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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. 15] BAKER: There was a man of this name on Cedar Bayou, he and his wife had two daughters, ANNA and EMMA, two boys HANS and GEORGE. ANNA married WES MAGEE EMMA married ED BUSCH Don't know who HANS married GEORGE died unmarried BARBER (a): There were a number of families moving into Texas in the early days. Among them the BARBER family consisting of AMOS, LIZA, BEN, REUBEN, ADDISON, MELISSA and ANNIE. These are the ones that I knew personally. They came here from Louisiana but were originally from Virginia. AMOS was the oldest and married SUSAN ANN HODGES FITZGERALD, the widow of FRANCIS MARION FITZGERALD, who was drowned near Galveston and buried in a grove of trees near the southwest end of Galveston Island called Eagle Grove. There was a little girl in the home when FRANCIS MARION was drowned, named ADALESA MARTHA and a little boy was born about five months after his father’s death. This boy was given his father’s name and was called FRANK. AMOS BARBER and his wife had ten children. BETTY died in early childhood. They were as follows: AMANDA, ALBERT MILBY, ELMER WATSON, ELLA, JOSH, LILLIE (LIL), ESTELLE, BERTHA AQUILLA, WILLIAM HENRY (WILL). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [p. 16] ELLA married JOE FISHER and they had the following children: AMOS, JENIRA, MARTHA, WALTER, IRENE, HENRY, ZEIDEE, LULA and one baby died. ELMER married AMANDA FISHER and their children were: LILLIE, QUINTON, JULIAN, ELSIE, BESSIE, SCHUYLER. They also lost one baby. ALBERT married HENRIETTA LAWRENCE and their children were: CELINA, a son who died young and ARTHUR. ----------------------------------------------------------------- BARBER (b): LILLIE married ROBERT BARROW and their children were: STELLA, FOREST, ARIZONA, and EMMORY; one tiny babe died. JOSH married CORNELIAS LAWRENCE and their children were: AMOS, JULIA, ARCHIE, and LUCILLE; one young child died. ESTELLE married MAT FISHER and their children were: HAYES, LEOLA, BERTRAM, EULA, BETHEL, SCHUYLER and MELVIN, who died a young man. BERTHA married HENRY FISHER, their children were: OSSEE, HORTON, LEON, WILLARD, PIRTLE, FLOYD and HYMAN. They had one baby girl who died. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [p.17] WILL married MAMIE SCOTT, their children were: MAY, ESTELLE, BIRDIE, JOHN, WILL ALBERT. AMOS and ANN BARBER’S oldest girl, AMANDA, married MARION WILLIAMS. Their children were: MARY ELLA who married JIM DAVIS; EMMETT who married LOULA WILLIAMS (no kin); FRANK ??; OSCAR married FLORIE STUBBS; JOSH married OLIE STUBBS; LINNA who married CYRUS WILLIAMS (no kin); JESSE who married ??; ROWENA who married ERASTUS STUBBS; ROSS who married HAZEL KELLY; WATSON married a MISS CARMODY; Then another son IRA WILLIAMS married VIVA MALEY; CLAUDE married EMMA JOSEPHINE MACKEY. ------------------------------------------------------------ BARBER (c): AMOS and ANN BARBER’S next child ALBERT married HENRIETTA LAWRENCE, they had two children to live, CELINA and ARTHUR. ELLA married JOE FISHER and their children were: AMOS who married MARTHA MACKEY; JENIRA married BEE PRUITT; ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [p.18] MARTHA married EDD PRUITT; IRENE married OLLIE BARBER (a second cousin); WALTER never married; ZADIE was never married; LULA married JULIAN BARBER (a cousin); HENRY died unmarried, AMOS and ANN’S next child ELMER who married AMANDA FISHER and their children were: QUINTON who married CLARA SCOTT; LILLIE who married JIM STOCKBRIDGE, had no children; JULIAN who married LULA FISHER, had no children; ELSIE who married GEORGE GILBERT, had one child MARY SUE; BESSIE who married MAX BROWN, had one child, a son; SCHUYLER COLFAR who married a MISS SOUTHERN, had one child. AMOS and ANN’S next child LILLIE (LIT) married ROBERT BARROW. Their children were: STELLA married BILL SMITH; FOREST married IRIS BARROW; ARIZONA married ??; EMORY married GEORGIA MALEY. ------------------------------------------------------------ BARBER (d): AMOS and ANN’S next child was JOSH, who married CORNELIA LAWRENCE; their children were: AMOS who married STELLA DUGAT; JULIA married ??; LUCILE married GEORGE TAIT now deceased. She has one son, GEORGE LAWRENCE. