Gooden Hatley and the Other Julia

This document is another piece of the puzzle in my search for the parents of Martin L Lambert. 

Martin L Lambert was born in 1873. He is enumerated in the household of William "Buck" Lambert and his wife Talitha Herrin Lambert in 1880 as their youngest son. He died in 1892 and in buried in Lambert Cemetery No. 1 in the old Lambert community, Almond township in Stanly County, North Carolina, not very far from the Cabarrus County line. The mystery lies in his marriage license. He married on January 9, 1891 at the age of 18, to 16 year old Rose Etta Starnes, daughter of A. M. D. "Mack" Starnes, who lived near him and in the home enumerated just before him in the 1880 census. They must have grown up as playmates. On this document, there is no father listed for Martin, and his mother named as Julia Ann Eudy. 

There were only two Julia Ann Eudy's who lived near the Lamberts who were old enough to be Martin's mother. Other Julia's were not old enough, or born later than he was. I told the story of the one whom I thought most likely to be his mother in my post, "The Interesting Life of Julia Ann Eudy Kirksey". 

The Interesting Life of Julia Ann Eudy Kirksey

But there was another Julia Ann in the Almond community, daughter of John A and Rachel Furr Eudy. This one lived in the Almond Community, not a fair distance from the Lamberts. 

Julia Eady
Age in 1870:	19
Birth Year:	abt 1851
Birthplace:	North Carolina
Home in 1870:	Almond, Stanly, North Carolina
Race:	White
Gender:	Female
Post Office:	Albemarle
Value of real estate:	View image
Household Members:	Name Age John Eady 54 Rachael Eady 50 Julia Eady 19 Franklin Eady 16 Adam Eady 14

This Julia married another Almond Township citizen, Gooden (or Goodwin) Hatley on  September 5, 1874. This was a year and a half after the birth of Martin L. Lambert. 

In the 1880 census, Gooden and Julia were still living in the Almond community.

Julia Hatley
Age:	28
Birth Year:	abt 1852
Birthplace:	North Carolina
Home in 1880:	Almonds, Stanly, North Carolina
Race:	White
Gender:	Female
Relation to Head of House:	Wife
Marital Status:	Married
Spouse's Name:	Gorden Hatley
Father's Birthplace:	North Carolina
Mother's Birthplace:	North Carolina
Neighbors:	View others on page
Occupation:	Keeping House
Cannot read/write: Blind: Deaf and dumb: Otherwise disabled: Idiotic or insane:	View image
Household Members:	Name Age Gorden Hatley 32 Julia Hatley 28 V. R. Hatley 6 Rosa Hatley 4 Ada Hatley 1

All 3 of their children would be born in Stanly County, however, by 1900, they would be living in Texas, just like the other Julia Ann Eudy. 

Julia Hatley
Age:	49
Birth Date:	Mar 1851
Birthplace:	North Carolina
Home in 1900:	Justice Precinct 2, Kaufman, Texas [Kaufman]
Race:	White
Gender:	Female
Relation to Head of House:	Wife
Marital Status:	Married
Spouse's Name:	Goodwin Hatley
Marriage Year:	1874
Years Married:	26
Father's Birthplace:	North Carolina
Mother's Birthplace:	North Carolina
Mother: number of living children:	3
Mother: How many children:	3
Occupation:	View on Image
Neighbors:	View others on page
Household Members:	Name Age Goodwin Hatley 51 Julia Hatley 49 Van Hatley 25 Irene Hatley 23 Ada Hatley 21 Fred Deaton 18

The Hatley family, however, would chose the town of Forney, in Kaufmann County, Texas in which to settle.

Forney is a proud little town in the northeastern quadrant of Texas, just 50 miles outside of Dallas. 

Daughtrey's Billiard Parlor. Photo courtesy of  Forney Country, a History of  NorthWestern Kaufman County by Jerry M. Flook

Forney was founded on the black clay prairies near the East Fork of the Trinity River. The earliest settlers did not begin arriving until around the late 1840's. The railroads did not arrive until about 30 years later. It was originally a primarily hay growing area, with cotton becoming the crop later. 

 Open prairie cattle ranches also sprang up in and near Forney. 

Jerry M. Flook's "History or Forney" describes the area in the 1870's and 1880's as a typical western town of hard-drinking, hard-gambling, hard-working men. 

Forney in the 1870s and early 1880s was known far and wide as a hard drinking, hard gambling, and hard brawling frontier settlement, despite the best efforts of the town fathers to build a progressive, respectable, and law-abiding town. Several tales of those rough-and-tumble days survive and are the stuff of Hollywood wild-west scenes.

