NOLAN COUNTY DEATH CERTIFICATE
Name: Sina Frances Sliger
Death date: 25 May 1965
Death place: Simmons Memorial Hospital, Sweetwater, Nolan, Texas
Cause of death: Cerebro-vascular accident
Gender: Female
Race or color (on document): White
Age at death: 79 years
Birth date: 14 Feb 1886
Birth place: Mason Co., Texas
Marital status: Widowed
Spouse name:
Father name: James A. Cate
Father birth place:
Mother name: Elize Jane Alsup
Mother birth place:
Occupation: Housewife
Residence: Pre. 4, Nolan, Texas
Cemetery name: Campbell Cemetery
Burial place: Nolan Co., Texas
Burial date: 27 May 1965
Informant: A. G. Craver, Jr.
Film number: 2117827
Digital GS number: 4028270
Image number: 2840
Reference number: 38983
Collection: Texas Deaths, 1890-1976
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From FIRST 100 YEARS NOLAN COUNTY TEXAS (published 1985 by Nolan County Genealogical Society), Page 362 and 363:
SOLOMON SLIGER
Elizabeth Sliger (1815-1891) came to Nolan County with her son, Solomon, and his family. On the way from Tennessee to Texas, her husband, Christopher Sliger, died and was buried somewhere along the wagon trail. Elizabeth lived with Solomon's family until her death.
Solomon Sliger (1833-1921) and his wife, Eliza Catherine Mansel Sliger (1851-1915), bought land near Hylton, Texas, in southeast Nolan County in 1901 and settled down to rear their five children and live out the remainder of their lives.
In 1854, Solomon Sliger, a young man of twenty, who was living with his family in Cookville, Tennessee, was stirred by the gold rush fever and set out to seek his fortune in California. He went by boat down the Cumberland River and the Mississippi River to New Orleans, Louisiana. He sailed from there to the Isthmus of Panama on the Pam Pedro ship which came from New York. He disembarked at the Isthmus of Panama and took a river boat part of the way, walked some, waded some, and rode a mule part of the way to reach the Pacific Ocean side of the Isthmus. There the passengers waited for an ocean ship to stop by and take them to San Francisco.
Solomon Sliger spent nine years in California, Oregon, and Idaho panning for gold, mining gold and ranching before returning overland to Tennessee through hostile Indian country.
Back home in Tennessee, he married Catherine Mansel about 1865. Then in 1892, this couple, their five chidlren and Solomon's mother, Elizabeth Sliger, moved to Bell County, Texas, where they lived for a few years, then on to northwest Runnels County for a short time before buying the Nolan County land. This land is part of that which is still known as the Sliger Place.
The Campbell Cemetery is adjacent to a corner of the land which is still in the Sliger family and now owned by the surviving granddaughter of Solomon and Catherine Sliger, Foye Sliger Craver, and her husband, A. G. Craver, Jr. Buried in the Campbell Cemetery are Solomon and his wife, Catherine; Solomon's mother, Elizabeth Sliger; Solomon and Catherine Sliger's oldest son, Henry Clayton Sliger; their youngest son, George Bailey Sliger and his wife Sina; and the older daughter of Bailey and Sina, Thelma Sliger.
BAILEY SLIGER
George Bailey Sliger (1882-1964) was the fourth child of five children born to Solomon and Catherine Sliger. There were four boys, Clayton, Amon, Lee, Bailey, and one girl, Ova Sliger Stevens.
When the family moved to Hylton, Texas, in Nolan County in 1901, Bailey was nineteen years old. He took an active part in the community. On Sunday afternoons, the favorite past-time was watching the Hylton baseball team play other teams from the nearby communities of Wingate and Ft. Chadbourne. Bailey was one of the main players.
He married Sina Cate on April 14, 1907. The ceremony was performed while the couple sat in a buggy a few miles east of Hylton near Shep, Texas. Getting married while sitting in a buggy seemed to be the popular thing to do at that time.
