He was a Commanche Indian scout for the Confederate Army of Texas,
He was a Texas Ranger, and then later ran for judge in Eddy County
and won the election with 1,111 which was the total population at that
time in Eddy County, New Mexico. I have his Confederate Index and also
the copy of the time he spent in the Texas Rangers in my possession.
A marriage license was issued to him and Rachel Adeline Fanning on
3 July 1866 by H. Oakes, County Clerk in Gillespie County, Texas, and Betty Bass has a copy of the marriage certificate in her possession.
He was a member of the Odd Fellows Lodge in Carlsbad, Eddy, New Mexico.
From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996.
On 3 June, 1878, he bought 76 acres from his brother-in-law, Joseph T. Fanning.
He did the surveying of these tracts of land which was accepted by the County
authorities.
He was owner of land with one acre tilled or in pasture. He had 8 horses and
1200 head of sheep. He clipped 1200 fleeces that weighed 6000 pounds.
In four plats dated from 1879 to 1882, which constitutes the Seven Rivers area,
extending west from the Pecos River we find only six homesites within three to
six miles of each other in the whole valley, there was no village. Not until
the arrival of the wagon train on 22 September 1880, there was enough people
there to form a village, much less a wild west cow town. George Larramore, Joe
Fanning, Joe Woods, Will Nelson, Marion Burleson, Ed Peril, Dick Turknett,
Howard Henderson, Levi Watson, Charlie and Buster Gambel and their families all
arrived in September of 1880.
The beginning of the Village of Seven Rivers happened when Frank Rheinboldt
bought the adobe store from Captain Sansom. At some point between 1880 and
March of 1882, Captain Sansom built a four room adobe house on the bank of
South Seven Rivers on the south side. Rheinboldt bought the house and described
the location very well. "Our next camp was Seven Rivers. We arrived there March
27, 1882. There was only one store. . . and it was owned by Captain Sansom. It
was a general merchandise store, postoffice and saloon combined. The only
building there at all was this store, . . . There was a prairie all around the
store. The name Seven Rivers came from seven springs each forming a stream that
emptied into the main channel and then into the Pecos. The main stream ran
right by the store. . . Along the streams there were several settlers." This
description certainly verifies that there was no village there in 1882.
However, by 1884, as revealed by newspaper, GOLDEN ERA from WHITE OAKS, 10
April 1884, quoting in part, ". . . except a little excusable pride in the
improvements which are making rapid strides about this locality. Rheinboldt and
Maerlin have laid out a town, recently near the mouth of Seven Rivers.
Buildings are being erected and merchants . . . Mrs. Rebecca Stafford keeps a
most excellent restaurant and boarding house within a hundred yards of the
stores.We have no less than four blacksmiths amongst us. Two are established
near the center, one Mr. Krueger five miles west and W.H. Jones has a
blacksmith and wagon shop two miles north of town." If the Jones Home, store
saloon and blacksmith shop was two miles from Rheinboldt's store in 1882, he
could be justified in saying, . . ."There was a prairie all around. He thus
started the second settlement of Seven Rivers and by 1884 the village was
becoming a reality.
On the 1885 census John Northern and Joseph J. Fanning owns the only named
saloon in Seven Rivers and John H. Havens is a blacksmith, Joseph Wood is the
Deputy Sheriff.
Betty Bass has in her possession a copy of the following legal document. Here is how it reads:
TERRITORY OF NEW MEXICO ) Office of Justice of the Peace
COUNTY OF LINCOLN ) Precinct No. 5, Lincoln Co.
This is to certify that I have this day, to do it--the 24th day of June, A. D., 1885, appointed and do by these presents do appoint Walter H. Paddleford as special Constable, to serve any legal process or any legal instruments issued by me, and delivered to the said Special Constable for service within Precinct No. 14, or any other Precinct within the said County of Lincoln, when requested or when his duty may call upon him to serve outside of said Precinct No. 14.
Given under my hand on this the
24th day of June, A. D., 1885
GEORGE W. LARREMORE
Justice of the Peace
Precinct No. 5
Lincoln County, New Mexico
From the Carlsbad, New Mexico newspaper, CARLSBAD ARGUS, dated June 18, 1909,
the obituary for George Washington Larremore reads as follows:
Judge George W. Larremore died at his home, in the northwest part of the
city, last Saturday evening, of cancer and was buried Sunday afternoon in the
City Cemetery.
"Uncle George" as he was familiarly known to the majority of the citizens
of Carlsbad, was one of the old citizens in this part of the valley and had
until the past few months, enjoyed robust health. He was born in Arkansas, 69
years ago and removed from there to Texas in the early 1840's. In 1880 he
became imbued with the western spirit and migrated to the Pecos Valley,
settling on a tract of land in the 7'River county, about 20 miles northwest of
Carlsbad, which is still known as the "Ol Larremore Place". About 6 years ago
(1903) he moved to a farm near Malaga, where he continued to live until this
past winter (1908-1909), when, on account of his failing health, he came to
Carlsbad to receive medical attention. Last year he announced his candidacy for
probate judge of Eddy County and his popularity with his home people was most
graciously shown by the large majority which was given him when the votes were
counted--the largest majority ever given a candidate of any office in Eddy
County. (note: 1,111 votes were cast and George W. Larremore received all 1,111
votes)
Last October, cancer of the face developed and he immediately sought
treatment, but to no avail. It stubbornly refused to yield to the most rigorous
treatment, and early this spring he underwent an operation which it was thought
would check if not cure the trouble, but such was not the case, and last
Saturday night it claimed him for its victim.
The deceased leaves a wife and 4 children to mourn his death. They are
Mrs. George W. Larremore, his wife, Mrs. Alice Hellyer, C. W. Larremore, J. M.
Larremore, and Mrs. Dora Bass, all of whom were at his bedside when the end
came.
The funeral services were held last Sunday afternoon, from his late home,
conducted by IOOF, of which he was a member. The remains were laid to rest in
the IOOF's reserve in the City Cemetery.
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On the 1870 census for Gillespie County, Texas, Post Office is Fredericksburg, Pedernals Settlement, taken August 17, 1870, page 340, family 487, you will find George Larremore enumerated with R. L. McDonald.
On the 1880 census for Kimble County, Texas, Precinct 4, Family History Library film 1255314, National Archives film T9-1314, page 275c, you will find:
George Larremore age-39 sheep raiser born-Arkansas
Rachel (wife) 31 Keeping house Illinois
Mary J. (dau) 12 at home Texas
Elisebeth A. (dau) 11 at home Texas
Queney J. (dau) 9Texas
Creed (son) 8Texas
Martin (son) 6Texas
Samuel L. Fanning (cousin) 25 at home Illinois
Phebe B. Fanning (sister-in-law) 19 at home Illinois
Mary A. Fanning (mother-in-law) 51 at home Illinois
Joseph T. Fanning (brother-in-law) 30 raising sheep Illinois
George Rayeley (other) 30 sheep herder Illinois
On the 1885 census for Lincoln County Territory of New Mexico in Seven Rivers, Precinct 7, family 112, you will find:
George Larrimore age-45 stock raising born-Arkansas
Adeline 37 Illinois
Alice 16 in school Texas
Queeny 15 in school Texas
Creed 13 in school Texas
Martin 10 in school Texas
On the 1885 Agriculture Census for Lincoln County, New Mexico, it shows Sheepman #97--George Larrimore owner of land with 1 acre tilled or pasture. He had 8 horses and 1200 head of sheep, and he clipped 1200 fleeces that weighed 6,000 pounds.
On the 1900 census of Eddy County, New Mexico, Prec. 4, page 23, line or family
41, it shows:
Larremore, George 60 farmer/husband born-Arkansas
Rachel 50 wife Illinois
John M 23 son Texas
Dora 15 daughter New Mexico
On the 1885 census for Black River, upper Black River, Pierce's Canyon, Seven
Rivers, and South Spring Creek, near Roswell, New Mexico,and covering Eddy
County, New Mexico, Precinct 14 & 2, there is a Carmen Larrimore, male, 57
years old, employee/farmer single, born-Kentucky, and his mother and father was
also born in Kentucky. He is listed as being in the household of Walter and
William J. Chisum household. Also on the 1880 census of Lincoln County, New
Mexico, family no. 13, you will find Cornell/Cornelius Larimore, age-50 years
old, employee, single, works on farm and was born in Kentucky. Apparently there
is a relationship to George Washington Larremore, might be cousins, but have
not been able to find the relation as of yet. Hopefully, it will eventually
surface.
