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Judy Eileen Geissler (F)
Pedigree |
| Father | 5 Jul 1921 | Hugo Hermann Geissler |
| Mother | 21 Mar 1926 | Hazel Irene Cottrell |
| Marriage | | John A. Russell Jr.; Essex County, NJ |
| Graduation | May 1973 | George Washington University, Washington, D.C., B.A. degree in Journalism/Political Science |
| Divorce | | John A. Russell Jr.; Middlesex County, NJ |
| Graduation | 18 Jan 1981 | Rutgers School of Law-Newark, Newark, Essex County, NJ, J.D. degree |
Hugo Hermann Geissler (M)
b. 5 Jul 1921, d. 19 Jan 1994
Pedigree |
| Father | 24 Mar 1891 | Hugo Ernst Geissler |
| Mother | 9 Feb 1891 | Marie Margarethe Nuckel |
| Birth | 5 Jul 1921 | Bremen, Germany, Birth certificate No. 2888 'Hugo Hermann, was born on July 5, 1921. Child of Hugo Ernst Geissler, machinist, and his wife Marie Margarethe, nee Nuckel, was entered in the Birth Register of this City. Bremen, July 8, 1921.' The certificate also noted he was baptized February 12, 1922 by Rev. Kramer at the Protestant Church in Bremen. |
| Residence | bt 5 Jul 1921 -
1924 | 43 Nordenhammerstrasse, Bremen, Germany |
| Baptism | 12 Feb 1922 | Bremen, Germany, Protestant, by Rev. Kramer. |
| Immigration | 6 Feb 1925 | Ellis Island, New York, NY, on the SS George Washington, having left Bremen on Jan 28, 1925, with his father Hugo Ernst and mother Marie. They traveled third class, showed their ultimate destination as Chicago (and their contact there as Hugo Ernst's brother-in-law Paul Knop, 1902 West 65th Street), and their German contact as Hugo Ernst's father Hermann Geissler, Gera, Reuss, Laasenstr. 37. Hugo Hermann was shown as age 4, born in Bremen, traveling on visa 8590 issued in Bremen Dec 4 1924. |
| Census | 12 Apr 1930 | Chicago, Cook County, IL, (wrongly shown as Hugo E. Jr.), age 8, attending school, listed in Ward 16, Block 18 with father Hugo E. (age 39, a coal worker for a coal company) and mother Marie (age 39, not employed outside the home). All three are shown as being born in Germany and immigrating to the United States in 1925. All three are shown as being able to speak English. |
| Note | bt 13 Jun 1930 -
4 Sep 1930 | Germany, According to his naturalization papers, the only time he was out of the United States between his arrival in 1925 and the time he applied for citizenship in February 1943 was between June 13, 1930 and September 4, 1930, when he went to and returned from Germany on the SS Bremen [ which arrived at 58th Street, Brooklyn Sep 4 1930]. This does not mesh with the stories he always told of spending time as a teenager in Germany. |
| Graduation | 1942 | Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Cook County, IL, B.S., Chemical Engineering. The school was called Armour Institute of Technology when he began but changed its name before he graduated. |
| Residence | 3 Feb 1943 | 3757 W 63rd Place, Chicago, Cook County, IL |
| Note | 20 Mar 1943 | Chicago, Cook County, IL, swore an oath of allegiance to the United States before Naturalization Examiner Nathan T. Notkin and received original derivative certificate of citizenship A-47700 |
| Marriage | | Eloys Anderson; IL |
| Divorce | | Eloys Anderson; IL |
| Marriage | | Hazel Irene Cottrell; Chapel of Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Jefferson County, CO, The name of the minister who performed the marriage is hard to make out but appears to be Lauer A. Mantle. The witnesses who signed the marriage certificate were George W. Le Maire and George M. Ball. |
| Divorce | | Hazel Irene Cottrell; TX |
| Death | 19 Jan 1994 | Vernal, Uintah County, UT, at home at 3008 South 1500 West, of a coronary. The remains were cremated at Intermountain Crematory; arrangements were through Thomson's Vernal Mortuary #2, Vernal UT. Note that his death certificate is replete with errors (his middle name is shown as 'Herman' (it was Hermann), his city of birth as 'Bremem' (it was Bremen), his father as 'Herman Geissler' (he was Hugo Ernst Geissler) and his mother as 'Marie Nukla' (she was Marie Nuckel)). |
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| CoParent | | Eloys Anderson |
| Son | | Evan Hugh Geissler+ |
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| CoParent | 21 Mar 1926 | Hazel Irene Cottrell |
| Daughter | | Diana Marie Geissler |
| Daughter | | Judy Eileen Geissler |
| Son | | Paul Eric Geissler+ |
| Daughter | | Kathryn Cladyne 'Kacy' Geissler+ |
| Son | | Frederick Michael Geissler+ |
| Son | | Warren Hugo Geissler |
| Son | | William Karl Geissler+ |
Hazel Irene Cottrell (F)
b. 21 Mar 1926, d. 23 Apr 1999
Pedigree |
| Father | 20 Apr 1898 | Clay Rex Cottrell |
| Mother | 21 Aug 1898 | Opal E. Robertson |
| Birth | 21 Mar 1926 | Midland, Midland County, TX |
| Census | 17 Apr 1930 | Midland, Midland County, TX |
| Marriage | | Hugo Hermann Geissler; Chapel of Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Jefferson County, CO, The name of the minister who performed the marriage is hard to make out but appears to be Lauer A. Mantle. The witnesses who signed the marriage certificate were George W. Le Maire and George M. Ball. |
| Divorce | | Hugo Hermann Geissler; TX |
| Death | 23 Apr 1999 | at home, Kents Store, Fluvanna County, VA, Last residence Kents Store, Fluvanna County, VA |
| Burial | 26 Apr 1999 | Byrd Chapel Cemetery, Kents Store, Fluvanna County, VA, As per her wishes, she was cremated, and the ashes buried next to her parents at Byrd Chapel Cemetery. |
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| CoParent | 5 Jul 1921 | Hugo Hermann Geissler |
| Daughter | | Diana Marie Geissler |
| Daughter | | Judy Eileen Geissler |
| Son | | Paul Eric Geissler+ |
| Daughter | | Kathryn Cladyne 'Kacy' Geissler+ |
| Son | | Frederick Michael Geissler+ |
| Son | | Warren Hugo Geissler |
| Son | | William Karl Geissler+ |
Hugo Ernst Geissler (M)
b. 24 Mar 1891, d. 13 Jan 1945
Pedigree |
| Father | c 1860 | Herman Edward Geissler |
| Mother | c 1860 | Emma Graumüller |
| Birth | 24 Mar 1891 | Kostritz, Germany |
| Military Service | bt 1912 -
1918 | Hugo Ernst Geissler served in the German Imperial Army, from at least as early as 1912 (he was photographed sitting with his troops in Danzig in 1912) to at least 1918 (he was married in a German Army uniform in February 1918).
According to online sources, the photographs and specifically the shoulder boards of his uniforms indicate he served in the Grenadier-Regt. König Friedrich I (4.Ostpreußisches) Nr.5 (Danzig) XVII Armee Korps, and in the Danziger Infanterie-Regt. Nr.128 (Danzig; III Bn Neufahrwasser) XVII Armee Korps. |
| Marriage | 14 Feb 1918 | Marie Margarethe Nuckel; St. Jakobi Church, Bremen, Germany, Marriage Certificate No. 135, City of Bremen
'Before the undersigned Registrar marriage was contracted on below date, between:
HUGO ERNST GEISSLER, machinist, protestant, residing in Bremen, and
MARIE MARGARETHE NUCKEL, protestant, residing in Bremen.
Bremen, Feb. 14, 1918'
The certificate notes that a church wedding took place at St. Jakobi on the same day as attested by Pastor Lange of St. Jakobi in Bremen.
Family oral history indicates that Hugo Ernst met Marie at a biergarten in Bremen. |
| Residence | bt 1919 -
1924 | 43 Nordenhammerstrasse, Bremen, Germany |
| Immigration | 6 Feb 1925 | Ellis Island, New York, NY, on the SS George Washington, having left Bremen Jan 28, 1925. He was a locksmith traveling with his wife and son (shown as a four-year-old but in fact only three and a half). He listed his next of kin as his father Hermann Geissler, and his destination as Chicago where the family was to stay with his brother-in-law Paul Knop, 1902 West 65th Street. (This was the husband of his sister, Hattie Geissler Knop.) His place of birth was shown as 'Koeslitz' (Koestritz); he was able to read and write in German. His visa was 8588, issued in Bremen Dec 4 1924, and was issued under the name Hugo Jr. |
| Residence | 10 Dec 1925 | 1311 West 49th Place, Chicago, Cook County, IL, This address appears on a post card sent by Herman and Emma Geissler to their son Hugo Ernst. |
| Residence | Apr 1927 | 6328 Ashland Avenue, Chicago, Cook County, IL |
| Census | 12 Apr 1930 | Chicago, Cook County, IL, age 39, a coal worker for a coal company, listed in Ward 16, Block 18 with wife Marie (age 39) and son Hugo (age 8, attending school, who is wrongly listed as Hugo E. Jr.). All three are shown as being born in Germany and immigrating to the United States in 1925. All three are shown as being able to speak English. |
| Residence | May 1930 | 5605 So. Halsted Street, Chicago, Cook County, IL |
| Note | bt 14 Jun 1930 -
4 Sep 1930 | The Geissler family traveled to Germany to visit relatives on Jun 13 1930 (SS Bremen). They returned to the United States on the SS Bremen, leaving Bremen on 29 August 1930 and arriving NY [58th Street, Brooklyn] Sep 4 1930. They were among 1072 passengers, and traveled third class. Traveling with them, also in third class, was Agnes Oettel, Hugo Ernst's sister, shown on the ship manifest as a 43-year-old widow. [Source: 'Die Maus' Online Database of Bremen Passenger Lists 1920 - 1939, A Project with the Bremen Chamber of Commerce] |
| Note | 17 Dec 1936 | Chicago, Cook County, IL, Hugo Ernst Geissler applied for a social security card, listing his address as 3757 W. 63rd Place, Chicago, his DOB as Mar 24, 1891 and P.O.B. as 'R.J.L. Germany', his father as Herman Geissler and his mother as Emma Graumuller, and his employer as the Link-Belt Company, 300 W. Pershing Rd., Chicago. |
| Residence | 3 Feb 1943 | 3757 West 63rd Place, Chicago, Cook County, IL |
| Death | 13 Jan 1945 | 3757 West 63rd Place, Chicago, Cook County, IL, of rectal/bowel cancer which he had been fighting for more than 18 months. His death certificate indicates surgery on May 11, 1944 for bowel cancer. The certificate also identifies him as a foundryman.