Bailey and Sina Sliger moved to the Sliger place in 1913 with their two girls, ages two years and one month, to care for his elderly parents. After the parents' death, Bailey obtained the inherited interest in the estate from his brothers and sister. With this as a nucleus, he and Sina added surrounding acreage to it over the years and continued to live there until their deaths.
Bailey was a seeker of knowledge. After his marriage, he attended school for a while, which was very unusual in those days. During his lifetime, he acquired quite a library, many of the books were of a religious nature.
He became a leader in the Hylton Church of Christ. As a lay preacher, he conducted summer revivals, many of them in Kimble County, near Ft. McKavett, Texas. During this time, he also operated the farm and ranch, which gradually became more and more a ranch instead of a farm. At one time, sheep took precedence over cows, but in later years, the cows won out and it became known as the Craver Bar A Angus Ranch.
Bailey's mother, Catherine, was a Baptist. It was after her death that his father, Solomon, became interested in Christianity. The following item from a religious newspaper has the date 1916:
Brother J. L. Allen writes from Wingate, Texas, date of June 4: "We have a good congregation at Shep, Texas. We number about fifty members. There are five good preachers in the congregation, and with a few exceptions, all the male members are able to read a chapter, and offer a word of exhortation to the audience. Last Sunday, we had one confession and baptism at our regular service. An old gentleman who has passed the four score mile post, was led by his youngest son, Brother G. B. Sliger, into the water and buried with his Lord in baptism. Brother Sliger is one of our Timothys."
Sina Frances Sliger (1886-1965) was one of nine children born to James A. Cate and his wife, Eliza Jane Alsup Cate, near Wagrum, Texas, in Mason County. James was a Confederate soldier during the Civil War. The family moved to Arkansas when Sina was six years old, stayed a short time, then moved back to Mason County where they lived until Sina was about eighteen years old. They then moved to Nolan County.
Sina was an industrious housewife and mother. Her home was the gathering place of the relatives from both sides of the family, and also the "home-away-from-home" for the visiting preachers and many times for their families, too.
Thelma Esther Sliger (1911-1966) was a career woman. She taught school at Valley Creek, Hylton, Highland and Blackwell before going to San Angelo as a teacher. For a number of years before her death, she was a counselor at Edison Junior High in San Angelo.
SLIGER-CRAVER
Gladys Foye Sliger, born in 1913, the younger of two daughters born to Bailey and Sina Sliger, grew to adulthood on the Sliger place. While teaching school at Divide High School, she met A. G. Craver, Jr., whose parents moved to Sweetwater from the Divide community. Foye and A. G. married December 25, 1938, in Nolan.
Following his release in 1943 from the United States Air Corps, Foye and A. G. lived for five years on the Sliger Place where they farmed and ranched. Their two daughters, Rosalind Ann and Linda Sue, were born during that time. Two of those years, A. G. was also principal of Blackwell High School.
Rosalind, born in 1944, married Judson Payne Shields on July 18, 1964. They have two children, Christopher Shields born in 1969 and Lynly Shields born in 1972.
Linda Sue, born in 1946, married Malcolm Nichols on January 22, 1965. They have two children, Marcus Nichols born in 1968 and Monica Nichols born in 1971.
Both girls live in Abilene, Texas. They are very fond of the Sliger Place for it has many happy memories for them. Vacations, weekends and outings are often spent there on the ranch. A. G. and Foye's four grandchildren, ages from twelve to sixteen at this writing, are proud of their Sliger heritage in southeast Nolan County at Hylton. They are the sixth generation of Texans from Elizabeth Sliger, wife of Christopher Sliger, who died on the way from Tennessee to Texas and was buried along the wagon trail.
Elizabeth did not want a fancy grave marker to mark her grave in the Campbell Cemetery because she said her husband and some of her children were buried in unmarked graves, wrapped only in a blanket, and laid in a shallow grave by the side of a road.
