Mary Juanita Nichols

Notes:

Juanita was an avid genealogist, and corresponded and researched the McGrew family line for many years.

Juanita Johnson, 97, of Clovis, died Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012, at Retirement Ranch.

She was born May 24, 1914, in Kirkland, Texas.

She was retired from Portales Beauty Salon.

Survivors include one daughter, Mary Jon (Johnson) McKenzie; and one son, Kevin Edward Johnson.

Services: 1 p.m. Saturday at Portales Cemetery. A memorial service will be held at a later date.

Mary married Eddie Grover Johnson on 19 Jun 1949 in Ciudad Ju?rez, Chihuahua, Mexico. Eddie was born on 19 Jan 1914 in Craven, Vernon Parish, Louisiana; died on 6 Mar 1971 in Portales, Roosevelt County, New Mexico; was buried in Portales Cemetery, Portales, Roosevelt County, New Mexico. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Living
2. Living

Notes:

Wynema McGrew writes that he was a water well driller, carpenter, farmer and cowboy.

John married Mabel Warren in Apr 1913 in Cottle County, Texas. Mabel (daughter of Henderson "Stump" Warren and Elizabeth Wiles Maddox) was born on 4 Nov 1889 in Goliad County, Texas; died on 28 Dec 1975 in Portales, Roosevelt County, New Mexico. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She was characterized by her family as stern but loving, very strong willed, and a jack of all trades and master of many.

Notes:

Per "The Southern McGrews Grew" they had eight children. They lived in Goliad Co, Baylor Co, and Cottle Co. TX. He was a fence maker and farmer. He also ran a hotel in Swearengin for a period of time.

They last lived in O'Donnell, Texas and both were buried in the Paducah cemetery in Paducah, Cottle Co, Texas.

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/JDY4-34W
Name: H. Warren
Death Date: 06 Sep 1925
Death Place: Cottle County, Texas
Gender: Male
Race: white
Death Age: 67 years 2 months 27 days
Estimated Birth Date:
Birth Date: 09 Jun 1858
Birthplace: Goliad Co., Tex
Marital Status: Married
Spouse's Name:
Father's Name: Joseph Warren
Father's Birthplace: Florida
Mother's Name: Eliza Castles [Cassels]
Mother's Birthplace: Mississippi
Occupation: Farmer
Place of Residence:
Cemetery: Paducah City Cemetery
Burial Place:
Burial Date: 07 Sep 1925
Additional Relatives:
Film Number: 2113923
Digital Film Number: 4167320
Image Number: 3186
Reference Number: cn 32010
Collection: Texas Deaths, 1890-1976

Henderson married Elizabeth Wiles Maddox on 14 Aug 1878 in Goliad County, Texas. Elizabeth (daughter of Benjamin Wiles Maddox and Mary June McGrew) was born on 12 Nov 1858 in Robertson County, Texas; died on 4 Nov 1926 in Kirkland, Childress County, Texas; was buried in Garden of Memories Cemetery, Paducah, Cottle County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Said by Wynema McGrew to be the son of Jesse MADDOX and Lucinda GIBSON. On the 1850 census, his occupation was farming. On the 1860 census, in Robertson County, John A. McGrew was living with them. He was still listed a a farmer at the time of that census. Juanita Johnson. a great granddaughter, says that Benjamin married Henrietta Smith after Mary June died.

(Research):
Census Listings:

1850 Census
Texas, Robertson County, Precinct 4
Enumerated 3 Nov 1850
Stamped 235
108-108
Benjamin W. Madox 20 M Farmer Ga
Mary J Madox 17 F Miss
109-109
Elizabeth McGrew 56 F $22,220 Ga
[Texas, Robertson County, Precinct 1]
John T. McGrew 28 M Farmer 1111 Mississippi
Elizabeth M Barton 6 F Texas
110-110
Thomas McGrew 26 M farmer 640 Miss
Lucretia McGrew 17 F Ala
Alfred Hicke 55 M Farmer 1486 Miss

1860 Census
Texas, Robertson County, Precinct 2
Enumerated 19 July 1860
Page 60
435-435
B W Maddox 25 M Farmer 3000 8950 Ga
Mary Maddox 25 F Housekeeper Miss
Sarah Maddox 6 F Tx
Jesse Maddox 4 M Tx
John A. McGrew 19 M Cattle minder 4550 2395 Tx

Benjamin married Mary June McGrew on 7 Aug 1850 in Robertson County, Texas. Mary (daughter of James Tate McGrew and Elizabeth ???) was born on 16 May 1833 in Mississippi; died about 1863 in Robertson County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Place of birth may have instead been Alabama.

Notes:

Married:
Per a letter from Esther Hardin McGrew, the youngest child of James Tate and Elizabeth McGrew was Mary June who married Benjamin Maddox. They had several children, and when both Ben and Mary June died, a man named Telephus Johnson (b. 1824, Georgia) took charge of both the children and their estate. He beat their young daughter, Jesse, to death. There is a lawsuit documenting all this. Because of this, a Maddox brother took in the remaining children and moved to Goliad, TX by 1870. One of the daughters of Mary June married into the Cassels family of Marion Co, MS.

Wynema McGrew writes that a cousin, Mary Jane McGrew, and her husband John G. Maddox, helped to raise these children.