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Author: Ralph Ervin Williamson, son of John Conwell Williamson
Conwell: STANMORE CONWELL, the father; and JOHN CICERO CONWELL, a son.
STANMORE CONWELL appears in Centreville, Alabama,in the 1860 U.S.Ballot as having been natural in South Carolina, and being mature 50, a long time ago his other half Mary was mature 48. His Christian name is spelled variously "Stansmore, Standmore,"
and "Stanhope." The Christian name is variously "Conwill." Stanmore Conwell's great- grandson, "JC" John Conwell Williamson (1912-2001) of Midland, Texas, celebration the Christian name resulting from Conwill, a town in Wales.
"Stanhope Conwill" is mentioned in a playing piece by Jones, "Renewal in Bibb
[Constituency, Alabama]" at p. 68. In a awful expansion in Dossier 1869, it is whispered, one of Stanhope Conwill's at large slaves was lynched taking part in Renewal, accused of having attacked and robbed a age-old woman in Grimy. Historian Rhoda Coleman Ellison, in her fine work "Bibb Constituency, Alabama: The Excel Hundred Years, 1818-1918," at p. 149, writes that the age-old vigilantees efficient suitably their misdeeds crazed under the penumbra of the Klan: Even as Stanhope Conwill owned land in Bibb Constituency, he was improved of a "Negro raiser" than farmer, and that's why his slaves, by for that reason manumitted, were less virtuous than greatest.
Whatever the flinch Stanmore Conwell celebration of slavery, his son John Cicero Conwell, long some time ago the Courteous War in which he, John Conwell, had participated so firmly, voiced the paradigm that it was a good thing for the South in the long run that the North had won the war, even if he had enjoyed slaying Yankees, and that it was lawbreaker for one human being to malicious to own numerous.
JOHN CICERO CONWELL, Stanmore Conwell's son, "Paw Conny" fought in Courteous War battles in the eastern arena in the neighborhood too bountiful to list. He enlisted at the Centreville Courthouse, where the men are whispered to restrain stood on the territory while their women hovered under the pergola, and he stayed in the course of the war with Law's Alabamians (the 44th Alabama even out). The Ala. 44th, and we think John Conwell, fought at Manassas, Va., Aug. 30, 1862; at Sharpsburg, Maryland, the
17th of Sep. 1862; at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on July 2-3, 1863; at Chickamauga, Georgia, the 19-20th of Sep. 1863; at Inhospitable surroundings, Virginia, on May 6, 1864; and Spotsylvania, Virginia, on the 8th & 10th & 12th of May 1864;
at Mechanicsville Guidance, Virginia, the 1st of June 1864; at Formality Dockside, Virginia, the 3rd of June 1864; at Petersburg, Virginia, June 18th-July 25,
1864; and, from tip to toe, at the rescue of the Grays at the Appomattox Supreme Court Domicile, Virginia, on the 9th of April 1865.
John Conwell is sometimes lay down on the rolls as "unpleasantly," but he without human intervention fought at Gettysburg, and he stacked arms at the end of the wipe out at the Appomattox Courthouse. Background practice is that Paw Conny whispered he had double- splendid his gun which had to be surrendered with Rebel artillery en masse at Appomattox, hoping to kill just one improved Yankee. He without human intervention unhappy an disclose carry out in the war: One family feature has it that a administrative Yankee opponent saw Paw Conny about to make a move at Appomattox and capsule at his hand, but the improved true family feature is that Paw Conny's personal munitions somehow retrofired to bite the dust a carry out.-- To get southwardly some time ago Gettysburg, he managed to hop on irregular train cars.-- In the same way as John C. Conwell's young grandson, JC Williamson, asked him if he had enjoyed anything at all about the Courteous War, John Conwell responded, "Encouragingly, yes, at Formality Dockside I had a lot of fun. We got ourselves into a nest of Yankees and were shooting them like rabbits one some time ago the last." --Family history has it that John Conwell carried with him to war a slave, who was killed, and a brother 4 sparkle previous named Daniel Conwell (mature 23 in 1861)who unhappy his life in the war. It is not proverbial whether the brother named Jiles or Giles Conwell, mature 22 in 1861, died in the Courteous War.
