and pudding. Thus, material gift giving was not practiced and did not interfere with the true
spirit of Christmas – personal charity, love and servitude.
The maternal grandparents of Elizabeth's father, James Robinson, were also both living
near Richmond, Virginia in 1761. Dr. George Holland, 38 yrs old and his second wife Mary
Coleman Holland, 33 yrs old were living in Louisa, Louisa County, Virginia with four of
George's children with his first wife, Sarah Ford – William 14 yrs old, Sarah 12 yrs old,
Thomas 11 yrs old and Elizabeth 9 yrs old and two of his children with his second wife, Mary
Coleman – James 3 yrs old, and Fanny 2 yrs old. As a physician, Dr. Holland's affluence
probably afforded his family finer amenities, i.e. horses, carriages, a large home and nice
furnishings. Both of Dr. George Holland's parents Judith Merryman and Michael Holland
were from the HanoverGoochland County area. While, Sarah Ford's parents had emigrated
from England settling in the Virginia Commonwealth. Sarah's father William Ford was born
in Church Lawton, Cheshire, England and her mother Mary Thompson was born in
Middlewhich, Cheshire, England and it is not established when they arrived in Virginia.
As subsequent years pass by, we find that Dr. George and Sarah Ford Holland's daughter,
Elizabeth, meets Edward and Marie Robinson's son Stephen. Bettie and Stephen marry in
Louisa, Louisa County, Virginia on the 13th of June 1774, two years before the American
Revolutionary War. Stephen and Elizabeth Robinson make their first home in Cumberland,
Cumberland County, Virginia, where most of their children are born before moving to the
Tennessee frontier near Smith Fork (now DeKalb County) in 1797. In November 1804,
Stephen and Elizabeth Robinson purchase 640 acres of land. We find that towns and villages
were established on lands settled by four of DeKalb County's earliest, five settlers:
Temperance Hall on Stephen Robinson's, Alexandria on Daniel Alexander's, Liberty on Adam
Dale's, and Dowelltown on Leonard Fite's Today, Stephen and Elizabeth Holland Robinson's
home place is still standing and owned by one of the Tennessee, Robinson descendants. Our,
Leonard Fite is buried in the Alexandria Cemetery and his wife Peggy (Cross) Fite is buried in
the Fite Cemetery in Lebanon, Wilson County, Tennessee. In the next generation, Leonard
and Peggy (Cross) Fite's daughter Elizabeth married Stephen and Elizabeth (Holland)
Robinson's son, James and their daughter Elizabeth Jennings Robinson married Tabitha and
William Wingate Truitt's son John Wingate Truitt. Then John Wingate and Elizabeth J.
Robinson Truitt move from Tennessee to Alabama and finally to Jenkins, Texas in Morris
County, where they finish raising their eight children in a 'dogtrot' log cabin.
Many Christmases and generations have passed since our ancestors celebrated Christmas
of 1761 in Goochland, Cumberland, Charles City and Louisa, Virginia, but many of their
ethics and practices we still value today. In remembrance of our Southall, Scruggs, Furnea,
Holland, Merryman, Thompson, Ford, Crose, Fite, Robinson, and Truitt ancestors leading
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back to the Christmas of 1761, please take a moment to thank God for their many sacrifices
and contributions which have made our lives richer and more satisfying today.
Your 2011 Christmas contribution to the John Wingate Truitt Log Cabin will help
preserve a lasting memorial to all of our Truitt ancestors. Please use the enclosed form to
report any changes in vital statistics for your immediate family – birth, deaths, marriages,
divorces – giving names, dates, locations, cemeteries, etc. This information needs to be sent to
Reva Truitt, 1903 Winter Park Road, Austin, TX 78746. Phone 5123277429 (c)
5127570114. Now on those new 2012 calendars, circle in RED the 2nd of June – the first
Saturday in June for our 2012 Truitt Cousins Reunion. Again we will be opening the doors of
the South Union Baptist Church Fellowship Hall at 10:00 AM. Two covered dishes should
offset your appetites from thinking about the food you over indulged in last year!! Also bring
pictures and stories to share with our younger generation of cousins!!
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Update from Truitt Cousins Association – 2014
2014 Truitt Cousins' Reunion
June 14th – the 2nd Saturday
South Union Baptist Church
Jenkins, TX, US 259 @ FM 144
Our 2014 Truitt Cousins' Reunion is going to be very special due to advanced planning of
some fresh ideas. Please note that we will meet the 2nd (second) Saturday of June this year
due to scheduling conflicts with church activities. The itinerary is listed below:
9:30 a.m. – Doors open to Fellowship Hall of the South Union Baptist Church
10:00 a.m. – Confederate Honor Ceremony for Edward Robinson Truitt, Clark Cmtry
11:00 a.m. – Tour of the John Wingate & Elizabeth Robinson Truitt Log Cabin
12:00 a.m. – Covered dish lunch, South Union Baptist Fellowship Hall.
1:00 p.m. – Special program and presentations.
3:00 p.m. – Breakup and cleanup of our mess!
Registration will begin at 9:30 a.m. in the fellowship entry hall. At that time you may
leave your covered dish with one of our attendants. Sons of Confederate Veterans of Upshur
County will provide a Confederate Color Guard to honor the CSA service of Edward
Robinson Truitt in Company I, 14th Texas Infantry at his grave site from 10:00 to 10:45 a.m.
Between 11:00 and 11:45 we will have a guided tour and detailed description of the Truitt log
home.
If you have missed attending our reunion these last couple of years, we want to assure
you that your membership is still current and paid up in full – so come on back. As in the past
your ticket this year is just a couple of covered dishes using some of your grandmother's most
guarded recipes. Please realize your participation at our reunion as always is our most
treasured feature – so bring along some old pictures to share!!
