SECOND GENERATION

6. Isabella Mahulda Beard was born on 14 Dec 1834 in Tennessee. She appeared on the census on 9 Jun 1900 in Precinct #7, Coryell City, Coryell County, Texas. ⁽³²⁾ She appeared on the census on 22 Apr 1910 in JP #4, Stonewall County, Texas.⁽³³⁾ She appeared on the census on 29 Apr 1910 in JP #5, Stonewall County, Texas. ⁽³⁴⁾ She died on 17 Oct 1919 in Stonewall County, Texas. ⁽³⁵⁾

Information on descendants of Isabella Mahulda Beard has been graciously provided by:

"Nancy" <Famsnooper@aol.com>

and

"Imogene Welch" <iwnet@webtv.net>

and

"Vera Lee" <rjvlee@flash.net>

and

"Margaret Waldrop Halverson" <hfish@ix.netcom.com>

She was married to James Timothy Lee (son of Jesse Lee and Margaret) on 16 Dec 1855 in Coryell County, Texas. James Timothy Lee was born in 1832 in Mississippi. He on was on the County tax roll in 1855 in Coryell County, Texas. He bought through Patent 160 acres on the waters of Coryell Creek 11 miles N. 77 E of Gatesville on 17 Aug 1859 in Coryell County, Texas.⁽³⁶⁾ He appeared on the census on 27 Jun 1860 in Raney's Creek, Beat No. 3, Coryell County, Texas. ⁽³⁷⁾ He died on 4 Jul 1862 in Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas. He was buried in Little Rock National Cemetery, Little Rock, Arkansas.

Timothy Lee received a patent on land in Coryell County recorded on July 6, 1860 in Coryell County Volume D, page 173. This land was sold by his heirs between 1879 and 1883.

Timothy Lee enlisted at October 18, 1861, at Houston in Captain Brice Hargrave's Company H, Nelson's Regiment, 10th Texas Infantry. He died on July 4, 1862, from Typhoid Fever in the hospital at Little Rock. Lee's effects were given to his Brother-in-law, Robert Scott, after his death.

Isabella Mahulda Beard and James Timothy Lee had the following children:

+31 i. Lucy Jane Lee.
+32 ii. Jessie Thomas Lee.
+33 iii. Willis T. Lee.
+34 iv. Jefferson Davis Lee.

She was married to William Nelson Crawford (son of Jonathan Houston Crawford and Mary Oxshier) on 28 Feb 1867 in Coryell County, Texas. ⁽³⁸⁾ William Nelson Crawford was born on 20 Mar 1817 in Bledsoe County, Tennessee. He appeared on the census in 1840 in Bledsoe County, Tennessee. ⁽³⁹⁾ He appeared on the census on 31 Oct 1850 in Rusk County, Texas. ⁽⁴⁰⁾ He appeared on the census in 1860 in Rusk County, Texas. He appeared on the census on 29 Sep 1870 in P. O. Rane's Creek, Precinct No. 1, Coryell County, Texas.⁽⁴¹⁾ He appeared on the census on 8 Jun 1880 in Coryell County, Texas. ⁽⁴²⁾ He died in 1899 in Coryell County, Texas.

William Crawford served under the Texas State Militia, Captain W. R. Wood, Company for Precinct #2, 2nd Frontier District, San Saba County, Major G.B. Erath, commanding. He was 47 years old at enlistment on February 6, 1864.

William Crawford received a patent on 160 acres recorded on March 27, 1879, (Volume L, p. 549, Coryell County). This was on the waters of Coryell Creek, 8.5 miles northeast of Gatesville. He deeded 1.5 acres of this tract to his children in on November 30, 1899 (recorded February 25, 1900, Coryell County, Volume 26, p. 249).

According to the Handbook of Texas:

"CRAWFORD, TEXAS. Crawford is at the intersection of State Highway 317 and Farm Road 185, eighteen miles west of Waco in western McLennan County. Settlement of the area began in the 1850s and centered around Tonk Crossing (also called Crawford Crossing), a ford of the Middle Bosque River two miles east of the present town. The community was probably named for Nelson Crawford, who graded the river crossing."



Isabella Mahulda Beard and William Nelson Crawford had the following children:

+35 i. James L. Crawford.
+36 ii. Nelson Alexander Crawford.
+37 iii. Martha C. Crawford.
+38 iv. Alfred Armstrong "Harve" Crawford.
+39 v. Franklin B. Crawford.
+40 vi. Matthew Elley Crawford.