Hydes of East Texas
I am still looking for clues to the parents of my great grandmother Sarah Hyde Franklin Lewter.She was born sarah Hyde, married an man whose surname was Franklin, then something happened to him, not sure what, andshe married mygreat grandfather Robert B Lewter on Christmas eve of 1876 in Tyler, Smith County Texas. I had for a while thought her to be the daughter of Anthony Gray Hyde of the Nacogdooches area, but on the 1880 census the other Sarah Hyde is with her fathers household in 1880 while my grandmother Sarah is Mrs. Sarah Lewter on the 1880 census in Smith Co. Texas.She says she was born in Arkansas.She lived in Tyler, Texas most of her life except for a brief time they lived in Dexter, Texas in the 1880's.Documents I have say she moved to Texas by the time she was 5 years old, which would have put her there abt. 1860.I suspect she is somehow connected to the other Texas Hydes who oritinated in Virginia, but I am not sure how at this point.