In his journal, James Madison Trussell stated that his father was born in Frederick County, Virginia, the 11th day of May 1770, and was brought up in Chester district (now county) South Carolina, and was baptised into the Baptist church the 3rd day of July 1803. He was a deacon of that church for many years, in good standing. He died the 18th of Oct. 1860, age 90 years 5 months and 7 days.

Of his mother he says, "My mother was born in Chester County, South Carolina, Jan. 1st 1781. Her maiden names was Lyles. She died in Greene County, Ala. the 30th day of Sept. 1830. She was a devoted member of the Baptist church from early life..... Her name was Elizabeth and my father always called her Betsy. My mother was of Irish parents who emigrated to South Carolina, perhaps at an early day of that colony. Her mother's name was Cockrel. There was quite a large connection of the Lyles, Cockrel, Prices and others in the time of the Revolutionary war, and as far as I ever heard, they were all true and fought for their country. There was some prominent men among my mother's people, such as Maj. Autenson, Martin and Col. William Lyles and his brothers, they all served in the war of 1776."

Just which Lyles were the parents of Elizabeth is unknown. There were quite a few living in Camden District of which Chester County is part, in the late 1700s and early 1800s. The surname Lyle (Lile) in its earliest form was "de Insula" meaning "of the island'.'. As far back as the 11th Century this "de Insula" was attached to families living in the Isle of Wight and Isle of Ely in England and the Isle of Bute in Scotland. That any connection existed between the several families is questionable. Surnames were introduced into England by the Normans after 1066 when William the Conqueror had a census taken for the purpose of taxing the people. The "de" was eventually dropped and the name became "I'lsle" or Lisle and, even later, to Lile, Lyle.

Our Lyles originally came from Scotland where they were farmers. They were pushed from their settlements on the west coast of Scotland about 1606. Sir Randal MacDonnell, Earl of Antrium, had estates that exceeded 300,000 acres in County Antrium in northern Ireland. He welcomed these farmers to work his land even though they were Presbyterians and he was Roman Catholic. Research shows the earliest Lyles in Ireland in Lord Antrium's estates. The family grew and spread into other parts of the county. Numerous crop failures in the early fourth of the 1700s with resulting trouble with leases and landlords, forced some of the Lyles to decide to move to America. The first ones were three brothers, Matthew, John and Daniel, and their nephew, son of their brother, Robert, Samuel Lyle, who came to Rockbridge County, Virginia. Others soon followed into Virginia, Pennsylvania and the Carolinas. Whether all these Lyle-Lile-Lisles were related is quite doubtful, though they all came originally from Scotland, to Ireland and to America. (Lyle, pp 1-7)

Some of the Virginia Lyles moved down into Anson County, North Carolina and on down into Camden District, South Carolina. Still other Lyles arrived in South Carolina directly from Ireland. All these Lyles came quite patriotic and fought for their adopted land. Quite a few fought in the military expeditions from 1752 until the Treaty of Paris ended the French and Indian War. Eight months after the Treaty, King

George III issued a proclamation whereby men who served in military units from 1752 to when the units were disbanded, were entitled to bounty land. Several Lyles took advantage of this free land in Virginia and the Carolinas. Ephraim Liles, a descendant of Samuel Lyles of Virginia, settled in Anson County, North Carolina which is on the south border of the state. His land was on the Pee Dee River, which flows in both North and South Carolina.

It is said that his son, Ephraim Lyles was the first white child born in South Carolina. Many examples of the patriotic service of Lyles can be found in both the Carolinas. Many were officers of their military units. By the time the first census for the United States was taken in 1790, there were two Lyles families living in Chester County, SC:

Liles, Ephraim111
Liles, John 150

In the same general area were Trussells and Cockrells:

Trussel, James 3
Trussel, William 1172
Cockrell, John 223
Cockrell, Willliam 102
Cockrell, Thomas 102

There were both Liles and Cockrells in Fairfield County which borders Chester County on the south. John Cockrell left a will in Chester County in which he named his wife Maty (Mattie ?), and four sons: Moses, William, Sanford and Lyes (Lyles ?). No date is given but the will is recorded on page 151 between the dates of July 1796 and September 1797. No daughters are mentioned.

(Chester Co, SC Will Book A, p 151)
Recorded in Chester Co, SC Order Book B, p 2H, dated 5 Jan 1791 is "A Citation having Issued showing Cause why letters of administration might not be granted to Agnes Lyles, Widow of John Lyles, Deceased, and no legal objections being made to the Contrary, Ordered that Letters of Administration Issue to the said Agnes Lyles, she complying with what the law in that Case requires."

In Chester Co, SC Order Book S, p 512, dated U Sep 1818: "James Liles, Chester District, was firmly bound to Daniel Trussell for the payment of $4,000. The condition is such that if James Liles does no pay this amount, he will make a warranty title to the tract of land on which James Liles lives, containing 200 acres situated on the waters of little Sandy River originally granted to John Liles, now deceased, bounded on East upon the widow Nancy Egnew's land and upon th South upon Wm Price's and Moses McKeown's land and on the West upon James Head's, Daniel Trussell's and the widow Susannah Trussell and on the North upon John Trussell's. When said warrantee title is made, then this obligation is to be void. James (his mark) Liles"

Because John Liles was living next door to William Trussell in 1790 and because the name of John's widow was Agnes, this compiler feels almost certain that John and Agnes Liles were the parents of our Elizabeth (Lyles) Trussell. This is not proof, only an assumption. more research should be done on the Liles and Cockrells. Later census records show that several Cockrell and Lyles familes were living in both Greene-Sumter Counties, Alabama and in Lauderdale-Kemper-Noxubee Counties, Mississippi where our Trussells lived. In early days, relatives tended to live close together.

T-5-2  James Trussell, Jr (b 11 May 1770 Frederick Co, VA - d 18 Oct 1860 Lauderdale Co, MS) was           the son of James and Sarah (Asher) Trussell. He was raised in Chester County, South Carolina           where, about 1796, he married Elizabeth "Betsy" Lyles (b 1 Jan 1781 Chester Co, SC - d 30           Sep    Greene Co, AL). They were living in Chester County when their first three children were           born.

At a Court held in Chester County, SC on 28 July 1796 James Trussell sued his cousin, John Trussell, for debt. (Chester Co, Order Book 1795-1799):

"Attachment partly in Debt 6 partly "In case, Col. Patrick McGriff, a Garnishee sworn in the attachment, declares on Oath that he owes the Debt in this case, 15 Ibs sterling, to be paid in property at the appraisement of Thomas B. Franklin & John Weir & in case of their disagreement, that the said Patrick McGriff should have the Choice of an umpire & thereupon came the same Jury on Writ Enquiry, whereupon their oaths do say We find for the plaintiff fourteen pounds five shillings and Two pence sterling & Costs of Suit, Whereupon it is considered that the Plaintiff recover against the Defendant the said sum of t:14-5-2 according to the verdict & costs & that the property in the hands of the Garnishee be given up to Sale to Satisfy this Judgment. (Order of Sale issued 16 August 1796)."

James Trussell is listed in the 1800 South Carolina census for Chester County (Roll 1, Abbeville to York, p 87):

James Trussell males: 1 26-45 females: 1 26-45 2 10-15

On 26 September 1807 the heirs of James Trussell signed over to Charles H. Sims 258 acres, being part of two tracts of land formerly belonging to James Trussell, dec'd". Thomas Cockerell made oath that he saw "Matthew Trussell make a mark for John Trussell & James Trussell" with the signatures of the other heirs. (Chester Deed Bk N, p 230) Thus is it known that James was no longer in Chester County.

James may have returned to Chester County when the last bit of his father's land was sold to Thomas Cockrell on 29 March 1808. His "mark" is recorded with those of his siblings and mother to that deed.