Mailing expenses have increased 50% over the past dozen years. Therefore, in the next
couple of years, we will be changing over from U.S. mail delivery to email for
communicating with you, i.e. news on our Truitt cabin, Truitt genealogy, and Truitt Cousins'
Reunion. It is very important that you help us remain current by providing us any changes,
thus updating your family members' births, marriages and deaths with dates and places. If you
are unable to attend our event this year, please take time to update us on your family
members, i.e. births, marriages, spousal information, deaths, etc. Please send your changes to:
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Reva I. Truitt, 1903 Winter Park Road, Austin, TX 78746. Phone 5123277429 (c)
5127570114.
We have made substantial progress in restoring John Wingate's 1840 cabin, but still much
work remains. We would like to purchase a little more land for reconstructing a small version
of his barn and his implement shed. We also plan to build a split rail fence around two or three
sides of his homestead and put up security lights and motion detectors to protect our
investment. After the stone chimneys have been reconstructed, we will be able to secure the
cabin and begin furnishing it with 1840 period pieces. This all takes time and money. Please
continue to financially support the restoration and upkeep of our Truitt cabin with your
generous contributions. Cabin donations may be made monthly or at any time by submitting
them online or by mail to: East Texas Community Foundation, 315 North Broadway, Suite
210, Tyler, TX 75702. Make checks out to East Texas Community Foundation, but mark the
memo 'J. W. Truitt Cabin Fund'.
Each year we send out over 450 invitations to our reunion which yields around 85
participants yearly. We also are picking up eight to ten first time participants which are very
important to us due to our losses of older cousins. Initially these first time cousins are not on
our contact list, thus they are being reach by 'word of mouth' through you. So, please realize
you are our most valuable communicator in expanding our invitations base. Keep up the good
work by passing along our information about this year's reunion.
Please visit our online website frequently for current news and information. Also, refer
your Truitt family members to our website for all kinds of information and contacts
concerning our Truitt Cousins' Association, the J.W. Truitt log cabin, and contacts for
information and contributions. Our website's URL is: http://family.etruitt.com . If you forget
this address just Google search – John Wingate Truitt or J.W. Truitt Cabin and you will find a
group of our sites.
I just want you to know how much I missed getting to be with all my cousins at last year's
reunion ( :~( So, I hope you will come on back this year and allow me to make up for tricking
you last year, Yea!!! I promise this is going to be one of our best planned and enjoyable
reunions thus far. Don't get mixed up and appear the first Saturday of June because the rest of
us will be looking for YOU at 9:30 a.m. the SECOND Saturday of June! OK, my mouth is
already watering from just thinking of the great dishes we all get to enjoy in June so let's do it
up right this year – see you in Jenkins, the 2nd Sat.
DALE
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Reva Truitt Reflections - "How I became involved in the Family History Project"
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Joe Truitt was visiting his son Jim Truitt (born at Pittsburg, Tx., 1931) in September
1988. Reva mentioned that she and her brother were working on their family tree when Joe
asked 'would you write down some information about my father and his siblings, Reva?'
Joe began telling about a time when there was a very cold event in NE Texas. His father
had made piles of brush and kept them on fire day and night to keep the cows from freezing.
The temperature was so cold it froze the ears and tails off the cows but they didn't lose any of
their herd.
Reva tried to write down the stories Joe told, but wasn't able to do so fast enough to get
them all down. (No computer at that time.) She did take down the names of Joe's fathers
brothers and sisters and their spouses, for all 14 of the children of James Leonard Truitt and
his wife Mary Louisa "Ludie" Lilley, including the set of twins who weighed 10 lbs each, who
were born Feb 29, 1884. Joe's father was one of those twins. Thus began the assembling of
Truitt Genealogy which later, Jim and Reva printed and revised more than once. Joe was
heading back to Florida to his home, but as he left, he said 'There is a Lilley/Truitt Reunion
this weekend at Lone Star, TX. Jim and Reva decided to go to the Reunion. While visiting
with the ladies at the Reunion, Reva was writing down every bit of information given her. Her
fingers were cramping by the end of the day... but a lot of genealogy was provided to her. (Jim
was the only Truitt man at this gathering, but all the ladies were Truitt ladies. They were all
dressed as if going to church. Reva was the only woman in slacks..a little embarrassed!!)
(Betty Ruth Lee Bass was in charge of this gathering and many more, for years.)
Back home in Bastrop, she assembled the information, and borrowed the computer of a
neighbor to input it into the neighbor's genealogy program which helped enter the information
properly. Before the next Reunion, Reva had entered a little more than three generations of
information. Jim took a printout of the information to Miller Blueprint in Austin, where he
had a 10' long print made to put on the wall at the Reunion.
Jim had really not been interested in the information Reva had assembled but when he
applied the printout to the wall, many came to look at it, and one lady told him 'this is no
good, it doesn't have me on MI.' That really got Jim's goat! Even though he had not been
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involved in assembling the information at that point, it caused him to determine to learn more
about the family.
Jim had retired by this time, and for the next few years, we visited many County Court
houses searching the vital records for births, marriages, deaths, as well as many cemeteries all
over north and northeast Texas, where each of these family members lived, searching for
Truitt's who were buried there. At first, Jim only wanted to look at headstones with the name
Truitt on them, but eventually realized that the daughters in the family married men with
different names, yet they were also buried in those same cemeteries.
During the years when we attended reunions of the Truitt/Lilley members, we stayed in
Gilmer at a motel there. The lady behind the desk asked what reunion we were attending, and
then asked if we had talked with Miss Doris Hudgins (Truitt) who lived in the nursing home a
few blocks away. We had not, but visited her. There, we were introduced to a genealogy
which had been prepared by Dale Truitt, Doris Hudgins, and another lady. That genealogy had
descendants of all the children of John Wingate Truitt, except only the name of James
Leonard Truitt and his wife. Reva had at that time been looking for information on all the
other children. Doris let Reva borrow and copy her book which assisted greatly in compiling
all the family information.