'Hugo Ernst Geissler, beloved husband of Marie, father of Hugo Hermann, father-in-law of Eloys, grandfather of Hugh Evan. Services 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, at chapel, 1648 W. 63d street. Interment Mount Hope.' (Chicago Tribune, Jan 14, 1945) (In fact, he was cremated, not buried, as his death certificate correctly reflects.)
A German language death notice was published identifying his widow as Marie (maiden name Nuckel), children Hugo and Eloys (son and daughter-in-law), grandson Hugh Evan, sisters Herwig (Hattie) Knop, Martha Benschura, Agnes Oettel, and Elly Froemke, aunt Anna Zons and cousin Elizabeth Marks. |
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| CoParent | 9 Feb 1891 | Marie Margarethe Nuckel |
| Daughter | b 1921 | Marie Geissler |
| Son | 5 Jul 1921 | Hugo Hermann Geissler+ |
Marie Margarethe Nuckel (F)
b. 9 Feb 1891, d. 12 Apr 1947
Pedigree |
| Father | 1860 | Carsten Hinrich Wilhelm Nuckel |
| Mother | b 1870 | Juliane Margarethe Smidt |
| Note | | Marie's parents were identified by name in her birth certificate, attached to her application for a visa to come to the United States in 1924. |
| Birth | 9 Feb 1891 | Bremen, Germany |
| Marriage | 14 Feb 1918 | Hugo Ernst Geissler; St. Jakobi Church, Bremen, Germany, Marriage Certificate No. 135, City of Bremen
'Before the undersigned Registrar marriage was contracted on below date, between:
HUGO ERNST GEISSLER, machinist, protestant, residing in Bremen, and
MARIE MARGARETHE NUCKEL, protestant, residing in Bremen.
Bremen, Feb. 14, 1918'
The certificate notes that a church wedding took place at St. Jakobi on the same day as attested by Pastor Lange of St. Jakobi in Bremen.
Family oral history indicates that Hugo Ernst met Marie at a biergarten in Bremen. |
| Residence | bt 1919 -
1924 | 43 Nordenhammerstrasse, Bremen, Germany |
| Immigration | 6 Feb 1925 | Ellis Island, New York, NY, on the SS George Washington, having left Bremen on Jan 28, 1925. She was shown as a 33-year-old housewife born in Bremen who could read and write German, traveling on Visa 8589 issued in Bremen Dec 4 1924 en route to Chicago with her husband Hugo Geissler and four-year-old son Hugo. |
| Residence | Apr 1927 | 6328 Ashland Avenue, Chicago, Cook County, IL |
| Census | 12 Apr 1930 | Chicago, Cook County, IL, age 39, unemployed, listed in Ward 16, Block 18 with husband Hugo E. (age 39, a coal worker for a coal company) and son Hugo (age 8, attending school, who is wrongly listed as Hugo E. Jr.). All three are shown as being born in Germany and immigrating to the United States in 1925. All three are shown as being able to speak English. |
| Residence | May 1930 | 5605 So. Halsted Street, Chicago, Cook County, IL |
| Note | bt 14 Jun 1930 -
4 Sep 1930 | The Geissler family traveled to Germany to visit relatives on Jun 13 1930 (SS Bremen). They returned to the United States on the SS Bremen, leaving Bremen on 29 August 1930 and arriving NY [58th Street, Brooklyn] Sep 4 1930. They were among 1072 passengers, and traveled third class. Traveling with them, also in third class, was Agnes Oettel, Hugo Ernst's sister, shown on the ship manifest as a 43-year-old widow. [Source: 'Die Maus' Online Database of Bremen Passenger Lists 1920 - 1939, A Project with the Bremen Chamber of Commerce] |
| Note | 29 Nov 1936 | Chicago, Cook County, IL, Marie Geissler applied for a social security card, listing her address as 3757 W. 63rd Place, Chicago, her DOB as Feb 9 1891 and P.O.B. as Bremen, Germany, her father as Hinrich Nuckel and her mother as Juliana Smid, and her employer as Evangelical Hospital, 5421 South Morgan Street, Chicago. |
| Residence | 3 Feb 1943 | 3757 West 63rd Place, Chicago, Cook County, IL |
| Death | 12 Apr 1947 | Peace Memorial Convalescent Home, Chicago, Cook County, IL, of a coronary thrombosis.
'Marie Geissler, wife of the late Hugho, mother of Hugho, grandmother of Hugh Evan Geissler. Services 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at chapel, 1648 W. 63d street. Interment Mount Hope.' (Chicago Tribune, Apr 14, 1947)
Note that the death notice indicates interment at Mount Hope Cemetery; in fact, she was cremated. Note that her death certificate gives her father's name as Henry and lists her mother as 'unknown'; the informant was a nurse and not a family member.
A German language death notice identified her survivors only as her son Hugo and grandson Hugh Evan. |
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| CoParent | 24 Mar 1891 | Hugo Ernst Geissler |
| Daughter | b 1921 | Marie Geissler |
| Son | 5 Jul 1921 | Hugo Hermann Geissler+ |
Clay Rex Cottrell (M)
b. 20 Apr 1898, d. 21 Sep 1970
Pedigree |
| Father | 30 Sep 1855 | Martin Gilbert Cottrell |
| Mother | 15 May 1857 or 15 May 1858 | Martha H. 'Mattie' Johnson |
| Birth | 20 Apr 1898 | Iowa Park, Wichita County, TX |
| Residence | bt 20 Apr 1898 -
1909 | Iowa Park, Wichita County, TX |
| Census | 9 Jun 1900 | Iowa Park, Wichita County, TX, This census has last name as 'Catrell.' |
| Census | 18 Apr 1910 | Frederick, Tillman County, OK, Shown as a 11-year-old schoolboy, born TX, father TX, mother KY, living with his mother Mattie, shown as head of household, 51 years old, born in Kentucky of a father born in Virginia and a mother born in Georgia. Also living with siblings, all of whom are shown as born in Texas of a father born in Texas and mother born in Kentucky and able to read and write: 24-year-old Maude, a telegraph operator; 20-year-old Maud, also a telegraph operator; and 17-year-old Bert, also attending school. |
| Marriage | 19 Oct 1916 | Opal E. Robertson; Wichita County, TX, Opal Robertson and Clay Cottrell were married by a Judge in Wichita County, TX. There is a question as to why in Texas? Her family lived in Oklahoma; he had met her in Oklahoma. No-one from either family was at the wedding. It may be that they couldn't marry in Oklahoma without parental consent (they were both just 18). In any case, when Clay's family discovered he had married, they were most concerned. His daughter Cladyne Cottrell Barrett reports, in an email on September 23, 2002: 'It was never said (why they married in Texas), but just maybe they ran away to be married for none of the family was present. Aunt Tedd told the story that when she and Maud heard that they were married, they made the trip to Wichita Falls and walked into the apartment where they were living, unannounced and said that there, in bed, asleep. (they were fearful of who and what he had married ) was the most beautiful sweet looking angel that they could imagine and that they left,so happy with their discovery and when they came back, they didn't tell them that they had been there earlier.. Clay was the baby of the family and had lived with several of his brothers and sisters after his mother died, (kidney) when he was 12. So, evidentally. they told no one. Little rascals.' |
| Military Service | Aug 1918 | Wichita County, TX, Called up in the draft of August 1918. |
| Residence | 1919 | Frederick, Tillman County, OK, 1919 Frederick & Tillman County Directory lists 'Cottrell, Clay R., foreman, Farmer's Elevator Co., r 401 S. 17th St.' |
| Census | 28 Feb 1920 | Haskell Twp., Tillman County, OK, Clay (last name misspelled as 'Cottorell') is shown on the 1920 Tillman County OK census as a 21-year-old fireman at a cotton gin, with 21-year-old wife Opal and three-month-old baby Billy R. He rented his home, and he and Opal could both read and write. |
| Census | 17 Apr 1930 | Midland, Midland County, TX |
| Note | 22 Jun 1937 | Midland, Midland County, TX, applied for a social security card, listing his address as 'two miles north west' of Midland, his employers as Adams Motor Co. at 122 S. Lorraine St., Midland, his father as M.G. Cottrell and his mother as Mattie Johnston. |
| Death | 21 Sep 1970 | Richmond, VA |
| Burial | a 21 Sep 1970 | Byrd Chapel Cemetery, Kents Store, Fluvanna County, VA |
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| CoParent | 21 Aug 1898 | Opal E. Robertson |
| Daughter | 12 Aug 1917 | Ruth Marie Cottrell |
| Son | | Billy Rex Cottrell |
| Daughter | | Eula Cladyne Cottrell+ |
| Son | 19 Nov 1923 | Monte Boyd Cottrell+ |
| Daughter | 21 Mar 1926 | Hazel Irene Cottrell+ |
| Son | | David Fred Cottrell+ |
| Son | 20 Mar 1930 | Donald Harris Cottrell |
| Daughter | | Carol Ray Cottrell+ |
| Son | | Jerry LaStone Cottrell+ |
| Daughter | | Marianne Cottrell+ |
| Son | | Michael Vance Cottrell+ |
| Daughter | | Patricia Ensign Cottrell+ |
Opal E. Robertson1 (F)
b. 21 Aug 1898, d. 15 Mar 1995
Pedigree |
| Father | 18 Apr 1871 | Jasper Carlton Robertson |
| Mother | 24 Oct 1869 | Eula L. Baird |
| Birth | 21 Aug 1898 | Eagle Lake, Colorado County, TX, Some family sources place Opal's birth in Sugarland, TX. That appears to be incorrect. Among other proofs: Opal herself applied for a social security card in 1966 and had to list her place of birth. She stated that she had been born in Eagle Lake. Secondly, Jasper was working in the Eagle Lake area as a guard of convicts for the Dunovant plantation at the time of Opal's birth in 1900. |
