Elizabeth Jane Burroughs

Notes:

At the time of the 1860 census, Eliza was living with her grandparents in San Augustine County, Her mother, Lou Ann, had remarried and was living with her second husband and their children in nearby Sabine County.

At the time of the 1870 census, Eliza was widowed and she is living with her grandparents and son, 1 year old William NOBLE. She is listed as a farmer, with both real and personal property.

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Census Information:

1860 Census
Texas, San Augustine County, San Augustine
183-183
P.W. Fullen?/Fuller? 43 M Farmer 300 150 SC
Sarah R. " 45 F Va
Eliza J. " 8 F Texas (Eliza J. BURROUGHS, granddaughter).
Rachael 3 " F Texas

Eliza's mother, Lou Ann, had remarried and was living with her second husband, Manuel Loving, in adjacent Sabine County.

1870 Census
Sabine County, Texas
624/624
Davidson, P.P. 26 M W Farmer 1200 800 Texas
Davidson, Malvina 25 F W K.H. Texas
Davidson, Sarah A. 3 F W Texas
Davidson, Calvin B. 1 M W Texas
FULLER, P.N. 54 M W 200 400 S.C.
FULLER, Sarah A. 54 F W Va.
FULLER, Rachel E 13 F W Texas
Noble, Elizabeth J 18 F W Farmer 1000 400 Texas
Noble, William 1 M W Texas

1880 Census
Household:

Name Relation Marital Status Gender Race Age Birthplace Occupation Father's Birthplace Mother's Birthplace
James A. MITCHEM Self M Male W 35 GA GA GA
Eliza E. MITCHEM Wife M Female W 28 TX K. House --- ---
William N. MITCHEM Son S Male W 10 TX Home AR TX (Stepson to Eliza)
James M. MITCHEM Son S Male W 3 TX GA TX
Vadder E. MITCHEM Dau S Female W 7 TX GA TX
MITCHEM Dau S Female W 3M TX GA TX
Mary BARRAUES Other S Female B 12 TX Servant GA ---
Source Information:
Census Place Lampasas, Lampasas, Texas
Family History Library Film 1255314 NA Film Number T9-1314
Page Number 290C

Elizabeth married William Levi Noble, Sr. before 1869. William (son of Jamison Steen Noble and Louisa Jane Oliphint) was born about 1846 in Texas; died in Apr 1870 in Sabine County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. William Levi Noble, Jr was born about 1869; and died.

Elizabeth married James Nathaniel Mitchem on 12 Sep 1872 in Sabine County, Texas. James was born before 1852; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
All the information about the marriage, and subsequent divorce, of Eliza Jane Burroughs and James Nathaniel Mitchum is courtesy of Debra LaMel (TX), Alta Mitchem Durden (SC), and Sandy Arnold Carr (LA).

On Sept 12, 1872 Elizabeth "Eliza" Jane Burroughs married James Nathaniel Mitchum (source for marriage was Eliza's rejected CW Pension app in Hunt Co Tx 1931) She had been previously married to William Levi Noble Sr. and had one child William Levi Noble JR. b 11-1-1869 his father William Levi Noble Sr. died in Apr 1870.

Anyway when Elizabeth Jane Burroughs and James Nathaniel Mitchem divorced in Brown Co Tx in 1889 Thomas E Loving and Robert W Loving signed sworn statements that Eliza was their half sister therefore making her the daughter of LouAnn Fuller/Fullen. She names her father as James M Burroughs in that divorce as well. There was some dispute between her and James over land that Her Father James had given her in Sabine County, Texas.

This is only a brief summary of the 121 pages of the divorce of James and Eliza. CASE NUMBER 651, BROWN COUNTY, TEXAS AT BROWNWOOD, TEXAS, 1888-1889

February 25, 1888, James Nathaniel Mitchem shot and killed Joe W. Harris on the street in Brownwood, Texas in front of Allman's store on Fisk Street because, according to "The Dallas Morning News", Harris was thought by Mitchem to be "too familiar" with Mitchem's wife, Elizabeth Jane Mitchem.

