Descendants of Susannah Anderson

 

 

Generation No. 1

 

1.  SUSANNAH4 ANDERSON  (BENJAMIN3, JOSHUA2, ABRAHAM1)1,2,3 was born April 03, 1798 in Georgia4, and died July 29, 1842 in Greene County, Alabama5,6.  She married WEST ALLEN MELTON, SR.7,8,9 June 26, 1817 in Jones County, Georgia10,11,12, son of THOMAS MELTON and ELIZABETH ALLEN.  He was born August 08, 1792 in Orange County, North Carolina13,14, and died April 18, 1846 in Greensboro, Greene Co., AL.15.

 

Notes for WEST ALLEN MELTON, SR.:

 

Ancestry.com "Georgia Marriages to 1850 shows his Jones County, Georgia marriage date as 6/26/1817.

 

West Allen Melton is shown in the 1817 Putnam County, Georgia Tax list as having land there

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1830 Alabama Census, Greene County, Southern District.

West A. Melton, Roll No. 2, pg. 385

Elizabeth Melton, Roll No. 2, pg. 385

Ann Melton, Roll No. 2, pg. 384

 

 

Melton, Thomas Sr. -------15 Dec 1823 ------------Fed. Land Rec'd

Melton, West A. -------------09 Jan 1826 -------------Fed. Land Rec'd

Melton, William -------------22 Dec 1823 -------------Fed. Land Rec'd

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ALABAMA LAND PATENTS

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Patent Description AL0040__.175

Cancelled: N Document Nr. : 1768 Misc. Document Nr. :

Patentee Name: MELTON, WEST A

Warrantee Name:

Authority: April 24, 1820: Cash Entry Sale (3 Stat. 566)

Signature Present: Y

Signature Date: 6/10/1826 Metes/Bounds: N

Survey Date: Subsurface Reserved: N

Land Office: ST. STEPHENS

Comments:

Legal Land Descriptions

Nr. Aliquot Parts Sec/Blk Township Range Fract. Sect. Meridian Acres Counties

1 W½NW 15/ 21-N 4-E N ST STEPHENS MERIDIAN 79.825 HALE

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Patent Description AL0020__.285

Cancelled: N Document Nr. : 861 Misc. Document Nr. :

Patentee Name: MELTON, WEST A

Warrantee Name:

Authority: April 24, 1820: Cash Entry Sale (3 Stat. 566)

Signature Present: Y

Signature Date: 10/20/1824 Metes/Bounds: N

Survey Date: Subsurface Reserved: N

Land Office: ST. STEPHENS

Comments:

ASSIGNEE OF DAVID SCOTT

Legal Land Descriptions

Nr. Aliquot Parts Sec/Blk Township Range Fract. Sect. Meridian Acres Counties

1 E½SW 10/ 21-N 4-E N ST STEPHENS MERIDIAN 79.76 HALE

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Patent Description AL0020__.286

Cancelled: N Document Nr. : 862 Misc. Document Nr. :

Patentee Name: MELTON, WEST A

Warrantee Name:

Authority: April 24, 1820: Cash Entry Sale (3 Stat. 566)

Signature Present: Y

Signature Date: 10/20/1824 Metes/Bounds: N

Survey Date: Subsurface Reserved: N

Land Office: ST. STEPHENS

Comments:

ASSIGNEE OF DAVID SCOTT

Legal Land Descriptions

Nr. Aliquot Parts Sec/Blk Township Range Fract. Sect. Meridian Acres Counties

1 W½SW 10/ 21-N 4-E N ST STEPHENS MERIDIAN 79.76 HALE

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A newspaper article dated 2/1916 concerning the 61st anniversary of the marriage of his son Jesse to his daughter in-law Martha, the paper said that when Jesse was 11 years old, he moved with his family to Texas while it was still a Republic. It further states that he lived there in San Augustine, Texas for several years before returning to Alabama. If this is true, they would have gone to the Republic of Texas in 1839. West Allen Melton's family does not appear in the 1840 Greene Co., AL Census, providing more evidence that his family may have been in Texas then. It also adds credence that West's wife Susan (Anderson) Melton is related to James and Oliver Anderson, who married two of West's sisters and migrated to San Augustine, Texas in 1837. Lastly, if it is also true that Susan died in Greene Co. AL in July 29, 1842, the West Allen Melton family probably had returned to Alabama before her death. Thus, his family would have lived in the Republic of Texas no more than 3 years.

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More About WEST ALLEN MELTON, SR.:

Census: 1830, Greene Co, Alabama

Occupation 1: Farmer

Occupation 2: 1820, Justice of the Peace, Clarke Co., AL

Residence 1: 1840, San Augustine County, Texas

Residence 2: Bet. 1809 - 1817, Putnam County, Georgia

Residence 3: 1817, Jones County, Georgia

Residence 4: 1824, Alabama

     

Children of SUSANNAH ANDERSON and WEST MELTON are:

2.           i.   WILLIAM A.5 MELTON, b. August 12, 1818, Greene County, Alabama; d. May 15, 1864, at camp in Arkansas.

              ii.   SUSAN MELTON16, b. 1820, Greene County, Alabama17.

3.          iii.   JOSHUA T. MELTON, b. January 29, 1822, Alabama; d. April 01, 1864, Claiborne County, Mississippi.

4.          iv.   JAMES WESLEY MELTON, b. May 27, 1824, Greene County, Alabama; d. May 29, 1888, Madison Station, Mississippi.

             v.   WEST ALLEN MELTON, JR.18, b. February 18, 1826, Greene County, Alabama19,20; d. September 09, 184121,22.

5.          vi.   LT. JESSE JEFFERSON MELTON, b. March 07, 1828, Greene County, Alabama; d. July 10, 1916, Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas.

            vii.   OLIVER A. MELTON23, b. May 13, 1830, Greene County, Alabama24; d. July 12, 184125.

6.        viii.   DR. ROBERT D. MELTON, b. September 09, 1832, Greene County, Alabama; d. May 1913, Malakoff, Henderson County, Texas.

             ix.   MARY E. MELTON26,27, b. April 18, 183528,29,30; d. 186431,32; m. JOHN H. DORROH33,34, Madison County, Mississippi; b. Abt. 1838; d. 1936.

 

Notes for JOHN H. DORROH:

Harper book shows spelling of surname as "Dorrah".

I assume that her husband was part of the Dorroh family I found in 1850 Greene Count census. Need to confirm. Will try by checking for marriage records and by 1860 census.

 

More About JOHN H. DORROH:

Burial: Melton-Bennett Cemetery, Madison Co., MS

Census: 1850, Greene Co. AL page 248a

 

7.          x.   ELIZABETH WEST MELTON, b. April 03, 1837, Greene County, Alabama; d. April 13, 1901, Greensboro, Hale County, Alabama.

             xi.   MATTHEW HOBSON MELTON35,36, b. February 25, 1839, Greene County, Alabama37; d. June 20, 1861, camp near Manassas, Prince William County, Virginia37,38.

 

Notes for MATTHEW HOBSON MELTON:

Died in camp (was this related to the Civil War?)

 

 

More About MATTHEW HOBSON MELTON:

Census: 1860, Baton Rouge, Louisiana - pg 617

 

8.         xii.   BENJAMIN N. MELTON, b. July 01, 1841, Alabama; d. May 11, 1912, Dallas, Dallas County, Texas.

 

 

Generation No. 2

 

2.  WILLIAM A.5 MELTON (SUSANNAH4 ANDERSON, BENJAMIN3, JOSHUA2, ABRAHAM1)39,40 was born August 12, 1818 in Greene County, Alabama41,42, and died May 15, 1864 in at camp in Arkansas43,44.  He married LUCINDA F. CLEVELAND45 August 27, 1838 in Greene County, Alabama46,47,48.  She was born Abt. 1821 in Alabama, and died Bef. 1910.

 

Notes for WILLIAM A. MELTON:

On October 17, 1846, the Alabama Beacon reported a Wm. A. Melton in their list of names for people having letters held at the Greensboro Post Office.

 

More About WILLIAM A. MELTON:

Burial: Washington, Arkansas49

Census 1: 1850, Greene Co. AL page 251a

Census 2: 1860, Spring Hill, Hempstead Co., AR

Occupation: Farmer

Residence: 1855, Mississippi

 

More About LUCINDA F. CLEVELAND:

Census: 1850, Greene Co. AL page 251a

     

Children of WILLIAM MELTON and LUCINDA CLEVELAND are:

              i.   WEST A.6 MELTON, b. 1839, Greene County, Alabama.

 

More About WEST A. MELTON:

Census: 1850, Greene Co. AL page 251a

 

              ii.   WILLIAM J. MELTON, b. Abt. 1844, Greene County, Alabama.

 

More About WILLIAM J. MELTON:

Census: 1850, Greene Co. AL page 251a

 

             iii.   JOHN F. MELTON, b. Abt. 1846, Greene County, Alabama.

 

More About JOHN F. MELTON:

Census: 1850, Greene Co. AL page 251a

 

             iv.   MARY C. MELTON, b. Abt. 1848, Greene County, Alabama.

 

More About MARY C. MELTON:

Census: 1850, Greene Co. AL page 251a

 

             v.   SUSAN E. MELTON, b. Abt. 1850, Alabama.

             vi.   HATTIE F. MELTON, b. Abt. 1855, Mississippi.

            vii.   DOCTOR DEVINE MELTON, b. Abt. 1859, Mississippi.

 

3.  JOSHUA T.5 MELTON (SUSANNAH4 ANDERSON, BENJAMIN3, JOSHUA2, ABRAHAM1)50,51,52,53 was born January 29, 1822 in Alabama54,55, and died April 01, 1864 in Claiborne County, Mississippi56,57.  He married LUCINDA THURMOND58 September 14, 1842 in Greene County, Alabama58,59, daughter of THOMAS THURMOND and NANCY BALDWIN.  She was born Abt. 1824 in Alabama.

 

Notes for JOSHUA T. MELTON:

 

CENSUS YR:  1850  STATE:  AL  CO:  Greene  REEL NO:  M432-6  PAGE NO:  258 REF:  F. P. Strother 15th day of Oct. 1850

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 LN  HN   FN  LAST NAME      FIRST NAME     AGE SEX  RACE  OCCUP.         VAL.      BIRTHPLACE       MRD.  SCH.  R/W  DDB

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   ...

 

 26  216  216 Day            Rachel         58   F                        300       NC                            X

 27  216  216 Day            Amanda J.      21   F                                  AL

 28  216  216 Day            Frances C.     20   F                                  AL

 29  216  216 Day            William J.     17   M         Farmer                   AL

 30  216  216 Maton          Robert         14   M                                  AL

 31  217  217 Melton         Joshua T.      28   M         Farmer         6,120     AL

 32  217  217 Melton         Lucinda        24   F                                  AL

 33  217  217 Melton         Robert         18   M         Student                  AL                      X

 34  217  217 Melton         Matthew H.     13   M                                  AL                      X

 35  217  217 Melton         Benjamin M.    12   M                                  AL                      X

 36  217  217 Melton         Mary E.        15   F                                  AL                      X

 37  217  217 Melton         Elizabeth W.   14   F                                  AL                      X

 38  217  217 Roberts        Henry C.       20   M         Carriage Maker           D.C.