James and Elizabeth (Lyles) Trussell had a third child, a daughter. Mourning, in Chester Co, SC in 1803. A fourth child was born in Tennessee in 1806. By 1808 they were living in Franklin County, Tennessee (now Coffee County) " not very

far from Winchester, Tennessee on the head of Elk River." Here several more children were born, then James moved to Lincoln County "and settled ten miles from Fayettville on the head of Midberry creek when the whole country was covered with long cane and wild pea vine and the timber was very large and on the hills and the valleys were the same..... poplars, lynns and the black and white walnuts, the large pappa's, beach, cherry trees, three kinds of hickory trees, honey locus, buckeyes 2 or 3 feet through, the ash and above all the sugar tree orchard where I had to watch the camp in the woods while my father and mother and older children were going around to the trees they had tapped to get the water and bring it to the camp fire and boil it in large pots and kettles into the best sugar that I have ever saw. It was there I first saw my dear old mother sitting and spining flax on her flax wheel and singing. I also recolect seeing hemp growing in fields and I think she spun some hemp there. I first heard my uncles tell about the battles they had been in under Jackson and Carroll in the Indian war and the great battle of New Orleans." (See Journal of James Madison Trussell.

In the fall of 1815 James Trussell moved his family to the head of the Cahawba River in St Clair County, Alabama and the next spring he moved to Tuscaloosa eight miles below the falls of the Black Warrior River where no other settlers had settled. About 1819 he moved to Greene County, Alabama near the Tombigbee River, near a large creek called Trussell Creek named for him. (ibid)

In 1830 the family was living in Greene County, AL when the census was taken (Roll 2, Baldwin to Shelby, p 396)

On 30 September 1830 Elizabeth (Lyles) Trussell died leaving several children still in the home. From that date on her husband, James Trussell, lost interest in his mill and let his business run down. His son, James Madison Trussell, came to live with him and run the business, but James finally sold the mill and land. He continued to live with James Madison until his death on 18 October 1860 at age 90. They were the living in Lauderdale County, Mississippi.

James, Jr and Elizabeth (Lyles) Trussell had ten children:

T-5-2-1  John Trussell (b ca 1798 Chester Co, SC - d 30 Dec 1852 Lauderdale Co, MS) See later.
T-5-2-2  Joseph Trussell (b ca 1800/01 Chester Co, SC - d 6 Feb 1835 Greene Co, AL) See later.
T-5-2-3  Mourning Trussell (b ca 1803 Chester Co, SC - d 30 Sep 1837 Sumter Co,AL) mar Martin              Johnson, a relative of General Joseph E. Johnson and of Vice-President Richard M. Johnson              who was appointed vice-president by the Senate during the term of Martin Van Buren,              because no vice-presidential candidate had received a majority of the votes. He served from              1837 til 1841.

Mourning (Trussell) and Martin Johnson lived in Sumter County, Alabama. They had six children. Sumter County did not have a census record until 1840, three years after the death of Mourning.

(Alabama 1840, Roll 4, p 139) Names of only two children known.

Martin Johnson males: 1 40-50 females: 1 20-30 1 30-40 1 5-10 1 10-15 1 -5


T-5-2-3-1  Elizabeth Johnson mar John Trussell, her mother's cousin, son of Benjamin and Nancy                  (Strickland) Trussell. See under T-5-5-8.

T-5-2-3-2  Martin L. Johnson mar Jun 1844 Sumter Co, AL to Sarah A. Harper. (Gandrud, Vol 132, p                     79)

T-5-2-4  Matthew Trussell (b 6 Mar 1806 KY - d 16 Apr 1837 Lauderdale Co, MS) See later.

T-5-2-5  James Madison Trussell (b 26 Dec 1808 Franklin Co, TN - d 4 Nov 1887 Llano Co, TX) See              later.

T-5-2-6  Nancy Trussell (b ca 1811 Franklin Co, TN - d after 1885 TX) mar 31 Jan 1834 Lowndes Co,              MS Wright Hicks, had 2 daughters and 6 sons. James Madison wrote: "Five of my sister's              sons are dead. Her other son and her daughters are living in south Texas. She was living not              long ago over 70 years of age, a mild, quiet, good woman and I think a good Christian. She              had lived as a widow for more than 30 years."

T-5-2-7  Susan Trussell (b 1815 AL - d Jan/Feb 1884 MS) Her brother says of her: "She died some 17              or 18 months ago in east Mississippi (1885) and had lived as a widow for more than 30              years." He did not seem to know much about her. Susan married 18 Sep 1833 Greene Co, AL              to Peter Ussery and was living in Lauderdale Co, MS in 1860: Mississippi 1860, P 361)

             840-818 Susan   Ussery - 45 - f - farmer - 350--350- b Ala
                         Martha      "      16 - f - domestic business
                         Miss John   "      14 - m                               Miss

T-5-2-8  William Carrol Trussell (b 17 Apr 1817 Greene Co, AL - d after1885 MS) named for Governor              William Carroll of Tenn, a kinsman of his mother. See later.

T-5-2-9  Andrew Jackson Trussell (b 15 Mar 1822 Greene Co, AL - d 15 Feb 18 Lauderdale Co, MS)              See later.

T-5-2-10  Elizabeth Trussell (b 1825/26 Greene Co, AL - d unknown)
              When her father quit keeping house after her mother's death in 1830, Elizabeth lived with               her oldest brother, John. She married Wash Head and moved to Louisiana. When he died,               she returned to live with John until she remarried, name of this husband unknown. She               raised 5/6 children, one of whom was a Baptist preacher.

T-5-2-1  John Trussell was born about 1798 in Chester County, South Carolina, son of James and Elizabeth (Lyles) Trussell, and died 30 December 1850 Lauderdale County, Mississippi. He married in Greene County, Alabama on 12 March 1827 to Elizabeth Collins. (Gandrud, Vol 17, P 61)

Elisha Collins’ mortgage to Josiah Collins and John Trussell was recorded 5 Sep 1829, Greene Co, AL Deed Bk C, p 485. That these Collins men were related to Elizabeth, John's wife, is evident since they named two of their sons those names.

In the spring of 1816 James Trussell, John's father, moved to Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 8 miles below the falls of the '' Black Warrior River, where there were some Indian camps made of pine bark." But he said there would be a town there and he did not want to live in town. He went to work on the most beautiful place he settled as there was no one settled before him. He had to depend on corn hauled there from Tennessee, and sold at $4.00 per 50 Ibs, but necessity is called the mother of inventions. He had heard of the old Spanish town of Mobile, so he went to work and made a batteau of two cypress logs dug out and doweled together and sent John with Martin Adams and Johnathan Coons to Mobile. This was the first boat that had ever been carried from Tuscaloosa to Mobile by white men. They brought us one barrel of flour at $20. per barrel in Mobile, and some rice at high price and the first sweet potatoes I ever saw, with directions from an old negro how to plant and cultivate them. But the year 1816 has been called the year without a summer and I know it was the year without rain from May till white frost. And, but for a field father cleared in the cane brake on the river and cultivated without plow or fence, he would still have been without corn, but being made from the rich red soil and limestone sediment, it proved in years of rain to be the best corn land I ever saw. 100 bu. to an acre was not impossible. In 1817 my father made a fine crop of corn and a small crop of cotton the first I ever saw growing and there was no gins so we had to pick the seed out with our fingers to make the cloth we used." This is quoted from the Journal of James Madison Trussell, brother of John Trussell.

John and his brother, James Madison, established a ferry across the Tombigbee River near by. James Madison says "From the time I was 20 years old up to his (John's) death we, as partners and administrators, transacted and settled $1500.00 or $1600 in business and we never disagreed or disputed over anything in conduct or business. No, it was in everything a manifestation of the kindest feeling." He further related that in 1832 and 1833 he "joined my oldest and best brother (John) in running a pole boat from Gainesville on the Tombigbee, as it was then called, up the Oaknozubee, now called Noxubee. I carried corn, meat, groceries and dry goods for the new settlers in that part of the Choctaw for two winters and springs." In the summer of 1834 they sold their ferry and boat and both John and James Madison moved to Kemper County, Mississippi.

