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My great-grandmother was Evalenah Lee Cherry, born in Waxahachie, Ellis County, Texas in April 1869. She was the 3rd child of 5, and only girl, of F. W. Cherry and his wife, Malvina E. ??? from Tennessee, whose parents were from North Carolina.
F.W. was born in 1841 in Missouri, probably in Linn County; and was very probably the son of H.L. (Henry? L.) Cherry, who was born in 1822 in Missouri?, and died in Ellis County, Texas in 1916. H.L. is in the Linn County, Missouri census for 1850 & 1860; and in the Ellis County, Texas census of 1880. Both families came to Ellis County, Texas, about the time of the Civil War, probably immediately after the war. Believe they were all cotton farmers. (Don't know if they'd had slaves before the war!)
Some descendents farmed cotton in Wise County, Wichita County, then Lamb and Bailey Counties in West Texas today.
F.W. probably had a brother Lewis D. (Douglas?) Cherry; and a sister Martha D. Cherry, who married Milton P. Payne in Ellis County, Texas. Both appear in a family portrait taken in Ellis County about 1910 or so, possibly when H.L. died in 1916.
According to the census records, H.L. said that his dad was from North Carolina, and his mother was from Tennessee; and from what we can tell, his dad may have been a Henry, and was probably from Beaufort County in North Carolina. From clues in the oral history, I believe this family IS probably related to the De Che Rie family, who immigrated from France to southern England, then to Beaufort County, North Carolina.
Also according to census records, H. L. had a wife, Nancy ???, who was born in Kentucky about 1818; whose father was born in Virginia, and whose mother was born in Kentucky.
There was also a cousin contemporary to Evalenah, called Grace ??? who appears in some portraits.
Oral family tradition also includes information of some Cherokee or Choctaw blood in the family, but we have no further details.
We would very much appreciate any information you could give us about our Cherry family!
Thanks!
Gdog Gdog Gdo, and wife Cathy
Dallas area, Texas
GdogW@email.msn.com
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