 39  217  217 McMillan       Olliver F.     23   M         Carriage Maker           AL

 40  217  217 Mitchusson     John T.        16   M         Apprentice               AL

 41  217  217 Andrews        Mary J.        21   F                                  AL

 42  217  217 Whitfield      Betty          22   F                                  NC

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 1   217  217 Melton         Robert A.      1    M                                  AL

 2   218  218 Kinard         John           48   M         Blk. Smith     350       SC

 3   219  219 Kinard         Priscilla      40   F                                  SC

 4   219  219 Kinard         Henry          18   M         Farmer                   SC

 5   219  219 Kinard         John           16   M         Farmer                   AL                      X

 6   219  219 Kinard         Drucilla       14   F                                  AL                      X

 7   219  219 Kinard         Charlotte      12   F                                  AL                      X

 8   219  219 Kinard         Daniel         9    F                                  AL                      X

 9   219  219 Kinard         William        5    F                                  AL

 10  219  219 McCoy          Charlotte      59   F                                  SC

 11  220  220 Melton         Jessee A. C.   39   M         Farmer                   Geo

 12  220  220 Melton         Mary           38   F                                  Geo

 13  220  220 Melton         Jessee M.      15   M         Farmer                   AL

 14  220  220 Melton         Mary C.        10   F                                  AL

 

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More About JOSHUA T. MELTON:

Cause of Death: Killed by a Civil War deserter

Census 1: 1850, Greene Co., AL. Property  $6,120

Census 2: 1860, Baton Rouge, Louisiana - pg 617

Occupation: 1850, Greene County, AL. - farmer

     

Children of JOSHUA MELTON and LUCINDA THURMOND are:

              i.   ROBERT A. MELTON, b. Abt. 1849, Alabama.

              ii.   LUCINDA MELTON60, d. Bef. 1860.

 

Notes for LUCINDA MELTON:

Died in childhood

 

             iii.   EUGENE V. MELTON60, b. Abt. 1851, Alabama; m. E. T. MAY60, November 25, 1872, Hale County, Alabama60.

 

More About EUGENE V. MELTON:

Census: 1860, Baton Rouge, Louisiana - pg 617

 

             iv.   SARAH MELTON60, b. Abt. 1853; m. SAMUEL W. WALTON60, January 16, 1875, Hale County, Alabama60.

             v.   ANN B. MELTON60, b. Abt. 1855, Mississippi; m. THOMAS A. THURMOND60, November 24, 1874, Hale County, Alabama60.

 

More About ANN B. MELTON:

Census: 1860, Baton Rouge, Louisiana - pg 617

 

             vi.   CARRIE MELTON60, b. Abt. 1858, Mississippi.

 

More About CARRIE MELTON:

Census: 1860, Baton Rouge, Louisiana - pg 617

 

            vii.   MOLLIE D. MELTON60, m. NOBLE S. LANCASTER60, November 22, 1880, Hale County, Alabama60.

 

4.  JAMES WESLEY5 MELTON (SUSANNAH4 ANDERSON, BENJAMIN3, JOSHUA2, ABRAHAM1)61,62,63,64 was born May 27, 1824 in Greene County, Alabama65,66,67, and died May 29, 1888 in Madison Station, Mississippi68,69,70.  He married (1) NANCY BALDWIN THURMOND71,72 January 28, 1850 in Greene County, Alabama73,74,75,76, daughter of THOMAS THURMOND and NANCY BALDWIN.  She was born Abt. 1834 in Alabama77,78, and died September 21, 186679,80.  He married (2) MARGARET C. ROSE81 December 02, 187482. 

 

Notes for JAMES WESLEY MELTON:

CENSUS YR:  1850  STATE:  AL  CO:  Greene  REEL NO:  M432-6  PAGE NO:  264B REF:  F. P. Strother 4th day of Nov. 1850

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 LN  HN   FN  LAST NAME      FIRST NAME     AGE SEX  RACE  OCCUP.         VAL.      BIRTHPLACE       MRD.  SCH.  R/W  DDB

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 21  330  330 Martin         Pharis         33   M         Farmer         600       SC

 22  330  330 Martin         Rebecca        37   F                        1,000     SC                            X

 23  330  330 Martin         Margaret E.    5    F                                  AL                      X

 24  330  330 Martin         Mary C.        2    F                                  AL

 25  330  330 Stokes         John           73   M         Farmer                   SC

 26  331  331 Martin         John           40   M         Farmer         300       SC

 27  331  331 Martin         Bathsheba      23   F                                  NC                            X

 28  331  331 Martin         Mary A. E.     14   F                                  AL

 29  331  331 Martin         Francis E.     13   F                                  AL

 30  331  331 Martin         Julia Ann      11   F                                  AL                      X

 31  331  331 Martin         Margaret       8    F                                  AL                      X

 32  331  331 Martin         John H. F.     5    M                                  AL                      X

 33  331  331 Martin         Elzy           2    F                                  AL

 34  331  331 Martin         Martha A.      1    F                                  AL

 35  332  332 Cox            Henry P.       36   M         Farmer         6,000     SC

 36  332  332 Cox            Nancy B.       48   F                                  Geo

 37  332  332 Cox            John T.        2    M                                  AL

 38  332  332 Melton         James W.       26   M         Farmer                   AL                X

 39  332  332 Melton         Nancy B.       16   F                                  AL                X

 

 

More About JAMES WESLEY MELTON:

Burial: Melton-Bennett Cemetery, Madison Co., MS

Census: 1850, Greene County, AL, page 264

Occupation: 1850, Greene County, Alabama, farmer

 

Notes for NANCY BALDWIN THURMOND:

It probably is Nancy, rather than Margaret, who is buried alongside James at the Melton-Bennett Cemetery in Madison County, Mississippi. Alice, the youngest daughter of James and Nancy, married A. G. Bennett, and the cemetery seems to be from the family of James' first marriage.

 

More About NANCY BALDWIN THURMOND:

Census: 1850, Greene County, AL, page 264

 

Marriage Notes for JAMES MELTON and NANCY THURMOND:

Married by C. F. Sturgis - Greene County,  Alabama Marriage Records B-90

     

Children of JAMES MELTON and NANCY THURMOND are:

              i.   ORLENE B. MELTON, b. November 30, 185083; d. 1934; m. JOHN H. DORROH84,85; b. Abt. 1838; d. 1936.

 

More About ORLENE B. MELTON:

Burial: Melton-Bennett Cemetery, Madison Co., MS

 

Notes for JOHN H. DORROH:

Harper book shows spelling of surname as "Dorrah".

I assume that her husband was part of the Dorroh family I found in 1850 Greene Count census. Need to confirm. Will try by checking for marriage records and by 1860 census.

 

More About JOHN H. DORROH:

Burial: Melton-Bennett Cemetery, Madison Co., MS

Census: 1850, Greene Co. AL page 248a

 

9.           ii.   JAMES WEMYSS MELTON, b. February 14, 1852; d. Aft. 1920.

             iii.   JOSEPHINE T. MELTON, b. January 13, 185486; d. May 07, 185487.

             iv.   CLINTON CATHEY MELTON, b. April 08, 185588; d. September 24, 185689.

10.        v.   ALICE M. MELTON, b. January 21, 1857; d. 1939.

11.        vi.   EDWARD CABINESS MELTON, SR., b. March 19, 1859; d. April 17, 1925.

            vii.   SIDNEY C. MELTON, b. March 09, 1863, Mississippi90,91; m. MINNIE BUCKALEW92, October 03, 1888, Caddo Parish, Louisiana.

 

More About SIDNEY C. MELTON:

Residence: 1938, Longview, Texas92.

     

Children of JAMES MELTON and MARGARET ROSE are:

           viii.   CARRIE ROSE6 MELTON93, b. August 30, 1875, Mississippi94,95.

             ix.   KNOWLES SHAW MELTON96,97, b. Abt. 1877, Madison Station, Mississippi; d. Abt. 1926, Longview, Texas; m. ADA VALENA ROBISON; b. May 25, 1883, Morrilton, Arkansas.

 

5.  LT. JESSE JEFFERSON5 MELTON (SUSANNAH4 ANDERSON, BENJAMIN3, JOSHUA2, ABRAHAM1)98,99,100,101 was born March 07, 1828 in Greene County, Alabama102, and died July 10, 1916 in Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas102.  He married MARTHA ANNE HOUCK103,104,105 February 09, 1854 in Greensboro, Greene County, Alabama106,107, daughter of JOSEPH HOUCK and ANN WILLIAMS.  She was born Bet. February - April 1834 in Montgomery County, Alabama108, and died March 27, 1922 in Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas.

 

Notes for LT. JESSE JEFFERSON MELTON:

Veteran of the Mexican-American war.  Jesse J. Melton was in the same company as his wife's cousin, Dr. Samuel Patton DuBois [Louisa (Williams) DuBois' son].  The Greensboro Independent Volunteers, a company of 108 men from Greene Co., left Greensboro on 27 May 1846. It is noted in Yerby's  "HISTORY OF GREENSBORO ALABAMA FROM ITS EARLIEST SETTLEMENT", that Jesse J. Melton and John L. Croom, so far as can be learned, are the only surviving members of this company - sixty-two years after its organization."

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Vol. 2 of Elizabeth Pryor Harper's  book "Twenty-One Southern Families" refers to a bible of Jesse Jefferson Melton's as reference material for some of the information in her book. However, I believe that she may have inadvertently stated Jesse J. instead of his brother James W., who's bible information is a contained in the same MS. Gen. Soc. collection where the bible data for Jesse's grandfather and uncle are found.

 

1850 Census for  Greene County:  REEL NO:  M432-6  PAGE NO:  251A

 

Greene Co. Deed Book S p 833: JESSE J MELTON to Jackson N CHADWICK 8 July 1854 Melton indebted to Chadwick in sum of $1659.92 promissory note.

 

1860 Census for  Greene County: Page 855

 

In addition to his Mexican War service, he was a Confederate veteran of Civil War. He enlisted in 1862 in the 1st Def Reg of Dick Taylor's Corp, Army of AL, LA, & MS. Elected 1st Lt. C. A. 1st Batt. AL Cadets on 7/23/1863. Transfered to the 1st Reg Mobile Vol's 11/1/1863 on account of severe hernia. Appointed Adjutant 11/22/1863 and served in that capacity until final surrender. (Surrender of Mobile occurred on 4/12/1865.) Jesse was paroled from prisoner of war status and discharged on 5/20/1865.

