Clarence and Lillian Phipps

Clarence Phipps was born in Richland Springs, San Saba County, Texas, on Christmas Day--December 25, 1886--to Jack and Adelia Phipps.  Lillian Berniece George was born to AC and Annie George in Decker, Nolan County, Texas, on October 6, 1890.

Clarence Phipps, age 21, and Lillian George, age 17, were married March 17, 1907, in Decker, Nolan County, Texas. A local newspaper reported their marriage as shown at the right. Sometime the following year they posed for their first photograph as husband and wife:

Phipps--George      On last Sunday eve Mr Clar- ence Phipps and Miss Lillian George were united in marriage at the home of the bride's par- ents, Mr and Mrs A C George. The wedding was a very quite affair, only relatives and a few of the contracting parties being present.      The ceremony was performed by Rev Turner, pastor of the Methodist church at Wingate.      In the completion of this mar- riage the destinies of the two of our best known and popular young people have been united for life and they have been the recipients of numerous congratu- lations and good wishes.  Both have lived in Decker for a num- ber of years, and each has a great many friends who rejoice with them in the culmination of their fond hopes.      Mr Phipps is the son of Col Phipps of San Saba.  He is an energetic, promising young man. He has a good word for every- body he meets and is honored by all who know him.      Miss George is the daughter of A C George, and is a beautiful and accomplished young lady.  She has grown up in our midst and is universally admired for her many womanly traits and lovely disposition.     The writer is glad to extend congratulations to these eminent young people, sincerely wishing for them a realization of their dearest hopes, and a life long continuation of their honeymoon.                                   A FRIEND.

Clarence, who aspired to be a rancher, went to Decker, Texas, to find work as a cowboy.  He rode into town on a blue-gray horse and was soon hired by the Bar J G Ranch, where he continued to work for some time after he married.  A friend of his, Lum Davidson, also traveled to Decker to find work and eventually married Lillian's sister Ora George.  The Bar J G, owned by Lillian and Ora's uncle John T George, consisted of 30 sections.  It was located partly in Dickens County, partly in Stonewall County, and partly in King County.  As a cowboy on the Bar J G, Clarence was paid $35 per month.  On Sunday mornings he would ride horseback to Guthrie, 18 miles to the north, for the weekly mail.  Lillian stayed inside most of the time, and did the cooking.

While Clarence was working on the ranch, he and Lillian had their first two children, Ruth and Melvin.  Both were born in Decker, at the home of Lillian's parents.

In the latter part of 1910, Clarence and Lillian bought their first farm, consisting of about 160 acres, at the price of $10 per acre, and built a two-room house with a porch.  The farm was located in the vicinity of Spur.  While they lived there, Clarence and Lillian had four more children:  Grace, Sybel, Clifford, and Verda.

The Phipps Family in 1925 Lillian and Clarence on the front porch of their farmhouse west of Girard with their daughters Grace, Ruth, Sybel, and Verda Mae; and their sons Clifford and Melvin.

In 1919, the family purchased a 380-acre farm at Highway community, Dockum Creek,  just outside Spur.  The following year there was no crop, and at that time the family moved again, this time west of Girard, where they held a rodeo for a couple of years.  In 1924, Clarence and Lillian traded the Dockum Creek farm for a 200-acre tract and purchased 160 additional acres from Swenson Land Company.  This farm was located a mile and a half north of the Girard Cemetery.  While their new house was being built, they continued living on the west farm.  It was in the new house that Clarence and Lillian's last two children, Emma Lou and Anna Lorene, were born, completing their family of six daughters and two sons:

In 1936 Clarence quit farming and moved his family to San Antonio.  Two years later they moved back to Girard, where they remained until 1949.  At that time they moved to Oklahoma City to be near their children.  They lived in Lubbock for a year or two, then returned to Oklahoma City.

Clarence died February 2, 1981, at home.  Lillian lived only a few months longer.  She died in South Community Hospital on September 14.  They are buried in the Garden of the Beatitudes section of Resthaven Memory Gardens in Oklahoma City.

