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Note: Name: S. E. Leamons Death date: 08 Feb 1925
Death place: Thornton, Limestone, Texas
Gender: Female
Race or color (on document): Amer.
Age at death: 81 years 1 month 27 days
Estimated birth year:
Birth date: 12 Dec 1843
Birth place: Louisana
Marital status: Widowed
Spouse name: Leamons
Father name: Flanagin
Father birth place: La.
Mother name: Smith
Mother birth place: La.
Occupation: Houskeeper On Farm
Residence:
Cemetery name: Garrett Cemetery
Burial place:
Burial date:
Additional relatives:
Film number: 2113843
Digital GS number: 4165443
Image number: 2754
Reference number: Cort. # 7326
Collection: Texas Deaths, 1890-1976
(Informant: Joe Leamons)
LEAMONS, M.P. HARDY
By Maxine Roebuck Johnson
Maime Pauline Hardy was the fourth child of William Smyley (Smiley, Smily) Hardy and his wife, Sarah P. Jennings Hardy. She was born 21 April 1875, in the home of her aunt, Mrs. Emily Jennings Hightower, four miles southwest of Huntsville on the Possum Walk Road, (F.M. #1374). When she was six years old, her parents moved to San Antonio, and she returned to Walker County when her mother died five years later. Together with her sister, Sadie, they lived with her grandparents Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Jennings, and her aunt, Emily Hightower, until Sadie married in 1889. Then Maime visited her on occasions and helped with Sadie’s small children. Maime met Isaac Joshua Leamons whose family had come from Georgia to Texas after the Civil War, and the married 10 December 1899.
Isaac’s grandmother Leamons was Susan Elizabeth Flanigan of Georgia whose first marriage was to a Mr. Brown who had become a Captain in the service of the Confederacy. They had one little girl, Molly. Captain Brown sent word that he had been wounded during the Battle of Atlanta and was not expected to live. Susan had Grandmother Smith keep little Molly, and she set out from her home travelling at night and hiding out in the daytime to avoid the Union soldiers. She was indeed a courageous woman - a true heroine - her height was 4’11”! She hid her horse in a cave as she approached Atlanta from the North. Horses were scarce, and once an attempt was made to steal her horse but she shot the man. She did not know whether she killed him or not. She asked an elderly black man to help her get to the Confederate hospital which he did, which was on the other side of the city. She reached her husband’s side before he expired and was determined to carry his body home. An elderly relative who lived in the area helped her to get a conveyance and she carried him to his home for burial.
Grandmother Smith died, leaving a household that included two old maid aunts and two uncles. One of the uncles left, and one aunt got sick. Grandma decided to taker her little girl Molly, and go to Texas. Georgia, as we all know from the history books, was so devastated that many people made the decision to move west - and of course straight west to Texas. Some members of the wagon train that was organized were distant relatives, so Susan decided to join the wagon train, and felt she could take her little girl and start a new life. The wagon train had not been too long in progress when Grandpa Leamons became impressed with Susan’s spunk, and in one early-on conversation said, “I’ll protect you!” By the time they reached Louisiana, he said, “I’d like to talk to you. Marry me, and I will be good to your little girl.”… which they did, and which he was. In Louisiana, the wagon train divided - some people went northwest to central and north Texas, some went to east Texas, and others stayed in Louisiana where they had secured sawmill work. The Leamons were among the latter, and their son Isaac was born in Louisiana. Later they went to Iola, Grimes County, where they did sawmill work.
Grimes County is a neighbor to Walker County so Isaac Joshua Leamons, born 28 September 1867, in Iberia Parish, Louisiana, would eventually meet Maime Hardy, and so they married ni 1899. They resided in Walker County until 1904 where their two oldest children were born - Ellen and Walter. They moved to Limestone County where land could be bought on credit, and two more children were born there; Sadie and Susan.
An interesting incident in Mae’s life was her selling Cloverine Salve - a household necessity - used on chapped hands, lips etc. The prized she received for her sales was a marigold colored glass punch bowl set which she in her later years gave to her oldest grandchild, Jean, and the set is presently decorating (with Jean’s love, affection, and permission) the family table of her granddaughter, Betty Morre, at her hospitable home in San Antonio, Texas. Another tale told by her grandchildren is she managed to have to magazine subscriptions where one was considered adequate for the women of her day - so she hid her “extras” under the bed.
Mae and Isaac’s children, and their marriages, and their grandchildren are as follows: 1. Ellen married Clark Springfield. A. Jean married Grady Humphries (divorced), B. Clark married Anna Creagor, C. Martha Ann married Carl Harper. 2. Walter married Myrtle Arney. No issue.; 3. Sadie married Hoyt Tony. A. Linda Ann married (1) Joe Steuber, (2) Carl Gormey; 4. Sue married (1) Maurice Lenamon. A. Walter married Jerry Robinson, B. James married Peggy Deuroin, C. Betty married Louie Moore, D. Mary Lou married Silas Owens, (2) O. H. Walker. No issue.
Isaac died 15 February 1947, and Maime died 22 March 1968.
(Notes by mwleamons: As you will see from the records Abraham and his family didn't live in Georgia but in Bienville Parish Louisiana, where he and S. S. Brown wed. As Tom Lanning noted, Susan married A. R. Brown February, 1861 in Bienville Parish, Louisiana. An Alexander R. Brown served in the 28th (Grays) Louisiana Infantry which recruited from Bienville Parish. The initials S. S. signify Susan Smith, so she used the name Susan Smith Brown. Also he noted an 1860 Macon County Alabama census record indicated her as Elizabeth Jr because her mother was Elizabeth Smith and her father was William Flanagan.)
1920;Census Place: Justice Precinct 5, Limestone, Texas; Roll: T625_1829; Page: 10A; Enumeration District: 95; Image: 359.
March 4, 1920, pg 279.
Leamons Susan boarder FW 77 wd Can read and write. Ala US SC
In the household of Irish immigrant James Harper and family.
From Holland? Mother died around time of birth. Abuse. Mother's family took her away from father. Father got her back. He was a sailor. Family got her a second time, then her father got her back and took her to America. She was a midwife.
Susan was married to A. R. Brown, 13 Feb 1861, Bienville Parish, Louisiana and had a daughter Molly by this marriage.
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