Dysart name

DYSART, WILLIAM

FOR THE GREAT-GRAND CHILDREN OF WILLIAM CHRISTOPHER DYSART
History
The ninth edition of the Encyclopedia Britanica (year 1888) volume VII, has this to say of DYSART:
“Dysart, a seaport town and royal and Parliamentary burgh of Scotland, in the county of Fife, nine miles east of Burntisland, with a station on the North British Railway. It consists mainly of three narrow streets with a square in the center and on the whole has a dull and deserted appearance. In the High Street there are a number of antique houses with inscriptions and dates; and toward the south side of the town there are remains of an ancient chapel. Besides the old parish church with its tower, there are six places of worship, an old town-house, a merchants institute, and a combination poorhouse. The harbor is tolerably good, and there is a wet dock attached. The staple industry is the manufacture of linens and ticks; but flax spinning and shipping building are also carried-on, and there is a large export of coal. To the west of the town is Dysart House, the residence of the Earl of Rosslyn. As a parliamentary borough, Dysart is a member of the Kirkaldy district. The population of the town in 1871 was 2,476....
And now begins the history of the Dysarts in America....
9th generation            Samual Dysart married Frances Anderson
                                                               “    an Erskine had one son Samuel
                    left Londonderry Ire. 1754
8th generation            James Dysart (1743 - 1775 m. Agnes or Nancy Beattie  d. May 26, 1818)    1833
                Elizabeth        m. John Broden or Braden
                Margaret
                Nancy
                Fanny
                Sarah
                Jane
7th generation            2 Samuel    (Oct. 14, 1778 - Dec. 30, 1831) m. Eleanor Meek
                1 Eleanor     1776 - 1850     m.  Wm. Carson
                3 John Beattie    1780 - 1858    m.   Jane Logan
                4 Frances    1785 - 1831    m. John W. Cowan
                5 Johnston    1787 - 1826    m. Polly Cowan
                6 Elizabeth            m. Charles Carson
6th generation            1 Samuel Meek    born in Rockcastle Co., Ky    m. Mary Ann Craig
                2 Thomas
                3 Johnston             m. Dixon Adams and lived in Adams, Texas
                4 Jackson
                5 Elizabeth
                7 Johnston    Dec. 17, 1826 - 1904    m. Mary E. Simmons (1837 - 1914)
            m. Feb. 16, 1853
5th generation            1 Margaret Ann            m. Dr. Berry - St. Jo., Mo.
                2 Elizabeth             m. More
                3 Joe        twins
                4 Mary Jane (Molly)        m. Sutherland      d. in Sherman
                5 Martha (Mat)            m. Keston    d. in San Angelo or Amarillo
                6 (Billy) William Hold                d. in St. Jo
4th generation            1 Samuel Humphrey     b. March 25, 1855 Andrew Co., Mo. -     Nov 1939
                2 Francis Thomas    b. Andrew Co., Mo.    d. 1857
                3 Emma Sherley                    d. Oct. 5, 1887
                    m. S. O. Scott    (Scott Abernathy’s grandmother) (Dec. 23, 1877)
                4 William Christopher (Feb. 3, 1861 - Dec. 6, 1953)
                    Dec. 24, 1889 m. Katherine Anne Miller Renfro (widow) in Ft. Worth
                    (Aug. 24, 1864 - Jan. 22, 1944)
                5 Louis           b. 1863            d. San Angelo
                    m. Mary McAplin
                6 Florence        (1865 - June 1867)    buried in Kaufman Cemetery on Hy. 75 [Coffman Cemetery]
                7 Lulu May        (          - 1944)        m. Parker - had two daughters
                                        m. Griffin
                8 James Lafayette    m. Mabel Wade        81 yrs, died in Amarillo
                    graduate of Texas A & M
                9 Lalah Rook                    d. in California    m. Joe Turley
                10 Verna                    d. in Los Angeles    
                            m. Vern Dumas (died in Van Alstyne) one daughter
                11 John            m. Mattie Wade
                12 Margaret Ann                    d. at 14
                13 Thornton                    d. in Amarillo
                            m. Hattie Horn of McKinney, one son who drowned, 1 grandson
3rd generation            3.1 Mattie Morton    b. 1880            d. 1886
                3.2 Willie May        b. May 20, 1882    
                            m. Harvey Abernathy
                4.1 Blan Powell        (July 20, 1891 - Jan 26, 1958)
                            m. Mary Boone (May 1896 - May 1939) in Dallas
                4.2 Leland Thornton    (1893 -    ) m. Martha Alice Randall (1899 -    ) in Ft. Worth Sep 16, 1922
                4.3 Jacob Lester        (Apr. 13, 1893 - Oct. 11, 1955) died in OK
                            m. Fern Cabot, m. _______ moved to Oklahoma
2nd and 1st generations        [not listed, Living]

