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Lt. Col. William Gunn Engledow

Lt. Col. William Gunn Engledow

WILLIAM MET THE BEAUTIFUL NANCY RIDGELL, AND THEY WERE WED IN NACOGDOCHES COUNTY, ON JULY 14TH, 1850, (DATE GIVEN BY HIS GRANDDAUGHTER CLIFFORD SOHN, TAKEN FROM THE FAMILY BIBLE). WILLIAM AND HIS NEW BRIDE SETTLED IN THE NORTHERN PART OF CHEROKEE COUNTY, KNOWN AS KNOXVILLE, ON THE JOHN ENGLEDOW LEAGUE OF LAND.

ENGLEDOW, EARLY IN THE CONFLICT OF THE CIVIL WAR, RAISED A COMPANY, SERVING IN WALKER'S DIVISION, AS CAPTAIN OF ENGLEDOW'S TEXAS REBELS, 11TH TEXAS INFANTRY, COMPANY C. HIS 1ST LIEUTENANT WAS W.W. HILL, WITH 2ND LIEUTENANTS, ALFRED SHARROCK, GEORGE DEW, J.C. TARBUTTON, AND G.W. STEPHENS. ENGLEDOW'S COMPANY SERVED IN LOUISIANA AND ARKANSAS, TAKING PART IN AT LEAST 7 BATTLES. THEY FOUGHT IN BATTLES AT MANSFIELD AND PLEASANT HILL. AT PLEASANT HILL, ENGLEDOW WAS WOUNDED, AND AS A RESULT, LOST ONE OF HIS ARMS. WILLIAM GUNN ENGLEDOW ENLISTED, SERVING AS A CAPTAIN, WAS PROMOTED TO MAJOR, AND THEN AT THE CLOSE OF HIS SERVICE, HE LEFT, PROMOTED TO THE RANK OF LIEUTENANT COLONEL.

HE RETURNED HOME TO KNOXVILLE, AND HIS WIFE, NANCY. THE COUPLE HAD 5 CHILDREN TOGETHER AFTER THE CLOSE OF THE WAR. WILLIAM GUNN ENGLEDOW DIED IN KNOXVILLE, TEXAS, SEPTEMBER 11, 1870, AND BURIED THERE IN THE KNOXVILLE CEMETERY. HIS WIFE, NANCY RIDGELL ENGLEDOW, DIED JUNE 12, 1879, AND WAS BURIED IN HER SON, JAMES ROBERT ENGLEDOW'S FAMILY PLOT, LOCATED AT THE OLD CITY CEMETERY, IN TROUP, SMITH COUNTY, TEXAS.

WRITTEN BY: GAYLE BICKERSTAFF BASALDU
DESCENDANT OF ROBERT D. ENGLEDOW

A COPY OF THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THE BIBLE OF WILLIAM GUNN ENGLEDOW
DOCUMENTED BY HIS GRADDAUGHTER, CLIFFORD ENGLEDOW SOHN

AFFIDAVIT

THE STATE OF TEXAS
COUNTY OF HARRISON

BEFORE ME, THE UNDERSIGNED AUTHORITY, ON THIS DAY PERSONALLY APPEARED MRS. CLIFFORD ENGLEDOW SOHN, A WIDOW, KNOWN TO ME TO BE A CREDIBLE RESIDENT CITIZEN OF HARRISON COUNTY, TEXAS, WHO, AFTER BEING DULY SWORN, DEPOSES AND ON OATH SAYS:

MY NAME IS CLIFFORD ENGLEDOW SOHN, WIDOW OF ELMER SOHN, AND THE GRANDDAUGHTER OF WILLIAM G. ENGLEDOW AND WIFE NANCY RIDGELL ENGLEDOW; I RESIDE AT 2310 EAST HOUSTON STREET, MARSHALL, TEXAS, AND AM VERY FAMILIAR WITH THE MARITAL HISTORY AND HEIRSHIP OF MY PATERNAL GRANDPARENTS NAMED ABOVE, BOTH THROUGH PERSONAL MEMORY AND RECOLLECTION, AND THROUGH THE FACT THAT I HAVE IN MY POSSESSION THE WILLIAM G. ENGLEDOW FAMILY BIBLE; MOST OF THE DATES GIVEN BELOW WERE TAKEN FROM THIS BIBLE.

