ANDREW JACKSON PEACOCK
Sailed on the Tartar"Amongst the people, there was a kind boy, named Andrew Jackson Peacock, with a very adventurous spirit, who faced the unknown all alone. This young man was not satisfied being alone for a long time. He loved Lockie Trigg and got married just after landing in Rio."
The Demopolis Times, Thu, Nov 9, 1914 Page 1
CAPT. A. J. PEACOCK DEAD
Another of the Thin, Grey Line Responds to Call of Taps
Andrew Jackson Peacock was born in Georgia, November 24, 1834; was converted quite a young man, and joined the Methodist church; was happily married to Miss Lockie N. Trigg, August 29, 1869, and peacefully fell asleep November 15, 1914.
When a young man he located in Gonzales, Texas, living there until the outbreak of the Civil War, when as a Confederate soldier he went to do service for his country. He enlisted at the beginning, gallantly serving until the close under Gen. Forrest, whom he greatly loved.
Returning to his old home and finding conditions so changed with strife prevailing as a result of war, he decided to move and located at Sao Paulo, Brazil, where he met and married Miss. Trigg.
Captain Peacock was a member of the Masonic Lodge. He was a kind, loving father and a faithful friend. He leaves seven children to mourn his loss, Dr. L. Peacock, Blocton, Ala.; Clarence Peacock, Florida; Misses Daisy and Nellie Peacock, Elmore; Marvin and Vernon Peacock, Old Spring Hill, Ala.
He was ill only one day. In the morning apparently in his usual health, before another dawn, the Death angel visited that home of love and happiness, entered, and whispered to the sufferer, "Come up higher into the eternal garner of God's love." The manly form grown frail from seventy-nine years of pilgrimage grew still and the life which had been such a blessing in that household begun anew in "the house not made with hands."
MILITARY:
Name: Andrew Jackson Peacock
Birth Date: 24 Nov 1833
Birth Place: USA, Texas, Gongola
Enlistment Date: 18 Apr 1861
Enlistment Place: Texas, USA
Enlistment Age: 27
Regiment or Unit: Willis' Texas Battalion
Company Unit: A
Company Unit Name: Gen. Wan's (?) Texas Rangers
Enlistment Info: Texas, Gongola, Private
Military Engagement Info: Continued until surrendered in 1865. I was Captain of my Company the last two years of the War. Paroled at Canton, Mississippi.
Remarks: Address 1907-08: Old Spring Hill, Alabama
Author: Personal Statement, Census, Tax Assessor Marengo County 1907-08
The Montgomery Advertiser, Sat. Apr 27, 1901 Page 2
MEETING OF CAMP GRACIE
Delegates to the Memphis Reunion Are Chosen
Demopolis, April 26-- (Special) -- Pursuant to call there was a meeting of the members of Camp Gracie, U.C.V., No. 508, held here yesterday. On the motion of Mr. George J. Michael, all the present officers were re-elected. Since the last meeting one officer, B. C. Adams, Fourth Lieutenant Commander, and two comrades have died. This motion was carried unanimously and Mr. A. J. Peacock was elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Fourth Lieutenant Commander Adams.
The Blocton Enterprise, Thu. Nov. 19, 1914 Page 1
Dr. L.E. Peacock was called to his home at Old Spring Hill Saturday on account of the serious illness of his father, Capt. A. J. Peacock, and later advises received announced his death. Mrs. Peacock left Sunday to be with them. Capt. Peacock had been in bad health for some time but was feeling better. His last illness was of short duration, and came as a shock to the family, especially to the doctor, who had been planning a visit to his father in the near future. His numerous friends of this place deeply sympathize with him and the family in their sorrow which has come to them.
Andrew and Lockie would have seven children:
1.
Lovick Edward Peacock
BIRTH 11 JUN 1870 • São Paulo, Brazil
DEATH 23 DEC 1948 • West Blocton, Bibb County, Alabama, USA
Married: 24 Sep 1902 • Marietta, Cobb, Georgia, USA
Jennie "Jerrie" Hughes
BIRTH 26 FEBRUARY 1878 • Marietta, Cobb County, Georgia, USA
DEATH 8 AUG 1956 • Atlanta, Fulton, Georgia, USA
Daughter of James Griffin Hughes and Laura Henrietta Hutchinson
The Mongomery Advertiser, 24 Dec. 1948, Fri. Page 2
Dr. Peacock Dies; Noted Physician
West Blocton, Ala. Dec 23 -- (AP)-- Lovic E. Peacock, 78, one of West Blocton's most beloved citizens, died today after a short illness. He had been this small town's doctor for more than half-century. He had continued in active practice until becoming ill about two months ago.
