http://www.rootsweb.com/~txcolora/elmasoniccem.htm#J
Jenkins, Mattie; born: Jul 29, 1844; died: Sep 2, 1909; Née Harbert, married John A. Jenkins
Possible spouse?
Father may have been born in Kentucky. Found 1880 Census Henry Johnson on ED 54 Page 5 of 1880 Texas Colorado County Census that Father was born in KY.
Might be named Lavina sublet according to the IGI.
Sister Sophronia was married in Bellefonte, Jackson County.
Confirmed 1850 Census and Dotty Brown through www.ancestry.com Was a Hotel Keeper. Census
Moved from Alabama about 1838 with Lavinia by Dotty Brown.BIRTH: Found at searches.rootsweb.com on 1850 Census Texas Colorado County
1 246 254 Toliver John 42 M Hotel Keeper 3,000 Tennessee
REMARKS: Notation "Hotel" is written in the margin for lines 1-11
2 246 254 Toliver Lavinia 42 F Kentucky
3 246 254 Toliver Henry 14 M Alabama X
4 246 254 Toliver Benjamin 10 M Texas X
5 246 254 Toliver James 6 M Texas X
6 246 254 Toliver John 2 M Texas X
REMARKS: Schooling appears to be enumerator error_____________________________________________________________________________
from http://www.columbustexas.net/ under the Historical Markers section and the under the Columbus Odd Fellows Rest Cemetary there was this interesting tidbitJohn Toliver deeded a tract of land to Columbus Lodge No. 51, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, in July 1871 for use as [the] cemetery.
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Also was a county judge who performed many marriages
See http://www.columbustexas.net/library/history/Marriages%201.htm
See Also http://www.columbustexas.net/library/history/Minutes%201.htm for more information on some legal issues
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Also was county coroner, elected February 4, 1839. And was a Assessor and Collector elected April 10, 1843
See http://www.columbustexas.net/library/history/officials.htm.
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Furthermore ran a drug store
http://www.columbustexas.net/library/history/part5.htm
By 1860, several other Germans would join him, among them Simon Thulemeier and William Beethe, who would also open grocery stores, William B. Roever, who would open a dry goods store, and Charles Kessler, who would purchase John H. Toliver's drug store
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Regarding the Columbus City Cemetery http://www.rootsweb.com/~txcolora/cemeteries/columbuscitycem.htm
1. The cemetery was certainly in use long before the City of Columbus formally purchased it from John and L. H. Toliver on March 15, 1870. The original seven acre purchase was augmented by three adjoining acres on October 5, 1893. The cemetery was taken into the city limits on November 13, 1939 (see Colorado County Deed Records, Book O, p. 61, Book 18, p. 173; Minutes of the City Council of Columbus Book 4, p. 760, Archives of the Nesbitt Memorial Library, Columbus.)_________________________________________________________________________
From http://www.columbustexas.net/library/history/part5.htm
A few months earlier, a fifth Columbus school---and the most ambitious of the lot---had been established. Called Colorado College, it sought to become the first operational secondary educational facility in the county, and the first to construct for its own use a sizeable building with more than one classroom. By the summer of 1857, its backers, led by the Scherers, Jacob, Gideon, and John Jacob, all of whom were intimately connected with the Lutheran church in Columbus, had begun to build support for it. On September 2, 1857, someone drafted a long letter to the Citizen pointing out the economic benefits to the community of such an educational institution. Already, its first classes had been announced. The school, which was to convene in the Lutheran church until a suitable building could be constructed, was to begin its first session on September 7, 1857. Four months later, on December 26, 1857, the college was chartered by the state legislature. Though the charter specified that the tenets of no particular denomination could be taught, it did allow general religious exercises, declared that more than half the members of the governing board of trustees were to be members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, and authorized the board of trustees of the as-yet-undeveloped Hermann University, which had always had a decidedly Lutheran bent, to incorporate their facility into the new college. The board of trustees met for the first time on February 27, 1858. By the following summer, the college had hired Ray away from the Columbus Seminary and made him their principal. The seminary replaced him with a teacher named D. H. Henderson, then replaced Cooper as principal with William G. DeGraffenreid. The following year, DeGraffenreid and Henderson began referring to their school as Columbus High School. However, that fall, DeGraffenreid retired from teaching to return to the practice of medicine, and the school, if it continued, devolved into a single-teacher operation. Henderson apparently took a job at a school in or near the new town of Alleyton. Cooper, meanwhile, opened yet another school in Columbus