| Note | bt 1905 -
1910 | Opal Robertson Cottrell wrote 'Remembrances' on a page from a 1968 calendar (though not necessarily in 1968):
Remembrances:
My Mother Eula Lee Robertson and my Father J.C. Robertson
My brothers: Fred, Harvey and Ray
Seven
and Mumps -
- Kittens -
, a grandmother -
me, (her first grand child) --
- and smallpox vaccination
and School
& 'Times' Tables -
- and uncles who sang
& played guitars
- Noel, Lon & John (Livingston)
- and our new
home in 'Oklahoma
Territory' - Bright Happy Days with my 3 bros Fred, Harvey & Ray -
a new world created
a world
just for us
new & just for us |
| Note | 1909 | Opal Robertson Cottrell wrote her recollections of the death of her grandmother on a page from a 1968 calendar (though not necessarily in 1968):
1909 -
Long before it got there
we could see the
buggy coming slowly
down our road -
- My Dear Uncle
Leva - 15 years old -
bringing us the
sad news of my Dear Grandmother's
Death - My grieving
Mother - and my aunts
& uncles - I am carried
back through time
and space to where
you are - and I see
you once more - as you
were then - a
large, close family,
grieving for a Dear
& loving Mother -
my Grandmother
Martha Livingston
Buried in Cemetery
Frederick Okla - 1909
- close by rests my Father
J.C. Robertson - '1912' -
Tall upright Log marks
his resting place
('Woodman of the World'
marks his resting place) |
| Census | 12 May 1910 | Stephens Twp., Tillman County, OK |
| Marriage | 19 Oct 1916 | Clay Rex Cottrell; Wichita County, TX, Opal Robertson and Clay Cottrell were married by a Judge in Wichita County, TX. There is a question as to why in Texas? Her family lived in Oklahoma; he had met her in Oklahoma. No-one from either family was at the wedding. It may be that they couldn't marry in Oklahoma without parental consent (they were both just 18). In any case, when Clay's family discovered he had married, they were most concerned. His daughter Cladyne Cottrell Barrett reports, in an email on September 23, 2002: 'It was never said (why they married in Texas), but just maybe they ran away to be married for none of the family was present. Aunt Tedd told the story that when she and Maud heard that they were married, they made the trip to Wichita Falls and walked into the apartment where they were living, unannounced and said that there, in bed, asleep. (they were fearful of who and what he had married ) was the most beautiful sweet looking angel that they could imagine and that they left,so happy with their discovery and when they came back, they didn't tell them that they had been there earlier.. Clay was the baby of the family and had lived with several of his brothers and sisters after his mother died, (kidney) when he was 12. So, evidentally. they told no one. Little rascals.' |
| Census | 28 Feb 1920 | Haskell Twp., Tillman County, OK |
| Census | 17 Apr 1930 | Midland, Midland County, TX |
| Death | 15 Mar 1995 | Charlottesville, VA |
| Burial | a 15 Mar 1995 | Byrd Chapel Cemetery, Kents Store, Fluvanna County, VA |
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| CoParent | 20 Apr 1898 | Clay Rex Cottrell |
| Daughter | 12 Aug 1917 | Ruth Marie Cottrell |
| Son | | Billy Rex Cottrell |
| Daughter | | Eula Cladyne Cottrell+ |
| Son | 19 Nov 1923 | Monte Boyd Cottrell+ |
| Daughter | 21 Mar 1926 | Hazel Irene Cottrell+ |
| Son | | David Fred Cottrell+ |
| Son | 20 Mar 1930 | Donald Harris Cottrell |
| Daughter | | Carol Ray Cottrell+ |
| Son | | Jerry LaStone Cottrell+ |
| Daughter | | Marianne Cottrell+ |
| Son | | Michael Vance Cottrell+ |
| Daughter | | Patricia Ensign Cottrell+ |
Note:
- There is some dispute as to just what exactly Opal Robertson's middle name was. She shows up as early as the 1920 census as Opal E., but just what the E stands for, no-one is entirely sure. One theory is that it is Eula or Eulalie, after her mother. Another is that it is Eileen (her daughter Hazel gave her own daughter Judy the middle name of Eileen and told her it was in honor of Opal). Yet another theory is that her middle name didn't begin with an E at all but was something completely different (and so odd that she didn't like it and didn't use it).
Once she became a grandmother, she became forever and to all generations 'Mama Clay' as her husband became 'Daddy Clay'.
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Diana Marie Geissler (F)
Pedigree |
| Father | 5 Jul 1921 | Hugo Hermann Geissler |
| Mother | 21 Mar 1926 | Hazel Irene Cottrell |
| Military Service | bt Mar 1967 -
Nov 1970 | USAF; assigned to Lackland AFB Texas, Sheppard AFB Texas, Little Rock AFB AR and Ramstein AB Germany |
| Marriage | | Thomas Howard McKenzie; NV |
| Graduation | Jun 1974 | California State University, Sacramento, Sacramento County, CA, B.A. in Journalism/English |
| Divorce | | Thomas Howard McKenzie; CA |
Paul Eric Geissler (M)
Pedigree |
| Father | 5 Jul 1921 | Hugo Hermann Geissler |
| Mother | 21 Mar 1926 | Hazel Irene Cottrell |
| Marriage | | Nadine Poludin; Mueller Hut, Mount Cook National Park, New Zealand |
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| CoParent | | Nadine Poludin |
| Son | | Rudolf Hugo Geissler |
| Son | | Max Walter Geissler |
| Son | | Stefan Pascal Geissler |
| Daughter | | Katya Viana Geissler |
Kathryn Cladyne 'Kacy' Geissler (F)
Pedigree |
| Father | 5 Jul 1921 | Hugo Hermann Geissler |
| Mother | 21 Mar 1926 | Hazel Irene Cottrell |
| Marriage | | W.W. Layne Terrell; Rockingham County, VA |
| Divorce | | W.W. Layne Terrell; VA |
| Marriage | | Warren Michael St. Clair; VA |
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| CoParent | | W.W. Layne Terrell |
| Son | | Ian Trevor Terrell |
| Daughter | | Hannah Layne Terrell |
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| CoParent | | Warren Michael St. Clair |
| Son | | Thomas Michael St. Clair |
| Daughter | | Rose Kathryn St. Clair |
Frederick Michael Geissler (M)
Pedigree |
| Father | 5 Jul 1921 | Hugo Hermann Geissler |
| Mother | 21 Mar 1926 | Hazel Irene Cottrell |
| Divorce | | Orpah Gail Kidwell; KY |
| Marriage | | Orpah Gail Kidwell; Sadieville, Scott County, KY |
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| CoParent | | Orpah Gail Kidwell |
| Daughter | | Bobbi Sue Geissler+ |
Warren Hugo Geissler (M)
Pedigree |
| Father | 5 Jul 1921 | Hugo Hermann Geissler |
| Mother | 21 Mar 1926 | Hazel Irene Cottrell |
| Military Service | bt 1984 -
1993 | USAF; assigned to Pease AFB, NH, and Holloman AFB, NM |
| Marriage | | Diane Galbraith; OH |
| Divorce | | Diane Galbraith; NH |
| Marriage | | Patricia White; CO |
William Karl Geissler (M)
Pedigree |
| Father | 5 Jul 1921 | Hugo Hermann Geissler |
| Mother | 21 Mar 1926 | Hazel Irene Cottrell |
| Marriage | | Carolyn Schmit; TN |
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| CoParent | | Carolyn Schmit |
| Son | | Dennis Alexander Geissler |
| Son | | Duncan Edward Geissler |
Marie Geissler (F)
b. b 1921, d. b 1921
Pedigree |
| Father | 24 Mar 1891 | Hugo Ernst Geissler |
| Mother | 9 Feb 1891 | Marie Margarethe Nuckel |
| Note | | All of the information about this child is anecdotal and comes from stories told by Hugo Hermann Geissler to his children. She was the first-born child of Hugo Ernst and Marie Geissler and died before the birth of her brother, Hugo Hermann, in July 1921. Exactly when she was born, how long she lived, where she is buried, etc., remain to be determined. |
| Death | b 1921 | Germany |
| Birth | b 1921 | prob Bremen, Germany |
Jasper Carlton Robertson (M)
b. 18 Apr 1871, d. 15 Mar 1912
Pedigree |
| Father | 7 Nov 1827 | Gustavus Boone Robertson |
| Mother | 3 Sep 1832 | Isabella Gentry |
| Birth | 18 Apr 1871 | Honey Grove, Lamar or Fannin County, TX, Note that Jasper's death certificate, filled out with information provided by brother George G. Robertson, states that Jasper was born in Lamar County, and note that the family was in Lamar County for the 1870 census. Since Honey Grove lies along the border of Fannin and Lamar Counties and parts of both were referred to as Honey Grove by residents, it is entirely possible that he was born in Honey Grove and in Lamar County, rather than Fannin County. |
| Census | 19 Jun 1880 | Precinct 3, Delta County, TX, Age 9, born Texas, with parents, three sisters and brother-in-law. |
| Marriage | 19 Feb 1896 | Eula L. Baird; TX, A note handwritten in 1951 by Opal Robertson Cottrell, daughter of Jasper and Eula, states that the two were married on February 19, 1895. It does not state where the marriage took place. Their marriage certificate places the marriage on February 19, 1896, and the place as Bexar County (San Antonio). |
| Note | 1900 | Precinct 8, Colorado County, TX, J.C. Robertson was on the tax roll for the county and state poll tax in 1900.
