| NAME | BORN | DIED | CEMETERY |
| Robert Milligan Garrett #5141 | 10 Jul 1822 Wilkinson County, GA |
18 Jun 1890 Grapeland, Houston, TX Obituary/Bio |
Davis Houston County, TX |
| Married: 15 Sep 1841
Emily Frances Matthews #5142 Pike County, AL |
11 Oct 1824 Warren County, GA |
30 Nov 1862 Texas |
Unknown |
| Children:
Sarah Ann Garrett #5148 married: Henry James Yancy Kolb #5146 |
14 Feb 1843 Pike County, AL |
24 Mar 1911 Texas |
Parker Houston County, TX |
| Elijah M. Garrett #5146 | c. 1844 Pike County, AL |
1862 Texas |
Unknown |
| Martha Ellen "Mattie" Garrett #5150 married: Harbin Lafayette Smith #1281 |
Feb 1845 Pike County, AL |
1916 Fisher County, TX |
Belvieu Rotan, Fisher, TX |
| William Enoch Garrett #1285 | 24 Sep 1847 Pike County, AL |
14 Oct 1903 Texas |
Wortham Wortham, Freestone County, Texas |
| John Frank Garrett #5152 | 14 Mar 1850 Pike County, AL |
20 Jan 1913 Palestine, Anderson, TX |
Davis Houston County, TX |
| Malinda "Linnie" Garrett #5155 married: Hiram B. Smith |
17 Nov 1851 Pike County, AL |
19 Jan 1944 Texas |
Belvieu Rotan, Fisher, TX |
| James Arthur Garrett #5147 | c. 1857 Anderson County, TX |
c. 1862 Texas |
Unknown |
| Robert J. Garrett #5157 | Oct 1858 Anderson County, TX |
16 Sep 1943 Fisher County, TX |
Belvieu Rotan, Fisher, TX |
| Married: 22 Apr 1865
Emily Ann Matthews #11398 Houston County, TX |
13 May 1836 Alabama |
11 Aug 1909 Texas |
Davis Houston County, TX |
| Robert Milligan is the son of Jeremiah Garrett and Annie Miller, according to the following
annotated history:
Doris E. Goolsby Garrett wrote in "William Lafayette Garrett" ("History of Freestone County, Volume Two, 1989" by Freestone County Historical Commission)... "The Garrett family's interesting family history can be traced back to their ancestor, Jeremiah Garrett, 1774-1835, who moved into Georgia from South Carolina between 1809-1820 and took part in the Georgia Land Lottery of 1820. His first wife was Annie Miller who died about 1821 [20 Jul 1822] and left Jeremiah with ten children to raise [including Robert Milligan, born days earlier on 10 Jul 1822 in Georgia]. "His second marriage was to Mary King [13 Aug 1822] and in 1822 [i.e. sometime later] the family moved to Pike County, Alabama. In 1830 the family was enumerated by the census taker as having five boys and five girls [all born to Annie in Georgia]. Sometime between 1830 and 1840 Jeremiah Garrett was murdered by a band of Creek Indians while he was plowing his land near the Pea River in Pike County, Alabama. This location is near present-day Troy, Alabama." [There are various accounts of this incident during the removal of the Creeks from those lands. "Robert Milligan Garrett, youngest child born to Jeremiah and Annie Garrett, was born July 10, 1822, in Pike County, Alabama [actually Georgia] and married Emily Frances Matthews in Pike County, Ala. in 1841." [Emily Frances was the daughter of Arthur Matthews and Sarah Landrum.] [Note: Please bear in mind that these histories can be aptly called family lore and must be measured against other information. Also, Mathews was a common spelling in the early records; Matthews more prevalent later on.] Regarding Robert Milligan Garrett and family, several other sources quote from a "Houston County History," not otherwise identified except some Garrett information is attributed to Willie Elmo Garrett [presumed Ira Elmo, son of Robert J., son of Robert Milligan]. This source has some first-hand information but some questionable chronology. |
| Emily Frances Matthews was the daughter of Arthur Matthews and Sarah Landrum. Arthur was born c. 1805 in Warren County, GA and died c. 1840 in Pike County, AL. Sarah was born c. 1801 in Georgia and they married 21 Jan 1824 in Warren County, AL. Sarah later married James Wilkinson (Wilkerson). In 1850 AL Pike (Robert M. Milligan household): Sarah Wilkerson 49 with three children, indexed as Wilkerson but actually Matthews. In 1860 AL Pike Monticello, Sarah Wilkerson 55 is farming, with her three surnamed Matthews. |
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1850 Census AL Pike 558/558 Oct 25: Robert M Garrett 28 GA, Emily 26 GA, five children born AL, and Sarah
(Landrum Matthews) Wilkerson (Emily's mother) and three Matthews children recorded as Wilkerson.
