Life History

Notes

• Parents:
  James Henry Lovin b Mar 1st 1869 Holmes Co Miss d June (?) 1949 Weleetka Oklahoma
  Miss M(ary?) A(ann?) Conley b Aug 1st 1874 Grayson Co Tex d Pharoah Okla
  Gransparents:
  B F Lovin b Mar 10 1848 d June 12 1913
  Isabella Wigley b Jan 20 1846 d January 1st 1876
  J R Conley b 1851 5-13th NC d 1916 Aug 29 (28?) Cedar Lane Tex
  Miss Nancy Elizabeth Winter b 1849 d 1891 Jan 12 Davis IT
  Great Great Grandparents:
  Baily C Lovin b 1819 d 1879 Hunt Co Tex
  Martha Morris b 1821 d 1882 Hunt co Tex
  J M Wigley, (Unknown) Pickford
  Jason Conley d Oct 9 1891 Boone IT
  Polly Ann Bryson b 1827 NC d Mar 25 1905 Wetumka IT
  Steve Winter (wife unknown)
  --  From the Lovin Family Bible, Courtesy of the Bowles-Perry Family Tree, Ancestry.com
  
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  CEDAR LANE, TEXAS. Cedar Lane is on Caney Creek at the junction of Farm roads 457 and 521, twenty miles southeast of Bay City in east central Matagorda County. The original settlement clustered around a plantation store, with an approach through a lane of cedars. In 1912 the community secured its own post office and by that time was a stop on the Texas and New Orleans Railroad. By 1914 Cedar Lane had a population of twenty-five and a telephone connection.
  
  In 1936 the community had a church, a school, two businesses, sixteen dwellings, and a paved thoroughfare. It also had its own school district. During the school year 1937-38 four teachers instructed eighty-five students. By 1949 Cedar Lane school had been consolidated with the Van Vleck Independent School District. In 1940 Cedar Lane had an estimated fifty inhabitants and two businesses and in 1967 fifty-seven residents and three business. In 1972 the settlement had a church, the Kennedy school, and several scattered dwellings.
  
  In 1990 Cedar Lane had a population of eighty-five and no businesses, and in 2000 a population of fifty-five with three businesses.
  
  BIBLIOGRAPHY:  Matagorda County Historical Commission, Historic Matagorda County (3 vols., Houston: Armstrong, 1986)
  
  --  "Cedar Lane, Texas," Handbook of Texas Online, accessed 24 August 2016, https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hnc30
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  James was enumerated in Grayson, Texas, in the 1880 census, with his wife Nancy Elizabeth Winter, whom he had married since the 1870 census.  The oldest child is Mary Ann, whose birthday was reported in the Winter-Conley family Bible as 1 August 1874.  This suggests that James and Nancy Elizabeth married in 1873.
  
  Birth dates of parents in this 1880 census are uncertain, because the entries are inconsistent.  For the children, most have only the individual's birth state, and no separate entry in the field for Mother or Father's state of birth.  So it seems we are to assume the states reported in their parents' individual records.
  
  But on others it seems the enumerator followed the common practice of drawing down the last entered state in that same column. like a ditto.  And on a couple of the parents, not all fields are fulfilled, which we usually take to mean the information was not known.
  
  1880 Federal Census, Grayson County, Texas, 1 July, Whitesboro, District 7, page 44, Hse/Fam #405
  Conley, James R  W M 29 Laborer Married NC NC NC [b abt 1851]
  Conley, Nancy E  W F 24 Wife Keeping House Married TN TN NC [abt 1856]
  Conley, Mary A  W F 5 Dau Single TX NC TN [abt 1875]
  Conley, Stephen L  W M 4 Son Single TX NC TN [abt 1876]
  Conley, Jason M  W M 2 Son TX NC TN [b abt 1878]
  Conley, James E  W M 1 Son TX NC TN [b abt 1879]
  Condra, Lucy J  W F 14 Servant Single TX TN NC Cannot write [b abt 1866]
  
  1880 Federal Census, Grayson County, Texas, 1 July, Whitesboro, District 7, page 44, Hse/Fam #406
  Winter, William T  W M 28 Laborer Married MS TN TN [b abt 1852]
  Winter, Mary J  W F 24 Wife Keeping House Married AR TN TN [abt 1856]
  Conrad, Robert L  W M 3 Son Single TX AR TN [abt 1877]
  Conrad, William C  W M 1 Son Single TX AR TN [abt 1879]
  Riddle, McMurry  W M 24 Brother-in-law Had typhoid fever AR TN TN [b abt 1866]
  Riddle, Rufus L A  W M 12 Brother-in-law Single AR TN TN [b abt 1868]
  
  1880 Federal Census, Grayson County, Texas, 1 July, Whitesboro, District 7, page 44, Hse/Fam #407
  Winter, Stephen W M 60 Laborer Married TN NC NC [b abt 1820]
  Winter, Ellen W F 55 Wife Keeping House Married AL VA TN [abt 1825]
  Conrad, Lucy B  W F 25 Stepdaughter Single AR TN AL [abt 1855]
  Conrad, Lula P  W F 4 Stepgranddau TX IN AR [abt 1876]
  Yeary, Lervy (Larry?) W M 24 Laborer Single VA VA VA [b abt 1856]
  Condry, William T  W M 12 Servant Single AR VA VA [b abt 1856]

Sources

• 1. Lovin-Conley Bible
• 2. 1880 Federal Census, Grayson County, Texas
  • 1 July, Whitesboro, District 7, page 44, Hse/Fam #405
• 3. 1910 Federal Census, Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma
  • 23 April, Avoca Township, District 192, page 4B, Konawa Route 2, Hse/Fam #79
• 4. 1920 Federal Census, Okfuskee County, Oklahoma
  • 5 January, Lincoln Township, District 147, page 2A, (No Hse #), Family #16
• 5. 1900 Federal Census, Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory
  • 19 June, Township 4, District 120, page 21B, Hse/Fam #399
• 6. Find a Grave Memorial Registry
• 7. 1930 Federal Census, Okfuskee County, Oklahoma
  • 23 April, Lincoln Township, District 54-10, page 15A, Hse  #298, Fam #301