James Paul McLemore

Paul married Dorothy Fay "Dot" Smith about 1960. Dorothy (daughter of Dalton "Shine" Smith and Lemmie Beulah Coussons) was born on 17 Oct 1936 in Sabine County, Texas; died on 14 May 2008; was buried in Hemphill City Cemetery, Hemphill, Sabine County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

From the SABINE COUNTY REPORTER, HEMPHILL, TEXAS Thursday 17 October 1963 (Courtesy of Kay Parker McCary)

Services held for Ernest McLemore

Funeral services were held for Earnest E. McLemore, 74 of Hemphill at 4 pm Tuesday, Oct 8, at the Gravel Hill Baptist Church with the Rev. E. E. Adams, pastor of Bulah Baptist Church near Pendleton in Louisiana. Assisting was the Rev. A.E. Armstrong, pastor of Gravehill church.

Mr. McLemore, a native and lifelong resident of Sabine County, died at 8:20 am Oct. 7 in the East Texas Convalescent Home, San Augustine, where he had been for seven weeks. He was a retired farmer.

Burial was in Gravel Hill cemetery under direction of Starr Funeral Home of Hemphill. Pallbearers were nephews, Max Cammack, Gayle Wyatt, Rufus McLemore, Earl McLemore, Marton Conn and Elroy Boyd.

Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Florence Boyd McLemore of Hemphill; two sons Hugh McLemore of Beaumont and Paul McLemore of Houston; one brother Ira McLemore of Hemphill, three sisters Miss Mollie (sic) McLemore and Mrs. Jack Cammack of Hemphilll and Mrs. Elvie Speights of Beaumont; and five grandchildren.

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Census Listings:

1930 Census
Texas, San Augustine County, JP 4
Enumerated 18 Apr 1930
ED 203-7 SD 19 Sheet 5A Stamped 234
704-727
McLemore, Ernest E Head M W 30 M Tx Tx Tx Farmer
McLemore, Mary F Wf F W 26 M Tx Tx Tx
McLemore, Rufus H Son M W 1 3/12 S Tx Tx Tx

1940 Census
Texas, Sabine County, JP 1
Enumerated April 27, 1930
SD 43-2 ED 202-3 Sheet 18A
McLemore, Ernest E Head M W 50 Tx Same House Farmer
McLemore, Florence Wf F W 46 M Tx Sam House
McLemore, Hugh R Son M W 21 S Tx R Sabine Tx ?? Stewart Reforestation
McLemore, Paul B Son M W 8 S Tx Same House

Ernest married Mary Florence Boyd on 21 Dec 1913. Mary (daughter of William Henry Boyd, Sr. and Sarah Elizabeth "Sallie" McGown) was born on 15 Sep 1893 in Hemphill, Sabine County, Texas; died on 7 Jan 1977 in Hemphill, Sabine County, Texas; was buried in Gravel Hill Cemetery, Sabine County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Kay Parker McCary shows her as the daughter of William Henry BOYD and Sarah Elizabeth McGOWN. Evon Tisdale also noted her maiden name as BOYD. The Texax Birth Index information for her son, Paul Boyd McLemore, shows his mother as Mary Frances CONN, however. Perhaps she was first married to a CONN? Or maybe the Birth Index information is simply an error.

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Census Listings:

1940 Census
Texas, Sabine County, Hemphill, JP 1
Enumerated April 9, 1940
SD 42-2 ED 202 Sheet 3A
48
Smith, Dalton Head m W 27 M Tx Same Place Truck Driver Trucking Contractor
Smith, Lemmie Wf F W 24 M Tx Same Place
Smith, Shirley Ann Dtr F W 5 S Tx Same Place
Smith, Dorothy Faye Dtr F W 3 S Tx
Smith, Jimmy Dales Son M W 1 S Tx
Cousssons, Stella Mother-in-law F W 58 Wd Tx Sabine Tx Housekeeper Private House

Dalton married Lemmie Beulah Coussons. Lemmie (daughter of Charles W. Coussons and Stella F. Wormwood) was born on 22 Jan 1916 in Sabine County, Texas; died on 3 Apr 1991 in Hemphill, Sabine County, Texas; was buried in Hemphill City Cemetery, Hemphill, Sabine County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Finn's middle name could have been Fenton (based on a poll tax receipt from Jasper) or Finerel (based on the middle name of his son, Rufus) or Finn, as he was commonly called.