Carmen Larremore is suppose to have been buried in the Seven Rivers Cemetery,
but no trace of the grave as yet been found. Seven Rivers is in Eddy County,
New Mexico.
GEORGE WASHINGTON LARREMORE was captured at Fort DeRussey, Louisiana, on March 14, 1864 during the Civil War.
George Washington Larremore was on the muster roll at Camp Terry, Louisiana, and that was known as THE RED RIVER CAMPAIGN: March-May 1864. Here is some info about the Red River Campaign:
In early March, President Abraham Lincoln named Ulysses S. Grant general-in-chief and promoted him to the rank of Lieutenant General. Grant's strategy was to press the Confederacy on all fronts so that its armies could not reinforce each other. His orders for US Major General George Gordon Meade, commander of the Army of the Potomac, were to go after Cs General Robert E. Lee's army. US Major General William Tecumseh Sherman was to brak up Cs General Joseph E. Johnston's army and damage the Confederacy's war resources in Georgia. Grant brought US Major General Philip H. Sheridan east to lead Meade's cavalry. He ordered the navy to tighten the blockade while Us Major General Benjamin F. Butler's Army of the James moved up and cut the railroad that supplied the capital. US Major General Nathaniel Prentiss Banks was to attack Mobile after driving up the Red River in Louisiana and capturing Shreveport while US Major General Franz Sigel took control of the Shenandoah Valley.
During the second week of March one of the largest amphibious forces ever assembled on the Mississippi River set out from Vicksburg against CS General E. Kirby Smith's Trans-Mississippi Department in Shreveport. The 50,000 men and sixty warships and transports were under the joint command of Banks and USN Rear Admiral David D. Porter. US Major General William B. Franklin's XIII and XIX Corps headed toward Shreveport via Berwick Bay and Bayou Teche; Porter's fleet and 10,000 men of the XVI and XVII Corps from the Army of the Tennessee under US Brigadier General A. J. Smith headed up the Red River. On March 23 another 8,500 men under US Major General Frederick Steele marched from Little Rock to link up with Banks at Shreveport.
Smith's forces disembarked at Simmersport on March 12. Thirty miles farther they approached Fort DeRussey, a fortification partially plated with iron to resist Federal fire from ironclads on the river. On the thirteenth, Smith's troops dispersed a Confederate brigade, clearing the way to the fort. When the Union forces arrived before Fort DeRussey the next day, the 350-man Confederate garrison opened fire. While Porter's gunboats bombarded the fort from the river, Smith sent US Brigadier General Joseph A. Mower's division to take the fort from the rear. Mower's troops scaled the walls that evening and forced the Confederates to surrender. The fall of Fort DeRussey opened the Red River to Alexandria, which the Federals occupied on March 16, 1864.
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Military Record: Confederate States of America (CSA), (Card 1) Private George Larimore, Capt. Seth Mabry's Company, Allen's Reg't Texas Infantry, age: 21 years. Appears on Company Muster Roll for April 4 to December 31, 1862, joined for duty and enrolled: when: April 14, 1862, where: Virginia Point, by whom: Capt. Kirby, period: war, and was present. (Card 2) Private G. W. Laremore, Capt. Seth Mabry's Company, Allen's Regiment Texas Infantry. Age 19 years. Appears on Company Muster Roll for April 4 to June 30, 1862, enrolled May 27, 1862, where: Camp Terry, by whom: Seth Mabry, mustered into service: when: April 14, 1862, where: Camp Terry, by whom: Col. Kirby, last paid: has received no pay, and was present. (Card 3) Private George Larimore, Capt. Seth Mabry's Company, Allen's Reg't Texas Infantry. Age 21 years. Appears on Company Muster Roll dated October 31, 1862, joined for duty on April 14, 1862, where: Virginia Point, by whom: Col. Kirby, period: for the war, and was present. (Card 4) Private Geo. W. Larrimore, Co. E, 17 Regiment Texas Infantry appears on Company Muster Roll dated for January and February 1864. Joined for duty: April 4, 1862, where: Galveston, by whom: E. Kirby, period: war, last paid by D. D. Rosborough on August 31, 1863, and was present. (Card 5) Private G. W. Larremore, Co. E, 17th Reg't Texas Infantry appears on Company Muster Roll for July and August, 1863, enlisted: April 4, 1862, where:Hempsteas, by whom: Maj. Reily, period: war, last paid to what time: April 30, 1863, and was present. (Card 6) Private G. W. Larimore, Co. E, Allen's Reg't Texas Infantry appears on Company Muster roll for January and February, 1863, joined: April 4, 1862, where: Camp Terry, by whom: R.T.P. Allen, period: war, last paid by: D.D. Rosborough, to what time: October 31, 1863, last paid by D. D. Rosborough, to what time: October 31, 1863, and was present. (Card 7) Private G. W. Larimore, 17 Texas Regiment appears on a roll of Prisoners of War transferred from New Orleans, Louisiana, and exchanged at Red River Landing, July 22, 1864. Roll dated Office Commissary of Prisoners, Department of the Gulf, N. Orleans, Louisiana, July 31, 1864, where captured: Fort De Russy, when captured: March 14, 1864. (Card 8) Private G. W. Larrimore, 17 Texas Regiment appears on a Roll of Prisoners of War at New Orleans, Louisiana. Roll dated Office of Commissary of Prisoners, Department of the Gulf, New Orleans, Louisiana, July 7, 1864, where captured: Fort De Russy, when captured: March 14, 1864. (Card 9) Private G. W. Larrimore, Co. E. 17 Regiment Texas appears on a Roll of Prisoners of War captured at Fort De Russy, Louisiana, March 14, 1864; confined at New Orleans, Louisiana, March 20, 1864, roll dated: not dated, where captured: Fort De Russy, when captured March 14, 1864. (Ref: Betty Bass has in her possession a copy of the above military record for George Washington Larremore).
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Betty Bass has in her possession a copy of a story told by GEORGE WASHINGTON LARREMORE. Here is how it reads:
"They were camped there somewhere, I don't know where, and they heard this master whipping his slave, and Geore Washington Larremore was cussing. He said they had been so hungry. They were in the south, deep south, and they came to this place a few days before and asked for something to eat, and "The people said 'We have nothing to eat', and we were standing there in the yard and I was just scraping the dirt with my foot (boot?), and dreckly I saw this square. It was just as black as the ground. I picked it up, and it was a piece of cornbread. I cut all the sides off of it and ate that, and I never ate anything better than that."
But anyway, this night they were camped and could hear this nigger. "Pray 'n mars (pray 'n march? prayin marster?)" and the licks, and George Washington Larremore said "I hope to God it rains Yankees before morning". They were sitting around this campfire, and he just kept cussing, and the others said "George, you'd better shut up. You're gonna be court-martialed". He said "I don't give a damn if I am. I hope it rains Yankees before morning"......and it (rained Yankees before morning, and they were taken in).
Anyway, George Washington Larremore was a prisoner quite a long while, and they all got sick. When he was released, he finally went out in the country, and just laid under a tree........"
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In the autum of 1880, J. W. Turkett, who was an ex-Texas Ranger and Indian fighter, along with Edward Peril, George Larremore, J. T. (Joseph Thomas) Fanning and Marion Burleson drove their herds of cattle (about 1,800 head) from Kerr County, Texas to the Pecos Valley. The following spring all of the cattle was sold. After the sale, Mr. J. W. Turkett along with George Larremore, J. T. (Joseph Thomas) Fanning and Marion Burleson returned to Texas. All of those men made eventual settlement in the Pecos Valley which is located in Eddy County, New Mexico.
