John Sidney Causey, Sr.

Notes:

Name: John Sidney Causey
Death Date: 14 Oct 1963
Death Place: Hemphill, Sabine, Texas
Gender: Male
Race: white
Death Age: 73 years
Estimated Birth Date:
Birth Date: 15 Jul 1890
Birthplace: Texas
Marital Status: Married
Spouse's Name:
Father's Name: James Causey
Father's Birthplace:
Mother's Name: Fannie Russell
Mother's Birthplace:
Occupation: Retired Timber Scaler
Informant: James Causey
Place of Residence: Hemphill, Sabine, Texas
Cemetery: Hemphill
Burial Place: Hemphill, Texas
Burial Date: 16 Oct 1963
Additional Relatives: X
Film Number: 2117356
Digital Film Number: 4028315
Image Number: 1821
Reference Number: cn 79987
Collection: Texas Deaths, 1890-1976


John S. Causey Dies Monday

John Sidney Causey, 73, suffered a fatal heart attack Monday at 11:45 a.m. while cutting wood near Poye bridge over Palo Gaucho Creek. At the time of the attack, his wife was fishing in the creek nearby. Not hearing him fro sometime, she went to investigate and found him where he had fallen. Funeral services for Mr. Causey were held at 2 p.m. Wednesday in the Starr Funeral Home Chapel in Hemphill. The Rev. Thomas Bailey, a Lufkin Pentecostal minister, officiated, assisted by the Rev. Charles Murphy, Pentecostal minister of Leesville, La. and the Rev. Clarence Howell, pastor of First Baptist Church, Hemphill. Burial was in the Hemphill Cemetery. Pallbearers were C. C. Russell, Tommy Bragg, Chester Bragg, Jim Wilson, E. E. Maxey and D. B. Speights. Survivors are his wife, Nettie Causey of Hemphill, two daughters, Mrs. Mildred Wallace, Albuequerque, N. M., and Mrs. Margie Coats, Shreveport, La., three sons, James Causey, Hemphill, Rufus Causey, Fairchild Air Force Base, Washington, and Sidney Causey, Jr., Seattle, Wash., 16 grandchildren, and one great-grandchild.
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Obituary Sabine County Reporter, Hemphill, TX, 17 Oct 1963
Born 15 July 1890, died 14 Oct 1963, married Nettie Anna Bragg

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~txsabine/obituaries/TXSabine_Obits_Surname-C.htm

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Census Listings:

1930 Census
Texas, Sabine County, JP 1, East Mayfield Town
Enumerated April 4, 1930
ED 202-1 SD 19 Sheet 1B
253-15-16
Causey, John S Head M W 39 M 24 Tx Tx La Yard Contractor Planes Mill
Causey, Nettie A Wf F W 33 M 18 Tx Tx Tx
Causey, James S. Son M w 14 S Tx Tx Tx
Causey, Rufus F Son M W 12 S Tx Tx Tx
Causey, Mildred L Dtr F W 9 S Tx Tx Tx
Causey, Sidney Jr Son M w 7 S Tx Tx Tx
Causey, Margie M Dtr F W 3 S Tx Tx Tx
Causey, Fransis M Mother F W 66 Wd 15 La Al Al

Family/Spouse: Nettie Anna Bragg. Nettie (daughter of James Richard "Dick" Bragg and Martha "Mattie" Jane Harrison) was born on 9 Aug 1896 in Texas; died on 2 May 1975 in Tyler County, Texas; was buried in Hemphill City Cemetery, Hemphill, Sabine County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. James Solomon Causey, Jr. was born on 29 Nov 1915 in Texas; died on 31 May 1993 in Kingsland, Llano County, Texas; was buried in Hemphill City Cemetery, Hemphill, Sabine County, Texas.
2. Rufus F. Causey was born about 1918 in Texas; and died.
3. Mildred Louise Causey was born on 29 Apr 1920 in Hemphill, Sabine County, Texas; died on 11 May 1997 in Midland, Midland County, Texas; was buried in Hemphill City Cemetery, Hemphill, Sabine County, Texas.
4. John Sidney Causey, Jr. was born on 23 Dec 1922 in Texas; died on 22 Dec 2008 in Seattle, King County, Washington.
5. Margie M. Causey was born on 4 Jan 1927 in Hemphill, Sabine County, Texas; died on 23 Oct 1983 in Smith County, Texas; was buried in Whitehouse Cemetery, Whitehouse, Smith County, Texas.

Notes:

First name shown as Sebern in 1860 and Solomon in 1870.

