BENNETT: 
Charles
Oliver Bennett (1848-1914) & Lavinia Azalean
Coleman (1851-1927) married in Cannon County, TN
in 1872. His parents were Micajah Tippet Bennett (1820-1882)and Martha S. Palmer(1822-1848) of Wilson Co.
Martha died and Micajah married widow, Nancy Irby
Tarver in 1849. Lavinia's parents were Francis Coleman & Sarah Caroline
Thompson. 
She was born in
Cannon County. Ollie & Lavinia moved to Collin Co., TX
before 1880 & are in Cottage Hill Cemetery there. In the
larger of the photos (above & right) are two of their
four children, Ella and Clyde Oliver.
Left:Ollie & Lavinia's eldest son, Frank McCagie
Bennett with wife, Dorcie Lee McCoy (rear) and
Lavinia. Photo ca 1920.
Below
L to R: Frank & Dorcie's two children, Leonard De & Lila Leah in 1907. Leonard De in
1909. Lila Leah Bennett before her
death in 1944. She married Killough King Smith in 1922.
Lavinia Azalean shortly before her death in 1937.
Left: Ella Bennett (1877-1970), daughter of
Ollie & Lavinia, with husband, Jesse Black (1874-1957)&
their children (L to R): Paul, Leo, Effie, Jesse, Ella, Clay,
Roxie, and Jesse Ray.) 
They married on
Dec. 20, 1899 in TX, and moved to Eldorado, OK where they
stayed until their deaths. Both are in the Eldorado cemetery.
Near left: Ella and Jesse's eldest children, Effie, Roxie,
and Clay. Photo - 1905.
Additional
photographs courtesy of James Robinson, Linda Stubbs, and
Azalene Curry.
Far right: Charles Ira Howard and Emma Lenora Bennett Howard. Emma Lenora was the eldest daughter of Charles Oliver and Lavinia. She was born in Woodbury, Tennessee in 1873 and died in 1959 in Collin County, Texas. The photo was taken prior to 1944 in Collin County. Both are buried in the Scott Cemetery, west of McKinney. Left: Emma and her granddaughter, Mary Lynn Bass (daughter of Emma's daughter, Ella Bernice Howard). Ella Bernice Howard Bass is pictured with husband William Marion Bass in the photo in the center.
Photographs courtesy of Jim and Mary Fulton.
BOONE
& YARBROUGH:
Erin Mavorne and sister, Inez Cleone
Boone (by tree) ca 1903 in Parker County,
Texas were children of William Boone and Amanda Jane
Freeman who married in Tarrant Co., TX in 1876.
He died June 7, 1937 - she on June 8, 1938. Their children: Lois d.in 1907; Inez, b.1884, d.1933
; Erin, b.1879 died in
1957; Ernest Justice b. 1882, d.
1927; Jerome Haroldson b. 1888 d.
1946; Gladys Ellen died in infancy; and William Floyd b. 1892, died
in 1969.
(Above
left) The eldest of Theodore and Inez's eight children in
1913: Florence Jane (left)(1906-1994);
Erin
Mary
(center) (1913-1985); and Boone Yarbrough, with golden
curls, (1908-1998).In the center
above are Theodore (right rear) and his two sisters, Grace,
left and Vernie, right. Others in the photo are unidentified.
The picture was taken ca 1897.
Left: The William Leonard Yarbrough family ca 1890. William and Florence were parents of Theodore Yarbrough. L to R Theodore, Florence Mary, Vernie, William L., and Grace.
Inez Cleone Boone married Theodore
Yarbrough in Dallas 3 November 1905.
Photos courtesy of William Ernest Yarbrough and Kay Kearby
The other children of Theodore and Inez Yarbrough were: twins Woodrow and Wilson b. 1918. Woodrow
died 1942 & Wilson in infancy; William E., Ardrey Inez (1925-1951),
and
Ina
Frances (1922-1996).