He was a Texas Ranger, and then later ran for judge in Eddy County
and won the election with 1,111 which was the total population at that
time in Eddy County, New Mexico. I have his Confederate Index and also
the copy of the time he spent in the Texas Rangers in my possession.
A marriage license was issued to him and Rachel Adeline Fanning on
3 July 1866 by H. Oakes, County Clerk in Gillespie County, Texas, and Betty Bass has a copy of the marriage certificate in her possession.
He was a member of the Odd Fellows Lodge in Carlsbad, Eddy, New Mexico.
From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996.
On 3 June, 1878, he bought 76 acres from his brother-in-law, Joseph T. Fanning.
He did the surveying of these tracts of land which was accepted by the County
authorities.
He was owner of land with one acre tilled or in pasture. He had 8 horses and
1200 head of sheep. He clipped 1200 fleeces that weighed 6000 pounds.
In four plats dated from 1879 to 1882, which constitutes the Seven Rivers area,
extending west from the Pecos River we find only six homesites within three to
six miles of each other in the whole valley, there was no village. Not until
the arrival of the wagon train on 22 September 1880, there was enough people
there to form a village, much less a wild west cow town. George Larramore, Joe
Fanning, Joe Woods, Will Nelson, Marion Burleson, Ed Peril, Dick Turknett,
Howard Henderson, Levi Watson, Charlie and Buster Gambel and their families all
arrived in September of 1880.
The beginning of the Village of Seven Rivers happened when Frank Rheinboldt
bought the adobe store from Captain Sansom. At some point between 1880 and
March of 1882, Captain Sansom built a four room adobe house on the bank of
South Seven Rivers on the south side. Rheinboldt bought the house and described
the location very well. "Our next camp was Seven Rivers. We arrived there March
27, 1882. There was only one store. . . and it was owned by Captain Sansom. It
was a general merchandise store, postoffice and saloon combined. The only
building there at all was this store, . . . There was a prairie all around the
store. The name Seven Rivers came from seven springs each forming a stream that
emptied into the main channel and then into the Pecos. The main stream ran
right by the store. . . Along the streams there were several settlers." This
description certainly verifies that there was no village there in 1882.
However, by 1884, as revealed by newspaper, GOLDEN ERA from WHITE OAKS, 10
April 1884, quoting in part, ". . . except a little excusable pride in the
improvements which are making rapid strides about this locality. Rheinboldt and
Maerlin have laid out a town, recently near the mouth of Seven Rivers.
Buildings are being erected and merchants . . . Mrs. Rebecca Stafford keeps a
most excellent restaurant and boarding house within a hundred yards of the
stores.We have no less than four blacksmiths amongst us. Two are established
near the center, one Mr. Krueger five miles west and W.H. Jones has a
blacksmith and wagon shop two miles north of town." If the Jones Home, store
saloon and blacksmith shop was two miles from Rheinboldt's store in 1882, he
could be justified in saying, . . ."There was a prairie all around. He thus
started the second settlement of Seven Rivers and by 1884 the village was
becoming a reality.
On the 1885 census John Northern and Joseph J. Fanning owns the only named
saloon in Seven Rivers and John H. Havens is a blacksmith, Joseph Wood is the
Deputy Sheriff.
Betty Bass has in her possession a copy of the following legal document. Here is how it reads:
TERRITORY OF NEW MEXICO ) Office of Justice of the Peace
COUNTY OF LINCOLN ) Precinct No. 5, Lincoln Co.
This is to certify that I have this day, to do it--the 24th day of June, A. D., 1885, appointed and do by these presents do appoint Walter H. Paddleford as special Constable, to serve any legal process or any legal instruments issued by me, and delivered to the said Special Constable for service within Precinct No. 14, or any other Precinct within the said County of Lincoln, when requested or when his duty may call upon him to serve outside of said Precinct No. 14.
Given under my hand on this the
24th day of June, A. D., 1885
GEORGE W. LARREMORE
Justice of the Peace
Precinct No. 5
Lincoln County, New Mexico
From the Carlsbad, New Mexico newspaper, CARLSBAD ARGUS, dated June 18, 1909,
the obituary for George Washington Larremore reads as follows:
Judge George W. Larremore died at his home, in the northwest part of the
city, last Saturday evening, of cancer and was buried Sunday afternoon in the
City Cemetery.
"Uncle George" as he was familiarly known to the majority of the citizens
of Carlsbad, was one of the old citizens in this part of the valley and had
until the past few months, enjoyed robust health. He was born in Arkansas, 69
years ago and removed from there to Texas in the early 1840's. In 1880 he
became imbued with the western spirit and migrated to the Pecos Valley,
settling on a tract of land in the 7'River county, about 20 miles northwest of
Carlsbad, which is still known as the "Ol Larremore Place". About 6 years ago
(1903) he moved to a farm near Malaga, where he continued to live until this
past winter (1908-1909), when, on account of his failing health, he came to
Carlsbad to receive medical attention. Last year he announced his candidacy for
probate judge of Eddy County and his popularity with his home people was most
graciously shown by the large majority which was given him when the votes were
counted--the largest majority ever given a candidate of any office in Eddy
County. (note: 1,111 votes were cast and George W. Larremore received all 1,111
votes)
Last October, cancer of the face developed and he immediately sought
treatment, but to no avail. It stubbornly refused to yield to the most rigorous
treatment, and early this spring he underwent an operation which it was thought
would check if not cure the trouble, but such was not the case, and last
Saturday night it claimed him for its victim.
The deceased leaves a wife and 4 children to mourn his death. They are
Mrs. George W. Larremore, his wife, Mrs. Alice Hellyer, C. W. Larremore, J. M.
Larremore, and Mrs. Dora Bass, all of whom were at his bedside when the end
came.
The funeral services were held last Sunday afternoon, from his late home,
conducted by IOOF, of which he was a member. The remains were laid to rest in
the IOOF's reserve in the City Cemetery.
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On the 1870 census for Gillespie County, Texas, Post Office is Fredericksburg, Pedernals Settlement, taken August 17, 1870, page 340, family 487, you will find George Larremore enumerated with R. L. McDonald.
On the 1880 census for Kimble County, Texas, Precinct 4, Family History Library film 1255314, National Archives film T9-1314, page 275c, you will find:
George Larremore age-39 sheep raiser born-Arkansas
Rachel (wife) 31 Keeping house Illinois
Mary J. (dau) 12 at home Texas
Elisebeth A. (dau) 11 at home Texas
Queney J. (dau) 9Texas
Creed (son) 8Texas
Martin (son) 6Texas
Samuel L. Fanning (cousin) 25 at home Illinois
Phebe B. Fanning (sister-in-law) 19 at home Illinois
Mary A. Fanning (mother-in-law) 51 at home Illinois
Joseph T. Fanning (brother-in-law) 30 raising sheep Illinois
George Rayeley (other) 30 sheep herder Illinois
On the 1885 census for Lincoln County Territory of New Mexico in Seven Rivers, Precinct 7, family 112, you will find:
George Larrimore age-45 stock raising born-Arkansas
Adeline 37 Illinois
Alice 16 in school Texas
Queeny 15 in school Texas
Creed 13 in school Texas
Martin 10 in school Texas
On the 1885 Agriculture Census for Lincoln County, New Mexico, it shows Sheepman #97--George Larrimore owner of land with 1 acre tilled or pasture. He had 8 horses and 1200 head of sheep, and he clipped 1200 fleeces that weighed 6,000 pounds.
On the 1900 census of Eddy County, New Mexico, Prec. 4, page 23, line or family
41, it shows:
Larremore, George 60 farmer/husband born-Arkansas
Rachel 50 wife Illinois
John M 23 son Texas
Dora 15 daughter New Mexico
On the 1885 census for Black River, upper Black River, Pierce's Canyon, Seven
Rivers, and South Spring Creek, near Roswell, New Mexico,and covering Eddy
County, New Mexico, Precinct 14 & 2, there is a Carmen Larrimore, male, 57
years old, employee/farmer single, born-Kentucky, and his mother and father was
also born in Kentucky. He is listed as being in the household of Walter and
William J. Chisum household. Also on the 1880 census of Lincoln County, New
Mexico, family no. 13, you will find Cornell/Cornelius Larimore, age-50 years
old, employee, single, works on farm and was born in Kentucky. Apparently there
is a relationship to George Washington Larremore, might be cousins, but have
not been able to find the relation as of yet. Hopefully, it will eventually
surface.