He was honored at a "Doc Peacock Day" last July in ceremonies at the ballpark. A silver cup was presented to him at that time. Surviving are the widow; a sister, Miss Daisy Peacock, Camden, Ark., and two brothers, Marvin and Vernon Peacock, both of Camden.
Services will be conducted in the West Blocton Methodist Church Friday, the Rev. Charles H. Douglas of Trinity Episcopal Church, Bessemer, will officiate, assisted by the Rev. T. R. Wilson, West Blocton Methodist Church, and the Rev. Lewis Marier, West Blocton Baptist Chuch. Burial will be at Marietta, Ga.
The Birmingham News, 7 Aug 11956 Tue, Page 20
Mrs. Lovic E. Peacock rites at Marietta
Funeral services for Mrs. Lovic E. Peacock, 78, a former resident of West Blocton, who died Sunday at her home in Atlanta, were held this afternoon in St. James Episcopal Church, Marietta, Ga.
Mrs. Peacock was a widow of Dr. L. E. Peacock, Bibb County physician for more than 50 years. She was a member of the Trinity Episcopal Church of Bessemer.
She is survived by a sister, Mrs. Katie H. York of Birmingham, and a brother, James G. Hughes of Boaz, Ala.
2.
Clarence Fletcher Peacock
BIRTH 22 APR 1872 • Santa Barbra, Brazil
DEATH 25 MARCH 1957 • Palm Beach County, Florida, USA
Married:
Margaret Eva Hall
1878–1955
BIRTH 11 OCT 1878 • Orange Count, Florida, USA
DEATH 11 NOV 1955 • Okeechobee, Okeechobee, Florida, USA
Daughter of William W. and Sarah Jane Hall
3.
Elmore B Peacock
BIRTH 24 MAR 1874 • St. Barbara, Brazil
DEATH AFTER 1940 • Cover Hill, Mississippi, USA
Married: 24 Nov 1897 • Marengo County, Alabama, USA
Mary Delle McRee
BIRTH 25 JUL 1874 • , , Alabama, USA
DEATH 22 DEC 1953 • Selma, Dallas, Alabama, USA
4.
Daisy Irene Peacock
BIRTH 21 DEC 1876 • Old Spring Hill, Marengo County, Alabama, USA
DEATH 25 MAY 1968 • Camden, Ouachita, Arkansas, USA
5.
Marvin Earnest Peacock
BIRTH 10 JUL 1879 • Demopolis, Marengo, Alabama, USA
DEATH 15 JUL 1958 • Camden, Ouachita, Arkansas, USA
Married:
Minnie C.
6.
Nellie Lucile Peacock
BIRTH 03 MAR 1883 • Old Spring Hill, Marengo County, Alabama, USA
DEATH 20 AUG 1945 • Camden, Ouachita, Arkansas, USA
Married: 26 Jan 1916 • Marengo, Alabama, USA
Thomas Robert Walton
BIRTH 1881 • Alabama,USA
Nellie and Thomas had at least one child:
1.
Daisy Walton
BIRTH 12 DEC 1916 • Demopolis, Marengo, Alabama, USA
DEATH 29 SEP 2001 • Fort Smith, Sebastian, Arkansas, USA
Married: 11 Jun 1939 • Ouachita, Arkansas, USA
Sydney Louis Maurras Jr
BIRTH APRIL 12 1911 • New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
DEATH 10 NOV 1979 • Albany, Livingston, Louisiana, USA
Son of Sidney Louis Maurras Sr and "Marie" Victoire Euphrasie Nadau duTreil
7.
