Buchanan, James and Mary
James Buchanan, an Alamo Defender, was born about 1813 in Alabama, a son of
William Buchanan. James married Mary “Polly” McGee in Jefferson County,
Alabama in 1833. Mary McGee, born 23 November 1817, was the first child of
Ralph and Lydia Cude McGee. Ralph McGee, born 18 February 1796, in
Tennessee, died 19 August 1851, in Polk County, Texas. Ralph McGee was a son
of David S. McGee, born in 1763 and died in 1857. Ralph and Lydia had two
daughters, Mary “Polly” McGee and Dorcas McGee.
James Buchanan with his wife Mary and their first child, William Buchanan,
born about 1834 in Alabama, emigrated to Coahuila y Texas, Mexico. In 1834,
they registered as members of Stephen F. Austin’s fifth colony. On 19
October, 1835, James received a land grant of one league, 4428 acres, from
the Mexican Government. The league of land is now located in the Birch area
of Burleson County, Texas. James Buchanan fought and died in the Battle of
the Alamo in San Antonia, Texas, on 6 March, 1836. Mary McGee Buchanan was
at least seven months pregnant when she learned of James’s death leaving her
a widow with a son about two years old and not knowing when the Mexican army
would be at her homestead. Mary took her son William and endured the
“Runaway Scrape” by crossing the Brazos River and going east, probably to
Polk County where her father Ralph McGee and family were living. James and
Mary’s second and last child, James Houston Buchanan, was born 19 April,
1836, forty days after his father’s death and two days before the battle at
San Jacinto where the Mexican army was soundly defeated.
Mary McGee Buchanan married John W. Overby on 25 October, 1838, in
Montgomery County, Republic of Texas. John Overby was born about 1816 in
South Carolina, a son of Benjamin Overby. John received a second class land
grant of 640 acres in Montgomery County but they moved to the Buchanan land
grant in then
Washington County, Republic of Texas. John and Mary Overby had three
children: Ann Elizabeth, Benjamin, and Emma
Adeline Overby. John Overby died in 1844 and was buried near their homestead
on the Buchanan land grant located then in Washington County, Republic of
Texas, now in Burleson County, Texas. James Houston Buchanan later
established the grave site of about one acre as a cemetery. The cemetery is
now known as the Old Birch Creek Cemetery but should be the Buchanan
Cemetery.
Mary McGee Buchanan Overby and James Hughes were united in marriage about
1845. Their known child is Lydia Jane “Liddy” Hughes. James Hughes
apparently died before the 1850 Census of Burleson County, Texas. In the 25
September 1850, Census, Mary Hughes, age 32, and her children: James
Buchanan, age 14; Ann Elizabeth Overby, age 10; Benjamin Overby, age 9; Amy
Overby, age 7; and Liza Jane Hughes, age 3, were living in dwelling #190 in
Burleson County, Texas. After James Hughes ‘death, Mary is reported to have
married Robert H. Snodgrass. Robert was born in 1894 in Georgia and died in
1879. After surviving over thirty five yeas of frontier life in Texas, Mary
McGee Buchanan Overby Hughes died about 1865. Her grave is next to R.H.
Snodgrass’ grave in the Old Birch Creek (Buchanan) Cemetery.
William Buchanan, the first child of James and Mary McGee Buchanan, was born
in 1834 in Alabama. William may have been raised by his grandparents Ralph
and Lydia McGee. On 20 July 1860, W. Buchanan, a male, and A. Buchanan, a
female were living with the I.N. Hitchcock family in south east Burleson
County, near the Yegua Creek. The 1870 Mortality Schedule of the Census has
William Buchanan, born in Tennessee, died in December 1869 in Burleson
County, Texas
James Houston Buchanan, the second and last child of James and Mary McGee
Buchanan, was born 19 April 1836, probably in present Polk County, Texas. He
married Ellen Jones on 3 August 1875, in Burleson County, James served as a
Private in Company B, 20 Texas Infantry, CSA, during the Civil War. James
and Ellen had six Children: James Curtis; Aaron C. Pharaoh, Oliver Peter,
Estelle, and Roxie Buchanan. James Houston Buchanan died 12 February 1881,
and with his wife, Ellen Jones Buchanan (1840-1887) are buried in the Old
Birch Creek (Buchanan) Cemetery. James Curtis Buchanan was born 3 December
1858, died 14 August 1876, and is buried in the Early Chapel Cemetery in Lee
County, Texas Oliver Perry Buchanan was born 13 September 1872, in Dime Box,
Lee County, Texas Oliver married Alice Clements Bonneville on 2 June 1902.