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [p. 19] AMOS and ANN’S next child ESTELLE married MATT FISHER and their children were: HAYES who married WILLIE BROWN; LEOLA who married CHARLES KILGORE, had no children; ODELL who married a MISS RICKETT, they had one child; BERTRAM FISHER married URA BARROW, they had several children; BETHEL who married ?? WOODS, they adopted one or more children; MELVIN who died in young manhood. AMOS and ANN’S next child BERTHA, who married HENRY FISHER and their children were: OSSEE who married ZOE LAWRENCE; HORTON who married HAZEL SMITH; LEON who married BERTHA BARBER; WILLARD who married ??; FLOYD who married EUNICE ??; PYRTLE who married ANNIE PARKER; WYMAN married ??; BERTH FISHER died some years before HENRY, her husband. ------------------------------------------------------------ BARBER (e): The next child of AMOS and ANN was WILL, who married MAMIE SCOTT, and their children were: MAY who married ?? WILSON; ESTELLE married CHRIS SHEPHERD; BYRDIE; JOHN; WILL ALBERT. BARBER: ELIZA BARBER, a sister of AMOS BARBER, married PHILIP WINFREE, had one child LUCINDA, who married R. L. (COON) DUN- MAN, then she married GUS BUCK, and their children were: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [p. 20] AUGUSTA, married DICK DUNMAN; EMMETT; BABE who married HUDDLESON; VIOLA who married JONES; LEONA who married ??; LOULA, AUSTIN. BARBER: BEN BARBER, brother to AMOS BARBER, original family. BEN BARBER’S first wife’s name is unknown to me, but she died leaving two sons, MOSELY and LEWIN. Then BEN married Jane ?? and their children were: FRANK; RUFUS; ANNIE; MARY; ADDIE; WALTER. BARBER, REUBEN BARBER, a brother of AMOS BARBER, original family. REUBEN BARBER ?? and moved to Refugio. He had six daughters and two sons, they were namely: SUSAN; ALICE; SULTANA; ABBEY; HANNAH; ??; ABNER; WILLARD. BARBER: ADDISON BARBER, brother of AMOS BARBER, original family. ADDISON BARBER was married and had one daughter ANNIE, who married a man named WILLIAMS; they had the following children: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [p. 21] CYRUS who married LINNA WILLIAMS; RUBY who married DANIEL BARROW. BARBER: MELLISSA BARBER was married to GEORGE MALEY, a brother to the "old man" MALEY who lived down in Winfree’s cove. GEORGE AND MELISSA had a daughter ALICE, who was married, and had a little golden haired girl. HENRY a young man. Two younger boys, names forgotten, MARINA and forgot name of other girl. They had one thousand head of sheep, that were fed salt at night. BARBER: ANNIE BARBER, a sister to AMOS BARBER, original family. ANNIE BARBER married a man named TILTON their children were: BEN married the WIDOW CLARK divorcee COURYILL, NARCISSA HENRIETTA nee BARROW; JANE married LUTHER WILBURN; MILTON married EFFIE BRASHEAR; LAURA married "DOC" FIELDING STUBBS; ANN married MARTIN CARMODY; DAVE died very old but unmarried. BARROW, SOLOMON: About the year 1824, a group of men petitioned the Mexican Government for titles to the land they had settled on and wished to have the legal right to, as they had made it their home for some time. They considered it their own and now asked the Mexican Government to give them deeds to the lands. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [p.22] One group consisted of the following names: Soloman Barrow, Bartell Sims; Thomas Jefferson Chambers; Juan Antonio Padillo; Benjamin Winfree; Jacob Winfree; Francesco Madero. These names appear in the instrument awarded to SOLOMON BARROW in 1830, from the translation of the Spanish Grant received by him in answer to his petition. SOLOMON and BENJAMIN BARROW came to this part of Coahuila and Texas together and SOLOMON took up land on the West side of the Trinity River along the highland on the borders of Trinity (or Galveston) Bay. BENJAMIN took up on the East side of the river and a wide marsh lay along the mouth of the river, between them. SOLOMON took up a League along the highland bordering the Bay and a Labor bordering the wet mash. BARROW’S friend, JOSEPH LAWRENCE took up an island that lay between the marsh and the river, and thus as SOLOMON’S brothers-in-law had taken up the lands along his Northern boundaries line, it only remained to have some one take up the wet marsh land, to make a solid block of land miles across in every direction. SOLOMON had a friend who was his guest for some years, a Mr. JAMES GRANT who took up the wet marshland and when some time later he left that part of Texas, he sold his marshland to SOLOMON BARROW. A neighbor whose name was HILL also sold his land, which ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [p. 23] adjoined SOLOMON BARROW on the Southwest, when he left Texas. BARROW was an exceedingly hospitable man and many visitors were entertained. COLONEL ASHBEL SMITH was a guest who came for two or more days visit at a time. Many others were frequent guests in his home, for the latchstring was ever out and food and drink was ever ready. A barrel of whiskey was kept on tap and cups to help one’s self were just above it, at all times. GENERAL SAM HOUSTON was a friend and neighbor with whom, as was the pioneer custom, to send fresh meats, as one or another would kill something for fresh eating. There