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Name: Sina Frances Sliger
Death date: 25 May 1965
Death place: Simmons Memorial Hospital, Sweetwater, Nolan, Texas
Cause of death: Cerebro-vascular accident
Gender: Female
Race or color (on document): White
Age at death: 79 years
Birth date: 14 Feb 1886
Birth place: Mason Co., Texas
Marital status: Widowed
Spouse name:
Father name: James A. Cate
Father birth place:
Mother name: Elize Jane Alsup
Mother birth place:
Occupation: Housewife
Residence: Pre. 4, Nolan, Texas
Cemetery name: Campbell Cemetery
Burial place: Nolan Co., Texas
Burial date: 27 May 1965
Informant: A. G. Craver, Jr.
Film number: 2117827
Digital GS number: 4028270
Image number: 2840
Reference number: 38983
Collection: Texas Deaths, 1890-1976
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From FIRST 100 YEARS NOLAN COUNTY TEXAS (published 1985 by Nolan County Genealogical Society), Page 362 and 363:
SOLOMON SLIGER
Elizabeth Sliger (1815-1891) came to Nolan County with her son, Solomon, and his family. On the way from Tennessee to Texas, her husband, Christopher Sliger, died and was buried somewhere along the wagon trail. Elizabeth lived with Solomon's family until her death.
Solomon Sliger (1833-1921) and his wife, Eliza Catherine Mansel Sliger (1851-1915), bought land near Hylton, Texas, in southeast Nolan County in 1901 and settled down to rear their five children and live out the remainder of their lives.
In 1854, Solomon Sliger, a young man of twenty, who was living with his family in Cookville, Tennessee, was stirred by the gold rush fever and set out to seek his fortune in California. He went by boat down the Cumberland River and the Mississippi River to New Orleans, Louisiana. He sailed from there to the Isthmus of Panama on the Pam Pedro ship which came from New York. He disembarked at the Isthmus of Panama and took a river boat part of the way, walked some, waded some, and rode a mule part of the way to reach the Pacific Ocean side of the Isthmus. There the passengers waited for an ocean ship to stop by and take them to San Francisco.
Solomon Sliger spent nine years in California, Oregon, and Idaho panning for gold, mining gold and ranching before returning overland to Tennessee through hostile Indian country.
Back home in Tennessee, he married Catherine Mansel about 1865. Then in 1892, this couple, their five chidlren and Solomon's mother, Elizabeth Sliger, moved to Bell County, Texas, where they lived for a few years, then on to northwest Runnels County for a short time before buying the Nolan County land. This land is part of that which is still known as the Sliger Place.
The Campbell Cemetery is adjacent to a corner of the land which is still in the Sliger family and now owned by the surviving granddaughter of Solomon and Catherine Sliger, Foye Sliger Craver, and her husband, A. G. Craver, Jr. Buried in the Campbell Cemetery are Solomon and his wife, Catherine; Solomon's mother, Elizabeth Sliger; Solomon and Catherine Sliger's oldest son, Henry Clayton Sliger; their youngest son, George Bailey Sliger and his wife Sina; and the older daughter of Bailey and Sina, Thelma Sliger.
BAILEY SLIGER
George Bailey Sliger (1882-1964) was the fourth child of five children born to Solomon and Catherine Sliger. There were four boys, Clayton, Amon, Lee, Bailey, and one girl, Ova Sliger Stevens.
When the family moved to Hylton, Texas, in Nolan County in 1901, Bailey was nineteen years old. He took an active part in the community. On Sunday afternoons, the favorite past-time was watching the Hylton baseball team play other teams from the nearby communities of Wingate and Ft. Chadbourne. Bailey was one of the main players.
He married Sina Cate on April 14, 1907. The ceremony was performed while the couple sat in a buggy a few miles east of Hylton near Shep, Texas. Getting married while sitting in a buggy seemed to be the popular thing to do at that time.
