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357. LEOLIA GIDEON⁸ LINCECUM (LACHAON JOSEPH⁷, GIDEON⁶, HEZEKIAH⁵, MIRIAM⁴ BOWIE, JOHN JR.³, JOHN SR.², JOHNE¹ BOWY) was born Mar 05, 1872 in Liberty Hill, Williamson County, Tx., and died Mar 12, 1894 in Gonzales, Gonzales County, Tx.. She married ROBERT LEE LOONEY WFT Est. 1886-1893.

Child of LEOLIA LINCECUM and ROBERT LOONEY is:

418.

BETTY LEE⁹ LOONEY, b. Dec 06, 1891, Gonzales Gonzales County, Tx.; d. Feb 04, 1962, San Antonio, Bexar County, Tx..

358. JOHN LOUIS⁸ LINCECUM (LUCULLUS GARLAND⁷, GIDEON⁶, HEZEKIAH⁵, MIRIAM⁴ BOWIE, JOHN JR.³, JOHN SR.², JOHNE¹ BOWY) was born Abt. 1854 ²⁷, and died WFT Est. 1876-1945²⁷. He married FANNY RAINWATER WFT Est. 1874-1906²⁷.

Child of JOHN LINCECUM and FANNY RAINWATER is:

419.

LUCILLE L.⁹ LINCECUM, b. WFT Est. 1852-1872; d. WFT Est. 1881-1987.

359. ADDISON⁸ LINCECUM (LUCULLUS GARLAND⁷, GIDEON⁶, HEZEKIAH⁵, MIRIAM⁴ BOWIE, JOHN JR.³, JOHN SR.², JOHNE¹ BOWY) was born Apr 1874 ²⁸, and died ²⁸. He married LETHA GANDY 1897 in Texas ²⁹.

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Children of ADDISON LINCECUM and LETHA GANDY are:

420.	i.		RUTH ELIZABETH⁹ LINCECUM, b. 1900; d. Unknown.
	ii.		BARNEY LINCECUM, b. Abt. 1903 ³¹; d. Unknown.

More About BARNEY LINCECUM:
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iii.

ADDISON JR. LINCECUM, b. Abt. 1905³¹; d. Nov 24, 1989 ³².

More About ADDISON JR. LINCECUM:
Fact 4: Social Security #: 449-16-7839³²
Fact 5: State of issue: TX³²

360. ATTILIA⁸ CAMPBELL (LEONORA⁷ LINCECUM, GIDEON⁶, HEZEKIAH⁵, MIRIAM⁴ BOWIE, JOHN JR.³, JOHN SR.², JOHNE¹ BOWY) was born 1854 ³³, and died 1895³³. She married (1) GEORGE S. QUALLS WFT Est. 1872-1892³³. She married (2) GEORGE BRADFORD WFT Est. 1872-1892³³.

Child of ATTILIA CAMPBELL and GEORGE BRADFORD is:

ANDREW L.⁹ BRADFORD, b. 1874.

361. MARTHA E.⁸ HAWTHORN (EMELINA M.⁷ LINCECUM, GRANT⁶, HEZEKIAH⁵, MIRIAM⁴ BOWIE, JOHN JR.³, JOHN SR.², JOHNE¹ BOWY) was born May 1854 in Catahoula, LA, and died Bef. 1910 in Seagoville, Dallas, TX. She married JAMES L. THEDFORD Dec 29, 1869.

Child of MARTHA HAWTHORN and JAMES THEDFORD is:

421.

LULA ALICE⁹ THEDFORD, b. Aug 23, 1887, Dallas, TX; d. Jan 13, 1971.

362. ERASMUS GORILLAS⁸ TILLEY (MARY ZELDA⁷ MOORE, EMILY⁶ LINCECUM, HEZEKIAH⁵, MIRIAM⁴ BOWIE, JOHN JR.³, JOHN SR.², JOHNE¹ BOWY)³⁴ was born Oct 07, 1853 in Prairie Lea, caldwell county,Texas, and died May 26, 1910 in Devine, Medina County, Texas. He married CASSANDRA GERTRUDE HARR³⁴ Apr 05, 1878 in Devine, Medina County, Texas, daughter of JEPHTA HARR and MINERVA SUTHERLAND.

