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June 5, 1900 Martha Emmeline "Mattie" [Fullingim] Edington August 17, 1861 ~ June 5, 2900 Martha Emmeline "Mattie" Fullingim was the first of five children born to Edward Coke Fullingim and his wife Sarah C. "Sallie" [McMahan] Fullingim in Wise County, Texas, on 17 August 1861. Just a few months later in early 1862, her father-like many other Wise County men-enrolled for duty in the Confederate Army, leaving his young wife and seven-month old daughter, Mattie, to fend for themselves. It was not until Mattie was almost four years old that her father was furloughed to Texas for 52 days", beginning on Feb 23, 1865, and while on furlough the Civil War came to an end on April 9, 1865. Consequently, E.C. did not have to return to active duty, but Mattie did have had to become acquainted with this "stranger" who had suddenly come to live with them! The following year Mattie had a new baby sister, Elizabeth Antoinette "Nettie" Fullingim [b. 12 Mar 1866], and eventually she had two brothers, Lewis Hardie [1867] and Wesley McMahan "Mack" [1872], and one more sister, Mary Turpie [1876]. In about 1878 Mattie was married to William Riley Edington in Decatur?, Wise Co., Texas. It was during this same year that Mattie's father, now a Methodist Minister, was one of the co-organizers of the Oak Grove Methodist Church north of Decatur. By the following year William and Mattie began rearing their family of eventually twelve children. Their first four children where born while they resided in Wise County: Edward [1879], Lula Belle [1881], Evalena [1883], and Sarah "Sally" Eliza, and the last eight children were born north of the Red River in Indian Territory. Sometime in either 1884 or `85, Mattie and her young family, her sister Nettie [Fullingim] Fulton and husband James Jackson Fulton, along with the parents Rev. E.C. and Sallie Fullingim and their three remaining, unmarried children migrated north into Indian Territory and settled in the area near abouts Duncan-Bailey-Doyle, later Grady Co. and Stephens Co., Oklahoma. Mattie and William lost four of their young children/infants between the years 1888 and 1897: Freddie L. [1886-1888], Jimmie L. [1890-1890], Bertha [1891-1892], and Henry [1896-1897], and also her father Rev. E.C. Fullingim in 1890. Mattie herself died at age 38 on March 5, 1900, leaving behind her husband and eight children. She was buried very near her four infant children and her father who preceded her in death. |
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