Bailey and Sina Sliger moved to the Sliger place in 1913 with their two girls, ages two years and one month, to care for his elderly parents. After the parents' death, Bailey obtained the inherited interest in the estate from his brothers and sister. With this as a nucleus, he and Sina added surrounding acreage to it over the years and continued to live there until their deaths.
Bailey was a seeker of knowledge. After his marriage, he attended school for a while, which was very unusual in those days. During his lifetime, he acquired quite a library, many of the books were of a religious nature.
He became a leader in the Hylton Church of Christ. As a lay preacher, he conducted summer revivals, many of them in Kimble County, near Ft. McKavett, Texas. During this time, he also operated the farm and ranch, which gradually became more and more a ranch instead of a farm. At one time, sheep took precedence over cows, but in later years, the cows won out and it became known as the Craver Bar A Angus Ranch.
Bailey's mother, Catherine, was a Baptist. It was after her death that his father, Solomon, became interested in Christianity. The following item from a religious newspaper has the date 1916:
Brother J. L. Allen writes from Wingate, Texas, date of June 4: "We have a good congregation at Shep, Texas. We number about fifty members. There are five good preachers in the congregation, and with a few exceptions, all the male members are able to read a chapter, and offer a word of exhortation to the audience. Last Sunday, we had one confession and baptism at our regular service. An old gentleman who has passed the four score mile post, was led by his youngest son, Brother G. B. Sliger, into the water and buried with his Lord in baptism. Brother Sliger is one of our Timothys."
Sina Frances Sliger (1886-1965) was one of nine children born to James A. Cate and his wife, Eliza Jane Alsup Cate, near Wagrum, Texas, in Mason County. James was a Confederate soldier during the Civil War. The family moved to Arkansas when Sina was six years old, stayed a short time, then moved back to Mason County where they lived until Sina was about eighteen years old. They then moved to Nolan County.
Sina was an industrious housewife and mother. Her home was the gathering place of the relatives from both sides of the family, and also the "home-away-from-home" for the visiting preachers and many times for their families, too.
Thelma Esther Sliger (1911-1966) was a career woman. She taught school at Valley Creek, Hylton, Highland and Blackwell before going to San Angelo as a teacher. For a number of years before her death, she was a counselor at Edison Junior High in San Angelo.
SLIGER-CRAVER
Gladys Foye Sliger, born in 1913, the younger of two daughters born to Bailey and Sina Sliger, grew to adulthood on the Sliger place. While teaching school at Divide High School, she met A. G. Craver, Jr., whose parents moved to Sweetwater from the Divide community. Foye and A. G. married December 25, 1938, in Nolan.
Following his release in 1943 from the United States Air Corps, Foye and A. G. lived for five years on the Sliger Place where they farmed and ranched. Their two daughters, Rosalind Ann and Linda Sue, were born during that time. Two of those years, A. G. was also principal of Blackwell High School.
Rosalind, born in 1944, married Judson Payne Shields on July 18, 1964. They have two children, Christopher Shields born in 1969 and Lynly Shields born in 1972.
Linda Sue, born in 1946, married Malcolm Nichols on January 22, 1965. They have two children, Marcus Nichols born in 1968 and Monica Nichols born in 1971.
Both girls live in Abilene, Texas. They are very fond of the Sliger Place for it has many happy memories for them. Vacations, weekends and outings are often spent there on the ranch. A. G. and Foye's four grandchildren, ages from twelve to sixteen at this writing, are proud of their Sliger heritage in southeast Nolan County at Hylton. They are the sixth generation of Texans from Elizabeth Sliger, wife of Christopher Sliger, who died on the way from Tennessee to Texas and was buried along the wagon trail.
Elizabeth did not want a fancy grave marker to mark her grave in the Campbell Cemetery because she said her husband and some of her children were buried in unmarked graves, wrapped only in a blanket, and laid in a shallow grave by the side of a road.
