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Elizabeth Emeline Radcliff (1845-1935), the daughter of Jas. Radcliff (1804-1884) and Hannah Mariah Coplin (1816-1902), m. (Jas.?) Madison Commander (c1834-1891) in Parker Co., TX, in 1863. She and her husband had 10 children, one of whom, Edward Forrest Commander (1868-1952), of Ft. Worth, TX, was my ggrandfather. According to family stories handed down from older generations, Emeline and Madison eloped and she was disinherited by her family because of it. In her later yrs., she reportedly told family members of having traveled by horseback and covered wagon as a child and of having had to hide from hostile Indians to save her life.
Following is a tentative chronology of that life, compiled from on-line and published sources.
Elizabeth Emeline Radcliff Commander
(1845-1935)
1845: Born, Harrison Co., VA (now WV; 19 Jun.)
1850: Census, Harrison Co., VA
1856: Moved with parents from VA to OH and later to IL
1858: Moved with parents to TX
Dur. C. War: Is said to have smuggled cloth from the North to make clothes for Confederate soldiers (husband Madison served in the Confederate army and the widowed Emeline later received a pension for it)
1863: Married Jas. Madison Commander, Parker Co., TX (19 Mar.)
About 1864: Moved to LA (after the war, joined by her parents who lived with them for a time)
1864/1865: Birth of son Robert E. Lee, LA
1868: Birth of son Edward Forrest, Avoyelles Par., LA (12 Jul.)
1870: Census, Avoyelles Par., LA
1870: Birth of son Samuel C., LA (14 Sep.)
1872: Birth of son Chas. Morgan, Lake Charles, LA (12 Jul.)
1874: Birth of dau Mary, LA (19 Aug.)
1876: Birth of dau Fannie (Fan), LA (7 May)
1878: Birth of son Thos., LA (18 Nov.)
About 1879: Moved back to TX
1880: Census, Lampasas Co., TX
1883: Birth of son Claude, TX (Jul.)
1885: Birth of son Joseph , TX (10 Dec.)
1889: Birth of dau Lula (Peg), Mason or McCulloch Co., TX (7 Nov.)
1891: Death of husband Jas. Madison, Katemcy, Mason Co., TX (20 Feb.)
1900: Census, McCulloch Co., TX (Voca)
1905/1907: Moved with children to Ft. Worth, TX (Stove Foundry district)
1920: Census, Tarrant Co., TX (Arlington Heights)
1930: Census, Tarrant Co., TX (w/ dau Lula)
1935: Died, Ft. Worth, Tarrant Co., TX (2 Jun.; bur. Benbrook Cem., Tarrant Co., TX)
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