Howard, Sophia (b. 1841, d. ?)

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Note: 1900 Harison Co. Tx census:
Thos P Hughes....Dec 1873......26.....ILL...............name indexed as Wm
Mary F Hughes.......Jan 1878.....22......TX
Lilliam Hughes.......Jan 1900.....11 months.....TX
Pearl Runyon.....visitor
Emma Tribble.....boarder
1910 Dallas Co. Tx census:
Thomas P Hughes......36.....b. ILL.....married 12 years, 3 children born, 3 living
Mary F Hughes.....32.....TX
Lillian I Hughes......10.....TX
Thomas P Hughes Jr......5.....TX
William E Hughes....1 1/12.....TX
1920 Dallas Co. Tx census:
Mary F Hughes.....42.....TX.....widow
Orina L Hughes....20.....TX
Thomas Hughes....15....TX
William E Hughes......11.....TX
Mary E Hughes.....8.....TX
and 3 roomers
Birth: Dec. 10, 1873
Springfield
Sangamon County
Illinois, USA Death: Dec. 20, 1915
Oak Cliff, Dallas County, Texas, USA
He was a barber in Marshall,Texas where he met my grammy.Mary Frances Power.They moved to Dalls in 1899-1900. He had a barber shop in the Southland Hotel in Dallas until his death at age 42. He left my grammy a widow at age 37. He also had 4 children ages,15,11,8 and 4. My grammy never remarried. She truely loved him. by Margaret Ellis

Note: Beulah was first married to Ben Boatwright. Theressa was her daughter and Nelson's step-daughter.

Note: Name & dates from Death Certificate.

1920 Spokane, WA census:
Nicholas and Regina Ihly, b. Russia
8 children, including Irene, 18, b. N.D.

Note: Maiden name sent to Ancestry.com by Jackie Hudson.

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Note: 1900 Gibson Co. Tennessee census:
Millard Hamilton b Dec 1857 43 TN TN TN
Addie Hamilton b Mar 1861 39 TN TN TN
Stanley Hamilton b Dec 1890 9 TN TN TN
Velma Hamilton b Apr 1892 8 TN TN TN
Glen Hamilton b Mar 1895 5 TN TN TN
Dwite Hamilton b Nov 1896 3 TN TN TN
Edith Hamilton b Dec 1898 1 TN TN TN

1910 Gibson Co. Tennessee census:
Millard F Hamilton Sr 53
Addie Hamilton 49
Stanley Hamilton 19
Velma G Hamilton 17
Henry G Hamilton 15
Francis D Hamilton 13
Edith L Hamilton 11
Mabel R Hamilton 9
Millard F Hamilton Jr 6 all born in Tennessee

1920 Gibson Co. Tennessee census:
M F Hamilton 63
Addie Hamilton 59
Genn Hamilton 24 (Glenn ?)
Edith Hamilton 21
Mable Hamilton 18
M F Hamilton Jr 16 all born in Tennessee

1930 Gibson Co. Tennessee census:
M F Hamilton Sr 74
Ade Hamilton 69
Mamie Hamilton 14 (granddaughter)
Mabel Hamilton 13 (granddaughter)

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Note: 1860 Gibson CO. TN census:
B F James....25...TN
Sarroh James.....22...TN
Nancy James....1/6...TN

1870 Gibson CO. TN census:
B. James....32.....TN........(next to R. L. James and Joanna)
Sarah James......30......TN
Nannie James....10.....TN
Perry James....8....TN
Jenny ? James.....2....TN

1880 Gibson CO. TN census:
B. F. James....44...TN
S. C. James....42...TN
N.J. James....20...TN
P.D. James....18...TN
J. C. James....14....TN
M. V. James....12...TN.....Jenny shoud be this age - maybe nickname?
Robt. James....10....TN
B. B. James....5....TN
R. A. James....1....TN

1900 Gibson, TN census:
Sam ? Olvis....Sept 1872......27....TN
Anie Olvis....May 1878....21...TN
Ben J. James....April 1835.....65.....TN .....father in law
Ben B James....Jun 1876....24....TN...... brother in law