 

Civil War Muster Rolls:

Melton Jesse J., A Co., 2nd Reg, Alabama Vols. Mil., Rank 1st Lieutenant, Box#526, Extract#526, Rec#526

 

1870 Census for Mobile (8th Ward), Mobile County, Alabama: Page 358. His occupation is stated as "Com Mercht". I believe that his occupation was a "commission merchant" (whatever that is?). An article on pgs 1774 & 5 from Vol 4 of "History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography" shows that Price Williams (Martha's 1st cousin, once removed) was also a commission merchant in Mobile, and had previously been a clerk as Jesse had. I suspect that Jesse possibly worked for this man. Could Mary Williams, the 25 yr old from TN found living in Mobile with them in 1870 also be related?

 

I couldn't find Jesse in the Soundex Records for 1880 Tarrant Co. TX census. I also couldn't find him in FTW's CD of census indices for AL, TX, etc. . However,  a statement by Martha in her Widows Pension Application, and an article appearing in the Ft. Worth Star Telegram regarding their 61 wedding anniversary, both place them in Texas 1876.

 

Member of the "Robert E. Lee Camp #158,  United Confederate Veterans (UCV) Camp in Fort Worth, Texas in the late 1800's and early 1900's (1896-1905 documented).

 

1910 census shows him living with Martha and Mattie.

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More About LT. JESSE JEFFERSON MELTON:

Burial: block 103 lot 39 space 4 in Oakwood Cemetery

Census 1: 1850, Greene Co, Alabama - pg 251

Census 2: 1860, Greene Co, Alabama - pg 885

Census 3: 1870, Mobile, Mobile Co, Alabama - pg 358

Census 4: 1880, Tarrant County, TX - ED89, Pg23

Census 5: 1910, Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas

Fact 1: 1916, Interment Record

Fact 2: May 20, 1865, Paroled from prisoner of war, Mobile

MILI: Military 1: Bet. May 1846 - 1847, Cpl., Mexican-American War

MILI: Military 2: Lt, 2 Reg't AL Vol Mil. (film374,roll31)

MILI: Military 3: 1862, Enlisted 1st Alabama State Guards

MILI: Military 4: Bet. July 23, 1863 - May 20, 1865, 1st Lt. & Adjutant, Mobile 1st Def. Reg

Occupation 1: Bet. 1850 - 1860, Greene County, Alabama, clerk109

Occupation 2: 1870, Commission Merchant (from census)

Occupation 3: 1880, Cotton Merchant (from census)

Residence 1: Bet. 1839 - 1840, San Augustine County, Texas

Residence 2: Bet. 1828 - 1839, Greene County, Alabama

Residence 3: Bet. 1844 - 1860, Greene County, Alabama110,111

Residence 4: Bet. 1870 - 1873, Mobile, Alabama

Residence 5: Bet. 1876 - 1916, Ft. Worth, Tarrant County, Texas

 

Notes for MARTHA ANNE HOUCK:

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In Martha's widow's pension request dated Jan., 1917, she states that she and Jesse J. had lived in Texas for about 40 years. This would place them in Texas about 1876. I have not yet been able to find them in the 1880 census, however.

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Martha was a  charter  member of the Julia Jackson Chapter #141 of the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) that was formed on September 28, 1897 in Fort Worth, TX, she was elected Historian of that chapter in 1898.

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Martha is shown as "head of the house" in the 1920 census in Ft. Worth, TX. She is living at 1615 Henderson with her daughter Mattie, and with a young family by the name of Henkley. I suspect that Elizabeth Henkley was the Elizabeth Massie that Martha wrote the Acrostic to in 1917.

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More About MARTHA ANNE HOUCK:

Burial: 1922, block 103 lot 39 space 4 in the East Oakwood Cemetery

Census 1: 1850, Greene County, Alabama

Census 2: 1860, Greene County, Alabama - Page 855

Census 3: 1880, Tarrant County, TX - ED89, Pg23

Census 4: 1910, Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas

Census 5: 1920, Tarrant County, TX - ED133, Pg11B

Fact 1: Bet. 1896 - 1902, Julia Jackson Chptr (#141) of the United Daughters of the Confederacy in Fort Worth

Fact 2: January 10, 1917, Widow's Application for a Pension

Fact 3: March 27, 1922, Application for Mortuary Warrant

Fact 4: 1922, Interment Record

Residence: 1876, Moved to Tarrant Co. TX

     

Children of JESSE MELTON and MARTHA HOUCK are:

              i.   JOSEPH6 MELTON, b. Abt. 1854; d. Bet. 1863 - 1870.

 

Notes for JOSEPH MELTON:

I have shown Joseph's death as occurring before 1870 based on the fact that he doesn't appear in the 1870 census with the rest of his family.

 

More About JOSEPH MELTON:

Census: 1860, Greene County, Alabama

 

              ii.  

BABYBOY MELTON, b. Abt. December 1859; d. Bef. June 1864.

 

Notes for BABYBOY MELTON:

This child is not mentioned in the 1864 letter from Martha's brother. Thus, it is reasonable to conclude that he died after the 1860 census and June 1864.

 

More About BABYBOY MELTON:

Census: 1860, Greene County, Alabama37

 

             iii.   BESSIE T. MELTON38, b. Abt. 1860, Greene County, Alabama; d. June 27, 1873, Eutaw, Hale County, Alabama.

 

Notes for BESSIE T. MELTON:

This was in the Alabama Beacon, Saturday, July 5, 1873

OBITUARY;

MELTON;

In this county at the residence of Mr. A. P. Evans on the 27th ult. of inflammation of the brain, Bessie T., daughter of Mr. J. J. Melton of Mobile.

 

note: It is very possible that Bessie had encephalitis, as inflammation of the brain is one of the major symptoms of that disease. Mosquitoes are the primary carriers of encephalitis.

 

More About BESSIE T. MELTON:

Cause of Death: inflammation of the brain

Census: 1870, Mobile, Mobile Co, AL39

 

             iv.   JESSE H. MELTON, b. May 1865, Greene County, Alabama; d. February 08, 1905, Ft. Worth, Tarrant Co., TX40; m. LENA BARDEN, December 20, 1894, First Baptist Church, Ft.  Worth, Texas; b. April 18, 1869, New York; d. September 15, 1957, Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas.

 

 

             v.   MATTIE KETCHUM MELTON48,49, b. Nov. 1870, Mobile, Mobile County, Alabama; d. 1949, Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas. 

Notes for MATTIE KETCHUM MELTON:

Mattie never married.

 

She was a founding  member (charter member #2) of the  Julia Jackson Chapter #141 of the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) that was formed on September 28, 1897 in Fort Worth, TX, she was elected Secretary for that chapter from 1897-1902.

 

Organized Texas' first "Anne Carter Lee" chapter of the "Children of the Confederacy" in 1902. The chapter was authorized by the "Mary Custis Lee Children of the Confederacy", which was, itself, founded in Alexandria, Virginia in 1896.

 

In a Mortuary Warrant Account statement dated May 22, 1922 for costs incurred by her mother, Mattie's address was shown as 804 West Oleander Street in Ft. Worth, Texas.

At the time of her death in 1949, her last known address is shown to be the Elmwood Sanatorium in Fort Worth, Texas.

Although Oakwood Cemetery records  in Fort Worth show her as being interred there in 1949, they have no further dates or markers for her (i.e. in Sexton books). This could be possible if she was cremated. Was she?

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I don't know where she got her middle name, no Ketchum in family that I can find. Maybe it was from a friend of the family. There was a First Lt. William H. Ketchum from Mobile in the Civil War. Could it have been from him?

 

More About MATTIE KETCHUM MELTON:

Census 1: 1910, Tarrant County, Texas (39yrs)

Census 2: 1880, Tarrant County, TX - ED89, Pg23

Census 3: 1920, Tarrant County, TX - ED133, Pg11B

Fact 1: Bet. 1896 - 1902, Notes from Julia Jackson Chapter (#141) of the United Daughters of the Confederacy in Fort Worth

Fact 2: Bet. 1901 - 1902, Confederate Veteran newspaper articles

Fact 3: May 22, 1922, Mortuary Warrant Account

Fact 4: 1949, Interment Record

Occupation: 1900, art teacher.

 

6.  DR. ROBERT D.5 MELTON (SUSANNAH4 ANDERSON, BENJAMIN3, JOSHUA2, ABRAHAM1)113 was born September 09, 1832 in Greene County, Alabama114, and died May 1913 in Malakoff, Henderson County, Texas114.  He married SARAH J. MITCHAM June 30, 1872 in Henderson County, Texas, daughter of JAMES MITCHAM and TABITHA COTTEN.  She was born Abt. 1853 in Texas, and died Aft. 1934.

 

Notes for DR. ROBERT D. MELTON:

The better known pioneer Medical Doctors of Rice were: Dr. J. A. McGee and Dr. Melton who came in 1877, Dr. Hugh Sloan began his practice in 1884, and Dr. Jim Tolleson who came to Rice in the early 1900s.  Their unselfish devotion to the needs of the community is gratefully acknowledged.

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Rice has the distinction of being one of the few towns that has never had a saloon. A small amount of whiskey was sold in grocery stores until 1876, but there was no regular saloon. In 1876, Mr. Fletcher Mitchem drew up a petition which provided that no intoxicating liquor should be sold within three miles of Rice.

 

Except for one occasion the increase of population in Rice has been very slow and even. In this particular instance the population was almost doubled in one day. One morning in December 1877 a train stopped here which carried about 100 new settlers who had come from New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. This train was of the conventional type with the exaggerated smokestack. It could run at the enormous rate of 35 miles an hour and could scare all the cows of the countryside so that they wouldn’t give their milk. These settlers had heard much of the lovely sunshine of Texas and were looking for a good place to settle. Rice proved to be the most attractive place they had seen so far. They decided to give it a trial at least. A number of them stayed at the hotel run by Haynie and Ward for the first few days.

 

On the morning after their arrival, the ground was covered with snow. This was a great disappointment to them, especially to one young man of a poetic temperament, who was among those staying at the hotel. Early that morning he walked out on the veranda to view the landscape. The scene, which met his eyes, reminded him of his old home up north, and he became engulfed in a deep state of depression. Suddenly he burst into poetry. He spoke in desperate and impassioned tones that would have done credit to any professional tragedian. It is not known exactly what he said, but it ran something like this: "Tell me though in mournful numbers, this is but an empty dream. Far through the boundless sky, no gleam. Of light no breath, nor motion. As idle as a frozen ship upon a frozen ocean."

 

Most of the new settlers left Rice within a few months.

