1879 Alexander W. McIver CALDWELL TEXAS Andrew Sidney Broaddus BURLESON COUNTY

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A. W. McIVER .
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES BROADDUS & McIVER:
BROADDUS, ANDREW SIDNEY
(1810–1891).
Andrew S. Broaddus, Texas legislator and judge, was born in Caroline County, Virginia, in 1810, the son of Rueben and Elizabeth (Garland) Broaddus. Broaddus was raised and educated in Virginia and was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates from 1844 to 1845. In 1854 Broaddus led a wagon train consisting of as many as 200 people from Caroline County, Virginia, to Cooks Point in Burleson County, Texas. The party consisted of eighty white settlers including Broaddus's family and neighbors from Caroline County, as well as 120 slaves. Broaddus built a house in Cooks Point and became a leader in the community as an active participant in Democratic county and state politics and as the founder of Salem Baptist Church.
On July 16, 1857, Broaddus debated
Samuel Houston
at Waugh Campground on behalf of Houston's opponent in the gubernatorial race,
Hardin Richard Runnels
. Broaddus was a member of the Texas State House of Representatives during the Ninth Legislature from 1861–1863, and the Thirteenth Legislature during 1873. Broaddus was also a delegate to the 1861
Secession Convention
. Following the
Civil War
Broaddus was appointed judge of the Thirty-second District of the state court for two terms. Additionally Broaddus practiced as a lawyer throughout his residence in Burleson County. In 1868 he represented Phillis Oldham, a mullato woman who had cohabitated and borne several children with her owner, Maj.
William Oldham
. Upon his death Oldham's white relatives attempted to evict Phillis Oldham and her sons, but Phillis, represented by Broaddus, was eventually awarded homestead rights by the Burleson County Probate Court. Andrew Sidney Broaddus was also on the commission to locate and build Texas A&M University.
Broaddus married twice and had a total of thirteen children. He died in Cooks Point in 1891 and is probably buried in the Old City Cemetery in Caldwell County, although his grave is unmarked.
McIVER, ALEXANDER W. :
He was a lawyer and was a judge.   This is from a case that McIver handled:
Oldham developed an extensive plantation in the Brazos bottom. In 1860 he was listed as one of the three wealthiest men in Burleson County, having property valued at 7,436, including thirteen slaves. Major Oldham died intestate on June 21, 1868, in Austin and was buried in Oaklawn Cemetery there. A relative, W. S. Oldham, Jr., of Houston, was appointed administrator of the estate. According to him, William Oldham had "neither wife nor children." However, a beautiful mulatto named Phillis claimed that she had been his wife since 1839 and that she had borne him six sons. Oldham, Jr., claimed that she was just a slave and evicted her and her sons from the plantation. She sued the estate and was finally awarded homestead rights by the Burleson County Probate Court. Phillis and her children returned to the original log cabin at Fort Oldham. The site is known as the Oldham Settlement and is still owned by Major Oldham's descendants.
On August 7, 1871, A. W. McIver, a Caldwell lawyer, became the administrator of William Oldham's estate.
In addition to personal property, the major owned 5,685 acres of land in Burleson, Brazos, and Kaufman counties. His extensive estate, heavily burdened by debt, "suits pending and other unsettled business," was not settled until 1882.
Approximate size
of
letterhead is
8 1/2" X 11".
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