Isaac Boren Sr (1796 - 1869)

Born 12 Sep 1796 in Tennessee

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Descendants

Died 1869 at about age 72 in Nolanville, Bell, Texas, United States [uncertain]

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Biography

Birth

Isaac Boren Sr was born in 1796. He was part of a set of three Boren siblings who married three Standlee siblings.

His first wife was Elizabeth Standlee (1798–1845). Together they had the following children:

Samuel Boren (1815–)

Iredell Boren (1817–1876)

Melissa Boren (1820–1836)

Samuel Boren (1821–1832)

Stephen A Boren (1823–1899)

Mary Boren (1826–1880)

John Coleman Boren (1828–1900)

Isaac S Boren (1834–1863)

Note after the passing of his first namesake son, he would later have another namesake son by his second wife.

After Elizabeth's death, the widowed Isaac Boren remarried. His second wife was Mary Belle "Polly" Queen (1825–1903). Together they had:

Hulda Zelpha "Huldy" Boren (1848–1933)

Margaret S. "Maggie" Boren (1851–1920)

Bell Dora Boren (1858–1922)

Queenie Illa Boren (1860–1933)

Isaac Elias Buddie Boren (1866–1938)

Residence Information

In the 1830 census Isaac was in Washington, Arkansas Territory.^[1]

In the 1840 census Isaac was in Prairie, Carroll, Arkansas.^[2]

In the 1850 census Isaac (age 55), Farmer, was in Prairie, Carroll, Arkansas, United States.^[3]

Death

Isaac Boren passed away in 1869.

Research Notes

Isaac Boren + Rickman Correspondence from Judy Milum and Janeen Ishii Nov. 2012

Isaac Boren + Rickman Correspondence from Judy Milum and Janeen Ishii Nov 2012

I have September 12, 1796 as a birth date for Isaac Boren, Sr. It comes from various family trees on ancestry.com. Also, the information that he died in 1879 in Bell, Texas, comes from various family trees. Family members who moved to Texas from Carroll, Arkansas, with the wagon train that Isaac Sr. headed have kept these dates in their records---his children and grandchildren. I thought I had found a picture recently of his headstone in Bell, Texas, cemetery---actually thought I had added it to my profile page on family tree---but don't find any record of it ...

The only documentary evidence that I have found of birth date is "abt. 1795" from Carroll County, Arkansas, 1850 Federal census. One problem is that I haven't been able to find Isaac Sr. or his sons Isaac S. Boren and John Coleman Boren on the 1860 Federal Census (were in Bell, Texas, by that time).

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1. William Boren was born abt. 1752 and died 1817. He was married to Mary? McIntosh.

2, Their son Isaac Boren, Sr. was born in 1798 in Robertson, Tennessee . His first wife was Elizabeth Standlee, daughter of Onesiphorus and Mary Stratton Bryan Standlee. Elizabeth died in 1845. Isaac Sr.'s 2nd wife was Mary Belle "Polly" Queen Cave, widow of Dave Cave. She was 30 years younger than Isaac Sr., but they had several daughters and one son together. Isaac Sr. died abt. 1879 in Bell County, Texas.

3. Iredell Boren was the oldest child of Isaac Boren, Sr. and Elizabeth Standlee Boren. He was born in 1817 in Union, Illinois. He died abt . 1875 in Springfield, Greene, Missouri. He is mentioned in the minutes of the Old Union (Bunch) Baptist Church, Berryville, Arkansas, from the 1840's and 1850's. He owned property in Carroll County. He was a blacksmith by trade. He moved to Springfield, Missouri, but when the Civil war broke out, he headed for Bell, Texas, to join the rest of his Boren family---most likely taking his family with him. He served as a Texas Ranger throughout the time of the Civil War, while his brothers Isaac S. Boren and John Coleman Boren rode with the 18th Texas Cavalry. After the end of the war, he established a blacksmith shop in a town that became known as Iredell, Texas. Eventually, though, he made his way back to Springfield, Missouri. Little seems to be known about his wife. She is sometimes listed as Mary Davis---sometimes as Mary Anderson. One may have been a surname from a previous marriage.

4. Isaac J. Boren was the son of Iredell and Mary Davis Boren. He was born abt. 1849 in Arkansas. He is listed in the home of his parents in Prairie Township, Carroll, Arkansas in the 1850 Federal Census. He was most likely with his parents during their first stay in Springfield, Missouri, and during their stay in Bell County, Texas. However, he settled in Polo Township, Carroll, Arkansas and is listed there on the census for 1900, 1910, and 1920. He died on July 27, 1923 and is buried at High Cemetery, Berryville, Arkansas. (His father's brother, Stephen Boren, had married Barbara High.) Isaac J. Boren was married to Martha Adaline Rickman. She was born in 1848, Carroll, AR. She died in 1924, in Carroll, Arkansas. She was the daughter of Young Bynum Rickman, who died in 1891, in Carroll County, Arkansas. Isaac J. and Martha Adaline Rickman Boren had two children: Elbert (1879-1904) and Elnora (1883-1975).

