1870 :: 02-07 from Adela

[benotforgot]

FYI . . . in 1870, the site where Lexington sits was actually a part of Burleson County, Texas . . . as of 1874, it was in the newly formed Lee County . . .

1870 Adela Vick letter
Monday, February 7, 1870

[benotforgot]

[/S] [Old Evergreen, also known as Evergreen, is between State highways 77 and 21 on Farm Road 1624, some 5½ miles north of Giddings in central Lee County. One of the earliest settlements in the county, the town was originally a stage stop on the Old San Antonio Road.]

7)"Caroline and Jim Evans brother" - No ideas here!!! [Note from vle -- sic, i.e., Caroline Valentine and Elisha Evans]

8)"Miss Lizzy Perry" - The only one I have who might fit here is Octavia Elizabeth Perry, b. November 30, 1832, daughter of George Brown Perry and Martha Chandler. [Elizabeth Perry, daughter of Johnson Silas Perry.]

9)"Mr. Harrington's family" -

10)"Jim Marcus" - is this Jim [Marquis] the father of William Jart Marquis, Joseph E. Marquis and Richard Powell Marquis? He is apparently living with "Uncle Hartwell" - Hartwell D. Vick.

11)"John lives with us" - probably John H. Vick, living with his Uncle Berry's family rather than with his father Hartwell D. Vick and his new wife Julia Frances Sikes(Sykes), daughter of William Holiver Sikes/Sykes, Sr. and his first wife Elizabeth Harper/Hopper.

12)"Uncle Berry's negroes came all the way" - apparently the former slaves came to Texas with the wagon train.

13)"We picked cotton when we first got here at 41 1/2 per hundred" - seems I remember picking (we pulled most of it) cotton in the late 40s for 50 cents a hundred!

14)"Mr. Nallie" -

15)"Mr. Sykes" - probably William Holiver Sikes/Sykes, Sr. - Could be Robert Lee Sikes, Sr., father of William Alfred Sikes, who married Mary Cornelia Sikes, daughter of Hartwell D. Vick and Louisa Catherine (Boyd) Vick, sister of Mary Caroline and Emiline Jane Boyd.

16)"Billy Perry" - could this be Henderson W. Perry, who married Arabella Belle Vick, sister of Little Berry Fletcher, Joshua Thomas and Hartwell D. Vick?

17)"Old Billy Valentine" -
[/ul]
[/size][/quote]