Clopton Family Genealogical Society

 

 

 

 

Sarah Susan “Sallie” (Clopton) Floyd [second from the left] with some of her descendants, including her daughter, Josephine Moss (Floyd) Jones [on the far let]; her grandson, Willis Osborn Jones; her great-granddaughter, Ida Mae (Jones) Allen; and, her great-great-grandson, Arnie Lee Allen.  Photograph courtesy of Frances Lorene (Allen) Glasscock, who in 2002, possessed a copy of the original.

 

William Clopton, Gentleman + Ann Booth

William Clopton + Joyce Wilkinson

Waldegrave Clopton, I., + Unity Alford

Alford Clopton

Pleasant Perrin Clopton + Nancy Phillips

Sarah Susan “Sallie” Clopton +Willis Newell Floyd

 

 

 

 

        1.  Sarah Susan "Sallie"²¹ Clopton  (Pleasant Perrin²⁰, Alford¹⁹, Waldegrave¹⁸, William¹⁷, William¹⁶, William¹⁵, Walter¹⁴, William¹³, Richard¹², William¹¹, John¹⁰, William⁹, Thomas⁸, Walter⁷, William⁶, Walter⁵, William⁴, Walter³, William², Guillaume¹ Peche, Lord Of Cloptunna and Dalham)¹ was born December 30, 1834 in Georgia, and died August 3, 1929 in McLean, Texas and buried at Hillcrest Cemetery, McLean².  She married Willis Newell Floyd.  

        In 1857 the young Sallie, her husband, and their two small sons joined family and friends and left Georgia, bound for Texas.  The devastation, deprivation, tribulation, and grief brought by the American Civil War was courageously endured by Sallie, now widowed, and her five children. 

       

Children of Sarah Clopton and Willis Floyd are:

        2                 i.    Julius Sumner²² Floyd³, born January 22, 1855 in Meriwether County, Georgia; died June 11, 1929 in Cooke County, Texas and buried at Stoddard County Line Cemetery, Cooke⁴.  He married (1) Dora Frances Dean December 24, 1879; born February 25, 1858; died November 30, 1895 in Cooke County, Texas and buried at Stoddard County Line Cemetery, Cooke⁴.  He married (2) Nora Irene Lloyd December 14, 1899; born November 25, 1869 in Texas; died August 14, 1951.

        3                ii.    Lucius Orritha Floyd⁵, born July 27, 1856 in Meriwether County, Georgia; died May 28, 1948 in Lubbock, Texas and buried at Hillcrrest Cemetery, McLean, Texas⁶.  He married (1) Mary Anna Herd December 27, 1877; born September 22, 1861; died November 19, 1882 in Cooke County, Texas a little over a month after giving birth to her third son.  He married (2) Mattie McCutcheon October 14, 1885 in Callisburge, Cooke County, Texas; born May 30, 1857 in Rocky Comfort, Missouri; died November 18, 1931 in McLean, Texas.

        4               iii.    Josephine Moss Floyd⁷, born January 2, 1859 in Cooke County, Texas; died August 30, 1934 in Vinson, Harmon County, Oklahoma and buried at Cave Creek Cemetery, Vinson⁸.  She married Thomas Walker Jones⁹ Abt. 1872; born February 9, 1847 in Georgia, possibly, or either Dublin, Erath County, Texas¹⁰; died November 4, 1927 in Oklahoma and buried at Cave Creek Cemetery, Vinson, Harmon County, Oklahoma¹¹.

               According to family tradition, Josephine Moss Floyd and Thomas Walker Jones eloped on the back of a gray mule when he was 26 years old and she, 13.  The couple homesteaded in Oklahoma about 1897, about fifteen or twenty miles southwest of Vinson, Oklahoma in what is now Harmon County.  They presided over a small farm and ran a few head of stock.  Before his death in 1927, they moved into the town of Vinson.  Their youngest son, Elston Floyd, lived on the farm all of his life.  In 1999 the old barn was still standing and the farm was still in the hands of descendants.

        5               iv.    Nancy Beatrice Floyd, born October 22, 1860 in Upshur County, Texas; died July 1, 1931 in Lubbock, Texas and buried at Lubbock Cemetery¹¹.  She married John Dean; born October 1855 in Texas; died October 1930 in Lubbock, Texas and buried at Lubbock Cemetery¹¹.

        6                v.    Willie Leone "Willie" Floyd¹², born October 31, 1862 in Upshur County, Texas; died November 25, 1933 in Texas and buried at Clay County, Texas¹³.  She married Calloway Dean; born October 27, 1856; died May 16, 1934 in Texas and buried at Clay County, Texas¹³.

 

 

 

Endnotes

 

1.  Named in her father's will as Sarah S. Floyd, "wife of Willis Floyd."

2.  Tombstone, loc. cit.

3.  Doris Charlotte (Kolb) Holmes provided the information regarding this family unless otherwise noted.

4.  Tombstone, loc. cit.

5.  Doris Charlotte (Kolb) Holmes provided the information regarding this family unless otherwise noted.

6.  Tombstone, loc. cit.

7.  Frances Lorene (Allen) Glasscock provided the information regarding this family unless otherwise noted.

8.  Tombstone, loc. cit.

9.  Frances Lorene (Allen) Glasscock provided the information regarding this family unless otherwise noted.

10.  One source states that Thomas Walker Jones was born in Erath County, Texas, however, Erath County was not a county until 1858 and he was born in 1847.  Erath County histories show only one family named Jones in that area and that time, and the names do not match those of the Jones-Floyd marriage.  Other sources state he was born in Georgia.

11.  Tombstone, loc. cit.

12.  Doris Charlotte (Kolb) Holmes provided the information regarding this family unless otherwise noted.

13.  Tombstone, loc. cit.

 

 

 

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