LINKS TO RELATED WEB SITES

Web site of Clayton Heathcock, descendant of Joseph and Anna Hobbs

Web site of Bob Robison, descendant of Jack and Adelia Phipps

Web site of Orene Custer, descendant of Jack and Adelia Phipps

Clarence's Parents:  Jack and Adelia Phipps

Clarence's father was Andrew Jackson Phipps.  Jack, as he was usually called, was born September 15, 1838, in Grundy County, Tennessee.  Jack's father was Moses Phipps.

The only bit of information we have about Jack's childhood is from his obituary, which mentions that he "was converted when only a lad back in the hill country of East Tennessee and joined the Methodist Church...."

During the Civil War, Jack, along with his brother Dave, served in Pete Turner's Regiment, Company A, Tennessee Infantry.  He enlisted on April 27, 1862.  The last muster roll on file, that of November and December 1864, shows him absent, having been taken a prisoner of war July 3, 1863, at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.  According to Union Prisoner of War records, Jack was exchanged February 27, 1865, at Fort Delaware, Delaware; captured again at Petersburg on April 4, 1865, and finally released at Fort Delaware on May 18, 1865.  On his Confederate pension application, Jack stated that he "was in Fort Delaware prison for 22 months and 2 days, was furloughed about 3 months before was closed and war was ended before I got back into service."  As part of the same application, Dave Phipps witnessed "that Andrew Jackson Phipps served in the same company with me and that he was a good soldier and never deserted his post and was always on hand until he was captured at Gettysburg and was kept a prisoner the balance of the war."

Jack moved to Texas in 1866, where he would remain for the rest of his life.  The circumstances of his move are not known; however, some family members recall hearing that Jack and his brother Dave worked their way to Texas along a waterway of some sort.  This reference may have been to the Mississippi River.  It is also said that the Phipps brothers fought on opposing sides in the Civil War and never spoke to one another afterward.

Clarence's mother, Adelia Ann Helms, was born December 22, 1848.  Her parents were Gabriel G. Helms and Rachel Josephine Hobbs.

Jack Phipps and Adelia Helms were married October 11, 1867, a year or so after Jack's move to Texas.  Over the course of the next 25 years they had twelve children:

* For information about Lee Ella and Henry Worthey's family, e-mail Andrea McDevitt.
** For information about Emma Ona and Gage O'Neill's family, see Orene Custer's web site.
*** For information about Douglas Gabriel and Jennie Phipps's family see Bob Robison's web site.

Jack and Adelia lived in Texas all their married life.  It is uncertain where they lived between 1867 and 1884, at which time they established a homestead in San Saba County.  When their family held a reunion in 1934, the San Saba newspaper reported that the Phipps family  "will be remembered as one of those settling San Saba County some fifty years ago, and the reunion was held on the old Jack Phipps homestead in Colony community...."   In 1917, on his Confederate pension application, Jack gave his residence as Bangs, Texas, in Brown County, and stated that he had moved there three months earlier from Williamson County.  On the same application, Jack's occupation is listed as farming and his physical condition as crippled.  Jack and Adelia spent their final years in San Antonio, where they lived at 140 Gerald Avenue.

JACK AND ADELIA PHIPPS

Jack died August 8, 1930, probably not long after the above photo was taken.  His obituary reads as follows:

Adelia outlived her husband by a little less than three years.  She died June 11, 1933, in San Antonio, and was buried beside Jack in Union Hill Cemetery.

Moses Phipps

Andrew Jackson Phipps's father was Moses Phipps.  Information about Moses is scarce and lacks documentation.  However, it appears that he was born around 1801, probably in either Kentucky or Tennessee.  According to family tradition, Moses's first wife--Jack's mother--burned to death, along with her sister, when they tried to smother a fire in a feather mattress.  It is said that this occurred during the Civil War, while Jack was a Confederate soldier, and that he learned of his mother's death upon returning home from the war.

Very little information about Jack's siblings is available:

Census records indicate that Moses Phipps was married a second time, to a woman named Fratimy.  He is said to have died around 1865, although it is not known whether he died in Tennessee or whether he had moved to Texas and died there.

Adelia's Parents:  Gabriel and Rachel Helms

 Adelia's father, Gabriel G Helms, was born December 25, 1817, in Alabama.  The names of his parents are not known, although they may be the JE and GG Helms who are buried in Union Hill Cemetery.

