The Munsons of Texas — an American Saga

Chapter Ten

JESSE P. MUNSON AND MICAJAH AND ELIZABETH EVERETT MUNSON

SUMMARY
Micajah was the older brother of Henry William Munson; Jesse P. Munson was their younger half-brother. Jesse P. Munson appears to have lived much of his life as a bachelor, while Micajah married Elizabeth Everett in Louisiana, where they had two daughters. In 1824, all of these Munsons moved with the Henry William Munson family from Louisiana to the Trinity River in the Atascosita District of Mexico. Micajah died there in about 1827 at about the age of 38. Elizabeth remarried, first to neighbor George Orr and then to Major Samuel Whiting, and died in about 1846. Through one of their daughters, Micajah and Elizabeth Munson have many descendants living today, in Mississippi, in Liberty County, Texas, and elsewhere. Jesse P. Munson spent many years as a sugar-maker in Louisiana. He moved to Brazoria County, Texas, in 1846. He may have been married and divorced earlier, but he is known to have married Mrs. Susan Hughes in Brazoria County when he was about the age of 72. He died there sometime thereafter.


Our original Jesse Munson is known to have had three children. The first, Micajah Munson, was born in South Carolina in 1788 or 1789. The second, Henry William Munson, was born in Mississippi in 1793. The third, Jesse P. Munson, a half-brother, was born in 1800. All three apparently moved from Mississippi to Rapides Parish, Louisiana, after their father’s death in 1815 or 1816, and then they all moved together to the Trinity River settlement in Mexico (now Liberty County, Texas) in 1824. Thereafter their paths diverged.

The Life of Jesse P. Munson

Little is known of the life of Jesse P. Munson. No record has been found of him prior to a letter written by William Benjamin Munson (a son of Henry William Munson) from Oakland Plantation in Texas to his brother Mordello in 1846. William wrote:


     Uncle Jesse very suddenly made his appearance a few days since from Louisiana. You do not recollect him of course, he came to Texas with Father [1824] and lived with him a year, he then returned to Louisiana and has been living on the Mississippi river above New Orleans ever since. He is a half-brother of Father's, seems to be a good sort of a man though very illiterate. He will stay with us this winter.

The next record of Jesse P. Munson is in the 1850 census of Brazoria County, where he is recorded on August 26th as an unrelated member of the George Souter household. His occupation is listed as “sugar maker.” Several weeks later, on September 13th, he was in Liberty County, Texas, where he is recorded as a member of the household of William and Martha Orr. Martha Munson Orr, his niece, was the daughter of his brother, Micajah Munson. Jesse P. Munson’s occupation is listed as “sugar boiler.” A later article in the Texas Historical Quarterly describes Jesse Munson as “the best sugar maker in Brazoria County.” He had undoubtedly learned the art of sugar-making in Louisiana during his twenty-one years there. During the time that he stayed with the Munson family at Oakland Plantation, he likely helped with the sugar-making there and at neighboring plantations before going on to the Orr household in Liberty County. Oakland Plantation was then one of the leading sugar plantations and sugar mills in Texas.

The timing of Jesse P. Munson’s arrival in Liberty County suggests he had gone there for the sugar-making season that would begin in late October or early November. However, it is possible he was there for a visit and returned to Brazoria County, where his services would be more in demand, by the start of the 1850 season. The following year, expenses for Peach Point Plantation’s sugar crop include $192.00 paid to Jesse Munson for making 96 hogsheads of sugar, and he was overseer of Peach Point from January 1 to October 19, 1852, when he began to make up the sugar crop of 1852 [1]. For most of the 1850s he lived with the Mordello Munson family at Bailey’s Prairie, leaving for sugar-making or other jobs at neighboring plantations as occasions arose, but always returning when the work was completed. He spent part of his time with Gerard and George Munson at Oakland Plantation, and is recorded as a member of their household in the 1860 census. According to the diary of Sarah K. Munson, he stayed with her and the children a great part of the time that Mordello was away during the Civil War. Many references are made to him in her daily diary, and also in her letters to her husband in the Confederate Army. Once she told of Jesse being injured when a horse fell with him. She reported that when it was necessary for her to make a trip to Houston, Uncle Jesse stayed with the children. In a later letter she reported, “Uncle Jesse finally left.”