Though it had successfully established itself as perhaps the preeminent school in the county, Colorado College's first session of 1859, which ran from January 1 to June 1, was a disaster. For the session, the school had hired Gustav Behné as principal and, after DeGraffenreid turned them down, John J. Scherer as his assistant. The school opened with about fifty students, and, for three months, things went well. By March 5, when they began advertising for contractors, the board of trustees was confident enough of the school's success and had secured enough subscriptions to consider constructing a building. On April 1, they hired Scherer's half-brother, Gideon, to erect the new school. A week or two later, John J. Scherer was forced by ill health to resign his position as assistant teacher at the school, and Behné was left to conduct classes by himself. Then, growing concerns about the perceived Lutheran control of the school erupted. One of the building's underwriters, John Toliver, refused to pay the amount he had subscribed, $500, both because, as he later stated, it had taken to school too long to raise the necessary money to build the school and that therefore his children would have to go to school elsewhere, and because "instead of the College remaining free untrammelled from the claims of any Religious sect or society" as he had been promised, that the school was "a Lutheran Institution governed by their Church." On May 21, the Citizen chimed in with a strong, pointed editorial, which postulated that it was "absolutely necessary that our citizens should all be united in order to build up a good school" and that as long as the school continued to tie itself to the Lutheran church, the local "Methodists, Baptists, Presbyterians, Episcopalians, Campbellites, and a large portion of the community who are not allied to any religious organization" would not support it. The editorial urged the board of trustees to "at once do away with the sectarian character of the school and place it upon a free and independent basis, so that every citizen will be placed upon an equality with regard to it and have an equal interest in it with all the rest." Meanwhile, the school's students had been dropping out in droves. When the school term was ended, a few days ahead of schedule, only three students remained.
The school recovered its equilibrium a little, and offered a fall session, to run from the first Monday in September through the end of December. It was not until August, however, that the trustees notified Behné that he would not be returning as principal, and hired James J. Loomis, who was also a Lutheran clergyman, to take his place. Behné responded by offering private lessons in French, German, drawing and painting, and singing and playing the guitar, all for adults, and devoting more of his attention to his own painting. The college's fall session opened with Loomis as the only teacher, and with perhaps thirty students. By the end of October, however, the student body had grown to 54, of whom perhaps fifty continued to attend on nearly a daily basis until the end of the term on December 23. The success of the session fully revived the school. Four days after it ended, Gideon Scherer laid the cornerstone for the school's new multi-story, brick building, sealing books, papers, and coins inside it. By some unknown agreement or measure, Colorado College was allowed to construct its building on the until-then-vacant block which had been set aside for a school and designated Seminary Square by the founders of Columbus. Loomis, with Stephen Monroe Wells as his assistant, opened a new term on January 9, 1860 with 46 students. By the end of January, they had more than sixty students. When the term closed on June 25, 1860, the school had reestablished itself, alongside the Columbus Female Seminary, as one of the two most important in the county.40 <footnote/part5-40.htm>
However, its troubles were not over. On April 19, 1860, a few months after the cornerstone was laid, the school sued Toliver to collect the money he had subscribed but refused to pay. The following October 18, Behné sued the school for unpaid wages stemming from his time as the school's principal. Behné had expected to be paid $400 for his services. His assistant, John J. Scherer, was to be paid half as much. Scherer had been paid in full for the time he spent on the job, but Behné had not. The school's trustees claimed that Behné had agreed to work for less if tuitions were not sufficient to pay his full salary, and that after Scherer resigned, Behné's inadequacy had prompted the mass departure of the student body and the resulting loss of tuition money. Though they had paid him only about two-thirds of the salary he had agreed to, the trustees responded to Behné's suit by charging that tuitions had been so severely reduced that he had actually been overpaid by some $45. Neither case moved to its conclusion rapidly. The school's suit against Toliver was transferred to Lavaca County, where, on September 13, 1860, it was dismissed by mutual agreement. Behné's peregrinations prevented him from pursuing his case against the school. He finally returned to the county, and dismissed his lawsuit on October 30, 1866_____________________________________________________________________________