 

At this time Rice had two doctors, Dr. (J.A.) McGee and Dr. Melton. The first doctor to settle here was named Martin. At that time all other doctors went to see their patients on horseback, but this one always walked. Horses were entirely too slow for him. He could very often be seen hurrying across the prairie to see a patient. Dr. Martin lived in Rice only a few years. Dr. McGee moved here in 1877, and Dr. Sloan in 1884. They had an office together for some time on the second floor of Mr. J.A. Lackey’s store. Dr. Carter moved to Rice in 1913

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Feb 24, 1882 -

 

POSTMASTER ASSASSINATED AT RICE

Waxahachie Enterprise Feb. 24, 1882

 

 

Mr. J. A. Mitcham of Rice, was in Waxahachie on Wednesday. He was one of the jury of inquest over the dead body of Dr. J. W. Norris who was foully murdered at that place on last Monday night, and we are indebted to him for the following account of the horrible deed.

 

Mr. Morris was a merchant and postmaster at Rice. He had finished distributing the mail that came on the 8 o'clock train that night, and entered his residence just at the rear of his store. He soon stepped out to get some kindling wood, but returned and asked his wife for matches, saying that someone wished to get something from the store. About ten minutes afterward he came running in excitedly and said to his wife, "I am shot; I am a dead man." Dr. Melton, who lives close by, was summoned immediately, and to his questions Mr. Norris replied: "He made me hold up my hands and shot me twice." Two shots were heard. One of them penetrated his left side nearly under the arm and passed near the heart. The assassin's motive is not known, but is supposed to have been money or revenge. Mr. Norris was a man highly respected by the people of that community and his sad fate is much regretted by all.

 

[Donated by Barbara Knox]

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More About DR. ROBERT D. MELTON:

Census 1: 1850, Student, Greene Co, AL

Census 2: 1880, Rice, Navarro County, Texas

Occupation: 1876, Allopathic Physician

Residence: Bet. 1876 - 1882, Rice, Navarro County, Texas115

 

Notes for SARAH J. MITCHAM:

Athens Weekly Review

August 2, 1923

Mrs. M. E. Carswell Dies at Big Springs

A telegram was received by relatives Sunday stating that Mrs. M. E. Carswell of this city had died a 6 o'clock Sunday morning at the home of her son, A. J. Gallemore at Big Springs, from heart trouble. The body arrived here Monday on the afternoon Cotton Belt and was taken immediately to the Methodist church where funeral services were conducted by Dr. J. L . Massey, the pastor.

Mrs. Carswell left here several weeks ago for Big Springs and was in apparent good health. The news of her sudden death came as a severe shock to the relatives here.

Mrs. Carswell was 70 years of age and had been a lifetime member of the Methodist church. She is survived by two sons, Albert and Walter Galimore and two sisters, Mrs. W. T. Eustace of this city and Mrs. R. D. Melton of Malakoff. The two sons accompanied the remains here.

 

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Athens City Cemetery -

Gallemore, Elizabeth       4 Oct 1821     13 Jan 1884

 

 

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Athens Weekly Review

Thursday April 26, 1934

Death of Mrs. W. T. Eustace Occurs Friday:

Mrs. Martha Ellen Eustace, widow of the late Captain W. T. Eustace, died at her home on North Prairieville street at 11:30 A.M. Friday following an illness lasting about three weeks. She has been slowly sinking for the past three days. Mrs. Eustace suffered two light strokes three weeks ago that hastened the end. The first of these resulted in a fall in which she was injured.

Funeral Services were held from the Methodist Church Saturday morning at 10:00 o'clock with Rev. R. E. Connell, Pastor, in charge. Burial was at the city cemetery.

The deceased passed her 77th birthday last November. She was born six miles west of Athens and had resided here continuously since. She is survived by one sister, Mrs. Sallie Melton, of Malakoff, who is the last of five children. A number of nieces and nephews also survive.

Mrs. Eustace was a faithful member of the Methodist Church for the greater part of her life. Since the death of her husband seven years ago, Mrs. Eustace had continued to live at the family home on North Prairieville street. She was married to Captain Eustace in 1882.

 

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Found this on W. T. Eustace indicating he was Clerk of the Court in 1887 (Elsewhere  found him Clerk in 1886 as well):

Volume 3, Page 362 has Miss Eliza PHILLIPS to A. L. LAWSON

License issued Jan 27, 1887 by W.T. Eustace, Clerk

Ceremony performed Feb 6, 1887 by J.C.Warren, Justice of the Peace, Prec.

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Athens City Cemetery -

Eustace, Mattie E.           6 Nov 1950    6 Jan 1927

 (birth date must have been copied wrong)

 

Eustace, Wm. T. (Capt.)        24 Aug 1845   6 Jan 1927

 Pvt. 1st Co., Richmond Howitzers-enlisted Richmond, VA.  Aug. 22, 1863 for 3 years.

 

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More About SARAH J. MITCHAM:

Census: 1880, Rice, Navarro County, Texas

     

Children of ROBERT MELTON and SARAH MITCHAM are:

              i.   FRANK6 MELTON, b. Abt. 1874, Rice, Navarro County, Texas.

 

More About FRANK MELTON:

Census: 1880, Navarro County, Texas

 

              ii.   KATE MELTON, b. Abt. 1876, Rice, Navarro County, Texas.

 

More About KATE MELTON:

Census: 1880, Rice, Navarro County, Texas

 

             iii.   CARRIE MELTON, b. Abt. 1878, Rice, Navarro County, Texas.

 

More About CARRIE MELTON:

Census: 1880, Rice, Navarro County, Texas

 

             iv.   ADDIE MELTON, b. Abt. December 1879, Rice, Navarro County, Texas.

 

Notes for ADDIE MELTON:

A "Miss Addie Melton was listed in the Malakoff phone book with the telephone # "3"  for 1935 and 1945.

 

More About ADDIE MELTON:

Census: 1880, Rice, Navarro County, Texas.

 

7.  ELIZABETH WEST5 MELTON (SUSANNAH4 ANDERSON, BENJAMIN3, JOSHUA2, ABRAHAM1)116,117 was born April 03, 1837 in Greene County, Alabama118,119, and died April 13, 1901 in Greensboro, Hale County, Alabama120,121.  She married (1) CYRUS ANTHONY TORBERT122,123 January 04, 1853 in Hollow Square, Greene County, Alabama124,125, son of CYRUS TORBERT and SARAH SMITH.  He was born Abt. 1824 in Erie, Greene County, Alabama.  She married (2) JULIUS EDWARD BAYOL126,127 Aft. 1856. 

 

More About ELIZABETH WEST MELTON:

Burial: Greensboro, Alabama  Cemetery

 

More About CYRUS ANTHONY TORBERT:

Census: 1850, Greene Co. AL pg 250b - val=$5,915

Occupation: 1850, Farmer

     

Children of ELIZABETH MELTON and CYRUS TORBERT are:

13.         i.   WILLIAM EDGAR TORBERT, b. February 07, 1855, Hollow Square, Greene County, Alabama; d. June 19, 1931, Greensboro, Hale County, Alabama.

              ii.   WALTER HENLEY TORBERT, b. October 11, 1857, Hollow Square, Greene County, Alabama.

             iii.   BEVERLY GRIGGS TORBERT, b. November 30, 1859, Hollow Square, Greene County, Alabama.

             iv.   SARAH PERMELIA TORBERT, b. September 14, 1861, Hollow Square, Greene County, Alabama.

             v.   WALLACE TORBERT, b. Hollow Square, Greene County, Alabama.

             vi.   CYRUS TORBERT, b. Hollow Square, Greene County, Alabama.

 

8.  BENJAMIN N.5 MELTON (SUSANNAH4 ANDERSON, BENJAMIN3, JOSHUA2, ABRAHAM1)128 was born July 01, 1841 in Alabama128, and died May 11, 1912 in Dallas, Dallas County, Texas128.  He married (1) ADELAIDE HUTCHINSON129,130,131 January 18, 1869 in Greensboro, Hale County, Alabama132,133.  She was born Abt. 1847 in Greene County, Alabama134, and died 1901135.  He married (2) CHARLOTTE B. UNKNOWN136,137 Abt. 1902. 

 

Notes for BENJAMIN N. MELTON:

1850 census shows him as 12 yrs (1838 vs 1841)

 

 

More About BENJAMIN N. MELTON:

Census: 1860, Baton Rouge, Louisiana - pg 617

 

More About CHARLOTTE B. UNKNOWN:

Residence: Bef. 1902, Galveston, Texas138

     

Child of BENJAMIN MELTON and CHARLOTTE UNKNOWN is:

              i.   BENJAMIN STARR MELTON138.

 

 

Generation No. 3

 

9.  JAMES WEMYSS6 MELTON (JAMES WESLEY5, SUSANNAH4 ANDERSON, BENJAMIN3, JOSHUA2, ABRAHAM1)139 was born February 14, 1852140, and died Aft. 1920141.  He married MARY E. LANCASTER142,143.  She was born July 1855 in Mississippi144.

 

More About JAMES WEMYSS MELTON:

Residence 1: Longview, Texas145

Residence 2: 1920, West Durall St., Troupe, Texas146

     

Children of JAMES MELTON and MARY LANCASTER are:

14.         i.   JAMES W.7 MELTON, b. March 1878, Mississippi.

              ii.   CHARLES P. MELTON, b. July 1880, Mississippi146.

             iii.   EDGAR MELTON, b. February 1883, Mississippi146.

             iv.   LIZZIE M. MELTON, b. April 1886, Mississippi146.

             v.   NOBLE T. MELTON, b. March 1887, Mississippi146.

             vi.   CLARENCE T. MELTON, b. January 1889, Mississippi146.

            vii.   EUGENE G. MELTON, b. November 1890, Mississippi146.

           viii.   MINNIE CHRISTINE MELTON, b. December 1893, Mississippi146; m. G. MORRIS; b. 1891, Troupe, Smith County, Texas146.

 

10.  ALICE M.6 MELTON (JAMES WESLEY5, SUSANNAH4 ANDERSON, BENJAMIN3, JOSHUA2, ABRAHAM1) was born January 21, 1857147, and died 1939.  She married ABNER G. BENNETT148.  He was born 1850, and died 1933.

 

More About ALICE M. MELTON:

Burial: Melton-Bennett Cemetery, Madison Co., MS

 

More About ABNER G. BENNETT:

Burial: Melton-Bennett Cemetery, Madison Co., MS

     

Children of ALICE MELTON and ABNER BENNETT are:

              i.   MAMIE7 BENNETT, d. September 1895.

 

More About MAMIE BENNETT:

Burial: Melton-Bennett Cemetery, Madison Co., MS

 

              ii.   ALICE MELTON BENNETT, d. March 08, 1944.

 

More About ALICE MELTON BENNETT:

Burial: Montgomery Cemetery, Madison Co., MS.

