Matilda Isaacs

Notes:

Said to have married in 1821 to John Schrier.

Notes:

#"The New Handbook of Texas" in 6 Volumes, Austin, The Texas State
Historical Association, 1996, Vol. III, page 876
ISAACKS, ELIJAH (1775-1859). Elijah Issacks, early East Texas settler
and delegate to the Convention of 1832, the son of Samuel and Mary
(Wallace) Isaacks, was born in South Carolina on February 22, 1775. He
married Esther (or Hester) Donaho in 1797. By 1809 he was living in Pike
County, Mississippi. After serving in the Mississippi Territorial
Militia during the War of 1812 he moved to Texas. Family tradition holds
that Isaacks arrived in Texas on January 10, 1822, although the illegal
nature of such an early migration led him to subsequently to declare the
date as 1830 before Mexican authorities. In any event he was one of the
earliest white settlers in Bevil's Settlement and later secured a tract
along Walnut Run. Isaacks served as a delegate from the Snow River
district in Tyler County to the Convention of 1832. At this convention,
in San Felipe de Austin, he served on two committees, one to study the
future of settlement east of the San Jancinto, and one to consider a
petition for establishing a state government separate from Coahuila (see
COAHUILA AND TEXAS). He was the father of ten children, a farmer, and a
blacksmith; he owned two slaves by 1850. His son Samuel Isaacks probably
arrived in Texas before him. He lived on land that is now part of Tyler
and Jasper counties before moving to Jasper, where he owned four town
lots. He died there after a fall on November 1, 1859.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Madeline Martin, More Early southeast Texas Families
(Quanah, Texas; Nortex, 1978) Texas House of Representatives,
Biographical Directory of the Texas Conventions and Congresses,
1832-1845 (Austin: Book Exchange, 1941.) Robert Wooster

http://www.ancestralvoyages.com/pafn33.htm

James Morgan, the son of Daniel and Mary Morgan (Sampson County, NC>Decatur County, GA>Jasper County, TX), was listed in his household in Jasper, Texas at the time of the 1850 census.

Elijah is said by John W. Clark to be a son of Samuel ISAACS and Mary WALLACE. However, Steve Moody, a descendant of Elijah ISAACS, wrote me that "Elijah Isaacks' mother was Mary Morgan, daughter of Joseph Morgan Jr. I've never been able to figure out how James was related, I thought maybe he was a cousin."

The following information, about Elijah's parents, was copied from a website titled "The Bush Family - My Ancestors" Clinton W. Bush, "Descendants of Isaacs" This has not been verfied against original records and should be used as a starting point for further research.

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cwbush/isaacs.htm

SAMUEL ISAACS was born bet. 1754-1759 in Fredrick County Virginia., and died 1844 in Lincoln County Tenn. He married MARY WALLACE 1774 in South Carolina. She was born 1754 in Fredrick County Virginia., and died 1838 in Lincoln County Tenn. (Source: (1) DAR Membership # 278 734 Maud Isaac., (2) South Carolina Archives order # 3374, AA 3957 1/2 pp li B # 19 Contingent Account. Papers by Legislature Nov. 23, 1795.) John W. Clark states that his Revolutionary Pension File Number is S5600.

The correct birth year is in question war records showing 1759, family records are said to show 1754.

Served in South Carolina Line under "MARION AT BATTLE OF COWPENS" during the American Revolution as Spy for North and South Carolina. Also served under his father Col. Elijah Isaacs in North Carolina.

Order # 3374 AA 3957 1/2 pp Li #19 Contingent Account. papers by legislature Nov 23, 1795.
He first joined the American Army as a private in District 96 in S. C. in Sept. 1776. The year before he married and had twin sons born Feb. 11, 1775. He named the twins Elijah and Elisha. He stated that he served for two years as a spy for the American Army against the Indians. He served several three-month terms in both the N.C. and S.C. militia. He served under his father [Elijah Isaacks, also a revolutionary war soldier] at least one term. He was discharged by General McDowell at Quaker Meadows in Burke Co., N.C.

In 1788 he lived in Franklin CO. Ga. It was here the Indians attacked his home and destroyed everything. His wife and children escaped without harm.

Samuel and Mary were also said to be the parents of Elisha Isaacs (twin to Elijah born 1775), Mary Isaacs (who married Jacob VAN ZANDT), Elizabeth Isaacs [Steve Moody shows she married a BROWN], Rebecca Isaacs [Steve Moody shows she married a WALTON], Jane Isaacs and Abigail Isaacs (who married a YOUNG).




(Research):

Census Listings:

Census of Jasper, Municipality of Bevil
Nacogdoches Archives, Vol. 85, pp. 247-300
Enumerated May 1, 1835.
Elijah ISAACS Married Farmer age 62
Hester DONOHO, " age 59
Andrew ISAACS, age 18
Alfred ISAACS, age 15

1850 Census
Texas, Jasper County, No. 44
Enumerated 17 Sep 1850
Stamped 220
4-4
Elijah Isaacks 75 M Farmer 3000 SC
James Morgan 22 M Laborer NC

Elijah married Esther Donaho about 1797. Esther was born about 1780 in South Carolina; died on 14 Sep 1849 in Jasper County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

John W. Clark shows her as a daugher of William Donoho and Esther Daniel.