From: Phil Spray < pspray -at- arn -dot- net > Wed, 12 Sep 2001 Subject: John C. Peacock Biography and Bible Record Family Record of John C. and Edna J. HAYHURST PEACOCK extracted from the Family Bible of Robert H. CHANDLER which is now in the possession of Barbara Chandler Spray, 3006 NE 26th Ave., Amarillo, TX 79107. Information enclosed by { } was not included in the Bible record but was added as part of the family record. Parents John C. {Columbus/Calvin} PEACOCK born Oct. 22, 1839 {in Itawamba Co., MS}, married {Feb. 10, 1861 in Bastrop Co., TX.} Died Jan. 25, 1890 {in Waelder, TX} Edna Josephine HAYHURST born March 11, 1846 {in Carroll Co. AR}, died Jan. 26, 1887{in Waelder, TX} Children A.H. {Alford H.} PEACOCK born Jan. 16, 1862 in Bastrop,TX Died March 2, 1863 {in Bastrop,TX?} M.E. {Mary Ellen} PEACOCK born Nov. 27, 1863 in Bastrop, TX. Married {Nov. 25, 1880 {in Gonzales Co., TX to James McDonald WEAHUNT} died {May 15, 1934 in Lodi, CA} Parrie Lee PEACOCK born Jan. 1, 1866 in Bastrop, TX Married Dec. 14, 1882 {in Caldwell Co. TX to Robert Henry CHANDLER} Died March 29, 1923 {in Little Rock, AR} D.N. {Delia Nevada} PEACOCK born Sept. 10, 1868 {in Elm Grove, Caldwell Co., TX} married Sept. 19, 1889 {in Gonzales Co. TX to Joseph Aden PETTY} Died {June 16, 1947 in Clarksville, TX} John B.L. PEACOCK born Feb.17, 1871 in Elm Grove, TX Died Sept. 12, 1889 {in Waelder, TX} Edna A. PEACOCK born Feb. 1, 1874 in Elm Grove, TX Died March 1, 1874 {in Caldwell Co. TX?} C.M. {Columbus McKenzie "Lum"} PEACOCK born June 14, 1875 in Elm Grove, TX. Married Dec. 22, 1901 {in Gonzales Co. TX to Mary J. "Mollie" GUNN} died {Dec 25, 1939 in Waelder, TX} L.H. {Leonard H.} PEACOCK born March 2, 1878 in Lockhart, TX Died Aug. 9, 1878 {in Caldwell Co. TX?} J.C. {Jesse Calvin} PEACOCK born Sept 19, 1879 in Waelder, TX Married Aug. 17, 1899 {to Sophia Addie WARE} Died {Nov. 1925 in Brawley, CA} Ora A. {Alice} PEACOCK born Aug. 3, 1882 in Jeddo, TX. Married {July 31, 1899 in Waelder, TX to Robert Wesley JOHNSON} Died May 15, 1904 {in Waelder, TX} M.J. {Mamie Josephine "Josie"} PEACOCK born Dec. 19, 1886 in Waelder, TX Married Nov. 14, 1903 {in Grant Co. New Mexico to George Nelson BELL} died {March 30, 1965 in Lodi, CA} -------------- John C. PEACOCK was born October 21, 1839 in Itawamba County, Mississippi to Alfred and Lucy PEACOCK. He also had two sisters, Millie F. and Cynthia Statira PEACOCK, who came to Texas about 1851, possibly with their once again widowed mother. John and his sister Statira, also called Cynthia, appear on the 1860 Bastrop Co. TX Census in the household of a widow, Laney McCARTY. The other sister, Milly, is recorded in Bastrop County Marriage Records as marrying James A. HARE on January 2, 1859. No furthur record of them is known. Cynthia PEACOCK married John M. PETTY in Bastrop County on March 20, 1861 and they resided in the Pettytown area. John C. PEACOCK married Edna Josphine HAYHURST in Bastrop County on February 10, 1861. He was 21 and she was one month shy of her fifteenth birthday. Edna was the granddaughter of John and Elizabeth PETTY of Pettytown and a first cousin to John M. PETTY, her husband's brother-in-law. Edna was said to be 1/16 Cherokee, inherited from the DAWSON/ROGERS/VANN branches of her ancestry. Photographs of Edna taken in the 1880s reveal her with dark hair and deep set eyes. She bore eleven children, out of which seven lived to adulthood. Edna died at age 40 on January 28, 1887 at their home near Waelder from complications arising from childbirth six weeks earlier. The infant daughterJosie survived and lived a long life. Edna was a member of the Knights and Ladies of Honor. She was survived by her husband, John C. PEACOCK, eight children and four grandchildren. She was laid to rest in Waelder Cemetery. In 1889 her son Johnny was laid to rest beside her in an unmarked grave. John C. PEACOCK was politically active in the communities in which he lived as well as being a land owner. In Caldwell County he was postmaster at Elm Grove in 1874 and 1876 and Justice of the Peace during the late 1870s. He owned two tracts of land totaling 296 acres in adjacent Bastrop and Caldwell counties. At the time of his death, John C. PEACOCK was a county commissioner in Gonzales County. He had also served as a trustee in the Waelder Farmers' Alliance. He owned a farm near Waelder, a house in Waelder and the Planters Hotel in Waelder. >From his photograph taken in the 1880s, we see John C. PEACOCK as a tall, slender man with pale eyes and thin hair and a goatee. He died at age 50 on January 25, 1890, five days after making his Will. He died from cancer of the bowels and hemorrhaged to death at his home in Waelder. He was laid to rest beside his first wife, Edna, who had died three years earlier. He was survived by his second wife, Katie, seven children and six grandchildren. His widow, Katie FOSTER PEACOCK, returned to her home in Luling as she had declared she would before his death. In his Will, dated January 20, 1890, John asked that his children receive equal amounts of his estate after