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By cavis , 28 October 2022

CA1218

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James Seth Mooring as mayor of Bryan, Texas

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Brazos County History, Rich Past - Bright Future
(C. Avis Catalog entry #1218)

The Texas Sesquicentennial Edition (seen at the Clayton Library for Genealogy Research, Houston, Texas)

p. 340

Mayors of Bryan

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James S. Mooring, 13 April 1900 - 14 April 1902
Mooring owned and managed the Exchange Hotel in Bryan. He held the offices of Justice of the Peace and Postmaster in Navasota before moving to Bryan.

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By cavis , 25 September 2022

CA1209

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Record of James D. Avis service as Texas State Legislator - 1923-29

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The Texas House of Representatives - A Pictorial Roster
(C. Avis Catalog entry #1209)

Published by the Texas House of Representatives, 1992

[Note: The photos below were found on the Texas Legislature website and are good digital versions of the tiny, grainy ones included in the actual book]

[See Photo Catalog entry #1041]

p. 74
Thirty Eighth Legislature
Regular Session, January 9 - March 14, 1923
Special Sessions called in March, April and May
Governor Pat M. Neff

Member Home County
Avis, James D. Wichita

p. 75

p. 76
Thirty Ninth Legislature
Regular Session, January 13 - March 19, 1925
Special Session called in September
Governor Miriam A. Ferguson

Member    Home County
Avis, James D.    Wichita

p. 77

p. 80
Fortieth Legislature
Regular Session, January 11 - March 16, 1927
Special Session called in May
Governor Dan Moody

Member    Home County
Avis, James D.    Wichita

p. 81

p. 82
Forty First Legislature
Regular Session, January 8 - March 14, 1929
Special Sessions called in April, June, July, January, February
Governor Dan Moody

Member    Home County
Avis, James D.    Wichita

p. 83

By cavis , 24 April 2022

CA1179

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Ancestry of Benjamin Tarrant

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Notable Men of Alabama: personal and genealogical with portraits, v. 2 (Joel Campbell DuBose)
(C. Avis Catalog entry #1179)

p. 38, 39
https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/227599-notable-men-of-alabama-personal-and-genealogical-with-portraits-vol-2?offset=

Andrew<br />
Jefferson Tarrant

ANDREW JACKSON TARRANT, of Birmingham, Ala., was born June 17, 1832, in Jefferson county, Ala. His father, Benjamin Tarrant was born Oct. 8, 1792, in Amherst, Va. Benjamin Tarrant was the oldest child of James Tarrant, a native of Virginia, and a soldier in the Revolutionary war, one of the six sons of Leonard Tarrant, a native of Scotland who emigrated to America about the beginning of the seventeenth century, settled at Jamestown and shortly afterward married a young lady of English and Welsh descent. All of the Tarrants in America trace their ancestry back to these six sons of Leonard Tarrant, the great-grandfather of A. J. Tarrant. Soon after Leonard Tarrant’s marriage he removed to Amherst, Va., and thence to South Carolina, where he and his wife resided until their respective deaths. It is supposed that all the Tarrants moved to South Carolina together. Benjamin Tarrant, the father of A. J. Tarrant, was in the War of 1812. He married, Dec. 26, 1815, Morning, daughter of Mathias Richardson, a prominent farmer of the old Pendleton district, S. C., and in 1819 he moved with his wife and two children to Jefferson county, Ala., locating below Elyton, near what is now known as Bethlehem church. There he resided until his death in 1840. A. J. Tarrant spent his entire life in Jefferson county. On Nov. 20, 1860, he was married to Martha J., daughter of John B. and Sarah Ayres, who emigrated to Alabama from South Carolina. April 9, 1861, he entered the Confederate service as first sergeant in Company C, Twentieth Alabama volunteers. He took part in the following battles: Port Gibson, Baker’s Creek, and was in the siege of Vicksburg, where he was wounded in the right breast, was surrendered, later paroled, and exchanged. After this, his command was ordered to Lookout Mountain, and he fought in the “battle above the clouds” and Missionary Ridge, and from Dalton to Atlanta; from there he accompanied Hood into Tennessee, and fought at Franklin, Columbia and Nashville; from Nashville to Tupelo, Miss., and thence to North Carolina, and there took part in several engagements, including the battle of Bentonville, which was the last battle in which he engaged. He was sent home on detached service and was there at the time of the surrender. After the war, he returned to farming and continued in this occupation until 1880, when he was elected tax assessor of Jefferson county; he was re-elected in 1884 serving eight years all told; in 1890 he was elected as assistant in this office under Professor S. L. Robertson and served six years. In 1900 he was elected a member of the board of revenue of Jefferson county, and was chosen by the board as president. He is now holding that position. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. He is also a member of the Odd Fellows. Mr. A. J. Tarrant and his wife, Martha have two children, Mattie J., born Sept. 25, 1861, the wife of Frank Culverhouse, a resident of Pratt City; and George B., born Nov. 29, 1867, at present is a clerk of the probate court of Jefferson county; he married April 24, 1895, Addell, daughter of Henry Paul and wife, Frederica (Betts) Lewis. They have two children: Mildred and George B., Jr. Henry P. Lewis is a native of Missouri, where he was married. He has been in business in Birmingham about fifteen years.