1860 Census TX Anderson Beat 2 Pruitt's PO 306/314: R M Garrett 37, E F 35, seven children. Malinda "Linnie" was the last child born in Alabama (17 Nov 1851), and James Arthur was the first child born in Texas (about 1857). The family migrated to Texas sometime between these two dates. The "Pruitt's" post office (according to the Anderson County Bicentenniel Scrapbook) was at Prewitt's Tanyard on Tanyard Creek, two miles north of Elkhart, with Mrs. Ira Prewitt as postmaster. Robert M.'s family was probably in Anderson County when Elijah returned from the war with the measles, which his mother and little brother, James Arthur caught, and the three died in 1862. Their grave locations are unknown. The Kolb family was also in Anderson County at the time, and the oldest Garrett, Sarah Ann married Henry James Yancy Kolb in 1858. Knowing the location of the unknown Garrett graves would be helpful. Robert Milligan married his second wife, Emily Ann Matthews, 22 April 1865 in Houston County (per her 1899 Confederate widow pension application). Sometime before this is probably when Willie Elmo Garrett says they "settled 8 miles west of Grapeland in Pleasant Hill Community. Worked on Bill O. Mathews, Sr. farm. Later bought land near Antrim Church." [He thought they lived near Antrim during the war.] Emily Ann Matthews was the daughter of Samuel M. Matthews and Levisa Talley Hollingsworth. It is coincidental that both of Robert M.'s wives were Matthews as I find no record the two Matthews families were related. Emily Ann's youngest sister, Nancy Louise, married her "step-cousin," John Frank Garrett, son of Robert Milligan and Emily Frances Matthews. The 1870 Census has not been located for Robert Milligan and several other related families. Anderson County Bicentenniel Scrapbook (July 4, 1976) [For historical reasons, I guess, Grapeland was included with the Anderson stories] "GRAPELAND -- When the Houston & Great Northern Railroad was built through this area in 1872, the builders had to cut their way through grapevines. The railroad first named this place "Grapevine." The town site, 640 acres in the John Erwin survey, was acquired by the railroad, which turned it for development to the New York & Texas Land Company. That firm laid out town lots and sold them for $75 and $100 each. The first lot was sold to T. T. Beazley and J. H. Wooters in November, 1872. Tom and Jim Beazley had the first general store and T. S. Cook the first saloon. "When R. M. Garrett petitioned for a Grapevine post office, he was told there already was a Grapevine post
office, so the name was changed to Grapeland. T. T. Beazley became the first postmaster, May 26, 1873,
succeeded in 1881 by Napoleon G. Bontaparte Frazier."
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| Elijah was with parents in 1850 (Elijah Garrett 6 AL) and in 1860 (E M Garrett
15 AL). He died fighting for the Confederate army in the Civil War.
Several sources say that both Elijah and James Arthur were in the war, but James Arthur (J A) was only age 3 in the 1860 Census and both died in 1862. |
| Three Garrett siblings (above) married siblings
of Isham Anderson Smith:
Martha Ellen married Harbin Lafayette Smith. William Enoch married Mary Catherine "Polly" Smith. Malinda "Linnie" married Hiram B. Smith. Some sources say Martha Ellen first married Thomas Harrison Smith, and then married his brother Harbin, after Thomas was killed in the war. |
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