I lost track, you'd think those butter beans would have been more filling.  I'm craving ice cream

Lets go back to this thing about Grandmother AMACKERs daddy, George Washington AMACKER.  He married Celia H. BURTON AMACKER.  She was the grand daughter of some well to do forebears who left to her four slaves, a hotel, land, horses and other property.   In Louisiana in those days the inheritance went to the husband in such cases.  It was not long that the slaves were doing more than making beds in the hotel and ole George was squandering away Celia's inheritance.  Louisiana was a Catholic State then and divorce had to be granted by the Governor, well THAT didn't happen, but Celia could sue her husband for her Right of Succession, turning over the remaining assets to her and essentially dissolving the marriage.

By this time there were eight slaves and Celia took over everything, sending ole George out on his proverbial ear.  He managed to open a saloon and had a good stock of liquor, when the ole Sheriff came a knockin at the door to seize the liquor goods.  Apparently, ole George didn't pay up on time, and he was shut down.  I wonder if he had become persona non Grata, or however it is, but he must have chosen this time to skedaddle because he shows up in the Kaufman County Census as a physician in 1880.

AND Cora BICKHAM and her brother Adolfus living in CC STEVENS house, in Kaufman County Texas.

Cora BICKHAM was 12 in 1880.  ,  James was  22.  They waited until she was 16 to marry.

Coras father was Thomas Dolphus BICKHAM, Jr.  His father was also predecessor Sheriff of Washington Parish Louisiana during the Civil War.  Thus, the courthouse burned down twice.

Bless their hearts.  They didnt want them damn yankees findin out who ate the cabbage in the Parish Records of Ownership etc.  So they burned the courthouse down.  Clarinda Cotelle (though often spelled Clarinda Clotelle, but chiefly C. C. )  Was born an Amacker and by marrying her eighth husband Robert AMACKER, her first cousin, when he was 83 and she 80,.    "I was born an AMACKER and by God Im going to die and AMACKER."

I lost track, you'd think those butter beans would have been more filling.  I'm craving ice cream

Lets go back to this thing about Grandmother AMACKERs daddy, George Washington AMACKER.  He married Celia H. BURTON AMACKER.  She was the grand daughter of some well to do forebears who left to her four slaves, a hotel, land, horses and other property.   In Louisiana in those days the inheritance went to the husband in such cases.  It was not long that the slaves were doing more than making beds in the hotel and ole George was squandering away Celia's inheritance.  Louisiana was a Catholic State then and divorce had to be granted by the Governor, well THAT didn't happen, but Celia could sue her husband for her Right of Succession, turning over the remaining assets to her and essentially dissolving the marriage.

By this time there were eight slaves and Celia took over everything, sending ole George out on his proverbial ear.  He managed to open a saloon and had a good stock of liquor, when the ole Sheriff came a knockin at the door to seize the liquor goods.  Apparently, ole George didn't pay up on time, and he was shut down.  I wonder if he had become persona non Grata, or however it is, but he must have chosen this time to skedaddle because he shows up in the Kaufman County Census as a physician in 1880.

AND Cora BICKHAM and her brother Adolfus living in CC STEVENS house, in Kaufman County Texas.

Cora BICKHAM was 12 in 1880.  ,  James was  22.  They waited until she was 16 to marry.

Coras father was Thomas Dolphus BICKHAM, Jr.  His father was also predecessor Sheriff of Washington Parish Louisiana during the Civil War.  Thus, the courthouse burned down twice.

Bless their hearts.  They didnt want them damn yankees findin out who ate the cabbage in the Parish Records of Ownership etc.  So they burned the courthouse down.  Clarinda Cotelle (though often spelled Clarinda Clotelle, but chiefly C. C. )  Was born an Amacker and by marrying her eighth husband Robert AMACKER, her first cousin, when he was 83 and she 80,.    "I was born an AMACKER and by God Im going to die and AMACKER."

Didja know the Yellow Rose of Texas is about a lovely young mulatto who kept Generalisimo de Santa Ana "occupied" while Sam Houstons men advanced against the superior Mexican Army  three thousand strong  while the general had other things on his mind, the army could not advance or take action.  Battle of San Jacinto secured Texas' independence.