Carmen Larremore is suppose to have been buried in the Seven Rivers Cemetery,
but no trace of the grave as yet been found. Seven Rivers is in Eddy County,
New Mexico.
GEORGE WASHINGTON LARREMORE was captured at Fort DeRussey, Louisiana, on March 14, 1864 during the Civil War.
George Washington Larremore was on the muster roll at Camp Terry, Louisiana, and that was known as THE RED RIVER CAMPAIGN: March-May 1864. Here is some info about the Red River Campaign:
In early March, President Abraham Lincoln named Ulysses S. Grant general-in-chief and promoted him to the rank of Lieutenant General. Grant's strategy was to press the Confederacy on all fronts so that its armies could not reinforce each other. His orders for US Major General George Gordon Meade, commander of the Army of the Potomac, were to go after Cs General Robert E. Lee's army. US Major General William Tecumseh Sherman was to brak up Cs General Joseph E. Johnston's army and damage the Confederacy's war resources in Georgia. Grant brought US Major General Philip H. Sheridan east to lead Meade's cavalry. He ordered the navy to tighten the blockade while Us Major General Benjamin F. Butler's Army of the James moved up and cut the railroad that supplied the capital. US Major General Nathaniel Prentiss Banks was to attack Mobile after driving up the Red River in Louisiana and capturing Shreveport while US Major General Franz Sigel took control of the Shenandoah Valley.
During the second week of March one of the largest amphibious forces ever assembled on the Mississippi River set out from Vicksburg against CS General E. Kirby Smith's Trans-Mississippi Department in Shreveport. The 50,000 men and sixty warships and transports were under the joint command of Banks and USN Rear Admiral David D. Porter. US Major General William B. Franklin's XIII and XIX Corps headed toward Shreveport via Berwick Bay and Bayou Teche; Porter's fleet and 10,000 men of the XVI and XVII Corps from the Army of the Tennessee under US Brigadier General A. J. Smith headed up the Red River. On March 23 another 8,500 men under US Major General Frederick Steele marched from Little Rock to link up with Banks at Shreveport.
Smith's forces disembarked at Simmersport on March 12. Thirty miles farther they approached Fort DeRussey, a fortification partially plated with iron to resist Federal fire from ironclads on the river. On the thirteenth, Smith's troops dispersed a Confederate brigade, clearing the way to the fort. When the Union forces arrived before Fort DeRussey the next day, the 350-man Confederate garrison opened fire. While Porter's gunboats bombarded the fort from the river, Smith sent US Brigadier General Joseph A. Mower's division to take the fort from the rear. Mower's troops scaled the walls that evening and forced the Confederates to surrender. The fall of Fort DeRussey opened the Red River to Alexandria, which the Federals occupied on March 16, 1864.
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Military Record: Confederate States of America (CSA), (Card 1) Private George Larimore, Capt. Seth Mabry's Company, Allen's Reg't Texas Infantry, age: 21 years. Appears on Company Muster Roll for April 4 to December 31, 1862, joined for duty and enrolled: when: April 14, 1862, where: Virginia Point, by whom: Capt. Kirby, period: war, and was present. (Card 2) Private G. W. Laremore, Capt. Seth Mabry's Company, Allen's Regiment Texas Infantry. Age 19 years. Appears on Company Muster Roll for April 4 to June 30, 1862, enrolled May 27, 1862, where: Camp Terry, by whom: Seth Mabry, mustered into service: when: April 14, 1862, where: Camp Terry, by whom: Col. Kirby, last paid: has received no pay, and was present. (Card 3) Private George Larimore, Capt. Seth Mabry's Company, Allen's Reg't Texas Infantry. Age 21 years. Appears on Company Muster Roll dated October 31, 1862, joined for duty on April 14, 1862, where: Virginia Point, by whom: Col. Kirby, period: for the war, and was present. (Card 4) Private Geo. W. Larrimore, Co. E, 17 Regiment Texas Infantry appears on Company Muster Roll dated for January and February 1864. Joined for duty: April 4, 1862, where: Galveston, by whom: E. Kirby, period: war, last paid by D. D. Rosborough on August 31, 1863, and was present. (Card 5) Private G. W. Larremore, Co. E, 17th Reg't Texas Infantry appears on Company Muster Roll for July and August, 1863, enlisted: April 4, 1862, where:Hempsteas, by whom: Maj. Reily, period: war, last paid to what time: April 30, 1863, and was present. (Card 6) Private G. W. Larimore, Co. E, Allen's Reg't Texas Infantry appears on Company Muster roll for January and February, 1863, joined: April 4, 1862, where: Camp Terry, by whom: R.T.P. Allen, period: war, last paid by: D.D. Rosborough, to what time: October 31, 1863, last paid by D. D. Rosborough, to what time: October 31, 1863, and was present. (Card 7) Private G. W. Larimore, 17 Texas Regiment appears on a roll of Prisoners of War transferred from New Orleans, Louisiana, and exchanged at Red River Landing, July 22, 1864. Roll dated Office Commissary of Prisoners, Department of the Gulf, N. Orleans, Louisiana, July 31, 1864, where captured: Fort De Russy, when captured: March 14, 1864. (Card 8) Private G. W. Larrimore, 17 Texas Regiment appears on a Roll of Prisoners of War at New Orleans, Louisiana. Roll dated Office of Commissary of Prisoners, Department of the Gulf, New Orleans, Louisiana, July 7, 1864, where captured: Fort De Russy, when captured: March 14, 1864. (Card 9) Private G. W. Larrimore, Co. E. 17 Regiment Texas appears on a Roll of Prisoners of War captured at Fort De Russy, Louisiana, March 14, 1864; confined at New Orleans, Louisiana, March 20, 1864, roll dated: not dated, where captured: Fort De Russy, when captured March 14, 1864. (Ref: Betty Bass has in her possession a copy of the above military record for George Washington Larremore).
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Betty Bass has in her possession a copy of a story told by GEORGE WASHINGTON LARREMORE. Here is how it reads:
"They were camped there somewhere, I don't know where, and they heard this master whipping his slave, and Geore Washington Larremore was cussing. He said they had been so hungry. They were in the south, deep south, and they came to this place a few days before and asked for something to eat, and "The people said 'We have nothing to eat', and we were standing there in the yard and I was just scraping the dirt with my foot (boot?), and dreckly I saw this square. It was just as black as the ground. I picked it up, and it was a piece of cornbread. I cut all the sides off of it and ate that, and I never ate anything better than that."
But anyway, this night they were camped and could hear this nigger. "Pray 'n mars (pray 'n march? prayin marster?)" and the licks, and George Washington Larremore said "I hope to God it rains Yankees before morning". They were sitting around this campfire, and he just kept cussing, and the others said "George, you'd better shut up. You're gonna be court-martialed". He said "I don't give a damn if I am. I hope it rains Yankees before morning"......and it (rained Yankees before morning, and they were taken in).
Anyway, George Washington Larremore was a prisoner quite a long while, and they all got sick. When he was released, he finally went out in the country, and just laid under a tree........"
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In the autum of 1880, J. W. Turkett, who was an ex-Texas Ranger and Indian fighter, along with Edward Peril, George Larremore, J. T. (Joseph Thomas) Fanning and Marion Burleson drove their herds of cattle (about 1,800 head) from Kerr County, Texas to the Pecos Valley. The following spring all of the cattle was sold. After the sale, Mr. J. W. Turkett along with George Larremore, J. T. (Joseph Thomas) Fanning and Marion Burleson returned to Texas. All of those men made eventual settlement in the Pecos Valley which is located in Eddy County, New Mexico.