Jim bought a computer and began inputting genealogy into Family Tree Maker program
as quickly as he was able to obtain new information. He made many phone calls, wrote a lot
of letters which produced more and more genealogy. At first, Jim began questioning where
Reva obtained the information for the genealogy, (which had come from the ladies at that first
reunion.) Jim spent years assembling over 8,000 descendants of his great great grandfather
John Wingate Truitt who came to Texas in 1839 to homestead in the Jenkins area.
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Registration National Register of Historic Places
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NPS Form 10-900 (Rev. 01/2009) OMB No. 1024-0018
United States Department of the Interior
National Park Service
National Register of Historic Places
Registration Form
This form is for use in nominating or requesting determinations for individual properties and districts. See instructions in National Register Bulletin, How
to Complete the National Register of Historic Places Registration Form. If any item does not apply to the property being documented, enter "N/A" for
"not applicable." For functions, architectural classification, materials, and areas of significance, enter only categories and subcategories from the
instructions. Place additional certification comments, entries, and narrative items on continuation sheets (NPS Form 10-900a).
1. Name of Property
Historic name Truitt, John Wingate, Cabin and Home Site
Other names/site number N/A
2. Location
street & number Located on Farm to Market Road 144, 2.1 mi. w. of U.S. Highway 259, at not for publication
Jenkins, Texas.
city or town Jenkins vicinity
State Texas code county Morris code zip code 75638
3. State/Federal Agency Certification
As the designated authority under the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended,
I hereby certify that this _ nomination _ request for determination of eligibility meets the documentation standards
for registering properties in the National Register of Historic Places and meets the procedural and professional
requirements set forth in 36 CFR Part 60.
In my opinion, the property _ meets _ does not meet the National Register Criteria. I recommend that this
property be considered significant at the following level(s) of significance:
national statewide _ local
Signature of certifying official ____________________________________
Date
____________ ____________________________________ _____________________________________
Title State or Federal agency and bureau
In my opinion, the property meets does not meet the National Register criteria.
Signature of commenting official ___________________ ____________________________________
Title Date
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State or Federal agency and bureau
Truitt, John Wingate, Cabin and Home Site Signature of the Keeper Morris County, Texas
Name of Property County and State
4. National Park Service Certification Date of Action
I, hereby, certify that this property is:
entered in the National Register _________________________________________________________________
determined eligible for the National Register _________________________________________________________________
determined not eligible for the National Register ___________________
removed from the National Register _________
other (explain:) _________________________________________________________________
5. Classification Category of Property Number of Resources within Property
Ownership of Property (Check only one box) (Do not include previously listed resources in the count.)
(Check as many boxes as apply)
x private x building(s) Contributing Noncontributing buildings
public - Local district 1 0 sites
public - State site 3 0 structures
public - Federal structure 2 0 Objects
private building(s) 0 0 Total
6 0
object
Name of related multiple property listing Number of contributing resources previously
listed in the National Register
(Enter "N/A" if property is not part of a multiple property listing)
N/A
N/A
Current Functions
6. Function or Use
Historic Functions (Enter categories from instructions)
(Enter categories from instructions) VACANT/NOT IN USE=single dwelling, log cabin
VACANT/NOT IN USE=well
DOMESTIC=single dwelling, log cabin FUNERARY=cemetery
AGRICULTURE/SUBSISTANCE=well VACANT/NOT IN USE=road-related, road
FUNERARY=cemetery VACANT/NOT IN USE=natural feature, spring
TRANSPORTATION=road-related, road
LANDSCAPE=natural feature, spring
7. Description Materials
Architectural Classification (Enter categories from instructions)
(Enter categories from instructions)
Truitt, John Wingate, Cabin and Home Site Morris County, Texas
Name of Property County and State
OTHER: log dogtrot house foundation: STONE: local ferrous sandstone
walls: WOOD: log
roof: N/A
STONE: local ferrous sandstone
(remnants of gable-end fireplaces and
other: chimneys)
Narrative Description
Summary
Constructed in 1840, the John Wingate Truitt Cabin is a rectangular one-story log dogtrot house situated on
approximately thirteen acres of land that was once part of the 320-acre John Wingate Truitt Homestead. The cabin faces
south, rests on a local ferrous sandstone pier foundation, and is two pens wide—separated by an open central
passageway—and one pen deep. A concrete-lipped well, purportedly excevated in the late 1800s, is located immediately
north of the cabin. The site also retains a contributing family cemetery (now under the stewardship of the Clark Cemetery
Association), a natural spring, and a remnant section of mid-nineteenth-century roadbed.
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Property Description
Located in rural Morris County, Texas, the countryside surrounding the John Wingate Truitt Cabin predominantly
consists of rolling, mixed timberland dotted with modern agricultural and residential properties. The cabin occupies the
crest of a broad, grassy knoll that gently descends southward to its base near Farm to Market Road 144. Roughly
bisecting the nominated property into a northern tract of about four acres and a southern tract of about nine acres, FM 144
runs in a generally northwest to southeast direction some 100 yards south of the cabin. The expanse between the cabin
and FM 144 is open, sloping ground with clusters of thick brush and trees that serve as a natural screen along its road
frontage. The scenic ground to the north, east, and west of the cabin is similarly undulating and expansive, typically
extending several hundred yards in each direction. That said, trees occassionally break the meadow-like openness of the
area, including a large pear tree located directly northwest of the cabin and a sprawling walnut tree located approximately
35 yards west of the structure.
