Cauble-Rotan Family Report March - April 2007 Vol. 4, No. 4 Image is the original work of Dick Dietrich Windmills made life in West Texas possible. Everyone who grew up on the land before the last quarter of twentieth century remembers the lonely sound coming from the windmill as it brought water to the surface for livestock and for home use. Watching the windmill turn was part of a peaceful day for children as they ran through the grass with the sun on their faces. Their fathers turned their faces toward the sky as well, but they were looking and praying for rain. The windmill made life possible, but rain made crops in the fields and grasses in the pastures. Board of Directors, Texas Cauble Family Association, 2006-2008 James Sterling Cauble E7223 President JCAUBLE@houston.rr.com Dan Chick H23531 Vice President chick925@charter.net Connie Baker Wallner E22221 Secretary JimWallner@aol.com Gwen Chick MH23531 Treasurer chick925@charter.net Donald W. Cauble E1.12.6 Chaplain DCAUBLE@msn.com Kiefer C. Cauble H2361 Chaplain CityGroceryRoby@aol.com Revis Cauble Leonard H23611 Scrapbooks revisn@hotmail.com Sylvia Caldwell Rankin C76211 Webmaster and Graphics sylvia@studiosr.com Julia Cauble Smith H2353 Registrar/Editor cauble@suddenlink.net Bill Cauble E7221 Director WBCauble@camalott.com Cauble-Rotan Family Reunion: Whitney Theatre, Albany, Texas, 8-9 June 2007. Give James the name of each person who is coming so each will have a name tag and a program. Bring your craft items for the auction and bring money to bid. There will be good food, visiting, and door prizes. Auctioneer Dan Chick will be sure your have fun.
Dear Kin, Our 2007 family reunion is only five weeks away and I hope everyone has made plans to attend. It will be held at the Whitney Theater in Albany the weekend of June 8-9 and will follow the same format as last year. Please notify me by email if you plan on attending or not. This will save us both time and money in sending out letters and return post cards. Include the name of each one in your party that will be attending and we will have his or her name tag ready. If you have not had the opportunity to visit the historical sites in and around Albany Courthouse built in 1883, Old Jail Art Center, Ledbetter Picket House, Fort Griffin Friday afternoon would be a good time to do so. It is also a good time to sit around and visit with kin in a relaxed atmosphere. In addition to our popular Dessert Contest, we will be having our auction again this year so bring your arts and craft items and your favorite dessert. If anyone has items to discuss at our business meeting, please let me know in advance. This will keep the meeting short, organized, and on schedule, allowing more time for the fun things. Remember the deadline for applying for the $1,000 Todd Christmas Memorial Scholarship is May 1. I have had several inquires from interested family members so hopefully the applications are in the mail. If you are late in responding, you can email the application form to the committee. [Chair: Jane Levy, 12406 Burlywood Trail, Austin, TX 78750 (512/258-2668) or janelevy@austin.rr.com] Again I hope you are able to join us for a fun time. Please remember to keep us informed of family members that are ill or in need of prayer as well as any awards or achievements they have received. Best wishes, James President s Letter JCAUBLE@houston.rr.com Telephone number for Albany Inn: 325/762-2451 President James Sterling Cauble E7223 Image by Rick Cauble E5142
2007 Reunion Schedule Friday, 8 June 2007 2:00 P.M. Early Registration and Visiting. Try one of the good Albany restaurants for dinner. Thomas J. Jones, 2006 scholarship winner Saturday, 9 June 2007 9:00 A.M. Registration, Visiting, and Viewing Scrapbooks and Pictures 11:30 A.M Welcome..... James Cauble Remembering Those Who Have Passed....... Julia Cauble Smith Bill and Larry Cauble, official family cooks Group Picture..... Rick Cauble Lunch Prayer... Kiefer Cauble Lunch..catered by Bill Cauble Announcement of Dessert Contest Winners.Jessie Pendergrass and Regenia McIntyre 1:00 P.M. Recognition of Special Guests and Drawing for Door Prizes.... Dan Chick and all children 1:25 P.M. Business Meeting..... James Cauble 2:00 P.M. Presentation of the Todd Christmas Memorial Scholarship 2:15 P.M. Break 2:30 P.M. Auction.. Dan Chick By 4:00 P.M. Adjournment Some 2006 reunion attendees
This board is part of a series and is the creative work of Sylvia Caldwell Rankin C76211, our webmaster. The boards of the children of Peter Cauble and Mary Ann Rotan are displayed at each Cauble-Rotan Family Reunion and Family Day.
