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The County of Upshur was created from Harrison and Nacogdoches counties in 1846, and aorganized the same year.  The county was named for J. P Upshur, the U.S. Secretary of State.  Gilmer is the county seat and this is where our TOTTY and associated families were living for a short time in the late 1800's.

Census of 1860 Upshur County, Texas
Household #972-931:
G. B. Tillman  39 male Farmer Ala
Adeline 29 female Tx (looks like Texas, but it was really Tenn.)
Delilah 12 female Ala
Jasen 7 male          Texas
John 5 male               "
James 3 male             "
Margaret  3  female   "
Lois 2 female             "
Bobie 3/12 male         "
Notes:  SH]  The Tillman family of Upshur County, Texas,  has been mentioned several times in the diary of Rhoda Totty.  Evidently they are friends, or related, to the Spencers of Upshur County.  They made trips from Upshur to Montague together
in order to visit the Totty family.  The Totty/Tillman families were joined by the marriage of Jason A. Tillman (son of G. B. Tillman) and Mary Elizabeth (Bettie) Totty (dau of F. M. & Rhoda Totty)..submitted by TOTTY TILLMAN research Shirley Hagemann who also states:   Also living in Upshur County close by was a:  Delilah Tillman 70 born in SC. (Could this be the mother of G. B. Tillman?  Notice his first daughter was named Delilah) She was living with the Charles Ballard family

Notes: BTM] G[reen] B. TILLMAN was the son of Desire TILLMAN and Delilah GAGE TILLMAN.   Desire TILLMAN was born in Mississippi January 17, 1796 and married on December 18, 1817 in Pike County, AL, Delilah GAGE who was born 1800  SC.  Desire and Delilah had chilren; Casterren TILLMAN[1818] married Henry W. Harrell; Sarah TILLMSAN [1820]; Green B. TILLMAN married Rhoda Coe September 18, 1846 in Pike County, AL; Simon S. TILLMAN [1830] married Louisana Sanders; Robert TILLMAN [1838], Onie TILLMAN [1844].   Notice the name Onie Ballard below, could this be a child of Desire and Delilah?

Charles Ballard 22 Miss
Onie Ballard 24 Ala
Luncis (?) male child 1 Texas
Notes:  SH]    I do not know what the G. B stands for, but we think it is for George.  Adeline (Jason's mother) is listed on Jason's death certificate as Rhoda Coe.  Jason was born 9-22-1852 in Ellis County, Texas but his sister, Delilah, was
born in Alabama around 1848 so they must have moved to Texas between '48 & '52. There were no Tillman families listed in the 1850 Texas census.  I can find no records of them in Ellis County records, but there are other Tillmans there at a later time.  Then they were living in Gilmer  (Upshur) by 1860.]   Does anyone know of any Coe family living around the Totty's in Tenn.?  Could there be a connection in Tenn?  I have been unable to find any of the Tillmans in the 1870 census.  I don't know where they were.  They were probably still in Upshur, but were likely missed by the census taker.  According to Rhoda's diaries Jason A. Tillman and Mary Elizabeth (Bettie) Totty Tillman were living in Montague County after their marriage in 1875, but were living in Upshur County (Gilmer) in 1878 when Robert Tillman was born (August 17, 1878) and then they were living in Montague again in the 1880 census.  There seemed to have been a lot of moving back and forth between Montague and Upshur!   G. B. Tillman and family can be found again in Upshur in the 1880 census. There seemed to have been a lot of moving back and forth between Montague and Upshur Counties.    Shirley Hagemann, Round Rock, Texas
 

1860 July 27th   Patent Abstract   Simon S. TILLMAN   #504 Cert. #/vol 8/421  patent #546-4 80 acres Nac Scrip file #250    Submitted by TOTTY TILLMAN researcher Shirley Hagemann
 

1870 Upshur County, Texas Census
Pittsburg Twp, page 110
TOTTY, Frank 44 M W Farmer 263-321 Tenn
 Roda 46 F W Keeping house Tenn
 Anna 19 F W at home Tenn
 Elizabeth 17 F W at home Tenn
 Matilda 15 F W at home Tenn
 Frank 13 M W at home Tenn
 Lewis 08 M W at home Tenn
 Lelia 04 F W at home Tenn
[transcribed by Birdie Totty McNutt]
Note:  Previous to moving here to Upshur Co., Texas, Capt. F. M. TOTTY and family lived in Cooke and Montague Co.'s, Texas.  Note the census taken made a mistake on place of birth, as listed above, for the children Matilda "Tilda", Frank, Lewis "Pea" and Lelia"Lillian" TOTTY as they were all born in Texas after there parents arrived from Hickman Co., Tennesse in 1853.  see also Texas Marriage Records.

HH#190/190  (P.O. Collaway - Princt #4)
Spencer, William          35    TN
              Mary E          34    GA
              Thomas C      14    TX
              Washington   12     TX
               William          8     TX
               Mary             4     TX
               Addie            2     TX
Notes: William Spencer is likely the grandson of Susannah ______ SPENCER SPRADLING by her son Samuel SPENCER and his first wife Mary TIDWELL of  Tennessee.  David and Susannah ____ Spencer Spradling,  was the parents of Rhoda SPRADLING TOTTY and  the above William is likely the nephew of Rhoda TOTTY.  Rhoda mentions her brother Samuel several times in her diaries.

HH#381-392
Spencer, James    19      Kentucky
               Mary      21     TX
               Minnie      1     TX
               Richard   3/12  TX

Notes:  SH]  Does anyone know about this James Spencer?  Is he one of ours?   Shirley

The State of Texas,
Cooke County.            Before me, Thos Willis, a Justice of the Peace and exofficis Notary Public within and for Cooke County duly commissioned and qualified, this day personally appeared F.M. Totty, now a resident citizen of Montague County, Texas, whose name appears to the within and hereto attached Deed, bearing date the 1st day of March, A.D. 1866, made by him, the said F.M. Totty to M.W. Estes and acknowledged that the sighned and delivered the same deed for considerations and purposes therein set forth and expressed.  To certify which I hereto set my hand officially and affix my seal of office at office in the town of Rosston in Cooke County, Texas, on this 11th day of August, 1879
N.P                                         Thomas Willis, J.P.
Seal{}                                     Exofficis Notary Public.
         Filed for record Jan'ry 17th, 1880, at 1:15 o'clock, P.M. and recorded Febr'y 5th, 1880 at 9:40 o'clock, a.m.
                                        By J.F. Lilly   Depty.
Transcribed by TOTTY researcher Terry Dishman

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