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:

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]

Notes:

No middle name?
Draft card says Blue Eyes & Black Hair.

Joseph married Annie Belle Thomas 1897, Montague County, TX. Annie (daughter of John Campbell Thomas and Martha Lucretia [Zuretta?] Myers) was born 6 Aug 1875, Texas; died Jun 1972, Elk CIty, Beckham County, OK; was buried , Fairlawn, Elk CIty, Beckham County, OK. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Alemeda — Roberts. [Group Sheet]

Nora — Reddy. [Group Sheet]

Annie — Olin W. Watson. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Birth:
some dates 1866

Notes:

Birth:
notes say 1881

James — Willie Lee Emery. Willie was born 1893; died 1979. [Group Sheet]

Sadie — Boyd Winder. Boyd died , Elmwood Cemetery, Bowie, Texas. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Died:
Owned a liquor store before statehood that was robbed and was killed there.

Aaron — Margaret Prater. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

No kids.

John — Jane. [Group Sheet]

Mary — Cecil Smith. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Played French harp, danced the clog.

Notes:

Bachelor who rode on the Chisolm Trail.
Also worked part time as a Lease Boker.
Retired at Pampa, TX.

Susan — William DeLoss Knight. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

In photo.

Annie — James P. Looper. James was born 1870, South Carolina. [Group Sheet]

Daisy married William Elonzo “Lonnie” Thomas 21 Dec 1899. William (son of John Campbell Thomas and Martha Lucretia [Zuretta?] Myers) was born 8 Apr 1879, Texas; died 20 Mar 1926, Wheeler, Tx. [Group Sheet]

Lillie — S. M. Prater. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

“Calling” at dances?

Benjamine — Sybil A. Hollaway. Sybil was born 1891; died 1980. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Fiddle; Over The Waves, Eighth of January, Arkansas Traveler.

David married Hattie Macon Bagwell 1908. Hattie was born 1891; died 1918. [Group Sheet]

David married Susan Eula Dickson 1919. Susan was born 1890; died 1962. [Group Sheet]

Ethel — Thomas. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Wrote manuscript with

Myrtle — R. K. Arnold. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Broke his arm playing at school. Dr. Younger treated it without giving the ether; it hurt so bad he hit the doctor in the face. This was the only serious accident with the children in this family. But was pinned once by the disks that plowed the ground.

Birth:
1894

Lawrence married Lillian Viginia McNatt 1913. Lillian was born 4 Feb 1895, Bowie, Tx; died 10 Apr 1957, Chickasha, Ok. [Group Sheet]

Jarrell — Elsie Irene Nelson. Elsie was born 25 Oct 1897, Bowie, Tx; died Dec 1963, Fort Worth, TX. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Died as infant.

Died:
4mo.

Notes:

Died as infant; a few weeks after the “Bettie Green Ford” baby from scarlet fever.

Judy married T. D. Thomas David Bess 1898. T. was born 3 Mar 1877, Hico, Texas; died 4 Oct 1946, Austin, Texas. [Group Sheet]

William — Ada Beasley. [Group Sheet]

Georgia — Henry Huth. [Group Sheet]

Maggie — Temple Houston McNatt. Temple (son of John “SP” Shy Phelps McNatt and Annie E. Oliver) was born 1887; died 1961. [Group Sheet]

Mary — Henry Huth. [Group Sheet]

Elsie — Phillips. [Group Sheet]

Johnnie — Campbell. [Group Sheet]

Mable — Campbell. [Group Sheet]

Thomas married Carryee Irene Walker 25 Jun 1921, Beckham County, Carter, Oklahoma. Carryee (daughter of Thomas Wiley Walker and Francis “Tet” Texanna Dickson) was born 29 Jun 1902, Beckham County, Carter, Oklahoma; died 8 Jan 1996, Elk City, Oklahoma; was buried , Fairlawn, Elk CIty, Oklahoma. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Sara & Sherry daughters?

Joseph married Velma Olena Waller 15 Sep 1933. Velma (daughter of Walter Waller and Gertie Lucinda Walker) was born 20 Apr 1907, Port, Oklahoma; died 13 Jul 1954, Oklahoma city, Ok. [Group Sheet]

Joseph — Genevieve Gillette. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Never married.

Bertha — Davis Stevens McKinley, Sr.. Davis was born 1896; died 1968. [Group Sheet]

Helen — Marvin Fischer. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Little Glenna with mother Willie Lee [Emery] McDonald.

Glenna married George Elmo Long 1933. George was born 26 Mar 1911, Jermyn, young, Texas; died 9 Jan 1993, Yakima, WA. [Group Sheet]

Robert — Mary Ann Roland. Mary was born 1930; died 2013. [Group Sheet]

Belva — Foster. [Group Sheet]

Lara — William Byran Kerr. William was born 1901; died 1979. [Group Sheet]