Notes for ERASMUS GORILLAS TILLEY:
ERASMUS GORILLAS -- Came to Texas Medina Co. with his parents in 1857. Died May 26, 1910 in Devine, Texas. Buried Evergreen Cemetery, Devine, Texas. He was a member of �Woodsmen of the World� and has a Woodsmen grave stone. He signed his name E.G. Tilley but was known as Bee Tilley to his friends. His grandchildren called him Papa Grande.
His occupations included farming, digging wells by hand, cleaning out wells for $2.50, hauling wood for $.75 a load, also public weighter at Devine for a time.
Cassie Gertrude Harr�s parents died when she was young and she lived with Sally Moore Ketchum, who is the sister of Mary Zelda Moore Tilley. Cassie said she graduated from school the day the teacher sent young Pete Ketchum home from school. While Pete was getting on his horse to go home, Cassie jumped out the window of the school house, got on her horse and rode off with Pete. Neither of them ever went back to school. Sally�s husband Pete Ketchum was killed by Indians and she later married Dan Patterson.
Among the frontiersmen, who have figured in Indian History on the Hondo, Black Creek and other points near Devine, and in Medina County ,is Bee Tilley. While not participating in many Indian Battles, Bee Tilley was an actor in connection with one of those distressing frontier tragedies in which the bloody hand of the savage had brought mourning to many people. The following was told by his son, Joy Langdon Tilley and also written of by A.J. Sewell:
Early on the morning of April 22, 1877, a young man named Joe Wilton, 18 years of age, started from the ranch of Dan Patterson, about one mile East of Devine, to go to the store in Hondo, West of the Patterson ranch. When Joe Wilton did not return home at the proper time, his mother (a widow) became uneasy and a search was instituted. On this same day a religious service was being held at the home of Rev. C.B. Huskill. Bee Tilley, one of the searcher for the absence Joe Wilton, went to the meeting house, thinking the boy had likely gone there but no one had seen him. It was now near night. Rev. Huskill, who had not been on the frontier very long, told Bee Tilley that their horses had been carried off that day by men, who had tin pans on their arms. �Indians� said Tilley. What Huskill took for tin pans on their arms were shields. Bee Tilley was almost certain that the Indians had killed Joe, and set out in the night to the ranch of Lon Moore, who lived on the Hondo below the crossing, to see if Joe had been there. On the way, Bee saw the horse of the unfortunate Joe Wilton, but did not recognize it in the uncertain light. The horse had been wounded but was still standing. Coming to the Moore Ranch and wakening Lon, Bee could get no news of the missing Joe Wilton, but as yet no one had gone to the store. After leaving Lon Moore�s place Bee Tilley, with the company of Rufus Ketchum, went back to the Patterson place, arriving about daybreak. But still no tidings of Joe. A crowd of 10 to 12 men now gathered to make a thorough search and to fight the Indians, if they came into contact with them. There was no doubt Indians were in the country.
Among those gathered for the search were:
Bee Tilley - Cull Moore (Brother to Mary Zelda Moore Tilley, Uncle of Bee Tilley)
Napoleon & Charlie Harr (Brothers to Cassie Harr Tilley)
Frank Jackson (friend of family)
Hay and Lon Moore (Nephews to Mary Zelda Moore Tilley, Cousins to Bee
Rube Ketchum (Nephew to Mary Zelda Moore Tilley, Cousin to Bee Tilley)
Dan Patterson ( brother-in-law to Mary Zelda Moore Tilley, Uncle to Bee Tilley)
John Tilley (Possibly the son of Elija Tilley then being a cousin to Bee Tilley)

