Notes:

Birth:
1784?

Susannah married Thomas Willingham VA. Thomas (son of John Willingham and Mary Ann Rhodes) was born 1747, Lunenburg Coutny, VA; died 10 Sep 1819, Henderson County, KY. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Came with her family from North Carolina.
A History of the Pioneer Families of Missouri-SOURCE.

Nancy married Joseph Hiram McDaniel McDonnell McDonald 22 Feb 1813, Henderson County, Kentucky. Joseph was born 1762, North Carolina, New York; died Aft 1850, Polk County, Missouri. [Group Sheet]

John married Mary Burch 13 Mar 1788, Caswell County, NC. (daughter of William Burch) [Group Sheet]

Issac — Sarah. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

1850 census has McDaniel as last name.
Joined wagon train leaving [Lawrence County] Missouri in 1850’s going to Texas. Went by way of the “Texas Road” an Indian Trail. It crossed the Canadian River at Gaines Creek, going south to a place called Geary’s, then Boggy Depot then south to Colbert and across Red RIver at Colberts Ferry a few miles north of Denison, Texas. Coberts Ferry was operated by Benjamin Franklin Colbert a Chickasaw Indian, and run across the river by slaves.
Wagon stopped in Grayson County, Texas;
then went on to Montague County in 1857. Two hills in Bowie: Queen’s Peak & Brushy Mound. They chose Queen’s Peak. Beads & arrowheads can still be found at Brushy Mound.
They lived on the Denton Creek on the east side for 2 years.
First school on Denton Creek in 1860 in a private home later known as Dace McDOnald home.
A little later a 2 room log cabin built on Cash’s farm used for school & church.
1859 moved from Denton Creek to Queen’s Peak. First called Victoria’s Peak.
1860 opened up the General Merchandise store (rock building across from present courthouse) at Montague, the county seat. THis is where Mary was born.
THen moved to Whitesboro, Texas 1872, to work in the Genreal Merchandise & Pool Hall with THomas Wade (son-in-law).
Murdered in robbery in San Antonio April 1889.
By 1880 he and family had acquired 960 acres of land known as the William Carlton & Patrick Curling Surveys.

Birth:
some say 1819, KY

Died:
Murdered in robbery

Jarel married Mary Polly Davis 10 Jul 1839, Audrain County, Missouri. Mary (daughter of Baylor Davis and Judah Wainscott) was born 27 Feb 1818, Kentucky; died 15 Mar 1913, Mcdonald Cemetery, Bowie, Texas. [Group Sheet]

Jarel — Sarah. Sarah was born 1839, Arkansas. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Moved to Ohio.

Birth:
some say 1813 and KY

Isham married Jane Boyd 1835, Misourri. [Group Sheet]

Isham — Nancy Boyd (Catherine Boyd?) Campbell. Nancy was born 1818. [Group Sheet]

Isham married Clarinda Jane Larue 26 May 1853, Callaway, MO. Clarinda was born 1826, Virginia. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Bob Smith on FB’s lineage- to Sam W.

HISTORY OF MONTAGUE COUNTY BY MRS W, R, POTTER

babies. But the ringing laughter of the children at
play in the sunshine dispels their momentary fear,
and they take up the thread of conversation anew.
The men in the front yard talked of everyday af-
fairs, and gave an occasional word of warning to
the newcomers about the Indians.

The day being clear and sunshiny, the entire com-
pany decided to go over to the new Willingham and
Wainscot place, as they expressed it, just to pass
the time. The following were in the number : Cash
McDonald and family, Daniel Wainscot and family,
Bob Wainscot and family, John Willingham and
family, Fine McFarland, Ike Wainscot, Jack Kil-
gore and family.

