From Missouri to Hood County, Texas
by Virginia Hale, Great-Granddaughter of America Jane Iles Reynolds Hale
Special appreciation to: Tim Sears, Linda Hamilton Schnacke, Joy Luttrell Tubbs, Glenn Elliott, Mary Lou Sublett Tate, Nell Ives Brown, Betty Jane Kimbrow Porterfield & Hampton Roach
Updated 08/07/2004
James T. Iles
James T. Iles and Margret Morrow Iles raised their family of nine children in Fredericktown, Madison County, Missouri. James was born in 1812 in York County, South Carolina. Margret was born in 1818 in Missouri (Territory of Upper Louisiana). The Morrow family was well-established, of Irish descent in Canada, that came to Missouri about 1797. James and Margret married 01/21/1836 in Madison County, Missouri where James was a farmer.
In 1860 the Iles family had a domestic servant named Sarah Stephenson, age 25, and her 6-year old daughter living with the family. In 1860 the three oldest children and their families lived in Newton County, Missouri and earned a living working in the coal mines.
The family was divided regarding the Civil War, 1861 – 1865. The oldest son, William, served in the Union Army. The oldest daughter’s husband was a Rebel who hated Yankees. Another sister’s husband, a Yankee, was killed in the war.
Madison County, Missouri was full of military activity throughout the Civil War. Mine La Motte, three miles north of Fredericktown, produced lead for the manufacturing of bullets. Early in the war, on October 21, 1861, the two armies clashed 12 miles south of Fredericktown. Approximately 3,000 Union soldiers overwhelmingly fought occupying confederate soldiers. The CSA retreated, but not without carrying away about 18,000 pounds of lead from Mine La Motte. The Union reported burying 160 Confederates, 60 wounded, and 30 captured. The Yankees burned part of Fredericktown and destroyed several homes, taking possession of the town and maintaining its hold throughout the remaining war years. This event has become known as the Battle of Fredericktown.
Following the Civil War, the expanding Iles family was found in Randolph County, Arkansas. Documented marriages occurred in Randolph County beginning in 1867. James T. Iles and his oldest son appeared on the 1869 Tax Roll in Randolph County. Sometime between October 1875 and October 1876 most of the adult children of James T. and Margret Morrow Iles left Randolph County, Arkansas to settle in Lipan in far northwest Hood County, Texas.
Children of James T. and Margret Morrow Iles:
Sarah Iles Compton
Sarah L. Iles born 11/16/1836 in Missouri; died 03/23/1902; buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Lipan, Hood County, Texas.
Married Yelverton O. Compton, born 02/24/1837 in Missouri (enumerated in 1850 Census, Madison County, Missouri); married 08/12/1858 in St. Clair County, Missouri; died 12/27/1870 on a trip to Texas from Randolph County, Arkansas; buried in Randolph County, Arkansas.
Sarah and Yelverton Compton had six children born between 1859 and 1870. The first child died in infancy. Sarah and her five children moved to Hood County, Texas:
Emma E. Compton born 06/13/1860 in Missouri; died 02/18/1886; buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Lipan, Hood County, Texas. Married James F. Bishop 09/27/1877 in Hood County, Texas.
Ida Jane Compton Gafford
Ida Jane Compton born 09/19/1862 in Missouri; died 02/08/1934; buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Lipan, Hood County, Texas. Married James Pleas Gafford 11/24/1880 in Hood County, Texas.
Thomas Allen Compton born 08/22/1865 in Illinois; died 05/18/1904; buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Lipan, Hood County, Texas. Married Mattie Francis Gafford 03/28/1888.
Mary Alice Compton Elliott in 1932
Mary Alice Compton born 12/14/1867 in Missouri; died 03/18/1952; buried in Moran Cemetery in Moran, Shackleford County, Texas. Married George Washington Elliott.
James Richard Compton born 01/21/1870 in Arkansas; died 11/09/1949; buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Lipan, Hood County, Texas. Married Mary A. Gafford 04/17/1890.
