I am not the writer of the message below, but I am forwarding it to the list in case anyone can be helped by the information contained therein - - or can help Ted. If you wish to respond to him, you'll need to send your post directly to ground@thrifty.net. Leslie (Bridges) Kohler ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ground" <ground@thrifty.net> To: <SOUTH-CENTRAL-KENTUCKY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tues, 17 Feb 2004 > Greetings from Texas. > > I am researching the life of Joseph George Washington, son of Andrew Washington and Margaret Bridger. Joseph was born in 1808 in Logan County, Kentucky, and around 1835, or so, he traveled with Peter J. Bailey, B. Archer M. Thomas, Daniel Cloud, and William Fontleroy (or Fauntleroy) in a journey to Texas. There, they joined the Volunteer Auxilliary Company of Texas, along with David Crockett, and they all died in the Alamo in March of 1836. > > I want to find out as much as I can about Joseph in particular, but also about Bailey, Thomas, Cloud, and Fontleroy. I have read that they left Tennesse starting out from Logan County, KY, (all of their surnames are listed in the 1830 census for Logan County, KY) but I am not sure if they first traveled to Gibson County, TN, to join Crockett, or if they traveled by another route and joined up with Crockett somewhere along the way to Texas. > > I wonder if there were any newspaper articles reporting the departure of Washington, Bailey, and company from Logan County?. > > I am especially interested in knowing if Joseph Washington married a fair maiden there in Kentucky and sired a son before he left for Texas. > I am not sure if he married there in Kentucky, or perhaps later on in Tennessee, or even later here in Texas, perhaps in Nacogdoches or even the town of Bexar. > > The reason that I am researching this is because I played the part of Joseph G. Washington in an upcoming film on the Alamo, and we are planning to produce a little documentary on the Unsung Heroes of the Alamo....the ones that you never hear anything about....the ones that we know so little about in terms of their lives and their backgrounds. > > I would appreciate hearing from you, with any information that you might be able to bring to this subject. > > In addition, I have found that my own ancestors, the Grounds, were located in Warren County, KY, around the same time that Joseph George Washington was born. Robert Ground was born in Warren County Kentucky a few years after Joseph George Washington was born. I am curious if your resources can shed any light on the Ground family, as well. > > Thank you very much. > > Ted Alan Ground > Tennessee Mounted Volunteer, & > Alamo Defender