Manuel Mahan and Charity Patience Moore Mahan

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Amanuel and Charity Mahan

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Robert Howard Mahan (August 29, 1826-March 30, 1915) married Rebecca Caroline Martin (May 1, 1826-December 18, 1882) of Hamilton Co., TN, about 1850. She was the daughter of Anna Martin.
On December 8, 1859, Robert Mahan bought 160 acres on Hog Jowl Road, McClemore's Cove, Walker Co., GA from John Taylor. The log house there was probably built by Cherokees before their removal. The house has a two-story addition at present. Rebecca is buried in the small cemetery in the pasture about 200 yards from the house. There are several graves without markers, probably the little ones that died during and just after the Civil War.
Children of Robert and Rebecca were:
Elizabeth Ann Mahan Blair (January 29, 1851, Walker Co., GA - October 29, 1937, Comanche Co, TX)
AMANUEL ROGER Mahan (April 18 1854, Walker Co., GA - November 4, 1923, Crosby Co., TX)
Martha Adeline Mahan Smith Bennett (October 12, 1856, Walker Co., GA -October 20, 1936, Walker Co., GA)
John Whitfield Mahan (March 24, 1859, Walker Co., GA -March 21, 1938, Walker Co, GA)
Exer Mahan (July 16, 1861, Walker Co., GA -1863, Walker Co., GA)
Robert Howard Mahan (August 20, 1864, Walker Co., GA -1865, Walker Co., GA)
Sarah Liew Dela "Sally" Mahan Shankles (September 15, 1865, Walker Co., GA -1938, CA)
Alexander Mahan (August 15, 1867, Walker Co., GA - died young, Walker Co, GA )
Susan Mahan (November 18, 1869, Walker Co., GA - died young, Walker Co., GA )
Susan was on the 1870 census but was not on the 1880 census, Exer appeared on the 1870 and 1880 censuses (probably by mistake), because she was not listed with Robert's children on their Homestead application in 1866. Alexander and Robert Jr. must have died before the 1870 census, since they aren't listed on it. Ad's Cherokee claim stated that Exer died in 1863 and Robert, Jr. in 1865. She didn't mention Alexander and Susan, but their births were listed in the Family Bible.

The family of Charity Patience Moore: Father - William Samuel Moore, born 21 May 1835 in TN and died 13 May 1884, Eastland Co., TX. Mother: Patience H. Rogers Moore, born 04 Feb 1835 TN and died 15 Feb 1894 Eastland Co., TX.
Children:
Martha Clancy Moore (1855, GA - ca 1875 GA)
CHARITY PATIENCE MOORE MAHAN (01 May 1857 GA - 17 Nov 1929 Crosby Co, TX)
Samuel L. Moore (26 May 1860 GA - Mar 1921 Crosby Co., TX)
James M. Moore (Jun 1864 GA - TX)
Jane Hix Moore Sparger (25 Mar 1867 GA - 03 Apr 1953 Eastland Co., TX)
Rachel Melvina Moore Redwine (23 Sep 1870 GA - 20 Apr 1947 Eastland Co., TX)
William Leander Moore (02 Oct 1873 GA - Knox Co., TX)
Houston W. Moore (Nov 1876 GA - TX)

Amanuel Rogers Mahan, 1st son of Robert Howard Mahan and Rebecca Caroline Martin Mahan was born 18 Apr 1854 in Walker Co., GA.
Manuel, as he was called, spoke of sitting on the wood pile at his home in the Cove and listening to the cannon's fire during the battle of Chickamaugua in 1863. He was 9 years old.
He and Charity Patience Moore grew up together and they married at the Cedar Grove Methodist Church, 24 Dec. 1874. Blairs, along with Amanuel (all relatives) journeyed with a wagon train to Texas. The story goes, that Manuel was so dark-skinned that some fellow travelers believed him to be either black or an Indian. The year was about 1877.
Children of Amanuel and Charity were:
Marthann (02 Jul 1876, Walker Co., GA - 14 Dec. 1986 Lubbock Co., TX) Married George Wm. Knoles, 19 Aug 1894 (NOTE - 110 YEARS OF AGE!)
Selena Dale "Lean" (18 Sep 1878 Erath Co., TX - 27 Jun 1976) Married Albert C. Evitt, 04 Jul 1897
Cicero Columbus "Sid" (18 Jul 1881, Erath Co., TX - 01 Jan 1973, Eastland Co., TX) Married Mattie Lloyd, 05 Jun 1904
William Robert (27 Sep 1886, Eastland Co., TX - 13 Jun 1968, Dallas Co., TX) Married Lilly Viola Proctor, 23 Jun 1907
Charity Hix (27 Nov. 1888, Eastland Co., TX - 30 May 1973, Lubbock Co., TX) Married Nick W. Smith, 30 Jan. 1910
Jeffie James (18 Sep 1891, Eastland Co., TX - 18 Jan. 1894, Commanche Co., TX) Married Edith Kinney, 21 Oct 1911
Charles Howard (05 Oct 1894, Eastland Co., TX - 18 Jun 1899, Eastland Co., TX)
Earnest Amanuel (19 Apr 1901, Eastland Co., TX - 30 Nov. 1959, NM) Married Myrtle Ramsey 11 Mar. 1923

By 1910, Manauel and Charity were living in Young Co., TX and in 1920 they were living in Lubbock Co. Amanuel Rogers Mahan died 04 Nov. 1923. Charity Patience Moore Mahan died 17 Nov. 1929. They are buried in Lorenzo Cemetery, Crosby Co., TX.
The Mahan family narrative would not be complete without mentioning the distinquished name of ROGERS.
Discovering the Rogers family was one of those great revelations every genealogists dream about.
It all started when I wondered about my great grandfather's name, Amanuel Rogers Mahan. No one had such a name in the Mahan family.
Several homes away from the Mahan's, in the 1850 and 1860 census of Walker Co., GA, was Amanuel Hennegar Rogers. I had hit the jackpot! This man was the half-brother of my great great grandmother, Patience H. Rogers Moore.
Amanuel and his father, and, indeed, the entire family were "God-fearing" Christian people who were well respected in every community they had lived in. Several of the men, including my great great great grandfather, Dauswell Rogers, (Patience and Amanuel's Father) were Methodist ministers.
A distant cousin wrote about A. H. Rogers: "I remember Uncle Amanuel as one of the most consecrated Christian men I ever knew.
This was the family of my great grandmother, Charity Patience Moore Mahan.
The Moore's, Rogers', Martin's, Mahan's and Evitt's all lived, worked, and raised children together in McLemore's Cove and Cedar Grove, Walker Co., GA. Several of these familities came to Texas together about 1877.
Written by Martha Heath Farr