Selected Families and Individuals

Notes


Kilkenny CLINGENPEEL

1.  Kilkenny & Sarah were married by the Rev. Francis McFarland.

2.  They moved from Virginia to Preble County, Ohio before 1830.


Sarah "Sally" FULWIDER

1.  The exact death of Sarah is uncertain.  On August 15, 1859, her five children, who were residents of  Preble County, were named as heirs at law of Sarah:  "Witnesseth that whereas the said Sarah Clingenpeel as a daughter and heir at Law of George Fulwider late of Augusta County, Virginia, deceased, was entlitled to an interest in the land left by the said Father..." [August Co., Va. Deed Book 79, pp.90-91]


Francis Marion "Frank" CLINGENPEEL

1.  Sandra Williams noted that 17 Nov 1857 was the date of the marriage application for Francis and Amanda.

2.  He enlisted on 25 Apr 1861 in Kokomo, Indiana into Company "E" 13th Indiana Volunteer Infantry, United States Army.  He was discharged on 1 Jul 1864 in Indianapolis, Indiana, but, re-enlisted in Jun 1865 as a private in Company "E" 40th Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and was discharged on 16 Nov 1865 at Port LaVaca, Texas, having served 4 years, six months.   The second tour in the military was a hired replacement for draftee John Mann of Union, Indiana.  It was a common Practice during the Civil War to hire another to take ones place in the military.

3.  Sandra Williams reported Francis's death to be on 26 Sep 1903.

4.  Francis & Sarah were married by W. C. Shaw, JP.


Amanda Jane COOK

1.  Her tombstone inscription reads:

                         "She lived as lives a peaceful
                         Dove and died as blossoms die
                         Now her spirit floats above,
                         A seraph in the sky."


Francis Marion "Frank" CLINGENPEEL

1.  Sandra Williams noted that 17 Nov 1857 was the date of the marriage application for Francis and Amanda.

2.  He enlisted on 25 Apr 1861 in Kokomo, Indiana into Company "E" 13th Indiana Volunteer Infantry, United States Army.  He was discharged on 1 Jul 1864 in Indianapolis, Indiana, but, re-enlisted in Jun 1865 as a private in Company "E" 40th Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and was discharged on 16 Nov 1865 at Port LaVaca, Texas, having served 4 years, six months.   The second tour in the military was a hired replacement for draftee John Mann of Union, Indiana.  It was a common Practice during the Civil War to hire another to take ones place in the military.

3.  Sandra Williams reported Francis's death to be on 26 Sep 1903.

4.  Francis & Sarah were married by W. C. Shaw, JP.


Joe GASTINEAU

1.  Joe Gastineau was married six times....


John KUYKENDALL

1.   Four children went to Tuscaloosa, Alabama, infering that there were more.


Mary Elizabeth SHIPMAN

1.  Elizabeth was sister to Jacob who married her cousin Esther Byers.

2.  Further reference in Artticle 477, Vol 1, Heritage of Henderson County, "Edward Shipman Family".

3.  Four children of John & Elizabeth went to Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

4.  See correspondence from Mrs. James C. (Emogene Clements) Armistead, Vol 2 pg 240 and Vol 5 pgs 238-239 from Luther A. Kuykendall, "Kuykendall Families".


Lucas Charles "Luke" BRITE

1.  Lucas "Luke" C. Brite was a "Stockman" or "Ranchman" who owned a ranch.


Edward McMinn "Eddie" ANDERSON

1.  Text from "The Brites of Capote" by Noel L. Keith:
"Edward Anderson visited her Uncle Edward McMinn in Texas when she was five years old.  Friends smiled at her and said amoung themselves that she was "muy bonita".  Uncle Edward operated one store in Brownwood and another at Buffalo Gap, near Abilene.  He was in a position to provide his young niece a delightful visit in the cowboy country.  On Sunday morning they all went to church in Brownwood.  The little lady wore her white dress with the pink sash - - and, of course, the new pink slippers.  And Uncle Edward proudly told everyone that she was his namesake".

"Her name is Edward McMinn Anderson", he said proudly.

"Born the fourth daughter in the Anderson family, the parents gave her the McMinn part of her name in memory of Governor Joseph McMinn of Tennessee.  Kate Adele Hill says in her book, Home Builders of West Texas, It is not likely that when Governor McMinn was presiding over his cabinet in 1815 that it was his remotest dream that his name would be carried to the Mexican border of Texas”.   But here it was indeed -- giving the name to a young woman who met and married Luke Brite.

