William Frederick VanHooser

1854 - 1942  (87 years)

• Name	William Frederick VanHooser
  Born	25 Nov 1854	Wilson County, Tennessee
  Gender	Male
  Died	20 Sep 1942	Amarillo, Potter County, Texas
  Buried	Riverside Cemetery, Wichita Falls, Wichita County, Texas
  Person ID	I4552	Eskew Genealogy
  Last Modified	16 May 2024

  
  

  Father	Isaac Jackson VanHooser,   b. 1824, Wilson County, Tennessee ,   d. 24 Jul 1856, Wilson County, Tennessee  (Age 32 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Nancy E. Thompson,   b. 1830, Tennessee ,   d. Between 1858 and 1924  (Age 28 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Married	24 Jul 1848	Wilson County, Tennessee
  Family ID	F983	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Dora Frances Eatherly,   b. 1 Dec 1859, Bowling Green, Warren County, Kentucky ,   d. 3 Aug 1923, Wichita Falls, Wichita County, Texas  (Age 63 years)
  Married	3 Jan 1883	Wilson County, Tennessee
  Children	1. Minnie Lee VanHooser,   b. 6 Dec 1883,   d. 28 Sep 1889, Sylvan, Lamar County, Texas  (Age 5 years)  [natural]   2. Samuel Franklin VanHooser,   b. 18 Oct 1888, Paris, Lamar County, Texas ,   d. 18 Apr 1949, Panhandle, Potter County, Texas  (Age 60 years)  [natural]   3. Elizabeth VanHooser,   b. 20 Nov 1891, Paris, Lamar County, Texas ,   d. 19 Nov 1911, Wichita Falls, Wichita County, Texas  (Age 19 years)  [natural]   4. Martha VanHooser,   b. 26 Jul 1895, Wichita Falls, Wichita County, Texas ,   d. 22 Jul 1975, Long Beach, California  (Age 79 years)  [natural]
  Last Modified	16 May 2024
  Family ID	F984	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  From US Census, Tennessee 1860 William Frederick cannot be found until the 1900 Census in Texas. He farmed in the Lamar County area and did whatever else he knew how. From letters to him he was a contract farmer for a banker in the Whitewright, Texas area. He moved to live with us when I was in perhaps the 3rd grade at Sanborn School. He lived with us until his death which occurred after I was married. There was a period when he lived with a Mrs Dwight out near the Tri-State fairgrounds but this did not last because of a letter that she wrote to my aunt which caused great consternation in the household. In the 1900 US Census of Texas he and family were living in Wichita Falls. During this period until the 1920 Census they lived in Wichita County area where he was a farmer. He and Grandma Van came to Woodward in 1920 when Donald was born. Between 1920 and 1933 when he came to Amarillo, I do not know what he did. I do know that he and Vera his daughter in law did not get along. His daughter Minnie Lee was born in 1883 and died in 1889. I recall mother and dad talking about a young girl who broke her back when she fell from a tree. This could have been her. I did not know of her by name until I saw it in the ledger that was part of Isaac Jackson's possessions. I have this ledger at this time, very old and worn. A great deal of the entries for Grandpa Van denotes that they lived in Sylvan, Lamar County,Texas and he worked with his team between Blossom and Paris and Sylvan. Sylvan was a post office on Mulberry Creek in Lamar County eight miles southeast of Paris, the county seat and four miles west of Blossom Prairie the nearest railroad station. Paris was the nearest banking point. It was settled in 1867, contained three churches a district school, two steam grist mills and cotten gins. The population was 150, received mail daily; the Postmaster was J.M. West. GrandPaw Van's addiction was to Granger Roughcut Chewing Tobacco which he used as if it were chocolate candy, which Vera did not seem to appreciate. I think she thought him lazy and a sponge, which she maintained he became after Samuel got the job with the Railway Express Agency. W.F. Van Heuser is on the tax rolls Of Lamar County, Precinct 4, Texas in 1878 paying two poll taxes. In 1879 W.F. VanHooser appeared on the same county tax rolls in Precinct 3 with 2 horses/mules worth $125.00, 5 hogs worth $5.00, poll tax, ad valoream tax on value of $252.00 and had 35 dollars cash. All of this family except Minnie Lee and Mattie are buried in the family plot in Riverside Cemetery, Wichita Falls, Texas