Her husband was Moses Tullis Senior and preceded her in death so she left Jamestown Louisiana for Texas to be near her daughter and other Family.
Sparta/James town, Bienville Parish Louisiana, USA
She was born in Muscogee Georgia, Martha is the eldest daughter, though some records show her as a Maddox, Mariah & Moses were married long before Martha's birth, so Mariah maiden name is Maddox and all her children are Tullis. Her middle name is Hawkins and she appears to be of Native American decent.
James M. Tullis buried in Sparta was the eldest son, as such, he would have received all of the holdings when his father passed. She was a widow without the right of women's suffrage, unable to own or hold property and was dependent on the family.
The McGlaun/Tullis family left Louisiana, 1872-73, moving to Robertson County, Texas, and establishing a cotton gin and gristmill at Wooten Wells. Later, the family moved to Nesbitt, Texas (see Beck Prairie Cemetery) where Jimmy McGlaun father, Edmond McGlaun owned and operated two cotton gins and 2000 acres of land. Mariah moved with her oldest daughter and the McGlaun Family leaving James Tullis in charge of his father's estate in Bienville. The Tullis family were also of Noble blood, descending from Sarah Grey Roddam, a royal line, the Tullis were Scottish and English. Sir Ralph Grey was Sarah's Paternal Grandfather. Colonel Mathew Roddam was her father.
Bienville was a Jesuit Missionary stronghold. Many were attracted by the freedom of religion they offered and promise of land across the Mississippi. After the civil war, a Greek revival swept the Bienville area.
Many of Indian decent were welcomed west of the Mississippi, in Northern Louisiana/Arkansas Territory. Please note that Northern Louisiana was considered Indian Territory prior to the Civil War.
French Louisiana is Southern & Georgia, though home was no longer allowed us prior to the civil war for those of mixed blood, unless you lived in the Appalachia area and could hide in the hills, hence the phrase "I'm heading for the hills", meaning to escape danger.
Interestingly enough, Moses Tullis has a Land Lottery certificate himself. they were only provided in Georgia for Native American descendants who were head of the family and participated in the Census of Native Americans prior to the Indian Removal Act.
Though this provided citizenship in the USA and the right to own land, it also made people of Native descent answerable to United States law. As members of the 5 tribes of the Indian Nation, the laws of the United States could not be enforced on its citizens without violation of its Sovereignty, unless a Native citizen or descendant chose to become a citizen of the USA.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appalachia
https://www.loc.gov/resource/g3200m.gct00074/
Below is a story about Jimmy McGlaun (Grandson) related to Mariah'S eldest daughter's Martha Family:
Jimmy McGlaun married Laura Emma Thweatt, 1 June 1882, in Robertson County, where they resided for the first years of their married life. They had five children: Velma Paquita, Della Pearl, Cora Olive, Lila Mae, and Dr Carl Edmond McGlaun.
For a short while, Jimmy was employed by a railroad in San Antonio, Texas. He then farmed and operated a gin in Lavaca County, Texas, for several years. The Storm of 1900 played havoc with Jimmy's financial condition as all crops were a total loss with the exception of watermelons. The next two years the weather was not conducive to a good crop yield and he barely broke even, so it was decided that he would seek gainful employment at the boomtown Guffey, Texas (later known as Spindletop).
Jimmy arrived in Guffey in June 1903 and first worked as a roustabout and then as a roughneck. Laura and the children didn't join him until January of the next year. He became a fireman for the Yount-Lee Oil Company. He not only fired boilers at the derrick, but also fired six or eight at the boiler house to supply energy for the pump house. He worked twelve-hour shifts. There were only two shifts a day and he worked seven days a week. Laura operated a small boarding house, renting the upstairs of their home to men who came to work in the oilfield. The teenage daughters assisted their mother in the preparation and serving of meals when they were not attending school. The boarding house was operated until 1909.
Their daughters each met and married their husbands at Guffey, but they and their families had all moved away by 1911. Jimmy and Laura continued to live in Guffey until 1916 when they bought their home on the corner of Brandon and Essex in Beaumont Driving Park Addition (now South Park).
