Savage Family (Texas Branch)
The Texas/Oklahoma Savage's
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Below is listed the Texas/Oklahoma line of
my Savage Family. The info was obtained
from a cousin from that line. Those still
living have been omitted from the list for
privacy reasons.
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Wiley B. Savage b: 1812, Robertson Co.,
TN. d: 1864, Montague Co., TX.

m: date unknown
(1) Mary A. Carney b: unknown. d: abt.
1850, Henderson, Rusk Co., TX.

m: 1857, Denton Creek, Montague Co., TX.
(2) Eliza Ann Taylor b: unknown. d:
unknown.

Children;

(First wife)
1. Thomas N. Savage m: Julia A. ???
2. Louisia Savage m: Unknown
3. Elizabeth Savage m: Unknown
4. William Savage m: Unknown
5. Robert Savage m: Annie Wainscott

(Second wife)
6. Mary J. Savage m: Unknown
7. John Wiley Savage m: Leetta "Ettie"
Bundy

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(1) Thomas N. Savage b: abt. 1838,
Robertson Co., TN. d: Unknown.
m: date unknown.

Julia A. ??? b: abt. 1848, Missouri. d:
Unknown.

Children;

1. William H. Savage m: Unknown
2. Margaret Elizabeth Savage m: Unknown
3. Mary E. Savage m: Unknown
4. Martha J. Savage m: Unknown
5. Robert H. Savage m: Unknown

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(5) Robert Savage b: 11 Jun 1849,
Robertson Co., TN. d: 13 Nov 1933,
Sunset, Montague Co., TX.
m: 12 Aug 1873, Montague Co., TX.

Annie Wainscott b: 24 Jul 1843, Arkansas.
d: Unknown.

Children;

1. John Wiley Savage m: Unknown
2. Robert H. Savage m: Unknown
3. Sarah L. Savage m: Unknown
4. John T. Savage m: Unknown
5. Annie Savage m: Unknown
6. Obedience Savage m: Unknown

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(7) John Wiley Savage b: 7 Jun 1860,
Bowie, Montague Co., TX. d: 2 May 1924,
Wilson, Carter Co., OK.
m: 1886, ?OK/TX?

Leetta "Ettie" Bundy b: 19 Aug 1859, Bad
Ax Co., WI. d: 17 Dec 1916, Wilson, Carter
Co., OK.

Children;

1. John Lenard Savage m: Myrtle ???
2. Effie Lee Savage m: (1) James Gibson
"Gyp" Gaston. (2) John Robert Jones
3. Frank Wesley Savage m: Emma ???
4. Anna May Savage m: D. T. "Virgil" Stone
5. Robert "Bob" Wiley Savage m: (1) Marie
Dement. (2) Wadie Ward
6. William Thomas "Bill" Savage m:
Gladystine Childress
7. Boza Dixon "Dixie" Savage m: Roxie
Rebecca Roberts
8. Lillie Maud Savage m: Napoleon "Polie"
Todd
9. Jimmie Lee "Hilo" Savage m: (1) Eunice
Louise Johnston. (2) Helen Marie
Bowersox. (3) Selma L. Gray

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HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD
OF NORTH AND WEST TEXAS –
VOLUME 2
EDITOR – CAPT. B. B. PADDOCK
PUBLISHED – 1906

PAGES 152 – 153

ROBERT SAVAGE; In enumerating the
pioneers of Montague county the subject
of this review holds rank among the
earliest, for his father, WILEY B. SAVAGE,
founded the family on the head of Denton
Creek, or in that vicinity, in 1856, and is,
therefore, entitled to rank among the very
first white man to hide himself away
among the Indians and wild animals of the
then wilderness of Montague. He came
hither blazing the way for settlers of the
future and to plant a SAVAGE seed which
should grow and flourish when the
generations of industry and peace should
reign upon the land and conquered nature
should yield up her fruits to the hand of
man.

It was in March of 1856 that this band of
SAVAGE’S brought the first ray of civilized
hope into the Denton Creek neighborhood
and its leader established himself on his
pre-emption on what is now the McCALEB
place, where the ENGLANDS were
afterward murdered by CRIBBS and
PRESTON. Wiley B. Savage introduced
farming into the community and he was
accompanied hither by settlers,
HAMILTON, ALFRED CAMPBELL, DAVID
AVIS, JOHN CAMPBELL and WIFE. Of this
number, or their descendants, the subject
of this sketch is the only one remaining.
They organized their little colony in
Grayson County, whither Wiley Savage
had gone from Rusk County, Texas, a few
years before. The latter came to the Lone
Star state in 1849 from Robertson County,
Tennessee, where he was born and
married. His birth occurred in 1812 and he
married MARY A. CARNEY, who died
almost upon their arrival in Texas and lies
buried at HENDERSON. His second wife
was RHODA A. TAYLOR, yet surviving
and resident of Indian Territory. In his early
years in Texas Wiley B. Savage seems to
have been restless and unsettled, for he
moved about much and lived in RUSK,
GRAYSON, COOKE, and then GRAYSON
COUNTIES, before his advent to his final
residence in MONTAGUE. He came to this
place with ox teams and had little more
than firmly established himself when, in
1864, he died. By his first wife he left
children: THOMAS N., LOUISA,
ELIZABETH, WILLIAM, and ROBERT of
this review. By his second wife were born
MARY J. and JOHN W..

Robert Savage was born in Robertson
County, Tennessee, June 11, 1849. The
family made their western trip the same
year, by boat, to JEFFERSON, TEXAS,
and in the several counties above named,
he grew up. "Among the Indians and
wolves", as he states it, he came to his
majority in Montague County, having
access to little more than the sight of a
public school. Having sentiments in
opposition to the purposes of the
Confederacy, the family went north during
a portion of the war period and passed
several months within the Federal lines.
Following his return home he spent
several years in the saddle as a cowboy,
being on the old drives to BAXTER
SPRINGS and duplicating, in many ways,
the tracks of old-time cowmen. When he
finally settled down to the farm and began
his domestic career it was near his
present home. His modest residence of
today is erected upon a tract of the
WINGATE SURVEY which was purchased
years ago and his stock-farming has so
prospered him as to able him to add one
hundred and sixty acres to his original
domain. He was married at just past
twenty-four and he and his wife started in
the world about even. With they start they
had they have played a strong hand in the
game of "give and take" for a third of a
century and no family within this rural
community stands higher than that of
"Bob" and Annie Savage.

August 12, 1873, Mr. Savage married Miss
ANNIE WAINSCOTT, a daughter of JOHN
WAINSCOTT, mention of whom occurs
elsewhere in this work. Mrs. Savage was
born in ARKANSAS, July 24, 1843, and
came in 1857 to Texas. She and her
husband are the parents of: JOHN WILEY,
a young farmer of Montague County;
SARAH L., ANNIE, and OBEDIENCE.

Robert Savage is a living witness to the
whole realm of progress which has
occurred in his county. He stands as a
mile-post marking the beginning of things
here and he has watched its invents and
wielded a quiet influence in the fashioning
of things according to the notions of
civilized life. He is the oldest settler in
Montague County, was here when the first
wave of civilization rippled on this frontier
district, participated in the movement of
retrogression from the county during
Indian and Civil War, and has identified
with the lasting progress from the 1870’s
onward.
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I will be adding more info on the above
mentioned families as time will allow and
with the permission of the families....

Thank You!!!