his debts had been paid. He named J.B. HILL, Jr., a friend and a lawyer, as executor of his estate and guardian of his minor children. Although he did not mention his children by name in his Will, there were four minor children: Lum, Jesse, Ora and Josie. In his Will John asked that Mrs. T.A. BEARCE, his late wife's aunt, live in his home and care for his four young children. [Mrs. BEARCE was the mother-in-law of John's daughter, Nevada PEACOCK PETTY] John also asked that his present wife, Katie FOSTER PEACOCK, who was unnamed in his Will, be given certain items of furniture to compliment her own furniture. [Gonzales Co. Probate Records #1160 and #1216.] Mary Ellen PEACOCK, the second child of John and Edna PEACOCK, was born in Bastrop County on November 27, 1863. She was born eight months after her brother Alford died at the age of thirteen months. Ellen, as she was called, married James McDonald WEAHUNTon November 25, 1880 in Gonzales County, two days before her seventeenth birthday. Jim had been a laborer on her father's farm. The WEAHUNTS had twelve children and lived on farms near Waelder, San Marcos, Cleburne, Waco and Van Alstyne in Texas. In 1897 they moved to Roswell, New Mexico and in 1904 to northern California. On May 15, 1934 Ellen died in Lodi, California at the age of 70 after being married 33 years. Parry Lea PEACOCK was also born in Bastrop County on New Year's Day in 1866. She married Robert H. CHANDLER in Caldwell County on December 14, 1882, two weeks before her seventeenth birthday. The CHANDLERS had ten children and lived on farms near Jeddo, San Marcos, Van Alstyne and Mineola in Texas. After Bob's death in Mineola in 1906, Lea resided near family in northeast Texas. She married a widower, B.A. TULLY who died three years later. Lea died of pneumonia at age 57 on March 29, 1923 while visiting her children in Little Rock, Arkansas. She was buried there in Oakland Cemetery under the name of Mrs. R.H. CHANDLER. Delia Nevada PEACOCK, known as Nevada, was born in Caldwell County on September 10, 1868. She eloped at the age of 21 with her cousin, Joseph Aden PETTY, in the caboose of a freight train in which Aden's mother was a cook's helper. They married in Gonzales County on September 16, 1889. At the time of her elopement, Nevada was the oldest child living at home with her father, step-mother, and four younger siblings ranging in ages from 2 1/2 years to fourteen years. The week before her marriage, Nevada's eighteen year old brother Johnny died at home and was buried beside their mother in Waelder Cemetery. Aden and Nevada had eight children and resided on farms in Waelder, Wharten and Lott in Texas. About 1920 they moved to Clarksville, Texas where Nevada died at the age of 78 on June 16, 1947. She was laid to rest beside Aden in Whiteman Chapel Cemetery. Columbus McKenzie "Lum" PEACOCK was born near Elm Grove, Caldwell County, on June 14, 1875. He married Mary Jane "Molly" GUNN on December 22, 1901 in Gonzales County. Lum was a laborer on Molly's father's farm near Waelder. He worked his way through college and taught school most of his life; and following his retirement, he became a rural mail carrier at Waelder. Lum died in Gonzales, Texas on Christmas Day 1939 at age 64. He was buried in Waelder Cemetery. He and Molly had five daughters. Jesse Calvin PEACOCK was born September 19, 1879 in Waelder. He was almost twenty when he married Sophia Addie WARE on August 17, 1899. Jesse was a farmer and moved his family of twelve children often. They resided in the Texas counties of Denton, Grayson, Jack and Falls and in the Oklahoma counties of Stephens and Carter. In the early 1920s they moved to Brawley, California at the urging of their eldest son. Jesse died there in November 1925 at age 46. Ora Alice PEACOCK was born August 3, 1882 near Jeddo in Bastrop County. She was eight years old when her father died and was raised by her older sister and brother-in-law, Nevada and Aden PETTY, on the Peacock farm near Waelder. Ora married Robert Wesley JOHNSON, their farmhand, on July 31, 1899 in Waelder. She was seventeen. Bob and Ora had three children. Ora died from complications following the birth of their third child on May 15, 1904. The infant daughter was about two months old at the time of Ora's death and the baby died three weeks later. Mother and child were buried in Waelder Cemetery. Mamie Josephine "Josie" PEACOCK was born December 19, 1886 in Waelder. Five weeks later her mother, Edna HAYHURST PEACOCK, died from complications of childbirth. Josie was three years old when her father died and was also raised by her older sister and brother-in-law, Nevada and Aden PETTY, on her father's farm at Waelder. Josie married George Nelson BELL on November 14, 1903 in Silver City, New Mexico while she was visiting her sister and brother-in-law, Ellen and Jim WEAHUNT, on their ranch. Josie and George BELL lived on a ranch in Grant County, New Mexico many years before moving to Lodi, California in 1927. Josie died in Lodi on March 30, 1965 at age 78. She and George BELL had four children.