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The Family Garden
Notes
Jerry Anderson STEWART
He was in the Navy when he married. He was electrocuted while workingon a friend's shop building.
Margaret Malinda STEWARD
Died from measles and pneumonia.
*Source: Washington Steward family bible.
William MATLOCK
Macklack, William, Cropwell Bishop, Nottinghamshire, Eng.
Passengers on the Ship Kent, Gregory Marlow, Master, arrived at Raccoon Creek, 8-23-1677
*Source: Salem County Genealogical Data, Vol. 1, by H. Stanley Craig
H. Stanl,ey Craig, Publisher, Merchantville, N.J.
In 1677 the ship Kent arrived with 230 passengers, mostly Friends, with good estates. They landed at Raccoon Creek, where they found some Swedish houses, but not being well accommodated, they, with the commissioners who came in the ship, went up to Chygoe's Island (now Burlington) called after the Indian Sachem who then dwelt there. The town plot was purchased and called New Beverly. Shortly thereafter another band of settlers came from Wiccacoa.
*Source: Pennsylvania 1630-1684 by Rudolph J. Walther
Found at: http://www.ushistory.org/pennsylvania/pennsylvania.html
From: The Public Record Office, London, class E137
Burlington was laid out in 20 blocks. Ten Yorkshire Proprietors were to build on one side of the central street, and ten London Proprietors on the other. Each town lot was paced out and covered ten or eleven acres for a house, orchard and gardens, with extra land as pasture and cornfields available in great quantities.
Item 31 in this class is a very damaged document showing the division of land in 1677 to new arrivals.
*Source: Internet, would love to know the exact division.
Mary HANCOCK
See notes for her brother, Timothy Hancock and her husband, William Matlock. Birthdate is estimated on notes indicating that she was about 15 when she immigrated with her brother.
Alex WINES
From his wife's funeral notice:
The deceased was first married to Alex Wines before the Civil War. To this union, one son, Eli, who has since passed to his reward. In the last year of the war, Mr. Wines was killed by Northern "bushwhackers". Later she married P. R. Garrett. To this union was born one son, Albert who died in 1899.
The affray in which Mr. Wines was killed took place during the later years of the war. It seems that Mr. Wines was at home on a furlough when he was discovered by Norther "bushwhackers". They first shot his horse from under him and then proceeded to take his life. He managed to crawl to a home where he was discovered by his spouse later.
It is said that when Mr. Wines was killed his burial was made by two women. Going out and getting pine boards and making his coffin, they then carried the body into the mountains where it was buried.
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From the LDS Family Search Site:
There is an Alexander Wines born in 1842, no place of birth, parents are Elias Wines and Elizabeth Edwards. Elias was born in 1822, no place of birth. Indicates Elias and Elizabeth were married in Fauquier Co, VA. No other information. Alex only had one son, who he named Eli.
Margaret Esther SIMMONS
Documents in my possession:
DEATH CERTIFICATE
Age: 82 years, 6 months, 1 day
Name of father: Charles Simmons
Name of mother: Elizabeth Schofield
Cause of death: Influenze, Pneumonia
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MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE
Prier Garreatt to Margaret E. Wine date 24 Jan 1867, Independence Co, AR
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FUNERAL NOTICE
Mrs. Margaret Garett Passes Away on Monday
Mrs. Margaret Simmons Garrett, age 82 years, wife of the late P. R. Garrett, passed away at the home of her grandaughter, Mrs. Frank Stewart, in this city, Monday afteroon at 3:45 o'clock.
She was born in Iowa June 13, 1846. She was a daughter of Charles and Elizabeth Simmons. Her parents came to this country from across the waters. The family moved to Missouri when Margaret was only a small child of 6 or 7 years. She did not receive much schooling due to the upheavals and trouble immediately before the Civil war. They later moved to Arkansas.
The deceased was first married to Alex Wines before the Civil War. To this union, one son, Eli, who has since passed to his reward. In the last year of the war, Mr. Wines was killed by Northern "bushwhackers". Later she married P. R. Garrett. To this union was born one son, Albert who died in 1899.
Surviving are: three granddaughters, Mesdames Frank Stewart of Plano, Coy Harris of Fort Worth and Harry Houston of Vernon, a number of great-granchildren and one great-great grandchild, Magaline Graves, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Graves of this city; one half-sister, Mrs. Rhode Aires of Kansas City; two daughter-in-laws, Mesdames S. M Joyce of Mesquite and Wiser Girley of Vernon.