- - - - - - - - - - - - Related correspondence from Janeen Ishii, Nov. 2012:

I show an Isaac Boren b. 1848 who married Sarah Rickman b. 1850, sister of Eliza Jane.

... (the source) I have been getting the information from is from another distant cousin. I did try quickly looking up some information last night and found a Bradley B. Standlee living with a Duncan family when he was 18. Then in marriage records he married a Jane Rickman. The birth dates & marriage for both agree with the information in the tree. Easy to believe Jane is Eliza Jane (my GM I always knew as Grace and found out her name was Margaret Grace; likewise my dad also goes by his middle name). Apparently there are some Standlees in the southern California area...I found her name regarding contacting other Rickman relations (I messaged her but have not heard back from her yet).

I am going to try and look for the parents of Eliza Jane in the census (since she was born in 1860 and not married until 1883 I'm thinking she will be part of the family).

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Additional info supplied by Judy in response to the above:

Eliza Jane Rickman was the younger sister of Martha Adaline Rickman Boren (wife of Isaac J. Boren who was the son of Iredell Boren). Eliza Jane and Martha Adaline Rickman were daughters of Young Byrum "Bine" Rickman. He was born 12 Nov. 1818---believed to have been born either in Missouri or what became Washington Co., Arkansas (Arkansas became territory of the United States in 1820). He was married to the mother of his children, Penelope Carney, abt. 1840. The following are their children with estimated dates of birth (from census records): Roseanna Margaret (1841), Joseph (1843), Mary M. (1846), Martha Adaline (1848), Sarah M. (1851), John William (1853), Susan (1856), and Eliza Jane (1860).

Young Bynum Rickman was the son of Abraham Rickman (1777-1857) and Roseana Barbee (1782-1857). He is on the 1850 Federal Census for Mountain Township, Washington Co., Arkansas. He is on the Federal Census for 1860 for Prairie, Washington, Arkansas. Penelope died between 1860 and 1867, the year that he married Elizabeth ?. He is listed on the 1870 Federal Census for Williams Township, Stone, Missouri. By 1880, he is listed on the Federal Census for Polo Township, Carroll County, Arkansas. Family records give 10 June 1891 as date of death and Polo, Carroll, Arkansas, as place of death. Eliza Jane Rickman is listed on some of these census records.

Many Standlees and Standlee relatives lived in Stone and Barry Counties , Missouri. Many moved back and forth between these counties and Carrol l County, Arkansas. (They are adjacent counties to Carroll.) For examp le, Spencer Gillum (my g-g-g grandfather) executed his will in Barry, Mo ., but filed it at the Carroll County Courthouse. Spencer's daughter Ma rtha (my g-g grandmother) was first married to Isaac S. Boren, son of Is aac Boren, Sr. and Elizabeth Standlee Boren.

Isaac Boren Correspondence from Judy Milum Nov. 2012 (part 2)

Isaac Boren Correspondence from Judy Milum Nov. 2012 (part 2)

(This was a continuation of prior exchanges. The context of this had been research in to Mary Davis, a possible relative of my Jefferson Davis, who was the wife of Iredell Boren. Judy took the time to explain to me once again some of the many complex relationships of our shared ancestors.)

