Mabry Tyson's Genealogy Collection

A Genealogy of My Family
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A Genealogy of my family

This genealogy was created by my mother, Martha Haralson Tyson.

The translation to a HTML document was done using Gene Stark's GED2HTML system.
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I was named after W.S. Mabry. He kept a account book/journal from 1874 to around 1910. In it he kept various records about his work and the Mabry family. I transcribed it from a photocopy I made of the original. I am sure there are errors and have made no real attempt to proofread it.

Information Related to my family

TYSON family:

My family and the family I grew up with.

HARALSON family

My mother's family.

MABRY family:

• William S. Mabry (1849-1941) of Selma, AL.
  Although not a blood relative, I was named after W.S. Mabry ("Uncle Willie") because he was such a gentleman and influence on my mother.
  • MABRY Home Page
    All the Mabrys (and other spelling variants) in America. Excellently run by Don Collins. Mabry Home, Selma, AL
  • Pictures of Dr. A.G. Mabry (1810-1874) and his children: W.S. Mabry and Virginia Mabry (1854-??).
  • Mabry spent about 60 years in Texas. He was the County Surveyor for Oldham County. He surveyed the land and determined the boundaries of the land to become the famous XIT Ranch, the largest in Texas. During this time, he established the true position of the northwest corner of Texas. He spent many years in San Antonio and the Texas Panhandle where he was friends with Frank James and Pat Garret.

   

JONES family:

• Commodore Catesby ap Roger Jones (1821-1877) my great-grandfather, was in the US and Confederate Navies. He commanded the CSS Virginia (ex USS Merrimack) at the time it fought the USS Monitor.
• Commodore Thomas ap Catesby Jones (1790-1858), Admiral of the Pacific Fleet
• Major General Roger ap Catesby Jones (1788-1852), Adjutant General of the Army
• A bibliography of the C.S.S. Virginia (Merrimack).
• A bibliography of other naval references.

CATESBY family:

• Mark Catesby was a famed naturalist in the 1700s, rivaling Audubon. He published the two volume Natural history of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands (1731-43).

PAGE family:

• A note about the connection of John Randolph Page and Anne Lee (aunt of Robert E. Lee.)
• Richard Lee Page was mentioned several times in the Private Journal of his cousin Catesby ap Roger Jones.

OTHER:

• Alabama postcards from the early 1900's.

Civil War Records

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