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. 38] DAVIS: A family of this name lived down the Bayou below the store, that also was the Post Office. Their children were ED, MATTIE, SOPHRONIA, KATIE and CHADWICK (NICK) and a daughter who married a MR. PEASE. There was an older daughter who was married to a Mr. LEAVENS, do not know these two older daughters’ names. ED DAVIS married EDITH BRYANT. MATTIE married GARDENER BROWN. KATIE married WILLIE FOYLE. CHADWICK (NICK) married ADLESA FITZGERALD. SOPHRONIA never married. This was a very pious family ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [p. 39] DUTTON: There was a man who came in from Louisiana named HENRY DUTTON. He married MARTHA BARROW, a daughter of SOLOMON BARROW 1st. The DUTTONS had seven children: JAMES; BETTY; HENRY; MARTHA (SIS); SOL; BEN; AMANDA. JAMES (JIMMIE) married ADA LAWRENCE (daughter of DANIEL LAWRENCE) and they had four children: RUBY, AUDREY, LLOYD and CLINTON HENRY died unmarried in early manhood. BEN never married. BETTY married PERRY MALEY. MARTHA (SIS) married ELMER FISHER. AMANDA married ERNEST WINFREE. ELLENDER: JIM ELLENDER and his wife lived on Cedar Bayou, and had three children; KATE, GEORGE and JOSIE. Some of their descendants still live on Cedar Bayou. EPPERSON: The EPPERSON family that I knew consisted of the ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [p. 40] mother and two sons. One son, REUBEN, married SARAH McLEAN. They had seven children: WILSON married ELMIRA WINFREE; GEORGE; LANETTA married CHRIS CASEY; CORA married THOS. RACKLEY; SADIE married JEFF HARBOUR; HARRISON married RUBY PARKER. GEORGE EPPERSON, brother to REUBEN, and his wife had three children: JENNIE; GEORGE 2nd; LEE. ===============================================================================