Wallingford/Jarlov Family Trees

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Lewis' son William R. Milam born in Georgia in February of 1828 and was living in Chambers County, Alabama in 1852 with the Samual Roach family. There he met his future wife, Samantha (Brooks) Milam born in April 1830. She was living a few farms down the road with her parents, Danial and Elisabeth Brooks. Danial, aged 45 and his wife Elisabeth aged 44, had five children,

Symantha (spelled Samantha in later records), aged 20 - Arbanna, aged 14 - Eliza A, aged 12 - Susan, aged 11 and William D, aged 4.All of William and Samantha's children were also born in Alabama. William's parents were born in South Carolina and Samantha's were born in Georgia.

Sometime after the Civil War, between 1865 and 1874, William migrated from Alabama to Texas. With him was his wife Samantha, two sons, James McDonough and William Jonas and one daughter, Louisa. William and Samantha had a store when they lived in Alabama. But, times were very hard after the Civil War and all they had left was a cracker barrel full of worthless Confederate money.

On arriving in Texas they settled and farmed near Weimer in Colorado county. William R., Samantha, James, William Jonas and Louisa were all listed as doing farm work in 1900. They also had a 28 year old farm hand, named J.C. Walker, living with them at the time.

Samantha gave information to the census taker when the 1900 census was taken, that she was the mother of five children, but that only three of them were still living. It is unknown at the present if those children were born in Alabama or Texas. However the Mortality Schedule from the 1860 Census for Randolph County Alabama shows that a 3 month old baby named George F. Milam died in the county in March of 1860. Chambers and Randolph county adjoin each other. But, the 1860 Census of both counties show no Milams in either county. I would speculate that it was Wiliam and Samantha's baby and they moved to another county after it died. The information regarding the death was probably given to the census taker by a relative or former landlord.

It is very probably that they came to Texas in the late 1860s shortly after the Civil War. William served as a private in the Confederate Army in Company G, 31 Regiment. The company was formed by Captain Chapman in Talladega, Alabama. He was later taken captive by the yankees and was held as a prisoner of war until the end of the war. He was paroled by Brevit Brigadier General M. H. Chrysler on May 19, 1865 at Talladego, Alabama.

Even the women did what they could to help during the Civil War. Louisa remembered helping her mother cook pies for the soldiers. The post war period very hard on white citizens of the defeated Confederate States of America and particularly hard on the ex-confederate soldiers. This caused many families living in the "Old South" to move westward to Texas and beyond in order to escape the losses in civil rights, money, lands and dignity. We do know for sure however, that the Milams were in Texas by February of 1874, because that is when their granddaughter, Kate Adams, was born, in Texas.

1880 census of Colorado County, Texas, shows W.R. (52) with Samantha (50), James (25) and Jonas (23). The three males were all farm labourers, with parents both born in Georgia and the two sons born in Alabama.