By cavis , 11 January 2022

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CA1162

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Article referring to Charles Maples Rudd as football player for Rice Institute - 1933

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Houston Chronicle, Houston, Texas Sunday, October 22, 1933
(C. Avis Catalog entry #1162)

(Document ID #656) photo

p. 11

Team of 1916 Favored But Choices Are Hard

The all-time Rice football team!
The very mention of such a thing is enough to bring on more arguments than the NRA and the Hitler regime combined.

...

Here is the Rice all-time football team, with the position and the last year the player played.
    Ends: Shirley Brick, 1919 and Charlie Rudd, 1917.
    Tackles: Fred Lauterback, captain of the present team, and Tiny Kalb, 1916
    Guards: Piggy Fulweiler, 1916, and Bill Morgan, 1930.
    Center: Wash (Little Heavy) Underwood, 1926.
    Halfbacks: Mick Brown, 1916, and Eddie Dyer, 1921.
    Quarterback: Griff Vance, 1916.
    Fullback: Harvey Smith, 1924.

...

Rudd, another great end, played two years, in 1916 and 1917, and then entered the war as an aviator. After the war he was killed in an airplane crash.

...

[photos are included under the subtitle: "THE ALL-TIME RICE ELEVEN AS VISIONED BY OLD GRADS"]

By cavis , 22 December 2021

CA1158

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C. C. Chiles goes into grocery business - 1899

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Birmingham Age-Herald 12/25/1899
(C. Avis Catalog entry #1158)

IN HOTEL LOBBIES AND ELSEWHERE
Charles C. Chiles, chairman of the Birmingham police commission, has asked for and will probably obtain a year's leave of absence from the Alabama Great Southern railroad, of which he is a locomotive engineer, and has gone into the grocery business with J. T. Loveless, in South Twentieth street. Everybody will wish Mr. Chiles great success.

By cavis , 29 January 2021

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CA1098

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Biographical sketch of James Calvin Maples - 1895

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Dallas Morning News 10-22-1895
(C. Avis Catalog entry #1098)

p. 5

OLD SUBSCRIBERS OF THE NEWS.

Captain J. Calvin Maples Has Read The News for Forty Years.

Kaufman, Tex., Oct. 14. -- To The News:
Captain J. Calvin Maples was raised in McMinn county, east Tennessee, and came to Texas at the age of 29 and settled in old Jacksonville, Cherokee county, Texas, in 1849. He served six months with General e. B. Nichols at Galveston as captain the the confederate army and two years and six months as captain in Walker's division in the Texas-Mississippi department. Captain Maples left Jacksonville and located in Kaufman in 1889, where he has since resided. He merchandised more than thirty years in Texas and for the last several years has been a private banker, loaning money, buying notes, etc. He is a large stockholder in three national banks and is one of the wealthiest men in Kaufman county. Captain Maples is a widower and has no children. He has always been the friend of the poor man and perhaps has done more for the needy than any man in Kaufman. Many men in this county will tell you to-day they owe their homes and all they have to the generosity of Captain Maples. He has been a constant reader of The Galveston-Dallas News forty years and thinks no other paper in the south can equal this great journal in giving the news impartially without fear or favor. He is a stanch member of the Methodist church, and always liberal in his donations to all things charitable. His charitable acts are seldom know to the outside world. J. M. REAGAN.

By cavis , 5 January 2021

CA1083

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Abstracts of articles in the Athens Post, Athens, McMinn Co., Tennessee 1851-1861

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Abstracts of articles in the Athens Post, Athens, McMinn Co., Tennessee 1851-1861

(C. Avis Catalog entry #1083)

3/7/1851 p. 3 - Wm. Maples named a delegate from McMinn county to the Whig Party state convention at Nashville

5/2/1851 p. 3 - J. R. Rudd position on issues as candidate for Joint Rep to Tennessee House

7/4/1851 p. 4 - J. R. Rudd announced as candidate for Floating Rep for Polk, McMinn and Monroe counties

8/8/1851 p. 3 - paper thinks McClary beat Rudd and others

9/5/1851 p. 4 - Isham Reynolds finds a stray mule

10/15/1852 p. 4 - Wm. Maples on the McMinn county Whig committee

11/4/1853 p. 3 - Jo. Rudd mentioned as the landlord of the Athens Post

3/10/1854 p. 4 - Wm. Maples named a delegate to the Commercial Convention in Charleston, South Carolina

8/3/1855 p. 3 - paper thinks Rudd wins Joint Rep position for Monroe county

9/28/1855 p. 3 - J. R. Rudd replaced as postmaster in Madisonville as incumbents put in their supporters prior to election

10/12/1855 p. 3 - Rudd in named to Internal Improvements committee of Tennessee House

10/19/1855 p. 3 - Rudd introduces bill to regulate selection of Grand Jurors

2/8/1856 p. 3 - Rudd made motion in Tennessee House

5/15/1857 p. 3 - J. R. Rudd intends not to run for reelection to Tennessee House

8/14/1857 p. 3 - Rudd apparently loses Monroe county House Rep election

4/9/1858 p. 4 - Wm. H. Maples stated to be Superintendent of Little Hope Sabbath School at Little Hope, McMinn Co.

