Dear Doris Johnston, Susan Howard, and others who may be researching the
family below,
Doris, as per your rootsweb message on July 25, 2003, I think you
have/had a photograph of my my mother-in-law's aunt! If you still have the photo
and no one of closer relationship has claimed it, I would very much like to
have the photograph (or a copy of it?).
On the other hand, if you have already shipped it to Susan Howard. . .
Susan, would you be willing to part with it, or perhaps with a copy of it?
I will gladly pay copying costs and shipping costs to whomever is in
possession of the photo at this time!
Sadly, my mother-in-law and her brother have no photographs of their
grandfather's family. Their father was the youngest of Bryon Hamilton Cavin's
children and did not remember him. Their grandmother took the three (maybe
five) youngest CAVIN children from Burnet Co., TX, to Eagle Co., CO, after the
death of her husband, BYRON HAMILTON CAVIN. She had family there and needed
help raising the children. Consequently, contact with her husband's CAVIN
family members appears to have been severed. A photograph of her aunt would mean a
lot to my mother-in-law and her children.
Regarding the photograph described by Doris, I believe if anyone takes
a closer look at the back of the photograph, he/she might see that the
child's name was MANDA rather than RINDA or MINDA CAVIN.
Here's a little about her family:
BYRON HAMILTON CAVIN was born between 1846 and 1848 in Alabama, prob. in
DeKalb Co.
His first wife, AMANDA (unknown), was born in Georgia, between 1846
and 1849.
They had at least the following four children according to census
reports from Burnet Co., TX:
CHARLES CAVIN, b. 1867-69, TX, prob. Burnet Co.;
RUTH CAVIN, b. 1873-74, TX, prob. Burnet Co.;
MANDA (since her mother's name was AMANDA, she also may have been
named Amanda and nicknamed Manda), b. 1875-76, Burnet Co., TX;
HARRIETTE, b. 1878-79, Burnet Co., TX.
Byron's second marriage was to HANNAH KRAIL, b. 1873-74, TX.
They had three children:
RUBYE H. Cavin, b. Sept. 17, 1895, Burnet Co., TX;
BRUCE HOBSON CAVIN (maybe HOBSON BRUCE), b. Sept. 27, 1898, Burnet
Co., TX;
ARLEN DALE CAVIN, b. May 4, 1908.
BYRON HAMILTON CAVIN's parents were WILLIAM CAVIN and HARRIET (unknown).
WILLIAM was born in GA between 1814 and 1823. HARRIET was born in South Carolina
between 1826 and 1828. She died between 1870 and 1880 (in the 1870 census,
not in the 1880 census).
In addition to BYRON HAMILTON CAVIN, the following children were born
to WILLIAM and HARRIET CAVIN:
NATHAN, b. 1845-47, AL, prob. DeKalb Co.
MARTHA M., b. 1848-51, DeKalb Co., AL.
MARY, b. 1851-53, DeKalb Co. AL.
JOHN EDMOND/EDMOND JOHN, b. 1853-55, MS, prob. Calhoun Co.
WILLIAM T., b. 1855-57, MS, prob. Calhoun Co. [married SARAH E. (unkn
own), b. 1858-59, TX; had at least one child: WILLIAM H. CAVIN, b. Feb. 1880,
TX].
HENRY, b. 1868-69, MS, prob. Calhoun Co.
JOSEPHUS "JOE," b. 1865-66, TX, prob. Burnet Co.
Here's looking forward to hearing from Doris, Susan, and any other CAVIN
researchers who might recognize this family from Burnet County, Texas!
Karen Carter
Austin, TX