Husband James Milford Day
Born: 11 May 1815 - Anderson Co., SC
Died: 23 Jan 1894 - Gillespie Co., TX
Buried:
Father: Johnson Day
Mother: Sarah Hembree
Marriage: 1847 - TX
Other Spouse: Martha H. Nichols - 2 May 1838 - Gonzales Co., TX
Wife Margaret Hudson
Born: Abt 1828 - AR
Died: Abt 1865 - TX
Buried:
Children
1 M Henry Milton Day
Born: 1848 - TX
Died: 1925 - Abilene, Taylor Co., TX
Buried: 1925 - Colony Hill Cem., TX
Spouse: Priscilla Frances Noicholson
Marr: Abt 1868 - TX
2 F Meekey Ann Day
Born: 1850
Died: 1940
Buried:
Spouse: William Nichols
3 F Caroline Jane Day
Born: 1852
Died: 1932
Buried:
Spouse: Alexander Green Nichols
4 F Sarah (Sally) Day
Born: 1852
Died: Abt 1935
Buried:
Spouse: A. George Nichols
Husband Johnson Day
Born: 29 Jul 1794 - Pendleton District, SC
Died: 19 Jul 1838 - Gonzales Co., TX
Buried:
Father: Ballard Day
Mother: Sylvia Mayfield
Marriage: Abt 1814
Wife Sarah Hembree
Born: 6 Aug 1795 - Pendleton District, SC
Died: 1856 - Prairie Lea, Caldwell Co., TX
Buried:
Father: James Hembree
Mother: Asenath Gentry
Children
1 M James Milford Day
Born: 11 May 1815 - Anderson Co., SC
Died: 23 Jan 1894 - Gillespie Co., TX
Buried:
Spouse: Martha H. Nichols
Marr: 2 May 1838 - Gonzales Co., TX
Spouse: Margaret Hudson
Marr: 1847 - TX
2 F Sylvia Day
Born: 13 Jan 1816 - Anderson Co., SC
Died: Bef 1900
Buried:
3 F Mary (Polly) Day
Born: 6 Dec 1818 - Anderson Co., SC
Died:
Buried:
Spouse: John W. Nichols
Marr: 2 May 1838 - Gonzales Co., TX
4 F Mahala J. Day
Born: 11 Dec 1821 - SC
Died: 1856 - Seguin, Guadalupe Co., TX
Buried:
Spouse: Henry Basil King
Marr: 2 May 1838 - Seguin, Guadalupe Co., TX
5 F Sarah Medisa Day
Born: 18 Dec 1822 - Tuscaloosa, AL
Died: 25 Sep 1856 - Blanco, TX
Buried: - Texas State Cem., Austin, TX
Spouse: William Allsbury
Marr: 15 Apr 1838 - Gonzales Co., TX
Spouse: James Hughes Callahan
Marr: 26 Mar 1843 - Gonzales Co., TX
6 F Hepzibah Day
Born: 6 Feb 1825 - Hall Co., GA
Died:
Buried:
Spouse: Solomon W. Brill
7 F Elizabeth Caroline Day
Born: 9 Oct 1830 - Charleston District., SC
Died: 3 Mar 1911 - Prairie Lea, Caldwell Co., TX
Buried:
Spouse: Eli Hankins
8 F Meekness Amanda Day
Born: 19 Nov 1832 - Charleston District., SC
Died: Oct 1894 - Blanco, TX
Buried:
Spouse: Augustus Pharr
Marr: 3 Jul 1849 - Guadalupe Co., TX
General Notes: Husband - Johnson Day
From The Sons of Dewitt Colony
http://www.tamu.edu/ccbn/dewitt/dewitt.htm
NICHOLS. James Wilson Nichols (1820-1891) was born 27 Dec 1820 in FranklinCo, Tennessee. His parents were George Washington and Mary Ann Walker Nichols. The Nichols and Johnson Day families traveled crossed the Sabine River and entered Texas on 16 Dec 1836 according to Nichols journal, Now You Hear My Horn. Although their goal was San Antonio, both families eventually settled in Gonzales on 2 Mar 1837 after spending the interim in East Texas. Although the Nichols and Days moved considerably, they usually returned to the area around Seguin in GuadalupeCo or Gonzales. Nichols was a Texas Ranger and Minuteman in the early days of the Republic of Texas serving with Capt. James Callahan and Capt. Jack Hays. Nichols served under Capt. Mathew Caldwell in the Battle of Plum Creek in 1841 and the Battle of Salado in 1842 which he described in his journal. He was with Hays company in 1842 when they encountered a messenger from Gen. Rafael Vásquez on the outskirts of San Antonio asking the surrender of the city. Hays called for the evacuation of San Antonio, but before he could muster additional troops Vásquez retreated to the Rio Grande. He again served with Capt. Hays troops in the Mexican War of 1847.
