Hi Everyone!
I'm hoping someone on the list can help me solve an old mystery.
I'm looking for information on a William Wells of Clark Co, AR who was a
blacksmith ca. 1815. There were two young boys, William and John B. Denton
who were bound to William Wells about that time after the death of their
mother. The Dentons were probably born in Tennessee. The older brother,
William Denton, went on to become a blacksmith, but John Bunyon Denton left
the Wells household at about age 12 to 'go it on his own.' He became a
lawyer, Methodist minister, farmer and Indian fighter who was a part of
Stephen F. Austin's first settlement in what was then Mexico, but became
Texas. John B. Denton was killed in an Indian raid in 1841 and both the
town and county of Denton, Texas were named for him. He was a law partner
of John B. Craig. He married Mary Greenlee Stewart in 1825 in Clark CO, AR.
Mary was born on 12 Dec 1808 in Bossier Parish, LA.
The mystery is that no one has been able to determine for sure the
parents of these Denton boys. There were many families of Dentons in the
area at the time. I'm sort of taking a shot in the dark with this note to
see if any Wells family may have information at all about the William Wells
with the Denton boys in Arkansas.
I'll be sending this note to each of the Wells lists, so if you
receive it more than once, please excuse!
Thanks so much and blessings!
Sue Montgomery-Cook
Denton Family Genealogy:
http://www.acun.com/dentons