http://www.bobfears.com/view_hist_detail.asp?iKey=3788 dated: 1896 FAMILY HISTORY FOR Monica Catherine Poe Subject: STATEMENT OF MONICA CATHERINE POE, FEARS County of Yell, M.C. Fears being sworn on her oath says: My name is M.C. Fears, usually known as Kate. I am sixty years of age. My maternal grandmother?s maiden name was Elizabeth or Betty Edwards. She was born, as she informed me, the first year of the revolutionary war. She never remembered having seen her father, but said he was at home several times during the war as she was told, and he died on his way home after the revolutionary war was over. I do not remember to have ever heard her call his given name. I do remember, however, that when Robert E. Lee became prominent by reason of his connection with the war between the states in 1861. My grandmother said she knew he (Lee) was a relative of hers by his name. I do not know, or remember whether she meant the Robert or the Edwards in his name. She was in some way related to the Lee?s. If I am not mistaken, her mother was a Lee. She talked about grandmother Lee, but I am not positive about that, but it has always been my impression that her mother?s maiden name was Lee. My grandmother, Elizabeth or Betty Edwards married Richard or Dick Holley. I cannot give the date of the marriage, or the place, for I have forgotten; but I do know that my great-grandmother lived in Virginia, for grandma has told me often how they had to move around to keep out of the way of the Tories. They lived at first in Pennsylvania near Philadelphia, and went to Virginia to be near her people and had to move several times. My recollection is, that she said that soon after her marriage she my grandmother moved to Tennessee and settled on Duck River near Murfreesboro. They moved from there to Alabama. Of this marriage, ten children were born; five of them died while young in a short time of each other, and all without issue. I think it was two boys and three girls who died. I do not know the names of all of those who died; but one of the boys was named David, and one Morgan. One of the girls was named Melviney, usually called Viney. Those who survived were named Katie Holley, William Edwards Holley, Nancy L. Hearing grandma speak of but one brother. His name was William, and she called him Brother Billy. She may have had other brothers and sisters, and I only remember him because William wrote to her after I was old enough to read writing, and I read her letters over often to her, and this impressed his name on my mind. The last letter I remember my grandmother getting from him was about forty-five years ago. I was then fifteen years of age. In this letter he told my grandmother he had been back to the old home to see if he could do anything with that leased land, or get anything for it. That he saw no chance without a suit, and he was not able to go to law about it. My grandmother told me of her uncle, or her father?s uncle leasing some land in or near New York for ninety-nine years, and that the consideration of the lease was the improvements on the land; but at that time they all thought it would be of no value to any of the heirs; and just after the receipt of that letter from her Brother William, is the last I remember to have heard her talk about it. When her Brother William wrote this letter he was in Georgia visiting some of his children. His home was in one of the Carolina?s, I do not remember which. He wrote her he was coming to see her as soon as he got rested up. But I do not think she ever heard from him again, and he did not come. My maternal grandparents made their home with my parents from the time I was two years of age. My grandfather Holley was confined to his bed for ten years, and afterwards went on crutches. He died in Tuscaloosa, Alabama at the house of my parents in the spring of 1853; and my grandmother Holley died at West Point, White County, Arkansas in December, 1861 at my father?s house. My father and mother moved from Tuscaloosa, Alabama to West Point, Arkansas in the year 1856. My mother was a daughter of Richard and Elizabeth Holley and was the Nancy L. Holley referred to above as one of their children. My mother married R. H. Poe in the year 1832 in Tuscaloosa County Alabama, and there were born to them the following named children: William T., M.C. (Or Kate), Elijah Holley, James A., Richard R., Elizabeth, Rhoda, and Nanny Gill. Nancy L. Poe, my mother, was born Dec. 22nd, 1811, died near West Point, Arkansas January 1st, 1867. My father, R. H. Poe, died April 1875. William T. Poe (son of R. H. And Nancy L. Poe) died April 7, 1885 and left surviving him as his heirs-at-law, John A. Poe, Helen N. (Now Helen N. Tompkins), Minnie L. (Now Minnie L. Brewer), Annie K. And Ruby. Ruby died at the age of twelve years on November 10th, 1892. M.C. Poe is myself who married Richard S. Fears in Alabama at Tuscaloosa November 18th, 1852. Elijah Holley Poe is still living. James A. Poe died in Texas a few years since. He left six children and a widow. Dick, Emma, Thomas, Willie Jo, Kate and Maggery. His widow is now dead. His children, when last heard from, were living at Cold Springs, Texas. Richard R. Poe is still living. Elizabeth Poe married Rufus Rudisill and died in April 1878; she has three children living; Clair, Zada and Lillian. Rhoda A. Poe is still living. This is all I know of my mother?s individual family. Kate Holley, a sister of my mother?s, married Mr. Frank McCowan in Alabama and moved to Arkansas Territory in 1830. She had two children. I do not know the date of her death. I know her daughter Belle is dead, and believe her son Frank is dead, but I do not know. Elizabeth Holley, my mother?s sister married my father?s brother JAMES POE in Alabama. They moved to West Point, Arkansas in the fall of 1857. Aunt Betty, as she was called, died in the spring of 1878. She left five children; four girls and one boy. Mary Elizabeth, Thomas Burr, Sally, Rhoda and Eliza. Mary, now Mary Lee, lives at Cold Springs, Texas, has several children. Burr married in Texas and is dead. I do not know whether he left any children or not. Sally married a Mr. Moore in Texas, died and left one son. Rhoda died at my mother?s house in 1861. Eliza married in Texas, I have forgotten the name of the man she married. She died. I do not know that she had any children. Rhoda Holley, my mother?s sister, married Mr. J. Wright in Alabama; Moved to Texas in 1854. She died in 1863. She left several children, girls and boys. Jessy, Thomas and several boys whose names I have forgotten; and three girls, I do not remember their names, but have heard them. William Edwards Holley, my mother?s brother, went to Mississippi when a young man as a missionary to the Indians. He married and lived there until he died. He died in 1856 at Granada, Mississippi. He left a widow and four daughters. One Elizabeth married, but all are dead now unless Elizabeth left a son. I heard she had one child, a son. Sworn to and subscribed before me this the______day of ___________1896.