being no ice in those days, neighbors exchanged a piece of fresh meat with his friends. The neighbors on the West side of the river were few and far between, but very friendly toward one another. There were the HILLS, ALLENS and further along the Bay front the ARMSTRONGS and the HOUSTONS. Then up the Cedar Bayou stream and out on the prairie, were the STEELS, IIAMS, SHEPHERDS, SHORTS, and the PORTERS. The Porters were joined on their North line by the Townsends who joined SOLOMON BARROW’S Northwest corner {BARROWS BEN WINFREE land). The North line of A.B.J. WINFREE’S land is the South line of the FLEWELLEN land. It was a large spread of land and was the scene of entertainment of that day. People were invited for a week or more and there were Bull- Fights in the real Mexican style. There were Mexican laborers as ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [p. 24] well as numerous negroes on the place, but the Bull Fighters were brought from Mexico for the occasion. Of course there was an unlimited amount of food, for the negroes raised everything in the fields that had ever been planted in this new and very productive land. These fields had been drained by ditches reaching to the marshland. As for the rest of the food supply, there were sheep, goats, hogs and hundreds of cattle bearing the BARROW brand roaming the broad lands, sheltering eed rich marshes: of this domain. BARROW spoke the Mexican language like a native. Bamember this was before the Texans wanted to be free from Mexico! SOLOMON BARROW had married ELIZABETH WINFREE of Louisiana, a placid kindly woman, who bore him eleven children, five sons, namely, ALLEN, BEN, AMOS, SOLOMON, and WILLIAM who died when a young boy. They had six daughters named SARAH, MARY (OR POLLY) MARTHA, TABITHA, ELIZABETH and NARCISSA HENRIETTA who all called Sis. SOLOMON BARROW had erected a large two-story house, overlooking the waters of the Bay, where the high bluff banks and large groves of trees made a splendid site for a home. There were long drain ditches leading to the marsh planted with trees in their banks. This was done by his numerous slaves. These trees still outline the overgrown ditches through the woods. The Mexican town and Army Post was Anahuac and was near the site of BENJAMIN BARROW’S home. He had married a lady of ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [p. 25] culture, a MISS AMELIA WHITE, whose father came to Texas before or about the time of the BARROW Brothers’ arrival. As there were schools near BEN’S home, SOLOMON sent his daughters to stay with his brother’s family and attend those schools, with BEN’S own children. "AUNT MELIA" saw after them as she did her own, in manners and behavior. MRS. SOLOMON BARROW (or AUNT BETSY, as those related called her) had a young brother, PHILIP WINFREE, who seemed to have been rather impetuous, had some words or argument with SOLOMON and later when he came to the BARROW home, went out to where SOLOMON was supervising the cooking of the fat and the heads of some freshly killed hogs. Young PHILLIP went out to where this work was going on and demanded to know whose hogs had been killed? BARROW said, "They were mine." Said Phillip, "I’ll look in at the heads , in the pot and see," stepping forward. And BARROW said, "if you uncover that pot I'll kill you." There were more hot words and when PHILLIP attempted to uncover the kettle, BARROW drew his gun and shot and killed him. The Mexican troops came over from Anahuac and took BARROW to the jail there, where he remained for some time. SOLOMON’S brother (BEN) came one day to see him, riding a beautiful black mare, noted for being the fastest horse in Texas. Cohuila as it was called by the Mexicans. Leaving his mare unhitched, the reins over the pommel, BEN went ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [p. 26] in the jail and as BEN entered the door, SOLOMON came out and ran to the mare, leaped on her back, and while a few sentries shot widely at the escaping man, the black mare soon outdistanced the Mexican soldiers, sent in pursuit. The mare found her way back home during the night, but SOLOMON BARROW was in the inpenetrable: marshes between Anhuac and his home. The Mexican authorities stationed at Anhuac sent out parties to try and discover the fugitive without success. They came many times to his home thinking to surprise him there. But the children playing about the place, at times were encouraged by their mother, to play with a large ox-bell that could be heard far back into the _ marsh. Therefore, he was never found at home and at night food was taken to a certain spot, through the dense woods and thickets that bordered the marsh land. After a period of time the people were dissatisfied with the rule of the