Ida, Tom, and Richard Compton – sister and brothers – married J.P., Mattie, and Mary Gafford – brother and sisters.
Sarah L. Iles Compton never remarried and was often referred to as “the Widow Compton.” She received an approved Widow’s Confederate Pension in October 1899.
William Ables Iles
William Ables Iles born 12/24/1838 in Fredericktown, Madison County, Missouri; served in the Civil War in the Union Army as a Corporal in Company B 13th Kansas Infantry Regiment; died 01/14/1913; buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Lipan, Hood County, Texas. He and his family lived in Lipan and Tolar in Hood County.
Hattie McClintock Iles
Married Hattie McClintock born 02/23/1857 in St. Joseph, Buchanan County, Missouri; married 05/13/1880 in Hood County, Texas; died 05/27/1921; buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Lipan, Hood County, Texas. Three children were born in Hood County. Hattie was a school teacher and was active as a Presbyterian and member of the Eastern Star.
Thomas M.S. Iles born 1841 in Fredericktown, Madison County, Missouri. Thomas was enumerated in the 1860 Census in Grandley, Newton County, Missouri as an 18-year old miner.
Mary E. Iles born 07/07/1843 in Fredericktown, Madison County, Missouri; died 03/20/1927; buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Lipan, Hood County, Texas.
Married (1) John H. Davis born in Missouri; married 04/18/1867 in Randolph County, Arkansas. One child was born of this marriage, William Edmond Davis on 02/28/1869 in Missouri; died 08/05/1950; buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Lipan, Hood County, Texas. Married Valina Lineberry about 1888.
Married (2) Jarrett Tillman Cook born 05/25/1829 in North Carolina; married 1871 in Missouri; died 04/21/1910; buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Lipan, Hood County, Texas. Jarrett Tillman Cook was recorded as a landowner in Randolph County, Arkansas as early as 03/28/1861: 160 acres, 5 21N 2E. Jarrett Tillman Cook served in the Confederate States Army. Mary E. Iles Davis was the third wife of Jarrett Tillman Cook.
Jarrett Tillman Cook and Mary E. Iles Davis Cook
Erastus T. Cook born 01/07/1873 in Missouri to Mary E. Iles Davis and Jarrett Tillman Cook. Two more children were born in Hood County, Texas.
Elizabeth C. (Betty) Iles born 03/1848 in Missouri; died about 1919; believed to have been buried in an unmarked grave in Evergreen Cemetery, Lipan, Hood County, Texas.
Married (1) William Martin Vanburen Brewen born in Illinois; married 03/1864; died 03/1865 in Civil War. W.M.V. Brewen’s mother was Elizabeth Morrow Brewen, sister of Margret Morrow Iles (see above reference). Elizabeth Morrow and David Brewen were married 03/19/1837 in Madison County, Missouri. The only child of Elizabeth C. (Betty) Iles and W.M.V. Brewen was William (Will) M. Brewen born 1866 in Illinois who married Mary Belle Cook born 11/12/1869 in Arkansas, daughter of Jarrett Tillman Cook and step-daughter of Mary E. Iles Davis Cook (see above reference).
Married (2) Andrew Jackson Luttrell born 12/15/1831 in Arkansas; married 10/21/1869 in Randolph County, Arkansas; died 10/08/1879; buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Lipan, Hood County, Texas.
Andrew W. Luttrell born to Elizabeth C. Iles Brewen and Andrew Jackson Luttrell 11/21/1870; died 08/12/1872.
John R. Luttrell born to Elizabeth C. Iles Brewen and Andrew Jackson Luttrell in 1872; died 1873.
Edwin B. Luttrell born to Elizabeth C. Iles Brewen and Andrew Jackson Luttrell 02/13/1874 in Missouri; died 09/21/1894; buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Lipan, Hood County, Texas. Two more children were born in Lipan.
