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Author: figaro1st
Surnames: Chisum
Classification: queries
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Hi. I'd love to have a picture of Elva. Where do I find him on your ancestry.com site?
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Author: janicefennell28
Surnames: Traylor, Jackson, Fennell
Classification: queries
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Should anyone be interested, I have a photo of Elva Chisum, with my Jackson family. He was married to my Aunt Geneva at the time. Early 40's, in Casa Grand, Az. It's on my ancestry site.
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Author: anitawittl8
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http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.chisum/129.3/mb.ashx
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I HAVE FOUND MEADY CHISUM'S PEOPLE. WOULD LOVE TO FIND HARRIET'S. ALMEADY AND HARRIET WERE THE DAUGHTERS OF Jensie {a slave girl} whom John chisum fell in love with. If it is the same Harriet you're speaking about, and I presume it is,
my research tells me that John took Jensie and her two daughters to Bonham, Tx to live when he moved his cattle operation to New Mexico in 1864 -65.
Forgive me-I am just learning the computer. anitawittcowgirl(a)gmail.com
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Author: ccaldwelltexas
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Popular myth has it that he bought Jensie from a wagon master named Joseph Baines who was from Arkansas and on his way to California with his family and several slaves. It's also claimed that he paid somewhere between $1,400 and $2,000 for her. Unfortunately, none of these stories can be proven. What is known is that Chisum officially purchased Jensie in 1858 in Gainesville, Texas from his first cousin Frances Johnson Towery and her husband Tom V. Towery. Cooke County, Texas court records support the fact that Jensie was purchased by Chisum after she already had three children; Phillip (born 1852), Harriet (born 1855) and Almeady (born 13 April 1857). However, in an 1876 interview daughter Almeady is said to have claimed that John Chisum bought her mother in 1849 from his niece Miss Towery. Almeady had also thought that Jensie was sold to Chisum for $1,500. These claims simply do not fit the facts. Jensie had belonged to John Johnson, Frances Johnson's father, and w!
as mentioned in his will. When he died in 1853 Jensie went to Frances. Jensie and the three children were used as collateral for a note of $814 by Frances and Tom. The note was for 100 head of cattle the Towery's were buying, probably to sell in California which is where they were planning on going. Chisum promised to give back the Jensie Chisum family in ten years, plus any increase in children, after the loan was paid.
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