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.