Notes for Samuel Muncrief: THE MUNCRIEF'S BY WILLIAM DAVID ROACH
The following account is a combination of stories from several Muncrief families, Census records from Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Georgia.
Samuel Muncrief from France married Sarah Bishop from England. At the time they sailed for America they had one son named Bishop Muncrief. On the voyage Samuel died and was buried at sea. His widow and small son lived with the colonists in Rome, Georgia. She was five months pregnant when her husband died and she gave birth to a second son, Samuel named after his father. Presently (1/11/96) I don't know what happened to Bishop Muncrief.
First Generation born in America Samuel Muncrief grew to manhood and married Sarah Loyd, born in Georgia. Their children were: James Leonadus, Bishop, Soloman, Tennie, Nancy, and William Taylor Muncrief.
Samuel Muncrief's second marriage was to Cornelia Lipsey. To this union a son, Zack Muncrief was born. They married December 22, 1852 in Jones County, Georgia.
Children of Samuel's first marriage James Leonadus was born in Jones County in Rome, Georgia April 1, 1832 and died September 21, 1921 in Garland County, Arkansas. The following is a list of events that happen in his life: · Taught school and attended college in Tennessee. · He served as a doctor throughout the civil war. · He was a prisoner on Goat Island awhile before the war ended. · He and his wife Sarah Ann Stroud left Mississippi in 1870, went up the Mississippi River in a flatboat and settled in Logan County, Arkansas. · He dug crystals and sold them to visitors in Hot Springs. · He was a Campellite preacher, forerunner of the Christian church. · He later affiliated with the church of God, Abrahamic Faith and preached for many years.
William Taylor Muncrief was born December 27, 1846 in Mississippi and died February 22, 1923 in Johnston County, Southwest of Bromide, Oklahoma. He is buried at Wells Valley Cemetery south of Bromide, Oklahoma. · He was ordained a Baptist Minister in 1885. · He came to Oklahoma to preach to the Chickasaw Indians. · He was a minister of the gospel for 30 years. · William Taylor Muncrief and wife Mary Sue Durham moved from Van Buren, Arkansas to Loco, Indian Territory in 1890. (Loco is about 35 miles west of Ardmore) · They moved from Loco to "Who'd a Thought it" community in 1896. "Who'd a Thought it" is better known today as Coatsworth. · He was an honorary member of The Bromide Klan # 63 of Oklahoma. (Ku Klux Klan) · Their children were Malthus Leonadus, David Merrit, Sallie B., and Tennie Nora.
They lived on an Indian lease where the family built a half dougout with one large room, with dirt floors. The Muncrief men made the shingles or boards that were used on the roof. The Muncrief men cleared all of the land they farmed. The family carried water from a spring on a mountainside. They dug it out and walled it up with four big flat rocks. Water had to be carried for the family wash, which was done on a rub board with lye soap made from cracklins, fat scraps, and lye. They planted fruit trees and this was the first orchards of the area. Sorghum was made from homegrown cane. Cotton was also one of the crops. Cotton was combed into bats. These bats were used in quilts, which they quilted in frames hanging from the ceiling.
Bishop died in the civil war. Solomon died from fever during the civil war. Tennie married Earl Jennings (probably in Mississippi) and moved to Tennessee. Nancy married A. Skelton and remained in Mississippi. Zack settled in Blossom Texas.
More About Samuel Muncrief: Home in 1870: 1870, Police Beat 2, Okibbeha, Mississippi (Post Office Starkville). Occupation: Farmer.
More About Samuel Muncrief and Sarah A. Lloyd: Marriage: 04 Jan 1830, Crawford County, Georgia.
Children of Samuel Muncrief and Sarah A. Lloyd are:
Samuel Muncrief (b. 1801, d. Jul 1860)
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