|
a.
|
Note: Aminda Arendal 1870 - 1898
Minnie Arendal Stockton had just given birth to Aminda Stockton in1898. Minnie was helping a sick son ( or was the son covered with seedticks as reported by Augusta Zie Fariss ) and she leaned over in hersick bed to help him better, moving closer to the light of a kerosenelamp. The coal oil spilled over her, and burned her horribly.
Little could be done for her except to cover her with lard.
On her deathbed she asked her sister-in-law Annie Stockton Fariss toplease take into her care the infant Aminda Stockton. Annie readilyagreed, and later asked her husband Ira Jones Fariss if it would beokay. He replied "Of course."
Ira Jones Fariss went to Giddings, bought a casket for his wife'ssister-in-law, and brought it back to DimeBox.
Augustine Knox Fariss remembered at age 9 attending the funeral ofAminda Arendal Stockton. When they got home, his mother Annie StocktonFariss had the 6-week-old infant on her lap on a silk pillow.
The other four children were put out with four other families. Amindawas the only one who had a stable family life.
In 1898 William Murray Stockton tied up his horse at the Lexingtondepot, caught a train, and never again visited in Texas. He turned upin Montana, re-married, and raised another family.
Thomas Murray Stockton fared fairly well, going with the Peeblesfamily in Lexington, of the Arendal clan, but it was not a solid home.
The other three girls were shunted from pillar to post among otherfamilies. Martha Stockton went with Aunt Major Mary Penn StocktonBowers; then to an aunt in Smithville; then to Aunt Ida of the Arendalclan.
Before his death in 1894, the father Augustine Partnership Stocktonhad said "I wouldn't take a whole cowpen of boys for any one of mygirls."
Enumerated with Grandmother Martha Arnold in the 1900 Lee Countysoundex :
Mary L. Stockton Age 7 Born February 1893 A stranger tous.
Annie F. Stockton Age 7 Born November 1892 Daughter ofWilliam Murray Stockton and Aminda.
Elvira Stockton Age 4 Born April 1896 Daughterof William Murray Stockton and Aminda.
Annie F. Stockton is additionally enumerated in the home of I. J.Fariss in this same census, but she must have been only visiting in theI. J. Fariss home, for that house was crowded with 5 children, andlittle sister Elvira, and little niece Minnie, so it seems more likelythat Annie F. made her regular home with grandmother Martha Arnold.
|