He was a Commanche Indian scout for the Confederate Army of Texas,
He was a Texas Ranger, and then later ran for judge in Eddy County
and won the election with 1,111 which was the total population at that
time in Eddy County, New Mexico. I have his Confederate Index and also
the copy of the time he spent in the Texas Rangers in my possession.
A marriage license was issued to him and Rachel Adeline Fanning on
3 July 1866 by H. Oakes, County Clerk in Gillespie County, Texas, and Betty Bass has a copy of the marriage certificate in her possession.
He was a member of the Odd Fellows Lodge in Carlsbad, Eddy, New Mexico.
From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996.
On 3 June, 1878, he bought 76 acres from his brother-in-law, Joseph T. Fanning.
He did the surveying of these tracts of land which was accepted by the County
authorities.
He was owner of land with one acre tilled or in pasture. He had 8 horses and
1200 head of sheep. He clipped 1200 fleeces that weighed 6000 pounds.
In four plats dated from 1879 to 1882, which constitutes the Seven Rivers area,
extending west from the Pecos River we find only six homesites within three to
six miles of each other in the whole valley, there was no village. Not until
the arrival of the wagon train on 22 September 1880, there was enough people
there to form a village, much less a wild west cow town. George Larramore, Joe
Fanning, Joe Woods, Will Nelson, Marion Burleson, Ed Peril, Dick Turknett,
Howard Henderson, Levi Watson, Charlie and Buster Gambel and their families all
arrived in September of 1880.
The beginning of the Village of Seven Rivers happened when Frank Rheinboldt
bought the adobe store from Captain Sansom. At some point between 1880 and
March of 1882, Captain Sansom built a four room adobe house on the bank of
South Seven Rivers on the south side. Rheinboldt bought the house and described
the location very well. "Our next camp was Seven Rivers. We arrived there March
27, 1882. There was only one store. . . and it was owned by Captain Sansom. It
was a general merchandise store, postoffice and saloon combined. The only
building there at all was this store, . . . There was a prairie all around the
store. The name Seven Rivers came from seven springs each forming a stream that
emptied into the main channel and then into the Pecos. The main stream ran
right by the store. . . Along the streams there were several settlers." This
description certainly verifies that there was no village there in 1882.
However, by 1884, as revealed by newspaper, GOLDEN ERA from WHITE OAKS, 10
April 1884, quoting in part, ". . . except a little excusable pride in the
improvements which are making rapid strides about this locality. Rheinboldt and
Maerlin have laid out a town, recently near the mouth of Seven Rivers.
Buildings are being erected and merchants . . . Mrs. Rebecca Stafford keeps a
most excellent restaurant and boarding house within a hundred yards of the
stores.We have no less than four blacksmiths amongst us. Two are established
near the center, one Mr. Krueger five miles west and W.H. Jones has a
blacksmith and wagon shop two miles north of town." If the Jones Home, store
saloon and blacksmith shop was two miles from Rheinboldt's store in 1882, he
could be justified in saying, . . ."There was a prairie all around. He thus
started the second settlement of Seven Rivers and by 1884 the village was
becoming a reality.
On the 1885 census John Northern and Joseph J. Fanning owns the only named
saloon in Seven Rivers and John H. Havens is a blacksmith, Joseph Wood is the
Deputy Sheriff.
Betty Bass has in her possession a copy of the following legal document. Here is how it reads:
TERRITORY OF NEW MEXICO ) Office of Justice of the Peace
COUNTY OF LINCOLN ) Precinct No. 5, Lincoln Co.
This is to certify that I have this day, to do it--the 24th day of June, A. D., 1885, appointed and do by these presents do appoint Walter H. Paddleford as special Constable, to serve any legal process or any legal instruments issued by me, and delivered to the said Special Constable for service within Precinct No. 14, or any other Precinct within the said County of Lincoln, when requested or when his duty may call upon him to serve outside of said Precinct No. 14.
Given under my hand on this the
24th day of June, A. D., 1885
GEORGE W. LARREMORE
Justice of the Peace
Precinct No. 5
Lincoln County, New Mexico
From the Carlsbad, New Mexico newspaper, CARLSBAD ARGUS, dated June 18, 1909,
the obituary for George Washington Larremore reads as follows:
Judge George W. Larremore died at his home, in the northwest part of the
city, last Saturday evening, of cancer and was buried Sunday afternoon in the
City Cemetery.
"Uncle George" as he was familiarly known to the majority of the citizens
of Carlsbad, was one of the old citizens in this part of the valley and had
until the past few months, enjoyed robust health. He was born in Arkansas, 69
years ago and removed from there to Texas in the early 1840's. In 1880 he
became imbued with the western spirit and migrated to the Pecos Valley,
settling on a tract of land in the 7'River county, about 20 miles northwest of
Carlsbad, which is still known as the "Ol Larremore Place". About 6 years ago
(1903) he moved to a farm near Malaga, where he continued to live until this
past winter (1908-1909), when, on account of his failing health, he came to
Carlsbad to receive medical attention. Last year he announced his candidacy for
probate judge of Eddy County and his popularity with his home people was most
graciously shown by the large majority which was given him when the votes were
counted--the largest majority ever given a candidate of any office in Eddy
County. (note: 1,111 votes were cast and George W. Larremore received all 1,111
votes)
Last October, cancer of the face developed and he immediately sought
treatment, but to no avail. It stubbornly refused to yield to the most rigorous
treatment, and early this spring he underwent an operation which it was thought
would check if not cure the trouble, but such was not the case, and last
Saturday night it claimed him for its victim.
The deceased leaves a wife and 4 children to mourn his death. They are
Mrs. George W. Larremore, his wife, Mrs. Alice Hellyer, C. W. Larremore, J. M.
Larremore, and Mrs. Dora Bass, all of whom were at his bedside when the end
came.
The funeral services were held last Sunday afternoon, from his late home,
conducted by IOOF, of which he was a member. The remains were laid to rest in
the IOOF's reserve in the City Cemetery.
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On the 1870 census for Gillespie County, Texas, Post Office is Fredericksburg, Pedernals Settlement, taken August 17, 1870, page 340, family 487, you will find George Larremore enumerated with R. L. McDonald.
On the 1880 census for Kimble County, Texas, Precinct 4, Family History Library film 1255314, National Archives film T9-1314, page 275c, you will find:
George Larremore age-39 sheep raiser born-Arkansas
Rachel (wife) 31 Keeping house Illinois
Mary J. (dau) 12 at home Texas
Elisebeth A. (dau) 11 at home Texas
Queney J. (dau) 9Texas
Creed (son) 8Texas
Martin (son) 6Texas
Samuel L. Fanning (cousin) 25 at home Illinois
Phebe B. Fanning (sister-in-law) 19 at home Illinois
Mary A. Fanning (mother-in-law) 51 at home Illinois
Joseph T. Fanning (brother-in-law) 30 raising sheep Illinois
George Rayeley (other) 30 sheep herder Illinois
On the 1885 census for Lincoln County Territory of New Mexico in Seven Rivers, Precinct 7, family 112, you will find:
George Larrimore age-45 stock raising born-Arkansas
Adeline 37 Illinois
Alice 16 in school Texas
Queeny 15 in school Texas
Creed 13 in school Texas
Martin 10 in school Texas
On the 1885 Agriculture Census for Lincoln County, New Mexico, it shows Sheepman #97--George Larrimore owner of land with 1 acre tilled or pasture. He had 8 horses and 1200 head of sheep, and he clipped 1200 fleeces that weighed 6,000 pounds.
On the 1900 census of Eddy County, New Mexico, Prec. 4, page 23, line or family
41, it shows:
Larremore, George 60 farmer/husband born-Arkansas
Rachel 50 wife Illinois
John M 23 son Texas
Dora 15 daughter New Mexico
On the 1885 census for Black River, upper Black River, Pierce's Canyon, Seven
Rivers, and South Spring Creek, near Roswell, New Mexico,and covering Eddy
County, New Mexico, Precinct 14 & 2, there is a Carmen Larrimore, male, 57
years old, employee/farmer single, born-Kentucky, and his mother and father was
also born in Kentucky. He is listed as being in the household of Walter and
William J. Chisum household. Also on the 1880 census of Lincoln County, New
Mexico, family no. 13, you will find Cornell/Cornelius Larimore, age-50 years
old, employee, single, works on farm and was born in Kentucky. Apparently there
is a relationship to George Washington Larremore, might be cousins, but have
not been able to find the relation as of yet. Hopefully, it will eventually
surface.