According to the Minutes of the District Court of Brazoria County, a Jesse Munson was granted a divorce from his wife, Clara C. Munson, on April 11, 1859. It would seem that this may well have been our Jesse P. Munson. In any event, the same court records reveal that he married Mrs. Susan Hughes on May 25, 1872. He would have been about 72 years old. Susan Hughes was the former Susan Stringfellow, who had been married earlier to Allen Harrison and to Joseph Hughes. Susan was a neighbor of the Souters in 1850, which is perhaps how she and Jesse met. Records reflect that Susan Hughes Munson died in January, 1877, when Jesse would have been about 77 if he was still living.

The date of Jesse P. Munson’s death is not known. Recollections in the Munson family tell that Jesse P. lived his last years as a gentleman of leisure at Phair, Texas, a small settlement just to the southeast of present-day Angleton. This was long before the town of Angleton was founded, and Phair would have been an isolated prairie community. Family tradition tells that Jesse P. Munson was buried in the Stratton Ridge Cemetery at Phair, but no proof of this is known.

Micajah Munson and Elizabeth Everett and Their Family [2]

No record has been found of Micajah B. Munson, the first known son of Jesse Munson, from the date of his birth in South Carolina in 1788 or 1789 until July 1, 1812, when, at about the age of 23, he was commissioned constable of Wilkinson County, Mississippi Territory. This was about the time that the Magee-Gutierrez Expedition was beginning and about a year before the time that it is thought that Henry William Munson joined that expedition. This also indicates that Micajah moved from South Carolina to Mississippi with his father and was raised there.

The next record of Micajah is September 21, 1818, when Pierre LaBorde sold “land and crop” in Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana, to Micajah B. Munson “because Munson had improved the property.” Avoyelles Parish lies just to the east of Rapides Parish and a short distance west of Wilkinson County, Mississippi. Micajah’s land was on the northeast side of Bayou Boeuf not far from the Pearce Plantation and Cheneyville.

There were at about this time also a Samuel Munson and a Samuel Elder Munson living in Rapides Parish. Evidence indicates that the entire Jesse Munson family moved from Wilkinson County, Mississippi, to the vicinity of Rapides Parish, Louisiana, around the time of the deaths of Jesse and Robert Munson in 1815 or 1816 and the marriage of Henry William Munson and Ann Pearce in 1817. Henry William and Ann’s marriage may have been a cause of this, and the absence of any land ownership by father Jesse in Mississippi or Louisiana probably contributed.

Around this time, probably between 1817 and 1819, and probably in Louisiana, Micajah Munson married Elizabeth Everett. She was born in Martin County, North Carolina, in about 1794. Two children were born to them in Louisiana—Ann Elizabeth in about 1820 and Martha Caroline in about 1823. The 1820 census of Rapides Parish shows Micajah Munson with a household of one male aged 26-45, one female aged 16-26, one male aged 16-26, one male under 16, and one female under 10. The male under 16 might have been William Everett, a brother of Elizabeth Everett Munson, as he was with them in the Atascosita Census of 1826 at the age of 21. The male 16-26 years old could have been Jesse P. Munson, born in 1800, who was also found with them in later years in Liberty County, Texas. It appears that Jesse P. lived with older half-brother Micajah’s family after the death of his father in 1815 or 1816.

In 1824 Micajah moved with the entire family to the Atascosita District, and the 1826 census listed him as a saddler, farmer, and stockraiser with thirteen slaves. On July 8, 1826, Micajah appointed William F. Cheney of Cheneyville, Louisiana, as his lawful attorney in all affairs in Rapides Parish.

Micajah and his brother had planned to move from the Trinity River to Austin’s Colony, but Micajah died September 1, 1826 [3], almost two years before Henry William signed a land purchase agreement with Stephen F. Austin on August 7, 1828. Elizabeth Everett Munson did not make the move and a document dated January 27, 1831, in the Atascosita District states that “Elizabeth Munson, widow of M. Munson, deceased, Native of U. S. of the north and residing in this department since 6 years appears and gives the above information and asks that the application for a grant of 4428 acres be approved.” The approval was recommended by Hugh B. Johns[t]on from the Town of Liberty on May 3, 1831, and the land was described as “adjoining and below the league surveyed for Henry W. Munson” [4].

