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The Stalcup Saga (as it pertains to Grayson County, Texas) Frances
America and her twin, Chris, were born September 3, 1848. They were
children 12 and 13 in the family.
January 4, 187I Frances *Fannie' married Franklin Jefferson Etter in McMinn County, Tennessee. Frank was the son of Jefferson and Anna Etter from neighboring Monroe County. After the birth of their son, Columbus Walter, the Etters traveled north to Sangamon County, Illinois to see what it might hold in store for them. The family welcomed daughter Anna Gertrude into the family in 1876. However, Frank and Fannie decided that Illinois was not what they were looking for and about 1877/1878 they were traveling once more. Texas presented a contrast to life in Illinois. It was still the "wild west". Grayson County was experiencing both an economic and population boom which provided more land availability and had half the population of Sangamon County. The Etter family soon set about establishing themselves on a small 30 acre farm near Pottsboro where William Franklin was born in 1880 and Cleopatra about 1885. In the early 1890s Frank and his family moved into Sherman where they resided at 620 S. Montgomery Street. Frank temporarily laid aside his plow and took up the badge in 1895. He served as a police officer for the town of Sherman through 1899. Then, for a few years, he was in partnership in "Bond & Etter" dealing in real estate. The children: Columbus Walter - born November 23, 1873 Tennessee; worked in the cotton processing industry starting with the Birge, Forbes Co. in 1896; married Frances Kirschner - December 27, 1905 at Sherman Baptist Church, Grayson County; no children. Anna Gertrude "Gertie" - born July 2, 1876 Illinois; married William Wheat Collins - March 5, 1895 at Sherman Baptist Church, Grayson County; 1 child; lived in Howe, Grayson County, Texas; died July 11, 1908 from typhoid fever while visiting her parents in Ada, Pontotoc County, Oklahoma; buried Hall Cemetery, Howe, Texas. William Franklin - born February 2, 1880 Texas; went to Waxahachie, Ellis County, Texas in 1900 Cleopatra (aka "Cleo P.") - born 1885 Texas; school teacher at Howe, Grayson County, Texas 1905/1906 Franklin and Frances Etter moved north into Oklahoma/Indian Territory in 1904. Children Walt, Will and Cleo all left Texas for the new state of Oklahoma by 1910. C. A. Parsons January 16, 2021 Stalcup Index  Biography Index Susan Hawkins © 2024 If you find any of Grayson County TXGenWeb links inoperable, please send me a message. |