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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. 40] FARINGTON: A German or Dutch family came to live a few years, a mile or so from Barbers Hill. They spoke very broken English, it was hard to understand them. They had one son, HERMAN, who came to our school, and was in my class. He sat next to me when the teacher was pointing out the alphabet that we must learn, "because we would never be able to read, if we did not know the letters of the alphabet." HERMAN would slyly stroke my curls in class and said I was his sweetheart. How I hated that boy. My cousin JERRY FITZGERALD hit him one day and he yelled, "Teacher! Teacher! dat boy out dare hit me ofer'de head mit a steek!" MRS. FARINGTON called on Grandma ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [p. 41] dressed in her full gathered stiff silk rather short dress. Of course, "Mother" was kind and treated her nice, but understood her with difficulty. They soon left the little house down near the Cedar Bayou woods, and it stood vacant for many years, but was always called the FARINGTON house. FISHER: JEREMIAH CONRAD FISHER, the son of MARY HANEY and her husband (?) FISHER married SARAH BARROW, daughter of SOLOMON BARROW and his wife ELIZABETH WINFREE BARROW, and their children were: SOLOMON, who married ISOBEL COERVILLE, they had eight children namely: JOHN who married ANNA FISHER (no kin) SARAH BARTON CLARK, and they had one daughter; MARY unmarried; SOLOMON (SOLLY) unmarried; EBB married MAUDE DANIELS, and they had three children, ILA, BUD and TEENY; ORIN, unmarried; ELTON married LORENE WILLIAMS; WALTER (BOSS) married VIVIAN WILBURN. HENRIETTA (or HETTY) daughter of JEREMIAH and SARAH FISHER married BEN WILBURN, and their children were: JERRY who married ELIZABETH (LIZZIE) WILLIAMS; ZACHARIAH (ZACK) married OCIA Mc- LEAN, their child died: SARAH died in girlhood; AMANDA married ED McKINNEY, and baby died; HUGH married NORA CARMODY, they had three children; DORA married PHIL CEZEAUX, they had five children; OLLIE married WILLIE FITZGERALD, they had one daughter; ASA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [p. 42] married ESSIE SMITH, they had two children; SUSAN married GABE McKINNEY and she and her baby died. AMOS FISHER, son of JEREMIAH and SARAH FISHER married APSLEY McNEICE, he died shortly after or during the War between the States. ANN FISHER, daughter of JEREMIAH and SARAH FISHER married FRANCIS MARION FITZGERALD, and their children were: JERRY who married BETTY WILLIAMS, they had six children, JOE who married LULA DAVIS, they had four children; ADALESA married CHADWICK (NICK) DAVIS, they had five children; ALMA married WILL LEAVENS, they had one son; OPHELIA married DUNCAN SCOTT, they had three children; SARAH married FRANK MORGAN, they had three children; MYRTLE married WILLIE FITZGERALD, they had two sons; PEARLIE married JIM MEADOWS, they had two children; MONROE married NELLIE SHEARER, they had three sons; TEMPLE first wife died leaving a child, MILDRED, he was married again to ELDA GENNESSEE, and they had three children; TILLMAN married ELSIE CLARK, they had two children; MARY FISHER, daughter of JEREMIAH and SARAH FISHER married TAYLOR WINFREE, their children were: EDWIN married ELIZABETH ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [pg 43] HUNT, they had five children; KINNEY married NAN HUNT, no children; ELMIRA married WILSON EPPERSON, they had ten children; EARNEST married AMANDA DUTTON, they had two children; OTIS married ATHA MOODY, they had three children. JOE FISHER, son of JEREMIAH and SARAH FISHER married ELLA BARBER, and they had nine children, namely: AMOS married MARTHA MACKEY, JENIRA married BEE PRUITT, they had two children; MARTHA married EDD PRUITT, she died soon after; ZADIE who never married; IRENE who married