Miriam Partlow [5] reports the following story which is not present in the Munson records:


     George Orr, having divorced his wife, married the widow Munson and moved to her league on the west side of the Trinity River. Both were quite wealthy. While having a bee tree cut on the Munson place, it fell on Orr and killed him. In the meantime, his first wife, Tilpah Berwick. . .married the caretaker of her plantation. . .Benjamin Franklin. By a special Act of the Congress of the Republic of Texas, approved on January 26, 1839, the children of George and Tilpah (Priscella) Orr, Thomas, William and Martha Orr, were declared to be their legitimate children and heirs "capable in law of inheriting their parent's property, in the same manner as if they had been born in lawful wedlock". Evidently this couple had not previously confirmed their marriage vows before Father Muldoon or some other Catholic clergyman.

The above-mentioned William Orr (son of George Orr) later married Martha Munson, the only surviving daughter of Micajah and Elizabeth Munson.

According to Munson records, Elizabeth Everett Munson’s second marriage (third considering the above quotation) was to Major Samuel Whiting on Saturday, January 27, 1838 [6], at Magnolia Hall, the residence of A. Y. Yates, Esq. on Galveston Bay. Jane Rogers Matthews writes:


     Whiting was a Mayflower descendant and an early member of the. . .Atascosito District of Mexico. In the years of the revolution against Mexico, Whiting became part of the Texas Navy, also serving in the cavalry under William Travis whose diary calls him a fine soldier. He held a powerful position as Loan Officer for the Texas Navy. Whiting ran for the office of mayor in Houston, Texas and lost.


Elizabeth Munson grant in LIberty County

Samuel Whiting was a printer in both Houston and Austin during the days of the Republic of Texas and was at one time appointed Public Printer for the Republic. He was editor and publisher of the Houston National Intelligencer, the Austin Daily Bulletin and he printed the first issue of the Austin City Gazette. Matthews continues:


     Whiting often used his paper for his own advantage and was too critical of the Texas army in their destruction of personal property. In particular, he lamented the loss of his favorite bay mare to the Texas army and made a critical observation of Samuel Houston who often drank heavily. As a result, Whiting’s publishing bills for papers, which contained the minutes of the Republic of Texas, were not covered by Sam Houston when he came into office as the President elect of Texas. By then, in 1840, Elizabeth had died and Major Whiting left Texas for New York and California.

A. Y. Yates, Whiting’s cousin, played an important role in the Texas Revolution, being Loan Commissioner. Nothing further is known of this marriage, but Elizabeth Munson Whiting may have moved in especially exciting circles while married to Samuel Whiting during the years of the Republic of Texas.

Elizabeth Everett Munson died February 3, 1840, and her obituary was published in the Houston Morning Star, the first daily newspaper in Texas, on February 20, 1840:


     Departed this life on the 3rd of the present month at her late residence on the Trinity River, Mrs. Elizabeth Whiting, consort of Major Samuel Whiting. Mrs. W. was beloved alike for her amiable and endearing qualities of both mind and heart; and her death is severely felt and lamented by a large circle of friends and relatives who must cherish the memory of one so endeared to them by the social ties of love and friendship.

A Texas Historical Marker commemorating the Liberty, Texas, Bicentennial rests among tangled underbrush on the grant of land first applied for by Micajah Munson and finally granted to Elizabeth Munson. It reads:

1756                                           1956
Liberty Bicentennial
Observance
Elizabeth Munson original Homestead
granted by Republic of Mexico 1831


William Everett, brother to Elizabeth, is listed in the 1826 census of the Atascosita District as 21 years old, single, born in Mississippi, a farmer and stockraiser with one slave over 14 and two under 14. He married Cynthia Riley Pruett (or Prewitt), daughter of neighbors Beasley Pruett and Lucy Simms. Their child, Lucinda Everett, married Jessie Daniel Lum and is apparently the Lucinda Lum who made the affidavits dated July 15, 1889, and December, 1904, which are on file in the Liberty County Courthouse. These affidavits outline the relationships of the members of the Elizabeth Everett Munson family, and their intermarriages with the Pruett, Orr, and Davis families, for the purpose of clarifying title to land passed down from Elizabeth Munson.

