This and $1.50 will get you a cup of coffee at McDonald’s ($25 at Starbuck’s).

We Loughs (David, Keith, Denise) are descended from the Gaines family through our mother, Hattie Esther Gaines Lough. The line goes like this: Hattie Esther, daughter of Carl Buford, son of James Emory, son of Henry Pendleton, son of Joseph Pendleton, son of William Prior, son of Joseph, son of James (II), son of Richard, son of James (I), son of Thomas, who is rumored to be descended from Daffyd Llewellyn, King of Wales.

The name "Gaines" seems to come from a Welsh name "Gam" that means "Squinty eyes". It evolved into Game and Games and then to Gaines.

(The remainder of this information comes from a genealogical publication about Arkansas families—but I can’t for the life of me remember where I ran across it on the Web! I must learn to take better notes! There is apparently some confusion about some of these families and who their descendants are, according to another article I read but can’t find again. Drat! But I’ll go with this until something more definitive comes along.)

Starting backward from Thomas Gaines, who emigrated about 1641 from Brecon, Wales, to Virginia. He is the great-great grandfather of President James Madison. (I don’t know what the lineage is.) Thomas was born in 1585 in Brecon, Wales and is the son of Sir John Gaines (1559-1606).

Thomas’ son James was born in 1620. According to a deed dated 7 May 1663 and a patent issued 2 March 1667, he lived in Rappahanock County, Virginia.

Richard Gaines, son of James, was born in New Kent County, Virginia (now King and Queen County) in 1670. He died 13 February 1755 in Culpeper County, Virginia. There is some confusion about his wife (or wives): Dorothy Kelley or Catherine Madison or Catherine Rawlins. Richard was father of: James, William Henry, Francis, Henry, Thomas, John, Richard, and Roger.

We are descended from James, born 18 January 1710 in Culpeper, Virginia. He died 10 March 1786 in Culpeper, Virginia. He married Mary Pendleton (this is where the Pendleton name comes from in our lineage) in 1731 in Culpeper County. I would love to have a look at both wills, James’ in Culpeper County, Mary’s in Madison County (which used to be Culpeper County). I wonder if they were well off—and this is why they didn’t move from this one spot in Virginia.

Mary is the daughter of Henry and Mary Bishop (Taylor) Pendleton III. She was born in 1717 in King and Queen County, Virginia and died in Madison County in 1803. Mary is supposedly descended from Charlemagne through her maternal line, Gregory. The Pendletons must be some sort of influential family all across the south. I wonder if Pendleton County, Virginia (now West Virginia), is named for them. This is where our Lough family migrates through on their way to Ohio.

James and Mary had 12 children: James (III), Rev. Henry Gaines (who migrated to South Carolina and died there in 1830), Richard Edward, Joseph, William, Francis, Thomas, Catherine, Mary, Sarah, and Isabella. Richard, Catherine, and Sarah married mates with the last name of Broaddus. That name will pop up a couple of generations later in the son of Joseph Pendleton Gaines, Thomas Broaddus. Are they all cousins or siblings? I need to do some research on the Broaddus family, just for fun. It might say a lot about the relationships families had in colonial Virginia. I think at least some of the Broaddus family migrates to Kentucky, which is also where Joseph Gaines and Francis Gaines go.  Thomas Gaines and the Rev. Henry Gaines moved to South Carolina.

James, by the way, may be a Revolutionary War Veteran. If he is, he would be in his late 60s. Maybe he was just tough. You never know about militias. Or maybe this is another James Gaines. Hard to tell.

Joseph Gaines, born in 1747, moved to Kentucky. That is about all the information I can find about him. I have found a “Joseph Gaines” who signed the Ten-Thousand Name Petition in Virginia in 1776. If this is the same Joseph, that might indicate that he moved to Kentucky after the Revolutionary War. That would be after Boone and others blaze the trail across the Blue Ridge into Kentucky. There is also a record from the Mason County, Kentucky, Marriage Abstracts, 12 August 1789, that lists Joseph Gaines as a bondsman in the marriage of George Headly. Since Joseph’s grandson (Joseph Pendleton Gaines) lives and died in Nicholas, KY, which is in Mason County, I think there is good reason to believe that this Joseph is our Joseph. So Joseph moved somewhere between 1776 and 1789.