A Mississippi, state census was taken in 1837. John Trussell was recorded in Kemper County. C.MGE, Vol 18, No. 4, p 153)

Trussell, John 1 21-40 1 16+ 1 male 2 -18 2 -16 1 female

One of the -16 females was Elizabeth, sister of John.

By 1840 John Trussell was living in Lauderdale County, just south of Kemper. [Mississippi 1840, Roll 69, p 58)

                                       males                    females
John Trussell 1 40-50 1 30-40 1 10-15    1 10-15 1 5-10 1 5-10 2 -5

1850 found several Trussell families in Lauderdale County (Mississippi 1850, Roll 375, P 384); one was John Trussell, son of Benjamin and Nancy (Strickland) Trussell, who had married a niece of John, a daughter of Martin and Mourning (Trussell) Johnson. (See T-5-5-8.) Our John Trussell.

John Trussell was born in South Carolina, not Alabama.

John Trussell died 30 December 1852, age 54. His brother, James Madison Trussell, says this about him in his Journal:

"My oldest brother, John Trussell, was a fine looking man about six feet two inches high, well proportioned and weighed about 175 1bs. Soon after the War of 1812 when very young, he was elected captain of militia when a military office was a great honor. He served about six years and afterwards filled various offices with great honor and satisfaction to the people. He was a plain unassuming man of the strictest honesty and sincerity and was loved and honored by his neighbors and all good people that knew him."

On 14 March 1855 Elizabeth Trussell "accepts the guardianship of Andrew J. Trussell and Elisha C. Trussell, minors over 14, of John Trussell, late of Lauderdale County. 12 March 1855. Bond of Elizabeth Trussell as guardian to Elisha C. Trussell and Josiah A. J. Trussell, minor heirs of John Trussell of Lauderdale County. For $3500. Securities: Thomas Stokes and R.B.G. Harper. 20 March 1855 Guardianship approved and recorded 26 March March 1855." (Lauderdale Co, MS Probate Record F, 1855-56, p 20)

Elizabeth Trussell is recorded as head of Household No. 81 in Kemper County in 1860. (Mississippi - 1860. Roll 129, p 745). She had evidently moved back to Kemper County from Lauderdale County.

The children of John and Elizabeth (Coliins) Trussell were:

T-5-2-1-1  John Trussell, Jr (b ca 1828 Green Co, AL)

T-5-2-1-2  Elizabeth Trussell (b 2 May 1830 Greene Co, AL - d 13 Mar 1905 Neshoba Co, MS) mar 18                 Jun 1857 AL William H. Pierce (b Apr 1826 AL - d after 1900 Neshoba Co, MS) Issue:

T-5-2-1-2-1  Edward N. Pierce (b Mar 1874 Neshoba Co, MS - d Terrell TX) mar 10 Jun 1894                 Cornelia Adeline Morgan (b 3 Jan 1880 MS - d 17 Apr 1938 Athens, TX) Issue:

T-5-2-1-2-1-1  Algie Lee Pierce (b 19 May 1902 Neshoba Co, MS) mar 25 Dec 1937 Henderson                              Co, TX Mary Pauline Woodruff (b 15 Jul 1815 Dawson, TX - d 4 Mar 1970 Ty1er,                              TX) Issue:

T-5-2-1-2-1-1-1  Linden Wayne Pierce (b 4 Jan 1941 Athens, TX) mar 2 Nov 1963 Berwin, IL                                   Hilda Joyce Lauderdale (b 8 Dec 1941 Prentiss Co, MS)

T-5-2-1-3  James Madison Trussell (b ca 1831 Greene Co, MS - killed in Civil War)

T-5-2-1-4  Sarah J. Trussell (b ca 1833 Greene Co, AL)

T-5-2-1-5  Elisha Coliins Trussell (b ca 1836 Kemper Co, MS)

T-5-2-1-6  Josiah Andrew J. Trussell (b ca 1838 Kemper Co, MS)

T-5-2-2  Joseph Trussell was born about 1801 in Chester County, South Carolina and died 5 February 1835 Green County, Alabama. He was the son of James and Elizabeth (Lyles) Trussell. He was reared mostly in Alabama where his father finally settled. He married 15 August 1832 in Green County to Margaret (Strait) Price, widow of Cuthbert Price, deceased. She had a son, William L. Price, who was about three years old.

"He was a stout man, six feet four in. high. He didn't get very much of an education as he had a very limited opportunity in those unsettled states at that time. He was like too many youngsters, he liked fun and frollick too well to study much. He went to the river and engaged in running a keel boat with hooks and poles before steam boats were put on the rivers, and afterwards piloted a steam boat one year, and then settled down and became a very steady man and then married a widow by the name of Price. Her first husband was a very good citizen named Cuthbirth Price, a distant relative of our mother and her maiden name was Straight." (From the Journal of James Madison Trussell, brother of Joseph.)

When Cuthbert Price died, Robert Strait became guardian for William L. Price, orphan, on 14 November 1831, It is not clear why Robert Strait did not continue as Willam's guardian.

Matthew Trussell, Joseph's brother, was a Justice of Peace in Greene County. He became guardian of young William on 3 February 1834. Joseph and John Trussell were his securities. (Gandrud, Vol 17, P 1) When William L. Price died at age 5 or 6, Matthew Trussell applied for division of his estate. The Greene County Orphans Court (Book D, p 49) listed Joseph Trussell as William's step-father and his wife, Margaret, as his mother.

James Madison Trussell in his Journal tells of the tragic deaths of Joseph and Margaret (Strait-Price) Trussell:

" My brother owned a good farm in a good community, but sold it with a view of moving to Mississippi where brother John and myself lived. His wife owned a negro woman and four children, so when my brother sold out he bought a negro man that had lately been brought in, and soon after my brother had bought the negro a Mr. Butler paid over five hundred dollars to my brother that he (Butler) owed me. This the negro saw just at the time of the noted cold Friday and Sat. Feb. 5th and 6th, 1835. In rebuilding my brother had not had time to put a floor in the negro house, so he told the negroes to come in his house and sleep by the fire while it was so cold, and at a late hour in the night the negro went out and brought in an ax, then went to the bed and sunk the ax up to the handle in my brother's head, and then hacked his wife so as to cut her skull in several places. Then hit the negro woman with the pole of the ax and she ran into the yard and died. He then struck at the 16 year old boy but did not prevent him from making his e-cape. He then robbed the house and set the curtains on fire and left. My brother's wife was able to drag him out in the yard with his clothes burning, but forgot her babe and it and a little negro girl was burned in the house. My brother's wife lived 2 or 3 days. Their largest negro girl was 1 iving from home at the time. The negro boy gave the alarm and my brother Mathew and all the neighbors around was soon in pursuit of him.

The murder was commited on Saturday night but all efforts failed till Monday night, when my brother and two faithful friends, after riding till a late hour over ice and frozen ground, came on him where Mr. Everitt and his negro man had captured him. When they got him to my brother, he was badly frostbit and he had lost one shoe and they made him wade Trussell creek, where the water was two feet deep and the ford slanted up the creek about 40 yards. Early Tuesday morning the people was coming together to hunt for him. When they saw the negro they began to prepare to burn him, but my brother Mathew, being a sworn magistrate, could not allow it without perjuring himself, and some of the friends taken Mathew away, but before they got ready to burn him, the other magistrate came among them and he had to be tried and con-demned by the county Judge, which was done in the shortest possible time, but the affect of freezing and hot irons did not let him live to be hung. My brother, Joseph Trussell, was 34 years old at his death."

