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I received the following information from a correspondent in Texas. I have a vague recollection of hearing a similar story when I was young.
If this is correct, then these aren't the Durretts I am directly descended from (Andrew Jackson Durrett and his son Thomas Jefferson Durrett) because they came to Texas after 1850.
Has anyone heard this story or know the lines of these children?
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Elizabeth Durrett married Jacob Humphrey (Humphrey runs into my Sessions' family) at Nacogdoches, Texas in 1852. John Gill, their only child was born September 6, 1853.
Colonel John G. ("Jack") Humphrey, a son of John Humphrey, believes that his grandmother, Elizabeth Durrett Humphrey, and her brother, Talt Durrett, were possibly the two survivors of the Killough Massacre in the northern part of Cherokee County on October 5, 1838. The historical monument there states that a couple escaped carrying a baby. The grandson has reason to believe that there were two children instead of one, and they were Elizabeth and
Talt Durrett, his grandmother and great-uncle. These two children were orphans and were cared for in the Old Stone Fort for a time before they were taken by the Lyles family to be reared. Another granddaughter, Nell Humphrey Stokes, said that her father John Humphrey related many times that his mother Elizabeth was fifteen years of age at the time of the Indian attack. Wearing a long dress and carrying her infant brother, Talt Durrett,
in her arms, she escaped from a covered wagon when the attack began.
According to all the available records, Elizabeth was fifteen years older than her brother Talt.
Jacob Humphrey and his brother-in-law Talt Durrett took part in an Indian-Spanish Skirmish at the Buckshot Crossing on the Angelina River. Later Durrett said that he was sorry that he got to fire only one shot in
the successful effort to subdue the uprising.
The original home of Jacob Humphrey and Elizabeth Durrett Humphrey at Cheeseland burned before his death.
*Cheeseland is in Angelina County which borders Cherokee County
*Info from THREE GHOST TOWNS OF EAST TEXAS
authors notes: Interview with Nell Humphrey Stokes, Pollok, Texas
Interview with J.B. Stokes, Wells, Texas
Jacob Humphrey Family Bible
Colonel John G. Humphrey to Prof. John N. Cravens, inscription on monument at site of Killough Massacre near Jacksonville, Texas.
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