Jimmy McGlaun died, 20 February 1934, aged 71, and was buried with his wife at Magnolia Cemetery in Beaumont.
Sparta/James town, Bienville Parish Louisiana, USA
She was born in Muscogee Georgia, Martha is the eldest daughter, though some records show her as a Maddox, Mariah & Moses were married long before Martha's birth, so Mariah maiden name is Maddox and all her children are Tullis. Her middle name is Hawkins and she appears to be of Native American decent.
James M. Tullis buried in Sparta was the eldest son, as such, he would have received all of the holdings when his father passed. She was a widow without the right of women's suffrage, unable to own or hold property and was dependent on the family.
The McGlaun/Tullis family left Louisiana, 1872-73, moving to Robertson County, Texas, and establishing a cotton gin and gristmill at Wooten Wells. Later, the family moved to Nesbitt, Texas (see Beck Prairie Cemetery) where Jimmy McGlaun father, Edmond McGlaun owned and operated two cotton gins and 2000 acres of land. Mariah moved with her oldest daughter and the McGlaun Family leaving James Tullis in charge of his father's estate in Bienville. The Tullis family were also of Noble blood, descending from Sarah Grey Roddam, a royal line, the Tullis were Scottish and English. Sir Ralph Grey was Sarah's Paternal Grandfather. Colonel Mathew Roddam was her father.
Bienville was a Jesuit Missionary stronghold. Many were attracted by the freedom of religion they offered and promise of land across the Mississippi. After the civil war, a Greek revival swept the Bienville area.
Many of Indian decent were welcomed west of the Mississippi, in Northern Louisiana/Arkansas Territory. Please note that Northern Louisiana was considered Indian Territory prior to the Civil War.
French Louisiana is Southern & Georgia, though home was no longer allowed us prior to the civil war for those of mixed blood, unless you lived in the Appalachia area and could hide in the hills, hence the phrase "I'm heading for the hills", meaning to escape danger.
Interestingly enough, Moses Tullis has a Land Lottery certificate himself. they were only provided in Georgia for Native American descendants who were head of the family and participated in the Census of Native Americans prior to the Indian Removal Act.
Though this provided citizenship in the USA and the right to own land, it also made people of Native descent answerable to United States law. As members of the 5 tribes of the Indian Nation, the laws of the United States could not be enforced on its citizens without violation of its Sovereignty, unless a Native citizen or descendant chose to become a citizen of the USA.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appalachia
https://www.loc.gov/resource/g3200m.gct00074/
Below is a story about Jimmy McGlaun (Grandson) related to Mariah'S eldest daughter's Martha Family:
Jimmy McGlaun married Laura Emma Thweatt, 1 June 1882, in Robertson County, where they resided for the first years of their married life. They had five children: Velma Paquita, Della Pearl, Cora Olive, Lila Mae, and Dr Carl Edmond McGlaun.
For a short while, Jimmy was employed by a railroad in San Antonio, Texas. He then farmed and operated a gin in Lavaca County, Texas, for several years. The Storm of 1900 played havoc with Jimmy's financial condition as all crops were a total loss with the exception of watermelons. The next two years the weather was not conducive to a good crop yield and he barely broke even, so it was decided that he would seek gainful employment at the boomtown Guffey, Texas (later known as Spindletop).
Jimmy arrived in Guffey in June 1903 and first worked as a roustabout and then as a roughneck. Laura and the children didn't join him until January of the next year. He became a fireman for the Yount-Lee Oil Company. He not only fired boilers at the derrick, but also fired six or eight at the boiler house to supply energy for the pump house. He worked twelve-hour shifts. There were only two shifts a day and he worked seven days a week. Laura operated a small boarding house, renting the upstairs of their home to men who came to work in the oilfield. The teenage daughters assisted their mother in the preparation and serving of meals when they were not attending school. The boarding house was operated until 1909.
Their daughters each met and married their husbands at Guffey, but they and their families had all moved away by 1911. Jimmy and Laura continued to live in Guffey until 1916 when they bought their home on the corner of Brandon and Essex in Beaumont Driving Park Addition (now South Park).
Jimmy McGlaun died, 20 February 1934, aged 71, and was buried with his wife at Magnolia Cemetery in Beaumont.
