Beatrice Ann TREES

1852 - 1913  (61 years)

• Name	Beatrice Ann TREES
  Born	31 Jan 1852	Cedar Hill, Dallas County, Texas   [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
  Gender	Female
  Census	16 Aug 1860	Texas, Dallas County, Series M653, Precinct 8, Cedar Hill P. O., Roll 1292 Book 1, pg., 386a-Genealo
  Census	11 Jul 1870	Texas, Dallas County, Series M593, Precinct 2, Dallas P. O., Roll 1581 Book 1, pg., 326a-Genealogy.c
  Census	5 Jun 1880	Texas, Dallas County, Roll 1299 Book1, 6-PCT, pg. 314b-Genealogy.com
  Census	9 Jun 1900	Texas, Briscoe County, Series T623, Precinct 1, page 31a-Genealogy.com
  Census	4 May 1910	Texas, Briscoe County, 1J-PCT, Roll 1530 Book, pg. 293a-Genealogy.com
  _UID	26CF682BAC851547B373E3390AF70992F355
  Died	19 Jun 1913	Silverton, Briscoe County, Texas   [6]
  Buried	Silverton Cemetery, Org. N. Side #5, Silverton, Briscoe County, Texas
  Person ID	I88685	Branch 061 Neill Stafford b. 1756 Scotland
  Last Modified	18 Mar 2008

  
  

  Father	Crawford TREES,   b. 31 Dec 1823, Anna, Union County, Illinois ,   d. 31 Jan 1889, Duncanville, Dallas County, Texas  (Age 65 years)
  Mother	Anna Minerva KIMMEL,   b. 12 Dec 1831, Union, Illinois ,   d. 11 Nov 1913, Duncanville, Dallas County, Texas  (Age 81 years)
  Married	22 Jul 1846	Dallas, Texas   [4, 6]
  Notes	Married by William Henry Hord, Justice of the Peace in Dallas County, Texas [Gloria J.Tune1.FTW] Crawford and Anna Minerva came from Illinois in 1845 by c overed wagon and settled west of what is now the Santa Fe Railroad near the T rees family cemetery in the southern edge of Duncanville. They were issued the first marriage liscense of Dallas County. A copy of it is reported to be on the cornerstone of the Dallas County Courthouse. Resource:Ovilla, Texas History Book, Ovilla Historical Society, page 206, The Trees Family, by Mrs. Bobby (Sherry) Waddle William Henry Hord (1809-1902) was justice of the peace in Dallas andmarried the first couple after the county was organized, a Mr. CrawfordTreese and Miss Annie Kimble. Source:http://www.hocc.org/pages/about_us/our_history.htm 1919 Added December 11, 2004: Story of the First Couple Married in Dallas County By Mildred Gladney The cool of the summer twilight lay about them. The dog slept attheir feet. The old man gazed close at the print of his newspaper as thelight waned, and his wife sat quiescent, idle, dreaming, perhaps, of theyears of activity which had been left behind. The fruitful acres, uponwhich decades of labor had been put by the family, surrounded them. And,the story of this man and woman, who were born and who grew to maturity,and, in time, established a home of their own in Dallas County, is thehistory of the county itself, and of many others who have seen Dallasgrow from a ford in the Trinity River, to a prosperous city. Mrs. Jess Ramsey, nee Trees, is one of the ten children of Mrs. AnnaM. Trees and Crawford Trees, who were the first couple ever married inDallas County. This marriage took place in the days when there was nocourthouse, and the office of Justice of the Peace was a hazardousposition. But, the license was issued to Miss Anna Kimmel, whose fatherhad come pushing across the Texas prairies with his little family and allhis worldly possessions stowed away in a homemade wagon, and CrawfordTrees, whose parents entered Dallas County in the fall following theimmigration of the Kimmel family in the spring, on July 23, 1846. No Wedding Journey. The bride was not honored with showers and did not wear a going-awaysuit of blue tricotine. She had made her own dress of homespun.Afterward, they made their way through the undergrowth and the slightwoods between the log cabin, in which their parents lived at Cedar Hill,to that which was to be their home. There was no wedding trip for thefirst