My records show that Joseph married Lucinda J. Wheeler, having a son William Prior, born in 1775, (which means that Joseph and Lucinda were married in Virginia). Joseph died in Kentucky in 1803.  I assume this came from somebody’s family Bible. Information about Joseph and his son William Prior is scarce. It is possible that William did not go with his father to Kentucky until later (or ever), maybe moving to Kentucky to take over his father’s land after Joseph’s death (?). William’s son Joseph Pendleton is born in Virginia in 22 September 1802.

(Joseph is the last Gaines in our lineage to be mentioned in the Arkansas article.)

Lough Family Pictures

Surprises await around every corner! After a long search for my great-grandmother's identity, I found out that all I had to do was ask Aunt Lois. And she even had pictures! So here are a group of pictures with various people: Charles and Linnie Garrett (my great-grandmother--Jim's mother--and her husband); Jim and Susan Lough (grandparents); Dan and Lois (my Dad and Aunt); E. O. and Annie Wescott (my great-grandparents on Susan's side); and Jessie (Jim's half-sister) and Edna Garrett (Charles O's daughter).

Linnie Lough
(Unknown date)

Malinda E. Lough (don't know what the "E" stood for) was born in September 1882 somewhere in the neighborhood of Farmersville, Texas. Her father, J. R. Lough, had bought a tract of land on Pilot Grove Creek in 1878 and that is probably where Linnie was born. She was still living with her family in that area in the census of 1900.

James and Linnie Lough
(Son and Mother)

Linnie had a son (out of wedlock), James Carey Lough, on 12 March 1902. Whether she was living at home or somewhere else I don't know, but somewhere along in here she moved to Fort Worth. In 1907 she lived in a boarding house run by Miss Eugene Carroll at 205 1/2 West Weatherford (downtown Fort Worth). She worked as a cook at a sanitarium overseen by Carrie Webster, a nurse, in 1910. This sanitarium was on 8th Avenue, near where the Baylor Hospital is today. In 1908, she had given birth to a daughter named Jessie, again out of wedlock.

Jessie, Edna, James, Linnie

Charlie, James, Linnie, Edna, Jessie, Susan

(Jessie is listed in the 1910 census as "Jessie Lough". We--Aunt Lois and I--think that Jessie's last name was Robinson when she died. Jessie was listed as a "boarder"--at the age of 2--with Charley and May Denson, who I think are friends of Linnie, in 1910, Fort Worth. The Denson's also have another boarder living with them, John Thomason, Charley's 21-year-old brother-in-law, who is a laborer at the packing house in Fort Worth. I can't help but speculate on John's relation to Linnie and Jessie, although it would be completely natural for him to live with his in-laws at the same time as little Jesse needed a home. I find it interesting that Charley Denson is a carpenter at the Packing House, which is eventually what Charles Garrett will do for a living. One wonders if the Densons are the way Linnie and Charles Garrett are introduced to each other.)

Charles O. and Linnie Garrett

When she was about 34 (1917), Linnie married Charles Ora Garrett. Charlie had been married before (divorced) and had a daughter, Edna. The Garretts turn up in Morris, Oklahoma, in September 1918, according to Charlie's draft card. He is an "oil worker." Of course, there is no record of Jim being with them, but this may have been the way Jim Lough gets to Oklahoma and begins his work in the oil fields. (According to the Fort Worth Phone Directory, Jim was living with Charlie and Linnie in 1918.)

Charlie and Linnie Garrett

Annie and E. O. Wescott, Dan, Susan, Lois, Linnie

In 1930, Linnie and Charlie make their home at 2624 Gould Avenue in Fort Worth, a house that still stands at the end of Gould Ave. She died 31 May 1946 and is buried at Laurel Land Cemetery in south Fort Worth.

Charlie Garrett with unidentified children
The house on Gould avenue is in the background.