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Post by benotforgot on Feb 18, 2006 19:21:29 GMT -6
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Post by benotforgot on Feb 18, 2006 19:26:54 GMT -6
From: "Randy Dunavan" < randyd@texramp.net> Subject: Jarboe - Marshall - Kirtley - Kentuckytown Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 16:28:43 -0500
Greetings everyone
Please, if y'all have a few minutes and have knowledge to the subject line of this 'e', you may find something of interest with this posting.
1. JOHN A.8 JARBOE (ROBERT7, JOHN BAPTIST6, HENRY5, HENRY4, HENRY3, JOHN2, JARBOE / JABOT / GERBER / GERBAUT1) was born December 14, 1809 in Kentucky, and died Aft. 1860 in Texas. He married ELMINA KIRTLEY* December 21, 1829 in Green Co., now Taylor Co., Ky, daughter of WILLIAM KIRTLEY and SARAH LEWIS. She was born in Kentucky, and she is in 1860 Census - Grayson Co., TX.
*This Elmina / Elmira / Almina Kirtley is a 1st cousin once removed to our William Paschal Henry (1836-1912).
Notes for JOHN A. JARBOE:
John A Jarboe had a daughter named Nancy Jane that married Robert Milton Marshall. In 1852 Robert Milton and Nancy joined a wagon train in Greene County Kentucky that included many families from surrounding counties. Also on that train were several Jarboes, including John A. and Elmira Jarboe. Their journey to Texas took three months. The trip was filled with many exciting and perilous adventures.They had problems along the way with Indians, sickness, flooding, and even a tornado. Many of them, including Robert Milton and Nancy Jane stopped in Kentucky Town, Texas (about fifteen miles from Sherman). The remainder traveled on to Wise County, Texas. Those that went to Wise County were under constant attack by Kiowa and Comanche Indians. It got so bad that several of the Kentucky Town group (including a couple of Jarboe boys) had to go to Wise County and help rescue some kinfolks surrounded by attacking Indians.
During The Civil War Robert Milton and two Jarboes joined the Confederate army and served until the end of the war. In the meantime the notorious William Quantrill decided to make Kentuckytown his winter headquarters. In his group were such notable characters as Jesse and Frank James, some of the Youngers, and Bloody Bill Anderson. There are several old history books in this county that tells of the goings on of this rough bunch of people. Nancy Jane died at the close of the war in 1865. We found her tombstone still intact in a grove of trees in the middle of a farmer's field about three miles from what's left of Kentuckytown. My ggrandfather John Thomas Marshall is the son of Robert and Nancy. We found a hill not too far from there that is still known as Jarboe Hill.[/size] archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/JARBOE/2001-10/1002058123
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Post by benotforgot on Feb 18, 2006 19:51:40 GMT -6
CHARLES W. BATSELL. The deserved reward of a well spent life is an honored retirement from business in which to enjoy the fruits of former toil, and today after many years of earnest work Mr. Batsell is quietly living at his pleasant home in Sherman, surrounded by the comforts that former labor has brought to him. He is a native son of Kentucky, his birth having occurred in Taylor county on the 23rd of August, 1839, his parents being James M. and Mary (Reynolds) Batsell, both also natives of that commonwealth. There the father followed agricultural pursuits for a time, but in 1850 left his native state and with a colony of Kentuckians came to Texas and founded the town of Kentuckytown.
genealogymagazine.com/charwbat.html
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Post by benotforgot on Feb 18, 2006 19:56:40 GMT -6
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Post by benotforgot on Feb 18, 2006 20:13:31 GMT -6
Ancestry Message Boards - Message Grayson
Subject: Marshalls Author: Jerry Owen Date: 08 Aug 1999 12:00 PM GMT
I live in Grayson County TX and Robert Milton Marshall is my G-g-grandfather. His son by Nancy Jane Jarboe by the name of John Thomas Marshall was my great-grandfather. My grandmother was Edna Marshall.
Robert Milton came to Grayson County in 1852/53. My understanding is that he and Nancy Jane traveled with a wagon train that contained several Greene County Kentucky families including Roberts father Thomas Marshall and his mother and Nancy Jane's parents John A Jarboe and Elmira Kirtley Jarboe. There were also other brothers and sisters of Roberts and Nancy's on the trip.
It is my understanding that the wagon train had originated in another County and was under the charge of Newt Yowell as wagonmaster. There are Yowell descendants still living in Grayson County. The trip was a long and hazardous one that involved swollen rivers, tornadoes, Indian trouble, and sicknesses.
Apparently several members of the wagon train decided to stop in Kentuckytown Grayson County. This group included Robert Milton and the Jarboe family. Thomas Marshall and his other children decided to travel on to Wise County TX. Unfortunately at that time the Comanches and Kiowas were ravaging that area. After many close calls and fierce Indian battles Thomas and family moved to Grayson County. I believe that George Baker was in that group.
