Obie Lee Hall

Other Events:

• Physical Description: being crippled in some way
• Family Search ID: LVVS-QR3
• _UID: 48823DC26F524417B8D2F2D4A91BBB9246CA
• Ω Census son: 1 Jan 1920

Notes:

Ω Census son:
Witness Role: Principal James Thomas HALL

Died:
Witness Role: Informant Albert Smith HALL

Obie married Gladys Cloe Philley in 1945. Gladys was born est 1904; died on 7 Dec 1963 in Sherman, Grayson, Texas, United States; was buried after 7 Dec 1963 in Pilot Grove Cemetery, Pilot Grove, Grayson, Texas, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Family Search ID: LVVS-3FT
• _UID: 336A128DB6904C5B9B8FE64DFA05357731EC
• Anecdote: Aft 1902
• Census: 1 Jan 1920, Grayson, Texas, United States
• Ω Census Principal: 1 Jan 1920

Notes:

Anecdote:
Following the death of Annie Beatrice Riffle in 1902:
2nd wife Mary Lucinda Allen (1885 - 1910) - married in 1905
children
Chestine Hall (1906 - )
Della Hall Hagan (1908 - )
Albert Hall (1909 - )
Bettie Hall (1910 - )

3rd wife Cora Elizabeth Jenkins McFall (1889 - 1965) - married in 1918
Cora had a daughter by a previous marriage when she married J.T.
Clara McFall Owen (1905 - )

Census:
Witness Role: head of household James Thomas HALL
Witness Role: wife Cora Elizabeth JENKINS
Witness Role: son Obie Lee HALL
Witness Role: son Chasten HALL
Witness Role: son Albert Smith HALL
Witness Role: daughter Hella HALL

Ω Census Principal:
Witness Role: Principal James Thomas HALL

Died:
Witness Role: Informant Cora Elizabeth JENKINS

James married Annie Beatrice Riffle on 20 Nov 1901 in Forreston, Ellis, Texas, United States. Annie (daughter of Samuel Scott Riffle and Sarah Josephine Faucett) was born on 10 Jan 1886; died on 29 Sep 1902 in Forreston, Ellis, Texas, United States; was buried after 29 Sep 1902 in Italy Cemetery, Italy, Ellis, Texas, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Family Search ID: LWDL-16X
• Photos: Go to Photo Gallery for Annie Beatrice Riffle
• _UID: B6AADC162A6845D8AB077ECF8FBB491BAED8
• Ω Census daughter: 1 Jun 1900
• Name: From 11 Nov 1901; Annie Hall

Notes:

Ω Census daughter:
Witness Role: Principal Samuel Scott RIFFLE

Other Events:

• Family Search ID: LW8F-TS8
• Photos: Go to Photo Gallery for Samuel Scott Riffle
• _UID: 159361C3D9D1400F8346CA97ADEFEB4FC5A7
• Anecdote: Jun 1864, Mississippi, United States; The Civil War came to his doorstep.
• Anecdote: 1869; On his own by the age of 14
• Occupation: 1880, Shelby, Tennessee, United States; farmer
• Census: 1 Jun 1880, Shelby, Tennessee, United States
• Ω Census Principal: 1 Jun 1880
• Occupation: 1887, Earl Fort's Cotton Plantation, Ellis, Texas, United States; overseer
• Anecdote: 22 Jun 1897; Civil War Veterans Reunion in Nashville TN
• Census: 1 Jun 1900, Ellis, Texas, United States
• Ω Census Principal: 1 Jun 1900
• Occupation: Abt 1903, Ivanhoe, Beaver, Oklahoma, United States; farmer
• Residence: Abt 1906, Follett, Lipscomb, Texas, United States
• Census: 15 Apr 1910, Lipscomb, Texas, United States
• Ω Census Principal: 15 Apr 1910
• Census: 1 Jan 1920, Lipscomb, Texas, United States
• Ω Census Principal: 1 Jan 1920
• Census: 1 Apr 1930, Lipscomb, Texas, United States
• Ω Census Principal: 1 Apr 1930
• Census: 1 Apr 1940, Lipscomb, Texas, United States
• Ω Census Principal: 1 Apr 1940
• Anecdote: 1976
• Anecdote: 13 Oct 2012; Story transferred from Leslie's old website

Notes:

Birth:
Calculating birth date from death certificate:Info provided by his son-in-law Homer Price, age at death 81 years, 7 months, 12 days. This would give birth date 20-Jun-1859. Birth date printed on death certificate is 18 Jun 1869, that's very wrong.