 Adelia's mother--sometimes called Rachel and sometimes called Josephine--was born to Joseph and Anna Jones Hobbs on January 14, 1830, in Indiana.  Rachel came with her family to Walker County, Texas, as a child around 1840, and married Gabriel Helms around 1845 in Walker County.  Gabriel and Rachel became the parents of eight children:

Name	Born	Married	Died
Amanda P	8 Aug 1846	George Caraway	unknown color=#faf6d4"
Adelia Ann	22 Dec 1848	Andrew Jackson Phipps	11 Jun 1933
Laura	19 Oct 1851	M W Bundeck	unknown color=#faf6d4"
Oral V	17 May 1854	Marelene Haynes	unknown color=#faf6d4"
Julia C	9 Sep 1856	Walter Jack Fowler	unknown color=#faf6d4"
James E	9 Feb 1858	Effie Mason	18 May 1937
Rachel Josephine	5 Dec 1859	Kent Johnson	unknown color=#faf6d4"
Lula	6 Apr 1863	Clarence Whitehead	unknown color=#faf6d4"

The Helms family was living in Gonzales County, just across the Sandies River from Joseph and Anna Hobbs's home in Nockenut as of November 1, 1863.  It is likely that they remained in that area throughout their lives, as they are buried in Union Hill Cemetery.  Their death dates are not known.

Rachel Josephine's Parents:  Joseph Jr and Anna Hobbs

Rachel Hobbs's father, Joseph Hobbs Jr, was born to Joseph Hobbs Sr and his wife, Ann, in Frederich County, Maryland, on November 29, 1789.

Living in Frederich County, Joseph Sr and Ann Hobbs were neighbors and good friends of the Josiah Roten family.  After the Josiah Rotens moved to Rowan County, North Carolina, they maintained close contact with Joseph and Ann, encouraging them to join them in Rowan County.  Joseph Hobbs Sr did eventually buy some land in Rowan County, but he and his family never moved there. Instead, they sold their North Carolina land in November of 1784.

The Josiah Rotens had a grown daughter named Mary who was married to Ebenezer Jones.   Ebenezer and Mary Jones were living in North Carolina when they, along with some fifteen other families, decided to move to Indiana.  In August of 1810 they formed a train of 35 wagons and headed west.  Joseph Hobbs Sr seems to have found Indiana a more appealing destination than North Carolina, as he agreed to join the Ebenezer Jones Wagon Train somewhere in Virginia.

On this wagon train young Joseph Hobbs Jr met Ebenezer and Mary Jones's teenage daughter Anna.  Joseph Jr and Anna began a courtship that lasted some ten months on the wagon train and culminated in marriage in Washington Township, Knox County, on July 12, 1811, about two weeks after the wagons reached Indiana.

In September of 1811, just two months after his wedding day, Joseph Jr enlisted to serve in the War of 1812. He was a member of Captain Andrew Wilkins's company of infantry in the march that left Vicennes on September 26.  However, after arriving at Prophetstown, Joseph became disabled and was allowed by General William Henry Harrison (later to become President of the United States) to hire a substitute.  One Reuben Alsop was hired to serve in Joseph's place.  Just two months later, after under Harrison participating in the Battle of Tippicanoe, Reuben Alsop/Joseph Hobbs was honorably discharged.  For this service, eventually Joseph petitioned for and received one-third league of land in Bexar County, Texas.  On a Widow's Pension application Anna filed in 1880, she stated that at the time of his enlistment he was 22 years old, his occupation was farming, he was about 5'8" tall, and he had blue eyes and fair complexion.

After Joseph Jr completed his brief military service, he and Anna Hobbs settled in Knox County and became the parents of thirteen children.  The four oldest children were born in Knox County and the others in Daviess County, which was formed out of Knox County in 1817.

