Wife of Edmund Bird Wade (8 Sep 1797, Moore County, NC – 8 Feb 1879, Brown County, TX). Mother of Oran Wade who married a niece by marriage of James P. Hallford of this cemetery.
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Daughter of Benjamin Hiram Caddell (29 Dec 1763 – c1849, Bibb County, AL)(1)(2)
Mother variously shown as Canie Candice Eanus(1), but it would appear that that name was derived spuriously from the 3 Sep 1849 Bibb County probate records for husband Benjamin. Apparently it was presumed that the wife of Benjamin Caddell had appeared at county court to resolve her husband's estate, but records show that his wife had died almost a decade earlier in 1840. A poster on Ancestry (3) has posited that the confusion regarding the name may have arisen from a penmanship issue on the husband's probate record. What was thought to say "Canie" was actually part of the legal language of the day ("This day Came"). And what has been reported as "Eanus" was actually the name "James", a son of Benjamin Caddell who had appeared before the court earlier that very day in the case immediately preceding that of Mr. Caddell. This can be clearly seen on an attachment – two pages from the court record of that day – found on the aforementioned Ancestry post (3). Thus what was wrongly interpreted as "This day Canie Eanus Caddell" was actually "This day Came James Caddell".
[One can look closely at the two-page image of the court record from the Ancestry post and determine immediately that the initial letter of the presumed "Eanus" looks nothing like the capital E used plainly in words like Estate, Elizabeth, and Edmund within that same case record. There and elsewhere on the two pages one can find words like Judge, James, and John where the first letter appears to have been formed essentially like the first letter of the presumed "Eanus Caddell", though unfortunately that letter is poorly formed, with a weak J-feature kick-out to the bottom left, a critical skipping-out of ink in the downward stroke, and a bit more flourish at the start of the letter than in some instances elsewhere on the two pages. These faults make the letter not very J-looking at all.]
The upshot of this is that we may have no record of the name of the mother of Mary Jane (Caddell) Wade. It is possible that her name was Candice or Candace, but there doesn't appear to be any record of where that name was derived, and one might suspect that "Candice" may be the result of a well-intended correction to "Canie".
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Paternal grandfather was James Caddell (FAG 158320050, 1732, Ireland – Aug 1803, Moore County, NC). Paternal grandmother was Mary (Cole) Caddell (FAG 171271610, 1735, Craven County, NC – 1800, Moore County, NC).
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An article in the February 1991 newsletter for the Fort Worth Genealogical Society (4)(5) presented notes discovered in an old Wade Family Bible found in the Baylor County courthouse in Seymour that detailed the life particulars of the family of Edmund B. Wade and wife Mary Jane Cadell. The text below is found on page 5 of the family records as memoranda:
"Edward Bird Wade born the 8th day of September 1797, Moore County, N. C.,
and died the 8th day of February 1879, Brown County, Texas.
Mary Wade born the 20th day of February 1793, Moore County, N. C., and died the
7th day of March 1875, Hays County, Texas.
Hall Medlin born the 7th day of October 1806 in S. C., and died the 11th day of
October 1883, Burnet County, Texas."
Subsequent information from a family source supported by a Travis County Survey Map shows the name of Mary Jane's husband to have been Edmund. A grandson named Edmond Bird Wade and a great grandson named Edmond Wade House suggest that the spelling might have been Edmond.
