Americus "Meck" Peyroux Cartwright

Notes:

John Bennett Boddie's SOUTHSIDE VIRGINIA FAMILY, Volume 1, states that Mr. Cartwright was a First Lt., C.S.A. in the Third Texas Cavalry and fought in the Missouri Campaign, later serving in General Major's brigade in Louisiana and Texas. His date of death was shown by Boddie as 11 Aug 1873, which matches the photo of his headstone on FindAGrave.

As had his older brother, Cumby, Meck attended the Kentucky Military Institute in Frankfort. In 1856 he had trouble with a reoccuring infection in his left eye...which eventually led to the loss of they eye. He later attended Cumberland Unversity in Lebanon, Tennesse, also with his brother Cumby. (Henson and Parmelee, p.179-183). He finished his studies in 1859 and returned home to clerk for the Burrus and Cartwright store. (ibid, p. 193).

On May 25, 1861, Meck, his brother Lon "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." (ibid, p. 200). Upon reorganization of the regiment on May 8, 1862, Meck Cartwright became second lieutenant of Company E, chosen by the majority of the forty-seven members voting. (ibid, p. 215) Meck requested and received a medical discharge in August, 1862 due to his missing left eye and a more recent impairment to his hearing. (ibid, p. 217). He rejoined the Texas Third Cavalry in 1863...and became a forage master. (ibid, p. 229) later returning home on sick leave, and later still joining General Major's Cavalry (ibid, p. 235). In May, 1864, he ceased duty as a cavalryman and was promoted to courier dispatcher at General Major's headquarters. (ibid, p. 236).

In 1873, he died at a hotel in Carthage, while travelling on business. For some time he had suffered from various ailments, including jaundice, for which he took calomel or blue pills, both which contained mercury. He also used liquor to mitigate the pain, and on August 11, the doctor pronounced him as dead of black jaundice. (ibid, p. 287). When his widow some years later moved to Terrell, Texas, to join Meck's siblings, she had his body reinterred with those of his parents and siblings. (ibid, p. 308).


(Research):
Census Listings:

Texas, San Augustine County, PO San Augustine
Enumerated 6 July 1870
Page 20
121-121
Cartwright, A 52 F W Keep House 343291 15529 Tenn
Cartwright, M 14 M W At School Tx
Cartwright, A. P. 30 M W Merchant Tx
Cartwright, Ophelia 23 F W Tx
Cartwright, Mathew Jr 7/12 M W Tx
Jones, Tom 20 M B Svt Tx
Burl, Elvira 15 F B Svt Tx
Sexton, Qunn? 10 F B Tx

Americus married Margaret Ophelia Smith on 11 Feb 1869 in Jefferson, Marion County, Texas. Margaret was born on 14 Jan 1845 in San Augustine County, Texas; died on 11 Jan 1939 in Terrell, Kaufman County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Blanche Milton Griffith. Blanche was born on 5 Oct 1871 in Farmersville, Collin County, Texas; died on 28 Apr 1945 in Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas; was buried in Oakland Memorial Park Cemetery, Terrell, Kaufman County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

In 1886, the five female cousins, Columbus's Mary, age fourteen; Meck's Annie, fifteen; and the three Amanda's (Lon's, Anna's and Mary's) all fifteen, spent a year at Atheanaeum in Columbia, Tennessee. Jimmie Ingram and Lon visited the girls at Christmas and posed for a photograph. The importance the Cartwrights placed on good education continued as each child reached the proper age. (Henson and Parmelee, p. 297).


Obituary from FindAGrave:

Funeral services for Mrs. Annie T. Cartwright Warren, 88, of 4241 Lorraine, wife of the late State Sen. Robert Lee Warren, will be held at 2:30 Friday at her home. Dean Gerald G. Moore and the Rev. George A. Detor will officiate. Mrs. Warren died Wednesday in a Dallas hospital after a brief illness. The daughter of colonial and pioneer Texas families, she was born in San Augustine and married Senator Warren in Terrell. He served in the Legislature in 1913. She was a member of the First Families of Virginia, the Dallas Woman's Club and the Dallas Garden Club. She was a communicant of St. Matthews Cathedral for 40 years. Survivors are a daughter, Mrs. Summerfield G. Roberts of Dallas and a brother, Matthew G. Cartwright of Terrell. Entombment will be in Hillcrest Mausoleum. Pallbearers will be Reagan Waskom Jr., Matthew C. Roberts III, Griffith Moore II, James C. Williams, Ronald Rutherford, Gill Clements, James I. Cartwright, Bourke Cartwright, Matthew C. Roberts Jr., W.P. Allen Jr., Matthew Allen, Jerome Cartwright Jr., Wallis Warren and Jerry H. Roberts. Dallas Morning News, October 23, 1959


https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/JXHV-JZ6
Name: Annie T Cartwright Warren
Death Date: 21 Oct 1959
Death Place: Dallas, Dallas, Texas
Gender: Female
Race: White
Death Age: 87 years
Estimated Birth Date:
Birth Date: 28 Nov 1871
Birthplace: San Augustine, Texas
Marital Status: Widowed
Spouse's Name:
Father's Name: Americus P Cartwright
Father's Birthplace:
Mother's Name: Ophelia Smith
Mother's Birthplace:
Occupation: Housewife
Place of Residence: Highland Park, Dallas, Texas
Cemetery: Hillcrest Mausoleum
Burial Place:
Burial Date:
Additional Relatives:
Film Number: 2115989
Digital Film Number: 4165962
Image Number: 340
Reference Number: item 1 cn 54826
Collection: Texas Deaths, 1890-1976

Family/Spouse: Robert Lee Warren. Robert was born on 29 Sep 1865 in Harrison County, Texas; died on 24 Mar 1952 in Dallas, Dallas County, Texas; was buried in Sparkman Hilcrest Memorial Park, Dallas, Dallas County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She was born five months after her fathers death, and was named in honor of him. Like other children born after the death of a father, many people believed America had extraordinary powers for healing others. (Henson and Parmelee, p. 288).

