Johnson Street was located only 3 blocks from the courthouse, where in 1845, his great uncle was the first judge. The Woodville Baptist church , where my dad and mother are members, was 2 blocks from the house and the Masonic lodge was only a block and a half or 2 blocks. Edward^Òs Funeral Home was only 2 blocks from our house, and my dad went down and took out a pre-burial plan with Joe Edward^Òs, assuming that Mr. Edwards would out-live him. It turned out that Mr. Edwards died, and at the time of this dictation, my dad is 87 and still alive. In my dad^Òs retirement, my mother continued keeping house and develope d an extensive yard of popular year-round blooming flowers and trees. When dad could no longer put in a garden in his later years, my mother did. She was presented the Wheat Award at the Dogwood Festival around 1983. She believes it was likely because of her many years of making flowers for decorations at festival. Becoming active in politics, in Woodville, he ran for the Tyler County School Superintendent job in 1974, at the age of 70, and won. He came out of retirement, and was he full-time superintendent of county schools of Tyler County from 1974 to 1979. At the time he finished this term in 1979, the title and position of County School Superintendent was abolished by the legislature of the state of Texas. That office no longer exists in our state. it should be noted that my dad really wanted the job in 190, and shook hands with just about every voter in Tyler County but lost. He won it finally 44 years later at age 70. When my dad became 91, in 1995, he was given a party and awarded his 70 year Masonic service pin. It is his opinion that he is the youngest man ever to receive that award. He joined the Masons on the first meeting night after his 21st in March of 1925. Back in hose days, the Masons of the Mount Hope lodge at Chester met on the first Saturday after the first full moon of each month. The reason for that, was so that they could ride their horses home from lodge meeting by moonlight. I would like to say a few words about the Mount Zion church and cemetery, since it is where all of my near kin on my dad and mother^Òs side are buried. Mount Zion church is about 3 0r 4 miles south of Chester, located on an unimproved dirt road which runs west to Russell creed and down Russell creek where the Vinson settlement was. Old George Vinson, my great grandfather on my other^Òs side, lived there and his four sons had their farms along that road. My granddad Jim Vinson grew up on the farm there and went to work for the pump station, while he continued to farm. Then he worked for Gulf Oil for about 30 years when they finally put him on full time. They lived in a company house for a number of years and then moved up on the hill about a mile from the pump station gate and about a quarter of a mile from my dad^Òs little farm he built in 1929. Around 1942, my granddad, Jim, moved to Chester. He built a house acros s from the Carnes and next to his daughter, Zelda Seamans and her husband, Clarence and their son Ralph. It was approximately one city block from the Chester High School. My granddad Vinson was on the Chester school board many years. In fact, he was on the Chester school board when my dad moved to Batson in 1933. My granddad, James Alfred Vinson (b. 1887- d 1952) was married to my grandmother Ada George Vinson (b. 1887 - 1960). They are buried side by side Mount Zion cemetery, next to their you g son Aldridge, who died at the age of 8 of appendicitis. Jim Vinson, as he was known, was the son of George Vinson, who was married to Mary Peters. I, nor my mother, knows where the Vinsons cam from. They were not listed in the Tyler County census of 1860, nor were they listed as slave owners in Tyler County. Consequently, it is my opinion that the Vinsons came from somewhere in the south, and settled on Russell creek 5 miles below Chester sometime right after the Civil war. They attended the Mount Zion Baptist church, and have kin folks buried in that cemetery back to 1870. My grandmother, Ada George Vinson, was the daughter of a George, who wed a Miss Bullock, my mother^Òs grandmother, and who my mother was named after. My mother, Ruby Emily Vinson, was named after Emily Bullock. Whether Emily Bullock was a daughter of Charles Bullock, is not known for sure by my mother. She was always told that she had a great grandfather that was a captain in the Civil was. The George^Òs lived out on what is now known as the Woodville to Livingston highway, and so did the Bullocks, and so did some of the Barclays, as far as that goes. The Gulf pump station has to have played a great part in the economy of the area of Mount Zion church and to my family. Spindletop Oil field was brought in 1901, Batson, Saratoga, and Sour Lake Oil fields were brought in 1904. Humble field, 1905. Kilgore, Henderson and the East Texas field in 1930. Conroe was brought in 1933. At the time the Conroe field was brought in 1933, oil was 10 cents a barrel. The Gulf Oil corporation evolved from the Guffey oil company, that was formed at Spindleton. They eventually built a huge refinery at Port Arthur, and they put in a pipeline system across the state of Texas. Fortunately, the pipeline went trough Tyler County, and Gulf put a large pump station approximately one mile from Mount Zion church. They bought the land from George Vinson and his heirs for the pump station. Incidentally, when they closed the pump station down, they sold the land back to the Vinsons at about $500.00 an acre, at a time when most unimproved land in that area was selling for $2000.00 an acre. When they bought it in 1907, I suspect they paid $20.00 an acre. After the Civil War, and before the railroads came in, most of Tyler County was covered with yellow pine and was not fit for farming. The best farming was in the creek bottoms, river bottoms and blackland farming. Farmers sold their forest lands to the timber companies for as little as one or two dollars an acre. They had no way of cutting the large trees, and after they cut them, they certainly had no use for them. James Walter Barclay Jr., my grandfather, married Laura Pool Barclay. Laura had a twin sister Clara Pool that married Henry Barclay, my grandfathers brother. henry was the oldest son of my great grandfather James Walter Barclay and inherited most of his land, which was on the west side of 287, and extended from Woodville below Kirkland Springs and almost to Russell Creek on the west side of 287. The old Barclay place, that belonged to my great-grandfather, is directly across the road that runs to my grandfathers house, about 1 to 2 miles back in the woods. There is still a little dirt road that runs in there to the old place. An incident that my dad has told over and over again, over the years that I have known him, is that his father, my grandfather Walter, shot the last deer in Tyler County in 1932. He did it because they needed the meat. At that time, he almost cried when he felt like he killed the last deer, because he said that none of his children would ever get to shoot a deer. Around 1940, they closed the hunting season in Tyler County for 5 years. White tail deer were imported from South Texas and West Texas, and now the deer herd has been replenished in Tyler County. My grandfather had no idea this would happen. It is an observation, my dad said, that they cut the last of the yellow pine tree down in Tyler County in 1930, and my grandfather shot the last deer in 1932. When the settlers came to Tyler County across the Neches River in 1832, the entire county was filled with tall pine trees 5 foot in diameter and 150 feet high. The deer herd was so thick they would walk up to people without shying away. Turkey, bear and all other game of that sort were in abundance when those settlers came. By 1932, they had shot all the deer and most of the squirrels and you probably couldn^Òt find a bear within a thousand miles of the Neches river unless it was in a zoo. Another thing of interest, is that when my dad went to work at the age of 17 for Carter lumber company as a logging man, he was paid $1.50 a day. In those days, your dad was entitled to your services until you were 21 years old. Out of the $1.50 Mr. Carter paid my dad, he in turn paid his dad $ .50 a day to hire a man to work in his place on the farm. I asked my dad about World War 1 and what he could remember. At the beginning of WW1, my dad was 13 and my mother was 9. They both seem to remember the same things. They bought a little red button for 10 cents and wore it on their lapel. Sugar and flour were rationed and almost non-existent. You couldn^Òt buy meat in the store and farmers were selling all they could raise, and consequently, meat was scarce. The predominant crops in Tyler County have always been corn and cotton. They also had plenty if sugar cane for syrup. They ran hogs in the woods and kept cows for milk. They raised vegetables in their family gardens. During WW1, there was a national drive towards self-sufficiency, and each family was encouraged to have a "victory garden". This was also true of WWII. My mother pointed out that we always had plenty of milk. Most of the people in Tyler County in the early 1930^Òs put their milk in the well. They had open air wells and would let it down on a rope. The ones I saw were in glass jugs inside a flour sack. My mother said they put theirs in a tin syrup bucket, their milk put the lids on and then put it in a sugar sack with a knot. They tied the rope around the knot, and let it down in the well. This was so that if the bail came off, the bucket wouldn^Òt spill and sour the well water. Most of the wells were open and about 25 feet deep. My dad had a pitcher pump at our house in Concord. We had pitcher pumps in Batson. The first house that I lived in that had electricity, was in Batson in 1933, we were, however, fairly close to town. People that lived on the farm did not get electricity until after WW2, around 1946. My dad was pretty young during WW1 , but I asked him what he remembered . No immediate member of our family served in the armed forces or was killed. there were very few people that they knew of in Chester or Woodville that served or were killed. My dad had four older brothers. Clyde was not drafted. Buck was in the state guard at Woodville, wore a uniform and drilled with a stick. Josh was inducted into the draft the day the Armistice was signed. Robert was too young and Feagin was a baby. My dad was 13. When I asked my dad why he didn^Òt go to Woodville high school, he said that at the time he went off to Denton, Woodvill did have 11 grades, but they would not have given him a teachers certificate. The expense would be the same for room and board. When he taught school at Shiloh, it was about 6 or 7 miles through the woods from his father^Òs place. He rode horseback. It took him 1 hour to get there and 1 hour to get home through the woods. My mother substituted from him several times. For comparison, in 1920 seventy-five of the school age children in Texa s were attending public school. The illiteracy rate in Texas dropped to 8% over all. It was the lowest in the south. But, Texas was rated number 39 in all the states in quality of education. It is interesting that in 1926, my dad bought a T-model Ford touring ca r for $418. The roads were bad and after the first week the back wheel came off. There were no paved roads. All were dirt trails, no upkeep and little or no roads. In 1929, he traded his 1926 T-model for a 1929 T-model roadster with a rumple seat. In those days, they borrowed the money from the bank, paid cash for the car, and paid off the bank in installments. Barclay military service * TYLER COUNTY SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENTS AND THEIR ADMINISTRATIONS 1912 - 1979 by George W. Barclay, Sr. (b.1904) Acknowledgments Following are listed the sources from which I gathered the information for the accounts set forth of the ten Tyler County School Superintendents and their administration. Tyler County School Board Meeting Minutes Texas Almanac Texas School Law Bulletin Information of file in the office of County School Superintendent Preface Down through the annals of time, the preservation of significant happenings have been recorded for posterity. It is with the deepest sincerity that this complete listing of Tyler County School Superintendents and their administrations - ten in all - has been written to some day be an integral part of our past history. Beginning with Sam Mann prior to 1912 as the first County School Superintendent and continuing through December 31, 1978 when the final curtain descended on one of the finest administrative offices in the school system-that of the County School Superintendents everywhere. CONTENT OF TEXT Sam Mann- first County School Superintendent. 1. Served prior to 1912 2. Little is known of his tenure. However, more complete records are in the County Clerk^Òs office. Grover C. Lowe (1912-1916) 1. Served with the first elected County School Board George E. Neal (1916-1918) 1. School districts were set up with definitely defined boundaries and schools were classified. 2. Certification of teachers 3. Free textbooks and State aid 4. Miss Florida Booth served a short time as County School Superintendent in 1918 when Neal was granted a leave of absence for military duty. B.C. Howell (1920-1924) 1. First County School Superintendent on record granted office and travel expenses. The amount being $300.00 annually. 2. Administrator to 55 schools in County as there were only 3 Independent School Districts at that time. S.B. Owens (1925-1934) 1. Longest tenure on record in Tyler County at this time. 2. Financing of County Administration was set forth in August, 1927. 3. State Normal Colleges changed to State Teachers colleges. 4. Woodville white school classified for first time as full 11th grade high school 5. 1933 Budget -- $2,735.00 a. County School Superintendent salary - $1800.00 per year b. Assistant County School Superintendent salary $600.00 per ye ar. c. Office and travel expenses- $300.00 per year 6. County Board certification gave way to certification earned by college credits in the mid 1930^Òs. O.A. Riley (1935-1950) 1. Miss Pearl Sheffield hired as assistant School Superintendent in February, 1935. 2. Consolidation movement continued and transportation system expanded 3. 1935 Legislation enabled teacher^Òs with ten years experience to receive permanent certificates 4. All schools in District were classified as full high schools of 11 grades 5. County Teachers Institute discontinued 6. Spurger Ruralized School and Fred Ruralized School were consolidated in 1937 7. Teachers Retirement Act was put into effect in 1937 8. Veterans Vocational Agriculture School created in 1944 9. State Board of Education created in 1949 under the Gilmer-Acken Act. 10. Great change in salary schedule for personnel and setting of qualifications 11. County Board approved Co-op programs T.E. Howell (1951-1958) 1. Resignation of Allan Sturrock as Coordinator of Tyler County Vocational Schools in June, 1951. 2. County Board approved request for Woodville, Colmesneil and Warren I.S.D. to set up their own transportation systems and to receive their own allotments direct. 3. Purchase of Hillister CSD #39 school house $10,000.00 bond in 1952 4. Hillister Common District #39 annexed to Woodville I.S.D. in 1953 5. County Board granted pay raises of $402.00 per year for the County School Superintendent and a $300.00 per year raise for the Assistant Superintendent 6. Doucette ISD annexed to Woodville ISD in 1956 7. In 1957, base salary for County School Superintendent was raised to $404.00 per month and salary for Assistant Superintendent was raised to $35.00 per per month. Richard Comte (1958-1961) 1. Chester Common Consolidated School District became an Independent District under Article 2742J on October 11, 1958 2. County Board members received a raise from $12.00 to $18.00 per meeting 3. Special transfers permitted in 1961 4. April 10, 1961 last Board meeting for County School Superintendent Comte Bevis M. Minter (1961-1974) 1. Appointed to the office of County School Superintendent following death of Richard Comte, Jr. Salary being $504.00 per month. 2. Mrs. Ella Comte appointed as secretary to the County Superintendent. Salary being $285.00 per month. 3. Patricia Brown elected as assistant to Secretary Comte in 1962. 4. County Superintendent salary raised to $554.00 per month with maximu m 5. Spurger ISD annexed a portion of Warren ISD with Spurger absorbing a portion of the bond of Warren ISD. 6. Assistant Superintendent^Òs salary raised to $3,600.00 per year and helper^Òs salary set at $360.00 per year in 1964. 7. In 1965 County Superintendent^Òs salary raised to $605.00 per month. 8. In 196 County School Superintendent^Òs salary raised to 613.00 per month. 9. Patricia Brown appointed Assistant County School Superintendent in 1966. 10. In 1967 County Superintendent^Òs salary was raised to $828.00 per month. Assistant superintendent^Òs salary was raised to $5,500.00 per year. Again in 69 Superintendent^Òs salary was raised to $978.00 per m onth. 11. Vernon County line District #24 annexed to Colmesneil 28 District #901. (Tyler County Board Minutes, Volume III, Page 138). 12. County School Superintendent^Òs salary was raised to $1,073.00 per month in 1971. In 1972 salary was raised to $16,192.00 per year. In 1973 salary was raised to $18,000.00 per year and the Assistant^Òs salary was raised t o $7,200. per year. In 1974 the salary of Co School Supt was raised to $18,720.0 0 yr. GEORGE W. BARCLAY (1975 - 1978) 1. County School Superintendent^Òs salary remains $18,720 per year. 2. Anne B. Tolbert approved by Board as Assistant County School Salary being 7,200. per year. 3. Oct. 2, 1976 the Board approved Judy Williams as Assistant Superintendent to succeed Anne B. Tolbert. 4. Legislature passed Wayne Peveto Bill #221. (17.94 of the Texas Education Code). 5. On August 1, 1977 the County Board approved a salary increase of $65.00 for the County Superintendent. Salary being $19,500.00 per year. 6. 1977 Legislature abolishes all County School Superintendent^Òs office, County School Boards and ex-officio School Superintendent^Òs funded by Texas Educational Funds or State funds. 7. On July 18, 1977, the County Board approved petition to annex to Colmesneil ISD #121-901 a portion of Jasper ISD #121-904. (Board minutes, Volume 3, pages 34-36. 