According to the Gallia County, Ohio marriage records, a Rufus Gleason married "Jane" Hanes on Jan 22nd, 1850. We think this is the same Rufus and Mary Jane Gleason that we are looking for. We just don't have anything concrete to link Rufus to Mary Jane in Texas. I do not know the first name of the husband with the last name Wyatt. I recently had correspondence with a newly found cousin that stated the 4 orphaned children were taken in by a family named Mayfield near Paris, TX. This cousin is the great grandaughter of one of the orphaned children. If you want to hear a real sad story, the oldest of the children, Sarah Ellen Gleason, after having moved from the midwest to Texas then going through losing her father in the war, then 6 years later losing her mother and being "auctioned off", married a man named Willie Moore in Cooke County, TX. They decided to move to Tennessee where Moore had family. She went ahead of him and he was to ride there on horseback, but he never showed up. They later found out he was dead.

I know this is not meant to be a geneology website, but I thought it illustrative of how devastating the war was on the lives of those families that were left in the aftermath of the conflict.

If any of you could shed any light on the Gleason, Belden, Wyatt families of Grayson, Lamar, and Cherokee counties in Texas it would be greatly appreciated, although I'm not sure this is the forum to discuss it in.