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Ursa Ann Roberts

Female 1824 - 1895  (70 years)


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  • Name Ursa Ann Roberts  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5
    Birth 20 Apr 1824  Louisiana Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3, 4
    Gender Female 
    Death 18 Feb 1895  [2, 6
    Burial Payne-Williams (Payne-Cordray-Williams-Gray) Cemetery, Sabine County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Notes 
    • Gravestone inscribed with "Remember youth as you pass by. As you are now so once was I, As I am now so you must be, Prepare for death and follow me, Come to see Mammy."

      On the annotated transcription of the Payne-Williams cemetery she is shown as a daughter of Willam and Sarah Roberts. It was also shown that she had been married three times, first to Benjamin William Payne, second to Judson M. Meador, and last to John N. Lowery.

      Sabine County, Texas Affidavit of B. R. Payne, sworn on August 25, 1927 and witnessed by Edna Whitehead, Notary Public. B. R. Payne was age 74 at that time, and a livelong resident of Sabine County, living about two miles south of Geneva. He was also a grandson of William Roberts, and son of Ursa Ann. He also indicated that his mother later married J. N. Lowery by whom she had no children. He added that Lowery survived his mother by several years, and he did not know who his heirs were. B. R. Payne did not report the marriage to Judson M. Meador noted on the Payne-Williams Cemetery transcription.
    • (Research):

      Census Listings:

      1860 Census
      Texas, Sabine County, Redland Beat, PO Milam
      Enumerated 30 Jun 1860
      Page 23
      167-167
      UA Payne 36 F Farmer 7500 15782 La
      Margaret A Payne 15 F Tx
      Sarah A Payne 10 F Tx
      Benjamin R Payne 6 M Tx
      William E Payne 5 M Tx
      Mary R Payne 2 F Tx
      G B Batchtlor 18 M Overseer Ga
    Person ID I23254  Strong Family Tree
    Last Modified 8 Dec 2020 

    Father William Roberts,   b. Bef 1795   d. Ca 1836 Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Mother Sarah,   b. Bef 1795   d. Bef 1865 (Age ~ 70 years) 
    Marriage
    • Sabine County, Texas Affidavit of B. R. Payne, sworn on August 25, 1927 and witnessed by Edna Whitehead, Notary Public. B. R. Payne was age 74 at that time, and a livelong resident of Sabine County, living about two miles south of Geneva. He was also a grandson of William Roberts "who once owned a league of land lying partly in Sabine and partly in San Augustine Counties, near the town of Tebo. From family history I understand that William Roberts died about 1836, in San Augustine County. His wife was Sarah Roberts, my grandmother. After my Grandfather's death my Grandmother married a man by the name of Tanner who lived with her a few years and then, I understand, abandoned her. My Grandmother and Tanner had no children. So far as I know, my grandfather William Roberts was never married but the once and my Grandmother was married only twice as set out above. My Grandmother, Sarah Roberts, died before I can remember, sometime before the Civil War." At the end of his affidavit, he stated his information was given partly by actual knowledge and the remainder from family history.

      He went on to state that "The children of William Roberts and his wife, Sarah, were four in number:

      1) Talitha Stevenson, who married James Stevenson.
      2) Neriza Goodloe, who married Dr. R.K. Goodloe.
      3) Urza Ann Payne, who married B. W. Payne, my father.
      4) W. P. Roberts
    Family ID F14268  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Benjamin William Payne,   b. Abt 1817, Georgia Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Jul 1859, Sabine County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 42 years) 
    Marriage Y  [7
    • On the Williams-McNaughten Tree at Ancestry.com, they are shown as the grandparents of Mary Emma Cordray McGown, a daughter of their daughter, Mary "Molly" Payne and John Cordray. The transcription of the San Augustine City Cemetery also shows that John Randolph Cordray (1884-1968) was a son of John Cordray and Mary Payne.


      https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/K3DC-9JQ
      name: Mary Emma Mcgown
      event: Death
      event date: 15 Oct 1973
      event place: Beaumont, Jefferson, Texas, United States
      gender: Female
      marital status: Widowed
      birth date: 07 Dec 1885
      birthplace: Geneva, Texas
      father's name: John L Cordray
      mother's name: Mary Payne
      certificate number: 78696
      film number: 2242914
      digital folder number: 005145841
      image number: 03277
      Collection: "Texas, Deaths (New Index, New Images), 1890-1976," Mary Emma Mcgown, 1973
    Children 
     1. Margaret Amanda Payne,   b. Abt 1845, Texas Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
     2. Epperson Duke Payne,   b. Abt 1847, Texas Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 1 Jun 1850 (Age ~ 3 years)
     3. Sarah "Sallie" Agnes Payne,   b. Bef 1849, Texas Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef 1895 (Age ~ 46 years)
     4. Benjamin Rush Payne,   b. 2 Jul 1853, Sabine County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 27 Feb 1939 (Age 85 years)
     5. William E. Payne,   b. Abt 1855, Sabine County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
     6. Mary "Mollie" E. Payne,   b. Nov 1859, Texas Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 9 Apr 1921 (Age ~ 61 years)
    Family ID F7868  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 8 Dec 2020 

    Family 2 John N. "J. N." Lowery,   b. 12 May 1843   d. 14 Feb 1895 (Age 51 years) 
    Marriage Y  [2
    Family ID F12722  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 12 Feb 2013 

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  • Sources 
    1. [S342] San Augustine Tribune, weekly, 807 E. Columbia, San Augustine, TX, (San Augustine Tribune, USPS No. 479-040, Published every Thursday at 807 E. Columbia St., San Augustine, Texas 75972 Stephen Hays & Arlan Hays, Publishers. Postmaster: Change of Address notice should be made at P.O. Box 539, San Augustine, Texas 75972. The Tribune is a continuation of the Texas Chronicle moved from Galveston to San Augustine in 1837 and published as the Redlander.).

    2. [S1514] McCary, Mackie & Kay, Fussell, and Toole "Payne-Williams Cemetery, Sabine County, Texas" Cemetery Index ; http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~txsabine/burials/.

    3. [S144] 1850 United States Federal Census [Ancestry.com database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2005, (Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Seventh Census of the United States, 1850. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1850. M432, 1,009 rolls. This database is an index to individuals enumerated in the 1850 United States Federal Census, the Seventh Census of the United States. Census takers recorded many details including each person's name, age as of the census day, sex, color; birthplace, occupation of males over age fifteen, and more. No relationships were shown between members of a household. Additionally, the names of those listed on the population schedule are linked to actual images of the 1850 Federal Census.), Texas, Sabine County, Sabine District Enumerated 11 and 12 Oct 1850 Stamped 316 89-89 (Reliability: 3).

    4. [S98] 1860 United States Federal Census [Ancestry.com database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2004., (Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Eighth Census of the United States, 1860. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1860. M653, 1,438 rolls. This database is an index to individuals enumerated in the 1860 United States Federal Census, the Eighth Census of the United States. Census takers recorded many details including each person's name, age as of the census day, sex, color; birthplace, occupation of males over age fifteen, and more. No relationships were shown between members of a household. Additionally, the names of those listed on the population schedule are linked to actual images of the 1860 Federal Census.), Texas, Sabine County, Redland Beat, PO Milam Enumerated 30 Jun 1860 Page 23 167-167 (Reliability: 3).

    5. [S1985] Urza Ann Payne (Reliability: 3).

    6. [S1985] "dead some twenty-five or thirty years" (as of 1927) (Reliability: 3).

    7. [S1985] Wife of B. W. Payne (Reliability: 3).