These men scattered out in different directions - when near Black Creek, They heard Napoleon Harr yell and they went to him. Napoleon had found Joe Wilton�s horse, which had been wounded and soon died. The men commenced with renewed energy to find the body. The men found a trail where a chase had occurred and followed fast. Apparently, Wilton had run a trail with Indians on both sides of him. About 500 yards down the trail, Hay Moore, found the body of Joe Wilton, lying under a Live Oak tree with white chaparral bushes around it. The boy had run under the tree, after leaving his wounded horse, and was there killed, stripped, and mutilated. Joe Wilton�s body had one bullet hole in the lower part of his neck, between the shoulders, up high. One arrow, in the left nipple, that went through the body and pushed the skin out on the opposite side. This arrow was in so deep that it was hard to extract, so Charlie Harr held the body down while Bee Tilley pulled it out. Besides these wounds there was a lance wound through the right breast and another gun shot wound in the head and one in the hip.
The men left Charlie Harr and Cull Moore with the body and the rest went back to the settlement to carry the news. Bee Tilley went back with a wagon and brought the body in. Joe Wilton is buried one mile East of Devine. A tombstone with Joe�s name, date of death and cause of death inscribed on it now marks the spot.
Cassie Gertrude Harr was 16 when she married Erasmus (Bee) Gorillas Tilley.

Erasmus was called Bee, because as a little one his unclecalled him "beeby" as hegrew older it was shortened thus to Bee.

Footnote sources
above quote taken form Texas Indian Fighters by A.J. Sowell
L. photo of grave site.
2 Family Story
Erasmus Tilley was a member of THEWOODSMEN OF THE WORLD. This fact is noted by his grave site marker. A very distinctive symbol of that organization. The marker contains the seal of the Organization
Cemetry fact: Buried evergreen Cemetery, Devine, medina County, Tx.
Census l l900 in Devin, Medina County, Tx. with family
Census l9l0 In Devine Medina County, Tx. with family
occupations salesman in general store
organizations l800, WOODSMEN of the World

Notes for CASSANDRA GERTRUDE HARR:
Cemetery Fact: Buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Devine, Medina County, Tx.
Cenusl l.870, 9 years old living wih grandmother, mother, and brothers in Castroville, Medina County, Tx.
Census l900 Justice Precinct medina county, Texas with husband and family
Census : l9l0 Devine, Medina County,Tx. with husband and family

Children of ERASMUS TILLEY and CASSANDRA HARR are:

	i.	GIP ZELDA⁹ TILLEY, b. Jan 11, 1879, Medina County, Texas - Old Hay M. Moore Ranch; d. Dec 18, 1894, Medina County, Texas.
422.	ii.	HETTIE VIOLA TILLEY, b. Sep 04, 1881, Medina County, Texas - J.E. Bailey Ranch; d. Jan 1980, Oklahoma.
423.	iii.	CHARLES NAPOLEON TILLEY, b. Feb 27, 1884, Seap Hollow, Texas; d. Sep 06, 1960, San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas.
424.	iv.	JOY LANGDON TILLEY, b. Sep 11, 1886, Devine, Medina County, Texas; d. Nov 04, 1974, Devine, Medina County, Texas.
425.	v.	HALBERT LEE TILLEY, b. Mar 15, 1889, Devine Medina County, , Texas; d. Oct 29, 1967, White County, Arkansas.
426.	vi.	LOYD L. TILLEY, b. Feb 11, 1892, Devine, Medina County Texas; d. Nov 13, 1964, Corpus Christi Nueces County,, Texas.
427.	vii.	DONALD ARNOLD TILLEY, b. Dec 06, 1894, Devine, Medina County,Texas; d. Aug 04, 1976, Oklahoma.
	viii.	ELLIS BEAN TILLEY, b. Jul 27, 1897, Devine,Medina County, Texas; d. May 23, 1967, Devine, Medina County, Texas; m. ELLA HOWARD, May 21, 1916, Jim Hogg County, Texas.

