Family Group Record
30 Mar 2006
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Husband:
Cornelius Butcher MCGUIRE[1,2,3,4,5,6]
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Born[2]:
18 Nov 1822 Place: Bedford Co, Tn
Christened:
Place:
Died: 9 Jan 1903[7]
Place: Charleston, Delta, Texas[7]
Buried:
Place: Charleston, Delta, Texas[7]
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Married:
3 Jun 1847[8] Place: Bedford Co, Tn[8]
Other Spouse: Salina DUKES
Married: 1 Mar 1860[8] Place: Hopkins
Co, TX[8]
Other Spouse: Mary Ann GOLLITHAN
Married[10]:
1847 Place:
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Husband's
father: Thomas MCGUIRE{+}
Husband's mother: Anna Tabitha LEE
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Wife:
Salina DUKES[8]
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Born[8]:
26 Feb 1839 Place: Illinois
Christened:
Place:
Died: 25 Jul 1916[8] Place:
Charleston, Delta, Texas[8]
Buried[8]:
Jul Place: Charleston, Delta, Texas
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Other
Spouse: Cornelius Butcher MCGUIRE
Married: 1 Mar 1860[8] Place: Hopkins
Co, TX[8]
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Wife's
father: Henry DUKES
Wife's mother: Clarinda VANCIL
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Children
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1.
Thomas Rufus MCGUYER[13]
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M
Born: 14 Mar 1848[14] Place: Bedford
Co, Tn[14]
Christened:
Place:
Died[14]: 28 Aug
1949 Place: Charleston, Delta, Texas
Buried[14]: 29 Aug 1949 Place:
Charleston, Delta, Texas
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Spouse: Emily Harriet "Hattie" OATS
Married:
23 Jun 1872 Place: Delta Co, Texas
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2.
Synthy Elizabeth MCGUYER[14,16]
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F
Born: 15 Nov 1854[14,16] Place: Tennessee[16]
Christened:
Place:
Died: 22 Aug 1941[14,17] Place: Charleston,
Delta,
Texas[14]
Buried:
Place: Charleston, Delta,
Texas[14]
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Spouse: Joseph Henry OATS
Married: 17 Dec 1874[19] Place: Charleston,
Delta,
Texas[19]
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Notes:
HUSBAND
- Cornelius Butcher MCGUIRE
Transcription of 1880 Delta Co Census, Precinct 5, shows his name as
Cornelius
M. McGuire.
All children born to Carnelius and Salina Duke taken from 1880 Delta
Co. census.
Donated
land for what is now the present day Charleston cenetery when
his first wife, Mary Ann Gollithan, died in 1859.
CHILD
2 - Synthy Elizabeth MCGUYER
Age shown as 55 in 1880 Hopkins County census and also shows her
first name as
spelled CINTHA.
Her name is spelled "Sinthey" in Delta County History pp 256.
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Sources:
1.
1880 Deltas Co, Census, Precinct 5, Precinct 5, # 275. Shows birth
State as Missouri and his age as 56, occupation farmer,
no birth States
for his mother and father.
2. FAMILY REUNION - JULY 5, 1923. " A REUNION OF C.B. MCGUYER'S FAMILY
AND RELATIVES AT CHARLESTON, DELTA COUNTY,TEXAS JULY 6, 1923.
Cornelius Butcher McGuyer was born November 18,
1822 in Bedford
County, Tennessee. He professed faith in Christ when but a child of eight
yerars of age and joined
the M.E. Church, South, to which he wa ever
loyal. He grew up to manhood at the place of his birth. While yet a young
man, 24 years of age, he enlisted in the Mexican War under Zachary
Taylor. He was shot down in the first battle, Monterrey,
and was within
forty steps of hge Fort, before he was carried from the battlefield - he
was shot again. A little later
he received a wound from a spent shell
which engered the top of his right shoulder and lodged in his left lung
where
it ever remained. After being taken to a hospital and given medical
treatment, he was discharged and returned home. In
1847 he was married
ti Mary Ann Golithan, who was born and raised in his native home. Six
chldren were born in thi
union - five in Tennessee and one in Texas. In
the fall of 1855, he with a host of relatives started out in the search
of a new home, and landed five miles east of Paris, Lamar County,
Texas, near Moore's Spring, where he bought a home.
Two years later he sold
out, purchased a home in Charleston, Delta County, Texas, to which he
immediately movd his
family. He was one of the pioneers of this country.
At that time llittle farming wa done and that with oxen. There wa
no
railroad in this country and freighting was done by means of oxen.