[Information on Hall Medlin was included in the Wade family records as he was father to Sarah Medlin who married Oran Wade (son of Edward and Mary) on August 9, 1855 in Travis County. State marriage records show Oran Wade as Orion Wade (as evidenced by a March 2009 article in the Austin Genealogical Society Quarterly) (6), but that spelling in the state records is an error if the reported spelling three places in the Wade Family Bible records (4) and the name of his grandson, therein, are correct. Both grandson (7) and grandfather (8) are spelled Oran on their gravestones, and the author of the Fort Worth article placed "[sic]" immediately following the use of the name Orion in the author's comments. As for the family records from the Wade Family Bible, we find this entry:
"Oran Wade and Sarah Medlin were married at Austin, Texas, on the 9th day of August 1855." The Hall Medlin family was in what is now northwest Austin in the early 1850s. Witness a report by the Austin Genealogical Society concerning Travis County students attending the first year of public schools in Texas in 1854. (9)]
Notes from the author of the newsletter article included:
"This family was probably descended from Edward/Edmond Wade of Caswell County,
North Carolina (1790) and of Moore County (1800 and 1810). Apparently, they were
in Bibb County, Alabama, by ca. 1830-1832 and in the area of Travis and Hays Coun-
ties, Texas, after 1850 and before 1855. Edward Bird Wade (after the death of his
wife Mary) probably went with his son, Oran, and family on their migration to the
northwest and died in Brown County."
[Oran Wade and his family appear to have migrated from Hays County ultimately to the old Day County of far western Indian Territory, now Oklahoma. They seemed to search for ever-greener grass and, evermore, relief from the constraints of settlement. Birth records and the death of Edward Bird Wade, as noted in the family records, trace a path to Brown County (at least 1879 to 1884), then Throckmorton County (at least 1885), and then on to Haskell and Knox Counties (at least 1887 to 1893). According to a letter written by George McGhee and published by the Dewey County (OK) Historical Society (10), several families and individuals related to the Wades from Travis and Burnet Counties migrated to Knox County at the time the Wade family was there. In 1893 the group of families - six children of Hall Medlin made the move - traveled to the old Dewey and Day Counties of Indian Territory where Oran Wade died in 1897. By 1900 the Wade family had returned to Knox County where daughter Lula Wade House was raising her family. The attraction to Brown County might have been the presence there of Greenleaf Fisk, a San Jacinto veteran and co-founder of Fiskville in northern Travis County. The John Mulkey family, one of the related families of the Medlins and therefore the Wades, lived at Fiskville and very possibly was the introduction to the Greenleaf Fisk family who at that point were in Brown County and desirous of development of that county.]
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Middlebrooks Cemetery is on the grounds of a private ranch, so visitation is not a simple matter. Apparently the condition of many of the gravestones is poor and there's nothing can be done about that as many are reported to be of a soft and flaking material. An accounting by the Hays County Historical Commission (Cemeteries, M-R) (11) recorded only 26 stones as legible. Mary Jane Wade's gravestone was apparently one of the 26, however they had this to say regarding the difficulty of reading it:
". . . The earliest burial recorded on a stone is that of Mary Jane Wade in 1875. In our research of cemetery records, we discovered that the Hays County Historical and Genealogy Society had published inscriptions from this cemetery and had recorded the death date of this same stone as 1815, with a notation that the grave must have been moved here as it was too early to have been originally buried in this cemetery. We 'chalked' the stone which made the date stand out clearly and it was 1875, not 1815."
Pursuant to the chalking, their Hays County Cemetery Inscriptions (T-W) (12) shows:
WADE, MARY JANE | DRIPPING SPRINGS, MIDDLEBROOKS | 02-20-1793/03-07-1875 | MAY SHE REST IN PEACE
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1) https://moorecountywallaces.com/getperson.php?personID=I8467&tree=Wallace
2) http://www.algw.org/bibb/firstfamilies/caddellbenjh.html
3) https://www.ancestry.co.uk/boards/surnames.caddell/140.12/mb.ashx
4) https://access.tarrantcounty.com/content/dam/main/archives/Documents/1991_Vol%2034.pdf
5) http://www.txfwgs.org/html/footprints-1990s.html
6) http://www.austintxgensoc.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/2009.1.pdf (p24 of pdf)
7) https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/40773978/oran-william-driver
8) https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/36743232/oran-wade
9) http://www.austintxgensoc.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/1970.3.pdf (p14 of pdf)
10) https://www.genealogy.com/ftm/t/a/y/Melinda-L-Taylor/GENE1-0005.html#CHILD7
11) http://www.hayshistoricalcommission.com/cemeteries-m-r.html
12) http://www.hayshistoricalcommission.com/cemeteries/pdf/List(T-W).pdf (p5 of pdf)
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Daughter of Benjamin Hiram Caddell (29 Dec 1763 – c1849, Bibb County, AL)(1)(2)
Mother variously shown as Canie Candice Eanus(1), but it would appear that that name was derived spuriously from the 3 Sep 1849 Bibb County probate records for husband Benjamin. Apparently it was presumed that the wife of Benjamin Caddell had appeared at county court to resolve her husband's estate, but records show that his wife had died almost a decade earlier in 1840. A poster on Ancestry (3) has posited that the confusion regarding the name may have arisen from a penmanship issue on the husband's probate record. What was thought to say "Canie" was actually part of the legal language of the day ("This day Came"). And what has been reported as "Eanus" was actually the name "James", a son of Benjamin Caddell who had appeared before the court earlier that very day in the case immediately preceding that of Mr. Caddell. This can be clearly seen on an attachment – two pages from the court record of that day – found on the aforementioned Ancestry post (3). Thus what was wrongly interpreted as "This day Canie Eanus Caddell" was actually "This day Came James Caddell".
