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Hi,
I'm searching the Helms board hoping to find info on who I think is my gg grandmother Lulu / Louisa M. CORN b about 1843 MO, who married 1859 to a james HELMS in Jackson Co., VanBuren twp Missouri. Her parents were John SLAUGHTER CORN (b 1811 VA) and his 2nd wife Soleta / Seleta BRIDGES b TN--info gleaned from the research of others posting trees online.
I understand from reading other research that John Slaughter CORN's mother was Mary SLAUGHTER, so that explains his middle name / initial. I welcome any information on this line. IF indeed Louisa M. CORN HELMS is my gg grandmother it would have to be in another marriage during the Civil WAR to a WASHBURN / WASHBORNE, (variety spellings) as she had my great grandfather Robert E. WASHBURN in Dec. 1864 or 1865 according to his Death Certificate in 1910 in St. Louis. There was a J. WASHBORN on the census in Jackson County in 1850 or 1860 that was about 20 pages from the CORN family. He was married to an Elizabeth (?Tate pehaps), but perhaps she died and he remarried.
Caught up in this search, I noted a reference on an old posting 6 pages over on this board-- about an ancestor going to Texas during the war for Independence from Mexico ... re the Alamo and the Goliad / Fannin Massacre. This story I am going to tell has a full-circle ending back to topic ....
By coincidence, on another line--my COOPER line from Spartanberg, Thickety, South Carolina I have an ancestor who was 1 of the 4 survivors of the Goliad Massacre and he is written up in those very same reference books you find online --some from Texas A&M. (Though I was born in my dad's hometown in Iowa, I grew up in Texas and my husband and sons graduated from Texas A&M)
This great great great uncle of mine, Dillard COOPER born about 1814 in SC and was a brother to my ggg grandfather Benson G. COOPER who married Delphia LINDSEY / LINDSAY. Dillard COOPER married a Lucy FONDREN / FONDERIN and headed to Alabama with her where she had a son. Then Dillard temporarily left Lucy and his son and joined the Alabama Red Rovers heading to Texas for the fight. You know the rest of the story ... but fortunately, Dillard was among the 4 who escaped death.
My gg grandfather Dillard L. COOPER born 1838 SC (named for his uncle) to Benson G. COOPER and Delphia LINDSEY was named after that brother of Benson's ...and came to Arkansas with his family before 1850. I found them on the census in St. Francis County in 1850 and again in 1860, but Benson G. COOPER died 1863 on his farm about 3 miles from Brinkley, AR which is now in Monroe County, AR. That is where Dillard L. COOPER became the 3rd and last husband of my gg grandmother Parthenia ANDREWS (ANDERS) HOUSE HOLLEMAN (HOLMAN) COOPER.
Parthnia was born in Georgia near the Savannah River circa 1834 Wilkes, Lincoln, GA and migrated 1855-56 to eastern AR with her parents (Michael L. ANDREWS and Parthenia PULLEN / PULLIN) and siblings / families. Dillard L. COOPER died 1884 probably on that same farm of his father's, suffering pneumonia after battling a fire on the farm. His and Parthenia's daughter Clara COOPER b 1878 Monroe Co, AR is my great grandmother in her only marriage as 2nd wife of William David McLAIN (various spellngs historically) who was born 1859 in Lawrence County, AR. They made their home in Newport, Jackson County, AR where they had a large family. My grandmother was their firstborn child, Audrey McLAIN b Jan. 1, 1900 Newport, Jackson Co., AR .... and here is where the story comes full circle.
In 1919, Audrey McLAIN met Robert E. L. WASHBURN b 1897 St. Louis, MO. They are my grandparents and their only child was a daughter---my mother born 1920 in Newport, AR. Robert Jr. was the son of the Robert E. WASHBURN b 1864-65 in Springfield, Greene Co, MO to Lulu / Louisa CORN ?? HELMS ?? WASHBURN b about 1844 Missouri. I find them on the 1870 census in Springfield, Greene Co., Campbell twp in the household of Martha KING and her son Marshall GASSAWAY. (And I've explored these KING / GASAWAY surnames searching for some relationship)... This senior Robert married the 1st time in 1885 in Springfield to Anna MOORMAN and they divorce there 1888. By 1890 St. Louis City Directory, he is in the music business in St. Louis and by 1896 he marries Mary E. CAVANAUGH, born 1878 St. Louis MO. When he died October 20 1910, Mary showed his mother as Lulu CORN on his death certificate, but she did not know the father.
So that is my dead end---my biggest dead end in researching my maternal lines. Confederate ties are evident I think with the names Robert Edward Lee WASHBURN being given to both my great grandfather and his son. Did these Confederate ties divide and conquer the CORN / HELMES marriage or was it death due to war?
Who was Lulu CORN and who was her husband? Did she marry James HELMS / HELLUMS, etc, then perhaps a STAYTON (as I've read in 1 family tree online) or did she become the wife of the J. WASHBURN / WASHBORN I found in Jackson County, Van Buren, MO? Or was her line from some Henderson County Tennessee WASHBURNs I find --that also had a son Thomas J. WASHBURN born about 1845? (See below about Thos.) Did she lose 1 or more husbands during the Civil War as was likely the case for her WASHBURN husband? Or was she never married and just used the surname WASHBURN? What happened to her by the 1880 census when I think I have her son Robert in the Jacob BRADBURY household in Jasper County MO as a farm laborer...
...and why did his wife Mary CAVANAUGH ask the St. Louis Post Dispatch in Oct. 1910 to also publish his obit in the Springfield, MO newspapers? Was there still family in Springfield ... or friends? How did Robert E. WASHBURN b 1864-65 gain his musical skills so that he could compose marches, waltzes, folk tunes, print and publish them in St. Louis, have a family band, play the piano, organ, violin, mandolin, etc. and teach those instruments? Was he in any way related to the Thomas J. WASHBURN b New York who was in the music business in Buchannan County, Saint Joseph, Missouri? Trying to follow that line has rec'd responses that this Thos. from NY was orphaned and likely not related to my line.
Did my great grandfather Robert E. WASHBURN have a patron / relative who sponsored his music education or fostered his musical ability by letting him be exposed to all things musical??? This line of thought is my best guess. Or was his father / family blessed with sufficient means to see that he had an education? And did Louisa remarry after her WASHBURN husband died---as she was only 24 in 1870, still young?
Is there anybody out there who can help solve this mystery I've pursued for the past 3 years? Thanks for any help.
Audrey in East TN
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