Great granddaughter Bobette Staples Barrett Richardson reports that Jasper was a guard on a sugar plantation when grandmother Opal Robertson (Mrs. Clay Rex Cottrell) was a little girl. The 1900 Census for Colorado County TX shows one Jasper C. 'Robinson', born April 1871 in Texas, married four years, as a 'guard / convicts' at Dunovant's Camp No. 1 near Eagle Lake. His daughter Opal Robertson was born in Eagle Lake in 1898. The census record does not show the wife and child(ren), but all of the information appears to have been provided by the overseer of the camp. None of the guards have wives or children shown, and it's possible that their information will be found elsewhere or was simply not recorded.
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| Census | 8 Jun 1900 | Colorado County, TX, Jasper was a guard of convicts at Dunovant's Camp. |
| Note | 1901 | Precinct 8, Colorado County, TX, Jasper was on the county and state poll tax, and had one horse.
Note that he was not on the 1902 tax list, which may help pinpoint the time when they moved to Oklahoma. |
| Residence | 1903 | Perkins, Payne County, OK Territory, In a letter dated Oct 1, 1903, from father, Gustavus B. Robertson, to his daughter, Jasper's sister, Mary Isabella Robertson Hendrix, Jasper's address is listed as 'Perkins, OK Territory'. In Jasper's obituary, it also states that he lived in Perkins after his marriage (in 1896 in Texas) until he moved to Tillman County (after his successful bid in the 'Big Pasture' opening in December 1906). |
| Note | bt 3 Dec 1906 -
15 Dec 1906 | 'Big Pasture', OK Territory, Between December 3 and 15, 1906, the United States Land Office accepted sealed bids for quarter sections (160 acres) of land in what was called the 'Big Pasture' of the Oklahoma Territory -- a half-million acre area of rolling hills and grasslands bordered on the south by the Red River. The bids were opened starting on December 17, 1906 and continuing until all the quarter sections had been sold. One of the successful bidders was Jasper Robertson of Perkins, Oklahoma. [Source: Linda Norman Garrison, 'Successful Bidders of the Big Pasture Land Opening,' 1992, p. 17] Bidders were required to live on the land for five years; their payments could be spread out over the five years. Jasper's patent to the land was filed April 7, 1910. Sadly, the land had to be sold after his untimely death in 1912. |
| Note | 7 Apr 1910 | Tillman County, OK, Jasper's patent to 160 acres in Tillman County (described as the northwest quarter of Section 21 in Township three south of Range 16 west of the Indian Meridian,Oklahoma) was signed this date. It was recorded in Tillman County on April 23, 1913 -- a year after his death. Sadly the property had to be sold to cover his debts and his family's living expenses. |
| Census | 12 May 1910 | Stephens Twp., Tillman County, OK, Jasper and his family are on the 1910 census in Tillman County, Oklahoma. Jasper is shown as 39 years old, married for 14 years, born in Texas of a father born in Kentucky and a mother born in Mississippi (in actuality both parents were born in Mississippi). He was a general farmer on a farm he owned subject to a mortgage. Wife Eula L. is shown as 40 years old, born in Alabama of parents both born in Alabama. Both are shown as able to read and write. All four children are on this census: Opal, age 11; Alfred G., age 9; Harvey L., age 7; and Ray, age 5. All four are shown as attending school. Immediately beneath the Robertsons on this page of the census are Ollie and Lula Lancaster and their son six-year-old Otis (Lula was a younger half-sister of Eula). |
| Death | 15 Mar 1912 | Hollister, Tillman County, OK, Obituary:
March 22, 1912 Frederick (OK) Press
J.C. ROBERTSON PASSES AWAY
(Contributed.)
This community has lost one of its best citizens. Not recently has it been grieved more as a whole that it was this week caused by the death of Brother J.C. Robertson. He took sick March 2. The doctors seemed confused with his case at first which developed into an abscess of the liver. All medical aid possible was given him without results. At one time four doctors held a consultation and everything possible was done by kind hands and loving friends to relieve him of his suffering which was intense at times. The end came at the family residence in Hollister at 2 o'clock Friday morning after a sickness of two weeks.
He had been undergoing a great burden for the last eight months bearing the financial strain as a merchant of Hollister, which had reduced his constitution, making recovery more difficult.
Brother Robertson was a true man, in his business, in the church as well as in his home. He was loved by everybody and had no enemies. He was converted in a meeting held in Hollister about a year and a half ago and joined the Baptist Church. He lived a true and consistent Christian life, always being willing to make a sacrifice for the cause of the church beyond his means.
The church has lost a true Christian man, as well as a good teacher, His place will be vacant there as well as in his home where he was a true father.
He was born at Roxton, Lamar County, Texas, April 18, 1871. His parents moved to Cooper, Texas, where he lived until he was grown, then going to the Panhandle for a short time. He returned to San Antonio, Texas, where he was united in marriage to Miss Eula Bird. Soon after they were married they moved to Perkins, Okla., where they resided until the Big Pasture opened where he moved and has resided since until his death.
He leaves a wife, four children and three brothers to mourn his loss. The family needs the help as well as the sympathy of the entire community.
Funeral services were conducted at the Baptist Church by the pastor after which interment was made in the Frederick cemetery.
The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what he did here. |
| Burial | 16 Mar 1912 | Frederick Cemetery, Frederick, Tillman County, OK, Spaces 1-4-5, Lot 124, Block C in the original section were owned by Jasper. His stone was erected by the Woodmen of the World and bears the statement 'Woodmen of the World Memorial, Dum Facet Clamat'. |
| Note | 23 Apr 1913 | Tillman County, OK, Sadly, the land Jasper had obtained by successful sealed bid in the 'Big Pasture' land opening in December 1906, the land he'd received a patent for in Tillman County in 1910 -- 160 acres -- had to be sold upon his death. The patent to the land was recorded in Tillman County, Book 23, page 508. The recordation was needed so the property could be sold by his widow. Eula's transfer of ownership as executor of his estate was recorded in Tillman County on May 3, 1913. The sale price was $1530. |
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| CoParent | 24 Oct 1869 | Eula L. Baird |
| Daughter | 21 Aug 1898 | Opal E. Robertson+ |
| Son | 3 Nov 1900 | Fred G. Robertson |
| Son | 17 Oct 1902 | Harvey L. 'Robbie' Robertson+ |
| Son | 10 Apr 1905 | Ray C. Robertson+ |
Eula L. Baird (F)
b. 24 Oct 1869, d. 13 Mar 1954
Pedigree |
| Father | c 1848 | Jasper Baird |
| Mother | Feb 1855 | Martha Louise Shew |
| Birth | 24 Oct 1869 | Gadsden, Cherokee County, AL, Note that what was then Cherokee County is Etowah County. |
| Census | 18 Jul 1870 | Twp. 10, Range 8, Cherokee County, AL, Age 8 months, with father FNU Baird, age 22, born AL, mother Martha, age 17, born AL, and maternal grandmother M. Shew, age 38, born AL. |
| Census | 7 Jun 1880 | Cherokee County, AL, shown as 'Lular', age 10, born AL of parents born AL, with mother Martha, 25, born AL of parents born AL, stepfather A.C. Livingston, age 21, farmer born in GA, sister 'Lular' (Lula), age 3, born AL, and grandmother Margaret Shew, age 48, born AL of parents born AL. |
| Marriage | 19 Feb 1896 | Jasper Carlton Robertson; TX, A note handwritten in 1951 by Opal Robertson Cottrell, daughter of Jasper and Eula, states that the two were married on February 19, 1895. It does not state where the marriage took place. Their marriage certificate places the marriage on February 19, 1896, and the place as Bexar County (San Antonio). |
| Census | 12 May 1910 | Stephens Twp., Tillman County, OK |
| Note | 2 May 1913 | Tillman County, OK, Sadly, the land Jasper had obtained by successful sealed bid in the 'Big Pasture' land opening in December 1906, the land he'd received a patent for in Tillman County in 1910 -- 160 acres -- had to be sold upon his death. Eula's transfer of ownership as executor of his estate was recorded in Tillman County on this date. The sale price was $1530. |
| Residence | 1919 | Loveland, Tillman County, OK, 1919 Directory of Tillman County Taxpayers lists 'Robertson, Eulo Mrs., Loveland, Route 1, r 1800, p 240' |
| Census | 19 Jan 1920 | Stephens Twp., Tillman County, OK |
| Note | 19 Jan 1920 | Listed in 1920 Tillman County OK census as 'Robinson' and widowed; age 50; born in Alabama; both parents born in Alabama; able to read and write English; sons Fred (age 19) and Ray (age 14) living at home. She owned her farm but it was mortgaged. She is listed as a general farmer working on her own account.
