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  1. John (Jack) Latham (Number 6 in Row 2) was born in Tennessee on August 11, 1828.  He moved to Texas in the late 1840’s and appeared in the 1850 Rusk County, Texas, census living with the Kilgore family.  He married Elizabeth Caroline Couch on December 17, 1850 in Rusk County.  After their marriage, they moved to San Saba County and settled first near Wallace Creek.  They moved to a new and previously unsettled area that was to become Deer Creek in1887.  There they made their home and established a thriving community.  (For more on the Latham family and the Deer Creek community see “San Saba County History, Vol. I, p.184 and p.441.”

 

  1. Elizabeth Caroline Couch (Number 5 in Row 2) was born January 8, 1832, in Tennessee.  She was the daughter of Chaney and Isabella Moffett Couch.  She was the wife of John (Jack) Latham.  They had nine children. All were born in San Saba County.  The children and the dates of their birth are listed in “San Saba County History, Vol. I, p. 184.”

 

  1. William Lawrence Hayes (Number 10 in Row 12)  was born November 14, 1837, in Palmetto, Georgia.  He was the son of Samuel Buys Hayes and Mary Elizabeth Robinson.  He came to San Saba County, Texas, in 1858.  He married Margaret Ann Couch (Number 9 in Row 12) on December 13, 1863.  she was the sister of Elizabeth Caroline Couch Latham.  (For more on William L. Hayes and Margaret Ann Couch see “San Saba County History, Vol. I, p. 143.}

 

  1. Hugh Smith Barber (Number 4 in Row 13) was born August 9, 1834, in Tennessee.  He was the son of William James Barber, Jr. and Jane Mooney.  High Smith came to San Saba County in 1858 to work on his brother’s ranch near Cherokee.  It was in Cherokee that he met and married Letitia Williams (Number 5 in row 13) on July 30, 1865.  Nine children were born to this union.  The names and dates of birth of the children are listed in “San Saba County History, Vol. I, p. 16.”

 

  1. Benjamin Franklin Barber (Number 3 in Row 13) was born in 1868 in Cherokee.  He was the son of H. S. Barber and Letitia Williams.  He married Mary Isabella Hayes (Number 7 in Row 14) on December 22, 1889.  Six children were born to this union.

 

  1. Hugh Smith Barber (Number 6 in Row 14) was born February 8, 1893.  He was the son of B. F. Barber and Mary Isabella Hayes.  Hugh Smith was killed in a (bronc) horse riding accident on June 19, 1925.

 

  1. Michael L. Jennings (Number 8 in Row 9) was born in Ireland on September 12, 1840, to Steven O’Jennings and Mary Derrig.  At age 17 he moved to Scotland and married Bridget Kerney (Number 4 in Row 9.)  Their first child, James (Number 2 in Row 9) was born November 2, 1868, in Scotland.  That same year the O’Jennings family sailed from Scotland to America.  They settled first in Illinois and dropped the “O” from their name, and it was in Illinois that their second son, Stephen, was born.  In 1876 the family moved to Texas and settled near Fredonia on Lost Creek in San Saba County.  This is where they made their home and where Michael, Bridget, and James became naturalized citizens.  For more on Jennings history, see “San Saba County History, Vol. I, pp. 158-159.”

 

  1. Sarah Tobitha Wallace (Number4 in Row 14) was born March 8, 1835, in Edgefield, South Carolina to the Rev. Beaufort A. Wallace and Ellen Reardon.

She married George McDuffie Wever on February 25, 1851, in Edgefield, South Carolina.  Four children were born to this union: Walter Wallace, Ellen, Lillie and Minnie.

 

  1. Walter Wallace Wever (Number 1 in Row 14) was born July 6, 1855, on the Wever Plantation in Edgefield, South Carolina, to George McDuffie Wever nd Sarah Tobitha Wallace.  He married Jessie Edmund Hodges (Number 2 in Row 14.) They had eight children.  W. W. and Jessie moved to Llano, Texas, in 1893 and in 1903 the family moved to San Saba County and settled at Deer Creek where they were neighbors to the Lathams.  William Thomas Latham (Number 5 in Row 4) married Bennie May Wever (Number 4 in Row 4,)and Walter Wallace Wever, the 2nd, (Number 2 in Row 5) married Ruby Josephine Latham (Number 1 in row 5).  (“San Saba County History, Vol. I, pp. 342-343.”)