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- Married by Albert Brown, Travis County Book 2, Page 408.
They lived at Waldo, McLennan County, three miles north of Oglesby, one mile east of Coryell Church.
They owned 1,025 acres. As of the writing of the historical piece in the McLennan County History (about 1892?), they were the parents of 10 children, 7 living: James M., Lulu B., J.R., W.A., Ollie Lee, Frank B. and Ethel.
One descendant told me she died while visiting her sister Sarah Etter in Crawford, but another said she died on a train traveling between Tolbert and Gatesville and that she lived in Vernon. One descendant said Mollie was short, heavy set, very quiet, loved her children and was
well loved, had black hair, black eyes. Said Mollie told stories of Indians killing children in a schoolhouse in Tennessee. Two of Mollie's
daughters died of diptheria and typhoid.
From History of Coryell County:
"W.J.G. McIlhaney and his wife Mollie Carter came to Texas in 1853**. He was born in Tippah County, Mississippi on May 8, 1839. She was born in Mississippi in September of 1844. James McIlhaney, his father settled with him on Rainey Creek, and they lived out their years untl his death on July 30, 1904 and his wife died in October 1911. Both of them are buried at the Coryell Church Cemetery in the family plot. Of this marriage were ten children, and seven of them lived to be grown. James, Cordia, J.R., W.A. Ollie Lee, Frank B., and Ethel, and W.J.G. W.J.G. spent some time in the Texas militia. He was a member of the company that disbanded the U.S. troops at Camp Colorado in Coleman County. Then he served under Captain Hartgraves company in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1861. He was in the hospital for three months and was discharged and he returned to Coryell County. W.J.G. and his wife took great interest in church affairs. He was a deacon on the board when the church building was being built in 1888. The building was built of cypress --money was scarce. W.J.G. was sent as delegate to the Sunday School convention in Dallas, Texas. He served as a Justice of Peace. . . . W.J.G. ran a store in a place called Waldo. The old store building is gone now. ... W.J.G. owned property in Coryell and McLennan county before his death."
[**The date was actually 1851. They did not marry in Mississippi. They married in Travis Co., TX.]
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