Eastham, William Ethrean

  General Notes:

Mary Ann Eastham married George Washington Dickerson in Pulaski Co. Ky. in 1866. Mary was the daughter of Zachriah and Sally (barrow).Zach Sally also had a son named William. Pullaski Co. has excellent records.

1Robert "Bob" Wayne Simmons, Genealogy of Robert Vernon Eastham and Rosa Lucille (Howard) (Robert Vernon Eastham and Rosa Lucille (Howard)), Pg. 2, 9 May 1993, Robert Wayne Simmons, 1315 S. 289th Pl., Federal Way, WA., 98003.
!NOTE: An original copy of the document prepared by cousin Bob Simmons dated May 9, 1995, is in the possession of Gary L. Smith, Yuma, AZ.

George W. Eastham 1 <pafc07.htm> was born 2 <pafc07.htm> about 1795 in Virginia. [Parents] <pafg08.htm>

George W. Eastham <pafg07.htm>
1Robert W.Simmons, cousin to Gary L. Smith, Geo. W. Eastham descendants chart (1820 Tenn. Census, lived in White Co. Tenn.), 8 Apr 1993, Robert W. Simmons, 1315 S. 289th Pl., Federal Way, WA., 98003.
"!NOTE: The 1850 Tenn. Census lists Geo. W., James, Nancy Eastham lived in Dekalb Co., Tenn."
2Robert "Bob" Wayne Simmons, Genealogy of Robert Vernon Eastham and Rosa Lucille (Howard) (Robert Vernon Eastham and Rosa Lucille (Howard)), Pg. 2, 9 May 1993, Robert Wayne Simmons, 1315 S. 289th Pl., Federal Way, WA., 98003.
!NOTE: An original copy of the document prepared by cousin Bob Simmons dated May 9, 1995, is in the possession of Gary L. Smith, Yuma, AZ.

  Research Notes:

Maury Co. Will Book: Book E, p.301: Inventory of William Eastham, recorded 16 May 1831, note on Tennessee Roper, due bill on Arthur Powell (desparate)...negroes...note on P. Parchman, dated 1823 (desparate)...signed Tennessee Roper, admr.
p.473: William Eastham, deceased; settlement, recorded 10 May 1832
Tennessee Roper, admr...


Population increase soon produced demands for the organization of local government. In 1830 the territory of present Burleson County south of the Old San Antonio Road was included in the Precinct of Viesca, while the area of the future county north of the road, part of Robertson's colony, was incorporated into Viesca Municipality. In 1835 the region north of the road became part, first, of Milam Municipality, and then of Milam County, after the foundation of the republic in 1836. The territory south of the road and north of Yegua Creek was initially included in Washington Municipality, organized in 1835, and then in Washington County in 1836. In 1840 the area of the present county south of the Old San Antonio Road was transferred from Washington to Milam County. A small settlement and trading post established by Lewis L. Chiles by 1840 at the place where the Old San Antonio Road crossed Davidson Creek in what is now Burleson County was chosen to become the seat of the newly constituted Milam County. A new townsite, soon known as Caldwell, was platted in 1840 by George B. Erath.qv Finally, on March 24, 1846, the state's First Legislature established Burleson County, named for Gen. Edward Burleson,qv and designated Caldwell the county seat. The county acquired its present boundaries in 1874, when its western reaches beyond East Yegua Creek were given to the new Lee County, thus reducing Burleson County by some 31 percent.
With heavy immigration continuing from the southern United States and from the older settled parts of Texas, the county's white and black populations continued to expand rapidly until the end of antebellum Texas.qv In 1847 there were 866 whites and 330 slaves in the county.

Grantee:
Wm. Eastham, deed, Feb. 1854, Volume B, page 324
Wm. Eastman, deed, Jan. 1855, Volume E, pages 115, 116

Grantor:
Wm Eastham, deed, June 1868, Volume H, page 744, states he is (now?) of
Johnson Co.
Wm. E. Eastham, deed, Dec. 1870, Volume K, page 89, states he is of Johnson
Co.

  LDS Information:

Baptism: 13 Jan 1999, Arizo - Mesa Arizona

Endowment: 29 Apr 1999, Mesa Arizona Temple

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Taxes, 27 ? 1872.

2. Land, 3 Nov 1845, Washington, Texas, USA. ³⁷⁰

3. Land: (50 acres), 3 Jan 1855, Burleson, Texas, USA. ³⁷¹

4. Taxes, 27 Feb 1864.

5. Taxes, 1 Oct 1870.

6. Taxes, 17 Oct 1872.

7. Taxes, 25 Nov 1873.

8. Taxes, 13 Nov 1875.

9. Taxes, 9 Nov 1876.

10. Taxes, 24 Jan 1883.

11. Legal Document, 1 Jan 1885.

He was sealed to his spouse on 6 Jun 1986 at Los Angeles California Temple.⁷⁶ (Elizabeth Buster was born about 1824 in Kentucky, USA ^73,74 and died between 1852 and 1855 ⁷⁴.)

William next married Minerva Arnold Scales, daughter of Nicholas Scales and Unknown, on 15 Feb 1855 in Burleson, Texas, USA ⁷⁵.^,126.^,127 (Minerva Arnold Scales was born on 17 Jul 1817 in Alabama, USA,^53,81,84 died on 4 Dec 1887 ^13,81 and was buried in Admiral, Callahan, Texas, USA.)