Life History

Notes

• 1870 Federal Census, Davis (Cass) County, Texas, 9 August, Justice Precinct 3, PO Cussetta, page 28, Hse/Fam #226
  Posey, George 43 F W Farmer $150 Personal  born Louisiana Cannot read or write
  Posey, Nancy 39 F W born South Carolina Cannot read or write
  Posey, Laura 10 F W born Texas
  
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  MRS. G. FUNSTEN Bilbrey, Rt. 2, 824 N. 5th, Frederick, Okla. 73542, is re …[missing wording here in the original published story; George H Posey], born 1827, Louisiana and married first, Nancy (maiden name unknown) [Allen], born South Carolina. Their children, all born in Cass County, Texas, were David, Laura, George, John and Robert.  [Records report also Thomas and James, born between David and Laura.]  His second marriage was to Frances Elizabeth Christian in 1877.  They had six children and he disappeared in 1889.
  
  The Christians [sic] children included Joseph Benjamin, Frances Elizabeth, Lucinda and Emily, all born in Cass County between 1854 and 1862.  Joseph Benjamin married Catherine Smith; Lucinda, Larkin Dycus; and Emily, Jason Forsyth.
  
  Their mother, Louisa, married a second time, J. S. Jenkins, March 7, 1872, and had one son, Henry.  After her death in 1900, Joseph Benjamin Christian sold the family farm to Lonzo Hicks.  Family tradition states that there is a lineage connection to the Hensley family but this has not been proven.
  
  --  Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 August 1971, p 9G
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  There is a three-years discrepancy in Laura's birth year, from the ages reported in the 1860 and 1870 censuses.
  
  1880 Federal Census, Cass County, Texas, 16 June, Precinct 3, District 12, page 17 (scan 128A), Hse/Family #143
  Posey, G K 51 W M Farmer Cannot read or write LA GA LA
  Posey, Fannie W F 26 Wife Keeping House TX TX MS
  Posey, Laura 17 W F Dau Single Farming TX LA SC
  
  A detailed family source provides some helpful information to fill out Laura's life.  I have not included all the children from two marriages.  The URL source is included from the following family source.  Her full name as given her is amazing.
  
  Laura Jane Henrietta Louisiana Gustavia Posey
  B 20 Mar 1860 in Cass, Texas
  D 8 Mar 1948 in Enid, Garfield, Oklahoma
  Parents:
  George K. Posey b 1829
  Nancy Allen, Birth 1834 in South Carolina, Death 1876
  Marriage 1882 to John H Story
  Marriage 1906 to John Thomas Taylor
  --  Tessa Taylor, http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/13206929/person/-107716938

Sources

• 1. 1880 Federal Census, Cass County, Texas
  • 16 June, Precinct 3, District 12, page 17 (scan 128A), Hse/Family #143
• 2. Ancestry Trees
  • Tessa Taylor, http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/13206929/person/-107716938
• 3. 1870 Federal Census, Davis County, Texas
  • 9 August, Justice Precinct 3, PO Cussetta, page 28, Hse/Fam #226