23rd Jun 18941 - about Jan 19212
Life History
23rd Jun 1894 |
Born in Reilly Springs, Texas.1 |
5th Dec 1919 |
Birth of son James Glenn QUAID in Como, Hopkins, Texas.4,5,2,6 |
about Jan 1921 |
Died in Hopkins County, Texas.2 |
24th Apr 1921 |
Birth of son Odis Edgar QUAID in Coalgate, Coal, Oklahoma.2 |
Notes
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"Quaid Family"
Article on T W Quaid family, Rusk County, Texas
"Tax records for 1846 show that T W (Thomas Walter) Quaid was a resident of New Salem in Rusk County. ... T W and his wife Emily Moore came from Brownsville, Mississippi, Lafayette County. Upon arriving in Texas, they had four children with them: Benjamin Walter, Elihu (Eli Hugh), William Riley and Simpson.
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"[The author, Glen Quaid's] line derives from Elihu. He married Martha J Barron on July 19, 1866. After Martha died, he married Nancy Fletcher on July 8,1874. Nancy was born in Franklin Co, Illinois, in 1851. She died Dec 11, 1927. Elihu died October 9, 1907, in Johnson [Johnston] County, Oklahoma.
"The line descends from Elihu, to John Savanna, Edgar Garland, Jack Quaid and myself. ...
"The movie actors, Randy and Dennis Quaid, are descended from Elihu's brother, Benjamin Walter. The line runs: Benjamin Walter, John Thomas, William Jesse, and their father William Rudy."
-- By Glen Quaid, Publication name and date unknown; Original scan posted by T R Fincher on Ancestry.com 27 Mar 2015; accessed 9 April 2016
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U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918
Edgar Garland Quaid
Residence Como, Hopkins County, Texas
Birth 23 Jun 1894 Riley Springs, Texas
Trade Coal Mining, employed by Fry Lignite Mining Co, Como, Texas
Single, but supports mother
Medium Height, Slender, Blue Eyes, Brown Hair
Registered 5 June 1917 Hopkins County, Texas
Signed E G Quaid
On the WWI card, the name of the place where Edgar was born is spelled Riley. But the actual spelling was Reily, named after a settler. The name got changed to Reilly due to a post office error.
"REILLY SPRINGS, TEXAS. Reilly Springs (Reily Springs), a rural community nine miles southeast of Sulphur Springs at the junction of Farm roads 1567 and 2560 in southeastern Hopkins County, was named for James Reily, who in 1841 and 1842 bought up several tracts of land in the county that had been given to soldiers as pay for service in the Texas Revolution. One of the early wagon trails from Shreveport, Louisiana, passed through the land. A camping place at a group of springs grew into a village called Reily Springs. After the Civil War a number of businesses were established in the area, including two gins, a gristmill, a sawmill, and a brick kiln. In 1867 Steve Tucker built a store and gin, and a tanyard operated in the community for several years. A post office was granted in 1871, but the post office officials mistakenly changed the spelling to Reilly."
-- "Reilly Springs, TX," Texas Handbook Online, https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hnr22
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