HARDSHIPS DURING THE WAR
A few incidents at random that Mrs. Garrett was able to recall of her youth and later life were:
The affray in which Mr. Wines was killed took place during the later years of the war. It seems that Mr. Wines was at home on a furlough when he was discovered by Northern "bushwhackers". They first shot his horse from under him and then proceeded to take his life. He managed to crawl to a home where he was discovered by his spouse later.
In 1862, the family suffered many hardships. At one time, they were without food for three days. They managed to find some corn that they might purchase for the sum of $25 per bushel. This they ground with the aid of rocks at a place ten miles from home. They carried it on their backs to the home where it was utilized for food. Salt was a scarcity in those days of suffering and sorrow and the family was without any flavoring until they discovered some rocks of salt in an old forsaken place. They managed to wash out the salt and then sold it to the Northerners at a rate of $1.00 a pound.
It is said that when Mr. Wines was killed his burial was made by two women. Going out and getting pine boards and making his coffin, they then carried the body into the mountains where it was buried. At another time, a friend of the family was at breakfast. A group of Northerns called him out of the house. When aked if he had said his prayers that morning, he answered "Yes" and they immediately shot him.
FAMILY RECORDS LOST
It seems that Mrs. Garrett's family had left Missouri with such haste that the family records were lost. They started for Texas in wagons with the oxen as locomotive power. On the way, they we attacked by the Northern scounts and their animals taken, leaving only an old horse to them. The food was taken the the good ransacked. Their lives were in al probabilities saved by the timely appearance of Quantrell and his men, who later took care of the family. They saw Quantrells followers burn a town near the scene of their attack and witnessed the attempts to save wares out of the stores by those interested.
On reaching Texas, the family settled in Dallas county near the site on which Dallas now stands. There were two stores in the place then. Mrs. Garrett took her eggs and produce to the store of one Dave Rainwater, which stood on the banks of the Trinity river.
Later they moved to Plano. A home was built, one room of which is still standing. Only a mill was the start of what is now our progressive little city.
PLANO HISTORY
Mrs. Garrett was in Plano during its several times to burn, and recalled many incidents which happened during these conflagrations. She was on the outskirts of the cyclone which swept south Plano a number of years ago. Their home had the windows broken, and the doors torn from the hinges and otherwise badly damaged, but it seems that they escaped the worst of the blow. At the time Mr. and Mrs. Garrett came to Texas, they engaged in farming until Mr. Garrett's health failed. Also of note on the trip to Texas was the meeting with Indians. A girl was captured by the Indians in Clay County and scalped.
Mrs. Garrett's mother passed away eight years ago at the surprising age of 105 years, 7 months and 13 days. Mrs. Garrett joined the church under the ministry of Dr. R. C. Buckner, who established the Buckner Orphan's Home near Dallas.
Funeral services were held at the family home Tuesday morning at 11 o'clock, conducted by Rev. A. L. Leake. Interment followed in the City Cemetery.
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Memories of Ada Auline (Susie) Steward Graves Dunaway
From an oral interview by her son, Sam Houston Graves
(Originally transcribed from tape by Ann Daberko on 11 Nov 1980).
(Notes from me for clarification are included in brackets - Linda Graves Walker). These stories were told to Susie as she grew up by Margaret Wines Garrett. Margaret was her great-grandmother and she lived until Susie was 23, so these stories stuck with her for all her life. These events took place during the Civil War.
Sam: Tell me all you know about Little Granny (Margaret Wines Garrett).
Susie: Sam, I'd be talking until next week.
Sam: That's ok, talk until next week even if I have to go get some more tapes. Susie: I remember the woman's first name was Drucilla, her husband and Grandpa Wines was in the same division. And they {Margaret Wines and Drucilla} would follow around as close to the army as they could get, so they {their husbands} could come home and see them more often. She {Margaret} felt like if she had stayed at home, he {Alex Wines} wouldn't have been killed. She was young and wanted to be with him, so she followed around close by. He had come in that day and {she} was fixing to go the mill to get some corn ground. He told her no, to stay there and he would do it for her. She didn't want him to, but he went anyway. And he didn't come home, and didn't come home and didn't come home, so they figured trouble, so they went to look for him. They went to the mill, this old German who owned the mill told them he {Alex} hadn't been there. So, her girlfriend {Drucilla} had carried some grain back in there and she found him and called her and when she went back there, he was laying back across a sack of grain with an old hen sitting on his breast a'cackling. And the German's 2 daughters were down there dancing and having a party. So {Margaret} and Drucilla and some more women had to build a box and bury him. They didn't have any coffins, they just took some boards and built a box and then they wrapped him in sheets or blankets or what. {Margaret was born in 1846. We don't know what year she and Alex Wines were married, but if it were before the war, she would have been 13 or 14. Hard to imagine a young girl traipsing about the country following her husband during the Civil War!}
Sam: Tell me about her feather bed.