Below left: Washday 1914. L to R: Amanda Jane
Freeman Boone, Mary Mallory Boone, Erin Mavorne
Boone, & front, Florence Jane
Yarbrough ( granddaughter of Amanda Jane &
William Boone). Below right: L to R: Audrey Inez, Ina Frances, Florence
Jane,and Boone
Yarbrough
ca
1938.
William Boone Family in 1922. Photo courtesy of William Ernest Yarbrough and Kay Kearby
Back: Boone Yarbrough, Jack Burnett (husband of Sweetie Bunch), Joe Bunch (husband of Erin Boone), Jerome 'Romey" Boone,
William Boone,Theo Yarbrough, Ernest Boone, Floyd Boone;
Middle: Jane Yarbrough, Sweetie Burnett, Erin Boone Burnett,
Ellen (wife of Romey)with baby Jerome Boone, Amanda Jane Freeman Boone, Inez Boone Yarbrough with baby Ina Frances,
Mary Boone (wife of Ernest), Ira Boone (son of Ernest), Josephine Bunch, Marguerite Bunch, Allen ?,
Erin Mary Yarbrough, Woodrow Yarbrough, William Ernest Yarbrough.
FREEMAN
Alexander
Freeman married 'July' Ann Boswell 26 December
1826 in Tennessee. Both were born in Kentucky - he in 1795
and she in 1808. Alexander had previously been married to a
Rebecca. In 1846 Alexander left for the Mexican War and died
sometime before 1848.
Alexander
and July's seven children were: Harrison Boswell (1828-1909), Rebecca R. (1831 - ?); Harriett Aurora (1833-1853; William (1834- ?); Matison R. (1838 - ?); Isabella G. (1840 - ?); and
Alexander
M.
(1842-1894).
Harrison
Boswell Freeman - descendants:
Pictured at
left: The son of Harrison Boswell Freeman, William Walter
Freeman (b. June 1851 in Texas) and his wife, Nancy Selitha
Grantham (b. 20 Aug. 1850). William and Nannie
married on 11 November 1869 in Harrison County, TX and farmed
near Purmela. Nancy's parents were Daniel Grantham (1816-1878) and
Melvina
Mary Thacker (1827-1902). Walter and Nannie were the
parents of seven children.
Far right: Alexander Louis
Freeman, son of William Walter and Nannie. Alex
L. was born in 1870 and married Winnie Drew in 1897. They
farmed until his death in 1934 and had seven children. Winnie
(near right) was the daughter of Jesse Drew. She outlived
Alex by 21 years, dying at 86 in 1965.
Left two: Verda Freeman, daughter of Alex L. and
Winnie. She married Thurman Maxwell.
Other daughters
of Alexander Louis and Winnie are (above): Vivian Freeman in a field with
her family, and far right, Thoyce Freeman who married Theron Bickley.
Alexander
and Winnie's sons were: (Far left) Alvin Freeman (d. 1973) and Way Freeman (d. 1966) &
their four-legged friend. Near left, Lewis Freeman.
Photographs
courtesy of Mary & Dwaine Maxwell
William
Freeman & Jane Ferguson - descendants:
For
biographical information of William Freeman & Jane Candice
Ferguson, see their story elsewhere on this site.
Above
left: William Freeman (b. 1834 in
TN). Photo taken ca 1858-1862. Right: Jane Candace
Ferguson (b. Christmas Day 1835, d: August 1899).
Center: Jane Candace and second husband, Justice S. Davis
Ferguson (Jane's 1st cousin).
Above
left: James Harrison Freeman (son of William
& Jane) and wife, Casa Anna Una Vesta Glenn with six of
their 11 children ca 1898. (Additional pictures of James
and Casa appear with their obituaries elsewhere on this
site.) Children pictured are: standing, Alma Gertrude,
Homer Leroy, Ivy Jane and front, Jewell Theresa, Raleigh Jerome , and Leslie Irene. Above right, Amanda Jane
Freeman (daughter of William & Jane) about
1876. She and husband, William Boone are buried in Old Greenwood
Cemetery in Weatherford, TX though no stones have been found.
