Andrew Sidney Broaddus (1809 - 1891)

Born 1809 in Caroline, Virginia, United States

Descendants

Died 28 Apr 1891 at about age 82 in Burleson County, Texas, USA

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Biography

Andrew Broaddus ... ^[1]

BROADDUS, ANDREW SIDNEY (1810–1891). Andrew S. Broaddus, Texas legislator and judge, was born in Caroline County, Virginia, in 1810, the son of Rueben and Elizabeth (Garland) Broaddus. Broaddus was raised and educated in Virginia and was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates from 1844 to 1845. In 1854 Broaddus led a wagon train consisting of as many as 200 people from Caroline County, Virginia, to Cooks Point in Burleson County, Texas. The party consisted of eighty white settlers including Broaddus's family and neighbors from Caroline County, as well as 120 slaves. Broaddus built a house in Cooks Point and became a leader in the community as an active participant in Democratic county and state politics and as the founder of Salem Baptist Church.

On July 16, 1857, Broaddus debated Samuel Houston at Waugh Campground on behalf of Houston's opponent in the gubernatorial race, Hardin Richard Runnels. Broaddus was a member of the Texas State House of Representatives during the Ninth Legislature from 1861–1863, and the Thirteenth Legislature during 1873. Broaddus was also a delegate to the 1861 Secession Convention. Following the Civil War Broaddus was appointed judge of the Thirty-second District of the state court for two terms. Additionally Broaddus practiced as a lawyer throughout his residence in Burleson County. In 1868 he represented Phillis Oldham, a mullato woman who had cohabitated and borne several children with her owner, Maj. William Oldham. Upon his death Oldham's white relatives attempted to evict Phillis Oldham and her sons, but Phillis, represented by Broaddus, was eventually awarded homestead rights by the Burleson County Probate Court. Andrew Sidney Broaddus was also on the commission to locate and build Texas A&M University.

Broaddus married twice and had a total of thirteen children. He died in Cookes Point in 1891.

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Spouses

Martha Ellen Broaddus Broaddus 1811–1865 (m. 1828)
Jane Broaddus 1829–1892

Children

Mary E. Broaddus Smoot Farmer 1829–1891
Elizabeth Ann Broaddus Hudson 1831–1875
Oscar L. Broaddus 1833–1863
Reuben Garland Broaddus 1835 – unknown
Leland Woodford Broaddus 1837–1903
Martha Semple Broaddus Heslep 1839–1922
Cornelia M. Broaddus Sullivan 1842–1919
Henry Clay Broaddus 1844–1913
Charles Andrew Broaddus 1845–1921
Hattie C Broaddus Jackson 1851–1923
Virginia Ellen Broaddus Homan 1854–1912

Burial

Judge Andrew Sidney Broaddus
Birth 1809 Bowling Green, Caroline County, Virginia, USA
Death 23 Apr 1891 (aged 81–82) Burleson County, Texas, USA
Burial Old City Cemetery
Caldwell, Burleson County, Texas, USA
Find A Grave: Memorial #66650224

Slaves

Temple Lee
Sam Lee
Erma (Young) Lee^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ Entered by Jimmy Hunt, Thursday, October 3, 2013.
2. ↑ Caroline County (Va.) Register of Children of Colored Persons whose Parents had ceased to cohabit which the Father recognizes to be his, 27th February 1866. Caroline County (Va.) Reel 78, Local government records collection, Caroline County Court Records. The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Va. 23219.

• "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M88T-BPL : 23 December 2020), Leland W Broaddus in household of Andrew S Broaddus, Caroline, Virginia, United States; citing family , NARA microfilm publication (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

Acknowledgments

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