“It is sometimes the custom in the South to bestow boys’ names upon girls, especially when family heritages are to be passed to the next generations.  The name “Edward” as well as “McMinn” had lineal significance.  The family shortened the Edward McMinn to the more personal, affectionate, and feminine “Eddie”.

“She had the flashing dark blue eyes and dark hair typical of the Scotch-Irish McMinns.  Luke Brite would often say, “You can pick a McMinn out of any crowd”.

“When she was nineteen and ready to make her second trip to Texas -- this time as schoolteacher at the McMinn Ranch -- she went from Schell City by train and stopped over in Fort Worth for a brief visit with her sister, Nellie Anderson.  From Fort Worth she took the Texas & Pacific train to Sierra Blanca.  When she arrived at Sierra Blanca the train connected to Marfa”.

“Contrasting with her native Osceola, in St. Clair Co., Missouri, this area of Texas was almost a complete change of geography.  She was born at Osceola, nineteen years before on January 25, 1875.  Now, as a grown young lady, she looked out upon the geography of Presidio County and found it a contrasting kind of country from the rolling prairie land around Schell City, in Vernon Co., Missouri where she had moved with her parents in September 1880 at the age of five.   This was the beginning place for a new kind of life”.

“The Texas cowboys changed her former ideas of cowboys. She learned in those early days on the McMinn Ranch, as a schoolteacher, how much the cowboys and ranchmen respected and honored and esteemed their “women folks”.   The men appreciated the place the women filled in making a good l ife in the West.  Chivalry was high and fine, and the McMinns added much to the stability and character of the kind of people committed to raising cattle to feed the world”.

After her husband’s death, in 1941, Eddie Brite served the remainder of his term on the board of trustees of Brite College.  She was the first woman to serve on that board.  In 1942, she was received as an honorary member of the Beta Iota Chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma, a national educational society.  She was given a life membership in 1945.  In 1948 TCU awarded her an honorary Doctor of Law Degree.

In May 2002, I asked the great-granddaughter of Eddie Brite for the dimensions of the old burr oak her uncle Robert Edward McMinn [my great-grandfather] planted as an acorn in the yard of his Marfa, TX house in 1885.  She contacted Texas A&M to do the job and they reported that the tree measured 65 feet tall and 12 feet around.  Now, that’s an impressive family tree!          

Katie Vermillion


Charles Edward MC MINN

1.  The history of Buffalo, Oklahoma, is intimately woven into and around the life of Charles McMinn.  He was born in Texas and went to Buffalo with his parents at the age of nine.

2.  He spent practically all of his life in Buffalo, and since his attaining manhood, "there was no worth-while movement in the community in which he did not figure as a leader".  

3.  On his graduation from the eighth grade, he immediately began work in the old Bank of Buffalo, in which his father and brother, Reo [who moved to Denver], owned a controlling interest.  Since that time he was always in the banking business in Buffalo.  When the Bank of Buffalo was sold in 1919 he immediately set out to organize another bank, which he accomplished with the aid of his father and S. J. Cooper, in the organization of of the Central State Bank, which he managed as his father had.  He owned a decidedly controlling interest in the bank at the time of his death.

4.  Charles Edward McMinn was killed in a tragic gun accident at the age of 39 in Buffalo, Oklahoma.

5.  K. A. Vermillion reports (a) that Charles was member of the Masonic Lodge, Easter Star, Woodsmen of America, Rebekah Lodge, Chamber of Commerce.   (b) Occupation 1:  1907, Bank of Buffalo, Buffalo, Harper, Oklahoma (since the 8th grade).  (c)  Occupation 2:  1925, President, Central State Bank, Buffalo, Oklahoma.
(d)  Residence 1:  Bet. 1894 - 1903, Marfa, Presidio, Texas.  (e)  Residence 2:  Bet. 1903 - 1933, Buffalo, Harper, Oklahoma.


Selma RING

1. Selma Ring McMinn Claycomb was buried on what would have been her 98th birthday, April 19, 2002.  

2.  She was buried next to her first husband, Charles Edward McMinn, who left her a widow before she was 29 years old.

3.  Family came from all over the USA to say goodbye to Selma on top of a windy hill at High Point Cemetery in Buffalo, Oklahoma.