8. On August 1, 1977, the County Board approved the appointment of Debbie Hickman as Assistant Superintendent to succeed Judy Willliams 9. On April 10, 1978, the County Board approved the appointment of Virginia Mahaffey as Assistant Superintendent to succeed Debbie Hickman. 10. Provisions were made for the disbursement of the Tyler County Permanent School Fund for the Tyler County Commissioner^Òs Court on May 8, 1978. Authority was given to transfer Permanent School Fund to Available School Fund and dispense said funds to the five schools in this district according to the number of scholastics. The Administrations of the County School Superintendents By the act of legislation the Department of Education was created with the State Superintendents as department head for all public schools under the college level. County School Superintendent^Òs Administration The County School Board as a legislative body replaced the educational duties administered by the County Judge and Commissioners Court. Functions of County School Superintendent The duties set forth by the County School Board were setting up school districts with their proper boundaries, to distribute state available school funds on a scholastic basis, to provide for certification of teachers with proper qualifications for these schools and any other duties that became necessary to keep peace and harmony within the schools and through districts, and any other duties that may be granted to them by sate law. The first County School Superintendent and School Board was appointed by the County Judge. Sam Mann Sam Mann of Colmesneil became the first County School Superintendent. There is little information on his term in office for the lack of previous early records in the County School Superintendent^Òs office, however, there are more complete records in the County Clerk^Òs Office that may be available for study. Grover C. Lowe The second County School Superintendent and board were elected by law i n 1912. Grover C. Lowe was the first elected County School Superintendent with the County School Board being composed of: William McCrady, W. H. Lewis, Milton Lazenby, T. C. Crews, and S. H. Pedigo. The County School Board consisted of one person elected from each Commissioners precinct and one at large. Grover C. Lowe was in office until December 31, 1916 without a change in County School Board performing those duties set forth by law. The third County School Superintendent, George E. Neal, was elected in 1916, took office January 1, 1917 and throughout his administration the same County School Board presided as with the previous Superintendent with one change, g. W. Holton replaced Milton Lazenby. It was during George Neal^Òs administration that each school district set up definitely defined boundaries and the schools were classified. Usually at the request of the local school district whether elementary or third class high school. Teachers were certified on the basis of scores made on their test set up by the certification board by the State Superintendent. Each County having his board to administer tests headed by the County School Superintendent, however, the County School Superintendent had the authority to grant short term county certificates to be sure that sufficient personnel existed in the County to teach in the schools. Teachers certificates so registered in the Book of Teachers Certificates Records were found to be County Certificates and State Certificates of second grade and first grade. These were acquired through examination and granted by State Superintendent of Schools upon satisfactory grades by examination in the County given by County certificate directors and graded by a State Education Certification Committee. A candidate for a first grade certificate must first have passed the examination with a score of a second grade certificate. To acquire a first grade certificate, then the person should make a high minimum score upon fourteen courses of study in which he may take by examination, all subjects at one time or partially as so desired until he completed all subject. Besides the prescribed duties performed by the previous administration, new functions were prescribed by law that greatly elevated the entire education of the public school as the coming of the free textbooks and state aid to supplement local and available school funds. Before schools could qualify for this special aid they must have a building and equipment that was definitely prescribed by the State Department of Education and administered by an elected State Superintendent. The Building and equipment were subject to inspection by supervisors by the Education Department under the State Superintendent. Under State Superintendent Neal, every school district in County boundaries were definitely defined and every school classified and trustees were appointed to fill vacancies in each district. In 1918, the County School Boards records, page 47, show that Miss Florida Booth served a short time as Mr. Neal was granted leave of absence for military duty for World War 1 and was replaced by B.C. Howell in November, 1920, either by election or appointment. The records are not clear. B.C. Howell Beginning in November 1920, the 4th County School Superintendent, B.C. Howell, began his administration serving 2 full terms as elected Superintendent until December 31, 1924. With the same School Board as previous administration: Bill McCrady-President, T.C. Crews, S.H. Pedigo, W.H. Lewis and G.W. Holton, and later D.C. Mann replaced Charles Dean. B.C. Howell came into office fresh from serving in the military in World War 1 and much of the material that is being written in this administration and the future administrations will be the opinion of the writer, George W. Barclay, in lack of supporting documents. At the February board meeting of 1921, Mr. Howell became the first County School Superintendent on record as having granted office and travel expense to the amount of $300.00 per year. Records show that there were three Independent School Districts - Woodville, Doucette and Colmesneil. He was the administrator and fiscal agent for 55 different schools in the county- white and colored. Most of the colored schools were part of white school districts and were under the supervision of the white trustees. During his administration graded roads had its beginning and automobile transportation began. Automobiles were not used in schools, but were used by people and thus affected education. The majority of the schools were given State Supplemented Aid according to their districts. As stated before, it was supervised by the State Educational Department. Greater emphasis was placed upon teacher^Òs certification and qualifications. The school board classified all the schools in the County under three classifications, Elementary (usually on teacher), Intermediate and third class high schools. teachers were still qualifying themselves through State Board examinations with designated examiners set up in each County and administered by the County School Superintendent. This still was a period of scarcity of qualified teachers especially in the State Aid Schools and because of the desire of a better education, parents of children became more interested. There was much reduction in the number of schools by consolidation of many one teacher schools. The shifting of the population due to the cutting out and the closing of sawmill communities also hit this period. It is also noted that Woodville I.S.D. was not included in the list of classified school during this period. From the study of minutes of the County School Board, the work had to do with changing boundaries of schools and filling vacancies in the trustees of local school districts. Between the meeting of one school board to another, the County School Superintendent was given authority to make appointments. S.B. (Bronson) Owens S.B. Owens became the County School Superintendent on January 1, 1925. He served a longer term than any previous Superintendent. At the first board meeting in February, the following County School Board members were present: William McCrady, T.C. Crews, S.H. Pedigo, W.H. Lewis and D.G. Mann and the administration of the county School began. He followed closely in the beginning the duties set forth by the State Board of Education and procedures were set up by the preceding administration. Some of these were serving as chief administrator of all schools in the county except Woodville ISD, approving all teachers contracts, supervising the census, appropriating funds according to the scholastic population of each district, assisting the State supervisor in approving State special aid school boundaries as the need arose. It was also noted in the county School Board minutes there were more frequent changes in the School Board o Trustees. Lou Crews replaced W.H. Lewis in 1927, in 1932 ET Hughes and C.G> Shivers replaced J.I. Allison in 1934. In 1927, it is noted that each school was classified definitely on the status of the number of pupils, teachers certificates and type of high school demanded by each district if the number of pupils met the stated number. This period may be defined as a period of all school policies of the County be set by the County School Board and administered by the County School Superintendent. The financing of the County Administration was definitely set forth in the school board minutes of August, 1927. Each school district contributed a certain amount of the states apportionment to be paid to the County Depository as their pro rata part of the County Administrative expense. It was also noted in 1927, that future planning was made for locating suitable consolidated High School districts. This was to fulfill the desires of the growing interest in education. Also the beginning of a greater desire for preparation for college interests. The State Normal Colleges were changed to State Teachers Colleges for the purpose of training teachers. They became four year colleges offering degrees with the power to certify teachers at their level of achievement. August 19, 1928, the County School Board so ordered the County Institute (meeting of all teachers now called workshops) changed from five days to two days at the beginning of that school year. Also in the year 1928, Mr. Owens was given an assistant office helper for the two months of September and October. On July 27, 1929 in classifying the schools of the County, it was noted that the Woodville white school was classified for the first time a full eleventh grade high school affiliated by The State Education Department. In 1930, the number of schools both colored and white had been greatly reduced because of the consolidation. Most of the districts had been united to the Woodville ISD, Warren consolidated School District, Spurger Consolidated School District, Chester Consolidated School District and Fred Consolidated School District. However, all the colored schools either remained as were or consolidated with colored schools of the above said districts. On August 11, 1933, the County School Board approved the following budget: County School Superintendent- $1800.00, Assistant- $600.00, office and travel expense-$300.00 completing consolidated census role- $35.00, a total of $2735.00 to be paid by per capita assessment of $ .80 each from a total of 3,455 Scholastics in the County on the census role. During this administration which revolutionized education in Tyler County, certification by exam by the county Board had given way to certification earned by college credits. These credits were earned in the Education Department in Colleges and Universities of the state. The term college degree teachers had begun to come in. Students were riding to school in school buses. Consolidation prevailed Tyler County as well as throughout the states affiliated high schools so credited by the State Department of Education. It became the desire of most parents of the County to have their children graduate from an affiliated high school that would admit them to college. This furthered the continued consolidation and transportation was further encouraged by greater aid from the State in financing. Hence, the County School Superintendent had a greater responsibility and duty as he was the chief administrator of all the schools of the County and even administering the transportation of the Woodville ISD. Also dispersing the transportation aid. The last four years found the County Schools depressed because of the poor payment of local taxes due to many circumstances that rose from the depression and an over supply of teachers also brought about circumstances of the depression. O. A. Riley O. A. Riley was elected County School Superintendent on January 1, 1935 . He called the County School Board into session in February. Miss Pearl Sheffield was hired by the School Board as his Assistant. He began with the following School Board: G. C. Lowe-President, Joe Feagin, D. G. Mann, H. E. Caraway and C. G. Shivers with changes occurring during his administration. Joe Feagin was replaced by A. A. Miller in 1937, He. E. Caraway was replaced by George Enloe in 1938, D. G. Mann was replaced by W. T./ Gardner in 1030, A. A. Miller was replaced by C. C. Yawn in 1944, C. F. Shivers was replaced by T. O. Sutton in 1945, and Superintendent Riley continued the movement of consolidation and as chief Administrator of all the schools of the County except Woodville ISD He continued to administer the transportation system which had grown to the extent of all scholastics of high school and students were given the opportunity to finish high school. In 1935, M. A. Ferguson as Governor of Texas was successful in getting legislation that made it possible for all teachers with ten years of teaching experience to receive a permanent certificate. The classification of schools in 1935 were Woodville, Chester, Colmesneil, Spurger, Warren and Fred. They were classified as full high schools of eleven grades. All other schools were classified as elementary. The County School Board approved and placed under Superintendent Riley^Òs administrative duties, eight bus routes for Colmesneil, for Chester, five were approved, Woodville had eight, Warren had five, Fred and Spurger had two. Several of the schools owned their buses and the drivers were approved with an average of $25.00 a month salary. All other buses were contracted to drivers who owned and kept the repair of their own buses. It was noted from the minutes of the County School Board that the County Teachers Institute was discontinued but recommended three or four County wide teachers meetings to be held during the year. In 1937, Spurger Rural High School and Fred Rural High School were consolidated by elections and combination of the high school at Spurger became known as Unity Rural High School. In the year of 1935 there were three Independent School Districts in the County; Woodville ISD, Colmesneil ISD, and Doucette ISD. Doucette was classified as an elementary school transferring its high school scholastics to Woodville ISD. The County School Board so classified all schools in the County following the trend of the state. Grades nine through twelve were high school and grades one through eight were elementary schools. It was noted in 1944, there were six classified twelve grade schools in the County, namely Chester, Colmesneil, Woodville, Warren, Spurger and Fred. The County Superintendent ^Ñs administration was further extended by creating a Veteran^Òs Vocational Agriculture School following the guidelines set forth by the State and Federal regulations. After many elections the consolidation of the rural elementary school t o their contiguous high schools were Chester Consolidated Rural High School, Colmesneil Independent School District, Woodville ISD, Spurger Consolidated Rural High School District and Warren Consolidated Rural High School Districts. There were three elementary schools still holding, Fred, Hillister and Doucette. With the permission of the County School Board, Fred transferred all high school pupils to Silsbee and a year or two later they transferred all students to Silsbee. All the High School Districts maintained an elementary colored school for their colored people. Chester Rural High School District by now had completed its boundaries with that of the present with about equal territory in Polk County as in Tyler County. In 1949 the beginning term of the schools of the state fell under the Gilmer-Acken Act of Legislation which created a State Board of Education who in turn elected a Commissioner of Educational agencies. On the local and County level the greatest change came with the salary schedule for all personnel and also setting forth the qualifications. In the 1950-1951 school year the County School Board approved a Coop program for Chester and Colmesneil for a common band director and a counselor and guidance director for the Woodville, Warren district. It was also during Superintendent Riley^Òs administration that the Teachers Retirement Act was put into effect in 1937. This act of legislation was endorsed by M.A. Ferguson. His administration of such added to the duties of the county School Superintendent. T.E. Howell T.E. Howell was elected County School Superintendent for the year 1951-1958. The Board members were as follows: Grover C. Lowe, T.O. Sutton, John Wallace, W.T. Gardner and Jim Jordan. The first Board meeting was held on June 12, 1951, with the resignation of Allen Sturrock as Coordinator of Tyler County Vocational Schools was accepted. J.W. Knight was unanimously elected for the job. The classification of schools for 1951 were as follows; Spurger-Hillister, Fred-Colmesneil, Chester-Doucette and Warren- Woodville. Miss Ava I. Humphrey was employed for the school year 1951-1952 as special librarian for Warren and Spurger schools. Albert Barrett was a Special Service Teacher for Woodville, Chester and Hillister colored schools. During this time there were no transfers allowed from one district to another if the grade was being taught in the home district. The County Board members approved the request of the School Board of Woodville, Colmesneil and Warren ISD to set up their own transportation systems and to receive their own transportation allotments direct. The Board adopted a resolution approving the bus routes as established by the local district trustees, assisted by the County School Superintendent for schools of Tyler County for the term 1951-1952. In March of 1952 the Board passed a motion to buy the Hillister CSD #39 school house $10,000.00 bond to be paid out of the County Permanent School fund bearing interest at the rate of 2 and a half percent per annum. Later in 1953 the