SAMUEL SUMNER JAMISON
SURNAMES: JAMISON, BEATTY, McCONNEL, BRENT, LOVE, WYLIE, KEELING, CRUCHFIELF, DUNCAN, CURRY
Samuel Sumner Jamison, b June 8, 1827 in Kentucky, d November 18, 1904 in
Burnet County, Texas - was a son of John Jamison, b February 12, 1779 in
Pennsylvania, d April 7, 1863 in Pennsylvania, who married April 2, 1808 to Ann
Beatty, b March 2, 1784 in Virginia, d January 7, 1863 in Illinois - a daughter
of William and Mary (McConnel) Beatty.
Samuel was married on September 20, 1849 to Catherine Kirk Brent, b June
25, 1824 in Virginia, d January 24, 1897 in Burnet County, Texas - a daughter of
Kenner and Elizabeth Brent. Samuel became a member of the Masonic Order, Oquawka
Lodge No. 123 in Illinois on March 6, 1855. He was a minister of the Cumberland
Presbyterian Church.
About September 1859, the Jamison family moved from Mills County, Iowa by
covered wagon to Texas. During the Civil War, Samuel drove a mail coach between
San Antonio and Camargo, Mexico - a line of communication used because of port
blockades by Union Naval Forces.
A son, John Kenner Jamison, b September 17, 1854 in Illinois, d May 18,
1911 in Burnett County, Texas - was married November 24, 1886 at Burnet to Ella
Nelia Love, b March 13, 1870 in Freestone County, Texas, d March 21, 1953 in
Travis County, Texas - a daughter of John Patton and Elizabeth J. (Wylie) Love.
John Kenner Jamison became a teamster, freighter, farmer, and law enforcement
officer. He was a constable and jailer, and in May 1888, was commissioned a U.S.
Marshal of the Western District of Texas. Their son, Madison Love Jamison, Sr.,
b February 17, 1896 in Burnet County, Texas, d February 3,
1925 in Lubbock County, Texas - married November
1, 1921 at Hearne to Blanche Merzelle Keeling, b December 28, 1900 in Robertson
County, Texas, d February 23, 1972 in Falls County, Texas - a daughter of David
Pierce and Mary Frances (Crutchfield) Keeling.
Madison and Blanche had one son before his death: Madison Love Jamison,
Jr. Blanche worked for the Bell Telephone Company in Hearne until her second
marriage on November 12, 1929 to Perry Isaac Duncan - a great grandson of Green
Berry and Rebecca (Curry) Duncan. In 1930, they, along with Cecil Brent Jamison,
who was an auto mechanic, moved to Marlin, Falls County, Texas.
Copyright Permission granted to Theresa Carhart for printing the biographies of
these Falls County Families to this Web page.
"Families of Falls County", Compiled and Edited by the Falls County Historical
Commission, page 249 column 2.
Member of Falls County Historical Commission.
