Typed by: Kay Cunningham
JONATHAN HARLAN
Surnames: HARLAN, HENRY, GEORGE, MITCHELL, WRIGHT, WALLACE,
AMAN, BELL, LEWIS, ERSKINE, HUDSON, CASTLEBERRY, BOWMAN, ANDERSON, QUARTOM
(sp?).
Jonathan Harlan, b October 21, 1828, in Parke County,
Indiana, d March 23, 1891, at Thornton, Limestone County, Texas and buried
there -- was a son of Dr. Isaiah and Nancy (Henry) Harlan, who brought their
family to Texas in the Fall of 1834. When his father died in 1847,
Jonathan was the eldest son at home, and when the mother died in 1852, he was
named the administrator of the parent's estates. Jonathan lived in
Montgomery County, Texas, where he married first on January 8, 1857, to Emily
George, who died on May 24, 1860, at Blue Ridge, Falls County, Texas after
their only son was born.
George Isaiah Harlan, b May 2, 1860, in Falls County, d
November 22, 1867, and buried by his mother in Blue Ridge Cemetery.
Neither he nor his mother have tombstones.
Jonathan had settled his young wife on his portion of
his father's land in East Falls Co., soon after his marriage, and remained
there until 1885. He enlisted April 15, 1862, in the Company F, 20th
Texas Infantry, of the Confederate States Army---his nephew, John Newton
Mitchell---son of Memnon A. and Martha (Harlan) Mitchell----enlisting with him.
They served other places----in Arkansas, where the nephew died; and
Jonathan was later in the battle to retake Galveston from the Yankees.
On February 6, 1866 in Limestone Co., Texas, Jonathan
Harlan was married a 2nd time to Mary Elizabeth Wright, b January 20, 1848 in
Hempstead County, Arkansas, d August 17, 1922 in Thornton, Limestone County,
Texas and buried there -- a daughter of Baptist minister, Reverend Benjamin Lee
Wright, b August 11, 1819 in Lincoln County, Georgia, and his wife, Martha R.
Wallace, b January 20, 1822 in Arkansas, who were residing in Limestone County
by 1860.
Jonathan Harlan served a number of years as a School
Trustee at Blue Ridge, Texas, and the children of Jonathan and his second wife,
Mary Elizabeth (Wright) Harlan, were all born there before the family moved
away in 1885:
Silas B. Harlan, b November 10, 1867, d before 1907 and
buried in Thornton Cemetery, Limestone County, Texas -- was not married.
Martha Harlan, born and died in 1869 in Blue Ridge,
Falls County, Texas -- probably buried in Blue Ridge.
William Lee Harlan, b August 22, 1870, d 1921 in Ellis
County, Texas. "Lee" married to Willie (maiden name unknown),
and a son, Jesse, and a daughter, Arley, who were both unmarried in 1921.
John Everett Harlan, b January 12, 1873, died (date
unknown), and buried Thornton Cemetery.
Isaiah Elijah Harlan, (called "Buggy"), b
March 10, 1876, d ca 1946 in or near Hines, Texas, and buried there. He
married Maggie Quartom (sp?), and had seven children: Lester, Marion. Lucy Mae,
Bendal, Juanita, Gussie, and Cyril Harlan, who died as a baby and was buried in
Thornton Cemetery.
Frank Burleson Harlan, b May 10, 1878, d 1932 at
Thornton and buried in Thornton Cemetery -- was a farmer and a fireman at the
Gin. He married ca 1903 to Georgia Aman, b 1884, d 1967, and buried in
Thornton Cemetery -- daughter of Jack and E. A. Aman, and they had James
Parnell Harlan, b May 31, 1907, who married Katie Lee Bell, b July 31, 1913, d
May 10, 1982 -- a daughter of Albert Hilliary and Florence Mary (Lewis) Bell,
and granddaughter of James Augustus and Amanda (Erskine) Bell -- all buried in
Garrett Cemetery at Stranger, Falls County, Texas. The three children of James
Parnell and Katie Lee (Bell) Harlan were James Lee, Melvin, Eunice Marie
Harlan. The second child of Frank Burelson and Georgia (Aman) Harlan was
Charles Harlan, b September 3, 1909, who resides in Thornton, Texas, and
married Ruthie Mae Hudson, of Thornton. The last two children were
"Dock" Harlan, b ca 1911, d of diphtheria about age 6 years; and
Julia Harlan, b November 15, 1915, who resides in Conroe, Texas, who married
first to Alton Castleberry, and second to Jake Bowman.
Marion Penn Harlan, (called "Pet"), b August
27, 1880, died of a gunshot wound in a hunting accident at age twenty years.
He was not married, and was buried in Thornton Cemetery.
Lucy Josephine Harlan, b December 29, 1883, died at
Reklaw, Texas -- married Andrew Peter Anderson, and had one daughter, Allene
Anderson, who died in an automobile accident.
Copyright Permission granted to Theresa Carhart for printing the biographies of
these Falls County Families to this Web page.
"Families of Falls County", Compiled and Edited by the Falls County
Historical Commission, page 213 column 2 and page 214 column 1 and 2.
Member of Falls County Historical Commission.