Edward Harvey

Notes:

On the 1860, 1870 census, his name is shown as Edwin. In 1880, it is shown as Edward.

Mentioned in the Thursday, March 4, 2004 Harry Noble weekly column in the San Augustine Tribune, titled "HARD TIMES: Ayish Bayou at Chinquapin." Edward was a witness in the San Augustine District court case "the State of Texas vs. Ben Albritton" in which Ben Albritton was alleged to have shot three hogs belonging to the widow Mary Harvey

Edward married Lucy Harvey on 16 Oct 1877 in San Augustine County, Texas. Lucy (daughter of Stephen Prather Harvey and Francis Ann Hill) was born on 5 Jan 1858 in Texas; died on 26 May 1926. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Married:
In SABINE COUNTY GENEALOGICAL RECORDS, pps 42-45, it is stated that Lucy and Edward Harvey, who married in 1877, were cousins. Their son, Mack Harvey, wrote, "It is a well known fact that our great-grandfathers were brothers." In one place, he mentions "John" as being one of his great-grandfathers."

1. James Elijah Harvey was born about 1878 in Texas; and died.
2. Alemeda Harvey was born about 1880 in Texas; and died.
3. Frances Agnes Harvey was born about 1882 in Texas; and died.
4. Sarah Jane Harvey was born about 1884 in Texas; and died.
5. Edward Prather Harvey was born about 1886 in Texas; and died.
6. Lovie Roxie Harvey was born about 1888 in Texas; and died.
7. Austin Mack Harvey was born about 1890 in Texas.
8. Lucy "Cella" Harvey was born about 1892 in Texas.
9. Lulu Charlotte "Lottie" Harvey was born on 24 Oct 1899 in Texas.

John married Roxie A. Gillespie on 14 Nov 1847. Roxie was born about 1830 in Missouri; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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She might instead have been born in Ohio.

John married Nancy Scoggins before 1823. Nancy was born before 1795; died about 1833. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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FIRST GENERATION KNOWN BLASSINGAME W.HARVEY OF SAN AUGUSTINE CO., TEXAS By Joyce P. Hervey

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hervey/HFAV5.htm

Sometime after Sept. 15, 1817 (Nancy {Scoggins} & John Jones Bowie made purchases of property on that date from the sale of the estate of Jonas Scoggins) and before Sept. 11, 1818, Blassingame W. Harvey married Nancy (Scoggins) Bowie, widow of John Jones Bowie. On Sept. 11, 1818, "Nancy Harvey bought 3 lots in the town of Harrisonburg, and on Apr. 21, 1820, in Ouachita Parish, LA, Blassingame W. Harvey and wife Nancy Harvey, 'wife of the said Blassingame W. Harvey' for the sum of sixteen hundred and seventy-five dollars, sold to John J. Harvey 320 acres of the Scoggins old place, in Catahoula Parish, LA, also three town lots in Harrisonburg. The next day, John J. Harvey purchased of Nancy and Blassingame Harvey, two negro slaves, cattle, hogs, two horses, a yoke of oxen, a cart, and all their kitchen and household furniture."

"On Oct. 24, 1820, John J. Harvey 'for the love and esteem which he bears toward his sister-in-law, Nancy Scoggins, Widow Bowie, now the wife of Blassingame W. Harvey, brother of the declarent ... ' John J. gave all the property (lots not mentioned) back to Nancy."

Why would John J. Harvey buy his brother's property and then six months later give it all back to his brother's wife? Perhaps the answer is that Blassingame Harvey was preparing to leave his wife and his brother felt responsible for providing for her. According to tradition in the Harvey family of LA, "Blassingame W. Harvey 'ran off to Texas, leaving Nancy penniless in Ouachita Parish, and she m. his brother'." No marriage records are available to substantiate that the marriage occurred.

In 1830, Nancy was in Catahoula Parish, LA, where she was listed as head of the household on the 1830 census. She died in 1833, but no public record listing her heirs has been found.

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Married:
FIRST GENERATION KNOWN BLASSINGAME W.HARVEY OF SAN AUGUSTINE CO., TEXAS By Joyce P. Hervey

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hervey/HFAV5.htm

Nancy and John Harvey probably had the following four Harvey children: Amanda Harvey, b. ca. 1823 in MS; Charles Calvin Harvey, b. 10 Feb. 1825 in LA; John Austin "Aus" Harvey, b. 26 Jan. 1827 in LA; and Daniel Harvey. Whether they belonged to Blassingame or his brother John J. is unclear; however, it is likely that they belonged to John J., since the land transactions cited above seem to imply that Blassingame sold out and left Nancy about 1820. Evidence for the assumption that the above are all Nancy's children comes from San Augustine Co. records.1 Malinda (Bowie) Haggerty and her husband Jefferson Haggerty, along with their young daughter Araminta (b. ca. 1831), Malinda's brother, John Bowie, and three of the four Harvey children named above, i.e. Amanda, Charles Calvin, and John Austin, (Daniel remained in LA) arrived in San Augustine County in 1834 and located near the Blassingame W. Harvey family.

This is how they were listed at the time of the 1835 Sabine District, Texas census:

255. Thomas J. Hagerty 28 married Catholic farmer Malinda, his wife 21 Aramenta, daughter 4 Jane, daughter 5 mo. Nelson, man servant 40 Fan, wife, servant 23 Maria, her child 4 Mareah, her child 5 mo. 256. John Bohe 18 single Catholic farmer Amanda Harvy 12 single Catholic Calvin Harvy 11 Austin 9