The eldest daughter of Micajah and Elizabeth Munson, Ann Elizabeth, was born in Louisiana in about 1820 and died in about 1836. Their second daughter, Martha Caroline Munson, was born in Louisiana in about 1823. She was married three times and had five known children, only one of whom lived to adulthood. Martha first married Edmund Pruett of the Trinity settlement in about 1842, and they had three children, Elizabeth, Edmund Jr. and Lucinda, all of whom died before the age of 10. Edmund was the brother of Cynthia Pruett who married William Everett. Edmund Pruett seems to have died in early 1846. Martha may have lost her mother and her husband at close to the same time, and a letter written by Ann Pearce Munson to her son, Mordello, at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky, dated June 27, 1846, indicates so:


My dear Mordello —
     I will now tell you about our affairs. Your Cousin arrived here shortly after you left. [Mordello's only Munson cousin was Martha.] William [Mordello's brother] returned, stayed a few weeks. . .went to the Trinity and brought Martha and the two children to see us, got ready and with Guy [Bryan] and some others set out for General Taylor's army [The Mexican War of 1846-1848], three weeks since he left and not a word from him. Martha stayed with us, says she would be glad to move by us. I feel for her but know not how to assist her. Gerard gone home with her I look for him the last of the week.

Another letter dated November 28, 1846, tells that Martha is with the family again.

According to the 1850 census for Liberty County, Texas, Martha was then married to William Orr, son of George and Tilpah Berwick Orr, and Jesse P. Munson was living with them . Rogers writes:


     The Orr home, Orr Inn, was the official office for the Mexican officials who visited the colony under the Mexican control of Texas. William Orr was a cattle raiser and died young leaving Martha Caroline, or “Marthy,” with one daughter, Amelia Caroline, who lived to be seven years of age.

William Orr died sometime between 1850 and 1854. Martha Munson then married Isaiah Cates Day of Liberty County sometime around 1855. At that date she would have been only about 32 years old.


Joe and Mattie Day Davis

Isaiah Cates Day was the founder of Dayton, Texas, a town three miles west and across the Trinity River from Liberty, and just north of the Munson league where Isaiah and Martha lived. It was originally called West Liberty, and was considered part of the original town of Liberty. Sometime after 1854 West Liberty became known as Day’s Town, and in the mid-1880s, it was officially renamed Dayton [7].

Isaiah Cates Day, born in Tennessee in 1812, was a cattle raiser who saw the value of the railroads and gave the labor of his men to set the tracks between Houston and Dayton (probably the Texas and New Orleans Railroad that was completed in 1860). His cattle were registered in four counties, and he registered brands for each of his children and grandchildren. Isaiah had been previously married to Rachel Whitlock, daughter of William Whitlock and Mary White who had moved from Nacogdoches to the Atascosita District before 1826. Isaiah and Rachel had three children, Amanda Louisiana who married Young Lafayette Ridley, Mary Elizabeth who married Landon Clay Chambers, and James H. Day who died unmarried at sixteen years of age.

Isaiah and Martha Munson Day had two children, Martha (Mattie) Emily Day, born June 9, 1857, and a second child who died when only one day old. Martha Munson Day died January 15, 1860, in Liberty County at about the age of 37. The earliest marked grave in the Old French Cemetery at Dayton, Texas, is that of Martha Day [8]. Isaiah Cates Day died in Dayton March 10, 1879, at age 66.

Mattie Day, the only surviving grandchild of Micajah and Elizabeth Munson, married Joseph William Davis, born in LaSalle Parish, Louisiana, in 1859, to Moses Davis and Amanda Baldwin. Amanda had previously been married to a Denson and a Darby, and had children by both. Moses Davis was born in Georgia in 1808 and died in Coldspring, Texas, in 1866. His father was Moses Davis of Virginia who fought in the American Revolution before moving to Georgia. Joseph’s mother Emily was the daughter of James Baldwin and Elizabeth White of Georgia. Amanda’s grandfather, William Baldwin, married Elizabeth Kimbrough, daughter of William Kimbrough. William Baldwin and William Kimbrough were veterans of the American Revolution. The Baldwin Plantation burned twice during the conflict sending the family to Wilkes County, Georgia, as one of the settling families.

William Owens Baldwin, William’s son, married Celia Fitzpatrick whose father, Benjamin Fitzpatrick, was the governor of Alabama. This brought the families together after the loss of William Baldwin’s father, David, and his brother from fever during their fight in the siege of Augusta. William Baldwin wrote a song called “Wait for the Wagons” to encourage Governor Fitzpatrick not to run for President of the Southern States, but instead to retire to his country home. According to the Antebellum Papers on the Fitzpatrick family, this is what the governor did.

Joseph William Davis was a student in one of the first classes at Baylor College in Waco. After his marriage to Martha Emily Day, they had a home in Houston where Joe owned a carriage company, and another in Dayton where he owned a lumber mill. He was a member of the Free Masons and had completed his thirty-second degree. He never received the coveted Mason award in Europe that he had earned as he died of cancer of the throat before it could be presented.

