Clementine G. "Mentie" Cartwright

Notes:

Henson and Parmelee wrote that after her husband died suddenly at a young age, his widow, Clementine was only age twenty-four, with two small children. The probate court named the widow and Sanford's brother, William W. Holman, administrators of the estate. The Treasury Department of the State of Texas had filed suit agains Sanford prior to his death, and they won this, resulting in his heirs becoming liable for this debt. Both Sanford and Clementine had inheritied land from their parents that in 1842, a year before Sanford died, totaled about 15,000 acres. By 1844, the year after her husbands death, Clementine owed taxes on four slaves and one silver watch plus acreage. The continuing hard times slowed land sales, but Clementine managed to pay some debts by transferring some acreage, while other tracts were sold at sherriff sales for back taxes and other debts. By 1846, the struggling widow owned only 1,476 acres valued at a mere $369, an average of twenty-five cents per acre." (Henson and Parmelee, p. 127). Henson and Parmelee write that she when she died, four years after the death of Sanford, her body was taken by wagon to be interred next to her husband in the Holman family plot northwest of town. (ibid, pp. 150-151).

Clementine married William Sanford Holman on 14 Jan 1838 in San Augustine County, Texas. William (son of Col. Isaac Holman and Anne Wigglesworth) was born on 12 Sep 1816 in Fayette County, Kentucky; died on 23 Dec 1843 in San Augustine County, Texas; was buried in Holman Cemetery, Sabine County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Along with her cousins Mary Garrett and Victoria Thomas, she "Attended St. Mary's Hall, an elite Episcopalian finishing school founded in 1837 in Burlington, New Jersey, near Philadelphia...(enduring) terrible homesickness and culture shock upon...arrival in November 1854." (Henson and Parmelee, THE CARTWRIGHTS OF SAN AUGUSTINE, p. 174)" She and her husband moved to Kaufman County soon after the civil war, but their relationship with her Uncle Matthew Cartwright seemed strained by his handling of some of her inheritance. (ibid, p. 264).

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Census Listings:

1850 Census
Texas, San Augustine, San Augustine District
Enumerated 14 Sept 1850
Stamped 336
77-77
Wm. Garrett 38 M Farmer 14700 Tenn
Lucette Garrett 22 F Texas
Clementine Garrett 14 F Tenn
Mary Garrett 12 F Tenn
William Garrett 2 M Tenn
Anna Holman 10 F Tenn
Wm Holman 8 M Tenn

Anna married Richard F. Slaughter on 13 Jan 1857 in San Augustine County, Texas. Richard was born before 1839; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

William's "Uncle Billy" Holman was appointed his guardian in December, 1857 by Chief Justice Alfred Polk. William's sister, Anna Holman, and her husband, Richard F. Slaughter, a San Augustine Attorney filed a petition against William W. Holman and Matthew Cartwright to gain control of William Holman's interest in a 722 acre tract obtained by Clementine Holman dec'd as an heir to the estate of John Cartwright. After hearing the case the judge ruled against the Slaughters. (Noble, Harry P. TEXAS TRAILBLAZERS: SAN AUGUSTINE PIONEERS: Best of East Texas Publishers, Lufkin, Texas, 1999, pp. 128-129).

Henson and Parmelee write that "William S. Holman, the orphan son of Sanford and Clementine" served alongside his cousin, Lon Cartwright [a son of Amanda Holman] during the Civil War. On May 25, 1861, Lon, Meck "and twenty other volunteers rode to Shelby County, where Captain Short lived, to enlist...Short's company left in June to rendezvous near Dallas, where along with other East Texas units, they were sworn into Col. Elkana Greer's mounted regiment....(and) eventually were designated as the Third Texas Cavalry, and Short's company became Company E." (Henson & Parmelee, THE CARTWRIGHTS OF SAN AUGUSTINE, p. 200, p. 205) By 1862, Bill was a second lieutenant of Company C, and "acted nobly and received compliments from Maj. Stone for his gallant behavior." (ibid, p. 224). After the civil war, he moved to Bell County where, in addition to his own business, he watched over the investments of his Uncle, Matthew Cartwright. (ibid, p. 264).

(Research):
Census Listings:

1850 Census
Texas, San Augustine, San Augustine District
Enumerated 14 Sept 1850
Stampted 336
77-77
Wm. Garrett 38 M Farmer 14700 Tenn
Lucette Garrett 22 F Texas
Clementine Garrett 14 F Tenn
Mary Garrett 12 F Tenn
William Garrett 2 M Tenn
Anna Holman 10 F Tenn
Wm Holman 8 M Tenn