Jefferson and Shreveort were the principal market
places. Among the hardships
can the death of his companion, July 17, 1859. As there was no cemetery
near by, she was
buried at home. The period of her death marks the age
of the prsent cemetery at Charleston. She wa a member of the M.E.
Church, South. He was married again in 1860 to Salina Dukes, a native of
Illinois. To this union was born nine children.
Soon after his marriage,
the Civil War broke out. He served during the latter part of the war.
After the war, he returned
home, where both families were reared. God
called him to his reward June 9, 1903. His wife survivd him by several
years.
Death claimed her 25 July, 1916. She was a member of the M.E.
Church.Twlve children still survive: six of the first union,
four girls and
two boys and six of the second union, Three girls and three boys. His
mother was a Lee, a relative
of General Robert E. Lee. Abraham Lincoln's
wife was his first cousin. His grandparents were captured by the
British
during the Revolutionary War, were taken to Quebec, Canada, and while
there in prison his father was born. During the
last years of his life,
his church at home had gone down so he joined the M.P. Church. The
McGuyer Reunion of July
6, was held at the old home in Charleston. 295
McGuyer relstives were present, besides a number of other friends. Rev.
Sanders of the M. Church, Cooper, rendered an interesting speech to the
congregation after which dinner was served.
The afternoon wa spent in
singing, praying, reading, and in conversation. Music was given by a
string band. The occasion
brought great joy to many. (Copied July 17, 1941
from Mrs. E.B. Miller (Susie Rhodes) ab Francis Marion Foster, Jr.)
"Cornelius
is the one who changed the spelling from McGuire to McGuyer."
Provided by Bod and Toni Chambers, 3412 - 86th St, Lubback,
Texas 79423.
Married Salina Duks of March 1, 1860. He was discharged from the CSA 4
May. 1865.
----Copied and punctuated
as written. The date of November 18, 1822
should be 8 November, 1822 and July 17, 1959 should be 17
July,1859.----."
3.
Cornelius Butcher McGuire, Mary Ann Golithan and Salina Dukes,
Published with Obituary in Lamar County Cemeteries.
4.
<I>1850 Hopkins County Slave Schedule</I>. " 29, male, black."
Shown by age, gender, color.
5.
1860 Hopkins County Slave Schedule. " 30, female, black
25, male, black
21, female, black
17, female, black
17, male, black
8/12, male, black." Listed by age, gender, color.
6.
Oral conversation in 2002, Helen Viser Anderson. " C.B. McGuire
donated the lasd for the Charleston Cemetery when
his first wife, Mary Ann
Golithan, died.".
7. Voices In The Wind, Cemetery Records of Delta County, Texas.
8. Mrs.
E.B. Miller (Susie Rhodes), FAMILY REUNION - JULY 5, 1923.
9. Cemetery Records of Delta County, TX.
10. Cemetery Records
of Delta County, TX.
11. Cemetery Records of Delta County, TX.
12. Cemetery Records of Delta County, TX.
13. Cemetery
Records of Delta County, Texas, pp. 25. "Married Emily
Harriet Oats. "THOMAS RUFUS McGUYER, buried in Charleston, Delta
County,
Texas.
LUBBOCK EVENING JOURNAL - CONFEDERATE VETERAN IS CLAIMED BY DEATH -
Cooper, August 29, 1949 - T.R.
McGuyer, 101, Confederate veteran and
retired farmer, died yesterday. His death left six Confederate veterans
alive.
His funeral was to be held at Charleston, Texas, at 2:30 P.M.
today.He had five children, 37 grandchildren, 76 great grandchildren
and 20
great great grancchildren. Immediate survivors are sons Tom and Jim of
Dallas, Alvin of Detroit, Lain of Cooper
and a daughter Mrs. D.W.
(Richie Idella "Della" McGuyer) Lile of Charleston. The information of the
family is from
the family Bible of Thoma Rufus McGuyer, in possession of
Harriet, daughter of Della. Spouses and children information
given by
Glenna Oats Jack Scott.TEXAN 100 YEARS OLD; DEFENDS UNION FRIENDS -
Cooper, Texas March 13 (Special) - The
McGuyer traition, born in a British
prison in Quebec, Canada during the American Revolution, Sunday moves
into a new
era. The oldest living exponent, Thomas Rufus McGuyer,
carried the family anner into a new age at the climax of a career
which, in
itself, is a lesson to Americanism. McGuyer, Delat County pioneer and
one of the twelve surviving Confederate
War veterans in Texas, observes
his 100th birthday anniversary. This is the occasion for which the
bemustached, white-haired,
retired farmer has been waiting to take
inventiory of his personal history of rebellion followed by painstaking
reconstruction.
