FIRST GENERATION

1. Roberson SLOUGH was born on 26 Sep 1826 in Cabarrus County North Carolina. He died on 13 Apr 1880 in Holder, Brown County, Texas. Robertson was buried in Pleasant Valley Cemetery near May, Texas, in Brown County.
There is a stone on his grave.
He fought in the Civil War, but was listed as a deserter. Perhaps he went home to plant crops or something?
He was a blacksmith in Carthage Mississippi, in the 1850 census. The old building is still standing

He was married to Mary E. REYNOLDS on 14 May 1848 in Bentson (Calhoun) County, Alabama. Mary E. REYNOLDS was born between 1825 and 1827 in Tennessee or Alabama. She died on 16 Jan 1916 in Holder, Brown County, Texas. After the death of her Husband, Mary E. Reynolds Slough was given a section of land by the railroad. There is still a tract called the Mary E. Slough Survey, on the county map. She lived with her son, John Wesley, after she became incapable of living. She sold her land, and we have the copies of the deeds. She made her mark.
This information was taken from the May history book, and the brown County Court house. Roberson SLOUGH and Mary E. REYNOLDS had the following children:

+2 i. William Thomas SLOUGH.
3 ii. Ellen Virginia SLOUGH.
4 iii. George W. SLOUGH was born in 1855.
5 iv. Robert A. SLOUGH was born in 1858.
6 v. John Wesley SLOUGH was born on 16 Jan 1862. John Wesley is buried near his parents in the Pleasant Valley Cemetery near May, Texas, in Brown County.
He once lived in Lawn, Texas, and there is an article from an old newspaper, the Lawn Echo, in the May History book, written by him, about a buffalo hunt he went on in 1877. The article reads,
"Well I am back here in 1877 where I left you last week.
"Sometime in February I, with some fifteen others, pulled out for the buffalo range, and my anticipation almost reached the skies. My forst thought was to get me a buffalo, and next an Indian. So as we jounced along up th emeandering of the Pecan Bayou, when we passed the last house and followed the old buffalo trail through Buffalo Gap, now in Taylor County, my eyes were strained looking for the monster buffalo. But instead of a buffalo we found a newly built dwelling just in the gap of the mountains. The man's name I have forgotten; but we traveled on. One night we camped near where Sweetwater now stands, and behold about 9'oclock that night our horses stampeeded. Now every man to his post and look out boys for the Red man is coming. But he did not show up, and after a chase of two or three hours, a big old sorrel horse dragging a good sized mesquite bush did show up, and that was finding number one. On the next day I saw my first buffalo. There were nine old bulls going northwest, so I went to head them off, and I did, but the heading came the other way. By chance O got back to the wagons and did not leave them that day, but on and on we went. We crossed the Colorado River just below where Colorado now stands, and on we went. We camped at Big Spring for several days; and we got in with another bunch of Brown county people. At that time we were some thirty-five or forty strong. There were thirty-four or five wagons, all told, and we pulled on further. About the twentieth of March we camped at Wild Horse Springs, seventy miles northwest from Big springs. There I got my first buffalo, and he was a dandy. Later I killed a two-year-old with a cap and ball five shooter, so we soon got all the game we wanted, and started on our return.
On the night of 5 April 1877 we divided up in squads of five or six. A storm came up from the southwest and three somebodies, Indians I guess, made for our wagons where our horses were tied; but they would not let me shoot, so I did not get my Indian, but I did get back home all right.
On Saturday night 9 June 1877, there fell one of the heaviest frosts that I ever saw. Corn was tasseling, but the front killed it just the same. As the sun came up next morning the corn went to the ground. The frost extended as far east as the Brazos river.
7 vi. Julia S. SLOUGH was born in 1865.

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