couple married in Dallas County, for trips in those days were morestrenuous than the ordinary course of existence. Their furniture wasimprovised from the materials at hand, and several pieces were given themby their parents. The log cabin, the floor of which was made from logssplit in half by the men of the families of the bride and bridegroom, wasnot large, but it housed, comfortably, all of the worldly goods of thetwo young people taking up life within its walls. They were not within calling distance of their parents, butcommunication was comparatively easy, even in those hard times. In thedays that followed, they took up the life of the pioneer, as they hadknown it from childhood. Instead of helping his father to clear the treesfrom his land, Crawford Trees began on that which he had appropriated forhimself. He was the head of a family, and their welfare depended solelyupon the fruition of the acres about them. Instead of helping her motherto spin and weave for her brothers and sisters, Anna Trees now had herown spinning machine and spun for her husband and kept the house. Civil War Breaks Out. The virility of the life that followed, with its goodly portion ofmonotony, and its difficulties, did not daunt the family. It grewsteadily, and at the outbreak of the Civil War, there were ten children.Crawford Trees gathered his old rifle and his knapsack together and wentoff to the war, leaving his wife to look after the ten children and tomanage the farm and the negroes. After a year, he was back, with hishealth so impaired, that Mrs. Trees still continued the work of the farmand cared for the family. And, with the sturdy little boys who weregrowing up, she managed well. The father died in 1889. The boys and girlsgrew to maturity, married and moved to new cabins about her. Eight of thechildren made their homes near Cedar Hill, and their children, and theirgrandchildren, have also made their homes in Dallas County. Mrs. Treesdied about six years ago at the home of her oldest daughter, Catherine,Mrs. Jess Ramsey, after seeing numerous grandchildren ready to take upthe work of cultivating the fruitful acres, which she had taken out inthe days when Dallas was marked by a ford in the Trinity River, andBonham was the only settlement on the Red River. Still at Cedar Hill. And now, this daughter of the first couple ever married in DallasCounty has grown old on the land of her parents, within sight of the oldhomestead. But, her declining years are spent in a modern farmhouse,which has water piped to it from a cistern that is never exhausted. Thescreens keep out the flies and other insects, which she remembers hermother kept away with leaf brushes. The woods are gone, and in theirstead, plowed acres and huge haystacks, and a pike road, upon which themodern knowledge of engineering has been expended, are to be seen fromher front porch. Her front lawn is mowed with a lawn mower. Her childrenvisit her in automobiles. And, in the calm of the summer evenings, whenthe work on the farm is done for the day, she sits on the porch of herhome and thinks of the days when her mother ran the farm and her fatherwas at war. "During the war," she said, "we used to go across the river onhorseback and take our wool to be carded, for we made all of the clotheswe wore at home. There was one little store and several log-houses and ablacksmith shop. The goods we got at the store were brought in ox wagonsfrom Houston or down the Red River from Jefferson. We saw the first brickhouse go up, and we saw the Indians disappear, going farther and fartheraway from the settlements of the whites. Troubled by Indians. "I can remember hearing my mother tell about the time when she hidseveral protesting babies away between the feather beds and stood at thedoor with the shotgun as the