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."