[One can look closely at the two-page image of the court record from the Ancestry post and determine immediately that the initial letter of the presumed "Eanus" looks nothing like the capital E used plainly in words like Estate, Elizabeth, and Edmund within that same case record. There and elsewhere on the two pages one can find words like Judge, James, and John where the first letter appears to have been formed essentially like the first letter of the presumed "Eanus Caddell", though unfortunately that letter is poorly formed, with a weak J-feature kick-out to the bottom left, a critical skipping-out of ink in the downward stroke, and a bit more flourish at the start of the letter than in some instances elsewhere on the two pages. These faults make the letter not very J-looking at all.]
The upshot of this is that we may have no record of the name of the mother of Mary Jane (Caddell) Wade. It is possible that her name was Candice or Candace, but there doesn't appear to be any record of where that name was derived, and one might suspect that "Candice" may be the result of a well-intended correction to "Canie".
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Paternal grandfather was James Caddell (FAG 158320050, 1732, Ireland – Aug 1803, Moore County, NC). Paternal grandmother was Mary (Cole) Caddell (FAG 171271610, 1735, Craven County, NC – 1800, Moore County, NC).
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An article in the February 1991 newsletter for the Fort Worth Genealogical Society (4)(5) presented notes discovered in an old Wade Family Bible found in the Baylor County courthouse in Seymour that detailed the life particulars of the family of Edmund B. Wade and wife Mary Jane Cadell. The text below is found on page 5 of the family records as memoranda:
"Edward Bird Wade born the 8th day of September 1797, Moore County, N. C.,
and died the 8th day of February 1879, Brown County, Texas.
Mary Wade born the 20th day of February 1793, Moore County, N. C., and died the
7th day of March 1875, Hays County, Texas.
Hall Medlin born the 7th day of October 1806 in S. C., and died the 11th day of
October 1883, Burnet County, Texas."
Subsequent information from a family source supported by a Travis County Survey Map shows the name of Mary Jane's husband to have been Edmund. A grandson named Edmond Bird Wade and a great grandson named Edmond Wade House suggest that the spelling might have been Edmond.
[Information on Hall Medlin was included in the Wade family records as he was father to Sarah Medlin who married Oran Wade (son of Edward and Mary) on August 9, 1855 in Travis County. State marriage records show Oran Wade as Orion Wade (as evidenced by a March 2009 article in the Austin Genealogical Society Quarterly) (6), but that spelling in the state records is an error if the reported spelling three places in the Wade Family Bible records (4) and the name of his grandson, therein, are correct. Both grandson (7) and grandfather (8) are spelled Oran on their gravestones, and the author of the Fort Worth article placed "[sic]" immediately following the use of the name Orion in the author's comments. As for the family records from the Wade Family Bible, we find this entry:
"Oran Wade and Sarah Medlin were married at Austin, Texas, on the 9th day of August 1855." The Hall Medlin family was in what is now northwest Austin in the early 1850s. Witness a report by the Austin Genealogical Society concerning Travis County students attending the first year of public schools in Texas in 1854. (9)]
Notes from the author of the newsletter article included:
"This family was probably descended from Edward/Edmond Wade of Caswell County,
North Carolina (1790) and of Moore County (1800 and 1810). Apparently, they were
in Bibb County, Alabama, by ca. 1830-1832 and in the area of Travis and Hays Coun-
ties, Texas, after 1850 and before 1855. Edward Bird Wade (after the death of his
wife Mary) probably went with his son, Oran, and family on their migration to the
northwest and died in Brown County."
