Loving Harvey Baugh - Family Histories

     Loving Harvey Baugh, son of James Martin (February 6, 1817-1889) and Elisa Neely Baugh (September 30, 1829-1898), was born December 16, 1842 at Nashville, Tennessee. He served in the Civil War and married in 1864, Tennessee Blackburn (September 7, 1846-September 1877 in Lavaca County). She gave birth to five children: (1) James Burford, born December 14, 1865 in Tennessee, died July 8, 1951, buried at Cleveland Cemetery; (2) William Lee, born October 22, 1868 in Tennessee, died September 27, 1943, buried at Cleveland; (3) Richard Homer, born September 10, 1870 in Tennessee. died as a little boy; (4) another baby died young; and (5) Oscee, born July 28, 1874, died young Tennessee died in 1877.

     Loving Harvey married second to Mary lane "Amarie" Burkett, July 4, 1878, in Lavaca County. She was born November 17, 1852 and died in Dallas. May 21, 1925.
Twelve children were born to this couple: (1) Lizzie, May 8, 1879; (2) Tommas, J., May 22, 1880; (3) Nathan J., December 5, 1881; (4) Charlie Jake, June 10, 1883; (5) Johnnie Elisha, November 6, 1885; (6) Joseph Harry, January 17, 1886; (7) Daisy Dee, July 1, 1887; (8) Stella Gertrude, August 7, 1889; (9) Author Hanner, August 7
1890; (10) Loving Harvey, Jr., September 10, 1892; (11) Forest, September 9, 1894; (12) Ernest Thompson, December 2, 1896. There is no record of when they came to Texas, but settled in Lavaca County, coming to Coleman County in 1898 by wagon. He was a carpenter, and later left the Cleveland Community and moved to Brownwood, his married daughter, Lizzie, and Walter Young and the younger children went also.

     William Lee continued to stay in Coleman County until his death in 1943. He married, April 22, 1886, Willie Stacy (See James Madison Stacy) in her father's home at Old Moulton in Lavaca County. Lee, Willie, and the three little children, also Lee's brother, Jim, together with the Stacy family, moved to Coleman County October 20 1892, near Rockwood, moving to the Cleveland Community in 1901 There were twelve children born to them the last nine in Coleman County.(1) Edgar Author, March 4, 1888, (2) Tennie Ellen, December 16, 1889, married a Campbell; (3) Willie Lee (Lela), October 21, 1891, married a Hodges; (4) John Oliver, March 21, 1893, at Rockwood; (5) Dixie Vio, September 23, 1896, at Rockwood, married Bill Henry Cupps (see William H. Cupps); (6) Loving Pauline, October 16, 1898, at Trickham, married Elmer Roscoe Cupps (see Elmer Roscoe Cupps): (7) Annie Mae, May 30, 1900 (see Robert Phillips); (8) A. Nolan, June 30, 1902, was a barber, started very young at Trickham, cleaning shop, shining shoes, pressing pants and skirts, then got to try cutting hair. He farmed some, died of a heart attack, September 9, 1963, while fighting a grass fire in Early, where he moved after he retired. He first married Beaulah Harris, (September 1, 1902- September 19, 1951) they had no children, but raised two girls, Wanda Mae Brooks (a niece) and Hazel Gene Harris (a sister). Nolan married second, Lillie Marden Bingham, October 18, 1953; (9) Lora Eloise, October 21, 1904, married Lorn Brooks (October 1, 1909 - February 20, 1980), October 12, 1926, moved to California in 1938, but returned in 1937, had six children, she died September 18, 1938, buried at Cleveland; (10) Georgia Ruth, April 2, 1906, at Cleveland, married Robert Bruce Hibbetts (see Hibbetts); (11) Dick Stacy, July 31, 1908, Cleveland (see Dick Baugh); (12) Eula Marie, June 6, 1910, Cleveland, married Clyde H. Bigham, September 1, 1928, moved to California in 1941, Clyde died in 1975, Eula lives in California (see Bigham).

     Lee and Willie were hard working people. Besides raising, clothing, and sending 12 children to school, they also farmed and ranched, and had a telephone switchboard from Cleveland to Trickham in their home.

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Inez [Baugh] Gilmore, J. L. Baugh, May [Crow] Baugh, Eugene Baugh, Edgar Baugh, and Ona [Baugh] Hughes

Baugh 50th Wedding Anniversary, ), Annie May Phillips, Dixie Cupps, Nolan Baugh, John Baugh, Lela Hodges, Tennie Campbell, Dick Baugh, Edgar Baugh [rear]; Eula Bigham, Ruth Hibbetts, Willie Baugh, Lee Baugh, Pauline Cupps [Front]