Family Research Notes Green Family Research The Peter Cauble family has long been connected to several families with the surname of Green. At our website one finds a file devoted to the attempt to sort out the many men named Green who lived in Tyler County, Texas, and moved on to McLennan and Hill counties. Two of the children of Mary Ann Rotan (1794 SC-1860 Tyler Co. TX) and Peter Cauble (1786 NC-1870 Tyler Co. TX) married Green descendants. Isaac Butler Cauble (1820 AL-1904 Hill Co. TX) married Sarah E. Green (1822 TN-1896 Hill Co. TX), a daughter of Mary West Littlepage (1802 VA-1896 Hill Co. TX) and Aaron Green (1796 VA-1876 Hill Co. TX). Sarah E. Green s descendants are the E families in the Cauble Family Registry. Martha Cauble (1828 AL-by 1875 Hill Co. TX) married Benjamin Green, Jr. (1819 AL-1859 Hill Co. TX). Martha s descendants are the G family in the Cauble Family Registry. Anyone interested in comparing notes and sharing Green family research may contact Don Parton, 10522 Summerstone, San Antonio, TX 78254 (210/681-1323) or Ddparton1@aol.com. Don is not a Green descendant, but he has done extensive research on the Green families in Texas and he is willing to exchange data. Curtis, McCollister, Bird/Byrd, Nettles Families Research Anyone interested in further research of the ancestors of Nancy Ann Curtis (1832 LAafter 1870), who married Peter Cauble, Jr. (1829 AL-1856 TX) should contact Revis Cauble Leonard H23611 at revisn@hotmailcom, who intends to expand upon the research done by the editor in the early 1990s. Nancy Ann was born in Louisiana before her parents, Anne McCollister (1809 MS-after 1870 TX) and James S. Curtis (1806 MS-after 1870 TX), moved to Tyler County, Texas, where she met Peter Cauble, Jr. Before the early death of Peter, Jr., the couple had two sons James Monroe and William M. and a daughter Frances. All members of the H family in the Cauble Family Registry are descended from Nancy Ann Curtis. Note the kinship of the James S. Curtis family to the John A. Rotan family in the following pages.
John A. Rotan Family William Lee Rotan and Ellender E. [Ella] Owen Rotan Left: The image of William Lee Rotan (1868 TX-1938 CA) [son of William T. Rotan and grandson of John A. Rotan] and his wife, Ellender E. [Ella] Gowen Rotan, was submitted by Glen Rotan, a descendant and researcher of the John A. Rotan family. Glen may be contacted at glen@familygen.org. Another researcher of the John A. Rotan family is Shirley Brook. Write her at sbrook101@earthlink.net. Van and Nancy Kessler research the family of William Rotan (1762-by July 1841 White Co. TX), father of our Mary Ann Rotan Cauble. Write them at vankess@mindspring.com. In Search of John A. Rotan John A. Rotan (1794 South Carolina-by October 1858 Tyler County, Texas) was probably a cousin of Mary Ann Rotan, wife of Peter Cauble, but the writer cannot prove the name of John A. Rotan s parents. John A. Rotan and Peter Cauble lived in the same county for much of their lives and they served in the same militia. John A. Ratton and Peter Cauble served as privates in a White County, Tennessee, militia unit that was commanded by the older brother of Mary Ann Rotan, Captain Richard M. Ratton. The unit was Captain Ratton s Company of Infantry, Colonel Robert Steele s 4th Regiment, West Tennessee Militia. Their regiment was called to federal duty in the Creek Indian War from 28 January to 10 May 1814, which was a part of the War of 1812. Consisting of men from Jackson, White, Bedford, Giles, Lincoln, and Maury counties of Tennessee, Colonel Steele s regiment was left at Fort Strother while the remainder of the brigade marched to Horseshoe Bend for a decisive battle on 27 March 1814. Colonel Steele s regiment served as wagon guards, protecting supplies from Fort Deposit and building boats to transport supplies down the Coosa River to Fort Williams. In traveling to Camp