County Board ordered that the Hillister Common District #39 be annexed to the Woodville ISD. T.E. Howell, the County School Superintendent was given the authority t o disburse the County Available money to the schools of Tyler County at 21 cents per capita. The Board of Trustees also granted the School Superintendent a raise of $402.00 per year as a result of the special session of the legislature and a $300.00 per year raise for the Assistant County School Superintendent. In 1956, the Doucette ISD was annexed to the Woodville ISD under the provision of Article 2922A. In 1957, the base salary of the County School Superintendent was raised to $404.00 per month and the salary of the Assistant Superintendent was raised to $35.00 a month. The following schools of Tyler County were classified as follows: Chester CSD, Colmesneil ISD, Spurger ISD, Warren ISD and Woodville ISD . Richard Comte Richard Comte came in as County School Superintendent in 1958 with the following Board of Trustees: T. O. Sutton, T. T. Thornton, Jim Jordan, W. A. Swearingen and Alvin Crews. H. O. Seamans replaced T. T. Thronton in 1959. On October 11, 1958, the Chester Common Consolidated School District of Tyler County became an Independent District under Article 27427. The people who had been serving as Trustees for Chester Common School District were appointed to the Board of Trustees for Chester ISD. They are as follows: G. C. Enloe-President, Roy Clamon, C. P. Pate, Harold Lewis, M. A. Swearingen, Cecil Hickman and Thurman Gulley. The following people were hired as Cooperative personnel for the school s of Tyler County: Hay Brewton-Supervisor, Male Brewton-Supervisor, Eldridge Create-Band Director and Lillian Smith-Liberian. The schools of Tyler County were classified as follows: Woodville ISD - 12 year school Warren ISD - 12 year school Spurger ISD - 12 year school Colmsneil ISD - 12 year school Chester ISD - 12 year school In a meeting in 1960, the expense of the Board Members was raised from $12.00 to $18.00 per meeting. The Board also asked that Supt. Comte investigate the possibilities of investing the County Permanent Fund in Baptist Church Bonds. In 1961, special transfers were permitted because the grades were not taught in the District. These include: 9 pupils from 901 into 903, 3 pupils from 905 into 903 and 5 pupils from 904 into 903. At a meeting on April 10, l961, the distribution of County Available Funds at the rate of 15 cents per capita was agreed upon. This was the last meeting for Richard Comte, Jr. Bevis M. Minter B. M. MInter was appointed County School Sup[ Superintendent after the death of Richard Comte, Jr. Mrs. Ella Comte was voted in as the Secretary to the Co. School Supt. at a salary of $285.00 per month. Sup[t. Minter^Òs salary was 504. per month. In December 1961, the Board of Trustees gave Mr. Minter and T. O. Sutton, Pres. of School Board, the permission to sign the payroll for the Cooperative personnel and the Co. Supt. office and travel checks outside of regular board meetings, not to exceed the amount set aside in the budget. In 1962, Patricia Brown was elected as assistant to the Secretary Ella Comte, to work in the County Supt. office when needed. Later that year the base salary of the supt. was raised to $554.00 and a maximum travel and office expense was set at $480.00 for the year. During Supt. Minter^Òs administration, Spurger ISD annexed a portion of Warren ISD and Spurger absorbed a portion of the bonds of Warren ISD. Also, a ruling of the State on paying County Board Members was brought out that they be paid $18.00 per meeting and any meetings in excess of four, be done free. Hugh Davis was appointed to fill the unexpiered term of T. O. Sutton, deceased, as County Board Member. In 1964, the base pay of the County School Superintendent was set at $554.00 and the Assistant^Òs salary was set at $3,600.00 per year, and the assistant^Òs helper^Òs salary be set at $360.00 a year. In 1965, the pay for the County Superintendent was raised again and base pay became $603.00 per month. In 1966, the base salary for the County School Superintendent was raise d to $613.00 a month and Mrs. Patricia Brown was appointed to be the Assistant County School Superintendent at a salary of $3,600.00 a year. The base pay for the County Superintendent was again raised in 1967, to $828.00 per month and Mrs. Brown^Òs salary as Assistant County School Superintendent was raised to $5,500.00 per year. Again in 1969, the salary of the County Superintendent was raised to base pay of $978.00 per month. Mrs. Irene Kelley was hired for the 1969-1970 school year to haul commodities from Lufkin to the various school at $1.00 per 100 pounds weight. On August 3, 1970, the Tyler County School Board with Mr. Bevis Minter^Òs secretary approved the annexation of Vernon County line District #24 to Colmesneil 28 District #901 with metes and bounds described in Appendix A of the Tyler County Board minutes, Volume 2, page 138. In August, 1971, the County School Superintendent^Òs salary was raised to pay $781.00 per month above base pay of $292.00 which equals $1,073.00 per month. Again the salary was raised in 1972, to pay $851.34 above base, making the salary $1,349.34 per month or $16,192.00 per year. In 1973, the salary was raised to pay $1500.00 per month or $18,000.00 per year. Also in 1973, the Assistant^Òs salary was raised to be $7200.00 per year or $600.00 per month. In 1973, Beth Allison was appointed to be the extra help in the County School Superintendent^Òs office n a budget of $1000.00 with which to pay her. In 1974, the salary of the County School Superintendent was again raised. The salary was to pay $1062.00 above the base pay of $292.00 per month making the pay $1560.00 per month or $18,720.00 per year. Also in December of 1974, Donald Tolbert resigned as a County School Board Trustee and Joe R. Smith was appointed in his place. George W. Barclay (January 1,1975 to December 31, 1978) George W. Barclay became the county School Superintendent on January 1, 1975. The Tyler County School Board consisted of Jeff Ratcliff, President, E.C. harden, L.P. Hicks, H.O. Seamans and Joe Smith who replaced Tolbert at the last meeting of the Minter administration. Patricia Brown received a salary of $300.00 for January 1 through January 15, 1975 b the act of the last board meeting under Minter^Òs administration. Tyler county School Board met January 6, 1975 in its regular meeting. All members present except L.P. Hicks. Superintendent^Òs salary was continued at $18,720.00 per year. Anne B. Tolbert was approved and confirmed as Assistant County School Superintendent at a salary of $7200.00 per year. The Tyler County School Board of Trustees met in regular session August 4, 1975. Heard announcement that the Texas Agency permitted the County School Superintendent^Òs office to be only the fiscal agency of the Coop program and the Title I Coop program and not the Administrative agency. A budget was approved that County Superintendent George W. Barclay^Òs salary remain at $18,720.00 per year and Anne B. Tolbert, Assistant Superintendent salary would be $7200.00 per year. Mrs. Freida Cruse was elected as extra helper when needed. On October 2, 1976 a budget was approved as the same as the year before . the County School Board accepted the resignation of Anne B, Tolbert and approved Judy Williams to succeed her as Assistant county School Superintendent at the same salary budgeted. The 1975 Legislature passed the Wayne Peveto Bill #221, stating that th e County Superintendent^Òs office and his staff would no longer be financed by the Texas Education Agency after December 31, 1978. (17.94 of the Texas Educational Code.) Legislation of 1977 (Wayne Peveto sponsored act) abolishing all County Superintendent^Òs offices, School Boards and ex officio school superintendents being funded by the Texas Education Agency or state funds. Also, Code 17.96, Transfer of power and duties of abolished offices. Code 17.97, Provision of transfer of records and funds. code 17.98, The method by which the county Superintendent could be established or remain open. Code 17.99, Reclassification of certain school districts, making them Independent School Districts under supervision of the Central Educational Agency. On July 18, 1977 at their regular meeting, the Board received and approved a petition to annex to the Colmesneil Independent School District #229-901 conditions territory, a portion of the Jasper Independent School District #121-904 after the school boards of afore said districts approved. Reference: School Board Minutes, Volume 3, pages 34 - 36. In their regular county School Board meeting on August 1, l977, the Board accepted the resignation of Judy Williams and appointed Debbie Hickman as Assistant Superintendent at the same salary budgeted. The Board approved the County Administrative budget for the year 1977 - 78, with the Superintendent^Òs salary being $19,000.00 per year. All other parts of the budget remaining the same the previous year. In the regular board meeting of March 6, 1978, the Board approved to comply with the State Board of Workmen/s Compensation. Deep East Texas Council of Governments was made the agency for that insurance. On April 10, 1978, the Board accepted the resignation of Debbie Hickma n and at the same time approved the appointment of Virginia Mahaffey as Assistant Superintendent. May 8, 1978, the Tyler County Commissioners Court met in regular sessio n and made previsions for the disbursements of the $22,500.00 Tyler County Permanent School Fund and the disbursements was then directed to the Tyler county School Board. The School Board met and authorized Jeff Ratcliff and County Superintendent Barclay to transfer the Permanent School Fund to the Available School Fund and the by checks, pay the school districts of the county on a scholastic Basis. At the August 28, 1978, meeting of the School Board, the Board accepted the resignation of Virginia Mahaffey and approved the appointment of sue Tore Davis as Assistant Superintendent beginning August 29, 1978, at the same salary budgeted. At the same meeting, the School Board adopted a budget for the Administrative office as the same as the year 1977- 78. This budget was to be for four (4) months, through December 31, 1978, after which the office of County School Administration ceased to exist. Tyler County Schools, 1920 - 21 Harmony Pope^Òs Mill Hyatt Lindsey Hopewell Moss Hill (Colored) Fairview Antioch Town Bluff (Colored) Beech Creek East Chapel(Colored) Spurger and Spurger (Colored) Fred Shady Grove Camp Ground Chester Peach Tree (Colored) Enon,Enon 2 Mount Zion Cherokee Bethany Pine Grove (Colored) Mobil Sunny Dale Steele^Òs Grove (Colored) Oak Grove Sugar Creek Holly Fork Mill Creek and Mill Creek (Colored) Emilee Egypt Hicksbaugh and Hicksbaugh (Colored) New Hope Mt. Carmel Sand Hill Neal^Òs Mill McInnis Hillister,Hillister (Colored) Shiloh Sandy Creek Bert Hare Wolf Creek Doucette Camp Pleasant . Officials of Tyler County by Dennise LaVerne Pope (b. 1971) Names of family members, friends and neighbors who performed public service in Tyler county in the years designated are listed below. Judges: W.A. Ferguson 1846-1851 E.W. Isbell 1851-1854 A.G. Parker 1855-1856 James Barclay 1856-18 59 James M. Charlton 1859-1860 R.C. Fulgham 1860-1865, 1866 -1869 A.J. Harrison 1865-1866, 1869 -1870 George W. VanVleck 1876 Henry West 1877-18 94 Martin Dies 1894-18 96 E.G. Guisendorff 1896-18 98 W.A. Johnson 1900-1906, 1916-1921 W.P. Nicks 1898-19 00 A.G. Reid 1906-1910, 1912-1914 R.A. Shivers 1910-19 12 Tom Coleman 1914-19 16 Grover Love 1921-19 22 G.C. Bradfield 1922-19 24 Hill C. Durham 1924-1929 J.E. Sturrock 1929-19 32 M.C. Tatum 1932-19 38 George R. Boyd 1944-1948 Lou Cruse 1938-1944. 1948-1950 Jeff Mooney 1962-19 70 Esca D. Walker 1950-1962 Tom Dick Mann 1970-1976 Allan Sturrock 1976- DISTRICT JUDGE: H.C. Pedico 1870-18 78 COUNTY CLERKS: Edmund Parsons 1846-1860 C.J. Booth 1860-18 62 W.M. Scott 1862-18 65 E.G. Guisendorff 1865 A.J. Rigsby 1865-18 66 W.D. Kinkaid 1866-18 69 P.G. McCullar 1869-18 73 W. Thomas Hyde 1873-1879 J.F. Heard 1879-1892, 1894-1896 W.A. Johnson 1892-18 94 T.C. Mann 1896-19 00 A.G. Reid 1900-19 06 Ed Pope 1906-1912 Tom Sheffield 1912-19 16 E.E. (Emmitt) Wigley 1916-19 20 M.C. Tatum 1920-19 27 A.M. Prescott 1927-19 30 Bertha Prescott 1930-19 40 Cross Daniels 1940-19 50 Tom Sawyer 1950-19 66 Otha C. Miles 1966-19 70 Allen Sturrock 1970-19 76 Grace Bostick 1976- COUNTY ATTORNEYS: Thomas D. Rock 1866-1876 S.B. Cooper (resigned September 1879) 1876-18 79 Aaron George (resigned September 1881) 1879-1881 D.P. Saunders 1881 A.J. Cromwell 1882-18 84 James Mann 1884-18 85 Micaja Priest (Attorney, while he was treasurer) 1852-18 53 E.G. Guisendorff (appointed: 08/10/ 1885), (resigned 05/1886) 1885-1886 T.D. Scott 1886 A.G. Cromwell 1886-1888 W.E. Adams 1888-1890 Sim J. Saunders 1890-1892 J.A. Mooney 1892-18 94 A.G. Reid 1894-18 96 J.P. Straughan 1896-18 98 S.B. Kennerly 1898-19 04 J.W. Thomas 1904-19 06 W.A. Johnson 1906-19 10 J.A. Harper 1910-19 12 D.P. Rock 1912-19 14 J.E. Wheat 1914-19 18 C.E. Smith 1920-19 22 W.E. Adams 1922-19 24 W.A. Johnson 1924-19 32 B.C. Fuller 1932-1934 C.C. Hightower 1934-1938 J.A. Mooney II 1938-1956 Clyde E. Smith Jr. 1956-1968 Rois Brockman 1968-1976 Jim Allison 1976- 1978 Rois Brockman 1978-1980 Joe Smith 1980- COUNTY TREASURERS : Micaja Priest 1849-1853 S.B. McAlister 1853-1866, 1874-1880,18 82-1886 No treasurer named 1866-1872 W.P. McDaniel 1872-1874 R.A. Cruse 1880-1882 A.W. Smith 1886 C.B. Collier 1886-1887 J.G. Collier 1887-1888 W.R. Blackshear 1888-1892 J.W. Simmons 1892-1894 C.W. Williams 1894-1900 A.W. Williford 1900-1906 T.J. Cruse 1906-1912 D.C. Enloe 1912-1918, 1924-1926 A.J. Reid 1918-1924 H.O. Richardson 1926-1930 Sue Masterson 1930-1934 Landon Risinger 1934- 1957 Alice Risinger (served out her husbands term) 1957-1958 J. Fletcher Boyd 1958-1974 Austin Fuller 1974- From to 76, taxes were assessed by "beats". Justices of Peace assessed their taxes in their "beats". The sheriff was the collector until 1890. SHERIFFS: A.P.D. or A.J.E. (Addison) Sapp 1846-1848 John B. Dodd 1848-1850 James Barclay 1850-1852 D.C. Enloe 1852-1854 W.B. Gray 1854-1856 B.F. Ross 1856-1866, 1866-1869 J.T. Kirby 1860-1862 Daniel Jones 1862 L.A. Cook 1862-1864 John M. Scott 1864 E.A. Harrison 1864-1865 J.E. Roberts 1869 R.N. Dickens (Sheriff and Tax collector) 1870-1874 Walter Barclay 1874-1876 A.B. Simpson 1874 J.L. Gilder 1876-1879 Robert Frank 1879-1880 Henry S. Kirby 1880-1882, 1884-1888 R.H. Kinkaid 1882-1884 George R. Enloe 1888-1898 G.E. Polk 1898-1900 W.H. Roberts 1900-1902 J.F. Isbell 1902-1906 E.T. John Lindsay Young 1914-1916 T.A. Lindsey 1916-1919 Edgar W. Phillips 1919-1920 W.H. Crawford 1920-1922 B.A. Barclay 1922-1925 Ernest Roe 1925-1926 Hiram B. Ogden 1926-1930, 1932-1934 W.A. Ferguson 1930-1932 T.A. Nicholson 1934-1940 Harvey Phillips 1940-1952 Dan L. Johnson 1952-1956 Bill Nowlin 1956-1960 Grady Ray 1960-1972 Lewis Craven 1972-1980 Leon Fowler 1980- TAX ASSESSORS AND COLLECTORS: James Barclay 1846-1848 R.E. Ratcliff 1848-1849 William Pruitt 1849 John T. Bean 1849-1854 E.A. Whittlesey 1854-1856 John M. Scott 1856 E.L. Pitts 1857-1858 C.W. Bullock 1856-1862 M.J. Bean 1862-1864 Acton Young 1864-1866 D.G. Lindsay 1866-1868 A.M. Harrison 1868-1870 James G. Collier (Assessor) 1876-1878 E.T. Hyde (Assessor) 1878-1880 T.B. Beaty (Assessor) 1880-1888, 1890-1892 S.H. Burch (Assessor) 1888-1890, 1892-1898 James L. Kirby (Collector) 1890-1892 Eugene Triplett 1892-1894, 1898-1902 J.A. Best 1894-1898 Tom C. Crews (Assessor) 1898-1904 J. Perry Mann (Collector) 1902-1906 C.D. Ogden (Assessor) 1904-1908 S.W. Baker (Collector) 1906-1910 T.J. Sturrock (Assessor) 1908-1912 W.H. Cobb (Assessor) 1912-1918 J.M. Summerall (Collector) 1910-1914 Lee Neal (Collector) 1914-1918 B.A. Barclay (Assessor) 1918-1922 Emson Smith (Assessor) 1922-1926 Will Lewis (Assessor) 1926-1930 J.R. Wallace (Assessor) 1930-1934 A.W. Harrison (Collector) 1918-1922 George R. Boyd (Collector) 1922-1926 John Risinger (Collector) 1926-1930 C.S. Spurlock 1930-1934 Roy L. Pate 1934-1938 E.D. Walker (Assessor and Collector) 1938-1942 J.W. Harrison (Assessor and Collector) 1942-1946 A.W. Fortenberry (Assessor and Collector) 1947-1950 Ernest Martin (Assessor and Collector) 1950-1954 J. Bunyan Mann (Assessor and Collector) 1954-1960 A.L. (Pete) Thornton (Assessor and Collector) 1960-1968 Tom Sawyer (Assessor and Collector) 1968-1972 Barbara Tolbert (Assessor and Collector) 1972- COMMISIONER^ÒS COURT: 1849 and 1950: O.T. Betsill, James Barclay, John Wheat, Alfred Oliver and B.W. Isbell 1850-1852: M. Taylor, John Deason, Willey and Jesse Fulgham 1852-1854: W.N. Fairchild, G.W. Payne, M.McQueen, John Work, M.M. Willey and John Wheat 1854-1856: John M. Taylor. James Barclay, Reubin Thompkins and William Seamons 1856-1858: Amos Rich, W.D. Pearce, Joseph Collier, C.W. Bullock, E. Hare, John T. Bean and D.C. Enloe 1858-1860: Joseph Collier, J.M. Hanna, John T. Bean and D.C. Enloe 1860-1862: W.T. Anderson, John Phillips, J.H. Fuller, E.A. Whitlesey, D.C. Enloe and C.H. Jones 1862-1864: William Burk, A.J. Richardson, R.C. Wilson and W.T. Hyde 1864-1866: Isaiah Swearingen, J.S. Russell, W.T. Hyde and John McQueen 1866-1868: Hugh Kerr, A. J. Walker, W.T. Hyde and A. Laird 1869: ? A. (Acton) Young, A.W. Graham and Isaac Allison 1870-1876: Commissioner^Òs Court Abolished, turned in to JP court 1876-1878: J.H. Mayo, Isaac Swearingen, W.I. Stewart, E.D. Seale and W.P. Chapman 1878-1880: William Stephens, H.A. Willson, J.N. Wheat and E.D. Seale 1880-1882: J.R. McGuire, F.W. Cammack, G.S. Tompkins, Aaron Cowart and John N. Wheat 1882-1884: J.M. Rigsby, W.T. Anderson, Aaron Cowart and James T. Morgan 1884-1886: W.W. (or M.) Loomer, J.R. McGuire, G.S. Thompkins and F.M. Hooks 1886-1888: J.M. Rotan, W.G. Davis, James M. (Mc) Barclay, R.L. McDonald, J.B. McConico and J.R. McGuire 1888-1890: S.H. Meadows, John Caloway, H.D. Seamons, J.M. Barclay and C.W. Cook 1890-1892: J.M. Barclay, J.T. Morgan, C.W. Cook and John Caloway 1892-1894: C.W. Bullock, J.T. Morgan, J.A. Kuebler and W.G. Collier 1894-1896: J.G. Swearingen, F.S. Heard, G.W. Holton amd J.T. Hicks 1896-1898: J.W. (M.) Rotan, F.S. Heard, Sebe Grimes and H.W. McDonald 1898-1900: J.W. Rotan, H.D. Seamons, W.R. Shillings and J.M. McDonald 1900-1902: J.W. barclay, A.F. Richardson, W.R. Shillings and J. M. McDonald 1902-1904: J.W. Barclay, A.W. Richardson, G.W. Holton and J. M. McDonald 1904-1906: F.E.Fuller, C.P. Kirkland, G.W. Holton and J. M. Coward 1906-1908: J.F. Durham, J.M. Stewart, S.P. Dean and R. H. Jordan 1908-1910: W.B. Allison, J.M. Stewart, S.P. Dean and R.H. Jordan 1920-1922: A.W. Williford, W.H. Boyett, Scott McMillan and J.R. McInnis 1922-1924: E.H. McDonald, Gus Holloman, H.P. Crews and R. H. Jordan 1924-1926: C.D. Ogden, Gus Holloman, J. F. Sturrock and W.R. Bingham 1926-1928: C.D. Ogden, E.J. Riley, J.F. Sturrock and W.R. Bingham 1928-1930: E.W. Phillips, E.J. Riley, H.A. Conner and B.L. Richardson 1930-1932: E.W. Phillips, E.J. Riley, H.A. Conner and B.L. Richardson 1932-1934: M.F. Nellius, E.J. Riley, H.A. Conner and R.L. Pope 1934-1936: M.F. Nellius, Lou Crusse, J.E. Riley and S.I. Willis 1936-1938: M.F. Nellius, Lou Cruse, J.E. Riley and S.I. Willis 1938-1940: M.F. Nellius, J.A. Mann, J.U. Hopson and S.I. Willis 1940-1942: Joe W. Pate, A.E. Powell, S.I. Willis and J.U. Hopson 1942-1944: Joe W. Pate, A.E. Powell, J.U. Hopson and H.E. Caraway 1944-1946: Joe W. Pate, Hardy Marshall, A.E. Gibbs and H.E. Caraway 1946-1948: R.A. Ogden, Hardy Marshall, A.E. Gibbs and H.E. Caraway 1948-1950: R.A. Ogden, W.A. Barnes, Floyd Hignett and H.E. Caraway 1950-1952: Allen Riley, W.A. Barnes, Floyd Hignett and H.E. Caraway 1952-1954: Allen Riley, W.A. Barnes, Floyd Hignett and French Hicks 1954-1956: Allen Riley, W.A. Barnes, Ellis Fowler and French Hicks 1956-1958: Allen Riley, W.A. Barnes, Ellis Fowler and French Hicks 1958-1960: Howard Riley, H.H. Powell, Ellis Fowler and French Hicks 1960-1962: Howard Riley, H.H. Powell, Tommy Hayes and French Hicks 1962-1964: Howard Riley, H.H. Powell, H.A. Crews and French Hicks 1964-1966: Joe Best, H.H. Powell, Leon Fowler and French Hicks 1966-1968: Joe Best, H.H. Powell, James Jordan and Leon Fowler 1968-1970: Carl Shepherd, H.H. Powell, Leon Fowler and James Jordan 1970-1972: Carl Shepherd, H.M. (G. ?) Parks, Leon Fowler and James Jordan 1972-1974: Joe Best, H.M. Parks, Kenneth Belt and James Jordan 1974-1976: Joe Best, H.M. Parks, Kenneth Belt and James Jordan 1976-1978: Maxine Riley, Kenneth Lowe, Leon Fowler and James Jordan 1980: Maxine Riley, Kenneth Lowe, Jery Mahan and Adnell Odom Joe Best, H.M. Parks, Kenneth Belt and James Jordan 1974-1976: Joe Best, H.M. Parks, Kenneth Belt and James Jordan 1976-1978: Maxine Riley, Kenneth Lowe, Leon Fowler and James Jordan 1980: Maxine Riley, Kenneth Lowe, Jery Mahan and Adnell Odom COUNTY SHOOOL SUPERINTENDENTS see George W. Barclay Sr.