Mexican Government and although they had received their titles to lands from the Mexican Government those set to control this part of the country were not just and considerate of the newly settled Americans. Further along, war against Mexico was to be considered and all the so-called Texas Pioneers became partisans of the Texans. SOLOMON BARROW was friendly with the Texans, but he was not bitter against the Mexicans, for he remembered the years of peace ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [p. 27] and harmony he had enjoyed under the Mexican Government before the settlers came to take up this land, that was offered at such attractive prices. He would help the Texans; but he would never take up arms against Mexico! On the day of April 21st he was on a hill overlooking the battlefield, where he watched the Texans win, in that historic struggle. The hill where he had stationed himself to view the battle is still called Tory Hill. Later on after the battle SOLOMON BARROW went across the San Jacinto River and picked up a cannon ball, took it home and it lay around there for years. After his death, his daughter ELIZABETH (wife of JOSEPH LAWRENCE) took it to her home, where her sons and their "hired help," usually young men, would use it to contest as to who could throw the cannon ball highest up the trunk of a great oak tree, that stood near the wagon and buggy house. The tree like the human body stood this for a long time, then began to decay, about as high up the trunk, as the solid iron ball could be thrown. This cannon ball was said to have been from the Twin Sisters, but there was no verification of it. It was taken to the home of A. B. LAWRENCE (ELIZABETH’S second son) where it lay around for a few years, then A. B. gave it to Dr. SAM E. JONES of Houston. DR. JONES had quite a collection of curiosities in the suite of rooms where he had his dental office. After the death of MR. JONES his ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [p. 28] curios were given to some museum. Dr. S. E. JONES was an uncle of JUDGE CHAS B. ASHE, now deceased. After the capture of SANTA ANNA, GENERAL SAM HOUSTON took him under heavy guard to Anahuac. It was more than one day’s journey and they stopped for the night at the home of JOSEPH LAWRENCE (of Westchester County, New York) on Lawrence’s Island. When coffee was served to SANTA ANNA, he refused to use honey to sweeten it with and sent one of his men out to his pack-mule and had sugar brought in! That was the first sugar that little four year old JOSEPH LAWRENCE had ever tasted in his whole life. The LAWRENCES, of course, like all other settlers used honey for all sweetening purposes. Salt, by the way, was obtained by large open wells along the Bay shore, where the waters were evaporated naturally. It does not seem, they had any difficulty about salt as the salty bay water in the large open wells or ponds supplied their needs. We of today think of stocks and bonds as of something of our time, but in 1852, SOLOMON BARROW for One Thousand Dollars bought one share in the newly organized "Sabine & Lumbermans Rail Road" running in to Houston, Texas. This line was transferred, sold reorganized, merged and resold until the Southern Pacific bought it and extended it through to New Orleans. We, the descendants of SOLOMON BARROW have the first certificate of a shareholder, beautifully engraved and signed in the neat small hand of that day showing payment for the instrument. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [p. 29] As the years went by, the BARROW family married and moved away to homes of their own, and it was split up in two factions over the killing of PHILLIP WINFREE, for MRS. BARROW never spoke to her husband after that and lived in her own apartments with her younger children. An efficient young mulatto woman was housekeeper and was a favorite of SOLOMON BARROW. He told her that whenever he died, she should be free. Sometime afterward, he became ill and she made a soup for him and while he was eating it, his pet raccoon came to share his master’s meal. A small dish of soup was given to the "coon" and before it was all eaten, the "coon" lay over and died. SOLOMON by now was suffering intensely and looking at the dead Coon, knew that he was poisoned. They sent hurriedly for a doctor but as the distance was many miles, they found him on arrival beyond saving, either dead or dying. Dr. E. G. HARTMANN, the doctor who attended him, was a chemist and analyzed the contents of the stomach, as well as the remainder of the soup, finding in both a deadly poison. When SOLOMON knew that he was dying, he sent for his wife to come to his room, he wanted to see her. But she refused to come. There were no papers freeing the negress and after imprisonment and a process of law, it was found advisable to sell her. Some one bought her in and soon she was making trouble in that family. