I have some info on Coleman and Nancy Bynum Carleton (Pre Civil War) and
Carlton (Post CW)
Will be glad to swap data with anyone if they will contact me at
wjclac(a)cox.net
Wanda Henson Carlton
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Subject: [CARLETON] Migration from AL to TX (fairly long)
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Author: snesnow
Surnames: Bynum, Carleton, Wilson
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Please forgive the cross-posting, but I realized after I had written
this to the WILSON-L mailing List, I should share on the
Carleton/Carlton and Bynum Lists. Maybe this will help someone out
there; maybe someone out there may be able to help me.
I don't know if anyone has chimed in with a reason for leaving AL for
TX, but this is what I know from my family:
I have several branches of family that moved from AL to TX. One
branch, the Bynums (Green C. Bynum and his wife Sarah) moved from
Blount and Coosa Counties, AL (1840-1850 censuses) to Winn Parish, LA
(1860 census) to Sabine County TX (1870 census). Green may have been
following family members, as there were many of his cousins who moved
to other parts of TX. Why Sabine County, I don't know. It wasn't that
far from where they lived in Louisiana. Later, most of Green's
children ended up in Angelina County, TX.
Tied in with the Bynums are the Carletons. Thomas Carleton and his
second wife Sarah Frier lived in Bibb County AL, then Talladega
County, AL, where Coleman Columbus Carleton married Nancy Arminda
Bynum, daughter of Green, in 1853. The families of the couple all
seem to have moved to Winn Parish, LA before 1860. CC Carleton may
have seen TX during the Civil War and decided that it might be a nice
place to start over. There is a lead I have been following about
Green Bynum and his actions during the war; he may have made himself
a little unpopular. CC and Nancy moved to TX about 1867. From records
that I have seen, land was cheaper and more abundant.
Finally the Wilsons. This Wilson family was from Butler County, AL.
Thomas Jefferson Wilson and his wife Julia Harrison Wilson moved from
Butler Co, AL to Angelina County, TX in 1879. They were following
TJ's sisters, Mary, wife of John W. Dees and Siddie, wife of Charles
H. Dees. Both couples had moved to Angelina after 1870. There was a
large contingent of Alabama folks in that county; so much so, that
the school near Pollok TX was called the Alabama School. In some
respects, it didn't even seem like moving.
Thomas Jefferson Wilson was the son of Cyrus Wilson who died in
Butler County AL in 1859. I don't know anything about Cyrus's
predecessors for certain except that supposedly there is a family
bible that gives Cyrus's father's name as John Whitten Wilson. I have
not seen this bible myself.
Cyrus does not appear in the 1850 federal census at all; he is listed
in the 1850 AL state census for Butler (head of household only, does
not show birthplace). His wife, Ann Poole (again, surname from family
bible record) is in the 1860 census with a SC birthplace. The
marriage supposedly took place in South Carolina, but I have found no
record of it, or where Cyrus may have been in 1840, or any trace of
the family of Ann. Cyrus's birthplace is given in his children's
records as GA, AL, SC or England. The oldest child, Mary Wilson Dees
consistently gives birthplaces for her parents of GA
(Cyrus) and SC (Ann). I believe that her info is more reliable than
that of her younger siblings. The next oldest sibling to survive past
the Civil War was 6 years younger than her, and only 10 years old
when his father died.
Ann died in 1861 or 1862. At this point, Mary was about 18. So it is
possible that Cyrus was born in GA, and Ann in SC. Cyrus and Ann's
children
are:
1. Mary 1843-1915, m. John Watson Dees
2. John Wilson b. abt 1845, killed in Civil War
3. Allen Wilson b. abt 1848, died in Mobile, AL in 1863 4. Thomas
Jefferson Burnett Wilson, 1849-1921, m. Julia Ann Harrison
5. Siddie Wilson, 1850-1900, m. Charles H. Dees
6. Franklin Pierce Wilson, 1854-1938, married Sarah E. Perry
7. Jasper Cyrus Wilson, 1858-1885, m. Amanda McBee
If anyone connects with this Wilson family, please let me know. This
is one of 4 separate branches of Wilsons in my family tree.
Unfortunately, this is my father's maternal grandmother's line, so
DNA is out for this branch from my side at least. He is in the FTDNA
database for his paternal Wilson line in Ripley County IN.
As a research help, I will put this out there: Since I have soooooo
many common names in my family (4 different Wilson lines, Taylor,
Anderson, Carpenter, Morgan, even a few Smiths and Jones, but no
Browns!) I have gotten very adept at cluster genealogy and some of
the more unusual record sources. Find all known associates and track
them; people usually moved in bunch. Look at deed books for neighbors
and track them. Search for manuscript collections. Look at the people
in the census before and after them, those will be the neighbors. You
might stumble across something on a previous page or a following page.
I know it is not always in the cards, but I cannot stress enough how
beneficial it is to visit the places your ancestors lived. There are
usually records available in that location that cannot be found
anywhere else that you will only find out about when you are there.
And the public library usually has a vertical file with all sorts of
odds and ends; you may find your answer there. Both of these
situations have happened to me, both in my personal research and my
professional work for clients.
Sarah Nesnow
Rhode Island Research
4635 Post Road, Suite 1
East Greenwich, RI 02818
401-244-5119
sarah(a)rhodeislandresearch.com
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