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DESCENDANTS: Information from Church Hance web site at [HYPERLINK http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/b/o/r/Chuck-M-Borden/ODT2-0002.html ] on 4 Feb 2002.
DESCENDANTS: Information from Church Hance web site at [HYPERLINK http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/b/o/r/Chuck-M-Borden/ODT2-0002.html ] on 4 Feb 2002.
From Hot Springs, Arkansas and settled in Red River county, Texas about 1835.
COMMENTS by Sherry Fox, 27 July 1998:
1. Re: 1850 date moved to Tulare Co. -- this probably was 1852 based on a) Levi was not included on the Great Register List of Inhabitants for 1852 and b) the last deed date of sale in Red River County, TX was 25 February 1852. If they left immediately after the sale of Levi's land and it took 9 months to arrive in Tulare Co., that would make it around Christmas time 1852.
2. Re: Children listed for Levi and Leticia: no mention of Elias R. -bert W. Hamilton [listed incorrectly in article] in Red River County, TX 1851. Helen -ancy Anna, Martha J. E., George Washington, Gilbert M. Lafayette, Susan, Mary A., Albert L., Helen?, and Henrietta]
3. Interesting that Gilbert Lafayette named his children, it appears almost exclusively, after family members: Levi, Letitia, John H., Laura B., Martha J., James S., Mary A., and Jesse L.In an early day [ca. 1835] these came into the [Clarksville] settlement: Willis and Needham Boone, brothers; also Stalcup, Reverves, Nalls, Levins, and Benjamin Tennel. Some of these remained near the river for several years. Some went to the prairie. The Needham Boone survey may be seen on any map of Red River County. It is a few miles southeast of Clarksville. The Nall survey is on Red River.
From the book, "North Texas 100 Years Ago", by Dr. Pat B. Clark. Published in 1947.
About this time also came the great bear hunter, Levi Dean. He lived a while in the timbered country below and south of Pecan Bayou. Then he moved to the eastern edge of the great prairie and built a good hewed log house just in the western edge of the timber southwest of what is now known as the village of English. The house was there as late as 1857. Dean made his living principally by killing bears and selling the meat to the settlers.In 1849 he went with the gold hunters to California. However, Dean could not waste his time digging for gold while the mountains were full of grizzly bears. He killed bears in the mountains and sold to the mining camps. After three years' absence he returned to this county. The story of one contest he had with a grizzly I shall relate just as he told it to me:
"One morning, while on the side of a mountain, I looked above me and saw a grizzly. Cautiously I slipped near enough and shot him. He jumped, licked the wound, looked all around, and then came slowly toward me. As fast as I could I began to load my rifle, walking backward while ramming my bullet down. By the time the bullet was rammed to its place he was much nearer to me than at first. I shot again. The ball struck him, but he paid no attention to it. I then realized that I was at a disadvantage, being below the bear; for in coming down hill he out ran me. I ran to the bottom of the slope, shot him the third time, and began to climb the other side. He followed but could not climb the hill as fast as I could, so I loaded again, waited for a good shot, and brought him down."
After staying here a short time, Dean returned to California to kill meat again for the mining camps. One day with his wife he went to the mountains but never returned, nor does anyone, to this day, know what became of him.The following QUESTION is raised by Eddie Ewing to T.Mason on 10 Sep 2007. "I question your source for Levi's second marriage to Emaline Sellers. It appears Levi and his family may have stopped in Jack County, Texas on their way to California to visit his sister Eliza Ann Fox; however, they took the southern route to California through the desert in Arizona. The date you have on the marriage is 1866; however, Levi died in 1864. See the following:
Levi Dean in a listing of Vital Records from 1859-1899 taken from local papers: Died, Wednesday, August 10, 1864, On Owens River, Tulare County, July 31st, Levi Dean, a native of South Carolina, in the fifty-eighth year of age. There was a note as follows: TCP Probate Court No. 66. It seems to mean that the article appeared August 10, but he died July 31st.
If that is the probate number you can get a copy of his will or papers relating to the settlement of his estate by writing Tulare County Superior Court Clerk, Courthouse, 2nd Floor, County Civic Center, Visalia CA 93791.
Per Probate Records:
a. Levi Dean, Case #66, Court P, Type E, 19Oct1865
b. Levi Dean, Case #384, Case #384, Court S, Type E, 21Apr1891
Located at Tulare County Superior Court ; 221 S. Mooney Blvd Room 201; Visalia, CA 93291
Leticia is named in the will and died before distribution of property. So I doubt if he was ever married after Leticia.
Thank you for any light you can spread on this.OBITUARY: Information sent to T.Mason on 16 Mar 2008 by Frank Hall. "A short obituary in Tulare County California in 1868 says birthplace was in South Carolina and I've found another reference that says North Carolina"
In 1849, Levi moved on to California after this legal matter was settled:
Case #940 Susannah Deen vs. Lutitia Deen "Susannah Deen, a citizen of the County of Red River Republic of Texas would respectfully represent to the Hon John T Mills Judge of the Seventh Judicial District of the Republic of Texas holding and presiding in the District Court of the County of Red River [Petition] The petition to wit on the 23 day of December 1844 Lutitia Deen wife of Levi Deen citizens of said county did beat bruze and with certain stick which she the said Lutitia had and held did strike one Teresa Deen over the shoulders and head of her the said Teresa. And the said Susannah further states that said Teresa is of the age of about thirteen years the daughter of said Susannah that her father to wit Asa Deen has departed this life that the said Susannah natural guardian of said Teresa who has been damaged by said beating buring(?) as aforesaid to the amount of one thousand dollars. Wherefore the said Susanah the natural guardian and mother of said Teresa prays that said Lutitia and Levi Deen be cited of and at the next term of the District Court of said county a judgement be rendered against them for said sum of one thousand dollars & general relief [signed] Amos Morrill Atto[rney] Filed 27 day of Feby 1845