Cash McDonald drove his wagon, with a yoke of
steers hitched to it, and a number of the women
and children rode with him, the others walking leis-
urely along by its side, as steers do not travel fast.
Bob Wainscot and Jack Kilgore were a little in ad-
vance of the wagon. When they reached a point of
timber, about a quarter of a mile from the new
house, without a word of warning seven Indians
sprang out from the woods upon them, uttering un-
earthly yells as they came. Seeing their approach
to the house was cut off by the Indians the men
turned to run back to the wagon. Just after they
reached it both men were slain by the Indians. By
this time the women and children had scattered like
frightened birds, some going in one direction and
some in another. Contrary to their custom, the In-
dians did not take time to scalp their victims, but
turned their attention to the rest of the party. All
the members of the company managed to reach the
home of John Wainscot in safety, with the excep-
tion of Cash McDonald and Mrs. Bob "Wainscot. Mr.
McDonald held in his arms his two-year-old daugh-
ter, Mary (now Mrs. Andy Jackson of Bowie). He
was shot in the arm with an arrow, but fortunately
little Mary was unhurt. Notwithstanding this, he
walked twelve miles, shunning the road, for fear of
Indians, still carrying the child in his arms, reach-
ing Bill Freeman's house in the night. They pulled
the arrow from his arm, which had remained there
all of these hours, and was very painful. Mrs. Bob
Wainscot also had a thrilling experience. In the
confusion following the attack by the Indians she
became separated from her husband. Looking back,
she saw an Indian shoot her husband, who fell with
their four-year-old daughter in his arms. She sup-
posed both were killed, but the Indians passed on
and they made their way to safety. She proceeded
on her way, running with her six-weeks-old baby
in her arms. (Now Mrs. Huse Wainscot of Denver.)
She came upon Mr. Cash McDonald, who, as has al-
ready been told, had his little daughter with him.
The child was sick, and crying aloud for her mother.
They could not quiet her by any means, so Mr. Mc-
Donald said, "If Mary continues to cry this way she 
may attract the Indians, and they will come and
kill us all. It is hard for you to start out through
the woods alone, but it may be the means of saving
your life and that of your baby. ' ' It was a fearful
moment, but the half distracted woman decided to
take his advice and started through the woods alone.
Having just come into the neighborhood the day be-
fore she was wholly unacquainted with the coun-
try. Her one thought was to travel in the direction
of the old home she had left. On and on the terror
stricken woman went. She traveled all the after-
noon and that night over stones and hollows, through
briars and thickets ; the next day found her between
Bradin's Bluff and Clear Creek, having traveled in
her wanderings about thirty miles. In all this time
she had eaten but two wild plums. About 12 o 'clock
that day, hungry and almost exhausted, she paused
to rest for a short time near a hollow. In the begin-
ning of her flight she had lost her sunbonnet. Her
hair had become loosened and fell about her face in
such a manner that her features could not be dis-
cerned without close scrutiny. A band of white men,
who had heard of the raid and started out to aid in
the capture of the Indians, came upon Mrs. Wain-
scot quite suddenly. Seeing her long black hair fall-
ing in Indian fashion about her face they mistook
her for an Indian squaw and paused an instant, be-
fore approaching, not knowing what might await
them. She caught a glimpse of the men, and be-
lieving them to be Indians, she ran with her baby
clasped to her breast. She hid in a washed out place
in the hillside. The men found her there, and she
was overjoyed to learn they were white men. She
poured out her story to them between sobs. One of
the men took her behind him on his horse, while an-
other carried the baby in his arms. They took her
to the home of Mr. John Wainscot, where to her
great joy she found her husband and little daugh-
ter.

Cassius married Drucilla “Pracilla” Davis 20 Jun 1833, Callaway County, Missouri. Drucilla (daughter of Baylor Davis and Judah Wainscott) was born 1 Mar 1812; died 12 Jun 1873. [Group Sheet]

Cassius married Mazie Bragg 5 Nov 1874, Montague County, TX. Mazie was born 1821; died 1903. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Died:
died after 1860

Clark — Mildred “Millie” Jennings. Mildred was born 15 Jan 1820, Virginia; died 18 Jan 1897. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Nancy & Daniel Wainscott’s marriage doc lists her name as Nancy McDaniel, not McDonald.

