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?