Texas Rangers, Ranchers, and Realtors

Texas Rangers, Ranchers, and Realtors

Author: Thomas O. McDonald

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

Published: 2021-03-25

Total Pages: 560

ISBN-13: 0806169737

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A native Georgian, James Hughes Callahan (1812–1856) migrated to Texas to serve in the Texas Revolution in exchange for land. In Seguin, Texas, where he settled, he met and married a divorcée, Sarah Medissa Day (1822–1856). The lives of these two Texas pioneers and their extended family would become so entwined in the events and experiences of the nascent nation and state that their story represents a social history of nineteenth-century Texas. From his arrival as a sergeant with the Georgia Battalion, through the ill-fated 1855 expedition that bears his name, to his shooting death in a feud with a neighbor, Callahan was a soldier, a Texas Ranger, a rancher, and a land developer, at every turn making his mark on the evolving Guadalupe River Basin. Separately, Sarah’s family’s journey reflected the experience of many immigrants to Texas after its war of independence. Thomas O. McDonald traces the pair’s respective paths to their meeting, then follows as, together, they contend with conflict, troublesome social mores, the emergence of new industries, and the taming of the land, along the way helping to shape the Texas culture we know today. With a sharp eye for character and detail, and with a wealth of material at his command, author Thomas O. McDonald tells a story as crackling with life as it is steeped in scholarly research. In these pages the lives of the Callahan and Day families become a canvas on which the history of Texas—from revolution, frontier defense, and Indian wars to Anglo settlement and emerging legal and social systems—dramatically, inexorably unfolds.


The Stegall Family of Pontotoc County, Mississippi

The Stegall Family of Pontotoc County, Mississippi

Author: Edith Jenkins Simpson

Publisher:

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 674

ISBN-13:

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Family history and genealogical informetion about the descendants of Jeremiah Green Stegall Sr. who was born 10 November 1806 in Union Co., North Carolina. He married Margaret Clementine Morrison 20 January 1828. They were the parents of six children. Jeremiah died 17 July 1876. Descendants lived in Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama and elsewhere.


The Lookout Mountain Mortons and Their Descendants

The Lookout Mountain Mortons and Their Descendants

Author: Donna Morton Morgan

Publisher:

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13:

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A genealogy of the Morton family of Lookout Mountain, Walker County, Georgia who are the ancestors and descendants of Joseph Washington Morton born in 1857 in McMinn Co., Tennessee. He married Mary Jospehine Bradford in 1879 and died in 1922.


Descendants of John & Mary Morrison of Rocky River

Descendants of John & Mary Morrison of Rocky River

Author: Alice Marie Morrison

Publisher:

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 522

ISBN-13:

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John Morrison (ca. 1726-1777), son of William Morrison and Janet Hall, was born in Campbeltown, Argyll, Scotland. He married Mary Morrison (1732-1781), born in Scotland. John immigrated to America and possibly settled in Pennsylvania before coming to North Carolina. Both died in Mecklenburg County, N.C. (possibly present day Cabarrus County). Descendants lived in North Carolina, Kentucky, Mississippi, Tennessee, and elsewhere.