As the previous posting notes, after having been declared bankrupt in Marshall County, Alabama, in November 1842, Moses Birdwell left Alabama in January or February 1846 with his daughter Ritha and her husband George Madison Connally to join Ritha’s brothers George Washington Birdwell, Abraham Marshall Birdwell, and Zachariah Birdwell in Texas. George and Zachariah appear to have been in Hopkins County from the time the county was formed in 1846, and Abraham may have come there a year or two later. Hopkins County is in northeast Texas. George and Zachariah appear in records of Red River and Lamar Counties in the late 1830s. Both Red River and Lamar are on the northeastern border of Texas, Lamar bordering Hopkins to the north and being a parent county of Hopkins, and also bordering Red River on the west. These Texas counties are some 150 miles west of DeSoto Parish, Louisiana, where Moses Birdwell’s son James, next in the order of his children after George, was living and died in December 1849.
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