[Oran Wade and his family appear to have migrated from Hays County ultimately to the old Day County of far western Indian Territory, now Oklahoma. They seemed to search for ever-greener grass and, evermore, relief from the constraints of settlement. Birth records and the death of Edward Bird Wade, as noted in the family records, trace a path to Brown County (at least 1879 to 1884), then Throckmorton County (at least 1885), and then on to Haskell and Knox Counties (at least 1887 to 1893). According to a letter written by George McGhee and published by the Dewey County (OK) Historical Society (10), several families and individuals related to the Wades from Travis and Burnet Counties migrated to Knox County at the time the Wade family was there. In 1893 the group of families - six children of Hall Medlin made the move - traveled to the old Dewey and Day Counties of Indian Territory where Oran Wade died in 1897. By 1900 the Wade family had returned to Knox County where daughter Lula Wade House was raising her family. The attraction to Brown County might have been the presence there of Greenleaf Fisk, a San Jacinto veteran and co-founder of Fiskville in northern Travis County. The John Mulkey family, one of the related families of the Medlins and therefore the Wades, lived at Fiskville and very possibly was the introduction to the Greenleaf Fisk family who at that point were in Brown County and desirous of development of that county.]
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Middlebrooks Cemetery is on the grounds of a private ranch, so visitation is not a simple matter. Apparently the condition of many of the gravestones is poor and there's nothing can be done about that as many are reported to be of a soft and flaking material. An accounting by the Hays County Historical Commission (Cemeteries, M-R) (11) recorded only 26 stones as legible. Mary Jane Wade's gravestone was apparently one of the 26, however they had this to say regarding the difficulty of reading it:
". . . The earliest burial recorded on a stone is that of Mary Jane Wade in 1875. In our research of cemetery records, we discovered that the Hays County Historical and Genealogy Society had published inscriptions from this cemetery and had recorded the death date of this same stone as 1815, with a notation that the grave must have been moved here as it was too early to have been originally buried in this cemetery. We 'chalked' the stone which made the date stand out clearly and it was 1875, not 1815."
Pursuant to the chalking, their Hays County Cemetery Inscriptions (T-W) (12) shows:
WADE, MARY JANE | DRIPPING SPRINGS, MIDDLEBROOKS | 02-20-1793/03-07-1875 | MAY SHE REST IN PEACE
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1) https://moorecountywallaces.com/getperson.php?personID=I8467&tree=Wallace
2) http://www.algw.org/bibb/firstfamilies/caddellbenjh.html
3) https://www.ancestry.co.uk/boards/surnames.caddell/140.12/mb.ashx
4) https://access.tarrantcounty.com/content/dam/main/archives/Documents/1991_Vol%2034.pdf
5) http://www.txfwgs.org/html/footprints-1990s.html
6) http://www.austintxgensoc.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/2009.1.pdf (p24 of pdf)
7) https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/40773978/oran-william-driver
8) https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/36743232/oran-wade
9) http://www.austintxgensoc.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/1970.3.pdf (p14 of pdf)
10) https://www.genealogy.com/ftm/t/a/y/Melinda-L-Taylor/GENE1-0005.html#CHILD7
11) http://www.hayshistoricalcommission.com/cemeteries-m-r.html
12) http://www.hayshistoricalcommission.com/cemeteries/pdf/List(T-W).pdf (p5 of pdf)
Wife of Edmund Bird Wade (8 Sep 1797, Moore County, NC – 8 Feb 1879, Brown County, TX). Mother of Oran Wade who married a niece by marriage of James P. Hallford of this cemetery.