 

11.  EDWARD CABINESS6 MELTON, SR. (JAMES WESLEY5, SUSANNAH4 ANDERSON, BENJAMIN3, JOSHUA2, ABRAHAM1) was born March 19, 1859149, and died April 17, 1925.  He married LUCILE STOKES150 February 07, 1887151.  She was born 1867152, and died December 02, 1942.

 

More About EDWARD CABINESS MELTON, SR.:

Burial: Canton Cemetery, Madison Co., MS

 

More About LUCILE STOKES:

Burial: Canton Cemetery, Madison Co., MS

     

Children of EDWARD MELTON and LUCILE STOKES are:

              i.   JAMES ELLIOTT MELTON, b. 1888152.

15.         ii.   JULIUS WEMYSS MELTON, SR., b. May 23, 1889, Madison County, Mississippi; d. Abt. 1955.

             iii.   LUCILLE MELTON152, b. July 04, 1891; d. April 1983; m. TIM RIDDICK152.

 

More About LUCILLE MELTON:

Social Security Number: 428-66-2135

 

More About TIM RIDDICK:

Residence: Canton, Madison County, Mississippi

 

             iv.   DR. EDWARD CABINESS MELTON, JR.153, b. June 07, 1893, Wayside, Washington County, Mississippi154.

 

More About DR. EDWARD CABINESS MELTON, JR.:

Residence 1: Abt. 1915, Bolivar, Bolivar County, Mississippi155

Residence 2: Plaquemine, Florida

Residence 3: 1938, Santo Domingo, Louisiana156

 

             v.   LAWRENCE S. MELTON156, b. 1895.

 

More About LAWRENCE S. MELTON:

Residence: Jackson, Hinds Co., Mississippi

 

             vi.   SIDNEY P. MELTON157, b. 1897, Canton, Madison County, Mississippi.

            vii.   ALLEE MELTON158, b. 1899; m. ANDREW BROWN158.

 

More About ANDREW BROWN:

Residence: Memphis, Tennessee

 

Marriage Notes for ALLEE MELTON and ANDREW BROWN:

They had 2 children.

 

           viii.   SARAH M. MELTON158, b. 1902; m. EMIL PFEIFFER158.

 

More About EMIL PFEIFFER:

Residence: Pensacola, Florida

 

Marriage Notes for SARAH MELTON and EMIL PFEIFFER:

They had no children

 

             ix.   BEN L. MELTON159, b. 1904.

 

More About BEN L. MELTON:

Residence: Chillicothe, Ohio.

 

12.  JESSE H.6 MELTON (JESSE JEFFERSON5, SUSANNAH4 ANDERSON, BENJAMIN3, JOSHUA2, ABRAHAM1) was born May 1865 in Greene County, Alabama, and died February 08, 1905 in Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas160.  He married LENA BARDEN December 20, 1894 in First Baptist Church, Ft.  Worth, Texas, daughter of JULIAN? BARDEN and LUCY WHEELER.  She was born April 18, 1869 in New York, and died September 15, 1957 in Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas.

 

Notes for JESSE H. MELTON:

1900 census shows him w/his family (Lena, Julian & Lucy) living w/in-laws, Bradley (head of household) & Lucy Wheeler Terry.

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extracted from THE ARLINGTON (Texas) JOURNAL, THURSDAY --- FEBRUARY 9, 1905

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Jessee H. Melton, bookkeeper for Dr. Lloyd Pollock, committed suicide at his home in Ft. Worth yesterday by shooting himself through the left breast. He was formerly employed in the tax collectors office. He leaves a wife and 3 children. No cause was assigned for the rash act.

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More About JESSE H. MELTON:

Burial: Oakwood Cemetery, Fort Worth, Texas

Cause of Death: A self-inflicted gunshot wound in the chest.

Census: 1880, Tarrant County, TX - ED89, Pg23

Fact 2: February 09, 1905, Obituary

Fact 3 1: Interment Record

Fact 3 2: 1900, Tarrant County, Texas census

Occupation 1: 1900, insurance agent (1900 census data)

Occupation 2: Bet. 1901 - 1904, clerk, tax collectors office (obituary)

Occupation 3: 1905, bookkeeper (obituary)

 

Notes for LENA BARDEN:

1900 census shows Lena, her husband Jesse Houck Melton, Sr., and their two children, Julian and Lucy, living with her mother, Lucy (Wheeler) Terry, and step-father, Bradley Lyman Terry (head of household).

 

1910 census shows Lena and her 3 children living with her parents. Her step-father, Bradley Lyman Terry, is the head of household.

 

1920 census shows Lena as a public school teacher, and as head of household, living with her 3 children and her 2 parents.

 

Death Certificate shows lists her address as 1401 Lake Street. On the deed for the plot where her son Jesse Houck Melton, Jr. is buried, an address is shown under her name as "3116 Eastridge".

 

 

More About LENA BARDEN:

Burial: 1957, Oakwood Cemetery, Fort Worth, Texas

Census 1: 1900, Tarrant County, Texas census

Census 2: 1880, El Paso County, Colorado

Census 3: 1910, Tarrant County, Texas census

Census 4: 1920, 806 W. Weatherford St. Ft. Worth

Fact 1: 1957, Interment Record

Occupation: Teacher

 

Marriage Notes for JESSE MELTON and LENA BARDEN:

Married December 20, 1894 at the First Baptist Church in Fort Worth by J. S. Morgan Wells, Pastor.

     

Children of JESSE MELTON and LENA BARDEN are:

16.         i.   JULIAN BARDEN7 MELTON, SR., b. February 13, 1897, Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas; d. December 1969, Redondo Beach, Los Angeles County, California.

              ii.   LUCY WHEELER MELTON, b. October 29, 1899, Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas; d. August 24, 1921, Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas.

 

More About LUCY WHEELER MELTON:

Burial: Oakwood Cemetery, Fort Worth, Texas

Cause of Death: Scarlet or Rheumatic Fever

Census: 1920, 806 W. Weatherford St. Ft. Worth

 

17.        iii.   JESSE HOUCK MELTON, JR, b. May 08, 1902, Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas; d. September 21, 1966, Dallas, Dallas County, Texas.

 

13.  WILLIAM EDGAR6 TORBERT (ELIZABETH WEST5 MELTON, SUSANNAH4 ANDERSON, BENJAMIN3, JOSHUA2, ABRAHAM1) was born February 07, 1855 in Hollow Square, Greene County, Alabama, and died June 19, 1931 in Greensboro, Hale County, Alabama.  He married (1) SARAH HARVEY KING January 25, 1884 in Hollow Square, Hale County, Alabama.  She was born August 07, 1855 in Alabama.  He married (2) MINNIE ATKINS November 18, 1908.  She was born in Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama.

 

Notes for WILLIAM EDGAR TORBERT:

He was a livery stable owner and a judge.

 

He served as sheriff of Hale Co. for 4 years and as Probate Judge for 6 years. He performed the wedding for James Anthony Torbert and Anna Pegues.

 

He moved to Cedarville, AL in 1886 where he owned and operated a store and cotton gin. He was a democrat

     

Child of WILLIAM TORBERT and SARAH KING is:

18.         i.   EDGAR CYRUS TORBERT, SR., b. Aug 28, 1884, Sawyerville, Hale Co., AL; d. Jul 8, 1971, Greensboro, Hale Co., AL.

     

Child of WILLIAM TORBERT and MINNIE ATKINS is:

19.         ii.   MARY ADELAIDE TORBERT, b. August 20, 1909, Greensboro, Hale County, Alabama; d. March 1993, Greensboro, Hale County, Alabama.

 

 

Generation No. 4

 

14.  JAMES W.7 MELTON (JAMES WEMYSS6, JAMES WESLEY5, SUSANNAH4 ANDERSON, BENJAMIN3, JOSHUA2, ABRAHAM1) was born March 1878 in Mississippi161.  He married MATTIE HODNETT, daughter of WILLIAM T. HODNETT.  She was born 1884 in Georgia161.

 

More About JAMES W. MELTON:

Residence: 1920, West Durall St., Troupe, Texas

     

Child of JAMES MELTON and MATTIE HODNETT is:

              i.   JAMES F.8 MELTON, b. 1916, Troupe, Smith County, Texas161.

 

15.  JULIUS WEMYSS7 MELTON, SR. (EDWARD CABINESS6, JAMES WESLEY5, SUSANNAH4 ANDERSON, BENJAMIN3, JOSHUA2, ABRAHAM1)162 was born May 23, 1889 in Madison County, Mississippi163,164, and died Abt. 1955165.  He married ANNA JANE WILLIAMS June 08, 1921, daughter of WILLIAM WILLIAMS and MARY UNKNOWN.  She was born November 15, 1899 in Hazelhurst,Copiah County, Mississippi.

 

More About JULIUS WEMYSS MELTON, SR.:

Residence 1: Clinton, Mississippi

Residence 2: Jackson, Hinds Co., Mississippi

 

Notes for ANNA JANE WILLIAMS:

Attended MS College for Women, earned AB Degree in 1921, Sec to Gov Whitfield,

1923-27, member DAR, home was at 1717 Edgewood Street, Jackson, MS,

Presbyterian, Democrat, Kappa Delta.

 

 

More About ANNA JANE WILLIAMS:

Degree: AB

Education: 1921, MS College for Women

Occupation: Bet. 1923 - 1927, Secretary to Governor Whitfield

Religion: Presbyterian

     

Children of JULIUS MELTON and ANNA WILLIAMS are:

              i.   BILLY MELTON165.

20.         ii.   JULIUS WEMYSS MELTON, JR.

             iii.   MARY MELTON, b. October.

 

16.  JULIAN BARDEN7 MELTON, SR. (JESSE H.6, JESSE JEFFERSON5, SUSANNAH4 ANDERSON, BENJAMIN3, JOSHUA2, ABRAHAM1) was born February 13, 1897 in Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas, and died December 1969 in Redondo Beach, Los Angeles County, California.  He married SUSIE WHITE.  She was born 1901, and died 1977 in Redondo Beach, Los Angeles County, California.

 

More About JULIAN BARDEN MELTON, SR.:

Burial: Pacific Crest Cemetery, Redondo Beach, California

Census: 1920, 806 W. Weatherford St. Ft. Worth

Occupation: 1920, asst. chief clerk (census data)

Residence: Bet. 1938 - 1967, Shreveport, Louisiana

Social Security Number: 461-09-8621 issued in Texas

 

More About SUSIE WHITE:

Burial: Pacific Crest Cemetery, Redondo Beach, California

     

Child of JULIAN MELTON and SUSIE WHITE is:

21.         i.   JULIAN BARDEN8 MELTON, JR., b. April 03, 1924, Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas; d. March 24, 1984, Torrance, Los Angeles County, California.