Eula was a stepdaughter to Abigah Livingston, her mother's second husband. She sometimes went by the name of Livingston. |
| Census | 14 Apr 1930 | Hazel Twp., Tillman County, OK, age 59, widow, with sons Fred G. (age 29) and Ray C. (age 24). |
| Death | 13 Mar 1954 | Kents Store, Fluvanna County, VA |
| Burial | a 13 Mar 1954 | Byrd Chapel Cemetery, Kents Store, Fluvanna County, VA |
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| CoParent | 18 Apr 1871 | Jasper Carlton Robertson |
| Daughter | 21 Aug 1898 | Opal E. Robertson+ |
| Son | 3 Nov 1900 | Fred G. Robertson |
| Son | 17 Oct 1902 | Harvey L. 'Robbie' Robertson+ |
| Son | 10 Apr 1905 | Ray C. Robertson+ |
Gustavus Boone Robertson (M)
b. 7 Nov 1827, d. 20 Dec 1903
Pedigree |
| Father | c 1794 | William M. Robertson |
| Mother | | wife of William Robertson |
| Birth | 7 Nov 1827 | MS, The Robertson family may be found on the 1830 Lowndes County MS census, in an area that probably became Winston County when Winston County was formed in 1833. The family remained in Winston County on the 1840 and 1850 censuses, and it is likely that this is where Gustavus was born, in what is now Winston County, MS. (Note however that there is also a William Robertson on the 1822-1825 Hinds County tax lists and it is equally possible that this is our William Robertson.) In a letter from Gustavus to his daughter Mary Isabella Robertson Hendrix dated October 1, 1903, he stated: 'I will be 76 years old next month the 7th day. Your ma was 71 years old the 3d (or 8th) day of last month.' |
| Marriage | b 1847 | MS, Date and place of marriage are extrapolated from census records: 1850 Winston County MS census shows Gustavus as age 22, Isabella as age 18, with two sons, William age 3 and Elijah age 5 months. The marriage then is likely to have been no later than 1847. Since all four (father, mother and sons) were born in Mississippi, the place of marriage is likely to have been Mississippi. |
| Marriage | b 1847 | Isabella Gentry; prob Winston County, MS, The date and place of the marriage is estimated from census records. In 1850, Isabella and Gustavus were on the Winston County census and already had two children, one of whom was already three years old and who was likely born between July and October 1847. Presumably the marriage occurred at least nine months before that, so presumably in 1846 or not later than January 1847. |
| Census | 17 Oct 1850 | Winston County, MS, 1850 Winston Co MS census lists 'Gustavius Robinson' as 22 years old, occupation farmer, shown living with his wife Isabella, age 18, and their children William, age three, and Elijah, age five months. It also shows William 'Robinson,' age 56, born in North Carolina, occupation farmer, living with the family. |
| Census | 1860 | Attala County, MS, 1860 slave schedule shows Gustavus owned two female black slaves: one aged 25 and one aged 3. 1870 Lamar Co TX census shows two black females with the last name of Robertson right after Gustavus and his family: Ana, age 36, and Mary age 13. It is likely that these are the same people shown on the 1860 slave schedule. |
| Census | 1 Aug 1860 | Twp. 14, Range 8, Attala County, MS, 1860 Attala Co MS census lists Gustavus as 32 years old, occupation as 'engineer, steam mill' with a personal estate valued at $2000. He is shown living with his wife Isabella, age 28, and six children: William M., age 12, Elijha (John Elijah), age 10; Alex B. (Bird Alexander), age 8; Martha M., age 6; Nancy A., age 4; and George G., age 1. All are shown as having been born in Mississippi. It also shows William M. Robertson, age 66, born in North Carolina, occupation 'hatter', living with the family. The assumption is made that William is Gustavus' father, who had also been living with the family in 1850. |
| Census | bt 1864 -
1865 | Attala County, MS, 1864-65 Descriptive Register, Attala Co MS has an entry for ROBERTSON, G B [age] 37 [eyes] Grey [hair] Dark [height] 5'11' [complexion] Fair [POB] MS [occupation] Miller |
| Note | a Jun 1865 | The family moved from Mississippi to Lamar County TX by covered wagon in 1865, according to the obituary of George G. Robertson in the Cooper Review in April 1950; 1865 is also the date given by Martha Robertson Crenshaw for the family's arrival in Texas (per her pension application). Given the birth of Fannie Robertson in June 1865, the move was likely to have been after that child's birth. |
| Note | 14 Jul 1868 | Lamar County, TX, Record Book P, page 507, Lamar County TX, contains a contract whereby G.B. Robertson acknowledged the receipt of $642.00 as an advance against his cotton crop from what appears to be 'Means & Pierson'. The contract refers to a farm without specifying the location and sets a maturity of December 23 1868. |
| Census | 31 Aug 1870 | Paris, Lamar County, TX, On the 1870 Lamar County TX Census, Gustavus' occupation is listed as farmer with real estate valued at $3000 and personalty at $400. Age 45, born MS, living with 38-year-old wife and 10 children (William, 22; John Elijah, 20; Bird A., 18; Martha W., 16; Nancy A., 14; George G., 12; 'Laura D.B.,' 9; 'Mary E.,' 8; 'Fanney B.,' 5; 'Dink' (Lillie), 3). 1870 Lamar Co TX census shows two black females with the last name of Robertson right after Gustavus and his family: Ana, age 36, and Mary age 13. It is likely that these are the same people shown on the 1860 slave schedule. |
| Note | c 1873 | Delta County, TX, Son George's obituary states the family moved to Delta County from Lamar County in 1873. |
| Note | 4 Jun 1880 | Cooper, Delta County, TX, G.B. Robertson filed a cattle mark registration in Delta County. |
| Census | 19 Jun 1880 | Precinct 3, Delta County, TX, 1880 Delta County census shows Gustaves B. Robetson (spelling on census) - 52 yrs - b. MS f-NC - m-NC Isabella - 48 yrs - b. MS f-GA - m-MS Fannie B. - 14 yrs - b. MS Lilly - 12 yrs - b. TX Jasper - 9 yrs - b. TX Amos Hendricks (spelling in census) - son in law - 24 yrs b. MS - f -AL m-AL Mary Hendricks - wife - 17 yrs. b. MS - f-MS - m_MS |
| Census | 13 Jun 1900 | Delta County, TX, 1900 Census, Delta County, TX, shows Gustavus and Isabella living with son George and his family in Delta County, TX. |
| Note | 1 Oct 1903 | Sulphur Bluff, Hopkins County, TX, In October 1903, Gustavus and Isabella wrote a letter to Mary Isabella from Sulphur Bluff (Hopkins County TX). Part of the letter appears to have been written by Gustavus; the rest by one of Mary Isabella's sisters. By process of elimination, the author of the second part had to have been Lillie. First, both Nancy and Lara Della Belle had died by then. Second, the letter referred to Fannie in the third person. And finally the letter spoke of being interested in remarrying (and Mattie remained married and living with Lewis Crenshaw long before and after 1903). And the letter states that she, Gustavus and Isabella were living together. It does not state where, but does suggest that a day trip to Fannie's Hopkins County home was not out of the ordinary. Other records show that Lillie's first husband, L.A. Enloe, farmed at Sulphur Bluff in Hopkins County, and that G.B. died at Sulphur Bluff in December 1903. Isabella cannot be found on the 1910 census and may be presumed to have died by then. |
| Death | 20 Dec 1903 | Sulphur Bluff, Hopkins County, TX, Listed as G.B. 'Roberson' in the death records of Hopkins County. |
| Burial | a 20 Dec 1903 | prob Sulphur Bluff Cemetery, Sulphur Bluff, Hopkins County, TX |
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| CoParent | 3 Sep 1832 | Isabella Gentry |
| Son | c 1847 | William M. Robertson+ |
| Son | Feb 1850 | John Elijah Robertson+ |
| Son | 7 Jan 1852 | Bird Alexander Robertson+ |
| Daughter | Feb 1854 | Martha Wilmoth Robertson+ |
| Daughter | 29 Aug 1856 | Nancy Arminta Robertson+ |
| Son | 9 Oct 1858 | George Galloway Robertson+ |
| Daughter | 15 Jan 1861 | Lara Della Belle Robertson+ |
| Daughter | 6 Jan 1863 | Mary Isabella Robertson+ |
| Daughter | c Jun 1865 | Fannie B. Robertson+ |
| Daughter | 1 Aug 1868 | Lillie Robertson+ |
| Son | 18 Apr 1871 | Jasper Carlton Robertson+ |
Isabella Gentry (F)
b. 3 Sep 1832, d. a 1 Oct 1903
Pedigree |
| Father | 1787 | Elijah Gentry |
| Mother | c 1794 | Wilmoth Killen |
| Note | | The case for Isabella being the daughter of Elijah and Wilmoth Killen Gentry is a very strong case, primarily circumstantial, bolstered by one key piece of documentary evidence that appears to nail it down.
First, the known information: Isabella was born in 1832 in Mississippi; her father (according to census records) was born in Georgia. She appears in the 1850 Winston Co MS census at age 18 married to Gustavus B. Robertson (spelled as Robinson), age 22, with three-year-old son William and five-month-old son Elijah. (G.B.'s father William M. is living with them.) In 1860 she and her family are living in Attala County. Her children on the 1860 census are William, Elijah, Bird, Martha, Nancy and George. Two of her sons and one daughter give her last name as Gentry (Jasper, to his family; on Jasper C. Robertson's death certificate from Tillman County, OK, in 1912, information provided by brother George G. Robertson of Cooper TX identifies her as Isabella Gentry; and on Mary Isabella Robertson Hendrix's death certificate). Betty McAndrews (husband Wayne descends from Isabella's son Bird Alexander through his daughter Allie) indicates that her mother-in-law had been told that Isabella was associated somehow with the name Rankin. In addition, Mildred Holloway Shepherd (daughter of Allie) said she had been told that one of Allie's grandmothers was a Gentry. Mary Ann Thurmond (granddaughter of Isabella's daughter Mary Isabella) has a letter from G.B. Robertson to Mary Isabella in which he signs their names 'GB R and IR Robertson.' Michael Robertson (grandson of Jasper Robertson) said his family Bible indicates that Isabella had brothers named Bill and Lije.
Taking all this information, one may consider that Isabella named her first son after her husband's father and may have named her second son after her own father. The question then becomes whether there was an Elijah Gentry born in Georgia living in Mississippi before 1832 and somehow associated with Winston and/or Attala County who has at least two other children named William (Bill) and Elijah (Lije) and some connection to the name Rankin. The answer is yes.
