Elizabeth (Seale) Head (1804 - 1846)

Born 16 Jun 1804 in Oglethorpe, Georgia, United States

Ancestors

Wife of James Alfred Head — married 27 Dec 1818 in Jones, Georgia, United States

Descendants

Died 1846 at about age 41 in Kurten, Brazos County, TX

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Biography

Married to: HEAD, JAMES A. (1797–1872). James A. Head, legislator and Texas Ranger, was born in Alabama or Georgia in June 1797 and moved to Texas in 1835. On October 26, 1835, he enlisted at San Felipe de Austin in Silas M. Parker's ranging company, said to be the first Texas Rangersqv, and served until he was discharged at Fort Sterling on January 25, 1836. After the Texas revolution Head began farming in what was then called Navasota County, where he served in a company of minutemen. In 1840 he was registered to vote in Washington County but owned 17,789 acres in Robertson County. Head was elected justice of the peace of Navasota (now Brazos) County on March 1, 1841, and was later that year elected to the House of Representatives of the Sixth Congress, where he served until 1842. He was elected chief justice of Brazos County in September 1848 and was reelected in August 1850. He soon resigned from the bench; his successor was elected on August 8, 1851. By December 1852 Head was a resident of Robertson County. He died on September 22, 1872^[1]

Children:

1.Nancy Ophelia Head married Lockhart Jefferson Irwin

2. James Richard Head married Frances Amelia Burns

3. Ezra Eli Head married Mary Frances Adams

4. Rachel Head married 1st James Pruitt 2nd William Hilsman King

5. Maray M. Head

6. Elizabeth Head

7. Mary Head married Slatony E. Hudson

8. Thomas Seal Head married Temperence S. Bullard

9. Lydia Head married John Wesley Rodgers

10. Lucinda Head Maried John R. Wilson

11. Edmund Henderson Head married Almanda Salter^[2]

Sources

• Albert Eugene Casey (compiler), Amite County, Mississippi 1699-1890 (Volume #3): The Environs (Greenville, South Carolina: Southern Historical Press, Inc., 2001), pg. 498.

1. ↑ http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fhe02
2. ↑ http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Seale&GSiman=1&GScid=2386177&GRid=30507055&

• "Georgia, County Marriages, 1785-1950," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KXVV-MN2 : 7 February 2020), James Head and Elizabeth Seal, 27 Dec 1818; citing Marriage, Jones, Georgia, United States, Georgia Department of Archives and History, Morrow, FHL microfilm 454,228.

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