The Story of Montague Co., TX - Its Past and Present (Fenoglio)
(C. Avis Catalog entry #468)
Fenoglio, Melvin, Montague Historical Society. Dallas, TX: Curtis Media Corp., 1989
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A few people began moving into the area starting around 1854. Mrs. Lydia C. Jones in a letter to a sister in Hedley, Texas, described the area. Here are excerpts of her story: "I was born in Marion, Illinois, in 1843 and moved to Montague County, Texas, in 1854. We lived in Montague. At that time there was only one store in Montague, it being owned and conducted in a wagon bed by John Cox. Later a hotel was put in by George Cox and a saloon by somebody named Avis. Then John Cox built a two-room log house and ran his store in one room and lived in the other..."
Some early day settlers, in addition to those already mentioned, were John and W. A. (Uncle Bud) Morris, Thad and Joseph C. Bryant, Jeff, William T. and Talton Barnes, D. S. Hagler, W. T. Waybourn, W. D., Jeff, and David Lee Jameson, Felix J. Covey, S. F. Maines, Dr. J. E. Stinson, James M. Grigsby, G. W. Alcorn, Levi Walker, John F., W. J., and Granville T. Bone, David Barefoot, James P. Doughty, James R. Covey, David Avis, S. O. Arnold, John Scandland, John and George McFarland, Jesse T. and James T. Pollard, John Davis, John Brumley, and William W. Covey.
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WEBB FAMILY
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Jacob Webb was probably born in Sullivan Co., Tn., 25 Dec., 1798. Before 1830, he and several siblings and other residents of said county moved west to Cole Co., Mo. Here his first wife, Eleanor, died in late 1837 or early 1838, for on 17 May, 1838, he married Elizabeth Wray. About 1859, Jacob and Elizabeth and several other families, including his daughter Narcissa and her husband, John R. McElroy, and their children migrated to Montague Co.. They settled near Forestburg. Jacob obtained a land patent for 160 acres on 22 May, 1873.
Children of this couple, all born in Mo. were, Mahala Katherine mar. 1859 David Avis and after his death she mar. C. C. White. All are buried Montague cemetery. Mary Elizabeth mar. 1861 Dory Booher; Missouri; Benjamin mar. Sarah Ann Gray and lived Limestone Co., Tx; George; Samuel; John R. 1878 mar. Nancy Blylock.
Jacob died 16 Oct, 1875 and Elizabeth 6 April, 1902. Both are buried Perryman Cemetery, Forestburg.
By Mrs. William (Jean) McNutt, Jr.