At the time of the 1880 census, he was widowed, and living in the home of his in-laws with his young daughter.

He was a farmer. On the 1900 Sabine County census, he is shown in household 22, next to the Henry S. White family, his wife's brother. Household 36 is that of Thomas E. McLemore, his half brother.

Finn died in at the home of his son, Vessie McLemore. Vessie and Nina had been caring for him. Granddaughter Evon remembers she and some cousins going out into the woods to gather wildflowers for him while her father built a coffin. Her father and his brothers took the coffin by cart to the Gravel Hill cemetery a few days later.

(Research):Census information:

1880 Census
Census Place:Precinct 3, Jasper, Texas
Source:FHL Film 1255313 National Archives Film T9-1313
Page 14 Relation Sex Marr Race Age Birthplace
J.F. MCLEMORE Self M W W 25 Texas Occ: Laborer Fa: AR Mo: GA
Vilona MCLEMORE Dau F S W 7 M Texas Fa: Texas Mo: MS
Frances WIGLEY Self M M W 69 GA Occ: FarmerFa: VA Mo: VA
Sarah WIGLEY Wife F M W 67 SC Occ: Keeping House Fa: SC Mo: SC
Martha WIGLEY Dau F S W 31 MS Occ: At HomeFa: GAMo: SC
Alexander WIGLEY Son M S W 25 Texas Occ: Printer Fa: GA Mo: SC

1900 Census
Texas, Sabine County, Pr 1
Enumerated 5 Jun 1900
SD 8 ED 68 Sheet 2A Stamped 93
22-23
McLemore, John Head W M Dec 1853 46 M 17 Ga NC NC Farmer
McLemore, Ruth T Wf W F Dec 1859 40 M 17 7/6 Tx Miss Miss
McLemore, Vessie E Son W M Feb 1885 15 S Tx Ga Tx Farm Laborer
McLemore, Rufus F Son W M July 1886 13 S Tx Ga Tx Farm Laborer
McLemore, Earnest Son W M May 1887 13 S Tx Ga Tx Farm Laborer
McLemore, Mellie Dtr W F Feb 1891 9 S Tx Ga Tx
McLemore, Ira Son W M Jan 1896 4 S Tx Ga Tx

1910 Federal Census
Texas, Sabine County, JP 1
Enumerated 16 Apr 1910
SD 2 ED 131 Sheet 1B
Milam Road
12-13
McLemore, John F. Head M W 51 M2 26 Ga Ga Ga Farmer
McLemore, Ruth T Wf F W 50 m1 26 8/7 Tx Ala Miss
McLemore, Ernest E Son M W 20 S Tx Ga Tx Farmer
McLemore, Mellie M Dtr F W 19 S Tx Ga Tx
McLemore, Elvie R Dtr F W 16 S Tx Ga Tx
McLemore, Ira W Son M W 14 S Tx Ga Tx Laborer Farm
McLemore, Emma L Dtr F W 9 S Tx Ga Tx

John married Rutha Triphene White on 11 Dec 1883 in Sabine County, Texas. Rutha (daughter of Henry Strickland White, Sr and Mary Etta "Polly" Vardeman) was born on 27 Dec 1859 in Hemphill, Sabine County, Texas; died on 11 Jun 1939 in Sabine County, Texas; was buried in Gravel Hill Cemetery, Sabine County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

