Selected Families and Individuals

Notes


Tabitha T. BLYTHE

1.  The 1880 Hays County, Texas Census shows Sarah Blythe age 96, b NC living with  her daughter, Tabitah Kinnard (age 56, b AL) and Tabith's younger children.   (How many ?)

2.  Headstone gives her husband's names of C. R. Harmon & Lemual Kinnard


Lemuel KINNARD

1.  Lemuel Kinnard may have had another wife and children before or after this brief marriage.


Tabitha T. BLYTHE

1.  The 1880 Hays County, Texas Census shows Sarah Blythe age 96, b NC living with  her daughter, Tabitah Kinnard (age 56, b AL) and Tabith's younger children.   (How many ?)

2.  Headstone gives her husband's names of C. R. Harmon & Lemual Kinnard


Robert Wood Henry MC MINN

1.  Alternate County of birth:  Rutherford.

2.  Sources:  1860 Cherokee County, Texas.
                     1880 Cherokee County, Texas.
                     Emily McMinn Lively

3.  Bio:  RWH McMinn died at his home three miles southeast of Rusk, Cherokee County, Texas, at the age of 84 years.  He was an honored, highly esteemed and worthy citizen of our community.  He came to TX some forty odd years ago from the State of GA. and lived here until his death.  At the age of 19 he enlisted as a voluntier soldier and aided in the transferring of the Indians from GA to the West.   The writer remembers the time, through the dark shadows of the death.   The deceased has been for years a consistent member of the Baptish Church and a worthy member of the Masonic Fraternity which buried him with the usual ceremonies.  He leaves two brothers and an aged wife and several sons and daughters and many warm friends to mourn his death.  Many of whom will soon follow.  Men seldom think of the shadow that falls across their pathway, binding from their eyes forever the visage of the face of loved ones whose living smiles were the sun light of their existence,  "Dear is the spot where Christians sleep, and sweet the strings their spirits pour, Oh why should we anguish see;  They are not lost, but gone before."

4.  Cuzn Jackie lists more children:   Lucella, Jehu, Robert Lee, James Franklin, David Solomon, and Della P., but, not proven.


Robert Wood Henry MC MINN

1.  Alternate County of birth:  Rutherford.

2.  Sources:  1860 Cherokee County, Texas.
                     1880 Cherokee County, Texas.
                     Emily McMinn Lively

3.  Bio:  RWH McMinn died at his home three miles southeast of Rusk, Cherokee County, Texas, at the age of 84 years.  He was an honored, highly esteemed and worthy citizen of our community.  He came to TX some forty odd years ago from the State of GA. and lived here until his death.  At the age of 19 he enlisted as a voluntier soldier and aided in the transferring of the Indians from GA to the West.   The writer remembers the time, through the dark shadows of the death.   The deceased has been for years a consistent member of the Baptish Church and a worthy member of the Masonic Fraternity which buried him with the usual ceremonies.  He leaves two brothers and an aged wife and several sons and daughters and many warm friends to mourn his death.  Many of whom will soon follow.  Men seldom think of the shadow that falls across their pathway, binding from their eyes forever the visage of the face of loved ones whose living smiles were the sun light of their existence,  "Dear is the spot where Christians sleep, and sweet the strings their spirits pour, Oh why should we anguish see;  They are not lost, but gone before."

4.  Cuzn Jackie lists more children:   Lucella, Jehu, Robert Lee, James Franklin, David Solomon, and Della P., but, not proven.


Patricia Ann MC MINN

1.  Patricia was the youngest child of Charles and Selma.  [Names of other children unknown]

2.  She was less than a year old when her father was killed.

3.  She moved to Wichita, Kansas with her mother and step-father later, where she met and married her husband.


Kathryn "Katie" Ann VERMILLION

1.  Kathryn currently resides in Plano, Texas  and has an art gallery.    [2002]

2.  As of 26 Jan 2004


Joseph Grundy MC MINN

1.  Alternate middle name by William T. Dowden: (Grundy)..."DT" gives middle initial of "G" , so there is strong possibility that "Grundy" is correct.  I had picked up the middle name of Andrew somewhere.

