Thomas Jefferson "Jef" Chaison^[1]

1839 - Aft 1897  (> 58 years)

• Name	Thomas Jefferson "Jef" Chaison
  Born	1839	Texas, USA
  Gender	Male
  Census	1880	Jefferson county, Texas, USA
  Died	Aft Jul 24, 1897
  Notes	Following a better than average education at home and at private schools, Thomas Jefferson ("Jef") Chaison did surveying and worked with his father in farming and stock raising.  He married a young lady from Virginia during the early days of the Civil War.  When the call went out for volunteers, Jef volunteered for the duration, and his new bride, Clara, returned to Virginia where she remained throughout the war years.     Jef Chaison was in Co. F, Fifth Texas Infantry Regiment, Hood's Brigade, Confederate States Army.  He was captured at Sharpsburg in September 1862 and exchanged two months later.  He was then wounded in the Battle of the Wilderness in May 1864.  Wounded again in October, he was taken prisoner near Richmond, Virginia.  Finally, he was paroled in March 1865 at Charlestown, West Virginia.     Back home following the war, Jeff and Clara acquired extensive holdings in central Jefferson county, Texas.  Jeff was county Judge (1890-92), served on the school board, and was active in civic affairs. Source:  Madeleine Martin, More Early Southeast Texas Families, Nortex Press, Quanah, Texas, 1978.  pp. 29-31.  [email David McFadden 21 July 2000]
  Person ID	I43652	mykindred
  Last Modified	Sep 11, 2008

  
  

  Father	McGuire Chaison,   b. Mar 01, 1809, Louisiana, USA ,   d. Nov 06, 1859  (Age 50 years)
  Mother	Eliza McFaddin,   b. 1820, Texas, USA ,   d. Y
  Married	Jun 18, 1835	Opelousas, Saint Landry parish, Louisiana, USA
  Notes	- 1850 census, TX, Jefferson, Nov 13, HH 254 McGuire Chesson, 41, M, LA Eliza, 30, F, LA Jefferson, 11, M, TX Sarah, 9, F, TX James, 6, M, TX Caroline, 4, F, TX John, 1, M, TX John B. Chesson, 105, M, Halifax - 1860 census, TX, Jefferson, Beaumont, pct 1, p 67, July 16, HH 406 Eliza Chishon, 38, F, LA T. Jefferson, 21, M, TX James, 15, M, TX Caroline, 13, F, TX John, 10, M, TX Celestine, 7, F, TX McGouir, 5/12, M, TX Julious Chamous, 17, M, TX -
  Family ID	F15576	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Clara Baldwin,   b. 1841, Mississippi, USA ,   d. Y
  Married	May 09, 1861
  Notes	159 S.W. 69 CHAISON et al. v. McFADDIN et al. Court of Civil Appeals of Texas. Galveston. June 16, 1913. On Motion for Rehearing June 26, 1913. Error to District Court, Jefferson County; E. A. McDowell, Special Judge. Action by Clara Chaison and others against W. P. H. McFaddin and others. From Page 70 a judgment for defendants denying plaintiffs' right to recover rents and profits for the use of certain land, they bring error. Affirmed. See, also, 132 S. W. 524. Presley K. Ewing, of Houston, George C. Greer and E. E. Easterling, both of Beaumont, for plaintiffs in error. F. C. Proctor, F. J. Duff, and D. Edward Greer, all of Beaumont, for defendants in error. McMEANS, J. This is an action by Clara Chaison, as widow, and the other plaintiffs as, or in the right of, the children and heirs at law, of Jeff Chaison, deceased, against W. P. H. McFaddin, to recover the David Cunningham survey of 1,170 acres of land situated in Jefferson county, less a tract of 208 acres sold by Chaison and Hebert to W. P. H. McFaddin on February 7, 1885. The petition was filed February 2, 1901. Plaintiffs filed their first-amended petition July 19, 1901. In these petitions plaintiffs, in addition to their prayer for recovery of the land, prayed only for general damages. On January 2, 1904, the American Oil & Refining Company of Texas, a corporation, filed its intervention with the usual averments of trespass to try title against W. P. H. McFaddin, alleging that it had acquired the land, and "all of the rights of action of the original plaintiffs thereto." In this petition, in addition to the averments of the plaintiffs' petition, it was alleged that in the month of February, 1901, defendant McFaddin by violence, force, and fraud wrested the possession from the petitioner and those whose estate it holds, and ejected them therefrom, and appropriated the possession and use of, and the rents and revenues from, said premises ever since; that the reasonable rental value of or the value of the use of said premises is the sum of $6 per acre per year, of which rents and use the defendant had deprived the petitioner and those under whom it holds, and had appropriated same to his own use and benefit since February, 1901, to the damage of petitioner in the sum of $16,182 up to the date of filing the petition, and that such damage will continue at the rate of $6 per acre per year as long as defendant withholds possession of said premises from petitioner. January 11, 1909, Intervener American Oil & Refining Company, joined by its duly qualified and acting receiver, J. D. Martin, filed its first-amended petition against defendant McFaddin, setting up the same averments of trespass to try title as in the original petition and substantially the same averments for the recovery of ....
  Children	1. Charles James Chaison,   b. Dec 09, 1865, Jefferson county, Texas, USA ,   d. Y   2. William Gill Chaison,   b. 1869, Texas, USA ,   d. Y   3. Harriet McClelland Chaison,   b. 1871, Texas, USA ,   d. Y   4. Clara Elizabeth Chaison,   b. 1873, Texas, USA ,   d. Y   5. John Brandon Chaison,   b. 1875, Texas, USA ,   d. Y   6. Virginia Mae Chaison,   b. Aft 1880,   d. Y
  Family ID	F15609	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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