^Òs paper From "History of the Scottish Barclays" by Leslie Barclay "Throughout Scotland, they played important roles in national affairs. Sir David Barclay was one of Robert the Bruce's chief associates and was present at many of his battles. Sir Walter de Berkeley, Gartley III, Lord Redcastle and Inverkeillor, was the Great Chamberlain of Scotland 1165-1189. Alexander de Berkeley, Gartley IX, became Mathers I in 1351 when he married Katherine Keith, sister of the Earl of Marischal. Their son Alexander was the first to adopt the Barclay form of the surname. Sir George Barclay, Gartley XIX, was Steward of the household of Mary, Queen of Scots, and a later Sir George was second in command of James IV's forces in the Highlands in 1689." "One of the major Barclay families was established at Urie near Stonehaven in Kincardineshire. The first Laird, Colonel David Barclay, was a professional soldier serving with such armies as that of Gustavus Adolphus. He returned home when civil war broke out and served as a colonel of a regiment of horse, fighting for the king." _______________________________________________________________________________ _ Dunmore's War Barkley, John Capt. John Murray's Company Botetourt Co, VA _______________________________________________________________________________ _ Revolutionary War Barclay, Robert Rank: Captain Rowan Co, NC During the American Revolution, Captain Robert Barclay and his son served in the North Carolina regiment. There was no actual fighting on the Jersey settlement farms. Uniformed and heavily armed, Red Coats camped across the Yadkin River. They were waiting for the river to subside, it being wide and swollen from heavy rains. The British camped there two days, peering into the fine Jersey farms by spy glass. The North Carolina Jersey minute men farmer militia lined their side of the Yadkin River, unifromed in their work clothes and armed with rifles, single shot shotguns, knives, hoes, shovels, sticks and rocks. One Jersey soldier rode his horse to the bank of the Yadkin and shook his sword in a menacing way at the British. After a lengthy impasse, the order came for the British to leave the Jersey lands and move on. The Yadkin River, that had made their valley so fertile, had protected the Jersey farms, by seeming to be uncrossable. (excerpts from out of print books in the Archives of old Rowan County North Carolina provided by the tourist bureau personnel 6/8/1998 ) In later years, a monument was erected by the DAR in honor of Captain Robert Barkley of Rowan County, North Carolina and his son. At the ceremony, Alben Barkley, then the Senator from Kentucky and later rhe Vice President of the United States, made the dedication. (submitted for Nell Barclay Redman, descendant of Capt Robert Barkley's son, Walter Barclay b. 1774) Barkley, Robert Rank: Private Rowan Co, NC Barclay, Jacob Rank: Private Shenandoah County, VA Barclay, Hugh & Hugh Jr. Rockbridge County, VA Public Service Claim Barclays in American Revolutionary War Submitted by Teddy L. Barclay Pope, Ed. D. From the records in the Clayton Genealogical Library Houston, Texas October 1, 1999 American Revolution War Barkley Alexander, 174? VA, mil Rev War George, 175? NJ, Rev War Recds, NJ 501 Hugh, 175? NJ, priv Rev War, recd NJ 501 James, 174? VA, mil. Corp - Rev War VA:40 John, 174? VA., mil. Rev War Recrds VA:40 John, 175? NJ prv Rev War Recds NJ: 501 Joseph, 174? Vamil. Rev War Recds VA 40 Joseph, 175? MJ priv Rev War Recds NJ: 501 Robert 175? NH Rev War Recds NJ 1:168, 288, 3:175, 508 Robert, 175? Vt Rev War Rolls, Vt: 657, 832 William 174? VA, mil - Rev War Recds. VA:40 Barkly Joseph, 174? VA mil Rev War Recds VA:40 Barcly Charles, 174? NJ, wagoner - Rev War Recds NJ: 855 Barclay Alexander, 174? VA mil. Rev War Recds. VA:39 James 174?VA mil. Corp Rev War Recds. VA:39 John, 175?Ct Rev War Recds Ct: 171 Joseph, 174? VA, mil Rev War Recds VA:39 Joseph, 175? NJ prev Rev War Recds NJ:500 War of 1812 Barclay, John Rev. War Recds 1791 - 1815 Insurrection Barkley, Charles, Ra. War Recds, 1791 - 1815, NJ:46 Barclay, James, 177? NJ Pa Insurrection - War Records 1791 - 1815 _______________________________________________________________________________ _ War of 1812 Davidson, Brackett Sept. 28, 1814 - April 27, 1815 Capt(s). Samuel Crawford & James McMahon's Company (Brackett was wounded in right hand at the battle of New Orleans Dec. 23, 1814. Dr. David Kerr, Surgeon General at New Orleans, LA, Certified his disablity, he could not use the hand for any type of labor. Noted David Kerr was the father-in-law of Dr. Richard Davidson's son. Richard was Brackett's 1st cousin.) _______________________________________________________________________________ _ Texas Independence William C Barclay b. 1815, NY, age 20, was on his way to Texas to seek his fortune. When he got to New Orleans, he was tired of overland travel, by foot trail and horse, and it was still another 350 miles of virgin forest to go through, mostly by footpath. There, he made arrangements to board a ship in the harbour of New Orleans bound for Galveston, the major point of entry by water into Texas. He would work as a crewman on the ship in exchange for his passage. Before they got completely out of the harbour of New Orleans, the ship was captured by a regiment of Mexican soldiers. The crew was arrested on the grounds of priracy, because the cargo was food stuff for the troubled Texas port where unrest had already started that would break into fighting the following month. A Mexican military trial was held and all crew members, including William Barclay, were found guilty on Thursday and sentenced to be executed by firing squad the following Monday morning at daybreak. Knowing their fate, Sunday, the crew was able to smuggle out a statement by the chaplain, signed by them all, to their relatives to let them know what had become of them and to tell them that they had not been pirates and were not guilty. The execution took place the following morning. The statement was published in the newpaper of New Orleans the following week. (From an out of print history book in the Shivers library at Woodville, Texas submitted by Teddy Barclay Pope, 5/1/1999.) Anderson Barclay, son of Walter Barclay of Rowan County North Carolina, was at the battle of Bexar at the location of the Alamo in December before the massacre at the Alamo in thirteen days of Glory in late February and early March, and at Goliad (he was out hunting for game when the 500 Texians were captured and executed by firing squad). After the of battle of San Jacinto, he was sent out to blow up a bridge to deter the scattered Mexican army and search for General Santa Ana. Anderson was one of the men who ultimately found and brought in Santa Ana. (submitted by Teddy Barclay Pope, 5/1/1999.) Menard District (later Tyler County) James Barclay John Barclay (at battle of San Jacinto) Robert Barclay (all three above received pension from Houston's Army) Henry Barclay --------------------------- David Barclay (county unknown) _______________________________________________________________________________ _ US/Mexican War Barclay, Durett Hubbard Rank: unknown May 08, 1847 - Oct. 18, 1848 Company K 3rd Regiment Missouri Mounted Volunteers Capt. David Stockton Sons of Walter Barclay and Elizabeth McQueen Barclay Barclay, John Barclay, William Rank: unknown killed in battle in Mexico 1847 _______________________________________________________________________________ _ Civil War Confederate Rosters of VA: Barclay, A. Tedford Rank: Ensign Company I 4th Regiment Barclay, Elihu, H. Rank: Private Troop C 1st Regiment Barkly, Fred Rank: Company C 7th Regiment Barclay, Henry Rank: Private Company H 25th Regiment Barclay, Henry B. Rank: Private Company K 62nd Regiment Barkley, M.T. Rank: Company G 5th Regiment Barclay, Washington Rank: Private Company K 62nd Regiment Davison, Thomas McDearmon Rank: Company: Regiment: Davison, James Hardison Rank: Company: Regiment: -------------------- Barclay, A.A.E.W. Rank: Acting Master's Mate Confederate Navy Barclay, William Rank: 2nd Assitant Engineer Confederate Navy (all above from Virginia) ------------------------ Tyler County, Texas - Hood's Brigade Watt Barclay(Walter William) son of Anderson Barclay Robert Barclay Henry Barclay Landon Risinger, husband of Arvilla Barclay (daughter of James Barclay b.1816 Tenn) Capt. Charles Bullock, husband of Elizabeth Barclay (also daughter of James above) From the Records of the Texas State Archives Barclay AO TVG, Reagan's Rifles Barclay JH RM Barclay JH 39th regiment Barclay Put tst Barclay Samuel D MV Barclay WW TVG Tyler Co Barclay William A MV Barclay Robert B TYler Co Barclay Hugh W Johnson Co Barclay James - Knox, Polk Barclay John Bunion Williamson County Barclay WW Hardin Co Barclay David Roberts Co texas Barclay, Robert B Tyler Co Texas Barclay, Joseph Hugh Hopkins County Texas Barclay Walter William Polk Co Texas ------------------------------------------- Union Records: Barclay, John M. Rank: Pvt Company B 1st New Jersey Volunteers (wounded at Coal Harbor, 1864 & died of complications in Trenton, New Jersey 1869) submitted by Tom Barclay _______________________________________________________________________________ _ WWI _______________________________________________________________________________ _ WWII Russell R. Elgin U.S. Army - Military Police Rank: Staff Sergeant (great grandson of Durrett Hubbard Barclay) George Frederick Johnston casualty - RAF (great great grand son of Walter Barclay b. 1774) Bernice M. Barclay Whitley; only child of James Barclay, died at Corregedor, Phillipines in World War II. Falls County, Texas Dr. Watt Barclay, Tyler County, Texas Ruth Barclay, daughter of Clyde Barclay of Tyler County, Texas Raymond Barclay, son of Clyde, Navy Gus Shelby "Sonny Boy", Navy, foster child of the Walter Barclay family _______________________________________________________________________________ _ Korea Clyde Doyle Barclay, Navy, Tyler County, Texas, son of Clyde Barclay George W Barclay, Jr, 1st Lt., Army, Jefferson County, Texas _______________________________________________________________________________ _ Viet Nam _______________________________________________________________________________ _ Persian Gulf Daniel J. Elgin U.S. Navy/U.S.S. Constellation Rank: Ops Specialist 2 (3rd great grandson of Durrett H. Barclay) Joseph A. Lingross U.S. Army Rank: Staff Sergeant (2nd great grandson-in-law of Durret H. Barclay) _______________________________________________________________________________ _ Bosnia _______________________________________________________________________________ _ Do you have Barclay military service rec Barclay Military Service Included: Texas Revolution William C. Barclay, age 20, b. 1815, New York State. On his way to Texas Willliam C Barclay was captured with a ship's crew aboard a ship in the harbor of New Orleans. He was tried and executed by firing squad of the Mexican army for transporting foodstuffs, considered by the Mexicans to be contraband, to the Texas army. A statement was smuggled out by the chaplain in an open letter to their families telling them of their fate and that they were innocent and not pirates, as the charge had been piracy. Received pensions of acres for service in the Texas Army. Anderson Barclay, son of Walter Barclay of Rowan County North Carolina at the battle of Bexar at the location of the Alamo in December before the massacare at the Alamo in thirteen days of Glory in late Febuary and early March.and Goliad (he was out hunting for game when the 500 Texians were captured and executed by firing squad).After math of battle of San Jacinto was sent out to blow up a bridge to deter the scattered Mexican army while they searched for Mexico's Preisdent Santa Ana. With men who found and brought in Santa Ana. Robert Barclay received a pension for service in Sam Houston's army. James Barclay received a pension for service in Sam Houston's army. John Barclay received a pension for service in Sam Houston's army and was at the battle of San Jacinto. U S War With Mexico William Barclay was a casualty in the War With Mexico and died in Mexico. Civil War - Confederacy Served in Hood's Brigade; Walter William Barclay (Watt), Robert Barclay (Bob), Henry Barclay. All of Tyler County, Texas. General Robert E Lee said that he could have won the war if he had had some more of those Texas boys. World War II Bernice Martha (married James B. Whitley; only child, James Barclay, died at Corregedor, Phillipines in World War II). Falls County, Texas Major Watt Barclay, Tyler County, Texas Ruth Barclay, Second Lt Navy, South Pacific, daughter of Clyde Barclay of Tyler County, Texas Raymond Barclay, Navy, son of Clyde Barclay, Tyler County, Texas Ralph Barclay, Navy, son of Clyde Barclay, Tyler County, Texas James Edmond, Navy, son of Clyde Barclay, Tyler County, Texas Korea military action era aftermath Clyde Doyle Barclay, navy Tyler County, Texas George W Barclay, Jr, first Luientant, army, Jefferson County, Texas Here is a listing of the all Presidents of the United States in order of their terms in office with known possible Barclay/Barkley connections George Washington, 1789-1797 John Adams, 1797-1801 Thomas Jefferson, 1801-1809 - Area of Research for more information about Barclay owner of Montecello, also founder of Church of Christ James Madison, 1809-1817 - Area of Research for connection with Barclay family through Madisons and Leah Madison Barkley, m Robert Barkley of Rowan Co NC James Monroe, 1817-1825 John Quincy Adams, 1825-1829 Andrew Jackson, 1829-1837 Martin Van Buren, 1837-1841 William Henry Harrison, 1841 John Tyler, 1841-1845 James Knox Polk, 1845-1849 - Area Research for connection between Barclay/Barkley family Rowan Co NC and Lincoln Co NC and Barkley/ Knox marriage in family of the other Robert Barkley m. to Eleanor Zachary Taylor, 1849-1850 Millard Fillmore, 1850-1853 Franklin Pierce, 1853-1857 James Buchanan, 1857-1861 Abraham Lincoln, 1861-1865 - Area research for connection between Barkley/ Todd family of Mary Todd Lincoln Andrew Johnson, 1865-1869 Ulysses Simpson Grant, 1869-1877 Rutherford Birchard Hayes, 1877-1881 James Abram Garfield, 1881 Chester Alan Arthur, 1881-1885 Grover Cleveland, 1885-1889 Benjamin Harrison, 1889-1893 Grover Cleveland, 1893-1897 William McKinley, 1897-1901 Theodore Roosevelt, 1901-1909 - Area Reserch between friendship with son William Scott of father Winfield Scott connected to Barclay/Bullock/Scott of Tyler Co William Howard Taft, 1909-1913 Woodrow Wilson, 1913-1921 Warren Gamaliel Harding, 1921-1923 Calvin Coolidge, 1923-1929 Herbert Clark Hoover, 1929-1933 Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1933-1945 Harry Truman, 1945 - 1952 - Vice President Alen Barkley - senator from Kentucky, desc from Barkley's of Rowan Co NC Dwight David Eisenhower 1953-1961 John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 1961-1963 Lyndon Baines Johnson, 1963-1969 - Area research connection between Barclay/Barkley of Rowan Co and Lincoln Co NC and the Cowan family that LBJ is descended from Richard Milhous Nixon, 1969-1974 Gerald Rudolph Ford, 1974-1977 James Earl Carter, Jr., 1977-1981 Ronald Wilson Reagan, 1981-1989 George Herbert Walker Bush, 1989-1993 William Jefferson Clinton, 1993- Mount Hope Lodge 121 By J.E. WHEAT The history of the Mount Hope Lodge is pretty much a history of Tyler County. The County was created in 1846 and Wm. P. Sansom the first Chief Justice of the County was one of the organizers of the Lodge in 1852. Another of those charter members was Henry West who was later a District Clerk and then County Judge of the County. There is no information available as to the beginning of the settlement at Mount Hope, but it was located on the only road through this area prior to the coming of the North Americans in the thirties. The old Spanish Road from Nacogdoches to the Spanish Missions at the mouth of the Trinity river passed this way and there is record of its use for a hundred years before the Masonic Lodge was chartered there in 1853. When the Mexican Government tried to stop further immigration from the U.S. to Texas by the Decree of April 6, 1830, Fort Teran was established on this road at the crossing on