This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Queries Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/yNi.2ACEB/1264.1751 Message Board Post: Just found your messages on the message board and it looks like they are about a year old. However, if you have not obtained all of the information on Jampe Pickney, I have quite a bit of his history. In San Augustine, Texas, there is a statue to him in the court house square. He immigrated to Texas from Mississippe about 1835 when he heard about the Texas Revolution. He reported to Sam Houston and then went to Tennesee where he raised a company of volunteers at his own expense. However by the time he got back to Texas with his volunteers Texas had won and the revolution was over. JP was ambassadore to France, among other things. When Texas became a state he was elected the first govenor. In (I think it was 1855) his law partner , Rusk who was then the Senator from Texas, died in office JP was appointed to fill out his term. Unfortunately he died in 1856 while holding the office of Senator. He lived in and practiced law in San Augustine for manay years. The court house in San Augustine, and the newspaper there, have considerable information and bio on him. Several years ago a local historian did a six part series on his life which was run in the San Augustine paper. JP is a great great uncle of mine but so far I have been unable to document the connection. Family history tells that when he was in Mississippi he was living with or near my great grandfather James Milton Henderson Sr., possibly in Yallobusha county. He was reportedly an uncle of James Milton. I have considerable documentation of J P. and the Texas state archives should have information on him. His picture hangs in the rotunda of the state capitol. A number of years ago Lone Star Beer Co used his inaugral picture as a promotion and had it hanging in bars all across Texas. My e-mail is <capthank@wiktel.com> Although I have much information of J P I would like to establish a documented connection rather than just the verbal family history.