Above left: another picture of Amanda Jane - date unknown; middle: Amanda and her granddaughter, Erin Mai "Sweetie" in 1901; right: Amanda's daughter, Erin Mavorne and daughter "Sweetie" in 1901 .
Matison
R. Freeman & Julia Ann Sivley:
Matison R.
Freeman (left with second wife, Julia) was the
third son of Alexander Freeman and July Ann Boswell. He was born
February 23, 1838. He first married Amanda Nolen in 1859. They
parented two children before their separation and divorce in
1865, and one son, Madison, was living with Amanda in the
1880 Harrison County, Texas census. She had married William Munden in 1866.
Matison
married Julia Ann Sivley ca 1868, and
they appear on the 1870 census in Logan County, Kentucky with
two sons, William (b. 1868) and John (b. 1870). Julia Ann Sivley was the neice
of July
Ann Boswell, her husband's mother, and thus, Matison
R. and Julia Ann are first cousins. By the time of Julia Ann
Sivley Freeman's death in Chattanooga, Tennessee in 1880, she
and Matison had four children. The photo at left is probably
a wedding picture taken ca 1868.
Julia's
mother, Sallie Boswell Sivley and husband, George Sivley, were the
recipients of a postcard bearing the portrait of William Freeman and his
scribbled note. The postcard appears on the William
Freeman/Jane Ferguson page at this website.
Photographs
courtesy of Jay Freeman and Chris Gass.
MATTHEWS,
TAYLOR, & McCOY
Left: John Matthews,
Sr.
was born 1789 in South Carolina. He married three times, but
his 14 children were with his second wife, Elizabeth
'Betsey' Harris, (b North Carolina 1787, d. Union
Parish, Louisiana 1847. The date of the photo at left is
unknown but before John's death in Union Parish, LA in 1859.
His and
Elizabeth's children were: Winifred, Thomas, Ann, Andrew
Jackson, Mary, John Thompson, Martha, Joseph Beck, Frank
Baker, James, Sarah, Nancy, Talitha, and Benjamin - born between
1811 and 1832.
John's
daughter, Winifred Matthews (1813-1872)
married Alexander Marion Taylor(1807-1861) in October of
1829 in Union Parish. Their daughter, Emiline
Independence Taylor, pictured below was born the Fourth of
July, 1853. She married Stephen McCoy (below) in Union
Parish in October 1872.
Right: Stephen &
Emma McCoy and eight of their 11 children. Three
died in infancy. The photo was taken in 1911, shortly before
Stephen's death in January 1912. Stephen's parents were David S.McCoy (1818-1892 )& Nancy
Dollar (1828-190? )from Alabama.
The
children: Back l to r: John Robert, Velma, Will, Fannie, Ernest,
and Dorcie. Front l to r: David E., Emiline, Stephen, and the
youngest, Lavada. All were raised in Collin
County, Texas.
Another
child of David & Nancy Dollar McCoy was daughter, Alice McCoy (below left),
b. in 1865 in Union Parish, LA. Alice was married thrice and
died in 1938 in Bonner Springs, Kansas. The elder woman in
the black dress is Dorcie McCoy Bennett, great
granddaughter of John Matthews, Sr. The center picture, ca
1894 is Dorcie as a teen.
Left: William Washington Matthews and wife, Parena L.
George (1868-1910) with children. William
(1850-1898) is the grandson of John
Matthews, Sr. and 1st cousin of Emiline
Independence Taylor McCoy. He married Parena in
Itawamba Co., Mississippi in July 1892. Photo ca 1895..
William
Washington's parents, James "Jim"
Matthews (b 1826 d 1891) and Harriet
Elizabeth Morgan (b 1831 d 1931) married in 1849 in
Union Parish..
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