Misc:
1. Was overseer of a cotton plantation in Ellis County, Texas owned by Earl Fort. Probably moved there because the Faucetts were already there - Sam came from Tennessee with his wife.

2. Left Ellis County to homestead in OK panhandle (near Ivanhoe OK). Sam bought a 'relinquishment', proved it, and lived there for 3 years. Then moved with his family across the line back to Texas (near Follett).

3. Early days : while living in Mississippi, Sam heard that Sherman was coming. He got on his horse and rode to warn the neighbors. Sam had a favorite horse at the time, he took her bridle off and gave her a swat on the rump - if Sherman was going to take his horse, he didn't want to see it!

4. Sam found his half-sister through a Confederate soldier's reunion in Nashville (about 1880). He went with Andy Newt Faucett, his father-in-law. Josephine's husband was asking around for Sam's whereabouts and happened to ask Andy Newt Faucett!

5. Per 1880 Census : Sam (age 24) lived in Shelby Co., TN on a farm. This farm was co-owned by Sam, C.S. Gandy (age 21) and W.M. Gandy (age 20). All three men were originally from Mississippi. - How did they know one another?

6. In later years, Sam and 2nd wife Mary lived with youngest daughter Katie and her family. Legend has it that every year on his birthday (reunion-like events) he went out into the field with a pitchfork and returned with a rattlesnake, even when he was an 'old' man.

7. Some remember that he once jumped out the hayloft with his grandson Mackey - he would have been quite old at the time, and Mackey doesn't recall it, but...

Anecdote:
Samuel Scott rode a horse to tell the neighbors that Sherman was coming (probably in Mississippi). Katie remembers her Daddy telling that he had a favorite horse and when he heard Sherman was coming he took the bridle off her and gave her a swat on the rump with the bridle. He said if Sherman was going to take her, he didn't intend to see it.
[memo written by Deborah Price, as part of her research in the 1970s]

During the war, there was a battle near Guntown, related to Sherman's Meridian campaign. It seems likely that this anecdote related to preparations for the Battle of Brice's Crossroads.
The Battle of Brice's Crossroads, also known as the Battle of Tishomingo Creek and the Battle of Guntown, was fought on Friday, June 10, 1864, near Baldwyn, Mississippi, then part of the Confederate States of America. A Federal expedition from Memphis, Tennessee, of 4,800 infantry and 3,300 cavalry, under the command of Brigadier-General Samuel D. Sturgis, was defeated by a Confederate force of 3,500 cavalry under the command of Major-General Nathan Bedford Forrest.[2] The battle was a victory for the Confederates.

Anecdote:
Eunice remembered that Samuel Scott's mother Amanda's second husband, Mr. Murphy, died and she sent S.S. by horseback with a sack of grain across the river to be ground. (probably the Miss. River) When he was ready to return the river was up so he couldn't cross. When he finally did get home, his mother was dead and already buried. One of Amanda's sisters took Josephine and raised her. S.S. was on his own from then on. He was about 14 yrs. old.
[memo written by Deborah Price, as part of her research in the 1970s]

Piecing things together...
Josephine Murphy (SS's half sister) was born in Winn Parish Louisiana, near the Red River. His mother Amanda got pregnant with a second child by Mr. Murphy. Mr. Murphy died before the baby was born, so it was probably a newly widowed, pregnant Amanda, with toddler Josephine, sending SS out to provide for the family. Clearly he was gone for quite some time, during which his mother died and Josephine was taken to live with an aunt.

Occupation:
Per the 1880 Census : S.S. Riffle (age 24) lived in Shelby Co., TN on a farm. This farm was co-owned by Mr. Riffle, C.S. Gandy (age 21) and W.M. Gandy (age 24). All three men were originally from Mississippi. - How did they know one another?

Census:
Partner in a farm with C.S. and W.M. Gandy.
Witness Role: head of household Name: C. S. Gandy
Witness Role: 21 year old single male, farmer
Witness Role: brother Name: W. M. Gandy
Witness Role: 24 year old single male
Witness Role: partner Samuel Scott RIFFLE

Ω Census Principal:
Witness Role: head of household Name: C. S. Gandy
Witness Role: 21 year old single male, farmer
Witness Role: brother Name: W. M. Gandy
Witness Role: 24 year old single male
Witness Role: Principal Samuel Scott RIFFLE

Occupation:
S. S. was an over-seer of a cotton plantation in Ellis County Texas, owned by Earl Fort. Moved there probably because the Faucetts were already there - going from Tennessee.
[memo written by Deborah Price, as part of her research in the 1970s]

Anecdote:
Mr. Riffle found his half-sister (Josephine Murphy) through a Confederate soldier's reunion in Nashville. He went with Andy Newt Faucett, his father-in-law.

