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- - In 1823, a Garland R. Lincecum received a land patent in Leake County, Mississippi. ["Alabama & Mississippi Connections: Historical & Biographical Sketches of Families Who Settled on Both Sides of the Tombigbee River"]
- Garland owned land in Mississippi totalling 163 acres. The land office was Columbus. The document number is 26665. The land was in Leake County. The signature date was 27 February 1841.
- Mississippi Land Record for Garland R Lincecum:
Land Office: COLUMBUS
Document Number: 26665
Total Acres: 162.86
Signature: Yes
Canceled Document: No
Issue Date: 27 Feb 1841
Mineral Rights Reserved: No
Metes and Bounds: No
Statutory Reference: 3 Stat. 566
Multiple Warantee Names: No
Act or Treaty: April 24, 1820
Multiple Patentee Names: No
Entry Classification: Sale-Cash Entries
Land Description: 1 NWNW CHOCTAW No 11N 7E 22
2 E½SW CHOCTAW No 11N 7E 22
3 SWSW CHOCTAW No 11N 7E 22 [Source: United States, Bureau of Land Management. Mississippi Land Records [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 1997. Original data: United States, Bureau of Land Management. Mississippi Pre-1908 Patents: Homesteads, Cash Entry, Choctaw Indian Scrip and Chickasaw Cession Lands. General Land Office Automated Records Project, 1997.]
- Garland and Nathaniel L. Mitchell owned land in Lowndes County, Mississippi totalling 161 acres. The signature date was same as other land record, 27 February 1841.
- Southern Argus (Columbus, Mississippi)
7 June 1842 [via ChroniclingAmerica.loc.gov]
IN BANKRUPTCY, -- No. 63.
District Court of the U. States
Northern District of Mississippi.
NOTICE is hereby given that GARLAND R. LYNCECUM, of the County of Lowndes, has been duly declared a Bankrupt by an order of this said Court made on the 18th day of April A.D. 1842; and that said Garland R. Lyncecum has applied for a certificate of final discharge, from his debts under the act of Congress in such case made and provided: and the Third Monday of July, A.d. 1842, at Aberdeen, has been set for the final hearing...
- Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States, 1845-1846; MONDAY, January 12, 1846. Pg 234:
"By Mr. Stephen Adams: A petition of Garland R. Lincecum, of Lowndes county, and State of Mississippi, praying remuneration of the money paid by him for a certain tract of land which was resold by the government: which petition was referred to the Committee on Private Land Claims."
Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States, 1845-1846; FRIDAY, February 13, 1846. Pg 394:
"Mr. Wick, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, made an adverse report upon the petition of Garland R. Lincecum: which report was laid upon the table." [A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1875 via Library of Congress <http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lawhome.html>]
- According to the 1850 Caldwell County, Texas Federal census, Garland had real estate valued at $4,000.
- Gideon wrote in a letter to his grandson that Garland "came to his death from an overdose of morphine administered by the hands of a drunken scamp of a doctor." [Source: Gideon Lincecum, 1793-1874 by Lois Burkhalter. Page 270.]
- Lincecum Cemetery
Lockhart, Caldwell County, Texas
Information provided by the State of Texas Atlas Site
Location:
5.4 mi. E of US 183 on SH 20 ROW
Marker:
Garland R. Lincecum, cousin of Alamo hero James Bowie, and his wife Emmaline left Mississippi and settled on land he had purchased here in 1847. Lincecum, who signed a petition with others to create Caldwell County in 1847, died in 1853 and was the first person buried here. Three of his daughters were married to the sons of fellow Mississippian Alexander Roberts, who settled in this area in 1843. The last person buried here was Jacob G. Roberts, Lincecum's grandson, in 1938. Members of the pioneer Roberts and Lincecum families and their descendants are interred here.
- "Garland Lincecum was a well remembered and strange historic character. In personal appearance he looked in every particular like an Indian, except that he was white. His hair and eyes were as black as a raven's wing, and long black hairs grew from his prominent cheek bones, the rest of his face being bare. He generally wore the Indian dress in whole or in part. His leather hunting shirt, fringed, beaded, and tasseled, and his leggings and moccasins were a marvel to the Columbus boys. He was for many years the proprietor of the Columbus ferry and with his Choctaw assistants ferried over the missionaries, traders, and travelers going to Jackson, on the State road. His last home was on the bluff of the river occupied by the steam sawmill,...just above the cold spring that gushes so abundantly from the bluff below....He went to the farthest frontier of Texas and died there." - A HISTORY OF COLUMBUS, MISSISSIPPI DURING THE 19TH CENTURY by W. L. Lipscomb
- In the book, WHO WAS WHO AMONG THE SOUTHERN INDIANS 1698 - 1907, by Don Martini, published 1998 the following is given:
LINCECUM, GARLAND: White resident among the Chickasaw Indians, married Martha Wall in Monroe County, Mississippi, on October 9, 1834. He was born in 1797 and died in 1853.
Source of Info: Monroe County Will and Marriage Book, 1:38
- "According to an article written by Mrs. Brunetta Griffith, a direct descendant of Sophia Folsom Pitchlynn, "One morning at the breakfast table there was an altercation between the brothers and Jack [John "Jack" Pitchlynn, Jr.] killed his brother Silas with a blow from his tomahawk. He fled to the Chickasaw Nation. Sophia was a way from home but upon return she made plans to avenge her son's death. She hired a prominent citizen of Columbus, Mississippi to carry out her plans. Following her instructions Garland Lincecum sought out Jack Pitchlynn, killed him and buried him where he fell, pistol, watch and money." Gideon Lincecum, John Jr.'s business partner, (and a brother of Garland Lincecum), indicates that Garland was John Jr.'s bodyguard, and when Garland and John Jr. were seperated one night, John Jr. was ambushed and killed. There is some indication that this event took place at or near Cotton Gin Port." [Source: Website, "Descendants of James Logan Colbert <http://www.chickasawhistory.com/colbert/index.htm>. Maintained by K. M. Armstrong]
[See also lincecum-robertshistory.rtf on cloud drive.]
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