 

17.  JESSE HOUCK7 MELTON, JR. (JESSE H.6, JESSE JEFFERSON5, SUSANNAH4 ANDERSON, BENJAMIN3, JOSHUA2, ABRAHAM1) was born May 08, 1902 in Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas, and died September 21, 1966 in Dallas, Dallas County, Texas.  He married (1) SALLY VIRGINIA SHARP Abt. 1923 in Tarrant County, Texas, daughter of GEORGE SHARP and IDA HOLLOWAY.  She was born July 22, 1901 in Mansfield, Tarrant County, Texas, and died January 15, 1990 in Los Angeles, California.  He married (2) JEWELL EVELYN UNKNOWN Aft. 1941.  She was born May 06, 1902 in Oklahoma?, and died March 14, 1972 in Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas.

 

Notes for JESSE HOUCK MELTON, JR.:

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Jesse was working in a church when he died.  Just before he died, he said to the man he was working with "I think this is the most beautiful church I've ever seen". Just after saying that, the man he was with heard a thud. Jesse had fallen dead from a heart attack  in the aisle of the church.

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More About JESSE HOUCK MELTON, JR.:

Burial: September 1966, Oakwood Cemetery, Fort Worth, Texas

Cause of Death: heart attack

Census: 1920, 806 W. Weatherford St. Ft. Worth

Medical Information: He was hard of hearing and wore a hearing aid.

Occupation: electrician

Residence 1: Bet. 1902 - 1927, Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas

Residence 2: Bet. 1927 - 1930, Weslaco, Hildago County, Texas

Residence 3: Bet. 1931 - 1955, Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas

Social Security Number: 467-07-9206-TX (d.o.b. on s.s 5/22/1901)

 

More About SALLY VIRGINIA SHARP:

Burial: Eternal Valley Memorial Park, Newhall, California

Census: 1910, Tarrant County, Texas (8yrs)

Occupation: Waitress

Residence 1: Bet. 1923 - 1942, Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas

Residence 2: 1942, San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas

Residence 3: Bet. 1942 - February 1943, Vallejo, California

Residence 4: Bet. 1943 - 1947, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Co. CA

Residence 5: 1947, San Francisco, California

Residence 6: Bet. 1947 - 1948, Van Nuys, Los Angeles Co. CA

Residence 7: Bet. 1948 - 1990, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Co. CA

Social Security Number: Bef. 1951, 466-26-3644 issued in Texas

 

Marriage Notes for JESSE MELTON and SALLY SHARP:

Obituary for Virginia's father dated 10/30/1930 stated that Virginia was living in Weslaco then.

 

More About JEWELL EVELYN UNKNOWN:

Burial: March 1972, East Oakwood Cemetery, Fort Worth, Texas

Social Security Number: 444-05-5663

 

Marriage Notes for JESSE MELTON and JEWELL UNKNOWN:

They were living together in Dallas, Texas when Jesse died.  Death record for Jesse shows him to be single, but Jewell's death record shows her as a widow. From the # of years they were together, they must have been in fact, at least common-law husband and wife.

 

     

Child of JESSE MELTON and SALLY SHARP:

              i.   CLIFFORD EARL MELTON, b. August 17, 1925, Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas; d. Abt. December 1977, Santa Monica, Los Angeles Co., CA.

 

18.  EDGAR CYRUS7 TORBERT, SR. (WILLIAM EDGAR6, ELIZABETH WEST5 MELTON, SUSANNAH4 ANDERSON, BENJAMIN3, JOSHUA2, ABRAHAM1) was born Aug 28, 1884 in Sawyerville, Hale Co., AL, and died Jul 8, 1971 in Greensboro, Hale Co. AL.  He married LUCILLE HEARN JOHNS Jul 10, 1918 in Greensboro, Hale Co., AL.  She was born May 5, 1895 in Nashville, Davidson Co., TN.

 

More About EDGAR CYRUS TORBERT:

Burial: Greensboro Cemetery

Occupation 1: City Clerk of Greensboro, AL

Occupation 2: Registrar, Circuit Hale Co. Court

Religion: Methodist

     

Child of EDGAR TORBERT and LUCILLE JOHNS is:

22.         i.   EDGAR CYRUS8 TORBERT, JR, b. Aug 13, 1919, Greensboro, Hale Co., AL.

 

19.  MARY ADELAIDE7 TORBERT (WILLIAM EDGAR6, ELIZABETH WEST5 MELTON, SUSANNAH4 ANDERSON, BENJAMIN3, JOSHUA2, ABRAHAM1) was born August 20, 1909 in Greensboro, Hale County, Alabama, and died March 1993 in Greensboro, Hale County, Alabama.  She married LEWIS JOSHUA LAWSON, JR. in Greensboro, Hale County, Alabama.  He was born October 30, 1911, and died March 27, 1983 in Greensboro, Hale County, Alabama.

 

More About MARY ADELAIDE TORBERT:

Occupation: VP, Peoples Bank in Greensboro

Religion: Catholic

     

Child of MARY TORBERT and LEWIS LAWSON is:

              i.   ADELAIDE TORBERT8 LAWSON, b. December 27, 1944, Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama; d. April 03, 1957, Greensboro, Hale County, Alabama.

 

More About ADELAIDE TORBERT LAWSON:

Burial: Greensboro Cemetery.

 

 

Generation No. 5

 

20.  JULIUS WEMYSS8 MELTON, JR. (JULIUS WEMYSS7, EDWARD CABINESS6, JAMES WESLEY5, SUSANNAH4 ANDERSON, BENJAMIN3, JOSHUA2, ABRAHAM1) married ANN ENGLE KENNEDY, daughter of JAMES KENNEDY and MARY ENGLE.   

More About JULIUS WEMYSS MELTON, JR.:

Occupation: Teacher, Southwestern College, Memphis167

 

Children of JULIUS MELTON and ANN KENNEDY are:

              i.   MARY CAMBRIA MELTON.

              ii.   CATHERINE ANN MELTON.

             iii.   WILLIAM DUDLEY MELTON.

 

21.  JULIAN BARDEN8 MELTON, JR. (JULIAN BARDEN7, JESSE H.6, JESSE JEFFERSON5, SUSANNAH4 ANDERSON, BENJAMIN3, JOSHUA2, ABRAHAM1) was born April 03, 1924 in Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas, and died March 24, 1984 in Torrance, Los Angeles County, California.  He married (1) EDIE UNKNOWN Bet. 1943 - 1946.    He married (2) JEAN UNKNOWN Abt. 1950.    He married (3) GLORIA UNKNOWN Abt. 1957.    He married (4) JULIANSWIFE4 Abt. 1964.    He married (5) JAN UNKNOWN Abt. 1969 in Redondo Beach, California.    He married (6) CHRISTINE UNKNOWN Abt. 1977 in Torrance, California.  She was born in England.  He married (7) GLORIA UNKNOWN Abt. 1980 in Westlake Village, California. 

 

More About JULIAN BARDEN MELTON, JR.:

Burial: March 28, 1984, Valley Oaks Memorial Park, Westlake Village, CA

Cause of Death: heart attack

Occupation 1: Abt. 1950, Radio Announcer/Alaska

Occupation 2: Bet. 1960 - 1975, Quality Control

Occupation 3: Abt. 1977, Insurance Agent/Los Angeles, CA

Social Security Number: 424-22-0575 issued in Louisiana

 

Marriage Notes for JULIAN MELTON and EDIE UNKNOWN:

Julian's first or second marriage.

 

Marriage Notes for JULIAN MELTON and GLORIA UNKNOWN:

Julian's third marriage was to Gloria for the first time, and they had two children together. After their divorce in about 1963, Julian was married and divorced to three other women, his 4th, 5th, and 6th marriage. Then, his 7th, and final marriage was again to Gloria, but they again divorced within two years of their 2nd marriage together.

     

Child of JULIAN MELTON and EDIE UNKNOWN is:

              i.   Living (MELTON)9 FARRAR?, b. Bet. 1944 - 1947.

 

More About MARK (MELTON) FARRAR?:

Adoption: By his mother's 2nd husband

     

Children of JULIAN MELTON and GLORIA UNKNOWN are:

              ii.   ROBERT9 MELTON, b. Abt. 1959; d. Abt. 1982, California.

 

More About ROBERT MELTON:

Burial: Valley Oaks Memorial Park, Westlake Village, CA

 

             iii.   Living MELTON, b. Abt. 1961.

.

 

22.  EDGAR CYRUS8 TORBERT, JR (EDGAR CYRUS, SR.7, WILLIAM EDGAR6, ELIZABETH WEST5 MELTON, SUSANNAH4 ANDERSON, BENJAMIN3, JOSHUA2, ABRAHAM1) was born Aug 13, 1919 in Greensboro, Hale Co., AL.  He married MARY VIRGINIA WALTON Nov 8, 1942 in Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa Co., Al.  She was born Aug 26, 1920 in Akron, Hale Co., AL

     

Child of EDGAR TORBERT and MARY WALTON is:

23.         i.   EDGAR CYRUS9 TORBERT III, b. Jul 8, 1948, Selma, Dallas Co., AL.

 

 

Generation No. 6

 

23.  EDGAR CYRUS9 TORBERT III (EDGAR CYRUS8, EDGAR CYRUS7, WILLIAM EDGAR6, ELIZABETH WEST5 MELTON, SUSANNAH4 ANDERSON, BENJAMIN3, JOSHUA2, ABRAHAM1) was born Jul 8, 1948 in Selma, Dallas Co., AL.  He married JULIA RILEY BURKE Jul 18, 1981 in Bristol, Washington Co., VA.  She was born Aug 8, 1956 in Bristol, Washington Co., VA.

 

More About EDGAR CYRUS TORBERT III:

Occupation: Pres'. assist., King College

     

Child of EDGAR TORBERT and JULIA BURKE is:

              i.   WILLIAM EDGAR10 TORBERT, b. Jul 20, 1995, d. Sep 14, 1995

              ii.  SAMUEL BURKE TORBERT, b. Oct 5, 2000..

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Endnotes

 

1.  Harper, Elizabeth Pryor, Twenty-One Southern Families: notes & genealogies,  (Patricia Freeman, Compiler & Editor).

2.  "Family Group Sheet of Frankie Pearson," Shows her name as Susan & Susannah.

3.  Terry.Anderson@LATimes.com.

4.  "Family Group Sheet of Frankie Pearson," Birth date is shown as 4-3-1798.

5.  "Mississippi Bible Records, Volume 6," Mississippi Genealogical Society, page 18.

6.  "Family Group Sheet of Frankie Pearson," Death date is given.

7.  Harper, Elizabeth Pryor, Twenty-One Southern Families: notes & genealogies,  (Patricia Freeman, Compiler & Editor), Pg 115, Many citations appear for him. One may be a lead to his burial location. He bought on 9/15/1841 (Greene Co. Deed Book M p 217) from Hortensius Purnell & Eliza W. property including 1/2 acre "to be used as a graveyard and to be enclosed".

8.  "Alabama Beacon," A Greensboro, Alabama Weekly Newspaper published from 1840 - 1912., May 20th, 1843, An article from this paper states that West was appointed to the nominating committee for selection of the Democratic candidates for an upcoming election.