Missouri Annie Iles born 1849 in Missouri; died 05/06/1910; buried in Eldorado Cemetery, Eldorado, Jackson County, Oklahoma.
John Thomas Doughten
Married John Thomas Doughten, born in Tennessee; married 10/11/1874 in Randolph County, Arkansas; died 10/17/1901; buried in Eldorado Cemetery, Eldorado, Jackson County, Oklahoma.
Missouri and Thomas Doughten moved to the Lipan area of Hood County, Texas and may have lived in adjacent Erath County. Thomas Doughten served on the Lipan school board.
Nora Bell Doughten, their daughter born 07/03/1877, married James Madison Luttrell on 11/26/1893 in Hood County, Texas. James, son of Amanda Reynolds and Andrew Jackson Luttrell, married 06/10/1858, in Randolph County, Arkansas. Amanda Reynolds was the sister-in-law of America Jane Iles Reynolds (see below reference).
Possible photo of America Jane Iles Hale
America Jane Iles born 03/12/1851 in Fredericktown, Missouri; died 02/24/1927; buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Lipan, Hood County, Texas. She was called ‘Merica.
Robert Lee Milhollin and Annie Belle Reynolds Milhollin
Married (1) John (Johnnie) H. Reynolds born 1846; married 09/01/1870 in Randolph County, Arkansas. Their daughter was Annie Belle Reynolds, born 10/12/1872 in Randolph County, Arkansas; married Robert Lee Milhollin born 05/06/1863 in Columbia, Boone County, Missouri; married 09/12/1894 in Hood County, Texas; died 09/28/1949; buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Lipan, Hood County, Texas.
Married (2) Madison Right Hale born 09/13/1852 in Madison, Davidson County, Tennessee; married 11/23/1876 in Hood County, Texas; died 12/06/1935; buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Lipan, Hood County, Texas. M.R. Hale came on the trip from Randolph County to Texas with his older sister, Myra Hale Cook (see below reference), and the Iles families.
America Jane Iles Reynolds and Madison Right Hale had eight children from their marriage.
Emma (Anna) Iles born 1853 in Fredericktown, Missouri. No further information is presently known.
James Washington Iles and Georgia Anna Morris Iles
James Washington Iles born 02/24/1854 in Missouri; died 12/30/1930; buried in Evergreen Cemetery in Lipan, Hood County, Texas. At the time of his death, James was living in Caddo, Stephens County, Texas.
Married Georgia Anna Morris born 04/04/1865; married 07/14/1883 in Hood County, Texas; buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Lipan, Hood County, Texas. Five children were born in Texas from this marriage.
Also joining the Iles families on the migration from Randolph County, Arkansas was James Matterson (Matt) Cook, born 1851; died 1937; buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Lipan, Hood County, Texas. Matt Cook was the son of Jarrett Tillman Cook and his first wife, M.O. Brown, and was the stepson of Mary E. Iles Davis Cook (see above reference).
Married Myra Hale born 1848 in Rhea County, Tennessee; married 04/09/1872 in Randolph County, Arkansas; died 07/21/1890; buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Lipan, Hood County, Texas. Myra Hale Cook was the older sister of Madison Right Hale (see above reference).
Myra Hale Cook
Their oldest child was daughter Antonie “Tonie” Cook who was born about 1867 in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. Tonie married Frank James Kahlbau 12/24/1891 in Lipan, Hood County, Texas; died about 11/1914; both were buried in Landreth Cemetery in Palo Pinto County, Texas.
Another daughter, Amanda “Mandy” Adeline Cook, was born 10/25/1875 in Arkansas. Mandy married William Oscar Black 10/06/1895 in Hood County, Texas; died 08/09/1947; both were buried in Evergreen Cemetery in Lipan, Hood County, Texas.
Three more children were born in Texas to Matt & Myra Hale Cook.
Today there are over 1,000 descendants from the Iles families. Extensive family research has been conducted and is documented.
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