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here is some info I promised you but have been tardy in doing so. Sorry.
Captain Carr Forrest
Abstracted from
A Memorial & Biographical History of Ellis County,
(Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago, 1892)
Contributed by Jean Caddel
Captain Carr Forrest, successful farmer and merchant of Ellis County, was born in Marshall County, Tenn., Sept. 10, 1826, a son of Jonathan and Susan R. (Patterson) Forrest. His mother was a daughter of Andy Patterson, native of North Carolina who came to Marshall County in 1802. He served as a captain in the War of 1812 and was also a soldier in the Creek Indian War. There were seven children: : Joseph F.; Carr (subject of this sketch); Matilda P.,( first married A. E. Lane, and after his death, came to Texas where she married F. Vanlear. Now a widow, she lives with her brother, Carr).; Thomas N., ( came to Texas in 1857, and died in Missouri during the CW); Caledonia, (died age fourteen years); America, (married W. N. Brown, and died at Memphis) and Mary J., (died in Texas, age of sixteen years). Jonothan Forrest died in Mississippi in 1841, and Susan Patterson Forrest died in Texas in 1800, at the age of eighty three years.
Carr Forrest came to Ellis County, Texas in 1855, and first raised sheep, which proved unsuccessful, so he sold out after three years and went into the mercantile business which he sold in 1861. In that year, with Colonel Watson, he raised a company for the CW, being elected Commander with Watson Lieutenant Colonel. They served in Co. C., 19th Texas Cavalry in Missouri, Arkansas and Louisiana, and were with Marmaduke in his raid through Missouri, where, for six weeks, the saddle was never taken from the horses. They were also in the Red River raid after General Banks. The regiment returned to South Texas, where they disbanded and l returned home.
Before the war, Mr. Forrest had increased his acreage to about 1,000 and after his return, continued his farming interests as well as mercantile.. He now (1892) owns 600 acres, 300 acres of which are under good cultivation. He was the first to raise alfalfa grass, (now having about twenty acres in that crop.. Mr. Forrest gave the right of way across his land for the Missouri, Kansas & Texas railroad, and also ten and a half acres for the depot and switch. He was postmaster of the Chambers Creek Post Office in 1857, serving under James Buchanan, and after the war, again took charge of the office, and has continued until the present time.
Captain Forrest married Miss Virginia Sims, a daughter of John D. Sims, early pioneer of Texas. Their family consisted of five children: Caledonia (born October 15, 1854, died in January, 1876); Alice, born June 16, 1860, died November, 1861) ; Lee V.,( born June 19, 1862, married G. S. Patterson, of Waxahachie); Thomas C., born July 17, 1864, (is at home) and Sims, born February 11, 1868, died February 22, 1868. Virginia Sims Forrest was born in Mississippi Dec. 11, 1837, and died Feb. 22, 1868. Captain Forrest is a Democratic and a Mason. He has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church since 1842.
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Forrest Family History - 1740-1948
Compiled by T. C. Forrest, Jr., Dallas, Texas
Copied 1963 by Mrs. A. L. Feltenberger from records in possession of
Mrs. H. P. Haynes, Waxahachie, Texas
Contributed by Jean Caddel
SHADRACK FORREST Moved from Virginia to N. Carolina about 1740.
NATHAN FORREST (Son of Shadrack Forrest (Oct. 28, 1776 – Jan. 15, 1827) Married Nancy Baugh, of Raleigh, N. Carolina, Accompanied by his father and his own family, he moved to Gallatin, Tenn in 1806, and in 1808 to Buck River Country in Bedford Co., Tenn .(now Marshall Co.).
Children of Nathan and Nancy Forrest
1. Wm Forrest Born July 6, 1801 (he moved in 1834 to Salem, Miss., record of only one son, Nathan Bedford Forrest, Born July 13, 1821, famous Confederate General of the Civil War. There were seven brothers and three sisters.)
