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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... miles northeast of Monticello.47 The log church was built with wooden pegs and "was razed in the eighties [1880s] and a frame house built."48 The wooden pegs were actually superior to metal nails, because while nails can rust away or ...
... miles from his home to meet and welcome Micah home from the war of 1812.7 Micah was born in Maryland, just north of the city of Washington, on May 14, 1785, the youngest of six sons. His parents moved to Fayette County, Kentucky when ...
... miles N.E. of Monticello on the road to Pulaski. His son John and his youngest daughter, Dorothy, were one day ahead of the family, when they passed Isaac West's where I boarded. It was a cool, damp evening, the young lady was wrapped ...
... miles from home and started to go home after night but stopped at a "doggery" [a low class drinking establishment] by the way side where they became involved as above.53 The possibility of Samuel being one of the defendants would also ...
... miles from the western base of the Cumberland mountains, in the County of Franklin."61 The day after they arrived in Winchester, Thomas returned to Kentucky to check on Algernon, who was so ill that Thomas could hardly move him to his ...
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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 |