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Absalom and Elizabeth Autrey and Their Descendants, With a Section on Thomas Norrisby Jeanne McDuff Murphy and Jo Lyon Autrey CHAPTER XIIRobert Martin and Elizabeth
Jane (Kemp) Autrey Robert Martin and Elizabeth
Jane (Kemp) Autrey Robert Martin Autrey, tenth child of Absalom and Elizabeth (Norris) Autrey, was born 18 August 1840 in Perry County, Alabama. He married first Elizabeth Jane Kemp about 1865 in Dubach, Louisiana. She was born 13 October 1846 in Claiborne parish, Louisiana. She died 30 October 1879 and was buried in Antioch, Texas. He enlisted in state service 1 April 1861 and entered the Confederate Army 11 May 1861 in New Orleans, Louisiana. he was a Private in Company K of the 2nd Louisiana Infantry. He had a furlough to go home before his regiment was assigned to the Army of Northern Virginia. He fought in the siege of Yorktown, Seven Days Battle, Battles at Savage Station and Malvern, Virginia, Second Bull Run Campaign, Actions along the Rappahannock near Kelly's Ford, Battle of Antitetam in the Maryland Campaign and in the Chancellorsville, Virginia Campaign. He was wounded and in the hospital at Richmond, Virginia in the Spring of 1863. In June 1863 he saw action in the Gettysburg Campaign. He fought in the Battle of the Wilderness May 5 to May 7, 1864. He was sick on 18 September 1864 and was captured by the Union Army at Winchester, Virginia 19 September 1864, while on his way to get medical attention. He was sent to Point Lookout, Maryland from Harper's Ferry Virginia 27 September 1864. He was paroled at Point Lookout, Maryland and transferred for exchange 10 February 1865. He was exchanged 15 February 1965. Robert M. Autrey applied for a Confederate pension in Texas 19 July 1909. It was denied because he owned property valued at $1740.00. He applied again 21 July 1913 with a property value of $640 and the pension was approved. Robert Martin Autrey was a farmer. According to the and records in Union Parish, Louisiana, he owned two blocks of land in that parish. The land was sold in 1870 before moving to Coryell County, Texas. He bought land in Coryell County which he sold 15 January, 1874. He returned to Dubach, Louisiana. He left Dubach about 1877, soon after the Autrey home was sold to his brother, Charley Henry Autrey. On the way to Bowie County, Texas, the wagon stopped for the birth of Calvin Abraham, their sixth child. The child did not live. Robert and Janie (Kemp) Autrey settled several hundred acres of land northwest of Maud, Texas. They had a large two story house, with a long veranda across the front and down one side. It had a hall through the center of th e house and a service porch on the back. They lived near Caney Creek. Janie often rode a big black horse through the piney woods to visit her sister-in-law, Mattie (Autrey) Reed. The land Robert Martin Autrey purchased in Bowie County, Texas remains in the ownership of some of his descendants. Each Labor Day for over forty year the descendants of Elbert Eugene Autrey (and now all branches) have gathered in Maud, Texas for a family reunion. It has grown to include descendants of all of Robert Martin's children, as well as other branches of Absalom Autrey's children and other interested Autrey researchers. (For information on this reunion, please contact Jo Autrey.) Robert Martin and Elizabeth Jane (Kemp) had six children: William Absalom "Will", Elbert Eugene, Edward Monroe "Ed", Cisero Theodore "Pink", Columbia Anna and Calvin Abraham. Robert Martin and Sara Jane "Symathia" (Scarborough) Autrey Robert Martin Autrey married second to Sara Jane "Symathia" Scarborough 14 April 1880 in Maud, Texas. She was born 4 January 1863 in Louisiana. She died 6 January 1947 in Maud, Texas. Robert Martin died 23 November 1919 of uremic poison. They were buried in Rock Creek Cemetery near Maud, Bowie County, Texas. Robert M. and Symathia
(Scarborough) Autrey had four children, all born
in Bowie County, Texas: Elonsio Cleveland
"Lon", Thomas Dillard "Doc",
Robert Martin, Jr. "Bob", and Arlene. REFERENCES FOR ROBERT MARTIN AND ELIZABETH JANE (KEMP) AUTREY Absalom Autrey Bible (have
copy) REFERENCES FOR ROBERT MARTIN & MARY JANE (SCARBOROUGH) AUTREY Autrey, Jo (Lyon) |
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