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Descendants of Daniel McPherson

Generation No. 5


6. SALINA5 WITTEN (SARAH4 MCPHERSON, BARTON3, RICHARD2, DANIEL1) was born 25 Feb 1831 in Tennessee, and died 21 Apr 1865 in Saline Co., AR. She married LITTLEPAGE ROWLAND 09 Jan 1862 in Saline Co., AR. He was born 22 Apr 1817 in Talladega, AL, and died May 1864 in Sardis, Saline Co., AR.

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ITTLEPAGE ROWLAND and SALINA WITTEN:
Marriage: 09 Jan 1862, Saline Co., AR
     
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ALINA WITTEN and LITTLEPAGE ROWLAND is:
  i.   BENSON W.6 ROWLAND.


7. GRANVILLE5 MCPHERSON (ALEXANDER4, BARTON3, RICHARD2, DANIEL1) was born 1826 in Tennessee, and died 12 Jun 1887 in Blanco, TX. He married (1) SOPHRONIA ANN LEWIS 18 Oct 1849 in Possibly Saline Co., AR, daughter of NATHANIEL LEWIS and RUTH WHITE. She was born 05 Dec 1828 in Alabama, and died Abt. 1861 in Arkansas. He married (2) ELIZABETH "LIZZIE" LACEY 05 Mar 1864 in Choctaw Nation, IT, daughter of GRAVENER LACEY and MARY PATRICK. She was born 1839 in Missouri, and died 1874 in Indian Territory, OK. He married (3) LYDIA ANN STARR 18 Dec 1874 in Ft. Washita, Chickasaw Nation, IT, daughter of WILLIAM STARR and SARAH LUCAS. She was born 11 Aug 1827 in Warnock, Ohio, and died 02 Dec 1903 in Sherman, TX. He married (4) MARY KATE JOHNSON Abt. 1880 in Texas ?, daughter of REV. JOHNSON and HANNAH HARRISON. She was born 1849 in Texas, and died Abt. 1900 in Texas.

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RANVILLE MCPHERSON:
Granville McPherson was born in Tennessee. Educated in common schools and at an early age was apprenticed to a printer. He went to Little Rock, AR where he was employed on the Herald and afterwards on the Advocate where he became acquainted with Albert Pike from whom he received his Masonic instructions. He belonged to the Magnolia Lodge #60 of Little Rock until he demitted on April 24, l863 He went to Ft. Smith in about l870. Captain McPherson obtained his title during the Civil War. He was sent to Indian Territory to assist in preserving order there under Gen. Maxey, and after the war closed he was stationed there and engaged in merchandising, and also founded a paper, the "Star Vindicator". He settled at Caddo, OK then the principal railroad point between Parsons and Dennison. In 1872 Granville and Dr. D. M. Haily produced weekly editions of "The Star" but the newspaper did not occupy all of his time. He organized a Masonic Lodge. After he left Caddo, Indian Territory, and moved to Blanco, Texas his name appears on the Masonic roll of Blanco Lodge #2l6. In 1878 the paper was moved to Blanco, TX and published by Granville and Beverly J. Watson. Granville soon took ill and operation was taken over by his wife Mary Kate along with her young son Lee J. Rountree and nephew, Emmett M. Watson. Upon the death of Captain Granville McPherson in 1887, Mary Kate moved the paper to nearby Kyle, TX. Later, she opened a second "Star Vindicator" in San Marcos, TX leaving the Kyle paper in the able hands of her son Lee J. Rountree. In l964 the Grand Lodge of Oklahoma, through members of Blanco Lodge finally located his grave and they erected a tombstone with all of the proper inscriptions on it and with the square and compass design on it. The grave was located through the efforts of Mrs. Ollie Sanders (Milo). She died a few days after drawing a map of the location of the grave. Had they been just one month later the grave would have never been located.

This information came from a book "History of Free Masonry in Oklahoma" in the Library at Lexington, Mass. It was copied by the Great-Grandson of W. Granville McPherson, Richard D. Havel, June 1975.

Other information is the above came from Don Watson of Texas who is connected to Granville through his being related to the fourth wife of Granville, Mary Kate Rountree McPherson. Sources for some of this information are: Memorial and Genealogical Record of Southwest Texas, Goodspeed Brothers Publishers, 1894 pp 373-374 and Blanco County Families for One Hundred Years by John Stribling Moursund, Nortex Press, Revised 1981, and "Newspapers of Hays County", The Kyle News, April 20, 1928.



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RANVILLE MCPHERSON and SOPHRONIA LEWIS:
Marriage: 18 Oct 1849, Possibly Saline Co., AR

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RANVILLE MCPHERSON and ELIZABETH LACEY:
Married by Rev. Alfred Wright.

