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Note: Emily Bumpas Stockton 1802 - 1882
She and Douglas Hayden Stockton raised their family in Lawrenceburg,Tennessee. He was a merchant, and owned plantations in Tennessee andMississippi.
She was widowed in 1836, and was left with nine children. After hisdeath, she stayed in Tennessee five years. You would presume it tookthis much time to sell all the property.
According to Augusta she moved to Texas because her brother-in-lawHugh McIntyre had moved to Brenham, Texas. Another brother-in-law,James McIntyre (brother of Hugh) had settled at Chappell Hill.
Two of her sisters, Harriet Bumpas (first married to James McIntyre,and later to William Chappell) and Sarah C. Bumpas (married to HughMcIntyre) were already in Texas when the Widow Emily Bumpas Stocktonbrought 8 of her 9 children to Texas in 1841. Her third child,Maximilian Buchanan Stockton, had come to Brenham earlier with HughMcIntyre, her favorite brother-in-law. The eight children who made thearduous but interesting trip with Emily in 1841 ranged in age from 5 to21.
She elected to come by water. The family waited on the MississippiRiver in Waterloo, Tennessee for a boat for a month, before departing onthe paddle wheel steamer John Collier for the trip to New Orleans.
The John Collier raced with the Jim Stacker during the trip down theriver. When they ran out of wood, large hogsheads of lard were pouredinto the boilers for fuel. The winner of the race is not known. Thepurpose of the race is not known. The family embarked on another vessel for the voyage from New Orleansto Galveston. There had been a lot of rain, and the mud was deep. Thetrip by ox-drawn wagon from Galveston to Houston to Brenham took 10days.
See page 91 of the Mootie Clemmons Cherry "Bumpas" book.
Emily bought land at Brenham, and later sold it to Hugh McIntyreabout 1875. She is thought to have been a Charter Member of OldIndependence Baptist Church. Her mother, Sarah Franks Bumpas,immigrated to Texas in 1842 to live with Harriet and William Chappell inChappell Hill.
Emily lived near Brenham until about 1860, when she moved toEvergreen, then in Washington County, near modern Lincoln. Here, shekept a tavern on the road between Austin and Houston, known as theStagecoach Inn. Sam Houston stopped there often.
Emily was a very remarkable woman. Dr. Bill Johnson once remarked"That woman had the finest mind of any he had ever met." He ought tohave known, for he and Dr. James M. Stockton practiced medicine togetherfor a number of years, and he made his home in her home.
Emily Bumpas Stockton lived in Evergreen until 1870, when she went toSalado to live with her daughter Sara Elizabeth Stockton Clemmons. Fromthe book in the Giddings City Library, "Story of Bell County TX" in twovolumes, page 115, we learn that "Those who are known to have settledbetween 1835 and 1872 in the area which later became Bartlett includedEmily Bumpas Stockton and D. H. Stockton."
Later, when Sara and her daughter Mootie moved to Waco, Emily went tolive with Douglas Hayden Stockton II and Mollie in the Indian Creekcommunity, which is near Bartlett on the Williamson-Bell county line.
Emily Bumpas Stockton died in her son's home, and is buried in amarked grave in the cemetery in Salado, Bell County, Texas.
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