LEANDER LEE MARCRUM, JR.

 

Leander Lee Marcrum, Jr., b January 24, 1863, d February 14, 1910 at Mooreville, Falls County, Texas ‑ was a son of Leander Lee Marcrum, Sr., b ca 1831, and his wife, Rosanna (Lewis) Marcrum, b 1830 in Warren County, Tennessee. The father served in the Confederate State Army during the Civil War as a Private in Company D, 22nd Tennessee Infantry Battalion. The children of Leander Lee and Rosanna (Lewis) Marcrum, Sr. were Mary Jane, Samantha Marcrum, b 1855, d January 1930 ‑married on August 28, 1875 to her cousin, Enoch J. Markham; Elizabeth Marcrum, b 1856; Margaret Rosanna Marcrum, b 1858; and Leander Lee Marcrum, Jr., who married first to Lily Jones, who died in 1894 at Mooreville, and had two sons:

Essie Marcrum, b 1885 in Tennessee, d July 10, 1970, who married Emma Markham. They lived in Falls County, Texas, but died in Robinson, McLennan County, Texas.

C. L. Marcrum, b December 26, 1889 at Mooreville, Falls County, Texas, d July 21, 1957 in Dallas,

Texas ‑ married Jeanette Bankston. He farmed in Falls County, retiring in Dallas.

After the death of Lily (Jones) Marcrum, Leander Lee Marcrum, Jr. (called Lee) returned to Tennessee, where he married second to Mary Elizabeth Newby, and brought her back to Falls County with her parents and siblings. Lee and Mary Elizabeth had three children:

Lela Cynthia Marcrum, b November 3, 1896, d October 12, 1968 ‑ married Isaac F. Flowers.

Beulah Samantha Marcrum, b December 2, 1899 ‑ married first to Thurman Atkins ‑a son of Joseph Warren and Margaret (Powell) Atkins; and married second to V. V. Mitchum.

Brown Marcrum, b December 12, 1904, d March 12, 1934 ‑ married Thelma Ruth Cohen.

The different spellings of the family name were taken by two brothers, as can be seen when one family married into another.

Lee Marcrum was an overseer of the McCullough Ranch at Mooreville.

 

Copyright Permission granted to Theresa Carhart and her volunteers for printing the biographies of these Falls County Families to this web page. “Families of Falls County”, compiled and Edited by the Falls County Historical Department, p. 298.