Josephine's husband Bat Roach was asking around for S.S. Riffle's whereabouts and happened to ask Andy Newt Faucett!

Josephine was not there as she was pregnant with Clarine, Mary Embry was pregnant with Katie. Once Josephine was recovered from having Clarine, the Roach family headed for Forreston,TX to see them. Josephine, Bat, and their children Clarine, Chick, and Josie had quite a time as they had really never been in the country.
[above note written by Mack Price]

Samuel Scott located his half-sister through a Confederate soldier's reunion in Nashville Tenn. S. S. 1st wife, Sarah Josephine Faucett's father, Andy Newt, was a Confederate veteran and attended this reunion in the 1880s. Bartholmew Roach, by this time married to Josephine Murphy, attended hoping to find someone who knew Samuel Scott Riffle's whereabouts and ran into A.N. Faucett, SS's father in law! They were in touch from then on. The Roach's lived in Meridian, Mississippi during the time they had the 12 children. They homesteaded in the Oklahoma strip prior to S.S. bringing his family in Dec 04. The Roach's left and went to Ada, Okla, and went into mercantile business.
[above note written by Debbie Price]

Note: Conflict between dates and facts.
Andy Newt Faucett was SS' first father in law, there was a Confederate Reunion in Nashville in 1897. Clarine Roach and Mary Josephine Riffle were both born in 1897 (I think). So it would have been Sarah Josephine Faucett pregnant with Mary Josephine that SS left at home, not Mary Elizabeth Embry pregnant with Katie.

Witness Role: Witness Andrew Newton FAUSETT
Witness Role: Witness Bartholomew ROACH

Census:
SS Riffle moved to Ellis, Texas to become an overseer of a plantation. His wife had died, He brought his 4 eldest children with him, leaving the baby, Mary, in the care of other relatives. He would soon marry Mary Embry, have a daughter, Katie, and bring his young daughter Mary to live with the blended familiy.
Witness Role: head of household Samuel Scott RIFFLE
Witness Role: daughter Annie Beatrice RIFFLE
Witness Role: daughter Allie May RIFFLE
Witness Role: son Luther Tyrell RIFFLE
Witness Role: daughter Eunice Ida RIFFLE

Ω Census Principal:
Witness Role: Principal Samuel Scott RIFFLE

Occupation:
Left Ellis County to homestead in Oklahoma strip. Bought a relinquishment. Proved it & lived 3 yrs. there - then moved across the line back into Texas.
[memo written by Deborah Price, as part of her research in the 1970s]

Residence:
Moved with his family across the TX-OK state line back to Texas (near Follett). In later years he and his wife lived with his youngest daughter, Katie and her husband Homer Price. Legend says that every year on his birthday (reunion-like events) he went out into the field with a pitchfork and returned with a rattlesnake, even when he was an "old" man. Some remember that he once jumped out the hayloft with his grandson Mackey - he would have been quite old at the time, and Mackey doesn't recall it, but...

Census:
Witness Role: head of household Samuel Scott RIFFLE
Witness Role: wife Mary Elizabeth EMBRY
Witness Role: son Luther Tyrell RIFFLE
Witness Role: daughter Eunice Ida RIFFLE
Witness Role: daughter Mary Josephine RIFFLE
Witness Role: daughter Katie Alma RIFFLE

Ω Census Principal:
Witness Role: Principal Samuel Scott RIFFLE

Census:
Witness Role: head of household Samuel Scott RIFFLE
Witness Role: wife Mary Elizabeth EMBRY
Witness Role: daughter Katie Alma RIFFLE
Witness Role:

Witness Role: laborer Samuel Robert WILLIAMSON

Ω Census Principal:
Witness Role: Principal Samuel Scott RIFFLE

Census:
Witness Role: head of household Samuel Scott RIFFLE
Witness Role: wife Mary Elizabeth EMBRY

Ω Census Principal:
Witness Role: Principal Samuel Scott RIFFLE

Census:
Witness Role: head of household Samuel Scott RIFFLE
Witness Role: wife Mary Elizabeth EMBRY
Witness Role: daughter Mattie Iola RIFFLE
Witness Role: sister Josephine MURPHY

Ω Census Principal:
Witness Role: Principal Samuel Scott RIFFLE

Anecdote:
History of S.S. Riffle written by his daughter Katie Price, published in the book, History of Lipscomb County.

