Wren Kin
I just received a package from Ruth containing Civil War Pension records for the following individuals:
- Mrs. Anna K. Wren, Wood County, Texas
- Mrs. E.J. Wren, Wood County, Texas
- G.W. Wren, Lamar County, Texas
- Mrs. M.A. Wren, Brown County, Texas
- T.E. Wren, Brazos County, Texas
- W.B. Wren, Anderson County, Texas
- William B. Wrenn, Falls County, Texas
- William Henry Wrenn, Mills County, Texas
All I can say is: woo hoo!
I will scan these and put them online in our genealogy database, which I’ve almost finished preparing for public access. This database will provide scans of actual documents, but you’ll have to register with the W(R)en(n) Family Association in order to view any of them. Registration will be free, of course.
I’d like to have a complete collection of Texan Wren/Wrenn pension records, but we still need the pension files for:
- Eugenia Gilson, Application #36154, Travis County, wife to Thomas Lycurgus Wren
- Viola Wren, Application #31456, Hamilton County, wife to William Coleman Wren
- R.H. Wren, Application #13941, Madison County
Poor Parthenia Wren’s pension file has been missing for years (Application #08378, Kaufman County). It’s my dearest hope that one day it will turn up again, donated to the Texas State Library Archives, perhaps, or maybe even to Wren Kin—where I would photograph it carefully (without a flash, of course) and then donate it to the Texas State Library Archives…
Ah, well. I can dream, can’t I?
Seriously, folks, if any of you have copies of the above pension files (or if you have copies of ANY Wren/Wrenn/Ren/Renn pension files from ANY state, would you consider donating copies to WrenKin.com? We’re starting with pension files from Texas, but only because we have to start somewhere.
In fact, if you’re interested in donating any Wren/Wrenn/Ren/Renn-related material to Wren Kin, please drop me a line. I would love to hear from you.
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Anna K. Wren is my 2nd great-grandmother. Her husband is Henry Crook Wren, son of Joseph Wren and Sarah Crook.
My great grandfather William E. Gilmer worked on the Mace Ranch in Lampasas County Texas from 1874 through ca. 1892. The ranch was owned by Solon V. and Mary Elizabeth (Wren) Mace, a fine old southern family from Mississippi who settled in Lampasas County Texas in 1860. Mary Elizabeth’s brother was William “Bill” Rudoliphis Wren and helped manage the Mace Ranch. In 1877, Bill Wren married Sarah Elizabeth Higgins, the younger sister of John Calhoun Pinckney “Pink” Higgins, a ranching partner of Solon V. Mace. In 1874, Bill Wren was seriously wounded in a gunfight in Lampasas Texas between the Higgins family and the Horrell brothers, who were a gang of professional cattle thieves and general troublemakers. Bill and Sarah Wren’s young children are buried in the Smith School Cemetery in Lampasas County Texas, apparently victims of typhoid fever. My great grandfather is also buried in the Smith School Cemetery. I do not know where Bill and Sarah Wren are buried.