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Children
The names of nine children belonging to Jacob Daniel and his wife can be found listed as heirs on the succession for Jacob Daniel’s parents, Isaac and Ann Broughton.
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wife of Oscar Haynes, residents of Hamburg, Arkansas |
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wife of William Neal, residents of Hamburg, Arkansas |
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wife of Jack Davis, residents of Hamburg, Arkansas |
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wife of William Honeycutt, residents of Crossett, AR |
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wife of Will McCoy, residents of Bienville Parish, LA |
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wife of Thomas Miles, residents of Bienville Parish, LA |
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a minor living in Crossett, Arkansas |
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a minor living in Lincoln Parish, Louisiana |
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a minor living in Bienville Parish, Louisiana. |
When their first daughter was born, Jacob Daniel and Eudora Ann Broughton honored the doctor by allowing him to name the baby. The doctor named the child after Pauline Azwell, a woman the doctor had loved and planned to marry but whose life was cut tragically short by an illness. As the little girl grew up, family and friends knew Pauline Azwell Broughton simply as "Azzie." Years later, Azzie would pass on the story of how she got her name to her granddaughter, and namesake, Pauline Tilbury, of Haughton, La. (She shared it with me just in time to be included here.)
Moving from the oldest child to the couple's youngest. According to a delayed birth certificate for Jacob Daniel Broughton Junior filed in 1943 with the Arkansas Department of Health’s Bureau of Vital Statistics, Jacob Daniel (Senior) and wife, Eudora, had 10 children, eight living at the time of the ninth child’s birth. The identity of the tenth child is unknown.
4 According to the previously mentioned birth certificate, Jacob Daniel Broughton Junior was born July 23, 1896. The birth certificate was signed by "his closest relative" Azzie Hill, his sister, formerly known as Azzie Hayes. The records show at the time of the birth, Jacob Daniel (Sr.) was a farmer living in Hamburg and was reportedly 43 years old. There’s a discrepancy with that age however. If he was 43 in 1896, then he would not have been born in time to be on the 1850 U. S. Census, but he is listed on the 1850 census as the 5-year-old son of Isaac and Ann Broughton. That puts his birthday circa 1845.
Death
Decendants say Jacob Daniel (Jr.) never really got the chance to know his father and, in fact, did not use "Junior" as part of his name. You won’t find "Junior" on his headstone at Henry Cemetery in Lincoln Parish between Dubach and Hico, LA. The reason is Jacob Daniel (Sr.) died of pneumonia while his son was still very young. Neither J. D. nor his wife, Eudora, was living by 1905. Had they been, they would have been listed as heirs on the succession of Isaac J. & R. Ann Broughton. Instead the couple’s nine children are listed as heirs in place of "J. D. Broughton, deceased." That succession is at the courthouse in Ruston, Louisiana, and is dated December 2, 1905.
H. J. Broughton
The story of H. J. Broughton is a confusing one. The name, H. J. Broughton, is often the only version found on many records, but on some it appears as Henry J. and on others it's Harry J. That makes it difficult to tell whether it was Henry or Harry who did the deeds the records reflect, or whether Henry and Harry are actually one-and-the-same (which is what many decendants believe) especially since most refer to him as "Jackson" or "Uncle Jack".
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One thing is for certain. H. J. Broughton was Isaac's son. Of the eleven direct heirs (children that is, not grandchildren) listed in the succession for the estate of I. J. "Braughton" and his wife R. Ann, there’s only one H. J. Broughton. He was a resident of Parkdale Arkansas at the time the succession was filed in Ruston in 1905. No other H. J. is mentioned nor is there a "Henry" or a "Harry" listed alive or deceased.
4 According to Louisiana probate records, H. J. Broughton was a resident of Lincoln Parish in and around 1879-1880 along with his father Isaac J. Broughton and brother, John G. Broughton.
Two Wives
4Henry appears in the 1880 census of Lincoln parish, Louisiana. At age 27, he is the head of his own household, which is listed directly after those of I. J. Braughton and John G. Braughton. According to the census, Henry was born in Alabama (which corresponds to what we know of I. J. and his family) and his wife was 23-year-old Arkansas woman named Laura (maiden name not on census.) Two children are mentioned: John M., age 5 and Pearl J., age 2.
& According to Sabine Parish Marriages (1843-1896,Vol 1, pg 498), H. J. Braughton married a woman by the name of Lizzie Parker in Sabine parish Louisiana on January 9, 1890. Minister S. S. Holladay conducted the ceremony. Witnesses were A. M. Parker, O. C. Gibson and F. M. Gibson.