Cecil Vernon Peacock
BIRTH 22 FEB 1886 • Demopolis, Marengo, Alabama, USA
DEATH 6 JAN 1969 • Camden, Ouachita, Arkansas, USA
Married: 3 Sep 1912 • Marengo, Alabama, USA
Annie Louise Jackson
BIRTH 23 DEC 1889 • Belmont Sump, Alabama
DEATH DEC 1979
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From Barbara Chandler Spray's "Chandler and Peacock Cousins, with Petty and Hayhurst Families"
"John C. Peacock married Edna Josephine Hayhurst in Bastrop County, Texas on February 10, 1861. He was 21 and his bride was one month shy of her fifteenth birthday. Edna was the graddaughter of John and Elizabeth Dawson Petty of Pettytown. Edna's mother, Alcy Petty Hayhurst, a widow, was an older sister of John M. Petty who married John's syster Cynthia. Edna was rumord to be a 1/16 Cherokee, inherited from the Dawson-Rogers-Vann branches of her ancestry. Photographs of Edna taken in the 1880's reveal her as a large boned woman with dark hair and deep set eyes. She bore John eleven children, out of which seven lived to adulthood. Edna died at age 40 on January 28, 1887 at their home near Waelder from complications arising from childbirth six weeks earlier. The infant daughter Josie survived and lived a long life. She was surviived by her husband, eight children, and four grand children. She was laid to rest in Waelder Cemetery. In 1889 her son Johnny was laid to rest beside her in an unmarked grave.
"John C. Peaock was politically active in the community as well as being a land owner. He was Justice of the Peace in Caldwell County in the late 1870s where he owned two tracts of land totalling 296 acres in adjacent Bastrop County and Caldwell County. He was a County Comissioner in Gozales County at the time of his death and had served as a trustee in the Waelder Farmer's Alliance. John C. Peacoc owned a farm near Waelder, a home in Waelder, and the Planter's Hotel with stables, also in Waelder.
"From John C. Peacock's photograph taken in the 1880s we see him as a tall, slender, small boned man with blue eys and thin hair and goatee. In his Will, dated January 20, 1890, John asked that his children receive equal amount of his estate after his debts had been paid. He named J.B. Hill, Jr., a friend and lawyer, as executor of his estate and guardian of his minor children. Although John did not mention his children by name in his Will, there were four minor children: Lum, Jesse, Ora, and Josie. In his Will John asked that Mrs. T.A. (Tempie Arminta) Bearce, his late wife's aunt, live in his home and care for his four young children. (Mrs. Bearce was also the mother-in-law of John's daughter, Nevada Peacock Petty.) John also asked that his second wife, Katie Foster, who was unnamed in his Will, be given certain items of furniture to compliment her own furniture.
"John C. Peacock died at age 50 on January 25, 1890, five days after making his Will. He had cancer of the bowels and hemorrhaged to death at his home in Waelder. He was laid to rest beside his first wife Edna who had died three years earlier. Joh was survived by his wife Katie, seven children and six grandchildren. Mrs. Katie Peacock returned to her own home in Luling as she had declared she would before her husband's death.
"J.B. Hill, Jr., executor of John C. Peacock's estate and the minor children's legal guardian, did not effectively administer the Peacock estate and give the children their rightful settlement of the estate according to their late father's wishes. Ironically, after many years of strife, Mr. Hill became suddely ill in October 1906 and died. Before he died, Mrs. Bearce, who had helped raise the oung children, told Mr. Hill that God was punishing him for keeping the children's inheritance for himself. Thus he died and the children did not receive complete restitution of their inheritance although the matter was taken to court. (Probate #1160, #1216, Gonzales, Co., Tx)
"At the time of his death John C. Peacock owned the Planters Hotel with adjacent stable and a home in Waelder. His surviving children were to receive a share of the monthly rent money along with his widow, Katie Foster Peacock of luling. Charges were brought against Hill as executor for incomplete payment. In August 1890 Hill sold the hotel at a loss as a result of a descrepancy with a pre-empted buyer who dealt with John C Peacock before his death. This act aggravated hostilities and the court continued to side with Hill as executor of the estate. Hill wished to resight his position but the court would not allow it. In 1892 the seven Peacock children began selling their 1/7 shares in the estate to H.T. Hopkins and Mrs. Marry E. Hill, mother of J.B. Hill, Jr. By June 1907 Mr. Hill's widow, Sallie Hill, had purchased these interests from the Hopkins and her mother-in-law."