_______________________
_Jerry Lee CROW ___________|
| |_______________________
|
|--Elizabeth Chylene CROW
|
| _Willie Richard BURGE _+
|_Margaret Elizabeth BURGE _|
|_Mary Alice BOGUE _____
[576] still living - details excluded
__
__|
| |__
|
|--Henry Montgomery MARTIN
|
| __
|__|
|__
______________________
_A.G. MCCORMACK ______|
| |______________________
|
|--Karl Leslie MCCORMACK
|
| _Leslie Lowery BAKER _+
|_Virgie Danell BAKER _|
|_Zeila Creo SHUGART __
[301] still living - details excluded
___________________________________
_Lige THOMPSON _________|
| |___________________________________
|
|--Doram Mae THOMPSON
|
| _William (Bill) Carouthers WILSON _+
|_Mary Elizabeth WILSON _|
|_Eliza LEACH ______________________
_George Washington WILSON _+
_Ira Edward WILSON _|
| |_Susan Jane FOSTER ________
|
|--Annie Beth WILSON
|
| ___________________________
|_Inez WILLIAMSON ___|
|___________________________
[413] Annie and her husband Travis live in Oklahoma.
_David Carroll Wilson, MAJOR _+
_David Carroll WILSON ___|
| |_Jane (Jean) Rowan SHARP _____
|
|--David Carroll WILSON
|
| ______________________________
|_Jane (Jinny) CAROTHERS _|
|______________________________
[108]
Carroll received 640 acres of land in Grayson County, Texas as an early
settler.
[109]
David Carroll was called Carroll to distinguish him from his father, who
lived nearby. Carroll was an educated man, and taught at Old Mantua. He was
a man of high moral standards and to help others. George was his only son and
the apple of his eye. The story was told as they were on the journey to Texas,
Carroll would have George put his head out of the wagon and yell "Hurrah for
James K. Polk" as they were passing through a town.
[110]
Mantua
(Pronounced Man-chu-way)
[111]
The old town of Mantua, two and half miles north of present day Anna, dates
back to 1854. In February of that year, William C. McKinney, J.W. Throckmorton
and Joseph Wilcox bought 200 acres of land from younger Scott McKinney (son of
Colin McKinney) and divided the tract into town lots, some of which they sold
to finance Mantua Seminary. H.W. Walcot built a store and in the second story
of this building Mantua Masonic Lodge No. 209 was organized on February 7,
1857. The lodge sponsored the school which was conducted on the lower floor of
the building. At the beginning of the Civil War, this lodge had 45 members, 36
of whom entered the Confederate Army.
[112]
There were, however, settlers in the surrounding community even before the
town developed. J.H. Arnspiger came there with his parents in 1845. Other
pioneers were Dr. J.H. Leslie, Oscar Riddle, W.K. Henderson, F.R. Slaughter,
N.M. Drye, D.W. Fulton, E.G. Beall, C.C. Walsh, J.W. Greer, J.A. Stinnet,
S.L., J.D.L., and James McKinney, the Blassingame, Cartwright, Kepler,
Thompson, Hawles, Huckaby, Garver, Moore, and Dumas families.
[113]
The Mantua Christian Church was organized in the home of Carroll McKinney in
1845, moved to the Liberty School in 1859, and later to a church erected in
Mantua.
[114]
After the Houston and Texas Central Railroad was built to the east of Mantua
in 1872, the townsite of Van Alstyne in Grayson County, Texas was purchased
from Ashley McKinney and the new town was laid out. Then practically the
entire population of Mantua was moved to the new location. When the Masonic
Lodge was moved, it retained it's former name, Mantua Masonic Lodge No. 209.
The population was 50 in 1861 but later reached 300 (Ref: Collin County
History, published 1958, J.L. and Lillian Stambaugh, authors).
[115]
Mantua, Volume 2
Handbook of Texas
[116]
Mantua Seminary, a project of the Mantua Masonic Lodge, was projected in
February 1854, when James W. Throckmorton and three other men bought
twenty-five acres of land for the site of the town of Mantua and set aside
lots to be sold to raise money for a Seminary to be located on the Northeast
corner of the townsite. The school trustees and wardens of the Lodge were not
able to erect a building, but the school was opened in 1859 on the lower floor
of the Lodge Building. The school was chartered in September 1, 1856. J. Myers
and his wife held two sessions in 1860, but the Civil War prevented building
until 1865, when a two story, sixteen room structure was erected. In 1868, the
school had eight teachers and eighty pupils. Most of the residents and
businesses of the town of Mantua moved two miles to the newer town of Van
Alstyne on the Texas Central Railroad in 1872, and the seminary closed in the
1880's. George Washington Wilson was attending the seminary when the Civil War
broke out.
[117]
Records say that in 1845 more than a thousand immigrant wagons crossed the Red
River going south and our ancestors, the Wilson's, were in this group. David,
the father, William and Carroll (David Carroll) sons, settled in Grayson
County. Pleasant, Leonidas, Betsy, James and Amanda were settlers in Collin,
Alexander was in Montague or Cooke. Jane was in Grayson, too, but of Robert
and Alisa, there whereabouts were unknown. This accounts for the 11 children
ending up in Texas. THey are all listed in the 1850 and 1860 Census in one or
the other of these counties. The Texas legislature created these counties
between March 17 and April 11, year of 1846, Collin, Grayson, Dallas, Hunt and
Denton. Pleasant Wilson was elected Chief Justice and served a few months, the
name was later changed to County Judge. He was also one of a committee to
select a site for a county seat to be known as Buckner. It is McKinney today.
1860 Census for Collin County gives the following information: David C.
Wilson, 42 years old, real estate $7,000 and Personal Estate $400. Mary A.,
age 45. George W. age 18. Isabella Jane, age 17. Sarah Louisa, age 16. Amanda
Ann, age 12, born in Texas. Priscilla Angeline, age 11, born in Texas. All
others were born in Tennessee. So, they all lived in Collin County in the
1860's.
[118]
Some additional information on David Carroll says he homesteaded a section in
Grayson County, after his children were in homes of their own. He gave George
adn Amanda Ann 108 acres each. He sold a part called the Throckmorton Place
and went to Cooke County and bought a section. Aunt Lou (possibly referring to
Sarah Louisa) and Aunt Lina (possibly referring to Priscilla Angeline) got
their part from the Cooke County land.
[119]
Carroll also is believed to be buried in Hackberry Cemetary, Grayson Co TX,
but his marker is gone also.
_Leonidas Thomas WILSON _+
_John WILSON _|
| |_Lula May SMART _________
|
|--Lee Randall WILSON
|
| _________________________
|_Unknown _____|
|_________________________
_David Preston WILSON _+
_Marcus Elbert WILSON _|
| |_Gabriella SHORT ______
|
|--Mila Alma WILSON
|
| _______________________
|_Susie RICHEY _________|
|_______________________