Emily M Hulsey King's Headstone

 Emily was buried in the Abilene Municipal Cemetery in Abilene, Taylor County, Texas 

William King and Emily Hulsey Marriage License

 

Ella Vermell King McNair Obituary

 Papa was so distressed when the doctor's suggested that they take her legs. She had suffered a stroke and was surviving as a vegetable in the Vernon Convalescent Home on Texas Street. He declared that she would go to Heaven with her whole body and soul.

Mama & Papa Receive a Visit

 Charles Franklin McNair (Papa) & Ella Vermell King McNair (Mama)

Receive A Visit From Their Children

This is an article titled "Lockett Briefs" from the Vernon Daily Record on 15 Jue 1961. Of interest to me is the family of Rev and Mrs. Frank McNair, my great-grandparents. Lockett Briefs details who was in town visiting family...or who was out of town visiting relatives...or who was attending a funeral, etc. 

6th paragraph

My Sources for Ella Vermell (King) McNair

 I knew her personally. I grew up not far from where Mama and Papa lived. 

Year: 1900; Census Place: Moody, McLennan, Texas; Roll: T623_1658; Page: 2A; Enumeration District: 89.
 
Year: 1910; Census Place: Abilene Ward 4, Taylor, Texas; Roll: ; Page: ; Enumeration District: ; Image: .
 
Year: 1920; Census Place: Justice Precinct 6, Wilbarger, Texas; Roll: T625_1855; Page: 5A; Enumeration District: 141; Image: .
 
Year: 1930; Census Place: Precinct 2, Wilbarger, Texas; Roll: ; Page: ; Enumeration District: ; Image: .
 
Year: 1940; Census Place: Electra, Wichita, Texas; Roll: T627_4164; Page: 1A; Enumeration District: 243-53.
 
Texas, Death Certificates, 1903–1982, Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., Provo, UT, USA, 2013.
 
Texas, U.S., Select County Marriage Index, 1837-1965. FHL Film Number 988614. McLennan, Texas.
 
Newspapers.com Obituary Index, 1800s-current. The Vernon Daily Record.

Ella McNair's Possessions

 These are in the possession of my cousin, Pamela Jackson Torbet. 

Ella McNair's Personal Items

 

Ella McNair's Treasures

 These are in the possession of my cousin, Pamela Jackson Torbet.

Hull pottery

Limoges China

Ella McNair's Iron

 In possession of Pamela Jackson Torbet

Ella Vermell (King) McNair

 The following was written in 1990 and sent to me by Ella's daughter, Ova. Ova was my grandmother's sister. I remember the first time I talked to her on the phone, I cried because her voice sounded like Mimi (Ava Ella McNair Jones).

 RECOLLECTIONS FROM A DAUGHTER

                   by Ova Orene (McNair) Kerr

  
     Mama first saw Papa when he came to their house to apply
for a teacher's job.  Mama's father, W. L. King, was on the
school board.  Mama and Aunt Rilla were together in the
field, each saying, "He's mine."  They threw cotton balls at
him.
 
     Mama and Rilla eventually went to school under Papa.
Mama said that when she could she would slip out for school
with her Sunday dress on.
 
     Papa could have made a Red Skelton type of comic.  He
would put on skits at B.Y.P.W. socials and have everyone
convulsed with laughter, me included.  He did "Mary Had a
Little Lamb" laughing and then crying, I remember.
 
     Papa was a good preacher.  I've never had a pastor that
comes up to him.  He was well-read and studied a lot.  The
librarian at Vernon said he read more than anyone, and I read
most of the books he checked out.
 
     I attended Lockett School from the 5th grade to the 10th
grade.  We walked nearly 2 miles to and from school.  The car
was îÑïÑôÑ used to take us.  Early in the 1930's during January,
there was a family of seven that Papa was taking care of.
Ice covered the ground for nearly the whole month, but every
morning, Papa would take a kettle of hot water, start the
Model A and take fresh butter, milk, oranges, etc., to this
large family.  They lived miles in the country.
 
     He never aspired to be more than a country preacher.
That's what he wanted to be.  He took care of his flock.
 
     One member was having trouble with alcohol.  Papa
learned that the problem stemmed from this man's visits to
town on Saturday nights.  Papa went to town with him for six
weeks.  The man told him, "I think I'm okay."  But Papa
insisted on several more weeks.  The man overcame his
problem.
 
     In his later years, Papa ran into a man in Vernon who
introduced Papa to his friend as the man who saved his life.
The man had been very ill and was dying from an infected
tooth.  The Dr. had told this man that he should call his
minister.  When Papa arrived, he asked for lots of chewing
tobacco and used this with hot water and spent the night
placing hot packs on the man.  The man recovered.
 
     I never saw Papa or Mama sick until they were on their
death beds.  Papa was 90.  Mama was 81.
 