Blount at Fayetteville, the regiment took an often-used route through Huntsville, Fort Deposit, and Fort Strother. 1 The new territory around Huntsville, Alabama, must have interested White County militia men such as John A. Rotan and Peter Cauble because of its potential. Rotan and Cauble began to plan a migration to that area when they returned from military service. Between 21 December 1815, when John A. Rotan witnessed a deed for Richard M. Rotton of Warren County, Tennessee, and 25 October 1817, when the deed was recorded, John A. Rotan left Tennessee. He was listed as Beyond limits of this state when the deed was recorded. It can be assumed that he left Tennessee for Alabama before Cauble, who paid his poll for 1815 in White County. Probably late in 1815 Rotan migrated to Alabama, while Cauble waited in Tennessee until after the birth of his son, John W. Cauble, in the spring of 1816. 2 John A. Rotan surely married in Tennessee before his migration to Alabama because his first child, Mary Ann Rotan who married Peter Johnson King, was born in Alabama in 1815. By the 1820 federal census, probably both Rotan and Cauble were living in Franklin County, Alabama. However, the names were so poorly written on the census of that county that it is impossible to determine. On 08 March 1822, John A. Rotan bought land in sections 22 and 24, Township 13 South, Range 15 West, Franklin County, Alabama, where he probably broke some land to the plow and herded cattle on the remainder. 3 On the 1830 U. S. census, Marion County, Alabama, the name of John A. Rotan appeared among those of the daughters and sons-in-law of William Rotan (including Mary Ann Rotan and Peter Cauble). He reported in his household one male under the age of five [John Willis Rotan] and one male between age 5 and 10 [Robert Rotan], and one male age 40 to 50, assumed to be himself. Also in his household were two females under age 5 [Mariah Jane Rotan and an unknown daughter who may have died as an infant], one female age 5 to ten [unknown; Mary Ann Rotan was age 15 and should have lived at home until 1838], and one female age 20 to 30 [assumed to be his wife]. Other Alabama-born children of John A. Rotan were Rufus H. Rotan (1834 Alabama-unknown), who married Sarah Renfro on 08 August 1865 in McLennan County, Texas. Apparently, John A. Rotan migrated to Mississippi from Alabama after 1834. Before migration or after reaching Mississippi, Rotan was probably widowed and took a new wife to keep his family together. 4
The new wife was Sarah Robinson and they had four children. Those children were William T. Rotan, Martha C. Rotan, James M. Rotan, George W. Rotan. Children of John A. Rotan (1794 South Carolina-by October 1858 Tyler County, Texas) who came to Texas with him were: 1. Mary Ann Rotan (1815 Alabama-05 January 1895 Hill County, Texas; buried Bold Springs Cemetery, McLennan County, Texas), who married Peter Johnson King (14 April 1815 Alabama-22 December 1897; buried Bold Springs Cemetery, McLennan County, Texas). 2. Robert Rotan (1822 Alabama-after February 1887 Polk County, Texas), who married three times Lucinda Barnes (03 February 1820 Rankin County, Mississippi-1859 Tyler County, Texas) on 3 December 1846; Martha Jane Low (1832 Tennessee-by 1 October 1871 Polk County, Texas) in 1860; Ann Polk (July 1846 Texas-after 1877 Texas) on 1 October 1871. 3. John Willis Rotan (1826 Alabama-19 December 1858 Polk County, Texas), who married Zemilia [or Zimila] Ann Askew (26 September 1828 Mississippi-19 June 1915 Hopkins County, Texas; buried Union Springs Cemetery, Hopkins County, Texas), sister of Casey Askew (Mississippi-buried Union Springs Cemetery, Hopkins County, Texas) on 16 February 1847 in Polk County, Texas. 4. Mariah Jane Rotan (1830 Alabama-25 January 1882 Cherokee County, Texas), who married John Martin Cauble (03 September 1812 Tennessee-28 May 1879 Hill County, Texas; buried Bold Springs Cemetery, McLennan County, Texas) on 12 February 1847 in Tyler County, Texas. 5. Rufus H. Rotan (1834 Alabama-unknown), who married Sarah Renfro on 08 August 1865 in McLennan County, Texas. 6. William T. Rotan (1835 Mississippi-after 21 December 1882), who married Clotelia B. McGee (1844 Louisiana-16 May 1878 McLennan County, Texas; buried O a k - wood Cemetery, McLennan County, Texas) on 02 February 1865. 7. Martha C. Rotan (1836 Mississippi-05 January 1925 Confederate Women's Home, Austin, Travis County, Texas), who married Wiley Stamps (unknown-civil War) on 29 May 1851. [Death certificate: mother s name given as Sarah Robinson; father, John A. Rotan]
