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| Birth: | 18 Nov 1857 in Mole Hill, WV |
| Death: | 12 Jan 1936 in Harris Co., TX |
| Sex: | M |
| Father: | David Allen McGinnis b. 1 Oct 1822 in Guyandotte, Cabell Co., WV |
| Mother: | Sarah Jane Marsh b. 16 Jul 1824 in Harrison Co., WV |
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Individual:
Once owned land that became Cinco Ranch development outside Houston
1936 - lived with Rex Oral McGinnis in last years of life
1880 - WV Census - lived at home, worked as peddler
1934 - retired from farming
1895 - moved to Katy from Austin
Enoch Marsh McGinnis \, the third son of David Allen McGinnis, was born in Mole Hill, WV on November 18, 1857. The oldest son at home after his mother died, he walked his sisters to boarding school in Gilman County and was the first to notice that one of his sisters was becoming seriously ill. Lesta Lovejoy King remembers her Grandfather Enoch's scratchy handlebar mustache. Whenever he would kiss her, he would tuck his ever-present toothpick inside his mouth first. He must have been nearly six feet tall.
Like his grandfather Edmund McGinnis, he was a merchant as a young man and continued to be very conscious of money, something he never had much of. Cousin Herbert claims both he and Enoch were once socialists. Enoch would cover scraps of paper with notes about prices, dates, names and quantities. The 1880 WV Census lists him as a peddler, but he also had a store where he sold sewing machines, among other things. Some of these ledgers are in the possession of C. David McGinnis.
With his wife Addie Sylvania Lawson and children, Enoch moved to Texas to become a farmer one hundred years ago, spending the night in Silver Run, WV with his brother Parmenas M. McGinnis before the family took the train to Texas. Enoch first went to Austin, where his parents-in-law were living, but by August 1895 he had settled in Ft. Bend County, dealing in sewing machines again. A 1901 letter is addressed to "E.M. McGinnis, sewing machine agent" at Brookshire, Texas. The first letters from West Virginia were addressed to Clodine, Texas (which has an exit off IH-10 in western Houston), then Gaston, Texas (after 1900), then Katy (after about 1920). He describe the Gaston property in 1931 as "160 acres 26 miles from Houston. 1/2 mile west of Gaston to the first road that turns north and leaves railroad. 3 miles from railroad, 2000 yards from County Road." Enoch is recorded as buying land in Texas in 1897, probably Gaston, and his homestead is now part of the Cinco Ranch development west of Houston.
Enoch Marsh McGinnis, the third son of David Allen McGinnis, was born in
Mole Hill, WV on November 18, 1857. Les King remembers her Grandfather
Enoch's scratchy handlebar mustache. Whenever he would kiss her, he would
tuck his ever-present toothpick inside his mouth first. He must have been
nearly six feet tall. He was a farmer south of Katy, TX, west of Houston.Addie and E.M. McGinnis were some of the first residents of Katy, living six miles to the south. The town was plotted in 1895,
a post office established the next year, and the first rice planted the year after. Seventy years before they arrived, the
Karankawa Indians were still hunting buffalo there. Katy's 5th Street was once part of the San Felipe Road to Stephen F.
Austin's colony in the 1830's. Formerly the Cane Island stagecoach stop, Katy got its name from the Katy railroad line. Its
population in 1950 was 849.
The two story "old home place" was never painted within Les King's memory. The west end of the porch was covered with
honeysuckle or morning glory vines, and filled with bumblebees. The other side of the house was planted in four o'clocks. Bois
d'arc trees served as a windbreak. Enoch had a typewriter in his little office, and Addie
had a pump organ in the parlor which she played. For the children, she would sing a
song beginning "One day an old kitty cat climbed up in a tree" to catch a bird. But the
bird convinced the cat that she needed to wash before eating, so took the opportunity to
flee. The house was lit with kerosene and there was no running water or indoor
plumbing. They didn't even have an icebox until the Lovejoys took one there. Before the
grandchildren went to bed, they had an evening meal of cold leftovers. Addie made
butter, and her own laundry and dish soap. The family used store-bought soap for
bathing. The kitchen of this house was later moved to Seven Oaks in Katy.
In 1913, Addie was in St. Mary's WV being treated by Enoch's sister and brother in
law Melcena and Dr. Grimm. Les King remembers a family trip with Addie about 1919
to visit relatives in Austin, riding in the Lovejoy's Model T Ford. In 1934 Addie visited her sister Mord in Moses, NM as part
of her son's family trip out west. Near the end of her life, Addie moved in with her son Rex and grandchildren Maureen and
C.D. McGinnis. But as she got older, she suffered from senile delusions and finally died in a Houston nursing home in 1944.
She and Enoch, as well as their children Rex and Kittie, are buried in the Katy cemetery on Franz Road.
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