2. Jonathan Forrest, Born Mar. 12, 1803 – 1845, married Susan Reed Patterson, Oct. 26, 1823, lived in Hernando, Miss. (Nathan Bedford Forrest became associated with his uncle in the Mercantile business in 1842)
Children of (2) Jonathan and Susan Forrest
A. Joseph F. Forrest Born Sept. 10, 1824
B. Hardeman Carr Forrest Born Sept. 9, 1826 – Died May 5, 1909. (Moved from Hernando, Miss., to Chambers Creek Post Office now Forreston, Ellis Co., in 1855. Married Virginia Sims, Dec. 2, 1857
C. Matilda T. Forrest, Born Jan. 8, 1829, Married 1st Lane; 2nd, VanLear
D. Thomas Nathan Forrest, Born Aug. 23, 1832
E. Eliza Jane Forrest, Born Nov. 3, 1834
F. Elvira America Forrest Born July 7, 1837
G. Mary Jonathan Forrest Born Aug. 26, 1839
Children of Nathan and Nancy Forrest (Continued)
3. Jane Forrest, Born Mar. 4, 1805
4. James N. Forrest, Born Nov. 6, 1807
5. Malinda S. Forrest, Born Feb. 14, 1810
6. Henderson B. Forrest, Born Apr. 2, 1812
7. Shadrack F. Forrest, Born June 9, 1814
8. Nancy M. Forrest, Born Sept. 12, 1816
9. Eliza G. Forrest, Born Nov. 15, 1818
10. Nathan A. Forrest, Born May 31, 1821
Children of Hardeman Carr Forrest and Virginia Sims Forrest
A. Callidonia Forrest, Born Oct. 13, 1858
B. Alice Forrest, Born 16, 1860 – Nov. 15, 1861
C. Lee Virginia Forrest – Born June 13, 1862
D. Thomas Carr Forrest, Born July 17, 1864; mar. Etta Ernest Ground, June 28, 1895
E. Sims Forrest, Born Feb. 11, 1868 – Feb. 14, 1868
Children of Thomas Carr & Etta Ernest Forrest
A. Thomas Carr Forrest Jr., Born Jan. 19, 1896
B. Edward Ernest Forrest, Born Aug. 15, 1899
C. Francis Bedford Forrest, Born June 25, 1902
Remarks by compiler, Thomas Carr Forrest, Jr.
"The information shown in the chart was compiled from records found in an old family record book that had evidently been kept by Hardeman Car Forrest (1826). This book does not give the date of birth of Shadrack Forrest or the name of his wife, therefore this information is not shown on the chart. It does recite that Shadrack moved from Virginia to North Carolina about 1740.
The names of the eight sons and three daughters of William Forrest (1801) and Mariam Beck are not available to me. John A. Wyeht's book, "Life of Nathan Bedford Forrest," lists only the following: Nathan Bedford, John, William, Aaron, Jesse, and Jeffrey.
I hope someone else can supply the missing information but I believe you can take this chart, Cousin John, and establish your chain from it.
Cousin Mary, your grandfather, N. B. Forrest (1821), paid a visit to Hardeman Carr Forrest's home in Ellis County, Texas, soon after the Civil War. A brother named after him is an indication of our respect and admiration. Your father, Captain Wm. Forrest, visited Thomas Carr Forrest's (1864), home in Waxahachie, Texas. I remember this enjoyable visit.
Your great-grandmother, mother of N. B. Forrest (1821) remarried after the death of her first husband. Her second husband was Joseph Luxton. I am not familiar with the details of the trip which she made to Texas, but she came to the Camp Inn, which is located about two miles north of the present town of Navasota, Texas. This Inn was quite famous in the stage coach days, and it was while here that Mrs. Luxton developed a serious illness and died. She was buried in the Camp burial plot which is approximately ¼ mile east of the site of the old Inn. The outline of the old Inn Building is still discernible. The Camp Mausoleum, which is a homemade affair, is in a good state of preservation at the present time. Mrs. Luxton is buried just a few feet from this Mausoleum. I had heard something about this burial plot, but recently I made a trip to Navasota and went out to the location. I took some pictures which show the old Mausoleum and Mrs. Luxton's headstone. I am sending these pictures to you with the thought that you might derive some comfort from the knowledge that this headstone was erected by the Hannibal Boone Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy of Navasota, Texas."
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