Susie: These guys came along and looted their house, took everything they wanted outside, they were Cantrell's Raiders, and when they had done that, she didn't have anything for the baby to sleep on {Eli Wines}, and so they set her house on fire and she went in and got her feather bed and brought it out. The guys threw it back in again, and she went back in again and brought it out again. A corner of the feather bed was on fire and she put it out. The commanding officer said if she didn't have any better sense than to go in a burning building to get a feather bed, let her have it. So, he let her keep it. Sam: Do you know where her house was?
Susie: Somewhere, she was still following around after the Army.
Sam: What about the gal they tried to make tell where her husband was? Susie: She was expecting {a baby} and expecting her husband {to come home} and had a little brother about 7 years old I guess, who stayed with her and her old …..Mammy. When these raiders came up there, the little boy slipped off thru the cornfield to head her husband off and warn him the raiders were there and waiting for him. So, they {the raiders} tried to make her tell where he {her husband} was and she couldn't tell them because she didn't know. {While the raiders were there, she gave birth}. So, the raiders, they took this newborn baby and held it over the fire and she got out of bed and was fighting with them to try to save her baby. They burned the baby to death and when Little Granny {Margaret Wines} and Drucilla got there, the old …..Mammy was sitting there with her in her arms and she was dead holding her little dead baby.
Susie: And in their wanderings around, she didn't have any hair pins to pin her hair up with, so she would get thorns off of the thorn bushes and pin their hair up with them thorns. And they saw some deer and cows licking the ground, so they went to see and discovered it had been a salt warehouse. The salt was still on the ground and some places it was enough they could rake it up. They raked up all they could and then made a slose box and got a kettle and they would run this salt and dirt through this slose box and the salty water would come down off the dirt. They would boil it down and get the salt out. Then, they sold the salt for $10 and $15 a pound. They didn't have enough transportation to ship salt around like now. Said they had to eat food without salt for so long, when they first got salt, they boiled water and made salty water and drank it, they were so hungry for salt. Sam: Do you now some more?
Susie: I guess I could think up a bunch, but these stories always stuck in my mind.
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Notes from descendent Annie Lester Daberko:
She was known by all as "Little Granny". Story is she was under 5 ft tall. In 1916, her second husband died and she lived the rest of her life with her granddaughter (Sallie Ann Wines Steward) and husband. She was saved by the Rev. Buckner who started Buckner's Orphan's Home. After Pryor died, her grandaughter, Margaret Ester Garrett Ray sued her for everything Pryor owned. It drug out in the courts until Little Granny was left with nothing. On her death bed, she called her great-grandaughter to her side and made her promise never to marry a Yankee.
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Source of notes below: Oral interview with Madge Dunaway and Sam Graves, 1993, by Ann Daberko:
On Maple Avenue is where Mommy fried Poppy's oysters for him; only she didn't see too well and rolled those oysters in sugar instead of flour. Well, you put damp oysters covered with sugar in hot grease and you've got nothing but boil over. Mommy used to go down there and take the scraps of the lining of the inside of the casket and that's what he pieced her quilt tops out of and they were so soft and washed good and there was 1 quilt left and I don't know where it got off to, but that stuff lasted for years and years and years. It was gray and pink. And the tops were always so soft because back then fabrics weren't, they were always harsh, they were cotton and they had so much starch to them. She would get the stuff that looked like fur and velvet and then the satin. The pink and gray stuff was what they covered the casket with cause they were made out of wood and then they had satin or the fluffy stuff on the inside.