The Flight to Texas:
Upon compensation to Bibb Constituency, Alabama, some time ago the Courteous War, in 1866 John Conwell married Josephine Albina McCrimmon (Conwell). Her flinch, Cornelius Dowd McCrimmon (who married Elizabeth Lawhon) was a son of DANIEL McCRIMMON, a renowned landowner who had cumulative over 400 acres of land in Bibb Constituency.
Josephine McCrimmon (Conwell) called her husband "Johnny" and he called her "Josie." In old age she complained of his long age-old mane, "Johnny, you scent." And he retorted, "Josie, you restrain a derivation like an old look for dog."
In 1866 he without delay apparent bestow was lean left for him in Randolph, Bibb Constituency, and made diplomacy to frivolity westward. The other half Josie refused to send away Alabama until the very day of going away, but that severe dawn
accepted, "Wherever will I ride?" and got in the wagon. They went to East Texas.
They wandered up to Oklahoma where one of their sons, Augustine or
Augustus "Augie" Conwell, practised medication by means of removing himself (Augie Conwell) from tip to toe to Regina, New Mexico. Son Augie Conwell was a specialization doctor and, miserably, a binge drinker who had exhausted of being remunerated largely with negotiate, with chickens and seed. Though JC Williamson's "Uncle Augie" tried to remove, where he went the frontierspeople insisted he give them medically.
We think at one point Augie Conwell took an Indian common-law other half, for that reason left her a long time ago he married a age-old woman; but greatest of what we be au fait with of Augie Conwell is carefully indirect.
John Cicero & Josephine McCrimmon Conwell had wandered up to Oklahoma and a long time ago they got barbed feet again, one baby mature 15, Crimson Rae Conwell, sought-after to carry out bestow with her girlfriends and so is whispered to restrain married ERVIN WILLIAMSON. Crimson Conwell Williamson's brothers were offended at her lowering her site in life in Oklahoma, but Paw Conny whispered, "Home her non-governmentally. She has made her bed and she will restrain to lie in it." And Paw and Maw Conny motivated on again. At one time articulate the morning of the 20th century, John & Josephine Conwell departed about a appointment definite the border of Mexico. Every of the people with whom they traveled and camped bribed the border guards to go on southward, but Paw Conny refused to pay bribes to get into Mexico and at last motivated northward.
John & Josephine Conwell occupied from tip to toe in the neighborhood of Thomaston, Texas, where one of their sons was the postmaster at what was called DD McManis' or DD McManus' store. They are recessed with sons Howard Conwell and Ernest Conwell at Thomaston, which is definite Cuero, which itself is definite Victoria, Texas. The reheat is ordinarily excitement in Thomaston, Texas, just as it is in Bibb Constituency, Alabama.
The descent of John Cicero Conwell are left to bewilderment how such a man may possibly restrain traveled and fought so far under such simple circumstances as reigned in the 19th century. Effective, the Courteous War seems to restrain crazed the ad contrive from his sails in that he farmed a bit and did a bit of carpentry, but never modestly lived up to the fiscal pledge enjoyed by his flinch Stanmore in Bibb Constituency and at lowest possible one of his grandsons, "JC" JOHN CONWELL WILLIAMSON
(1912-2001), an oil and gas wildcatter natural in Purdy, Oklahoma, to the Ervin Williamson who had acquired teenaged other half Crimson Rae Conwell so she had sought-after to carry out in Oklahoma with her young girlfriends. Grandson JC Williamson occupied in Midland, Texas, some time ago getting a B.S. in gelogy at Texas Tech Bookish in Lubbock and effective toward a doctorate at the Bookish of California, Berkeley, and it would seem cut down improved oil in West Texas and Eastern New Mexican than any last 20th-century geologist. In the same way as James Michener was researching the oilfields to commentary his book "TEXAS," he came to talk to "JC"
JOHN CONWELL WILLIAMSON. -- On paper with loving memoirs of "Pop," ("JC")
John Conwell Williamson, 1912-2001, and Pop's surprising stories about his Paw Conny, John Cicero Conwell of Bibb Constituency, Alabama, not the lowest possible of which was young JC's getting his Paw Conny to sing "Be aware of Father from the effects train I'll not be coming home from the War" so that the Conwell women would cry.
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