"outstanding . . . well done." - Missing Links "For a well documented family tree it is surprisingly enjoyable reading." - Devil's River News Destiny in Texas: Descendants of Jacob Hampshire and Hannah Lee of St. Martin Parish, Louisiana Compiled by James Pylant. 2000. Softcover, 340 pp., illustrated, indexed. ISBN: 0-9622746-7-4; LC: 99-072756 Among the many emigrants coming into the Latin South's colony of Louisiana at the dawn of the 19th century was Jacob Hampshire (c. 1765-1850) of York County, Pennsylvania, the son of German parents. His wife, Hannah Lee (c. 1784-1827), a native of Hampshire County, Virginia, had arrived with her family from Mississippi Territory. These families settled in Louisiana's St. Martin and St. Landry's parishes. But the destiny of the Hampshire family was reshaped when Jacob and Hannah's children, John, Martha, and Matilda, moved west—to the Republic of Texas. The siblings settled near Beaumont, where many of John Hampshire's descendants still reside. Martha Hampshire and her Prussian-born husband, Joseph Rubarth, moved to Milam and Williamson counties. Matilda Hampshire married David Garner and moved to Calhoun County. Descendants of the Rubarths and Garners spread north, south, and west in the state, including the counties of Bell, Coryell, Eastland, Comanche, Bexar, Crockett, Sutton, and Lubbock. Opportunity was ripe for an ambitious family who amassed thousands of acres, founded towns, and produced judges, newspaper publishers, and ranchers. Utilizing a wide range of sources—from cemetery, census, church, hospital, fraternal, military, and court records to old letters, handwriting analysis, and interviews—Destiny in Texas spans 14 generations, yet goes beyond names and dates. Documented accounts reconstruct the history and character of a frontier family, with more than 100 photographs. Chronicled are Lovan Hamshire, the founder of the town of Hamshire, Texas; Julia Rubarth Campbell, who gave birth to 21 children; pipe-smoking midwife Lucinda Hampshire Ladd Hughes; Lee Campbell's hunting expeditions with Buffalo Bill; Indian fighter Joe Gurley; San Antonio socialite May Callahan and her husband, Judge Sam Tayloe; social climber Ada Stewart; and the scandalous Annah Gurley, whose husband—Sheriff Elijah Briant—shot and killed one of Butch Cassidy's cohorts. Destiny in Texas also reveals the bizarre web of fraud, bigamy, insanity, suicide and murder surrounding Martha Rubarth's ruthless husband, R. W. Callahan, the founder of Sonora, Texas. Surnames include:Bouquet, Briant, Callaghan/Callahan, Campbell, Crainer, Cusenbary, De Vore, Dunlap, Dunman, Ellender, Garner, Greathouse, Greenwood, Gurley, Heckardt, Hamsher/Hampshire/ Hamsher, Hargraves, Hebert, Hughes, Kahla, Ladd, Lee, Montgomery, Pool, Rubarth, Schrier, Shellworth, Stewart, Tayloe, White, and Wiley. Price includes shipping; Texas residents add 8.25% sales tax. OUT OF PRINT |
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