-quote from 'The History of Forney' J. M. Flooks. 

The Town was incorporated in 1884 and later disbanded. Around 1914, a major highway was built near the community and growth returned. It was near this highway, the Dixie Overland Highway, that the Hatley family were settled and raised. 

Goodson Hatley [Goodwin Hatley]
Age in 1910:	62
Birth Year:	1848
Birthplace:	North Carolina
Home in 1910:	Forney, Kaufman, Texas
Race:	White
Gender:	Male
Relation to Head of House:	Head
Marital Status:	Married
Spouse's Name:	Julia Hatley
Father's Birthplace:	North Carolina
Mother's Birthplace:	North Carolina
Neighbors:	View others on page
Household Members:	Name Age Goodson Hatley 62 Julia Hatley 59

Goodwin Hatley Age: 71 Birth Year: abt 1849 Birthplace: North Carolina Home in 1920: Forney, Kaufman, Texas Race: White Gender: Male Relation to Head of House: Head Marital Status: Married Spouse's Name: Julia Hatley Father's Birthplace: North Carolina Mother's Birthplace: North Carolina Home Owned: Own Able to Read: Yes Able to Write: Yes Neighbors: View others on page Household Members: Name Age Goodwin Hatley 71 Julia Hatley 68

View Original Record View original image  G Hatley Gender: Male Birth Year: abt 1849 Birthplace: North Carolina Race: White Home in 1930: Forney, Kaufman, Texas View Map Marital Status: Married Relation to Head of House: Head Spouse's Name: Julia Hatley Father's Birthplace: North Carolina Mother's Birthplace: North Carolina Occupation: Education: Military Service: Rent/home value: Age at first marriage: Parents' birthplace: View image Neighbors: View others on page Household Members: Name Age G Hatley 81 Julia Hatley 79 Goodwin and Julia lived a long life in Forney, Texas with their 3 children. Oldest son Van Buren Hatley married a Texas born girl, Lottie Elizabeth McFarland, served in World War I and raised a large family of 10 children: Verner Buren Hatley, Lewis Wetzel Hatley, Irene Julia, Fowler, Nora Lee, Lou Ellen "Peggy", Elizabeth A, Warren G, Ernest Young and Carrie Ann Hatley. Middle child Irene Rose Ann Hatley, married Ernest Young Moore from Georgia and had one son, Goodwin C Moore. Youngest daughter, Ada Ida Hatley married John Smith Robetson, who was born in Arkansas and raised their five children in Kaufman County, Texas: Henry, Kenneth, Edith Claire, Ione Gladys and Daniel C Robertson.

Who was Goodwin's firstborn child whom he was served a Bastardy bond on in Stanly County, North Carolina in 1875? Julia Ann Eudy Hatley only confessed on the censuses to being the mother of the 3 children she and 'Gooden' had in Stanly county. They had no more children, which was rare for the time. Was Gooden a man with wandering eyes, and feet? Was Martin L. Lambert the son of Goodwin and Julia? If so, why did they not raise him as they married the year after he was born? If Martin was the child the bond was served on, why was it served 2 years after he was born and a year after Goodwin and Julia married.

Did Martin's daughter Lotha keep up with her grandmother Julia Ann after she too, moved to Texas? And which Julia was her grandmother, Julia Ann Eudy Kirksey or her cousin,  Julia Ann Eudy Hatley? We may never know.

The Interesting Life of Julia Ann Eudy Kirksey

The above plenus Victorian lady is Julia Ann Eudy Kirksey at around 40 years old. Julia Ann enjoyed a bit of travel in her days and an interesting life.

In my search of the Julia Ann Eudy who was the mother of Martin L. Lambert, I am leaning toward this Julia. The first reason is that there were only two in the community at the time who would have been old enough in 1873 to be his mother, and she was 16 years old. The second reason is that 1873 is the year the family seemed to have migrated to Arkansas, and may have placed young Martin with the neighboring Lambert family to raise. Whether William "Buck" Lambert was his natural father may be a fact that will never be discovered.



But the last, and most telling reason for my belief that the future Mrs Kirksey was the mother of Martin is that in the 1900 census, it records how many children a mother has given birth to, and how many are living. In 1900, Julia has given birth to the children in the above photograph, left to right, Robert Cicero Kirksey b 1884, Washington Henry Kirksey b 1891, Addie Belle Kirksey b 1893 and Mary E Kirksey b 1886. She had not given birth yet, to her youngest child, Annie Mae, and may very well have been expecting her in this photograph.