9.  Terry.Anderson@LATimes.com.

10.  Harper, Elizabeth Pryor, Twenty-One Southern Families: notes & genealogies,  (Patricia Freeman, Compiler & Editor), Page 114, Marriage location and year is shown.

11.  "Family Group Sheet of Frankie Pearson," Shows location as Jones County, and date (which has been overwritten for legibility) is shown as 6/26/1817.

12.  Terry.Anderson@LATimes.com.

13.  Harper, Elizabeth Pryor, Twenty-One Southern Families: notes & genealogies,  (Patricia Freeman, Compiler & Editor), Page 114, Birthplace not shown, but birth year shown 1792 in parents bible and 1793 in Pegues' bible.

14.  "Family Group Sheet of Frankie Pearson," Birth date is shown.

15.  "Family Group Sheet of Frankie Pearson."

16.  "Mississippi Bible Records, Volume 6," Mississippi Genealogical Society, pg 18, Near the bottom, under "BIRTHS" is the line showing "Susan Melton"..

17.  Harper, Elizabeth Pryor, Twenty-One Southern Families: notes & genealogies,  (Patricia Freeman, Compiler & Editor), Page 115, Susan Melton b 1820.

18.  Harper, Elizabeth Pryor, Twenty-One Southern Families: notes & genealogies,  (Patricia Freeman, Compiler & Editor).

19.  Harper, Elizabeth Pryor, Twenty-One Southern Families: notes & genealogies,  (Patricia Freeman, Compiler & Editor), Page 115, West A. Melton b Feb 18 1826 d Sept 9 1841 aged 15 years..

20.  "Mississippi Bible Records, Volume 6," Mississippi Genealogical Society, pg 17, West A., Jr. born Sept 18, 1826.

21.  Harper, Elizabeth Pryor, Twenty-One Southern Families: notes & genealogies,  (Patricia Freeman, Compiler & Editor), Page 115, West A Melton Jr b Feb 18 1826 d Sept 9 1841 aged 15 years.

22.  Terry.Anderson@LATimes.com, shows date of death as 9/9 or 18/1831..

23.  Harper, Elizabeth Pryor, Twenty-One Southern Families: notes & genealogies,  (Patricia Freeman, Compiler & Editor).

24.  Harper, Elizabeth Pryor, Twenty-One Southern Families: notes & genealogies,  (Patricia Freeman, Compiler & Editor), Page 115.

25.  Harper, Elizabeth Pryor, Twenty-One Southern Families: notes & genealogies,  (Patricia Freeman, Compiler & Editor), Page 115.

26.  Harper, Elizabeth Pryor, Twenty-One Southern Families: notes & genealogies,  (Patricia Freeman, Compiler & Editor), Page 114, Mary E MELTON b April 18 1835 d 1864 m John DORROH.

27.  "Mississippi Bible Records, Volume 6," Mississippi Genealogical Society, pg 19.

28.  Harper, Elizabeth Pryor, Twenty-One Southern Families: notes & genealogies,  (Patricia Freeman, Compiler & Editor), Shows date of birth.

29.  "Mississippi Bible Records, Volume 6," Mississippi Genealogical Society, pg 19, Birth date shown.

30.  Terry.Anderson@LATimes.com, shows birth date and born in Alabama.

31.  Harper, Elizabeth Pryor, Twenty-One Southern Families: notes & genealogies,  (Patricia Freeman, Compiler & Editor).

32.  "Mississippi Bible Records, Volume 6," Mississippi Genealogical Society, pg 18, Mary E. Dorroh died in 1864.

33.  Harper, Elizabeth Pryor, Twenty-One Southern Families: notes & genealogies,  (Patricia Freeman, Compiler & Editor), Identified as "John Dorrah."

34.  "Family Group Sheet of Frankie Pearson."

35.  Harper, Elizabeth Pryor, Twenty-One Southern Families: notes & genealogies,  (Patricia Freeman, Compiler & Editor), Middle name shown as "H".

36.  "Mississippi Bible Records, Volume 6," Mississippi Genealogical Society, pg 19, Matthew C. Melton died June 30, 1861.

37.  Harper, Elizabeth Pryor, Twenty-One Southern Families: notes & genealogies,  (Patricia Freeman, Compiler & Editor).

38.  "Mississippi Bible Records, Volume 6," Mississippi Genealogical Society, pg 18 & 19, pg 18: Matthew H. died 1862.pg 19: Matthew "C." Melton died June 30, 1861.

39.  Harper, Elizabeth Pryor, Twenty-One Southern Families: notes & genealogies,  (Patricia Freeman, Compiler & Editor).

40.  "Mississippi Bible Records, Volume 6," Mississippi Genealogical Society, pg 17-19.

41.  Harper, Elizabeth Pryor, Twenty-One Southern Families: notes & genealogies,  (Patricia Freeman, Compiler & Editor), Page 115, Born August 12, 1818.

42.  "Mississippi Bible Records, Volume 6," Mississippi Genealogical Society, pg 17 & 18, Thos G bible shows Wm born May 11,1819James W  bible shows Wm born August 12, 1818.

43.  Harper, Elizabeth Pryor, Twenty-One Southern Families: notes & genealogies,  (Patricia Freeman, Compiler & Editor), Page 115.

44.  "Mississippi Bible Records, Volume 6," Mississippi Genealogical Society, pg 19, Wm. A. Melton died May 15, 1864, age 46.

45.  Harper, Elizabeth Pryor, Twenty-One Southern Families: notes & genealogies,  (Patricia Freeman, Compiler & Editor).

46.  Harper, Elizabeth Pryor, Twenty-One Southern Families: notes & genealogies,  (Patricia Freeman, Compiler & Editor), Page 115, Shows date of 8/30/1838.

47.  Greene County, Alabama Marriages 1823-1860, "Electronic," Shows date of 8/27/1838.

48.  Terry.Anderson@LATimes.com, Shows date of 8/27/1838.

49.  Harper, Elizabeth Pryor, Twenty-One Southern Families: notes & genealogies,  (Patricia Freeman, Compiler & Editor), Page 115.

50.  Harper, Elizabeth Pryor, Twenty-One Southern Families: notes & genealogies,  (Patricia Freeman, Compiler & Editor).

51.  "Mississippi Bible Records, Volume 6," Mississippi Genealogical Society, pg 18&19.

52.  "Alabama Beacon," A Greensboro, Alabama Weekly Newspaper published from 1840 - 1912., 3/24/1849 edition, Joshua is shown as being appointed as administrator of John L. Thurmond's estate.

53.  "Alabama Beacon," A Greensboro, Alabama Weekly Newspaper published from 1840 - 1912., 4/14/1849 edition, Joshua T. Melton and James W. Melton are shown as administrators for the estate of West A. Melton.

54.  Harper, Elizabeth Pryor, Twenty-One Southern Families: notes & genealogies,  (Patricia Freeman, Compiler & Editor), Page 115, Birth date is shown.

55.  "Mississippi Bible Records, Volume 6," Mississippi Genealogical Society, pg 18, Joshua T. Melton, born Jan 29, 1822.

56.  Harper, Elizabeth Pryor, Twenty-One Southern Families: notes & genealogies,  (Patricia Freeman, Compiler & Editor).

57.  "Mississippi Bible Records, Volume 6," Mississippi Genealogical Society, pg 19, Joshua t. Melton was killed April 1, 1864, Claiborne Co., Miss.

58.  Harper, Elizabeth Pryor, Twenty-One Southern Families: notes & genealogies,  (Patricia Freeman, Compiler & Editor).

59.  Greene County, Alabama Marriages 1823-1860, "Electronic."

60.  LaVelle Henderson (THenderson@hot.rr.com).

61.  Harper, Elizabeth Pryor, Twenty-One Southern Families: notes & genealogies,  (Patricia Freeman, Compiler & Editor).

62.  "Mississippi Bible Records, Volume 6," Mississippi Genealogical Society, pg's 18&19, Only middle initial (James W. Melton) is given.

63.  "Alabama Beacon," A Greensboro, Alabama Weekly Newspaper published from 1840 - 1912., 4/14/1849 edition, Joshua T. Melton and James W. Melton are shown as administrators for the estate of West A. Melton.

64.  "Alabama Beacon," A Greensboro, Alabama Weekly Newspaper published from 1840 - 1912., 8/11/1849 edition, J. W. Melton, A R S, is shown as having been appointed as an officer of the "Son's of Temperance" (Div 106).

65.  Harper, Elizabeth Pryor, Twenty-One Southern Families: notes & genealogies,  (Patricia Freeman, Compiler & Editor), Page 115, Birth date shown.

66.  1850 Census, pg 255b, Greene County, Alabama.

67.  "Mississippi Bible Records, Volume 6," Mississippi Genealogical Society, pg 18, Birth date shown, but not location.

68.  Harper, Elizabeth Pryor, Twenty-One Southern Families: notes & genealogies,  (Patricia Freeman, Compiler & Editor).

69.  "Mississippi Bible Records, Volume 6," Mississippi Genealogical Society, pg 19, Death date shown..

70.  Terry.Anderson@LATimes.com, Shows date of death as 5/29 or 31/1888.

71.  Harper, Elizabeth Pryor, Twenty-One Southern Families: notes & genealogies,  (Patricia Freeman, Compiler & Editor).

72.  "Mississippi Bible Records, Volume 6," Mississippi Genealogical Society, pg's 18&19.

73.  Harper, Elizabeth Pryor, Twenty-One Southern Families: notes & genealogies,  (Patricia Freeman, Compiler & Editor), Page 115, Marriage date is shown.

74.  "Mississippi Bible Records, Volume 6," Mississippi Genealogical Society, pg 19, Married Jan. 29, 1850.

75.  Greene County, Alabama Marriages 1823-1860, "Electronic," Shows January 18, 1850.

76.  "Alabama Beacon," A Greensboro, Alabama Weekly Newspaper published from 1840 - 1912., 2/28/1850 edition, Under "Marriages", James W. Melton is shown to have married Nancy Thurmond on January 29, 1850.

77.  Terry.Anderson@LATimes.com.

78.  1850 Census, Greene County page 264, Melton, Nancy B., 16 yrs b AL.

79.  Harper, Elizabeth Pryor, Twenty-One Southern Families: notes & genealogies,  (Patricia Freeman, Compiler & Editor).

80.  "Mississippi Bible Records, Volume 6," Mississippi Genealogical Society, pg 19, Nan B. Melton died August 21, 1866.

81.  "Mississippi Bible Records, Volume 6," Mississippi Genealogical Society, page 19, Shown as "Margaret C. Turner", Turner being the surname of her first husband.

82.  "Mississippi Bible Records, Volume 6," Mississippi Genealogical Society, pg 19, James W. Melton and M. C. Tucker were married Dec. 2, 1874.

