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My husband was connected to that family. His mother's maiden name was Annie Schultz, daughter of Herman Schultz and Maria Ann Szturomski (or Storemski.) In 1900, Charles Court was living with Elizabeth Killgore, his grandmother. In 1910, Charles Court and his son Fred Guy Court were boarders at Mary Ann Schultz' boarding house on Railroad Street, and my husband remembered that. In 1914, when her divorce from Herman Schultz was final, Charlie and Mary Ann were married. My husband knew Charlie well, though I never did. He died in 1939 and I met my husband in 1954. I did know Mary Ann Storemski Court.
Those Clay children were the children of Elizabeth Killgore, b. Columbus GA 1831 and Thomas Jefferson Clay, b Georgia 1807. T.J. paid his taxes in Houston through 1864, and Elizabeth was listed in a city directory as head of household in 1866. Some of the papers involved in the settling of I. W. Brashear spelled out some of the relationships. Mr. Brashear had sold the Clay land to T. J. Clay in 1847. but the deed was not filed and when Mr. Brashear died, his son had lots of work to do to straighten out this and other similar sales of land. He was apparently a very honest man.
We never understood why those children were at Bayland. At that time, the home was for the care of children of Confederate soldiers who died in the war, and we have found nothing to indicate that T.J. was in the army at all. He was a teamster, and could have been killed while delivering goods, I suppose. The orphanage had a school, and perhaps she got them there for schooling? Maybe she worked there for a while? We've no idea why. She went to take them home on Christmas Eve Day of 1870. The older sister, Theresa had married John Honsinger and was living very close to the Bayland Home.
Mr. Lakin was a constable in Houston, and the newspapers spoke well of him. Another researcher posted somewhere that Mr. Lakin was killed in line of duty while arresting someone. I've not found proof of that, and I thought I'd read all of the Houston papers through 1880 .
The marriage of Charlie Court and Amanda Clay (listed as Mattie Clay) is among the Texas marriages on FamilySearch. My husband remembered that Charlie had been married to his grandfather's sister, so we knew to look for it. We had found a statement in some legal papers that they were married , but I actually found the date quite recently.
The two Court burials in the Clay plot were infants of Frank M. Court, whom I believe to have been a brother of Charles F. Court, Jr. Neither lived more than a couple of months.
Thanks for the reply.
Betty
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