the Neches River. One of the Mexicans stationed there was Gavino Araujo under the command of Peter Ellis Bean. Under the provisions of the laws of Mexico he, being a Mexican, was able to secure a Grant of 11 Leagues of land, five leagues being located on this road near the Fort and the other six in Nacogdoches County. This Grant was in march 17, 1834, being the first land Grant in what is now Tyler County. Needless to say, he left Texas when the troubles started and never was permitted to use his large land holdings and never personally conveyed a foot of the Five League Grant. Peter Ellis Bean purporting to act as the agent and attorney in fact for Gavino Araujo, sold the entire grant to Frost Thorn in 1837 but no deeds were made by Frost Thorn until 1851, doubtless for the reason that no one would recognize his title. Since the original grantee did not show up, however, to dispute his authority the sales made by Bean stood the test of the courts and in the 'fifties many deeds were made to settlers on this Grant. Mount. Hope was on this Grant and it is likely that there were many settlers here before any deeds were made and recorded. The first deed of record to the land on which Mount. Hope was located was from H.W. Carter to his wife, Amelia Carter, and was dated October 7, 1852. It conveyed to her "All my right, title, claim and interest in and to the following described property, to-wit: Lots or parcels of land formerly occupied by me in Greenville, Polk County and all the lands, 600 acres more or less, in Tyler County including my present residence on Russells Creek called Mount. Hope. Together with any and all lands or real estate that I may have in the State aforesaid or elsewhere and also my present stock of goods, groceries, and merchandise--estimated at the value of Five Thousand Dollars, a negro girl named Cecilia aged twelve, or fourteen years, one wagon and seven yoke of cattle with all necessary chains, yokes and other things thereunto belonging, seven milk cows & calves, Eighteen head of hogs, five head of horses." However, the deed from Frost Thorn to H.W. Carter was not made until December the 10th, 1853, more than a year later. In the meantime on April 1, 1853, H. W. Carter conveyed two acres to James Barnes, Wm. Barnes, H. Frazier, David Barclay and John J. Pemberton, Trustees, for a residence for the travelling minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church South; on the same day, A. L. Kavanaugh preacher in charge of the Woodville District, had appointed the five men above named as Trustees. The parsonage lot was described as follows: "Beginning at a stone (planted) from which the N.W. cor of the Mount Hope Church brs. W. 29 yds and the SW cor of the Mount Hope Parsonage house bears North eastwardly 27 yards. Thence N. 53 yds. to a stake from which a black jack 2 yds. bears east marked X. Thence N. 83 E. 150 yds to a P O marked X Thence S. 71 yds to a stake Thence W. 148 yds to the place of beginning." From these conveyances it will be seen that in addition to the store and residence of the Carters there was a church building on the land. Here is where the Lodge comes in, although it is not named in any of the deeds. At the meeting of the Grand Lodge in Nacogdoches in January 18, 1853, F. B. Sexton, District Deputy Grand Master of the Second Masonic District of Texas, reported that he had granted a dispensation "to several Brethren to open and hold a Lodge at Mount Hope, Polk County, Texas, having first made every practicable inquiry into the moral character and Masonic skill of the applicants." The Committee on work and Returns of Lodges under dispensation, W. M. Taylor, Chairman reported: "The proceedings and returns of Mount Hope Lodge U. D. are all correct; we therefore recommend that a charter issue to said lodge to be held at Mount Hope, Tyler County, on the payment of the usual fee." Mount Hope Lodge No. 121, was represented at the Grand Lodge by H. West. The original charter dated 21st day of January, 1853, names the following officers: Wm. Harrison, W. M.; H.W. Carter, S.W.; H. A. Willson, J.W.; and Henry West, Secretary. The book with a signed copy of the original By Laws of the Lodge is still in the possession of the Lodge. The minutes of the early meetings of Mount. Hope Lodge are not available but the names of the ten men who paid dues of 30 cents each from November 1852 o January 1, 1853, as shown by an account book, and who signed the original By Laws are as follows: William Harrison, H. W. Carter, H. A. Willson, Henry West, Jefferson Laird, Wm. L. Mann, Benjamin Enloe, Wm. Priest, Israel Sneed and Wm. P. Sansom. Under the dispensation, a meeting was held on January 1, 1853, and G. W. Payne, Sam H. Barnes and John W. Rotan were initiated. There is no reference in the minutes to a Lodge building, until July 3, 1875, when a committee consisting of W. W. Whitehead, S. H. Barnes, Stephen Lewis, J. M. Hallmark and E. Sandlin, was appointed to build a new Lodge building. However, no report was ever made by that committee; but in March, 1884, a committee was appointed to see what the Church would pay for the Lodge's interest in the building. Since the Masons were holding regular meetings in 1853, when the deeds above referred to were made and were continuing to meet until the Committee was appointed to sell the Lodge's interest to the Church, it is evident that the Church and Lodge were using the same building. The ten men who secured the Dispensation in 1852 were initiated, passed and raised to the sublime degree of a Master Mason in some other Lodge. Three of them, Wm. Harrison, Henry West and William P. Sansom, were members of Unity Lodge No. 102 at the time the Mount. Hope Lodge was organized. It is not known when or where the other seven received their degrees. But these ten men and the three who were initiated under the Dispensation are typical of pioneer days in Tyler County. Two of the original officers of the Lodge: William Harrison, the Master, and Hamilton W. Carter, the Senior Warden, were not residents of Tyler County in 1850, when the first census was taken. H. W. Carter resided at Moscow; then known as Greenville, which may account for the fact that the District Deputy's report located Mount. Hope in Polk County. Harrison was a school trustee at Peach Tree Village in 1856. Nothing else is learned of him. H. W. Carter secured a Post Office at Mount. Hope, May 27, 1851, and was named as the first Postmaster. He ran a general store and established Mount. Hope as a trade center for the area, which continued after his death in 1854, to the coming of the railroads and the death of Dr. Whitehead in 1884. Martin Buxton succeeded Carter in the ownership of the property and the operation of the business. He became a member of the Lodge in 1854. The census records give us some data on the other charter members: William P. Sanson, a minister, age 38 in 1850, and his wife, age 32, were born in Tennessee; so were their first two children, Samuel F., 15, and Eliza J., 13. The other five children were born in Texas, William M., 11, which indicates that they came to Texas between 1837 and 1839. He was the first chief Justice of Tyler County having been elected in 1846. He lived on the H. Frazier League on the head waters of Billums Creek, near the site of "Fenced-in-Village" of the Cherokee Indians. However, he sold his farm to Hilliard Durden on February 1, 1853, and left the country. Hiram A. Willson was a farmer, age 28. He was born in Georgia and his wife in Tennessee. Their first child, Stephen E., was born in Texas in 1847. Henry West, a farmer, was born in Tennessee in 1827. He was elected District Clerk of Tyler County in 1866 and later served as County Judge of the County. No information is available as to Jefferson Laird. William L. Mann, a farmer, was born in South Carolina in 1811. His wife was born in Alabama. He came to Texas in 1838 and settled on Billums Creek. He established a Post Office, "Billums," on October 21, 1852, and was the first Postmaster there. Their oldest children: David G., William T. and Mary E. were born before coming to Texas. Elender, James M., Robert S., Samuel and Matilda were born in Texas. He was one of the school trustees of the Billums District and was the presiding officer in all of the early elections of that precinct. Ben Enloe was 55 years of age when the Lodge was organized, a farmer, and one of the leading citizens of the Billums Creek community. He and his wife, Sara, were born in Tennessee. His son, David C. Enloe, was born in Alabama. He was a member of Woodville Lodge No. 62. William Priest was 24 at that time. He was a native of Tennessee. He was a member of Captain Veatch's Company of Mounted Volunteers in the War with Mexico in 1847. He was living in the home of Benjamin Green when the census of 1850 was taken. Benjamin Green was one of the earliest sealers of the area and his farm was located within two miles of Mount. Hope on the old Spanish Road, heretofore mentioned. Very little is known of Israel Sneed, except that he received a head-right certificate for 640 acres of land which was located near the Neches River on Billums' Creek, some ten miles from Mount. Hope. He and his family, consisting of his wife and nine children, were living in that vicinity in 1850. He sold his land certificate to William Sturrock in two parts, one in 1854, and the other in 1855, and left this section of the state. The election box in that area was known as "Sneeds," which indicates that the elections were held at this home. The three Entered Apprentices who were initiated on January 1, 1853, were G. W. Payne, a merchant, who was born in Tennessee in 1819; Sam H. Barnes, a farmer, 40 years of age, from Mississippi; and John W. Rotan, a farmer, 26 years of age, from Alabama. At the first meeting after the charter was granted, Calvin A. Barnes, a farmer, 26 years of age, was initiated, followed eight months later by his brother, William R. Barnes, a farmer, 39 years of age, both were born in Mississippi and resided in the immediate vicinity of Mount. Hope. It will be noted that William R. Barnes was one of the trustees to whom H. W. Carter conveyed the two acres for a parsonage on April 1, 1853. Other members were initiated in the early days of the Lodge's existence, as follows: John T. Kirby Robert Rotan G. P. Keahy Daniel Denny Henry Costellow Jno. C. McGee Martin C. Buxton Dan R. Smith John Felder A. J. Harrison Archibald Laird Henry S. Kirby Henry Cliburn Sam Slater Isaac Futch Wm. J. Thigpen A. T. Nowlin S. T. Strong M. McQueen Moses Summeral W. D. Maddox Wm. Lowe Amos Mahaffey Wm. Butter Jno. Hammons D. ByrdOctober 1, 1853 March 4, 1853 September 3, 1854 March 4, 1854 February 4, 1854 May 6, 1854 August 5, 1854 September 2, 1854 April 7, 1855 October 6, 1855 February 14, 1857 January 3, 1857 February 14, 1857 March 14, 1857 May 9, 1857 July 9, 1859 September 10, 1859 November __, 1859 December 17, 1859 January 21, 1859 January 21, 1859 May 9, 1860 August 11, 1860 March 9, 1860 March 9, 1860 December 8, 1860 During this period, two Master Masons were added by affiliation: Matthew Slater, on February 3, 1855 W. W. Whitehead on April 11, 1857. Inasmuch as we do not find the first minutes, we do not know just when they held their meetings, but at a meeting held in October, 1871, the date was changed from the second Saturday in each month to the first Saturday at 10 o'clock A.M. Then, on August 2, 1879, the meeting date was changed again to Saturday on or before the first full moon at 2 o'clock P.M. It is interesting to take a glimpse at the list of members and officers after a period of twenty years. In 1872, the Lodge was composed of 23 members: H. B. Arrant S. H. Barnes C. A. Barnes J.W.L. Davis D. Z. Davenport A. E. Barclay Walter Barclay John S. Havis Wm. Lowe Stephen Lewis H. S. Kirby J. T. Kirby W. L. Mann A. L. McAlister W. A. Mahaffey Jonathan Peters E. Sandlin J. T. Priest R. Rotan M. C. Parks W. W. Whitehead H. A. Willson P. J. Waldrep The officers for that year were publicly installed by Robert W. Hubert, of Unity Lodge No. 102 of Moscow. The officers were: A. Laird, W.M. Watt Barclay, S.W. J. S. Havis, J.W. H. A. Willson, Secretary J. T. Priest, Treasurer J. T. Kirby, J.D. Robert Rotan, Tiler After the installation "the Lodge then formed in procession and marched to the dinner which was given by the fraternity and after partaking of refreshments, returned to the Lodge room." In numerous instances, an account was allowed for dinner furnished the members by W. W. Whitehead. In July 3, 1875, a committee was appointed to build a new building consisting of: W. W. Whitehead S. H. Barnes Stephens Lewis J. M. Hallmark E. Sandlin Nothing further is shown with reference to the action of this committee. But on March 1, 1884, a committee was appointed to see what the Church would pay for the Lodge's interest in the building. This item in the minutes is rather interesting as one can imagine what was being said and done at the time, but not recorded in the minutes with reference to a removal of the Lodge to the new town of Chester. This was just about the time the railroad was built through this section and we can imagine the jealousy and rivalry that existed between the communities of Mount Hope and Peach Tree Village on one hand, and the new town of Chester, on the other. This committee made no report so far as the records show, but on February 7, 1885, W. W. Whitehead, John T. Kirby, Jonathan Peters and Stephen Lewis were granted demits. On March 11th, just 4 days later, the Lodge conducted funeral services at the grave of W. W. Whitehead with J. J. Cannon, D.D.G.M., in charge. A motion was adopted that the previous action granting the demit to W. W. Whitehead be rescinded and that a special dispensation be requested to conduct the funeral services. The Lodge continued with a membership of between 15 and 25 and held its regular meetings at Mount Hope with the usual troubles of securing attendance and in addition to the regular business, conducted trials of the brethren for sundry violations of their obligations and with suspensions for non-payment of dues, until 1891. On May 3, 1890, U. H. Shine affiliated with the Lodge at Mount Hope. On February 7, 1891, a building committee was appointed consisting of: W. M. Lowe J. T. Priest U. H. Shine In June, 1891, J. W. Simmons, I. G. Futch, T. C. Cliburn and W. A. Mahaffey were added to the committee. No reports were made by the committee, but February 20, 1892, John T. Kirby, G. E. Polk and Lee Weathersby were appointed as a committee on arrangements in connection with the dedication ceremonies of the new building to be held on March 4, 1892. S. B. Cooper, John Henry Kirby and Thomas Scott were named to deliver addresses. The last meeting at Mount Hope was on February 6, 1892, at 10 o'clock A.M. with the following officers: U. H. Shine, W.M. J. T. Priest, S.W. Wm. Lowe, J.W. M. C. Parks, Treasurer W. A. Mahaffey, Secretary Wm. Davis, S.D. James Pace, J.D. W. L. Baker, S.S. J. S. Moors, J.S. A. T. Couch, Tiler Members present: Lee Weathersby Visitors: W. H. McDonald, Yellow Pine Lodge William Davis, Yellow Pine Lodge W. L. Bishop, Unity Lodge The object of the meeting was stated and it was unanimously voted to move the Lodge from Mount Hope to the new building at Chester. "The brethren all gathered around the altar and Brother Davis led in prayer. The Lodge was called from labor to refreshments, formed in procession and marched to the new Lodge building at Chester. The Lodge was called from refreshments to labor." At two o'clock in the afternoon, the Lodge reconvened in the new building and petitions were received for N. J. Hayes for initiation, and H. B. Lewis, for affiliation. They then conferred the E. A. degree upon D. C. Morgan and G. E. Smith; the F. C. degree on James Mann, and the M. M. degrees on D. M. Marshall, J. M. Wilbourne and W. L. Uzzell. A reception committee was previously appointed consisting of U. H. Shine, Walter Barclay, G. E. Polk, James T. Priest, Wm. Lowe, W. A. Mahaffey, Lee Weathersby, M. C. Parks, D. M. Marshall, W. L. Uzzel, H. J. Havis and J. S. Moore to meet the R.W.D.D.G.M., H. C. Howell of Jasper, at the two o'clock train. They escorted him "up in our new Lodge building, then down to dinner for refreshments, then back to the Lodge room." On March 4, 1892, the Lodge met and appointed the following officers to: WAIT ON PROCESSION: G. E. Polk D. M. Marshall W. L. Uzzell MARSHALL W. H. McDonald TILER: A. T. Couch STEWARDS: J. S. Moors W. L. Baker ARCHITECT: J. W. Simmons SECRETARY: W. A. Mahaffey TREASURER: M. C. Parks CHAPLAIN F. D. L. Himmey S.W. John Henry Kirby J.W. S. B. Cooper D.W.M. U. H. Shine S.D. V. C. Tucker J.D. H. J. Davis GRAND SWORD BEARER R. D. Davis The object of the meeting was stated which was to dedicate a new Lodge building and all went down stairs formed a procession, marched around the building and back up into the Lodge room in the usual form around the altar. All knelt and the Chaplain led the prayer. The Lodge closed and all went down stairs "and speaking opened up by T. D. Scott of Colmesneil, followed by S. B. Cooper, of Woodville, and closed by John Henry Kirby of Houston. One member of the committees active in this connection at that time, is now living. He is Lee Weathersby of Silsbee. Mr. Weathersby advises me that he remembers the occasion quite well and that there was a serious disturbance in the Lodge and among the brethren as to whether or not the young people should be permitted to close the proceedings with a dance in the new building. That those in favor of dancing won out, but some of the others never got over it. Since 1892, the meetings of the Mount Hope Lodge No. 121, have been held in the Lodge building at Chester, and thus it has the distinction of being the oldest lodge in the county. However, there were two other lodges in existence in 1853, when the Charter was grated; Tyler Lodge No. 50, at Town Bluff, and Woodville Lodge No. 62 at Woodville. As an interesting coincidence, the District Deputy, F.B. Sexton, who recommended that the Charter be granted to Mount Hope Lodge, reported that he had been instructed by the Resolution of the Grand Lodge at its last annual communication requiring him to visit Tyler Lodge No. 50 and inquire in to the regularity of the initiation of Charles A. Sterne but for various reasons had been unable to do so. At the meeting of the Grand Lodge in 1854, he quoted a resolution passed by Grand Lodge in 1853, and said that in accordance with the resolution he went to Town Bluff on 3 day of December, 1853 and as a result