ELLIOTT REUNION
FAMILY REUNION IS HELD NEAR
SHERMAN JULY 19
McKinney Weekly Democrat Gazette July 30, 1936
Mrs. W. R. Webb and husband living on Route 2, Anna, in
North Collin, attended a family reunion held at Woodlake, North of Sherman,
Sunday July 19, celebrating the eighty-eighth birthday of her mother, Mrs. Lucy
Elliott, 1124 East Lamar Street, Sherman. The actual birthday was July 22, but
the event was observed in advance in order to accommodate more of the numerous
relatives of this old-time Grayson County settler who wanted to attend.
Mrs. Elliott was a daughter of Carey and Emily Watson, her maiden name being
Lucy E. Watson. She was born, July 23, 1848, in Bowie County, Texas, but moved
with her parents to Grayson County, in 1850. Her parents settled six miles west
of Van Alstyne. She was married, in 1864 to Joseph T. Elliott, son of Rev. David
Elliott, a pioneer Baptist preacher of South Grayson, who often preached in
different parts of North Collin. Her husband died, November 12, 1909, and is
buried in the Elliott Cemetery, the land for which he donated from his farm, six
miles west of Van Alstyne.
Mrs. Elliott was the mother of ten children of whom four sons and four daughters
are still living. They are Roge Elliott, Bird Elliott, and Joseph W. Elliott,
all of Kiowa, Oklahoma, and Carey Elliott, Route 3, Van Alstyne; Mrs. Jennie
McNeely, Route 3, Van Alstyne, Mrs. W. R. Webb, Route 2, Anna; Mrs. Nannie Webb,
1224 East Lamar Street, Sherman, with whom the dear old mother lives, and Mrs.
Lucy McNeely of Denison; All the children were present except one daughter Mrs.
Jennie McNeely, who has been an invalid, confined to her bed for several years.
Mrs. Elliotts mother was a first cousin of Collin McKinney. Nearly eighty
relatives were present at the reunion, as follows:
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma—Mr. And Mrs. Vincent Myers.
Longview, Texas—Mr. And Mrs. Carey E. Webb and family.
Fort Worth, Texas—Mr. And Mrs. F. b. Taylor, Mrs. W. H. Bennett, Mrs. Emma
Terrell, Dr. S. D. Terrell, Bobbie and Dean Terrell.
McAlester, Oklahoma—R. A. Elliott.
Kiowa, Oklahoma—J. W. Elliott, Mrs. Velma Elliott and children, D. O. Elliott,
Misses Ina and Johnny Ruth Rooe.
Bethany, Oklahoma—Mr. And Mrs. Joe T. Elliott and family, Mrs. Lizzie Canads and
son, Roy.
Van Alstyne, Texas—Mrs. Andrew Neill, Mrs. Lee Pitt, Miss Audrey McNeely, Mr.
and Mrs. W. H. Miller, Mrs. W. H. Miller, Mrs. Jennie Coffey, Mr. and Mrs. C. M.
Elliott, Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Elliott, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Elliott and son, Mrs. W.
L. Elliott, Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Marr and sons.
Sherman, Texas—Mrs. Pearl McClure, Mr. and Mrs. Loren Tolbert and sons; Mrs.
Lucy Elliott, Mrs. Nannie Webb, Miss Jimmie Webb; Mr. and Mrs. Ed Watson and
children, Harold Hester.
Tonopah, Arizona—Richard Riddel.
Dallas, Texas—Mr. And Mrs. J. Weldon Webb, Mr. and Mrs. Byrd Webb, Mrs. W. W.
Judd.
Denison, Texas—Mr. And Mrs. W. McNeely and daughter, Mary Jo.
Mustang, Oklahoma—Miss Mary Jane Elliott.
Graybill, Texas—W. R. Webb and wife.
Surname Index
Recommended
Citation:
"Elliott reunion,
EARLY SETTLERS OF COLLIN COUNTY." Collin County, Texas History
and Genealogy Webpage by Genealogy Friends of Plano Libraries, Inc., <http://www.geocities/genfriendsghl>
[Accessed Fri February 13, 2004 ].
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