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Census Listings:

1880 Census
Texas, Sabine County, Pr 4
Page 5 SD 1 ED 86
Enumerated 16 and 17 Jun 1880
44-44
Causey, James W M 23 Farming Tx Miss La
Causey, Fannie W F 16 Wf Keep House La La La

1900 Census
Louisiana, Sabine Parish, Ward 5
Enumerated 12 Jun 1900
SD 4 ED 93 Sheet 7A
108-109
Causey, S. J. Head W M Oct 1857 42 M 22 Tx Miss La Farmer
Causey, Fannie Wf W F Apr 1863 37 M 22 6/4 La Ala Ala
Causey, Soloman Son M M Sept 1881 18 S Tx Tx La Farm Laborer
Causey, Sidney Son W M July 1891 8 S Tx Tx La
Causey, Lee Son W M Apr 1894 6 S Tx Tx La
Causey, Dallas Son W M May 1898 2 S La Tx La

Seborn married Frances "Fannie" Russell on 16 Jul 1877 in Sabine County, Texas. Frances was born about 1864 in Louisiana; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

At the time of the 1930 census, she was living with her son and daughter in law, John Sidney Causey and Nettie Bragg.

Notes:

Per the "1850 Census Sabine Co, Texas with added family information and corrections" Solomon Causey owned 2 slaves and his mother Nancy owned 3.

Was shown on the muster roll of Captain J.M. Burroughs Company of the Sabine County Volunteer Infantry, CSA, and was enlisted at Hemphill, Texas by Drury Field for 3 months duty on January 15, 1863.

Virgie Speights writes that they were an early pioneer family, "the Causeys being in Sabine County nearly as long as anybody. Early deeds writtn about 1830 or earlier mention them living at Pendleton or thereabouts, they came to Texas from South Carolina."

The Sabine County Reporter
October 22, 2014
Pages 1 and 2

"Milam Cemetery receives marker"

The Texas Historic Cemetery Dedication Ceremony for Milam Cemetery took place on Saturday, October 11, following the annual Nethery reunion...local historian Weldon McDaniel....gave a presentation outlining some of the significant historical events that took place in Milam and the importance of preserving the history of Milam Cemetery. He said as many as 85 percent of all early settlers coming into Texas put their boots in red dirt. Although San Augustine and Nacogdoches counties have a friendly battle over which is older, Milam is just as old as either of them....

Dorothy Nethery Spain had the honor of reading the script engraved on the marker:

"Milam, the first County Seat of Sabine County, has a history of travelers and visitors stretching back centuries. Native Americans and Spanish exploreres, soldiers and missionaries passed through and often camped on Las Boregas Creek. Texian settlers encountering the natural abundance echoed the words of Stephen F. Austin, who recorded in his diary entry of July 16, 1821: "We then suddenly came to an open rolling country thinly timbered soil about the color of Spanish browne, and in some places redder. This Red Land is very productive and is covered with the most luxuriant growth of grass I ever beheld in any country." The settlment first called Red Mound (Red Mount) was the seat of Government for the Sabine District since 1822, and was surveyed as a town site in 1828.

Milam Cemetery is on a high hill overlooking the historic community. The exact dated of the first burial will never be known Spanish Explorers were passing through present-day Milam as early as 1539 and camped on Las Boregas Creek a few hundred yards west of the cemetery. Local hisorians believed Anglo burials occurred here probably as early as 1775, since travelers used the campsite down the hill on the Las Boregas. The land on which the cemetery is located was granted to JOHN SMITH on Feb. 26, 1835. The first marked burial is dated 1864, although more than 100 unmarked graves are suspected. The numerous military Veterans dating back to the Creek War are interred here, as well as prominent early citizens from the CAUSEY, WEATHERRED. McGREW, and NETHERY families. Milam Cemetery may be the oldest organized cemetery in Sabine County, and cherished chronicle of generations of visitors and residents."


(Research):

Census Listings:

1850 Census
Texas, Sabine County, Sabine District
Enumerated 6 and 7 Nov 1850
199-199
Solomon W. Causey 34 M Farmer 1000 Miss
Martha Ann Causey 12 F Miss
Alphia E Causey 10 F Tx
William E Causey 4 M Tx
Mary V. Causey 6/12 F Tx
Nancy Causey 67 F SC

1860 Census
Texas, Sabine County, Milam Beat, PO Milam
Enumerated 12 Jun 1860
Page 2, Stamped 318
7-7
Solomon Cawsey 44 M Farmer 1000 2625 Miss
Harriet L. Cawsey 34 F $--- $1320 La
William M. Fullen 16 M Tx
John W. Fullen 12 M Tx
William E Cawsey 12 M Tx
Sebern J. Cawsey 2 M Tx
Geo W Cawsey 1/12 M Tx

1870 Census
Texas, Sabine County, Beat No. 2, PO Sabine Town
Enumerated 23 July 1870
Pages 1 and 2 Stamped 7
320-320
Causey S 50 M W Farmer 300 600 Miss
Harriet L 43 F Keeping House La
Solomon J 13 M Tx
George W 10 M W Tx
Margeret 4 F W Tx
Alfred D 1 M W Tx
Williams Harriet 30 F B Domestic Servant Ga
Robert H 5 M B Tx
Virginia 1 F B Txs

Solomon married Margaret Oliphant before 1858 in Sabine County, Texas. Margaret was born before 1838; died before 1859. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]