of investigation he recommended that Charter of Tyler Lodge be arrested and revoked, which was done. It is not known just when Tyler Lodge at Town Bluff started functioning, as N. B. Charlton reported in a letter that has been published several times that he was made a Mason at Tyler Lodge in 1844, by Taylor, author of Taylor's Monitor. There is no record in the proceedings of the Grand Lodge of Tyler Lodge, until January 1849, when the Grand Secretary reported that a Dispensation had been granted during 1848. The officers of the Woodville Lodge were installed in Tyler Lodge No. 50, in March 18, 1849, by Z. Williams Eddy, D.D.G.M., of the Third Masonic district, with Wyatt Hanks as installing officer. The removal of the County seat from Town Bluff to Woodville, probably cost its life. The Charter of Woodville Lodge No. 62, was forfeited in 186_. Magnolia Lodge No. 495, which has custody of the minutes of Woodville Lodge No. 62, was chartered in 1878. The animosities of the reconstruction days were too much of a strain for the Woodville Lodge and some of the pioneers who originally organized the Lodge, let the charter be forfeited in order to clear up the atmosphere; at least, that is an assumption that is often made. But for a century, being almost the entire life of the State of Texas, the Worshipful Master, Wardens and Brethren of Mount. Hope Lodge No. 121, have succeeded in keeping the light of Free Masonry burning in this small corner of the state where so many of the pioneers began their work in bringing the state from darkness to light and establishing here a Christian Democracy. During this period, 32 members have been installed with appropriate ceremonies as Master of the Lodge. In the order of their service, they are as follows: 1. Wm. Harris 2. H. W. Carter 3. H. A. Willson 4. Henry West 5. A. Laird 6. S. H. Barnes 7. W. W. Whitehead 8. Wm. Lowe 9. Jonathan Peters 10. I. G. Futch 11. James T. Priest 12. J. W. Futch 13. J. W. Simmons 14. Jas. Mann 15. U. H. Shine 16. M. C. Parks 17. L. R. Cade 18. T. B. Morgan 19. U. G. Feagin 20. J. G. Angel 21. S. T. Russel 22. B. F. Adams 23. J. R. Wallace 24. G. S. McAlister 25. J. C. Feagin 26. G. C. Enloe 27. Vinson Goolsbee 28. J. A. Vinson Jr. 29. C. A. Seamans 30. M. O. Sutton 31. J. M. Sheffield 32. J. A. Vinson Only five of those are now living to rejoice in the centennial celebration. These are Dr. L. R. Cade, Geo. C. Enloe, Vinsons Goolsbee, J. M. Sheffield and C. A. Seamans. Doubtless the light has grown dim from time to time, and doubtless these leaders who have taken the time to learn the secrets of Masonry and then hand them down from generation to generation, have often wondered if their efforts were worthwhile, but looking back over this period and seeing Masonry stand the test of changing economic conditions and the vicissitudes of War, we can express our admiration for those leaders and say again that with time, patience and perseverance, we can overcome all things. _______________________________________________________________________________ _ A brief History: The Barclays came to England with the Norman Conquest and settled in Gloucestershire. The Earls of Berkeley built Berkerley Castle as a fortress in 1153. Some of the family went north to Scotland where they settled in the north-east at Towie, Mathers, Gartley and Pierston in Aberdeenshire. They also settled at Collairnie in Fife. Lord Roger de Berchelai and his son John, came to Scotland in the retinue of Margaret, sister of the Saxon Edgar the Aetheling, in 1067. She married Malcolm III, who bestowed various lands on her followers, including the lands of Towie to John de Berchelai. Sir Walter de Berkeley was Chamberlain of Scotland in 1165. Sir David Barclay was one of the chief associates of Robert the Bruce and was present at most of his battles, particularly Methven where he was taken prisoner. In the 17th century a branch of the family was established at Urie near Stonehaven in Kincardineshire. The 1st Laird of Urie, Colonel David Barclay, was a professional soldier who served in the armies of Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden. He returned home when civil war broke out and became a colonel of a regiment of horse fighting for the king. He retired from active service in 1647 and purchased the estate of Urie. After the restoration he was imprisoned in Edinburgh Castle but was soon liberated through the interests of powerful friends with whom he had served during the civil war. During his imprisonment he was converted to the Society of Friends (Quakers) by the Laird of Swinton. His son, Robert Barclay, was also a Quaker, and published An apology for the true Christian Divinity as the same is held forth and preached by the people called in scorn Quakers in 1675. Although the Quakers were generally persecuted, Barclay received great respect. In 1679 Charles II granted him a charter under the great seal, erecting the lands of Urie into a free barony. He died at Urie in 1690. David Barclay of Cheapside, his second son, founded Barclays Bank. In 1621 Sir Patrick Barclay, Baron of Towie, the 17th Laird, signed a letter of safe conduct in favour of John and Peter Barclay who wished to settle in Rostock in Livonia, on the shores of the Baltic. From Peter in five generations was descended Field Marshall Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly born in 1761. He was made minister of war in 1810 and two years later given command of the Russian armies fighting against Napoleon. His scorched earth campaign contributed greatly to Napoleons final downfall. Barclay de Tolly was created a prince by the Tsar and his memory is still honoured in Russia. Barclay de Tolly, Mikhail Bogdanovich, Knyaz (Prince) (b. Dec. 13 [Dec. 24, New Style], 1761, Pamuskis, Poland-Lithuania [now Zeimys, Lithuania]--d. May 14 [May 26], 1818, Insterburg, East Prussia [now Chernyakhovsk, Russia]), Russian field marshal who was prominent in the Napoleonic Wars. Barclay was a member of a Scottish family that had settled in Livonia in the 17th century. Entering the Russian army in 1786, he served against Turkey (1788-89), Sweden (1790), and Poland (1792-94). In the campaign of 1806-07 against Napoleon, Barclay distinguished himself in the Battle of Pultusk and was wounded in the Battle of Eylau, after which he was made lieutenant general. In 1808-09 he commanded Russian forces against the Swedes in Finland. From 1810 to 1812 he was Russian minister of war. In 1812 Barclay took command of one of two Russian armies operating against Napoleon. His strategy of avoiding decisive action and retreating into Russia proved unpopular, and he was forced to resign his command in favour of General M.I. Kutuzov, who followed the same strategy. Barclay was present at the Battle of Borodino, left the army soon afterward, and was recalled in 1813 for service in Germany. After the Battle of Bautzen he was made commander in chief of the Russian forces, and after the Battle of Leipzig he received the title of count from the emperor Alexander I. Barclay took part in the invasion of France in 1814 and while in Paris was promoted to field marshal. In 1815 he was commander in chief of the Russian army that invaded France after Napoleon's return from Elba. He was made a prince at the end of that campaign. [1] MC QUEEN NOTES -------- North of RICHMOND,KY. 1780 our colony started long hunting around there. 1787 they moved the wives out. JOHN SAPPINGTON and THOMAS MCQUEEN are on the monument at BOONESBORO. This was sent to me by hermfagley@juno.com 6/25/99 It is from Faith Keanhey. The Reminiscences of Stephen Burkam Re JOUSHA MCQUEEN wintered at FT LAURENS seige. THOMAS MCQUEEN,at very least,at 1782 MORAVIAN MASSACE AS WAS SGT HARTLEY SAPPINGTON-90 KILLED CAPT GEORGE BROWN WOUNDED;TOM MCQUEEN CAPTURED 3 YEARS-ANOTHER MCQUEEN KILLED AT COL WM CRAWFORD'S DEFEAT ALLEN ECKERT'S "DARK AND BLOODY RIVER",AND "THE FRONTIERSMAN" Faith note: Will paraphrase as much as possible to get the rest of this book to you. The remainder is a bit disconnected, it is mostly different people's views on the same occurrances already presented by others in the book. From Stephen Burkam, Ohio County, VA, born Jan 1762 in Berkeley Co, VA. In the fall of 1768 Solomon Burkam and family settled near Beeson's fort. About 1700 the Indians were threatening so people moved over the mountains, except Beeson and those around him. A treaty was made, the people returned. (He) recollects about Col Crawford going to the relief of Hanna's Town. Capt Jacob Beeson settled 1768. In 1774, Capt William Linn raised a company around Beeson's and Redstone, and went out with McDonald or Dunmore. In 1777, Linn was sent with Foreman to Wheeling, just after the attack on Wheeling - had a company - Linn tried to dissuade Foreman from going under the hill, and he kept above. Simaon Girty early in the revolution competed against Crawfors for some military command, being defeated, and a Tory, joined the Indians. Simon was not in the attack on Wheeling in 1782. George Girty was. Simon was in KY, George commanded the Indians. Capt Pratt commanded 80 British, and Girty had 200 Indians. Girty said he would have the fort and he wanted a surrender. He spoke from a hillside as soon as the enemy appeared. Pratt spoke after dark. Stephen Burkam was with Gen McIntosh - 1500 Militia & 500 regulars who went out in the fall and returned after 4 months on New Year's. McIntosh was 2d in command. They rendezvoused at Pittsburg. Gen Gibson was there. Col Campbell from VA commanded a VA regiment, and since the War was overseer of the penitentiary. They built Fort McIntosh, marched 90 miles to the Tuscarawas, where they built Fort Laurens, never seeing any Indians. McIntosh tool Capt White Eyes and Bob Bee as pilots. White Eyes at Ft. McIntosh , came down with small pox, was sent to Pittsburg and there died. Bob Bee deserted at Ft. McIntosh. No one else got the pox. After reaching Ft Laurens food was short and rationed. a quarter of a pound of flour each day - the main army 70 or 80 left the fort after about 2 weeks. They had nothing but some hides which they roasted and ate. Next winter 18 men went to look for the pack horses, to go to the settlement for provisions. All were cut off. Next spring, the Militia was raised who went to Ft Laurens, saw no trouble, Reason Virgin was one of the captains, and David Shepherd may have been along. Williamson's Moravian Campaign At the mouth of Indian Wheeling, James Marshall, Col Commandant of Westmoreland, and Williamson, second Col, and took command of 400 men. They crossed the Muskingum river. Williamson said<"Do as you please with the prisoners," and picked up his gun and tomahawk and went into the bushes. William Welch, and Irishman tomahawked 7. The house was filled with men tomahawking. The Indians had previously sang and paryed. John McCulloch was out as a private, saw two Indian lads by the river, and told them to go hide. They may have been killed in the Council- house. We reached the toen that afternoon, and the Indians were tomahawked a little after dark. Hugh Cameron's hat and hunting shirt were found in one of the houses. These were identified. Next day they started back, this was toward the end of March. Crawford's Campaign In May, 489 men rendezvoused at the old Mingo town. Crawford was chosen, although many wanted Williamson, but Williamson wanted Crawford as well, as he was the oldest man. Williamson was 2d in command, then probably McClellan, Capt Eziekial Rose (on Ten Mile Creek), Capt Brenton; Major Harrison; Capt Eleazar Williamson; Capt James Dunn (?) from Shirtee; Capt Joseph Bean; Capt John Biggs. On the way out Indians were seen by the pilots. While marching, they saw a large party of Indians. The Indians made for the woods, the fight lasted until dark. The Indians were in the tall grass as high as their heads. They would show theirselves to fire, then squat and load. Major Harrison was killed, Capt Munn (?) wounded. 5 or 6 killed - Munn's leg was broke. Capt Bane was wounded on the first day. Horses were tied in the skirt of the woods, provisions were thrown together, they put out a strong sentry and were not disturbed during the night. Firing commenced early in the morning, they kept the same position with fighting by " little flirts" - few of Crawford's men were killed or wounded. That afternoon Col Williamson requested 200 men to rush and attack the enemy. Crawford thought it was improper to divide the men. At dusk the enemy was reinforced (Ben Newland with them, who shortly after joined the whites, and made the "leap".) Crawford ordered the men to retreat - each to shift for himself. Col D. Williamson tried to keep the men in a body and fight as they retreated. They mostly kept as a body, retreating after dark. The Indians followed but didn't fire the first night. In passing the swamp, some had to abandon their horses others were stuck, overtaken and tomahawked. The next day there were several little fights. John Hays was wounded. The next day the Indians caught him and "ringed" around for his scalp, they were beaten back, but on the 3d day of the retreat he was killed. The 2d day of the retreat (7 Jun) there were three skirmishes, the next day many more. The last day Thomas Ogle's back was broken by a ball. He said, "Tell brother Joe that you left me here, lord of the soil - I'll keep my tomahawk, feign dead, and when they come to take my scalp, I'll fix one of them." He was left to his fate. [Joe: Capt Joseph Ogle.] The retreat was slow - some days 10 or 12 miles. The most of those who seperated from the main body were killed - Capt John Biggs and Lt. Ashby among them. They disbanded at Mingo Town. Rose, Bane, and Munn were wounded, all got in. First Siege of Wheeling It was John McCulloch who rode down on the 3 yr old gray mare. He had the mare 33 years, finally dropped dead under the saddle, fat as a bear. There was a large party from Short Creek, Capt Francis McGuire, Maj Samuel McCulloch, and John Green were chased to Capteen Island [Captine] and escaped and reached Van Meter's fort. Elizabeth Zane did carry powder at the first siege. Lewis Wetzel About 1785, lewis went alone to hunt for an Indian camp. He went to the Stillwater, found a camp of 3 Indians, hid in the bushes until they were asleep, crept up, tomahawked all three, took their scalps and guns and went to Wheeling. When out after Mill's horse, Lewis killed 3 Indians. The Indians tomahawked Mills who was shot in the thigh. The Indians' bodies were not found. When Lewis and Jacob were taken, it was frosty weather, white frost (illegible), and Lewis went back and got his father's gun, then went and got some moccassins, while Jacob was hid in the woods. The old man, John Wetzel, was alone when killed. Lewis, nor any of his brothers were out with Crawford. Ben Ulin Ben Ulin was out hunting for his horse, at or near the mouth of Kenhawa, was pursued by Indians, and cornered. He had to jump over a ledge of great distance into the Ohio River below. He caught hold of a limb of a buckeye sappling, which broke off, but broke his fall, and saved him. In peace, he saw some of the Indians who witnessed the leap. They laughed at him, and asked why he chose to leap instead of taken. He said he would rather be killed then taken. This was after 1782. He married and settled down. Second Siege of Wheeling On Sunday preceeding the attack, Ebenezer and Jonathan Zane, and Stephen Burkam returned from Stillwater, where they had been to get Indian horses, got none, and were chased all the way to Wheeling. Mills was wounded, 17 wounds and two skips. Henry Smith was slightly wounded in the thigh. It was 2 months before Mills was able to get about. Dr. Knight came once from Pittsburg to see him. Mills desired Burkham to tomahawk him, to deprive the Indians of that fun, in case they got into the fort. The siege commenced on Wed afternoon, 15th or 16th Sep 1782. Peter Neisinger and Hamilton Carr were out spying. The Indians crossed at Bogg's Island - the main body. Some got on the Wheeling Island. A few days before Andrew Zane had brought two 10 gall. kegs of whiskey from Cat Fish Camp, within 2 or 3 miles of Wheeling, saw the signs and hid his kegs in a tree top. On the day of the attack, Andrew Zane, Stephen Burkam, Solomon (?) Wright, and half a dozen others went for it. They saw the old sign, nothing more, got to the fort spring, were drinking, when 2 spies came in. All went to work preparing for the siege. All hands carried water from the river. Sun near two hours high, they came beating the drums, and paraded themselves along the hill. They stopped the music, Girty, with flag in hand made his speech. Stated his strength (that Simopn had defeated the Kentuckians at Blue Licks) that reenforcements with artillery would arrive. Burkam fired 3 shots at Girty, and missed. The swivel was shot - grape shot and bullets - 10 Indians scattered mostly into the cornfield among the corn. There was moonlight, then a heavy fog. Pratt speaks, says he is a Scotchman, closed by wishing them no harm. Betsey Wheat and George Girty confabbed. Girty asked if they had whiskey. Yes, plenty of it. How was it made? In a melting ladle, and you shall have a belly full of it. Said Girty, "I'll have the fort before morning, or go to hell." "Hell then," said Betsey, "is your portion, for into the fort, you cannot come." Then commenced a mutual throwing of stones, after awhile firing commenced. Archibald and George Carr, brothers of Hamilton, and Anthony Rigger, and George Scott were also among the defenders. Silas Zane and Andrew Scott were at the fort, and only Ebanezer Zane, Green, and the negro were at Zane's house. David Sullivan and two men with a load of cannon balls and despatches from Pittsburgh to Gen Clark reached Wheeling just before the siege commenced. Sullivan knew Girty personally and recognized his voice. Sullivan was wounded the first night. [the bullet came in at the toe and lodged in the instep, and had to be extracted at Pittsburg, where he went after loosing his load, but Sullivan fought. Two pickets fell, were put up, and a board nailed across on the inside. John Tate and Conrad Stoup were gunners. Tate had been in the army. (Capt Boggs sent for aid to Col James Marshel, on Buffaloe, etc) They fired the cannon at Jacob Rigger's house, in which the Indians were hiding, cut the joints in two, and the whole loft fell. Indians scattered out. The enemy tried to fire the fort with flax, but failed. At Zane's house, Old Sam, the negro, was slightly grazed. He pulled out his plug, and fired out, saying, "Take care, Sambo is here!" They