The Rev. Elijah Gentry, a Methodist preacher and surveyor, was born in Georgia. He married Wilmoth Killen around 1818. The Gentry family was in Rankin County between 1823 and 1833 (and thus it would have been Rankin County where Isabella was born in 1832), in Winston County on the 1840 census and in next-door Neshoba County on the 1850 and 1860 censuses. On the 1840 census, there were two female children living at home, one between five and 10 years old and one between 10 and 15 years old. There are two other known Gentry daughters. Martha Ann was married to George W. Thomason in 1836 and thus would not have been on the 1840 census with her parents; Nancy was married to Amos T. Humphries in 1845, has a reported year of birth of 1829 according to the Gentry Family Genealogy magazine (verified by the 1850 census) and thus would have been the female child aged 10-15 years in 1840. Isabella was eight years old in 1840 and would perfectly fit the 5-to-10-year-old girl on the 1840 census.
Every single child of Isabella shown on the 1860 Attala County census has a name parallel to that of a child of Elijah and Wilmoth Gentry: William, Elijah, Bird, Martha, Nancy and George. Moreover, Martha's middle name was Wilmoth. Some of the Gentrys were living in Attala County in 1850; the Robertsons moved to Attala County between 1850 and 1860. The only thing that isn't an exact match is that Isabella's mother is reported on census forms to have been born in Mississippi; Wilmoth Gentry is shown on census forms to have been born in North Carolina.
An article entitled 'Gentry' written for the Rankin County MS Historical Society by Helen Maxine Wilson Smith and Clarence E. Wilson, children of Willow Isabelle Gentry Wilson, identifies the children of Elijah and Wilmoth Gentry as: (1) Martha Ann; (2) Elijah K.; (3) Ira Byrd; (4) John Wesley; (5) 'G.B. (daughter) married I.R. Robertson'; (6) Nancy A.; (7) William Jefferson; and (8) George Washington. Originally, it appeared from the wealth of circumstantial evidence connecting Isabella to the Gentrys that the information 'G.B. (daughter) married I.R. Robertson' was a mere transposition of names, and that, in fact, it was Elijah and Wilmoth's daughter I.R. (Isabella R.) who married G.B. Robertson.
Fortunately, it has proven possible with the help of Nancy Wilson, daughter of Clarence Wilson, to obtain the source information for the line identifying that fifth child. It is an 1868 deed by which Wilmoth Killen Gentry sold 320 acres in Neshoba County MS as the widow of Rev. Gentry. Mrs. Gentry required the signatures of the heirs of Rev. Gentry, who included four sons and two daughters with their husbands: Nancy Humphries and her husband A.T. Humphries, Ira Bird Gentry, William Jefferson Gentry, John Wesley Gentry, George Washington Gentry and 'I.R. and G.B. Robertson.' There is no record suggesting that the daughter was G.B., rather than the husband, and every reason now to believe that 'I.R.' Robertson was Isabella and 'G.B.' was Gustavus Boone Robertson, her husband. In fact, there is only one Robertson family that can be located in Mississippi in the 1860s where one spouse is 'G.B.' and the other has a first name starting with 'I' -- Gustavus Boone and Isabella Robertson.
Moreover, many later land records have been located in Delta County TX (where the family moved from Mississippi) which are signed by G.B. Robertson and I.R. Robertson, his wife. |
| Birth | 3 Sep 1832 | prob Rankin County, MS, In a letter from Gustavus to his daughter Mary Isabella Robertson Hendrix dated October 1, 1903, he stated: 'I will be 76 years old next month the 7th day. Your ma was 71 years old the 3d (or 8th) day of last month.' It's hard to tell whether the number is a 3 or an 8 but it appears to be a 3. |
| Census | 1840 | Winston County, MS, Female child aged 5-10 (Isabella was about 8) in household of Elijah Gentry. |
| Marriage | b 1847 | Gustavus Boone Robertson; prob Winston County, MS, The date and place of the marriage is estimated from census records. In 1850, Isabella and Gustavus were on the Winston County census and already had two children, one of whom was already three years old and who was likely born between July and October 1847. Presumably the marriage occurred at least nine months before that, so presumably in 1846 or not later than January 1847. |
| Census | 17 Oct 1850 | Winston County, MS, Age 18, born MS, with husband 'Gustavius Robinson', 22-year-old farmer, and sons William, age 3 and Elijah age 5 months, both born in MS. Living with them was 'William Robinson', age 56, farmer, born NC. |
| Census | 1 Aug 1860 | Twp. 14, Range 8, Attala County, MS, Age 28, born MS., with husband Gustavus, his father William M., and six children (William, Elijah, Bird, Martha, Nancy and George). |
| Note | a Jun 1865 | The family moved from Mississippi to Lamar County TX by covered wagon in 1865, according to the obituary of George G. Robertson in the Cooper Review in April 1950. Given the birth of Fannie Robertson in June 1865, the move was likely to have been after that child's birth. |
| Census | 31 Aug 1870 | Beat 2, Paris, Lamar County, TX, Age 38, born MS, living with 45-year-old husband and 10 children (William, 22; John Elijah, 20; Bird A., 18; Martha W., 16; Nancy A., 14; George G., 12; 'Laura D.B.,' 9; 'Mary E.,' 8; 'Fanney B.,' 5; 'Dink' (Lillie), 3). |
| Census | 19 Jun 1880 | Precinct 3, Delta County, TX, 48 years old, born MS, with 52-year-old husband and four children: Mary, b. MS, age 17 (with her husband Amos Hendrix, spelled 'Hendricks'); Fannie B., b. MS, age 14; Lilly, b. TX, age 12; and Jasper, b. TX, age 9. |
| Census | 13 Jun 1900 | Delta County, TX, 1900 Census, Delta County, TX, shows Gustavus and Isabella living with son George and his family in Delta County, TX. |
| Death | a 1 Oct 1903 | prob Hopkins County, TX, In October 1903, Gustavus and Isabella wrote a letter to Mary Isabella from Sulphur Bluffs (Hopkins County TX). Part of the letter appears to have been written by Gustavus; the rest by one of Mary Isabella's sisters. By process of elimination, the author of the second part had to have been Lillie. First, both Nancy and Lara Della Belle had died by then. Second, the letter referred to Fannie in the third person. And finally the letter spoke of being interested in remarrying (and Mattie remained married and living with Lewis Crenshaw long before and after 1903). And the letter states that she, Gustavus and Isabella were living together. It does not state where, but does suggest that a day trip to Fannie's Hopkins County home was not out of the ordinary. Gustavus and Isabella cannot be found on the 1910 census; Lillie had remarried and was living with her new husband Peter Wilson in Howard County. |
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| CoParent | 7 Nov 1827 | Gustavus Boone Robertson |
| Son | c 1847 | William M. Robertson+ |
| Son | Feb 1850 | John Elijah Robertson+ |
| Son | 7 Jan 1852 | Bird Alexander Robertson+ |
| Daughter | Feb 1854 | Martha Wilmoth Robertson+ |
| Daughter | 29 Aug 1856 | Nancy Arminta Robertson+ |
| Son | 9 Oct 1858 | George Galloway Robertson+ |
| Daughter | 15 Jan 1861 | Lara Della Belle Robertson+ |
| Daughter | 6 Jan 1863 | Mary Isabella Robertson+ |
| Daughter | c Jun 1865 | Fannie B. Robertson+ |
| Daughter | 1 Aug 1868 | Lillie Robertson+ |
| Son | 18 Apr 1871 | Jasper Carlton Robertson+ |
William M. Robertson (M)
b. c 1794, d. 25 Jun 1864 |
| Birth | c 1794 | NC |
| Marriage | c 1815 | wife of William Robertson; prob MS, This date is selected solely on the basis of the 1830 Lowndes County census record for William M. Robertson. However, there is also a William M. Robertson in Hinds County in 1822-1825, which may also be our William (and might well not be the same William as on the Lowndes County census). |
| Note | bt 1822 -
1825 | Hinds County, MS, There is a William Robertson on the 1822, 1823, 1824 and 1825 Hinds County tax lists. It is possible that this is our William Robertson. If so, the 1830 Lowndes County Robertson may well not be our William. |
| Census | 1830 | Lowndes County, MS, William M. Robertson (male age 30-40), with one female age 30-40, and three males (one under age 5 -- corresponding to Gustavus, one 5-10, one 10-15). Note that Lowndes County was one of three counties that had territory taken to make up Winston County (where the Robertsons can be found for certain in 1850 and likely in 1840). |
| Census | 1840 | Winston County, MS, William M. 'Robinson' listed as age 40-50, with one female age 40-50, and two sons, one age 10-15 (Gustavus was 13 in 1840) and one age 15-20. This household is nine households from that of Elijah Gentry, whose daughter Isabella married Gustavus. |
| Note | 27 Feb 1841 | Winston County, MS, was issued a patent for 40.02 acres of land, US certificate 13267, at BLM Office at Columbus MS. Note that the land is very close to the land patented to Elijah Gentry on February 27, 1841, under certificate 12322. |
| Census | 17 Oct 1850 | Winston County, MS, The 1850 Winston County MS census has William M. 'Robinson', age 56, living with 'Gustavius Robinson' and his wife Isabella and their children William and Elijah. His occupation is shown as farmer and POB North Carolina. |
| Census | 1 Aug 1860 | Twp. 14, Range 8, Attala County, MS, The 1860 Attala County MS census has William M. Robertson, age 66, living with Gustavus B. Robertson and wife Isabella and their children. Occupation listed as 'hatter' and POB North Carolina. Given the age and the residence on both the 1850 and 1860 census forms, the assumption is made that William M. Robertson is the father of Gustavus B. Robertson. |
| Death | 25 Jun 1864 | Attala County, MS, Date and place of death are assumed from the entry in the of Attala County, Mississippi, as follows: 'June 26, 1864, Sunday... Old man Robertson (hatter) yesterday' The likelihood of two elderly Robertsons, both of whom were hatters, is fairly slim. |
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| CoParent | | wife of William Robertson |
| Son | bt 1815 -
1820 | son of William Robertson |
| Son | bt 1820 -
1825 | second son of William Robertson |
| Son | 7 Nov 1827 | Gustavus Boone Robertson+ |
Jasper Baird (M)
b. c 1848, d. b 1876
Pedigree |
| Father | c 1820 | William Baird |
| Note | | Bobette Richardson's notes, based on conversations with her grandmother Opal Robertson Cottrell, give the first name of Jasper and spell the last name Baird, and state that the father's name was Billy (William?). The 1870 Cherokee County AL census gives the last name of Baird and no first name. Marriage record from Alabama when Martha married Abigah Livingston has the last name as Beard.