Notes for ELLIS BEAN TILLEY:
Ellis made a career of the Army serving 28 years. He was in World War I and World War II.
Ellis B. Tilley was commander of the 516th Quartermaster Truck Battalion The 516th operated out of Persia from May to Dec. 1943. They landed in Marseill, France on Jan. 1945 and picked up new battalion trucks. The 516th took out immediately to the Ninth Army Front. Their line was first at Munchen, Germany. But the 516th assignment was to the advance section of the communications zone, supplying the First and Ninth Armies. As the Armies moved so did the faithful 516th, carrying rations, ammunition, and gasoline. The 516th operated with �Adsec� until V.E. Day. After V.E. Day the 516th moved to Belgium. They were assigned the task of moving 4500 tons of supplies from Antiwerp. to Verdum, to Rheems, and to Carelroi. The 516th remained there until Oct., 1945, when it was returned to the States and de-activated. Ellis B. Tilley was Chief of the Retired Army and Assistant superintendent of transportation at the Gulf Oil Company in Houston, TX. Lt. Col. ELLIS B. Tilley moved near Boerne, TX. and built the -Have A No Ranch- and lived there until his death from a heart attack at age 69.

More About ELLIS BEAN TILLEY:
Fact 4: Social Security #: 467-03-9562 ³⁵
Fact 5: State of issue: TX³⁵

More About ELLA HOWARD:
Fact 4: Social Security #: 460-27-2749 ³⁶
Fact 5: State of issue: TX³⁶

428.	ix.	LESLIE LAUGHTON TILLEY, b. May 29, 1900, Devine, Medina County,Texas; d. Dec 04, 1951, Oklahoma City, OklahomaCounty, Oklahoma.
429.	x.	MANON ELOISE TILLEY, b. Feb 03, 1903, Devine, Medina County,Texas; d. Mar 24, 1977, Oklahoma.
430.	xi.	HARRIS WOLF TILLEY, b. Jan 02, 1905, Devine, Medina County,Texas; d. Jan 02, 1970, Oklahoma.

363. SAMUEL JEFFERSON⁸ TILLEY (MARY ZELDA⁷ MOORE, EMILY⁶ LINCECUM, HEZEKIAH⁵, MIRIAM⁴ BOWIE, JOHN JR.³, JOHN SR.², JOHNE¹ BOWY) was born Mar 08, 1855, and died Jun 07, 1909 in Devine, Medina County, Tx. He married FANNY MARIE MCMAHON Jan 04, 1877 in Medina County, Texas.

Notes for SAMUEL JEFFERSON TILLEY:
It is said"" that Samuel was upset when the Bricoe Casket Company made his father's caskedt to short. He became even more otraged when it was suggested that his father be put into it anyway." l A second casket wasbuilt
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Children of SAMUEL TILLEY and FANNY MCMAHON are:

431.	i.	ALLEN CLINTON⁹ TILLEY, b. Dec 02, 1886, Tx; d. Aft. 1920.
	ii.	SAMUEL BEETILLLEY, b. 1891; d. WFT Est. 1882-1983, San Antonio, TX.
	iii.	HOLLAND TILLEY, b. WFT Est. 1876-1903 ³⁷; d. WFT Est. 1882-1983³⁷.
	iv.	IDA MAY TILLEY, b. Jul 31, 1894, Medina county, Tx.; d. Aug 1966, Galveston, Tx.; m. SAMUEL CLAUDE ATKINS, Apr 09, 1911, Bexar county, Tx..
432.	v.	LILLIAN MAUD TILLEY, b. Nov 07, 1877, Devine, Medina cty., Tx.; d. Jun 03, 1900, Hondo, Medina cty., Tx..
	vi.	MINNIE TILLEY, b. WFT Est. 1876-1903; d. Unknown.
433.	vii.	ALEXANDER CAMPBELL TILLEY, b. Mar 04, 1879; d. Aug 19, 1934.
434.	viii.	SADIE RAY TILLEY, b. Dec 26, 1882, Texas; d. Oct 1972.
	ix.	ELLIS TILLEY, b. Abt. 1884; d. Unknown.
	x.	HERBERT EUGENE TILLEY, b. Mar 10, 1876, tx; d. Jul 15, 1887, Tx\.

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