1. Joseph Benjamin Polley

Born October 27, 1840 in Brazoria Co., Texas

Died February 2, 1918 in Floresville, Texas

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Married December 20, 1866 to

Martha Ann (Mattie) LeGette

Born October 12, 1842 in Marion, South Carolina

Died March 31, 1929 in Three Rivers, Texas

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Children

2. Josephine Polley

Born March 19, 1868 in Sutherland Springs, Texas

Died January 3, 1956 in Houston, Texas

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Married February 6, 1890 to

Edward Moritz Golson

Born May 11, 1853 in Frankfurt, Germany

Died August 16, 1950 in San Antonio, Texas

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Children

3. Joseph Maurice Golson

Born January 30, 1891 in Floresville, Texas

Died September 30, 1963 in Port Lavaca, Texas

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Married June 28, 1922 to

Margaret Amelia Holbrook

Born September 24, 1901 in Helena, Texas

Died June 23, 1970 in Port Lavaca, Texas

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Children

4. Joseph Maurice Golson, Jr. (1925-2025)

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3. Edith V. Golson

Born June 8, 1893 in Floresville, Texas

Died February 18, 1954 in Houston, Texas

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Married February 22, 1922 to

Milburn Garrit DeBraun

Born April 12, 1885 in Haverstraw, New York

Died March 22, 1959 in Houston, Texas

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3. James Slayden Golson

Born October 12, 1896 in San Antonio, Texas

Died January 26, 1957 in Houston, Texas

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Married August 18, 1926 to

Mildred Mercer Robinson

Born October 7, 1905 in Fort Bend Co., Texas

Died May 29, 1974 in Houston, Texas

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3. Hortense Golson

Born March 11, 1899 in San Antonio, Texas

Died August 16, 1992 in Houston, Texas

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Married to

Gordon Bennett Hogan

Born September 8, 1898 in Louisiana

Died June 21, 1950 in Shreveport, Louisiana

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3. Edward Moritz Golson Jr.

Born May 10, 1906 in San Antonio, Texas

Died October 28, 1990 in Pasadena, Texas

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3. Josephine Ann (Polly) Golson

Born April 7, 1910 in San Antonio, Texas

Died July 19, 1994 in Dallas, Texas

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Married to

Gerald Joseph Stewart

Born August 2, 1903 in Edgard, Louisiana

Died December 27, 1977 in Houston, Texas

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Children

4. James Alexander Stewart II (1942-1999)

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2. Hortense Polley

Born January 1872 in Sutherland Springs, Texas

Died April 6, 1948 in East Feliciana, Louisiana

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Married November 17, 1892 to

Leslie Ogburn Rudisill

Born January 1870 in Newton, North Carolina

Died January 26, 1936 in New Orleans, Louisiana

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Children

3. Lois E. Rudisill 

Born October 31, 1893 in Floresville, Texas

Died February 23, 1950 in Kilgore, Texas

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Married to

George Joseph Molbert

Born August 3, 1897 in Louisiana

Died May 19, 1968 in Tyler, Texas

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Children

4. Lois Rudisill Molbert (1942-1999)

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3. Grace LeGette Rudisill 

Born April 1898 in Fort Worth, Texas

Died September 27, 1992 in Longview, Texas

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Married December 26, 1921 to

William Daniel Smith

Born January 3, 1893 in Arkansas City, Kansas

Died December 10, 1964 in New Orleans, Louisiana

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3. Florence Brady Rudisill

Born October 19, 1902 in El Paso, Texas

Died August 22, 1990 in Big Spring, Texas

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1st Married December 1925 to

Everett Hewson Patterson

Born August 26, 1899 in Chicago, Illinois

Died August 13, 1973 in Midland, Texas

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Children

4. Polley Moakley Patterson (1930-1993)

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2nd Married September 2, 1974 to

Dr. Shirley Caperton (Sam) Guthrie

Born November 30, 1902 in Coahoma, Texas

Died May 26, 1993 in Big Spring, Texas

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2. Mattie LeGette Polley

Born December 16, 1874 in Wilson Co., Texas

Died March 29, 1969 in San Antonio, Texas

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Married November 22, 1900 to

Rev. Robert Paine

Born August 8, 1869 in Wilson Co., Texas

Died March 4, 1947 in Luling, Texas

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Children

3. Junius Carleton Paine

Born June 1, 1905 in Sonora, Texas

Death date unknown (after 1974)

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3. Robert Paine, Jr.

Born February 12, 1907 in Sonora, Texas

Died October 24, 1944 at South China Sea, POW ship Arisan Maru

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3. Peggy Irma Paine

Born January 14, 1909 in Bastrop, Texas

Died July 30, 1998 in Luling, Texas

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1st Married to

Hubert Ira Smith

Born February 5, 1907 in Texas

Died December 3, 1989 in Kingsville, Texas

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Children 

4. Robert Paine Smith (1937-2017)

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2nd Married May 22, 1943 to

Oscar Stanley Tom

Born January 15, 1908 in Runge, Texas

Died December 28, 1945 in Dallas, Texas

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3rd Married in 1950 to 

William Penn Wood, Jr.

Born May 1, 1907 in Gonzales, Texas

Died March 29, 1974 in Gonzales, Texas

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Children

4. Sara Ann Wood (1951-   )

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3. Joseph Polley Paine

Born July 25, 1912 in Llano, Texas

Died August 5, 1998 in San Antonio, Texas

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2. Imogene Polley

Born in 1876 in Sutherland Springs, Texas

Died in infancy

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2. Jesse Henry Polley

Born December 28, 1880 in Sutherland Springs, Texas

Died July 20, 1954 in Luling, Texas

 

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