This story was told to me by my mother, passed down to her from Amelia Turner, her great aunt.
Sometime about the end of the Civil War, perhaps after William was gored and killed by his oxen which had become wild in the swamps, Martha was bitten by a black widow spider. She died from the bite, leaving three little boys with no mother or father.
Amelia Turner was the only surviving member of William's family left to raise the boys. After struggling in Louisana to take care of them, she and the boys walked to Polk County, Texas, where she secured a job as a housekeeper in the home of Wiley Peebles and his wife Eliza Ward Peebles.
Will was also living with them(8 years old)and working for them when the 1870 census was taken. The older boy James Thomas, lived in the home of James J Galloway, where he also worked. The third child John Warren did not show up in the 1870 census. He would have been about 10 years. No one remembers exactly what happened to him. A relative remembers her father taking her to a grave in Forest Hill Cemetery in Polk County, Texas and telling her that this was the grave where Warren was buried.
Sometime about the end of the Civil War, perhaps after William was gored and killed by his oxen which had become wild in the swamps, Martha was bitten by a black widow spider. She died from the bite, leaving three little boys with no mother or father.
Amelia Turner was the only surviving member of William's family left to raise the boys. After struggling in Louisana to take care of them, she and the boys walked to Polk County, Texas, where she secured a job as a housekeeper in the home of Wiley Peebles and his wife Eliza Ward Peebles.
Will was also living with them(8 years old)and working for them when the 1870 census was taken. The older boy James Thomas, lived in the home of James J Galloway, where he also worked. The third child John Warren did not show up in the 1870 census. He would have been about 10 years. No one remembers exactly what happened to him. A relative remembers her father taking her to a grave in Forest Hill Cemetery in Polk County, Texas and telling her that this was the grave where Warren was buried.
This story was told to me by my mother, passed down to her from Amelia Turner, her great aunt.
Sometime about the end of the Civil War, perhaps after William was gored and killed by his oxen which had become wild in the swamps, Martha was bitten by a black widow spider. She died from the bite, leaving three little boys with no mother or father.
Amelia Turner was the only surviving member of William's family left to raise the boys. After struggling in Louisana to take care of them, she and the boys walked to Polk County, Texas, where she secured a job as a housekeeper in the home of Wiley Peebles and his wife Eliza Ward Peebles.
Will was also living with them(8 years old)and working for them when the 1870 census was taken. The older boy James Thomas, lived in the home of James J Galloway, where he also worked. The third child John Warren did not show up in the 1870 census. He would have been about 10 years. No one remembers exactly what happened to him. A relative remembers her father taking her to a grave in Forest Hill Cemetery in Polk County, Texas and telling her that this was the grave where Warren was buried.
Sometime about the end of the Civil War, perhaps after William was gored and killed by his oxen which had become wild in the swamps, Martha was bitten by a black widow spider. She died from the bite, leaving three little boys with no mother or father.
Amelia Turner was the only surviving member of William's family left to raise the boys. After struggling in Louisana to take care of them, she and the boys walked to Polk County, Texas, where she secured a job as a housekeeper in the home of Wiley Peebles and his wife Eliza Ward Peebles.
Will was also living with them(8 years old)and working for them when the 1870 census was taken. The older boy James Thomas, lived in the home of James J Galloway, where he also worked. The third child John Warren did not show up in the 1870 census. He would have been about 10 years. No one remembers exactly what happened to him. A relative remembers her father taking her to a grave in Forest Hill Cemetery in Polk County, Texas and telling her that this was the grave where Warren was buried.
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