WILLIAM G. ENGLEDOW MARRIED NANCY RIDGELL ON JULY 14,1850, THIS BEING THE FIRST AND ONLY MARRIAGE FOR EITHER; WILLIAM G. ENGLEDOW DIED INTESTATE ON SEPTEMBER 11, 1870, SURVIVED BY HIS WIDOW, NANCY RIDGELL ENGLEDOW, WHO DIED INTESTATE ON JUNE 12, 1879, AND BY THE FOLLOWING NAMED CHILDREN, THERE BEING NO DESCENDANTS OF THE DECEASED CHILDREN, NOR ADOPTED CHILDREN, TO-WIT: (WILLIAM G. ENGLEDOW IS BURIED AT KNOXVILLE, TEXAS, NEAR TROUP, AND NANCY RIDGELL ENGLEDOW IS BURIED IN THE J. R. ENGLEDOW FAMILY PLOT AT TROUP CEMETERY, TROUP, TEXAS).

I.
MARTHA FLORENCE ENGLEDOW, DAUGHTER, WHO MARRIED W. A. LEWIS ON FEBRUARY 23, 1871, THIS BEING THE FIRST AND ONLY MARRIAGE FOR EITHER; MARTHA FLORENCE LEWIS DIED FEBRUARY 21, 1880 IN OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA. THE ONLY INFORMATION I HAVE ON MARTHA ENGLEDOW LEWIS' BRANCH OF MY FAMILY IS THAT EITHER IN THE YEAR 1900 OR 1901, A YOUNG MAN ABOUT 21 YEARS OLD VISITED IN MY FATHER'S HOME AND INTRODUCED HIMSELF AS HOMER LEWIS, SON OF MARTHA ENGLEDOW LEWIS, AND TOLD US THAT HE AND HIS BROTHER, ERNEST LEWIS, WERE THE ONLY CHILDREN OF HIS DECEASED MOTHER AND FATHER. THIS IS THE LAST I EVER HEARD OF THE LEWIS FAMILY. BOTH HOMER AND ERNEST LEWIS WERE LIVING IN OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA AT THIS TIME.

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OSCAR ALBERT ENGLEDOW, A SON WHO WAS BORN ON FEBRUARY 10, 1854 AND DIED WITHOUT ISSUE ON JANUARY 3, 1856.

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JAMES ROBERT ENGLEDOW, A SON AND MY FATHER, WAS BORN ON SEPTEMBER 17, 1856 AND DIED INTESTATE ON MAY 14, 1924, SURVIVED BY HIS LONELY WIFE, CORA HARDEMAN ENGLEDOW, WHOM HE MARRIED ON JANUARY 27, 1884, THIS BEING HIS FIRST AND ONLY MARRIAGE FOR EITHER, AND BY NO CHILD NOR DESCENDANT OF A DECEASED CHILD NOR CHILDREN, OTHER THAN THE FOLLOWING, NONE OTHERS BEING ADOPTED, TO-WIT:

A.
CLIFFORD ENGLEDOW SOHN, WIDOW OF ELMER SOHN, AND THIS AFFIANT.

B.
CLEORA ENGLEDOW BASKETT, A DAUGHTER, WHO WAS MARRIED TO DUDLEY BASKETT ON MAY 3, 1914, THIS BEING THE FIRST AND ONLY MARRIAGE FOR EITHER; DUDLEY BASKETT DIED INTESTATE ON JULY 8, 1941, THERE BEING NO ADMINISTRATION OF HIS ESTATE, NONE BEING NECESSARY, SURVIVED BY HIS WIDOW, CLEORA ENGLEDOW BASKETT, AND BY NO CHILD NOR DESCENDANT OF A DECEASED CHILD NOR CHILDREN, OTHER THAN THE FOLLOWING, NO OTHER BEING ADOPTED, TO-WIT:

1.
ROBERT DUDLEY BASKETT, A SON, WHO RESIDED AT 215 WEST GRAND STREET, MARSHALL, TEXAS.

CLEORA ENGLEDOW BASKETT DIED INTESTATE ON OCTOBER 31, 1961, LEAVING HER ESTATE TO HER SON, ROBERT DUDLEY BASKETT, NAMED ABOVE. CORA HARDEMAN ENGLEDOW DIED INTESTATE SEPTEMBER 17, 1953.

