Katie Lee (?)

F, b. circa 1891
  • Last Edited: 6 Oct 2000
  • (Bride) Marriage*: Groom=Eddie B. Lindsey
  • (Deceased) Death*:
  • Married Name: Lindsey
  • (Child) Birth*: circa 1891; Alabama

Family: Eddie B. Lindsey b. Dec 1889, d. 1976

Ellen Almeda Burdette

F, b. 22 November 1875, d. 15 September 1902
  • Last Edited: 6 Oct 2000

Della Pearl Burdette

F, b. August 1877, d. between 1960 and 1962
  • Last Edited: 30 Aug 2007

Family: Tyler McEwin Swann b. 8 Mar 1873, d. 29 Sep 1947

Citations

  1. [S271] Joe Cooper e-mail, e-mail address, Oct 2005,.
    Della Pearl (Burdette) Swann
    was still driving a Cadillac about
    Roanoke, Ala in her early 80s

    and died in an accident about 1960-62
    in Roanoke, Ala (age then 82-85 ?)

    Eye witness to her driving
    Joe Cooper.
  2. [S345] Ron Duncan Swann e-mail, e-mail address, Aug 2007,.

Tyler McEwin Swann

M, b. 8 March 1873, d. 29 September 1947
  • Last Edited: 30 Aug 2007

Family: Della Pearl Burdette b. Aug 1877, d. bt 1960 - 1962

Citations

  1. [S345] Ron Duncan Swann e-mail, e-mail address, Aug 2007,.

John Sampson Burdette

M, b. 17 January 1879, d. 20 November 1951
  • Last Edited: 6 Oct 2000

Family: Florence Dessa Pittman b. 21 Feb 1883, d. 28 Nov 1966

Florence Dessa Pittman

F, b. 21 February 1883, d. 28 November 1966
  • Last Edited: 6 Oct 2000

Family: John Sampson Burdette b. 17 Jan 1879, d. 20 Nov 1951

John T. McDonald

M, b. circa 1873
  • Last Edited: 3 Aug 2001
  • (Deceased) Death*:
  • (Child) Birth*: circa 1873
  • (Groom) Marriage*: circa 1893; Bride=Minnie M. (?)
  • (resident) Census*: 1910; Bell Co., Texas

Family: Minnie M. (?) b. c 1875

Minnie M. (?)

F, b. circa 1875
  • Last Edited: 6 Oct 2000
  • (Deceased) Death*:
  • (Child) Birth*: circa 1875
  • (Bride) Marriage*: circa 1893; Groom=John T. McDonald
  • Married Name: circa 1893; McDonald

Family: John T. McDonald b. c 1873

J. L. McDonald

M, b. circa 1875
  • Last Edited: 3 Aug 2001
  • (Deceased) Death*:
  • (Child) Birth*: circa 1875

Jewell William McDonald

M, b. circa 1877
  • Last Edited: 3 Aug 2001

Family: Leona May (?) b. s 1879

Leona May (?)

F, b. say 1879
  • Last Edited: 17 Jul 2001

Family: Jewell William McDonald b. c 1877

Edward B. McDonald

M, b. January 1880
  • Last Edited: 3 Aug 2001

Family: Florence Tweedle b. c 1884

Florence Tweedle

F, b. circa 1884
  • Last Edited: 6 Oct 2000

Family: Edward B. McDonald b. Jan 1880

Benjamin F. J. McDonald

M, b. circa 1882, d. circa 1883
  • Last Edited: 3 Aug 2001

James J. McDonald

M, b. August 1882
  • Last Edited: 3 Aug 2001

Grover C. McDonald

M, b. September 1884
  • Last Edited: 3 Aug 2001

Sarah Belle McDonald

F, b. 20 May 1889, d. 10 October 1971
  • Last Edited: 9 Aug 2004

Family: Omar Lester Fletcher b. 15 Oct 1887, d. Jul 1975

Omar Lester Fletcher

M, b. 15 October 1887, d. July 1975
  • Last Edited: 6 Oct 2000

Family: Sarah Belle McDonald b. 20 May 1889, d. 10 Oct 1971

Emma V. McDonald

F, b. July 1893
  • Last Edited: 3 Aug 2001

Ada Barrett

F, b. June 1876, d. 25 April 1965
  • Last Edited: 13 Sep 2018

Family: James Allen Carlisle b. Apr 1870

Citations

  1. [S1900] 1900 Federal census, , Year: 1900; Census Place: Roanoke, Randolph, Alabama; Page: 15; Enumeration District: 0060; FHL microfilm: 1240037

    Household Members:
    Name Age
    Allen J Carlisle 30
    Aden L Carlisle 23
    Marguerite Carlisle 2
    Aden Carlisle 20
    Sarah Jackson 82 (grandmother)
    Sosie Jackson 41 (aunt).
  2. [S1] Georgia Health Department, Office of Vital Records; Georgia, USA; Indexes of Vital Records for Georgia: Deaths, 1919-1998; Certificate Number: 010813.

