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good dishes of coffee my dear sister Polly has dished out to me and the happy
seasons we have had together, but now more than a thousand miles a part.
A word now to Sister Polly in regard to her beautiful flowers in her garden.
Her garden is nothing in comparison to our Prairies for beauty. They are
covered. The bloom from the large rose down to the little pink. When the
seed gets ripe I will send you some of the beauties of Texas. When you get
these lines I want you to write me and let me know how you are getting along.
When I got to Texas I felt like John did in the Isle of Patmos almost banished
from friends, no meeting houses. An old Baptist sister invited me to preach
at her house.
My first sermon was from Paul to the Romans, the first chapter
and the 15 and 16 verses. I have since bin preaching in a school house near
Farmersville and in the Masonic Hall in Farmersville. I preach every second
Sunday in Farmersville. We have Missionary baptist, and old side baptist and
Methodist. The presiding Elder here is James BELAMY that used to be with us
at Copper Creek in time of that big revival. I have not heard a shout in
Texas except Mary PENDLETON. Tell old Tommy CARTER that I had the pleasure of
spending one night in talking with old Robt. GIBSON and saw Matha MOSS and
passed by Charles NELSON but did not know it until I had passed his house.
Matha MOSS is independent of this world. He clears about $60.00 per day from
his saw mill and gris (sic) mill. GIBSON had not heard anything of Elijah
CARTER for three or four years. I must conclud my letter. Write when this
comes to hand.
To Harry and Polly CARTER
(signed) John PENDLETON
A typewritten copy of thes two letters was found in the James W. Phillips
Collection at the Charles . Rike Memorial Library, Farmersville, Texas. A
note at the bottom indicates that the original letters are owned by a
descendant of Thomas HORTOS , and says that this John PENDLETON was the father
of William Gaines, Malinda, Hiram K., Newton, Ivy T., John Craig, Eliza Jane,
Andrew J., Allison O., Minerva, Sarah and Melvin PENDLETON.
From: The Pendleton Family Being Concerned Chiefly with the Descendants of
the Reverend John Pendleto ; James W. Phillips (1939).
John PENDLETON, the second son of John and Sarah Banks Pendleton, was
born near Lynchburg, Virgi ia, in 1792 and died in Farmersville, Texas, in
1861. He was a Methodist minister and farmer. He married c. 1812 Jemima
KILGORE, daughter of Willi m and Virginia Jane OSBORNE KILGORE. In the fall
of 1858 in company with his brother-in-law, Robin KILGORE, his sons Allison
and Newt, his son-in-law M nroe LEGG, his grandsons E. H. and John B., he came
to Texas and settled on la d near Farmersville. The trip to Texas was made in
covered wagons and it took them 64 days to make the trip. There were possibly
other children in Texas previous to that time. I believe my
great-grandfather, William G., was in Texas teaching school. John PENDLETON
died soon after his arrival in Texas and was buried in the old Pendleton
family cemetery on the J. C. PENDLETON farm about five miles northeast of
Farmersville now owned by his grandson, W. C. PENDLETON.
(Editor's note: The careful reader will note a few discrepancies between the
cemetery records as printed in Collin County Cemetery Inscriptions, by Pitts,
O'Roark and Posey, the cemetery records printed here as copied by Sharp, Roose
and Bland, and the short history of John Pendleton printed above. It would
be very difficult to check the tombstones at this time, as the property has
changed hands since the last copying.)
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Collin County Genealogical Society. Collin Chronicles, Volume 10, Number 2, Winter 1989-1990, periodical, 1990; Plano, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth10801/m1/4/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 11, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Collin County Genealogical Society.