The wooded nine-acre tract of land below the cabin site gradually declines as it stretches south of Farm to Market
Road 144. Within the boundaries of this area, two major contributing resources are extant. Running essentially parallel to
the modern roadway is a remnant section of what may be the old Pittsburg and Jefferson Road. Additionally, a natural
fresh water source, “Mandy’s Spring,” meanders near the old roadbed perhaps 300 yards southeast of the cabin.
Thus, with the sole exception of a recently constructed residential dwelling situated about 100 yards northeast of
the cabin on an adjacent parcel of land, the surrounding area still retains much of its historic character, exuding a sense of
rustic isolation that seems ideally suited to the interpretation of rural life in mid-nineteenth-century Texas.
Individual Resources
John Wingate Truitt Cabin ca. 1840, Contributing
Erected shortly after the members of the John Wingate Truitt family emigrated from Alabama to the Republic of
Texas in 1840, the nominated dogtrot cabin served as their principal dwelling for the better part of the next four decades.1
The house is primarily constructed of large planked logs, each one hand-hewn on two sides, thereby leaving the top and
bottom rounded. Averaging six to seven inches in width, and varying from twelve to fourteen inches in heighth, each log’s
hewn sides contribute to the outer and inner walls of the structure. Whereas the wall logs are generally eighteen feet
long, the sills consist of three timbers lap-jointed and pinned lengthwise, thereby creating beams spanning forty-eight feet.
The plates are similarly lapjointed, but are composed of just two timbers each—one eighteen feet long and the other thirty
feet long. Hurricane damage in 2008 compelled the temporary removal of the south-facing plate logs, which now rest on
the ground to the rear of the building. Expertly fashioned half-dovetail notches are uniformly used throughout the cabin to
1All basic biographical information for the Truitt family is gleaned from Jim Truitt and Reva Truitt, Truitt
Geneaology, unpublished manuscript, May 1, 1999.
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Name of Property County and State
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join the wall logs together at the corners of each pen. Half-dovetailing is not only a mark of exceptional craftmanship, but it
is also indicative of the Upper South origins of the builder.2 Comprised of two square pens of equal size—eighteen feet
by eighteen feet—the cabin is divided by a twelve-foot-wide central open dogtrot. Sometime during the mid-twentieth
century, when the structure was converted for use as a barn, the dogtrot opening was enclosed with a combination of
simple wood framing, plywood, and board siding. A portion of that material has since been removed (circa 2008) and the
passageway partially reopened. Centrally positioned single door openings on each pen’s interior wall allow for easy
access via the dogtrot passageway. The cabin also has three additional entrances, with one located on the western pen’s
south-facing wall and two others positioned on the eastern pen’s north- and south-facing walls. Framed with plain boards,
all door openings measure approximately three feet in width and six feet in height. Floor joist notches cut into the
“number eight” logs of the eastern pen’s north- and south-facing walls indicate the historical existence of a half-attic
sleeping loft in this location. As evidenced by a photograph taken of the the structure in the 1930s—and in keeping with
traditional practice—a free-standing porch elevated on ferrous sandstone piers probably graced the cabin’s entire
southern façade.3 Floor joist notches cut in a sill timber suggest that a shed room was also originally located to the rear of
the eastern pen.
Flooring throughout the cabin currently consists of eight-inch-wide pine planking fastened with squarehead nails
to a total of twenty-two log floor joists, or “sleepers.” Consistantly spaced two feet apart, the floor joist timbers reach from
one sill to the other and measure about eight inches wide. As there were no readily available sources of milled lumber
nearby at the time the cabin was constructed—Jefferson did not emerge as a significant inland port and commercial hub
until the late 1840s—it is reasonable to conclude that the present flooring is not original to the structure.4 Rather, the
initial flooring surface was likely composed of short, split-log puncheons that were later replaced with pine planking.5
Exposed sleeper timbers clearly display the wooden pins that once secured the puncheons in place.6 Considering its
antiquated eight-inch width and one-inch thickness, the current pine flooring could have been installed by the Truitt family
during the 1850s or 1860s once milled lumber became more accessible from nearby towns such as Jefferson,
Daingerfield, and Pittsburg.7
Regrettably, much of the cabin’s original roof structure has vanished with the passage of time. Structural
evidence seems to suggest that the cabin’s initial roof conformed to the dominant construction approach applied to log
buildings in Texas and elsewhere: the nonridgepole roof.8 In keeping with this technique, “V”-shaped notches cut into the
plate timbers at a thirty-degree slant reveal that the rafters were spaced at two-foot intervals. Opposing rafters were likely
connected together at the ridgeline with wooden pins and stabilized with gable-to-gable lathing.9 Such an arrangement
would have given the roof an approximate height of six feet from plate to peak. Photographic evidence indicates that an
2Terry J. Jordan, Texas Log Buildings: A Folk Architecture (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1978), 54, 74 – 81;
Francis Edward Abernethy, ed., Built in Texas (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2000), 83.
3Photocopy image of original photograph, Mary Ellen Shaver and family standing in front of John Wingate Truitt
Cabin, circa 1939, original photograph in private possession.
4Handbook of Texas Online, s.v. “Jefferson,” http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/JJ/hgj2.html
(accessed July 1, 2008).
5Jordan, Texas Log Buildings, 83 – 84.
6Jordan, Texas Log Buildings, 83.
7Texas Forestry Museum Sawmill Database, http://www.treetexas.com/sawmilldb/ (accessed May 26, 2009).
8Jordan, Texas Log Buildings, 84 – 87.
9Jordan, Texas Log Buildings, 87.