T-5-2-4  Matthew Trussell was born 6 March 1806 in Kentucky and died 16 April 1739 in Greene County, Alabama after returning, home from a visit to James Madison Trussell's. He was the son of James and Elizabeth (Lyles) Trussell.

Matthew was married by John Henry on 28 January 1830 in Greene County, Alabama to Mary Ann Sanders, who needed th consent of her guardian. She was the niece of William Bissell and Phil Gully, a long-time sheriff of Kemper County, Mississippi.

The 1830 Alabama Census (Roll 2, p 32) of Greene County showed the new couple with Joseph Trussell, Matthew's brother, living with them:

Mathew Trussel males: 2 2-30 females: 1 20-30

According to James Madison Trussell in his Journal, Matthew Trussell "was elected Esquire soon after he was married and held the office as long as he would accept it in a beat where there was many talented and wealthy men." As a Justice of Peace, Matthew performed numerous marriages' (Gandrud, Vol 3)

On 3 February 1834 Matthew became the guardian of William L. Price, orphan of Cuthbert Price, deceased. His securities were his brothers, John and Joseph Trussell. Young William died at age 5 or 6 and Matthew applied to the County Court for a division of his estate. Named were William's stepfather, Joseph Trussell, and his mother, Joseph's wife, Margaret (Strait-Price) Trussell. (Deed-Book D, p W.

In February 1835 when a slave murdered Matthew's brother Joseph Trussell, and his wife, men who had hunted for the slave wanted to burn him. Since he was a magistrate. Matthew could not allow that without perjuring himself. When another magistrate arrived, friends took Matthew away so he could not witness the trial and execution. (JMT's Journal)

Matthew Trussell is described by his brother, James Madison Trussell: "He was a man of great firmness and a member of the Baptist Church in good standing, and had great influence on Dock Lyttle and other great men of wealth." He was bailiff in the beat where he was mostly raised, and had made good use of the limited opportunity he had for an edcation, and through industry and economy he was able to get married and settle himself on a good place he had bought paid for while he was young..... He was a successful farmer and gained property very fast, and with a view to moving, he had bought a tract of land with a saw and grist mill and some cattle in Lauderdale county. Miss. before he sold out in Ala."

" He (Matthew) came to my house about the first of April and spent a short time with me and left for home. On his way he was taken sick but got home but gradually grew worse then died on the 16th of Aprill 1838 and was buried near his beloved mother. Thus passed from earth to heaven another

good man, lamented by all. All good men that knew him, rich or poor, high or low. Much of his character in private or public life could be traced to his mother's training, and by his death, a link in the chain of a mother's influence had been severed and his poor fatherless children were robbed of that great blessing, a good mother's influence."

(Green Co, AL Orphans Court, Book H, p 34) Matthew Trussell, deceased. First settlement of estate, Matthew Rainey, ad-ministrator, 8 January 1844. Accounts included:

1840, June 14 - Pd David Butler for coffin $4.82 June 1 - expenses to Eutaw on businss 1.50
From Orphans Court Book F, page 2; TrusselI, Matthew, deceased. Lewis F. Pollard appointed guardian of minor heirs Susan C. Trussell, Elizabeth L. Trussell, John Washington Trussell, and Victoria Regina Trussell. John Trussell and James M. Trussell, administrators, 14 September 1840.
Final settlement 8 January 1844, Matthew Rainey, administrator. (Gandrud, Vol 242, p 2)

The children of Matthew and Mary Ann (Sanders) Trussell were:

T-5-2-4-1. Susan C. Trussell (b ca 1830 Greene Co, AL)
T-5-2-4-2. Elizabeth L. Trussell (b ca 1833 Greene Co, AL)
T-5-2-4-3. John Washington Trussell (b ca 1836 Greene Co, AL)
T-5-2-4-4. Victoria Regina Trussell (b ca 1839 Greene Co, AL)

T-5-2-8. William Carrol Trussell was born 17 April 1817 Greene County, Alabama and died some time after 1885 in eastern Mississippi, the son of James and Elizabeth (Lyles) Trussell. He was named for Governor William Carroll of Tennessee, a distant relative of his mother. He was married about 1840 to Frances _______, his first wife and the mother of his children. After her death, he married a second time name of this wife unknown.

In I860 he was living in Lauderdale County, Mississippi, the census showed his family: (Mississippi 1860. Roll 129, P 120)

833-834

In his Journal, James Madison Trussell says of his brother, William Carroll Trussell: "He married a good woman who

became the mother of several daughters and three sons. He was a poor manager and I had to help him a great deal in raising his children. His oldest son, Van, died in th the war. His other sons seem to be doing well. His wife died a few years ago and he has married again and living near where he first married in east Mississippi." This was written in 1885.

The children of William Carroll and Frances (___) were

T-5-2-8-1. Elizabeth Trussell (b ca 1842 MS)
T-5-2-8-2. Martha J. Trussell (b ca 1845 MS)
T-5-2-8-3. Martin Van Trussell (b ca 1846 MS - d during Civil War)
T-5-2-8-4. Joseph G. W. Trussell (b - d ca 1849 MS)
T-5-2-8-5. Sarah Trussell (b ca 1852 MS)
T-5-2-8-6. Susan Trussell (b ca 1854 MS)
T-5-2-8-7. James Trussell (b ca 1856 MS)
T-5-2-8-8. Permelia 0. Trussell (b ca 1858 MS)

T-5-2-9. Andrew Jackson Trussell was born 15 March 1822 Greene County, Alabama and died 15 February 18 Lauderdale County Mississippi, son of James and Sarah (Asher) Trussell. It is not known if he ever married. All the information on him is obtained from the Journal written in 1885 by his brother, James Madison Trussell:

"He was left without a mother at a liittle over eight years of age. He had good natural sense but, father being old and childish, my brother got to traveling and went to Texas, and, like most all other boys, he liked to travel and what he needed them days to travel with was a horse and a blanket. He could get plenty of dried beef and buttermilk free of cost and there was plenty of grass for his mustang pony. After he had engaged in some business be returned to Miss. and him and John Carson built a tavern in Old Marion Southey Fisher. He made a good run for tax assessor but got beat by a very popular man. He remained in Newton and Lauderdale Co. for some time. He went as a private to the war with Mexico, but a vacancy soon occurred and he was elected Lieutenant and served through that war, and then he came home and remained about two years. He then sold merchandise in Leak County, and was elected colonel of militia but soon left for Texas where he carried his sword as a ranger, traveling up and down Texas hunting Indians from gulf to the head of the Brazos and Colorado rivers, but soon afterwards he quit the rangers and went into a small stock business near San Antonio, but colonel French wanted a bunch of men to go to Nicaragua on what was called filabustering and he went with them. They went by water and when they got there they went up a little river called San Juan on an old steamboat, but before they landed the boiler burst and killed some and three

a good many into the river. They now being destitute and helpless, my brother, with many others, determined to return and found an old flatboat on the river; they got on it and floated down the river without guns, and just as they got to the mouth of the river, they saw the Nicaraugians pursuing them to capuure or kill them. But fortunately there was a British man of war lying there and they hoisted a flag of distress and the British captain warned the Nicaragians not to fire on them and they submitted to his orders and he taken our folks on his ship and carried them to New Orleans at his own expense. Several of our men was sick with chronic diarhea and some died on the way and was buried in the ocean.

