1860 Census, Tarkington Prairie, Liberty County, TX:
G. L. Foreman 41 M Farmer 640 200 AL
J. Foreman 35 F AR
M. M. Foreman 13 F TX
George Foreman 12 M TX
H. H. Foreman 11 M TX
J. W. Foreman 9 M TX
Baxter Foreman 7 M TX
W. D. Foreman 5 M TX
Mary Foreman 3 F TX
M. B. Foreman 1 M TX
1880 Census, Precinct 3, Bell County, TX:
Hugh FOREMAN Self M Male W 31 TX Farming MS TN
Martha FOREMAN Wife M Female W 23 TX Keeping House TX TX
Mary FOREMAN Dau S Female W 6 TX TX TX
Eugen FOREMAN Son S Male W 4 TX TX TX
Welborn FOREMAN Dau S Female W 2 TX TX TX
Wm. RODGERS Other S Male W 22 TX Farm Labor --- ---
1880 Census, Precinct 3, Bell County, TX:
James KEEL Self M Male W 40 GA Farmer FL ---
Nannie KEEL Wife M Female W 35 FL Keeping House KY ---
Whit BRODEUAX Other S Male W 9 MS --- ---
Luzzie SPURRIER Other W Female W 50 IL House Servant KY KY
Eliza BERDIE Other S Female W 14 MS OH IL
Baxster FOREMAN Other S Male W 22 TX Farm Laborer --- ---
1835 Bevil District TX census:
Benjamin RICHARDSON, Married Farmer 59
Rebecca RICHARDSON, 27
Nancy RICHARDSON, 22
Andrew RICHARDSON, 19
William RICHARDSON, 17
Robert RICHARDSON, 15
Ketchum RICHARDSON, 8
George RICHARDSON, 6
Sarah RICHARDSON, 4
Repley RICHARDSON, 2
Jasper County census taken 18 December 1850 lists Rebecca Richardson (52) head of houshold, born in Georgia. In residence are Nancy (35), born in Mississippi, William (33) (Shoemaker), born in MS, George (22), born in MS, James (20) , Sarah (18), Ripley (16), Rebecca (14), Letty (12) - all born in Texas.
Ketcham was the first child of Benjamin's second marriage. He died about the same time as his father and brother, Robert, in some epidemic and was never married. After these illnesses and so many deaths in the family Rebecca Richardson decided that the Bluff was not a good place to live. She moved to Tyler County and bought a new home about a mile east of the present town of Hillister.
Benjamin and Sarah moved to what was to become Bulloch County, Georgia from Tyrell County, North Carolina in 1770.
He was granted land in Georgia based on his Revolutionary War service. The Bulloch County records show the following:
Indenture was made 8 Jan 1776; recorded 5 March 1799, between William Coursey, Sheriff of Screven County for the year 1795 and Hardy Richardson of Bulloch County, 350 acres taken by virtue of execution of the property of Benjamin Richardson, Esq. including the plantation whereon he now resides and sold to Hardy Richardson for $53 as highest bidder. Originally granted Benjamin Richardson in Effingham County, now Screven.
Bulloch County was created in 1796 (Deed Bk. A;, p. 21). He was a Surveyor of Roads in Effingham County, thus given Patriotic Service. (DAR #600067)
George lived at Town Bluff was a blacksmith, and had a tannery. He was also a saddler, a shoemaker and a gunsmith. During the Civil War he was released by special order of General John G. Walker from duty in Company K, 13th (Burnett's) Cavalry Regiment to return to his home and business on special assignment for the Confederate war effort. To accompish all he was expected to do he must have had a considerable establishment that employed a number of men. Every two months wagons brought shoes, saddles, harness and guns to be repaired. The train then picked up those left for repair on the previous trip. Besides the repairs, there was also a quota of new shoes, saddles, harness and so forth supposed to be ready.
George W. had bad luck with his wives. The first, Lettie Bridges of Liberty County, had 3 children before her death. The second wife was Lettie's sister, Matilda, who died at the birth of her first child, Richard. The third, Delitha Harvill, had 3 children before her death; the fourth, Mildred Williams Flowers, a widow, was the mother of 2 - Benjamin and Hannah. (this doesn't agree with the notes below ..SLM)
Notes from William Richardson, Channelview, Texas 24 January 1998:
I have found marriage records of marriages 2,3, and 4, but nothing on #1. However the unknown Gardner could be Mildred McKinsey that a G.W. Richardson married on 30 October 1872 in Tyler County. McKinsey being a married name and Gardner her maiden name???? George is buried in Beech Creek Cemetery in Tyler County.
George lived at Town Bluff was a blacksmith, and had a tannery. He was also a saddler, a shoemaker and a gunsmith. During the Civil War he was released by special order of General John G. Walker from duty in Company K, 13th (Burnett's) Cavalry Regiment to return to his home and business on special assignment for the Confederate war effort. To accompish all he was expected to do he must have had a considerable establishment that employed a number of men. Every two months wagons brought shoes, saddles, harness and guns to be repaired. The train then picked up those left for repair on the previous trip. Besides the repairs, there was also a quota of new shoes, saddles, harness and so forth supposed to be ready.
George W. had bad luck with his wives. The first, Lettie Bridges of Liberty County, had 3 children before her death. The second wife was Lettie's sister, Matilda, who died at the birth of her first child, Richard. The third, Delitha Harvill, had 3 children before her death; the fourth, Mildred Williams Flowers, a widow, was the mother of 2 - Benjamin and Hannah. (this doesn't agree with the notes below ..SLM)
Notes from William Richardson, Channelview, Texas 24 January 1998:
I have found marriage records of marriages 2,3, and 4, but nothing on #1. However the unknown Gardner could be Mildred McKinsey that a G.W. Richardson married on 30 October 1872 in Tyler County. McKinsey being a married name and Gardner her maiden name???? George is buried in Beech Creek Cemetery in Tyler County.
