RUFUS KING, b. Ala., 3 March, 1834, son of Martha Anderson and William Blackshear of Ala. and Leon Co., Texas. Lived Anderson Co., Texas, and Palestine,Texas, where he d. 1 Dec., 1878, bur. Howard Plot, Old Cemetery.
Married; Elizabeth (Betty) Witherspoon 13 Nov 1863, Anderson County, Texas.
DESCRIPTION OF RUFUS KING BLACKSHEAR BY HIS SON CHARLES
HOWARD, WRITTEN TO ME (WSB II) IN 1915.
"He was six feet one inch high, fair complexion, grey eyes, light hair, weight 176 lbs.
They lived on the old plantation (Leon Co. -- The "New" or "Upper Plantation" was across the river (Trinity)
in Anderson Co. Tex.) a few years.
Then moved to Anderson County on a farm he owned there, where they lived a few years and moved to Palestine, Texas,
living in the "brick house" on Rusk St.,where he died Dec. 2, 1876.
It seems that we, as a family, were very poor for a long time, but somehow after my grandfather died and my grandmother took hold of things our finances were much better. He was, so I have heard, a dreamy aesthetic type after the war, given to reading and writing poetry (rhymes perhaps), was too generous, especially to the freed "folks" (no one was ever allowed to call the slaves "slaves"), but they were referred to by both my grandparents as "our people". There were always a score or more of these freed folk about the place (even when we lived in a small house) and had to be fed (all this from my Uncles).
He was a Mason and was buried with Masonic
honors. He fought in the Southern War, being enlisted by Capt. A. M. Sayers at San Antonio, Texas, May 23, 1861, Co. A. of the 2nd Texas Cavalry.
Married; Elizabeth (Betty) Witherspoon 13 Nov 1863, Anderson County, Texas.
DESCRIPTION OF RUFUS KING BLACKSHEAR BY HIS SON CHARLES
HOWARD, WRITTEN TO ME (WSB II) IN 1915.
"He was six feet one inch high, fair complexion, grey eyes, light hair, weight 176 lbs.
They lived on the old plantation (Leon Co. -- The "New" or "Upper Plantation" was across the river (Trinity)
in Anderson Co. Tex.) a few years.
Then moved to Anderson County on a farm he owned there, where they lived a few years and moved to Palestine, Texas,
living in the "brick house" on Rusk St.,where he died Dec. 2, 1876.
It seems that we, as a family, were very poor for a long time, but somehow after my grandfather died and my grandmother took hold of things our finances were much better. He was, so I have heard, a dreamy aesthetic type after the war, given to reading and writing poetry (rhymes perhaps), was too generous, especially to the freed "folks" (no one was ever allowed to call the slaves "slaves"), but they were referred to by both my grandparents as "our people". There were always a score or more of these freed folk about the place (even when we lived in a small house) and had to be fed (all this from my Uncles).
He was a Mason and was buried with Masonic
honors. He fought in the Southern War, being enlisted by Capt. A. M. Sayers at San Antonio, Texas, May 23, 1861, Co. A. of the 2nd Texas Cavalry.
RUFUS KING, b. Ala., 3 March, 1834, son of Martha Anderson and William Blackshear of Ala. and Leon Co., Texas. Lived Anderson Co., Texas, and Palestine,Texas, where he d. 1 Dec., 1878, bur. Howard Plot, Old Cemetery.
Married; Elizabeth (Betty) Witherspoon 13 Nov 1863, Anderson County, Texas.
DESCRIPTION OF RUFUS KING BLACKSHEAR BY HIS SON CHARLES
HOWARD, WRITTEN TO ME (WSB II) IN 1915.
"He was six feet one inch high, fair complexion, grey eyes, light hair, weight 176 lbs.
They lived on the old plantation (Leon Co. -- The "New" or "Upper Plantation" was across the river (Trinity)
in Anderson Co. Tex.) a few years.
Then moved to Anderson County on a farm he owned there, where they lived a few years and moved to Palestine, Texas,
living in the "brick house" on Rusk St.,where he died Dec. 2, 1876.
It seems that we, as a family, were very poor for a long time, but somehow after my grandfather died and my grandmother took hold of things our finances were much better. He was, so I have heard, a dreamy aesthetic type after the war, given to reading and writing poetry (rhymes perhaps), was too generous, especially to the freed "folks" (no one was ever allowed to call the slaves "slaves"), but they were referred to by both my grandparents as "our people". There were always a score or more of these freed folk about the place (even when we lived in a small house) and had to be fed (all this from my Uncles).
He was a Mason and was buried with Masonic
honors. He fought in the Southern War, being enlisted by Capt. A. M. Sayers at San Antonio, Texas, May 23, 1861, Co. A. of the 2nd Texas Cavalry.
Married; Elizabeth (Betty) Witherspoon 13 Nov 1863, Anderson County, Texas.
DESCRIPTION OF RUFUS KING BLACKSHEAR BY HIS SON CHARLES
HOWARD, WRITTEN TO ME (WSB II) IN 1915.
"He was six feet one inch high, fair complexion, grey eyes, light hair, weight 176 lbs.
They lived on the old plantation (Leon Co. -- The "New" or "Upper Plantation" was across the river (Trinity)
in Anderson Co. Tex.) a few years.
Then moved to Anderson County on a farm he owned there, where they lived a few years and moved to Palestine, Texas,
living in the "brick house" on Rusk St.,where he died Dec. 2, 1876.
It seems that we, as a family, were very poor for a long time, but somehow after my grandfather died and my grandmother took hold of things our finances were much better. He was, so I have heard, a dreamy aesthetic type after the war, given to reading and writing poetry (rhymes perhaps), was too generous, especially to the freed "folks" (no one was ever allowed to call the slaves "slaves"), but they were referred to by both my grandparents as "our people". There were always a score or more of these freed folk about the place (even when we lived in a small house) and had to be fed (all this from my Uncles).
He was a Mason and was buried with Masonic
honors. He fought in the Southern War, being enlisted by Capt. A. M. Sayers at San Antonio, Texas, May 23, 1861, Co. A. of the 2nd Texas Cavalry.
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