They had six children: Gladys, Marie, Oliver Peter, George Oliver, James
Houston, and Alice Marguerite Buchanan. Oliver Perry Buchanan, Sr. died 14
December 1928, in Marlin, Texas and his wife Alice died 8 June 1870. They
are buried in Midland, Texas.
Ann Elizabeth Overby, first child of Mary and John
Overby, was born about 1840 in Burleson County, Republic of Texas. Ann 1st married
John Ryan on 26 May 1853. In Burleson County. She married Benjamin Calvin
Fugitt on 5 June 1856, in Burleson County, Texas.
Benjamin Overby, the 2nd child
of Mary and John Overby, was born in 1841 in Burleson County, Republic of
Texas, He died in 1851 and is buried in the Old Birch Creek (Buchanan)
Cemetery in Burleson County.
Emma Adeline “Annie” Overby, the 3rd and
last child of Mary and John Overby, was born 1 September 1843, in Burleson
County, Republic of Texas. She married John Flippin on 10 May 1858, in
Burleson County, Texas. John Flippin, the 3rd child
of Absalom and Emilia Fugitt Flippin, was born in 1835 in Cole County,
Missouri, died in 1873, and is buried in the Old Birch Creek (Buchanan)
Cemetery. John and Emma Adeline Flippin’s known child is: William Benjamin
Flippin, born 23 May 1860, in Burleson County, married Margarete Adeline
Terrell on 25 July 1877, in Burleson County. Mrs.
Margaret Flippin was born 31 August 1858, in Fayette County, Texas, died 27
May 1946, and is buried in Rose Hill Cemetery in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma.
William and Margarete’s known children are: Eugene Walter Flippin
(1878-1949), Hattie Belle Flippin Roberts (1880-1957), Margaret Flippin
Walveren (1884-1971), and Henry Flippin (1886-1961). After John Flippin’s
death in 1873, Emma Adeline Overby Flippin married Edward A. Monford
(1846-1927) on14 October 1875, in Burleson County and they later moved to
Erath County, Texas. Mrs. Emma Overby monford died 8 August 1915, in Tarrant
County, Texas with burial in the Upper Greens Creek Cemetery in Erath
County, Texas.
Lydia Jane “Liddy” Hughes, the only known child of Mary and James Hughes,
was born 26 July 1846, in Burleson County. She married, on 26 January 1860,
in Washington County, Texas, Andrew Jackson Flippin, the 5th child
of Absalom and Martha Emilia Fugitt Flippin. Andrew was born 1 August 1839,
in Cole County, Missouri. He served as a Private in Company B, 20th Texas
Infantry, CSA, during the Civil War. Lydia and Andrew’s known children are:
Edward, born about 1866; Thomas, born about 1869; William Andrew, born about
1871; John A., born about 1873; Mary Lee, born about 1885; and Reuben
Jackson Flippin, born about 1887. Reuben Jackson Flippin and six of his
children were burned to death in the 5 January 1919, fire that destroyed
their home in Clodine, Fort Bend County, Texas. Mrs. Lydia Jane Hughes
Flippin died 30 January 1919, and her husband Andrew Jackson Flippin died 9
February 1930. Lydia and Andrew Flippin are buried in the Cheatham Cemetery
in Colorado County, Texas.
Dorcas McGee, a daughter of Ralph and Lydia Cude McGee, and a sister of Mary
McGee Buchanan, was born 8 December 1833, in Alabama. She came to Coahuila y
Texas, Mexico with her parents in 1834. Dorcas married John Wesley Leggett
(1824-1894) and they had at least seven children: James Walter (1851-1923);
John Calvin (1853-1913); Ralph McGee (1855-1937); Lydia Ann (1857-1864);
SamuelParham (1859-1899); Dorcas Beasley (1868-1904); and Martha Leggett
(1872-1958). Dorcas McGee Leggett died 4 March 1916, and is buried in the
Moscow Cemetery in Polk County, Texas.
The Burleson County cemetery known as the Old Birch Creek Cemetery should be
named the Buchanan Cemetery.
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