1. Joe Gastineau was married six times....
1. Four children went to Tuscaloosa, Alabama, infering that there were more.
1. Elizabeth was sister to Jacob who married her cousin Esther Byers.
2. Further reference in Artticle 477, Vol 1, Heritage of Henderson County, "Edward Shipman Family".
3. Four children of John & Elizabeth went to Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
4. See correspondence from Mrs. James C. (Emogene Clements) Armistead, Vol 2 pg 240 and Vol 5 pgs 238-239 from Luther A. Kuykendall, "Kuykendall Families".
1. Lucas "Luke" C. Brite was a "Stockman" or "Ranchman" who owned a ranch.
Edward "Eddie" McMinn ANDERSON
1. Text from "The Brites of Capote" by Noel L. Keith:
"Edward Anderson visited her Uncle Edward McMinn in Texas when she was five years old. Friends smiled at her and said amoung themselves that she was "muy bonita". Uncle Edward operated one store in Brownwood and another at Buffalo Gap, near Abilene. He was in a position to provide his young niece a delightful visit in the cowboy country. On Sunday morning they all went to church in Brownwood. The little lady wore her white dress with the pink sash - - and, of course, the new pink slippers. And Uncle Edward proudly told everyone that she was his namesake"."Her name is Edward McMinn Anderson", he said proudly.
"Born the fourth daughter in the Anderson family, the parents gave her the McMinn part of her name in memory of Governor Joseph McMinn of Tennessee. Kate Adele Hill says in her book, Home Builders of West Texas, It is not likely that when Governor McMinn was presiding over his cabinet in 1815 that it was his remotest dream that his name would be carried to the Mexican border of Texas”. But here it was indeed -- giving the name to a young woman who met and married Luke Brite.
“It is sometimes the custom in the South to bestow boys’ names upon girls, especially when family heritages are to be passed to the next generations. The name “Edward” as well as “McMinn” had lineal significance. The family shortened the Edward McMinn to the more personal, affectionate, and feminine “Eddie”.
“She had the flashing dark blue eyes and dark hair typical of the Scotch-Irish McMinns. Luke Brite would often say, “You can pick a McMinn out of any crowd”.
“When she was nineteen and ready to make her second trip to Texas -- this time as schoolteacher at the McMinn Ranch -- she went from Schell City by train and stopped over in Fort Worth for a brief visit with her sister, Nellie Anderson. From Fort Worth she took the Texas & Pacific train to Sierra Blanca. When she arrived at Sierra Blanca the train connected to Marfa”.
“Contrasting with her native Osceola, in St. Clair Co., Missouri, this area of Texas was almost a complete change of geography. She was born at Osceola, nineteen years before on January 25, 1875. Now, as a grown young lady, she looked out upon the geography of Presidio County and found it a contrasting kind of country from the rolling prairie land around Schell City, in Vernon Co., Missouri where she had moved with her parents in September 1880 at the age of five. This was the beginning place for a new kind of life”.
“The Texas cowboys changed her former ideas of cowboys. She learned in those early days on the McMinn Ranch, as a schoolteacher, how much the cowboys and ranchmen respected and honored and esteemed their “women folks”. The men appreciated the place the women filled in making a good l ife in the West. Chivalry was high and fine, and the McMinns added much to the stability and character of the kind of people committed to raising cattle to feed the world”.
After her husband’s death, in 1941, Eddie Brite served the remainder of his term on the board of trustees of Brite College. She was the first woman to serve on that board. In 1942, she was received as an honorary member of the Beta Iota Chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma, a national educational society. She was given a life membership in 1945. In 1948 TCU awarded her an honorary Doctor of Law Degree.
In May 2002, I asked the great-granddaughter of Eddie Brite for the dimensions of the old burr oak her uncle Robert Edward McMinn [my great-grandfather] planted as an acorn in the yard of his Marfa, TX house in 1885. She contacted Texas A&M to do the job and they reported that the tree measured 65 feet tall and 12 feet around. Now, that’s an impressive family tree!
Katie Vermillion
1. The history of Buffalo, Oklahoma, is intimately woven into and around the life of Charles McMinn. He was born in Texas and went to Buffalo with his parents at the age of nine.
2. He spent practically all of his life in Buffalo, and since his attaining manhood, "there was no worth-while movement in the community in which he did not figure as a leader".
3. On his graduation from the eighth grade, he immediately began work in the old Bank of Buffalo, in which his father and brother, Reo [who moved to Denver], owned a controlling interest. Since that time he was always in the banking business in Buffalo. When the Bank of Buffalo was sold in 1919 he immediately set out to organize another bank, which he accomplished with the aid of his father and S. J. Cooper, in the organization of of the Central State Bank, which he managed as his father had. He owned a decidedly controlling interest in the bank at the time of his death.
4. Charles Edward McMinn was killed in a tragic gun accident at the age of 39 in Buffalo, Oklahoma.
5. K. A. Vermillion reports (a) that Charles was member of the Masonic Lodge, Easter Star, Woodsmen of America, Rebekah Lodge, Chamber of Commerce. (b) Occupation 1: 1907, Bank of Buffalo, Buffalo, Harper, Oklahoma (since the 8th grade). (c) Occupation 2: 1925, President, Central State Bank, Buffalo, Oklahoma.
(d) Residence 1: Bet. 1894 - 1903, Marfa, Presidio, Texas. (e) Residence 2: Bet. 1903 - 1933, Buffalo, Harper, Oklahoma.
1. Selma Ring McMinn Claycomb was buried on what would have been her 98th birthday, April 19, 2002.
2. She was buried next to her first husband, Charles Edward McMinn, who left her a widow before she was 29 years old.
3. Family came from all over the USA to say goodbye to Selma on top of a windy hill at High Point Cemetery in Buffalo, Oklahoma.
1. At age 6, Thomas, together with his older brother, Levi, inherited the original land granted in 1755 to their grandfather, Joseph Hollingsworth, by the then Governor of North Carolina, Matthew Rowan.
2. In 1771 he lived in Berkeley County, South Carolina.
3. In 1805 he moved from South Carolina to Ohio.
4. In 1809 he moved from Ohio to Knox County, Indiana.
1. Daniel emigrated with his parents and siblings from South Carolina to Ohio at age 10 and on to Knox County, Indiana the next year (1804/l805).
2. He was killed by Indians in Knox County around the age of 16 (in 1811 or 1812) during an attack on the family.
1. Bobby R. Huggin's book reports Tinsey was born in Union County, South Carolina.
1. Noah died young.
1. Alternate given name: Maria.
1. Alternate date of death: 5 Jan 1871...per Bobby R. Huggins book.
1. Noah died young.
1. Another source gives date of death as 15 Dec 1913, but if he died young that cannot be right.