The census records that in the spring of 1900, Julia Ann Eudy Kirksey was the mother of 5 children with 4 living. The above four all grew to adulthood and had families of their own. Martin L. Lambert died in 1892 at the age of 19, but leaving a young wife and 4 month old daughter, Lotha Elizabeth Lambert.

This is the document that gave cause to my search for Julia Ann. Martin L Lambert's marriage license to Rose Etta Starnes. His mother was Julia Ann Eudy, no father listed, but listed as "living". So, he knew who his father was, he just did not list his name. It is remarkable that he did not list the Lamberts as his parents as his last name is Lambert and he is enumerated in the 1880 census as their son and the youngest child at 7, living close to the family of his future wife, Etta, age 6. They must have played as children.

Julia Ann Eudy Kirksey was born in either Stanly or Cabarrus Counties in North Carolina on May 28, 1857. She was the daughter of Jacob Wiley Eudy and his wife, Elmira Belinda Furr. The marriage license for her parents was recorded in the Albemarle Courthouse in Stanly County on April 13, 1854. Land transactions involving Jacob Wiley Eudy begin about 1856, in both counties as he begins acquiring land for his farm on which to raise his typically large family, of the time.

The Eudy's hovered on the border of Cabarrus and Stanly. In a deed recorded in Cabarrus County in April of 1871, J.W. Eudy and his wife E. B. Eudy sell to an A. B. Coleman a tract of land "situated in the counties of Cabarrus and Stanly adjoining Joe Barrier, John Eudy, Williamson Eudy,  and others". Other neighbors mentioned are M. W. Dry and Jacob Misenheimer.

As both A. B. Coleman and Jacob W. Eudy are shown as grantors and grantees in adjoining documents, it appears they were trading tracts of land. Perhaps to locate in one county over the other. Jacob W. Eudy preferring to be in Cabarrus and Coleman in Stanly. This might have something to do with a April 27th 1870 court order from Stanly commanding James Marshall, sherriff to attach a levy to 369 acres of Jacob W. Eudy's land on Bear Creek adjoining the heirs of Soloman Harkey and sell at the courthouse to the highest bidder, the highest bidder being one Miss Adeline Eudy for $85.

Another fact that can locate the Eudy family in North Carolina and then in Arkansas is the birth of daughter Jennie Rose Eudy on October 7, 1870 in Cabarrus County, North Carolina and then her death in Pope County, Arkansas on September 12, 1873. She is not buried in the same cemetery as most members of the family who remained in Arkansas. Then another daughter, Minnie Lorena Eudy, was born a few days later on September 12, 1873 in Dover, Pope County, Arkansas. It appears 1873 was the year of travel for the family, young Jenny Rose may have gotten ill on the trip.

Tombstone of Jenny Rose Eudy in Arkansas

Julia A Udy
Age in 1860:	4
Birth Year:	abt 1856
Birthplace:	North Carolina
Home in 1860:	Subdivision East of NC RR, Cabarrus, North Carolina
Gender:	Female
Post Office:	Mount Pleasant
Value of real estate:	View image
Household Members:	Name Age Jac W Udy 25 Elmira B Udy 23 Eli M R Udy 5 Julia A Udy 4 George M Udy 10/12 Green Hatty 20

The 1860 census shows the Eudy family near Mt. Pleasant. Land records show most transactions from 1854 to 1856 in Stanly and then later transactions 1856 to 1871 in Cabarrus.

uly A. Eudy [Julia Ann Eudy]
Age:	23
Birth Year:	abt 1857
Birthplace:	North Carolina
Home in 1880:	Dover, Pope, Arkansas
Race:	White
Gender:	Female
Relation to Head of House:	Daughter
Marital Status:	Single
Father's Name:	Jacob W. Eudy
Father's Birthplace:	North Carolina
Mother's Name:	Elnirah B. Eudy
Mother's Birthplace:	North Carolina
Neighbors:	View others on page
Occupation:	Housekeeper
Cannot read/write: Blind: Deaf and dumb: Otherwise disabled: Idiotic or insane:	View image
Household Members:	Name Age Jacob W. Eudy 45 Elnirah B. Eudy 43 July A. Eudy 23 Lawson A. Eudy 18 Mary J. Eudy 15 Jonithan M. Eudy 12 Minie L. Eudy 7 John J. Eudy 4

Julia A Eudy
Gender:	Female
Age:	26
Birth Year:	abt 1857
Residence:	Dover, Pope, Arkansas
Spouse's Name:	Matt C Kirkscey
Spouse's Gender:	Male
Spouse's Age:	33
Spouse's Residence:	Dover, Pope, Arkansas
Marriage Date:	20 Dec 1883
Marriage License Date:	20 Dec 1883
Marriage County:	Pope
Event Type:	Marriage
FHL Film Number:	1034013

