H1 James Monroe [Jim] Cauble (03 April 1850 Polk County, Texas-14 October 1918 Wichita County, Texas; buried Riverside Cemetery, Wichita County, Texas), first son of Nancy Ann Curtis (1832 Louisiana-after 1870) and Peter Cauble, Jr. (1829 Alabama-1857 Texas or Indian Territory), was born in Polk County, probably at the home of his maternal grandparents, Anne McCollister and James S. Curtis. On 15 November 1850, he was living with his parents in Tyler County. In 1855 he moved with his parents from Tyler County to McLennan County, Texas, completing his childhood there after the death of his father. [Peter Cauble, Jr., household, 1850 U. S. census, Tyler County, Texas, population schedule, no post office given, sheet 174, page 347, line 42, dwelling 184, family 184, 15 November 1850, NARA M432, roll 915; J. T. Burnette household, 1860 U. S. Census, McLennan County, Texas, population schedule, Sardis post office, sheets 409, page 48, line 14, dwelling 315, family 315, 22 June 1870, NARA M653, roll 1300; Berniece Cauble Irby to Writer, Letter, 26 July 1991, Lufkin Texas; Gifford White, ed., Texas Scholastic, 1854-55 (St. Louis: by Writer, 1981), 192; Hill County, Texas Deed Book H:733] When he had reached age 19, James Monroe Cauble married Arrena Melinda Hardin (1852 Buchanan County, Missouri-1928 Wichita County, Texas; buried Riverside Cemetery, Wichita County, Texas), daughter of Louisa Matthews (18 February 1818 Illinois-13 June 1898 Eastland County, Texas; buried Zion Hill Cemetery, Eastland County, Texas) and James Hardin (1800 Tennessee-after 1870 census) and sister of Julia L. Hardin MH2, on 02 September 1869 in McLennan County, Texas. The young couple remained in that county for nearly ten years, living first with the Hardin family. Two sons were born to them before they migrated to Callahan County, Texas, by 1879. On 13 November 1879 Jim Cauble, a resident of Callahan County, registered his brand in that county as Jim on the right hip and Cauble on the right side of the animal. His family was recorded on the federal census taken in Callahan County on 05 June 1880. On 15 October 1883, J. M. Cauble and wife conveyed land in Callahan County. By 19 April 1910 the family lived in Fisher County, Texas. James and Arrena Cauble made their last move in 1912 when they settled in Wichita County, Texas, to live out their days. James Monroe Cauble, a member of a Missionary Baptist church for nearly fifty years and of an Odd Fellow Lodge for thirty-seven years, was married to Arrena Melinda Hardin for forty-nine years and lived in six Texas counties. [Jas. Hardin household, 1860 U. S. census, McLennan County, Texas, population schedule, Bold Springs post office, sheets 422, page 74, line 10, dwelling 485, family 485, 09 July 1860, NARA M653, roll 1300; McLennan County, Texas Marriage Records 1:139; Benjamin Hardin household, 1870 U.S. census, McLennan County, Texas, population schedule, East of the Brazos River, Waco post office, sheet 69, page 32, line 34, dwelling 223, family 225, 18 July 1870, NARA M593, roll 1598; The Waco Daily Examiner, 08 September 1874; Callahan County, Texas Records of Marks and Brands, No. 728; James M. Corbel household, 1880 U. S. census, Callahan County, Texas, population schedule, Precinct 6, ED 177, SD3, sheet 350, page 4, line 8, dwelling 32, family 32, 05 June 1880, NARA T9, roll 1294; Callahan County, Texas Deed Book D:72, Book F:496; James M. Cauble household, 1910 U. S. census, Fisher County, Texas, population schedule, Precinct 5, ED 94, SD 16, sheet 2B, page 144, line 81, dwelling 32, family 32, 19 April 1910, NARA T624, roll 1552; Obituary of J. M. Cauble, unidentified Wichita Falls, Texas, newspaper, 1918; Obituary of Rena Cauble, unidentified Wichita Falls, Texas, newspaper, 1928].