Texas General Land Office Land Grant Search from http://www.glo.state.tx.us/archives/landgrant.htmlCounty: Colorado
Abstract Number: 558
District/Class: Colorado 3rd
File Number: 25
Original Grantee: John Toliver
Patentee: John Toliver
Title Date:
Patent Date: 07 Oct 1845
Patent No: 261
Patent Vol: 1
Certificate: 20
Part Section:
Survey/Blk/Tsp:
Adj County:
Acres: 440.00
Adj Acres:
Remarks:_______________________________________________________________________________
Lived in Texas by 1838,
From http://www.columbustexas.net/library/history/part3.htm
On September 10, 1838, Colin De Bland and William B. Dewees had an altercation at John Toliver's home in Columbus. Each man attacked the other with fists, then with chairs. De Bland drew a pistol, but did not use it.
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Might be named Lavina sublet according to the IGI.
Sister Sophronia was married in Bellefonte, Jackson County.
Buried at old family home, "Tuckerville" on the Old Post Road in Wayne County, near a little station on the AB&C RR known as Whitaker.
Stafford, Robert View Image Online
State: Georgia Year: 1850
County: Wayne Roll: M432_87
Township: 92Nd Division Page: 284
Image: 165This individual was found on GenCircles at: http://www.gencircles.com/users/dmruss/1/data/63
http://www.columbustexas.net/library/history/Criminal%20Causes.htm
has some possible charges listed against him during his feuds with the Townsends
Martha must have died from complications with childbirth.
http://www.rootsweb.com/~gaglynn/cemetery/stafford.htm has more info on her death and burial site with pics
Sacred
to the memory of
Mrs. MARTHA ANN STAFFORD
Who was born 20 Sept. 1812
and died 25 Decr. 1850______________
Her children arise up and
call her blessed, her husband
also and he praiseth her.This individual was found on GenCircles at: http://www.gencircles.com/users/dmruss/1/data/64
From: Michael Matthews [mailto:pirsquaredh@hotmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, August 29, 2004 6:01 PM
To: Leggett, David
Subject: Cousin RatcliffeSome interesting tidbits for you.
Their children went on to become some of the founding pioneers ofColorado County, Texas. In fact an Opera house is named after one of hersons. See below Her grandson was the local constable and her greatgrandson my great grand father was a Major General during the secondWorld War.
Anyway, I just wanted to touch bases with you. If you are interested Ihave a pdf copy of pages from the book
Cate, Margaret Davis.
Our todays and yesterdays : a story of Brunswick and the coastal islands
Brunswick, Ga.: Glover Bros., 1930,The file has the jury lists mentioned in the notes that you have onlineat rootsweb for James. They also have some wills including one that maybe our James Ratcliffe.
I can send you the file but it is somewhat large approximately 1.6 MB.However, in a few days, I plan to purchase program from ABBYY (thecompany that does OCR regonition) that will allow me to convert older PDFfiles to WORD files!!! Which means that the file will be considerablysmaller. I downloaded the trial version of their PDF transformerprogramming and tested it over the weekend and it works great. I plan oncalling and purchasing it tomorrow. If you are interesting in a copy ofthe pages from the above book dealing with Ratcliffe's, let me know andremind me if I don't send it within a week.
Cousin,
Michael Matthews
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From: Colina [mailto:fourpirsquared@msn.com]
Sent: Sunday, August 29, 2004 7:10 PM
To: Leggett, David
Subject: Updated Geneaology LinkOops. the link I sent was badhttp://www.glynngen.com/cemetery/stafford.htm is the real one for thegravestone of martha:
Stafford
[photo of gravesite, behind a small iron gate, quite overgrown]
Unfortunately, I can not give the exact directions for this grave site.Not that I don't want to, but it is very hard to explain where exactly itis located. The general location would to be to travel west on Hwy. 82from Brunswick towards Brantley County, turn left (south) onto Old PostRoad at the county line. Travel to the end of this road (about 1.5 milesdown, it turns to dirt, keep going). Directly in front of you will be agate for a hunting club, and to the left will be a road that goes back toHwy. 17 south.
