Heritage Trails Map

Here is a link to a map which has a list of many of the locations which are significant as part of the heritage of one or more branches of our family.


http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=110453443066540687236.0004619232c3997f33d25&z=3one

Picture of Dr. Samuel G. Haynie

Here is the scanned version of the portrait print I bought from the Austin History Center, depicting our ancestor Dr. Samuel Garner Haynie (1806-1877).

Covingtons of Tennessee and Texas

Onie Shapard's second husband Charlie Shapard died of tuberculosis; after only two years of marriage & one week after the birth of their daughter Cassie Shapard, in March 1888.  Cassie was apparently named after Dr. Shapard's sister-in-law, Cassandra or Mrs. Henry Shapard of Shelbyville, Tennessee.  So at this point in time, 30 year-old widow Onie had a ten year-old son, Lawrence Hill, and an infant daughter. 

Approximately ten years earlier in Robertson County, Tenn., north of Nashville, Leroy "Bascom" Covington (b. 1851) married his second wife, after first wife Julia Jernigan died.  The first union had produced a son, W. Leonard Covington, born in 1875.  His second bride was Mary A. Martin; they had four children:  Annie May, Olivia Adelle, Leroy "Roy," and a little boy Robert who lived only one & a half years. 

Here is a picture of Bascom & Mary Covington, circa late 1870's, in Tennessee.  Mary Martin Covington may have died when Robert was born, in 1887.  Bascom moved his children to Texas about that time.

Bascom Covington married Ione Morgan Shapard in 1890, in Callahan (or perhaps Taylor) County, Texas.  He was about 39 at that time, and she was about 32.  This couple had four (more) children, all born during the 1890's in Callahan County.  At some point while the children were growing up, the family moved into Abilene, in Taylor County.

Here is shown a picture of Bascom Covington in Abilene, circa 1900-1914.  (He died in 1915.)

Finally we have a portrait of Onie Covington with five of her children, which was taken around 1920.  Back row:  Alto Bascom Covington, Cassandra Morgan Shapard, Morgan Talmadge Covington.  Front row:  Emma Alice Covington, Mary Ione Morgan Hill/Shapard/Covington, Marie Dovie Covington. 

Picture of Mary Ione Morgan - Circa 1879

This picture was taken in Monroe, Louisiana.  I believe it shows Ione "Onie" Morgan at about age 21, with her first husband Oliver Hill and son Lawrence Hill.

Mary Ione Morgan was born in 1858 and married Mr. Hill in 1877.  Lawrence was born in 1878.

Around December 1882, after Dr. Haynes L. Morgan had passed away, Ione Morgan Hill and three of her siblings moved to Texas. 

Oliver Hill died some time between 1879 & 1886; because 1886 is the year in which Onie married Dr. Charles Shapard of Tennessee.

1860-61 Morgan purchases

I love this!

The Morgan family history, written by Aunt Emma Morgan (Mixon), states that the family of Dr. Haynes L. Morgan moved to Caldwell Parish, Louisiana, south of Monroe, in November of 1859. This shows their purchases starting in January 1860, in Pine Bluff, Ouachita River, La....Isn't it wonderful that the Covingtons saved this 150 year-old item for us? It is the oldest item of family life that we have, I believe.

Words I can identify, after the lady's saddle: 1-1/2 yds. linen, 6 yds. domestics (cloth), 1/2 doz. fine goblets, tobacco, 2 prs. shoes, 22 yds. calico, 20 yds. muslin, 1 pr. hose, 1 doz. buttons, 5 spools thread, 1 gal. soda, salts, grind____, small book (10 cents), red russets (potatoes), 33 yds. calico, snuff, handkerchiefs, file [?], 10 lbs. nails, 1 sack salt, 5 lbs. nails, 2 yds. flannel, 1 umbrella, tobacco, coat, dishes, plates, saucers & cups, 10 lbs. nails, and 4 lbs. shot.

For the New Orleanians among us, note that Rial & Company had their forms printed at a shop on Magazine Street in N.O. This is right before the Civil War.

Morgans in Louisiana

Here is the story of the Morgan family, told by Mema's first cousin Mattie or "Patty" McCluer, in a memoir kept by the Rogers, Arkansas, Museum. I've corrected a few errors:

...Not long after Papa took over this project, he met and married Elizabeth Morgan, a native of Louisiana. Her father was Dr. Haynes Morgan, and her great grandfather was Col. Haynes Morgan, who was at the Battle of Guilford Court House in North Carolina. He was a Virginia landholder. Mama's father, Haynes III, later moved to Alabama, where Mama was born, at Talladega.

The Texas fever was spreading over the Southeastern states about this time. Our grandfather, Haynes III, decided to go West. He and a large party of immigrants started to Texas. They were delayed at Jackson, Mississippi, where Aunt Ione was born.

By the time they reached Monroe, Louisiana, all their money was gone, so they rented a place near Monroe and put in a cotton crop. They were getting along fine, and had every prospect of moving on to Texas as soon as the cotton was picked, but the Civil War broke out and the Yankee soldiers drove off all the stock; the slaves were scattered; and the big general store grandpa owned was burned. His wife died in childbirth for want of a doctor. Everything except the house they lived in and one old mule (too old for the Yankees to use) was carried off or destroyed.

Grandmother Morgan was Lucinda Johnson before her marriage. She had two brothers, one named Patrick. Her family were directly from Ireland, settling in Virginia not far from the Morgan estate. There is nothing told of why Haynes went to Alabama to live.

After Lucinda's death, grandpa was indeed in a sad state. He was well past middle age, being much older than his wife, and left with four young daughters and an infant son, with no one to care for them. Mama, the eldest, was ten. A negro ex-slave, called Aunt Julie, came to him and said, "Dr. Morgan, (he was a dentist), I'se gwin stay with these chillun." So, from that day, Aunt Julie was the only Mother they ever knew...

Colonel Haynes Morgan

Here is a website established by a man named Danny Ricketts in Virginia, which describes the Revolutionary War contributions of our ancestor Colonel Haynes Morgan:


http://pittsco.rdricketts.com/morgan.html