Ursa Ann Roberts

1824 - 1895  (70 years)

• Name	Ursa Ann Roberts  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
  Birth	20 Apr 1824	Louisiana   [2, 3, 4]
  Gender	Female
  Death	18 Feb 1895  [2, 6]
  Burial	Payne-Williams (Payne-Cordray-Williams-Gray) Cemetery, Sabine County, Texas   [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
  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 d. Jul 1859, Sabine County, Texas (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 d. Yes, date unknown   2. Epperson Duke Payne,   b. Abt 1847, Texas d. Aft 1 Jun 1850 (Age 3 years)   3. Sarah "Sallie" Agnes Payne,   b. Bef 1849, Texas d. Bef 1895 (Age 46 years)   4. Benjamin Rush Payne,   b. 2 Jul 1853, Sabine County, Texas d. 27 Feb 1939 (Age 85 years)   5. William E. Payne,   b. Abt 1855, Sabine County, Texas d. Yes, date unknown   6. Mary "Mollie" E. Payne,   b. Nov 1859, Texas d. 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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  Birth - 20 Apr 1824 - Louisiana  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [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.). [S1514] McCary, Mackie & Kay, Fussell, and Toole "Payne-Williams Cemetery, Sabine County, Texas" Cemetery Index ; http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~txsabine/burials/. [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). [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). [S1985] Urza Ann Payne (Reliability: 3). [S1985] "dead some twenty-five or thirty years" (as of 1927) (Reliability: 3). [S1985] Wife of B. W. Payne (Reliability: 3).