& Leni Hinson Smith, wrote of a "Jack" Broughton in an unpublished book titled, My Family the Broughtons. In it, she tells how William David Broughton’s "youngest brother, Jack" carried a Winchester rifle and accompanied William David when he moved his family from Fort Jesup, Louisiana to East Texas. Since decendants of Henry say his middle name was Jackson (which apparently was passed on to a son named Andrew Jackson Broughton), the "Jack" Smith wrote about could be Henry. The story of a trek west corresponds to what William David's son, Walter, told his children about his "Uncle Jack" traveling west with them for a time. It also matches information obtained from decendents of Lizzie Parker.
Children
Some decendants of Roy Gethel Broughton-Smith say Lizzie Parker Broughton left her husband after briefly traveling into East Texas with him and his older brother. She returned to Louisiana where she remarried and raised her son, Roy Gethel Broughton. The child, who was adopted by Lizzie’s second husband Luther Smith, used Smith as his last name throughout his adult life.
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Decendants of Andrew Jackson Broughton, say his parents, Henry Jackson Broughton and Laura Edna Smith, had at least 5 children before her death in Sabine Parish in the late 1880's (which would allow Henry to be the H.J. Braughton who married Lizzie Parker in 1890). The five children are:
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born about 1875 |
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born in 1878 in Arkansas |
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born June 22, 1883 in Louisiana |
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born between 1883-1888 |
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born between 1883-1888 |
Henry’s child named Osie (That’s the way the decendants say she spelled it.) is particularly interesting to note because Harry J. Broughton reported that he was living with an "Ocie Broughton" in Parkdale, Arkansas when he enlisted in the military.
KIA or Not?
In her book, Leni H. Smith wrote of "Jack’s death" in the Spanish American War (April-Dec, 1898) and how the army placed a monument where he’s buried. On page 32, she wrote that his last name is spelled "Braughton" on the marker. That marker is in a small cemetery located in Lincoln Parish, Louisiana on state highway 271, also known as May’s Crossing, near the small rural town of Dubach. The cemetery has a cyclone fence around it, but there is no sign that bears the cemetery’s name. The small, white headstone is still intact and reads "Corp. Harry J. Braughton. Co. L 1 Ark. Inf. Sp.Am.War." The headstone does not give a date of death, so it appears the marker led Smith to assume "Jack" was killed in the war when she wrote of it in her book. Further research indicates this was NOT the case.
4 Military records obtained from the National Archives in Washington D.C. show Harry J. Broughton did NOT die during the war although he was sick for a time. He enlisted May 9, 1898 in Little Rock, Arkansas. He was reported to be 33-years-old, single, and worked as a farmer living in Parkdale, Arkansas with a person named "Ocie Broughton." Harry J. was 5-feet-10 inches tall with hazel eyes and black hair. His place of birth is listed as Randolph County, Arkansas. [Although there is a Randolph County in present-day Arkansas, the fact that many of Isaac’s children were born in Randolph County, Alabama and the fact that census records show the family living there from 1840-1850 are too much of coincidence to ignore.] Harry J. was promoted from private to corporal on August 8, 1898, but he contracted a disease while in the line of duty. His medical record shows he suffered from acute dysentery, acute diarrhea, and fever associated with malaria. He was treated at Camp G. H. Thomas, Georgia (Patient No. 1534). Harry J. was discharged from service at Fort L. H. Roots in Arkansas on October 25, 1898. In Harry’s military records, his first name remains constant, while the spelling of his last name repeatedly changes, appearing both as "Braughton" and "Broughton".
Harry’s military service, discharge and his middle initial means he could be the "Jack" who traveled into East Texas with William David Broughton and was still living in 1905 when H. J., a resident of Parkdale Arkansas, was listed as an heir to I. J. and R. Ann Broughton’s estate.
Age of Confusion?
So, was "Harry" or "Henry" the H. J. Broughton who married Lizzie? Well, if Henry J. was the man in question, then he would have been 37 at the time of the wedding in 1890 and would have had to have been divorced or more likely widowed by Laura (Henry’s wife on the 1880 census of Lincoln parish) who is said to have died in the late 1880's.
Since the marriage of H. J. Broughton and Lizzie Parker was apparently brief, Harry J. cannot be ruled out as the H. J. in question despite the military records which indicate Harry J. was "single" when he enlisted in 1898. At that time, the records show he was 33-years-old, which would mean he was 25 in 1890 and old enough to get married.
But that age (33) given for Harry on the military records at his enlistment in 1898 does not mathematically equate with the age (27) given for Henry on the 1880 census in order to make them one-and-the-same-person. Harry would have been only 15 in 1880 and not old enough to be married with a 5-year-old son and 2-year-old daughter.
One possibility, however, is that Henry was the "Harry" who enlisted in 1898 and though he would have actually been 46 years-old at the time, his age was given and recorded at a much younger 33 in order to allow him to enlist and serve his country in the Spanish American War. It's unlikely we'll ever know for certain.
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of the above research information was submitted by Pauline Tilbury,descendant of Jacob Daniel Broughton.
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