Fortunately for all of us us there are some good Marshall histories available with tons of information. I will be glad to share what I have and if I don't have it will be glad to point you towards someone else who might. Actually we have been quite anxious to learn more about George Baker and his descendants. Look forward to exchanging information with you.
Jerry Owen
Boards > Localities > North America > United States > States > Texas > Counties > Grayson
boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=message&r=an&p=localities.northam.usa.states.texas.counties.grayson&m=1058.1062
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Post by benotforgot on Feb 18, 2006 20:27:00 GMT -6
J. L. Henry [brother of our Thomas Henry] was born February 22, 1811, four miles north of Greensburg, Ky., and was a farmer; in 1837 he with his family moved to Cedar County, Mo., where he became the owner of 4,400 acres, also owned a large slave property, and became the first county judge; and after Dade was stricken off became its first county judge, and held the position for twenty years, up to the breaking out of the war.
In 1861, he went to Sherman, Tex., with his negroes. In 1863 his family joined him. After the war he located in Cane Hill, Ark., where he educated his family. (He had a son, C. M. Henry, who became a brigadier-general in the Confederate Army.) He died in 1871, but his family continued to remain in Arkansas.
He was a son of Bellfield and Elizabeth (Kirtley) Henry [parents of our Thomas Henry], both of Virginia. They immigrated to Green County, Ky., about 1800, where Bellfield Henry became an extensive farmer, served as sheriff, and died in 1850.
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Post by benotforgot on Apr 11, 2008 9:53:33 GMT -6
Historical Marker
Preston Road / Shawnee Trail (FM 120 E., in Friendship Park, Pottsboro)
In 1840, authorized by an 1838 act of the congress of the Republic of Texas, Col. W. G. Cooke and the Texas First Infantry regiment laid out a military road from Austin North through what became Dallas to the Holland Coffee Trading Post on Red River (later covered by Lake Texoma).
Coffee developed the town of Preston near the trading post, and Cooke's military route became known as Preston Road between the Red River and Dallas. Immigrants came from Missouri and Arkansas through Indian territory (Oklahoma) into Texas along Preston Road. In one six-week period in 1845, roughly 1,000 wagons crossed the river into Texas.
From the Mid-1850s the road marked the route for Texas' first cattle drive. Later known as the Shawnee Trail, it probably was named for a native american village called Shawneetown north of what became Denison. Cattle swam the Red River at Rock Bluff crossing, a natural rock formation that served as a chute into the water, later the site of the city of Sherman's water intake station on Lake Texoma. This remained the principal route to the north for Texas cattle until the Civil War. The last large herds moved through Grayson County in 1871.
The old route remains visible at Rocky Point on Lake Texoma, and along Hanna Drive. The overall passage is followed by parts of Preston Road in Grayson County, Farm-To-Market and State Highway 289 route, and Preston Road in Dallas.
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Post by benotforgot on Apr 11, 2008 9:56:49 GMT -6
Denton Record-Chronicle News for Denton County, Texas Sports: Golf: Texas Golf 2007 A stream runs through it
White Rock Creek connects nine courses, links past and present
04:55 PM CST on Friday, March 2, 2007 By BILL NICHOLS / The Dallas Morning News brnichols@dallasnews.com In a Collin County pasture near the Shawnee Trail, the still quiet of a winter morning gives way to a steady cadence of boots on gravel. Two pioneers drag an old canoe toward White Rock Creek. They cut a path through waist-high scrub, down the shallow bank. The upper creek is tight up here, a couple of miles from the headwaters in Frisco. But the water is clear and lazy. It gently polishes the smooth rock bottom. Back in the 1840s, when Texas was an independent republic, this tree-lined stream provided a lifeline to settlers. Buffaloes and bears sipped from the creek; honey dripped from hollow trees. But on this day, sunrise finds our canoe idling near a gravel bridge on old Hillcrest Road in far north Plano. A quarter mile behind us, bulldozers and construction equipment on State Highway 121 block the horizon. At 7:58 our paddles push off, sending my neighbor, Jonathan Mayers, and me exploring a forgotten stream dotted with golf courses. Why? Because hidden by the banks of this urban waterway, we could be pioneers settling here 150 years ago. The 31-mile creek stretching from a ditch in Frisco to the Trinity River in southern Dallas County overflows with history. White Rock was vital to Peters Colony pioneers who traveled to this frontier by wagons, lured by opportunity and adventure. Game was plentiful. They cut logs for cabins, built churches, grist mills and cemeteries, even performed baptisms between the twisting banks. Meandering through one of the highest populated areas in the country, White Rock has been choked by urbanization, and it dwindled in importance. Half a million cars cross its bridges daily carrying passengers who are unaware of the history beneath. . . . Historical setting :: Most of the courses connected by White Rock claim a significant piece of history. Archaeological digs have taken place on fairways at Tenison. Northwood, Bent Tree, Preston Trail, Prestonwood, Gleneagles and Plantation sit along what used to be the Shawnee Trail. The Preston Trail was a major American Indian route from St. Louis to San Antonio. In 1850 it became the Shawnee Trail, primarily used for cattle drives. White Rock Chapel Methodist Church was founded on the banks south of Belt Line across from Prestonwood. A log cabin was built beside a small burial ground for former slaves in 1884. The congregation sometimes waited days for floodwaters to recede. A family drowned in raging water after a service in 1918. The annual White Rock Camp Meetings were held on property that is now Northwood's. Folks traveled by wagon from all over, setting up tents for revivals organized by the Methodist church. Capt. W.C. McKamy brought his family from Kentucky to settle on land that is now Preston Trail Golf Club. When the exclusive men's club opened, it used the McKamy Ranch as its clubhouse. On land near Gleneagles, the Liberty Baptist Church served as a popular stopover for cattle traders going north on the Shawnee Trail. Baptisms were performed in the creek, a row of people standing in waist-high water. The Baccus Cemetery was on the same property. Many Peters Colony settlers ended up in Frisco, site of Plantation, because of the train station.
