STIRPES
sent by a wounded soldier to Jim McDade--a list of the
killed, wounded and missing of McDade's Co. up to the
24th of April.
June 15, 1963: Joe Campbell wrote home the 27th of May just
after the Chaneyville fight where our boys fought hand to
hand with the Yankees. There were only a few on both sides
engaged all of the Travis boys were in it excepting Jake;
Joe wrote Grey Clemons was killed out of McDade's company.
July 3, 1863: I saw from the Countryman that Tom McDade is home-left
since the fight at Brishear where our boys were
successful. He says Stickney is dead. (Stickney Fowler,
a neighbor.)
July 14, 1963: Stopped at Mr. T. Cochrane's took dinner and spent
several hours. Mrs. C. was sick in bed. Ann was there &
her children.
August 26, 1863: When I came home from church today (Mr. Matthews
preached) found Ann McDade & Baby (baby looking very poor
& bad), Mollie Cochrane and Jimmie here."
McNUTT FAMILY
This family was worked up by Mr. Hugh McNutt, El Tex Hotel,
El Campo, Texas, who wrote me at the time he did this family that
he was nearly blind.
"Major Robert McNutt, b. 5-1-1795, supposedly in Tennessee;
died 8-31-1853, at Hutto, Texas. He was married 2-24-1818 to
Mary Jackson who was born October 26, 1796, at Bedford Co.,
Tenn.; buried at Hutto. They had ten children, as follows:
Children of Major Robert and Mary (Jackson) McNutt:
1) Eliza McNutt, born October 3, 1819; married lstly Uriah Sanders,
married 2ndly, Nelson Morey.
2) Nancy McNutt, born July 8, 1821, married lstly, James B. Allen;
married 2ndly, Dr. Knight.
3) Martha McNutt, born September 8, 1823, married Benjamin Allen;
4) Robert Brice McNutt, born February 2, 1826, married Elizabeth
Bush (See Bush family). (A son, Joseph McNutt, had a son,
Joseph Dennis McNutt, who was Chief of Police in Ballinger,
Texas; married Leonora Kaechele, also d: an Austin county
family. My first husband and I had an apartment in the home
of Chief and Mrs. McNutt in Ballinger.--OHC)
5) John William McNutt, died as a child.
6) Mary Eliz. McNutt, born January 30, 1830; married Parker M. Levi
7) Jane Catherine McNutt, born Jan. 16, 1832, m. Henry Munger.
8) A son born Feb. 5, 1834; died Feb. 19, 1834.
9) Tabitha Tennessee McNutt, b. Dec., 1835, died unmarried.
10) John Hamilton McNutt, born Dec. 22, 1838, married Mary Burrows,
a widow (see Mary Harris).
In the manuscript of this family there is a nice picture of
Mary Jackson McNutt....
(TO BE CONTINUED)
the perfect gift!
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