Hello,
I am still looking for any information regarding my great grandfather,
Hudson/Hutson H.(Harris?) SLAUGHTER. Information was shared with me a few
months ago that Hudson's stepmother was Elizabeth Marcia HORTON, (daughter
of Jesse HORTON and, I believe, Elizabeth CHAMBLEE,) and Elizabeth was the
widow and 2nd wife of Reverend John Madison HENRY and she married her 2nd
husband, my 2nd great grandfather, John M. SLAUGHTER, born: abt. 1795 in NC,
(son of Mary McDANIEL/McDONALD and husband: Owen SLAUGHTER, II,) after Susan
L. CROUCH, my 2nd great grandmother, died: 23 Mar 1844, at abt. age 29 years
old, died abt. 10 days after Hudson was born on 13 Mar 1844, apparently due
to complications during childbirth. Susan L. CROUCH, born: abt. 1815 in NC
was the daughter of Sarah ? and Samuel CROUCH, born: abt. 1785.
Hudson's father, John M. SLAUGHTER, born: abt. 1795, married Elizabeth Marcia
HORTON shortly after Susan's death and they had a daughter named
Marcia/Marsha SLAUGHTER that I am told died as a young girl after her father,
John M. SLAUGHTER, died in abt. 1846/47 and Marsha/Marcia SLAUGHTER, (born:
abt. 1845/46) would have died sometime after the 1850 census came out which
showed she and her brother, George Washington HORTON, and their mother,
Elizabeth Marcia HORTON HENRY SLAUGHTER, with Elizabeth as the head of the
household but the information that I received does not show that
Hudson/Hutson H. SLAUGHTER, who would have been abt. 6 years old at the time,
was in their household. Does anyone know where Hudson SLAUGHTER was then?
Does anyone know how Marsha SLAUGHTER died? And how her father, John M.
SLAUGHTER died?
I have wondered greatly about what happened to this little boy, Hudson/Hutson
H. SLAUGHTER, my great grandfather, after his father's death or, perhaps,
before. I have not yet been able to find out if he went to live with his
birth-mother's family after his mother's death or, indeed, did live with his
father and his stepmother and I am just assuming that after his father's
death he went to live somewhere else as he was not on the census of 1850.
But I would very much like to know what happened to Hudson. It was a such
lot for a little boy to have endured....the loss of his mother by death at
his birth, the loss of his father by death at abt. age 3 years, the possible
loss of his stepmother in his life who, possibly, was the only mother he had
ever known by the time he was 6 years old, the loss by death of his
half-sister, Marsha SLAUGHTER, sometime as a young boy and whatever else came
his way by the time he joined the Confederate Army at age 16 years old. Then
my mother tells me that there was, apparently, a son of Hudson SLAUGHTER and
wife, Clarissa "Clara" WILLIAMS named Henry SLAUGHTER was killed in a
horseback riding accident at age 16 years old. Their 2nd son, Louis Hector
SLAUGHTER, who married 2 times with children before he married my
grandmother, Ethel Rosalee HATTEN whose first husband was Joseph Marion
WOMACK and they lived in Winn Parish and West Carroll Parish, LA. As far as
I know Henry and Louis were the only two children of Clarissa "Clara"
WILLIAMS and Henry SLAUGHTER. Ethel Rosalee HATTEN and Louis Hector
SLAUGHTER had two children, Patrick LaMoyne SLAUGHTER, and my mother, Ethel
LaVerne SLAUGHTER. After Louis's death in 1937 my grandmother never
remarried and she died in 1950.
Also, just in case, does anyone know anything about the family of the above
mentioned Clarissa "Clara" WILLIAMS, born: abt. 1845, mother: Elizabeth ?
WILLIAMS, was she WILLIAMS by birth, born: abt. 1800 - 1810 in Ohio, and
father: William WILLIAMS, born: abt. 1795 in Maryland. There are brothers
of Clarissa and they lived in Franklin Parish, LA. There is another Clarissa
"Clara" WILLIAMS that married Christopher Columbus "C.C." SLAUGHTER in
the
late 1800's. I think that Clarissa "Clara" WILLIAMS was descended from
Daniel Green WILLIAMS and I think that the C. C. SLAUGHTER, Jr. may have been
the son of Christopher Columbus "C.C." SLAUGHTER, Sr., son of Reverend George
Webb SLAUGHTER, who descend from the family that the above mentioned John M.
SLAUGHTER and father, Owen SLAUGHTER, II, descend from.
My grandfather, Louis Hector SLAUGHTER, who died in his late 60's when my
mother, his daughter, LaVerne (Ethel LaVerne) SLAUGHTER, was only 7 years
old, but she has always remembered him telling her that C.C. SLAUGHTER and
Texas Ranger "Texas" John SLAUGHTER were cousins.
This information led me to find the SLAUGHTER family that we descend from
after much searching but it seems quite possibly that there was an even
closer connection and that may be through this younger C.C. SLAUGHTER that
married Clarissa WILLIAMS in Bienville Parish, LA abt. 1897 and Clarissa
WILLIAMS' father died in Dallas, TX where the older C.C.'s family lived.
It is possible that this younger Mrs. C. C. SLAUGHTER/Clarissa WILLIAMS
SLAUGHTER might possibly be a neice or cousin to my great grandmother who was
Mrs. Hudson H. SLAUGHTER/Clarissa WILLIAMS SLAUGHTER.
Other distinguishing features about this information was that my grandfather,
Louis Hector SLAUGHTER, spoke of Indian and French heritage and my mother
remembers seeing a picture of what she remembers as one set of grandparents
that were very Indian in appearance......and her memory regarding this
information was as though it were rather close in time to her father......but
I have yet to find that in the SLAUGHTER lineage and I have greatly wondered
if the 'secret' might lie within the WILLIAMS lineage.
There are HARRIS, WILLIAMS, MADISON, BOLTON, WEBB and many other surnames
married into this SLAUGHTER lineage frequently and they apparently cross over
into these other lines as well.
Any information regarding any of this would be greatly appreciated.
In advance, I thank you.
Sincerely,
Bellinda Myrick - Barnett