Ninth generation grandfather Samuel ... left home and family in Donegal and sailed to America, and died in western Pennsylvania. Col. John Beattie, also ...ninth generation, came from Ireland with two brothers and settled first in Frederick Co., Virginia. He and his brother Henry were in the Indian wars. He then moved to Rockbridge and died in 1791. There is a record of his will dated 1790.
Samuel’s son was James....James mother was Frances Anderson Dysart and had six sisters the first of whom, Elizabeth, married a man named Braden and the three came to America together.
Samuel Dysart, husband of Frances Anderson, had a possession near Londonderry, Ireland, which he called Brook Hall. After the death of his wife, Frances Anderson, he married an Erskin and had a son, Samuel, who lived in Londonderry, Ireland. The children of Samuel Dysart and Frances Anderson were James, Elizabeth, Margaret, Nancy, Fanny, Sarah and Jane. Dr. Lyman Draper, in “Kings Mountain and It’s Heroes,” refers to him as follows: “James Dysart was born in Donegal Co., Ireland, his parents dying in his infancy. He was raised by his grandfather. At seventeen, he sailed for the new world, landing in Philadelphia in 1761. From there he gradually worked his way to the Holston Valley in Virginia. In 1770 he joined James Knox in exploring Tennessee and Kentucky. ... He married Nancy Beattie in 1775. During the Revolutionary War he was head of his company. At King’s Mountain he was badly wounded. In 1881, he was made Major and then Colonel. He represented Washington County in the legislature of Virginia. He died May 26, 1818 at seventy-four. He had three sons and three daughters. He lived near Glade Spring, Virginia, and called his place Brook Hall. ... Old Glade Springs is two miles south of the present Glade Spring on the Norfolk and Western Railway.”...
He made a seven-month hunting trip into Kentucky in 1769, a nine-month trip in 1771, and an eleven-month trip in 1772, in company with Joseph Drake. (Joseph Drake came to America on the same boat with him.)
From Biographical Souvenir of the State of Texas page 271.
“Johnston Dysart, one of the wealthy farmers of Texas, was born in Kentucky, December 19, 1826. His father, Samuel M. Dysart, was also a native of Kentucky, was a colonel in the state militia and a justice of the peace. He came to Texas from Missouri in 1856, remained here until the opening of the late war, when he returned to his home in Missouri (on which he had settled about 1838), and there he died in 1870. The wife of Samuel (Meek) Dysart bore the name of Margaret Craig, and was the daughter of David Craig of Virginia who was killed in an attempt, in his capacity of sheriff, to arrest a culprit.
“Johnston Dysart, the eldest in a family of seven children, when but twelve years of age, was taken by his parents to Missouri, in which state he resided sixteen years. In 1849 he made his first trip to California, which was followed by two others, occupying four years of his time. During the Kansas war he served under Colonel Richardson of St. Joseph, Missouri, and took part in the battle of Lecompton, and one or two others. After the Kansas was he came to Texas, and in 1861 enlisted in the Confederate army, Sixth Texas Cavalry, was elected Lieutenant and served in Arkansas, Tennessee and Mississippi. He resigned his commission, however, returned home and assisted in raising another regiment, with which he went to Louisiana, served as assistant quartermaster, but about two months before the close, was taken ill and discharged.
“Johnston Dysart, the eldest of seven children born to his parents, married Feb. 16, 1853, Miss Mary E. Simmons, daughter of Humphrey Simmons of Kentucky. Humphrey was one of the oldest settlers of Bullitt County, Kentucky, and was its representative in the State Legislature; he came to Texas in 1859, lived in Bastrop County, was a farmer and large slave owner, and died in 1870. Thirteen children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Dysart....   At the close of the war, Mr. Dysart found himself deprived of all property, excepting one team; with this he went to work and for a long time followed teaming as a vocation, and then bought a farm on credit. ... He continued to thrive, and now owns his own home farm of eight-hundred acres, and another of five-hundred under cultivation, owns a cotton gin, and is altogether prosperous. He is a Free Mason and a member of the Christian Church.”....
When they came to Texas they already had two children. They came by boat – down the Mississippi and around to Corpus Christi by boat. Johnston bought three three-year-old slaves in Sherman and paid one-thousand dollars apiece for them. One died, and the other two stayed long after the Civil War..... Humphrey Simmons was from Bardstown, Bullitt County near Paraquet Springs near Mamouth Cave.
William Christopher Dysart... was born on the Old Telephone Road in a house built in 1853 on one of the highest points in Collin County. ... a close inspection shows a fan-lighted entrance, six-pane windows and generous sized rooms, a well-built and beautiful cottage. The kitchen was a log house separated from the main one. It was heated by fireplaces....
When William Christopher was older he was sent to school in Bonham. When he was fourteen he had a hand in building the Houston and Texas Central railroad. He hauled ties for the tracks and later, wood to burn to keep the wheels turning. After Bonham he went to A&M where he was in the first graduating class, but he didn’t stay to graduate....
William Christopher went into business at Bowie and later at Sherman selling farm implements and hardware with W. C. Stripling who later started W. C. Stripling in Ft. Worth....William Christopher was offered a place in Dallas with E. Bement & Son, a farm implement company. He invented a four-horse evener with one horse in the furrow instead of two, but because the patent legally belonged to the company and he could realize nothing from it himself, he became unhappy and returned to Old Telephone Road to farm the land left him by his father. ... He spent the rest of his life farming and presenting the Collin County farm exhibit at the State Fair. ...