Virginia JACKSON

Other Events:

• Name: Jennie Jackson
• Name: Jennie M Bonner
• death certificate: 21 Jan 1925; Virginia Matcek

Notes:

Milam County Divorce
Cause Number - 006119
Plaintiff-Surname - Matcek
Plaintiff-Given Name - Jennie
Defendant-Surname - Matcek
Defendant-Given Name - Frank
Date of Divorce - 10/18/1910
Volume - 2
Page - 143
Note - Minor children: Lillie, a girl, age 11 & Minnie, a girl, age 12.
Why aren't the other children named?

Virginia Matcek's death record gives her mother as Virginia Arledge, her mother married Menton Arledge.

I'm still not sure that all seven of the children belong to Frank AND Virginia, perhaps a case of yours, mine and ours.

I cannot find a death record or cemetery record for Virginia Arledge. I have to assume that she married again. Maybe that is where her daughter got the Stewart Crain portion of her name? [I've found Virginia's death record and another marriage but I stll don't know where the Crain came from.]

Out of 7 children, I've only managed to track two to their deaths. Edward may have died as an infant since he isn't on the 1910 census. Clifton and Willie are on the 1920 census with their mom. Minnie and Lillie were probably married. Menton re-married in 1926 but I don't find any of them on the 1930 census. I think Jennie lied about her age because she was so much older than Menton. That might explain why Menton didn't know Charley's mother's name. The 1900 gives her birth as Jan 1879, still making her very young when she married about 1894. Girls did seem to marry at a young age when their fathers died.

Virginia married Frank MATCEK in 1894. Frank was born in Jun 1863 in , , , Austria; died in Deceased. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Virginia married Menton ARLEDGE about 1911. Menton was born on 22 May 1887 in , , Texas, USA; died on 17 Dec 1958 in Rockdale, Milam, Texas, USA; was buried on 18 Dec 1958 in Rockdale, Milam, Texas, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Military: 27 Jun 1918, Cameron, Milam, Texas, USA; draft
• death certificate: 10 Jun 1919; Menton Arledge

Notes:

Military:
Charlie Matcek of Cameron, age 21, 25 May 1897, Washington County, Texas. He lists Mrs. Jennie Arledge as his nearest relative and calls her his mother. He gives his father's birth place as Harris County, Texas. He is short and slender with dark brown eyes and hair.

Other Events:

• Name: Clifton Edwards

Other Events:

• Name: Jennie Matcek
• Name: Virginia Stewart Crain
• death certificate: 1 Jan 1941; J G Senn of Buckholts

Notes:

Her death certificate was signed by J G Senn. I think it's supposed to be J J - James Jarrell (Gerald?) Ed's death certificate says her name was Virginia Browder.

I'm guessing the folks in this account are Virginia, her brothers Willie and Clifton and their great-grandmother, Frances "Fanny" Bonner.

See more information on the flood at
http://www.usgwarchives.net/tx/milam/history/pg008.htm