George lived at Town Bluff was a blacksmith, and had a tannery. He was also a saddler, a shoemaker and a gunsmith. During the Civil War he was released by special order of General John G. Walker from duty in Company K, 13th (Burnett's) Cavalry Regiment to return to his home and business on special assignment for the Confederate war effort. To accompish all he was expected to do he must have had a considerable establishment that employed a number of men. Every two months wagons brought shoes, saddles, harness and guns to be repaired. The train then picked up those left for repair on the previous trip. Besides the repairs, there was also a quota of new shoes, saddles, harness and so forth supposed to be ready.
George W. had bad luck with his wives. The first, Lettie Bridges of Liberty County, had 3 children before her death. The second wife was Lettie's sister, Matilda, who died at the birth of her first child, Richard. The third, Delitha Harvill, had 3 children before her death; the fourth, Mildred Williams Flowers, a widow, was the mother of 2 - Benjamin and Hannah. (this doesn't agree with the notes below ..SLM)
Notes from William Richardson, Channelview, Texas 24 January 1998:
I have found marriage records of marriages 2,3, and 4, but nothing on #1. However the unknown Gardner could be Mildred McKinsey that a G.W. Richardson married on 30 October 1872 in Tyler County. McKinsey being a married name and Gardner her maiden name???? George is buried in Beech Creek Cemetery in Tyler County.
1870 Census has her as "Lobitha".
George lived at Town Bluff was a blacksmith, and had a tannery. He was also a saddler, a shoemaker and a gunsmith. During the Civil War he was released by special order of General John G. Walker from duty in Company K, 13th (Burnett's) Cavalry Regiment to return to his home and business on special assignment for the Confederate war effort. To accompish all he was expected to do he must have had a considerable establishment that employed a number of men. Every two months wagons brought shoes, saddles, harness and guns to be repaired. The train then picked up those left for repair on the previous trip. Besides the repairs, there was also a quota of new shoes, saddles, harness and so forth supposed to be ready.
George W. had bad luck with his wives. The first, Lettie Bridges of Liberty County, had 3 children before her death. The second wife was Lettie's sister, Matilda, who died at the birth of her first child, Richard. The third, Delitha Harvill, had 3 children before her death; the fourth, Mildred Williams Flowers, a widow, was the mother of 2 - Benjamin and Hannah. (this doesn't agree with the notes below ..SLM)
Notes from William Richardson, Channelview, Texas 24 January 1998:
I have found marriage records of marriages 2,3, and 4, but nothing on #1. However the unknown Gardner could be Mildred McKinsey that a G.W. Richardson married on 30 October 1872 in Tyler County. McKinsey being a married name and Gardner her maiden name???? George is buried in Beech Creek Cemetery in Tyler County.
From:
EARLY SETTLERS IN JASPER COUNTY
THE FIRST TO ARRIVE
The Kirbyville Banner, August 4, 1971
Mrs. Charles MartinSusan Watts had two children by her second marriage, Elizabeth and Seaborn Berry. Elizabeth married Peter B. Pry, and Seaborn's wife was Adeline Glass, about whom nothing is known. Hiram, the eldest of the children of Thomas and Susan Watts, married Elizabeth Pace of Sabine County. Family records do not say if she were related to his half-brother, Hardy Pace. Hiram moved to Tyler County before 1850.
From a story published in the Beaumont Enterprise Nov 13, 1999 by W. T. Block
Another lone grave site, that of Seaborn Berry, is located in the Mobil tank farm at Port Neches, near where high land meets the Neches River marsh. Berry, originally from Newton County, moved to Smith Bluff about 1865, where he bought the 177-acre Maria Turner survey from Michael Staffen. Berry, already 70 years old, married Henrietta Staffen, a young widow with five children. Berry died in 1881 and was buried near his home.
The last time I saw Seaborn Berry’s tombstone, it was covered with blackberry briars and brambles and was located near an abandoned pump house. Seaborn’s brother, Radford Berry, who also moved to Smith Bluff in 1865, was earlier a land office agent for Lorenzo de Zavala’s colony at Nacogdoches and in 1835 had issued some of the Mexican land grants in Jefferson County
1835 Census, Bevil District, TX:
BERRY Sebern farmer 21
BERRY Adaline (GLASS) 211850 Census, Tyler County, TX:
Berry Sebern 36 m LA
Berry Adaline 30 f MS
Berry Mary C 12 f LA
Berry Lenora 9 f LA1880 Census, District 41, Jefferson County, TX:
Seaburn BERRY Self M Male W 65 WURTEMBERG Farmer --- PRUSSIA
Henriette BERRY Wife M Female W 30 TX Keeping House LA WURTEMBERG
George BERRY Son S Male W 11 LA Laborer LA WURTEMBERG
Wm. BERRY Son S Male W 9 LA LA WURTEMBERG
Adaline BERRY Dau S Female W 6 TX LA WURTEMBERG
Eli BERRY Son S Male W 4 TX LA WURTEMBERG
Alvena BERRY Dau S Female W 1 TX LA WURTEMBERGIn the 1870 census of Hardin County Tx there is a Seaborn Berry age 50 born in TX, with L. S. Berry age 3 and Mary age 30. Not sure this is the same guy but it's such an unusual name I thought I should make note of it. There is also a marriage record in Hardin County for a Seaborn Berry and Mary Woods m. 26 Nov 1867. SLM