Indians approached. When I got big enough toremember, there were too few of them for us to have any trouble. The onlything they bothered us about was the horses. We simply couldn't keep any.One of our neighbors tried putting iron hobbles on the feet of his horsesso they couldn't drive them away. But, the Indians just cut off the feetof the horses and went their way, when they found they couldn't get them. "First Negroes Ever Saw." "I can remember, too, the first negroes I ever saw. My fatherreturned one night and brought with him some slaves. I was asleep, andthe next morning, when I waked up and crawled out of bed, I saw twolittle negro girls asleep on a pallet at the foot of my bed. They like toscared me to death, and then they got funny to me, and my father couldn'tget me away from them. We kept those negroes, I guess, until the war wasover. They stayed with us for about a year afterward, and then they went. "Mr. Ramsey and I went to school together at the Bethel Schoolhouse.It was opened in 1853, and Mr. Scott was the first teacher. Jess used tocome home with me after school, and we would take turns about grindingthe meal we used. You know, we would hollow out a stump and put the corndown in that, and then grind it with a pestle. We didn't have any flourat all. Mr. Scott was awful hard on us, and we were all scared to deathhe would lick us. I don't believe Jess ever got a whipping at school inhis life. We studied writing and reading, and geography and figures. Iwent to school at Lancaster, too. Then, when we grew up, we married andstarted out life as my mother did, in a log cabin of one room. We addedto it, later, and had two rooms, and then we got this. We have just threechildren. "Our children are all grown and married now, and we are worse offthan when we started. Sometimes, I believe ten wasn't any too large afamily. Old House Still Standing. "We had 1,200 acres here to start with, but we gave all but 200 ofit to our children as they grew up and married. We have a little grandsonabout 6 years old, who goes to school in Dallas to Miss Edna Washington.She is teaching him how to talk without hearing. My mother died when hewas about a month old. She lived here with us until then. You can see theold home place. It is the first two-story house on the main road towardDallas from here. Our children live up there on the pike, too, but welike it back here where it's quiet. How did you get that gate open whenyou came in? That's a patent lock we got on there." "No, we haven't any car. Wouldn't know how to drive one, if we hadit, but our daughter has one, and she comes up here in it. Get down; getdown, dog. She'll put her muddy feet on you, if you let her. Come backand see us and spend the day some time. We'd be glad to have you." July 13, 1919, The Dallas Morning News, Magazine Section, p. 4. http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~jwheat/miscellany6.html History of Cedar Hill, Dallas County, Texas "Early wagon trains brought the families of Hart, Penn, Rape, Anderson,Stewart, Kimmel, Coombs, Billingsby, Baggett, Holveck, Trees, Hamilton,Ramsey, Fuller and White, and many more. On July 22, 1846, CedarMountain settlers, Crawford Trees and Anna Kimmel, received the firstmarriage license issued in the Dallas County area." http://www.cedarhilltxgov.org/opencms/opencms/CityHall/city_history.html
  Family ID	F29307	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	John Wesley PENN,   b. 9 Jul 1853, Cairo, Alexander County, Illinois ,   d. 9 Dec 1928, Mansfield, Tarrant County, Texas  (Age 75 years)
  Married	5 Oct 1874	Dallas, Dallas Co., Texas   [6]
  Married	11 Oct 1874  [5, 6]
  Notes	Birth dates for parents and children from personal family history ofAletha Mae Stafford Tune, granddaughter of John Wesley and Beatrice TreesPenn.