My brother had been sick sometime when he got to New Orleans without a cent of money, but by some means he got to Marion Station and I got word and went after him. I found him very low. I sent for my old friend Dr. Keith, but he had heard all about his case and sent me word that that he could not help him and did not come. I then, as I had done twice before in other very bad cases with others, taken the case in charge myself. I taken two ounces of flour of charcoal and a pint of sweet milk and put it in a boiler and brought it to a boiling heat. I then cooled it and gave him two tablespoons at a dose and in two weeks he was well. I loaned him a horse and gave him $25.00 in money and told him to travel around among friends and relatives for some time, but he soon became impatient and went to the railroad and commenced keeping a little retail business. Winter soon came and I was in Mobile on business. When I got home I found him relapsed in the same diarrhea and he died about the 15th of Feb. He was a fine, portly looking man and a friend to all he met."

Below is a letter written by Andrew Jackson Trussell to his brother, James Madison Trussell, when he was in Mexico in 1848. The original letter is owned by a great granddaughter of James Madison Trussell.

The envelope was addressed: Mr. James Trussell Oaktibbeha P. 0. Kemper Co. Mississippi
Buena Vista Mexico January 26th 1848

Dear Brother

I Received yours of the 22nd Dec. the 20th of this Month Which gave me mutch Joy to hear you was well and your Famially was Enjoying good helth. as to my helth it is not good but it is improving very slow I am able for to drill and we Drill som we Drill four howers a day we have the officers drill from 9 Oclock to 10 and company drill from 10 Oc to 11 Oclock and Regmintal from 2 Oclock to 5 each day and this Keeps us moving we heave a Col. that I wold not swap for Jef Davis nor any man I know Col dark is I believe the best officer on this line Clark onley beat Wilcox about seventeen votes for Col. but now

he cold beat him twenty five to one J.A. Wilcox is our Lt Col. but I informed you of that some time ago I was proud to Learn that you had Reed the Rifle I sent to you by Dick Hancock for I was a little uneasy about it for he Loves to gamble I wish you to Keep the gunn and if I never Return when you ar no more and your Son John should Live, give it to him t have a watch here. If I die whil| in Mexico I want John, your son, to have it. I am geting on here about as usual. You spoke of Jas L. Johnson having some idear of coming out here that would be one of the proudest days of my life to see one of my relations here for I have none in the army if he should come tell him not to join the army until he gets here for I can put | him in busness that he can make Money very fast and be near me all the time he can get for driving team twenty five Dollars pur Month and If he wold go to business in Saltillo he could make fifty dollars per month I can gave him a start in Saltillo tell him to come on It will not cost him more than forty dollars to get here If he will be saving and if he wants to come here and stay with me I draw Sixty four dollars and fifty cents pur month and fifteen of it is for a Survent Capt Daniel draws Ninty Dollars fifteen of It is for a Survent James L. Johnson can get that if he will come and have nothing to do but to stay and nock about camps I want him to com very mutch. You wrote to me that Jesse Wootton wanted to now what county Dr Thompson Lived in in Texas when I lay all night at his house he lived in St Augusteel County seven Miles from St Augusteen town between St Augusteen and Gaines's ferry and the Sabine River he lived 18 miles from Gaines Ferry 7 Miles from Town of St Augusteen they was five Mexicans hung on the 18th Inst for Killing three Discharged Soldiers from our Regt ther names was Sargent W. S. Walker of Co. H, Private Ranewater of the Same company Private Lantern of Co. they was on their way to Monterey about twenty five miles from here the Mexicans was fourteen in number but five was taken at then and one has been taken since the others was hung he will be hung.

I havent nothing that will be of intrust to you as to moving I am fearful we wil have to lie here till the war is over all I want is to Lead those brave boys of our company in to one battle and I think we would give a good account of our selves. R. N. Calhoun sez he will write to you today I shall write to you in four or five days again If I live write to me as often as you can.
Your affectionate, Excuse Mistakes
Brother To Jas M. Trussell
A.J. Trussell

At the bottom of the letter, James Madison Trussell has written: "My Dear brother died just ten years and a few days after he sent me his letter, he died in my house in Lauderdale County, Mississippi 9th Feb 1858 of chronic diarhea caught in Nicaragua, Central America. I write this now 23 October 1886 when in two months and six days more ' I will be 78 years old."

Bible of Thomas and Eleanor Price.

T-5-2-5  James Madison Trussell

James Madison Trussell was born 26 December 1808 in Franklin County, (now Coffee County) Tennessee, fifth child of James and Elizabeth (Lyles) Trussell. In 1885 at the age of 77, he wrote down some of his memories of his family: "Thinking it might be interesting to my children and posterity, I here commence a diary of my life and a reminiscence of events and a family record." A copy of the complete diary is at the end of the Trussell section. Parts of it are recorded with individuals he names.
After James had moved his family to Greene County, Alabama, near the Black Warrior River, "A wealthy man came along and bought my father's improvements for $500, and he moved about one mile and built a house and in 1818 cultivated river land two miles from home and at this time the country was settling up very fast. There was a school made for three months and after learning my a, b, c's at home, I got to go two months and one week and began to read and spell in the class with the other scholars while my father was gone on a trip to hunt a place to move to. My mother gave me a dollar and sent me to the mill to get coffee. I gave it to the merchant and he gave me 2 1/2 Lbs of coffee for it. There had been very little, if any, coffee used in our county before this, as sasafras and other teas would be used and no sugar.

After helping my father improve his place the settlement soon got strong enough to have a three months school in a little log house with a dirt floor and no plank about it. They employed a very sorry, teacher three months and then another for three months. I got to go some to each one, and afterwards they employed a good teacher for six months, but it was my misfortune to lose two months of that time by having the old fashioned shaking ague which was then very common. But in the four months that I went I became the best speller as I ever afterwards was, just in nine other months of school. I went just a little to one and but a little to all, and here I learned to make progress in learning and how to manage and teach a school successfully. To my teacher William D. Orear I give credit for my great success afterwards as a teacher. After I was near twenty years old I went four and a half months to a country school three miles from home. I studied arithmetic and got ahead of my teacher in Murray's grammar. I then went a distance of sixteen miles from my father's and got a school of 17 scholars and that was all I could manage at that time. Before six months of my school was gone, it run up to forty-five and for three months my school would have went up to fifty but I could not do justice by more than forty-five. After that nine months of my school, they would not employ any one else until I refused to take the school any longer.

I then went to Tuscaloosa and went into a city college for three months. I studied arithmetic and Herkam's grammar, each one half the time for three months. The professor said he had taught hundreds , of young men in the last sixteen years, but I had excelled in rapid learning of any he had ever taught. Before the three months was out I was offered $50.00 per month to keep bar in a large hotel. The old head teacher offered to turn off his assistant and take me in his place if I would take the class in english for four hours in each day and he would give me my board and all the balance of each day with the use of any of his books in every branch of literature while they were there.

I was treasurer of the city debating society and the friend and peer of William R. Smith, afterwards governor and congressman from Ala. for fourteen years, and also William S. Meak, my equal in age and learning, and his brother, Alexander, afterwards a judge, and other young men of wealth.

My older brothers had left father and he and my sisters were lonesome and needed me for company and to help him run his mill, so I went home and run his mill for two years, and settled up all his out-standing business, and then I offered to rebuild his mill, but he declined having any farther trouble with them. He then sold them with one of the best places in Ala. I then joined my oldest brother in running a pole boat from Gainesville on the Tombigbee (as it was the then called) up the Oaknozubee (now called Noxubee). I carried corn, meat, groceries and dry goods for the new settlers in that part of the Choctaw for two winters and springs and made some money in the summer of 1833. While the river was too low for boating, I kept a school in Noxubee Co. near my first wife's father. She went to school to me. When my school closed they offered to double my wages if I would continue but I declined and went to running my boat. About the first of April 1834 I quit boating and on the eighth of May 1834 I married Susannah Slaughter Parks, and we sold our ferry and boat and brother John and I moved into Kemper Co. Miss. My next move was to Lauderdale Co. Miss. where I lived and farmed for 28 years."