May 14, 1888: J. N. Mitchem filed original petition for divorce against E. J. Mitchem in the District Court of Brown County, Texas, case number 651, alleging that they had been married in Sabine County, Texas on the 12\super th\nosupersub day of September, 1872; that they had continued to live together as man and wife until February 25, 1888 "when defendant's conduct had become so lewd and unfaithful to her marital vows that plaintiff could endure life with defendant no longer"; that on the 23\super rd\nosupersub , 24\super th\nosupersub , and 25\super th\nosupersub days of February, 1888, defendant "did on each of said days in the County of Brown State of Texas unlawfully and in total disregard of her duties as a wife and the chastity of a decent woman, have and hold carnal intercourse ? with one J. W. HARRIS alias WILSON" and did (on other occasions) "have and hold such unlawful and criminal intercourse with said HARRIS alias WILSON"; and that it was not until on or about February 25\super th\nosupersub , 1888 that plaintiff knew of said unlawful and criminal acts and adulterous conduct by defendant; that three children were born of the marriage: Vada, a female aged about 15 years; Lula, a female aged about 8 years; and James B., a male aged about 11 years; that defendant is financially unable to care for and rear said children and that "her moral character and conduct unfits her to have the nurture and rearing of said children or the control of their education, morally or otherwise"; that defendant has "become a woman of base and immoral character and conduct"; that plaintiff "by reason of the premises he can no longer, with self-respect or peace, live with the defendant" who is "an unsafe and unsuitable person to have charge or control of" the parties' children. J. N. Mitchem made reference to a house and lot owned by the couple in the Town of Lampasas in Lampasas County, Texas; asked that the defendant be required to answer the petition; that he have judgment "dissolving the said marriage contract"; that he have the custody, care, control, and possession of the children; and that the property jointly owned by the parties "be divided between plaintiff and defendant in such manner as the Court may deem best." [Scott & Jenkins, Attorneys for J. N. Mitchem.]

Dallas Morning News
Dallas Dallas Co Tx
February 27, 1888

KILLED WITH A SHOT-GUN A man avenges his outraged Honor
The Recreant* Wife Falls on the body of the Dead Man, Kisses Him and Weeps.

*recreant \\REK-ree-uhnt\\, ?i?adjective?/i?: 1. Cowardly; craven. 2. Unfaithful; disloyal. ?i?noun?/i?: 1. A coward. 2. An unfaithful or disloyal person.

Brownwood, Tex Feb 26.-J. N. Mitchem shot and killed Joe W. Harris on the street here at about 9 o'clock last night. The killing was on account of Harris' intimacy with Mitchems' wife. At the time of the shooting Mitchem's was standing about the middle of Fisk street, between Coggin, Ford & Martin's bank an Allman's store. Harris was in front of Allman's store. Harris was in front of Allman's store. Six shots took effect, making five flesh wounds in the arm, chest and neck, while one shot entered the right side and passed through the heart and lungs. When Mitchem shot Harris ran and Mitchem fired the second barrel of his gun, but missed. Harris ran down the sidewalk about fifty feet and fall upon his face with a pistol in his hand. William Walcott was with Harris. The sheriff immediately arrested Mitchem and also Walcott, upon the supposition that he had decoyed Harris out for Mitchem to shoot him, but Walcott has been released. The News reporter interviewed Mitchem in jail this morning, and the following is the substance of his statement: Four years ago I became suspicious that Harris was too familiar with my wife in Lampasas, where I then lived, and I had a difficulty with him, in which he drew a pistol on me in my own house. I would have killed him then had it not been for disgracing my children. My wife promised me she would never speak to Harris again and I wrote him that if he ever came about my wife again I would kill him. Last November I learned that he had been seen with my wife here, and I got a shotgun and loaded six cartidges to kill him, but he left. Yesterday evening I learned that he had been buggy riding the day before with my wife, and had gone out again with my wife and daughter. I went out the road that they had gone, and met my wife and daughter and saw Harris at a distance driving the buggy off. I went home and got the same cartridges that I had loaded before and went to a gunsmith's and borrowed a shotgun. This was after dark. I hid my gun and went to hunting for Harris I saw him go from the hotel around Allman's corner toward the square. I stood in the shade of Coggin's bank until I saw him return. I started to him. The moon was shinning brightly. When about half way across the street I called out: "Is that you, Harris" "He said, "Yes," and drew his piston. I fired; he ran and I fired again. Immediately after the shooting Mrs. Mitchem came down and fell upon Harris' body, kissed him and cried. Mitchem is about 45 years old, has a wife and three children, two girls and a boy, one girl about grown. He is a hide buyer. Harris about 35 years old and was a gambler. He had a certificate of deposits on a Dallas bank for $1800. It is said that he lived at San Antonio.

1. Vada E. Mitchem was born about 1873 in Texas; and died.
2. James M. Mitchem was born about 1877 in Texas; and died.
3. Lula Mitchem was born about 1880 in Lampasas, Lampasas County, Texas; and died.

Notes:

Debra LaMel wrote that James M. Burroughs "was born in abt 1824 in Tuscaloosa Co AL to Raymond Burroughs and Elizabeth Harris Foster who married on 3-5-1817 Richmond Co GA.

