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- Candace correct pronunciation is Can-da'-ce. She was called Da'-cy.
Candace married 3 times. She m.(1) abt. 1835, in Matagorda or Fayette Co. (then the Municipality of Mina) a Mr. Underwood who was dead by late March 1836 when she went on the Runaway Scrape with her father's family and their neighbors, as she was then a young widow named Underwood. Candace and Mr. Underwood had no children.
Candace married (2) by Contract or Bond abt. 1836, Plum Grove, Leander Frederic Trent Cottle, b. 1786 Vermont; d. 8-8-1845 Black Jack Springs. He is buried in another area of Pin Oak Cemetery.
Candace married (3) on 5-13-1846, Obadiah Fitzgerald b. 1819 Virginia; d. 01 Feb 1896.
Candace and Lee Cottle had 4 children:
Ellender (Ellen) Azubah b.18 May 1837
Henry b. 27 Sep 1839
Leander Jr. b. 1841
Cordelia b. 12 Oct 1844
Candace and Obadiah had three children:
William 'Billy' David - 13 Sep 1857
Nancy Ann - Abt 1847
Amanda Jane - 13 Oct 1848
Notes for Candace (Candacy) Ann Criswell:
Candace correct pronunciation is Can-da'-ce. She was called Da'-cy and Aunt Da'-cy hence the y on the tombstone: Candacy.
Her name on the tombstone is Candacy Fitzgerald in the Pin Oak Cemetery. Her stone and O.T.'s are on the far east side.
Candace married 3 times. She m.(1) abt. 1835, in Matagorda or Fayette Co. (then the Municipality of Mina) a Mr. Underwood who was dead by late March 1836 when she went on the Runaway Scrape with her father's family and their neighbors, as she was then a young widow named Underwood. I am inclined to think that Candace and Mr. Underwood were married in Fayette Co. because I know there were at least two Underwood men there, one of whom was the first husband of my great-grandmother, Sarah Ann Ellis, who came to Texas from Wilcox Co., Ala., about 1838 with her husband James S. Underwood. He died l839 in Fayette Co., and in 1841 she married (2) my great-grandfather Wm. Marshall Robinson, formerly of Henry Co., Ky. I think it highly probable that Candace married James Underwood's brother, or other kin. Sarah and Candace lived as neighbors in the Black Jack area from the early 1840s until 1900 when they both died. Candace and Mr. Underwood had no children.
Fayette County was created from Bastrop (formerly Mina) and Colorado Counties, all a part of Austin's Colony, by the Republic of Texas Dec. 1837, and organized Jan. 1, 1838. While Texas was under Mexican rule, all marriage ceremonies had to be performed by a Catholic priest. If no priest lived nearby, it was customary to be married by Contract or Bond. The boy and the girl signed this legal and binding contract, as well as both of her parents. In May 1836 this procedure, no doubt, was still in effect.
Candace married (2) by Contract or Bond abt. 1836, Plum Grove, in what is now Fayette Co., Texas, Leander Frederic Trent Cottle, b. 1786 Vermont; d. 8-8-1845 Black Jack Springs. He is thought to be buried on one side of Candace in an unmarked grave in the Black Jack [now Pin Oak] Cemetery.
0n 5-13-1846 Candace end Obadiah Fitzgerald who had recently married asked to be made joint Administrators of Lee's Estate. Their $1200 Bond was dated 5-25-1846. Sureties were James S. Mayfield (Sec. of State in President Lamar's Cabinet) and James Robinson.
On 1-31-1848 Candace and Obadiah asked that James Robinson be appointed Guardian of the 4 minor Cottle children. Obadiah and Wm. Primm were Sureties on the $2000 Bond.
J. S. Black, S. P. Birt and James Moore were early teachers in the Black Jack Springs and Pin Oak community church-house school. My grandma, Susan Prentiss Robinson (b. 1844 Fayette Co;, niece of James), went to school there with all 7 of Candace's children.
Candace and Lee Cottle had 4 children. One was Ellender (Ellen) Azubah Cottle, born 5-18-1837 near Lyons Station (later Lyonsville, then Schulenburg), Fayette Co., Texas; died 5-8-1923 San Angelo, Texas, and is buried there; married 2-1-1855 Black Jack Springs, Texas, William (Will) Shank, C.S.A., born 9-17-1833 in Germany, as were both of his parents; died about 1910 Abilene, Texas, and is buried there.
Some of the Black Jack springs were located on her property and some on J. C. C. Smith's land.
Black Jack Springs Cemetery is located at the end of County Road 373 and is about 0.6 mile southwest of the FM-609 and FM-2237 intersection in SW Fayette Co., TX. According to Joe Cole the first burials were 2 unknown soldiers who were returning from the Battle of Salado which occured 18 Sept 1842. They died of measles at Bledsoe's house.
"Memories of By-Gone Days" by Rosa Berry Cole pg 22-23
After San Jacinto, Candace married Lee Cottle. While at Lucinda Berry's house he was playing a fiddle and he was setting on the end of a bench, she noticed he kept inching down toward her. When he got close to her, he said "Candacy, here is my heart and hand. Will you be my wife?" He had never missed a note on his fiddle.
She said, "No, I am bespoke."
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1816 - 1900 (84 years)
