(pages 1-4 and after 14 missing.)
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going to give you all Uncle Bill could tell me about Milas Bagwell. He left
Buncombe Co., N.C. and moved to Fredonia, Kentucky (and) there lost his
first wife and two children with cholera. This wife was named Annie.
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He moved to Texas in 1835, so Uncle Bill tells me, he must have gone to
Ark. ... to have met Grandma. Grandma Bagwell was the daughter of Senator
Elijah Kelley who was also a judge for many years at the county seat of
Murfreesboro, Ark., also a Christian minister. Now here are the names
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of Milas Bagwell's brothers: Dow, Dan and Jim Bagwell. Their father was
Nathanial Bagwell whose name is on the ... roll in Washing(ton) for a claim
on Indian lands. Oh yes! Grandpa had two sisters, Polly & Harriet. I do not
know Aunt Polly's last name but
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Aunt Harriet was a Mrs. Falson, she had three children that I know of. One
was Dosia Bledsoe's mother and Sid & Reece Falson. Now, here is a list of
Milas Bagwell's children: Nathaniel, Miles, Abner, Elizabeth, William, Mary,
Lavina (&) Malvina (twins), Viola, Ellen and Addie. I guess he would like
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the children's childrens names. Uncle Bill had thirteen children all living
but three, Ernest, Minnie & Efferd are dead. He has Hobert, Brillie (sp),
Bufford & Lillie by his first wife who was Mary Black, he married Mary
__________, I can not remember her last name, but they have six, Clyde,
Okla (sp), Clinton, Ona, Edith and Wayland. Now when I get the
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time I will write all the grandhildren & great-grandchildren down. Bro.
John had Raruy (sp), Don, Rena, Elmore, Lois & Hellen (sp). Annie had Worth,
Fred and Hazel. Her first husband was Jack Curtis, her second husband is Joe
Walling. Hazel was by her first Husband. They were married in Dallas, she
was left a widow & married Joe
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Walling at Durant, Okla. at my father's home. John Tabor married first to
Nellie Greenwood, she lived only 7 months and then he married Mary Williams.
She is the mother of their six children. Aunt Vine had three children and
(an) infant died, and Milas Johnston died young. Maud married William
Ballard. Aunt Ellen you know
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had three. Ab Sport lives in Houston, Tex. (and) never married. Maggie ...
not kept up with her names, she could sign Maggie Sport Martin Miller
Heifenstein, her last husband was a count or some big something from
Germany. I know he was a very fine man. You know about Aunt Vole, two dead
and Lizzie lives in Marshall, Tex.
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I will write you as soon as I can go see Uncle Bill as I want to write down
all he has to say. I will get all of his grandchildren's names, too. I will
send that letter back in my next letter. Grandma Bagwell's mother was a
Fitzgerald & her mother was a Farris, as you know
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Grandma was named for her grandmother's maiden name Margret Farris. You see
I have been looking this up for Susie. I will send her address. I did not
hear from her for a year. She fell on the street in the ice & snow last
March and hurt her right arm so badly she had just begun to write ... Caught
her foot in a wire that caused the fall.
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Letter of Mattie Klinkscales to ..... Love, Bagwell, Texas, 1931 or 1932,
provided by Hazel Sparkman, Waco, Texas.
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David Kelley 1997