Anecdote:
When God Winks at You: How God Speaks Directly to You Through the Power of Coincidence by Squire Rushnell is a book I haven't read, but would like to. The idea of coincidence being a little wink from God is one of those concepts I find exceedingly comforting. At any rate - there's a great story of coincidence in our very own family.

Samuel Scott Riffle, known to most (even his wife) as Mr. Riffle, had the kind of tough upbringing that was sadly quite common in the South after the Civil War.

To recap:

His father died in the war before he was 7 years old. His mom remarried, had a daughter, we're hoping that life was good for them all at this point, though they were in Mississippi and the war and reconstruction were really tough on folks in this area. His mom got pregnant again, Mr. Riffle was in his early teens at this point.

His stepfather (Mr. Murphy) died in an accident coming home from town, leaving Amanda, his pregnant widow, Josephine, his 5 year old daughter, and SS Riffle, his 13 year old stepson, to fend for themselves.

Mr. Riffle had either already gone off to work somewhere, or he did so after his stepfather died, we don't know. All we do know is that he was, at the young age of 13 or 14 not at home with his mother when she had the baby. The baby, a boy, was either stillborn or died shortly thereafter. Amanda apparently lived for a short time, a week, a few months, we don't know, but then she died as well.

Mr. Riffle couldn't get across the Mississippi river to get home immediately(flooding season apparently), and by the time he did get home, his mom was buried, and his sister Josephine was gone to live with other family. We aren't sure if he even knew where she was. He was completely on his own, it was 1870 and he was only 15.

He survived, thrived actually. Became a successful farmer, a father many times over, and eventually ended up in the great state of Texas.

But there must have been, always at the back of his mind, a desire to find his sister. To know if she had turned out ok, to find his own connections to his past.

Flash forward to 1901.

Mr. Riffle's first wife, Sarah Josephine Faucett, had died leaving him with 6 children. He remarried (Mary Elizabeth Embry) and had one more child (my grandmother, Katie Alma Riffle).

While Miss Mary was pregnant with Katie, Mr. Riffle and his (former) father-in-law Andy Newt Faucett decided to go to a Civil War Veterans reunion, to see if there was any way for Mr. Riffle to find his family.

Another gentleman, Bartholomew Roach, had gone to this reunion on behalf of his wife, Josephine Murphy, to find her brother. Bat Roach asked a nearby gentleman if he knew Samuel Scott Riffle. The gentleman he asked was Andy Newt Faucett. God winked.

After that, the Roach and Riffle families stayed in touch. There was even a time that the Riffles stayed with the Roaches while their house was being built. Must have been a bit crowded - 7 Riffle children, 12 Roach children, 4 adults, and all the assorted farm animals.

Over the years we've lost touch with the Roach side of the family, perhaps we can reunite again someday. The facts remain however -

Terrible tragedy, extreme hardship, loss of family - survival and success in spite of it. As a descendant of this great man, I hope I can live up to his example.

Personally, I find so much inspiration in the story of Samuel Scott Riffle, he's definitely one of the "dead ancestors" I'd love to meet.

Please share your stories!

Samuel married Sarah Josephine Faucett on 25 Dec 1881 in Collierville, Shelby, Tennessee, United States. Sarah (daughter of Andrew Newton Fausett and Martha J. Morton) was born on 4 Dec 1859 in Collierville, Shelby, Tennessee, United States; died on 25 Aug 1897 in Forreston, Ellis, Texas, United States; was buried after 25 Aug 1897 in Italy Cemetery, Italy, Ellis, Texas, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Family Search ID: LWD2-BYJ
• _UID: EE79C4F0D808437486C65315F6752BE9E574
• Ω Census granddaughter: 1 Jun 1870
• Name: Aft 25 Dec 1881; Sarah Riffle

Notes:

Birth:
Fact Flags: Preferred

Ω Census granddaughter:
Witness Role: Principal David FAUSETT

Other Events:

• Family Search ID: LWDP-8P3
• Name: Lafayette Riffle
• Name: M. D. L. Trebbell
• Name: Marquise de Lafayette Tribble
• _UID: 8495CBCBF4B84BDAAA9497EC271E06A02C78
• Ω Census son: 1 Jun 1850
• Military Service: From 11 Feb 1862 to 9 Apr 1862; Civil War, Confederate Army

Notes:

Name:
In family lore, the father of Samuel Scott Riffle was known as Lafayette Riffle. It is only many years later that we found it most likely that Lafayette Tribble was the true name.