  Children	1. Rosa Lee PENN,   b. 21 Sep 1875, Cedar Hill, Dallas County, Texas ,   d. 1 May 1957, Electra, Wichita County, Texas  (Age 81 years)   2. Walter William PENN,   b. 8 Mar 1877,   d. 17 Jul 1939  (Age 62 years)   3. Texana Marvie PENN,   b. 30 Jul 1878, Texas ,   d. 2 Aug 1939, Dallas, Dallas Co., Texas  (Age 61 years)   4. Alzie Jewell PENN,   b. 8 Mar 1880, Cedar Hill, Dallas County, Texas ,   d. 24 May 1954, Dallas, Dallas Co., Texas  (Age 74 years)   5. Sarah Delores PENN,   b. 10 Oct 1881, Cedar Hill, Texas ,   d. 27 Mar 1904, Silverton, Briscoe County, Texas  (Age 22 years)   6. Naoma Catherine PENN,   b. 27 Jan 1883, Texas ,   d. 11 Nov 1955, Mansfield, Tarrant County, Texas  (Age 72 years)   7. Viola Vera May PENN,   b. 2 May 1884,   d. 31 Mar 1973  (Age 88 years)   8. Mary Elizabeth PENN,   b. 10 Nov 1885,   d. Yes, date unknown   9. David Randolph PENN,   b. 10 Mar 1887, Cedar Hill, Dallas County, Texas ,   d. Mangum, Oklahoma   10. Phillip Crawford PENN,   b. 22 Nov 1889,   d. 20 Jan 1954, Brinkman, Oklahoma  (Age 64 years)   11. Safronia Alice PENN,   b. 28 Nov 1891,   d. Yes, date unknown   12. Isaac Orten PENN,   b. 20 Sep 1893, Cedar Hill, Dallas County, Texas ,   d. 20 Apr 1956, Silverton, Brisco, County, Texas  (Age 62 years)   13. Tommy Trees PENN,   b. 28 Jan 1896, Texas ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Last Modified	5 Mar 2022
  Family ID	F29325	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Beatrice Italian and French form of Beatrix, occasionally used in England duringthe Middle Ages, and strongly revived in the 19th century. It is mostfamous as the name of Dante's beloved. Cognates: Scottish Gaelic:Beitiris. Welsh: Betrys (a modern Welsh spelling of the English givenname). Short form: English: Bea. Beatrix English and German: from a Late Latin personal name, which was borne by asaint executed in Rome, together with Faustinus and Simplicius, in theearly 4th century. The original form of the name seems to have beenViatrix, a feminine version of Viator “voyager (through life)”, which wascommon among early Christians. This was then altered by association withLatin Beatus “blessed” (Via- and Bea- being pronounced very similarly inLate Latin). Cognate: Spanish: Beatriz. See also Beatrice. Pet forms: English: Beat(t)ie. Italian: Bice. A Dictionary of First Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0192800507 Ann English: variant spelling of Anne, Ann was the more common of the twospellings in the 19th century, but is now losing ground to the form withfinal -e. Anne English, French, and German form (via Old French, Latin, and Greek) ofthe Hebrew female name Hanna “He (God) has favoured me (i.e. with achild)”. This is the name borne in the Bible by the mother of Samuel (seeHannah), and according to non-biblical tradition also by the mother ofthe Virgin Mary. It is the widespread folk cult of the latter that hasled to the great popularity of the name in various forms throughoutEurope. The simplified form Ann was in the 19th century very much morecommon, but the form with final -e has grown in popularity during the20th century, partly perhaps due to the enormous popularity of L. M.Montgomery's story Anne of Green Gables (1908), and partly due toPrincess Anne (b. 1950). In Ireland Anne has been used as an Anglicizedform of Áine. See also Anna. Pet forms: English: Annie. French: Annette,Ninon. Breton: Annick. Low German: Anke, Antje. Dutch: Anneke. A Dictionary of First Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0192800507 Trees English: variant of Treece. Treece English: topographic name from the plural of Middle English tre(w) ‘tree’. Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN0-19-508137-4 ********************************************* 1860 United States Federal Census about Beatrice Ann Trees Penn Name: Beatrice Treese Age in 1860: 8 Birth Year: abt 1852 Birthplace: Texas Home in 1860: Precinct 8, Dallas, Texas Gender: Female Post Office: Cedar Hill Value of parents' real estate: $4760 Value of parents' personal estate: $7150 Dwelling and family number 633 Household Members: Name, Age, Gender, Place of birth Crawford Treese 36, male, Illinois Anna M Treese 38, female, Illinois Catharine Treese 11, female, Texas Beatrice Treese 8, female, Texas David Treese 6, male, Texas Philip Treese 4, male, Texas Saml H Treese 1, male, Texas Albert Cross 17 Source Citation: Year: 1860; Census Place: Precinct 8, Dallas, Texas;Roll: M653_1292; Page: 386; Image: 246(13 of 13) Source Information: Ancestry.com. 1860 United States Federal Census [database on-line].Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2004. Original data:United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Eighth Census of theUnited States, 1860. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and RecordsAdministration, 1860. M653, 1,438 rolls. 1870 United States Federal Census about Beatrice Ann Trees Penn Name: Beatress Trees Estimated birth year: abt 1853 Age in 1870: 17 Birthplace: Texas Race: White Gender: Female Home in 1870: Precinct 2, Dallas, Texas Value of parents' real estate: $1000 Value of parents' personal estate: $2075 Dwelling number 132 and family number 136 Household Members: Name, Age, Gender, Place of birth Trees, Crawford, 45, Male, Illinois Trees, Anna M., 32, Female, Illinois Trees, Beatrice, 17, female, Texas Trees, David, 16, male, Texas Trees, Phillip W., male, 13, Texas Trees, Samuel H., male, 10, Texas Trees, Crawford, male, 8, Texas Trees, Texana, female, 5, Texas Trees, Mary E. female, 3, Texas Post Office: Dallas Source Citation: Year: 1870; Census Place: Precinct 2, Dallas, Texas;Roll: M593_1581; Page: 326; Image: 132(23 of 84) Source Information: Ancestry.com. 1870 United States Federal Census [database on-line].Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2003. Original data: 1870. United States. Ninth Census of the United States, 1870. Washington, D.C.National Archives and Records Administration. M593, RG29, 1,761 rolls. 1880 United States Federal Census about Beatrice Ann Trees Penn Name: Beatrice A. Penn Home in 1880: Precinct 6, Dallas, Texas Age: 27 Estimated birth year: abt 1853 Birthplace: Texas Relation to head-of-household: Wife Spouse's name: J.W. Father's birthplace: Illinois Mother's birthplace: Illinois Neighbors: Occupation: Keeping House Marital Status: Married Race: White Gender: Female Dwelling number 127 and family number 132 Household Members: Name, Age, Relationship to head of house, Place ofbirth J.W. Penn 26, self, Illinois--Occupation--Farmer Beatrice A. Penn 27, wife, Texas--Keeping house Rosa Lee Penn 4, daughter, Texas Wm.Waller Penn 3, son, Texas T.Mavin Penn 1, daughter, Texas A.Jewel Penn 2 Months, son, Texas Robt.G. Penn 20, brother, Texas J.Mark Bean 27, Boarder, Arkansas Source Citation: Year: 1880; Census Place: Precinct 6, Dallas, Texas;Roll: T9_1299; Family History Film: 1255299; Page: 314.4000; EnumerationDistrict: 67; Image 16 of 22 Source Information: Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 1880United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: TheGenerations Network, Inc., 2005. 1880 U.S. Census Index provided by TheChurch of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints © Copyright 1999 IntellectualReserve, Inc. All rights reserved. All use is subject to the limited uselicense and other terms and conditions applicable to this site. Originaldata: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Tenth Census of theUnited States, 1880. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and RecordsAdministration, 1880. T9, 1,454 rolls. 