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Below
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or notorious, people at this site. |
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(1800-1900) |
Aline Barnsdall |
Mother of modern (American) architecture. |
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Theodore Newton Barnsdall |
The largest independent oil producer of his times in the United States |
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William Barnsdall |
He drilled the second oil well in U.S. history, following Col. Edwin
Drake. |
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Mourad Bumstead |
Early Texas settler and veteran of the Siege of Bexar. |
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Daniel William Cloud |
Died defending the Alamo. |
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H.G.W. Cloud |
(1810-1897) -- Blind at age 21, he still served as tax assessor and
collector of Austin county, Texas. |
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| Dalton gang |
The Dalton gang -- The children of
James Lewis Dalton and
Adeline Lee Younger were born between 1852 and 1879. Adeline Younger's
half brother,
Henry Washington Younger, fathered the Younger gang, making the Dalton
gang and the Younger gang first cousins.They lived in Missouri, Kansas
and the Indian Territory (Oklahoma). |
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Judge James A. Elkins |
Judge James Anderson Elkins (1879-1972). Judge Elkins was a prominent
citizen of Houston, Texas and was a founder of the prestigious law firm
of Vinson & Elkins. |
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| Hardin family |
The Hardin family -- Hardin county, Texas is named for the Hardin
family of Liberty county. They were involved in a shootout in Tennessee
and fled to Texas to avoid prosecution. They became involved with the
Yocum gang of East Texas through marriage.
Benjamin Watson Hardin's wife,
Adelia Coleman, was first married to John Yocum (relative of the infamous
Yocum family of East Texas). John Yocum was shot and killed by his brother,
Thomas Denman "Tom" Yocum. John and Adelia's son,
Jesse Yocum, was participating in the Mier expedition when he was
accidentally shot and killed by John Christopher Hill.
John and Tom Yocum and their father and brothers were members of the infamous
Murrell gang of western Mississippi, who robbed and killed travelers along
the Natchez Trace. Tom Yocum became the leader of the "Yocum gang" known
throughout East Texas for thievery and murder.
Benjamin Hardin's brother,
Augustine Blackburn Hardin, married a niece of the Yocum gang -- the
daughter of Philip Dever and Mary Yocum,
Mariah Dever. |
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"Doc" Holliday |
Dr. John Henry "Doc" Holliday, D.D.S. (1852-1887) -- Dentist, gambler,
gunfighter, friend of Wyatt Earp and survivor of the Gunfight at the OK
Corral. |
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Kate Elder aka "Big Nose Kate" |
Mary Katherine "Kate" Horony, also known as Kate Elder and Big Nose
Kate. Daughter of a Hungarian doctor. Dance-hall girl, prostitute and
girl friend of Doc Holliday. |
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Lewis Ellington Jones |
(1878-1917) -- He wrote several hymns, including "Power in the Blood",
"We Shall See the King Someday", "All in All", "Lean on His Arms", "There'll
Be No shadows", and numerous other religious hymns. |
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T.P. Lee |
Partner in the Yount-Lee Oil Company of Texas, which participated
in the Spindletop oil boom. |
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Obadiah M. Kyle |
The first gusher at Spindletop was brought in on on the McFaddin,
Wiess & Kyle land. |
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Wm. P. H. McFaddin |
The first gusher at Spindletop was brought in on on the McFaddin,
Wiess & Kyle land. |
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Genl / Gov. William Calvin Oates |
1894 governor of Alabama and general in the Spanish-American War.
(1833-1910) |
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William Wilhelm Seybold |
(1795-1864) -- One of the founders of the Texas Medical Association
(1848). A successful physician in Germany, he immigrated to Newton county,
Texas by 1835. |
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Cyrus Thompson |
Veteran of the Battle of San Jacinto, one of the men who captured
General Santa Anna. |
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Harry Carothers Wiess |
Wiess college at Rice University is named for him. He helped found
Humble Oil Company (now Exxon) and was its third president until his death. |
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Mark Wiess |
He owned the largest lumber mill in the world at the end of the 19th
century -- the Reliance Lumber Company of Beaumont, Texas. He was
a successful inventor and influential businessman. |
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Simon Wiess |
Early settler of Texas and East Texas businessman. His sons played
an important role in the building of East Texas and the early oil industry
of the United States. |
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Valentine Wiess |
One of the most successful businessmen of early Beaumont, Texas, and
its largest taxpayer in 1913. Wiess Park and Wiess Avenue in Beaumont
are named for him. |
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William Wiess |
An influential businessman in early Texas and participant in the founding
of several oil companies, including the Texas Company (Texaco). His second
wife,
Elizabeth Carothers, was instrumental in saving
Southwestern
University in Georgetown from bankruptcy and his son,
Harry Carruthers Wiess, was a benefactor of Rice University and was
the third president of Humble Oil Company (Exxon). |
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Gov. Henry Alexander Wise |
Governor of Virginia, brigadier general under general Robert E. Lee,
and principal in the arrest and trial of John Brown. |
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| Yocum gang |
The Yocum family / Yocum gang --
Jesse Yokum and his sons joined John A. Murrell's "Murrell gang" of
western Mississippi. John A. Murrell began as an abolitionist who "liberated"
slaves. They were actually kidnapping them and selling them to farmers
in Louisiana. He was joined by
Jesse Yokum and his sons, Samuel Yocum, Matthias Yocum, Thomas Denman
"Tom" Yocum, James W. Yocum, Jesse Yocum and possibly his youngest son,
John Yocum.
