Martha Ann "Mattie" Cartwright

Martha married Jacob Linville Anderson on 18 Dec 1887 in Sabine County, Texas. Jacob (son of William Preston Anderson and Rutha Moore) was born on 10 Mar 1867 in Bossier Parish, Louisiana; died on 25 Dec 1902 in Sabine County, Texas; was buried in Gravel Hill Cemetery, Sabine County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Jacob Harvey Anderson was born on 20 Sep 1888 in Texas; died on 6 Feb 1954 in Leesville, Vernon Parish, Louisiana.
2. Evie Anderson was born on 25 Dec 1889 in Sabine County, Texas; died in Sep 1902 in Sabine County, Texas; was buried in Gravel Hill Cemetery, Sabine County, Texas.
3. Martha Alma Anderson was born in Jul 1892 in Sabine County, Texas; died in Feb 1976 in Louisiana.
4. Preston Holman Anderson was born about 1891 in Sabine County, Texas; died about 1893 in Sabine County, Texas; was buried in Gravel Hill Cemetery, Sabine County, Texas.
5. Infant Anderson was born in 1892 in Sabine County, Texas; died in 1892 in Sabine County, Texas; was buried in Gravel Hill Cemetery, Sabine County, Texas.
6. Estella Anderson was born about 1893 in Sabine County, Texas; died about 1894 in Sabine County, Texas; was buried in Gravel Hill Cemetery, Sabine County, Texas.
7. Infant Anderson was born in 1895 in Sabine County, Texas; died in 1895 in Sabine County, Texas; was buried in Gravel Hill Cemetery, Sabine County, Texas.
8. Duard Herman Anderson was born on 22 Feb 1896 in Sabine County, Texas; died in Aug 1986 in Leesville, Vernon Parish, Louisiana; was buried in Leesville Cemetery, Vernon Parish, Louisiana.
9. Bud Anderson was born in Nov 1899 in Sabine County, Texas; died after 1900 in Sabine County, Texas; was buried in Gravel Hill Cemetery, Sabine County, Texas.
10. Lillie Anderson was born about 1901 in Sabine County, Texas; and died.

Notes:

(Research):
Census Listings:

1850 Census
Texas, San Augustine County, San Augustine
Enumerated 6 Sept 1850
17-17
Richard H. Cartwright 22 M Farmer 2000 Tx
Ann E Cartwright 16 F Tenn
Sandford Carwright 5 M Tx

1860 Census
not located

1870 Census
Texas, Sabine County, Beat No. 3, P O Brookeland
Enumerated 13 Aug 1870
Page 11 Stamped 24
380-380
Wm. and Nancy Click and children
381-381
Cartwright, S H 25 M W Farmer 500 100 Tx
Sarah Cartwright 18 F W Keeping House Tx
Martha Cartwright 1 F W Tx

1880 Census
Texas, Sabine County
Page 4D SD 1 ED 85
Enumerated 16 Jun 1880
37-38
Cartright, Sanford W M 35 Farmer Tx Tenn Tenn
Cartright, Sara C W F 29 Wf Keeping House Arkansas
Cartright, Martha A W F 10 Dtr At School Tx
Cartright, Mary E W F 9 Dtr At School Tx
Cartright, Edner O W F 7 Dtr Tx
Cartright, Emma A W F 2 Dtr Tx
Cartright, George W W M 1 Son Tx

Sanford married Sarah "Sallie" Catherine Click about 1868. Sarah (daughter of William M. Click and Elizabeth Merchant) was born in Dec 1850 in Arkansas; died on 2 Oct 1902 in Texas; was buried in McMahan's Chapel Cemetery, Sabine County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Shown on FindAGrave to be a daughter of William M. Click and Elizabeth Merchant.

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Census Listings:

1900 Census
Texas, Sabine County, Pr 6
Enumearated 14 Jun 1900
SD 8 ED 79 Sheet 9B
156-156
Cartwright, Sarah Head W F Dec 1850 W F 49 Wd 8/6 Ark Ark Ark Farmer
Cartwright, Edna Dau W F Mar 1873 27 S Tx Tx Ark
Cartwright, George W Son W M Apr 1879 21 S Tx Tx Ark Farmer
Cartwright, Sanford Son W M Sep 1881 18 S Tx Tx Ark
Cartwright, Richard Son W M Jan 1884 14 S Tx Tx Ark

Notes:

Noble writes that he "Lived in Sabine County and was a charter member of the Jackson Masonic Lodge of Milam. He was a land speculator like his father and brother, Matthew. In 1881, he sold 20 A. to Wm. M Reese and S.E. Collier for the Sabine Valley University in Hemphill."