1900 United States Federal Census about Beatrice Ann Trees Penn Name: Beatrice A Penn Home in 1900: Justice Precinct 1, Briscoe, Texas Age: 48 Estimated birth year: abt 1852 Birthplace: Texas Relationship to head-of-house: Wife Spouse's name: John Race: White Husband's Occupation: Farmer--Owns farm Marital Status: Married for 25 years with 13 of 13 children living attime of this census Dwelling number 94 and family number 98 Household Members: Name, Age, Relationship to head of house, Place ofbirth John Penn 46, self, Illinois Beatrice A Penn 48, wife, Texas Alza J Penn 20, son, Texas Viola V M Penn 16, daughter, Texas Mary J Penn 14, daughter, Texas David R Penn 13, son, Texas Phillip C Penn 10, son, Texas Sarah A Penn 8, daughter, Texas Isaac O Penn 6, son, Texas Tommie T Penn 4, son, Texas Source Citation: Year: 1900; Census Place: Justice Precinct 1, Briscoe,Texas; Roll: T623 1615; Page: 6B; Enumeration District: 8; Image 12 of 13 Source Information: Ancestry.com. 1900 United States Federal Census [database on-line].Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2004. Original data:United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Twelfth Census of theUnited States, 1900. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and RecordsAdministration, 1900. T623, 1854 rolls. 1910 United States Federal Census about Beatrice Ann Trees Penn Name: Beatrice A Penny [Misread, should be Beatrice A Penn] Age in 1910: 58 Estimated birth year: abt 1852 Birthplace: Texas Relation to Head of House: Wife Father's Birth Place: Illinois Mother's Birth Place: Illinois Spouse's name: John W Home in 1910: Justice Precinct 1, Briscoe, Texas Marital Status: Married for 35 years with 12 of 13 children living attime of this census Race: White Gender: Female Husband's Occupation: Farmer--Owns farm Dwelling number 169 and family number 170 Household Members: Name, Age, Relationship to head of house, Place ofbirth John W Penn 56, Self, Illinois Beatrice A Penn 58, Wife, Texas Mollie E Penn 25, Daughter, Texas Philip O Penn 20, Son, Texas Sofrona A Penn 18, Daughter, Texas Isaac O Penn 16, Son, Texas Tommie T Penn 14, Son, Texas Charles A Stafford 10, Grandson, Texas---Son of Sarah Delores PennStafford Letha Stafford 8, Granddaughter, Texas--Daughter of Sarah Delores PennStafford Source Citation: Year: 1910; Census Place: Justice Precinct 1, Briscoe,Texas; Roll: T624_1530; Page: 19A; Enumeration District: 16; Image: 1204(25 of 28) Source Information: Ancestry.com. 1910 United States Federal Census [database on-line].Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2006. For details on thecontents of the film numbers, visit the following NARA web page: NARAOriginal data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. ThirteenthCensus of the United States, 1910. Washington, D.C.: National Archivesand Records Administration, 1910. T624, 1,178 rolls. ************************************** Silverton Cemetery, Briscoe Co., Silverton, Tx Cemetery Inscriptions from the book: Records of Silverton Cemetery inBriscoe County, Texas ©2000, covering dates between 1892 and Apr. 30,2000 , made available here thanks to the Silverton Cemetery Association.Board members were: Carrie Dickerson, Jewell Lyon, Virgil Crow, BryanBurson, J. D. Nance, Clifton Stodghill, Pascal and Donaleta Garrison.Thanks goes to Joyce Cavett who was kind enough to purchase the book andarrange for our permission to use the information. This cemetery list wastranscribed for us by Sheriff Jerry and Mary Hicks. Thank you all foryour hard work on these pages, as many people will benefit from it. Thesefine people have given greatly to this entire site and have done much topreserve our history in Texas. The Silverton Cemetery Association can bereached at: P. O. Box 795, Silverton, Texas 79257, Carolyn Lowrey,Secretary, 806-823-2255, or [email protected]. Last, First/Middle, Birth, Death, Comments, Lot #, Lot Owner Penn, Allen Burl, 11/19/1915, 05/25/1936, Org.S.Side #298, Whitely, J. C. Penn, Beatrice A., 01/31/1852, 06/19/1913, Org.N.Side # 5, Frieze, Mrs.Emma Penn, I.O. Jake, 09/20/1893, 04/20/1956, Org.S.Side #298, Whitely, J. C. Penn, Jennie, 01/20/1890, 02/04/1967, Org.S.Side #298, Whitely, J. C. Penn, John W., 07/09/1853, 12/09/1928, Mason, Org.N.Side # 5, Frieze,Mrs. Emma http://www.cemeteries-of-tx.com/Wtx/Briscoe/Silverton.html

  
  

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