Nichols was a furniture maker and trader. His journal indicates a pleasant storyteller with a sense of humor, but outspoken in his opinions on issues and individuals. He was against secession and came into conflict with secessionists in the 1850s. Nichols answered a town committee's order for him to leave the county in ten days with the threat that they would be greeted by "two double-barrel guns. Now you hear my horn." He was later convicted of trumped-up charges of horse-stealing charges, but Governor Frances R. Lubbock granted him a pardon followed by reversal of the conviction in court. Nichols married Mary Ann Daniell, daughter of Rev. George Daniell of GonzalesCo. He and his wife had twelve children. He died in Kerrville on October 8, 1891.
Husband Theoderick Stanton Porter
Born: 1860
Died: 1953
Buried:
Marriage:
Wife Lenore Alice Day
Born: 1879
Died: 1935
Buried:
Father: Henry Milton Day
Mother: Priscilla Frances Noicholson
Children
Husband Henry Basil King
Born: 12 Dec 1818 - Stewart Co., TN
Died: 8 Dec 1868 - DeWitt Co., TX
Buried:
Marriage: 2 May 1838 - Seguin, Guadalupe Co., TX
Wife Mahala J. Day
Born: 11 Dec 1821 - SC
Died: 1856 - Seguin, Guadalupe Co., TX
Buried:
Father: Johnson Day
Mother: Sarah Hembree
Children
1 F Rachel Anne King
Born: 4 Dec 1840
Died:
Buried:
2 M James William King
Born: 6 Jun 1842
Died:
Buried:
3 M John Milford King
Born: 27 Sep 1845 - Guadelupe Co., TX
Died:
Buried:
Spouse: Sarah Jennie Murphey
4 F Sarah Elizabeth King
Born: 18 Jan 1847
Died:
Buried:
Spouse: William Harwood
5 F Catherine Mahala King
Born: 12 Dec 1848
Died:
Buried:
Spouse: John Pate
Spouse: William Henry Kishbaugh
6 M Henry Clay King
Born: 31 Jul 1853
Died:
Buried:
Spouse: Mary Ella Wheeler
General Notes: Husband - Henry Basil King
SONS OF DEWITT COLONY TEXAS
© 1997-2003, Wallace L. McKeehan, All Rights Reserved
HENRY B. KING - TEXAS RANGER 1818-1868
by Willam G. Kishbaugh, Winkelman, AZ 2002
Henry Basil King was born December 12, 1818 in Stewart County, Tennessee, a son of William King and Rachel Petty. He was living at Dover, Stewart County, Tennessee, when the Republic of Texas won their independence from Mexico, at the Battle of San Jacinto on April 21, 1836. At Paris, Tennessee in 1837, Henry and his older brother John Rhodes King joined a group of young men who were immigrating to the newly formed Republic of Texas. The group carried their possessions on their backs as they walked toward Texas. They crossed the Sabine River into Texas on September 13, 1837. At St. Augustine, the Texas bound group met the George Washington Nichols and Johnson Day families, who were traveling to Texas from Arkansas. For mutual convenience and protection the three groups made an agreement to travel together. They arrived at Gonzales Texas on October 6, 1837.
On March 8, 1838, about five months after their arrival in Gonzales, Henry B. King and Mahala J. Day were married by Texas Chief Justice B.D. McClure at Peach Creek. The famous "Sam Houston Oak" tree still stands nearby. That spring Henry B. King and his brother John R. King became members of Captain Mathew Caldwell's company of Gonzales Rangers providing frontier protection against the raiding Indians. Later that year, the two King brothers joined with a group of friends and fellow Rangers to form a corporation and establish the town of Walnut Springs. Lots were cast and Henry B. King drew Lot #30, thereby becoming one of it's first citizens. Soon after this, it was discovered that the name Walnut Springs already existed in Texas. At a shareholders meeting held on February 25 1839 and after a motion made by James Campbell and John R. King, the name of Seguin was agreed upon. In the fall season of 1841 the King brothers step-father John James Anderson McNary Boyd and their mother Rachel [Petty] King Boyd arrived in Seguin from Tennessee along with the two Boyd girls and William George King who was a younger brother to Henry and John.