Henson and Parmalee indicate he was a blacksmith (p. 42). The authors also speculate that "George Cartwright may have taken his wife and small daughter Mary to California [during the Gold Rush]. The tax assessor in Sabine County listed him as a nonresident, and his name appears nowhere in Texas in the 1850 and 1860 censuses. George's five-year-old son Sanford lived with Uncle Richard Cartwright in San Augustine in 1850 and went to school in Shelby County for the next two years. George was back in Sabine County on June 5, 1860, when his steam mill exploded, damaging the machinery. He told a friend that he was "not dispirited" and thought he could repair it. (ibid, p 165). In a footnote, the authors also cite the "Diary of C. C. Cox," 49, [which] mentions a company of families from eastern Texas, including a blacksmith.

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Census Listings:

1870 Census
Texas, Sabine County, Hemphill Beat No. 1, PO Hemphill
Enumerated 30 Jun 1870
Pages 11 and 12 Stamped 6
86-86
Cartright, G W 58 M W Farmer 2000 1000 Tenn
Ann Cortright 40 F W Keeping House Ireland
Mary V Kay 24 F W Widow Tx
Unice P Kay 2 f W Tx

1880 Census
Texas, Sabine County
Page 4D SD 1 ED 85
Enumerated 16 Jun 1880
36-37
Cartright, George W M 67 Farmer Tenn NS Va
Cartright, Ann W F 50 Wf Keeping Houst Ireland Ireland Ireland
Kay, William W M 11 Grandson Farm Laborer Tx
Kay, George W M 9 Grandson At School Tx

George married Ann Oliver on 14 Feb 1844 in San Augustine County, Texas. Ann was born before 1830 in Ireland; died on 2 Jun 1880. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Census Listings:

1860 Census
Arkansas, Lafayette County, Walker Creek Twp, Post Office Forrest Grove
Enumerated 26 Jun 1860
Pages 31 and 32
225-225
Wm M Click 40 M farmer 2500 615 Ala
Elizabeth Click 32 F Tenn
Thos. Click 13 M Ala
Nancy Click 11 F Ark
Sarah Click 9 F Ark
Mary Click 3 F Akr
Albert Click 5/12 M Ark
Prudence Merchant 49 F Tenn
Catherine B. Merchant 26 F Ala
Nancy E. Merchant 22 F Tenn
Geniva P Merchant 17 F Miss
Wm C Merchant 16 m Miss
Miles W Merchan 11 M Ala
George W. Weldon 23 m Farm Laborer Georgia
226-226
A H and E J Freeman
227-227
James Click 33 M Farmer 1000 502 Ala
Sophronia Click 23 F Ala
Nancy Click 3 F Ark
Rufus Click 2 m Ark
Rufus Click 29 M Farmer 1000 500 Ala
M B Click 69 M farmer Tenn

1870 Census
Texas, Sabine County, Beat 3, PO Brookeland
Enumerated 13 Aug 1870
Page 12
583-583
Click, William M 50 M W Farmer 1000 300 Ala
Click Mary W 13 F W Ark
Click, Albert G 10 m W Ark
Click, Ellen E 7 F W Ark

1880 Census
not located

1900 Census
Oklahoma Territory, Canadian County, Union Township
Enumerated 27 and 28 Jun 1900
SD 219 ED 22 Sheet 19A
372-372
Click, Albert Head W M Jan 1860 40 m 20 Ark Ala Tenn Farmer
Click, Ella Wf W F Sep 1862 37 M 20 10/9 Tx Va Ala
Click, Walter Son W M Sep 1880 19 S Tx Ark Tx
Click, Maud Dtr W F Jan 1882 18 Tx Ark Tx
Click, Beulah Dtr W F Aug 1885 14 S Tx Ark Tx At School
Click, Creed Son W M Apr 1888 12 12 S Tx Ark Tx At School
Click, Clara Dtr W F Apr 1890 10 S Okl Ark Tx At School
Click, Albert Son W M July 1891 8 S Okl Ark Tx At School
Click, George A Son M M Sept 1894 5 S Okl Ark Tx
Click, Tera Dtr W F Nov 1896 3 S Okl Ark Tx
Click, Gladys Dtr W F Mar 1899 1 S Okl Ark Tx
Click, William Father W M Apr 1820 80 Wd Alr Va Tenn

William married Elizabeth Merchant about 1846. Elizabeth was born about 1828 in Tennessee; died after 1863. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
An unreferenced, unsourced tree on RootsWeb WorldConnect shows that they married on 31 Mar 1844 in Tishamingo County, Mississippi. This same tree shows that Elizabeth was a daughter of Richard Y. MERCHANT and Prudence WALDRIP.

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:ag6108a&id=I0495

Orene Moore, on her "Davis, Folsom, Merchant, Sparks, Nelson, Vickery, Crain and others" tree on WorldConnect shows the same.

Notes:

John was the only son of Matthew (1754-1812) and Mary "Polly" Grimmer Cartwright (1761-1824), although he had five sisters. He was a grandson of John Cartwright (1728-1780) and Sarah Miller.

