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Ancestors of Milton and Love Toalson

Ancestors of Milton and Love Toalson

LaVerne Davis (View posts)
Posted: 24 Jul 2000 3:07PM GMT
I am searching for any information of the Toalson family. My grandmother, Effie, born abt. 1867 in Booneville, Missouri to Milton and Love Toalson. They came to the Austin, TX area when Effie was a child. She and her mother are listed on the Travis Cty. 1880 census. What happened to Milton? Milton's father was Andrew. I don't know Andrew's wife's name. Effie was an only child, married Charles L. Hopkins, June 1876. She was injured in the Galveston Flood in 1900 and died three months later. I've been searching for several years without much success. Any help would be appreciated.

Love Toalson

Posted: 28 Jul 2000 4:41PM GMT
Edited: 8 Jul 2001 12:31AM GMT
LaVerne, Could you share a little more information on Love Toalson? I have record of two Lovey Toalson's, one born in 1825 to Fountain Toalson and Sarah Fenton; the other to James D. Toalson and Eliza B. Goslin in 1852. Andrew Jackson Toalson was also the son on James and Eliza (as was my gg grandfather, Green Toalson). Andrew and Eliza are buried in the Kyle Cemetery in Hays County, TX. I would be willing to share any information that I have on this very elusive family.

Milton/Love Toalson

LaVerne Davis (View posts)
Posted: 9 Aug 2000 1:43PM GMT
Thanks Kathy; My grandmother, Effie Toalson, was an only child born to Milton and Love Toalson in 1869 in Booneville, Missouri. They moved to Texas sometime after she was born, because she and Love are listed on the 1880 Travis County census. Milton is not listed. I don't know if he died or they divorced. Effie was 8 years old at that time. Effie married Charles Hopkins 2/18/1886. In 1900 they lived in Ft. Bend County, TX. She was injured in the Galveston Flood in Sept. 1900, they gathered all their belongings and traveled to Ft. Worth where she died and is buried. I have pictures of Effie,my grandmother; her Mother and Dad, my g grandparents, and my gg grandparents, Andrew and wife (I don't know her name.) I have visited the cemetery in Kyle and have pictures of the Toalson plot. I have a lot of information on the Toalson's, but seems like I can't make any connections. Any information you have will be appreciated. I have been on vacation is the reason I am late getting back to you. Thanks.
Posted: 10 Aug 2000 5:34PM GMT
Edited: 8 Jul 2001 12:31AM GMT
La Verne,

I made an error in my last posting. Andrew Toalson was married to Mary Frances Patterson on 30 March 1871, not to his mother, Eliza. Sorry for any confusion this may have caused.

I was able to located Milton on the Hays Co. census listed as a "Tolston". I also have documentation of Lovey working as a chamber maid in one of the hotels in Austin, but don't have the dates to share with you right now. As soon as I locate the dates, I will share them with you.

Was Milton younger than Lovey? Was Andrew Lovey's brother, and, as such, Milton's aunt?

I have a picture of Andrew's brother, Green, that I would be willing to send you via e-mail. I also would be interested in seeing the pictures that you have.

My direct e-mail is listed in previous postings on this message board.

Thanks!
Kathy
Posted: 10 Aug 2000 5:42PM GMT
Edited: 8 Jul 2001 12:31AM GMT
in case it doesn't show up, it's apadenska2@aol.com....
Kathy

Re: Love Toalson

Posted: 18 Apr 2010 9:04PM GMT
Classification: Query
ok, Please write, as my Drane & Goslin line is intertwined with the Fentons in Boone Cty, MO...I am gdaughter of Cora A (Drane) Goslin, daughter of Davis Clark Drane. Please e-mail me casper4566@aol.com I have a picture of a Will Tom toulson - appears to be spelled with a u - I will be happy to attach to e-mail & send...I have been wondering how this fellow got in the family album!!
thanks, alice

Re: Love Toalson

Posted: 21 Jul 2010 5:06PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Goslin, Shillings, Toalson
If you look at the US Census 1850 family of Sylvester
Goslin you will find Lovey and her husband listed.
From my grandfather, John Goodman Goslin, son of Joseph Newton Goslin, son of Sylvester F.Goslin and Abigail Turner of Boone County, Perche, Missouri he said Sylvester and Abigail had raised Lovey's childrene when both she and her husband died. Green Toalson, nephew and two sons of Sylvester and Abigail, William T. and Joseph Newton Goslin
moved to Kyle, Texas. William T. had a grocery store. Green Toalson and Joseph Newton Goslin had a freight business hauling goods to and from Atlanta, Georgia. They brought three Wallace daughters and a negro girl from Atlanta to Kyle, Texas. William T. Goslin's grave is in the Kyle Cemetery. It is a huge headstone. Joseph Newton
Goslin married Queen Victoria Wallace. Green Toalson married another of the Wallace girls. The other Wallace girl married 3 different Texans and had 2 children by each. She lived in the Cotulla, Texas area.
Joseph Newton Goslin and Queen Victoria had three sons John Goodman (my grandfather), Alonzo "Lon", and Sterling Eugene "GENE" and then died in childbirth in Atascosa County. "Gene" married Alice Shillings and lived in Devine, Texas. "Lon" married Lucy Shillings and lived in Yselta, Texas. John married Sarah Emma Shillings and they lived
next door to my parents in Clarkwood,Texas. The Shillings girl were daughters of John Martin Shillings.