James Allen Carlisle

M, b. April 1870
  • Last Edited: 13 Sep 2018

Family: Ada Barrett b. Jun 1876, d. 25 Apr 1965

Citations

  1. [S1900] 1900 Federal census, , Year: 1900; Census Place: Roanoke, Randolph, Alabama; Page: 15; Enumeration District: 0060; FHL microfilm: 1240037

    Household Members:
    Name Age
    Allen J Carlisle 30
    Aden L Carlisle 23
    Marguerite Carlisle 2
    Aden Carlisle 20
    Sarah Jackson 82 (grandmother)
    Sosie Jackson 41 (aunt).
  2. [S1910] 1910 Federal Census, , Year: 1910; Census Place: Atlanta Ward 7, Fulton, Georgia; Roll: T624_192; Page: 3A; Enumeration District: 0098; FHL microfilm: 1374205

    Household Members:
    Name Age
    James A Carlisle 39
    Ada Carlisle 30
    Margareth Carlisle 11
    William Carlisle 2
    Thas Nudd 35
    Katie Nudd 33.

Kittie B. Whatley

F, b. 20 February 1875, d. 7 August 1898
  • Last Edited: 6 Oct 2000

James Andrew Whatley

M, b. 17 July 1877
  • Last Edited: 4 Feb 2002

John Gibson Whatley

M, b. 7 February 1879, d. 26 December 1899
  • Last Edited: 6 Oct 2000

William Thomas Whatley

M, b. 26 July 1881
  • Last Edited: 6 Oct 2000

Sallie Elizabeth Whatley

F, b. 22 September 1883
  • Last Edited: 6 Oct 2000
  • (Deceased) Death*:
  • (Child) Birth*: 22 September 1883; Texas

Joseph Simpson Whatley

M, b. 28 November 1886, d. 29 November 1971
  • Last Edited: 14 May 2020

Family: Carie Josephine Mantooth b. 18 Nov 1885, d. 17 Oct 1981

Citations

  1. [S501] FamilySearch Family Tree, .
    https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LMWG-561
  2. [S501] FamilySearch Family Tree, .
    https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LMWG-5RB

Eunice May Whatley

F, b. 20 September 1892
  • Last Edited: 6 Oct 2000
  • (Deceased) Death*:
  • (Bride) Marriage*: Groom=Albert F. Miller
  • Married Name: Miller
  • (Child) Birth*: 20 September 1892; Alabama

Family: Albert F. Miller b. c 1885

Albert F. Miller

M, b. circa 1885
  • Last Edited: 6 Oct 2000

Family: Eunice May Whatley b. 20 Sep 1892

George Thomas Caswell

M, b. 9 February 1875, d. 18 September 1961
  • Last Edited: 7 Jan 2013
  • (Child) Birth*: 9 February 1875; Rock Mills, Randolph Co., Alabama
  • (Groom) Marriage*: 16 August 1898; Bride=Lula Bell Formby
  • (Deceased) Death*: 18 September 1961; Glenn, Heard Co., Georgia
  • Biography*: From Gerald Breed:
    I knew uncle George Caswell b. 09 Feb 1875 and his children Willie, Zelma and Gertrude. We visited in his home when I was a child. Uncle George was missing a finger. He told me and my cousin Charles Houze that his finger was bitten off by a "wharf rat". I later learned that he actually had it cut off by a saw in the saw mill the family operated.1

Family: Lula Bell Formby b. 10 Sep 1874, d. 22 Jan 1944

Citations

  1. [S495] Gerald Breed e-mail, e-mail address, Jan 2013,.