8. James M. Rotan (March 1841 Mississippi-after 07 June 1900; buried Magnolia Cemetery, Tyler County, Texas), who married Mary E. Payne (1848 Texas-unknown; buried Magnolia Cemetery, Tyler County, Texas) on 09 January 1866. 9. George W. Rotan (1843 Mississippi-buried Falls County, Texas), who married Mary [Mollie or Babe] B. Curtis (about 1845 Louisiana-unknown), a daughter of Ann McCollister and James S. Curtis, on 27 August 1861 in McLennan County, Texas. [Mary B. Curtis was a sister of Nancy Ann Curtis, who married Peter Cauble, Jr.] 5 John A. Rotan arrived in Tyler County, Texas, before the assessing of county and state taxes for the year 1846, since he was levied taxes on forty cattle, valued at $40, and one poll (meaning he, himself, was under age 55 and no sons of poll age lived in his household) for a total tax of $1.57. By 1847 he sold his cattle and paid only his poll of $.50 in Tyler County. It is known that he served as a Justice of the Peace in Tyler County, Texas, from 19 December 1846 to 11 October 1847 (meaning he could read and write) and perhaps for a longer period of time. On 17 October 1849, John A. Rotan was indicted for playing at a game with cards in a certain house kept by John Walker for retailing spirituous Liguors upon which money was Bet. Calvin A. Barnes pledged his bond of $100 (probably because they were allied through the marriage of Lucinda Barnes [Calvin s sister] and Robert Rotan [John A. s son] who married 03 December 1846). On 18 March 1850 J. A. Rotan witnessed Peter Cauble s signature in Tyler County when he deeded property to his wife, Mary Ann Rotan Cauble, to establish her separate property. Apparently, John A. Rotan did not give up card playing because he was again indicted on 24 April 1850, along with Peter Cauble, Jr., James Curtis, Peter Cauble, Sr., Henry W. Bendy, Jeremiah Gray, Lemuel Watters, and Franklin Mott, who were apparently at the same game. John A. Rotan was a 56-year-old farmer and widower who lived in the household of Samuel Goode, Sr., carriage maker, in Tyler County, Texas, in 1850. John A. Rotan died before October Term
1858 when the guardianship of George and John M. Rotan came to Polk County, Texas Court. 6 There has been disagreement among Rotan researchers about the identity of the children of John A. Rotan. According to public records, Mariah Jane Rotan (1830 Alabama-25 January 1882 Cherokee County, Texas) was a sister of William T. Rotan (1835 Mississippi-after 21 December 1878) and James M. Rotan (March 1841 Mississippi-after 07 June 1900; buried Magnolia Cemetery, Tyler County, Texas) as stated in her probate record. Peter J. King (14 April 1815 Alabama-22 December 1897; buried Bold Springs Cemetery, McLennan County, Texas) was married to the sister of Mariah Jane Rotan Cauble, Mary Ann Rotan (1815 Alabama-05 January 1895 Hill County, Texas; buried Bold Springs Cemetery, McLennan County, Texas), as implied by the probate record of Mrs. Cauble and as stated by the 1880 U. S. census when they lived in the same Hill County, Texas, household. According to the guardianship hearing of George Rotan (about 1843 Mississippi-unknown) and James M. Rotan (March 1841 Mississippi-after 07 June 1900; buried Magnolia Cemetery, Tyler County, Texas), they were brothers of John Willis Rotan (1826 Alabama-19 December 1858 Polk County, Texas). George was between the ages of 6 and 16 and lived with his sister and brother-in-law, Mariah Jane Rotan (1830 Alabama-25 January 1882 Cherokee County, Texas) and John Martin Cauble (03 September 1812 Tennessee-28 May 1879 Hill County, Texas; buried Bold Springs Cemetery, McLennan County, Texas), in 1854. From the use of public records and the knowledge that Western society gives mutual kinship to siblings, it is plain to see that Mariah Jane Rotan, William T. Rotan, James M. Rotan, Mary Ann Rotan, George Rotan, and John Willis Rotan were born of the same mother and father, or of the same father. 7 Julia Cauble Smith Notes: 1. Samuel Goode, Sr., household, 1850 U.S. census, Tyler County, Texas, population schedule, household 56, family 56, which listed John A. Rotan as a resident; Regimental Histories of Tennessee Units During the War of 1812, Tennessee State Library and Archives, online http://www.state.tn.us/sos/statelib/pubsvs/1812reg.htm, accessed 16 August 1999; Tennesseans in the War of 1812, transcribed by Byron and Samuel Sistler (Nashville, TN: Byron Sistler & Associates, Inc., 1992), 118, 419. 2. White County, Tennessee Deeds Volume F, page 103; Continuation of Taxable property and polls in the bounds of Capt. Richard M. Rotton s Company of Militia for the year 1815, White County, Tennessee Trustee s Office Tax Book (1813-1815), pages 250-251, Tennessee State Library and Archives, roll 123] 3. Mary A. King tombstone; 1820 U. S. Census, Franklin County, Alabama, population schedule; Huntsville Alabama Land Office Book 400.
