Thomas Jefferson Arthur^[1]

1767 - 1847  (80 years)

• Name	Thomas Jefferson Arthur
  Birth	11 Apr 1767	Lynchburg, Independent Cities, Virginia, USA   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Married	20 Aug 1787	, Bedford, Virginia, USA
  Residence	1820	, Pike, Mississippi, USA   [3]
  Death	Jul 1847	Negreet, Sabine Parish, Louisiana, USA   [2]
  Person ID	I41636	Master
  Last Modified	17 Oct 2020

  
  

  Father	Benjamin Arthur,   b. 27 Apr 1737, Lynch Station, Campbell, Virginia, USA d. 27 Mar 1820, Hillsboro, Highland, Ohio, USA (Age 82 years)
  Mother	Anne Arthur,   b. 23 Apr 1741, , Bedford, Virginia, USA d. 17 Oct 1777, Lynchburg, Independent Cities, Virginia, USA (Age 36 years)
  Marriage	23 Apr 1765	, Bedford, Virginia, USA   [4]
  Family ID	F9712	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth Courtney,   b. 1775, , , South Carolina, USA d. 31 Dec 1855, Negreet, Sabine Parish, Louisiana, USA (Age 80 years)
  Children	1. Sarrah L Arthur  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   2. Hiram Arthur,   b. 1791, , , South Carolina, USA d. 20 Dec 1863, Madison, Madison, Illinois, USA (Age 72 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   3. Taylor Arthur,   b. 1795, , , Tennessee, USA d. 19 Dec 1878, , Sabine Parish, Louisiana, USA (Age 83 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   4. Allen Arthur,   b. 1795, , , South Carolina, USA d. 19 Dec 1878, , Sabine Parish, Louisiana, USA (Age 83 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   5. Barnabas Cannon Arthur,   b. 1800, , Jefferson, Mississippi, USA d. 28 Aug 1847, , Orange, Texas, USA (Age 47 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   6. Mary Arthur,   b. 1800, , Christian, Kentucky, USA d. 28 Aug 1847, , Pike, Mississippi, USA (Age 47 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   7. Milly Arthur,   b. 30 Mar 1805, , Knox, Kentucky, USA d. 3 Aug 1858, Huffman, Harris, Texas, USA (Age 53 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   8. Benjamin Clinton Arthur,   b. 1806, , Christian, Kentucky, USA d. 18 Nov 1861, Negreet, Sabine Parish, Louisiana, USA (Age 55 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   9. Thomas Jefferson Arthur,   b. 1807, , Pike, Mississippi, USA d. Oct 1883, Negreet, Sabine Parish, Louisiana, USA (Age 76 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   10. Elizabeth Arthur,   b. 4 Jul 1817, Holmesville, Pike, Mississippi, USA d. 16 Sep 1893, Toro, Sabine Parish, Louisiana, USA (Age 76 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   11. Soloman L Arthur,   b. 19 Aug 1819, Holmesville, Pike, Mississippi, USA d. 10 Mar 1880, , Hemphill, Texas, USA (Age 60 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F9718	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	13 Oct 2020

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - 11 Apr 1767 - Lynchburg, Independent Cities, Virginia, USA Married - 20 Aug 1787 - , Bedford, Virginia, USA Residence - 1820 - , Pike, Mississippi, USA Death - Jul 1847 - Negreet, Sabine Parish, Louisiana, USA  = Link to Google Earth
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• Notes