Her husband was Moses Tullis Senior and preceded her in death so she left Jamestown Louisiana for Texas to be near her daughter and other Family.
Sparta/James town, Bienville Parish Louisiana, USA
She was born in Muscogee Georgia, Martha is the eldest daughter, though some records show her as a Maddox, Mariah & Moses were married long before Martha's birth, so Mariah maiden name is Maddox and all her children are Tullis. Her middle name is Hawkins and she appears to be of Native American decent.
James M. Tullis buried in Sparta was the eldest son, as such, he would have received all of the holdings when his father passed. She was a widow without the right of women's suffrage, unable to own or hold property and was dependent on the family.
The McGlaun/Tullis family left Louisiana, 1872-73, moving to Robertson County, Texas, and establishing a cotton gin and gristmill at Wooten Wells. Later, the family moved to Nesbitt, Texas (see Beck Prairie Cemetery) where Jimmy McGlaun father, Edmond McGlaun owned and operated two cotton gins and 2000 acres of land. Mariah moved with her oldest daughter and the McGlaun Family leaving James Tullis in charge of his father's estate in Bienville. The Tullis family were also of Noble blood, descending from Sarah Grey Roddam, a royal line, the Tullis were Scottish and English. Sir Ralph Grey was Sarah's Paternal Grandfather. Colonel Mathew Roddam was her father.
Bienville was a Jesuit Missionary stronghold. Many were attracted by the freedom of religion they offered and promise of land across the Mississippi. After the civil war, a Greek revival swept the Bienville area.
Many of Indian decent were welcomed west of the Mississippi, in Northern Louisiana/Arkansas Territory. Please note that Northern Louisiana was considered Indian Territory prior to the Civil War.
French Louisiana is Southern & Georgia, though home was no longer allowed us prior to the civil war for those of mixed blood, unless you lived in the Appalachia area and could hide in the hills, hence the phrase "I'm heading for the hills", meaning to escape danger.
Interestingly enough, Moses Tullis has a Land Lottery certificate himself. they were only provided in Georgia for Native American descendants who were head of the family and participated in the Census of Native Americans prior to the Indian Removal Act.
Though this provided citizenship in the USA and the right to own land, it also made people of Native descent answerable to United States law. As members of the 5 tribes of the Indian Nation, the laws of the United States could not be enforced on its citizens without violation of its Sovereignty, unless a Native citizen or descendant chose to become a citizen of the USA.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appalachia
https://www.loc.gov/resource/g3200m.gct00074/
Below is a story about Jimmy McGlaun (Grandson) related to Mariah'S eldest daughter's Martha Family:
Jimmy McGlaun married Laura Emma Thweatt, 1 June 1882, in Robertson County, where they resided for the first years of their married life. They had five children: Velma Paquita, Della Pearl, Cora Olive, Lila Mae, and Dr Carl Edmond McGlaun.
For a short while, Jimmy was employed by a railroad in San Antonio, Texas. He then farmed and operated a gin in Lavaca County, Texas, for several years. The Storm of 1900 played havoc with Jimmy's financial condition as all crops were a total loss with the exception of watermelons. The next two years the weather was not conducive to a good crop yield and he barely broke even, so it was decided that he would seek gainful employment at the boomtown Guffey, Texas (later known as Spindletop).
Jimmy arrived in Guffey in June 1903 and first worked as a roustabout and then as a roughneck. Laura and the children didn't join him until January of the next year. He became a fireman for the Yount-Lee Oil Company. He not only fired boilers at the derrick, but also fired six or eight at the boiler house to supply energy for the pump house. He worked twelve-hour shifts. There were only two shifts a day and he worked seven days a week. Laura operated a small boarding house, renting the upstairs of their home to men who came to work in the oilfield. The teenage daughters assisted their mother in the preparation and serving of meals when they were not attending school. The boarding house was operated until 1909.
Their daughters each met and married their husbands at Guffey, but they and their families had all moved away by 1911. Jimmy and Laura continued to live in Guffey until 1916 when they bought their home on the corner of Brandon and Essex in Beaumont Driving Park Addition (now South Park).