Joe Davis was a pioneer in the oil business. He named his company J.W. Oil Company, and later changed it to Paraffine Oil. He sold the company to Joe and Frank Bonner who later sold their holdings to Humble Oil.

Joe and Mattie Day Davis had six children as follows:


  1. William Denson Davis b. January 1875
  2. Mannie Willis Davis b. October 22, 1876
  3. Mary Cates Davis b. October 8, 1878
  4. Lady Eugenia Davis b. July 1884
  5. Mosie Marshall Davis b. September 19, 1887
  6. Douglass Rice Davis b. September 11, 1888

Joseph William Davis died in Dayton, Texas, in 1917 and is buried in Glenwood Cemetery in Houston. Mattie continued to live in the Dayton home until 1926 when it was destroyed by fire. Daughter Mosie and her three daughters were at Mattie’s for the Christmas holidays when the Davis home burned. Mosie told the girls to put on their shoes and socks; the house was on fire. The only objects saved were a porcelain bird and a chair handmade by Micajah Munson. Mattie sat on the chair and watched as her home burned to the ground. Soon after, Mattie moved in with her unmarried daughter Cate who had her own home in Dayton. Martha Emily Day Davis died in February 1940, at age 82, and was laid to rest beside her husband in Glenwood Cemetery.


Descendants of Joseph W. and Martha E. Day Davis

William Denson Davis, oldest child of Joe and Mattie Day Davis, was born January 1875 in Coldspring, Texas. He was named for his father’s half-brother, Colonel William Denson of Galveston. “Denny,” as he was called, married Mabel Entzminger, and they lived in Dayton, Texas. He and Mabel had three children, Mattie, Mabel and Joe Dan. Denny Davis died in 1913 at age 38, and is buried in Linney Cemetery in Dayton.

Joe and Mattie’s second child and oldest daughter, born October 22, 1876, was named Mannie Willis Davis for her grandmother, Amanda Baldwin Davis, and Joe’s half-brother, Willis Darby. Mannie was 16 years of age when she met her future husband, William Benjamin Bradshaw from Simpson County, Kentucky, who was in Dayton, Texas, building a two-story Queen Anne house for the Davis family. By 1898 the Bradshaws were living in Seguin, Texas, where William was running the seed mill and lumberyard. William and Mannie Davis Bradshaw had four children, Mary Modena, Joe Davis, Willie Alice, and Enola who died of diphtheria at age seven.

And since on San Jacinto’s field
You glorious victory won
And freedom from Tyrant hands
You wrestled for your sons
The world entire has honored you
But Texas more than all
For ‘twas for her you fought so well
And hers your dauntless soul
That bid you rise. She loved you men;
She loved your courage bold.
          Part 1 of “Untitled”
               By Modena Bradshaw
                    4/21/1918

Mary Modena Bradshaw was born prematurely on December 24, 1898, in Seguin, after her mother had slipped on ice on her way home from church. She weighed just over a pound, but miraculously survived. She married Emmett Nelson, had six children, and was an English teacher and poet. Modena died June 11, 1976.

Joe Davis Bradshaw was born October 22, 1908. He was a striking young man at six feet, five inches tall with clear blue eyes and a ready smile. He married Gladys Barkley and had three sons and a daughter. On February 10, 1944, shortly before he was to leave home to serve in the Air Force, Joe was working on his pasture fence when a disturbed neighbor woman, thinking he was fencing her in, killed him with her shotgun.

Willie Alice Bradshaw was born September 18, 1910, in Dayton, Texas. Alice was Valedictorian of her class, and entered the University of Texas at age fifteen. She married E.A. Rogers in Houston in 1934 and became his partner in the Art Engraving Company. They made the engraving plates for all three Houston newspapers. The Rogers had three daughters. When they divorced, Alice became an editor for the Houston Chronicle, and then for the in-house Houston Club Magazine. She was a pioneer woman in advertising, and won the Silver Medal award from the Federation of Advertising. In addition, for over fifty years she wrote and edited the AdVents newsletter for the Houston Advertising Federation, and served as their secretary.

William Benjamin Bradshaw died April 27, 1917, at age 52. Mannie Bradshaw died his widow on June 19, 1948 in Houston, and is buried in Dayton Cemetery.

