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SUBMITTED BY: Deborah Smith
e-mail: cherawgal@netscape.net
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HUSBAND: James L. ENGLISH
date and place of birth: 1871 near Shimek, Colorado County, Texas
date and place of marriage: December 21, 1894 Brazoria County, Texas
military service: none
date and place of death: November 1895 Oak Forest, Gonzales County, Texas
place of burial: possibly Luling City Cemetery, Luling, Caldwell County, Texas
father: James Samuel ENGLISH
mother: Sarah Elizabeth WHITTINGTON
other marriages: none
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WIFE: Mannie Belle LAIDLEY (possibly Manerva)
date and place of birth: November 25, 1872 Oakland, Colorado County, Texas
date and place of death: February 24, 1953 porbably Pleasanton, Atascosa County, Texas
place of burial: Luling City Cemetery, Luling, Caldwell County, Texas
father: Thomas Mortimer LAIDLEY
mother: Sarah Elizabeth LACKEY
other marriages: none
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CHILD 1: Laidley ENGLISH
sex: M
date and place of birth: June 2, 1895 Oakland, Colorado County, Texas
married: Essie ?
date and place of marriage: unknown
date and place of death: May 1963 Texas
place of burial: Luling City Cemetery, Luling, Caldwell County, Texas
other marriages: unknown
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SOURCES:
1880 Census Colorado County TX
1900 Census Caldwell County TX
1910 Census Caldwell County TX
1920 Census Atascosa County TX
1930 Census Atascosa County TX
Social Security Administration
Caldwell County Texas Cemetery Records, Appling, Mrs. Arnolia, Fairchild, Mrs. Marjorie, and Gray, Mrs. Vivian
Luling City Cemetery, Luling, Caldwell County, Texas
Wade, Rophila--Notes to Her Children
Gonzales Inquirer
Weimar Mercury
Colorado County Citizen
Colorado County Texas genweb site (electronic)
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Comments:James L. English served for a time as the Justice of the Peace for western Colorado County, Texas. His office was located in Oakland, Colorado County, Texas. In his short life, he was also a farmer, a barber and a teacher. To date, his burial place is unknown, but is presumed to be in the Luling City Cemetery, as his mother-in-law, wife, son and daughter-in-law are buried there. The reports of his death in November 1895 mention that he was a consumptive. For a consumptive, he was surprisingly active in his last year of life. And there is a family story that he rode horseback from Luling to Ottine to buy lumber. It was cold weather at the time. As he was crossing the San Marcos river, the horse threw him, and he was completely soaked. He had to walk a good way for help. Soon after he sickened and died, as reported in two newspapers, at his brother-in-law's brother's home in Oak Forest, Gonzales County, Texas--somewhat south of Ottine, Gonzales County, Texas.
It is very probable that he is one of the young men pictured in the Whittington family reunion picture on the Colorado County, Texas, genweb site.
Mannie English lived on in Luling with her widowed mother and infant son. They earned a living as seamstresses, and finally her mother obtained a Confederate widow's pension from the state--which I believe was something in the amount of $8.00 a month. Mannie Laidley English never remarried.===============================================================
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