Jesse Yokum's daughter,
Mary "Polly" Yocum, married
Philip Dever. Their son,
Thomas Dever, was a friend of William Hobard Whittington (son of
Melina Dalton Whittington). William named the town of Devers, Texas
after Tom. The town of Devers is located in Liberty county on the Melina
Whittington land grant, land granted to William's mother by the Republic
of Texas.
Another daughter of Jesse Yokum,
Catherine "Kitty" Yocum, married
Jacob Montgomery Shannon who later became a Texas Ranger and was descended
from the family that founded Montgomery, Texas, located in East Texas
on the west side of Liberty county. |
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| Younger gang |
The Younger gang consisted of the children of
Henry Washington Younger, most of whom served with Quantrill's Raiders
(aka Quantrill's Guerillas). Henry's son Cole (Thomas
Coleman Younger) was one of the founders of the James Gang, along
with Frank and Jesse James. Many members of the James Gang were also previous
members of the Confederate guerilla group known as Quantrill's Raiders.
Henry Younger's half sister,
Adeline Lee Younger, was the wife of
James Lewis Dalton, the father of the Dalton Gang. They lived in Missouri,
Kansas and the Indian Territory (Oklahoma). |
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| 200 - 400 years Past: (1600-1800) |
Moses Austin |
The father of the American lead industry and the first to obtain permission
to bring Anglo-American settlers into Spanish Texas. Father of Stephen
F. Austin. |
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Stephen F. Austin |
Known as "The Father of Texas". |
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Capt. Samuel Ball |
Served from New Jersey as Captain in the American Revolutionary War. |
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Gov. Joseph Blake |
Governor of South Carolina, 1694. |
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Joseph Cloud |
Head of the melting and refining department at the
first U.S. mint. |
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William Cloud |
Early settler of the American colonies and progenitor of many with
the Cloud surname in America today. He purchased land from William
Penn and settled in what is now Chester county, Pennsylvania. |
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Jasper Crane |
One of the original settlers of the New Haven Colony and cofounder
of Newark, New Jersey with
Capt. Robert Treat. |
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Rosanna Waters Farrow |
A Revolutionary War Heroine who rescued three of her five sons from
British forces. |
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Sophia Folsom "Lk-lo-ha-wah" |
Her Choctaw name means "loved but lost". After her husband's,
John Pitchlynn's, death, she moved to Indian Territory and is honored
for her contributions there to this day. Her grave is an historic
marker and the oldest grave in Oklahoma. |
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Temperance "Tempy" Ellis Frizzle |
An early Alabama pioneer, the story of Tempy Ellis was required reading
in Alabama schools. She was kidnapped at an early age by Indians
and spent a number of years with them. Her husband,
Thomas Frizzle, was murdered by a servant
at a family breakfast gathering in 1857. Check out the
Temperance Ellis Society home page. |
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Robert Treat Paine |
Signer of the Declaration of Independence. |
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Maj. John Pitchlynn |
He was appointed by President George Washington to serve as interpreter
for all the treaties between the Choctaw Nation and the United States.
He married
Sophia Folsom, |
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Jasper Seybold, R.S. |
(1730-1788) Revolutionary Soldier. |
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Gov. Robert Treat |
(1622-1710) -- He co-founded Newark, New Jersey with
Jasper Crane and founded Milford, Connecticut. He was the governor
of Connecticut during the Charter Oak Affair. He was Commander in Chief
/ King Philip's War and was a great-grandfather of
Robert Treat Paine, a signer of the Declaration of Independence (July
4, 1776). Click here for
the visit to Milford and his grave. |
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Col. Philemon Waters |
He served in the French and Indian Wars and is credited with firing
the first shot at Fort Necessity at Great Meadows, near Pittsburgh, in
the French and Indian War while serving under George Washington.
He was one of South Carolina's most illustrious statesmen. |
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Grief Whittington |
(1762-1848) Revolutionary Soldier. |
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(The above are but a few of the "notables". Follow
the links and look around.) |
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