Michael Micajah Petteway
Family

1844 - 1908

NAME BORN DIED CEMETERY
Michael Micajah Petteway #6880
Ancestral Pictures
5 Jun 1844
Macon County, Alabama
26 May 1908
Robertson County, Texas
Heards Prairie/Petteway
Robertson County, TX
Married: 24 Mar 1870
Mattie L. Webster #6956
Macon County, Alabama
c. 1849
Georgia
1880
Robertson County, Texas

Children:
William Webster Petteway #4869
12 Aug 1871
Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa, AL
25 Feb 1961
Lamesa, Dawson, Texas
Lamesa Mem. Park
Lamesa, Dawson, TX
Mark Ignatious Petteway #6957 7 Apr 1873
Rosebud, Falls, Texas
(See note below)
3 Apr 1931
Marlin, Falls, Texas
Obituary
Stranger
Stranger, Falls, Texas
Mabry Howe Petteway #6883 15 Nov 1873
(See note below)
13 Apr 1957
Heards Prairie/Petteway
Robertson County, TX
S. L. Petteway #6965 c. 1875
Robertson County, Texas


Z. Petteway #6966 c. 1878
Robertson County, Texas


Hilda Mae Petteway #6881 Jan 1880
Robertson County, Texas
22 Oct 1938
Dallas, Dallas, Texas
Obituary
Laurel Land Mem. Park
Dallas, Dallas, TX
Married: 12 Jan 1884
Susan Elizabeth Oldham #4748
Robertson Co., TX
c. 1862


Married: 8 Aug 1885
May Elizabeth Benge #7241
Robertson County, TX



Children:
Ila Grace Petteway #6899
4 Sep 1889
15 Mar 1968

Married:  3 May 1898
Josephine C. Bibes #7242
in McLennan County, TX
24 Dec 1872
2 Dec 1948
Heards Prairie/Petteway
Robertson County, TX

Birth date conflict for Mabry H. and Mark I. is noted. Mabry's date is from his headstone; Mark's is from the cemetery listing in his GenWeb county.
Mabry married Nora Jenkins #6884 (14 Jan 1878 - 3 Jan 1958) about 1898. (Double marker.) She is the daughter of Allen Walter Jenkins & Mary Jane Ware.
Hilda Mae married James W. Talley. See obituary for their daughter, Gladys Mae Talley Dickey.
May Elizabeth Benge is the daughter of Thomas & May (unknown) Benge.
Ila Grace married John Harvey Easley Smith (4 Sep 1889 - 15 Mar 1968). See obituary for daughter Dorothea Smith Brown.
Josephine Bibes later married James Cole Bodiford.

PETTEWAY, TEXAS. Petteway is located three miles east of Twin Oaks Reservoir on Farm Road 2293 in north central Robertson County. The town developed in the last quarter of the nineteenth century as settlers moved to the prairies. The village was named for Mike Petteway, who operated the general store. By 1900 the community had three churches, two schools, three stores, a cotton gin, and a gristmill. The gin was owned by Stanley Barkowiak. A post office operated from 1887 until the mid 1930s. After World War II the production of cotton diminished, and the area turned to ranching. Subsequently, Aluminum Company of America purchased much of the land to mine coal. The population remained constant at 150 from 1915 through 1967, and in 1990 it was twenty-five.

Handbook of Texas: BIBLIOGRAPHY: J. W. Baker, History of Robertson County, Texas (Franklin, Texas: Robertson County Historical Survey Committee, 1970). James L. Hailey

Petteway --In the early 1880’s M. Petteway settled in northeastern Robertson County and opened a general store. Around this store a community grew up. S. Bartokowiak erected the first gin, and soon there were three churches, and a school, which was a small two-story building with only two rooms. The community cemetery is today one of the few in the rural communities that has continued to remain there in the church yard. Many descendants of the early Petteway settlers bury their loved ones in the well-kept cemetery.

In 1900 Petteway was granted the right to have a post office. Until that time all the mail was received from Franklin.

Source: Robertson County Rootsweb.
Pedigree Chart 1
Brantner
Peyton I. Petteway
Father
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