In the 1880 Fed. Census of Williamson Co., TX (Precinct No. 4) are enumerated my maternal grandmother's maternal grandparents, Samuel Parker Jackson and Mary Frances "Mollie" (Chapman) Jackson. Listed with them is their one year-old daughter (my Great-Grandmother) "Lula L. Jackson" as well as a young girl named Virginia B. Green, an 11 year-old native Texan and an "orphan." I wish I knew who this little girl was and how my ggreat-grandparents came into the responsibility of caring for her. Maybe somewhere in a letter I have is the answer, but it isn't known to me now. No birthplace is given for either of her parents.
"Sam'l" and "Mary F." are listed as 24 and 18, respectively. He's a farmer and she "keeps house." They and Lula are native Texans. Both give their mothers' birthplace as Mississippi, but only Sam states Tennessee as his dad's birthplace. Mollie's dad is not given one, although we know that William M. Chapman was, in fact, a native Tennessean.
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