Harry Noble wrote a twenty page biography of him in his book, TEXAS TRAILBLAZERS (pages 70 - 90). He noted that much additional material can be found in the first five chapters of Margaret Swett Henson and Deolece Parmelee's volume THE CARTWRIGHTS OF SAN AUGUSTINE (Texas State Historical Association, Austin, 1993).

Margaret Henson, in her preface of her book about the Cartwright Family, writes that Emily Griffith Roberts, the wife a John Cartwright's great-grandson, privately published a two-volume genealogy about the family in 1939 and 1948. The volumes included research and many documents concerning the Roberts, Griffiths, Cartwrights and other interrelated families. A committee of descendants later employed Mrs. Deolece Parmelee to explore the collections of papers scattered in private hands, along with some archived at the Eugene C. Barker Texas History Center, and to prepare a more complete history. Parmelee made photocopies and typescripts, arranged them in a usable order, and eventually compiled a 450 page typescript. This was largely the basis for Henson's 1993 book.

Noble wrote that when John Cartwright was five years old his parents sold their farm in North Carolina and moved westward across the mountains into Tennessee. There they purchased two hundred acres on Drake's Lick Creek in Sumner County. John spent his childhood in Tennessee. He would continue a pilgrimage that would cover approximately 800 miles and involve at least five moves, but when completed thirty-three years later, he would be in Texas--his home for the remainder of his life. Texas would also be the home for several generations of his descendants.

While in Wilson County, Tennessee, John was a merchant, an occupation he would continue for the rest of his life. By 1818 he was having trouble collecting certain debts. His attorney, a new resident in Lebanon, Tennessee, was Sam Houston....the two men were detstined to meet again--the next time in San Augustine, Texas. (Noble, page 71)

John later moved his family to Mississippi, and "caught 'Texas fever' when the new Mexican government...stabilized...with a constitution resembling that of the United States." He began the last leg of his pilgrimage in early 1825...(taking) his family down the Mississippi River to New Orleans by steamboat and then across the Gulf and up the Red River. Leaving the river at Natchitoches, the family traveled by wagons overland past Fort Jessup to James Gaines ferry. John picked his homesite about five miles east of the Ayish Bayou close to the banks of springs near Palo Gacho Creek. The area was vacant, not a settler anywhere near, "...although the house of a previous owner remained in the vicinity." John's thirty-three year odyssey was over, ending on the banks of the Palo Gacho Creek in Texas and Coahuila, Mexico. What a mosiac of people John found in the Ayish Bayou region when he arrived. Most were hard working farmers or businessmen of modest means, but some were unscruplous drifters, already at odds with the law. (Noble, page 72)

John and his family can be found on the 1835 Sabine District census. Their were 11 slaves in their home, from ages 12 to 39. There were also 4 children born to their slaves.

On August 21, 1840, with the assistance of San Augustine attorney William W. Frizell, Cartwright made his will. In it he gave the 885 acre homesite on Palo Gacho to his two minor sons, Clinton and Richard. He also gave his wife an interest in the homesite and placed the restriction that it couldn't be sold until after her death. Additionally, he gave her all monies due him by debt. He then distributed the remaining assets to various family members. (Noble, 89) John Cartwright died on July 18, 1841, and (his son-in-law William) Garrett, along with Mary, Cartwright's widow, were appointed executors of Cartwright's estate. Their selections was confirmed the following month. With assistance from Matthew Cartwright, Garrett then compiled an inventory of the estate. It was valued at $72,800. (Noble)

In the book, The Cartwrights of San Augustine, it was noted that elder sons, Matthew and Robert, challenged the will, likely on the grounds that the document was not in keeping with the community property laws adopted by the Republic of Texas in January 1840, and because John had exceeded his testamentary powers in the distribution of his property to his children. Mary Cartwright immediately renounced her executorship in order to contest John's will so as to "receive in common with my children such portions of said estate as we are by law entitled to." The family reached a settlement in January 1842. (Henson and Parmelee, pp. 119-120).

John married Mary E. "Polly" Crutchfield on 21 Jan 1807 in Wilson County, Tennessee. Mary was born on 26 Oct 1787 in Virginia; died on 17 Jun 1848 in San Augustine County, Texas; was buried in Cartwright Cemetery, San Augustine County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The daughter of George and Dicey Hoskins Crutchfield. George Crutchfield, her father, was a veteran of the revolutionary war. (Noble, page 71). Her family moved from Virginia into Kentucky, and later moved south into Tennessee. (Henson & Parmelee, page 4). On the 1880 census, son George indicates his mother was born in Virginia. "The Cartwrights of San Augustine" indicated that she grew up in Smith County, Tennessee, and that her four sisters and three brothers mostly remained in Smith County for the rest of their lifes.

Mary suffered from recurring malaria since at least 1847, and died ten days after son Clinton succumbed to the same disease. In twenty-two months, the three surviving Cartwright brothers has lost two sisters, a brother and their mother. (Hemson and Parmelee, pp. 153-154).