During the next decade or so, Henry's unmarried brothers became well known in Guadalupe County political circles and within the Ranger service. Henry B. King, apparently engaged in providing for a growing family, did not follow the same paths as his two (as yet) unwed brothers, and he was to die at an earlier age. These two facts probably account for his lack of recognition in many of the later historical writings about Seguin and Guadalupe County. Henry did however continue serving as a Ranger in the protection of the Texas frontier. He served with Captain J.H. Callahan's company of Minute Men from Gonzales, as well as with other Ranger units. Some of the more notable campaigns Henry found himself engaged in were the 1842 Battle of Salado Creek and the Callahan Expedition in 1855. He most likely rode with the Texas Rangers that supported U.S. General Zachary Taylor during his invasion of Mexico in 1845, because his brother John R. King recorded riding with Captain McCulloch's company of "Spies" during the Mexican War. Henry also served as an officer in Callahan's 1855 punitive expedition into Mexico . He was wounded in the shoulder during that campaign when the Mexican Army cut them off and they had to fight their way back across the Rio Grande River into Texas.
Ranger Captain James H.Callahan, the leader of the expedition, having married Sarah M. Day, was Henry King's brother-in-law. Both Captain Callahan and his wife Sarah are buried with honors at the Texas State Cemetery in the capitol city of Austin, Texas. In 1856 Henry B. King's wife Mahala, died in Seguin, leaving him with six small children to care for. Being an old Ranger, accustomed to spending long hours in the saddle and camping out with the Rangers in their temporary encampments, he probably was not very adaptable to such a domestic role. After Mahala's death, Henry left some of his little ones in the care of relatives and took his older boys with him to start a new life in that wild and unsettled cattle country of DeWitt County. His youngest daughter, Catherine M. "Kitty" King, was my grandmother. She was taken in as a child and raised by William G. King and his wife "Euphemia Texas Davis [Ashby] King". This home, with a Texas flag flying next to a historical site monument, still stands on Court Street in Seguin. It lies along the route of the "True Women Tour" which is sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce there.
Another incident that may have played a role in Henry leaving for the wild lands of DeWitt County was the shooting of his brother-in-law, James Hughes Callahan in Blanco County, in April of that year. A group of Captain Callahan's close friends (which may have, and in my opinion, probably did include his brother-in-law, Henry B. King ) sought revenge for his death. The two persons accused of Callahan's shooting were being held in a log cabin belonging to a local JP. The armed group of men boldly rode up to the cabin and dragged the two alleged shooters into the yard, where they were summarily shot dead. No one in the armed group was ever prosecuted and convicted.
At the outbreak of the Civil War forty-three year old Henry B. King enlisted in Company "A" Fourth Texas Infantry Regiment at Camp Clark Texas on July 11, 1861. His eighteen year old son "James William King" enlisted in Co. D of the Fourth Texas Infantry Regiment. The 4th Texas Infantry recruits then marched from through south Texas and through the swamplands of southern Louisiana to finally be boarded on railcars and taken north to Richmond, Virginia. Many of their casualties were suffered through disease contacted along the way. In Virginia they defended the Confederate capitol against the invading Union Army. On Christmas Day 1861 during the Union Army's "Peninsula Campaign" Henry was assigned to commissary duties. This may have been due to his old wound acting up or it may have been due to the experience he had gained as a Texas Ranger where providing and preparing food for troops in the field was commonplace. At any rate, Henry soon became incapacitated from the old shoulder wound he had received in Mexico, and he was declared unable to perform the duties required of a soldier. On July 25th 1862 he was released to return home to Texas. His son James W. King had been stricken by Typhoid Fever and was admitted to St. Petersburg General Hospital on June 25,1862. He died there on August 11,1862. After Henry returned home to Texas, he continued to serve the Confederate cause in spite of his disability. In San Antonio he was elected Capt. of Co. E, Hardeman's Regiment of Texas Cavalry on Nov.24, 1862. He applied for leave on April 21,1865 while in camp near Houston. His younger son, 18 year old John Milford King, enlisted in that same regiment on November 24,1862, the same day as his father. He was paroled at San Antonio,TX on August 29, 1865.
Henry's brother John R. King served during the war as Major of Commissary in Henry E. McCulloch's regular 1st Mounted Texas Rifles, which was the first regiment in the state organized for Confederate service. Younger brother William G. King was the Brigade Quartermaster under General H.E. McCulloch. All three King brothers survived the war, but Henry B. King died in DeWitt County on December 5, 1868 at the age of 49 yrs. Henry B. King had ridden the campaign trail with such men as James Campbell, William Clinton, Mathew "Old Paint" Caldwell, James Milford Day, Henry and Ben McCulloch, T.M. Minter, Ezekial Smith, French Smith, William Smith, John Sowell, Andrew Sowell, Asa Sowell, Robert Hall, James Nichols and many other veterans of the early Texas ranger service. And like so many of the other early day Texas Rangers and Indian Fighters, the exact cause of his death and the exact location of his grave remains a mystery, for most of them left no written records.
