John L. Clifton Drew a Map of His Neighborhood in Sampson County, North Carolina

This hand-drawn map was found in the John L. Clifton Papers at the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Duke University. It appears that John L. Clifton drew the map as he described one corner of his land as "mine & Kings corner" and another as "My corner & Dardens."

On the second map, his labels are numbered. The numbered labels are transcribed below. Please contact me if you are able to identify the illegible words or if you find errors in my transcriptions.

1. Wilmington

2. James D[illegible]

3. Faison's Depot

4. Duplin

5. [illegible]

6. Saml R. Irelands part of the Whitfield Land

7. Jas D[illegible] corner

8. Henry Stevens

9. The pine woods part of the Whitfields land 1092 acres

10. Panther Branch

11. East

12. Bear Pond

13. Henry Oats & others    

14. Hicks    

15. Whitfield Corner

16. the alfred Bick Land

17. Jas Lewis

18. This is only a rough statement of the Bick Land

19. Joseph Dardens Pine woods

20. my corner & Dardens

21. Bicks old corner

22. J. L. Cliftons land flat pine woods & pond

23. 505 acres

24. mine & Kings corner

25. Edmond King

26. Edmond Kings Pine woods

27. The Whitfield corner & Kings

28. Kings &Clifton corner of this [illegible] Land

29. the new corner

30. No [North]

31. The Road from Waynesboro to Clinton

32. So [South]

33. Hood Swamp

34. Alex Chestnuts

35. West

36. J. L. Clifton

37. Head of Six Runs

38. Kings Branch

39. Joseph Dardens

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Map of John L. Clifton's Land, Clifton, John L., Papers, 1784-1916 (bulk 1830-1889), manuscript collection, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University, accessed 2017 and 2018.

From the Files of Marguerite Cook Clark: William R. Bryan

William Rufus Bryan
May 23, 1876 - August 10, 1960

William Rufus Bryan was the son of Tillman Capers Bryan and Mildred Manning Prothro Bryan of Bienville Parish, Louisiana. He married Mary Margeana "Margie" Pate sometime between 1900 and 1906. Margie died in 1906 and is buried in the Bryan Cemetery.  William and Margie are said to be the parents of Chester Bryan who died at the age of eight days and is also buried in the Bryan Cemetery in Bienville Parish. 

By 1908, William was in Haskell County, Texas as he married Eva Hicks on September 20, 1908. They were living in Wichita Falls, Texas in 1918 where he was working as a meat cutter in the 1920s.  

William cannot be positively located after 1927; however, his obituary indicates he might have lived in Ringgold before his death. 


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Diana

© 2018

Sources

Brittain, Julia and McMichael Frances. "Descendants of Reddick Bryan." Houston, Texas.

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.

U.S. City Directories, 1822-1995 for William R Bryan. Ancestry.com, 2011. Web. 21 Mar. 2018. <https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/2469/4927482/394229511?indiv=try&h&db>.

U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 for William Rufus Bryan. Ancestry.com, 2005. Web. 21 Mar. 2018. <https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/6482/005153658_04645?indiv=try&h&db>.

W R Bryan in the Texas, Select County Marriage Index, 1837-1965. Ancestry.com, 2014. Web. 21 Mar. 2018. <https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=try&h=1001449&dbid=60183>

52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks: #38 Jessie Mae Thompson Hicks, Daughter of Mattie Hairston

The solid lines indicate that the connection to the family is documented while
the dotted lines indicate that direct evidence has not yet been found to
make the connection. Click on the family tree to see a larger image.

Juanita, my second cousin once removed, told me that her father, Floyd Thompson, had relatives named Chapman. At the time, I didn't know if Juanita ever met them, but she did ask me about them several times. 

No Story Too Small

Well, I searched and found some Chapman's in her mother's Cox family tree, but didn't find Chapman's on the Hairston side of the family . . . until yesterday when I found this obituary transcribed at Ancestry.com. 

9/25/1964 "Funeral Sunday for Joseph Young Hicks" 
Funeral services were help at 2pm Sunday in Huckabay Baptist Church for Joseph Young Hicks, 71, Huckababy, who died Friday night in Stephenville Hospital.  Revs. Bob Norris and Oscar Hartsfield officiated with burial in Huckabay cemetery under the direction of Trewitt-Reed Funeral Home. Hicks was born Dec 30,1882, in Huckabay and was a lifelong resident of Erath County.  He married Miss Jessie Mae Thompson April 12,1912.  She died Dec. 21, 1952. Survivors include one daughter Mrs. L.A. Chapman of Stephenville, six grandchildren and eight great grandchildren.

This photo  is labeled "Aunt Jessie Thompson's 
only daughter."
Is the woman in the center Frona Lorene?
Photo courtesy of Nadine Thompson Waugh

Jessie Mae Thompson was the only daughter of Martha Elizabeth "Mattie" Hairston Chisum Thompson and John Thompson.  She was born on October 11, 1893 in Erath County, Texas and from census and other records, it appears that she spent most of her life in Erath County. Jessie Mae and her husband, Joseph, are buried in the Huckabay Cemetery. 

Jessie Mae Thompson and Joseph Young Hicks had one daughter, Frona Lorene Hicks who was born on February 12, 1913. Frona Lorene married Leonard Adams Chapman in 1932. 


Juanita did meet her Chapman cousin as both Juanita and Lorene are both in the photo below. Juanita looks as if she is about 10 years old, placing this family gathering sometime in the late 1920s. 

A gathering of Hairston descendants at "The old Noah Place - Dublin Hwy" 
Photo courtesy of Nadine Thompson Waugh

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Diana

© 2014

Sources

Ancestry.com. Texas, Death Certificates, 1903–1982 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013.

"Jessie Mae Hicks." Find A Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records and Online Memorials. N.p., n.d. Web. 26 Sept. 2014. <http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=HIC&GSpartial=1&GSbyrel=all&GSst=46&GScntry=4&GSsr=5441&GRid=24032035&>

"Joseph Young Hicks." Ancestry.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 28 Sept. 2014. <http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/2288959/person/-1834973339/storyx/75488b06-c0a8-46cd-a334-9c29240d2c27?src=search>.


"Texas, Marriages, 1837-1973," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FXMR-N84 : accessed 27 Sep 2014), J.Y. Hicks and Jessie Thompson, 21 Apr 1912; citing Erath County, Texas, , reference v M p 166; FHL microfilm 1428410.

Year: 1900; Census Place: Justice Precinct 1, Erath, Texas; Roll: 1631; Page: 36A; Enumeration District: 0064; FHL microfilm: 1241631.

Year: 1920; Census Place: Huckabay, Erath, Texas; Roll: T625_1801; Page: 14A; Enumeration District: 1; Image: 32.

Year: 1930; Census Place: Precinct 1, Erath, Texas; Roll: 2326; Page: 2B; Enumeration District: 0006; Image: 177.0; FHL microfilm: 2342060.