Typed by: Jan Shelfer
HETHERINGTON ,John Monroe
Surnames: HETHERINGTON, KILE, BROUGHTON, SNELL, MCCOY, TANNER,
MCCANTS, TILLERY, RITTER, CARTER, SHAUNFIELD, HERRIDGE
John Monroe Hetherington, b. May 12, 1844 in Claiborne, Monroe County, Alabama,
d. November 6, 1914 at Reagan, Falls County, Texas, was the second son of John
H. and Rebecca (Kile) Hetherington. He enlisted in Company H, 42nd Alabama
Infantry, and was mustered into the Confederate States Army on May 26, 1862 at
Columbus, Mississippi.
When John Monroe returned after the Civil War, he courted and married on
November 6, 1867, the 16-year-old Margaret Ann Broughton, b. November 16, 1851
of Monroeville, Alabama, d. of pneumonia in her in Reagan, Falls County,
Texas on January 10, 1916-a daughter of Charles Richard and Mary R. (Snell)
Broughton who were large plantation owners in Alabama. John Monroe and Margaret
Ann (Broughton) Hetherington were both buried in Covington Cemetery at Reagan,
where several of their descendants are also buried.
For about two years after their marriage, John Monroe and Margaret Ann lived on
the Hetherington farm, then moved to a 200-acre farm given to them by her
parents, where they resided until 1885 when they wold out and moved to Reagan,
Falls County, Texas where John's brother William George Hetherington, had
settled in 1883 with his wife, Susan M. (Broughton). Traveling with John Monroe
and Margaret Ann from Alabama in 1885 were her maternal aunt and uncle (see
Snell and McCoy biographies).
John Monroe and Margaret Ann (Broughton) Hetherington had six children: John
Charles Hetherington, b. October 18, 1868, married Frances Emma Tanner; Edward
Nathaniel Hetherington, b. December 20, 1870, married Lillie Valeria McCants;
Mary Rebecca Hetherington, b. February 28, 1873, married John Preston Tillery;
Sam Hetherington, b. January 3, 1875, married first to Rosa Ritter and second to
Mamie Carter; Margaret Hetherington, b. August 28, 1877, married George Wallace
Shaunfield; and George Kile Hetherington, b. December 31, 1879, married Frances
Herridge.
Copyright Permission granted to Theresa Carhart for printing these bio of these
Falls County Families to this Web page.
"Families of Falls County," compiled and edited by the Falls County Historical
Commission, page 224, column 2.
