Gholson Road: Revolutionaries and Texas RangersGHOLSON ROAD is the well-documented story of one family's role in American history, from early Virginia through early Texas during the period of the Old West. Anthony2 fought with the Virginia militia in the Revolutionary War and leased land from George Washington. In 1801, at age 68, he moved his family west to Kentucky. Samuel, son of Anthony2, fought in the War of 1812, participating in the Battle of the Thames and the Battle of New Orleans, moved to Arkansas Territory, then to Texas, arriving in 1832 with his son Albert. They were members of Robertson's Colony while Texas was still a part of Mexico and were among the early Texas Rangers. Albert fought in most of the battles of the Texas Revolution and survived many Indian fights, only to be killed by a neighbor. His sons, Sam and Frank, were also Texas Rangers, protecting the settlers and helping to retrieve several Indian captives. The brothers were persuaded to become Confederate soldiers by a lynch mob that threatened to kill them and their young wives if they did not. After the Civil War, they were involved in the cattle industry and the trail drives of the late 1800s. |
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... England Historic Genealogical Society; San Antonio Public Library; State Library of North Carolina; Sutro Library, San Francisco; Texas Ranger Museum and Library; Texas State Library and Archives; Toronto Public Library; and Waco Public ...
... England can be found in James M. Black's book, The Families and Descendants in America of Golsan, Golson, Gholson, Gholston, Virginia Baker Mitchell's Gholson and Allied Families, and the Revised Gholson and Allied Families, published ...
... England defeated the Spanish Armada 1596 Will proved in England mentioned Anthony Goulson 1600-1699: 1604 King James I of England made peace treaty with Spain 1606 Virginia Company of London created 1 607 Settlement of Jamestown began ...
... England and to stop the advance of the French in the interior 1 724 Church of England had very little competition remaining 1725 Anthony i's first recorded transaction of a purchase of 200 acres in Spotsylvania County, St. George Parish ...
... England became too preoccupied with the Spanish War to try again for another twenty years.2 In 1588, England defeated the Spanish Armada in a naval battle that launched England as a world power, but the struggle between England and ...
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TEXAS BECOMES A STATERESTLESS YEARS | 163 |
TEXAS RANGERS AND INDIANS | 176 |
10 Indian Battlefield monument author and father | 188 |
2 Fort Belknap | 201 |
4 Population of an Indian Village Moving | 207 |
8 Cynthia Ann Parker and child | 225 |
VIGILANTE JUSTICE MOB RULE AND CIVIL | 245 |
1 Attack of Rebels upon our gunboat flotilla Galveston | 250 |
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1 Covered wagon | 94 |
ROBERTSONS COLONY | 102 |
THE REPUBLIC OF TEXASEARLY TEXAS | 113 |
1 Brazos River near the falls | 118 |
4 Alamo Texas 1849 | 125 |
7 Sam Houston | 132 |
8 Inside the walls of the restored Fort Parker | 143 |
THE STOCKMAN AND THE DROVER | 259 |
1 A Drove of Texas Cattle Crossing a Stream | 279 |
B F GHOLSON HOME FAMILY | 281 |
6 B F Gholson house 1998 Conner Gholson | 294 |
EPILOGUE | 298 |
APPENDIX 1 | 305 |
APPENDIX 2 | 316 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 357 |
INDEX | 366 |