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offset porch roof supported by four cedar posts originally existed on the cabin’s southern façade.10 The cedar posts still
remain, but the porch roof itself does not. At least since its conversion from residence to barn (circa 1950s), the house
was sheltered under a modern—if unsophisticated—tin roof. The current property owners removed that roof in spring
2008 and erected a large protective pavillion over the cabin to shield it from the elements. Within months, that structure
was damaged by Hurricane Ike and subsequently replaced in spring 2009. The new pavillion is composed entirely of
steel, measures seventy-two feet long by forty-two feet wide, and stands twenty-four feet high.
Although the cabin does not presently have a chimney, both of the gable ends possess evidentiary features which
strongly suggest that it historically possessed two. Despite the deterioration of each pen’s lower gable-end wall logs, it
seems clear that six-foot-wide fireplace gaps were cut and framed by the original builders to accommodate exterior
chimneys. To the immediate left of each fireplace gap was situated one small, board-framed window—a common practice
in Texas cabin construction.11 Whereas, because of log degradation, only an open space remains where the western
pen’s window once existed, the outline of the eastern pen’s window is still quite visible. Further residual clues of the
chimneys’ prior existence include hewn ferrous sandstone hearth foundations at the base of each gable end; gradually
tapering ghost lines on the upper gable-end walls where the chimney stone masonry ascended toward the roof peak; and
a hearth gap cut in the western pen’s gable-end floorboards (the eastern pen’s gable-end floorboards are too deteriorated
to discern the presence of a hearth gap).
Well ca. late 1800s, Contributing
First excavated and utilized during the period after the Truitt family resided on the nominated property, the well
supposedly dates to the late nineteenth century. At present, it has a circular concrete lip that measures about nine feet in
circumference and is capped with a twenty-eight-inch-square sheet of one and one-half-inch-thick metal. Surrounded by
small trees and brush, the well is situated some thirty-five yards north of the cabin. The well shaft plunges some thirty-
four feet in depth.
Pittsburg and Jefferson Roadbed ca. mid-1800s, Contributing
A remnant section of what may be the old Pittsburg and Jefferson Road traverses the lower portion of the
nominated property, just south of and roughly parallel to Farm to Market Road 144.12 The ghost lines of the old road are
clearly visible, as are wheel ruts left behind by decades of continuous wagon travel. Originally a “First Class Road”
measuring sixty feet wide, this mid-nineteehth-century thoroughfare enabled residents situated along its path to transport
goods and people to the two locally significant towns it connected, as well as to innumerable destinations inbetween.13
Local stagecoach mail service undoubtedly also flowed over this route. Indeed, according to Truitt family oral tradition, a
stage line stop is located on the southern side of the Pittsburg and Jefferson roadbed as it stretches westward, where it
can be discerned as a slightly raised, cleared area. No documentary evidence has yet been discovered that might identify
which stagecoach operation (or operations) may have historically utilized this stop or precisely when.
“Mandy’s Spring,” ca. 1840, Contributing
Some 300 yards southeast of the cabin site, a natural water source flows near the remnant section of the
Pittsburg and Jefferson Road. Known locally as “Mandy’s Spring,” it was so named—according to Truitt family lore—in
recognition of John Wingate Truitt’s only bondswoman, Mandy, who reportedly first discovered the spring in 1840. The
10Mary Ellen Shaver Photograph.
11Jordan, Texas Log Buildings, 143.
12Two early maps of northeastern Texas and Morris County clearly indicate the presence of a road that connected
routes between Pittsburg and Jefferson, located immediately south of where the John Wingate Truitt Cabin is situated
(The Portal to Texas History, “Map of central Texas: from Sabine River to west of Waco on the Brazos, north as far as
Linden-Daingerfield-Pittsburg in the east, and Fort Worth-Denton-Dallas in the west,” circa 1860,
http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth20771/?q=daingerfield%20map [accessed May 15, 2009]; U.S. Department
of Agriculture, Soil Survey of Morris County, Texas [Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1910], map insert).
13“Early Roads in Morris County,” The Morris County Historical Society Bulletin, No. 7 (June 25, 1963): 1.
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spring apparently supplied the family with a dependable font of fresh water for the duration of their four-decades-long
residence on the property. The 1995 testimony of Mary Ellen Shaver, a woman who was born in the cabin and lived there
as a small child during the 1930s, corroborates the Truitt family’s claims regarding the spring’s use and name.14
Clark Cemetery, ca. 1875, Contributing
The land that now comprises Clark Cemetery was originally conveyed by S. W. Clark to Elizabeth J. Truitt for use as the
Truitt family burying ground on December 10, 1875. On January 13, 1908, the cemetery was officially redesignated “as a
public grave yard for the community at large.”15 It is currently under the stewardship of a local citizens’ group, the Clark
Cemetery Association. The cemetery is located some 230 yards northeast of the cabin site and encompasses nearly
three acres of land that gradually ascends toward the parcel’s northwestern corner. Their graves marked by a “Citizen of
the Republic of Texas” medallion, both John Wingate Truitt and his wife, Elizabeth, are buried here, as are three of their
children—James, Edward, and Sarah—and numerous descendants. The cemetery’s irregular polygon-shaped perimeter
is defined by a simple chainlink fence that can be entered via Holt Road through either of two main gates.
In June 2009, the John Wingate Truitt Cabin and Home Site was formally designated a Texas state
archaeological site and recognized with a Historic Texas Lands plaque.
14Jim Truitt and Reva Truitt, “Edward Robinson Truitt,” Truitt Geneaology.
15Office of the County Clerk, Deed Record, Morris County, 1875 and 1910, Texas A&M University, Commerce.
Truitt, John Wingate, Cabin and Home Site Morris County, Texas
Name of Property County and State
8. Statement of Significance Areas of Significance
Applicable National Register Criteria (Enter categories from instructions)
(Mark "x" in one or more boxes for the criteria qualifying the property Architecture
for National Register listing) Exploration/Settlement
Social History
x A Property is associated with events that have made a
significant contribution to the broad patterns of our Period of Significance
1839 – 1865
history.
