 Groves Family  CLAUDIUS GROVES Like many others
in 1868, Claudius "Claude" Groves moved his family to Texas after the end of the
Civil War. Claude had left his native Charles County, Maryland home circa 1838
to settle in Alabama and then on to Louisiana gathering a wife,
Martha Ann Baker - December 1845, and having 8 known children along the way.
Martha Groves died and Claude married his second wife, Drusilla (Castleberry) Wise in Sherman, Texas
June 1869. Drusilla was Martha's widowed niece with one
young son.
Claude settled his family southeast of Denison, Texas north of Choctaw Creek in the Dripping Springs District. The Groves family worked a prosperous farm there for many years. Claude and Silla increased the family count with 3 more known children. Drusilla died circa 1902/1903 and Claudius in December 1908. Together Claude and Silla raised 12 children. 
John Singleton Groves  They were known to have had at least 59 grandchildren. C. A. Parsons October 9, 2020 THE JOHN HULL FAMILY Republic of Texas!
Free Land! Those promises brought settlers to Texas in the early 1840s. So it
was that John and Sarah (Sinclair) Hull of Macoupin County, Illinois
(originally natives of Pennsylvania and Tennessee respectively) packed up their
three sons - Isaac, 5; William, 2; and infant John, who was just a babe in
arms, and made the trip to the Red River in 1844 as members of the "Peter's Colony"
group. John made his claim for 640 acres on the banks of the river in the
Washita Bend area about due west of the original Preston settlement.
(Grayson County had yet to be formed and Texas was yet to become
a state.)
24 January 1878 Original Land Patent  The farm prospered
and a fourth son, George, was born into the family in 1851. John Hull died in 1854
but Sarah and their sons persevered and earned a comfortable living
there for many, many years. Sarah married a second time to John Early of Ray
County, Missouri in August of 1874. For reasons unknown this marriage
wasn't of long duration and they divorced
before 1880. Sarah then resided with William and his family until her death in 1882. THE HULL SONS  Isaac
Hull:joined the Confederacy in February 1862, enlisting with Fitzhugh's 16th Texas Regiment, Co. C. Isaac was killed in action June 7, 1863 during the engagement at Milliken's Bend, Louisiana. William
Hull:also joined Fitzhugh's 16th Texas Regiment, Co. C. He was taken prisoner by the Union forces at the Battle of Pleasant Hill, Louisiana on April 9,1864 but returned to Grayson County after the war. In January 1866 William Hull married Elizabeth Reeves. Three children were born to this marriage but all died in infancy. Elizabeth died in 1870. April of 1873 found William marrying for a second time to Miss Mary Jane "Mollie" Baird, a native of Tennessee. In 1883 they acquired 160 acres in the rural Georgetown/Pottsboro area where William would build a large (for the time) 2-story home for his growing family. Known simply as "Hull House" by many, William and Mollie raised their 14 children there:
William had begun
to acquire a reputation for his farming and ranching skills by his
management of the original family farm. By the late 1880's he was a prominent
farmer/rancher in the area with over 1100 acres at his disposal and was
considered to be one of the "well-to-do" of the community. William died in
1910. Mollie lived with daughter Beulah until her own death in 1929.
 John & Sallie Hull Jr John Hull, Jr.:took on the management of the family farm upon his brothers' departure in 1862. John married Miss Sarah "Sallie" Spence in Sherman, Texas in December 1865. Sallie was a native of Jasper County, Missouri. The couple built a home and settled down to farming and raising their family on 160 acres on the west side of Little Mineral Creek. Nine children were boom to the couple:
The Hull's only
son, Isaac, died at age 4 in 1889. John then bought land northwest of
Doan's Crossing in Wilbarger County and moved to that area.
After the daughters were grown and married, John and Sallie retired to a home in the town of Vernon. John died there in 1908; Sallie in 1912. George Hull:lived with his mother until 1874. Four months after Sarah Hull married John Early in August of that year; son George married John's daughter Julia A. Early in December. The couple didn't immediately settle down in Grayson County. They opted, instead, to try their hands at farming in Wise County, Texas where they stayed for several years. In the 1880's they returned to the Pottsboro area and George tried his hand in the business sector owning and operating a small mercantile shop in the "downtown" area. However, financial difficulties arose which necessitated the liquidation of his property and the family then moved to Matagorda County for several years before once again retuning to Pottsboro. Seven children were born to George and Julia but only six are known:
Julia died in
1908. George died Labor Day 1929 when he tried unsuccessfully to prevent a
little girl from being hit by a train but neither survived. He was
78 years old. C. A. Parsons October 9, 2020  Biography Index Susan Hawkins © 2024 If you find any of Grayson County TXGenWeb links inoperable, please send me a message. |