You multi generational Texas families...what is your family history here?


This is a brief description of mine from GGGGrandad to Grandad.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/bp890qrrrap0g09/Sotrn%20%20Cowdens%20In%20Texas.PDF?dl=0
https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/cowden-william-henry

this thread wont go far. We was Texas, when Texas wasnt cool....

Two relatives buried in the mass grave at Goliad.

Mom's side of the family are Mansfields. they are big in Bandera. Mom is from Brownsville and my sister is from San Angelo. Grandad was a border patrol in the late 30's and 40's. grandad's cousin was Toot's Mansfield.

https://www.prorodeohalloffame.com/inductees/tie-down-roping/toots-mansfield/

My family has been in Texas since before it was a country.

They were among the early families that settled around Gonzales.

One died defending the Alamo.

They farmed cotton.

They founded Wrightsboro.

Our first visit to Astroworld was 1967, it was a great trip. I got here in 1999. Were ya'll missing me?

Charlie

My Great Great Great Paternal Grandfather moved here in 1849/1850 from North Carolina to Hardin County. My Great Great, Thomas TJ Hooks, Owned 23,000 acres in Hidalgo county and named Donna, TX after his daughter Donna Fletcher Hooks.

It is crazy how your great great grandfather can own 23,000 acres and 100 years later there is nothing left.

I think this is why I love going to South Texas so much.

Mom's side of the family are Czech immigrants who came over in the late 1800's and settled into West. Dad's side was German immigrants who came over in the same time frame and settled into Liberal, KS and then relocated to Hereford, Texas around 1935.

Both sides of the family came to texas after the civil war. One side from Mississippi the other from Alabama. My sons’s great great grandfather mustered into the rough riders in Longview and was at the battle of San Juan Hill in Cuba.

I'm a transplant from the Other "T".

Mine is real short——Me.

Great grandfather moved here from Mississippi some years after the Civil War in a rented box car along with a few other families. I understand renting space in a box car to move everything you own was very common in those days for folks relocating to Texas. Not sure if anyone ever wrote GTT (Gone to Texas) over the door of the house or cabin they left behind. Had a great uncle (one of his sons) would liked to say he was "born in a log cabin in Mississippi he built all by himself."

Just watched a re-run of The Alamo.

My maybe 5th great grandpa, maybe further back took a land grant in Bryson, Tx

I believe it was a section of land

He took a covered wagon from the east coast area, maybe Virginia if I recall

My Great Great Grandfather moved to Decatur, TX after the Civil War. He had a big family and a horse ranch. His name is on the Old Courthouse as Founder/Builder. His wife died and there was some kind of Family feuds going on. So he sold out everything and gave all his kids their inheritance. He then moved to Kimble County and started over ranching around 1900. He was in his 50's and a young share cropper that lived on his place was beating his wife. So he whipped the dude nearly to death and told him if he ever came back to the county he would kill him. He married the young wife after getting their marriage annulled and had a whole other family. Even though he was 30 something years older than her.


Folks where a whole lot tougher than we are that is for sure. Cant imagine packing up a wagon and moving across the country to start over a new life. And whittling a ranch from nothing.

1860's or so. My great-great grandfather raised horses in Erath Co and then Dawson county for the US Army.

Fourth generation Texan here. My Dad's grandad after being in the British Navy, brought his family to U.S. in 1870. Tried to settle in Iowa and almost froze to death their first winter there living in a dugout. Brought his family to warm Texas where he wound up working on the Waggoner Ranch where he is buried. My Mom's Grandad was a Doctor in the union army from Buffalo N.Y. After the war he came to Texas and made a living as a Vet and a stone mason. He is buried in Hasse Tx surrounded by graves of confederate soldiers.

I guess no horse thieves or outlaws anywhere.