James Madison Trussell and Susana S. Parks were married on 11 May I834 by Benjamin Hitt, Minister of the Gospel. Security was Jesse Smith. The license was purchased on 5 May 1834. Susannah was the daughter of James R. and Charity (Lewis) Parks. Very little is known of James R. Parks. (See section on LEWIS)

In 1840 James Madison and Susannah were living in Lauderdale Co, Mississippi. (Mississippi 1840 Census, Roll 69, Vol 1-3, Vol 3, P 42)

Jas M. Trussell   males: 1 70-80 females: 1 20-30   1 30-40   2 5-15

The older person living with them was James Trussell, father of James Madison Trussell. Indications are that he had what is now called Alzheimer disease; then it was called senility.

James Madison continued his memories: "Soon after I got to Kemper Co. I was elected captain of a militia Co. by fifty-eight votes to my opponent's two. In a year it was reported in the county that I was a candidate for representative in the next legislature. I declined to run and said I had not consented to run, but my old friend Judge Marshall and Dr Hundly and others that had known me from twelve years old up to that time, still kept me before the people and would not let me off. So I consented to run and I received the highest vote cast in the county for any office, state or county. At that election at one of the polls near me I received all the votes, and all but two at the next nearest box. There were four candidates, two of us was democrats and two whigs (now called republican). I taken my seat in the legislature in January 1838. I helped to fight the great union bank charter, but for the corrupting influence of money, the bank was chartered, pledging the fourth of the state for fifteen and a half million dollars which yet stands unpaid against the state. I was elected for two years but I resigned in the fall of 1838 and moved to

It will be noticed that Susannah Slaughter (Parks) Trussell was only fifteen years old when she married. James Madison Trussell was twelve years older than she.

Susannah had two more children, James Madison, Jr and Mary Martha who was just a baby when her mother died 16 February 1859. Years later a granddaughter, Allie (Reynolds) McGee, repeated what she had been told by her mother: James Madison Trussell didn't mention that his first wife passed away. The baby, Mary Martha, was a tiny baby They had a negro man and woman working for them and she also had a baby, so she nursed both babys and raised the children, I suppose, until Grandpa married again. The children loved her like a mother and they called them Aunt and Uncle. She was Aunt Mariah and I forgot his name but when Mother and Uncle Will (Altman) were small, Grandpa and Grandma Altman went back to Mississippi on a visit. So they went to see this old colored couple and they were so glad to see them. She called them her white children and they spent the night with them, said her house was so neat and clean and she had one bed she kept just for white people. They wouldn't eat at the table with Grandma and Grandpa. I thought that was real interesting. I had thought Uncle Jim Trussell was the youngest but Mother said no, Aunt Mary was."

The children of James Madison and Susannah Slaughter (Parks) Trussell were:

   T-5-2-5-1  John Francis Harvey Trussell (b 16 Jan 1836 Kemper Co, d 27 Jun 1863 Vicksburg, MS)                    His father said "My oldest child, a son, fell at Vicksburg with his sword on. He was said                    to be a very popular officer and had no enemies in his regiment and was rising to                    distinction very fast in that war." He was buried in Vicksburg City Graveyard. The                    funeral was preached at Talahatta Church by N. L. Clark, distinguished Baptist preacher.                    He married Tennie Spinks. She later married Rufus King, brother of Martin D. King who                    married Nancy Trussell.

      Mississippi I860 Census, Roll 129, Lauderdale County, page 369: P 0: Chunkeyville - Beat No. 4.

      903-881 J.F.H.Trussell 23 - m farmer 2750-3600 b Miss.

   T-5-2-5-2  Charity Ann Elizabeth Trussell (b 24 Dec 1837 Kemper Co, Ms - d 18 Mar 1927 Union Co,                    MS) mar 1) 3 May 1855 Lauderdale Co, MS to Thompson Marion Daniel (b 17 Sep 1836                    Lauderdale Co, MS - d Oct 1863 at Battle of Corinth, Alcorn Co, MS).

          Mississippi 1860 Census, Roll 129 (Ibid), P.O: Lookelena

      T-5-2-5-2-1  Amanda E. Daniel (b 1855 Lauderdale Co, MS)
      
      T-5-2-5-2-2  James Buchanan Daniel (b 20 Jul 1856 Lauderdale Co, MS - d 8 Apr 1938 Itasca, Hill                          Co, TX) mar 6 Feb 1878 Hickory, Newton Co, MS to Mary Elizabeth Biggs (b 17 Feb                          1857 Hickory, Newton Co, MS) dau of David and Melissa Avaline (Ferguson) Biggs.                          David died in Federal prison Camp Morton, Indianapolis, IN - bur Green Lawn                          Cemetery. Issue:

            T-5-2-5-2-2-1  Mary Evelene Elizabeth Daniel (b 30 Nov 1878 Hickory, Newton Co, MS - d 17                                   Nov 1962 Itasca, Hill Co, TX) mar 3 Nov 1897 Lakenon, Hill Co, TX Lawrence                                   Patrick Evers (b 12 Feb 1874 Mercer Co, MO - d 16 Dec 1964 Hill Co, TX) son                                   of Richard E. and Mary Ellen (Welch) Evers (b Cass Co, IL). Richard Evers                                   was born in County Longford, Ireland. Lawrence moved to TX ca 1875, then                                   to Dallas Co, TX, then to Hill Co, TX where he lived 75/80 years. Issue:

               T-5-2-5-2-2-1-1  Elma Evers mar James Campbell, lived San Antonio, TX. Elma taught                                          business subjects in high school; Jim was a rancher. Elma gathered                                          much of the infor-mation on this family. No issue.

               T-5-2-5-2-2-1-2  Patrick Evers was living at 4213 Glenmuir Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90065                                         in 1984

            T-5-2-5-2-2-2  Luella Permelia Daniel (b 20 Apr 1880 Hickory, Newton Co, MS - d 12 Feb                                   1967 NM) mar 1) 5 Jan 1899 Charlie E. Davis (b 4 Feb 1872 - d NM) reared                                   family in OK and NM. Luella mar 2) Milburn Orville Reynolds (d NM)

            T-5-2-5-2-2-3  James William Daniel (b 2 Feb 1882 Hickory, Newton Co, MS - d 13 Jun 1968                                   Itasca, Hill Co, TX) mar 24 Dec 1905 Emma McBride (b 13 May 1885                                   Jacksonville, AR - d Jun 1969 Itasca, Hill Co, TX), dau of Henry and Sara                                   Elizabeth (Douglas) McBride.

            T-5-2-5-2-2-4  Martha Susan Daniel (b 14 Jan 1884 Hickory, Newton Co, MS - d 27 Apr 1957                                   Italy, Ellis Co, TX) mar 1) 23 Oct 1901 Eugene Huddleston Harris (b 9 Feb                                   1878 d 27 Apr 1938 Italy, Ellis Co, TX) reared family in Italy, TX and Dallas.                                   Martha mar 2) Herman Quint.

            T-5-2-5-2-2-5  Nannie Mae Daniel (b 26 Jun 1886 Llano Co, TX) mar 5 Dec 1906 James                                   Harvey McBride (b 23 May 1874 Pulaski Co, AR - d 15 Oct 1959 Hillsboro, Hill                                   Co, TX) son of Henry and Sarah Elizabeth (Douglas) McBride. He was a                                   brother of Emma McBride who married James Wm Daniel.

            T-5-2-5-2-2-6  Lula Viola Daniel (b 9 Dec 1888 Llano Co, TX) mar 8 Sep 1907 James Preston                                   Douglas (b 29 Mar 1885, Jacksonville, Pulaski Co, AR - d 11 Feb 1967) son                                   of Harvey and Maryland Virginia (Todd) Douglas.

            T-5-2-5-2-2-7  Thomas Marion Daniel (b 17 Dec 1890 Llano Co, TX) mar 10 May 1906 Alpha                                   Fudge (b 18 Jun 1896 Salem, Dent Co, MO - d 17 Jul 1964 Itasca, Hill Co,                                   TX) dau of George and Belle (Weaver) Fudge.

