The Dean Family
Submitted by: Kay Heaton Bradley, Santa Fe NMPhotos
The Deans are Allie, Sophia, Mrs., Baby Alice, Henry Schluter
Dean Family abt. 1890
The earliest records I have to date on my Dean Family are of R. N. Brown b. 1822 in Georgia, who married Henry G. Dean in DeKalb Georgia in 1843. R.N. was Rhoda Narcissa Montgomery whose father was James McConnell Montgomery. Major Montgomery was the son of Scottish immigrants, he was born in the Lancaster District of SC in 1770 He was the first white man to live in the Atlanta area. His early records show him living in Standing Peachtree GA about 1814. He was in the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812. He went to school with Andrew Jackson in SC. After the war he was appointed by Jackson to be in charge of assessing and protecting Indian land, he was the postmaster, census taker, justice of the peace, road commissioner, owned a ferry business, and he was a state senator as well. James McMontgomery and his wife Nancy both died in 1842 in GA. Rhoda was the 12th child of Nancy Farlow and James McMontgomery. She married Alfred B. Brown first and he and their infant daughter died in 1839. Alfred Brown was an engineer employed by the State to bring the railroad to the Atlanta area. After his death, Rhoda married, 1843, Henry G. Dean who was a plantation owner/farmer. They lived in GA until he died before the Civil War. Henry and Rhoda had three sons, John M., William Henry and Hugh. John moved to Alabama and worked for the railroad all of his life. He married Julia Rockett in 1867 and had three children. Jessie, Henry Thomas and Hugh E. Julia and one of the sons Hugh Eugene died in the 1870's and are buried at Elyton Cemetery. The other children were Jessie and Henry Thomas. John died in 1921 and is buried in Forest Hill Cemetery, Birmingham, AL.
There was a Dean Family business of Oil Field Livery and Transfer and there was a family farm in Ashdown, Arkansas. William Henry Dean was a sergeant in Ferrell's Battery in Georgia during the Civil War and moved to Texarkana with his brother Hugh (and mother) following the war. William married Sophia F. Hynson, whose father, Charles E., was an engineer who helped to bring the Rail Road from Louisiana to Texarkana. They Hynson family is traceable to Maryland in the 1700's. William married Sophia F. in Jefferson in Dec. 1871 and they had four children Henry Schluter, Charles Edward, Hugh and Sophia Cornelia. Henry was reported to have been born in The Schluter House’ in Jefferson and I suspect they were family friends if not relatives. William and Henry worked on the Texas and Pacific Southern railroad and then William clerked in a local hotel and also served as the tax collector from 1892-1894. He was politically active and belonged to a number of organizations. William died in 1917 and his obituary is quite colorful. His last request was to be wrapped in the Confederate flag he carried in battle.
Henry Schulter Dean was my ggrandfather and although I never met him, I have delighted in trying to piece together the sort of man he was. Henry was evidently married first to Daisy Bell Church who bore him a daughter in Jan of 1899 and sadly they both died. Daisy B. first Feb 23, 1899 and then the infant Gladys. April 5, 1899 they are buried in Rose Hill Cemetery in the DEAN plot, and share a double-sided marker. Henry married Kathleen Alice Burns in Texarkana in Sept. 1901. He called her "Allie" and she was the daughter of Thomas C. Burns of County Wicklow, Ireland and Rhoda Lovelady (her parents were Malinda Callaway and the Rev. West D. Lovelady) of Van Zandt Co. TX. Thomas and Rhoda had four children K. Alice, Thomas West, William Smith and Maria Louisa Burns. Thomas worked on the railroad in many places. Henry and Kathleen had one infant daughter, Alice, who was beloved by all and called "baby Alice" even beyond babyhood. She is the precious child in the family photograph. Henry was a Mason and affable man, able to persuade the ladies in his life to pose with sombreros astride donkeys on a trip to Mineral Wells in 1903. They lived in Texarkana, Louisiana and finally in Dallas evidently moving about with the railroad. He attended to his patriarchal duties without complaints, overseeing the running of the family farm and taking on the responsibility of his little sister Sophia who was a maiden lady and almost totally deaf. Sophie was called "Sophie Cornelias" all of her natural life, however, I am certain her full name was Sophia Cornelia after her mother and grandmother-Cornelia Chambers Sevier McClellan (her father John Sevier was the first governor of Tennessee) who married Charles Edward Hynson. Because, she was deaf she was not able to correct those around her who misunderstood her name. Early documents show her signature as Sophia. She lived her entire life with Henry and Allie until they passed on and then she lived with Alice until she died in 1958.
Henry died quite suddenly on Christmas Eve 1930. Allie died in Dallas in 1950. Alice died in Granbury TX in 1985. She was my grandmother. Thomas, Rhoda, Thomas W. Burns, Henry, Allie, Sophia, and Alice are all buried in Grove Hill Cemetery in Dallas TX. I have not been able to find a death certificate or burial place for Rhoda Narcissa. She was still living in 1902. William died in Texarkana according to the obituary. I have not found a death certificate for him in Arkansas or Texas. He is supposed to be buried in Rose Hill Cemetery in Texarkana TX. No marker can be found for him there. Sophia F. died in 1930 and she is interred at Rose Hill.
There are numerous records available online tracing the Hynson, Heaton, York, Montgomery, Sevier, Lovelady and Callaway families going back many, many years. Some are recorded history back to the 600's-700's. I would be very interested in finding out more about my Henry G. Dean who remains an elusive character for me. I have only a birthday and know that his father was born in NC.