He is reported by family history to have been killed while going for supplies, possibly by Indians, possibly in the Oklahoma Territory. The story has it that the wagon was found but no trace of him. Since the marriage to Abigah Livingston was October 1876, his date of death would have to be some time before then.
There is only one family in Cherokee County AL in 1850 or 1860 with a name similar to Baird/Beard/Bird/Biard with a son Jasper, and no other families of that name with a son of a proper age to have been Martha Louise Shew's first husband. That is the family of William and Christian A. Baird. Jasper N. Baird was their first-born child, and shows up on the 1850 census as 8 years old (b. abt 1842) and on the 1860 census as age 18. That does not match the age of 22 shown for Martha Louise's husband on the 1870 census, but an age mistake of six years is common on census records. The place of birth matches (both Alabama) and, of course, the name and the father's first name match what Martha Louise told her daughter Eula and Eula told her daughter Opal.
The Baird family appears in Cherokee County AL in 1850 and in 1860 but moved to Pope County, Arkansas at some point before the 1870 census. They appear in Illinois Twp., Pope County, AR, in 1870. However, Jasper is NOT included in the listing for the family in 1870 and, moreover, does not appear in any Pope County entry in 1870.
The difficulty in drawing the inference that Jasper N. Baird, son of William and Christian Baird, was Eula's father is that Jasper N. Baird did not die in the 1870s. To the contrary, he died in Pope County, AR, in 1909. He was a veteran of the Confederacy, having served in Company G, 19th Regiment, Alabama Infantry, and had spent six or seven years before his death at the Confederate Veterans Home in Little Rock. He was apparently visiting his brothers in Pope County when he died of an obstructed bowel at the age of 66. He was not married and had no children, according to his obituary.
There are four possible explanations: (1) there is an uncanny similarity of names and this is not the right Jasper Baird, son of William Baird, of Cherokee County AL; (2) Jasper Baird deserted his wife and child; (3) Jasper and Martha Louise divorced; and (4) Jasper was Eula's father but never married Martha Louise; indeed he may not even have known about the child. |
| Birth | c 1848 | AL |
| Marriage | b Oct 1869 | Martha Louise Shew; It is not at all certain that Martha Louise was actually married to Jasper Baird. |
| Census | 18 Jul 1870 | Twp. 10, Range 8, Cherokee County, AL, Age 22, farm hand, no first name shown, born AL, with wife Martha, age 17, born AL, daughter Eula L., age 8 months, and mother-in-law M. Shew, age 38, born AL. |
| Death | b 1876 | |
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| CoParent | Feb 1855 | Martha Louise Shew |
| Daughter | 24 Oct 1869 | Eula L. Baird+ |
Martha Louise Shew (F)
b. Feb 1855, d. 1909
Pedigree |
| Father | c 1826 | Daniel Shew |
| Mother | bt 1827 -
1832 | Margaret Battles |
| Birth | Feb 1855 | AL, B. Richardson notes indicate a birth year of 1851 (from her tombstone). The tombstone actually reads 1856.
The 1860 census has her age then as six (birth year of 1854); the 1870 census indicates she was 17 then (birth year of 1853). The 1880 census has her age as 25 (birth year of 1855) and the 1900 census says she was born in February 1855. For lack of a better choice, a date of 1855 is being tentatively selected to conform to the most specific census records. |
| Census | 1 Aug 1860 | Cherokee County, AL |
| Marriage | b Oct 1869 | Jasper Baird; It is not at all certain that Martha Louise was actually married to Jasper Baird. |
| Census | 18 Jul 1870 | Twp. 10, Range 8, Cherokee County, AL, Age 17, with husband FNU Baird, farm hand, age 22, born AL, daughter Eula L., age 8 months, born AL, and mother M. Shew, age 38, born AL. |
| Marriage | 26 Oct 1876 | Abigah C. Livingston; Cherokee County, AL, Source for info on marriage: Ancestry.com |
| Census | 7 Jun 1880 | Cherokee County, AL, shown as age 25, born AL of parents born AL, with husband A.C., age 21, farmer born in GA, with daughter 'Lular' (Lula), age 3, born AL, mother-in-law Margaret Shew, age 48, born AL of parents born AL, and stepdaughter 'Lular' (Eula) Beard (Baird), age 10, born AL of parents born AL. |
| Census | 19 Jun 1900 | Williamson County, TX, Head of household shown as Abiga 'Levingston', 42, farmer, born August 1859 in GA of parents born GA, married 22 years to wife Martha, 45, born February 1855 in AL of parents born AL, mother of 10, 8 surviving (there were nine surviving, no information is known about a tenth child if there was one), and children Lula, 21, born July 1878, 'Lan', 17, born June 1882, John, 15, born June 1884, 'Noll, 14, born April 1886, Susie, 12, born Apr 1888, Levy, 9, born June 1891, and 'Author', 4, born September 1895. Just beneath the family's record is the census entry for daughter Etta, 20, born June 1879, and son in law Austin Roberts, 21, born April 1879. All the young people were shown as born AL. |
| Death | 1909 | Frederick, Tillman County, OK, Opal Robertson Cottrell wrote her recollections of the death of her grandmother on a page from a 1968 calendar (though not necessarily in 1968):
1909 -
Long before it got there
we could see the
buggy coming slowly
down our road -
- My Dear Uncle
Leva - 15 years old -
bringing us the
sad news of my Dear Grandmother's
Death - My grieving
Mother - and my aunts
& uncles - I am carried
back through time
and space to where
you are - and I see
you once more - as you
were then - a
large, close family,
grieving for a Dear
& loving Mother -
my Grandmother
Martha Livingston
Buried in Cemetery
Frederick Okla - 1909
- close by rests my Father
J.C. Robertson - '1912' -
Tall upright Log marks
his resting place
('Woodman of the World'
marks his resting place) |
| Burial | a 1909 | Frederick Cemetery, Frederick, Tillman County, OK, Her tombstone reads:
LIVINGSTON
MARTHA E.
wife of
A.C. Livingston
1856-1909 |
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| CoParent | c 1848 | Jasper Baird |
| Daughter | 24 Oct 1869 | Eula L. Baird+ |
| |
| CoParent | 22 Aug 1858 | Abigah C. Livingston |
| Daughter | Jul 1877 | Lula A. Livingston+ |
| Daughter | 6 Jun 1880 | Margaret Etta Livingston+ |
| Son | 9 Jun 1883 | Richard Allonzo 'Lon' Livingston+ |
| Son | 14 Jun 1885 | John Jackson Livingston+ |
| Son | 7 Apr 1887 | Noel Barton Livingston+ |
| Daughter | 12 Apr 1889 | Susie Livingston+ |
| Son | 21 Jun 1891 | Leva Pyron Livingston+ |
| Son | 20 Sep 1895 | Arthur Carlton Livingston+ |
Daniel Shew (M)
b. c 1826, d. bt Feb 1855 - 1860
Pedigree |
| Father | c 1790 | Boston Shew |
| Mother | c 1790 | Elizabeth Brewer |
| Birth | c 1826 | NC |
| Marriage | b 1849 | Margaret Battles |
| Census | 22 Jan 1850 | Cherokee County, AL, Shown as age 24, 'Agr.,' with wife Margaret, age 23, and son William, age 1. Same page of census shows brother Simon and likely family of wife Margaret, the family of William and Ann Jacobs Battles. |
| Note | 12 Oct 1854 | Lebanon, DeKalb County, AL, Daniel Shew personally appeared in the Land Office at Lebanon, AL, on October 12, 1854, and represented that he wanted to obtain land in Cherokee County for his own use under the Act of 4th of August 1854. His signature appears on the sworn statement. He paid $1.00 an acre for the 40 acres in the SE quarter of the SW quarter of Section 3, Township 10, Range 8. |
| Death | bt Feb 1855 -
1860 | Must have died sometime between birth of Martha Louise, circa February 1855, and 1860 since 1860 Cherokee Co, AL Census shows Margaret as head of household with 3 children. |
| |
| CoParent | bt 1827 -
1832 | Margaret Battles |
| Son | 19 Nov 1849 | William Washington Shew+ |
| Son | c 1852 | Gilford C. Shew+ |
| Daughter | Feb 1855 | Martha Louise Shew+ |
Margaret Battles (F)
b. bt 1827 - 1832
Pedigree |
| Father | bt 1790 -
1792 | William Battles |
| Mother | c 1800 | Ann Jacobs |
| Note | | It seems certain that Margaret is the daughter of William Battles who can be found living alongside Margaret and her family on Cherokee County census reports in 1850, 1860 and 1870.
First, oral family tradition is that Margaret's maiden name was Battles. The source for this information was Margaret's granddaughter Eula, with whom Margaret lived from Eula's birth until (most likely) Margaret's death sometime after 1880.
Second, Margaret's first son was named William, a name not found in her husband's family. It is therefore likely that the name was drawn from her family, and the most likely candidate would be her father.
Third, Margaret's second son was named Gilford, again a name not found in her husband's family but is found in the Battles family (there is a Guilford Battles roughly the same age as Margaret around the same time in Cherokee County who also appears to be a child of William Battles).
Fourth, William Battles is known to be a son of William Noel Battles, and one of Margaret's grandsons (Eula's younger brother) was named Noel.
Fifth, William is the head of the only Battles family to live in Cherokee County around the time of Margaret's likely marriage to Daniel Shew.
