Colorado County, TX Family Group Sheet for Augustus Dillard CLEMENTS Family *********************************************** Copyright © by the submitter. All rights reserved. http://www.fgs-project.com/copyright.html *********************************************** Submitted by: david strickland Email address: dnstrickland@access4less.net Husband: Augustus Dillard CLEMENTS Birthdate: @ 1844 Birthplace: Gonzales CO, TX Death date: 25 Oct 1900 Place of death: Columbus, Colorado, TX Father: Joseph D CLEMENTS Mother: Rachel BAKER Marriage date: 23 Nov 1867 Marriage place: Oakland, Colorado, TX Wife: Louisa Florida TOWNSEND Birthdate: 26 June 1847 Birthplace: Texas Death date: 4 Apr 1886 Place of death: Oakland, Colorado, TX Father: Spencer Burton TOWNSEND Mother: Louisa Drucilla DILLARD CHILDREN Child No. 1: Spencer A Burton CLEMENTS Sex: m Birthdate: 1870 Birthplace: Oakland, Colorado, TX Death date: 18 Feb 1892 Place of death: Oakland, Colorado, TX Marriage date: Marriage place: Spouse's name: Child No. 2: James A CLEMENTS Sex: m Birthdate: Sept 1871 Birthplace: Oakland, Colorado, TX Death date: after 1911 Place of death: Texas Marriage date: @ 1891 Marriage place: Colorado CO, TX Spouse's name: Lula unknown Child No. 3: Jennie B CLEMENTS Sex: f Birthdate: @ 1873 Birthplace: Oakland, Colorado, TX Death date: Place of death: Marriage date: Marriage place: Spouse's name: Child No. 4: William D CLEMENTS Sex: m Birthdate: @ 1876 Birthplace: Oakland, Colorado, TX Death date: 19 Aug 1911 Place of death: Pledger, Matagorda, TX Marriage date: Marriage place: Spouse's name: Child No. 5: Hiram E CLEMENTS Sex: Birthdate: 19 Sept 1879 Birthplace: Oakland, Colorado, TX Death date: 11 July 1906 Place of death: Oakland, Colorado, TX Marriage date: Marriage place: Spouse's name: Child No. 6: Fulton Adolphus CLEMENTS Sex: m Birthdate: 25 Nov 1885 Birthplace: Oakland, Colorado, TX Death date: 13 Aug 1949 Place of death: Childress, TX Marriage date: @ 1912 Marriage place: Angelina CO, TX Spouse's name: Susan Estelle CHEANEY Documentation: Weimar Oddfellows Cemetery records, 1870, 1880, 1900 census records, newspaper account of the murder of William Clements. The Townsend family was involved in a blood feud in Colorado County in the late 1880s that continued until William Clements was shot in the back in 1911. His attacker was acquitted as he was angry over "a business deal that went bad", whatever that could have been!