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RANVILLE MCPHERSON and ELIZABETH LACEY:
Marriage: 05 Mar 1864, Choctaw Nation, IT

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YDIA ANN STARR:
Lydia Starr McPherson, journalist, was born in 1827 in Warnock, Ohio, the daughter of William F. and Sarah (Lucas) Starr. She moved with her family to Iowa at the age of twelve and began teaching school at Ashland, Iowa, when she was seventeen. On May 2, 1849, she married David Hunter and settled with him near Keosauqua, Iowa, where they had five children. After Hunter's death, Lydia moved with her three sons to Oskaloosa, Iowa, and then to Caddo, Indian Territory, in 1874, and married Granville McPherson, owner of the Oklahoma Star. Together they edited the Star, for which she wrote under the pen name Urania, until Granville moved the paper to McAlister in the Indian Territory in 1876. In 1878 he moved to Blanco, Texas, where he died. Lydia remained behind in Caddo and began publication of the Caddo International News, under her own editorial direction, with her sons as printers. The following year she moved her family to Whitesboro, Texas, and established the weekly Whitesboro Democrat, the first newspaper in Texas owned and operated by a woman. In 1879 she and her sons were invited to transfer operation to Sherman, and the new Sherman Democrat, which became a daily in 1881, developed into a profitable and influential paper. Lydia McPherson joined the Texas Press Association in 1881, one of the first three women members, and served as corresponding secretary . She was a delegate to the World's Exposition in New Orleans in 1885, and from 1886 to 1890 she served as postmistress of Sherman. She contributed to Cosmopolitan magazine, the Toledo Blade, Youth's Companion and the Chicago Advance, among others, and wrote poems and novels; her only published volume was Reullura (1892), a collection of poetry. In 1890 she toured the western and Pacific states and sent travel letters to the Sherman Democrat. She died in 1903; her sons owned the Democrat until 1920.

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RANVILLE MCPHERSON and LYDIA STARR:
Marriage information for W. Granville McPherson and Lydia Ann Starr :

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Frances E. Willard & Mary A. Livermore, eds., American Women     
(2 vols., New York: Mast, Crowell, and Kirkpatrick, 1897)

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RANVILLE MCPHERSON and LYDIA STARR:
Marriage: 18 Dec 1874, Ft. Washita, Chickasaw Nation, IT

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RANVILLE MCPHERSON and MARY JOHNSON:
Marriage: Abt. 1880, Texas ?
     
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RANVILLE MCPHERSON and SOPHRONIA LEWIS are:
  i.   MARY B.6 MCPHERSON, b. May 1850, Saline County, AR; m. JAMES M. DORTCH (TWIN), 25 Nov 1866, Saline County, AR; b. 1841, AR.
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Marriage: 25 Nov 1866, Saline County, AR

  ii.   MINNIE V. MCPHERSON, b. 1852, AR; d. Unknown, Unknown.
14. iii.   GRANVILLE D. "GRAND" MCPHERSON, b. 1855, Saline County, AR; d. 1898, Saline County, AR.
  iv.   WILFORD W. MCPHERSON, b. 1858, AR; d. Unknown, Unknown.
  v.   PAYTON MCPHERSON, b. 1860, AR; d. 16 Jan 1873, Arkansas.
     
Children of GRANVILLE MCPHERSON and ELIZABETH LACEY are:
15. vi.   FLORA AVNA6 MCPHERSON, b. 02 Jan 1865, Choctaw Nation Indian Territory, OK; d. 20 Nov 1934, Bryan Co., OK.
16. vii.   BEN JOHNSON MCPHERSON, b. 04 Aug 1872, Choctaw Nation Indian Territory, OK; d. 28 Dec 1964, Durant, Bryan Co., OK.
17. viii.   CHARLEY E. MCPHERSON, b. 27 Feb 1874, Choctaw Nation Indian Territory, OK; d. 30 Mar 1953, OK.
     
Child of GRANVILLE MCPHERSON and LYDIA STARR is:
  ix.   NO6 CHILDREN.
     
Children of GRANVILLE MCPHERSON and MARY JOHNSON are:
  x.   GRANVILLE GLENMORE6 MCPHERSON, b. 14 May 1882, Blanco, TX; d. 17 Jul 1956, California; m. IVA M. REED; b. Abt. 1884.
  xi.   MELVILLE MCPHERSON, b. 1884, Blanco, TX; d. 1907, Texas.
  xii.   WALLACE BRUCE MCPHERSON, b. 14 Jan 1887, Blanco, TX; d. Unknown, Killed in World War I.