Lula Bell Formby

F, b. 10 September 1874, d. 22 January 1944
  • Last Edited: 6 Oct 2000

Family: George Thomas Caswell b. 9 Feb 1875, d. 18 Sep 1961

Frenchie Beatrice Caswell

F, b. 21 January 1877, d. 29 March 1965
  • Last Edited: 7 Mar 2014
  • (Child) Birth*: 21 January 1877; Rock Mills, Randolph Co., Alabama
  • (Bride) Marriage*: 21 August 1894; Groom=William Edward Bennett
  • Married Name: 21 August 1894; Bennett
  • (Deceased) Death*: 29 March 1965
  • Note*: 21 August 2013; From: Clare B. Dunkle (Clare Nynyve Buckalew)
    Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2013

    I'll check with my grandmother, Mary Belle Glass Bennett--still alive at 98, still firmly in possession of all her faculties, and still living in her own house of seventy-one years!--to see if she has photos of Frenchie Caswell. I believe she must; I remember seeing a family portrait of all the Bennetts, along with my grandfather as a little child. (My grandfather was the seventh son of a seventh son, they say.) Pop Bennett, his father, was a hard man, and they were a desperately poor sharecropping family.

    We're big storytellers in my family--after all, I'm a published author--so I know a number of family legends about Pop and Frenchie. One of the only things I know about Frenchie is that she used to tell my grandmother, "There's nothing sweeter than a little child who wants to cook," and my grandmother passed that on to me when I myself was a little child, as I stood on a step stool in my grandmother's kitchen, helping her make pies. I also know that my grandmother saw her mother-in-law, Frenchie, as a silent and somewhat grim figure, sitting on her wooden porch in her rocking chair and chewing tobacco. My grandmother said that there was an empty knothole in the porch and that Frenchie could spit her tobacco and hit that knothole with unbelievable accuracy from anywhere on the porch.

    About Pop Bennett, her husband, I know more. He was indeed a legend to us kids. He was a small, scrawny man by all reports, and as poor as he was, he once got beaten up so badly that he lost an eye. After that, he made himself brass knuckles with short spikes welded across them. My brother Anthony still has the set, and I've seen it--I think it's just for the one hand, not two. Anyway, that was back in Alabama. One night after that, Pop came home and woke the whole big family up and put them all on the next train out of town. The police stopped that train before it reached the state line and took Pop Bennett off the train to talk to him. After several hours, they let him rejoin his family and leave the state, with the cordial invitation never to return to Alabama. That, the story goes, is how they ended up in Texas. Apparently, no one ever had the courage or lack of respect to ask Pop what he had done, but my brother thinks he and his brass knuckles had probably killed someone in a fight. The police probably felt that they would have trouble getting a conviction since it might be considered self defense--and besides, Anthony says, they likely felt that it was someone who "needed killing."

    The other significant family legend about the family members on your list is about Martha Bennett Ohlenbusch, Frenchie's daughter. By reputation, Martha was quite beautiful. I've seen the photos, and she was indeed 1930's sexy. The story goes that her husband was a wealthy oil-well rancher and that their relationship was stormy. She divorced him but returned to him later. She would come visit the family when things got too hot for her, and the family apparently repeatedly warned her that he was going to kill her if she didn't stop running around--and that is exactly what happened. He caught her one day with her lover and shot them both with a shotgun. There was apparently an expectation at the time, though, that a husband could do this in Texas. It was called a "crime of honor." So he didn't serve jail time.

    Here's a link I found to an article about the event. It sounds every bit as sordid as the stories I heard as a child:

    http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=861&dat=19521116&id=4iscAAAAIBAJ&sjid=wFoEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4064,3446819

    Years afterwards, my mother, who was an English professor at the University of North Texas practically all her life, met a student who was going to write the next Great American Novel. It would be all about a sensational and scandalous murder that had taken place in his hometown... Sweetwater. As he described the juicy details, my mother said, "Oh! That was my aunt Martha!" She remembered Aunt Martha from her visits, lying on her bed and filing her nails, this sexy, beautiful, passionate woman.

    I'm afraid these legends make it sound like the Caswells took a few steps down when their daughter married a Bennett! Fortunately, plenty of us Bennett descendants have managed to stay out of jail and out of the way of shotgun blasts. But who wants to tell stories about the aunts and uncles and cousins who stayed married to the same person for sixty-five years or earned advanced degrees? That's no fun! So the legends of our bad boys and girls live on.

    I'll look into getting some photos for you, cousin.

    Best regards,

    Clare B. Dunkle (Clare Nynyve Buckalew)

Family: William Edward Bennett b. 29 Dec 1872