Name	Born	Married	Died
Polly	16 Sep 1812	af6d4"	af6d4"
Benedict J	5 Jan 1814	af6d4"	af6d4"
Ed Lawson	10 Mar 1815	af6d4"	af6d4"
Joseph A	9 Dec 1816	af6d4"	af6d4"
William Preston	17 Jun 1818	Caroline Kate Dillard	6 Jul 1872
Dudley Vance	8 Jul 1820	af6d4"	af6d4"
Emzy Jane	10 Feb 1822	Camp	af6d4"
Corilla A	27 Dec 1823	James Ridgeway	af6d4"
Pleasant Howe	13 Dec 1825	Catherine Cotter; Florence King Dawson	16 Nov 1895
Amory Oliver	11 Apr 1828	Rosanna; Laura Arnold	af6d4"
Rachel Josephine	14 Jan 1830	Gabriel G Helms	af6d4"
Frances Marion	22 Sep 1832	af6d4"	af6d4"
Talman Hugh	27 May 1834	af6d4"	af6d4"

As the years went by, a "money panic" came to the part of Indiana where the Hobbs family was living.  Since good, cheap land was available in Texas, Anna's brother Lewis Jones, along with his wife Rebecca and several of their children, decided to migrate to Texas.  Joseph and Anna decided to go with them and file a claim for Joseph's bounty land in Bexar County.  The two couples, accompanied by several of their children, left Indiana around 1839 and traveled some 1500 miles to Shelby County, Texas.

When Joseph and Anna Hobbs continued on their way to Bexar County, they left their son William Preston in Shelby County with Lewis and Rebecca Jones.  From early in life William Preston had been designated to be a Methodist minister.  He had what was known as "a thorn in the flesh;" that is, he was born with club feet.  While staying with Lewis and Rebecca, he studied for the ministry and eventually became a member of the Luling Circuit of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

In 1850, Joseph and Anna were living in Walker County with their sons Talman, Frank, and Pleasant.   Next door lived their daughter Rachel Josephine, who by then was married to Gabriel Helms and had two daughters, Amanda and Adelia.  A short time later Joseph and Anna, along with their sons Preston, Pleasant, and Oliver, moved to the small community of Nockenut in Guadalupe County.  Joseph filed a homestead on the Ecleto Creek about 16 miles from Seguin.

It was during a visit to the Helms home that Joseph Hobbs died, on November 1, 1863.  At that time the Helms family was living in Gonzales County, just across the Sandies River from Joseph and Anna's home in Nockenut.  The creek was up when Joseph died, and his body couldn't be brought back to Nockenut for burial, so he was buried in Union Hill Cemetery in an unmarked grave.

The 1880 census records for Wilson County, Texas, show Anna living with her son Pleasant Howe Hobbs, whose first wife, Catherine Cotter, had died the previous year.  Anna, the records note, was helping Pleasant Howe raise his two sons and two daughters who were still living at home.  Anna died that same year, on October 9, 1880, and was buried in Nockenut Cemetery.

Anna's Parents:  Ebenezer and Mary Roten Jones

Anna Jones's father, Ebenezer Jones, was the oldest child of Zacariah and Ellen Smith Jones.  He was born in Delaware on January 21, 1763.  According to Clayton Heathcock,

Ebenezer enlisted at Dover, Delaware, in the Continental Army of January 20, 1776, in Captain Nathan Adams's Company.  Family tradition is that Ebenezer was a husky lad but wasn't quite tall enough to pass the height requirement for the Continental Army.  Being patriotic and resourceful, he put padding in his shoes and was accepted.  In those days a thirteen-year-old boy like Ebenezer was as expert with a gun as any man.  Ebenezer also played a fife as part of his duties during the war.

Anna Jones's mother, Mary Roten, was born April 8, 1762, in Maryland.  She is said to have been of Irish descent, very small, and red-headed.  Her parents were Josiah Roten and his wife, whose name is said to have been Sabea Vance.  A notation in a Jones family Bible contains a reference to "Daniel son of Nathaniel Roden," but the relationship of Daniel to Mary is not known.