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [p. 30] A young son in the Confederate Army, came home on a furlough, found his mother cowed and ill-treated by this negro woman, so when she, the negress, entered the room, he drew his pistol and shot her dead, then mounted his horse and rode to join the Army again. STORIES CONNECTED WITH THE BARROW PLACE - MRS. RACHEAL DUNMAN: A very old lady, a relative of the BARROWS, told of an incident once when she was visiting the BARROW home. There was a large and much prized brood sow on the place and as the young lady was walking in the upper "gallery" of the spacious house one day, she saw this sow catch a little negro child and run with it in her mouth toward the woods. The girl screamed and leaped off of the porch "and Honey I hit the ground a running" and so prevented the sow from killing the child. It is not known if SOLOMON BARROW used snuff, but he had a very beautiful snuf-box. The wood was of unusual coloring, tan with dark brown mottled and blended in a most attractive combination. It was beautifully polished and bound with silver and the hinged opening was also bound and hinged with silver. It was about four inches long and about two and one-half inches wide. Years after SOLOMON BARROW’S death, his widow gave the snuff-box to her little grandson, AMOS B. LAWRENCE whose mother put it away for him. Later on his mother gave it to her daughter, where it was lost to ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [p. 31] any record. It was evidently made to be carried in the pocket for its rounded corners were substantially bound in silver, that went all the way around the box. SOLOMON BARROW was a man of peculiar ideas, gentle and tender to a little child, or anything under his protection. He was fond of pets, had a raccoon and a black bear that were brought up together like a cat and a dog. He sometimes took his little daughter, NARCISSA HENRIETTA (SIS) in his arms and they would tramp through the woods, he ould stop and chop on a tree now and then; this gave rise to the belief that he had buried money at different spots in the woods. Many persons dug for hours at night at many different ds thinking to find the buried coin. The child an she grew older tried often to find the marked trees. She dimly remembered seeing him hack on, but to no avail. Then there was the tale of when his young son WILLIAM who died. BARROW had sold a steer belonging to the young boy but had not given him the money received for the animal. When WILLIAM lay in his coffin, SOLOMON BARROW came and placed the money beside his dead body. This gave rise to the tale of fabulous amounts, "handfuls of silver and gold," that was said to have been poured in the casket and the tale grew with the years. A number of times people who believed this, dug at night at different points trying to find the treasure. They nearly uprooted the one great Magnolia tree on the ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [p. 32] land, to the amazement and displeasure of the owners of the land, who knew nothing of the prowlers’ activities. After many years several graves were opened by the treasure seekers, hoping to find the one of the young boy WILLIAM, but they did not succeed in finding it. There was a very long double silver chain with two guards; a very small chain and a small writing desk (Lap-desk) to hold on the lap to write on. This was a dark rose wood case lined with purple velvet, had a place for pens with long staffs, a sloping compartment for paper and a lid to close it up; a beautiful ladies’ writing cabinet bordered with gold braid around the edges of the purple velvet. This. case was given to little LILLAH LAWRENCE by her grandmother, ELIZABETH LAWRENCE who insisted that she take it out to play with. Result was not cared for, so is no more. Mrs. ELIZABETH WINFREE BARROW, had a brother or brother-in-law, who came from Louisiana to see her after her husband’s death. It must have been some years after, for little AMOS B. LAWRENCE re- membered his name, and how he looked and acted. His name was ALLEN BURR or BURROUGH. The children of SOLOMON BARROW and his wife, were married and each received a portion of the BARROW estate and as the need came up for extra money, the widow would sell cattle or land to her son- in-law, JOSEPH LAWRENCE. Later on she lived mostly with LAWRENCE ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [p. 33] and his wife ELIZABETH (her daughter) until NARCISSA HENRIETTA’S children were about grown and the eldest, a girl MATTIE, was married to JIM ROBINSON, when she, the grandmother put up a house