Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2026 All Rights Reserved USGenNet Data Repository Please read USGenNet Copyright Statement on this page: Transcribed and submitted by Linda Talbott for the USGenNet Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ =========================================================================== USGenNet Data Repository Notice: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization. Non-commercial organizations desiring to use this material must obtain the consent of the transcriber prior to use. Individuals desiring to use this material in their own research may do so. ============================================================================= Formatted by USGenNet Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. ============================================================================= Texas Coastal Pioneers of Chambers County As Compliled in 1952 by Varuna Hartmann Lawrence Royal Pub. Co., Dallas, TX The Gulf Coast Pioneers of Texas Authentic Reports Gathered from Many Reliable Sources. (Many things cannot be verified as the old Record Book burned in the fire that destroyed the old Court House at Wallisville, then County seat of Chambers county 1875 or '76) Have talked with many of those who had lived in these bygone days, and in whose word there was no question, concerning the things given here. Varua Hartmann (Mrs. A. B.) Lawrence ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [p. 13] ALLEN: A family lived along the shore of Trinity Bay, on a tract of land nearly adjoining that of SOLOMON BARROW. BARROW bought their land when the ALLEN’S decided to move away. Know nothing more concerning them. Have been told by Historians that they were not the ALLENS that founded Houston. ALGIERS: MRS. JACOB WINFREE was an ALGIERS and had a sister (or niece) MARTHA ALGIERS who visited in the WINFREE home, and as MARTHA was a young girl, a friend of ADALESO FITZGERALD, they were often together at "AUNT POLLY’ WINFREE’S home. CAPTAIN JAMES ARMSTRONG: A family of this name located in Cedar Bayou, consisting of Father (JAMES) Mother and three sons, JIM, WILL, RAOUL, and a daughter ANN. The elder JAMES ARMSTRONG was a man who held many positions of legal authorities in the county in which he lived. JIM ARMSTRONG married ALICE HUTT, a young lady from the North, who with her sister came to visit their kinsman DR. ASA MORGAN, a well known physician, who lived in that community. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [p. 14] WILL ARMSTRONG never married, was devoted to books and literary items. RAOUL never married, nor did ANN ever marry. She passed her time amid books and flowers, loved. her plants like they were children, and how they did reward her care. ATWELL: A man entails Texas from (it was said) Utah. No one knew why he came, alone telling nothing of his past nor of his people. He was a rather, short, stout man of mild manner and a kindly face. He married MARY JANE (STUBBS) DAVIS a widow, and lived a quiet peaceful life. A: great believer in Religion and Peace. This man taught many children to pray, and one night at a card party,.as he sat in a corner near the fire-place, he gathered the four children there and taught them their first prayer. "Now I lay me." We crowded near him to hear, for the card party gaiety nearly drowned out his words to us. This was my nightly petition for years, until Mama taught me "The Lords Prayer." ===============================================================================