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. 82] GUILLIAME VOORTMAN: A Frenchman. from Ghent came and made his home with the BARBERS at Barbers Hill for a time. He had a small house near their kitchen, where he sold small needs to those passing by. He married TABITHA (BARROW) MACKEY. She had two MACKEY sons, EULARIA and WILLIAM. TABITHA and GUILLIAME had two children: SARAH who died young, and ALLEN who is. still living and has a wife and family. WEISER: There came three brothers to this part of Texas, ED,. LEM and BARNEY. BARNEY had a beautiful young wife. He had a general store in the Cove Community where they had their home. BARNEY and his wife had one son EDDIE, when they moved away. ED and LEM were not married when they left this part of Texas. WILLIAMS: OLLIVER H. WILLIAMS was an arrival early in Texas from Louisiana. He married MARY (POLLY) BARROW, a daughter of SOLOMON BARROW the first. OLLIVER and POLLY had nine children: SOLOMON married ELVIRA BLACKGRAVES; HAZARD married a widow, ANNIE GEORGE, who had one child, MADISON GEORGE; HAZARD and ANNIE had seven children; IDA who married TOM SMITH; LULA who married JOHN HARE; LIZZIE who married JERRY WILBURN; MINNIE did not marry; SARAH who was drowned in the Galveston storm of ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [p. 83] 1900; CHARLEY, do not know if he married; CLARENCE, do not know if he married. All of them are now dead except LIZZIE who lives in Baytown and has a number of children and grandchildren near her. WINFREE: A. B. J. WINFREE and his brother BEN came to Texas. in its earlier days of settlement. BEN may have had children. A. B. "Jacob" had none, so he and his wife adopted a baby boy, from the LONG family near Houston. This child was legally adopted and took the name of his adopted parents, and was therefore their son, and was so considered by everyone. He was given the name of TAYLOR, and as TAYLOR WINFREE was an influential citizen in that part af Texas. TAYLOR WINFREE married MARY FISHER, daughter of JEREMIAH and. SARAH FISHER. TAYLOR and MARY had five children namely: EDWIN, KINNEY, ELMIRA, ERNEST and OTIS. ELMIRA and OTIS are still living and have families, living near the old home on Barbers Hill. EDWIN’S farnily and ERNEST’S still live at Mont Belview too. KINNEY left no family. His widow married WILL DONNELLY. ===============================================================================