            T-5-2-5-2-2-8  Clarence David Daniel (b 4 Apr 1893 Mason Co, TX -d 16 Feb 1966 Itasca,                                   Hill Co, TX) mar 1) 3 Aug 1919 Ethel Mason (b 4 Mar 1900 Itasca, Hill Co, TX                                   - d Jan 1932 Itasca TX - bur Rockwall Cemetery) , dau of Albert and Annie                                   (Hendrix) Mason. Clarence mar 2) 26 Apr 1932 Oilie Moore (b 14 Dec 1908                                   Paint Rock, TX) dau of Avery and Olivia (Cloud) Moore.

            T-5-2-5-2-2-9  George Lee Daniel (b 13 May 1897 Lakenon, Hill Co, TX - d 1970 Itasca, Hill                                   Co, TX) mar 7 Aug 1920 Letha Sevier (b 17 Jul 1898 Hill Co, TX) dau of Guy                                   and Mary (Patton) Sevier. Reared family in Itasca.

            T-5-2-5-2-2-10  Ethel Irene Daniel (b 18 Jun 1900 Italy, Ellis Co, TX d 13 Jul 1900 Italy, Ellis                                    Co, TX)

      T-5-2-5-2-3  William Andrew Daniel (b 5 Oct 1858 Lauderdale Co, MS - d 21 Nov 1887 Llano Co,                          TX-bur Kingsland, TX) mar 1) Olivia Luvenia Harwell (b 18 Mar i860 - d 18 Dec 1888                         (bur Kingsland, Llano Co, TX) Issue:

            T-5-2-5-2-3-1  Mollie Daniel mar ________ Graham.

            T-5-2-5-2-3-2  William Andrew Daniel, Jr (b after Nov 1887 after his father's death in Llano                                   Co, TX) reared family in Goldthwaite, Mills Co, TX.

      T-5-2-5-2-4  Susan Daniel ( 1 May 1861 Lauderdale Co, MS - d 17 May 1862 Lauderdale Co, MS)

            Charity Ann Elizabeth (Trussell) Daniel mar 2) Jared Snowden, a widower. Issue:

      T-5-2-5-2-5  John Allen Snowden (b 27 Aug 1868 Hickory, Newton Co, MS - d 18 Dec 1948                          Hickory, Newton Co, MS) mar 7 Feb 1893 Cynthia Emma Ferguson (b 19 Aug 1874)

      T-5-2-5-3-1  Martha Allen (b ca 1852 Lauderdale Co. MS)
      T-5-2-5-3-2  Sarah Allen (b ca 1855 Lauderdale Co, MS)
      T-5-2-5-3-3 Susan Charity Allen (b 15 May 1857 Lauderdale Co, MS) mar James Daniel. 7                         children.
      T-5-2-5-3-4  Mary Olivia Allen (b 9 Jun 1859 Lauderdale Co, MS) mar Elby Todd, 7 children.

         Victoria R. (Trussell) Allen mar 2) William McAlister. Issue:

      T-5-2-5-3-6  William Lee McAlister, called "Willie" (b 13 Jun 1873 - d 7 Nov 1875)

   T-5-2-5-4  Olivia Ophelia Trussell (b 3 Dec 1843 Lauderdale Co, d 21 Mar 1899 Quanah,                     Hardeman Co, TX - bur Quanah Cemetery) mar 1) Jesse Fremont Kennedy.
                    See KENNEDY section K-8-5. Issue:

      T-5-2-5-4-1  Susan Alice Kennedy (b 30 Nov I860 Lauderdale Co, MS - d 14 May 1920 Norman,                          Cleveland Co, OK) mar 1) John E, Edwards. See EDWARDS section, E-1-1. Mar 2)                          William Westley Cochran. See COCHRAN section, C-1-3-3-10.

      T-5-2-5-4-2  Emma Frances Kennedy (b 8 Sep 1864 Newton Co, MS - d 1951 Quanah, Hardeman                          Co, TX) mar William J. Altman, See KENNEDY section, K-8-5-2.

      T-5-2-5-4-3  William Newton Kennedy (b 27 Oct 1866 Newton :Co, MS - d Lincoln Co, NM)See                          KENNEDY section, K-8-5-3.

      T-5-2-5-4-4  Sarah Dora Kennedy (b 25 Nov 1868 Newton Co, MS - d 7 Dec 1899 Quanah,                          Hardeman Co, TX - bur Quanah Cemetery) mar James Stegall. See KENNEDY                          section, K-8-5-4

            Olivia Ophelia (Trussell) Kennedy mar 2) Henry Johnson Reynolds,

            See REYNOLDS section, R-1-1-5. Issue:

      T-5-2-5-4-5  James M. Reynolds (b 20 May 1871 - d 27 Jan 1875).

      T-5-2-5-4-6  Herschel Stacy Reynolds (b 1 Feb 1873) See REYNOLDS section, R-1-1-5-10 (6).

      T-5-2-5-4-7  George Lee Reynolds (b 6 Jan 1875) See REYNOLDS section, R-1-1-5-11 (7).

      T-5-2-5-2-8  Ada Algeva Reynolds (b 1 Apr 1878) See REYNOLDS section, R-1-1-5-12 (8).

      T-5-2-5-4-9  Charles Luther Reynolds (b 6 Apr 1881 - d 25 Apr 1881).

      T-5-2-5-4-10 Thomas Clinton Paris Reynolds (b 8 Feb 1883).
                       See REYNOLDS section, R-1-1-5-14 (10).

      T-5-2-5-4-11 Celestina Olivia Reynolds (b 5 Nov 1885)
                      See REYNOLDS section, R-1-1-5-15 (11).

   T-5-2-5-5  Nancy Jane Trussell (b 2 Mar 1846 Lauderdale Co, MS – d Houston, TX) mar Martin                     Daniel King (b 16 Oct 1834 AL d 27 Apr 1883 Llano Co, TX, age 48 yr 6 mo                     12 days) lssue:

      T-5-2-5-5-1  C. M. King (b 30 Oct I860 - d 27 Nov 1895 Llano Co
      T-5-2-5-5-2  G. M. King (b ca 1863) mar _________, issue:

         T-5-2-5-5-2-1  Aubrey H. King (b 28 Oct 1885 - d 24 May 1895 Llano Co, TX).

      T-5-2-5-5-3  Susan King (b ca 1865).

      T-5-2-5-7-1  William J. Altman, Jr (b 22 Aug 1870 Hickory, Lauderdale Co, MS - d 5                                          Oct 1966 Plainview, Hale Co, TX -bur Quanah Cemetery, Hardeman Co,                                          TX) mar his first cousin Emma Frances Kennedy (b 8 Sep 1864 Newton                                          Co, MS - d 1951 Quanah, Hardeman Co, TX - bur Quanah Cemetery),                                          dau of Jesse Fremont and Olivia Ophelia (Trussell) Kennedy. See                                          KENNEDY section and T-5-2-5-4-2. Issue:

         T-5-2-5-7-1-1  Ethel Olivia Altman (b 20 Mar 1889 - d 21 Feb 1914 Quanah, Hardeman Co, TX                                bur Quanah Cemetery) retarded.

         T-5-2-5-7-1-2  Josie Earl Altman (b 3 Mar 1893 - d 15 Nov 1911
                               Quanah, Hardeman Co, TX - bur Quanah Cemetery) retarded.

