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Additional
members & middle/maiden names/info added by Will James
On the advice of his friend Lewis
Chiles, Andrew brought the train all the way south to
New Orleans, so that they could use the
larger (and safer) barges to cross the
Mississippi, out of concern for the women & children. Those
barges brought them north for some distance, possably up the Red River
to Natachitoches, Louisiana, and they finished the journey using the Old
San Antonio Road. This list was made by searching the 1850 Census
of Caroline County, Virginia, the 1860
Census of Burleson County, Texas, and
the Cemetery Records of Burleson County, Texas to compile this list of
probable members of that 1854 wagon train. Some may have died during the
trip and some may have joined the wagon train after it left Caroline
County, Virginia. Andrew Sidney Broaddus led the group, possibly
by virtue of his many relatives (at least 38) involved. He brought
his wife, their thirteen children, one or two sons-in-law, and six
grandchildren, as well as his sister-in-law and ten members of her two
son’s families. – Narris Braly & Will James
Andrew Sidney Broaddus
Martha Ellen Broaddus - wife
Lucy Ann Broaddus
Oscar L. Broaddus
Reuben
Garland Broaddus
Leland Woodford
Broaddus
Martha Semple Broaddus
Cornelia W. Broaddus
Henry Clay Broaddus
Charles Andrew
Broaddus
Edward Kingsford Broaddus
Harriet C. (Hattie) Broaddus
Virginia Ellen (Nellie) Broaddus
Samuel J. Murray
Elizabeth Ann (Betsy) Broaddus
Murray – 2nd daughter of Andrew Sidney Broaddus
Andrew C.
Murray
James Murray
Thomas Murray
Henry C. Smoot – may have been deceased just prior to
or even during the trip
Mary E Broaddus Smoot – eldest daughter of Andrew
Sidney Broaddus (remarries Thomas Farmer)
Lelia E. Smoot
Georgia Anne Smoot
Julia Belle Smoot
Bonaparte Farmer
Phebe Farmer
Thomas Frank
Farmer – future husband of Mary E Broaddus Smoot (married Sept. 25, 1855
in Caldwell)
Reuben G. Farmer
Andrew J. Farmer
Joseph Webster
Farmer
Harriet R. Broaddus Sale (mother of Thomas R & John
Woodford Sale & of sister of Martha Ellen Broaddus.)
Thomas R. Sale
Mary E. Sale
Lucius
W. Sale
Nora C. Sale
Thomas Sale
John Woodford
Sale
Julia Ann Atkinson Sale
Ada A. Sale
Annie Sale
Catherine (Kate) Sale
Lewis L.
Houston
Mary C. Houston
Sibernia P. E. Houston
Shelton M. B. Houston
Lewis H.
Houston
Thomas C. Houston
Marshia Houston
Levinias Houston
Charles H. Houston
Allisa Houston
Christopher C. Shackleford
Parthima L. Shackleford
William M. Shackleford
Elizabeth T.
Shackleford
John Goodwin
Sarah A. Goodwin
Jane D. Goodwin
Henry C. Goodwin
Florence Goodwin
Jack Goodwin
Joseph Goodwin
Thomas T. Goodwin
Winniefred Goodwin
Archibald
Goodwin
Thomas Goodwin
Anna Goodwin
Winifred Goodwin
Mary
Goodwin
Ralph Goodwin
George C. Talifairo
Jacob Ross
Nancy B. Ross
Elizabeth Ross
Margaret Ross
Marie Ross
David Ross
Mildred Ross
John Longwell
Martha Holloway Longwell
Anna B. Longwell
Lucy Longwell
William I. Jones
Sarah Jones
Lawrence B. Jones
William S. Jones
Octavious Jones
Margaret E.
Jomes
George S. Jones
Charles L. Jones
John C. Jones
The spelling of
the names is from Census Records and tombstones. The family members are
in the order that they were in the Carolina County,
Virginia, Census or the Burleson County,
Texas, Census.
Additional Information
Submitted by:
Will James
Additional Information on the
Wagon Train to Texas
- 1854
For Texas
The Richmond, Virginia Enquirer of the
29th ultimo, says:
A sight, novel and interesting, was witnessed by
many of our citizens on Wednesday last. A train of wagons, numbering 28
in all, accompanied by about 75 persons, male and female, old and young,
passed through our city, on their way to Texas. The train was one-fourth
of a mile in length, and with the large company, numerous guns, dogs,
and other paraphernalia, for a long journey, formed a sight of no little
interest. Upon inquiry we learned that the party consisted of 10 or more
families, from the neighborhood of Sparta, Carolina County, who had
united for the purpose of forming a settlement in Texas, and trying
their fortunes in a fertile region of that new portion of our
confederacy. The company we learn, embraced the families of Andrew S.
Broaddus (with thirteen interesting children), John W. Sale, Widow
Thomas Sale, N. B. Farmer, Claiborne Houston, Lunsford Houston, Mrs.
Harriet Sale, John Longwell, Samuel J. Murray, Mrs. Smoot, and perhaps
others. They intend making the entire journey by land, and have ample
preparations for a comfortable and economical trip. They have started
with a liberal amount of the "creature comforts," have fine camp
equipage, for their accommodation at night and meal hours; and a social
material which ensures the long journey to be one of pleasure more than
fatigue. While it is a matter of regret to see so many of our good
citizens leaving the Old Dominion, the homes of their fathers and the
scenes of many endearing associations, we part with them with our
earnest wishes for their health, happiness and prosperity in the distant
place selected for their future homes. They go, we learn, to homes
already selected. Like wise men, in the first place, they commissioned
Mr. Broaddus, a gentleman of intelligence, to visit Texas and select an
advantageous location for a "Caroline settlement." Now, they go there at
an auspicious season to commence farming and to prepare for the next
crops.
Source: The Texas Ranger and Lone Star, Vol. 6 – Num. 1,
Ed. 1
Washington, Texas, Saturday, October 28, 1854
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