Hello all,
I hope this note finds everyone and their loved ones in
good health and spirits. Anyway, I am looking for any info, especially an
obituary or location of her grave marker, on Isebella or Jane Calvert. She
was born Isabella Jane McDowell, B. 6/21/1830, Spartanburg, S.C., but was
commonly known as Jane. She was my Gr. Gr. Grandmother and at first married
to my Gr. Gr. Grandfather John Warren White. He having been killed in the
War for Southern Independence, she remarried a Mr. James Henry Calvert in
1866 and to get shut of the carpetbaggers, scalawags, yankee occupation
troops, and other scum and criminals that infested S.C., they and some
relatives and friends all moved to Texas. She died at the their home (the
home of James H. Calvert) on 4/13/1874. J. H. Calvert had also fought in
the War For Southern Independence in Holcombe's Legion, S.C. Vols., C.S.A..
Anyway, according to the papers of her son, my Gr. Grandfather,
Rev. Wm. Henry White, Jane was buried in the graveyard at Mount Hope Church
in Gainsville, Cooke Co., Tex.. But some have told me there is no remaining
church by that name in Cooke County and no graveyard there. I am from
Alabama and have never been out there. She was the daughter of Henry and
Dorcas Foster McDowell of S.C.. Below is an excerpt from my White file,
including the info on her children by John W. White, James H. Calvert, and
even some census reports, pertaining to her and her family:
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Wife of John Warren White and later James Henry Calvert:
ISABELLA JANE MCDOWELL, B. 6/21/1830, Spartanburg (Glenn Springs),
S.C.--Died 4/13/1874 in Gainesville, Cooke Co., Texas in the home of her
then present (2nd) husband at that time. She had re-married a Mr. James
Henry Calvert in 1866 and then gone to Texas with him and some other friends
and relatives. J. H. Calvert had also fought in the War For Southern
Independence in Holcombe's Legion, S.C. Vols., C.S.A.. Isabella Jane is
buried in the graveyard at Mount Hope Church in Gainsville, Cooke Co., Tex..
She was the daughter of Henry and Dorcas Foster McDowell. A note about the
charactor of Isabella Jane McDowell: She was the finest sort of Southern
Christian woman. She was a devout Christian who held evening Bible study and
prayers with her children every day of the week. She held the Sabbath as a
Holy Day and God's Day. On Sundays she would not even let the children make
noise or play too hard, stopping them from beating on the old iron pot out
back, saying it was God's day, a day of rest and quiet. On the wagon train
west after the War for Southern Independence they would stop on Saturday and
cook and wash for the weekend, not moving until Monday, as she felt the
Sabbath was God's day.
ISSUE (Children of John W. White):
1. Ella White(died childhood)
2. *Rev. Wm. Henry White (B.8/20/55-D.10/1/48 in Prattville, Ala.-m-Carolina
Hamilton Stenhouse, born12/22/1860-Died 1/11/1944 in Prattville, Ala..
3. Sally Anna White, B. 1857--D. 10/7/1876 in Cooke Co.,Tex.. -m- Wm.
Chandler. 4. Leola
Alice White, B. 5/22/1859 (died in childhood).
5. Edward Walker White (B. 2/8/1861--D. 6/6/1907 (see wife and children
below). Note: Edward Walker White, with his brothers in law, helped start a
mercantile store in Amarillo, White and Kirk, that lasted until about the
1980s. According to his brother, Rev. Wm. H. White, Edward was also
successful in the copper mining business. He was President of the "SIERRA de
la CRUZ" Mining and Milling Co., Amarillo, Texas. According to the little
booklet or "Prospectus" that he sent his brother, Rev. Wm.H.White, the mine
was expected to be fully self supporting and sufficient by 1905. Edward was
a pillar of the community, a devout christian gentleman and an upper member
of the 1st Presbyterian church there, involved in many civic projects,
started or built the first public park there where there is or was an urn
placed in memory of him, started the first Fire Department, etc.. When the
old Opra House there in Amarillo burned down he help fight it in wet, damp,
cold, weather and got sick, and contracted Bright's desease. Here follows an
obituary about him. It is sort of long so please bear with it:
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An Obituary of Edward Walker White:
"EDWARD WALKER WHITE
Edward Walker White died in the Battle Cree, Mich., Sanitorium, June 28,
1907, at 1:45 P.M.. His remains were taken to his home in Amarillo, Texas,
for burial. He had worked his way through to a good Chirstian education. He
was hardly forty-seven years of age at his death, yet he was President and
General Manager of the wholesaleand retail firm of "White and Kirk",
Amarillo, Texas. Also President of a Copper Mining Company near Amarillo,
with half a million dollars capital, authorized with a good part paid in.