Carmen Larremore is suppose to have been buried in the Seven Rivers Cemetery,
but no trace of the grave as yet been found. Seven Rivers is in Eddy County,
New Mexico.
GEORGE WASHINGTON LARREMORE was captured at Fort DeRussey, Louisiana, on March 14, 1864 during the Civil War.
George Washington Larremore was on the muster roll at Camp Terry, Louisiana, and that was known as THE RED RIVER CAMPAIGN: March-May 1864. Here is some info about the Red River Campaign:
In early March, President Abraham Lincoln named Ulysses S. Grant general-in-chief and promoted him to the rank of Lieutenant General. Grant's strategy was to press the Confederacy on all fronts so that its armies could not reinforce each other. His orders for US Major General George Gordon Meade, commander of the Army of the Potomac, were to go after Cs General Robert E. Lee's army. US Major General William Tecumseh Sherman was to brak up Cs General Joseph E. Johnston's army and damage the Confederacy's war resources in Georgia. Grant brought US Major General Philip H. Sheridan east to lead Meade's cavalry. He ordered the navy to tighten the blockade while Us Major General Benjamin F. Butler's Army of the James moved up and cut the railroad that supplied the capital. US Major General Nathaniel Prentiss Banks was to attack Mobile after driving up the Red River in Louisiana and capturing Shreveport while US Major General Franz Sigel took control of the Shenandoah Valley.
During the second week of March one of the largest amphibious forces ever assembled on the Mississippi River set out from Vicksburg against CS General E. Kirby Smith's Trans-Mississippi Department in Shreveport. The 50,000 men and sixty warships and transports were under the joint command of Banks and USN Rear Admiral David D. Porter. US Major General William B. Franklin's XIII and XIX Corps headed toward Shreveport via Berwick Bay and Bayou Teche; Porter's fleet and 10,000 men of the XVI and XVII Corps from the Army of the Tennessee under US Brigadier General A. J. Smith headed up the Red River. On March 23 another 8,500 men under US Major General Frederick Steele marched from Little Rock to link up with Banks at Shreveport.
Smith's forces disembarked at Simmersport on March 12. Thirty miles farther they approached Fort DeRussey, a fortification partially plated with iron to resist Federal fire from ironclads on the river. On the thirteenth, Smith's troops dispersed a Confederate brigade, clearing the way to the fort. When the Union forces arrived before Fort DeRussey the next day, the 350-man Confederate garrison opened fire. While Porter's gunboats bombarded the fort from the river, Smith sent US Brigadier General Joseph A. Mower's division to take the fort from the rear. Mower's troops scaled the walls that evening and forced the Confederates to surrender. The fall of Fort DeRussey opened the Red River to Alexandria, which the Federals occupied on March 16, 1864.
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Military Record: Confederate States of America (CSA), (Card 1) Private George Larimore, Capt. Seth Mabry's Company, Allen's Reg't Texas Infantry, age: 21 years. Appears on Company Muster Roll for April 4 to December 31, 1862, joined for duty and enrolled: when: April 14, 1862, where: Virginia Point, by whom: Capt. Kirby, period: war, and was present. (Card 2) Private G. W. Laremore, Capt. Seth Mabry's Company, Allen's Regiment Texas Infantry. Age 19 years. Appears on Company Muster Roll for April 4 to June 30, 1862, enrolled May 27, 1862, where: Camp Terry, by whom: Seth Mabry, mustered into service: when: April 14, 1862, where: Camp Terry, by whom: Col. Kirby, last paid: has received no pay, and was present. (Card 3) Private George Larimore, Capt. Seth Mabry's Company, Allen's Reg't Texas Infantry. Age 21 years. Appears on Company Muster Roll dated October 31, 1862, joined for duty on April 14, 1862, where: Virginia Point, by whom: Col. Kirby, period: for the war, and was present. (Card 4) Private Geo. W. Larrimore, Co. E, 17 Regiment Texas Infantry appears on Company Muster Roll dated for January and February 1864. Joined for duty: April 4, 1862, where: Galveston, by whom: E. Kirby, period: war, last paid by D. D. Rosborough on August 31, 1863, and was present. (Card 5) Private G. W. Larremore, Co. E, 17th Reg't Texas Infantry appears on Company Muster Roll for July and August, 1863, enlisted: April 4, 1862, where:Hempsteas, by whom: Maj. Reily, period: war, last paid to what time: April 30, 1863, and was present. (Card 6) Private G. W. Larimore, Co. E, Allen's Reg't Texas Infantry appears on Company Muster roll for January and February, 1863, joined: April 4, 1862, where: Camp Terry, by whom: R.T.P. Allen, period: war, last paid by: D.D. Rosborough, to what time: October 31, 1863, last paid by D. D. Rosborough, to what time: October 31, 1863, and was present. (Card 7) Private G. W. Larimore, 17 Texas Regiment appears on a roll of Prisoners of War transferred from New Orleans, Louisiana, and exchanged at Red River Landing, July 22, 1864. Roll dated Office Commissary of Prisoners, Department of the Gulf, N. Orleans, Louisiana, July 31, 1864, where captured: Fort De Russy, when captured: March 14, 1864. (Card 8) Private G. W. Larrimore, 17 Texas Regiment appears on a Roll of Prisoners of War at New Orleans, Louisiana. Roll dated Office of Commissary of Prisoners, Department of the Gulf, New Orleans, Louisiana, July 7, 1864, where captured: Fort De Russy, when captured: March 14, 1864. (Card 9) Private G. W. Larrimore, Co. E. 17 Regiment Texas appears on a Roll of Prisoners of War captured at Fort De Russy, Louisiana, March 14, 1864; confined at New Orleans, Louisiana, March 20, 1864, roll dated: not dated, where captured: Fort De Russy, when captured March 14, 1864. (Ref: Betty Bass has in her possession a copy of the above military record for George Washington Larremore).
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Betty Bass has in her possession a copy of a story told by GEORGE WASHINGTON LARREMORE. Here is how it reads:
"They were camped there somewhere, I don't know where, and they heard this master whipping his slave, and Geore Washington Larremore was cussing. He said they had been so hungry. They were in the south, deep south, and they came to this place a few days before and asked for something to eat, and "The people said 'We have nothing to eat', and we were standing there in the yard and I was just scraping the dirt with my foot (boot?), and dreckly I saw this square. It was just as black as the ground. I picked it up, and it was a piece of cornbread. I cut all the sides off of it and ate that, and I never ate anything better than that."
But anyway, this night they were camped and could hear this nigger. "Pray 'n mars (pray 'n march? prayin marster?)" and the licks, and George Washington Larremore said "I hope to God it rains Yankees before morning". They were sitting around this campfire, and he just kept cussing, and the others said "George, you'd better shut up. You're gonna be court-martialed". He said "I don't give a damn if I am. I hope it rains Yankees before morning"......and it (rained Yankees before morning, and they were taken in).
Anyway, George Washington Larremore was a prisoner quite a long while, and they all got sick. When he was released, he finally went out in the country, and just laid under a tree........"
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In the autum of 1880, J. W. Turkett, who was an ex-Texas Ranger and Indian fighter, along with Edward Peril, George Larremore, J. T. (Joseph Thomas) Fanning and Marion Burleson drove their herds of cattle (about 1,800 head) from Kerr County, Texas to the Pecos Valley. The following spring all of the cattle was sold. After the sale, Mr. J. W. Turkett along with George Larremore, J. T. (Joseph Thomas) Fanning and Marion Burleson returned to Texas. All of those men made eventual settlement in the Pecos Valley which is located in Eddy County, New Mexico.
