Henry Clay Smith

birth: 1820
location: Louisiana
death: 1891
location: Bezer, Smith County, Mississippi

father: Tobias Smith
mother: Rebeca Narcissus Bankston

spouse: unknown
spouse: Eliza Jane Garner

1870 census

burial

children with unknown:

children with Eliza Jane Garner:

Laura Smith - 1866
UNA Smith - 1868
Mary Adalia Smith - 1870
Peter Lesley Smith - 1871

Warren J Morris and Francis Baker - marriage

location: Pike County, Georgia
date: March 28, 1844

Dodd, Jordan. Georgia Marriages to 1850 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1997.                    

Warren J Morris - 1880 census

1880 census
location: Van Zandt County, Texas
date: June 12-13, 1880

W J Morris  white  male  61  married  farmer  Georgia
Francis Morris  white  female  54  wife  married  housekeeping  South Carolina
William J Morris  white  male  32  son  single  works on farm  Georgia
G V Morris  white  female  15  daughter  single  at home  Texas
S S Morris  white  female  10  daughter  single  at home  Texas
J T Williams  white  male  30  grandson  single  works on farm  Texas

"United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MFJN-JJY : accessed 25 May 2016), W J Morris, Precinct 5, Van Zandt, Texas, United States; citing enumeration district ED 123, sheet 108D, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 1330; FHL microfilm 1,255,330.

Mildred Adams - 1850 census

1850 census
location: Smith County, Texas
date: November 7, 1850

Mildred Adams  59  female  $1000  North Carolina
David L Adams  15  male  Georgia
Warren J Morris  29  male  teacher  $1000  Georgia
Frances Morris  23  female  North Carolina
Elizabeth Morris  5  female  Georgia
Thomas B Morris  3  male  Georgia
William J Morris  1  male  Georgia

"United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MXLG-KD6 : accessed 25 May 2016), Warren G Morris in household of Mildred Adams, Smith county, part of, Smith, Texas, United States; citing family 388, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

Oscar Otilla Morris

birth: February 25, 1882
location: Texas
death: October 2, 1966
location:

father: Joseph Lumpkin Morris
mother: Mary Alice James

spouse: Margaret Rowan

1900 census

1910 census

1920 census

1930 census

1940 census

burial

children with Margaret Rowan:

Millicent Arlene Morris - 1905
Retta Ilene Morris - 1905
Earl Silas Morris - 1911
Lillian Morris - 1914
Joy B Morris - 1916
Oscar H Morris - 1920

Georgia Ann Morris Honnicutt

birth: December 21, 1879
location: Texas
death: February 21, 1952
location: Texas

father: Joseph Lumpkin Morris
mother: Mary Alice James

spouse: Virgil A Bobbitt
spouse: Hunnicutt

1880 census

1900 census

1910 census

1920 census

1930 census

1940 census

burial

children with Virgil A Bobbitt:

Dove Rena Bobbitt - 1899
Deno O Bobbitt - 1901
Velmer A Bobbitt - 1904
Milam Bobbitt - 1907
Opal Bobbitt - 1909

Daniel Hopson and Josephine Celcer marriage

location: Henderson County, Texas
date: September 8, 1923

"Texas, County Marriage Records, 1837-1977," database with images, FamilySearch(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV1H-Q2BK : accessed 24 May 2016), Don Hopson and Josephine Celcer, 08 Sep 1923, Marriage; citing Henderson, Texas, United States, Citing county clerk offices, Texas; FHL microfilm 1,481,022.

John J Robbins

birth: 1854
location:
death: 1894
location:

father: John Wells Robbins
mother: Frances Elizabeth Weaver

spouse: Mary Anna Jackson

1860 census

1870 census

marriage to Mary Anna Jackson - 1879

1880 census

burial

children with Mary Anna Jackson:

Wilma Robbins - 1880
Click Estell Robbins - 1882
Flectra M Robbins - 1884
John Thomas Robbins - 1886
Henry Montgomery Robbins - 1891
Annie Cynthia Robbins - 1893
John Jackson Robbins - 1894

Robbins - 1870 cesus

1870 census
location: Smith County, Texas
date: August 30, 1870

Francis Robbins  female  white  keeping house  $1000, $400  Alabama
Mary Robbins  20  female  white  at home  Texas
Nancy Robbins  18  female  white  at home  Texas
John Robbins  16  male  white  farm labor  Texas
Martha Robbins  15  female  white  at home  Texas
Texas Robbins  14  female  white  at home  Texas
Alice Robbins  12  female  white  at home  Texas
Josephine Robbins  9  female  white  Texas
Cornelia Robbins  7  female  white  Texas
Henry Turner  22  male  white  farm labor  Louisiana
James Turner  1  male  white  Texas
Isaac Abbs  21  male  black  farm labor  Texas

"United States Census, 1870," database with images, FamilySearch(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MXGZ-B1G : accessed 23 May 2016), John Robbins in household of Francis Robbins, Texas, United States; citing p. 81, family 558, NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 553,104.