Significant Dates
B Property is associated with the lives of persons 1840
significant in our past. Significant Person
x C Property embodies the distinctive characteristics (Complete only if Criterion B is marked above)
of a type, period, or method of construction or
N/A
represents the work of a master, or possesses high
Cultural Affiliation
artistic values, or represents a significant N/A
and distinguishable entity whose components lack Architect/Builder
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individual distinction.
D Property has yielded, or is likely to yield, information
important in prehistory or history.
Criteria Considerations
(Mark "x" in all the boxes that apply)
Property is:
owed by a religious institution or used for religious
A purposes.
B removed from its original location.
C a birthplace or grave.
D a cemetery.
E a reconstructed building, object, or structure.
F a commemorative property.
G less than 50 years old or achieving significance
within the past 50 years.
Period of Significance (justification)
1839 – 1865 identifies the period during which John Wingate Truitt—having first obtained a land grant from the Republic
of Texas—substantially contributed to the initial settlement of present-day Morris County, Texas, and thereafter came to
typify the state’s class of middle-size yeoman farmers.
Criteria Consideratons (explanation, if necessary)
N/A
Truitt, John Wingate, Cabin and Home Site Morris County, Texas
Name of Property County and State
Statement of Significance Summary Paragraph
The John Wingate Truitt Cabin and Home Site is significant at the statewide level, under National Register
Criterions A and C. Constructed in 1840, the cabin is architecturally significant as a splendid example of a second-
generation log dogtrot house still situated on its original location and under the ownership of the pioneer builder’s direct
descendants. It is, moreover, the only structure of its kind documented in Morris County and one of just a handful known
to exist in northeastern Texas. The cabin and the home site are also significant for their association with the exploration
and settlement of present-day Morris County and its county seat, the community of Daingerfield. Upon their arrival in
1840, John Wingate Truitt and his family were some of the very first Anglo-American settlers to inhabit southern Morris
County. They were undoubtedly the first to settle on the nominated property. Additionally, from a social history
perspective, the cabin and home site possess further significance insofar as they enhance understanding of the overall
experience of plain folk farmers in mid-nineteenth-century Texas. Taken as a whole, the nominated property retains a
high degree of historic integrity.
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Narrative Statement of Significance (provide at least one paragraph for each area of significance)
Exploration/Settlement
Nestled amid the rolling timberlands of northeastern Texas, Morris County has remained predominantly rural in
character and sparsely populated for the length of its existence. Long occuppied by various Native American groups—the
Caddos, for example—the area that now encompasses Morris County did not witness its first meaningful wave of
settlement by people of European descent until 1839. In separate efforts, the Spanish and the French alike may well
have explored the area during the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries, but they made no documented
attempts to settle there. Thus, the people that constituted the county’s first substantial population of immigrants were
destined to be Anglo-Americans, the vast majority of whom hailed from the states of the Upper South. Arriving in the
wake of the Texians’ successful War for Independence and the subsequent establishment of the Republic of Texas,
Morris County’s original settlers were enticed, like so many others, by the promise of cheap, fertile land and the
opportunity to begin anew.16 Counted among those who contributed to this initial wave of settlement were John Wingate
Truitt and his family.
Born on December 19, 1801, in Worcester County, Maryland, John Wingate Truitt did not reside long in his native
state. His parents, William Wingate and Tabitha Brotten Truitt, moved their family westward to Smith County, Tennessee,
in 1802, where they eventually settled in the Smith Fork valley, near the tiny hamlet of Liberty.17 For at least the next
thirty-two years of his life, Truitt remained in this area. In 1825, he married twenty-year-old Elizabeth Jennings Robinson
with whom he had four children in rapid succession—William, Elijah, Sarah, and Edward—before succumbing to the same
wanderlust that had siezed his parents three decades earlier. Thus, in 1834 or shortly thereafter, Truitt uprooted his
young family and accompanied a group of settlers to Alabama. During the brief time they resided in Alabama, the Truitts
had two more children, Matilda and James.
Apparently dissatisfied with his family’s situation in Alabama—and perhaps also compelled by the severe
economic downturn that followed the Panic of 1837—Truitt decided to sojourn to the fedgling Republic of Texas in early
autumn 1839 to apply for a land patent. Upon entering northeastern Texas, he requested and obtained a conditional
third-class headright certificate from the Red River County Board of Land Commissioners. Dated November 13, 1839,
this document entitled Truitt to a total of 320 acres of land altogether.18 Evenly divided into two parcels of 160 acres each,
Truitt’s land was surveyed by William J. Hamilton in late November 1839.19 By spring 1840, Truitt had returned to
Alabama to retrieve his wife and children and bring them to their new Lone Star homestead.
16Handbook of Texas Online, s.v. “Morris County,”
http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/MM/hcm19.html (accessed July 1, 2008).
17Thomas Gray Webb, A Bicentennial History of DeKalb County, Tennessee (Smithville: Bradley Printing
Company, 1995), 38.
18John Wingate Truitt, Patent #68, Red-3-200, Original Land Grant Collection, Patents, Archives, and Records,
Texas General Land Office, Austin.
19Surveys, November 26, 1839 and November 28, 1839, John Wingate Truitt, Patent #68, Red-3-200, Original
Land Grant Collection, Patents, Archives, and Records, Texas General Land Office, Austin.