If you have permission to go on the land you will have to either, one getsomeone to take you inside the gate in their vehicle (namely a huntingclub member or paper company employee), or two, get out and walk.
When you go through the gate, keep going straight, a little ways downwill be a road to your left. Go down it. Somewhere on your right andabout 500 feet in, more or less, under a clump of tall trees, will be thegrave of MARTHA ANN STAFFORD.
According to family history, Martha was the wife of Robert Stafford, Jr.,son of the Revolutionary War Soldier Robert Stafford. Martha's maidenname was Ratcliff, and where she is buried was her family home.Apparently she died in child birth at her parent's home, and was buriedhere. It is not known if there are other graves out there, but accordingto the care taker of the hunting club and a former paper companyemployee, this is the only gravesite that they know about.
Cemetery visited summer of 2003 and February 2004.
[closeup of stone, blackened marble, not legible]
Sacred
to the memory of
Mrs. MARTHA ANN STAFFORD
Who was born 20 Sept. 1812
and died 25 Decr. 1850Back to Cemetery Page
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From http://www.columbustexas.net/library/church%20records/colepis1.htm
Page: 46; Number: 22; Date of Baptism: Dec 10, 1876; Place of Baptism: In St. John’s Church; Name: Martha Ann Stafford, adult; Place and Date of Birth: [not recorded]; Parents: [not recorded]; Sponsors: Susan A. Stafford; Clergyman: T. J. Morris
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From 1870 census found at http://www.columbustexas.net/library/history/1870%20Schedule%201.htm. It is my guess that this is her.24B, 332 336 John, G. M. (34, male, white, driving stock, $1000, Alabama); Hattie B. (24, female, white, keeping house, Georgia); Mollie I. (1, female, white, Texas); Cody (2/12, female, white, Texas); Stafford M. (30, female, white, at home, Georgia)
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MARRIAGE:Lee Hughes
Name may be Mytt Sue
or Mittie Sue
MARRIAGE:Nettie Nau
! in 1900 was a dry goods salesman and had been unemployed for 8 months that year source 1900 Texas, Colorado Co. ED#26 CensUS
Was a Pharmacist.found in the IGI listed as Frank
MARRIAGE: William Wellmer
1900 Census says she went to school for 7 months that year
Listed occupation as farm labourer and attended school in 1880 Census
The Herbert/Harbert Family in This Country" by James Harbert Wooten,Jr. gives both 1771 and, by implication, 1773 as birth year of ThomasHarbert, p 2
According to Southwest Virginia Families By David B. Trimble Page 84:
they lived in Denmark Tn.
Ancestral file says birth was in Walesfound a Thomas Herbert in the 1793 Wythe County personal Tax list at rootsweb.com He paid one tithe and had 7 horses
The book: The Hornbook of Virginia History, by Emily J. Salmon and Edward DC. Campbell, Jr., says: "Fincastle County (extinct) was named either for George, Lord Fincastle, Lord Dunmore's son; for John Murray, fourth earl of Dunmore, Viscount Fincastle; or for the town of Fincastle, Virginia, which was established in 1772 and named after Lord Botetourt's home in England. The county was created from Botetourt County in 1772. It became extinct in 1776 when it was divided to form Montgomery , Washington , and Kentucky (now the state of Kentucky) Counties."
Possibly born in Montgomery Virginia
HARBERT, SARAH
State: TN Year: 1850
County: Madison County Record Type: Federal Population Schedule
Township: 4th District Page: 260
Database: TN 1850 Federal Census Index
May be born on July 16th instead of the 6th
Harbert, John
State: Tennessee Year: 1850
County: Madison Roll:
Township: 6Th District Page: 62