John J Robbins - 1880 census

1880 census
location: Smith County, Texas
date: August 10 1880

J J Robbins  white  male  26  married  farmer
Anna Robbins  white  female  18  wife  married  keeping house
W C James  white  male  18  boarder  single  farm labor

"United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MFJ8-HKQ : accessed 23 May 2016), J J Robbins, Precinct 2, Smith, Texas, United States; citing enumeration district ED 96, sheet 157D, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 1326; FHL microfilm 1,255,326.

John J Robbins and Mary Anna Jackson marriage

location: Smith County, Texas
date: December 18, 1879

"Texas, County Marriage Records, 1837-1977," database with images, FamilySearch(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV1C-YX4B : accessed 23 May 2016), J J Robbins and Anna Jackson, 18 Dec 1879, Marriage; citing Smith, Texas, United States, Citing county clerk offices, Texas; FHL microfilm 1,853,162.

H.M. Rounsavall - death

Arch Nichols and Russell Williams were wandering around in Leagueville, near the pipeline. They heard a shot coming from across from Ruth Horton's house. They ran up there and Johnnie Hopson had shot H.M. Rounsavall. H.M. had fired a shot at Johnnie, and Johnnie grabbed a shot gun. H.M. had grabbed the barrel and Johnnie fired, shooting off H.M.'s finger tips and into his stomach.

Dr. Horton came around to see about H.M. and told Homer: "I can probably fix your fingers up but I can't do anything about the stomach. You had better get to a hospital."

Sel Smith had a studabaker and Arch and Sel loaded H.M. up and headed to a hospital.

Highway 175 wasn't in existence, but there was a sandy road that ran through to Jacksonville. However, given the time of year, August, cars couldn't make the trip through. So, they had to drive around through Tyler to Jacksonville. On the way through Tyler they had a flat tire. Sel had a jub of moonshine in the car and during the tire change asked H.M. if he needed a drink. H.M. said, "I believe I do and you know how I like it." It was understood that H.M. wanted the moonshine straight-up and not cut with water.

After the tire change the studabaker made it to Jacksonville. H.M. was in the elevator headed to the fourth floor where surgery could take place when he died.


as re-told by my Grandad, May 22, 2016 before church. We sat in the utility room and talked about Genealogy, various people in the community, and how my work at school was going.

Hopson is Free in Shooting

The Tyler Journal (Tyler, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 18, Ed. 1 Friday, August 29, 1930

Thomas L Reagan - 1900 census

1900 census
location: Henderson County, Texas
date: June 15, 1900

Thomas L Reagan  head  white  male  Sept 1864  35  married - 9 years  Texas  farmer
Clara C Reagan  wife  white  female  Aug 1875  24  married - 9 years  3, 3  TExas
Lottie Pearl Reagan  daughter  white  female  May 1892  8  single  Texas
Nora Lee Reagan  daughter  white  female  Nov 1895  4  single  Texas
Henry A Reagan  son  white  male  Aug 1897  2  single  Texas
Homer Rounsavall  boarder  white  male  1865  35  widowed  Texas  farmer

"United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M3GP-GXZ : accessed 19 May 2016), Thomas L Reagan, Justice Precinct 4 (west part), Henderson, Texas, United States; citing sheet 7B, family 130, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,241,644.

William D Rounsavall - 1870 census

1870 census
location: Henderson County, Texas
date: July 12, 1870

William D Rounsavall  32  male  white  farmer  Mississippi
Francis J Rounsavall  24  female  white  keeping house  Alabama
Homer Rounsavall  4  male  white  Texas
Chas W Rounsavall  18  male  white  farm labor  Louisiana

"United States Census, 1870," database with images, FamilySearch(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MXLB-L5G : accessed 19 May 2016), Homer Ronnsavalt in household of Wm D Ronnsavalt, Texas, United States; citing p. 37, family 254, NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 553,090.

Homer Mathias Rounsavall - 1910 census

1910 census
location: Van Zandt County, Texas
date: April 28-29, 1910

H Mathias Rounsavall  head  male  white  44  married  Texas  farmer
Minnie Rounsavall  wife  female  white  15  married  Texas
W Homer Rounsavall  son  male  white  18  single  Texas

"United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MRQ3-7CY : accessed 19 May 2016), H Mathias Rounsavall, Justice Precinct 7, Van Zandt, Texas, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 119, sheet 9A, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,375,609.

