Friday's Photo: A Wedding and A Coverlet in this Bienville Parish Collection

This is another photo from the collection of Marguerite Cook Clark. The identity of the couple is unknown. It appears to be a wedding photo with an embroidered coverlet as a backdrop of the photo. Is this your family? 

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Diana
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Sources

Family photographs and documents from the collection of Marguerite Cook Clark. Accessed April 28, 2014, September 14, 2014, and November 9 to 11, 2016. Used with permission.

The Moses S. Thompson Family: From Tennessee to Arkansas to Texas

The grave of Moses S. Thompson found in Bethel Cemetery - Erath County, Texas

Moses S. Thompson is not directly related to me, but I searched for him to find more clues about my Hairston family. This is a good practice known as cluster or collateral genealogy. If you've lost hope of finding your ancestor, research those related to him in some way - siblings, neighbors, cousins, in-laws, witnesses on deeds, and any other associates.

Martha Elizabeth "Mattie" Hairston
Chisum Thompson

John A. Thompson, a son of Moses S. Thompson married Martha Elizabeth Hairston Chisum, my great-grandfather's sister. While I didn't find any wall-breaking information while searching for this family, I did find new information and new family.  Thompson family information has been on my website for at least 15 years, so I hoped it has helped others looking for this family. As my website is old, harder to find, AND needs updating, I am posting the Moses S. Thompson notes, along with updates, to this blog. 

I have written about many of the Thompson family members and have included links to these posts throughout this post. 

Friday's Photo: Johnnie Martin and John Kirk (maybe Kirkpatrick?)

Johnnie Martin is John Joseph Martin of Bienville Parish, Louisiana. He is the son of Laura Frances Bryan and Thomas Jefferson Martin. You can see much more about him by clicking here. 

I suspect that John Kirk is actually John W. Kirkpatrick born in 1870. Can anyone verify this? 

The young men were about the same age as Johnnie Martin was born in 1869. Both boys spent their youth in the same area of Bienville Parish. It appears Johnnie and John are in their late teens or very early twenties in this photo which would give it a date of about 1890.

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Sources

Family photographs and documents from the collection of Marguerite Cook Clark. Accessed April 28, 2014, September 14, 2014, and November 9 to 11, 2016. Used with permission.

Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 21 August 2019), memorial page for John William Kirkpatrick (14 Jan 1870–3 Dec 1948), Find A Grave Memorial no. 110834001, citing Rocky Mount Cemetery, Ringgold, Bienville Parish, Louisiana, USA ; Maintained by Skippersgirl (contributor 47820856) .

From the Files of Marguerite Cook Clark: John Joseph Martin of Bienville Parish

John Joseph Martin was the first child of Laura Frances
Bryan and Thomas Jefferson Martin. He was born in
Bienville Parish, Louisiana on May 14, 1869.

John married Sarah Olive "Ollie" Thomas on December 3, 1893. Ollie was the daughter of
Lucy T. Wimberly and Newport L. Nix. She and John were second cousins, both descendants
of William Wimberly. J.J.'s grandmother was Sarah Margaret Wimberly Bryan. Ollie's grandfather, John Lawson Wimberly, was the brother of Sarah Margaret Wimberly. 

This was found in the collection of Mary Smith and identified by her as belonging to Marguerite Cook Clark. This photo was identified as John Joseph Martin and his first wife, Olive. Olive died at age 35 and this woman looks older so I wonder it's actually his first wife. I would love input from family.

John and Ollie had 4 children - Clara Essie, Redick Clinton, Frankie Bertha, and Thomas Alvin "Pete." Ollie died on August 25, 1909 and is buried in the Wimberly Cemetery.

After the death of Sarah Olive Thomas Martin, John's first wife, he married Mary Ann Chapman Johnson, the daughter of John and Carolina Chapman. She was the widow of
Henry Johnson. John and Mary Ann had two children - Maggie Lois Martin and Charles John Martin. 

John Joseph Martin died on February 18, 1942. He is buried

in Wimberly Cemetery with his first wife.

His second wife died in 1966 and is buried with her

first husband in the Social Springs Cemetery in

Red River Parish, Louisiana.

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Sources

Family photographs and documents from the collection of Marguerite Cook Clark. Accessed April 28, 2014, September 14, 2014, and November 9 to 11, 2016. Used with permission.