6/4/1858 p. 4 - obituary of Wm Maples of McMinn county (CA920)

7/16/1858 p. 4 - Wm. H. Maples, Wm. A. Carson and others suing J. R. Rudd and others, but William H. Pridmore and Alcey E. Pridmore do not reside in Tennessee (CA921)

8/20/1858 p. 4 - As result of suit of W. H. Maples, et al vs. J. R. Rudd, et al, sale of estate of Wm. Maples will take place (CA922)

5/6/1859 p. 5 - Cannon, Wright, Williams suing J. R. Rudd, W. H. Maples, J. C. Maples and C. B. Neal but W. H. Maples and J. C. Maples do not reside in Tennessee (CA923)

9/30/1859 p. 4 - Sloan, Vaughn, Clibourne, Williams suing J. R. Rudd, W. H. Maples, J. C. Maples but W. H Maples and J. C. Maples reside in Texas (CA924)

10/21/1859 p. 3 - Isham Reynolds gave some corn. One ear with 1223 grains.

3/22/1861 p. 4 - J. R. Rudd & Wm. H. Rudd & John N. Rudd among many other “Mechanics of Athens” asking Bridges to run for Congress

7/19/1861 p. 4 - J. R. Rudd is 1st Lieut. of new company formed for the 3rd East Tennessee Regiment

By cavis , 6 May 2020

CA298

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Lewis H. Broyles has letters waiting at Pulaski, Tenn. - 1822

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Maury Co., Tennessee Newspapers (Abstracts)
(C. Avis Catalog entry #298)

p. 13
Columbia Review 7-27-1822

Letters at Pulaski Tenn. Post Office 7-1-1822
2 for Lewis H. Broyles

By cavis , 16 February 2020

CA1012

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Newspaper articles relating to Mooring family members 1898-1903

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Dallas Morning News articles 1898-1903

(C. Avis Catalog entry #1012)

Results of searches (using GenealogyBank.com) 1880 - 1910 for C. G. Mooring in Texas newspapers.

•Residence

8/25/1898 - summary

On 8/24, "C. G. Mooring of Temple, Tex." was staying at the Hotel Worth in Fort Worth

10/9/1898- summary

"C. G. Mooring of Mineral Wells, Tex." was staying at the Oriental Hotel in Dallas.

So was his brother "J. S. Mooring of Bryan".

5/23/1900 - summary

On 5/22, "C. G. Mooring of Mineral Wells" was staying at the Hotel Worth in Fort Worth.

So was his brother "J. S. Mooring of Bryan".

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•Relatives

12/27/1902, p.9

Mineral Wells

Miss Jennie Mooring of Fort Worth, guest of her brother, C. G. Mooring, for the last month, has returned home.

10/21/1901, p. 7

Mrs. Smith of Terrell is a guest of her sister, Mrs. C. G. Mooring.

8/29/1903, p. 4

Mrs. C. G. Mooring and daughter, Miss Bert, have gone to Temple to live.

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•Hotel ownership

1/15/1902, p. 8

A Fine Hotel.

Special To The News.

Mineral Wells, Tex., Jan. 14. --- The foundation for the new brick hotel that is being built for C. G. Mooring in this city is now being completed and work of placing the brick has been commenced. The hotel when completed will be of the latest style and will cost $18,000.

(Other articles indicate that there was a Piedmont Hotel in MW in 5/1897 & 1/1899. So this new one was not the Piedmont)

6/25/1903, p. 6

Piedmont Hotel Sold.

Special To The News.

Mineral Wells, Tex.,June 24. --- A deal was consummated here yesterday by which C. G. Mooring transferred the Piedmont Hotel property to A. N. DeMaret of Sherman, the price paid being $30,000. Mr. DeMaret is to take possession on July 1.

By cavis , 14 February 2020

CA1010

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C. G. Mooring kills a man

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The Weekly Democratic Statesman, Austin, Texas 6/8/1893
(C. Avis Catalog entry #1010)

v. 22, p. 8

Killing In Temple.

Special to The Statesman.
Temple, Tex., June 2. — At 5 o'clock this afternoon C. G. Mooring, proprietor of the Exchange hotel, shot and killed W. F. Gilmartin, proprietor of Otto's saloon. Two shots were fired, each taking effect, and Gilmartin died instantly. The tragedy occurred in Mooring's residence away from the hotel. Rumors of the affair are various and conflicting. The accepted theory is that it was on account of Mooring's daughter, a young lady, but a good deal of that is based on rumors. Mooring went at once and surrendered to the officers and was put in prison, but has made no statement of the affair. Mooring is past middle life and has had the Exchange two or three years and has led a very quiet, sober life.

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