Person:Missouri Claiborne (1)

Missouri Ann Claiborne, born Jun 7, 1844 in Livingston Co., Mo; died Dec 24, 1914 in Motley Co. Texas; married (1) John B. Bankston Mar 6, 1861 in Red River Co., Texas; born 1839 in Arkansas; died Bet. 1867 - 1870; married (2) James Finley Lindsey Bet. 1869 - 1870 in Texas; born 1838 in Ohio; died Jan 5, 1885 in Red River county, Texas.

More About Missouri Ann Claiborne: Burial: Matador Cemetary

daughter of James Elam Claiborne and Elizabeth Silvey Claiborne - Livingston County Marriage Book 1, page 19, shows that James E. Claiborne wed Elizabeth Silvey there on November 17, 1840. Teuben Leaton, Justice of the Peace, performed the ceremony. The act was recorded February 17, 1841, by Thomas Bryan, Clerk.

According to James Elam Claiborne's Bible records he was born February 18, 1811. He was one of the first born of James Cliborn and Elizabeth (Elam) Claiborne.

Claiborne line here: http://www.genealogy.com/users/g/e/r/Mary-E-Gerlach-CA/FILE/0002text.txt

May 5, 1848. That he received the acreage he requested is proved by this further information contained in the application for bounty land.

County of Red River

On this 3 Day of April, A.D. One Thousand eight hundred and Fifty five, personally appeared before me, a justice of the peace, within and for the County and State aforesaid, James E. Claiborne, aged 44 years, a resident of Red river Co. in the State of Texas, who being duly sworn according to law, declares that he is the identical James E. Claiborne who was a private in the company commanded by Captain B. M. Ballard in the regiment of Texas Mounted Volunteers commanded by Col. Wm. C. Young, in the War with Mexico for the term of a month, and continued in actual service in said war fourteen days; that he has therefore made application for bounty land under the act of 11 Feb, 1847 and received a warrant for 40 acres, which he has since legally disposed of, and cannot now return.

Five sons and one daughter were born to the James E. Claibornes in Red River County, Texas (plus 2 daughters in Missouri for a total of 5 sons & 3 daughters). The family is named in the 1860 federal register for that county as having real estate valued at $360, and personal holdings of $500. Their children, besides Sarah Jane and Missouri Ann were: John W., 13; James T., 12; Lucy, 9: Patrich H., 5; Buchanan, 3, and Breckenridge, 1. It is presumed that Buchanan and Breckenridge died very young, as now further record of them has been found.

In 1855, the Claibornes were living in the Cuthand Community of Red River County, as young Patrick H. was born there in "Cuthand Bottom," May 24 of that year. Whether that was their only place of residence in the county is not not remembered.