63 Dead In Milam Co., S5,000,000 Damage Bailey Turner And H. C. Sullivan Drowned In Floods
Their House in the Forks of Brushy and San Gabriel Swept Away in Monster Flood of Friday Night . . . Known Dead Now Totals Sixty-three
The known dead in the floods of Milam County from Sept. 8 to Sept. 15, 1921, totaled 63 as follows:
Bailey P. Turner, Rockdale; H. C. Sullivan, Rockdale (Body not recovered) Fred Kennedy, Tutner's farm hand; Grandma Bonner, age 85, at Green Camp unknown white woman found in San Gabriel River below Sheckels bridge Maynard Robinson and F. W. Leatherbury, Santa Fe railway offcials, drowned at the Santa Fe bridge on Little River; Roy Cass, white, son of Elijah Cass of the Liberty Hill community; Hardy Huff, Negro boy, on Bailey Turner place; a Mexican at San Gabriel town; twenty-three Mexicans in Laneport community five Mexicans at the Redville gin on Alligator, two miles from San Gabriel Mrs. M. L. Brown and son, Lee, at the Redville gin, Mrs. Lee Brown rescued from a tree top; eleven Mexicans at San Gabriel town; two white children at the Hogue crossing on Brushy; Negro woman and two children at the Lawrence crossing on Brushy, southwest of Thorndale; five Mexicans on the Minor farm; three Mexicans on the Watt farm....
...One of the most thrilling experiences and narrow escapes from death recorded in the floods was that of "Comrade" Ed. A. Green and the two sons and one daughter of Mrs. Minton Arledge, all of whom were caught at the Green sawmill camp in the San Gabriel bottom below Sheckels bridge. A saddening feature of their experiences was found in the death of the grandmother of the children, Mrs. Bonner, who at the advanced age of 85 years was forced to endure the sickening hardships incident to spending a night in a tree, wet to the skin and so weakened by exposure and fright that it was necessary to bind her to a tree, and who finally succumbed and dropped into the raging torrent, to be swept away.
Mr. Green in relating his experiences said that they were not anticipating any high water, and that the water was two or three feet deep when they discovered it about 2 o'clock Friday night. The rise came so rapidly that there was no chance to get out, and it was only an hour or two until they were forced to climb to the roof of the house. About 3:30 a. m. the water reached its crest and they felt the house begin to give way. A large whiteoak tree extended a convenient branch over the shack, and they all climbed into its branches. Just as he lifted the old lady up to one of her grandsons the house floated off about 60 or 70 feet and lodged against some trees. After daylight dawned Saturday the waters fell and the house seemed to settle on the ground, and in settling the current was so divided as to make swimming possible, so Mr. Green and the young people swam to the house where a more comfortable perch was had on its roof. During Saturday, however, another rise came and the house again became dangerous, so they again took to the trees. Mr. Green swam back and forth to the old lady a number of times, trying to make her more comfortable and cheer her up, but he observed that she was getting much weaker and he bound her to the tree with a blanket. Night came on, and some time during the night the grandmother became delirious, untied herself from the tree, and exclaiming " I am gone," allowed herself to drop into the dark waters. The balance of the party spent their time alternately on the roof and in the trees. Mr. Green climbed to the top of the big whiteoak Saturday morning and attempted to signal for help, but could see no help from any direction.
Mr. Green said that during the early hours of Saturday morning before daylight he heard shots and cries from the Bailey Turner place further on down the river, and he felt sure both Turner and Sullivan, his partner, were drowned shortly after that hour.
Sunday morning about 9 o'clock Buck Hillin and another man came to the Green camp in a small boat. They could only carry two passengers so they took the girl and one of the boys, coming back later for Mr. Green and the other boy. Green said that the relaxation from the nervous strain and sleepless hours was so great that both he and the boy lay down on the roof of the shack, which was two or three inches deep in slimy mud, and went sound asleep, sleeping until Hillin came back. During their thirty-six hour vigil in the trees the party had nothing to eat except a five pound can of sugar, and nothing to drink except the muddy river water.
Hillin carried the rescued party to high ground on the other side of the river and went on looking for others who might be similarly marooned. Two or three hours later a rescue party composed of E. V. (Gene) Marshall, Charley See, Martin Whiteley, Henry Seelke and Harry Moody, in two boats, showed up, and brought the Green party across the river, landing them on the hill this side of the Holtzclaw bridge.
The young folks were named Matcek, the girl's first name being Virginia, and Mr. Green said this girl showed unusual grit and vitality. She kept her brothers awake throughout the long hours of the night, frequently slapping and pinching them into wakefulness when to fall asleep meant death.

