Cantrell
Country Cousins
1873 Map of Georgia
Phillip Cantrell, along with his third wife Elizabeth Adams Cantrell, and son Silas H. Cantrell moved from Dawson County,Georgia around 1870. Silas was his son by Mary Palmour Cantrell, second wife, who died in 1867 and is buried in the Palmour Family Cemetery on her father's, Silas Palmour, Old Homestead in Georgia. The family settled in Franklin County, Kansas and farmed 200 acres from 1873 until about 1901.
It was in Franklin County that Silas married Elizabeth "Lizzie" James in 1878. Their son John Phillip Cantrell, our grandfather, was born in 1880. His parents filed for divorce in 1883 and went their seperate ways for some unknown reason leaving John P. to be raised by his grandparents. Some of Phillip's siblings had also moved west after the Civil War too. Some of them settled in Missouri. It is said that Silas returned to Georgia and married again. He had two more children before returning to the Cherokee Nation. He is listed in the Dawes index in 1900. His mother Mary Palmour was 1/6th Cherokee Indian on her mother's side, Sarah Doughtery. I am still looking for information on Silas and Eva Emeline's children.
Phillip, Elizabeth, and John P. Cantrell moved to Eldorado Springs, Cedar County, Missouri in 1901. Phillip was a member of the Masonic Lodge in Georgia, Kansas, and in Missouri until his death in Hot Springs County, AR on Feb.6, 1915. Phillip Cantrell was active in his community and we have found records of his membership in the Regular Baptist Church in Ponoma, Franklin Co., KS. He is listed on the land records when the church was established in 1873. Phillip's father John Cantrell and uncles also helped to established the Shoal Creek Baptist Church in White County, Georgia in the early 1800's. His father John and mother Martha Porter Cantrell are both buried in the Shoal Creek Baptist Church Cemetery.
John P.'s mother Lizzie James married Isaac Warrell in 1889 and moved with her new husband and brother Albert W. James to Portland, OR. where they were living in a boarding house in the 1900 census. Her husband and brother's were plasterer's by trade. I have located nothing else on Lizzie or her husband. She did send her son a photograph of herself from Portland which was found in our grandmother's photo box after her death. John P.'s wife Arlecia and daughter Helen kept all of the family papers and photos which have been passed down to our generation. Our hope is to pass the complete family history on tothe next generations to come.
Map of Arkansas 1905
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