     I still use some of the remedies they used.
 
     Mama was an "angel" as my sister Lillian said to me
before her death.  Mama was the oldest child in a family of
10 girls and 4 boys.  she helped raise at least 10 of them.
No one could claim a better family than hers.
 
     Mama was very strong - physically, emotionally and
spiritually.  I cannot remember a single quarrel between Mama
and Papa.  With us, she was the kindest and most genteel
person one could imagine.  She never exhibited anger towards
me.  She loved everyone and never gossiped or maligned
anyone.
 
     While at Lockett where Papa was Pastor 10 years, she
served as a midwife with the doctor for many church members.
This was true of other pastorates as well.
 
     Mama canned and put up jelly and preserves.  She quilted
and sewed.  She shared with neighbors and us.  I've known her
to take many lovely trays of meals to the sick or shut-ins.
 
     Proverbs 31:10-31 was read at her funeral and described
her perfectly.  I still miss her.

Ella Vermell (King) McNair

In 1991, I put together my first booklet for the McNair family. I was a fledgling genealogist and I had the help of my mother and my grandmother's sister, Ova McNair Kerr. This post is what Mother (Carolita Quillin) wrote for that booklet.

RECOLLECTIONS FROM A GRANDDAUGHTER
 
          by Carolita Jones Quillin - September 1990
 
 
I REMEMBER MAMA.  Her name was Ella.  I called her Mama.....
 
     Ella Vermell King McNair was born November 6, 1883 in
Dalton, Georgia, Murray County.  She was the first of 14
children born to William Lazarus and Emily Melissa Hulsey
King.  When Ella was 7 years old in the year 1890, the family
moved from Georgia to Texas in covered wagons.  There were 6
children at that time.  They settled in Erath County at Bluff
Dale.  One sister was born there.  The family then moved to
Moody, Texas, in McLennan County (Waco area).  There, 4 more
sisters and 1 brother was born.
 
     One of Ella's school teachers was Frank McNair.  She
married him on June 6, 1903, in Bethel Baptist Chapel,
Bethany, Texas, McLennan County.  After their marriage,
Ella's parents moved to Tye, Texas, in Taylor County in 1903.
Ella's first child, Ava, was born 21 April 1904, in Eddy,
Texas, McLennan County.  When Ava was 19 days old, Ella and
Frank moved to Abilene, Texas, Taylor County, in 1904.
 
     After their move to Abilene sometime between 1905-06, a
son, Bernie, was born.  Frank took Bernie fishing with him
and they sat on the damp ground.  Bernie took acute Brights
Disease and lived only 5 days.  He is buried in Jones County,
somewhere near Leuders and Avoca.  There is a place there
called Bunkers Hill (Fort Phantom Hill?) where at one time a
battle was fought.  Ella and Frank were crushed by his death
and Frank never wanted anyone to mention him.  Ella had saved
one of his little suits and a pair of his button-up high top
shoes.  When Frank found out she had them stored along with
the love letters he had written her, he was very unhappy.
When Ella was stricken with  a stroke and was in the
convalescent home, Frank burned the clothes and all the
letters and tore up the trunk they were stored in.  They said
Bernie looked like Ella.  He had dark skin and eyes.
     A brother of Ella's, Perry King who was an ordained
Baptist minister, baptized Frank.  Ella had another brother,
Boyd King, who was in full time ministry.  Boyd was a singer,
and he would lead the singing and Perry would preach in
revivals.  Frank said he received a call to be a preacher in
1902, but he didn't surrender to the ministry until 1909.
Another daughter, Ova, was born in 1913.  Lillian, the fourth
child, was born in 1914.  Ella went with Frank a lot as he
traveled throughout surrounding counties as an Associational
Missionary. They traveled by horse and buggy.
 
     Ella was a slender, gaunt person.  Her skin was olive,
and her hair and eyes were dark.  Her eyes were piercing.
She always claimed that her people were Black Dutch from
Wales.  She wore her hair combed back from her face and in a
bun held in place by big, brown hair pins at the nape of her
neck.  I never remember her wearing but one style of shoe,
black ones that laced in front with a clunky heel, and she
always wore them with heavy, cotton stockings.  She was a
dutiful and devoted wife and mother.
 
     Ella was a very reserved person, and there was never
very much nonsense about her.  The family was loving, but not
at all demonstrative with their affection.  She had a sense
of humor and I can still hear her "guffaw" and say, "oh,
pshaw" when she was amused.
 
     Ella and Frank raised very large gardens, and they spent
their time during the growing season tending it.  They canned
and preserved almost everything they ate.  They had a cellar
with many shelves filled with jars of beautiful fruits and
vegetables of every kind.  She was a good cook and made the
best biscuits I ever ate.
 