4. John Rotan household, 1830 U. S. Census, Marion County, Alabama, population schedule, no township, page 167, line 8, NARA M19, roll 4. 5. Tyler County, Texas Marriage Book 1:30, 123, 127; 2/3:79, 155; Mariah Jane Rotan Cauble probate record, Hill County, Texas Probate Volume 6, pages 461-467; Jane Rotan household, 1880 U. S. census, Hill County, Texas, population schedule, ED 77, SD 3, sheet 411, page 4, line 26, dwelling 36, family 36, 03 June 1880, NARA T9, roll 1311; Guardianship of George and James Rotan, Case 199, Polk County, Texas Probate Book C:88; Case 222, C:125; Gifford White, ed., Texas Scholastics, 1854-55 (St. Louis: by editor, 1981), 337. 6. Petition from citizens of Liberty County to the Congress of the Republic of Texas, 07 September 1840, Texas State Library, Austin Texas; Assessment of Property Being Within Tyler County, Texas, for years 1846 and 1847, Office of the State Comptroller, Texas State Library and Archives, microfilm roll 863 (1846-1862); Tyler County, Texas District Court, Cause 8, Loose Papers, filed in the office of Geo. W. Van Vleek, Clerk, on 11 October 1847; Tyler County, Texas District Court Book A:190-191, 17 October 1849; A:23-24, dated 24 April 1850; Tyler County, Texas Deed Volume A, page 201; Samuel Goode, Sr., household, 1850 U.S. census, Tyler County, Texas, population schedule, household 56, family 56; Guardianship of George and James Rotan, Case 199, Polk County, Texas Probate Book C: 88, 125; Case 222. 7. Mariah Jane Rotan Cauble probate record, Hill County, Texas Probate Volume 6, pages 461-467; Jane Rotan household, 1880 U. S. census, Hill County, Texas, population schedule, ED 77, SD 3, sheet 411, page 4, line 26, dwelling 36, family 36, 03 June 1880, NARA T9, roll 1311; Guardianship of George and James Rotan, Case 199, Polk County, Texas Probate Book C:88; Case 222, C:125; White, Texas Scholastics, 1854-55, 337. The above homemade marker was placed in the Cauble-Burch Cemetery, Peach Tree Village, Tyler County, Texas, during the Cauble-Rotan Family Reunion in 2001. John A. Rotan may or may not be buried there, but his kin Mary Ann Rotan and Peter Cauble are. The Cauble- Rotan family chose to remember this veteran of the War of 1812 in the cemetery located near the Historic Peter Cauble House.
Young Descendants Shawn Chick H235311 stands beside his student plane, a Cessna 172SP, after recently completing one hundred hours in the plane at Midland College Flight School. At the top of his class, Shawn will begin training as a commercial pilot for Mesa Airlines in a few months. He is the grandson of Julia Cauble and Al H. Smith, the son of Gwen Stewart and Dan Chick H23531, and the brother of Jordan Chick. Please send photographs of your grandchildren. The editor has published her grandchildren s photographs. She needs yours.