  "The Elder Thomas Arthur was born in Virginia. He traveled to South Carolina where he married Elizabeth Courtney. They moved from South Carolina to Christian County, Kentucky, where most of their children were born.Then moved to Pike County, Mississippi, after a short stay moved to Sabine Parish, Louisiana. Thomas Arthur had 649 acres of the Rio Hondo lands on Negreet Creek. It is said that they came to Sabine Parish between 1819 -1820. Thomas Arthur was an owner of a mercantile business in the Parish. He reportedly was robbed one evening and never recovered financially from the loss of the theft. The children of Thomas were educated by private tutor, although the females were only taught to read as he believed anything more than this would be unlady like. Thomas Arthur and his wife are buried in the Negreet area but their graves have become lost." Land: Residents on the Rio Hondo in 1805, Sabine Parish, Louisiana Source: Biographical & Historical Memories of Northwest Louisiana Nashville & Chicag, The Southern Printing Company, 1890 Township 5, Range 12 Jacob Leahy Thomas Arthur Thomas Gray C. Anthony Benjamin Winfree 1807 In the Neutral Strip known as the Rio Hondo lands, 640 acres was claimed and assigned to, Thomas Arthur, Bayou Negriete. Biographical & Historical Memories of Northwest Louisiana Southern Printing Company, 1890 Residents on the Rio Hondo in 1805, Sabine Parish, Louisiana Township 5, Range 12 Jacob Leahy Thomas Arthur Thomas Gray C. Anthony Benjamin Winfree In 1819-1824 the above named proved their claims, and after the survey of 1832 located their claims anew. 1840 United States Federal Census Name: Thomas Arthurs Township: Not Stated County: Natchitoches State: Louisiana Roll: 127 Page: 181 History: History of Sabine Parish Louisiana Source: Biographical & Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana, The Southern Publishing Company, 1890, Nashville and Chicago The first record of the police jury is dated June 19, 1843, when the minutes of an adjourned meeting are recorded. T. Arthur, B. P. Biles, W. Estes, J. Lebo, R. B. Stille, J. R. Smart and A. Lavell were present as jurors; John Baldwin, treasurer, and S. S. Eason , secretary; John Lebo presided. A road from Hugo Wallaces' house to the parish site was authorized. On June 20 a resolution postponing the sale of town lots at the original seat of justice was carried --- the cause being the dissatisfaction expressed at the location. The question of location was then taken up, and the Legislature petitioned to pass an act empowering the people to select a seat of justice in July 1844. The Herald and the Reporter of Natchitoches were selected as advertising mediums. E. F. Presley was appointed assessor, John Q McDonald, constable and in September the following named administrators of public schools were appointed: Thomas Ford, D. R. Gandy, N. J. Alford, Hosea Presley and Voluntine Nash. In May, 1844, J. A. McLanahan replaced Arthur as juror; Testator Name: Arthur, Thomas Document Date: August 28, 1847 Executor/Administrator: Elizabeth Arthur/Admin Record No.: LDS 0279108 Index #40 Petitioner Elizabeth Arthur states her husband Thomas Arthur died intestate in Sabine Parish, July 1847. No minor children at the time of his death. Administrators bond posted by Elizabeth Arthur as principal and Benjamin Arthur and J. J. Irwin as security. Wit: T. G. S. Godwin. Appraisers listed as Nicholas Jacks and Munson Duckworth. Land includes 620 acres in Sabine Parish, slaves and livestock valued at $6,623.22 all in community with his surviving wife. Wit: Bird W. Stroud and James Shelburne. History: Neutral Strip and Pioneers, Sabine Parish La. Source: History of Sabine Parish Louisiana by John G. Belisle, The Sabine Banner Press, 1913 (Pages 65-78) A large number of the first immigrants to Sabine parish settled on what was designated, and still commonly known, as Rio Hondo lands, the original title to which was based on a Spanish grant tot he settler, in return for some stipulated service to be or having been rendered, or other considerations. The residents on these lands in 1805 were Joe Leaky, John Waddell, Christopher Antony, Thomas Hicks, Jacob Winfree, Jose Rivers, Peter Patterson, David Watterman, John Gordon, Benjamin Winfree, James Kirkham, Andries Galindo, Hugh McGuffy, Jose Maria Procello (heirs of James Denney and Manuel Bustamento), Thomas Yokum, John Yokum (assignee of Jesse Yokum), Azer Mathias, George Slaughter (assignee of Louis Warren) Remey Christy, William Davidson, Thos. Gray (assignee of James Bridges and John Mackay), Stephen Bascus, Jose Bascus Doningo Gonzales, Felicien and Francisco Gonzales, Raymond Dally, Martin Dios, Dennis Dios, John Yokum, Matthias Yokum, James Wilson, Phillip Winfree, Absalom J. Winfree, James Walker, Nicholas Jacks, Hugh McNeely, Jacob Leahy, Thomas Arthur, Given Cook (assignee of Henry Charbineau), Edmund Quirk, William Quirk, Thomas Gray, Joseph Montgomery, Samuel Holmes, Benjamin Morris, Antoine Laroux, John Lum, John H. Thompson, Benjamin Biles, Jose Antonio Mancbac, Jacques Lepine, David Case, Widow La Lena Padea, Manuel Gonzales, Jean Baptiste Parrot, Andrew Bassum, Thomas Wilson, Louis Latham, Antonio de La Sarda, Jose Estrader, John Cortinez, Robert McDonald (assignee of Stephen Moore), widow Ganissieu Parried, Henry Quirk, Henry Stoker, Manuel Cherino, Maria Sanchez, Michael Early, John Litton, Asa Beckum, Francisco Rosalis, Jose Antonio Rodriguez, John Maximilian, the widow Interest Toval, Guilliam Bebee. These claimants presented evidences of their settlement on Rio Hondo lands in 1824, but after a new survey of the country had been made eight years later they filed new proof of their settlement and claims. The claims were for tracts of various size. One claimant, Antoine Laroux, very modestly asked for title to one or two acres, on which he had located his dwelling in the woods,explaining that he would not know what to do with more land.

  
  

• Sources

  [S761] Yates Publishing, Ancestry Family Trees, (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.), Ancestry Family Tree. http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=171832897&pid=134 [S751] Ancestry.com, U.S., Find a Grave® Index, 1600s-Current, (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.). [S867] Ancestry.com, Mississippi, U.S., Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1805-1890, (Ancestry.com Operations Inc). [S110] Ancestry.com, U.S., Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Vol I–VI, 1607-1943, (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.) (Reliability: 3). Name: Benjamin Arthur & Anne Arthur, William Arthur Surety. Marriage Date on Image: 23 Fourth 1765 Translated Marriage Date: 23 Apr 1765 Marriage Place: Bedford Volume: Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy Vol. VI https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=3753&h=354935&tid=171832897&pid=352231609729&hid=1049505911769&usePUB=true&_phsrc=PFA8168&_phstart=default&usePUBJs=true¤tPageIsStart=