Meet
the Cantrell's
The
Cantrell-Houston Family in Congo, Arkansas
Howard
Cantrell is standing on left next to his Uncle Roy and Gladys Houston,Hetty
Houston,Ardath and John Cantrell with Arlecia Houston Cantrell in the
middle and John and Ardath's children on the front. Morris,Carolyn,Larry,and
Marlin
The
Mother of Arlecia, Roy, and Clark Houston
Sarah
Caroline Bray was the mother of Clark, Roy, and Arlecia Houston. She married
Samuel Dallas Houston in DeRoche Arkansas. Sam Houston was ordained to
preach for the DeRoche Baptist Church. Hickory Grove Baptist Church was
organized on 31 Aug 1873. Sam Houston was one of the early Pastors of
the Church. S. D. Houston was also a pastor of the Midway Missionary Baptist
Church. After Sam died Sarah Caroline would cook meals for the Hot Springs
County jail where her brother Daniel Stokes Bray was the Sheriff from
1918 to 1922. This jail was located at Malvern.
About
the Family Roots
The
Cantrell side of the family traces back to the 1500's in England and
Wales. They came to Delaware around 1690. They migrated down to South
Carolina and on to Georgia where John and Martha Cantrell are buried.
Several of their sons including our Great Great Grandfather Phillip
Cantrell lived there until shortly after the Civil War at which time
they moved west to Missouri and Kansas. Phillip served in the Civil
War as a Confederate in Capt. Russell's Company, Georgia Cavalry as
a Private. Phillip and his son Silas lived in Franklin County Kansas
from the early 1870's until Silas left Kansas in 1883 to return to Georgia
shortly after his marriage and divorce to Lizzie James. They had a son
named John Phillip Cantrell who was raised by his grandparents Phillip
and Elizabeth Cantrell. It is said that Silas married again and had
more children before moving back to the Cherokee Nation around 1900.
Franklin County Genealogical Society, Ottawa, Kansas
RURAL FRANKLIN COUNTY CHURCHES
Land deeds of some of the rural churches in Franklin County, as taken
from the Register of Deeds records, Franklin County Courthouse.
Deed Book 30, Page 319
Transacted:
19 Jun 1877/ Recorded: 01 Apr 1879
Consideration \\$1.00
Grantor: John McClellan of Sangamon Co., IL
Grantee: Trustees of the Regular Baptist Church of Appanoose; Phillip
Cantrell, Marsena St John, Clark Tefft, D. L. Montgomery, Perry M. Warner
Phillip was also a member of the Pomona
Masonic Lodge #138 from 1873 when it was first chartered until
1901 when he moved to Missouri.
The family stayed in Pomona Kansas until about 1901. For some unknown
reason they left or lost their 200 acre farm in Kansas and moved to
El Dorado Springs, MO. where Phillip, Elizabeth and John lived until
about 1912 at which time they moved to the Hot Springs County Arkansas
area where John married.
Arlecia
Houston married John Phillip Cantrell in 1914 shortly before the death
of John's grandfather Phillip on Feb. 6, 1915. Phillip Cantrell was
92 years old at the time of his death. Elizabeth lived with John and
Arlecia until 1924, when she died in Ocean Springs, Mississippi. The
young John P. Cantrell must have been a traveling man. Since their first
child Helen was born in Pine Bluff, AR., the second child John P. Jr.
was born in Texarkana, TX., and the third child Raymond Howard was born
in Ocean Springs, MS. Not long after Elizabeth's death in Mississippi,
the family returned to Hot Springs County, AR. Below is a picture of
John P. Cantrell on the band stand in Ocean Springs, Mississippi holding
a mandolin and his daughter Helen about age 5 standing at his side.
See:
Helen's Hollywood Photo's
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