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David Reed Settles Eskridge (1855 - 1947)

David Reed Settles Eskridge
Born in Shelby, Cleveland, North Carolina, United Statesmap
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Died at age 91 in Wichita Falls, Wichita, Texas, United Statesmap
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Biography

David Read Settles Eskridge was born on 21 Oct 1855 in Shelby, Cleveland, North Carolina to parents Oliver Newton Eskridge and Martha Susanna (Maggie) Harrill. [1]

He married Martha Eleanor Webb on 25 Aug 1880 in Corinth, Alcorn, Mississippi.

Children:

  1. Mary Lou
  2. John Newton
  3. Thomas Jefferson
  4. George Hampton
  5. Ruth Elizabeth
  6. Martha Eleanor
  7. Sarah (Sally) Josephine
  8. Leah Dade
  9. Cora Magdaline
  10. Martha Eleanor (Ellie)

David died on 23 Jan 1947 in Wichita Falls, Wichita, Texas. [2]

As listed in the Find A Grave Index,[3] David Reed Eskridge was buried at Bluegrove Cemetery in Bluegrove, Clay County, Texas, USA, Plot: Row 1, lot 41.[4]

Sources

  1. ↑ US Federal Census 1860 Image. Cleveland, North Carolina; David R age 5 living with parents and siblings; Year: 1860; Census Place: Cleveland, North Carolina; Page: 436; database online, Provo, Utah, Ancestry.com, 2009.
  2. ↑ "Texas Deaths, 1890-1976," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K3S3-KW8 : 5 December 2014), David Reed Eskridge, 23 Jan 1947; citing certificate number 4915, State Registrar Office, Austin; FHL microfilm 2,218,565.
  3. ↑ "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV2Z-SNB6 : 13 December 2015), David Reed Eskridge, 1947; Burial, Bluegrove, Clay, Texas, United States of America, Bluegrove Cemetery; citing record ID 64701702.
  4. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #64701702




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Paul Parish
"When David Read Settles Eskridge was born on October 21, 1855, in Shelby, North Carolina, his father, Oliver, was 23 and his mother, Martha, was 23. He married Martha Eleanor Webb on August 21, 1880, in Corinth, Mississippi. [I heard from my father, Jerry "Fred" Parish, LONG ago that David Eskridge had been a Methodist (p? maybe Baptist?) circuit rider covering E Texas, Arkansas, and N Mississippi -- though census records in Texas list him as a farmer and I have not found any records of him as a preacher. Still, he may have come into oil money in the huge N Texas oil boom at the turn of hte century and had the leisure to leave the farming to others; that is SHEER speculation: almost everything i DO know has come via Ancestry.com, where the search engine finds some public records easily --especially other family trees on their web-site. I've looked in vain for records of his attending school -- though again, family legend says that my grandmother Leah was sent to Normal School and became a school-teacher, and that the man she married was her 3rd grade student [he was a rancher with oil and Daddy said he picked up a little "book'larning" when he could -- but no records have turned up for her either] ed. p Parish 6/05/2016].

They had many children during their marriage, including my grandmother, Leah Dave [David?] Eskridge, b 1894 [who was named after him, and who married Ruben Parish in 1917 in Wichita Falls, TX, .

David Eskridge died on January 23, 1947, in Wichita Falls, Texas, at the age of 91. Life Story Family

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https://archive.org/details/seldensofvirginikenn

this study of the families of colonial Virginia gives details of George Eskridge, the Washingtons, and his children and their children, pp 317-27

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There is an Eskridge Family Association which has a rich participation in q&As; you can see George Eskridge's will and many other documents here. http://eskridgefamilyassociation.com/
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Paul Parish
I do not know how to add this information properlyb ut David's parents were

Oliver Newton Eskridge Oliver Newton Eskridge 1831–1906 Martha Susanna "Maggie" Harrill 1832–1883

Via Ancestry.com, I've traced the Eskridges back to colonial Virginia, where Col. George Eskridge was first an indentured servant, then a country lawyer and plantation owner, local magistrate, and legislator. He was executor of many wills, and was mde guardian of young Mary Ball, an orphan who grew up to be George Washington's mother. I suspect that David Eskridge knew this, because his daughter my grandmother knew it and was insanely proud of it. Any family wanting this information, it's easy to get via Ancestry; but I'll be willing to tell you what I know insofar as I understand how the software for sharing it.

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Paul Parish
I do not know how to thank the person who updated this tree, but please, believe me, I am very grateful. Thank you!
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Paul Parish
I am new to this site and hope I am doing things right. I've just added some family lore about David Eskridge based on what I heard 40 years ago from my father; I may have heard wrong, I may have mis-remembered, and Daddy may have been biased; he did always say that David played favorites, and that my grandmother Leah was not his favorite. Daddy was in turn, NOT his mother's favorite.
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