John Cary Heidle (b. March 04, 1859, d. November 29, 1916)
John Cary Heidle (son of Phillip Thurman Heidle and Mary Elizabeth Britt) was born March 04, 1859 in Monroe Co. Georgia, and died November 29, 1916 in Kaufman Co. Texas.
Notes for John Cary Heidle: John Carey Heidle, youngest son of Philip T. Heidle and Mary Britt, was born March 4, 1859. He was one quarter Indian. He knew the names of most trees and plants, and he loved nature. He left Pike County, Georgia after 1880 to work on the railroad. He probably joined his first cousin, Thomas Sanford Heidle, who already worked for the railroad, in Macon, Georgia.
John arrived in Camp County, Texas, via the railroad, in the early 1890's. Emma Delilah Couch, whose father, John Marion Couch was also from Georgia, told her granddaughter, "The first time I saw your grandfather he was driving a black buggy with a pair of snow white horses." Who could resist such a dapper man? John was thirty-four and Emma Couch was seventeen when they married on April 16, 1893, in Camp County, Texas.
John Carey Heidle and Emma Delilah Couch had six children who lived: Ida Lorena, Phillip Houston, John Carey, Horace Edward, Mary Elizabeth, and Eva Maudie. Emma Delilah, named for her mother, died at birth.
John Carey Heidle, living in Texas, received a letter from his twin sister, Mary Elizabeth Heidle living in Georgia; she wrote and told him they had been spelling their names wrong- that it should be "Heidle" instead of "Hidle." John Carey got mad at his sister and wouldn't communicate with her for a long time. All the Texas Heidles now spell it "Heidle." --according to Sallie Belle Heidle, wife of John Carey Heidle's son Phillip Houston Heidle of Canton, Texas.
John Carey Heidle died on November 29, 1916, in Kaufman County, Texas of an infectious disease with a high fever, perhaps of meningitis. He is buried at Ashworth Cemetery in the same county where he died.
Sources: Hidle Heidle Hydle Family Tree by Gerald L. & Joan Hidle History of Pike County, Georgia, 1822-1989; Published 1989; The Retired Teachers of Pike County and Pike County Journal & Reporter: Pgs. 518-519 (F355). HEIDLE - BRITT FAMILY (by: Patricia Keeble Noble) Census: 1860 Monroe Co. Georgia, page 757. Listed as "John C. Heidle" 1, born GA. 1870 Pike Co. Georgia, page 10/118. Listed as "John C. Heidle" 11, born GA, Farm Laborer.
More About John Cary Heidle: Burial: Ashworth Cemetery, Kaufman Co. Texas.
John Cary Heidle (b. March 04, 1859, d. November 29, 1916)
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