C.
MARY JOSEPHINE ENGLEDOW, A DAUGHTER, WHO WAS BORN ON MARCH 4, 1858, AND WHO MARRIED N. G. ROBERTS ON FEBRUARY 12, 1881, THIS BEING THE FIRST AND ONLY MARRIAGE FOR EITHER; TO THE UNION OF MARY JOSEPHINE ROBERTS AND HUSBAND N. G. ROBERTS, WAS BORN NO CHILD NOR CHILDREN, BUT THE COUPLE LEGALLY ADOPTED ONE CHILD DURING THEIR MARRIAGE, NAMELY:

1.
MABEL ROBERTS, A DAUGHTER, WHO WAS MARRIED TO WILLIE PACK, THIS BEING THEIR FIRST AND ONLY MARRIAGE FOR EITHER DURING THEIR LIFETIMES. TO THE UNION OF MABEL PACK AND HUSBAND, WILLIE PACK, WERE BORN THE FOLLOWING CHILDREN, BOTH LIVING IN NACOGDOCHES, TEXAS, AND NO OTHERS WERE ADOPTED, NAMELY:

a.
NOEL PACK, A DAUGHTER, WHO IS MARRIED TO A. J. "WHITEY" THOMPSON.
b.
JOSEPHINE PACK, A DAUGHTER, WHO IS MARRIED TO JOHN BIRD.

MABEL ROBERTS PACK AND HUSBAND, WILLIE PACK, ARE BOTH DECEASED. MARY JOSEPHINE ROBERTS DIED INTESTATE ON APRIL 10, 1947, SURVIVED BY NO OTHER CHILD NOR DESCENDANT OF A DECEASED CHILD NOR CHILDREN, OTHER THAN THE ABOVE NAMED LEGALLY ADOPTED DAUGHTER, MARY ROBERTS PACK; N. G. ROBERTS HAD PRECEEDED HIS WIFE IN DEATH.

V.
WILLIAM RIDGETT ENGLEDOW, A SON, WHO WAS BORN ON AUGUST 27, 1860 AND WHO DIED INTESTATE DURING THE YEAR 1912, NEVER HAVING MARRIED AND WITHOUT ISSUE.

VI.
GEORGE BUNYAN ENGLEDOW, A SON, WHO WAS BORN ON JANUARY 23, 1868, AND WHO WAS MARRIED TWO TIMES ONLY DURING HIS LIFETIME, THE FIRST MARRIAGE ENDING IN A DIVORCE. GEORGE BUNYAN ENGLEDOW DIED INTESTATE ON APRIL 15, 1946, SURVIVED BY HIS SECOND WIFE, ELSIE ENGLEDOW, AND BY NO CHILD NOR DESCENDANT IF A DECEASED CHILD NOR CHILDREN, OTHER THAN THE FOLLOWING, HAVING ADOPTED NO CHILD NOR CHILDREN DURING HIS LIFETIME:

1.
WILLIE ENGLEDOW, A DAUGHTER OF HIS FIRST MARRIAGE, WHO I UNDERSTAND DIED DURING THE PAST FEW YEARS, UNMARRIED, AND WITHOUT ISSUE.

SIGNATURE: CLIFFORD ENGLEDOW SOHN

SUBSCRIBED AND SWORN TO BEFORE ME, THIS THE 2ND DAY OF AUGUST, A. D. 1959.

SIGNATURE: LYNDIE L. WELLOND
NOTARY PUBLIC IN AND FOR MARION COUNTY, TEXAS.

THE STATE OF TEXAS
COUNTY OF MARION

BEFORE ME, THE UNDERSIGNED AUTHORITY, ON THIS DAY PERSONALLY APPEARED MRS. CLIFFORD ENGLEDOW SOHN, KNOWN TO ME TO BE THE PERSON WHOSE NAME IS SUBSCRIBED TO THE FOREGOING INSTRUMENT, AND ACKNOWLEDGED TO ME THAT SHE EXECUTED THE SAME FOR THE PURPOSES AND CONSIDERATION THEREIN EXPRESSED.

GIVEN UNDER MY HAND AND SEAL OF OFFICE, THIS THE 2ND DAY OF AUGUST, A. D. 1969.

SIGNATURE: LYNDIE L. WELLOND
NOTARY PUBLIC IN AND FOR MARION COUNTY, TEXAS

Nancy Eliza Ridgell Engledow,
buried Old City Cemetery,
Troup, Smith County, Texas

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