I kept looking and looking at the info that I have. An old notation of
mine, probably when I was at the Dallas or Ft. Worth library, because we
don't have the book here, states that David Lemley was 22 and Martha Ann
Callison was 20 when they married. That would make her born in 1824.
Sarah Craig was married to James Callison in 1818, so she would have to
be the one that is the Parkhill. She must have been a widow. I looked
for a Craig-Parkhill marriage today in Roane & Rhea Co., Tenn. but did
not find one. It was first Knox, then Roane, then Rhea Co. The only
other place it would be is maybe Blount Co. That has to be the answer,
unless James took off and left them and married a Parkhill, or was maybe
living with one, but then their names would not be Callison. One thing
that is strange is that the 640 acres that was sold for $100 in Nov.,
1852, was supposedly sold by Sarah, John G., and Emily Callison, the
only heirs of James H. Callison. In reality, Emily had married Elisha
Saint on 17, April, 1850 and was no longer Emily Callison, and was
living in Marshall Co., Ala. Who knows what they were doing. That is a
lot of land sold for just one hundred dollars. James H. Callison had 5
pieces of land in Cass Co. that he supposedly had the land certificate
for. It does not give the date in Cass Co. when the certificates were
used. Cass did not become a county until 1846, and was formed from
Bowie, which was formed from Red River. It was officially created in
1836, but was one of the original Mexican municipalities where the
settlers came. I wonder if he picked it out, or the heirs got the land
there. The other Callisons came in down through the lower route and went
to Houston Co. They definitely knew each other, though, because, as I
have mentioned before, John Gillespie Callison tried to sell the girl's
land while he was in Guadalupe Co., and Samuel C. Callison, my ancestor,
was with him there, according to the papers. He did not try to sell the
land with him, but his name is there for some reason. John G. Callison
was his nephew, according to what we all believe.
As you said, why just those Parkhill heirs, and the Callison children,
and not John G. and all of the other Parkhill children are listed as the
heirs, unless the mother could not keep them and he may have adopted
them, but then their name would not be Callison. This Callison mystery
is enough to drive you to drink. There has to be an answer. In 1830
James Callison was listed on the Wilcox, Ala. census. I wonder if that
was him? Our library is closed for two weeks while they recarpet it, so
guess I will have to wait and see. There is probably some very simple
answer to this. I think that I may write to the Land office and see when
those land certificates were files. At least that will tell me if they
were filed by him, or someone else. Back then there was so much thievery
going on with land deals that it is a wonder that any of them are
correct. Seems like I need to do some writing and get some records, or
get some lookups.
Joyce
James Parkhill wrote:
Yes it is maddening!!!
This past year I found that my great great grandfather
whose name was James/John William Parkhill had an
older brother or maybe a twin. His name was Dr. John
Harvey Parkhill. His family moved to Kentucky. And
it was his children who were also heirs of David
Parkhill who were listed beside the three other
Parkhill children. So if my memory proves me correct,
the answer has to be Tennessee and remember the time
frame. David Parkhill who was born in 1774, was
probably in the War of 1812. Papers were burned by
the British. Maybe its in Tennessee instead of
Alabama. I need to point out something else. When my
gg-grandmother was born in 1812, she was born in
Madison County, Mississippi which later became Madison
County, Alabama. I can't even find her marriage to
James/John William Parkhill. I believe that
James/John William Parkhill went to Texas or to
Florida and was killed in either place. The Indian
Wars in Florida or the Texan Wars against the
Mexicans.
So I get aggrivated also. Because there is no proof
of Ritha marrying James or an older sister who married
a Callison. The fact remains that we are cousins even
though a lot of it is speculation. But we need to
find some proof. Let me know what you find.
--- Joyce Moore <jmoore(a)marshill.com> wrote:
> James,
> you live in the beautiful area, not down here in
> Midland. I am from the
> San antonio area, not from here. Unfortunately, I
> got stupid and married
> a man from this area, Pecos, Texas, to be exact!
>
> I was looking today for the marriages of the
> daughters of James
> Callison. According to what I could find, Martha Ann
> Callison married
> David W. Lemley 10 Fe., 1846, Marshall Co., and
> Elisha SAint m Emela
> Coleson (Emily Callison) on 10 Feb. 1846 in Marshall
> Co., Ala. I did not
> find the marriage for Eliza Jane and John Smith, but
> am sure that it is
> there. I was hoping they would have the marriage
> licenses for Marshall
> Co. posted on the website, but it is very bare. I
> know that James
> married Sarah Craig in 1818 in Rhea Co. Tenn., and
> had at least a son
> named John Gillespie Callison, and possibly another
> daughter named
> Emily???
>
> From the ages of the girls marriages I would guess
> that they were
> younger than John Gillespie, but I wonder. If they
> were divorced Sarah
> would not have been able to get land, but then again
> why did she not get
> at least half of it. It almost looks like to me that
> she got a child's
> portion. There has to be another Parkhill woman
> somewhere, though, and
> she had to be a descendant of David, because the
> children would not have
> inherited from the estate of David Parkhill.
>
> I am going to go back and look and see if I can find
> anything in any of
> the places that David Parkhill lived before he went
> to Ala. I looked at
> Knox and Rhea Co., but I think that maybe Rhea
> became Rhoan before it
> became Rhea. I will look for a license there. This
> whole thing is
> confusing, and I am not the kind of person that
> usually gets confused
> over these things. Maddening.
>
> Joyce
>
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