M. A. McCRORY
No record has been found of his circa 1857 marriage to Sarah Eleanor Ellen Whitten. Ellen was born 20 May 1835 in Fayette County, Tennessee, the daughter of Alfred Whitten and Bridget Graham. Upon visiting Alfred's home in Tennessee, Ellen's cousin wrote a letter to relatives saying "Ellen is a very sweet girl and quite handsome."
She was the sister of John D. G. Whitten. Ellen was first cousin of Mary Barrett McCarley Parker, the mother of James McCarley and of Henry Parker. She moved with her parents to Montgomery County, Texas, in 1850.
Since M. A.'s name does not appear on Montgomery county tax rolls until 1860, we do not know when he arrived.
The couple is enumerated on the 1860 census of Montgomery County. M. A. was employed as a mechanic. He owned one lot in the town of Danville, and it was valued at $200.00 on the tax rolls of 1860. M. A. (whose given name is unknown to me) enrolled in the militia unit (the Danville Mounted Riflemen) formed at Danville by Captain S. D. Wooldridge on May 4, 1861.
He was then mustered into Captain Wooldridge's company of the Second Texas Lancers the following year. This unit was to become Company B, 24th Regiment Texas Cavalry (Dismounted.) M. A. was elected First Sergeant. A description of him in his records notes that he was five foot nine inches tall with blue eyes and brown hair.
I have never found another trace of M. A. McCrory nor of Ellen, his wife, nor of the two children who were born before 1860. M. A. is not listed in the rosters of the Federal army, nor do either he or Ellen appear in the 1870 census under the McCrory/McRory surname.
Whitten/McCrory records are from my Barrett/Whitten family research and were assembled from family, census, county, military, and other records.
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M. A. McCrory was born in 1834 in Tennessee. He may be the Marshall McCrary who is in the household of John McCrary in Sullivan County, Tennessee, in 1850, but this has not been confirmed.
On January 11, 1863, M. A. was captured along with the others in his regiment at Ft. Hindman, Arkansas Post, Arkansas. M. A. apparently saw the handwriting on the wall. He deserted the Confederate forces and pledged allegiance to the U. S. government at Camp Butler, Ill., in May of 1863.
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