Jesse Henry Rowntree
from Linda Rowntree lvrowntree at gmail.comJESSE HENRY ROWNTREE was born in 1805 in Union County, South Carolina. He married MARY BOGGS about 1834 in South Carolina. Their first child, ROBERT M. ROWNTREE was born November 20, 1834 in Union District, South Carolina.
By 1841 the family had moved to Holly Springs, in Marshall County, Mississippi, where MARY died between 1844 and 1847.
JESSE HENRY then married MARY's sister, NANCY. They migrated to Rusk County, Texas about 1849, where the 1850 census shows JESSE listed as a surgeon/dentist. (At this time, surgeons and dentists were generally trained by the apprentice system, but there was nothing stopping anyone from taking out newspaper ads claiming to be one!
Several of the couple's children were born in Rusk County. The 1860 census shows JESSE working as a SilverSmith. (Apparently, Dentists and SilverSmiths require the same set of skills. Remember Paul Revere also made false teeth!)
In 1867, a Voter Registration records JESSE living at Bouyer's Shop in Henderson. (Sure wish I knew where that was!)
By 1870 the couple was still living in Rusk County, but JESSE was a farmer. Clearly, the Civil War had impacted JESSE's family as well as the entire South.
JESSE may have died in Rusk County, though I have not been able to find any information. NANCY went to live with her daughter, Mary Mollie Brooks in Panola. Again, it is not known when she died.