I58518: Sarah J. ABELL (4 Jan 1815

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Buckholts, William L. - (CSA), 34th Texas Cavalry, Co.K (aka: “2nd Texas Partisan Rangers”). b.3/8/1847 in Winston Co., MS; d.1929. Fought in the battles of Mansfield, Pleasant Hill, Yellow Bayou & Marksville. Married “Annie J. Watkins” (b.1853 to J.R. & Mary J. Watkins; d.1943) on 3/3/1870 in Upshur Co, TX. Fathered at least four children. Lived in Upsher Co., TX for 19 years and moved to Gregg Co., TX in 1889, working as a farmer. Came to Duncan in 1892. Had Indian citizenship and a homestead in Garvin Co., Indian Territory (16 miles southwest of Paul’s Valley). Proprietor of the Palace Hotel. Member of the Baptist church. In 1/3/1913 Duncan Banner article & 1/1/1913 reunion photo (which was published in Foot Steps 2:2). Indication of military service inscribed on headstone. Buried in the Duncan city cemetery (block 5, lot 64). Sources: * HSC, pp.116 (photos), 136 & 220-221 (photos).

“William L. Buckholts, proprietor of the Palace Hotel, came to Duncan in 1892. His consistent public spirit and business activity has been factors in the town's advancement since that date. He owns three residences in the town, and also one of the best two-story stone business houses on Main Street, erected in 1905. He is owner of the drug stock of the Duncan Drug Company, which has quarters in this building. Most of his career has been taken up with farming and stock raising. Possessing Indian citizenship, he selected his homestead in what is now Garvin County, sixteen miles southwest of Pauls Valley. The homestead and surplus lands amount to four hundred acres, comprising one of the substantial farms of that vicinity.

“Mr. Buckholts was born in Winston county, Mississippi, March 8, 1847. He is a member of one of the old southern families that allied itself at an early day with the Indian inhabitants. H. Buckholts, grandfather of the Duncan citizen, married a quarter-blood Choctaw woman, and they spent their lives in South Carolina, being parents of eight children. William Buckholts, one of the children, was born in South Carolina in 1818, became a planter and slave owner, and in early manhood moved to Mississippi, and in 1849 located in Smith County, Texas, as a stock farmer. In 1872 he accepted the privileges of his Indian blood and moved to the Choctaw Nation, where he was engaged in farming operations until his death in 1903. He was a Democrat and a deacon in the Baptist church.

“By his marriage to Matilda, a daughter of Henry Null, who died in 1898 when she was sixty-six years old, there were born the following children: Elizabeth, wife of R.T. Jones, of Wakanacca, (sic) Oklahoma (prob. Wapanuca);James W., of Wayne, Oklahoma; William L.; George, of Ardmore; Matilda, wife of W.D. Bailey, of Chickasha; John of Madill; Oliver, who died at Boggy Depot, Oklahoma; and Parisada, wife of Frank Plato, of Chickasha.

“William L. Buckholts, after acquiring a limited education in Texas, began life in the army at eighteen, as a member of Troup K, Colonel Terrell's regiment of Texas Cavalry. He fought in the battles of Mansfield, Pleasant Hill, Yellow Bayou and Marksville. While home on a furlough, after fifteen months' service, Lee surrendered, and he resumed civil pursuits as a farmer in Upshur county, Texas, where he lived for nineteen years.

“In 1889 he moved to Gregg county, and three years later to Duncan. Mr. Buckholts married, in Upshur County, March 3, 1870, Miss Annie J., daughter of J.R. Watkins. Mr. and Mrs. Buckholts have had the following children: Lena J., who married John Cooksey, and died in 1897, leaving a son, William Ernest, who manages the Palace Hotel, Duncan; William E. Buckholts, of Elmore, Oklahoma; and Albert L, also of Elmore. Mr. Buckholts has given his children the best possible advantages and the influence of a Christian home. The family are Baptists.” (an unknown source)

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Sarah J. ABELL

4 Jan 1815 - 9 Oct 1886

ID Number: I58518

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William Lafayette "Fate" BUCKHOLTS

8 Mar 1847 - 1929

ID Number: I53151

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THOMAS CORBET

18 Oct 1281 - BEF 7 May 1310

ID Number: I74439

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Maria or Mary HASBROUCK

ABT 1660 - ____

ID Number: I99584

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Rebecca HOWELL

1809 - 24 Apr 1855

ID Number: I84610

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Robert PARKER

ABT 1769 - ____

ID Number: I97214

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Alice PETTEY

4 Jun 1718 - ____

ID Number: I49235

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Lucy ROANE

ABT 1750 - ____

ID Number: I86980

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Louis Contesse TYLER

ABT 1750 - ____

ID Number: I45914

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Thomas James WILLIAMS

ABT 1900 - ____

ID Number: I30376

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