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NOLAN COUNTY DEATH CERTIFICATE
Name: Sina Frances Sliger
Death date: 25 May 1965
Death place: Simmons Memorial Hospital, Sweetwater, Nolan, Texas
Cause of death: Cerebro-vascular accident
Gender: Female
Race or color (on document): White
Age at death: 79 years
Birth date: 14 Feb 1886
Birth place: Mason Co., Texas
Marital status: Widowed
Spouse name:
Father name: James A. Cate
Father birth place:
Mother name: Elize Jane Alsup
Mother birth place:
Occupation: Housewife
Residence: Pre. 4, Nolan, Texas
Cemetery name: Campbell Cemetery
Burial place: Nolan Co., Texas
Burial date: 27 May 1965
Informant: A. G. Craver, Jr.
Film number: 2117827
Digital GS number: 4028270
Image number: 2840
Reference number: 38983
Collection: Texas Deaths, 1890-1976
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From FIRST 100 YEARS NOLAN COUNTY TEXAS (published 1985 by Nolan County Genealogical Society), Page 362 and 363:
SOLOMON SLIGER
Elizabeth Sliger (1815-1891) came to Nolan County with her son, Solomon, and his family. On the way from Tennessee to Texas, her husband, Christopher Sliger, died and was buried somewhere along the wagon trail. Elizabeth lived with Solomon's family until her death.
Solomon Sliger (1833-1921) and his wife, Eliza Catherine Mansel Sliger (1851-1915), bought land near Hylton, Texas, in southeast Nolan County in 1901 and settled down to rear their five children and live out the remainder of their lives.
In 1854, Solomon Sliger, a young man of twenty, who was living with his family in Cookville, Tennessee, was stirred by the gold rush fever and set out to seek his fortune in California. He went by boat down the Cumberland River and the Mississippi River to New Orleans, Louisiana. He sailed from there to the Isthmus of Panama on the Pam Pedro ship which came from New York. He disembarked at the Isthmus of Panama and took a river boat part of the way, walked some, waded some, and rode a mule part of the way to reach the Pacific Ocean side of the Isthmus. There the passengers waited for an ocean ship to stop by and take them to San Francisco.
Solomon Sliger spent nine years in California, Oregon, and Idaho panning for gold, mining gold and ranching before returning overland to Tennessee through hostile Indian country.
Back home in Tennessee, he married Catherine Mansel about 1865. Then in 1892, this couple, their five chidlren and Solomon's mother, Elizabeth Sliger, moved to Bell County, Texas, where they lived for a few years, then on to northwest Runnels County for a short time before buying the Nolan County land. This land is part of that which is still known as the Sliger Place.
The Campbell Cemetery is adjacent to a corner of the land which is still in the Sliger family and now owned by the surviving granddaughter of Solomon and Catherine Sliger, Foye Sliger Craver, and her husband, A. G. Craver, Jr. Buried in the Campbell Cemetery are Solomon and his wife, Catherine; Solomon's mother, Elizabeth Sliger; Solomon and Catherine Sliger's oldest son, Henry Clayton Sliger; their youngest son, George Bailey Sliger and his wife Sina; and the older daughter of Bailey and Sina, Thelma Sliger.
BAILEY SLIGER
George Bailey Sliger (1882-1964) was the fourth child of five children born to Solomon and Catherine Sliger. There were four boys, Clayton, Amon, Lee, Bailey, and one girl, Ova Sliger Stevens.
When the family moved to Hylton, Texas, in Nolan County in 1901, Bailey was nineteen years old. He took an active part in the community. On Sunday afternoons, the favorite past-time was watching the Hylton baseball team play other teams from the nearby communities of Wingate and Ft. Chadbourne. Bailey was one of the main players.
He married Sina Cate on April 14, 1907. The ceremony was performed while the couple sat in a buggy a few miles east of Hylton near Shep, Texas. Getting married while sitting in a buggy seemed to be the popular thing to do at that time.
