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. 75] O’BRIEN: There was a family of O’BRIENS, consisting of two girls, KATE and ALZENITH, and one son SIDNEY. KATE O’BRIEN married "Old man" LARRY DUGAT, a widower with grown children namely: FREELAND, MARY, JOE, and JESSIE. MARY DUGAT married SIDNEY O’BRIEN, they had one daughter. ALZENITH who married TAYLOR SOUTHERN. KATE and her husband LARRY DUGAT had three sons, CHARLEY, ED and LARRY. MARY, when left a widow, married a man named LITTLES, a widower with several children. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [p. 76] OLFORD FAMILY: Along in the 1850-60 there was a family estab- lished here, a DR. OLFORD, wife and 2 daughters They were cultured and refined and the two daughters were noted for their looks and courteous, gentle bearing. Do not know what state they came from. The Doctor and his wife died many years ago. The oldest daughter, MARY, married JESSE HARMON and became the mother of several sons and one daughter, ANNIE. The OLFORD’S youngest daughter, VIRGINIA, married a man named TUPPS REEVES, also of that neighborhood and had children. The REEVES couple may be still living, near their old home. ANNIE HARMON married LARRY DUGAT PARKER: A family of this name came from Alabama, to make their home in Texas. There were some of the sons who had seen service in the Confederate Army, JIM and DAVE. DAVE married MAGGIE RABB and they had six children. OCTAVIA who married EDDIE KILGORE EMORY who went to Victoria as a druggist under his uncle, a noted physician, married BERTHA ? of that city. JOHN married, lost his wife and later on married ROBBIE (HADEN) BERRY a widow with one child and they had four children to live: MAUDE who married AUSTIN SMITH; JOHN who married Lena Lawrence; ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [p. 77] RUBY who married HARRISON EPPERSON; ANNIE who married PIRTLE FISHER. LUCILLE who married young CARTER, son of a prominent lawyer in Baytown. The original PARKERS had four Aaughiera: HATTIE, LOU, MOLLY, and JANE. HATTIE married ? MATTHEWS LOU died unmarried MOLLY married GEORGE KELLY JANE married FRANK WATTERS Miss SALLY never married. JIM married late in life to LOLA DOLEN, and they had the following children; JAMES, ROLAND, JOHN, MARGUERITE and MATTIE BYRD, who died early. DAVE and MAGGIE had a daughter named OCTAVIA, who married EDDIE KILGORE, had a little daughter. Her sister MAMIE, all four were drowned in the Galveston storm in 1900. DAVE and MAGGIE also lost a small son about this time, named JULIUS. Their next daughter, PRUDENCE, who married FRED WATROUS and they had three children: DOROTHY, FREDERICK, MARTY. DAVE and MAGGIE’S. next daughter MARTHA BYRD married CECIL V. LAWRENCE, and they had no children. FREDERICK married JUANITA ?? and had several children. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [p. 78] POUNDS: A family of the above name lived at Cedar Bayou, and had the first Cotton Gin ever put up there, and the first saw mill also. There were two sons, JOHN and TOBE, that is all I know of them. ===============================================================================