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Within months of the birth of Truitt’s sixth child on May 15, 1840, he and his family likely traveled to and first
occupied the land that became their future residence of better than thirty-five years.20 In the process, the Truitts
participated in a broader stream of migration to Texas composed primarily of settlers from the Upper South. During their
first decade in Texas, Truitt and his family literally carved their homestead out of the wilderness, constructing the
nominated double-pen log dogtrot house and establishing a reasonably succesful farming operation that included cotton
and corn production as well as the raising of livestock such as cattle and hogs.21 Two more children—Nancy and
Wingate—were added to the family in the midst of these demanding efforts, bringing the total to eight altogether.
In 1846, Red River County was partitioned by the First Legislature of the state of Texas, thereby causing the
members of the Truitt family to become citizens of the newly formed Titus County.22 Although few sources survive that
might illuminate Truitt’s specific contributions to the founding and organization of the community in which he lived,
labored, and raised his family, one particular document is highly suggestive of the esteem with which he was viewed by
his fellow settlers. A plat map (circa 1850) of Daingerfield—the most significant town in southern Titus County and the
future county seat for Morris County following its creation in 1875—clearly indicates the presence of a “Truitt Street.”23
Composed at that time of just twelve principal streets named in honor of such towering figures in Texas history as Sam
Houston, David Crockett, and James Fannin, the inclusion of an avenue in Daingerfield bearing Truitt’s name is striking, to
be sure. However conjectural an assertion, Truitt seems to have merited recognition by his neighbors for the role he
performed in helping to shape the early history of their shared community.
On December 31, 1876, Truitt died at the age of seventy-five. At the time of his death, Morris County was only in
the second year of its existence, having been organized by the state legislature on May 12, 1875.24 Moreover, the
community that developed around Truitt’s homestead had recently become known as Jenkins.25 Truitt was interred in the
family burying ground that has since been designated as “Clark Cemetery.” His wife, Elizabeth, lived another five years
before following him in death on September 7, 1880. She, too, is buried in Clark Cemetery. The Truitts’ side-by-side
gravesite is marked by a “Citizen of the Republic of Texas” medallion.
Architecture
The John Wingate Truitt Cabin is a splendid example of a second-generation log dogtrot house still situated on its
original location and under the ownership of the pioneer builder’s direct descendants. As is typical of second-generation
dogtrot houses in Texas, the Truitt Cabin consists of two square pens of equal size, which are separated by a central
20John Wingate Truitt is not to be found in the 1840 census for Alabama, but is reported in the Republic of Texas
census that year (Sixth Census, 1840, Schedule I; Gifford White, The 1840 Census of the Republic of Texas, [Austin:
Pemberton Press, 1966]).
21Records of the Comptroller of Public Accounts, Ad Valorem Tax Division: Real and Personal Property Tax Rolls,
Titus County, 1846 – 1870; Seventh Census, 1850, Schedule IV; Eighth Census, 1860, Schedule IV; Ninth Census, 1870,
Schedule III. Microfilmed copies of the comptroller records are available in the Archives Division of the Texas State
Library in Austin.
22Handbook of Texas Online, s.v. "Titus County," http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/TT/hct6.html
(accessed July 1, 2008).
23“Plat of Daingerfield, Texas,” circa 1850, Map #2221-61, Texas State Library and Archives, Austin.
24Handbook of Texas, “Morris County.”
25Handbook of Texas, s.v. "Jenkins, Texas," http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/JJ/hrj5.html
(accessed July 1, 2008).
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open passageway. In this respect, it is representative of the form most commonly constructed in northeastern Texas.26
The house retains most of its major hand-hewn structural logs, although a few on each gable end are in various stages of
degredation. The uniform utilization of half-dovetail notching to join the cabin’s wall logs together at the corners of each
pen indicates the builders’ expert level of craftsmanship as well as their Upper South origins.27 Interestingly, half-dovetail
notching is unusual in the easternmost region of Texas, the prevalent styles being the square, saddle, and semi-lunate
notches.28 Its current pine planking aside, the initial use of split-log puncheons fastened by wooden pins to the elevated
sleeper timbers as a flooring surface is another mark of contruction excellence.29 Despite the loss of its original roof and
temporary conversion to a barn, the house has been remarkably well preserved. According to the Texas Log Cabin
Register housed in the University of North Texas Willis Library, the Truitt Cabin survives as the only documented example
of a log house in Morris County. The Register also indicates that the house is one of just a very small number of its form
that still exist in the counties adjacent to Morris.30 For these compelling reasons, the Truitt Cabin plainly warrants a
statewide level of significance.
Social History
The John Wingate Truitt Cabin and Home Site stands as an enduring monument to the experience of plain folk
farmers in mid-nineteenth-century Texas. In a very real sense, each of the nominated property’s contributing resources
enhances understanding of that experience. Truitt’s sturdily contructed double-pen cabin, for example, once sheltered his
entire family—a sizable group that numbered ten members altogether by 1847. According to the 1850 census, the Truitt
family included: John Wingate (aged forty-nine), Elizabeth (aged forty-six), William (aged twenty-one), Elijah (aged
twenty), Sarah (aged 17), Edward (aged fourteen), Martha (aged thirteen), James (aged ten), Nancy (aged seven), and
Wingate (aged two).31 Thus, with four sons old enough to perform productive work alongside him in the fields, Truitt
succeeded in doubling his improved land from forty acres in 1850 to eighty in 1860.32 Supplementing his sons’ labor,
Truitt held one adult slave, a female known merely as “Mandy” in family lore.33 Although it is difficult to say with certainty,
Mandy probably assisted Truitt’s wife and two oldest daughters in managing the household when her labor was not
absolutely required for routine agricultural tasks.