Re: Love Toalson

Posted: 22 Jul 2010 4:07AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Toalson, Goslin, Wallace, Patterson
I will address the statements made within this text one at a time.

1)The 1850 Boone County Census for Sylvester F. Goslin does not show Love(y) living there with her husband. She was not born until 1852. There was, however, another Lovey Toalson who was born to Fountain Toalson and Sally Fenton. From this union, I have record of 3 children: James D., William W. and Lovey. James D. Toalson and Eliza Goslin are the parents of the Lovey who was living with Sylvester F. Goslin after both parents died; James in Jan. 1862 and Eliza in May 1863.

Joseph Newton Goslin(Eliza's little brother), Andrew Toalson (along with his new wife Mary F. Patterson) and siblings Green, Love, Agnes and Ellen left Missouri for Texas in 1870 and settled around Kyle/San Marcos in Hays County. Love is enumerated on the 1870 Missouri census, but I can't seem to locate that online any longer. What the 1870 Census does not tell you is that Love had a child who was born in 1869 that also made that trip. Her name was Effie. Love and Effie are recorded on the 1880 Census in Austin, Travis Co. Texas.

Joseph Newton Goslin and Green Toalson did own and operate a freight hauling service between South Texas and Atlanta, Georgia. Green Toalson married Mahulda Ann (Annie) Wallace, Joseph Newton Goslin married Queen Victoria Wallace and David Frank Goslin married Julia Catherine Wallace in San Marcos, Tx. Ellen and Agnes also married in San Marcos. The Wallace sisters also came with their parents, John Goodman Wallace and Sarah Elizabeth Waits Wallace from Atlanta during one of their trips.

The Wallace sister who married three times was Mahulda Ann (Annie) Wallace. She married Green Toalson, William M. Henderson and James Gray Little. As far as I know, Annie never lived in Cotulla, Texas. She is buried in the Pearsall Cemetery.

Please do not hesitate to contact me at the e-mail shown above. Thank you.

Kathy Toalson Staples

Re: Love Toalson

Posted: 22 Jul 2010 8:30PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Toalson, Goslin, Wallace, Patterson
I feel a little further clarification is warranted, and two corrections.


William T. Goslin and his wife, Sarah Frances Rowland, moved from Missouri to Texas in 1870 and settled in Kyle, Hays County, Texas. The next year, 1871, Joseph Newton and wife, Queen Basey, along with Joseph's nephews, Andrew Jackson Toalson and Green Toalson, and nieces, Agnes and Love Toalson, came by wagon to Kyle. Love brought along her 2-year-old daughter, Effie. Niece Ellen Toalson, about 9, remained in Missouri with relatives, George W. McQuitty, Sr. Shortly before making that trip, Andrew Jackson Toalson married Mary Frances Patterson in Missouri. A. J. and Mary's first child, Milton, was born in Hays County in 1872. Green Toalson, barely 18 years of age, and his uncle, Joseph Newton Goslin, began operating a freight line between Austin and San Antonio and points South. In 1875, after Joseph's wife died, he married Queen Victoria Wallace, a native of Georgia, in Hays County, TX. Also, Green Toalson married Mahulda Ann Wallace, Queen Victoria's sister. During the next few years, David Frank Goslin, William T. Goslin's son, married another of the Wallace sisters, Julia Catherine, and Green's sister Agnes also got married in Hays County to John W. Lanning. By 1876, Green and Mahulda had traveled to Georgia, where their first child, John Quinton, was born. By 1878, they had returned to Texas, and their second child, James Andrew, was born there. Whereupon they returned to Georgia, where their third child, George Fountain, was born in 1881. After their final trip back to Texas, their fourth child, Maude, was born in Travis County in 1883. I have no record that Green's younger sister, Ellen, ever came to Texas, but she eventually got married to a man named Rivers and she and her husband moved to New Mexico, where he worked in the silver mines.

I hope this clears up some of the confusion that my previous post may have created.

Kathy

P. S. There were MANY James Toalson's in Missouri during this time and I do not have my notes in front of me to tell you who all of them were or whom they descended from. I urge you to proceed with caution when viewing other people's research because there are many errors. You can see how easy it is to make an inadvertent error when you try to go by memory when responding to someone! I have found that by not relying on other peoples' research and finding it for myself, the accomplishment is much more rewarding. If I had proceeded in my early years of research looking for my Toalson family in Georgia alone,as family lore dictated, I would have given up long ago! Imagine my surprise when I found them in Missouri, then, later finding out where the Georgia connection came in.

By the way, I descend from the union of Green Toalson and Mahulda Ann Wallace. They were my great, great grandparents.

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