Jimmy McGlaun died, 20 February 1934, aged 71, and was buried with his wife at Magnolia Cemetery in Beaumont.
Sparta/James town, Bienville Parish Louisiana, USA
She was born in Muscogee Georgia, Martha is the eldest daughter, though some records show her as a Maddox, Mariah & Moses were married long before Martha's birth, so Mariah maiden name is Maddox and all her children are Tullis. Her middle name is Hawkins and she appears to be of Native American decent.
James M. Tullis buried in Sparta was the eldest son, as such, he would have received all of the holdings when his father passed. She was a widow without the right of women's suffrage, unable to own or hold property and was dependent on the family.
The McGlaun/Tullis family left Louisiana, 1872-73, moving to Robertson County, Texas, and establishing a cotton gin and gristmill at Wooten Wells. Later, the family moved to Nesbitt, Texas (see Beck Prairie Cemetery) where Jimmy McGlaun father, Edmond McGlaun owned and operated two cotton gins and 2000 acres of land. Mariah moved with her oldest daughter and the McGlaun Family leaving James Tullis in charge of his father's estate in Bienville. The Tullis family were also of Noble blood, descending from Sarah Grey Roddam, a royal line, the Tullis were Scottish and English. Sir Ralph Grey was Sarah's Paternal Grandfather. Colonel Mathew Roddam was her father.
Bienville was a Jesuit Missionary stronghold. Many were attracted by the freedom of religion they offered and promise of land across the Mississippi. After the civil war, a Greek revival swept the Bienville area.
Many of Indian decent were welcomed west of the Mississippi, in Northern Louisiana/Arkansas Territory. Please note that Northern Louisiana was considered Indian Territory prior to the Civil War.
French Louisiana is Southern & Georgia, though home was no longer allowed us prior to the civil war for those of mixed blood, unless you lived in the Appalachia area and could hide in the hills, hence the phrase "I'm heading for the hills", meaning to escape danger.
Interestingly enough, Moses Tullis has a Land Lottery certificate himself. they were only provided in Georgia for Native American descendants who were head of the family and participated in the Census of Native Americans prior to the Indian Removal Act.
Though this provided citizenship in the USA and the right to own land, it also made people of Native descent answerable to United States law. As members of the 5 tribes of the Indian Nation, the laws of the United States could not be enforced on its citizens without violation of its Sovereignty, unless a Native citizen or descendant chose to become a citizen of the USA.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appalachia
https://www.loc.gov/resource/g3200m.gct00074/
Below is a story about Jimmy McGlaun (Grandson) related to Mariah'S eldest daughter's Martha Family:
Jimmy McGlaun married Laura Emma Thweatt, 1 June 1882, in Robertson County, where they resided for the first years of their married life. They had five children: Velma Paquita, Della Pearl, Cora Olive, Lila Mae, and Dr Carl Edmond McGlaun.
For a short while, Jimmy was employed by a railroad in San Antonio, Texas. He then farmed and operated a gin in Lavaca County, Texas, for several years. The Storm of 1900 played havoc with Jimmy's financial condition as all crops were a total loss with the exception of watermelons. The next two years the weather was not conducive to a good crop yield and he barely broke even, so it was decided that he would seek gainful employment at the boomtown Guffey, Texas (later known as Spindletop).
Jimmy arrived in Guffey in June 1903 and first worked as a roustabout and then as a roughneck. Laura and the children didn't join him until January of the next year. He became a fireman for the Yount-Lee Oil Company. He not only fired boilers at the derrick, but also fired six or eight at the boiler house to supply energy for the pump house. He worked twelve-hour shifts. There were only two shifts a day and he worked seven days a week. Laura operated a small boarding house, renting the upstairs of their home to men who came to work in the oilfield. The teenage daughters assisted their mother in the preparation and serving of meals when they were not attending school. The boarding house was operated until 1909.
Their daughters each met and married their husbands at Guffey, but they and their families had all moved away by 1911. Jimmy and Laura continued to live in Guffey until 1916 when they bought their home on the corner of Brandon and Essex in Beaumont Driving Park Addition (now South Park).
Jimmy McGlaun died, 20 February 1934, aged 71, and was buried with his wife at Magnolia Cemetery in Beaumont.
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