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Daughter of Benjamin Hiram Caddell (29 Dec 1763 – c1849, Bibb County, AL)(1)(2)
Mother variously shown as Canie Candice Eanus(1), but it would appear that that name was derived spuriously from the 3 Sep 1849 Bibb County probate records for husband Benjamin. Apparently it was presumed that the wife of Benjamin Caddell had appeared at county court to resolve her husband's estate, but records show that his wife had died almost a decade earlier in 1840. A poster on Ancestry (3) has posited that the confusion regarding the name may have arisen from a penmanship issue on the husband's probate record. What was thought to say "Canie" was actually part of the legal language of the day ("This day Came"). And what has been reported as "Eanus" was actually the name "James", a son of Benjamin Caddell who had appeared before the court earlier that very day in the case immediately preceding that of Mr. Caddell. This can be clearly seen on an attachment – two pages from the court record of that day – found on the aforementioned Ancestry post (3). Thus what was wrongly interpreted as "This day Canie Eanus Caddell" was actually "This day Came James Caddell".
[One can look closely at the two-page image of the court record from the Ancestry post and determine immediately that the initial letter of the presumed "Eanus" looks nothing like the capital E used plainly in words like Estate, Elizabeth, and Edmund within that same case record. There and elsewhere on the two pages one can find words like Judge, James, and John where the first letter appears to have been formed essentially like the first letter of the presumed "Eanus Caddell", though unfortunately that letter is poorly formed, with a weak J-feature kick-out to the bottom left, a critical skipping-out of ink in the downward stroke, and a bit more flourish at the start of the letter than in some instances elsewhere on the two pages. These faults make the letter not very J-looking at all.]
The upshot of this is that we may have no record of the name of the mother of Mary Jane (Caddell) Wade. It is possible that her name was Candice or Candace, but there doesn't appear to be any record of where that name was derived, and one might suspect that "Candice" may be the result of a well-intended correction to "Canie".
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Paternal grandfather was James Caddell (FAG 158320050, 1732, Ireland – Aug 1803, Moore County, NC). Paternal grandmother was Mary (Cole) Caddell (FAG 171271610, 1735, Craven County, NC – 1800, Moore County, NC).
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An article in the February 1991 newsletter for the Fort Worth Genealogical Society (4)(5) presented notes discovered in an old Wade Family Bible found in the Baylor County courthouse in Seymour that detailed the life particulars of the family of Edmund B. Wade and wife Mary Jane Cadell. The text below is found on page 5 of the family records as memoranda:
"Edward Bird Wade born the 8th day of September 1797, Moore County, N. C.,
and died the 8th day of February 1879, Brown County, Texas.
Mary Wade born the 20th day of February 1793, Moore County, N. C., and died the
7th day of March 1875, Hays County, Texas.
Hall Medlin born the 7th day of October 1806 in S. C., and died the 11th day of
October 1883, Burnet County, Texas."
Subsequent information from a family source supported by a Travis County Survey Map shows the name of Mary Jane's husband to have been Edmund. A grandson named Edmond Bird Wade and a great grandson named Edmond Wade House suggest that the spelling might have been Edmond.
