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Calvert / Posey in AR - FIRST SETTLERS : 1841 - 1869 (Grant County, AR)
Francis Posey was one of the first white settlers to come to Grant County. He was the son of Samuel and Ruth Posey of South Carolina. In 1841 Ruth Posey and her children came to this area and cleared land. Samuel Posey had been killed in Louisiana in l840. Francis Posey married Frances J. Ratcliff in 1844. She died in 1845 in Grant County. In 1848 Francis married Sarah L. Worthen.
Posey had come to Grant County when he was seventeen. He, as did almost every other settler, chose farming as an occupation until 1869. He then began the first mercantile business in the new community of Sheridan. Posey came to the county forty-eight years before its creation and to him can be given credit for the act or passage of the act creating the county in 1869.
From Goodspeed Biographical & Historical Memoirs of Central Arkansas, Grant County. Pg 781-782: Published 1890
Francis Posey
Francis Posey, son of Samuel and Ruth Posey, both natives of South Carolina, was born in Edgefield District of that State, on December 22, 1824. The family moved to Louisiana, in 1828, and located in Natchitoches Parish, where they remained for about ten years. In 1839 they went to East Carroll Parish, La., where, in 1840, the father was drowned in the Mississippi River. In 1841 his widowed mother and her children, Joshua M., Francis, Elizabeth A. and Ellen Posey, located in the territory then embraced in Saline (but now Grant) County, in the State of Arkansas.
After coming to this State, the mother married Edward Calvert, who died in 1865. From that time until her death, which occurred on March 10, 1870, she lived with the subject of this sketch.
Mr. Francis Posey married Miss Frances J. Ratcliff, a native of Mississippi, November 28, 1841. She died on November 8, 1845. In January, 1848, he married Sarah L., daughter of John Worthen, with whom he is now living. They have raised a family of nine children, whose names are:
Francis R.,
Josephine (wife of James B. Moore),
Martha E. (wife of T. B. Morton, whose name appears elsewhere in this work),
Ruth (wife of J. T. Webb),
Joshua M., S. H. T.,
Sarah L. (widow of F. E. Johnson),
Ella (wife of W. C. C. Dorough, the present sheriff of Grant County)
and William A.
(Sketches of Joshua M. Posey and W. C. C. Dorough also appear in this work.) Mrs. Posey is originally from Lafayette County, Tennessee. When Mr. Posey came to Arkansas, he was a boy seventeen years of age. having been brought up to agricultural pursuits, he chose farming as his occupation, and followed it successfully until the winter of 1869, when he began the first mercantile business ever conducted in Sheridan (at that time the newly located county seat of the county of Grant), taking in with him T. B. Morton as a partner.
In 1871 he sold out to Mr. Morton, who had in the meantime become his son-in-law, and again devoted himself exclusively to his farm, which was located six miles west of Sheridan, and on which he had continued to reside, while doing business in that town. He left his farm in 1884, moving to Sheridan, where he has since continued to reside. Mr. Posey is one of the early pioneers of the county. Coming here forty-eight years before the creation of the county, when the territory of which it is composed was sparsely settled, when public highways were almost unknown, and when schools and churches were extremely scarce, he has lived to see the country largely populated, checkered with public thoroughfares, dotted with common schoolhouses, and abounding with church houses accessible to its entire people. During this eventful time he has taken a lively interest in public matters. To him is largely due the passage of the act creating the county of Grant. He and his wife are both members of the Baptist Church. He is a Master Mason of thirty-nine years' standing, having been made such at Pine Bluff, Arkansas, in 1850.
PT and wife tombstones -
I don't know where that is. I will try to find a death certificate. Bill says they moved to Desdamona outside of Eastland TX. Their were other relatives there is why they moved from Parker Co..They are buried in Desdamona Cemetery. - Jeanne
From Jennifer
Sarah Elizabeth Calvert Radford md Pater Radford, their stones attached here along with sarah;s parents. Peter and Elizabeth are in the Whitt, Parker Co cemetery and Patrick and Susan are in the Desdamona, Eastland Co cemetery.
The following Bible record contains information on Nancy Canterbury who married Edward Calvert. Nancy was the daughter of William line Canterbury and Elizabeth Ann "Betsyann" Lawson of Sevier County, Tennessee. William Married Second, Jain Calvert.
CANTERBURY FAMILY BIBLE.
William CANTERBURY and Betsyann LAWSON were married on Thursday, August 6, 1789.
William CANTERBURY married (second) Jain Calvert on Thursday, January 29, 1812.
Polly CANTERBURY, daughter of William and Betsyann, married Thomas GUTHRIE on Thursday, September 8, 1809.
Nancy CANTERBURY, daughter of William and Betsyann, married Edward CALVERT, April 19, 1809.
Rebecca CANTERBURY, daughter of William and Betsyann, married Samuel PATE, March 4, 1813.
Betty CANTERBURY, daughter of William and Betsyann, married John MURPHY, November 11, 1819.
William CANTERBURY was born 1761.
Betsyan LAWSON was born September 20, 1768.
Sally CANTERBURY was born June 9, 1790.
Polly CANTERBURY was born February 5, 1792.
Nancy CANTERBURY was born March 19, 1795.
Rebecca CANTERBURY was born May 25, 1797.
Hannah CANTERBURY was born March 11, 1799.
William CANTERBURY Jr. was born August 19, 1801.
Betsy CANTERBURY was born December 2, 1803.
Jane CANTERBURY was born June 4, 1806.
NOTE 1: These Bible records were obtained in 1933 by Penelope Johnson Allen, during her research of the Guthrie family of Hamilton County, Tennessee. The Canterbury Bible was in the possession of Rush B. Guthrie of Harrison, Tennessee. In 1933, Mrs. Allen wrote a weekly genealogical feature called "Leaves From the Family Tree," during her employment with the Chattanooga Times newspaper. Each week she focused on a local pioneer family by tracing the family roots back to colonial times. In 1982, these articles were published in a book, Leaves From the Family Tree, by Southern Historical Press.
NOTE 2: Polly Canterbury and her husband, Thomas Guthrie were early settlers of Hamilton County, Tennessee. Polly's sister, Rebecca Canterbury, married (2) Absalom Sivley. The Sivley family also lived in Hamilton County, Tennessee. See website:
http://owslfl.tripod.com/adamguthrie/id3.html
Information provided by Floyd L. Owsley; 1101 Dejarnette St Elizabethton, Tennessee 37643 Phone: (423) 543-2907.
Washington County, Tennessee Wills, 1777-1872 by Goldene Filler Burgner. - p 45:
Elizabeth Bowman, August 2, 1846 I bequeath to David, Elias, George & John Bowman, Mary Calvert, Barbary McConnel & Elizabeth Simpson - each $1. To Maria Smith - all personal property and my real estate. Executor: John T. Smith. Wit.: Wiley Tucker, James Smith. Probated June term, 1847. Signed: Elizabeth (X) Smith