After the Revolutionary War ended, Ebenezer Jones moved to Rowan County, North Carolina.  This is where he and Mary Roten were married at a little town between two forks of the Yadkin River.  In 1790 Ebenezer and Mary were living in Rowan County near the forks of South Radkin and Horse Shoe Creeks.  They lived in Rowan County for 26 years, during which time they had fifteen children:

Name	Born	Married	Died
William	10 Jun 1784	unknown	unknown
Enoch	23 Oct 1785	unknown	unknown
Smith	13 Nov 1786	unknown	unknown
Vance	23 Apr 1788	unknown	unknown
* Lewis	23 Jun 1790	unknown	unknown
Anna	21 Mar 1792	Joseph Hobbs Jr	unknown
Jesse	7 Oct 1793	unknown	Sep 1812
** Hullum	17 Apr 1797	Sarah Kimball	unknown
Wiley	5 Nov 1798	unknown	unknown
Mary	6 Dec 1799	unknown	unknown
*** Nancy	7 Mar 1801	unknown	unknown
Vircan	14 Jul 1802	unknown	unknown
Sally	14 Jan 1804	unknown	unknown
Delora	23 Jun 1806	unknown	unknown
Jincy Owen	17 Nov 1808	Garten	unknown

    *For information about Lewis Jones's family, e-mail Ron Jones.
  **For information about Hullum Jones's family, e-mail Joyce Rosignol.
***For information about Nancy Jones's family, e-mail Roger Ellison.

According to family tradition, Ebenezer became a minister of the Methodist Church when he was eighteen years old.  He apparently was serving as minister when he and the Methodist Church trustees bought one acre of land on Cedar Creek in Rowan County for the purpose of erecting a church building.  Besides being a minister, Ebenezer was also a cabinet maker.

In August of 1810 Ebenezer and Mary sold their North Carolina land, formed a wagon train, and migrated to the Indiana Territory.  It was on this train that their daughter Anna met the young Joseph Hobbs Jr, whom she married on July 12, 1811, in Washington Township, Knox County, Indiana.

When Ebenezer and Mary Jones reached Indiana, they settled about 25 miles east of Fort Sackville (later known as Fort Knox) at or near the present city of Vincennes.  Before long Ebenezer and his son Vance each obtained a 160-acre parcel of land.  These parcels were in adjacent sections in the southwest corner of present-day Daviess County.  When Daviess County was incorporated in 1817 and the first officials were elected, Ebenezer became County Treasurer.

Mary Jones died in 1829, at the age of 67, near the town of Washington.  Two years later, on June 15, 1831, Ebenezer married the widow Kattarine Slinkard of Green County, Indiana.  Daviess County census records for 1850 and 1860 show Ebenezer living with his son Wiley.  He died at age 99 on March 9, 1862, and was buried in the Old City Cemetery alongside his first wife, Mary.

Ebenezer's Parents:  Zacariah and Ellen Smith Jones

Ebenezer's father, Zacariah Jones, was born around 1735 in Wales.  He is said to have been a Baptist preacher.  He and his wife, whose name is said to have been Ellen Smith, emigrated to the colonies from Wales around 1760.  They settled in what is now North Carolina, but soon after their arrival, their homestead was destroyed by Indians.  They then migrated north to Delaware, where their first son, Ebenezer, was born January 21, 1763.  The only further information available about Ebenezer is that he and his second wife, Sadie Vance, had three sons:  Seth, Jesse, and Robert.

Lillian's Parents:  AC and Annie Jones George

Lillian's father, Alfred Christopher George, was born to William and Edith George on December 19, 1853, in Mineola, Wood County, Texas.

Lillian's mother, Tempie Annie Jones, was born to David and Sarah Ann Everett Jones on November 26, 1863, in Bosque County, Texas. 

AC and Annie were married September 26, 1879, in Bosque County.  Four years later they moved to west Texas.  In the middle 1890s they moved to Colorado and lived in the area of Cripple Creek for a few years before returning to Texas.  In 1913 they settled in Dickens County, where they stayed for the rest of their lives.  AC and Annie had fourteen children:

Name	Born	Married	Died
Minnie Ola	14 Feb 1881	Jim Reece	21 Dec 1923
Ora Allie	23 Oct 1882	Lum Davidson	23 Feb 1963
Arvell Chester	11 Nov 1884	Eva Harris	5 Dec 1969
Lilith Grace	18 Dec 1886	-	22 Dec 1888
William Ray	29 Oct 1888	Ola Estep	14 Jan 1986
Lillian Berniece	6 Oct 1890	Clarence Phipps	14 Sep 1981
Sybel Elfreda	13 Nov 1892	Perry Smith	6 Oct 1981
John Silas	3 Oct 1894	-
Ewell Vance	11 Feb 1897	Alma (RT) Smith	22 Jun 1962
Lester Milton	6 Mar 1899	Pearl Wade	25 Apr 1960
Edna Ruby	17 Mar 1901	-	17 Mar 1901
Ernest Willie	19 Jan 1903	Brunetta Schockley	30 Dec 1977
Ula Mildred	26 Mar 1905	Egbert Chapman	16 Feb 1944
Mary Lou	30 Aug 1907	Calvin Wright, Emmett Arther, William Brown

For AC and Annie's golden wedding anniversary they were given a surprise celebration, which was reported as follows in the Texas Spur on October 11, 1929.