[Information on Hall Medlin was included in the Wade family records as he was father to Sarah Medlin who married Oran Wade (son of Edward and Mary) on August 9, 1855 in Travis County. State marriage records show Oran Wade as Orion Wade (as evidenced by a March 2009 article in the Austin Genealogical Society Quarterly) (6), but that spelling in the state records is an error if the reported spelling three places in the Wade Family Bible records (4) and the name of his grandson, therein, are correct. Both grandson (7) and grandfather (8) are spelled Oran on their gravestones, and the author of the Fort Worth article placed "[sic]" immediately following the use of the name Orion in the author's comments. As for the family records from the Wade Family Bible, we find this entry:
"Oran Wade and Sarah Medlin were married at Austin, Texas, on the 9th day of August 1855." The Hall Medlin family was in what is now northwest Austin in the early 1850s. Witness a report by the Austin Genealogical Society concerning Travis County students attending the first year of public schools in Texas in 1854. (9)]
Notes from the author of the newsletter article included:
"This family was probably descended from Edward/Edmond Wade of Caswell County,
North Carolina (1790) and of Moore County (1800 and 1810). Apparently, they were
in Bibb County, Alabama, by ca. 1830-1832 and in the area of Travis and Hays Coun-
ties, Texas, after 1850 and before 1855. Edward Bird Wade (after the death of his
wife Mary) probably went with his son, Oran, and family on their migration to the
northwest and died in Brown County."
[Oran Wade and his family appear to have migrated from Hays County ultimately to the old Day County of far western Indian Territory, now Oklahoma. They seemed to search for ever-greener grass and, evermore, relief from the constraints of settlement. Birth records and the death of Edward Bird Wade, as noted in the family records, trace a path to Brown County (at least 1879 to 1884), then Throckmorton County (at least 1885), and then on to Haskell and Knox Counties (at least 1887 to 1893). According to a letter written by George McGhee and published by the Dewey County (OK) Historical Society (10), several families and individuals related to the Wades from Travis and Burnet Counties migrated to Knox County at the time the Wade family was there. In 1893 the group of families - six children of Hall Medlin made the move - traveled to the old Dewey and Day Counties of Indian Territory where Oran Wade died in 1897. By 1900 the Wade family had returned to Knox County where daughter Lula Wade House was raising her family. The attraction to Brown County might have been the presence there of Greenleaf Fisk, a San Jacinto veteran and co-founder of Fiskville in northern Travis County. The John Mulkey family, one of the related families of the Medlins and therefore the Wades, lived at Fiskville and very possibly was the introduction to the Greenleaf Fisk family who at that point were in Brown County and desirous of development of that county.]
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Middlebrooks Cemetery is on the grounds of a private ranch, so visitation is not a simple matter. Apparently the condition of many of the gravestones is poor and there's nothing can be done about that as many are reported to be of a soft and flaking material. An accounting by the Hays County Historical Commission (Cemeteries, M-R) (11) recorded only 26 stones as legible. Mary Jane Wade's gravestone was apparently one of the 26, however they had this to say regarding the difficulty of reading it:
". . . The earliest burial recorded on a stone is that of Mary Jane Wade in 1875. In our research of cemetery records, we discovered that the Hays County Historical and Genealogy Society had published inscriptions from this cemetery and had recorded the death date of this same stone as 1815, with a notation that the grave must have been moved here as it was too early to have been originally buried in this cemetery. We 'chalked' the stone which made the date stand out clearly and it was 1875, not 1815."
Pursuant to the chalking, their Hays County Cemetery Inscriptions (T-W) (12) shows:
WADE, MARY JANE | DRIPPING SPRINGS, MIDDLEBROOKS | 02-20-1793/03-07-1875 | MAY SHE REST IN PEACE
- - - - - - - - - - -
1) https://moorecountywallaces.com/getperson.php?personID=I8467&tree=Wallace
2) http://www.algw.org/bibb/firstfamilies/caddellbenjh.html
3) https://www.ancestry.co.uk/boards/surnames.caddell/140.12/mb.ashx
4) https://access.tarrantcounty.com/content/dam/main/archives/Documents/1991_Vol%2034.pdf
5) http://www.txfwgs.org/html/footprints-1990s.html
6) http://www.austintxgensoc.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/2009.1.pdf (p24 of pdf)
7) https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/40773978/oran-william-driver
8) https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/36743232/oran-wade
9) http://www.austintxgensoc.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/1970.3.pdf (p14 of pdf)
10) https://www.genealogy.com/ftm/t/a/y/Melinda-L-Taylor/GENE1-0005.html#CHILD7
11) http://www.hayshistoricalcommission.com/cemeteries-m-r.html
12) http://www.hayshistoricalcommission.com/cemeteries/pdf/List(T-W).pdf (p5 of pdf)
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Daughter of Benjamin Hiram Caddell (29 Dec 1763 – c1849, Bibb County, AL)(1)(2)
Mother variously shown as Canie Candice Eanus(1), but it would appear that that name was derived spuriously from the 3 Sep 1849 Bibb County probate records for husband Benjamin. Apparently it was presumed that the wife of Benjamin Caddell had appeared at county court to resolve her husband's estate, but records show that his wife had died almost a decade earlier in 1840. A poster on Ancestry (3) has posited that the confusion regarding the name may have arisen from a penmanship issue on the husband's probate record. What was thought to say "Canie" was actually part of the legal language of the day ("This day Came"). And what has been reported as "Eanus" was actually the name "James", a son of Benjamin Caddell who had appeared before the court earlier that very day in the case immediately preceding that of Mr. Caddell. This can be clearly seen on an attachment – two pages from the court record of that day – found on the aforementioned Ancestry post (3). Thus what was wrongly interpreted as "This day Canie Eanus Caddell" was actually "This day Came James Caddell".