According to her obituary, Ruth White McLemore "slipped in her home in Hemphill, and fractured her left thigh on June 2nd. She was carried to . . . hospital in Jasper (and then) transferred here to the home of her son, Mr. V.E. McLemore of San Augustine, where she passed away on June 11, 1939. She was born December 27, 1859 at Hemphill. She joined the Baptist church when a young girl and was a faithful Christian worker all of her life. She married to J.F. McLemore on December 13, 1883 and was the mother of eight children, four boys and four girls. Six children survive: namely V. E. McLemore, San Augustine; Earnest and Ira McLemore, Miss Mellie McLemore, and Mrs. Herman Commack of Gravel Hill, and Mrs. Mermon Speights of Hemphill. She is also survived by seventeen grandchildren and three great grandchildren. In addition to relatives, local people attending the funeral were: Mr. and Mrs. T.F. Read, Mr. and Mrs. E.B. Jacks, Mr. and Mrs. John D. Clark, Mr and Mrs W.F. Stephenson, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Burkhalter, Mrs. Rosalie Polly, W.L. Polly, Mr. and Mrs. Rob Horn, Mr. and Mrs. J.J. Mitchell, Mrs. E.M. Boyett, Theo Boyett and others."

Melinda McLemore Strong has a maroon and white quilt made by Ruth circa 1880. At Ruth's death, the quilt was passed on to her daughter Millie. Millie added a calico border to the quilt edges which had apparently frayed. At Millie's death, the quilt was passed to her older brother, Vessie McLemore. After Vessie and Nina died, Evon McLemore Tisdale used the quilt. She later gave it to her niece, Melinda McLemore Strong.

(Research):Triphene is a "pseudo-classical" name, often whimsically given to the third child in a family.

Notes:

Virgie Speights, in a biography of Imboden Boyd written September, 1966, stated that he was a grandson of Joseph Boyd, and great grandson of John Boyd, who came from Nashville, Tennessee in 1835, to settle at Milam, to serve as a Senator in the Republic of Texas, as a sheriff of Sabine County, as well as holding other important positions in early Texas.

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Census Information:

1880 Census
Texas, Sabine County
Enumerated 24 Jun 1880
Page 12D SD 1 ED 85
115-116
Boyd, William H W M 24 Farmer Tx Ala Ala
Boyd, Sarah E W F 20 F Wf Keeping House Tx Tn Tn
Boyd, Mattie E W F 2 Dt Tx
Boyd, George W M 8/12 Oct Son Tx

1900 Census
Texas, Sabine County, Milam No. 4
SD 8 ED 71 Sheet 4A Stamped 132
Enumerated 7 Jun 1900
Note: Microfilm image was faint and hard to read
Boyd, William Age 44 Texas
Boyd, Sarah Age 38 Texas
Boyd, George Age 19 Texas
Boyd, William H Age 17 Texas
Boyd, Sarah E Age 12 Texas
Boyd, Anna M Age 9 Texas
Boyd, Mary F Age 6 Texas
Boyd, Bradford D Age 4 Texas
Boyd, Maud E Age 10/12 Texas


1910 Census
Texas, Sabine County, JP 4
Enumerated 11 May 1910
SD 2 ED 134 Page 12B
230-235
Boyd, William H. Jr Head m W 27 M1 3 Tx Tx Tx Farmer
Boyd, Mary E. Wf F W 23 M2 3 0/0 Tx Ga Tx
231-236
Boyd, William H Sr Head M W 54 m1 33 Tx Ala Ala Farmer
Boyd, Sarah E. Wf F W 49 m1 33 9/8 Tx Tn Tn
Boyd, Mary F Dtr F W 16 S Tx Tx Tx
Boyd, Bradford I Son M w 14 S Tx Tx Tx Farm Laborer
Boyd, Maud E. Dtr F W 10 S Tx Tx Tx
232-237
Madison and Mattie Conn family

William married Sarah Elizabeth "Sallie" McGown before 1880. Sarah (daughter of Andrew Henderson "A. H." McGown and Elizabeth Burton Stovall) was born on 23 Aug 1860 in Texas; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Said to be the daughter of Alexander Henderson McGOWN and Elizabeth STOVALL, both born in Tennessee and died in Sabine County, Texas.

http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/m/o/o/Bob-Moon/GENE10-0005.html

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Census Information:

