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B. A. (BIAS) WELLS married Mattie Bougher
(Borger) in Smith County. They moved to the Hawkins
area in Wood County before the Civil War. He enlisted
in the war and was seriously injured. He was dis-
charged in 1861. After Mattie Bougher Wells died, B.
A. Wells married Amanda McSpadden in 1884.
B. A. (Bias) Wells was the father of six
children:
Albert C., married Elizabeth Hitt
Rice
Flem
Floyd
Vera, married George Herbut
Myrtle, married Ray GlaznerWILLIAM DEFFIELD and MARY
ELIZABETH WEEMS FLOURNOY with
their children, John, Mary and Asa.WILLIAM WELBOURNE, born in North
Carolina in 1771, came to Wood County in 1850 and
settled in what became the Sand Springs Community
in the eastern part of the county. He was a wheelwright
by trade and owned and operated a mill and cotton gin
on Mill Creek.
William Welbourne's neighbors were Pink
Maberry (Mabry) and John Haney, for whom the
Haney Cemetery is named. A few years later, Reuben
Beavers, Reuben Herdon, Bert Glenn, Theophillis
West, Reuben Stapler, W. M. Stapler, Billy Stapler
and Felix Wells moved into the community.
Temperance Welbourne born 13 February 1828
married A. L. Adams in the Sand Springs area 15 July
1852. Temperance and Abner L. Adams were the
parents of Doctor R. C. Adams,who practiced medicine
in Hawkins for several years.
ALBERT C. WELLS was a farmer and lived north
of Hawkins. He and his wife, Elizabeth Hitt Wells,
were the parents of five children:
Grace, who died at the age of 12
Hadie Mae, married W. R. Parrish
Ella, married Gaston Holmes
Edna, married C. W. Cumbie
Marie, married W. B. Gaskins
Albert Cicero Wells was the only child of B. A. and
Mattie Bougher Wells. He was born in Wood County in
1867; his wife, Elizabeth Hitt Wells, was born in 1873
in Wood County. One of their daughters, Mrs. Hadie
Mae Parrish, lives in Hawkins and is believed to be the
oldest living native of the town.FELIX WELLS, with four brothers, Thompson,
Hansel, Billie and B. A. (Bias) Wells, came to Smith
County in 1843. They located on the Sabine River and
built a crossing called Wells Crossing. B. A. Wells later
operated a ferry at this location called Belzora Cross-
ing. Overland traffic on the old post road between
Dallas and Shreveport used the Belzora ferry. Ferry fee
was 25C.
Felix Wells, the eldest of the brothers, moved 8
miles north into Wood County and settled on Mill
Creek. He ran a one vat tan yard with 3 slaves helping
him. He also farmed and sold corn at 15c a bushel. He
had shoes and boots to sell and one could buy a pair of
brogans put together with a wooden peg with a buckle
on the side for the cost of $1.00. The Shamburgers were
among his customers. Felix Wells settled on Mill Creek
in 1844. The Wells brothers had come from Alabama.
THEOPHILUS WEST and his wife, Mary,
brought their family to Wood County from Tennessee
ca 1848 and settled in what became the Sand Springs
Community north of Hawkins. Theophilus West was a
farmer as were his neighbors, John Haney, Pink
Maberry, Reubin Stapler, W. M. Stapler, Felix Wells,
Bert Glenn, Reuben Beavers and William Welbourne.
Children of Theophilus and Mary West were:
Nancy, married Joe Surratt
Sarah, married (1) - Hogue; (2) James Enoch,
married Josephine Wells Lafayette, married
Janie Bradley Slagle
The children of Enoch and Josephine Wells West
were Alice, Edwin and Mary Florence. Mary Florence
West, born 1875, still lives in the same community,
now called Liberty, in sight of the house where she was
born. She attended the old Oakdale school and later158
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