83.  "Mississippi Bible Records, Volume 6," Mississippi Genealogical Society.

84.  Harper, Elizabeth Pryor, Twenty-One Southern Families: notes & genealogies,  (Patricia Freeman, Compiler & Editor), Identified as "John Dorrah."

85.  "Family Group Sheet of Frankie Pearson."

86.  "Mississippi Bible Records, Volume 6," Mississippi Genealogical Society.

87.  "Mississippi Bible Records, Volume 6," Mississippi Genealogical Society, pg 19, Josephine T. Melton died May 7, 1854, age 3 mo. and 23 days..

88.  "Mississippi Bible Records, Volume 6," Mississippi Genealogical Society.

89.  "Mississippi Bible Records, Volume 6," Mississippi Genealogical Society, pg 19, Clinton C. Melton died Sept. 24, 1956, age 1 year, 5 mo., 16 days.

90.  "Mississippi Bible Records, Volume 6," Mississippi Genealogical Society, Shows date of birth, but not location.

91.  Terry.Anderson@LATimes.com, Shows both date and State of birth.

92.  LaVelle Henderson (THenderson@hot.rr.com).

93.  LaVelle Henderson (THenderson@hot.rr.com), Shown as Carrie Melton.

94.  "Mississippi Bible Records, Volume 6," Mississippi Genealogical Society, pg 19.

95.  Terry.Anderson@LATimes.com, Shows date & location of birth as 8/3/1875, Miss.

96.  "Mississippi Bible Records, Volume 6," Mississippi Genealogical Society, pg 19, No birth date or location given.

97.  LaVelle Henderson (THenderson@hot.rr.com), Shown as Knowles Melton.

98.  Harper, Elizabeth Pryor, Twenty-One Southern Families: notes & genealogies,  (Patricia Freeman, Compiler & Editor), Pg 115, Jesse is mentioned several times in the will of his father, West Allen Melton, and is a co-signer of the papers associated with disposition of West's estate. The author of this book states that some material came from Jesse's Bible. I believe was a mistake, and the material she refers to came from his brother James W. Melton.

99.  Yerby, William Edward Wadsworth, History of Greensboro, Alabama from its earliest settlement,  (Northport Alabama - Colonial Press c1963 (first published in 1908)), In 1908, Jesse and John L. Croom were the last two living veterans from an initial company of 108 Greensboro Independent Volunteers formed in 1846. This outfit left Greensboro on May 17th, 1846 for the Mexican-American War.

100.  Fort Worth Genealogical Society (FWGS) Footprints, Vol 40, No. 1, February 1997 - pg 32, Melton, Jessie J., b 1828 Green Co AL; enl 1862 Mobile, 1st AL State Guards; in 1913 lived on 8th Ave in Ft. Worth; d 7/10/1916; bur Oakwood..

101.  Virgil D. White, Index to Mexican War Pension Files,  (1st edition, Waynesboro TN, National Publishing Company, 1989,), pg 359, Jesse J., Martha H., WC-16190, 19 Aug 1916 & SC10006, 4.Feb 1887, both TX, srv Co A 1st AL Vols as a CPL 1846-7 sol died 10 Jul 1916 in Ft. Worth TX. (WC=widows certificate, SC=soldiers certificate).

102.  Harper, Elizabeth Pryor, Twenty-One Southern Families: notes & genealogies,  (Patricia Freeman, Compiler & Editor), Page 115.

103.  Harper, Elizabeth Pryor, Twenty-One Southern Families: notes & genealogies,  (Patricia Freeman, Compiler & Editor), Pages 114 &115, Gives marriage data, locations lived, and shows her to be the mother of Bessie.

104.  Dawdy, Doris Ostrander, Artists of the American West - a biographical dictionary,  (Chicago, Sage Books - 1974), Mrs. Jesse J. Melton.

105.  Falk, Peter H., Who was who in American art - Biographies of American Artist 1898-1947.

106.  Harper, Elizabeth Pryor, Twenty-One Southern Families: notes & genealogies,  (Patricia Freeman, Compiler & Editor), Page 115, Shows date & county of marriage.

107.  Greene County, Alabama Marriages 1823-1860, "Electronic," Shows date of 2/7/1854, rather than 2/9/1854.

108.  Grave Stone.

109.  Snedecor, Greene County Directory for 1855-1856, page 31.

110.  Snedecor, Greene County Directory for 1855-1856, page 31, His name is shown as "Jesse S. Melton".

111.  "Alabama Beacon," A Greensboro, Alabama Weekly Newspaper published from 1840 - 1912..

112.  Harper, Elizabeth Pryor, Twenty-One Southern Families,  (Patricia Freeman, Compiler & Editor), Page 114, "Bessie (MELTON) Greene Co. Died at the residence of Mr Abner P EVANS in Hale Co 29 June 1873 Bessie eldest daughter of Mr. Jessie J. and Mrs Mattie MELTON of Mobile aged about 13 years.

113.  Harper, Elizabeth Pryor, Twenty-One Southern Families: notes & genealogies,  (Patricia Freeman, Compiler & Editor), Dr. Robert Melton lived in Rice, Navarro County, Texas in 1876.

114.  Harper, Elizabeth Pryor, Twenty-One Southern Families: notes & genealogies,  (Patricia Freeman, Compiler & Editor).

115.  Harper, Elizabeth Pryor, Twenty-One Southern Families: notes & genealogies,  (Patricia Freeman, Compiler & Editor), Page 126, ROBERT MELTON Dr 1876 lived in Rice, Navarro Co.

116.  Harper, Elizabeth Pryor, Twenty-One Southern Families: notes & genealogies,  (Patricia Freeman, Compiler & Editor).

117.  "Family Group Sheet of Frankie Pearson."

118.  Harper, Elizabeth Pryor, Twenty-One Southern Families: notes & genealogies,  (Patricia Freeman, Compiler & Editor).

119.  "Family Group Sheet of Frankie Pearson."

120.  Harper, Elizabeth Pryor, Twenty-One Southern Families: notes & genealogies,  (Patricia Freeman, Compiler & Editor).

121.  "Family Group Sheet of Frankie Pearson."

122.  Harper, Elizabeth Pryor, Twenty-One Southern Families: notes & genealogies,  (Patricia Freeman, Compiler & Editor), Page 113, Only first & last name, year & state of birth given.

123.  "Family Group Sheet of Frankie Pearson," Only the surname "Torbert" is shown.

124.  Harper, Elizabeth Pryor, Twenty-One Southern Families: notes & genealogies,  (Patricia Freeman, Compiler & Editor), Page 113.

125.  Greene County, Alabama Marriages 1823-1860, "Electronic," Shown as Jan 1, 1853, rather than January 4th.

126.  Harper, Elizabeth Pryor, Twenty-One Southern Families: notes & genealogies,  (Patricia Freeman, Compiler & Editor), Only surname "Bayol" is shown.

127.  "Family Group Sheet of Frankie Pearson," Only surname of Bayol is shown.

128.  Harper, Elizabeth Pryor, Twenty-One Southern Families: notes & genealogies,  (Patricia Freeman, Compiler & Editor).

129.  Harper, Elizabeth Pryor, Twenty-One Southern Families: notes & genealogies,  (Patricia Freeman, Compiler & Editor), Last name spelled "Hutcheson" in book.

130.  "Mississippi Bible Records, Volume 6," Mississippi Genealogical Society, pg 19, Last name spelled "Hutcherson".

131.  "Family Group Sheet of Frankie Pearson," Shown as A, Hutchinson.

132.  Harper, Elizabeth Pryor, Twenty-One Southern Families: notes & genealogies,  (Patricia Freeman, Compiler & Editor), Marriage date shown as 1/12/1869, and only county and state given for location.

133.  "Mississippi Bible Records, Volume 6," Mississippi Genealogical Society, pg 19, Banj. M Melton and Adelaide Hutcherson, married Greensboro, AL, Jan. 18, 1869.

134.  Terry.Anderson@LATimes.com, b abt. 1847, Hale County, AL.

135.  Harper, Elizabeth Pryor, Twenty-One Southern Families: notes & genealogies,  (Patricia Freeman, Compiler & Editor).

136.  Harper, Elizabeth Pryor, Twenty-One Southern Families: notes & genealogies,  (Patricia Freeman, Compiler & Editor), This book shows her as "Mrs. Lottie B. Jones."

137.  "Family Group Sheet of Frankie Pearson," Shown as L. Jones.

138.  Harper, Elizabeth Pryor, Twenty-One Southern Families: notes & genealogies,  (Patricia Freeman, Compiler & Editor).

139.  LaVelle Henderson (THenderson@hot.rr.com), Shown as Weymyss.

140.  "Mississippi Bible Records, Volume 6," Mississippi Genealogical Society.

141.  Terry.Anderson@LATimes.com.

142.  LaVelle Henderson (THenderson@hot.rr.com), Shows "Lizzie Lancaster."

143.  Terry.Anderson@LATimes.com, Shows Mary E. (Lizzie) Lancaster.

144.  Terry.Anderson@LATimes.com.

145.  LaVelle Henderson (THenderson@hot.rr.com).

146.  Terry.Anderson@LATimes.com.

147.  "Mississippi Bible Records, Volume 6," Mississippi Genealogical Society.

148.  LaVelle Henderson (THenderson@hot.rr.com), Shown as Abner Bennett.

149.  "Mississippi Bible Records, Volume 6," Mississippi Genealogical Society.

150.  "Mississippi Bible Records, Volume 6," Mississippi Genealogical Society, page 19.

151.  "Mississippi Bible Records, Volume 6," Mississippi Genealogical Society, pg 19, Edward C. Melton and Lucile Stokes married Feb. 7, 1887.

152.  Terry.Anderson@LATimes.com.

153.  Terry.Anderson@LATimes.com, Terry shows his middle name as "Caminess". States that Edward married, and had three children.

154.  WW1 Civilian Draft Registrations.

155.  WW1 Civilian Draft Registrations, Bolivar, MS is shown as address when he registered for the draft.

156.  Terry.Anderson@LATimes.com.

157.  Terry.Anderson@LATimes.com, Sidney married, but had no children.

158.  Terry.Anderson@LATimes.com.

159.  Terry.Anderson@LATimes.com, no children.

160.  "Arlington, Texas Journal," February 9, 1905, Obituary Section.

161.  Terry.Anderson@LATimes.com.

162.  John T. Palmer, Phd.,  (PalmerJo@Sonoma.edu), "Electronic."

163.  Civilian Draft Registration Database, Contains registrants born 1872-1900.

164.  John T. Palmer, Phd.,  (PalmerJo@Sonoma.edu), "Electronic," John show Julius b:1899.

165.  Terry.Anderson@LATimes.com.

166.  Social Security Records.

167.  Terry.Anderson@LATimes.com.