Alvin Ingram "Red" Cartwright, Jr.

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Red Cartwright

Funeral services for Alvin Ingram "Red" Cartwright Jr, 67, of San Augustine were held Saturday, June 4, 1994 at the Wyman Roberts Funeral directors chapel in San Augustine. Interment followed at the City Cemetery.

He died Wednesday, June 1, 1994, at the Memorial Hospital in San Augustine.

Cartrwright was a lifelong resident of San Augustine County is is survived by cousins.

The Sabine County Reporter, June 29, 1994, page 8

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Census Listings:

1930 Census
Texas, San Augustine County, San Augustine Precinct
Enumerated April 24, 1930
ED 203-1 SD 19 Sheet 10B
264-278
Cartwright, Minnie Head 8000 F W 56 Wd 20 Tx Tx Tx
Cartwright, Americus H Son M W 21 m 19 Tx Tx Tx Cashier Bank
Cartwright, Mintie Dtr F W 18 S Tx
Cartwright, Nelda Dtr-in-law F W 18 m 16 Tx
265-279
Cartwright, Ingram A Head M W 30 M 22 Tx Farmer
Cartwright, Wilma Wf F W 29 m 22 Tx
Cartwright, Ingram Jr Son M W 3 S Tx

Alvin married Wilma Dorothy Dean. Wilma was born on 28 Sep 1900 in Texas; died on 8 Feb 1994; was buried in San Augustine City Cemetery, San Augustine County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Said to be a daughter of Robert Alexander DEAN and Norma "Nonie" SEARCY.

Notes:

Not shown as a child of Columbus Cartwright and Sallie Lane on 'Chart II: John Cartwright's Children and Grandchildren' in the appendix of Henson and Parmelee's "The Cartwrights of San Augustine."

However, a stand alone chart was later issued as an Erratum, stated that the name of three of their children were inadvertently omitted.

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Census Listings:

1900 Census
Texas, San Augustine County, San Augustine
Enumerated 26 Jun 1900
SD 267 ED 73 Sheet 1B
Census Listings:
227-227
Cartwright, Mack Head W M Dec 1870 29 m 6 ZTx Tn Tn Farmer
Cartwright, Minnie Wf W F Mch 1873 27 m 6 1/1 Tx Tx Tx
Cartwright, Infant Son W M Mch 1900 7/12 S Tx Tx Tx
Storne, Corry Servant B M 1882 18 S Tx Tx Tx Laborer
Sharp, Jane Cook B F 1895 25 W Tx Tx Tx Cook
Sharp, Alfred Son B M 1886 14 S Tx Tx Tx

1910 Census
Texas, San Augustine County, San Augustine, Pr 1
Enumerated 21 Apr 1910
SD 2 ED 138 Sheet 4A
71-72
Cartwright, Americus H Head M W 40 m1 16 Tx Tx Tn Own Income
Cartwright, Minnie C Wf F W 37 m1 16 2/2 Tx Tx Tx
Cartwright, Ingram Son M W 10 S Tx Tx Tx
Cartwright, A. H. Jr. Son M W 1 S Tx Tx Tx
Hollis, Sophronia Servant F B 21 S Tx Tx Tx Cook Private Family
Garrett, Kate S. Boarder F W 42 S Tx Tn Tx Deputy Clerk County
Dixon, Felix B Friend F W 36 S Tx Oh Tx
Fields, Garrett W Nephew M W 15 S Tx Tx Tx

Americus married Minnie Clementine Sublett on 25 Oct 1893 in San Augustine County, Texas. Minnie (daughter of Henry William Sublett and Mary Garrett) was born on 15 Mar 1873 in Texas; died on 20 Feb 1954 in San Augustine, San Augustine County, Texas; was buried in San Augustine City Cemetery, San Augustine County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Texas Death Records show her as the daughter of Henry Sublett and Mary Garrett.

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Census Listings:

At the time of the 1920 census, she was listed as Minnie Cartwright, Female, White, age 45, married, born in the United States and as an inmate in the Southwestern Insane Asylum in Bexar County, Texas.