         T-5-2-5-7-1-3 Ohlin Lestley Altman (b Quanah, Hardeman Co, TX)

      T-5-2-5-7-2  Victoria Altman (b 23 Feb 1873 Coryell Co, TX - d 21 Mar 1971 Hollis, Harmon Co,                          OK) bur Hollis Cemetery mar 8 Mar 1891 to William Henry Reynolds. See REYNOLDS                          section, R-l-1-5-7. Issue:

      T-5-2-5-7-3  Thomas Jefferson Altman (b 10 May 1876 - d 12 Oct Kingsland, Llano Co, TX).

      T-5-2-5-7-4 Lora W. Altman (b 21 Mar 1880 Kingsland, Llano Co, TX d 20 Mar 1959 Phoenix,                          Maricopa Co, AZ - bur Quanah Cemetery, Hardeman Co, TX) mar Ellis Eddleman.                          Issue:

         T-5-2-5-7-4-1  Lee Eula Eddleman
         T-5-2-5-7-4-2  Lola May Eddleman
         T-5-2-5-7-4-3  Norma Jean Eddleman
         T-5-2-5-7-4-4  L. Z. Eddleman

      T-5-2-5-7-5  Henryetta "Etta" Altman (b 1 Apr 1883 Kingsland, Llano Co, TX - d 4 May 1914                          Quanah, Hardeman Co, TX - bur Quanah Cemetery) mar George Hollander. Issue:

         T-5-2-5-7-5-1  Lewis William "Bill" Hollander
         T-5-2-5-7-5-2  Theodore "Ted" Hollander

      T-5-2-5-7-6  Eugenia 0. Altman (b 15 Mar 1886 Kingsland, Llano Co, TX - d 18 Feb 1887                           Kingsland,  Llano Co, TX).

      T-5-2-5-7-7  Emma Ethel Altman (b 9 Aug 1888 Kingsland, Llano Co, TX - d 5 Jul 1940 TX) mar                          Huston Culpepper. Issue:

         T-5-2-5-7-7-1  Merle Culpepper
         T-5-2-5-7-7-2  Woodrow Culpepper
         T-5-2-5-7-7-3  Virginia Culpepper
         T-5-2-5-7-7-4  Christine Jewel Culpepper

      William H. Altman wrote the following which appeared in THE SEMI-WEEKLY FARM NEWS in 1923:

      CONFEDERATE EX-SOLDIER FROM MISSISSIPPI WRITES W. H. Altman, Box 485, Quanah, Texas.

I am an old Confederate soldier. I joined the army in September 1863. Was in the battle of Resacca, Ga. Was wounded and sent to the hospital at Oxford, Ga. Got back to my command Aug. 3, l864, I was then in the breastworks around Atlanta, Ga. We had no general engagements, only skirmishes the balance of the month. Sherman left Atlanta about the last of September for the sea. Hood left Atlanta and went to Tennessee. We fought the battle of Franklin, Tenn., Nov. 30, 1864. We lost many men. It was a very hard fought battle. We went from Franklin to Nashville, Tenn., and fortified in front of the city. Gen. Thomas came down on us with about 100,000 troops on Dec. 15. There were about five to one against us. I was captured in the first day's fight and carried with about 500 others to Camp Douglas prison at Chicago, Ill., and remained there to the end of the war.

I belonged to Company J, Thirty-Seventh Mississippi Regiment, Canty's Brigade, Walthall's Division, Stewart's Corps. If any of my company see this I would be glad to hear from them.

I was 77 years old on Aug. 8, last. Am still able to get around very well. I have been taking the Semi-Weekly Farm News about twenty years and deem it the best paper published in the U.S. (1923)

            T-5-2-5-8-1-1  Velma Murphy (b 17 Jun 1902 Burnet Co, TX).
            T-5-2-5-8-1-2  Rose Mae Murphy (b 16 Jun 190^ Burnet Co, TX).

      T-5-2-5-8-2  James Madison Trussell, III (mar Leia Ann Allen. 5
                         Children, 5 known. Lived Lampasas, TX.

         T-5-2-5-8-2-1  James Madison Trussell, IV (b 1915) mar Irene Kasmera. Issue:

            T-5-2-5-8-2-1-1  James Madison Trussell, V (b 23 Sep 1936)
            T-5-2-5-8-2-1-2  Garland Lowell Trussell (b k Jan 1938)
            T-5-2-5-8-2-1-3  Roger Dwane Trussell (b 22 Oct 1942)
            T-5-2-5-8-2-1-4  Linda Diane Trussell (b 18 Jan 1952)

         T-5-2-5-8-2-2  Victor Reeves Trussell (b 1917)
         T-5-2-5-8-2-3  Curtis Wilson Trussell (b 1919)
         T-5-2-5-8-2-4  Leola Trussell (b 1926)

      T-5-2-5-8-3  Lara Trussell mar _________ Whitis, 4 children, lived in Dallas,TX.
      T-5-2-5-8-4  Stephen Aubrey Trussell (b 6 Mar 1872) mar Mattie Lawrence. 7 children:

         T-5-2-5-8-4-1  Donald Ray Trussell (b 11 Feb 1928) mar Jonnie Bill GiIbert
         T-5-2-5-8-4-2  James Howard Trussell (b 27 Feb 1920) mar Melba Fitzgerald.
         T-5-2-5-8-4-3  Kenneth Lawrence Trussell (b 12 Mar 1925) mar Shirley Mae Malloy.
         T-5-2-5-8-4-4  Mary Louise Trussell (b 7 Aug 1917) mar Gary Burnett Evans.
         T-5-2-5-8-4-5  Stephen Robert Trussell (b 2 Jul \3^k) mar Joyce Watson.
         T-5-2-5-8-4-6  Wanda Oleta Trussell (b 16 Jul 1923) mar Carlton L. Carr.
         T-5-2-5-8-4-7  Alvin Aubry Trussell (b 13 Oct 1918)

      T-5-2-5-8-5  Bessie Trussell never married
      T-5-2-5-8-6  Viola Trussell mar __ Jones. U children.
      T-5-2-5-8-7  Margaret Trussell mar Michael Dunn. 1 child.

   T-5-2-5-9  Mary Martha Washington Trussell (b 1 Aug 1857 Lauderdale Co, MS) mar Spencer                     Benson Gilbert. Issue:

      T-5-2-5-9-1  Victor W. Gilbert mar Demmon Newman. No issue, lives in Meridian, Lauderdale Co,                          MS.
      T-5-2-5-9-2  Ora Gilbert mar I.W. Saldal. 2 children, lived Hickory, Lauderdale Co, MS.
      T-5-2-5-9-3  Lillie Gilbert mar Dr S.A. Pennington, lived in LA.
      T-5-2-5-9-4  Oscar Gilbert mar Willie ________. No issue
      T-5-2-5-9-5  Nona Gilbert mar E.L. Herrington. One son
      T-5-2-5-9-6  Luther Gilbert mar Doris Wilcox.
      T-5-2-5-9-7  Bessie Gilbert mar Jubel Early Moss, Sr. 2 children lived Chunky, Newton Co, MS.
      T-5-2-5-9-8  Bessie Mae Gilbert mar Henry Campbell Alexander. 2 sons, lived in Union, Newton Co,                          MS

            In the Alabama 1850 Census, Roll 12, Vol 11, Russell (pt) to Talledega, the following family             was living in Sumter County, page 336:

            There were three other Altman families living near by. It is probable that they were brothers             to William: Henry, age 33; Nathan, age 24; and John, 31.

            By 1860 Mary Ann (Poole) Altman was a widow with several more children. She had married             James Madison Trussell sometime between 1857 and 1860.

            The census for Mississippi 1860. Roll 129, Lauderdale County, page 279 showed the foilowing             combined families living in Center Beat with Post Office at Marion on 3 July I860:

            Susannah Slaughter (Parks) Trussell, James Madison's first wife, must have died soon after             Mary Martha was born in August 1857. Mary Ann, with several small children, must have             welcomed the opportunity to have someone provide for her children and was, from all reports             a good stepmother to the Trussell children.