     We went to visit them, but not very often.  We would
always have to spend the night.  I always loved going to
their house.  They had a piano and I thought all their stuff
and their house was really neat and different from what I was
used to.  They came to visit us, too, every once in awhile.
 
     She was healthy and never went to the doctor much.  They
would use old home remedies and methods in treating aches,
hurts, and pains.  I remember they would drink sassafras tea.
Ella was a coffee lover and drank lots of it.  She dipped
snuff but was clean and discreet about it.  There were always
spit cans sitting around.  Frank dipped snuff too, and they
kept us in drinking glasses that they bought their snuff in.
 
     In 1953 Ella and Frank celebrated their Golden Wedding
Anniversary at their home in Lockett.  Thirty members of the
family gathered for lunch and throughout the afternoon
approximately 150 guest attended the celebration.  When Ella
died, they had been married 61 years.
 
     Ella suffered a stroke, and she was in the Vernon Clinic
Hospital in Vernon, Texas, for a short time.  Then she was
moved to a nursing home on Texas Street in Vernon.  Her
condition deteriorated progressively, and she didn't know
anyone.  The doctors wanted to amputate a leg, but Frank
wouldn't consent to it.  Ava and Lillian stayed with her
around the clock for the last month of her life.  After 6-8
months, she died on October 15, 1963.  Ella was buried in
Wilbarger Memorial Park in Vernon, Texas, Wilbarger County.
 

Ava Ella McNair 1904 & Her Aunt Elizabeth Rhae King 1902

 This Photo Has A Great Story!

Armistice Day 11 November 1919

My grandmother, Ava Ella McNair, was born in 1904. Her parents were Charles Franklin McNair and Ella Vermell (King). Ava was the oldest child of 5. 

Ella Vemell King was born in 1883 to William Lazarus King and Emily M (Hulsey) King. Ella married Frank McNair in 1903. William and Emily had 14 children, one of whom was Elizabeth Rhae King born in 1902. 

Ava and her aunt Rhae were school girls together. They are picture here on Armistice Day, 11 November 1919. 

Frank & Ella's Wedding Day

 Charles Franklin McNair

Ella Vermell King

Married 7 June 1903

Moody, McLennan County, Texas

These are the original wedding photos found in Mother's scrapbook. 

Information given by Carolita Jones Quillin

Corrections made by Nancy Quillin Long

The McNair's were Mother's grandparents. She wrote this information from the top of her head. It served as great leads for me, but the information is not accurate. Please refer to my information below.

CORRECTIONS TO MOTHER'S INFORMATION:

Emily Hulsey's family came to America in the 1600s, most likely from England.

Mama's (Ella Vermell King) grandmother on the Hulsey side was Sarah Haney. Ella's mother was Emily M Hulsey who had a sister named Kansas Lydia Hulsey.

Grandmother King's maiden name was Hood, not Grandmother Hulsey. The Hood name comes from our King family, not our Hulsey line.

Our connection to Ft. Hood would be through our Henderson/McNair line. Mack McNair married Sarah Henderson. Way back on our Henderson line, a Samuel Henderson married Elizabeth Calloway. Her sister Lydia Calloway would be the connection that we have to Ft. Hood.

My McNair line was most likely from Ireland, just as mother said above, but they came to America in the early 1700s.

Schroeder name is close (but no cigars ;). Papa's (Frank McNair) grandfather was John McNair who married Mary Ann Sherertz. 

Amazing how "word of mouth" information can change history. 

Memory Lane 4

 Daddy and I continued on with our journey. We were now viewing most of Mother's history. 

My Direct Hulsey Lineage

Ava Ella (Jones) McNair (1904-1985)

Ava's mother:

 Ella Vermell (McNair) King (1883-1964)

            m. William Lazarus King (1859-1949)

William Lazarus King married Emily Melisaa Hulsey

Emily Melissa Hulsey (1862-1933)
            m. William Lazarus King

Emily Melissa's father:
Jefferson Parks Hulsey (abt 1828-1909)
            m. Sarah Haney (1826-1900)

Jefferson Parks father:

Pleasant Hulsey (1792-1865)

            m. Elizabeth Lucille Byrd (1795-1845)

Pleasant's father:

James J Hulsey (1754-1827)

            m. Ann ? (1758-1831)

James J's father:

Charles Hulsey (II) (abt 1725-1792)

            m. Hannah Witt (1725-1805)

Charles's father:

Charles Hulsey (bef 1695-1729)

            m. Susannah ?

My Direct King Lineage

 Ava Ella (McNair) King (1904=1985)

            m. J.C. Jones (1902-1972)
Ava Ella's father:
William Lazarus King (1859-1949)
            m. Emily Melissa Hulsey (1862-1933)

William L King's father:
John King (1829-1864)

            m. Ava Rilla Hood (1832-1885)

John King's father:

James King (1804-1884)

            m. unknown, possibly ???Berry (1806-1860)