1930 Census
Texas, San Augustine County, San Augustine Precinct
Enumerated April 24, 1930
ED 203-1 SD 19 Sheet 10B
264-278
Cartwright, Minnie Head 8000 F W 56 Wd 20 Tx Tx Tx
Cartwright, Americus H Son M W 21 m 19 Tx Tx Tx Cashier Bank
Cartwright, Mintie Dtr F W 18 S Tx
Cartwright, Nelda Dtr-in-law F W 18 m 16 Tx
265-279
Cartwright, Ingram A Head M W 30 M 22 Tx Farmer
Cartwright, Wilma Wf F W 29 m 22 Tx
Cartwright, Ingram Jr Son M W 3 S Tx

Notes:

At the age of 16, Columbus and two other local boys were sent to the Kentucky Military Institute near Frankfort. They traveled by steamboat down the Red River and up the Mississippi and Ohio rivers to Louisville, and then by train, the first they had seen, to Frankfort. Homesick, but conscious of his duty, Columbus missed no classes and worked very hard to please his parents. Upperclassman Moses A. Broocks wrote this his father that Columbus was 'one of the finest and healthiest looking' cadets." (Henson and Parmelee, pp. 171 -172). He had to return to San Augustine in 1855 due to poor health. He later attended Cumberland Unversity in Lebanon, Tennesse, with his brother Meck. Poor health continued to afflict Cumby the rest of his life. At the onset of the Civil War, he remained home with his young family, not enlisting in the C.S.A. with his brothers Meck and Lon (ibid, p. 200)

In the summer of 1861 Mosquito-borne fevers troubled San Augustine..."Columbus was so sick that he spoke of dying to his father before his slow recovery. Sallie, his wife, also had two chills but seemed to be better; Matthew probably did not know that she was expecting her third child. Other neighbors were very ill and some were dying." (ibid, pp. 206-207). The ledger books of his father, Matthew Cartwright, show that a number of payments of $50 or more were made to pay men to serves as Columbus's substitutes in the Confederate army, a practice that was later forbidden. (ibid, p. 216) In 1864, fearful that the Union forces would advance into Texas, Columbus joined Gen. Major's cavalry below Natchitoches by April 24. His brother Meck, who had been on sick leave since October 1863 rejoined as well. The brothers were among the Confederates who followed the retreating Union boats along the river banks. Eventually Cumby's old kidney ailment sent him to the rear. He returned to duty near Opelousas on May 31. By the end of July 1864 he was home on a furlough he had bought for $38. His health remained bad, and his leave was extended until November. (ibid, pp 235-236).

During the 1880's, Columbus formed a business partnership with two of his sons, Robert and John Matthew, both of whom had moved to Mt. Calm in Hill County, to raise fine horses. Columbus remained most of the time in San Augustine, maintaining a race track where he trained his favorite animals. Beginning in 1884 he bought throughbreds and was listed in the AMERICAN STUD BOOK and TURF, FIELD AND FARM (ibid, pp. 298-299). Once the overachiever of the family, Columbus had learned over the years that his kidney ailment could be controlled by simple quiet living, and raising racehorses and other livestock in San Augustine suited him. He remained behind as the rest of his siblings moved to westward to Terrell. (p. 308).

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Census Listings:

1860 Census
Texas, San Augustine County, San Augustine District
Enumerated 5 July 1860
Page 6
35-35
C. C. Cartwright 23 M Farmer 3000 9730 Tx
Sarah H Cartwright 19 F Tenn
Matthew Cartwright Jr. 2 M Tx
Robert L Cartwright 1 M Tx

1870 Census
Texas, San Augustine County, PO San Augustine
Enumerated 6 July 1870
Page 20
122-122
Cartwright, C. 32 M W Farmer 2000 1000 Tx
Cartwright, Sarah M 29 F W Keeps House Tenn
Cartwright, R. L 10 M W At School Tx
Cartwright, Mathew 8 M W Tx
Cartwright, C Jr 23 M W Tx
Cartwright, Americus 6/12 M W Tx Dec
Harper, Porter 25 M M Works on Farm Tenn
Harper, Milpey? 30 F B cook Tenn
Harper, Jessey? 9 M M Tx
Harper, Martha 2 F M Tx

Columbus married Sarah "Sally" Amanda Lane on 24 Jun 1858 in Tennessee. Sarah (daughter of Robert Lane and America "Meck" Holman) was born on 24 May 1841 in Tennessee; died on 18 Feb 1895 in San Augustine County, Texas; was buried in San Augustine City Cemetery, San Augustine County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Married:
During an extended visit with the Akin's in McMinnville, Tennessee, Columbus fell in love with his sixteen year old cousin, Sarah "Sallie" Lane, who had recently completed studies at Mary Sharp College.