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/JDDJ-5HP
Name: America Cartwright Allen
Death Date: 04 Apr 1959
Death Place: Terrell, Kaufman, Texas
Gender: Female
Race: White
Death Age: 85 years
Estimated Birth Date:
Birth Date: 16 Feb 1874
Birthplace: San Augustine, Texas
Marital Status: Widowed
Spouse's Name:
Father's Name: Americus Peyroux Cartwright
Father's Birthplace:
Mother's Name: Ophelia Smith
Mother's Birthplace:
Occupation: Housewife
Place of Residence: Terrell, Kaufman, Texas
Cemetery: Oakland Memorial Park
Burial Place: Terrell, Texas
Burial Date: 06 Apr 1959
Additional Relatives:
Film Number: 2115910
Digital Film Number: 4165956
Image Number: 1978
Reference Number: v X cn 22121
Collection: Texas Deaths, 1890-1976

America married Walter Payne Allen, Sr. about 1894 in Texas. Walter was born on 10 Jan 1870 in Mount Enterprise, Rusk County, Texas; died on 3 Dec 1943 in Terrell, Kaufman County, Texas; was buried in Oakland Memorial Park Cemetery, Terrell, Kaufman County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Biography from FindAGrave

Annie Lee Warren Roberts, philanthropist and historical preservationist, was born in Terrell, Texas, in 1895, the only child of Annie (Cartwright) and state Senator Robert Lee Warren. Following graduation from high school in Terrell, Annie Lee attended Gunston Hall Women's College in Washington, D.C., and Monticello College in Geoffrey, Illinois. On May 15, 1920, she married Terrell native Summerfield G. Roberts, a fifth-generation Texan who was just beginning a business career in Dallas. As the couple prospered financially through his banking, oil, and real estate dealings, they jointly pursued interests that improved the cultural, social, and literary life of Dallas and Texas. Mrs. Roberts worked diligently to improve the plight of homeless pets and captive wildlife as well as to protect the animals in the wild. In 1984 she was a recipient of the Founders medal for extraordinary service to animals. In 1988, in association with the Animal Protection Institute and United Animal Nations-USA, she founded the Annie Lee Roberts Emergency Animal Rescue Service fund. She received the award for excellence for extraordinary achievement in animal rescue in 1988 and was the recipient of the animal philanthropist of the year award from the Animal Protection Institute in 1989. Her civic memberships included Daughters of the American Revolution, United Daughters of the Confederacy, Daughters of the Republic of Texas, and the Dallas Garden Club. Preserving Texas history was an ardent interest she shared with her husband; in 1948 they established, through the Sons of the Republic of Texas, the Summerfield G. Roberts Award for the best work of history on early Texas. For her role in the creation of this monetary award, Mrs. Roberts subsequently was elected an honorary member of the Sons of the Republic of Texas. She and her husband also were responsible for numerous artistic and literary gifts to the Hall of State in Dallas and the State Library and Archives Building in Austin. Later in her life, following the death of her husband in 1970, she established the Summerlee Foundation to provide funding for the protection of animals and the study and preservation of Texas history. In its efforts to preserve the state's history, the foundation underwrote the work of the Summerlee Commission, which in 1991 completed a comprehensive study of the status of teaching, studying and preserving Texas history. Annie Lee Warren Roberts died at her Dallas home on April 22, 1990, at the age of ninety-four, and was buried in Hillcrest Mausoleum in Dallas. She and her husband had no children. [bio info from tshaonline.org]

Family/Spouse: Summerfield Griffith Roberts. Summerfield (son of Matthew Cartwright Roberts and Emily Griffith) was born on 17 Oct 1891 in Dallas, Dallas County, Texas; died on 3 Jan 1970 in Dallas, Dallas County, Texas; was buried in Sparkman Hilcrest Memorial Park, Dallas, Dallas County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

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Name: Margaret Ophelia Mccord
Death Date: 10 Nov 1967
Death Place: Dallas, Dallas, Texas
Gender: Female
Race:
Death Age: 70 years
Estimated Birth Date: 1897
Birth Date:
Birthplace:
Marital Status:
Spouse's Name:
Father's Name: Walter Payne Allen
Father's Birthplace:
Mother's Name: America Peyroux Cartwright
Mother's Birthplace:
Occupation:
Place of Residence:
Cemetery:
Burial Place:
Burial Date:
Additional Relatives:
Film Number: 2138743
Digital Film Number: 4027132
Image Number: 2860
Reference Number: cn 71261
Collection: Texas Deaths, 1890-1976