Oh well, its a great story and if you look hard you will find that the words to the Yellow Rose of TEXAS have been altered by various artists to maintain civility and evidence early political correctness, yet the story is true, though when I was growing up referring to a mullato person as Yellow was considered impolite, though it seems common referring to certain Asians.  Again, classification based on color, like painting your room peach.

Anywerls part 3. I cant believe he is still rattling on...

IF the Madisonville, Tennessee county records were actually available, more information could be found regarding health, longevity relatives and family members etc.  The Dallas Public library, Lloyd BOCKSTRUCK had the Civil War Pension Records for the Widow of Jeremiah BOYD.  Barbara ETTER BOYD.  Her son David, pursued her claim for a pension for several years and was denied because the confederacy considered him a deserter, when, however, his family claimed he was an aide to a general who was wounded and captured and sent to a prison outside of Dalton Georgia, where he cared for the general until the end of the war and their release.  David L. BOYD was a school teacher, lived with his mother.  No record of marriage.

Another delay in the pension for Barbara ETTER BOYD was that the granting officer had a heart attack and did not get to his official business for a year.  I cannot remember if she ever got a pension.

Cinderella SMITH BICKHAM did.  Thirteen dollars and some change each month.  She was the second wife of Sheriff Bickham, also son of Sheriff Bickham of Washington Parish Louisiana smack dab in the middle of the recent unpleasantness, the Civil Woa-ah!



It was at this hospital the Jeremiah BOYD met LUTHER and through that acquaintance, Joseph Marion met his Mattie A. LUTHER, from whence came Edgar Earl Senior. etc.  (Isnt it fullfilling to be an etc.?)

Sidenote the ETTER relation was a cousin to the Hardwicke Etter Cotton Gin manufacturing company of Sherman Texas.   They built cotton Gins all over the state and cotton growing country.  They were an innovator in cotton milling engineering.  Many of their freestanding gins are still around in remote sections of the state.  They were made out of corrugated steel siding and the ginworks and storage were inside.

Genealogical update trois

But I digress...

Pearls Daddy and Step Mother HUNNICUT, who coincidentally was also from Madisonville, Monroe County, Tennessee, where Edgar Earl BOYD and his father Joseph Marion BOYD were born.

The boarding house was a rooming house for the railroad crews who slithered through town.  I think it was a couple of blocks in and several blocks east of the depot.

Ole James Buchanan ZINK and his second wife, HUNNICUTT ~~ his first wife being DEMPSEY who is buried in the KISER Cemetery.  Damn, I looked in Rockwall KISER Cemetery and she wasnt there.  She was married to James Buchanan ZINK at the time and I think died in childbirth.  Now here is where it starts to get a bit cray cray...

She died in childbirth, I think, and then there is absolutely nothing about the baby.  There is a front page article in the Terrell Tribune, of a Cora ZINK, committing suicide in the home of C. C. AMACKER, BICKHAM, STEPHENS in Terrell.

But wait, no not THAT Cora BICKHAM, in the 1880 Census down the road from James Buchanan ZINK and his family, Eli ZINK and Marie Pritchard and their eighty-seven bazillion kids, found on the Texas Indigent List during the Civil War in Kaufman County.  Tax records specify livestock property and valuations from county tax records up to the civil war.  Eli also served in the Mexican War.

Specifically in the Civil War, he was stationed for a time at Camp Lubbock, Texas.  Not what you would think, it is the name of a large disembarkation post and railroad supply dock located at Buffalo Bayou, now Houston, Texas.

I found it through an article from the Houston newspaper, a proto Chronical, that was enraged over the soldiers dying of the fever at Camp Lubbock.  I wonder if Eli ZINK got it?

Anywerls Genealogical Update part deux, 24 Oct 2016 I lived past the 23rd Oct. David, Edith, Henk

I am gnawing down on the best Butter beans, ever.  Spicier than most with a jalapeno and a splash of cayenne and black pepper. Honions shoulda added a can of green chiles.  WAIT, theres time...

Whew!

Judge, (Edgar Earl BOYD, Sr.) Loved him some burr bean.<<~~pronounced with disregard of the t's)
me too.