Homer Mathias Rounsavall - 1930 census

1930 census
location: Henderson County, Texas
date: April 9, 1930

Homer Rounsavall  head  male  white  64  married - age @ 1st marriage 19  Texas  farmer
Millie D Rounsavall  wife  female  white  30  married - age @ 1st marriage 15  Texas
Euno J Rounsavall  daughter  female  white  7  single  Texas
Wesley C Rounsavall  son  male  white  5  single  Texas
Robert N Rounsavall  son  male  white  3 2/12  single  Texas
Weno G Rounsavall  daughter  female  white  1/12  single  Texas

"United States Census, 1930", database with images, FamilySearch(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:CMQL-Y6Z : accessed 19 May 2016), Enno J Rounsavall in entry for Homer Rounsavall, 1930.

Homer Mathias Rounsavall - 1920 census

1920 census
date: February 1920
location: Henderson County, Texas

Homer Rounsavall  head  male  white  53  married  Texas  farmer
Millie D Rounsavall  wife  female  white  20  married  Texas
William H Rounsavall  son  male  white  28  single  Texas
Euno J Rounsavall  daughter  female  white  2/12  single  Texas

"United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHYH-5P3 : accessed 19 May 2016), Ham B Rounsavall, Justice Precinct 7, Henderson, Texas, United States; citing sheet 7A, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,821,818.

H M Rounsavall and Mollie Hopson - marriage

location: Henderson County, Texas
date: September 25, 1899

"Texas, County Marriage Index, 1837-1977," database, FamilySearch(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QK8Y-L41G : accessed 19 May 2016), H M Rounsavall and Mollie Hopson, 25 Sep 1899; citing Henderson, Texas, United States, county courthouses, Texas; FHL microfilm 1,293,681.

H M Rounsavall and Ella Harris - marriage

location: Henderson County, Texas
date: August 5, 1885

"Texas, County Marriage Index, 1837-1977," database, FamilySearch(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QK8Y-LSB5 : accessed 19 May 2016), H M Rounsavall and Ella Harris, 05 Aug 1885; citing Henderson, Texas, United States, county courthouses, Texas; FHL microfilm 1,293,620.

Willie Hopson and Ella Rounsavall - marriage

location: Henderson County, Texas
date: September 11, 1908

"Texas, County Marriage Index, 1837-1977," database, FamilySearch(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QK8Y-L8GC : accessed 19 May 2016), Willie Hopson and Nannie Rounsavall, 11 Sep 1908; citing Henderson, Texas, United States, county courthouses, Texas; FHL microfilm 1,293,682.

Smeltertown: Making and Remembering a Southwest Border Community, by Monica Perales

Smeltertown existed as a smelting industry company-community and border town in El Paso, Texas. Through her own familial connection to Smeltertown, Monica Perales “traces the formation, evolution, demise, and collective memory of one of the largest single-industry Mexican-American communities on Mexican-US side of the border.” Smeltertown, as a community, was was made up of several real and imagined social worlds that were constantly shaped by ASARCO. The community that was forged in Smeltertown served as a way of survival for its residents, allowing the influence from ASARCO to be lessened. Smeltertown tells the story of how its residents ordered their immediate socials. 

Perales begins Smeltertown by tracing the development of El Paso as a 

center of international commerce and immigration. Given its location, Perales asserts that El Paso almost had to serve as the location of a transnational mining and smelting company such as ASARCO. Copper and capital had transformed El Paso into an international center for railroad, mining, and smelting by the early 1900s. Political and business power brokers paved the way for the political economy of the city to foster ASARCO’s growth that would eventually establish a social and racial hierarchy within Smeltertown.

Smeltertown examines life in the barrio and the multilayered worlds created by the company and the residents against a backdrop of industrial capitalism and racial segregation. Perales “charts the contours of the web of overlapping and interwoven communities that existed in Smeltertown.” The author notes a great chasm that existed between the living conditions of the white managerial families and the families of the Mexican laborers. Also, Perales explains that the separateness extended to social places as well. The ice skating rink on the company cooling pond and the company-owned bowling alley were only used by whites living in Smeltertown. In reality, there were two company towns, one Anglo and one Mexican. 