Kay Heaton Bradley
Tuesday, Feb. 13, 1917
FUNERAL FOR CAPT. DEAN ONE OF PIONEERS HELD YESTERDAY
Dying wish of Veteran that Confederate Flag be buried with him was carried out.
The Grim Reaper Sunday afternoon claimed another of Texarkana's pioneer
Citizens when W. H. Dean, aged 76 years, answered the last roll call and passed into the Great Beyond, leaving behind him a splendid record of a life's work successfully achieved. Captain Dean leaves to mourn his loss in addition to a host of friends, his wife, daughter Miss Sophia Dean of this city, and three sons, Henry of Dallas, Ed and Hugh of this city, and a brother, Hugh, also of this city. For years, Captain Dean had been a central figure in local political circles, and served for several terms as city treasurer of the Texas side, retiring at his expiration of his term last year owing to ill health. He was also a member of the First Methodist Church in the affairs to which he for years took a leading part. Captain Dean was also a member of Camp Hill, this city, the members of which organization honored the memory of their deceased comrade by attending the service in a body yesterday. Shortly before his death, Mr. Dean made a request of his family that an old Confederate flag he had had the honor of bearing in battle be wrapped about his body and buried with him and the request was fully complied with. The funeral, one of the largest ever held in this city, was held from the First Methodist Church (Texas) yesterday afternoon, and interment was made in Rose Hill cemetery.
Texas Republican -- Marshall -- July 7, 1860
Died in Marshall, Texas, Mrs. Eliza C. McClellan at her son-in-law's, Mr. C.E. Hynson, 26 June 1860. Deceased was born in Knoxville Co., TN, 15 Nov 1790. She was the youngest child of John Sevier who was the first governor of her native state. She was the last member of her father’s family. For 31 years and 1 month she lived the widow of Major William McClellan. At his death the care and responsibility of raising and educating a young and growing family devolved on her. She has left four daughters and one son. They have been and still were the objects of her love and the subjects of her constant prayers. She suffered much for two years previous to her death, with inflammatory rheumatism. Her affliction she bore with Christian fortitude and patience. She frequently remarked, "it's allright ... it was the work of her heavenly father and if it was Gods will, that she should suffer it, it was hers also." When lying on her bed, she would repeat many passages of scripture. She died with these promises on her lips. They were in her heart. They should light over her brightest days, and illuminate her darkest. She selected her funeral text: Job 19:25,26,27. She sleeps in Jesus, sleeps to awake again. Amen. -- Knoxville and Nashville papers please copy.
Her children were: John Sevier McClellan m: Susan Gregg; Ruth Ann McClellan m: Richard Campbell Sevier Brown; Catherine Barbara McClellan m: George C. Pickett; Martha Eliza McClellan m: John Gregg; Mary Jane McClellan m: Gabriel Jones Raines; Cornelia Chambers McClellan m: Charles Edward Hynson.
Several of the family settled in Harrison County in the mid 1850s, and are buried in Marshall and Hallsville area.
Posted on Harrison County, TX Obituaries
WAS BORN IN KENT COUNTY
Death of Charles E. Hynson in New Orleans.
Mr. Charles E. Hynson, who died Tuesday in the home of his daughter, Mrs. W. B. Mercer in New Orleans, was an uncle of Mr. Henry E. Hynson of the drug firm of Hynson & Westcort, of this city. He was born on Eastern Neck Island, Kent County, Maryland, in 1820, and went to Batesville, Arkansas, in 1841. From Batesville he went to Marshall, Texas. He had always been marked by distinct ability as a financier and while in Marshall he became the promoter of the Texas-Pacific Railroad. He is said to have built the branch of the road from Shreveport, La. To Marshall, Texas, almost unaided, and was fond of telling how the first cars over the tracks of this branch were drawn by oxen. That was in 1850. The stock in the road was owned principally by Northerners, and when they saw the Civil War approaching they sold out their stock and Mr. Hynson was forced to look elsewhere for a field. During the war he was in charge of a large tannery conducted by the Confederate Government at Marshall, Texas, where he managed 500 Negroes.
He was a son of Col. Nathaniel Hynson of Eastern Neck, and a brother of John Ringgold Hynson, a midshipman in the United States Navy, who distinguished himself in the Mexican War. Young Hynson was attached to the battleship Summers, then commanded by Captain (later Admiral) _aphael Semmes. The Summers was blockading the harbor of Vera Cruz and one of the Spanish ships in the harbor managed to sneak by the ship in the night Young Hynson and some of his companions were so chagrined by this that they volunteered to go aboard the vessel, which lay out of firing range, and blow it up. Dressed in the uniform of Spaniards they rowed up to the boat in the evening dusk addressed the crew in Spanish, were hauled aboard and set fire to the magazines. Hynson and his companion escaped, but Hynson was very badly burned about one hand. When a few days later the Summers went to pieces before a fierce “norther”. Hynson and an old tar floated in the gulf with only a spar between them to cling to. Seeing that this was not sufficient for both the midshipman bade farewell to his companion released his grasp of the spar and died that the older man might live. He was only 24 years old and his memory is held very dear by his family. A monument to him and other midshipmen has been erected in the United States Naval Acadamy.
The dead man will be buried in New Orleans. He leaves three daughters and one son. His second wife, Mrs. Nimmo, of Texas was the mother of the wife of Air Henry P. Hynson, of this city.