Ω Census son:
Witness Role: Principal James H TRIBBLE

Military Service:
40TH TENNESSEE INFANTRY REGT.
(5TH CONFEDERATE INFANTRY REGIMENT)
Company D - Captains James W. bush, Joseph A. Daniel - An Arkansas company.
This regiment was organized in October 1861 and was composed of one Florida, one Kentucky, four Alabama and four Arkansas Companies. It was Captured at Island #10 8 Apr 1862, released at Vicksburg, MS in September 1862 and declared exchanged at Aikens Landing, VA 10 Nov 1862. The regiment was called the 40th Tennessee Regiment and Walker's Regiment of Volunteers but was officially designated the 5th Regiment Confeddrate Infantry.

The four Arkansas Companies were assigned to the 15th (Johnson's) AR Inf 29Sep1862.

NOTE: Island #10 was a heavily fortified island in the Mississippi River near the present town of New Madrid, MO.


Trebbell , M.D.L.
BATTLE UNIT NAME: 40th Regiment, Tennessee Infantry (Walker's) (5th Confederate Infantry)
SIDE: Confederacy
COMPANY:D
SOLDIER'S RANK IN: Private
SOLDIER'S RANK OUT: Private


40th Regiment, Tennessee Infantry (Walker's) (5th Confederate Infantry)
OVERVIEW: 40th Infantry Regiment was organized at Memphis, Tennessee, in October, 1861, with one Florida, one Kentucky, four Alabama, and four Arkansas companies. During February, 1862, it became the 5th (Walker's) Confederate Infantry Regiment. The field officers were Colonels C.C. Henderson and Lucius M. Walker, Lieutenant Colonel John A. Minter, and Major Hiram H. Higgins.


TREBBELL, M.D.L. Pvt - Enl 11 Feb 1862 at Ft Pillow, TN. Died at Island #10 9 Apr 1862.

Died:
Legend says: died in Yankee Prison Camp.

Lafayette married Amanda L. Dugger on 19 Oct 1853 in Guntown, Itawamba, Mississippi, United States. Amanda (daughter of Samuel Scott, daughter of Alexander Dugger and Catherine Reynolds) was born in 1835 in Alabama, United States; died about 1870. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Family Search ID: 9KDX-HN5
• _UID: 0EB8F1B6D1054FF68087C6ED6988859951A8
• Ω Census daughter: 1 Jun 1850
• Name: Aft 19 Oct 1853; Amanda Riffle
• Residence: 1860, Wilcox, Alabama, United States
• Name: Abt 1864; Amanda Murphy

Notes:

Birth:
* 1850 Census says born in Alabama
Other sourcing says she was born in Georgia. Should investigate both possibilities.

Ω Census daughter:
Witness Role: Principal Alexander DUGGER

Died:
Probably in or near Winn Parish Louisiana

Notes:

Married:
"Armanda L Duggers" married "M.D.L. Trebble" Oct 1863, officiated by James Castton - per a transcription of the Itawamba County Mississippi Marriage Book, volume 4, as posted by the Itawamba Historical Society http://itawambahistory.org/marr4.html

"Amanda L. Duggar" and "M.D.L. Tribble" married 10 Oct 1853 per a listing provided by the Itawmaba County Mississippi Genealogy & History Network.
https://msghn.org/itawamba/marriages_c.html

Other Events:

• Family Search ID: KNS4-HZT
• Name: Anderson N. Fausett
• Name: Andrew Fossett
• Name: Andy Newt Fausett
• _UID: 2CD75C415576421DBF48ADDC48661C072B30
• Ω Census son: 1 Jun 1850
• Ω Census son: 1 Jun 1870
• Ω Anecdote Witness: 22 Jun 1897; Civil War Veterans Reunion in Nashville TN

Notes:

Name:
on 1860 census

Name:
on 1870 Census

Residence:
The Fausetts lived very close to where the Gandy Brothers and Sam Riffle were partners in a farm.

Ω Census son:
Witness Role: Principal David FAUSETT

Ω Census son:
Witness Role: Principal David FAUSETT

Ω Anecdote Witness:
Witness Role: Principal Samuel Scott RIFFLE

Andrew married Martha J. Morton about 1856 in Santa Anna, Coleman, Texas, United States. Martha (daughter of Jonathan Stone Morton and Elisabeth) was born on 3 Oct 1842 in Tennessee, United States; died on 19 Feb 1909; was buried after 19 Feb 1909 in Santa Anna Cemetery, Santa Anna, Coleman, Texas, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Family Search ID: KC7G-Z4M
• _UID: F9AA66BEEE5A4B33BFE78C7D73FF02F7A745
• Name: Aft 1856; Martha Faucett
• Ω Census daughter-in-law: 1 Jun 1870

Notes:

Ω Census daughter-in-law:
Witness Role: Principal David FAUSETT