Note: 1900 Gibson Co. Tennessee Census:
T. H. Bradford b. Jan 1873 27 b. Tennessee Tennessee Tennessee
Edith Bradford b. Aug 1875 24 b. Tennessee Tennessee Tennessee
Ollie Bradford (boarder) b. Dec 1885 16 b. Tennessee Tennessee Tennessee

1910 Runnels Co. Texas Census:
T H Bradford 36 Tennessee Tennessee Tennessee
Edith Bradford 34 Tennessee North Carolina (?) Tennessee
Fain ( ?) Bradford 7 Oklahoma Tennessee Tennessee - daughter
Frances (?) Bradford 9 months Oklahoma Tennessee Tennessee - daughter
Not sure about names of children..
They are living next door to his brother, J Z Bradford and family.

1920 Shelby Co. Tennessee
J Z Bradford Head 54 b TN TN TN
Isce (?) Bradford wife 43 b TN TN TN
Annie Bradford daughter 26 b TN TN TN
Joseph Bradford son 9 b TX TN TN
Thos H Bradford BROTHER 47 b TN TN TN
Edith Bradford sister-in-law 42 b TN TN TN
Frances Bradford niece 11 b OK TN TN

1930 Shelby Co. Tennessee
Thomas Bradford 51 (57?) b OK OK OK (probably incorrect)
Edith Bradford 51 b TN TN TN

Note: 1880 Gibson Co. Tennessee, Census:
Henry James 31 Farmer B. TN Parents b. TN
Lizzie James 24 wife B. TN
Edith James 72 mother B. TN and Parents b. TN ?
Robbie Hawkins 5 adopted
Joseph Fulghum servant

Note: Info from WW I draft registration.

Note: The information below comes from an old family tree given to us many years ago---my own name is recorded incorrectly on it as are those of some of our children--so there is room for error, but for the most part it is accurate I believe. I hope you will find it interesting!!
Beverly Rogers (wife of Craven Clark Rogers, Jr. descendant of Nettie Clark James)

From "the History of Francis Marion James and Hepsey Ann O'Daniel"
Creator unknown -- provided to us years ago (probably around 1963) by Craven Clark Rogers and Agnes McCarthy Rogers from Oklahoma family source.

"Dr. Francis Marion James was born near Murfreesboro, in Middle Tennessee, April 3, 1828, the son of John P. James II and Edith (Eady) Powell. We do not have the early history of his parents, but his mother was born August 18, 1807 and and died January 12, 1882. John II was the son of John P. James I and Elizabeth, whose maiden name we do not know. [we know now that her maiden name was Lenoir]
John I was born February 17, 1755, of English descent, but we do not know whether he was born in England or the colonies. He first lived in Virginia and later moved to Middle Tennessee, near Murfreesboro. Elizabeth was born September 23, 1757. We do not know how many children they had, but they did have one son, John I James born February 17, 1789.

When John II was a small boy, the family moved west and settled on a farm about three miles from what is now Gibson, Tennessee, then called Picketville. John I died August 7, 1840, and his wife died October 8, 1845.

John II married Edith (Eady ) Powell, June 12, 1826. They had nine children, five boys and four girls. Of the five sons there were three doctors: Francis Marion (our grandfather), John III, and George. Francis Marion taught one term of school, then went to Nashville, where he earned his MD degree from the old Universiy of Nashville, which later grew into Vanderbilt Universiy. John (called Jack) and George received their M D degrees from Louisville and St. Louis.

Francis left Gibson and began practicing medicine at Walnut Grove, a rural community near Rutherford, Tennessee. There he boarded in the home of Stephen O'Daniel, who had a daughter named Hepsey Ann, who Francis married July 4, 1858. Hepsey Ann had attended a college located between Milan and Gibson, no longer in existence.

Stephen O'Daniel, born December 5, 1812, in Duplin Cty, NorthCarolina, was the son of Alexander O'Daniel and Annie Keathley O'Daniel. Annie was of Scotch ancestry the daughter of Jonathan Keathley and Nancy Herring Keathley, granddaughter of a Mr. Herring and Charity Grady Herring. We do not know when the early ancestors left Scotland, nor where Annie was born (North Carolina), but they came to America at an early date and settled in North Carolina .