2.  Joseph was in Trinity County, Texas in 1860, and then in McLennan County, Texas in 1880.

3.  Biographigal Summary:   JOSEPH McMINN 1829-1865

    Joseph McMinn was born July 30th, 1829, in Hawkins Co., TN.  In 1830 his parents moved to Madison Co., IL, and five years later, they moved to Dallas County, Missouri.  He went to California in 1852, then went back to Missouri, returning to California in 1854, with a drove of cattle.  
    Uncle Dan Drumheller has published a book of his own early days, and in this story of his life, gives the following account of the trip.  "Joseph McMinn, in 1854, was planning to start for California.  He had  crossed the plains two years before and knew the trail wonderfully well.  He was the same breed as the pioneers that McMinnville, Oregon, is named after.  He wanted to venture to California  again with a bunch of 175 head of cattle he picked up at around twenty dollars apiece.  In California he would get ninety dollars for good steers three or four years old.
   He had three wagons, each drawn by four yoke of oxen, and there were three framilies with six men in his party, three women and a little child or two, and a couple of boys. They had half a dozen horses for handling their cattle.
   I, Dan Drumheller, got mothers consent to go and McMinn was glad to have me, for I was a handy youngster at handling either horses or cattle.  He let me put my two Arkansas steers with his bunch, and he provided me with a wonderful saddle horse named Arch.  The old pinto breed was a small round percheron quarter horse that came originally from England to America.  I rode her behind the bunch of cattle all the way from the Ozarks to the Sacramento River.  Oh, she was a lovely animal, with a crease down her backbone that you could roll a ball along.  Fifty years later, in the Santa Rosa Valley of California I met some of the McMinns who were driving a beautiful mare.  "Why that looks like old Arch," I said, and they told me she was the granddaughter of Arch.
   We struck out for California April 22, 1854, and crossed the Missouri River South of where Kansas City now stands, but there was no such thing as Kansas City then.  We crossed the Rockies at Sweetwater Pass on the Green River and sent to Box Elder, now the site of Ogden, where we met some Mormons, the first whites West of Fort Laramie, except for the emigrants.
   Striking West, we got into the Thousand Springs Valley in Northeast Nevada, [then part of the territory of Utah] then followed the Humboldt River to its sink and went forty miles further to the Carson River.
   Then we went to the Truckee River where Reno is now.  We crossed over the Sierras at Donner Pass and saw where the ill-fated Donner Party were caught in 1845.  You got some idea of the depth of the snow from the stumps twenty feet high where they cut trees for firewood.  These stumps are still standing.  Most of the Donner Party perished in their camp.  The rest were rescued by pioneers from Sutters Fort.  It seemed to me fifty or sixty died.
   On the West slope of the Sierras, we went through Hangtown, now Placerville, which was a camp of 2500 people with a few women, and we crossed the Sacramento River at the mouth of the Feather River September 22, 1854, just five months to a day after we started.
   The trip was nealy 2200 miles long.  We had moved every day and we did not lose a single animal.
   I left the McMinn Party at Feather River.  McMinn sold my steers for me at about ninety dollars apiece and I did a little trading in the cattle on my own account.

4.  1880 LDS Census Film 2355318 National Archives Film +9 Slurce:  1318 P.212A


Elizabeth Albina DENMAN

1.  1900 Montague County, Texas, Census:  Book 1, Page 116, Household 273.   Elisbeth McMinn, Head, May 1845, 55, widow, 10 child, 5 liv, GA, GA, GA.


Henry MC MINN

1.  1880 Census Soundex for Stephens County, Texas, Precinct 7 ED 172, Sheet 14, Line 41.

3.  Henry went into the Civil War along with two other brothers, Joseph G., and Elihu, who died along the way.

2.  Henry was in Smith County, Texas in 1870.


Emily Miriah HALL

1.  1880 Census Soundex for Texas, Stephens County, Precinct 7, ED 172, sheet 14, line 41.


Eleanor "Ellen" MC MINN

1.  According to Mrs. C. Ruggles of California, she was Great Granddaughter of Elanor and claimed she decended from the Kuykendall family.

2.  Source:  Carolyn Howington <207> McMinn Forum.
                   Sue Berry

3.  Elanor lived to be 95.