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MR AND MRS GEORGE CELEBRATE GOLDEN WEDDING ANNIVERSARY      Mr and Mrs A C George, of Highway community, received a great surprise September 18th, it being their golden wedding anniversary.  The children had prepared a basket  dinner which was served on a thirty foot table.  A few  close relatives were wired to come.  Mr and Mrs George did not suspect anything until the cars arrived, honking.  Relatives and friends arrived with hearty greetings, presents, and flowers.  They were indeed surprised.      Mr George was born in Mineola, Wood county, Texas, on December 19, 1853, and has spent most of his life in Texas.  Mrs George was born in Meridian, Bosque county, Texas, on November 26, 1863, and has also spent most of her life in Texas.  They were married September 18, 1879, in Bosque county.  Four years later they came to West Texas.  To them were born fourteen children, of whom eleven are living, and all were present at the reunion, except one son, John, of Jal, N M.      Those present were Arwell George of Spur, Ray George of Borger, Mr and Mrs Lum Davidson, Mr and Mrs C Phipps, Mr and Mrs P A Smith, Mr and Mrs C W Wright, of Girard, Mr and Mrs E E Chapman, Earnest George, Lester George, Mr and Mrs E V George of Spur.      The grandchildren present were Gladys, Willie, Myrtle, Henry, Leonard, J H ,Raymond, Mattie Ellen, Ruby, Lloyd, Wayford and Marvin Reece, of Spur; Ruth, Melvin, Syble, Clifford, Verda Mae, and Emmalou Phipps; Mr and Mrs Amos Fincher, Robert Davidson, Alfred Smith, and Dean Everett Wright of Girard; Thelma Pauline and Earnest Dale George of Spur.      Other relatives were Mr and Mrs W A Foley, and daughter, Lou, of Spur; Mr and Mrs Clyde C Jones and little daughter, Zanalee, of Lubbock, Mr and Mrs Nugent Everett and children, Foster and Eula Bee of Spur; Mr and Mrs Edgar George, Mr and Mrs Virgil George and daughter, Edna, Mrs W C Jones of Blackwell, Texas, Mr and Mrs W C George and daughter, Jewell, of Sweetwater, L E Smith of Fort Worth, J H Jones of Artesia, N M, and the following friends: Mr and Mrs D W Smith, Mrs Tom Smith and son, of Girard, E A Reece of Borger. All enjoyed the day.

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AC died of kidney trouble on February 16, 1933, at his farm near Spur.   Annie died at Spur on January 28, 1961, at the age of 98 years.  This was her obituary:

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Mrs. Annie George Buried In Girard      Funeral services for Mrs Annie George, 98, were held Tuesday afternoon at the First Baptist Church with Rev Billy Smith, Lubbock, officiating.  He was assisted by Rev Noss, Lubbock and Rev W L Kite, Spur.      Mrs George died Sunday; she was a member of the Baptist Church.  Her husband preceded her in death in 1933.      Born in Bosque County, Mrs George came to Dickens Co- unty in 1913.  She had married Alfred C George in September, 1878.      Survivors include four daughters, Mrs Ora Davidson, Girard; Mrs Lillian Phipps, Oklahoma City; Mrs Sybil Smith, Idalou; Mrs Mary Lou Arthur, Shawnee, Okla; five sons, Ar- well George, Ray George, and John George, all of Spur; Lester George, Brownfield and Earnest George, Ft Worth.  Twenty-nine grandchildren, 70 great grandchildren, and 17 great-great grandchildren also survive.      Interment was in Girard Cemetery, Campbell's Funeral Home in charge.