1930 Federal Census
Texas, Sabine, Hemphill Town, Pr 1
Enumerated April 15, 1980 by Lula W. Toole
ED 202-2 SD 19 Sheet 6B
#127-152
Smith, Ebb B Hd $2000 M W 56 M@25 Tx England TS Merchant General Store
Smith, Lula Wife F W 43 M@22 Tx Tx Tx
Smith, Dalton Son M W 17 S Tx Tx Tx
Smith, Velma Dtr F W 12 S Tx Tx Tx

HH#128 Smith, Eugene & Lockie
HH#129 Smith, Alfred & Eve

Eben married Lula Pearl Ferguson about 1909. Lula (daughter of Robert Turner Ferguson and Frances Jane Gomer) was born about 1887 in Texas; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
Sabine County Reporter
August 10, 2005
From "I Remember" by Mary Howell

I remember Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Smith who had a grocery store in what is called Beanville. I remember going to his store on Saturday nights to get a Dixie cup of ice cream. Several of Mr. E.B. children and grandchildren followed in their father's footsteps and became store owners. Duvergn CORDRAY, Shine Smith, Velma RASH and Alfred Smith all ran local mom and pop businesses.

Notes:

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/JDVJ-42G
name: C. W. Coussons
death date: 12 Jan 1935
death place: Texas
gender: Male
race: w
death age: 64 years 6 days
estimated birth date: 1871
birth date:
birthplace: Tenn
marital status: Married
spouse's name:
father's name: Bill Coussons
father's birthplace: Tennessee
mother's name:
mother's birthplace:
occupation: Farmer
place of residence:
cemetery:
burial place:
burial date: 13 Jan 1935
additional relatives:
informant W E Coussons
film number: 2116252
digital film number: 4030349
image number: 3444
reference number: 4413
Collection: C. W. Coussons, "Texas, Deaths, 1890-1976"

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Census Listings:

1910 Census
Texas, Sabine County, JP 4
Enumerated 11 May 1910
SD 2 ED 134 Sheet 15B
229-234
Coussons, Charlie W head m W 35 m1 14 Tenn Ala Ga Farmer
Coussons, Stella F Wf F W 20 m1 14 5/3 Tx US Tx
Coussons, William E Son M W 11 S Tx Tn Tx Farm Laborer
Coussons, Charles M Son M W 8 S Tx Tn Tx Farm Laborer
Coussons, Lena Dtr F W 5 S Tx Tenn Tx
Coussons, Amos L Son M W 2 S Tx Tn Tx

1920 Census
Texas, Sabine County, JP 4
Enumerated 9 Jan 1920
Sd 326 ED 171 Sheet 4B
Hemphill and Milam Road
85-85
Coussons, Charlie Head m W 48 m Tx Tx Tx Farmer
Coussons, Stella Wf F W 40 M Tx Tx Tx
Coussons, Mitchell Son M W 18 S Tx Tx Tx
Coussons, Lena Dtr F W 15 S Tx Tx Tx
Coussons, Leonard Son M W 12 S Tx Tx Tx
Coussons, Lumon Son M W 9 S Tx Tx Tx
Coussons, Limmie Dtr F W 3 11/12 S Tx Tx Tx
Coussons, Pearl Dtr F W 1 1/12 S Tx Tx Tx

1930 Census
Texas, Sabine County, JP 4
Enumerated April 8, 1930
ED 202-6 SD 19 Sheet 1B
13-15
Coussons, Charles W Head M W 54 M 26 Tenn Ga Unk Farmer
Coussons, Stella F Wf F W 49 m 16 Tx Tx Tx
Coussons, Luman A Son M W 18 S Tx Tenn Tx
Coussons, Lemmie B Dtr F W 14 S Tx Tenn Tx
Coussons, Hattie P Dtr F W 11 S Tx Tenn Tx

Charles married Stella F. Wormwood. Stella was born on 28 Sep 1870 in Texas; died on 14 Jun 1951; was buried in Hemphill City Cemetery, Hemphill, Sabine County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

At the time of the 1940 Federal Census, she was living with her daughter and son-in-law, Lemmie and Dalton Smith in Hemphill.