Joseph's father was James Endsley, Jr. and mother was Elizabeth Miller. He married Elender "Ellen" Cannon Neill and had several children.
The Endsley's at the time were wealthy and known as "aristocratic Georgians" after the Revolutionary War until the Civil War when so much property was burned and destroyed by Gen. Sherman from the Union Army.
Joseph Endsley, all of his children except William Pickney, along with his brother James and John, his sister Essena Neill and most of their families came to Texas in a covered wagon about 1858, down the route through Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana known today as Highway 80. The trip took six months to complete. The wagons were pulled by oxen. Joseph purchased a section of land (640 acres, one square mile) in the john C. Byers Survey. He also owned land just over the state line in Arkansas. Part of this survey's north line runs East and West through the present-day town of Bloomburg. The old home place was located one mile south of the present day Bloomburg. Much of the acreage he owned in the original section is still owned by many of his descendants.
Joseph farmed on his plantation and some of his descendants still continue with some type of part-time agriculture on this acreage.
Joseph was a deacon in the Macedonia church. He helped in obtaining the land for the purpose of building the church.
(History of Cass County People, By Cass County Genealogical Society, Atlanta Texas)
The Endsley's at the time were wealthy and known as "aristocratic Georgians" after the Revolutionary War until the Civil War when so much property was burned and destroyed by Gen. Sherman from the Union Army.
Joseph Endsley, all of his children except William Pickney, along with his brother James and John, his sister Essena Neill and most of their families came to Texas in a covered wagon about 1858, down the route through Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana known today as Highway 80. The trip took six months to complete. The wagons were pulled by oxen. Joseph purchased a section of land (640 acres, one square mile) in the john C. Byers Survey. He also owned land just over the state line in Arkansas. Part of this survey's north line runs East and West through the present-day town of Bloomburg. The old home place was located one mile south of the present day Bloomburg. Much of the acreage he owned in the original section is still owned by many of his descendants.
Joseph farmed on his plantation and some of his descendants still continue with some type of part-time agriculture on this acreage.
Joseph was a deacon in the Macedonia church. He helped in obtaining the land for the purpose of building the church.
(History of Cass County People, By Cass County Genealogical Society, Atlanta Texas)
Joseph's father was James Endsley, Jr. and mother was Elizabeth Miller. He married Elender "Ellen" Cannon Neill and had several children.
The Endsley's at the time were wealthy and known as "aristocratic Georgians" after the Revolutionary War until the Civil War when so much property was burned and destroyed by Gen. Sherman from the Union Army.
Joseph Endsley, all of his children except William Pickney, along with his brother James and John, his sister Essena Neill and most of their families came to Texas in a covered wagon about 1858, down the route through Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana known today as Highway 80. The trip took six months to complete. The wagons were pulled by oxen. Joseph purchased a section of land (640 acres, one square mile) in the john C. Byers Survey. He also owned land just over the state line in Arkansas. Part of this survey's north line runs East and West through the present-day town of Bloomburg. The old home place was located one mile south of the present day Bloomburg. Much of the acreage he owned in the original section is still owned by many of his descendants.
Joseph farmed on his plantation and some of his descendants still continue with some type of part-time agriculture on this acreage.
Joseph was a deacon in the Macedonia church. He helped in obtaining the land for the purpose of building the church.
(History of Cass County People, By Cass County Genealogical Society, Atlanta Texas)
The Endsley's at the time were wealthy and known as "aristocratic Georgians" after the Revolutionary War until the Civil War when so much property was burned and destroyed by Gen. Sherman from the Union Army.
Joseph Endsley, all of his children except William Pickney, along with his brother James and John, his sister Essena Neill and most of their families came to Texas in a covered wagon about 1858, down the route through Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana known today as Highway 80. The trip took six months to complete. The wagons were pulled by oxen. Joseph purchased a section of land (640 acres, one square mile) in the john C. Byers Survey. He also owned land just over the state line in Arkansas. Part of this survey's north line runs East and West through the present-day town of Bloomburg. The old home place was located one mile south of the present day Bloomburg. Much of the acreage he owned in the original section is still owned by many of his descendants.
Joseph farmed on his plantation and some of his descendants still continue with some type of part-time agriculture on this acreage.
Joseph was a deacon in the Macedonia church. He helped in obtaining the land for the purpose of building the church.
(History of Cass County People, By Cass County Genealogical Society, Atlanta Texas)
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