BTW, SA Hunter had ancestors on both sides of the Battle of the Alamo. Belief mine, that's super cool.

my family has been in Williamson county over 160 years - came from Germany as farmers and helped in the founding of Coupland Texas. Wife's family has also been in Williamson county over 160 years - so when folks ask us if we are "native" Texas I respond "about as native as it gets" -

Wife's great grandmother lived to age 106 and she to tell us about when she was a teenager at the turn of the century people would dress up in their Sunday best and take their lunch in their horse buggies out to the edge of Georgetown to watch hangings. The wagons would circle the gallows and se said it was like a Sunday picnic while watching some dude get dropped through the floor - there are pictures of it in the Williamson County Museum -

This is my kids Great Great Great Grandad. Pretty crazy our hunting lease is just 5 miles from the old cemetery they are all buried at. He was a frontier man and finally settled on 1,300 acre ranch in Montague in 1877 just down the road from our lease but after him, everyone left Montague county. I found an article in Bowie paper saying Indians cut 2 of his horses mouths off.

https://www.genealogymagazine.com/3323-2/

'Bama plantation owners moved to Wharton before the Civil War on one side. Englishman that swore he fought for Texas independence, then went back to Stroud (I think at the threat of disinheritance), then two of his sons came to Crossplains when they got tired of their party bitch mom. She was, technically, a Lady, so I got that royal blood goin' for me. A few Scots that also came to the coast of 'Bama during "the clearings". Some Missouri immigrants to Nolan (2nd great grandfather a confederate vet). Some Prussian immigrants in Colombus (another 2nd great grandfather confederate vet). A full Dutch great grandfather, that was born in Illinois, that married, I'm 99% sure was a Jewish girl, worked for the railroad in Monterrey, Mexico and had my grandmother (who spoke Spanish fluently) that later met my grandfather (grandson of the plantation owner in Wharton and Navasota) at the quadrangle at Fort Sam in San Antonio. 'Got some Black blood in me, according to ancestry.com. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out where that came from. 100% 'Merican.

GGGrandfather. William Ruben Webb. Served in the 8th Texas Calvary (confederate), better known as Terrys Texas Rangers. Buried in Uvalde Tx. GGrandfather and Grandfather both born in Uvalde Tx. Father born in Sabinal Tx. 6 generations including my kids.

Grandparents on moms side out of Edgewood, great grandma was Choctaw out of Oklahoma. Dads side were USMC, so all over the place. Ended up in Ohio. Dad was in a few states before making it to Texas.

Mother's side comes from a 11-12 year old from England who worked on a
ship and finally jumped off after a couple of years. Joined up with a friend
to go to the Louisiana purchase and become a trapper and a mountain man.
That got interrupted to go to Texas with others leaving the United States.
worked here until joining the US army and go to mexico to fight in the 1840's.
Finished that and the wannabe mountain men went to prospect for gold
in what would be california. Had some luck and decided to go back and
brag to the other limeys, and came back here. Joined up to fight in the
war of northern aggression. Lost a wife and child. Got out of that and
settled close to what's boerne Texas now. Donated different land holdings
for settlement. Lived and died there.
Not so sure about father's side
Supposedly came from spain with a passenger on his ship he piloted
to the east coast in the late 1400's . Ive noticed different towns along
from georgia ,alabama, tennessee, kentucky, and arkansaw where
family eventually made it here in the republic days.
Been in east Texas since the late 1840's . Some from mississippi
what is a reservation now. None have ever claimed that though
even with their black hair and eyes. Back then you didn't go to school
or trade at the store or attend church and say you were any Indian
anything. Not really sure myself, and don't care a whole lot.

Not sure about any outlaw ancestors.
My mother has told me about a feud they
had before her time that was like the hatfield
mccoy story. It was like that in that it was
over alleged livestock theft, and several were
ambushed and killed back and forth and
there was some controversial trials over
it, and ill feelings for many years.

I'll just say i have a vested interest in
the continued success of The Republic
of Texas, and that it doesn't need to
be changed to suit any new residents.
If anything, we need to revert back to
many of the way things were done
a century ago