ONE
COUNTRY. MdGuyer, like most of his contemporaries, regrets now
that the South and the North went ot war. But, unlike others,
he refused
to argue the issue and prevers not to talk about it. "We realized long
ago that this is just one country,"
he smiled. "That's the way it should
be." Even now he apologizes for the stern handling against men who
agreed
with General Sam Houston in 1862 that Texas had no role on the side
of the Confederacy. "Some of those who disagreed that
Texas should
fight on the side of the Southwere hanged." he said. "These men shouln't
have been hanged. They were
just expressing their own opinions, and they
had a right." When father Cornelius McGuyer joined the Confederate
army,
uoung Rufus, at 13 the oldest son, inherited the ask of caring for
the family and making a crop on the homestead near
the present site of
the Charleston Community ten miles east of here.
JOINS HOME GUARD - "I let the weeds take over
more of the land than I
should." MdGuyer recalled. "You could te;; that the South was getting
weaker aabout 1863.
One Northern victory followed another. Col. J.C.
Suttle organize a home guard to stand by for action. I volunteered."
As
McGuyer remembers the incident, he supposed it was inevitable that he
should have been involved somehow in the
Civil War. Family tradition
demanded it. McGuyer's grandparents were held prisoners by the Britishin
Quebec during
the first years of the American Revolution. His grandfather,
Tom, was born in prison. The family later was released through
the
exchange of prisoners and returned to a farm in Kentucky. His grandfather
later joined the regular army. Two of
McGuyers uncles, Bill and Ned,
fought with Gen. Andrew Jackson in the Battle of New Orleans during the
war of 1812.
Ned proceeded to Texas to fight against Mexico in
1836.Father Cornelius servedas a soldier in the Mexican War. He suffered
a severe
leg injury in the Battle of Monterrey. "My dad always limped a little
as a result of the woiund." McGuyer
said. Several of McGuyer's
descendants were on active duty during the Spanish-American war, World War I and
World
War II. This gives the family representation in all of this
countrie's major conflicts.
QUIT WORK AT 96 - McGuyer
came from Bedford County, Tennessee, at the
age of seven in 1855. His family first settled near Moore's Springs,
five
miles east of Paris, then moved tio the farm which he still owns near
Charleston. Although he carries a cane, McGuyer
insists that it's
mostly a habit. His only ailment is partial deafness. He con tinued to work
on his farm until four
years ago. "All my life I'd been planning to
quit work and rest some," he explained. "One day I remembered that I was
96. Then I retired." His centennial celebration Sunday will be simple
here at the home of a son, T.L. McGuyer, with
whom he has lived since
retirement.he clildren will drop in for a fried chicken dinner. After a
short nap, McGuyer
will read his Sunday school lesson and the newspapers.
Information provided by Bob and Toni Chambers, 3412 - 86th
Street,
Lubbock, Texas 79423."
14. Voices In The Wind.
15. Cemetery Records of Delta County, TX.
16. 1900 Delta
Co, TX Census, Precinct 5.
17. <I>Marriage Records of Delta County - 27 July 1892 to 29 Sep
1928</I>.
18.
History of Delta County 1870-1991, pp. 256. " Obituary in Cooper
Review.
J.H.(Bud) Oats died Saturday,
November 17, 1934. Funeral services
were Sunday afaternoon at the MPF. Church in Charleston.
J.H. Oats, a pioneer
citizen of Delta County, passed to his reward
Saturday at 3 p.m. at his home. He was confined to bed twelve days.
Bud Oats was born January 11, 1853, near Bryan's Mill, Cass County,
Texas. He moved to Wise County with his parents when
very small. His
father died, leaving his wife and six small children. She and her
children, with some other families,
came to the forks of the Sulphur. They
spent a year near Mount Joy and a year on Craig Prairie, before their final
move
to the Charleston Community.
Being the eldest son, Bud had many responsibilities. He has been
heard to say he
was raised by a widowed mother who taught him to be honest
and truthful. He professed faith in Christ and said a short
time before
his death he was not afraid to die.
He was married to Synthia Elizabeth McGuyer December 17, 1874.
Six
boys and three girls were born to them. His wife and eight children
survive. Rev. Barron of Cooper, assisted by
Davis and Wickersham, conducted
the funeral. Active pallbearers were grandsons. Honorary pallbearers
were nephews.
Flower girls were Ruth Beckham, Lydia Mac Worden, Jimmie
Lou Oats and Helen June Worden."
19. <I>Delta County
Marriages - 27 July, 1892 to 29 September,
1928</I>, Book #1, pp 95, 17 Dec 1874.
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