for MATTIE and went to live with her grand-child: She was there still, at the time of her death. There were three of NARCISSA HENRIETTA’S children, Their names were MARTHA (MATTIE), WILLIAM and BARTON CLARK. Their father was BARTON CLARK who died while these children were young. The oldest daughter of SOLOMON BARROW and his wife, named SARAH, married JEREMIAH CONRAD FISHER, a half brother to HENRIETTA (HARRIET) HANEY LAWRENCE. The next BARROW daughter, MARY (POLLY) married OLIVER WILLIAMS; another daughter, MARTHA married HENRY DUTTON; TABITHA married EULARIA MACKEY; ELIZABETH married JOSEPH LAWRENCE; NARCISSA HENRIETTA (SIS) married BARTON CLARK; the BARROW’S son, ALLEN married LIZ. TILTON; next was BEN who married MATILDA COURVILLE; then was AMOS who married MINERVA STUBBS; then SOLOMON the 2nd who married HENRIETTA always called BABE LAWRENCE; WILLIAM as noted, died in his youth. Some of the above daughters married more than once. TABITHA’S second marriage to GUILLIAME VOORTMANN, a Frenchman from Ghent, Europe. She had one son by MACKEY; EULARIA MACKAY 2nd. She had two children by VOORTMAN; SARAH, who died at about twelve years; ALLEN is still living in Baytown and has a family. NARCISSA HENRIETTA (SIS) had three CLARK children and when ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [p. 34] her husband died, she married SOL COURVILLE whom she later divorced. Then later she married BEN TILTON and had seven more little girl children, descendants still living. ALLEN BARROW’S wife died leaving him ‘two children, a girl and a boy, died when a child. The girl, ELIZABETH (LITTLE LIZZIE) married BAPTISTE DUGAT and they had six daughters, no son. Some are still living, have families and grandchildren. BEN BARROW’S wife MATILDA, died leaving two children, a girl, JANE and a boy, HAYDEN HENRY who moved to West Texas near Odessa, soon after growing up. JANE married JOE DUGAT (called PATRAS) and had a son and a daughter, still living near Dayton, Texas. AMOS BARROW was drowned in Cedar Bayou, and left his wife MINERVA and two children, AMOS 2nd and ALICE who married ALDEN TULLAR. ALICE is. still living and had four daughters and two sons, WILBUR and LIONEL; also a grandson that she raised named IVORY. AMOS the 2nd married AGNES WILBURN, had a son, IVICE who died unmarried and a younger son name forgotten; three daughters IRIS, URA and a younger girl name unknown, AMY perhaps; IRIS BARROW married FOREST BARROW, a third or fourth cousin, died leaving two little sons, one of whom died while small. URA married BERTRAM FISHER (3rd or 4th cousin) and is still living; has several children and grandchildren. The younger of the three daughters of AMOS BARROW the 2nd., died unmarried. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [p. 35] BROOKS: Old man GILBERT BROOKS with his white head, long white beard was indeed a Patriarch in the Community. He and his wife had two children, JESSE and JANE. JANE married FRED MARTIN, a good man and they had a number of children. JESSE married ?? He had two sons, JESSE, JR., who married ANNIE WILLIAMS, no children The elder JESSE also had two daughters, and a young son, SAM \ One daughter, ANNIE, married GEORGE LEAVENS. Another daughter; LUCY, married ELLENDER. GEORGE married ?? BRUCE: JOHN and MURDOCK BRUCE came from Canada or Prince Edward Island. MURDOCK had a wife who was devoted to him. She was reared on Prince Edward Isle and her family spoke the Gaelic language. MURDOCK died a few years after they came to Texas, then later on, she married PETERSON. They had two children, MICHEAL and SARAH CATHERINE. MICHEAL married a daughter of FEILDING (DOC) STUBBS. SARAH CATHERINE married MARTIN FRANSZEN. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [p.36] BUSCH: A family of this name came from over seas and had four sons: ED, BILL, BOB and TOM, and one daughter, ELIZA. Some have said that AUGUST ILFREY’S wife was a BUSCH, but while they were related, I do not know that she was a BUSCH. ED married EMMA BAKER; BOB and his wife had two children; MARY who died unmarried, and MAXIE who married a MISS JONES. TOM and his wife had two sons, and three daughters; john who married MARY WILLIAMS, HENRY who married NANCY WILLIAMS, ELIZA who married a man named POSKY, ELLEN who married a MR. TUFFLEY, BESSIE married someone, name unknown. BILL married ANNIE MORGAN, and they had two boys and three girls. There was another BUSCH family nearer Barbers Hill. CELESTINE (or CEELY) had a number of children; GUSTA, ANNIE, two younger girls, MOLLY and EMMA. One of them married AMOS SMITH. One of the older girls married JOHN P. SJOLANDER, the Dean of Texas Poets. Then a son, ANTONE married CARRIE SHARP. ===============================================================================