Mary Cates Davis, third child and second daughter, was born October 8, 1878 in Coldspring, Texas. She was named for her great-grandmother, Mary Cates Day, mother of Isaiah. Cate, who never married, lived in Dayton. Her mother moved in with her after losing her own home to fire during the 1926 Christmas holidays.

Lady Eugenia Davis, fourth child and third daughter, born July 1884 in Coldspring, Texas, is said to have named herself. She married George Colice Langlois. The Langlois had twins who did not survive infancy, and two daughters, Laura Cates and Mosie Marie, who both died tragically. Lady Eugenia had an interest in genealogy, and joined the Daughters of the American Revolution under her ancestor, William Baldwin of Wilkes County, Georgia. Lady Eugenia Langlois died December 5, 1958 in Dayton, and is buried in Glenwood Cemetery in Houston.

Mosie Marshall Davis, fifth child and fourth daughter, was born September 19, 1887, in Dayton, Texas. She was named for her grandfather, Moses Davis. Mosie married John Bell Ferguson Jr., son of independent oilman John Bell Ferguson and Leila Trimble of Amite, Mississippi. Leila Trimble was the daughter of Judge James Trimble of Tennessee who in 1818 had taught law to Sam Houston in his Nashville office. John and Mosie Davis Ferguson had three daughters, Leila Rosalie, Lady Nan and Janis.

Leila Rosalie Ferguson was born in Brazoria County, Texas, September 19, 1909. She married James Henry Frazier. Leila at age 96 (April 2006), lives in Houston. Lady Nan Ferguson, was born November 5, 1911, and died in October 1993. She married E.V. LaCour of Lake Charles, Louisiana. Youngest daughter, Janis Ferguson, was born July 25, 1918. She married Duane William Allan of Gulfport, Mississippi.

Leila and Lady Nan Ferguson were students at Sophie Newcomb College in New Orleans. The three sisters were lovers of art and music and their lives reflect this, particularly in their needlework designs.

In 1961 the James Bell Ferguson Jr. family was living in Mississippi City, Mississippi. Mosie Davis Ferguson was then the only living great-grandchild of Micajah and Elizabeth Munson. Mosie Ferguson died July 19, 1984, in Lake Charles, Louisiana, and is buried in Gulfport, Mississippi.

Douglass Rice Davis, youngest child and second son, was born in Houston, Texas, on September 11, 1888. He was named for the Davis’ Houston neighbors, Judge Douglass and William Marsh Rice. Douglass married Hilda Pickett, daughter of Colonel E.B. Pickett. They had four children, Ellen Rose, Dorothy, Hilda Ann and Douglas Rice Jr., all born in Coleman County, Texas.

Ellen Rose Davis, born August 10, 1914, married Robert Browning and had three children, Charles Robert, Mary Elizabeth and Richard Davis. Ellen Rose Browning died March 29, 1988, at age 73; Dorothy Davis, born June 9, 1916, married Milton Sipes and had two children, Stephen Douglass and Shelly. Dorothy Sipes died June 29, 1995 in Liberty County, at age 79; Hilda Ann “Missy” Davis, born November 13, 1919, married Kenneth Gonzales and had two children including a daughter, Barbara who was born in Liberty County in 1943. Douglass Rice Davis Jr., born April 5, 1924, married Patsy Ann Brown and had two sons and two daughters, Douglass III, Raymond Earl, Margaret Ann and Susan Elizabeth. After the birth of Douglass III in Guadalupe County, the family returned to Dayton, Texas, where the younger three children were born. Douglass Rice Davis Jr. died January 30, 1989 in Liberty County, at age 64.

Douglass Rice Davis (I) died in 1940 in Dayton, and is buried in the Liberty County Cemetery.



Several generations of Liberty County young ladies who descended from Micajah and Elizabeth Everett Munson attended a finishing school run by Swedish women who were expert at needlework. There they learned tatting and cutwork and French lace making, as well as embroidery. Only Mosie Davis attended Mulholland School in San Antonio when it became available to young ladies.

Micajah and Elizabeth Everett Munson had six great-grandchildren and eighteen great-great grandchildren, five of whom died young, and one, Leila Ferguson Frazier, who is living in 2006. Thus Micajah and Elizabeth Munson have a large family of descendants through their daughter Martha Munson and her daughter Mattie Day. Chart 5 outlines the descendants of Micajah and Elizabeth Everett Munson.

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