​​​​​​​​Garriott Family Genealogy

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     CENSUS:
     1900 Mercer Co, MO census: has MA Baldwin 40, b. IL, Farmer; Maggie Baldwin 25 (2 children-2 living), b. MO; Loyd Baldwin 16, b. MO; Alvin Baldwin 14, b. MO; Virgil Baldwin 7, b. MO; and Orville Baldwin 5, b. MO.
     1910 Portland Ward 4, Multnomah Co, OR census: has (all b. MO) M A (Maggie?) Baldwin 53, Widow, Dress Maker; Virgle Baldwin 17; Orvil Baldwin 15; and Frances Avery 32 (3 children-3 living)(Widow), Lodger, Saleslady-Confectionery.
     1920 Lubbock Co, TX census: has Roy A Baldwin 34, b. MO, Lawyer-Office; Maude Baldwin 33, b. KS; Garriott T Baldwin 3-3/12, b. TX; and Florence A Baldwin 1-10/12, b. TX.
     1930 Lubbock Co, TX census: has Roy A Baldwin 45, b. MO, Lawyer-General Practice w/ $12,000 RE; Maude Baldwin 43, b. KS; Zeke Baldwin 13, b. TX; Florence Baldwin 12, b. TX; and Elizabeth Baldwin 10, b. TX.

07-Lucinda Ellen Garriott
Birth: 4 Nov 1863, Keokuk Co, IA
Death: 17 Jan 1890, near Halfrock, Mercer Co, MO- age 26
Burial: Barnes Cemetery
Father: John William Garriott

Marriage: 14 Aug 1882
1st Spouse: Marian A BALDWIN
Birth: 6 Sep 1858, Illinois
Death: 1903, Oregon- age 44
Burial: Forest View Cemetery
Father: James S Baldwin (1836-1870)
Mother: Lucinda Cooper (1841-1905)

    CHILDREN: Ellen and Marion had four children:
08----LLOYD BALDWIN [b. 17 Aug 1883, Mercer Co, MO; d. 14 Jun 1905- age 21];
08----ROY ALVIN BALDWIN [b. 2 Jan 1885, Half Rock, Mercer Co, MO; d. 2 Oct 1940- age 55, bur. Englewood Cemetery], lived in Mercer Co, MO, Oregon, & Lubbock Co, TX, m. Maude HOLLINGER [b. about 1887, KS], had four children: (1 listed)
     09----GARRIOTT THOMPSON "ZEKE" BALDWIN [b. 19 Jun 1916, Lubbock Co, TX; d. 20 Feb 1944, Lubbock Co, TX, # 9684- age 27], an Attorney, qualified for the TX Supreme Court on 1 Jun 1941; [blossomsandbirdies]

08----WALTER BALDWIN [b. 1887, Mercer Co, MO; d. May 1891- age 4, bur. Barnes Cemetery]; and
08----ALMA BALDWIN [b. Mar 1889, Mercer Co, MO; d. Aug 1889- age 5 mo, bur. Barnes Cemetery].

     2ND MARRIAGE: Marian 2nd married Margaret "Maggie" A ___ [b. May 1875; d. before 1910] and had two sons:
08----Virgil Baldwin [b. Oct 1892, MO]; and
08----Orville Baldwin [b. Nov 1894, MO].

     1903 OBITUARY: (Marion A Baldwin) came here last fall from Missouri and died (1902 on tombstone) at home in South Park last night. He was about 48 years of age and leaves a wife and four sons.

[Forest Grove Times, Thurs, Sept 10, 1903]

     BIOGRAPHY: According to legend he (Roy Alvin Baldwin) was an Attorney, Novelist, State Legislator, Newspaper Publisher. Roy Alvin "RA" Baldwin was an attorney in Slayton, (Lubbock Co) TX in 1935. He had a novel published, "Santi", and was writing a second novel in February 1935 when he wrote a letter to the Princeton telegraph telling of his life. He lived in Mercer Co, MO until 27 Apr 1903, when his family moved to Oregon due to his father's health. In the spring of 1905, after his father's death, he went to the southwest, where he finished his schooling. He engaged in journalism, ran a weekly newspaper, managed two departments on a daily newspaper. He then took up law, got into politics, was elected to three terms in the Texas Legislature, where he was a joint author of a bill creating Texas Technological College in Lubbock. [Randi Ferguson]
     James S Baldwin, Marian's father, was a private in Company G, 23rd MO Volunteers in the Union Army. He died as a result of hemorrhage of the lungs, contracted while a prisoner in Montgomery, AL in 1862. Marian's mother, Lucinda, was short, somewhat feisty, with a dark complexion, and spoke Gaelic.
     Inscription on tombstone: "Jurist-Author-Legislator; Co-Author of Bill Creating Texas Technological College."

[courtesy of David Sifford]