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1850 Rusk County census # 149 who are Elizabeth 14 Female Louisiana; David 4 Male Texas; Mary 2 female Texas? CENSUS YR: 1860 STATE or TERRITORY: TX COUNTY: Rusk REEL NO: M653-1304 PAGE NO: 208A [edit] ===============================================================================================================================================LN HN FN LAST NAME FIRST NAME AGE SEX RACE OCCUP. REAL VAL. PERS VAL. BIRTHPLACE REMARKS [edit] ===============================================================================================================================================1 203 210 WINDLE John A. 52 M W Farmer . . VA . 2 203 210 WINDLE Mary 33 F W . . . NC . 3 203 210 WINDLE David 13 M W . . . TX . 4 203 210 WINDLE Mary 10 F W . . . TX . 5 203 210 WINDLE Isaac 8 M W . . . TX . =========NOTE IN RESPONSE TO QUERY+++++++++ John A. (Adam) Windle was my great, great, great grandfather he was born in 1804 in Shenandoah Virginia, his first wife is unknown. They had three children together John William Windle , James Windle, and Elizabeth Windle. His second wife was Permelia LUSK, with her he also had three childern, Isaac Parker Windle , David Windle, and Mary C Windle. They settled in and are buried in Rusk Co.TX. His third Wife was Mary Harmon, with her he had three childern also, Nichalas Windle, George Washington Windle, and John Adam Windle II. John Adam Windle was born to GERMAN immigrants. From Virginia he moved to TN, then to AL, LA , and then to Rusk Co Texas. Sincerely Russell L. Windle Windle, John A
Our Family Story To John Pressley Windle’s Family
In 1804 John Adams Windle was born in Shenandoah VA. He was the first in our family to drop the spelling of our last name from Wendel to Windle. In 1827 at the age of 23 he was married and living in Pickens County AL. around other Windles (Andrew Moore Windle). Not much is known about his first wife including her name. It has been theorized that she was probably Indian since Indian names were not registered and that John A had lived around Indians most of his life in VA. His first son John William Windle was born in 1827 in Pickens County AL. The description of John William from Lucinda Willis Windle’s affidavit for a widows pension as being “about five feet six inches high, rather dark complexion, black hair and black eyes”, which indicates that more than likely he was part Indian. The next recorded record of John A Windle places him in Overton County TN where he once again settled near other Windle’s (Joseph Hawkins Windle) living in the area, where his second son James William. was born in 1829 and where John A’s first wife died. John A took a second wife in Lincoln Co. TN; in 1835 her name was Permelia Lusk. Permelia was born in Union City South Carolina. In 1836 Permelia and John A are recorded as having a daughter Permelia Elizabeth on July 2, 1836 in the state of LA. On August 1st 1845 (date on Fannin Co. Land grant), John A received two known land grants from the Republic of Texas, one in what was then known as being a part of Nacogdoches Co. (what is now known as Rusk Co.) and the second in Fannin Co. (there was a rumor of a third land grant). Whether John A was in Texas at the time or still in LA is not known. There was a migration of a number of families from TN to TX of which John A’s family was one of them. The Hamilton, Davis, Lusk, and Willis families also settled in Texas at the same time. John A and Permelia settled in Henderson as did most of the migrating families. In Henderson John A and Permelia had three more children. David K. born in 1847, Mary Catherine born in 1848, and Isaac Parker born April 25, 1851. John A owned a 12-year-old male slave according to the 1850 slave schedule census. In 1852 Permelia passed away. John A then married Mary Harmon in Henderson on February 5th 1854. With her he had four more children Nicholas born March 3rd 1857, George Washington April 5th 1859, Sarah Isabella date not known, and John A II, born January 18th, 1861 who was born after John A’s death in 1860. John A Windle died at the age of 56 in Henderson Co. in 1860. John A and most of his later children and wives are buried in Davis Cemetery (formerly know as the Windle Cemetery) in Henderson. TX. John A’s first son John William, married Lucinda Willis in 1847. After serving in the Mexican war in 1846, Corporal John William served under L. H. Mabbitt's Shelby County Mounted Volunteers During the Mexican War along with his younger brother James W. John William’s wife Lucinda was born in 1830 in TN. The 1850 Census for Rusk Co shows John William and Lucinda having two children James 2 and Nancy Elizabeth 6 months. Between 1850 and the 1860 census John William’s family moved to the Fannin County land grant. He and Lucinda had three more children Charles who was 8, John Pressley who was 6 (born April 1st, 1855), and Robert D. who was 4 in 1860. John William was a member of the Black Dragoons in Fannin Co.; this organization protected the women and children from Indian attacks while their husbands and sons were off fighting the Civil War. On December 30th 1854 John A deeded all of the 1,470 acres (a.k.a. John A Windle survey) of the Fannin Co. land grant to John William, as the deed stated “out of natural love and affection.” The deed duly recorded in Bonham TX. Fannin Co. shows John A’s mark “X” with his name written around it as witness. John William