On December 20, 1883, Julia Ann, now 26, married a widowerd, Madison Christopher Columbus Kirksey, known more often as Matt. Matt was the son of John Madison Columbus Kirksey and Martha A Thompson Kirksey of  Choctaw, Alabama. The Kirksey family had originated in South Carolina before migrating to Alabama, and like the Eudy family, had relocated west to Arkansas during the horrors of Reconstruction. Matt had married an Alabama girl, Sarah F Cooper in 1870 and they had 3 children, Ophelia, Jackson and Fanny.

One year after the marriage of Matt and Julie, their first son Robert Cicero was born. Robert would marry a Mary Estelle in Bell County, Texas and have 2 sons, Robert Jr. and John M. Kirksey. Second child, daughter Mary, would also be born in Arkansas in 1886.

Mary E. Kirksey would marry Jonas Lucena Barringer, whose family was also from Stanly and Cabbarus Counties in North Carolina. Jonas was born in Ridenhours township in Stanly County, North Carolina. In 1880, his family was still in North Carolina and were in Llano, Texas by 1910. He joined the Service for WW I in 1918 in Lubbock, Texas. He and Mary would have 4 children, Catherine, Annie, J. L. and Julia and relocate to Portland, Oregon.
 Third child, Washington Henry Kirksey was born on May 1, 1891 in Arkansas. He would marry Elizabeth Atkins of Anderson County, Texas, and they would remain in Crosby County, Texas, where his family would migrated from Arkansas to, and raise his only daughter, Julia Annadale Kirksey.
The fourth child of Matt and Julie, Addie Belle Kirksey would marry Ora Derr from Kansas. They would raise two sons, Ora Albert Derr, Jr. and Patrick Millard Derr, in Port Arthur, Jefferson County, Texas.

There appears to have been a daughter, Arlene, who was born and died  between 1900 and 1910. The 1910 census shows Julia Ann to have been the mother of 7 children with 5 living.

The fifth and youngest child of Matt and Julie Kirksey was Annie Mae, born June 21, 1900. She was the first and only Kirksey child to be born in Texas, so they migrated from Arkansas between Addie's birth in 1893 and the 1900 census.

ulia Kirksuf [Julia Kirksey]
Age:	43
Birth Date:	May 1857
Birthplace:	North Carolina
Home in 1900:	Justice Precinct 4, Falls, Texas [Falls]
Race:	White
Gender:	Female
Relation to Head of House:	Wife
Marital Status:	Married
Spouse's Name:	Madison C C Kirksuf
Marriage Year:	1874
Years Married:	26
Father's Birthplace:	North Carolina
Mother's Birthplace:	North Carolina
Mother: number of living children:	4
Mother: How many children:	5
Occupation:	View on Image
Neighbors:	View others on page
Household Members:	Name Age Madison C C Kirksuf 49 Julia Kirksuf 43 Ophelia Kirksuf 25 Jackson M Kirksuf 23 Fannie C Kirksuf 20 Robt C Kirksuf 15 Mary Kirksuf 13 Henry Kirksuf 9 Addie Kirksuf 7

 Annie Mae's first photo was made in Temple, Texas.

Annie Mae would marry Virgil Nathaniel Moore, also born in 1900, in Oklahoma. They would have 2 sons, Ray Kirksey Moore, born in 1928 and Henry Leon Moore, born in 1930.

Like most Americans born around the turn of the century, the Kirksey children came from large farming familes, and as they settled more into towns and trades, they brought smaller families into the world in the World War and Depression eras. Annie Mae and Burt were no different. They raised their 2 sons in the town they were married in, Crosby, Texas, where Matt and Julie had settled.

Bert and Annie in their horse-drawn carriage

Julia Ann, born in Cabarrus County, North Carolina, was laid to rest in Crosby County, Texas November of 1937. She was part of just one family who migrated west following the Civil War in search of a better life from a decimated origin. Was she the mother of Martin L. Lambert? Was he her child who was no longer living in 1900? Did Lotha Lambert know who her grandmother was? She also migrated to Texas. Did they keep in touch. Only a living descendant of this Texas branch of a North Carolina family might have the answers.

Jacob Wiley Eudy family after move to Arkansas. Julia Ann last on right in back row. 

Jacob Wiley Eudy family reunion in Arkansas circa 1895.

Eudy house in Arkansas circa 1890 with Jacob, Elmira, Minnie and J. J. Eudy