AC's Parents:  William and Edith George

Alfred Christopher's father, William George, was born around 1820 in Georgia.  His wife, Edith Kinsey, was born around 1823 in North Carolina.  William and Edith lived first in Georgia, where their first child was born in 1842. Their second child was born in 1849 in Mississippi.  The family is listed in the 1850 census records for Choctaw County, Mississippi.  Soon after 1850 William and Edith moved to Texas, where they lived the rest of their lives.  They moved into Wood County, Texas, in 1858.  According to census records, William and Edith had nine children:

Name	Born	Married	Died
Mary A	c 1842 in GA	af6d4"	af6d4"
John T	27 Feb 1849 in MS	Mary Louise Everett Cathcart, Emily Hanna	c 1914
Alfred Christopher	19 Dec 1853 in TX	Tempie Annie Jones	16 Feb 1933
*Jesse Jackson	17 Feb 1855 in TX	Sarah Alice Dennis	11 Mar 1931
Lucretia "Lou" Catherine	24 Sep 1857 in TX	**Jesse Newton Everett	26 Feb 1911
Elizabeth P	24 Mar 1861 in TX		af6d4"
William Silas	24 Mar 1861 in TX	**Martha Leona Everettaf6d4"	27 Mar 1927
Martha A	c 1864 in TX		af6d4"
Laurena "Laura"	c 1864 in TX	Dennis	af6d4"

* Jesse and Sarah Alice George had a daughter Mary Edith George, who was born in Meridian TX on 1 Sep 1877 and who married Milton Ryan "Buddy" Jones, a brother of Tempie Annie (Mrs AC) George.

The obituary of William and Edith’s son John states that father and mother both died when John was quite young, and that at the age of nineteen he assumed the responsibility of caring for five brothers and a sister.  Although that number and gender of siblings does not agree with those listed in the census records, it does appear that Edith died before 1870, as the 1870 Wood County census records show William with a wife named Nancy, who was born around 1837 in Georgia.   At that time all the children except Mary, who may have married and left home by then, were living with William and Nancy.  William died in Quitman, Wood County, Texas, in 1873, and Nancy died in 1882.

Annie's Parents:  David and Sarah Jones

Annie's father was David Jones.  He is said to have been born in Kentucky on November 9, 1826.

Annie's mother, Sarah Ann Everett, was born in Arkansas.  Her birth date is said to be February 16, 1838; however one family list has her oldest child, Mary Jane, born in October of 1847.  It may be that the 1838 listing is in error: perhaps 1828 was the correct year.  This is uncertain.  Sarah Ann was the daughter of Simeon or Simmons Anderson "Sim" Everett, who was one of the principals in the Tutt-Everett War* of Marion County, Arkansas.  He was killed in one of the more gruesome battles of that war on October 9, 1848.  Sim's parents were Jeremiah and Alsy Everett of Barren County, Kentucky.

*  Three accounts of the Tutt-Everett War are posted on the Marion County GenWeb site:
1.  The Tutt-Everett War written by W.B. Flippin in 1876
2.  The Tutt, King, and Everett War compiled by Vicki A. Roberts
3.  The King and Everette War at Yellville, Arkansas by S. C. Turnbo

According to a list made by one family member, David and Sarah Ann Jones had nine children:

Name	Born	Married	Died
* Mary Jane	10 Oct 1847	Kester	21 Jul 1871
Emily Catherine	20 Dec 1854	af6d4"	4 May 1870
William Chester	7 Jan 1856	af6d4"	19 Jan 1927
John Henry	13 Nov 1859	af6d4"	9 Jul 1936
Leah Louise "Lillie"	28 Oct 1861	Lewis Edward Smith	8 Mar 1908
Tempy Ann	26 Nov 1863	AC George	28 Jan 1961
Milton Rion "Buddy"	5 Sep 1866	Mary Edith George	26 Mar 1937
Oliver Coryell	21 Feb 1869	af6d4"	af6d4"
Bernice Clyde	25 May 1876	Vanzant	af6d4"

* Note says "Died....as Louise Kester."

The list states that David Jones died September 20, 1869, although the youngest child is shown to have been born almost seven years later.  Sarah Ann is listed as having died in Roswell, New Mexico, in 1926.