Alexander O'Daniel I was the son of William O'Daniel and his wife whose maiden name was Goodwin, about whom we have no information. William O'Daniel was the son of Frederick O'Daniel and Charity Whitfield O'Daniel. Frederick came from Donegal, Ireland, to Lancaster County, England, where he married Charity Whitfield. He brought his young bride to Virginia in 1723. They settled in Nansemond County, Virginia, near Suffolk, then moved to Bertie County, North Carolina, near Windsor, then to Duplin County, North Carolina, about 1738.

Stephen married Clarkie Branch in 1838. Clarkie was born in North Carolina in 1819, daughter of Archelus and Esther Branch. We do not know Esther's maiden name, nor any dates or information concerning these ancestors, except that they were English. We do not know when the O'Daniel's , Branches, and Keathleys migrated to West Tennessee; but as our other ancestors they probably moved from Virginia to North Carolina, to Middle Tennessee, and then to West Tennessee. We do know that Hepsey Ann O' Daniel, our grandmother, was born in Middle Tennessee, near Murfreesboro, and that our Grandfather James was also born near Murfreesboro. He moved with his family to West Tennessee at the age of fourteen. (We do now know that Esther's maiden name was Grimes)

Dr. Francis Marion James and his wife Hepsey Ann, with their large family of nine children, lived on a farm near Rutherford in the Walnut Grove Community. All the children were born there. Of the nine, two died at about the age of two years, but the other seven grew to adulthood and had families. Their stories make separate narratives, and should be written and attached to their individual family trees.

Dr. James practiced medicine at Walnut Grove for some twenty five years, travelling in buggy and on horseback. Much of his practice was done on a charity basis, and he never became a wealthy man. He was a Mason. It is our understanding that the family owned two or three slaves for domestic services and perhaps farm work.

In 1881, having been forced to give up his practice because of illness--a stroke had left him lame--he sold his farm and moved to Gibson, near his brother Jack's farm. The two older sons, John Henry and Thomas, made a crop there in 1881. As Dr. James was showing no improvement in health, he moved with his family to Eureka Springs, Arkansas, a famous health resort. Five months later he suffered another stroke and died April 29, 1882. He was buried at Eureka Springs. Three weeks later, his little son, Stephen, was drowned in a tub of water at a neighbor's home, and was buried beside his father.

The family continued to live at Eureka Springs for three and a half years. John Henry and Thomas went to Kansas to work in the lead mines for a while. Afterwards they went to Webbers Falls, Indian Territory, and moved the family there in a covered wagon. they lived on Blackstone Ranch. Addie, who had been teaching school, went back to Greenfield, Tennessee, to live with her Uncle Dr. George James, and taught school two years. Later (we do not know the year) Dr. James' widow Hepsey Ann, our grandmother took her two youngest children, Frank and Edith, back to West Tennessee, and lived with her husband's brother Henry James. She developed cancer and went to live with Dr. George for treatment, but died after three or four months, on August 25, 1886. She is buried in an old cemetery between Gibson and Milan and a tombstone stands there with her name on it.

Bibliography
The information contained in this narrative and in the Family Tree came from various sources, not documented, including:
G. Frank James, from his records and memory.
Nettie James Vermillion's Bible record and from Sally Vee Vermillion (Rogers) Shockley).
Addie James Hamilton's Bible record, brief note to Mabel dated September 10, 1948, and notes made by Mabel from conversation with ther mother.
Letter from Fred P. Elrod of Rutherford , TN to G. Frank James, written October 10, 1961 (This was the information received regarding Frederick O'Daniel and his wife Charity Whitfield, Mr. Elrod's great, great , great Grandparents as well as ours.)
Letters and other information obtained from various members or the entire family.
A paper prepared by Lynette Hamilton Condron (undated) while a student at Tulsa, Oklahoma entitled "The story of the Bledsoe Family with subtitle "The Story of the James Family" and the "Story of the Hamilton Family". Her information, however was obtained in most part from the sources named above."