William Shaw (1804, North Carolina---1870, Texas) was married to Juda (Judith) Queen (1810, NC---1897, Williamson, Texas). Judith was the 2nd oldest child of Reuben Queen (1786, North Carolina---1863, Lampasas, Texas) and wife Mary Catherine Butler (1789-1859). One of Judith's younger sisters (this was a large family) was Mary Belle "Polly" Queen Cave Boren, 2nd wife of Isaac Boren Sr., the widower of Elizabeth Standlee Boren. All of Mary Catherine Butler Queen's children were first cousins to Melissa Butler Baines---the great grandmother of President Lyndon Baines Johnson. Mary Catherine Butler Queen and Nealy Nathaniel Butler (Melissa's father) were siblings. William and Judith Shaw had a son named Enoch (1835, TN---1895, Burnett Co., Texas). His wife Sarah "Sally" Rose Boren was a daughter of Iredell and Mary Davis Boren. Iredell was the oldest child of Isaac Boren, Sr. and 1st wife, Elizabeth Standlee Boren, therefore, a grandchild of Onesiphorus and Mary Stratton Bryan Boren. (He is the Boren son who served with the Texas Rangers during Civil War times.) This is a tangle!!! I think William Shaw was in Wayne County, Missouri, with Onesiphorus and Abraham Standlee---would have to double check census records. The Shaws were on that wagon train that left Carroll County, Arkansas, abt. 1855/1856, headed for the Bell/Lampasas County, Texas, area. It was known as the Boren wagon train and the leader may have been Isaac Boren, Sr. Newlyweds Isaac S. Boren and wife, Elizabeth Gillum Boren (my great-great grandparents were on that wagon train). Wiley and Cynthia Boyd from Carroll County may have also been on that train because Cynthia knew the Standlees and Borens from her attendance at Old Union (Bunch) Baptist Church. If not, Wiley and Cynthia traveled to Bell, Texas, by themselves or with another wagon train. Reuben Queen was the first to leave Carroll County for this area of Texas, settling in Williamson County; also, sometime before the start of the Civil War, George Washington Baines (great-grandfather of President Johnson) and wife Melissa Butler Baines had made their way to area near Bell, County. They had been expelled from the Crooked Creek Baptist Church in Boone, Arkansas, by the "hardshell" Baptist and first moved to Louisiana and then to Texas. G. W. Baines served as president of Baylor University during the war years. He is buried in Bell, Texas.

(Isaac S. Boren died in 1863; Cynthia Boyd died while in Texas after the birth of her 11th child. Martha was stranded in Texas--listed with her two boys as an indigent Confederate family. Then Wiley married her---the girl his older sons had grown up with in Arkansas. She was 30 years his junior. they had 6 children together---add on her two boys whom Wiley raised, and he was the father of 19 children. [I keep flowers on his grave at Auman Cemetery, Alpena, AR---don't think my generation would be here if Wiley hadn't held everything together.] He and Martha came back to Arkansas with her boys Ben and John Rufus after the war, bringing two of his children with Cynthia (Elizabeth Jane and Wiley, Jr.) and their 3 little boys---3 daughters born to them after the return to Arkansas. Details of the trip provided by John Rufus Boren Sr. and Wiley Boyd Jr. indicate that they traveled alone from Lampasas, Texas, to Lick Branch, Boone, Arkansas by themselves, with wagon and Martha's boys traveling behind riding colts. Isaac Boren Sr. was also 30 years older than his 2nd wife, Mary Queen Cave Boren; they had four daughters and one son, together---in addition to his children with Elizabeth Standlee and her two children with Dave Cave. What is also interesting to me is that in her last years Mary Queen Cave Boren was cared for, not by her own children, but by step-grandson, George Boren, son of Stephen and Barbara High Boren. Both Martha Gillum Boren/Boyd and Mary Queen Cave/Boren were highly respected by their step-children, who were, for the most part about the age of these step-mothers. Martha Gillum Boren/Boyd is buried at Donahoe Cemetery, Bartlett, Texas, by her stepson, Willis Woodward Boyd and his wife---she returned to Texas with some of the children after Wiley's death.)

Sources

1. ↑ 1830 Census: "1830 United States Federal Census"
   Year: 1830; Census Place: Washington, Arkansas Territory; Series: M19; Roll: 5; Page: 190; Family History Library Film: 0002473
   Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 8058 #2251061 (accessed 28 January 2023)
   Isaac Borun in Washington, Arkansas Territory.
2. ↑ 1840 Census: "1840 United States Federal Census"
   Year: 1840; Census Place: Prairie, Carroll, Arkansas; Roll: 17; Page: 48; Family History Library Film: 0002474
   Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 8057 #1386290 (accessed 28 January 2023)
   Isaac Boran in Prairie, Carroll, Arkansas.
3. ↑ 1850 Census: "1850 United States Federal Census"
   The National Archives in Washington D.C.; Record Group: Records of the Bureau of the Census; Record Group Number: 29; Series Number: M432; Residence Date: 1850; Home in 1850: Prairie, Carroll, Arkansas; Roll: 25; Page: 154a; Line Number: 20
   Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 8054 #9267646 (accessed 28 January 2023)
   Isaac Boren (55), Farmer, in Prairie, Carroll, Arkansas, USA. Born in Tennessee.

• Boren, Kerry Ross & Lisa Lee. The Boren Family: An Irish Legacy. K&L Boren Partnership.Salt Lake City, UT, 2010. p 141. This source cites Isaac Boren (1796-1869) as a husband of Elizabeth Standlee, but it makes no mention of any children's names.

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