This page will be for old local newspaper articles /clippings from around Llano Co, or about Llano Co folks. Old newspapers or clippings from them give us a window into the past about life and lifestyles of our ancestors. If you have any that you would like to share with us, we would appreciate the contribution.
The Way We Lived, The Way Worshiped …..
Clipping above provided by Robin Inge
The Latest Model of Transportation …..
Clipping above provided by Winnie Tate-Morgan
The following data is a contribution by Carol Martin. Carol says:
"Ellis had owned many acres from the David Silcrigg league survey (land deeds I have copies of) which was both in Mason and Llano counties ---
On the 1880 census they were in Llano Co., Texas. According to other documents on record (the 1890 census being lost, as well as deed records in the Llano courthouse which had burned in 1892), Ellis and family lived just east of Loyal Valley, in Llano Co., probably moving into the town of Loyal Valley, Mason Co., in the early 1890s, and into the town of Mason, Mason Co., Texas by the mid. 1890s
Also, I found records showing that 2 of Ellis & Sarahs’ dtrs. (Mary F. & Anna) married in Llano County."
"1880 - Prct. 1, Llano Co., TX, pg. 5, ED 99, pg. 503, enumerated June 3rd
Martin, Ellis W M 38 Cattle raising TN TN TN
" Sarah W F 34 wife/Keeping house IL KY VA
" Mary W F 11 dtr/at home TX TN IL
" Emma W F 8 " " " "
" Annie W F 7 " " " "
" Ida W F 6 " " " "
" Tilden W M 3 son/at home " " "
" Isac W M 1 " " " '
Jones, Jim W M 19 boarder/working cattle TX GA TN"
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“SHIP MARTIN MENTIONED IN BK. LLANO GEM OF THE HILL COUNTRY - A History of Llano county. Texas, by Wilburn Oatman PG 46 - Other pens were those built by Col. Ike T. Pryor and Ship Martin on the later's ranch at Cottonwood Spring”
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“Herman Lehmann was captured by Apaches in 1870 (he was 8 yrs. old) near Loyal Valley. After 9 years as an Indian, he was returned to his family at Loyal Valley and in chapter XLIII of his book states “I knew all of the old settlers, Ship Martin ...”
COURTESY PHOTO of CAROL MARTIN
This photo of Ellis Martin dates to about 1867. He served on the Confederate side in the Civil War and is buried at Roselawn Cemetery.
The following newspaper article tells a little about Carol’s search for her husbands ancestor Ellis Martin:
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138th Year... and still on the job! |
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Rebel remembrance
Roselawn Cemetery home to Confederate veteran
By MARY JEAN PORTER
THE PUEBLO CHIEFTAIN
Roselawn Cemetery will gain another Civil War gravestone this fall.
The marker for Ellis Martin will note his service on the Confederate side of the conflict. Martin is the only documented Confederate veteran buried at the cemetery, according to Sherri Baca, Roselawn administrative director.
Baca said several years ago another family thought they had a Confederate veteran buried at Roselawn but they were unable to provide papers that documented his service.
Baca could not say precisely how many Union soldiers' graves are in the cemetery.
Martin, who was born Feb. 1, 1843, in Tennessee, served as a private with Company 4, 36th (also known as 32nd) Texas Cavalry CSA, from 1861 through the duration of the war. He was honorably discharged in May 1865 at Houston, and his witnesses noted for his Civil War pension application that he was a "gallant soldier," according to Carol Martin of Llano County, Texas.
Carol Martin was doing genealogy research on her husband Tommy's family - Ellis Martin was his great-great uncle - and posted queries for information on Internet bulletin boards. About a month ago, one of Martin's distant descendants answered one of the queries. He had copies of two letters written by a doctor at Woodcroft hospital in Pueblo to Anna Martin Thomason, Ellis Martin's daughter who lived in Delta County in Colorado. The first letter told of his condition - he was showing signs of dementia - and the second letter stated he had contracted pneumonia and died.
Ellis Martin died Oct. 22, 1909.
When Carol Martin contacted the genealogy society in Pueblo, a representative helped her find the name of the mortuary - T.G. McCarthy - that cared for Martin's body, and helped her contact Roselawn Cemetery.
"They have kept a record of all the burials, and thank goodness they did," she said. "When I called, the woman I talked to went out that day and took a picture of his grave. It's not marked, and that's why we wanted to get a stone for it."
She contacted the Veterans Administration and arranged for a Confederate veteran's stone and she also contacted the Denver unit of Sons of Confederate Veterans, which will provide a graveside ceremony when the stone is placed.
Carol Martin doesn't know why Martin ended up in Colorado, or at Woodcroft in Pueblo, but thinks it might be because two of his daughters lived in the state during his latter years. In addition to Anna Thomason and her husband, Lee, Maud Martin Schmidt and her husband, August, lived in Delta County in 1910, according to the census.
The Oct. 23, 1909, edition of The Pueblo Chieftain carried a death notice for Martin that stated: "(Died) Friday, October 22, 1909, in this city, Ellis Martin, aged 71 years, a prominent ranchman of Paonia, Colo. The remains are at McCarthy's mortuary and will be forwarded to Paonia for interment."
Carol Martin also doesn't know why her husband's ancestor was buried in Pueblo County instead of Delta County.
Martin was married to Sarah E. "Sallie" Sharp on Oct. 10, 1867, and they had nine known children. She preceded him in death Dec. 26, 1894, in Mason County, Texas, and was buried in Gooch Cemetery there, though the family has not located her grave.
The Civil War section at Roselawn was created in June 1897 and a monument honoring Civil War veterans was erected in 1902 by Grand Army of the Republic, Upton Post Corps. 8 and Auxiliary, said local historian Joanne Dodds who has researched the cemetery.
Issack French, who is buried at Roselawn, and his wife, Bessie, are credited with collecting nickels and dimes to purchase the two Civil War cannons and five cannon balls from Philadelphia for the monument, Dodds said.
