Family/Spouse: C. E. Fivecoat. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anthony married Mary Jane McCuistion on 21 Mar 1872 in Robertson County, Texas. Mary (daughter of Joshua McCuistion and Mary Elizabeth O'Neal) was born on 2 May 1854 in Robertson County, Texas; died on 15 Jul 1943 in Pampa, Gray County, Texas; was buried on 16 Jul 1943 in Pampa, Gray County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Mary Jane McCuistion was a strong character and a perfect lady throughout her long life. When a child, her step-mother's sister, Catherine McGuire, made Mary spin long hours--punishment was by cutting at her legs with bois d'arc switches. The scars were carried to Mary's grave at the age of 88. Brother Noah took Mary, aged 6, and two other children and moved to a cabin on the far side of Joshua McCuistion's land by a spring, never again to return to the father's house.

Buried:
Mary Jane is buried in the family plot at Pampa, Texas.

Notes:

Was with his brother James in Robertson County, Texas in 1850, and is listed on the 1850 census.

Died:
Joshua owned land in the Blaylock Colony in Old Mexico. As explained by his great grandson, the Blaylock Colony was in Tamaulipas part of Mexico, South of Brownsville, Texas. Colony meant so many acres of land and the people on it.

In 1905, Joshua bought a ranch in the State of Tamaulipas, Old Mexico, south of Brownsville; the deeds were ratified by the Courts of Tampico. The next year, during the Mexican Revolution, the army of President Diaz overran his ranch, were defeated and recrossed, pursued by the army of Pancho Villa. Joshua and all of his native Mexican employees were murdered on or about 22 March 1906. It is not known whether government or bandit forces committed the atrocities; although, it is assumed to have been Pancho Villa. Although, another account states, Joshua was shot in the leg while in bed, which caused him to develop blood poisoning and he died from this. Because of legal complications and the lack of proper embalming methods, he was buried there.

Joshua married Mary Elizabeth O'Neal on 18 Nov 1851 in Franklin, Robertson County, Texas. Mary (daughter of Edmund Samuel O'Neal and Clarinda Augusta Reams) was born on 26 Aug 1831 in Texas; died on 29 Jul 1859 in Robertson County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Died:
Died as a result of the birth of her last child, she is buried in the Old Franklin Cemetery.

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Married:
Joshua and Elizabeth were married by a minister of the gospel greeting.

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Robert's mother, Ann Moody McCuistion, gave him the little keg of gold coins because, she said, "he has Texas in his blood and he needs an inheritance that he can take to Texas with him." The gold was a family legacy handed down from the McCuistion ancestors and brought to America by Ann Moody McCuistion. Through Ann's lifetime she never used any of the gold and when she died, in 1819, the keg of coins was passed to her son, Robert. After San Jacinto, the Texas Republic was without funds and its only resource was land. The Texas dollar was worthless. Sam Houston knew his only hope to bolster the economy was to exchange public land for gold. To accomplish his purpose, the hero of San Jacinto invited seventeen men to exchange their gold for seemingly worthless land. Robert McCuistion was one of the seventeen men. By their contributions the value of the Texas dollar rose to almost par value on the world market and the Republic was saved. ..."the ten thousand acres of land accepted in exchange for the McCuistion gold remained worthless but Robert never regretted his gift to Texas."
All of Robert's children were born in Davidson and Bedford Counties, Tennessee.
Robert went to Robertson County, Texas in 1835 and established himself at a strong spring of good water, later known as the McCuistion Headwaters. This is near the present village of Easterly.

Birth:
One source lists the date of birth 12 May whereas the other lists 2 May.

Robert married Elizabeth McQuerter in 1807 in Davidson County, Tennessee. Elizabeth (daughter of George Barnett McQuerter and Elizabeth Wahob) was born in 1775 in Western District, Tennessee; died in 1839 in Franklin, Robertson County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Carleen Dagget reports Elizabeth's last name as McWhorter.

Elizabeth McQuerter McCuistion was well educated and her diplomatic qualities can be seen in the fact that she named her first child, being a girl, Charity, after the mother of her three step-children and thereby endeared it to them, closing forever the gap between the two sets of children. She is said to be a financial supporter and loyal colonist, according to the entry in "Founders and Patriots of the Republic of Texas."

Died:
Elizabeth McQuerter is buried in Old Franklin Cemetery, located on Daggett Ranch; 2 miles southwest of Franklin, Texas.

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Married:
Carleen lists the year of marriage as 1806.

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In "Founders and Patriots of the Republic of Texas"; Edmund is identified as a loyal colonist.

Edmund married Clarinda Augusta Reams on 21 Jan 1832. Clarinda (daughter of Dr. James Reams and Nancy Ann Young) was born on 20 Jun 1814 in South Carolina; died on 2 Mar 1882 in Holly Springs, Robertson County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

In the "Founders and Patriots of the Republic of Texas", Clarinda is identified as a loyal citizen and colonist.

Birth:
Born on her parents plantation.

Died:
Was buried in the family burying-ground on the O'Neal land near the present hamlet of Ridge. In 1915, the graves were moved about one mile northwest to Holly Cemetery.