[One can look closely at the two-page image of the court record from the Ancestry post and determine immediately that the initial letter of the presumed "Eanus" looks nothing like the capital E used plainly in words like Estate, Elizabeth, and Edmund within that same case record. There and elsewhere on the two pages one can find words like Judge, James, and John where the first letter appears to have been formed essentially like the first letter of the presumed "Eanus Caddell", though unfortunately that letter is poorly formed, with a weak J-feature kick-out to the bottom left, a critical skipping-out of ink in the downward stroke, and a bit more flourish at the start of the letter than in some instances elsewhere on the two pages. These faults make the letter not very J-looking at all.]
The upshot of this is that we may have no record of the name of the mother of Mary Jane (Caddell) Wade. It is possible that her name was Candice or Candace, but there doesn't appear to be any record of where that name was derived, and one might suspect that "Candice" may be the result of a well-intended correction to "Canie".
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Paternal grandfather was James Caddell (FAG 158320050, 1732, Ireland – Aug 1803, Moore County, NC). Paternal grandmother was Mary (Cole) Caddell (FAG 171271610, 1735, Craven County, NC – 1800, Moore County, NC).
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An article in the February 1991 newsletter for the Fort Worth Genealogical Society (4)(5) presented notes discovered in an old Wade Family Bible found in the Baylor County courthouse in Seymour that detailed the life particulars of the family of Edmund B. Wade and wife Mary Jane Cadell. The text below is found on page 5 of the family records as memoranda:
"Edward Bird Wade born the 8th day of September 1797, Moore County, N. C.,
and died the 8th day of February 1879, Brown County, Texas.
Mary Wade born the 20th day of February 1793, Moore County, N. C., and died the
7th day of March 1875, Hays County, Texas.
Hall Medlin born the 7th day of October 1806 in S. C., and died the 11th day of
October 1883, Burnet County, Texas."
Subsequent information from a family source supported by a Travis County Survey Map shows the name of Mary Jane's husband to have been Edmund. A grandson named Edmond Bird Wade and a great grandson named Edmond Wade House suggest that the spelling might have been Edmond.
[Information on Hall Medlin was included in the Wade family records as he was father to Sarah Medlin who married Oran Wade (son of Edward and Mary) on August 9, 1855 in Travis County. State marriage records show Oran Wade as Orion Wade (as evidenced by a March 2009 article in the Austin Genealogical Society Quarterly) (6), but that spelling in the state records is an error if the reported spelling three places in the Wade Family Bible records (4) and the name of his grandson, therein, are correct. Both grandson (7) and grandfather (8) are spelled Oran on their gravestones, and the author of the Fort Worth article placed "[sic]" immediately following the use of the name Orion in the author's comments. As for the family records from the Wade Family Bible, we find this entry:
"Oran Wade and Sarah Medlin were married at Austin, Texas, on the 9th day of August 1855." The Hall Medlin family was in what is now northwest Austin in the early 1850s. Witness a report by the Austin Genealogical Society concerning Travis County students attending the first year of public schools in Texas in 1854. (9)]
Notes from the author of the newsletter article included:
"This family was probably descended from Edward/Edmond Wade of Caswell County,
North Carolina (1790) and of Moore County (1800 and 1810). Apparently, they were
in Bibb County, Alabama, by ca. 1830-1832 and in the area of Travis and Hays Coun-
ties, Texas, after 1850 and before 1855. Edward Bird Wade (after the death of his
wife Mary) probably went with his son, Oran, and family on their migration to the
northwest and died in Brown County."