Notes:

May, 1843, witnessed a land sale by Anthony PATTON to Samuel JORDAN, along with Edwin O. LeGRAND, a signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence. Buried at the Oakwood Cemetery in Austin, Texas. (Noble, Harry ANTHONY B. PATTON "Justice of the Peace" San Augustine Tribune, Thursday, November 21, 2002) Son of Phillip Allen Sublett, who had purchased land from John W. Frith in 1830, southwest of land owned by the Cartwright family, just west of Elisha Roberts land, who was the father of Easter Jane Roberts and father-in-law of Phillip. (Henson and Parmelee, p. 50).

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Census Listings:

1870 Census
Texas, San Augustine County
#644-644 Sublett, H.W. 24 M W Farmer 6,000 2,400 TX
Sublett, M.G. 28 F W Keeps House TX
Sublett, E.J. 62 F W KY
Perkins, Fanny 13 F Mu House Servant TX
Garrett, Harry 15 M B Ostler TX
Jackson, Young 3 Mu

1880 Census
Texas, San Augustine County
#241-241
Sublett, Henry W M 35 M Farmer TX KY KY
Sublett, Mary W F 45 Wife M Keeps House TX TN TN
Sublett, Mollie W F 8 Dtr S At home TX TX TX
Sublett, Minnie W F 7 Dtr S At home TX TX TX
Sublett, Phillip W M 4 Son S At home TX TX TX
Sublett, F.B. W M 2 Son S At home TX TX TX
Sublett, Easter J W F 72 Mother W At home KY -- --
" , Robert B M 19 Servant S Laborer TX -- --

Henry married Mary Garrett on 15 Jul 1869 in San Augustine County, Texas. Mary (daughter of William Garrett and Mary "Polly" Grimmer Cartwright) was born on 6 Dec 1837 in San Augustine County, Texas; died on 23 Dec 1883. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Along with her cousins, Anna Holman and Victoria Thomas, she "Attended St. Mary's Hall, an elite Episcopalian finishing school founded in 1837 in Burlington, New Jersey, near Philadelphia...(enduring) terrible homesickness and culture shock upon...arrival in November 1854..(Mary) begged her father to 'come for me....We have no fire in our room and...it is so cold we do not know what to do...This is a lonesome place although there is so many girls, but they will not go with us they think that they are too good." (Henson and Parmelee, THE CARTWRIGHTS OF SAN AUGUSTINE, p. 174)

Henson and Parmelee also wrote that in 1862, Mary, "an old maid at twenty-two, also has typhoid, but recovered to help care for her deceased sister's children while their father was in the army." (ibid, p. 220)

Not living with her parents at the time of the 1880 San Augustine County census.

In Book Two of the San Augustine County, Texas Marriage book, there are marriage records listed for a "Mary Garrett" to Joseph Little in 1865, to Henry Sublett in 1869, and to Madison Sexton in 1876.

This Mary Garrett would have been around age 25 in 1865, and could have married Joseph Little. However, they can not be located either the 1870 or 1880 census of San Augustine County. If they did marry, he either died before 1870, and Mary next wed Henry Sublett; or they both moved away from San Augustine County prior to 1870.

The Mary Garrett who married Henry Sublett in 1869 was born sometime between 1835 (ref: 1880 census) and 1842 (ref: 1870 census). She was shown on both census transcriptions as being born in Texas, and that both her parents were born in Tennessee. This appears to be a good match for this Mary Garrett.

As Henry and Mary were still married in 1880, our Mary Garrett Sublett could not have wed Madison Sexton in 1876. Madison Sexton can not be located on either the 1870 or 1880 San Augustine County Texas census transcription.