Bailey and Sina Sliger moved to the Sliger place in 1913 with their two girls, ages two years and one month, to care for his elderly parents. After the parents' death, Bailey obtained the inherited interest in the estate from his brothers and sister. With this as a nucleus, he and Sina added surrounding acreage to it over the years and continued to live there until their deaths.
Bailey was a seeker of knowledge. After his marriage, he attended school for a while, which was very unusual in those days. During his lifetime, he acquired quite a library, many of the books were of a religious nature.
He became a leader in the Hylton Church of Christ. As a lay preacher, he conducted summer revivals, many of them in Kimble County, near Ft. McKavett, Texas. During this time, he also operated the farm and ranch, which gradually became more and more a ranch instead of a farm. At one time, sheep took precedence over cows, but in later years, the cows won out and it became known as the Craver Bar A Angus Ranch.
Bailey's mother, Catherine, was a Baptist. It was after her death that his father, Solomon, became interested in Christianity. The following item from a religious newspaper has the date 1916:
Brother J. L. Allen writes from Wingate, Texas, date of June 4: "We have a good congregation at Shep, Texas. We number about fifty members. There are five good preachers in the congregation, and with a few exceptions, all the male members are able to read a chapter, and offer a word of exhortation to the audience. Last Sunday, we had one confession and baptism at our regular service. An old gentleman who has passed the four score mile post, was led by his youngest son, Brother G. B. Sliger, into the water and buried with his Lord in baptism. Brother Sliger is one of our Timothys."
Sina Frances Sliger (1886-1965) was one of nine children born to James A. Cate and his wife, Eliza Jane Alsup Cate, near Wagrum, Texas, in Mason County. James was a Confederate soldier during the Civil War. The family moved to Arkansas when Sina was six years old, stayed a short time, then moved back to Mason County where they lived until Sina was about eighteen years old. They then moved to Nolan County.
Sina was an industrious housewife and mother. Her home was the gathering place of the relatives from both sides of the family, and also the "home-away-from-home" for the visiting preachers and many times for their families, too.
Thelma Esther Sliger (1911-1966) was a career woman. She taught school at Valley Creek, Hylton, Highland and Blackwell before going to San Angelo as a teacher. For a number of years before her death, she was a counselor at Edison Junior High in San Angelo.
SLIGER-CRAVER
Gladys Foye Sliger, born in 1913, the younger of two daughters born to Bailey and Sina Sliger, grew to adulthood on the Sliger place. While teaching school at Divide High School, she met A. G. Craver, Jr., whose parents moved to Sweetwater from the Divide community. Foye and A. G. married December 25, 1938, in Nolan.
Following his release in 1943 from the United States Air Corps, Foye and A. G. lived for five years on the Sliger Place where they farmed and ranched. Their two daughters, Rosalind Ann and Linda Sue, were born during that time. Two of those years, A. G. was also principal of Blackwell High School.
Rosalind, born in 1944, married Judson Payne Shields on July 18, 1964. They have two children, Christopher Shields born in 1969 and Lynly Shields born in 1972.
Linda Sue, born in 1946, married Malcolm Nichols on January 22, 1965. They have two children, Marcus Nichols born in 1968 and Monica Nichols born in 1971.
Both girls live in Abilene, Texas. They are very fond of the Sliger Place for it has many happy memories for them. Vacations, weekends and outings are often spent there on the ranch. A. G. and Foye's four grandchildren, ages from twelve to sixteen at this writing, are proud of their Sliger heritage in southeast Nolan County at Hylton. They are the sixth generation of Texans from Elizabeth Sliger, wife of Christopher Sliger, who died on the way from Tennessee to Texas and was buried along the wagon trail.
Elizabeth did not want a fancy grave marker to mark her grave in the Campbell Cemetery because she said her husband and some of her children were buried in unmarked graves, wrapped only in a blanket, and laid in a shallow grave by the side of a road.
