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EAST TEXAS FAMILY RECORDS VOL.14, NO.3, FALL 1990
(ANDERSON COUNTY - Pioneer Families - continued)
Silas Scarborough was the eldest son of John Scarborough and Sarah Conn.
Both families can be found in the 1850 census of Union County, Arkansas. Silas
appears in the home of his parents with brothers and sisters, James, age 18;
Sarah, age 13; Louisa J., age 10; John, age 8; Samantha, age 6; Cornelia, age
6 and Lewis, age 2, all born in Arkansas. Yet he was counted again after he
married as he appears as head of household at the age of 21, wife Frances, age
16. /
It is not known if Silas Scarborough came to Anderson County, Texas, at the
same time as his father and mother. John and Sarah Scarborough bought land from
P.O. Lumpkin from the P. 0. Lumpkin Survey on 27 January 1853 for $800.00. John
and Sarah Scarborough sold this tract of land on 27 March 1854 for $5,000 to M.
Wren.
On 28 April 1855, John and Sarah Scarborough bought the north half of the
John G. Legg Survey from Mrs. Elizabeth Tannehill, wife of Benjamin F. Tannehill
for $600.00. (Deed Book F, page 66)
In Deed Book J, page 583, John Scarborough, bought 320 acres of the eastern
half of the 640 acre tract of Phillips Walker. This seems to be not recorded
until the time of the sale of the tract of land to William Chelsey Pickle for
$800.00 on 20 January 1860.
WILLIAM CHESLEY PICKLE
William Chesley Pickle was born 20 October 1820 in Anderson County, South
Carolina and died 4 November 1884 in Anderson County, Texas. He married 1st
Mary (Murphey) Pickle, circa 1841 and they had twelve children. William C.
Pickle and Mary Murphey Pickle are buried in the Olive Branch Cemetery at Brushy
Creek. Since William Chesley Pickle and family were members of the Church of
Christ it is thought that John or Silas Scarborough were minister of the church
where the Pickle family worshipped.
The children of William Chesley Pickle and Mary Murphy Pickle were:
(1) William Murphey Pickle (15 November 1842 - 26 April 1917).
(2) Charity Elizabeth Pickle (4 May 1845 - 1 March 1918).
(3) Lucinda Jane Pickle (3 July 1847 - 12 December 1907).
(4) James Albert Pickle (2 January 1850 - 13 November 1912).
(5) Nancy C. Pickle (17 March 1852 - ? 1908).
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