kept away from Zane's the remainder of the night. Next day they shot at a negro with the Indians, wounded him, and he surrendered and came in. He had been taken on the Clinch, had on Maj Harrison's coat, with a bullet hole in it. The Indians put on pertticoats. They killed sheep, cattle, hogs and took horses. They would cut out the tongues of cattle to eat. There were 11 horses and 12 cows at the fort, one of the latter was shot. That evening, the Indians fired their wooden cannon, within 15 yds of the fort, and it busted. At Muskingum, on their way out, the negro said, they made one wrapped with elk tugs, and made some noise, but this with chains that did not give. The next night there was some firing. Friday, about noon, they last were seen on Wheeling Island. The men then ran out of the fort and fired on them. Tate, an Irishman, seized the wooden cannon and shouldered it, hollowaing out, "Tell your master that you left an Irishman running off with your cannon." Col Williamson did not come until late in the day, marching with some 40 men. On Sat, Rice's Blockhouse was besieged by a part of this enemy. Sunday morning early, 40 men (including Burkam and Moses Shepherd) under Capt Ezekial De Witt, went from Lamb's fort, some 2 miles off, and followed the trail some distance. [He] don't think Rice went from Lamb's during Sunday night. End of Stephen Burkam's narrative HERMON BROWN FAGLEY 2679 ST RT 125 BETHEL OHIO 45106 1740'S DUGAL MCQUEEN lived adj GEORGE and Mary Stevenson Brown,NE WESTMINSTER,MD. son JOHN BROWN M MCQUEEN and son TOM MCQUEEN m Eliz Berry Capt-lt-REV J.P. GEORGE BROWN D 1814 M ELZABETH MCQUUEN,SISTER OF JOUSHA,WHOSE SIDE MARRIED CREWS. HFAGLEY@aol.com and hermfagley@juno.com ___________________________________________w does it work Chat between Scoo and MM regarding McQueens, June, 1999 Scoo138847: I guess she was born in madison kent also OnlineHost: WHendr3062 has entered the room. KMcq695311: AS you ask questions and we try to help MM12948: who did she marry? Lgrubb0542: bbl go STARS!!!!!! KMcq695311: Bye Lg ASmith1153: thanks KMcq695311: Hi Xho MM12948: I will check it out and let you know OnlineHost: PREW7 has entered the room. OnlineHost: MM12948 has left the room. DJBURL7: Scoo try the MCQueen family forum OnlineHost: ANNAKINS01 has entered the room. OnlineHost: PREW7 has left the room. OnlineHost: RProst has left the room. Scoo138847: mm walter barclay was b. rowan co NC 1774 OnlineHost: AOTTMERS has entered the room. Scoo138847: dburl, thank you ASmith1153: How can a new comer start to search for their family OnlineHost: AOTTMERS has left the room. Scoo138847: smith, start writing down all in your generation, your parents and grandparents OnlineHost: Playurhand has entered the room. Scoo138847: then ask your grandparents about their parents and grand parents and that will give you 5 ge DJBURL7: Scoo it under gem forum, then put the Surname in the find box and search the web OnlineHost: ANNAKINS01 has left the room. Playurhand: Can any one tell me about Genealogy OnlineHost: Verp525 has entered the room. ASmith1153: just names or what sorry to be so dumb OnlineHost: Verp525 has left the room. OnlineHost: Verp525 has entered the room. OnlineHost: Verp525 has left the room. Scoo138847: burl, that ou Scoo138847: smith, do names, birthday, where, who married, where died, where buried Swyrbn: you have mentioned family forums how do you find these OnlineHost: MM12948 has entered the room. ASmith1153: ok that helps OnlineHost: Hobomcjjj has entered the room. KMcq695311: WB MM KMcq695311: Hi Hobo Playurhand: ASsmith I'm not dumb just a question ASmith1153: what if my grands are dead OnlineHost: ChoDip has left the room. MM12948: Hey Scoo I have a Elizabeth McQueen born to John McQueen and Nancy Crews. Scoo138847: ask anyone old in the family what they recall for starters smith MM12948: born in 1789 OnlineHost: Hobomcjjj has left the room. ASmith1153: no real people to ask DJBURL7: go into interest- into geneoalogy-type in gem forum GErwin8367: Can get to forums by going to keyword and type - genealogy MM12948: did you get that? OnlineHost: SHARREN99 has entered the room. OnlineHost: CAROL4150 has entered the room. OnlineHost: Playurhand has left the room. Scoo138847: mm, i have found several eliza before, when was this one born and where MM12948: those McQueens did come to TX KMcq695311: Hello Carol OnlineHost: RLLX2 has entered the room. Swyrbn: thanks again have a good day everyone RLLX2: Hello room CAROL4150: Hi KM KMcq695311: Hello RLL RLLX2: Hey Carol CAROL4150: Hi RLL Swyrbn: bye RLLX2: Hi KM MM12948: You all say hi and bye way to much OnlineHost: Swyrbn has left the room. CAROL4150: Now MM hi to you too KMcq695311: We are friendly MM ASmith1153: I thank you all for you help. let you know how this goes GErwin8367: Interests Channel has genealogy. Also can search military stuff for records Scoo138847: MM one of elizabeth mcqueen's brothers was milton OnlineHost: SHARREN99 has left the room. MM12948: (((Kmcq))) KMcq695311: LOLOL RLLX2: MM Its called acknowledgement and courtesy! MM12948: that was a hug kat Scoo138847: do you have siblings of elizabeth's OnlineHost: ASmith1153 has left the room. CAROL4150: Watch it MM keep the parenthesis where we can see them LOL KMcq695311: Thank you I needed that MM12948: no I don't have a Milton on that one. OnlineHost: M2WINN has entered the room. KELLERTC has left the room. MM12948: Elizabeth, John, Jane, Spicey MM12948: Maybe a David also Discussion? MM12948: Most of the McQueens in TX are descended from John McQueen and Nancy Crews Scoo138847: thank you MM i used my new skill and copied all this chat and saved it under McQueen chat an RLLX2: Yes we are all related somehow. MM12948: I don't think so Scoo138847: MM, how do you know and what part of Texas OnlineHost: GenResPlus has entered the room. KMcq695311: WB GenR GenResPlus: hi kmc MM12948: I think those McQueens settled around Tyler CO RLLX2: KITLEY, MASON, HART, SMITH, SENTORS STEELE GenResPlus: hi mm GenResPlus: hi rll MM12948: howdy RLLX2: hEY gEN HOW ARE YOU? Scoo138847: MM you hit the nail on the head. Chester, Woodville OnlineHost: LH79835 has left the room. Scoo138847: Hasper GenResPlus: i am fine, thanks, rll, and you? Kui2k: howsit all. RLLX2: Fine its getting hot here in Santa Barbara Gen GenResPlus: hi kui Scoo138847: several intermarriages with crews, mc queen, barclays KMcq695311: MM come to Tx and we will find the McQueens RLLX2: Hi kui Kui2k: Aloha nui loa to all!!!! GenResPlus: hot here too, rll, but i just got off treadmill, too Scoo138847: MM how did you know that MM12948: I would like that KMcq695311: Me too MM12948: How did I know what? RLLX2: Oh boy, I'm to old for treadmill! GenResPlus: kmc, treadmill?? CAROL4150: brb afk Scoo138847: MM that they went to Tyler co KMcq695311: <---- no treadmill GenResPlus: that's exactily why you need a treadmill rll MM12948: I just did OnlineHost: DELETEADD has entered the room. Scoo138847: were they real tall and thin OnlineHost: Varinia3 has entered the room. GenResPlus: it helps your heart get stronger......... KMcq695311: Hi Varinia RLLX2: lol I do alot of walking though. OnlineHost: QiDoc1 has entered the room. M2WINN: Anyone know about Woolwine families? MM12948: I had to seperate my McQueens from those McQueens although they are connected GenResPlus: that and laughing, so i do both often, part of my rehab RLLX2: M2 from where? MM12948: in Maryland GenResPlus: not me m2 Varinia3: Hi KM OnlineHost: SBerry1932 has entered the room. KMcq695311: MM LOLOL I am having a hard time keeping up with you Varinia3: SB- God have you seen it before? CAROL4150: Var have you seen spider? RLLX2: MM what did you find? SBre1946: no MM12948: Elizabeth McQueen born in 1790 to John McQueen MM12948: and Nancy Crews SBerry1932: Seen what Varinia3: No, not today, but got an email from him. short one TJJHAZLE: anyone know of a chat room on antique collectors? SBre1946: Saving Private Ryan MM12948: M to Walter Barclay CAROL4150: Is Spider OK? Var SBerry1932: yes!!!!!!!!!1 Varinia3: TJ. yes there is one, unders special I think SBre1946: BBL Varinia3: Used to be anyway OnlineHost: SBre1946 has left the room. KMcq695311: bye SR Varinia3: I think so hon Scoo138847: mm that is great. that is exactly correct. thank you so much MM12948: brothers David and Milton Varinia3: Just a little disappointed OnlineHost: Gorup has entered the room. Varinia3: I will send you his email if I didn't delete it. Hold on TJJHAZLE: ok, will look. thanks SBerry1932: BERRY,GILPIN,SHARP OnlineHost: Gorup has left the room. KMcq695311: I have berry CAROL4150: Ok thanks Var OnlineHost: RLLX2 has left the room. t rooms CAROL4150: Hi Cc nice to see you again TJJHAZLE: ok thanks carol KMcq695311: Cc left MM12948: she died 15 May 1863 Tyler Co TX Varinia3: maybe he was booted CAROL4150: welcome TJ MM12948: Walter was son of Robert and Leah Barkley KMcq695311: BRB Scoo138847: mm that is correct. do you have mcq back further than john and nancy MM12948: John was the son of Thomas McQueen, son of Dugal McQueen KMcq695311: back Scoo138847: robert and leah barkley and walter were from rowan co NC MM12948: yes they were OnlineHost: WHendr3062 has left the room. Scoo138847: mm do you have those mcq back to scotland? TJJHAZLE: havent slept for goin on 40 hrs. Guess I should try to get some rest. MM12948: Nancy Crews was the Dau of David Milton Crews KMcq695311: Just back to Dugal McQueen OnlineHost: Varinia3 has left the room. MM12948: and Annie Magee MM12948: just to Dugal Scoo138847: were those crews and mcqueen all in Kent? TJJHAZLE: bye all OnlineHost: TJJHAZLE has left the room. MM12948: yes they were MM12948: at one time MM12948: you mean KY don't you? MM12948: not Kent England right? Scoo138847: there is another mystery. there was a peter barclay on the census as walter son, not elizabe OnlineHost: FCTlara has entered the room. OnlineHost: Gamut2897 has entered the room. MM12948: I don't do that line OnlineHost: Gamut2897 has left the room. Scoo138847: mm, i mean KY MM12948: since I am not realted to the Crews FCTlara: what is genealogy MM12948: or the others OnlineHost: WEINERCLUB has entered the room. MM12948: I am from Joshua M. McQueen OnlineHost: PEAKECAR has entered the room. McQueen Notes from Fragley, June, 1999 HERMON BROWN FAGLEY 2679 ST RT 125 BETHEL OHIO 45106 1740'S DUGAL MCQUEEN lived adj GEORGE and Mary Stevenson Brown,NE WESTMINSTER,MD. son JOHN BROWN M MCQUEEN and son TOM MCQUEEN m Eliz Berry Capt-lt-REV J.P. GEORGE BROWN D 1814 M ELZABETH MCQUUEN,SISTER OF JOUSHA,WHOSE SIDE MARRIED CREWS. HFAGLEY@aol.com and hermfagley@juno.com OnlineHost: TMTM111 has entered the room. WM HOY'S aka GEORGE Boone's fort and nearby DAVID CREWS FORT are almost exactly on 1-75 at WHITE HALL [Foxtown ]KY just south of the KY RIVER,and a bit further south of LEXINGTON,KY. North of RICHMOND,KY. 1780 our colony started long hunting around there. 1787 they moved the wives out. JOHN SAPPINGTON and THOMAS MCQUEEN are on the monument at BOONESBORO. ICincinnati, 10 miles from where GEORGE AND ELIZABETH MCQUEEN BROWN SETTLED 1802. 15 MILES FROM THEIR 1798 HOME. 150 MILES FROM WHERE JOHN,JOUSHA AND ELIZABETH [AND CREWS LIVED 1787-98; 300 MILES FROM WEIRTON WV WHERE THEY LIVED 1773-87. 600 MILES FROM WHERE THEY LIVED AT HAMPSTEAD MD FROM BIRTH TIL 1773.george and eliz were 1st cousins.HIS FATHER,JOHN BROWN D 1810,WAS MARRIED TO DUGAL'S DAU..JOHN LIVED AT HAMPSTEAD MD ADJ THOMAS AND ELIZ BERRY MCQUEEN. TOM DIED BY MIDDLE AGE. HIS FRENCH SPEAKING WIDOW WENT TO WEIRTON JOUSHA MCQUEEN, BRO OF JOHN M CREWS GAVE A LONG INTERVIEW FOUND IN LYMAN DRAPERS"KY MICROFILM AT BIG LIBRARIES. LOT OF 1ST COUSIN MARRIAGES IN COLONY. KERR AND WELLS CO TX NAMED FOR COLONY MEMBERS. BARCLAY page 199 mostly a group sheet in appendix that came in after book was nearly done. mostly- still good book,and she also wrote a CREWS BOOK,I think. Then she got married.Donna hechler m andrew porter. DONNA HECKLER m Andrew[?] Porter. Parents[?] at 2204 Eaves,Baytown Tx 77520 "METES AN BOUNDS I: Dugal McQueen and some DESC\ "INDEX BARCLAY PAGE 196; ROBERT PAGE 199;ROBERT AND LEAH 199;WALTER BARCLAY PGES 42 ANS 199 Pool Notes From Jane D. Knapp P. B. Box 350 Toppenish, WA 98948-035 June 17, 1999 Foreword: These notes are being word processed by Dr. Teddy Barclay Pope, who is related to the Pool Family through her grandmother, Nancy Laura Pool b. 1873 Tyler County d. 1924 Tyler County, Texas m. Walter Barclay b. 1871 Tyler CO Texas d. 1945 Tyler County Texas. Both are buried at MT Zion Cemetery, Chester, Texas, Tyler Co. Nancy Laura Pool was the daughter of Josh W Pool and Alice Delila Riley Pool. Josh W Pool was the son of the Widow Pool whose second husband was Harmon Frazier, all of Tyler County Texas and in the records, including the 1835 census of Texas online and the 1850 census. Variations of the spelling of the Pool Surname are Poole, and Pettipoole. Other Pool descendants in Tyler County were Nancy Laura's sisters and brother, Clara ( m to Henry Barclay, Walter's older brother ), Frances Ludy Pool and John Riley Pool. After the early death of Laura's father Josh W Pool, his widow married Willis Bourn, and after his death, James Jim Barclay. Many of these descendants are also buried in Mt Zion Cemetery, Chester, Tyler County, Texas. Descendants are the 14 Barclay children of Nancy Laura Pool and Walter Barclay, 11 of whom lived to adulthood and their descendants, the 8 Barclay children of Clara Pool and Henry Barclay, and the children of John Riley Pool who included Herman, Bower, and others and Vestal and Jack Pool in the next generation, and others. Excerpts for the floppy disc book, A Texas Family: The Barclays, 1999, by this writer further describes the relationship of the Pools to the Barclays and names various descendants. 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. 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. Here, 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 Barclay family. Henry was Walter^Òs brother. Henry married Laura^Òs 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^Òs early death Henry had two more wives and four more children who were first cousins to the Walter Barclay children. The third family was the James "Jim" Barclay family. Jim married Laura and Clara^Òs 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^Òs other sister was Frances Ludy Pool. The children of Laura^Òs 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^Òs brother Willis Daniel Bourn and Ethel Stuart were: Cecil, Wayne, Edna and Bessie Bourn. The other first cousins were the children of Walter^Òs brothers and sisters, Henry, Ben Ross, Dr. Robert L. Cruse, Betty (Morgan), Falby (Lockhart and Russell) and the children of Walter^Òs 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, given the surname of another related family member, 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^Òs 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 and Clara Pool Barclay^Òs children were; Cass, Laura, Alice, Martha Jean, Lacey, Bower, John and Watt. Henry had a second wife who left and went back to Louisiana with her two children, __? and Hap. There was a third wife, May whose two Barclay children were John and Reagan Barclay. There were twelve in all. J. Walter and Laura Pool Barclay^Òs children were; Myrtie, Clara, Mary, Clyde, Eula, James (Buck )Buchanan Barclay, Joshua (Josh) , Riley, Robert, George, Ora and Lora, Louise and Feagin Barclay. There were fourteen in all. Note: The father and mother of Josh W. Pool were William Pool and Nancy Durden Pool. William was killed. Nancy married the widower Harmon Frazer. They lived near the Fortenberry's north of THIS OLD HOUSE and south of Bob Belt Road. The significance of the papers and notes of Jane D Knapp of Toppenish, Washington, to the Pool family of Tyler County, Texas, is, at this time, unknown. Study and research may determine that the family about whom these notes were made is not related at all to the Pool family descended from Josh W. Pool of Tyler County, Texas, but since the time frame is similar and the location of Rockwell, Texas, is also in the same vacinity of East Texas where the descendants of Josh W. Pool made their home in Tyler County, at a time when Texas was in its early days, and sparsely settled, it is recom-mended that these notes be retained for a future date at which time they may be studied more carefully, and further conclusions drawn. The purpose at this time is to preserve the notes for posterity. Notes Document one - copied from Gabriel Pool's Family Bible by R. F. Pool, 1936 Husband - William Pool born 1795 married 1897 died July 4 1840 Swenter CO ALA husband's father John Pool husband's mother Maxulda Hollaway(?) wife Elizabeth Jones Wife - Elizabeth Jones Died ALA 1817 wife's father Gabriel Jones Children Female Lucinda Pool January 13, 1809 m Thomas Rodes Male John Pool December 2, 1810 Male Gabriel Pool August 31, 1812 Male Thomas Pool April 17, 1815 Male James Pool March 28, 181 Female Mariann Pool Nover 8 1820 Male Stephen Sparki Pool December 2 1821 Male William H. Pool January 26, 1823 Female Elizabeth Pool January 26, 1824 Other handwritten notes on this page not legible and estimated Batesville Indep 2 sons killed James to Illinois Shown in Shelby CO ALA Census 1820 had wife and 3 sons 1 daughter under 21 Elizabeth died S C DOCUMENT TWO e-mail Subj.: Re: download is long. see information about Josh Pool Date: 6/16/99 5:04:01 AM Central Daylight Time From: JHall1077 (screen name of Jane D Knapp of Toppenish, WA. To: Scoo138847 (screen name of Teddy Barclay Pope of Woodville, Texas) I took a look at your Tyler web page and the Barclay information and it is very interesting, because Mother's maiden name is Flowers, her mother was Allen, and Bradshaw is her g-grandfather on her father's side. I was in Tyler a few years ago and found some information on the Bradshaws. I am still hoping to find what happened to Ben Bradshaw's wife, Ami Mariah Gwin Bradshaw, as I have not found her death records and he remarried in the 1850's. I copied the basic information on Pooles below. Jane Descendants of James Washington Poole 1 James Washington Poole b: 1816 in SC d: December 28, 1897 in Confederate Home, Rogers, TX .. +Nancy Bradshaw b: 1827 in Tenn ......... 2 Joseph Berry Poole b: December 28, 1847 in Gainesv ille, Green, AR d: January 05, 1919 in Winters, Runnels Co, TX ............. +Sarah J Cave b: 1850 in Clark, Miss d: January 06, 1881 in Milam, TX .................... 3 Nancy E Poole b: November 05, 1874 in Milam, TX d: January 13, 1879 .................... 