returned to Henderson in Rusk Co. TX in 1867 after his father’s death and was killed in Henderson Co. returning from Henderson in Rusk Co. In an Affidavit given by his son John Pressley Windle and his sister Nancy Elizabeth Windle Jamison they stated, “ That they are the children of the said William and Lucinda Windle and that they were present at his death which occurred in Henderson Co. Texas on October 29th, 1867”. Lucinda and their children remained on the Fannin Co land grant. She petitioned the US Government for a widow’s pension, her son John Pressley who was 34 along with his sister Nancy Elizabeth Windle Jamison who was 39 gave an affidavit previously mentioned above as witnesses for the widow’s pension. On June 6th, 1889 Lucinda was granted the pension due to John William’s service in the Mexican War. Lucinda and John William’s third son was John Pressley Windle; he was born on April 1st 1855. He was an enterprising man. He was a partner in a dry goods store on the square in Bonham TX. later he owned and ran a dry goods store in Lamasco TX. He was one of the first, if not the first notaries in Fannin Co. He married Harriet Ellen Havens August 31st 1876 in Hunt Co. With Harriet he had one son, David Parker born March 3rd 1880, and four daughters Effie Odam born 1883, Viola Mae born May 8th1884, Carrie born in 1885 died at birth, Cora born in 1886 and Mamie born 1887. Harriet died at the age of 31 in 1888 and was buried at Center Grove Cemetery in Lamasco, which was land donated from John A Windle survey by John Pressley for the Cemetery outside of Lamasco. On February 16th 1891 in Hunt Co. TX John Pressley Married Virginia Caroline Son Harris Havens. Who had previously married twice, first to John Harris, and then John Havens, she was John Pressley and his first wife Harriet’s sister in law by her marriage to Harriet’s brother John. With her first husband John Harris she had one son James born 1883, and with her second husband John Haven’s she had one son Wesley born in 1888. With John Pressley she had six children Angelina Lucinda born 1892, Presley Owen in 1893, John David whose birth year was not recorded he died in infancy, Bessie in 1898, William McKinley in 1901, and Emma Brown in 1903. In 1904 at the age of 43 Virginia passed away and in 1931 at the age of 75 John Pressley passed away both were also buried at Center Grove Cemetery. Contributed by: Russell Windle on February 9, 2003. GEORGE W. WINDLE The following bio was taken from page 449 of the book entitled " Rusk County History" compiled and edited and used with permission of the Rusk County Historical Commission. Transcribed by Claudia Schuster Submitted by Gloria Briley Mayfield, Rusk County TX Coordinator My grandfather, John A. Windle, was born in Virginia in 1804. He came to Henderson, Texas, in 1840 and married my grandmother, Mary Harmon, in 1854. She was from South Carolina. Their son, George W. Windle, my father, was born April 5, 1859, on a farm three miles south of Henderson. George married my mother, Emma Colwell, in 1884. She was born January 11, 1866. Her father was John Colwell, and her mother was Ann Colburn. John Colburn had a freight line between Shreveport, Louisiana and Henderson. He hauled the lumber use to build the Howard-Dickinson house in Henderson. Oxen were used to pull the freight wagons. My parents had six children: Georgia, Edgar, Bonnie, Lois, Gladys, and Lucille. Their home was built in 1895 on the land where my father was born. We drove a horse and buggy, and later a car into town to attend school. My father was a farmer and stockman. He grew cotton, corn, ribbon cane, and all our vegetables and fruit, which were canned or dried, for the winter. Hogs were killed and cured in a smokehouse. Mother made soap for washing clothes and carded cotton to go into the beautiful quilts she made. She loved her flowers and was very artistic. My father died in 1945 and mother died in 1956. After their deaths, five oil wells have been drilled on our land. I have married Lawt O. Gothard, April 3, 1928. He was a meat cutter for Dennard’s Grocery in Henderson. He was the son of John S. Gothard and Daisy McCauley. They were married December 23, 1900, and had nine children: Don, Lawt, Connie, Searcy, Avis, Lurlene, Francis, John Howell, and DeWitt. In 1930, my husband and I moved to Jacksonville, Texas, where Lawt worked for Tom Shank as a meat cutter. On December 30, 1932, our daughter, Mary Elizabeth was born. In 1933, we moved to Houston, where Lawt went to work at Port City Stockyards as a buyer and seller of cattle. In 1940, Lawt went into business for himself as an order buyer, shipping cattle to Florida, Arizona, and California. We raised cattle, furnished stock for rodeos and owned an auction sale in Smithville, Texas. Lawt was active with the Houston Livestock Show, where he also was a cattle judge for several years. We retired in 1975 and moved back to Henderson, and bought a home on a road east of town. I have always enjoyed flowers, cooking, sewing, needlepoint, and crocheting. Mary married Anthony (Buddy) Montalbano on April 17, 1958. He worked for Southwestern Bell Telephone Company for thirty-two years and then retired in 1980. They have two children, John Allen and Sandra Elaine. They moved from Houston in 1977, and lived near Oak Hill where they are raising cattle. Submitted by Mrs. L.O. Gothard References
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