Through jobs at the smelter Mexican men began to define themselves as a permanent class of employees. Becoming a smelter man usually began with living within the community of Smeltertown with various family members. These non-transient men would eventually gain stability through seniority. Ties to family and previous generations bound smelter men to Smeltertown and ASARCO, which Perales aptly demonstrates with her own familial and generational ties to the smelter. Hard work amid dangerous working conditions also defined life as a smelter man. Smeltertown probes these two intertwining historical processes, the creation of the Mexican-worker stereotype and the proletarianization of Mexican workers, and defines life as a smelter man.

If living on the U.S. side of a border town made Smeltertown residents American, Perales looks at how they also never left their Mexican culture and customs behind. The San Jose’ de Cristo Rey Catholic parish served as a place for Esmeltianos to reimagine what it meant to be racially and culturally Mexican in an American border town. The Catholic chapel on the hill became the locus of what it meant to Mexican in a border town. Through their sense of community and the Catholic parish, Esmeltianos retained many aspects of their Mexican culture: Spanish language, Mexican patriotism, Catholicism. “Blending elements of national and ethnic pride, shared language, and a common experience with Catholicism provided a foundation on which Esmeltianos reconfigured what it meant to be Mexican in a U.S. city.”

Thanks to the company-owned education system, Smeltertown residents were provided a space for students to become involved in an American world. Perales argues that young women blended an identity combining elements from both worlds, Mexican and American. The school offered young women social, cultural, and political spaces that permitted them to challenge gendered boundaries set by their immigrant parents.

Perales also traces the demise of Smeltertown beginning with El Paso resident’s growing concern over the smelter’s emissions and their effect on the border city. Combined with those concerns and deadly lead exposure, El Paso and ASARCO decided to raze Smeltertown and relocate inhabitants to other parts of the city. “The very industrial processes that had brought it life had destroyed Smeltertown.” 

Even as the image of Smeltertown changed from a source of city pride to a source of major embarrassment, Smeltertown residents defended ASARCO until the bitter end. The community that had bound so many residents together through generations, families, and friendships would be no more. However, Smeltertown’s memory lives on in the minds of its people and the Smeltertown and ASARCO reunions that are still held in El Paso. 

Man charged in house fire that killed 2

Dallas Morning News, The (TX) (Published as DALLAS MORNING NEWS) - APRIL 10, 1991

• Author/Byline: Associated Press, THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS (DAL)
• Edition: STATE
• Section: NEWS
• Page: 12D

BROWNSBORO, Texas -- A Henderson County man was charged with murder Tuesday in connection with the firebombing deaths of two Edom residents.

Deral M. Couey, 30, of Brownsboro remains in the Henderson County Jail in lieu of $45,000 bail, and authorities said the Van Zandt County Sheriff's Department was questioning a second suspect in the case.

Capt. Rock Ellis of the Van Zandt Sheriff's Department said Mr. Couey is charged in the deaths of Mary Ray, 54, and her son Mickey Ray, 28, who died in a house fire caused by a combustible bomb Sunday about midnight.

Two of Mr. Ray's children, his ex-wife and a man who was visiting the family were able to escape the house, about two miles east of Edom. Capt. Ellis said the incident was the result of a feud between Mr. Couey and Mr. Ray. Capt. Ellis said charges of arson and attempted murder are expected to be filed against Mr. Couey, who was arrested Monday at his home. Brownsboro is about 20 miles southwest of Tyler. -

• Dateline: BROWNSBORO, Texas
• Record: 04*10*DAL1192163
• Copyright: 1991 Copyright The Dallas Morning News Company

George W Kidd - 1910 census

1910 census
location: Henderson County, Texas
date: April 29-30, 1910

George W Kidd  head  male  white  66  married  40 years  Mississippi  farmer
Emma E Kidd  wife  female  white  56  married - 40 years  7, 4  Alabama
Irving Kidd  son  male  white  21  single  Texas
Pat G Anderson  grandson  male  white  16  single  Texas
Bettie Anderson  granddaughter  female  white  14  single  Texas

Year: 1910; Census Place: Justice Precinct 4, Henderson, Texas; Roll: T624_1563; Page: 11A; Enumeration District: 0016; FHL microfilm: 1375576

George W Kidd - 1880 census

1880 census
location: Henderson County, Texas
date: June 1880

George Kidd  white  male  36  married  farmer  Mississippi
Ema Kidd  white  female  26  married  keeping house  Alabama
Betty Kidd  white  female  8  daughter  single  Texas
Coleman Kidd  white  male  5  son  single  Texas
Flora Kidd  white  female  3  daughter  single  Texas
Leona Kidd  white  female  5/12  daughter  single  Texas

Year: 1880; Census Place: Henderson, Texas; Roll: 1310; Family History Film: 1255310; Page: 159A; Enumeration District: 034