3 Thomas J Poole b: January 02, 1877 in Milam, T X d: October 03, 1877 .................... 3 Elias Clark Poole b: September 29, 1878 i n Milam, TX ......... *2nd Wife of Joseph Berry Poole: ............. +Frances Savannah "Fannie" Bolen b: July 18, 186 4 in Tallahassee, Leon Co., FL d: November 26, 1963 in Ballinger, Runnels Co, TX .................... 3 May Belle Poole b: October 29, 1883 in Rockdale , Milam, TX d: May 05, 1955 ........................ +J Will Cox .................... 3 Minnie Etta Poole b: September 25, 1885 i n TX d: October 01, 1978 in Christoval, Tom Green Co, TX ........................ +Almer Dowdle b: June 22, 1882 in Coo lidge, Limestone Co, TX d: April 01, 1944 in Brownwood, Brown Co., TX ............................... 4 Callie Savannah Dowdle b: August 22, 1910 in Coolidge, Limestone Co., TX d: February 06, 1964 in Big Springs, Howard Co., TX ................................... +Thomas Franklin Ward b: Janu ary 17, 1907 in Chickashaw, OK d: April 25, 1983 in Big Springs, Howard, TX ........................................... 5 Melvin Ward b: June 15, 1935 d: April 07, 1951 in Garden Springs, TX ........................................... 5 Annette Ward b: Febr uary 09 ............................................... +Dink Johnson ........................................... 5 Melva Jeane Ward b: October 28, 1930 in TX ............................................... +William Arthur "Pete" Reed ...................................................... 6 Dorothy Jeane Johnson .......................................................... +Mack J ames Crowe ................................................................. 7 Kimberly Ann Crowe b: September 15, 1965 d: August 11, 1966 in T X ................................................................. 7 Brandon Dean Crowe b: February 23, 1974 ................................................................. 7 Todd William Crowe b: January 18, 1972 ...................................................... 6 William Arthur,Jr "Pete" Reed ...................................................... 6 Jerri Dean Reed ...................................................... 6 Kenneth Franklin Reed ...................................................... 6 Stacy Irene Reed ........................................... 5 Wanda Lynelle Ward b: February 14, 1934 d: December 21, 1979 in Abilene, TX ............................................... +Billy Joe Peterson d: July 04, 1956 in San Angelo, TX ...................................................... 6 Dixie Jo Peterson ............................... 4 Ray Almer Dowdle b: July 11, 191 3 in Coolidge, Limestone Co, TX d: September 10, 1971 in Midland, Midland Co, TX ................................... +Mary Elizabeth Flowers b: June 14, 1916 in Knot, TX d: October 20, 1972 in Midland, Midland, TX ........................................... 5 Clyde Ray Dowdle b: May 03, 1937 in Ackerly, Howard Co, TX ............................................... +Annette Williamson b: June 17, 1937 in TX d: May 30, 1997 in Austin TX ...................................................... 6 Kieth Aubrey Dowdle b: October 01, 1963 in MIdland, TX ...................................................... 6 Brent Ray Dowdle b: September 15, 1959 in Midland, TX .......................................................... +Nancy Ann Schulz ................................................................. 7 Emily Dowdle ................................................................. 7 Callie Dowdle ...................................................... 6 Noel Wayne Dowdle b: July 30, 1966 in Austin, TX .......................................................... +Johnni e ........................................... 5 Jane b: September 10 , 1940 in Ackerly, Howard Co, TX ............................................... +[1] Waylon Dean Oliver b: June 07, 1938 in De Leon, TX ...................................................... 6 Eddie Wayne Oliver b: June 05, 1958 in Midland, Midland, TX .......................................................... +Maria b: August 15, 1960 in Mexico ................................................................. 7 Eddie Wayne Oliver, Jr. b: August 11, 1981 in California ................................................................. 7 Linda Michelle Oliver b: August 07, 1983 ................................................................. 7 Jennifer Ann Oliver b: June 26, 1989 in Houston, Harris, TX, USA ................................................................. 7 Jerry Lynn Oliver b: May 21, 1990 in Houston, Harris, TX, USA ...................................................... 6 [2] Curtis Lynn Oliver b: June 20, 1958 in Midland, Midland, TX .......................................................... +[3] Le ighann Kessner ................................................................. 7 [4] Jason Oliver ................................................................. 7 [5] Chad Oliver b: June 01 ...................................................... *2nd Wife of [2 ] Curtis Lynn Oliver: .......................................................... +[6] Virgie ................................................................. 7 [7] Travis Anthony Oliver b: July 20, 1981 ...................................................... *3rd Wife of [2 ] Curtis Lynn Oliver: .......................................................... +[8] Ch eryl Lynn Cross b: December 31 ...................................................... 6 [9] Linda Gay Oliver b: October 25, 1960 in Midland, Midland, TX .......................................................... +[10] R onald Roberson ...................................................... *2nd Husband of [9] Linda Gay Oliver: .......................................................... +[11] K ieth Behn d: 1982 ...................................................... *3rd Husband of [9] Linda Gay Oliver: .......................................................... +[12] B ob b: in Bronx, NY ...................................................... 6 Kelly Don Newton b: August 11, 1961 .......................................................... +Angie ................................................................. 7 Waylon Lee Newton b: February 27, 1981 in SD ........................................... *2nd Husband of Norma " Jane" Dowdle: ............................................... +[13] Charles Andrew Hall b: June 26, 1937 in Birmingham, AL d: April 18, 1992 ...................................................... 6 [14] Charlotte Jane Hall b: August 30, 1966 in Ft Worth, Tarrant, TX .......................................................... +[15] E dward Albert Kaiser b: December ................................................................. 7 [16] Jacob Albert Kaiser b: March 14, 1987 in Lynnwood, WA ................................................................. 7 [17] Jessica Lynn Kaiser b: June 10, 1988 in Lynnwood, WA ................................................................. 7 [18] Stephen Paul Kaiser b: August 08, 1989 in Lynnwood, WA ........................................... *3rd Husband of Norma " Jane" Dowdle: ............................................... +[19] Richard Frederick Knapp b: September 09, 1939 in Pasadena, CA ........................................... 5 Bill b: November 11, 1945 in Amarillo, Potter Co., TX ............................................... +Faye Kathleen Thomas b: January 01, 1950 in Corpus Christi, TX ...................................................... 6 Peggy Kathleen Dowdle b: November 17, 1971 in Abilene, Taylor, TX .......................................................... +Willia m Hugh Gill ........................................... 5 Oliver b: September 10 , 1940 in Ackerly, TX ............................................... +[1] Waylon Dean Oliver b: June 07, 1938 in De Leon, TX ...................................................... 6 Eddie Wayne Oliver b: June 05, 1959 ...................................................... 6 [2] Curtis Lynn Oliver b: June 20, 1958 in Midland, Midland, TX .......................................................... +[3] Le ighann Kessner ................................................................. 7 [4] Jason Oliver ................................................................. 7 [5] Chad Oliver b: June 01 ...................................................... *2nd Wife of [2 ] Curtis Lynn Oliver: .......................................................... +[6] Virgie ................................................................. 7 [7] Travis Anthony Oliver b: July 20, 1981 ...................................................... *3rd Wife of [2 ] Curtis Lynn Oliver: .......................................................... +[8] Ch eryl Lynn Cross b: December 31 ...................................................... 6 [9] Linda Gay Oliver b: October 25, 1960 in Midland, Midland, TX .......................................................... +[10] R onald Roberson ...................................................... *2nd Husband of [9] Linda Gay Oliver: .......................................................... +[11] K ieth Behn d: 1982 ...................................................... *3rd Husband of [9] Linda Gay Oliver: .......................................................... +[12] B ob b: in Bronx, NY ...................................................... 6 Kelly Don Oliver b: August 11, 1962 ........................................... *2nd Husband of Norma J ane Dowdle: ............................................... +[13] Charles Andrew Hall b: June 26, 1937 in Birmingham, AL d: April 18, 1992 ...................................................... 6 [14] Charlotte Jane Hall b: August 30, 1966 in Ft Worth, Tarrant, TX .......................................................... +[15] E dward Albert Kaiser b: December ................................................................. 7 [16] Jacob Albert Kaiser b: March 14, 1987 in Lynnwood, WA ................................................................. 7 [17] Jessica Lynn Kaiser b: June 10, 1988 in Lynnwood, WA ................................................................. 7 [18] Stephen Paul Kaiser b: August 08, 1989 in Lynnwood, WA ........................................... *3rd Husband of Norma J ane Dowdle: ............................................... +[19] Richard Frederick Knapp b: September 09, 1939 in Pasadena, CA ............................... 4 Leslie Alpha Dowdle b: January 11, 1919 in Coolidge, Limestone Co, TX d: March 15, 1922 in Coolidge, Limestone Co, TX ............................... 4 Thelton William Dowdle b: October 07, 1921 in Coolidge, Limestone Co., TX d: August 04, 1995 in San Angelo, TX ................................... +Patricia Kay Parvin b: Febr uary 20, 1950 in Glenrose, Sommerville, TX ........................................... 5 Amy Dowdle ........................................... 5 Bill T Dowdle ............................... *2nd Wife of Thelton William Dowdle: ................................... +Billie ........................................... 5 Leslie Lynn Dowdle ............................................... +Jeff Boylan ...................................................... 6 Bethany Boylan ...................................................... 6 Leah Boylan ...................................................... 6 Sarah Boylan ........................................... 5 Joe Dowdle ............................... *3rd Wife of Thelton William Dowdle: ................................... +Marylou ........................................... 5 Amy Dowdle ............................... 4 Derrel Sanders Dowdle b: August 27, 1923 in Norton, Runnels Co, TX ................................... +Mitsuko "Sue" Kitsuya ........................................... 5 Linda Dowdle ............................................... +Phillip Rizzo ........................................... 5 Barbara Dowdle ............................... 4 Lynn Ward Dowdle b: July 01, 192 6 in Winters, Runnels Co, TX ................................... +Hazel Ruth Hill ............................... *2nd Wife of Lynn Ward Dowdle: ................................... +Mary Lou Lewis b: July 11, 193 0 in TX ........................................... 5 Lyndon Lewis "Don" Dowdle b: May 03, 1962 in San Angelo, Tom Green, TX ............................................... +Shelly Donnally ...................................................... 6 Zachary Lynn Dowdle ...................................................... 6 James Ashley Dowdle .................... 3 Joseph Bunion Poole b: October 02, 1887 in Rockdale, Milam, TX d: May 01, 1930 .................... 3 James Earl Poole, Sr b: January 01, 1890 in Rockdale, Milam Co, TX d: October 09, 1956 in Sun Valley, Blaine, ID ........................ +Leone Lavina Garrard .................... 3 Leslie Lafayette Poole b: April 23, 1892 in Rockdale, Milam, TX d: September 16, 1966 in Ravenna, Neb ........................ +Margery Edna Petro ............................... 4 Charles Poole .................... 3 Walter Benjamin Poole b: August 07, 1894 in Rockdale, Milam, TX d: July 04, 1911 .................... 3 Ray Edmund Poole b: February 26, 1897 in Milam, TX d: September 09, 1901 in Milam, Limestone Co., TX .................... 3 Flora Grace Poole b: July 22, 1899 in Lim estone, TX d: 1988 in Ballinger, TX ........................ +William Jewell Poe d: in B allinger, TX .................... 3 Ruby Elberta Poole b: June 03, 1902 in Lim estone, TX d: May 01, 1930 in Dallas, TX, Baylor Hospital ........................ +E. D. Wilson ............................... 4 Edna May Wilson ............................... 4 Betty Jean Wilson ................................... +Clyde Harville ......... 2 John B Poole b: 1850 *2nd Wife of James Washington Poole: .. +Mollie Richards b: in Virginia d: June 09, 1931 in TX DOCUMENT THREE - from books on the Civil War reviewed by Don Goforth, December 1991 Joshua Poole - Rode with Mosby's rangers - captured by Federal troops at Appervile May 23, 1863 David Pool in 1863, was a leader of his own guerrilla band before joining up with Quantrell and Anderson sometime in 1864. David Pool - Rode with Bloody Bill Anderson - was still with Anderson on September 27, 1864, when they rode into Cextralia, MO. They held up a stagecoach and an arriving train, killed two dozen unarmed soldiers aboard on furlough, along with two civilians who tried to hid valuables in their boots. DOCUMENT FOUR - Pettypool, Pettipool, Pool, Poole, Pool Compiled by Leonardo Andrea 4204 DeVine, Street Columbia 50, S. C. September 25, 1945 Three different clients have asked me to send data on above names and I have collected all that I can find in files in Columbia on wills for Pool as spelled in various forms above. Granville Co. N. C. in 1789 was proved a will for Seth Pettypool wife evidently Elizaebth^Åch. 12 and no surnames so it was impossinle to tell whether the daughters were married or not;Elizabet^ÅMary^ÅSarah^ÅJane^ÅNancy^ÅW illiam^ÅJohn^ÅSeth^ÅYoung^ÅJesse^ÅClaiborn ^ÅPhillip. Many of these children of Seth Pettypool of Granville Co. N. C. came in S. C. and of these in Greenville County, I give what data I have. Jesse P. Pool m. Tabitha Green, a sister of elisha Green. Jesse P. Pool was in Revolution and as a young boy I listned to an old lady whose mother was a niece of Tabitha Green Pool, tell of going to the funeral of Jesse P Pool who was buried in his Revolutionary uniform with knee britches and silver buckles^ÅNo will or admst. Is to be found for Jesse P. Pool but 11 Apr. 1847 jesse P. Pool and wife Tabitha Green Pool made deeds to their son Green P. Pool and his wife Elizabeth^Åaslo deed to Henry Darby who seemed a son in lasw^ÅI have heard old people say that old Mrs. Darby was a daughter of Jesse P. Pool and her tombstone says she was a Pool^ÅI can get her name form that tombstone^ÅJesse P. Pool had but two children. John P. Pool will ag. 13 Jan 1837 pr. 6 Feb. 1837^Åwife Eleanor ch: John P. Pool ex^Åwife of Edmund Waldrop^Åwife of Reuben Jenkins;;;Sarah rodes;;;Ellender O"Neal^ÅPolly Cearnes^ÅTabitha W of Benjamin Holly Ex. Wit: Blackman Ligon, the wife of Jesse P. Pool and was Eleanor Green^ÅJohn P. Pool was also soldier in Rev. William P Pool will sg. 16 Apr. 1838 pr. 6 Aug 1849 Wife Anne (she was Anne Street) Ch 5: Seth P Pool Ex John P Pool William P Pool deceased Erwin P Pool's children deceased Rebecca Stephens' children wit: Johnn and Nancy t Moon and Hardy J Gilreath Young P Pool will sg. 17 teb 1843 pr 24 24 Nov 1843 Wife Sally "All to my wife" mentions slae he gae son, Claiborne P Pool exs; Sons Hampton P and Jordan P Pool wit: John L Styles, Hardy J Gilreath (Wife of Gilreath was Nancy Green, a neice of Eleanor and tabitha Green Pool named above) and James Holcombe. Mrs. Sally P. Pool (was Sally McVeigh) will sg. 12 Nov and pr. 6 Dec 1852 and styles herself as widow of Young P Pool "My estate to be divided between my 8 living children"; Hampton P Pool Ex Jordan P Pool Ex Mstin P Pool Claiborne P Pool Mary Bridges Young P Pool Sally Styles Frances Darby. Wit: Jackson Neely, Hardy Jones Gilreath and Joseph Cooper. Will of rolly Jenkins sg. 16 Dec 1851 pr 23 Sept 1852 Wife Luraney Jenkins Estate to be divided between all my children Ex son, Pleasant jenkins with Hardy J. Gilreath Anderson Co S C will of robert Pool sg. 25 Mar 1836 pr 27 June 1840 Wife Elizaebth Pool Ex with Joseph M Jolly "I want an equal division among all my children" and no names of children. Wit: Edward Adams family of anderson and Reuben Korgan Adams b. 1841 was the son of William Adams and his wife Mary P Pool Adms Mary may be daughter of this Robert Pool. Andrea Abbeville will of Micajah P Pool sg 3 Sept 1819 pr 20 Dec 1819 No wife and dvidently dead for Micajah styles himslef as an old man ch 2: robert Pool the lands where he lives Nany W of robert Young. Ex Son robert; wit: Joel Lipscombe, w Wier and Alexander Stuart. This Micajah must be the father of the robert of Anderson. Fairfield will of ephriam Pettipoll sg. 2 feb 1793 pr 15 Jan 1794 Wife Ursula Pettipool Ex "wife to have the Negro man coming to her from John Hunt and son William now has him but it was for his mother" I thought that perhaps Ursula was a Hunt Ch 8 : William Pettipool abraham Pettipool Ex Rest are minors and no surnames for them ephriam Thomas tabitha Frances Nancy Ursula "Son e;hriam to have the home lands when he is of age"/ wit: Charles Graham, William graham and John Yarborough. Pool Notes to be continued '