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Post by benotforgot on Apr 11, 2008 10:10:47 GMT -6
. . . It was common for early frontiersmen and settlers to use the existing trails that had been blazed by the Indians. The Shawnee Trail became one of the major cattle trails to the North, each with a number of branches. It was known as the Sedalia & Baxter Springs Trail, the first trail in Texas used by drovers reaching the main route. It started near Matagorda Bay* and passed through or near Austin, and Waco, where it split at or near Waco. One route led to Ft. Worth, and the other to Waxahachie, Dallas, and Preston (near Denison) on the Red River. Here it split again, one route taking you to Sedalia, Missouri, by way of Ft. Smith, and the other through Indian Territory to Baxter Springs Kansas. . . .
*FYI :: our William Paschal Henry is living in Matagorda County on the 1860 Texas Census . . . working as an "overseer" . . . he is the only person born in Kentucky living in his "neighborhood" . . . the nearest "stock raiser" is . . .
www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~txecm/texas_cattle_trails.htm
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Post by benotforgot on Apr 11, 2008 22:08:33 GMT -6
The Portal to Texas History -- A history of Grayson County, Texas / Mattie Davis Lucas (Mrs. W. H. Lucas) and Mita Holsapple . . . . Along Red River were a number of large plantations whose owners possessed many slaves, and they raised some cotton, fine stock, cattle, and sheep. The settlers did not think much of the prairie land -- it was good only for cattle. A few farmers planted wheat and had good yields, but very little planting was done except along the creeks and rivers. Cotton would be freighted down the river from the plantations. Col. Wm. C. Young was one of the river plantation owners, as was J. G. Thompson, the first chief justice of the county. Col. Young's place was west of the present town of Denison, between Red River and Shawnee creek, and included the site of Shawneetown, the Indian village. The Thompson place was west of the present bridge across Red River from Preston Bend. The genial host of Glen Eden, Col. Holland Coffee, was killed in 1846, but his wife continued the well-known hospitable traditions. Five years later, she married Major Butts, of Virginia. The county continued in gradual growth and in 1850 we find the village of Preston about a half mile north of the mouth of Little Mineral creek, on the bank of Red River; Pilot Grove, or Lick Skillet, twenty-five miles from Sherman on the stage line from Bonham to McKinney, Shawneetown, near Denison, the site of which was bought by Col. Young in 1850; Old Warren just over the line in Fannin county; and Sherman, the county seat. Kentuckytown, first called Ann Eliza, was a settlement it is claimed, ten years before the town was laid out in 1852 by Dr. Josiah L. Huston and named for his daughter, Ann Eliza. One day there arrived in the little village of Ann Eliza, a wagon train of twenty families, all from Kentucky. They liked the soil and the climate, and immediately began to erect homes. The business section was built in the form of a square and there were thirteen business establishments, three of them saloons. The Kentuckians were well educated and cultured people and, as there were so many of them, the town gradually became known as "The Kentuckians' Town", and finally, by consent, was called Kentuckytown. The first business house was owned and conducted by John Dyer in 1848, and the next general store of any consequence was that of Alfred Drye. Kentuckytown was a metrolopis through which passed the trains of wagons, drawn by oxen, hauling freight from Jefferson and Shreveport to the western frontier. The society of the town was as select and discriminating as in the eastern states.
