Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1912-07-06

helpers, barbecued one mutton, on,
kid, one pig and one-half beef.
i Wednesday morning, a good break
\ fast, hot coffee and other Injuries that
make person glad he is living.
After breakfast was over, the horses
attended to, the men again started out
for the river for more fish for dinner
Ere long the fish began to come into
camp to be cleaned and cooked for
dinner.
! Mr.. Editor, you know that when
was boy could with ease count a
hundred, that | had been to baker
In my spelling book, that | had been
to mill few times, but let me tell
you that / never in my life attended
family reunion where they had a
basket dinner, barbecue and fish fry
all combined in one.
| When dinenr was announced the fol-
lowing persons not members of the
| Barron families participated in the
same, besides those already men,
toned Miss Sanders, daughter of
John Sanders; Mr.. Nicely and Mr.. Girls
sett of lola; Messrs. Morgan and Rich
man of Anderson Mrs Stinson and
little son; Noah Dansby, son of NJ. F..
Dansby of Bryan; little Guy Foster of
Wellborn; Rev. and Mrs. J. J. Pipkin
of Bryan.
In answer to my question to ]. w.
Barron as to the origin of this large
family, he said that at the beginning
he certainly must have been quite
young, but he has a faint recollection
that he and his sisters, Annie, Eliza,
Fannie. Louisiana, Elmina and Lille,
and his brothers, John NJ, Joseph,
Henry and P. L., were hid behind the
door peeping when their mother,
Amelia Soles, and their father, Jorid
irwin Barron, were married long, long
years ago.
| During the late war between the
states Annie, the eldest daughter, was
married to Ebert Lee. A few months
after this union Ebert enlisted for the
war, took sick and died in the service.
To them was born Ella Lee, now Ella
Williams, wife Of l.. S. Williams. Mrs.
Williams never saw her father After
the close of the war Anna married
IT. J. Gray and to them was born one
child, Rosa.
Eliza, the second daughter, was mar
ried directly after the close of the war
to George w. Lee, and there were
born to them Howard, Samuel and
George F..
j. l. Barron, the father, enlisted in
the war and came home at the close
and died soon after with black jaun-
dice. In 1869 Amelia Barron and her
six unmarried children came to this
county. Later, in 1870, Anna and her
husband and two children came. In
1872 or 1878 George w. Lee died and
Eliza and her three boys came to
Texas. In 1872, when it was known
that j. W. was to marry Miss j. A. |
Candy, his sister Ann said to her: 81
am certainly glad that you and Bud |
die are going to marry" She an
swered: "Why?" The sister replied. |
Because the Barron name is almost |
played out and am so anxious to see !
it increase" At that time there were |
only the three boys of the name,
J. W., J. NJ. and p L., ages respect
lively 30, Is and 10. And after looking
over the crowd of Barrons that had
gathered on this occasion | came to
the conclusion that the said three
boys had faithfully complied with the
as set out in the scripture,
as there were twenty-seven of the
name present and l was told that
seven of the name were absent. The
total number of the descendants of
Amelia Barron now being siXty-fve or
seventy.
S. W. Buchanan.
Bryan, Texas, July 6, 1912.