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Name: Sina Frances Sliger
Death date: 25 May 1965
Death place: Simmons Memorial Hospital, Sweetwater, Nolan, Texas
Cause of death: Cerebro-vascular accident
Gender: Female
Race or color (on document): White
Age at death: 79 years
Birth date: 14 Feb 1886
Birth place: Mason Co., Texas
Marital status: Widowed
Spouse name:
Father name: James A. Cate
Father birth place:
Mother name: Elize Jane Alsup
Mother birth place:
Occupation: Housewife
Residence: Pre. 4, Nolan, Texas
Cemetery name: Campbell Cemetery
Burial place: Nolan Co., Texas
Burial date: 27 May 1965
Informant: A. G. Craver, Jr.
Film number: 2117827
Digital GS number: 4028270
Image number: 2840
Reference number: 38983
Collection: Texas Deaths, 1890-1976
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From FIRST 100 YEARS NOLAN COUNTY TEXAS (published 1985 by Nolan County Genealogical Society), Page 362 and 363:
SOLOMON SLIGER
Elizabeth Sliger (1815-1891) came to Nolan County with her son, Solomon, and his family. On the way from Tennessee to Texas, her husband, Christopher Sliger, died and was buried somewhere along the wagon trail. Elizabeth lived with Solomon's family until her death.
Solomon Sliger (1833-1921) and his wife, Eliza Catherine Mansel Sliger (1851-1915), bought land near Hylton, Texas, in southeast Nolan County in 1901 and settled down to rear their five children and live out the remainder of their lives.
In 1854, Solomon Sliger, a young man of twenty, who was living with his family in Cookville, Tennessee, was stirred by the gold rush fever and set out to seek his fortune in California. He went by boat down the Cumberland River and the Mississippi River to New Orleans, Louisiana. He sailed from there to the Isthmus of Panama on the Pam Pedro ship which came from New York. He disembarked at the Isthmus of Panama and took a river boat part of the way, walked some, waded some, and rode a mule part of the way to reach the Pacific Ocean side of the Isthmus. There the passengers waited for an ocean ship to stop by and take them to San Francisco.
Solomon Sliger spent nine years in California, Oregon, and Idaho panning for gold, mining gold and ranching before returning overland to Tennessee through hostile Indian country.
Back home in Tennessee, he married Catherine Mansel about 1865. Then in 1892, this couple, their five chidlren and Solomon's mother, Elizabeth Sliger, moved to Bell County, Texas, where they lived for a few years, then on to northwest Runnels County for a short time before buying the Nolan County land. This land is part of that which is still known as the Sliger Place.
The Campbell Cemetery is adjacent to a corner of the land which is still in the Sliger family and now owned by the surviving granddaughter of Solomon and Catherine Sliger, Foye Sliger Craver, and her husband, A. G. Craver, Jr. Buried in the Campbell Cemetery are Solomon and his wife, Catherine; Solomon's mother, Elizabeth Sliger; Solomon and Catherine Sliger's oldest son, Henry Clayton Sliger; their youngest son, George Bailey Sliger and his wife Sina; and the older daughter of Bailey and Sina, Thelma Sliger.
BAILEY SLIGER
George Bailey Sliger (1882-1964) was the fourth child of five children born to Solomon and Catherine Sliger. There were four boys, Clayton, Amon, Lee, Bailey, and one girl, Ova Sliger Stevens.
When the family moved to Hylton, Texas, in Nolan County in 1901, Bailey was nineteen years old. He took an active part in the community. On Sunday afternoons, the favorite past-time was watching the Hylton baseball team play other teams from the nearby communities of Wingate and Ft. Chadbourne. Bailey was one of the main players.
He married Sina Cate on April 14, 1907. The ceremony was performed while the couple sat in a buggy a few miles east of Hylton near Shep, Texas. Getting married while sitting in a buggy seemed to be the popular thing to do at that time.