A description of the county in 1852, given by an "old-timer" says, "The real town of Sherman consisted of a row of clap board business houses along the east side of the public square. A long house on the northeast corner was used as a saloon and a double log house on the north side was the Sherman Hotel, run by John R. Bean. A small log building on the south side of the square was the district clerk's office and the Sherman post office. Two blocks south of the square, on Travis, was the two room frame house painted white, of Dr. R. L. Bullock, and a few more log houses were scattered near the square. (The house Dr. Bullock occupied is still standing and was the first in grayson county to have window glass.) The log court house stood on the southeast corner of the square, under a pecan tree; the courthouse had no floor, no chimney, and the cracks between the logs were unstopped. There were three families living on or near the road between Sherman and Gainesville." . . . The problem of education of their children required the attention of the early settlers in Grayson county. The majority of the people had come from the southern states, bringing their slaves and southern ideals and practices of social life and education. . . . In 1853, Jesse P. Loving was among the pupils . . . as were J. M. Binkley, Ellen Bomar, Smith Scott of Kentuckytown, and Davis Alberson and Frank Ocerton, full blood Indians from the Indian Territory. The books used were McGuffey's reader, Smith's grammar, and the blue-back speller. The seats were of logs cut half in two, four holes bored in the ends for split log legs, and a separate bench on which to write. . . . The worshop of God was essential in the lives of the builders of our county, and even before there were any church buildings, services were held in the homes whenever there was a visiting preacher. A bruch arbor in front of the courthouse in the county seat was frequently used for services. The first camp meeting was held by Rev. Custer, Rev. Brown, and Rev. Duncan. A bear skin covered the pulpit, there were chairs for the deacons and the ministers, the congregation sat on split logs. Some of the chairs for the officials were splint botton, others were covered with raw hids. The campers came from all over the county, on foot, on horseback, in carts and wagons, bringing beddings, cooking utensils, children, and dogs. Coonskin caps and slat sunbonnets were the style in millinery. . . . In the southern part of the county, where many Kentuckians had settled, Rev. J. B. Wilmeth, a minister of the Christian church, began preaching in private homes of the community near the border line of Collin and Grayson counties. . . . Christian churches were organized in White Mound and Kentuckytown, and a county evangelist employed. . . . The crowning event of this period of our county's history, 1846 to 1861, was the coming of the Overland Mail. The United States government entered into a contract with John Butterfield and associates to operate the first mail route connecting the eastern United States with the west. The line began at Saint Louis and at Memphis, united at Fort Smith, and continued to San Francisco, the Butterfield company being allowed to select their own route. . . . From Saint Louis, the route went 160 miles directly west to Tipton, thence over the Ozarks to Fayetteville, thence to Fort Smith. Proceeding through the Choctaw country to Boggy, the road crossed Red River at Colbert's Ferry, going through Sherman and on west. Stations were to be provided every ten or twenty miles where mail could be collected or deposited; the trip was to be made in less than twenty-five days. Each station included a keeper's house, stables, a blacksmith's shop and eating houses. There was a station in Sherman; of this station the Northern Standard of April 16, 1859, said: "The big stable of the Overland Mail, also a general livery stable, is the most imposing public institution in Sherman, not of course, the handsomest building, but large, with wide doors always open and having a look of night and day work unceasing, that makes one think of public establishments in old cities". . . . Horses were used for the coaches until they reached Fort Belknap, then mules -- the chief reason being that the Indians would attack the stage in order to get the horses, but they wouldn't have the mules as a gift! The line was equipped with Concord spring wagons, carrying four passengers and their baggage, and five to six hundred pounds of mail. Later, more commodious coaches were used, carrying six to nine inside and one to ten passengers outside. Teams usually consisted of four horses or mules, but additional animals were attached on more difficult stretches. The through fare at first was $200 from Saint Louis or Memphis to the Golden gate, and $100 for the eastbound trip. The fare did not include meals, but allowed each passenger forty pounds of baggage without extra cost. This was the world's longest stage route -- 2,795 miles -- with a mileage in Texas of 767. In surveying the route, Mr. Butterfield and some of his associates came to Grayson county and were entertained in Sherman with a champagne supper. Arrangements were made for free crossing of the stages at Colbert's Ferry on Red River and the company bridged all streams in the county along the route. . . . Despite attacks by Indians, the schedule was maintained and for twenty years, the stage coach was the method of passenger conveyance. . . . The Overland Mail gave a great impetus to the settlement of Grayson and other Red River counties; the population more than doubled in 1858-59. . . . In these days, all man are said to have been like brothers and a man's word as good as his bond. All was free and easy and every man's door stood wide open -- locks, bolts, and bars were unknown. The motto was, "When you meet a stranger, take him in". . . .
texashistory.unt.edu/permalink/meta-pth-24648
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