Birth:
some say 1822

Died:
Died after 1850

Nancy married Daniel Wainscott 5 May 1839, Audrain County, Missouri. Daniel (son of Robert Wainscott and Jocie Columbus) was born Abt 1812, Kentucky; died 5 Sep 1858, Montague County, TX. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

???Was killed in a runaway wagon accident and his children went to live with thier Wainscott/McDonald aunts and uncles from Polk County, MO to Iowa and then to Montague County.???
Well Bart says, I know his other wife, Derryberry wife killed was but not sure if Pinkney was, but word is that Pinkney at some point left that wife and kids for a time, came back and tried to sell the kids to the Derryberry grandparenst!

Pinkney married Elizabeth Wainscott 26 Sep 1839, Clark COunty, MO. Elizabeth (daughter of Robert Wainscott and Jocie Columbus) was born 1824; died 1846. [Group Sheet]

Pinkney married Elizabeth Adeline Derryberry 24 Aug 1847, Polk County, Missouri. Elizabeth died 1863. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Died:
Died after 1850

Sarah married John Wainscott 4 Jun 1841, Audrain County, MO. John (son of Robert Wainscott and Jocie Columbus) was born 12 Oct 1816, Grayson, Kentucky; died 15 Mar 1874, Denver City, Montague, Texas. [Group Sheet]

Thomas — Mary. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

His farm is almost on the same location of the McDonald Cemetery now.
Cash & Clark had schoolhouse at thier farm. Only teacher remembered was Prof. John T. Roberts, father of Cash Roberts (at writing of manuscriot living at the Bates Home).
Schoolhouse also served as church house. Later was moved to the AG Dick Arnold farm (see notes under Jarrell Deam McD).
Shot in the back by Chief Bigfoot by an arrow, which was not removed right away. A few years later it had to be cut out, by Dr. Gordon of Ganisville, in order to save his life.

Cash married Mariah Louise Green 1865, Montague County, Texas. Mariah (daughter of James H. Green and Susan H. Coleiron) was born 15 Oct 1845, Laurel, KY; died 9 Jul 1934, Montague County, TX. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Oldest Daughter.
Died when baby girl died most likely in Louisianna.

Birth:
some say 1845

Martha married John Haning 1859, Montague County, Texas. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Married at 13.
Supposedly couldn’t read or write. After recieveing letters from her husband that were very private (the nieghbors had to read to her) she decided to start to learn!
Had a black nursemaid and housekeeper named “Emm Butler”, aka “Old Emm”. Lived with them.

Julia — Thomas L. Wade. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

In photo. By 1880’s Settled in the east wooded section of the tract in a log house.
In June 1885 sold 122 acres to brothers Cash & Clark. THis section was one mile south and est of Queen’s Peak. Completed the payments on March 24, 1898. Deeds recorded April 1, 1989 at MJ Davis County Clerk of Montague County.
Preacher Rev. Hill Oak Hill church of christ.
Had an organ.

1874 est. school at Queen’s Peak by AG Dick Arnold from Adair. Made an Intermediate School with High School subjects and empolying teachers with First Grade Certifications: Prof. Billy Small, Lou Lancaster, Mrs. Berge, Prof. Lynch, Estell Baker, Emma LaGrand, Annie Kirk, Addie Thompson & Miss Lois Ballard.
Moved 1908 again to the east section line of the Arnold farm ro accomodate more children near community of Belknap.
At Adair (2 miles north) there was a school, church, post office, gin and a few merchants.
Mr. Arnold had come from Clinton County Missouria a year before (1873); was a former farmer born in Lorain County Ohio; his father an early settler Albert Gallatin Arnold Sr. from Chataqua County New York in early 1700’s; by his grandfather Elisha Arnold Scotch farmer & Justice of the Peace. Lived on Omaha Indian Reserv. Manuscript says he basically saved the town of Adair/Queens Peak area.