Family Association News Cauble-Rotan Family Website Sylvia Caldwell Rankin C76211, our family webmaster, creates and maintains websites professionally. Our family association thanks her for the generosity and kindness extended to the family in providing our website.. Sylvia Caldwell Rankin C76211 Image: Al H. Smith MH2353 Visit our website: www.cauble-rotan..org. Sylvia can be reached at sylvia@studiosr.com. Family Scrapbooks Revis Cauble Leonard H23611, Scrapbooks Chair, maintains our family scrapbooks and creates new ones. The newest one is dedicated to descendants who served in the military. She has requested photographs and information about descendants who are veterans of the military. Contact her at revisn@hotmailcom. Barn-Raising Committee Revis Cauble Leonard H23611 File image Phyllis Hudson Hance E2551 Image by Peggy Cauble Cox E7231 This committee offers encouragement, appreciation, or help to family members. Chaired by Roy Hughes C14232 and including Regenia R. McIntyre H2342, Don Cauble E1.12.6, Dan Chick H23531, and Phyllis Hudson Hance E2551, the committee stands ready to help. Phyllis mails beautiful handmade cards to family members. Please let the Barn-Raising Committee know of any descendant who needs comforting, encouraging, or congratulating. Phyllis can be contacted at phance@sw.rr.com. Remember: Cauble-Rotan Family Reunion in Albany, TX, 8-9 June 2007
Remembering In Our Hearts and Prayers Dorothy Ethel [Jean] CaldwellC766 (31 August 1907 Hammon, present Custer County, Oklahoma 6 April 2007 Sun City, Maricopa County, Arizona; buried Lovington Cemetery, Lea County, New Mexico), a daughter of Ethel Irene Wood and Andrew Franklin Caldwell, chose a life of glamour and excitement far away from Custer and Roger Mills counties of Oklahoma. She first married Kyle Knight Kring (1903 Robstown, Texas-unknown) on 23 May 1924 at Ardmore, Carter County, Oklahoma, and had a son, Tearle Bruce Kring. Secondly, Dorothy Caldwell Kring married Alfred Born on the infamous day of 07 December 1941 and lived in California and Arizona. Prayer Prayer is requested for Kayce Lea Taylor H128224, daughter of Sherri Martinez and John Taylor H12822 and granddaughter of Peggy Woolsey H1282 and Fred Taylor. Kayce had a brain tumor removed and is doing fairly well. She will be ten years old on 4 June 2007. Kayce and her family appreciate your prayers and encouragement. Family Members Who Serve in the Military U. S. Air Force: Stephen Baxter E75131 Nebraska Air National Guard: Roxanne Baxter ME75131 U. S. Army: Carol R. [Trey] Caldwell C762121; Danielle J. Gluck of C7.12. family; Lee C. Mahan of C7.12. family; Paul Hill MH231213; Tony Stock HA51311 U. S. Marines: James Leonard Saint E151112; John D. Connell HA51431S; Kenneth J. Windsor of C7.12. family
Texas Cauble Family Association Committees and Living Past Presidents Barn-Raising Committee Roy Hughes C14232, chair, roynlue2@verizon.net Phyllis Hudson Hance E2551 Regenia R. McIntyre H2342 Donald W. Cauble E1.12.6 Dan Chick H23531, representing the Board Todd Christmas Memorial Scholarship Committee Jane Levý E1361, chair, janelevy@austin.rr.com Rick Cauble E5142 Dan Cauble H1321 Dan Chick H23531, representing the Board Living Past Presidents Dee Cauble Bitner H1224 James Sterling Cauble E7223 Roy Hughes C14232 James Carroll Cauble E1432 Jane Levý E1361 Dan P. Cauble H1321 Kiefer C. Cauble H2361 Historic Peter Cauble House was built in the late 1830s at Peach Tree Village, Tyler County, Texas. Image: Al H. Smith Julia Cauble Smith H2353 is the editor of this newsletter and any errors found within it are hers. Statement of Purpose This genealogical quarterly is dedicated to documenting the lives of Peter Cauble, Sr. (1786 NC-1870 Tyler Co. TX), of his wife, Mary Ann Rotan (1794 SC-1860 Tyler Co. TX), and of their thousands of descendants; and, to reporting the news and genealogical research of Texas Cauble Family Association. Copyright 2007 Cauble House Press and Texas Cauble Family Association