Sixth, the William Battles family lived in extremely close proximity to Margaret and her family for more than 20 years. They appear on the same page of the census in 1850, the same page in 1860 and the page immediately following in 1870.
The real question is, who was Margaret's mother? The answer appears to be Ann Jacobs Battles, William's second wife -- but during a time when she and William were not free to marry.
William was married first to Kiziah Wright in Oglethorpe County GA on December 12 1818 (note that William's brother Samuel married Kiziah's sister Nancy in Oglethorpe County on November 18 1805) and second to Ann Jacobs in St. Clair County AL on December 25, 1829. Kiziah petitioned for divorce from William in Blount County AL in 1824. Among the reasons cited was that William had abandoned Kiziah and 'for the last two years ... hath lived and now is living in adultery with one Ann Jacobs with whom he has gone to the State of Tennessee'. The divorce petition neither mentions children in William's custody nor requests support for children in Kiziah's custody. It is likely then that Kiziah and William had no children.
Yet as of the 1830 census -- with an official enumeration day of June 1, 1830, only five months and six days after William's and Ann's marriage -- the census record for William's family shows five children living in the household: one boy and one girl who were 5-10 years of age, and one boy and two girls under five years of age. Matching up a variety of census records and land records, and factoring in the very great potential for errors in reporting birth years (and mixing up boys and girls!), it is postulated that the evidence now reasonably suggests the following to have been William and Ann's children, in order:
George W. Battles, born TN circa 1824
Margaret Battles, born AL circa 1827
Guilford Battles, born AL circa 1829
Azariah Battles, born AL circa 1830
Samantha Battles, born AL circa 1832
Julia Battles, born AL circa 1834
William M. Battles, born AL circa 1836
Francis 'Franklin' Battles, born AL circa 1838
Richard Lewis Battles, born AL circa 1840
Charlsey M. Battles, born AL circa 1842
The evidence of relationship is circumstantial, largely because the records of Cherokee County AL were lost in courthouse fires in 1882 and 1893. But there is enough to have a reasonable degree of comfort in these conclusions. For example, William (the father) and George W., Guilford, and Margaret (by her husband Daniel Shew) all obtained land grants in Township 10-S, Range 8-E, in Cherokee County; George, Guilford and Margaret were all approximately the right ages to be among the children living in William's household in 1830; George reported his birthplace as Tennessee (the state where William was reported to have lived with Ann before their marriage); Guilford and Margaret named their first sons William and both names their daughters Martha; Margaret named her second son Gilford; Guilford and at least two of William's younger sons all served together in the same company of the 31st Alabama Infantry in the Civil War; Guilford Battles' son (Samuel) Thomas was recorded on the 1930 census as a 72-year-old cousin in the household of Margaret's grandson in Lamar County TX. No one item by itself proves the case; taken together, they are strongly persuasive. |
| Birth | bt 1827 -
1832 | AL, Margaret's year of birth could have been as early as 1827 (the 1850 census has her as 23 years old) and as late as 1832 (the 1870 census shows her as 38 and the 1880 census -- though hard to read -- may have her age as 48). |
| Marriage | b 1849 | Daniel Shew |
| Census | 22 Jan 1850 | Cherokee County, AL, Age 23, born AL, with husband Daniel, age 24, born NC, 'Agr.,' and son William, age 1, born AL. Same page of census shows Daniel's brother Simon and his family. Ann Battles and seven of her children are at the top of the page (William Battles is at the bottom of the prior page and 'Tillford' (Guilford) Battles earlier on the prior page). These are likely Margaret's parents and siblings. |
| Census | 1 Aug 1860 | Cherokee County, AL, Margaret was shown as 'Margaret Shoe,' age 30 or 38 (document is hard to read), born AL, with three children: William, age 10; Gilford, age 8; and Martha L., age 6, all born AL. Ann Battles and her three youngest children are at the top of the page (William Battles is at the bottom of the prior page). These may well be Margaret's parents and siblings. |
| Census | 18 Jul 1870 | Cherokee County, AL, M. Shew ('mother-in-law', age 38, born AL) living with daughter Martha Louise Baird, son-in-law (Jasper?) and infant granddaughter Eula. On the same page are F. Battles and his family (possibly Franklin, believed to be Margaret's brother) and on the next page Margaret's brother-in-law Simon and his family and William and Anna Battles (likely Margaret's parents). |
| Census | 7 Jun 1880 | Twp. 11, Range 8, Cherokee County, AL, shown as 48 (or 46, document is hard to read), born AL, 'mother of wife' in the household of son-in-law A.C., daughter Martha Louise Livingston,and granddaughters Lula ('Lular', age 3) and Eula ('Lular', age 10). |
| |
| CoParent | c 1826 | Daniel Shew |
| Son | 19 Nov 1849 | William Washington Shew+ |
| Son | c 1852 | Gilford C. Shew+ |
| Daughter | Feb 1855 | Martha Louise Shew+ |
Boston Shew (M)
b. c 1790, d. bt 1863 - 1870
Pedigree |
| Father | c 1750 | Phillip Shew |
| Mother | c 1750 | Susannah [--M?--] Shew |
| Birth | c 1790 | NC |
| Marriage | 18 Sep 1816 | Elizabeth Brewer; Wilkes County, NC, North Carolina Marriage Bonds, 1741-1868
Bride: Elisabeth Brewer
Groom: Boston Shew
Bond Date: 18 Sep 1816
County: Wilkes
Record #: 02 222
Bondsman: Simon Shew
Witness: R Martin
Bond #: 000167341 |
| Census | 1820 | Wilkes County, NC, Shown as head of household under the age of 26, with a wife (Elizabeth) under the age of 26, and one son (Simon) and one daughter (Deborah) under the age of 10. |
| Census | 1830 | Wilkes County, NC, Shown as head of household with two sons and four daughters. |
| Census | 1840 | Grayson County, VA, Shown as head of household with three sons and five daughters. |
| Census | 6 Nov 1850 | Cherokee County, AL, Household 75, 26th District: Boston Shew, age 60, farmer, Elizabeth, age 60, Elvira, age 20, John, age 17, all born NC. |
| Marriage | b 1859 | Nancy [--M?--] Shew; poss AR, Although it is not entirely certain, it appears that Elizabeth Brewer Shew died before 1860 and Boston Shew married a second time. He is listed on the 1860 census in Izard County AR with a 33-year-old Nancy Shew and a one-year-old child, William B. While this could have been a niece or other relative, that is unlikely since a second child, Jefferson Davis Shew, was born shortly thereafter and both boys were sent together back to Cherokee County AL after the apparent death of both Boston and Nancy before 1870. |
| Census | 13 Jun 1860 | Big Springs Post Office, Franklin Twp., Izard County, AR, Although it is not absolutely certain that this is our Boston Shew, the census shows a 70-year-old born in North Carolina, a farm laborer. We know of no other Boston Shews of that age and born in NC. He is living with a 33-year-old woman, Nancy (born GA), and a one-year-old boy, William B. (born AR). It appears that Nancy was a second wife after Elizabeth's death, and that William was the first of two boys born to this second marriage. |
| Death | bt 1863 -
1870 | prob AR, The last documentary record of Boston Shew we know of so far appears to be a land record in Izard County AR issued on October 1, 1860. Before that, he appears on the 1860 Izard County census, living with a 33-year-old woman named Nancy and a one-year-old boy William B. That William appears to have a younger brother (Jefferson) Davis, born around 1862-63, and both William and Davis are on the 1870 and 1880 Cherokee County AL census. It certainly appears that this is our Boston, from the age (70) and place of birth (NC). It also appears that Boston was the father of these two boys. |
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| CoParent | c 1790 | Elizabeth Brewer |
| Daughter | c 1817 | Deborah C. Shew+ |
| Son | c 1819 | Simon Shew+ |
| Daughter | bt 1 Jan 1820 -
1 Jan 1830 | Daughter 1 (FNU) Shew |
| Daughter | bt 1 Jan 1820 -
1 Jan 1830 | Daughter 2 (FNU) Shew |
| Son | c 1826 | Daniel Shew+ |
| Daughter | c 1829 | Mary A. Shew+ |
| Daughter | c 1830 | Elvira Shew |
| Son | c 1833 | John Shew+ |
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| CoParent | c 1827 | Nancy [--M?--] Shew |
| Son | 12 Jan 1859 | William Boston Shew+ |
| Son | c 1863 | Jefferson Davis Shew+ |
Elizabeth Brewer (F)
b. c 1790, d. bt 1850 - 1860 |
| Note | | 1850 Cherokee County AL census lists Elizabeth's birthplace as North Carolina and her age as 60. |
| Birth | c 1790 | NC |
| Marriage | 18 Sep 1816 | Boston Shew; Wilkes County, NC, North Carolina Marriage Bonds, 1741-1868
Bride: Elisabeth Brewer
Groom: Boston Shew
Bond Date: 18 Sep 1816
County: Wilkes
Record #: 02 222
Bondsman: Simon Shew
Witness: R Martin
Bond #: 000167341 |
| Death | bt 1850 -
1860 | Cherokee County, AL |
| Census | 6 Nov 1850 | Cherokee County, AL, Household 75, 26th District: Boston Shew, age 60, farmer, Elizabeth, age 60, Elvira, age 20, John, age 17, all born NC. |
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| CoParent | c 1790 | Boston Shew |
| Daughter | c 1817 | Deborah C. Shew+ |
| Son | c 1819 | Simon Shew+ |
| Daughter | bt 1 Jan 1820 -
1 Jan 1830 | Daughter 1 (FNU) Shew |
| Daughter | bt 1 Jan 1820 -
1 Jan 1830 | Daughter 2 (FNU) Shew |
| Son | c 1826 | Daniel Shew+ |
| Daughter | c 1829 | Mary A. Shew+ |
| Daughter | c 1830 | Elvira Shew |
| Son | c 1833 | John Shew+ |
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