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- Is the John N. DeGuire of the 1870 Cooke Co. census really Jasper N. (Newton) DeGuire? I assume it is. If that is the case, then these are the records found so far:
Army enlistment in 1899 in Nashville, TN, lists his age as 33 yrs. 4 months, from Rockwall Texas, working as a nurse, enlistment over in 1901.
In 1930 in California, Siskiyou Co., Jasper N. DeGuire, 64, a widow, was 37 at age of first marriage (abt. 1903), working as a laborer at the county hospital.
The California Death Index says he was born July 30, 1869 (error?), mother's maiden name is Chisholm, and died Nov. 21, 1941 in Los Angeles.
I received this e-mail below in May 2011:
Mary Helen,
I found your website, and I thought you might be able to help me. in the summary below, Newt is the son of Jasper Newton Deguire, Sr. whose parents were Francois Paul DeGuire and Elizabeth McFarland (1814 NC-29 Aug 1853, Fannin Co., TX).
My 89-year-old mother asked me to write down the story that has been passed down through the years about her father's sister, Emma Todd (b. 5 May 1871 in Tennessee, d. 7 Mar 1946, Los Angeles, CA). As the story goes, two men asked Emma to marry her. John D. Pinkerton was one, and the other was Newt DeGuire (Jasper Newton DeGuire, Jr.). She chose Newt. (I believe the Todd family came to Texas in 1882, so I think this took place somewhere in Texas. The Todds were in Hill County, and Newt's families were from Kaufman-Rockwall, Texas). The way the story came down is that, before they married, Newt had to go on a cattle drive with his father, Jasper Newton DeGuire, Sr. The story came back to Emma that Newt had been killed on the cattle drive, so she ended up marrying J.D. Pinkerton. Pinkerton died in Clovis and is on the Obit Index on 17 July 1914. (I found that on the USGenWeb Curry Co Obit Index) After his death, Emma married Herbert Pierce (I think in CA; he was born in CA, and they were living in Los Angeles in 1920. Pierce died sometime between 1920 & 1930. Emma was walking along a street in Los Angeles one day, and she met and recognized one of Newt DeGuire's sisters. They visited, and Emma learned that Newt was still alive and living in CA. It had been his father who died on the cattle drive. When Newt had returned home and learned that Emma had married Pinkerton, he was broken-hearted and went off and joined the French Foreign Legion and traveled all over the world. He wrote down the stories of his travels and tried to get them published, but in the day before copy machines, when he sent them to the publisher, they were "lost in the mail". Anyway, he and Emma got together and married sometime between the 1930 Census and the year he died, 1941.
Here's where the confusion starts:
The Todd Bible shows that Emma married Pinkerton in 1902, but I have found records that Newt's father "dropped dead" in 1892 (nothing about a cattle drive; guess it could possibly have been a brother who died on the cattle drive or something). In the process, of trying to establish facts, I've created more mysteries! Have you ever heard any family stories that might shed light on this? Also, if you have any pictures of Newt, could you please email them to me?
Thanks for any light you might be able to shed!
Connie Webb
Denver City, Texas
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1866 - 1941 (75 years)