He was a Texas Ranger, and then later ran for judge in Eddy County
and won the election with 1,111 which was the total population at that
time in Eddy County, New Mexico. I have his Confederate Index and also
the copy of the time he spent in the Texas Rangers in my possession.
A marriage license was issued to him and Rachel Adeline Fanning on
3 July 1866 by H. Oakes, County Clerk in Gillespie County, Texas, and Betty Bass has a copy of the marriage certificate in her possession.
He was a member of the Odd Fellows Lodge in Carlsbad, Eddy, New Mexico.
From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996.
On 3 June, 1878, he bought 76 acres from his brother-in-law, Joseph T. Fanning.
He did the surveying of these tracts of land which was accepted by the County
authorities.
He was owner of land with one acre tilled or in pasture. He had 8 horses and
1200 head of sheep. He clipped 1200 fleeces that weighed 6000 pounds.
In four plats dated from 1879 to 1882, which constitutes the Seven Rivers area,
extending west from the Pecos River we find only six homesites within three to
six miles of each other in the whole valley, there was no village. Not until
the arrival of the wagon train on 22 September 1880, there was enough people
there to form a village, much less a wild west cow town. George Larramore, Joe
Fanning, Joe Woods, Will Nelson, Marion Burleson, Ed Peril, Dick Turknett,
Howard Henderson, Levi Watson, Charlie and Buster Gambel and their families all
arrived in September of 1880.
The beginning of the Village of Seven Rivers happened when Frank Rheinboldt
bought the adobe store from Captain Sansom. At some point between 1880 and
March of 1882, Captain Sansom built a four room adobe house on the bank of
South Seven Rivers on the south side. Rheinboldt bought the house and described
the location very well. "Our next camp was Seven Rivers. We arrived there March
27, 1882. There was only one store. . . and it was owned by Captain Sansom. It
was a general merchandise store, postoffice and saloon combined. The only
building there at all was this store, . . . There was a prairie all around the
store. The name Seven Rivers came from seven springs each forming a stream that
emptied into the main channel and then into the Pecos. The main stream ran
right by the store. . . Along the streams there were several settlers." This
description certainly verifies that there was no village there in 1882.
However, by 1884, as revealed by newspaper, GOLDEN ERA from WHITE OAKS, 10
April 1884, quoting in part, ". . . except a little excusable pride in the
improvements which are making rapid strides about this locality. Rheinboldt and
Maerlin have laid out a town, recently near the mouth of Seven Rivers.
Buildings are being erected and merchants . . . Mrs. Rebecca Stafford keeps a
most excellent restaurant and boarding house within a hundred yards of the
stores.We have no less than four blacksmiths amongst us. Two are established
near the center, one Mr. Krueger five miles west and W.H. Jones has a
blacksmith and wagon shop two miles north of town." If the Jones Home, store
saloon and blacksmith shop was two miles from Rheinboldt's store in 1882, he
could be justified in saying, . . ."There was a prairie all around. He thus
started the second settlement of Seven Rivers and by 1884 the village was
becoming a reality.
On the 1885 census John Northern and Joseph J. Fanning owns the only named
saloon in Seven Rivers and John H. Havens is a blacksmith, Joseph Wood is the
Deputy Sheriff.
Betty Bass has in her possession a copy of the following legal document. Here is how it reads:
TERRITORY OF NEW MEXICO ) Office of Justice of the Peace
COUNTY OF LINCOLN ) Precinct No. 5, Lincoln Co.
This is to certify that I have this day, to do it--the 24th day of June, A. D., 1885, appointed and do by these presents do appoint Walter H. Paddleford as special Constable, to serve any legal process or any legal instruments issued by me, and delivered to the said Special Constable for service within Precinct No. 14, or any other Precinct within the said County of Lincoln, when requested or when his duty may call upon him to serve outside of said Precinct No. 14.
Given under my hand on this the
24th day of June, A. D., 1885
GEORGE W. LARREMORE
Justice of the Peace
Precinct No. 5
Lincoln County, New Mexico
From the Carlsbad, New Mexico newspaper, CARLSBAD ARGUS, dated June 18, 1909,
the obituary for George Washington Larremore reads as follows:
Judge George W. Larremore died at his home, in the northwest part of the
city, last Saturday evening, of cancer and was buried Sunday afternoon in the
City Cemetery.
"Uncle George" as he was familiarly known to the majority of the citizens
of Carlsbad, was one of the old citizens in this part of the valley and had
until the past few months, enjoyed robust health. He was born in Arkansas, 69
years ago and removed from there to Texas in the early 1840's. In 1880 he
became imbued with the western spirit and migrated to the Pecos Valley,
settling on a tract of land in the 7'River county, about 20 miles northwest of
Carlsbad, which is still known as the "Ol Larremore Place". About 6 years ago
(1903) he moved to a farm near Malaga, where he continued to live until this
past winter (1908-1909), when, on account of his failing health, he came to
Carlsbad to receive medical attention. Last year he announced his candidacy for
probate judge of Eddy County and his popularity with his home people was most
graciously shown by the large majority which was given him when the votes were
counted--the largest majority ever given a candidate of any office in Eddy
County. (note: 1,111 votes were cast and George W. Larremore received all 1,111
votes)
Last October, cancer of the face developed and he immediately sought
treatment, but to no avail. It stubbornly refused to yield to the most rigorous
treatment, and early this spring he underwent an operation which it was thought
would check if not cure the trouble, but such was not the case, and last
Saturday night it claimed him for its victim.
The deceased leaves a wife and 4 children to mourn his death. They are
Mrs. George W. Larremore, his wife, Mrs. Alice Hellyer, C. W. Larremore, J. M.
Larremore, and Mrs. Dora Bass, all of whom were at his bedside when the end
came.
The funeral services were held last Sunday afternoon, from his late home,
conducted by IOOF, of which he was a member. The remains were laid to rest in
the IOOF's reserve in the City Cemetery.
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On the 1870 census for Gillespie County, Texas, Post Office is Fredericksburg, Pedernals Settlement, taken August 17, 1870, page 340, family 487, you will find George Larremore enumerated with R. L. McDonald.
On the 1880 census for Kimble County, Texas, Precinct 4, Family History Library film 1255314, National Archives film T9-1314, page 275c, you will find:
George Larremore age-39 sheep raiser born-Arkansas
Rachel (wife) 31 Keeping house Illinois
Mary J. (dau) 12 at home Texas
Elisebeth A. (dau) 11 at home Texas
Queney J. (dau) 9Texas
Creed (son) 8Texas
Martin (son) 6Texas
Samuel L. Fanning (cousin) 25 at home Illinois
Phebe B. Fanning (sister-in-law) 19 at home Illinois
Mary A. Fanning (mother-in-law) 51 at home Illinois
Joseph T. Fanning (brother-in-law) 30 raising sheep Illinois
George Rayeley (other) 30 sheep herder Illinois
On the 1885 census for Lincoln County Territory of New Mexico in Seven Rivers, Precinct 7, family 112, you will find:
George Larrimore age-45 stock raising born-Arkansas
Adeline 37 Illinois
Alice 16 in school Texas
Queeny 15 in school Texas
Creed 13 in school Texas
Martin 10 in school Texas
On the 1885 Agriculture Census for Lincoln County, New Mexico, it shows Sheepman #97--George Larrimore owner of land with 1 acre tilled or pasture. He had 8 horses and 1200 head of sheep, and he clipped 1200 fleeces that weighed 6,000 pounds.
On the 1900 census of Eddy County, New Mexico, Prec. 4, page 23, line or family
41, it shows:
Larremore, George 60 farmer/husband born-Arkansas
Rachel 50 wife Illinois
John M 23 son Texas
Dora 15 daughter New Mexico
On the 1885 census for Black River, upper Black River, Pierce's Canyon, Seven
Rivers, and South Spring Creek, near Roswell, New Mexico,and covering Eddy
County, New Mexico, Precinct 14 & 2, there is a Carmen Larrimore, male, 57
years old, employee/farmer single, born-Kentucky, and his mother and father was
also born in Kentucky. He is listed as being in the household of Walter and
William J. Chisum household. Also on the 1880 census of Lincoln County, New
Mexico, family no. 13, you will find Cornell/Cornelius Larimore, age-50 years
old, employee, single, works on farm and was born in Kentucky. Apparently there
is a relationship to George Washington Larremore, might be cousins, but have
not been able to find the relation as of yet. Hopefully, it will eventually
surface.