Yet he was a prompt, devout attendant of his church, the Cumberland
Presbyterian Church, there being no Southern Presbyterian Church near enough
whenhe joined. He was an honored elder from young manhood, and for twenty
years to his death. He taught the Bible class in his Sabbath School. Here
was a busy, successful business man, more busy about his Master's service
than his own. Surely as his wife wrote from the sanitarium: "He was
prepared," and "the best of all is, he has treasures above" for his was a
noble life. He leaves a wife and tree children, one brother in the ministry,
Wm. H. White, and one half brother and three half sisters in Texas.-----Wm.
H.W."
Wife and family of Edward Walker White:
-m-
Loeta Kirk, settled in Amarillo, Tex..
Issue:
(A) Edna Fay White
-m-
Harry Lee Kearns (His dad was Irish and mom was German, they lived in
Maryland).
issue:
(A1.) Bettie Fay Kearns--m--Mr. Neely (was McNeely at one time), issue:
(A1a); Ronald Cline Neely-m-Irene Wolf (no kids, they live near Asheland,
Mo.); (A1b) Sally Lousi Neely-m- ?, lives in Dallas, Tex., no kids; (A1c)
Susan Neely-m-Mr. Legacy, issue: Hillary Legacy. They live in Burlington,
Vt..
(B) Johnie White--m--Mr. Eislick; issue: (B1.) Jamie Lee Eislick-m-Mr.
McCart.
(C) Edward Dean White, batcheler, no children.
6. John Lawrence White, B3/?/1863 (died young).
2nd Husband of Isabell Jane McDowell:
James Henry Calvert
issue: From letter dated 1939 from mary Gentry Knight:
1. James Jasper Calvert, b. in 1872 in Upshur Co., Texas.
2. Isabella Jane McDowell Calvert, b. 1874 in Cooke Co., Tex.
3. Nannie F. Calvert, Plainview, Texas.
4. Daughter
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Below are some Census reports showing them and their children, including
J.H. Calvert's 2nd wife, etc. Note that the 1870 one showing them still in
S.C. must be because they still owned that farm, even though they had moved
to Texas. After Isabella Jane's death in 1874 Wm. Henry White went back to
S.C. to settle her estate.
1870 Spartanburg County, South Carolina Census Glenn Springs Township Read
24 August by W. H. Walker
74/75 James H. Calvert 29 WM Farmer 600/250 SC
Jane 40 WF Wife SC
William H. 13 WM SC
Anna 12 WF SC
Eddie 9 WM SC
Mary J. 3 WF Daughter SC
Nannie 4/12 WF Daughter SC
1880 Cooke County, Texas Census Precinct 7 Read 8 June by P. M. Tucker
85/85 James H. Calvert 39 WM SC
Sidney Nell 24 WF Wife AR
Jane 12 WF Daughter SC
Nannie F. 10 WF Daughter SC
James J. 8 WM Son TX
Belle 5 WF Daughter TX
Elizabeth 3 WF Daughter TX
1900 Hale County, Texas Census Precinct 2 Read 25 June by Jesse C. Burch
197/204 James H. Calvert 61 WM Feb 1839 Married 23 years SC UN UN
Sidney N. 44 WF Wife Sep 1855 Married 23 years 1child/1living AR
Nannie 30 WF Daughter Jan 1879 SC SC SC
Elizabeth 22 WF Aug 1877 TX SC AR
1910 Hale County, Texas Census Precinct 1 Read 23 April by W. Herbert
Russell Lived on Archer St.
174/200 James H. Calvert 70 WM Retired Farmer Married twice 28 years SC SC
SC
Nellie S. 54 WF Wife Married once 28 years 1child/ lliving AR SC Unk
Mary J. Hagler 57 WF Married once 30 years 1child/0living AR SC Unk
Didn't find them on the 1920 Census, he may have died and Sidney Nell
"Nellie" may have
married again, I don't know.