References
1. The King Family records
2. "Rags and Hope" by Mary Lasswell 1961. The Memoirs Of Val C. Giles---Four Years with Hood's Brigade, Fourth Texas Infantry, 1861-1865
3. "Now You Hear My Horn" by Catherine W. McDowell 1967. The Journal of James Wilson Nichols 1820-1887
4. Official Confederate Military Records/NARA
5. Book of Marriages- Gonzales County TX Archives
6. The Handbook Of Texas OnLine & Misc. historical accounts of early day Texas.
[Obtained from and reprinted with permission of the author, William G. Kishbaugh]
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Husband John W. Nichols
Born: Abt 1815
Died: Bef 1900
Buried:
Marriage: 2 May 1838 - Gonzales Co., TX
Wife Mary (Polly) Day
Born: 6 Dec 1818 - Anderson Co., SC
Died:
Buried:
Father: Johnson Day
Mother: Sarah Hembree
Children
1 F Sarah E. Nichols
Born: 1842
Died:
Buried:
2 M Andrew J. Nichols
Born: 1845
Died:
Buried:
3 F Mary A. Nichols
Born: 1847
Died:
Buried:
4 F Matty S Nichols
Born: 1854
Died:
Buried:
5 M John Nichols
Born: 1858
Died:
Buried:
6 M Edward Nichols
Born: 1860
Died:
Buried:
Husband William Nichols
Born: Abt 1845
Died: Abt 1940
Buried:
Marriage:
Wife Meekey Ann Day
Born: 1850
Died: 1940
Buried:
Father: James Milford Day
Mother: Margaret Hudson
Children
Husband Augustus Pharr
Born: 22 Jun 1823 - Warrington, MS
Died: Bef 1920
Buried:
Father: David Pharr
Mother: Elizabeth Bailey
Marriage: 3 Jul 1849 - Guadalupe Co., TX
Other Spouse: Amelia B. Rector - 2 Jun 1846
Wife Meekness Amanda Day
Born: 19 Nov 1832 - Charleston District., SC
Died: Oct 1894 - Blanco, TX
Buried:
Father: Johnson Day
Mother: Sarah Hembree
Children
1 F Ellen Pharr
Born: 1851
Died:
Buried:
2 F Sarah Harriet Pharr
Born: 1853
Died:
Buried:
3 M William Jasper Pharr
Born: 1855
Died:
Buried:
4 M Milton Henry Pharr
Born: 1857
Died:
Buried:
5 F Amelia Pharr
Born: 1859
Died:
Buried:
6 F Catherine Lucy Pharr
Born: 1862
Died:
Buried:
7 F Medissa Pharr
Born: 1866
Died:
Buried:
8 M Augustus Pharr Jr.
Born: 1868
Died:
Buried:
9 F Mary Maude Pharr
Born: 1870
Died:
Buried:
10 M Milford Callahan Pharr
Born: 22 Apr 1873
Died: - TX
Buried:
Spouse: Etta Lowry (Lowey)
Marr: 1897 - TX
Husband A. George Nichols
Born: Abt 1848
Died: Abt 1930
Buried:
Marriage:
Wife Sarah (Sally) Day
Born: 1852
Died: Abt 1935
Buried:
Father: James Milford Day
Mother: Margaret Hudson
Children
Husband Carlton Joseph Densmore
Born: 28 Sep 1917 - Dawson Co., GA/Dawson Co., GA
Died: 2 May 1983 - Lumpkin Co., GA
Buried:
Marriage: 23 Jul 1939 - Pickens Co., GA
Wife Ruby Maybelle Gooch
Born: 5 May 1920 - Lumpkin Co., GA
Died:
Buried:
Father: James Vance Gooch
Mother: Ethel America Mincey
Children
1 F Patricia Ann Densmore
Born: 29 Apr 1940 - Dawson Co., GA/Dawson Co., GA
Died:
Buried:
Spouse: James Jefferson Taylor
Marr: Abt 1960 - GA
Spouse: Marshall David Floyd
Marr: 12 Oct 1978 - Hall Co., GA
2 M Daniel Carlton Densmore
Born: 16 Feb 1952 - Pickens Co., GA
Died:
Buried:
Spouse: Glenda Sharon Satterfield
Marr: 15 Jun 1974 - White Co., GA
Husband Carrigan Wilson Densmore
Born: Abt 1915
Died:
Buried:
Marriage: 20 Dec 1936 - Pickens Co., GA
Wife Lavonia Georgeann Gooch
Born: 27 Feb 1918 - Lumpkin Co., GA
Died: 26 Jul 1997 - Atlanta, GA
Buried:
Father: James Vance Gooch
Mother: Ethel America Mincey
Children