Post War Among The Ezells - Leflore County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Paula Doyle-Bicket 18 Jun 2006 Return to Leflore County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.org/ok/leflore/leflore.htm ========================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.org/copyright.htm ========================================================================== POST WAR AMONG THE EZELLS After the Civil War, William T and Angeline Ezell Collins moved to a large homestead. It is not know in what county of Missouri it was located. The Ezells had lived in Maries County, Missouri during the war, but there is no record of William and Angeline living there after their marriage in 1863. Angeline shared a little information with her grandchildren about their grandfather. They knew that he was of German descent and that his parents came from Germany. On November 28, 1868, Angeline gave birth to her first son, William Marion Collins in Taney County, Missouri. She named him after his father, leaving shortly before or after his birth. She went to live with her mother, Jincy Jane Seaton Ezell and her brothers: Lafayette, Stephen and George and with her sister Rhoda Elizabeth. Henry Ezell married Melinda Jane Mathews and Annie Ezell married Samuel Lafayette Doyel, son of Farmer and Mary “Polly” Newberry-Doyel. When all the family moved into Indian Territory (LeFlore County, OK) in the 1890’s. Angeline and her children came along, too. A strange coincidence occurred when Mary grew up and married a man who could trace his ancestry to an uncle of Samuel Doyel’s mother. She was Mary “Polly” Newberry whose father James was a brother to Robert Newberry who was the great grandfather of Lum Newberry, the man Mary married. They were living in counties of Crawford, Oregon, Benton, Iron and Howell in Missouri south and west of where the Ezell’s lived in Maries County during the Civil War. William Marion Collins grew up in the Ezell household from time to time, alternating living with them and his mother and her three successive husbands and their children. She outlived each of her husbands. When William was living with the Ezells, he was trained to ride as a jockey in the races that Henry, Hiram, Stephen and George organized. He was kept small so that he would be able to ride faster. Some of the Ezell brothers along with their brother-in-law Samuel Doyel dabbled in fixed races in surrounding towns where they lived. Before entering a town, one of them would pull a hair out of the horse’s tail, force it into a hoof and lead the limping horse into town. There they became acquainted with the local men and as was common practice, talk developed around racing horses. Pretending to be just farmers, and a bit gullible, they soon made arrangements to enter their horse in a race, betting their own horse. Just before the race began, one of them checked the hoofs as if to see if there was any problem, removed the hair and easily won the race. They knew their horses and traded and bought the best they could buy. The prize money helped to improve their stock of horses back at their ranch. They went away laughing, but well out of the range of any ears which might hear them. They were never caught and how times they used this trick was never known. Angeline Ezell Collins married for a second time around 1870 to Jacob Henry Fulton. He ran a hotel in Fort Smith in Sebastian County, Arkansas. He also owned a steamboat in which he transported cargo and passengers up and down the Arkansas River as far away as the Mississippi River and down to New Orleans, Louisiana. Family information connects him as being the nephew to Robert Fulton, the man who invented the steamboat. Jacob Henry and Angeline Fulton had four children. Their names and spouses were: Samuel Henry, July 18, 1872, Miranda Bobo; Lila, 1874 (died at the age twelve); Florence, 1876, John Jackson Clemmon Laws, Fountain Stockton and Sherman Wright (She, like her mother married four times. And Jacob Elser, January 28, 1878, Rosie Keel. One evening, Angeline’s husband was brought home ill by his crew who worked on the steamboat. They did not know what had happened or were unwilling to tell the complete story. He couldn’t talk and died shortly afterward, possibly of a stroke. Angeline believed that he had been robbed of his money because he always carried a great deal on his person and there was no money in his possession when he was brought home. She was married to Jacob Fulton longer than any of her four husbands and had more children by him so even though she married twice afterward; she retained his name after her last husband died. Angeline was remembered by older members of the family as being the “Miller” girl because she worked in the gristmill, possibly owned by Jacob Fulton. In 1880, Jincy Jane Seaton-Ezell, age fifty-four was living in Logan County in Roseville Township in Arkansas with her sons, Jacob Randolph age twenty-six; Hiram Lafayette, age twenty-four; Stephen John Wesley, age eighteen and George Price, age seventeen. They were all farmers or farm laborers. Living with them was William Collins, age ten. Also, living there were Rhoda Elizabeth, age twenty-two (Jincy’s daughter) and her husband, Daniel Williams, age twenty-three and their daughter, Lillie Beth, age three months. John Cook, age twenty-five and Thomas Fulton, age twenty were boarders. Thomas Fulton was possibly a son of Angeline’s second husband, Jacob Henry Fulton, who was deceased as the time. Angeline Fulton, age twenty-seven was living in Carroll County, Kings River Township in Arkansas in the 1880 census. Her son, William Collins, age eleven, was also shown living with her so possibly the Census of Logan County was taken first and he went back home to be with his mother in Carroll County in time for the census to be taken there. Also living with them were Angeline’s four children by Jacob Henry Fulton. They were Samuel, age seven; Florence, age six; Lila J., age four and Elser age two. Angeline Fulton married John Thomas Morrison, eighteen years her senior on January 20, 1883 in Logan County, Arkansas. Their son, John Thomas Morrison, Jr. was born in June 1884 at National Springs, in Logan County. Her husband was a merchant and was known to have large sums of money, which he always buried after he closed the store. He had one leg and a peg for the other. Angeline believed that he, too, had been robbed after he closed the store. He was found dead in a wooded area. The money was never recovered, although Angeline searched in the woods where his body had been found. All of his assets went to his first wife. His will had never been changed since their marriage. Fourthly and lastly, Angeline married Daniel Chalmers Peacock July 23, 1885 in Logan County, Arkansas. They had two children. Their names, births and spouses were: Chalmers, 1886, (died in 1887) and Stella Monroe, December 1889, Charlie Duncan (He was the brother of Mary’s mother, Celia Ann Duncan Collins.) After her fourth husband died, Angeline Fulton moved into Indian Territory to be near her mother, Jincy Jane Seaton-Ezell, brothers: Henry, Jacob Randolph, Hiram Lafayette and Stephen Ezell and her sisters: Rhoda Elizabeth Williams and Annie Doyel and their families. Angeline’s mother, Jincy Jane Seaton-Ezell, who was living with Rhoda Elizabeth, would not live to the end of that decade and century. She died October 23, 1899. She was buried in Hanson Cemetery near Sallisaw, Indian Territory. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to LeFlore County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.org/ok/leflore/leflore.htm