Cameron Herald, 15 Sep 1921, pg 7
More Than 100 Lives Lost In Valley Lands of Williamson and Milam Counties In Flood
More than 100 bodies of flood and storm victims in the lowlands along the San Gabriel river in and Milam counties have been recovered, according to the correspondent of the San Antonio Express at Taylor, who telephoned a report. The correspondent telephoned the following: "One hundred and nine bodies have been recovered from flooded lowlands along the San Gabriel river in Williamson and Milam counties as the result of more than 20 inches of rain between last Friday anil Saturday mornings, which caused a rise of 40 feet. Most of the dead are Mexican farm laborers." Lists from different towns and communities are as follows: Thorndale, 45 bodies recovered, Mexicans. Laneport, 23 bodies recovered, Mexicans. San Gabriel, 8 Mexicans. Alligator Creek, 5 Mexicans. Roy Bland farm near Taylor, 1 Mexicans. Elm Grove, 29 Mexicans on Jake Bowers' place seven miles southeast of Taylor. Another dispatch to the Express from Rockdale, Milam county, says: "More than twenty families in the Brazos bottoms between Gause and Valley Junction are reported to have been lost. Five persons are known to have drowned on the Ed Green farm in the San Gabriel bottoms. "More than twenty feet of water rose over the roads in the Brazos bottoms and nothing has been heard from the twenty families living there. "Virtually every bridge in Milam county, both railroad and highway, has been destroyed." Property losses will exceed $1,000,000, the report said. Conditions along the Brazos between Rockdale and Hearne are nil- known. Ed Green, the farmer on whose land several were drowned, was rescued after being in a tree 36 hours. Two white boys and a girl were rescued at the same time. The Taylor correspondent said that the rainfall from 3:30 a. m. of Friday to 1 a. m. Saturday was 21.5 inches, the heaviest in the history of the weather bureau, established at Taylor twenty years ago. All wagon and railroad bridges out of Taylor in every direction are gone. Only one train has run since Saturday night. The property loss in the town of Taylor is estimated at $450,000 to $750,000. No lives were lost in Taylor. The two children drowned in Brushy creek clung to a tree for two days and were drowned just as help was in sight. Their names are not known. W. D. Barfield of the county road force was going to their aid when they became exhausted and fell into the water. Six other children in the vicinity were rescued by Barfield. At Hutto, Williamson county, a tornado, accompanied by heavy rains, struck the negro district. Fifteen dwellings and the negro Baptist church were wrecked.

Virginia married Robert Louis STEWART on 26 Oct 1934 in , Milam, Texas, USA. Robert was born about 1900; died in Deceased. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Virginia married James Jarrell SENN on 20 May 1940 in , Milam, Texas, USA. James (son of Frederick Doyle SENN and Emma Beatrice WILLS) was born on 13 Jan 1910 in Holland, Bell, Texas, USA; died on 6 Jul 1952 in Austin, Travis, Texas, USA; was buried on 8 Jul 1952 in Austin, Travis, Texas, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Name: Ed Senn
• Education: 1955; Sharp R.H.S.
• Residence: 2 Oct 1962, Cameron, Milam, Texas, USA; 202 E 6th St
• death certificate: 20 Dec 1973; Jewel Sides of Rockdale

Notes:

Ed always spelled his last name SINN. He and Irene were only married about about a year.

I don't usually include a lot of information on cousins but since Uncle JJ's family line ended with Ed and Billy, I always include them in my lineup.

See Pearl McBroom

(Medical):Huntington's disease

Ed married Irene Mildred BUCHANAN on 9 Oct 1960 in , Milam, Texas, USA. Irene (daughter of Willie Mike BUCHANAN and Irene Mildred CASEY) was born on 3 Feb 1944 in Mission, Hidalgo, Texas, USA; died on 2 Oct 1962 in , Milam, Texas, USA; was buried on 4 Oct 1962 in , Milam, Texas, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Name: Billy Ed Senn

Notes:

Being a grandson of James, Billy's name was spelled SINN.

(Medical):Irene and Billy were in the car when it fell into the Little River