William Homer Southward
--b. 1849/50 Fannin Co., Texas
--d. March 15, 1880 Forstburg, Montague Co., Texas
----buried Southward-Magee Cemetery, Forestburg, Montague Co., TX
--m. Mary Jane MAGEE
--December 31, 1868 Gainesville, Cooke Co., Texas
----b. abt 1847 Macon Co., MO
----d. 1887/88 Forestburg, Montague Co., Texas
------buried Southward-Magee Cemetery, Forestburg, Montague Co., TX
------d/o John Calhoun Magee and Elizabeth 'Betty' PENTON
--------gd/o David Magee and Mary 'Polly' CORLEW
----------gt gd/o Ralph Magee and Mary Elizabeth BELL
----------gt gd/o John C. Corlew and Nancy LUCAS
--------gd/o LeRoy Penton, Jr. and Delilah SUMMERS
----------gt gd/o John LeRoy Penton and Jane JANUARY
----------gt gd/o Richard Summers
----Mary Jane Magee m/2 John Sidney HARVILLE March 15, 1881
Per Wayne Irwin:"I have found a variety of spellings on Iradell and Southward. One was Southard. My grandmother, Alice Caroline, (d/o William) used to say it had to be spelled 'ward or it was wrong. So I have continued with that spelling. However, the 1840 MO census did use that spelling. ""Thomas Dilford Southward swears he knows that William's name was Homer, as related to me by his daughter Lynda Claudette Southward Wann."
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William Homer Southward Tombstone
Photo: Courtesy of Wayne Irwin
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My Websites for William Homer
- William Homer Southward and Mary Jane Magee Memorials
- Job(e) Legacy - Gedcom on Rootsweb World Connect
JOB(E) LEGACY
Descendants of Andrew Job Jr
Mary SOOTHWARD Self W Female W 31 MO Owner Of Farm Keeping House MO MO Inez SOUTHWARD Dau S Female W 10 TX At School MO MO William SOUTHWARD Son S Male W 8 TX Allice SOUTHWARD Dau S Female W 7 TX May SOUTHWARD Dau S Female W 5 TX MO MO William MAGEE Brother M Male W 20 TX Farmhand MO MO Allie MAGEE SisterL M Female W 16 TX Helps In House KY KY
July 12 (Montague Co., Texas)Vol W, p. 85
(page 85 starts in the middle of something and I don't have page 84)MY NOTE: William was now deceased and Mary Jane had remarried!The State of Texas -Co., of Montague
Before me W. R. Bellows J. P. and exofficio Notary Public in and for Montague Co., Texas on this day personally appeared D. F. Southward and wife Annie Southward, J. F. Box and wife M. F. S. Box, F. M. Walker and wife E. E. Walker, J. S. Southward and wife A. B. Southward, M. J. Howell wife of John Howell all well known to me with the exception of Annie Southward wife of D. H. Southward who was proven to me on the oath of F. M. Walker to be the persons whose names are subscribed to the foregoinginstrument and acknowledged to me that they executed the same for the purposes and consideration therein expressed and the said Annie Southward wife of D. H. Southward, M. F. S. Box, wife of J. H. Box, E. E. Walker wife of F. M. Walker, A. B. Southward wife of J. S. Southward, M. J. Howell, wife of John Howell, having been examined by me privily and apart from their husbands and having the same by me fully explained to them the said Annie Southward, M. F. S. Box, E. E. Walker, A. B. Southward, M. J. Howelll acknowledged such instrument to be their acts and deeds and they declared that they had willingly signed the same for the purposes and consideration therein expressed and that they did not wish to retract it. Given under my hand and seal of office this the 12th day of July A. D. 1884
W. R. Bellows, J. P. and exofficio Seal Notary Public Montague Co.,, TexasFiled for record April 25th 1886 at 2 o’clock P.M. and recorded April 30th 1886 at 9 o’clock A.M.W. A. Williams, Clerk By S. S. Strong, Depty.
"Francis Marvin Walker appeared before the judge to swear that Sarah Jane Leeper, Ellen E. Walker, D. Frank Southward, James L. S. Southward, M. Lousiana, F. Box, and William H. Southward (deceased) were all of the said heirs of Iradell's estate."
If you have any old photos for any descendants of this family, please send to me at
Ann (Jobe) Brown