After he husband was killed, (Eli Wines) some Yankee soldiers came along and she shot one, the others ran away. He rolled down the hill to a creek and he way laying down there moaning and groaning and hollering he wanted some water and she went down there and kicked him in the water and told him to drink you s.o.b. Well, if you walked up and found your husband laying on a sack of ground meal with a chicken cackling and pecking at him and he was dead, you might have enough too. And you went to stay with a lady that just got through having a baby and the Yankees came in and asked her where her husband was and she told them she didn't know and they took that newborn baby and stuck it on the end of bayonet and held it over the fireplace until it burned up and the lady went into hysterics and hemorrhaged to death and died. The Story of the Feather Bed:
She was following her husband through some state, no telling which one, and she had Eli with her and he was just a baby, and she had a feather bed mattress. She slept in this empty house one night and here come the Yankees, "the blue bellies"; that's what they called them when I was a kid. They set the house on fire and she came running out with Eli and the feather bed. One of the soldiers grabbed the bed and through it back in the house; she ran back in and brought it out again; the soldier grabbed in and threw it back in the house and she went right back in and got it again. The Yankee in charge of the detail finally called out and said if she wants it that bad, let have it before she burns herself to death.
The Cantrell Story:
When Little Granny came down from Missouri, the Yankees attacked the wagon train she was in and they burned up almost everything and took all their food and was planning on killing them. The only thing that saved them was the guy that everybody screams and yells and complains about, but only because the Yankees won the war, Cantrell is the one that saved them.
Yes, he was. They did steal everything they had. Left them with one mule and they took all of their clothes and food and everything else and they would have starved to death if Cantrell hadn't come along. But, he came along and got them and found what town in Missouri the Yankees were quartered at and he went up there and burned the town down and killed all the Yankees. He killed all the men period in that town.
The few saved possessions:
That's the reason I thought it was so strange that she brought that little cup. Little Granny said it was from a big punch set with a big bowel and all the cups and everything got destroyed, but she saved that one little punch cup. She also saved that one little yellow rose bush. It's so strange what you would save, in all that, she saved it and it was sitting in the corner at Plano, it was there when we moved, it bloomed every year. (As of 1993, the cup was in the possession of a great-great-great grandaughter).
William M GARRETT
Documents in my possession:
Funeral Notice
Newspaper: Sunday 23 Nov 1919, Denton Record Chronicle
FUNERAL OF W. M. GARRETT TODAY
Funeral and burial services for W. M. Garret, who died Friday noon at his home 1 mile south of Denton, were held this afternoon at 12:30 o'clock at the Alken cemetery. Rev. Mr. Wilson of Drop conducted the services. Mr. Garrett was 69 years of age and is survived by his wife and seven grown children.
Another newspaper article:
Friday, Nov 21 1919, Denton Record Chronicle:
WILLIAM M. GARRETT - Wm 69 years of age, a native of Arkansas and who has been living 1 mile south of Denton for the past year, died Friday noon after a long illness from cancer. Mr. Garrett moved to Denton County from Wise County about a year ago. He is survied by a wife and 7 children. The children are: J. F. Garrett, King Co; Miss Eliza Garrett, Denton Co; Mrs. Mary Stark, Wise Co; Mrs Lelia Young, Oklahoma; R. L. Garrett, Young Co; and J. H. Garrett, Logan, NM. The funeral services will be at the Aiken Cemetery sometime Saturday. Arrangements have not been completed. ESTATE OF W. M. GARRETT IN THE COUNTY COURT OF DENTON COUNTY, TX:
Now comes J. H. Cleveland, temporary administrator of the estate of W. M Garrett deceased and files this his final report in said administration. He paid out the following amounts: To Mrs. Eliza Gurley, $144.00. There remains in the hand of this administrator the following: $8.00 which the administrator has retained to pay court costs. This administrator further shows to the court that all the debts which the estte owed have been paid, and that there are no debts due to the estate, and that there is no further necessity of an administration of said estate......
Approved: Feb 23, 1920
Filed: Feb 23, 1920
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Notes: He was a little bitty ole thin man, real dark, looked Indian. They lived in Corpus Christi Tx around 1911. They also lived in Roger Mills Co, OK; Elk City, Beckham Co, OK, and possibly Archer Clay Co, TX. Name: The surname Garrett appears to be both occupational & patronymical in origin, & is believed to be associated with the English, meaning, "descendant of little Gerard (spear,firm).
Source: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~freshnup/markmurph/pafn56.htm#1173, Mark Murphy's website
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Deed: 5 Feb 1901 Mitchell Co Tx; Purchased 160 acres for $666.00 12 Dec 1902 sold above for $1000.00
Tax List: 1872 & 1874 There is a William Garrett Garrett, William, age 58, married 40 years, b. Arkansas, father b. United States, mother b. Tennessee, speaks English, Occupation: farmer, Industry: Truck Sales, Employee: Own account?, able to read/write, Owns farm, mortgaged, farm schedule 79, not a civil war vet.