Carmen Larremore is suppose to have been buried in the Seven Rivers Cemetery,
but no trace of the grave as yet been found. Seven Rivers is in Eddy County,
New Mexico.
GEORGE WASHINGTON LARREMORE was captured at Fort DeRussey, Louisiana, on March 14, 1864 during the Civil War.
George Washington Larremore was on the muster roll at Camp Terry, Louisiana, and that was known as THE RED RIVER CAMPAIGN: March-May 1864. Here is some info about the Red River Campaign:
In early March, President Abraham Lincoln named Ulysses S. Grant general-in-chief and promoted him to the rank of Lieutenant General. Grant's strategy was to press the Confederacy on all fronts so that its armies could not reinforce each other. His orders for US Major General George Gordon Meade, commander of the Army of the Potomac, were to go after Cs General Robert E. Lee's army. US Major General William Tecumseh Sherman was to brak up Cs General Joseph E. Johnston's army and damage the Confederacy's war resources in Georgia. Grant brought US Major General Philip H. Sheridan east to lead Meade's cavalry. He ordered the navy to tighten the blockade while Us Major General Benjamin F. Butler's Army of the James moved up and cut the railroad that supplied the capital. US Major General Nathaniel Prentiss Banks was to attack Mobile after driving up the Red River in Louisiana and capturing Shreveport while US Major General Franz Sigel took control of the Shenandoah Valley.
During the second week of March one of the largest amphibious forces ever assembled on the Mississippi River set out from Vicksburg against CS General E. Kirby Smith's Trans-Mississippi Department in Shreveport. The 50,000 men and sixty warships and transports were under the joint command of Banks and USN Rear Admiral David D. Porter. US Major General William B. Franklin's XIII and XIX Corps headed toward Shreveport via Berwick Bay and Bayou Teche; Porter's fleet and 10,000 men of the XVI and XVII Corps from the Army of the Tennessee under US Brigadier General A. J. Smith headed up the Red River. On March 23 another 8,500 men under US Major General Frederick Steele marched from Little Rock to link up with Banks at Shreveport.
Smith's forces disembarked at Simmersport on March 12. Thirty miles farther they approached Fort DeRussey, a fortification partially plated with iron to resist Federal fire from ironclads on the river. On the thirteenth, Smith's troops dispersed a Confederate brigade, clearing the way to the fort. When the Union forces arrived before Fort DeRussey the next day, the 350-man Confederate garrison opened fire. While Porter's gunboats bombarded the fort from the river, Smith sent US Brigadier General Joseph A. Mower's division to take the fort from the rear. Mower's troops scaled the walls that evening and forced the Confederates to surrender. The fall of Fort DeRussey opened the Red River to Alexandria, which the Federals occupied on March 16, 1864.
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Military Record: Confederate States of America (CSA), (Card 1) Private George Larimore, Capt. Seth Mabry's Company, Allen's Reg't Texas Infantry, age: 21 years. Appears on Company Muster Roll for April 4 to December 31, 1862, joined for duty and enrolled: when: April 14, 1862, where: Virginia Point, by whom: Capt. Kirby, period: war, and was present. (Card 2) Private G. W. Laremore, Capt. Seth Mabry's Company, Allen's Regiment Texas Infantry. Age 19 years. Appears on Company Muster Roll for April 4 to June 30, 1862, enrolled May 27, 1862, where: Camp Terry, by whom: Seth Mabry, mustered into service: when: April 14, 1862, where: Camp Terry, by whom: Col. Kirby, last paid: has received no pay, and was present. (Card 3) Private George Larimore, Capt. Seth Mabry's Company, Allen's Reg't Texas Infantry. Age 21 years. Appears on Company Muster Roll dated October 31, 1862, joined for duty on April 14, 1862, where: Virginia Point, by whom: Col. Kirby, period: for the war, and was present. (Card 4) Private Geo. W. Larrimore, Co. E, 17 Regiment Texas Infantry appears on Company Muster Roll dated for January and February 1864. Joined for duty: April 4, 1862, where: Galveston, by whom: E. Kirby, period: war, last paid by D. D. Rosborough on August 31, 1863, and was present. (Card 5) Private G. W. Larremore, Co. E, 17th Reg't Texas Infantry appears on Company Muster Roll for July and August, 1863, enlisted: April 4, 1862, where:Hempsteas, by whom: Maj. Reily, period: war, last paid to what time: April 30, 1863, and was present. (Card 6) Private G. W. Larimore, Co. E, Allen's Reg't Texas Infantry appears on Company Muster roll for January and February, 1863, joined: April 4, 1862, where: Camp Terry, by whom: R.T.P. Allen, period: war, last paid by: D.D. Rosborough, to what time: October 31, 1863, last paid by D. D. Rosborough, to what time: October 31, 1863, and was present. (Card 7) Private G. W. Larimore, 17 Texas Regiment appears on a roll of Prisoners of War transferred from New Orleans, Louisiana, and exchanged at Red River Landing, July 22, 1864. Roll dated Office Commissary of Prisoners, Department of the Gulf, N. Orleans, Louisiana, July 31, 1864, where captured: Fort De Russy, when captured: March 14, 1864. (Card 8) Private G. W. Larrimore, 17 Texas Regiment appears on a Roll of Prisoners of War at New Orleans, Louisiana. Roll dated Office of Commissary of Prisoners, Department of the Gulf, New Orleans, Louisiana, July 7, 1864, where captured: Fort De Russy, when captured: March 14, 1864. (Card 9) Private G. W. Larrimore, Co. E. 17 Regiment Texas appears on a Roll of Prisoners of War captured at Fort De Russy, Louisiana, March 14, 1864; confined at New Orleans, Louisiana, March 20, 1864, roll dated: not dated, where captured: Fort De Russy, when captured March 14, 1864. (Ref: Betty Bass has in her possession a copy of the above military record for George Washington Larremore).
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Betty Bass has in her possession a copy of a story told by GEORGE WASHINGTON LARREMORE. Here is how it reads:
"They were camped there somewhere, I don't know where, and they heard this master whipping his slave, and Geore Washington Larremore was cussing. He said they had been so hungry. They were in the south, deep south, and they came to this place a few days before and asked for something to eat, and "The people said 'We have nothing to eat', and we were standing there in the yard and I was just scraping the dirt with my foot (boot?), and dreckly I saw this square. It was just as black as the ground. I picked it up, and it was a piece of cornbread. I cut all the sides off of it and ate that, and I never ate anything better than that."
But anyway, this night they were camped and could hear this nigger. "Pray 'n mars (pray 'n march? prayin marster?)" and the licks, and George Washington Larremore said "I hope to God it rains Yankees before morning". They were sitting around this campfire, and he just kept cussing, and the others said "George, you'd better shut up. You're gonna be court-martialed". He said "I don't give a damn if I am. I hope it rains Yankees before morning"......and it (rained Yankees before morning, and they were taken in).
Anyway, George Washington Larremore was a prisoner quite a long while, and they all got sick. When he was released, he finally went out in the country, and just laid under a tree........"
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In the autum of 1880, J. W. Turkett, who was an ex-Texas Ranger and Indian fighter, along with Edward Peril, George Larremore, J. T. (Joseph Thomas) Fanning and Marion Burleson drove their herds of cattle (about 1,800 head) from Kerr County, Texas to the Pecos Valley. The following spring all of the cattle was sold. After the sale, Mr. J. W. Turkett along with George Larremore, J. T. (Joseph Thomas) Fanning and Marion Burleson returned to Texas. All of those men made eventual settlement in the Pecos Valley which is located in Eddy County, New Mexico.
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