8. JOHN G.5 MCPHERSON (ALEXANDER4, BARTON3, RICHARD2, DANIEL1) was born 1827 in Tennessee, and died Abt. 1896 in AR. He married MARY E. LEWIS Abt. 1855 in Saline Co., AR, daughter of NATHANIEL LEWIS and RUTH WHITE. She was born 25 Mar 1837 in Arkansas, and died in AR.

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OHN MCPHERSON and MARY LEWIS:
Marriage: Abt. 1855, Saline Co., AR
     
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OHN MCPHERSON and MARY LEWIS are:
  i.   SALLIE B.6 MCPHERSON, b. 1857, Arkansas; d. Saline Co., AR.
  ii.   SOPHRONIA MCPHERSON, b. 1859, Arkansas.
  iii.   W. GRANVILLE MCPHERSON, b. 1860, Arkansas; d. Saline Co., AR; m. TABITHA COLLINS, 27 Nov 1883, Saline County, AR; b. Possibly Saline Co., AR; d. Possibly Saline Co., AR.
  More About W. MCPHERSON and TABITHA COLLINS:
Marriage: 27 Nov 1883, Saline County, AR

18. iv.   JOHN C. MCPHERSON, b. 1865, Arkansas; d. Arkansas.
  v.   ALEXANDER MCPHERSON, b. 1868, Arkansas.
  vi.   EUCLID A. MCPHERSON, b. 1868, Arkansas; d. Unknown, Saline Co., AR.
  vii.   MARY MCPHERSON, b. 1873, Arkansas.
  viii.   ELIZABETH MCPHERSON, b. 1874, Arkansas.
  ix.   JAMES MCPHERSON, b. 1878, Arkansas.


9. VESTA ANN5 MCPHERSON (ALEXANDER4, BARTON3, RICHARD2, DANIEL1) was born 1830 in Tennessee, and died 1861 in Saline Co., AR. She married LITTLEPAGE ROWLAND 12 Nov 1846 in Saline County, AR. He was born 22 Apr 1817 in Talladega, AL, and died May 1864 in Sardis, Saline Co., AR.

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ITTLEPAGE ROWLAND and VESTA MCPHERSON:
Marriage: 12 Nov 1846, Saline County, AR
     
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ESTA MCPHERSON and LITTLEPAGE ROWLAND are:
  i.   THOMAS A.6 ROWLAND, b. 1848, Arkansas.
  ii.   WILLIAM G. ROWLAND, b. 1849, Arkansas.
  iii.   SAMUEL A. ROWLAND, b. 1851, Arkansas.
  iv.   JOHN G. ROWLAND, b. 1855, Arkansas.
  v.   JOSHUA ROWLAND, b. 1858, Arkansas.


10. ELIZA JANE5 MCPHERSON (ALEXANDER4, BARTON3, RICHARD2, DANIEL1) was born 1831 in Tennessee, and died 1870 in Saline Co., AR. She married SAMUEL ROWLAND 09 Nov 1848 in Saline County, AR. He was born 1820 in Alabama, and died Unknown in Saline Co., AR.

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AMUEL ROWLAND and ELIZA MCPHERSON:
Marriage: 09 Nov 1848, Saline County, AR
     
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LIZA MCPHERSON and SAMUEL ROWLAND are:
  i.   ELIZABETH6 ROWLAND, b. 1849, AR.
  ii.   SERENA E. ROWLAND, b. 1850, AR.
  iii.   MARIAH ROWLAND, b. 1852, AR.
  iv.   MARY A. ROWLAND, b. 1852, AR.
  v.   SAMUEL ROWLAND, b. 1856, AR.
  vi.   LITTLEPAGE ROWLAND, b. 1858, AR.
  vii.   ARCHIBALD O. ROWLAND, b. 1862, AR.


11. EMMA "EMILY"5 MCPHERSON (ALEXANDER4, BARTON3, RICHARD2, DANIEL1) was born 1835 in Tennessee, and died 1863 in Humboldt, Allen Co., KS. She married WILLIAM WRIGHT WITTEN 03 Jan 1852 in Saline County, AR, son of WILLIAM WITTEN and MARY BAILEY. He was born 1832 in Bledsoe, TN, and died 29 Jan 1879 in Sipe Springs, Comanche Co., TX.

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ILLIAM WITTEN and EMMA MCPHERSON:
Marriage: 03 Jan 1852, Saline County, AR
     
Children of E
MMA MCPHERSON and WILLIAM WITTEN are:
  i.   WILLIAM ABBOTT6 WITTEN, b. 09 Aug 1859, Arkansas; d. 07 Feb 1927.
  ii.   THOMAS ALEXANDER WITTEN, b. 14 Feb 1857, Evening Shade, Sharp Co., AR; d. 02 Apr 1931, Mountain View, Washita Co., Ok.
  iii.   MARY E. WITTEN, b. 04 Jan 1861, Kansas.


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