Judge had been to East Texas State University in Commerce.  Two years of business school  having come from an educated pharmacist father Joseph Marion BOYD who moved to Wood/Upshur County in 1903.  Joseph spent a little spell in Whitewright as well, before moving to the farm north west of Rhonesboro.  He farmed, taught school, maybe pharmacisted, became an ordained minister, having been ordained by a man named ARRINGTON.  Joseph Marion BOYD conducted Sunday services at Grice, Texas and is buried in that Cemetery, with his daughter Mary BOYD RUBLEE there too.

I think his second wife is there, but I dont remember.  His first wife was LUTHER, her mother was a CROW.  LUTHER, Macon Georgia.  Judge was born in 1888 in Madisonville, Monroe County, Tennessee at the foot of the Great Smokey mountains, on BOYD Ridge just above the town.  Jeremiah and Barbara Etter are buried at the Lutheran Cemetery just south of town on Chestua Creek.  Census records find them on Chestua Creek also.  The Lutheran Church is nearby, but all of its records were burned up in a fire.  i went in to the records room at the county seat.  I never got an explanation, but all of the books and records had been caved in.  I think they had actually collapsed because that area is prone to earthquake.  That is exactly what the records room looked like when I visited it with Dena back in the day.

Genalogical update.

Ms. Wisdom and I went to Terrell, Texas yesterday.  We went to the Francis Street House, across the alley from the Catholic Church, where my daddy was born.  We went by the Griffith Street homes of Mama Vinnie and Daddy Ben, Ben and Vincent CARTRIGHT, Pearls dearest friend forever, and Bufords Drug store and the Iris Theater that showed spooky movies no mater what else in the universe was playing, they had spooky movies and coloreds upstairs, but the place was empty, and the manager said we could sit upstairs.  Still the place was empty and the train rattled the back wall and the screen when ole number nine comes blasting through town on what used to be the Texas and Pacific, then Missouri Pacific now Union Pacific Line.

I used to get off the train at Terrell

Anyhoo, James Buchanan ZINK was a builder and supplier of wood products to Terrell Texas.  He joined in business with LAROE and it was LAROE and ZINK Building Supplies or Lumber Yard in Terrell.  Family tradition says he was involved in building the mansions down Griffith Avenue.  Bob RASH, my dads best friend sold his mothers house in the 80's for sixty grand.  Her name was Vincent CARTRIGHT RASH.

Now, I think that the closeness of the RASH, Ben S ROBERTS (Daddy Ben) and Vincent CARTRIGHT ROBERTS,  were so close from the experience of Pearl Olivia ZINK CARTRIGHT BOYD, having been the sister in law of Vincent CARTRIGHT ROBERTS (Mama Vinnie) and never lost the closeness of sisterhood throughout life.  Anecdotally, both Vincent and Pearl chose the same floral pattern of bone china, Buttercup, or is that the silver?  Anyway, they both chose the same pattern and they also chose that pattern for Roy Gene GRIMSLEY **?** BOYD (Jeanne HUDDLESTON **** BOYD).

There is a picture of Jeanne in between two sailors.  World war twoish.  The sailor on the right, I think is Uncle Joe.  Buddy JONES aka Joseph Brantley HUDDLESTON, the sailor on the left, was Jeanne's first husband, ~~ she said was abusive ~~  some things you dont go too in depth with your mother, if you know what I mean...  I have never tracked down her marriage records or stuff like that while she was living.  Guess I can now.

Back on the road again

This trip is taking me to Canada I will be entering Canada from Oroville Washington. the whole trip is 2238 miles I've never been to Washington State before and my trip into Canada is only 150 miles from the US border. I will take pictures and send them along later loading up this morning was tedious and took about 2 hours it wasn't especially hard it was just slow. I noted  that the lug nuts on the trailer were all loose so I tighten them to 70 pounds.  Paragraph I stayed at the Goshen motor in last night for 40 bucks. Not bad but its just a room. More later


This is really later since I never saved this draft from one of my early trips to Goshen, because I only stayed at the Goshen Motor Inn once, which was plenty.  The roaches were bigger than the beds.

Danya bad.

Edited 24Oct16

Im not sure this is the place to do it, but I have been encouraged, so I am going to give it a shot.