[Oran Wade and his family appear to have migrated from Hays County ultimately to the old Day County of far western Indian Territory, now Oklahoma. They seemed to search for ever-greener grass and, evermore, relief from the constraints of settlement. Birth records and the death of Edward Bird Wade, as noted in the family records, trace a path to Brown County (at least 1879 to 1884), then Throckmorton County (at least 1885), and then on to Haskell and Knox Counties (at least 1887 to 1893). According to a letter written by George McGhee and published by the Dewey County (OK) Historical Society (10), several families and individuals related to the Wades from Travis and Burnet Counties migrated to Knox County at the time the Wade family was there. In 1893 the group of families - six children of Hall Medlin made the move - traveled to the old Dewey and Day Counties of Indian Territory where Oran Wade died in 1897. By 1900 the Wade family had returned to Knox County where daughter Lula Wade House was raising her family. The attraction to Brown County might have been the presence there of Greenleaf Fisk, a San Jacinto veteran and co-founder of Fiskville in northern Travis County. The John Mulkey family, one of the related families of the Medlins and therefore the Wades, lived at Fiskville and very possibly was the introduction to the Greenleaf Fisk family who at that point were in Brown County and desirous of development of that county.]
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Middlebrooks Cemetery is on the grounds of a private ranch, so visitation is not a simple matter. Apparently the condition of many of the gravestones is poor and there's nothing can be done about that as many are reported to be of a soft and flaking material. An accounting by the Hays County Historical Commission (Cemeteries, M-R) (11) recorded only 26 stones as legible. Mary Jane Wade's gravestone was apparently one of the 26, however they had this to say regarding the difficulty of reading it:
". . . The earliest burial recorded on a stone is that of Mary Jane Wade in 1875. In our research of cemetery records, we discovered that the Hays County Historical and Genealogy Society had published inscriptions from this cemetery and had recorded the death date of this same stone as 1815, with a notation that the grave must have been moved here as it was too early to have been originally buried in this cemetery. We 'chalked' the stone which made the date stand out clearly and it was 1875, not 1815."
Pursuant to the chalking, their Hays County Cemetery Inscriptions (T-W) (12) shows:
WADE, MARY JANE | DRIPPING SPRINGS, MIDDLEBROOKS | 02-20-1793/03-07-1875 | MAY SHE REST IN PEACE
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1) https://moorecountywallaces.com/getperson.php?personID=I8467&tree=Wallace
2) http://www.algw.org/bibb/firstfamilies/caddellbenjh.html
3) https://www.ancestry.co.uk/boards/surnames.caddell/140.12/mb.ashx
4) https://access.tarrantcounty.com/content/dam/main/archives/Documents/1991_Vol%2034.pdf
5) http://www.txfwgs.org/html/footprints-1990s.html
6) http://www.austintxgensoc.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/2009.1.pdf (p24 of pdf)
7) https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/40773978/oran-william-driver
8) https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/36743232/oran-wade
9) http://www.austintxgensoc.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/1970.3.pdf (p14 of pdf)
10) https://www.genealogy.com/ftm/t/a/y/Melinda-L-Taylor/GENE1-0005.html#CHILD7
11) http://www.hayshistoricalcommission.com/cemeteries-m-r.html
12) http://www.hayshistoricalcommission.com/cemeteries/pdf/List(T-W).pdf (p5 of pdf)
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