OSCAR BARBER, they had three children; WALTER; who never married; LULA married JULIAN BARBER; HENRY never married; CORNENA married OLLIE BARBER, they had two children. BEN FISHER, son of JEREMIAH and SARAH FISHER married ALMA MERRITT, and their children were: ELMA who married MARTHA (SIS) DUTTON; VIVIAN who died in childhood; EDGAR who married LETTIE WINFREE, they had three children; VIRLIE who married FRED. LONG, they had one daughter; ELMIRA married WILLIE GEORGE; WILBUR married BELL (?); After ALMA’S death BEN married NORA BROWN, they had two children that died, and one son CECIL: MARTHA FISHER, daughter of JEREMIAH and SARAH FISHER, married ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [p. 44] JOHN SMITH, and their children wére: LIZZIE who married PRICE PRUITT, died in child-birth; HENRY married MAMIE (?) they had two sons; GERTRUDE married BEN BARROW, they had five children; HOWARD married CARRIE McDONALD, they had three children; ORABEL married SIDNEY COLLINS; OZMAN married EVA DUGAT, they had two sons; AUDREY married JESS FOWLER, they had one daughter; VERNON married ALICE FRANZEN, they had two children; AMANDA FISHER, daughter of JEREMIAH and SARAH FISHER, married ELMER BARBER and their children were: LILLIE who married JIM STOCKBRIDGE, no children; QUINTON married CLARA SCOTT, they had three children, VERA, BERTHA and MERIAL; JULIAN married LULA FISHER, no children; ELSIE married GEORGE GILBERT, they had one. child, MARY SUE; BESSIE married MAX BROWN, they had one son, DELNO; SCHUYLER married WILMA SOUTHERN, they had one daughter ELOISE. MAT FISHER, son of JEREMIAH and SARAH FISHER married ESTELLE BARBER and their children were: HAYES who married WILLIE BROWN; LEOLA married CHARLES KILGORE, no children; BERTRAM married URA BARROW; O’DELL married a MISS RICKETTS, they had one son; EULA married JOE SYARS; SCHUYLER married EMMA HILL; MELVIN married VERA CLARK, and they had one son; BERNICE married (?) BETHEL married WESLEY WOODS. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [p. 45] HENRY FISHER, youngest son of JEREMIAH and SARAH FISHER married BERTHA BARBER, their children were: IVA LILLY who died about the age of one year old; OSSEE who married ZOLA LAWRENCE; HORTON who married HAZEL SMITH; LEON who married BERTHA BARBER; WILLARD who married ARABEL (?); PIRTLE who married ANNIE PARKER; FLOYD who married WILLEIGH (?); WYMAN who married EUNICE (?) FITZGERALD: Francis (FRANK) MARION FITZGERALD married ANN FISHER and their children were as follows: JERRY; JOE; ADALEASA; ALMA; SARAH; OPHELIA; PEARLIE; MYRTLE; MONROE; TEMPLE and TILLMAN. JERRY married BETTY WILLIAMS. ADELEASA married NICK DAVIS. ALMA married WILL LEAVENS. JOE married LULA DAVIS. OPHELIA married DUNCAN SCOTT. MYRTLE married WILLIE FITZGERALD. SARAH married FRANK MORGAN. PEARLIE married JIM MEADOWS. MONROE married NELLIE SHEERER. TEMPLE’S first wife died and left him one daughter, he then married EDA SMITH. TILMAN married a MISS CLARK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [p. 46] ADALEASA FITZGERALD step-daughter of AMOS BARBER married EDWARD GEORGE HARTMAN, they had two children to live and grow up, they were CANORA SILVIS and VARUNA ANN. EDWARD HARTMAN died when the youngest girl was about three years old. Ten years later ADALEASA married DANIEL LAWRENCE and they had one child to live. named. FRANKIE DANIEL, who married LEON SMITH and had two sons, LANIS and St. ELMO, both of them are married and have families. FRANZIERN or FRANSZEN: There was a Dutch family, HUGO FRANZIERN, wife, three daughters and five sons, namely: HUGO JR., MARTIN and JAMES (twins); HENRY, GARRETT, CAROLINE, CHRISTRANA and CHRISTINA (TRICK). CAROLINE died unmarried. HUGO JR. married LAURA DUNCAN. MARTIN married SARAH CATHERINE PETERSON. ===============================================================================