This combined workforce enabled Truitt to operate a reasonably productive farm, particularly for an individual
without extensive slave property. Composed of nearly 500 acres by 1860, and valued at $1,920 by that year’s census,
Truitt’s middle-size farm operation was thriving on the eve of the Civil War. Census and Titus County tax records indicate
that he owned 40 cattle, 2 oxen, 10 sheep, 30 hogs, and produced 400 bushels of corn, 50 bushels of oats, 50 pounds of
wool, 200 bushels of sweet potatoes, 500 pounds of butter, in addition to modest amounts of orchard products, beeswax,
honey, and home-made manufactures.34 Truitt’s farm also yielded four 450-pound bales of cotton for sale at market as a
26Jordan, Texas Log Buildings, 181.
27Jordan, Texas Log Buildings, 54.
28Jordan, Texas Log Buildings, 181.
29Jordan, Texas Log Buildings, 83.
30“Texas Log Cabin Register,” Willis Library, University of North Texas, Denton.
31Seventh Census, 1850, Schedule I.
32Seventh Census, 1850, Schedule IV; Seventh Census, 1860, Schedule IV.
33Seventh Census, 1850, Schedule II; Real and Personal Property Tax Rolls, Titus County, 1846 – 1865.
34Seventh Census, 1860, Schedule IV.
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cash crop. Apparently interested in expansion as well, Truitt steadily augmented his original headright during the twenty-
year period following his arrival in Texas, amassing some 1,120 additional acres of land.35 Thus, by 1860, at the height of
his wealth and productivity, Truitt possessed $14,460 worth of real and personal property—a significant value by any
measure of the time. However impressive, Truitt’s improved acreage, land holdings, agricultural output, and total worth
was comparable to that of other moderately successful farmers throughout Texas—slaveholding and nonslaveholding
alike—who occupied the general economic status of yeoman plain folk.36 In this respect, therefore, Truitt typified the
average medium-size farmer in antebellum Texas.
Like most farmers of his ilk in Texas, Truitt’s fortunes were substantially diminished by circumstances associated
with the Civil War’s progress and outcome. Three of his sons volunteered for Confederate military service, thereby
depriving him of their valuable labor. James primarily served in the conflict’s Western Theater as a member of Company
A, Twenty-Seventh Texas Cavalry Regiment, eventually rising to the rank of first sergeant.37 Both Elijah and Edward
enlisted in Company I, Fourteenth Texas Infantry Regiment and fought as privates in the Trans-Mississippi Theater of the
war.38 Emancipated in the wake of the Confederacy’s defeat, Truitt’s bondswoman, Mandy, disappeared from the written
record, taking her labor with her. Combined with the marriage and relocation of Truitt’s eldest son, William, during the
early 1850s, these labor losses were ruinous to his overall worth and productivity in the midst of the war and beyond.
Indeed, Titus County tax records make his financial woes plain. During the 1860s, the worth of Truitt’s taxable property
sharply plummetted, dropping to just $1,958 by the close of the decade.39 The 1870 census conveys a similar story, with
his real and personal property assessed at only $7000. 40 Truitt’s total worth, then, had fallen to a point not quite half of
it’s 1860 level. His farm’s cash value was determined to be just $720—little more than a third of it’s worth ten years
earlier. The farm’s output was also markedly reduced. Although Truitt managed to produce corn and sweet potatoes in
quantities approaching 1860’s yield, he failed to produce reportable amounts of cotton, oats, wool, orchard products,
butter, beeswax, honey, or home-made manufactures.41 In short, Truitt’s farming operation progressively slumped from
its antebellum apex of middle-class security to a condition just shy of subsistence agriculture within five years of the Civil
War’s end. In this regard, Truitt’s experience was again representative of plain folk farmers across Texas during the
period.
35Real and Personal Property Tax Rolls , Titus County, 1846 - 1860.
36Randolph B. Campbell and Richard G. Lowe, Planters & Plain Folk: Agriculture in Antebellum Texas (Dallas:
Southern Methodist University Press, 1987), 105 – 158.
37Record 1168, Index to Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations From
the State of Texas (National Archives Microfilm Publication M227, roll 37), Harold B. Simpson Confederate Research
Center, Hill College, Hillsboro; Company A, 27th Texas Cavalry Regiment muster roll, compiled by William K. Nolan,
http://www.geocities.com/sixtxcavrgtcsa/27thtexascavalryregiment/27tcra.html (accessed June 15, 2008); 27th Texas
Cavalry Regiment, Confederate States Army,
http://www.geocities.com/sixtxcavrgtcsa/27thtexascavalryregiment/index27.html (accessed June 15, 2008).
38Records 1161 and 1162, Index to Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in
Organizations From the State of Texas (National Archives Microfilm Publication M227, roll 37), Harold B. Simpson
Confederate Research Center, Hill College, Hillsboro; Randall Howald, Texans in the Civil War, “14th Texas Infantry-
Company I,” http://www.angelfire.com/tx3/RandysTexas/14thCoI.html (accessed June 15, 2008).
39Real and Personal Property Tax Rolls, Titus County, 1860 – 1870.
40Seventh Census, 1870, Schedule I.
41Seventh Census, 1870, Schedule III.
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Conclusion
The John Wingate Truitt Cabin and Home Site offers a unique glimpse into the physical environment and material
circumstances of life that Texas’s plain folk farmers encountered and subsequently learned to adapt and exploit for their
own uses in the mid-1800s. The house, old roadbed, spring, well, and cemetery—as well as the very land these
resources exist upon—retain integrity of location, design, materials, workmanship, feeling, and association. Afforded the
recognition, protection, and preservation implicit in it’s placement on the National Register of Historic Places, the
nominated property has enormous potential to enhance understanding of Texas’s formative years of Anglo-American
settlement, while also serving as a lasting memorial to the tenacity and work ethic of the state’s plain folk farmers.
Truitt, John Wingate, Cabin and Home Site Morris County, Texas
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Developmental history/additional historic context information (if appropriate)
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