Ira Ellis Chalk

GEDCOM Note

After Phoebe Love died at age 29 of consumption in Bell Co, TX, Ira married second Sarah Malvina Cooksey and had seven children by her.≤/line>≤line />≤line>Ira was an ordained presiding elder of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Stephenville, Texas, in 1868. He preached in Lampasas, TX, for some years. He owned land on the Lampasas River and owned a mill in Salado with brother Whitfield Chalk in 1850.≤/line>≤line />≤line>1860 - Census of Bell Co, TX, p. 298.≤/line>≤line />≤line>1868 - Owned land in Lampasas Co. (manages J. C. Cooksey estate)≤/line>≤line />≤line />≤line>1870 Census 28 Aug., p. 13 (left), p. 393 (rt) Owned 30 horses in Lampasas Co.≤/line>≤line />≤line>Chalk, Ira E., 48, farmer, b: NC
Sarah M., wife, 26, b: TX (all children born TX)
Dick B., son, 19
Martin, son, 14
Pliny R., son, 12
Nannie S., dau, 7
Alice L., dau, 6
John C., son, 4
W. Walter, son, 2
Billy A., son, 5/12 (Lillie A?)
Cooksey, Mary J., 23 b: TX
Amanda C., 21, b: TX
Monroe, 18, b: TX≤/line>≤line />≤line />≤line>1880 Census Lampasas, Lampasas Co., TX, 4 June, p. 293 (right), p. 9 (left), S. D. #5, E. D. #85:≤/line>≤line />≤line>Sarah M. Chalk, age 36, widow, b: TX NC KY
Nannie S., dau, age 17, b: TX MO AL
Alice L., dau, age 15, b: TX TX TX
John C., son, 14, b: TX TN TN
William W., son, age 12, b: TX TN TN
Lilly A., dau, age 11, b: TX TN TX
Anna L., dau, age 9, b: TX TN TX
Albert W., son, age 6, b: TX TN TX
Freeman, Don C., painter, other, age 26, b: IL TN OH
(note: dau Nannie South married Don C. Freeman later)≤/line>≤line />≤line />≤line>Ira E. Chalk's grave pictured on www.findagrave.com