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| Fulton | Samuel Moore | 26 Feb 1810 | 27 Feb 1853 | Old City | SOUTHEAST | Tombstone is inscribed 1800-1853. Buried near Willie Moseley. From The Genealogical Society of Northeast Texas Newsletter #2, dated 14 Aug 1981, p.2, an article titled SILENT CITIES by Elizabeth Booth; 'died January 19, 1852 at the age of seventy one, was a member of the Samuel Fulton family of steamboat fame. He owned and operated a trading post and ferry west of Arthur City, Texas.' Other records of Elizabeth Booth show death of 27 Feb 1853. He fought in the battle of New Orleans. He came to Red River District in 1818. He settled in Arthur City in 1838 and established a trading post. Family names on the 1850 Census of Lamar County show wife Clarisy, children William, May, Nancy, Albert, Mariah and Lorenzo. Information from Clara Haden White, 5 Apr 1996, 4421 Beverly, Dallas, TX, 75205: Samuel married Clara Roberts who is believed to have died about 1864 in Lamar County. Samuel was born 26 Feb 1810 and died 27 Feb 1853. His son Samuel Hugh Fulton was born 10 Jun 1852 and died 13 May 1931, married Lona Payne who was born 18 Nov 1864 and died 5 Sep 1944. Samuel and Lona had a daughter named Clara Fulton, born 17 Sep 1893, who married 16 Jun 1915 to J. B. Haden Jr., born 21 Oct 1890. Clara is the daughter of J. B. and Clara Fulton Haden and is a member of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas. From BACKWARD GLANCES, Thursday, March 31, 1966, From the Scrapbooks of the late A. W. Neville, Editor of The Paris News, 1936-1956: 'December 15, 1940 Dr. Hugh Fulton, who was for many years, a physician in Ladonia supplied this history of his family, which should be of interest to all who care for the early history of Lamar County, because his father, Samuel Moore Fulton, was one of the earliest citizens of the County and had much to do with its affairs in those years. He and some members of his family are buried in the Old Cemetery on North 16th (now 5th NW) St. in Paris. Dr. Fulton supplied this story twenty-odd, years ago. He said: The Fulton family was founded in Texas in 1833, when Samuel Moore Fulton made his settlement on Red River, and subsequently built up a business community which was called Franklin, half a mile west of where now is Arthur City and that was his home nearly twenty years. He was born in 1800 in Norfolk, Virginia, where his father, Samuel Fulton, was a shipbuilder from the early days of United States history. The father had come to America soon after surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown, from the Clyde River in Scotland, where his father was the founder of the Fulton Docks and where they built up the shipbuilding industry. The first Armstrong married one of the Fulton daughters and when he came into the great shipyards, extending for miles along the Clyde, his personality eventually shook off the Fulton influence and the shipyards became the Armstrong. Career of Samuel Fulton Sr., as a shipbuilder began as a foreman in yards at Norfolk and presently he became a builder on his own account. When he tired of the hard work because of age, he moved to Wytheville, in the mountains of southwestern Virginia, where he spent his remaining years, dying when 65 years old. He had married in Scotland, Nancy Cravens, and after her husband died; she came to Texas to be with her son and died in 1847, almost seventy years old. Samuel Moore was one of her six children and the father of Dr. Hugh Fulton. Samuel Moore was reared in a home of plenty in Virginia. He left home in 1818 and established himself in Arkansas Territory on Red River, the place taking the name of Fulton. He engaged in trapping, working his way along the then frontier and with the Indians. He first came to Texas in 1823 and during the trapping season for the following ten years carried on his occupation along the Red River. Two years before the rupture of the Texans and the Mexican government he located permanently at the point on Red River that he decided was an advantageous one for his Indian trade, and from there where he had a trading post, he operated steamboats on the Red and Mississippi Rivers until his death when but 53 years of age.' (Continued tomorrow) December 16, 1940 'Soon after, the Texas Republic came into being, Sam M. Fulton engaged in operating steamboats on the Red and Mississippi Rivers and became an officer in a company known as the Ohio, Red River and Mississippi Packet Company. He was in New Orleans in 1853, was detained there by the yellow fever quarantine and was a, victim of the disease. His body was brought to Paris and buried here. Fulton's capacity for business was great as shown by the inventory of the estate he left, including 33,000 acres of land and 180 Negro slaves. He had located his league and labor of land fronting on Red River, where was his trading house and a adjoining on the east was a similar tract awarded to his cousin, Robert Cravens. He managed his business from his home and trading house at Franklin and, it was not until after the war between the sections that, his heirs from time to time sold his real estate holdings. Samuel Fulton took great pride in the achievements of the founders of Texas. He was, said his son, a delegate to the convention that passed on the treaty or bill providing for annexation of Texas to United States, and was one of Six men voting against the proposal. The others were said to be Captain Allen of Fannin County, Captain Cravens Ulysses Matthiessen, Captain Harrison and Hiram Runnels, a brother of the later-day Governor of Texas. Fulton was a member of the party headed by Travis Wright that explored the country up Red River to the Wichita Mountains, they being among the first white men to see that part of the Indian country. He was a member of the 'Old School' Presbyterian Church but supported all denominations and contributed toward the building of the first Methodist, Cumberland Presbyterian and Baptist Churches in Paris. His first marriage was at Clarksville to Frances McCarley, daughter of George McCarley, who died some years later, leaving one son, William, who died in Clarksville twenty-odd years ago. His second marriage was to Clara Roberts, daughter of Mark Roberts, a Fannin County pioneer who came from near Nashville, Tenn., in 1834. Roberts lived to be 87 years old and died in 1879. He was an Indian fighter, colonel of a company of rangers and was a large planter and slave owner. He was the father of 18 children, 14 of whom grew to maturity. Mrs. Fulton died, in 1861, mother, of Mary who, married B. F. McCuistion; Nancy who married Alvis P. Ryan; Maria who never married; Albert and Lorenzo, who died in early life; and Samuel Hugh, born about a year before his father's death in 1852.' |
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| Fulton | W. L., Mrs. | NOT KNOWN | 7 Jul 1899 | Not Stated | NOT PLOTTED | From Rodgers & Wade Furniture Co. Funeral Records in possession of Fry & Gibbs Funeral Home; Book #2; p.149; Service #149; Mrs. W. L. Fulton. To be charged to W.L. Fulton. Order given by T.W. Johnson. Cost 4 carriages at $3.00; Hearse $20.00; Wagonet $4.00; Box to cimb? & etc. chairs and gloves $1.10, total $43.10. DALLAS MORNING NEWS, 6 Jul 1899, p. 3: 'FULTON--Paris, Tex., July 5. -- Mrs. W. L. Fulton died last night at Harper, Gillespie county, where she went several weeks ago. The body will be brought to Paris for burial.' |
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| Fulton | Whitfred | NOT KNOWN | NOT KNOWN | Oak Hill B | NOT PLOTTED | Information from records of Frankie J. Snowton Dangerfield; 18 Jun 1993; 658 NW 3rd St.; Paris; TX.; 75460; assisted by Mary E. Walton Brent. | No photo | |
| Fulton | Willie B. Powell | 1 Feb 1896 | 28 Jan 1991 | See Notes | NOT PLOTTED | Daughter of B.Y. & H.A. Roman Powell. Died at McCuistion Hospital. Buried in Oklahoma. | No photo |
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