Bailey and Sina Sliger moved to the Sliger place in 1913 with their two girls, ages two years and one month, to care for his elderly parents. After the parents' death, Bailey obtained the inherited interest in the estate from his brothers and sister. With this as a nucleus, he and Sina added surrounding acreage to it over the years and continued to live there until their deaths.
Bailey was a seeker of knowledge. After his marriage, he attended school for a while, which was very unusual in those days. During his lifetime, he acquired quite a library, many of the books were of a religious nature.
He became a leader in the Hylton Church of Christ. As a lay preacher, he conducted summer revivals, many of them in Kimble County, near Ft. McKavett, Texas. During this time, he also operated the farm and ranch, which gradually became more and more a ranch instead of a farm. At one time, sheep took precedence over cows, but in later years, the cows won out and it became known as the Craver Bar A Angus Ranch.
Bailey's mother, Catherine, was a Baptist. It was after her death that his father, Solomon, became interested in Christianity. The following item from a religious newspaper has the date 1916:
Brother J. L. Allen writes from Wingate, Texas, date of June 4: "We have a good congregation at Shep, Texas. We number about fifty members. There are five good preachers in the congregation, and with a few exceptions, all the male members are able to read a chapter, and offer a word of exhortation to the audience. Last Sunday, we had one confession and baptism at our regular service. An old gentleman who has passed the four score mile post, was led by his youngest son, Brother G. B. Sliger, into the water and buried with his Lord in baptism. Brother Sliger is one of our Timothys."
Sina Frances Sliger (1886-1965) was one of nine children born to James A. Cate and his wife, Eliza Jane Alsup Cate, near Wagrum, Texas, in Mason County. James was a Confederate soldier during the Civil War. The family moved to Arkansas when Sina was six years old, stayed a short time, then moved back to Mason County where they lived until Sina was about eighteen years old. They then moved to Nolan County.
Sina was an industrious housewife and mother. Her home was the gathering place of the relatives from both sides of the family, and also the "home-away-from-home" for the visiting preachers and many times for their families, too.
Thelma Esther Sliger (1911-1966) was a career woman. She taught school at Valley Creek, Hylton, Highland and Blackwell before going to San Angelo as a teacher. For a number of years before her death, she was a counselor at Edison Junior High in San Angelo.
SLIGER-CRAVER
Gladys Foye Sliger, born in 1913, the younger of two daughters born to Bailey and Sina Sliger, grew to adulthood on the Sliger place. While teaching school at Divide High School, she met A. G. Craver, Jr., whose parents moved to Sweetwater from the Divide community. Foye and A. G. married December 25, 1938, in Nolan.
Following his release in 1943 from the United States Air Corps, Foye and A. G. lived for five years on the Sliger Place where they farmed and ranched. Their two daughters, Rosalind Ann and Linda Sue, were born during that time. Two of those years, A. G. was also principal of Blackwell High School.
Rosalind, born in 1944, married Judson Payne Shields on July 18, 1964. They have two children, Christopher Shields born in 1969 and Lynly Shields born in 1972.
Linda Sue, born in 1946, married Malcolm Nichols on January 22, 1965. They have two children, Marcus Nichols born in 1968 and Monica Nichols born in 1971.
Both girls live in Abilene, Texas. They are very fond of the Sliger Place for it has many happy memories for them. Vacations, weekends and outings are often spent there on the ranch. A. G. and Foye's four grandchildren, ages from twelve to sixteen at this writing, are proud of their Sliger heritage in southeast Nolan County at Hylton. They are the sixth generation of Texans from Elizabeth Sliger, wife of Christopher Sliger, who died on the way from Tennessee to Texas and was buried along the wagon trail.
Elizabeth did not want a fancy grave marker to mark her grave in the Campbell Cemetery because she said her husband and some of her children were buried in unmarked graves, wrapped only in a blanket, and laid in a shallow grave by the side of a road.
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