Francis E., wife, age 58, married 40 years, 10 children born, 10 childen living, b. Missouri, father b. United States, mother b. Missouri, speaks English, Occupation: Farm Labor, Industry: Home Farm, Employee: Wage Earner?, able to read and write.
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1900 Census, Justice Precinct 1, Mitchell County, Texas. Enumerations District: 115, Sheet # 17, Enumeration Date: 15 & 16 Jun 1900, Household #267:
Garrett, William, head, b. Sep 1846, age 53, married 31 years, b. Arkansas, father b. Tennessee, mother b. Tennessee, Occupation: Farmer, can read, cannot write, speaks English, Owns Farm free of mortgage, Farm schedule 25.
Elizabeth F., wife, b. Dec 1848, age 57, married 31 years, had 11 children, 10 living, b. Missouri, father b. Alabama, mother b. Missouri, cannot read or write
Isabelle M., daughter, b. May 1881, single, b. Texas, can read & write
Richard P., son, b. Feb 1884, single, b. Texas, can read and write,
in school.
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" They owned land around Ponder, He was a truck farmer, raised fruit, veg's. He dug a well that Sam Bass drank out of".
The Garrett & Stark families lived west of Drop, & across a Creek which may have been Morris Branch or Oliver Creek. Oliver Creek is in Wise Co, so it must be Morris Branch east of where they lived in Denton Co. The Starks lot joins the Garrett lot on the south in the Eakins Cem at Ponder,Denton Co Tx
Source: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~freshnup/markmurph/pafn56.htm#1173, Mark Murphy's website
Elizabeth F NEWMAN
1920 Census, Denton, Denton County, Texas. Enumeration District: 55, sheet # 26A, Enumeration Date: 26 Jan 1920, Household #579.
Garrett, Elizabeth, head, age 75, widowed, able to read and write, b. Missouri, father b. Illinois, mother b. Missouri, no occupation.
Gurley, Eliza, daughter, age 50, widowed, able to read and write, b. Texas, father b. Arkansas, mother b. Missouri, no occupation
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Death certificate
Mrs. W. M. Garrett
widow
Father: Issac Newman, father's birthplace: MO
Mother: Sarah Newman
Date of death: 3 May 1927
Cause of death: Apoplexy
Age: 92 years, 4 months and 9 days
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She was the chunkiest fattiest little old woman, white straight hair.
Source: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~freshnup/markmurph/pafn56.htm#1173, Mark Murphy's website
John Franklin GARRETT
He lived in Plano and McKinney around 1901. He was a mail carrier out of Paducah, Cottle Co, TX before moving to OK. Around 1914 he owned a restaurant in Lawton, OK called "Bon Ton Cafe". He also was a farmer and owned 2 farms, one of 160 acres and one of 80 acres. The two farms were adjoined. He was member of the Woodmens of the World and has a Woodmem of the World marker on his grave. His certificate number was 33970. He married Millie Lane CARPENTER on 27 Aug 1890 in Benjamine, Knox, Texas. Her funeral notice: 21 Nov 1952 Paducah Newspaper; Mrs M L Garrett, 82, a resident of Texas for 70 yrs, died Fri morning in a Paducah hospital. She had lived here since 1947. Mrs Garrett, a native of Missouri, lived at Dumont from 1916 untill 1947. Graveside services will be held at 11 am Sat at the Dumont Cemetery. (She was native of Ms)
*Source: Internet
William Porter GARRETT
He is buried in the Eakin Cemeter, Ponder, Denton Co Tx.. He has a Woodmen of the World marker. His headstone says: "Death's but a path that must be a path that must be trod, if a man would ever pass to God". Following deeds for William:
4 Dec 1914 Denton Co Tx; William sold lots in Justin Denton Co Tx to R L Garrett & wf Alice, 4 Dec 1914
23 Dec 1914 Denton Co Tx; Purchased 80 acres for $4000.00 Census Records for William:
5 Jun 1900 Justin Wise Tx; with wife & son John R
6 Jun 1910 Wise Co Tx
*Source: Internet
Richard P GARRETT
He worked the Oil Boom in Breckenridge. Described as "good looking devil". He was married several times. *Source: Internet
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