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HENRY MILLARD, FORGOTTEN TEXIAN
also had a daughter, possibly named Matilda.10 Millard's younger brother,
Sidney Hosmore Millard, also moved to Natchez, and in 1830 was living
with a group of young, single men in a house outside the city.l By this
time, Alfred had moved to Thibodauxville, Louisiana, and had opened a
store there.12
In the course of his business affairs in Natchez, Henry Millard met a
young Pennsylvanian named Thomas Byers Huling, who was in the steam-
boat business on the Mississippi River. The two men struck an acquain-
tance that was to endure for many years, serving them both well. In 1831,
Ruling, following the current dictum of expanding western horizons, left
Natchez and immigrated to Mexican Texas. He settled on the east bank of
the Angelina River and built a store in the little settlement of Old Zavalla.13
New Orleans
In 1831, Mary Millard bore her husband another son, whom they named
Henry Beaumont Millard. 14 On the last day of that year, the ambitious,
restless Millard sold his interest in F. Beaumont & Co. to his partner Franklin
Beaumont for $6,000.15 Sometime in the spring of 1832, Millard,
presumably in search of new business opportunities, moved his young family
101830 Mississippi Census. The census lists for Henry Millard's household a male child under
ten years of age (Frederick Sipe Millard) and a female child under ten years of age. (The only other
known child, Henry Beaumont Millard, was born in New Orleans in 1831.) There is no further
mention of this female child in any of Millard's records, indicating that, if she were his child, she
must have died very young. He himself declared for official purposes that he had two surviving
sons, and after his death, only they were listed as inheritors of his estate. In Millard's memoran-
dum book, in writing that resembles his wife Mary's, there is listed under the heading of "Washing"
a column titled "For Matilda," under which are enumerated 14 frocks, 6 aprons, and 5 diapers.
Mary Beaumont Millard had a sister, Matilda Beaumont Greenleaf (Mrs. Daniel), who died on
August 4, 1827, about a year after Henry and Mary Millard were married; probably this child,
if indeed she did exist, was named for her. (From Beaumont family genealogical records).
1lIbid.
12William Littlejohn Martin, Records and Recollections of Thibodaux, Louisiana (Thibodaux:
The Woman's Club), New Orleans Public Library.
13Madeline Martin, More Early Southeast Texas Families (Quanah: Nortex Press, 1978),
pp. 124-128.
14John H. Walker and Gwendolyn Wingate, Beaumont: A Pictorial History (Norfolk:
Donning Publishing Company, 1983), p. 35.
15Adams County Deed Records, Vol. T, p. 110, Adams County Court House, Natchez,
Mississippi.Nov. 1985]
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