Jarel married Ann Chestnut Green 13 Jan 1870. Ann (daughter of James H. Green and Susan H. Coleiron) was born 13 Jan 1852; died 7 Nov 1929. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

CLARK McDONALD. Pioneers of the McDonald date who are yet numbered among the citizenship of Montague county are rare and a scouring of the surface of the county would hardly reveal a representative of another family whose life spans so great an end of its history and development or one covering so much of the tragic in human affairs. Coming hither, as they did, when nature’s course was yet undisturbed and the wild man was free to roam as in his plainest days, they had free access to the grassy plain as far as the eye could see; an ideal place for the fattening of herds and a most favored retreat for the pure and unrestrained enjoyment of pioneer life.

From 1857 when Jarrell McDonald brought his young family into Montague county, to 1873 when the hostile Comanche and Kiowa made his last bloody raid into the thinly settled region about Queen’s Peak, marks a period of sixteen years in the history of this heroic family filled with financial success in the face of conditions which turn the trials of today into play-times, in comparison, and through which only the most determined head and the stoutest heart could pass.

With the multiplying of settlers and the conquest increase of stock came the more frequent incursions of the jealous red man whose ill will eventually spent itself in revenge upon the white man’s herds and family. They stole his cattle, ran off his horses in bunches and droves and murdered and scalped fathers and brothers and carried away infant children and for a dozen years kept the McDonalds and later pioneers in a state of anxiety and often terror for their personal safety.

Indian depredations in Texas, as told by competent and reliable historians, reveals the sacrifice of life which occurred in Montague and other counties of the state, and the Greens, Kilgore and Winscott massacres, victim relatives of the McDonalds, are enumerated in their proper place.

To more securely protect his family Jarrell McDonald improvised a fort on Victoria Peak, where his son, our subject, now resides, and against the miniature stronghold, in July, 1870, three hundred murderous “braves” threw themselves, but it was successfully defended by our hardy and daring frontiersmen and no loss of life was sustained.

Through all these scenes Clark McDonald and his brothers passed while carrying on their work as cowboys in their father’s behalf. In their vocations as cowmen this family achieved first rank as raisers, drovers and shippers. Their cattle were scattered over every hillside, valley and plain and by the thousand they were driven to the market at Abilene, Kansas, until the gold they brought to their owners became almost a burden as to its proper care.

About 1871 Jarrell McDonald tired of the cattle business and invested some of his vast accumulations in mercantile ventures. He opened a store in Montague, afterward has one in Whitesboro and finally engaged in business in San Antonio, but prosperity never followed him in his new enterprise and he saw much of the fruits of his early years depart from him. His life was brought sadly to an end in the month of April, 1889, in San Antonio, by a murderous Negro bent on robbery.

This prominent Montague county family, headed by Jarrell McDonald, came to Texas from Lawrence county, Missouri, in 1857. They crossed Red river at Colbert’s Ferry and stopped the first two years on Denton creek on the east side of the county. Their lives about Queen’s Peak dates from 1859 and there the events in their several careers have transpired. Jarrell McDonald was born in the state of Kentucky, was brought up in Polk county, Missouri, where his father, a native Scotch-Irishman, settled in the pioneer days of that state. He was one of a family of fourteen sons and two daughters, six other sons being: Cash, Clark, Isham, Joseph, Hiram and Pinkney; the daughters being Sallie wife of John Winscott, who died in Montague county, and Nancy, who married Daniel Winscott, killed by Indians.

Jarrell McDonald married Mary, a daughter of Baylor Davis, in Polk county, Missouri, who still survives him and is the mother of eleven children, the survivors of whom are: Cash, a prominent farmer of Montague county, born in Polk county, Missouri, February 7, 1849, married in Montague county, Texas, Maria L. Green, of Kentucky, who has borne him ten children; Judy, wife of T. L. Wade, of Grayson county, Texas; Jarrell D., of Queen’s Peak, who was born in Lawrence county, Missouri, February 13, 1853, and married Ann Chestnut Green, his older brother’s wife’s sister, and has twelve surviving children; Clark, the subject of this sketch, and Mary, wife of J. Carr McNatt, a successful farmer and prominent citizen of Queen’s Peak.

