Robert Newton James ~ (my great-uncle)

April 28, 1845 ~ Born in Blount County, Tennessee w/family

1850 ~ Lived in District 6, Blount County, Tennessee w/family

1860 ~ Lived in Beat 5, Fannin County, Texas w/family

In a newspaper article in the Quanah paper Robert recalled that he and his family camped out near a Texas Ranger Camp, near where the railroad tracks run today. He also recalled that he hauled freight in wagons from Quanah to Mobeetie in the panhandle (where Bat Materson killed a man in defense of a woman) and to Clairmont (east of Lubbock on Highway 380).

1863 ~ Enlisted in the 30th Texas Cavalry Regiment, also known as 1st Texas Partisan Rangers in Denton County, Texas

July 27, 1865 ~ Married Frances Ann Eakins

1870 ~ Lived in White Oak, Franklin, Arkansas

1880 ~ Lived in Preceint 4, Denton County, Texas

Oct 4, 1889 ~ In the Quanah Tribune-Chief Newspaper

     R.N. James who last year ran the only threshing machine north of Pease River, this year threshed 24,509 bushels of grain, and two other horse power and one steam threshers divided the same territory with him that he occupied last year. He thinks the crop is quite or nearly 400% greater than last year.

1900 ~ Lived in Justice Precint 1, Hardeman County, Texas

Married a Lizzie A

1910 ~ Lived in Quanah, Hardeman County, Texas

1920 ~ Lived in Quanah, Hardeman County, Texas

October 2, 1924 ~ Died in Quanah, Texas