James M Burroughs we think married LouAnn Fuller/n the daughter of Powell and Sarah R. Fuller/Fullen, any way Lou Ann later married Emanuel "Manuel" Walton Loving

I have also a lead on the death of her father James M Burroughs in Galveston Tx that I am awaiting on documentation for as well I have located a mention of his probated estate in the Galveston Paper in that time frame. I have sent to Galveston for this but have not received a reply yet. The Galveston Daily News Sunday February 4, 1900 Page 8 or 9 Some of the principal estates in the city, according to the inventories filed in the probate court, were valued as follows:
George Ball
John Sealy
J. L Durragh 1,120,460.00
Henry Rosenburg 1,197,747.00
Morltz Koppert 491,772,27
R. S. Willis/Wilds? 1,613,128.21
Isadore Dyer 123,470.31
Isadore LeClere 2,375.59
W. N. Willis 323,000.00
J. J. Hendley 561,680.86
H. Kempner 1,666,093.19
J. M. Burroughs 203,479.10
Ellen G. C. Durragh 169,795.00

This has to be James M. Burroughs, son of Raymond and Elizabeth and father of Eliza, because the other James M. Burroughs, son of Dr. John Jones was not deceased by 1900.

Dr. John Jones Burroughs was James M Burroughs brother, he also had a son named James M Burroughs, who was very heavily involved in the Military. He was an Adjutant (Military lawyer) The article goes on to tell histories of the first set of names and there donations, however J M Burroughs is not among them. James M Burroughs was listed on the 1891 (and other) Galveston City Directories as well. So we know he died bet 1895 and February 1900

Galveston, Texas City Directories
1888-91

Name: James M. Burroughs
Location 1: office over 211 20th between Postoffice, Church
Location 2: rooms same; boards Tremont Hotel Business Name: Galv. Wharf Company
Occupation: attorney; president

Name: James M. Burroughs; James M. Brown; Joseph Aiken
Location 1: Office Central Wharf, n end 21street Business Name: Galveston Wharf Company Occupation: president; vice-president; secretary and treasurer

Galveston Wharves later to become Galveston Wharf Company

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Census Listings:

Household:

Name Relation Marital Status Gender Race Age Birthplace Occupation Father's Birthplace Mother's Birthplace
John M. DOHERTY Self S Male W 40 PA Sign Painter IRE IRE
James M. BURROUGHS Other S Male W 50 KY Lawyer VA VA

Source Information: Census Place Galveston, Galveston, Texas Family History Library Film 1255305 NA Film Number T9-1305 Page Number 58C

James married Lou Ann E. Fullen after 1850. Lou (daughter of Powell W. Fullen and Sarah R ???) was born about 1836 in Kentucky; died after 1869 in Sabine County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
They may not have been legally married. If they were, they presumably divorced after the birth of daughter Elizabeth.

Notes:

Appears to be FULLEN from viewing the actual census microfilm. In Schluter and Toole's transcription of the 1850 Sabine County, Texas Census, he was listed as Powell FULLER.

1850 Census
Texas, Sabine County
136-136
Powell W. FULLER (sic) 34 m SC Farmer
Sarah R. 34 f Va
Lou Ann E. 14 f Ky (m. Manuel Walton LOVING, son of Manuel W. Loving & Elizabeth Chiles)

He is living in the household immediately following William and Mahala CLARK, and preceding Elijah and Jane Clark. William Clark is said to be from Edgefield County, SC.

Said by Amy FULLEN to be a brother-in-law of Rebecca Fullen--the mother of William, John and James Fullen. She was a widow on the 1850 Sabine County, Census.

1860 Census
Texas, San Augustine County, San Augustine
183-183
P.W. Fullen?/Fuller? 43 M Farmer 300 150 SC
Sarah R. " 45 F Va
Eliza J. " 8 F Texas
(Eliza is their Grandaughter, born ot LouAnn Fuller/Fullen and James M. Burroughs)
Rachael 3 " F Texas

Note: On the actual census microfilm, the final letter of Powell's name is not clearly an N or an R. Debra LaMel writes that Eliza J BURROUGHS is actually a granddaughter of Powell and Sarah. This makes possible that the younger Rachel is a granddaughter as well.

On the 1870 Sabine County transcription by Blanche Toole, he is again listed as P.N. FULLER, in household 624/624. Again, on the actual microfilm, the accurate spelling of the name is not clear.

624/624
Davidson, P.P. 26 M W Farmer 1200 800 Texas
Davidson, Malvina 25 F W K.H. Texas
Davidson, Sarah A. 3 F W Texas
Davidson, Calvin B. 1 M W Texas
FULLER, P.N. 54 M W 200 400 S.C.
FULLER, Sarah A. 54 F W Va.
FULLER, Rachel E 13 F W Texas
Noble, Elizabeth J 18 F W Farmer 1000 400 Texas
Noble, William 1 M W Texas

The relationship between the Davidson and Fullen/Fuller family is not known. Malvina Beddoe Davidson, however, is not a daughter of Powell and Sarah.

At the time of the 1880 census, Powell could not be found. His wife, Sarah, presumably widowed, was living with her daughter, Rachel, and son-in-law, John HARRIS in Henderson County, Texas.

Powell married Sarah R ??? before 1836. Sarah was born about 1816 in Virginia; died after 1880. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]