Clark McDonald was born in Mercer county, Missouri, March 27, 1855, consequently all but two years of his life have been passed in Texas. As his youth was passed on the frontier where no public schools existed until his near approach to manhood his educational privileges were next to nothing. He made a hand on his father’s ranch as soon as he was old enough and for twenty years followed the stock business in a limited way a few years after the senior McDonald abandoned it and then settled down on his tract of three hundred and sixty acres, where he has become a stock-farmer. It was about 1880 when he obtained title to the old-time McDonald ranch and his modern residence on Victoria Peak marks the historic spot of the family’s early years in the county.

January 16, 1877, Mr. McDonald married in Montague county, Sarah, a daughter of D. J. Collins, who came to Texas from Adams county, Illinois, after the Civil war. Mr. Collins married Sarah Sheward and their daughter, Sarah A., was born in 1857. October 12, 1890, Mrs. McDonald passed away, being the mother of Judy, who died in August, 1904, as Mrs. T. D. Bess, leaving Sarah A., Cecil, Jennie V. and Lora B.; B. H. McDonald, of Marlow, Indian Territory; W. C., of Montague county, is married to Ada Beasley and has a child, Mirrel Joy; Mary, wife of Henry Huth, of Montague county; Birdie B., Lewis L. and Maggie J.

In the matter of politics the McDonalds are Democrats but Clark is the only one who has been called to serve his county in public office. He was elected Commissioner for Precinct Two and served the years 1897-8 on the board. Little was done of an important nature during his incumbency and routine work largely occupied the time of the body during its sessions. Mr. McDonald is a Master Mason and a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Knights of Honor.

B. B. Paddock, History and Biographical Record of North and West Texas (Chicago: Lewis Publishing Co., 1906), Vol. II, pp. 614-615.

Clark married Sarah A. Collins 16 Jan 1877, Montague County, TX. Sarah (daughter of D.J. Collins and Sarah Sheward) was born 1857, Illinois; died 1890, Montague County, TX. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Died at age 20 without hier.
Buried in McDonald Cemetery one mile south ans west of Queen’s Peak, Bowie, Texas.

Notes:

Lived on farm south of Jarrell Dean.
Met husband at a dance at Queen’s Peak.

Mary married John Carr McNatt 1880. John (son of Marion Jackson McNatt and Nancy Louise Brown) was born 1860; died 24 Mar 1955, Montague County, TX. [Group Sheet]

Elizabeth — Ethelbert Ford. [Group Sheet]

Joseph — Milly Elminy Jackson. Milly was born 1854. [Group Sheet]

Samuel married Sarah Delia Jackson 1867. Sarah was born 7 Aug 1849, Arkansas; died 3 Oct 1916, Bowie, Tx. [Group Sheet]

David — Mahalia Malivy Jackson. Mahalia (daughter of ?) was born 1852; died 1925. [Group Sheet]

Mary — Andrew James Jackson. Andrew was born 1846; died 1920. [Group Sheet]

Daniel — Caroline Bagly Bagly. [Group Sheet]

Leonard — Nancy Collins. [Group Sheet]

Calvin — Sirilla Frank. [Group Sheet]

Lina married James Byler Monroe White 29 Jan 1860, Montague County, Texas. James was born 10 Apr 1839, Missouri; died 29 Jul 1929, Howe, Grayson, Texas. [Group Sheet]

Daniel — Nancy Macky Macky. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Birth:
some say 1856 but mother died 1846

Sarah — Robert Wainscott. Robert was born 1847. [Group Sheet]

Talitha — Thomas Crawford. [Group Sheet]

Joseph — Elizabeth Jane Black. [Group Sheet]

Joseph — Sarah Alice Cunningham Hartwell. [Group Sheet]

Annie married Robert Savage 12 Aug 1873, Denver City, Montague, Texas. Robert (son of Wiley Blount Savage and Mary Ann Carnie) was born 11 Jun 1849, Robertson County, TN; died 15 Nov 1933, Denver, Montague, Texas. [Group Sheet]

Issac — Jane Brigger. [Group Sheet]

Issac — Annie Dennis. [Group Sheet]

Issac — Jennie Burks. [Group Sheet]

Issac — Annie Burks. [Group Sheet]