Family photographs from the collection of Mary V. Smith. Accessed November 6, 2004. Used with permission. 

Wimberly, Vera. Wimberly Family History: Ancestors, Relatives, and Descendants of William Wimberly, Pioneer from Georgia to Louisiana, 1837. Houston, Tex.: D. Armstrong, 1979. Print. 

From the Files of Marguerite Cook Clark: Laura Frances Bryan Martin

Laura Frances Bryan, the first child of Joseph B. and Sarah Margaret was born on
November 22, 1846 in Bienville Parish. According to two family Bibles, she married Thomas Jefferson Martin on November 24, 1867; however, Louisiana Compiled Marriages at Ancestry.com gives a date of January 4, 1869. 

Laura Frances Bryan Martin and her husband, Thomas 

Jefferson Martin, along with their youngest child and only 

daughter,  Mary Marguerite "Maggie" Martin. Maggie was 

the mother of  Marguerite Cook Clark. 

Photo taken about 1889.

Laura Frances Bryan Martin with Charley and Maggie.
Laura and Thomas had eight children. Maggie was the only
daughter. Sons were John Joseph, Thomas Reddick, Jesse
Pittman, James Bryan, Thomas Jefferson, William Walter,
and Charles Arthur. 

This transcription of a poem written by Laura F. Bryan Martin was probably typed by Marguerite Cook Clark. Was Laura writing about her children who were grown or the children who died young? She had three children of her own die young. Thomas Reddick Martin died in 1872 at age 1, Jesse Pittman Martin was about 6 years old when he died in 1978, and William Walter Martin was about two years old when he died in 1882. All three are buried in the Wimberly Cemetery.
In addition, two of Laura's siblings died before the age of five. William Walter Bryan died at four years of age and Lucy Elizabeth Bryan was three years old when she died.

On the back of the photo is a note written to Harriett Albritton Bryan, wife of Terrell Bryan (Laura's father's brother) living in Erath County, Texas. Was the note written on this photo and never sent OR was it sent and later returned to Laura's family by a descendant of Terrell and Harriet? 
Here is the transcription.

I thought I would get a good picture to send you but failed to get it taken. This one has been taken more than two years. I think it is a sorry picture but it is the best I can do now. I want you and uncle Terrel to send me your pictures I am very anxious for them. I send two more of my boys Tommy and Charley 
Your niece 
Laura F. Martin

Laura Frances Bryan Martin and her daughter, Maggie.
Date unknown.

Thomas Jefferson and Laura Frances Bryan Martin with granddaughter, Ethel.
In the back - Annie Cook Martin and James Bryan Martin (parents of Ethel), Charley
Martin, and Maggie Martin. Photo taken about 1906

Thomas and Laura at their home in Bienville Parish.
In 1929, Laura Frances Bryan Martin died of pneumonia as a result of
contracting influenza. Her husband had passed away in 1928.
They are both buried in the Wimberly Cemetery. 

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Diana

© 2019

Sources

Family photographs and documents from the collection of Marguerite Cook Clark. Accessed April 28, 2014, September 14, 2014, and November 9 to 11, 2016. Used with permission.

Wimberly, Vera. Wimberly Family History: Ancestors, Relatives, and Descendants of William Wimberly, Pioneer from Georgia to Louisiana, 1837. Houston, Tex.: D. Armstrong, 1979. Print. 

Friday's Photo: Unknown Family or Friends in Texas - Might be Borger, but could be Seymour

If this is family, surnames names could be Bryan, Hairston, Albritton,
Criswell, Thompson, Noah, Chism, Biggs, Evens, Selman, Gresham, Hammett,
Keith, Latta, Watts, Wimberly, and Wylie.

This is one of those photos where someone would need an exact or very similar photo to help with the identity. The photo is old - I am guessing the 1920s. It is faded and the faces are difficult to see. At first, I thought maybe my grandmother and my uncle, but the boy's features are more delicate than my Uncle Buster's - Buster was much chunker. 

Is this a mother and her son? The photo once belonged to my Dad's sisters in Texas. Those pictured in the photo could have been cousins or family friends. In the 1920s, Dad's sisters lived in Seymour and later moved to Borger. 

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Diana

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Sources

Family photographs and documents from the collection Diana Bryan Quinn.