Groucho said, I was born at a very early age, but things started as far as I have been able to see a lot farther back than that.  I traced the GRIMSLEY line to Nottinghamshire England about the time of Robin Hood,  I think we were the ones he gave to rather than stole from, but that was the English side, The Carleton side is English as is Katies Jones side, both of which have been researched by Barbara Arant Carletons father David Arant.

I have only been able to trace my BOYD line through a harem of German mothers to arrive at Jeremiah Senior, born in 1789, the year of the ratification of the Constitution, in Virginia.  Of course, Virginia ran from the Atlantic to the Mississippi river then, but hell.  Names repeated certain prescribed order back then, depending on if you were Presbyterian, (Boyd?) or Lutheran, or Quaker, one supposed BOYD researcher, who was very stingy with her BOYD documentation, said there is no information on them from the Revolutionary war because they were quakers.  I refute that, because even Quakers had cows or chickens conscripted from them by the continental army.  Trouble is, nothing that connects Jeremiah Senior to a parent or a location.  Just a year.  Anyway he married Susannah KYKER from the other side of the mountains, Rowan County North Carolina.  Her daddy, Conrad, sometimes spelled COONROD KYKER or often RYKER because in old timey writing R's look like K's and he was in the Revolutionary War, North Carolina Volunteers.

Then, Jeremiahs fourth son, Jeremiah, Jr. is splashed all over Washington County Tennessee, Johnson City, where in 1803, I think, he married, as did other members of his family that year, where he witnessed their marriages.  He was married twice, his son with Barbara Etter, Joseph Marion he married a CROW out of Georgia, and is my grand fathers father, then their son, Edgar Earl, Sr. who married another German, Pearl Olivia Zink to bear, Edgar Earl Junior, then, ta, da, me, David Earl.  I must mention my dear ole mom, Jeanne, born Roy Gene GRIMSLEY, daughter of LeRoy GRIMSLEY and Edith Adelia GRIMSLEY.  Yes they were first cousins, yes they were from Arkansas, yes he died of typhus three months before Roy Gene was born and yes the entire GRIMSLEY clan, both sides, banished Edith Adelia GRIMSLEY from their Arkansas midst.  Before she was a Grimsley, the story goes that she was sold by her mother for three thousand dollars to a traveling salesman, Dorchen JONES who was thirty ish compared to her fifteenish.  Ill have to check the dates on that, whereever they are.  Well, she had two children by old Dorchen JONES,  Buddy Jones who later changed his name legally in Dallas County Texas to Joseph Brantley Huddleston, and Doris and I dont know Aunt Doris' middle name, but she married *** and later died and is buried in St. Louis, Mo.

Wow, that's quite a leap and leaves a whole lotta folks out.  Like Pearl Olivia ZINK, She married a CARTRIGHT in Terrell, Texas, but alas, ole Mortimer croaked within a year of their marriage.  The richest family in town those CARTRIGHT, wanted to spinsterize her and make her a beloved part of a very wealthy family, but Edgar Earl BOYD would have none of it.  He adored her freckled little self and pursued and married her.  They had one son, who was at birth a twin, but who remained Edgar Earl BOYD, Jr., my dad.

He used to talk about grandmother AMACKER.  Now that would be his mothers grandmother on her mothers side, through Cora Bickham. Cora Bickham can be found right down the road from James Buchanan ZINK, in the Kaufman County, Texas census from 1880.  Also in that Census you can find George Washington AMACKER, Clarinda Clotelle AMACKER BICKHAM NELSON's father.  But more on that later.

James B. ZINK is buried at Oakland Cemetery in Terrell Texas and Grandmother Amacker is buried at Oakland Cemetery too, but not in Terrell, in South Dallas, between Martin Luther King blvd and Malcolm X.  Her gravesite is not marked, and her daughter, Cora Bickham ZINK is buried in the same six person plot.  She died two weeks before the Great Stock Market Crash of 1929, and I have not found a sheriffs record of this, but the graveyard record said she was dug up a year later and the family owed $10.00 for digging her up and nobody paid.

So I gave the graveyard digger manager a bottle of jalapeno jelly I had just made and he was happy with that.