The above info copied and entered here by Beverly A. Rogers

1850 Gibson County, Civil Dist. 18, Tennessee Census:
John P. James 50 Farmer b. VA (age probably s/b 60 - per tombstone)
Edith James 44 b. NC
FRANCIS 22 Farmer b.TN
Robert 21 Farmer b.TN
five more children, can't read names - ages 19,17,14,8,3

Tennessee Marriage Records - Gibson County
JAMES, F M marr Daniel, H A O Miss on 02-JUL-1858
(this would be Francis Marion "Frank" James and Hepsy Ann O'Daniel)

1870 Gibson County, Civil Dist. 18, Tennessee Census:
Frank James 42............Physician b. TN
Hepsey James 28............ b. TN
John James 11 b. TN
Adda 9 b. TN
MATTIE 7 b. TN
Tom 5 b. TN
Nettie 3 b. TN

1880 Gibson County, District 19, Tennessee Census:
Francis James W 51 Head M Physician TN VA SC (?)
Hepsie James W 37 Wife M keeping house TN NC NC
Addie James W 19 Dtr S teacher TN TN TN
Mattie James W 16 Dtr S TN TN TN
Thomas James W 14 Son S at school TN TN TN
Nettie James W 12 Dtr S TN TN TN
Geo. F. James W 6 Son S TN TN TN
Edith James W 4 Dtr S TN TN TN
Infant W 3m Son S TN TN TN
Charles Thacker W 22 Boarder S farm laborer TN TN TN
George Emery W 21 Boarder S shoemaker Eng Eng Eng
Jas. W. Hicks W 22 Boarder S painter Ire Ire Ire
Finis Fisher W 19 Boarder S machinist TN Can Can
Thomas Webb W 17 Boarder S trunk maker TN TN TN
Jas. A. Woodard B 19 Boarder S teacher MS SC SC
Kinel Bray B 30 Boarder W farm laborer GA GA GA
Harriet Keathly B 25 Servant W TN NC NC

Bluff Springs Cemetery transcriptions:
Cemetery is between Gibson and Milan, Tennessee
Edith James, wife of J.P. James, born Aug 18, 1807, died Jan 12, 1882
Our Mother "She did what she could"

John P. James, Died October 20, 1865, aged 76 yrs. 8 mo's d da's
Erected by his grateful children

Hepsey Ann O'Daniel James,, wife of Dr. F. M. James
June 22, 1842 - Feb 25, 1886 - Have pictures of headstone. old and new

Event: Type: Census (2)
Date: 1870
Place: Gibson County, TN

Event: Type: Census (3)
Date: 1880
Place: Gibson County, TN

Census: Date: 1850
Place: Gibson County, TN

Note: George Francis James usually used the name Frank.

1900 Oklahoma (Territory) Census.
Lincoln, Seminole Township
Jess Vermillion b. Sep 1862 age 37 b. Missouri father b. VA mother b. KS
Nettie C Vermillion b. Nov 1868 age 31 b. Tennessee " TN " TN
Del W Vermillion b. Oct 1886 age 13 b. I.T.
Sallie Vermillion b. Aug 1890 age 9 b. I.T.
Jesse E Vermillion b. Dec 1898 age 1 b. I.T.
FRANK JAMES (boarder) b. July 1874 age 26 b. Tennessee father b. TN mother b. TN

1910 Wagoner Oklahoma Census:
G. Frank James 36 Tennessee TN TN
May James 31 Tennessee TN TN
Ruby James 3 Oklahoma

1920 Wagoner Oklahoma Census:
Frank James 46 Widower Tennessee TN TN
Ruby James 13 Oklahoma

1930 Muskogee Oklahoma Census:
G Frank James 55 Tennessee TN TN
Molly James 40 Arkansas GA NC

Also in the 1930 Muskogee OK, census, there is a Ruby M James, Lodger, 23 divorced, b. OK. and parents b. TN - no proof.

WWI Draft Registration Card - September 12, 1918
George Francis James, Wagoner Okla.
Lists nearest relative - Miss Ruby James

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