This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: cole, wood, leavell, hart, shelton, ethridge Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/CkB.2ACI/2313 Message Board Post: TRYING TO FIND INFO ON GABRIEL COLE, I AM HOPEING TO MAKE A TRIP TO BELLVILLE, BELL CO, TEXAS SOON AND WOULD LIKE TO HAVE ANY NEW INFO TO TAKE WITH ME TO MAKE MY SEARCH MORE SUCCESSFUL. THIS IS WHAT I HAVE SO FAR: Given Name: Gabriel Surname: Cole Sex: M Birth: 1795 in Newberry County, South Carolina Death: 1846 in Fort Bend , Texas Note: LAND GRANT: 27 Nov. 1832 Fort Bend County, 2 separate tracts: 1/4 & 3/4 League in same title. Lg. 4428. 4 ac. Texas Gen. Land Office Recieved Don Cert. 92 on 8 Oct. 1847 from AG for being in the "Seige of Bexar". 320 acres in Smith Cty were ptd to him on 17 Aug. 1850. Pat 250 Vol. 1 Abst 271 and 320 acres in Smith Cty were ptd to him on 2 Apr. 1855. Pat 394 Vol . 2 Abst 274 Glo File Nac. Don 253. Below is articles that Dobie - Obie01@aol.com sent me on Gabriel Cole Gabriel Cole filed receipts to recover supplies he took by wagon to for use in the "Battle of Bexar". The Division reached G. Cole's place on the Sam Bernard at mid-day and Santa Anna called a halt. March resumed 4 p.m., April 10 after confiscating 20 barrels of sugar and 12 hundred twenty five bushels of corn. History of Texas By J. H. Brown at Fort Bend County Library. Except from Almonte's diary, " Satudrday, Arpil 9 (1836)at 5 a.m. we left San Felipe with the choice companies of Guerro, Matamoros, Mexico and Toluca with fifty cavalry of the Tampico regiment. At half past 12 we arrived at Coll's (Cole's ) farm six and one-half leagues (from San Felipe). Three Americans were seen who took the road to Marion (Columbia) or Orizimbo (Old Fort) and leading to Thompson's Ferry. We found at the farm a family from Lavaca who came by way of the Brazos. Various articles were also found. The husband of the woman was a mulatto, the womand was white. We sent Wilson, the husband, to reconnoiter at Marion, that is the ferry. He did not return. It rained at night and the wind blew from the north... History of Fort Bend County, Texas: Clarence Wharton 1939 Texas State Archives 979.4135W555w... In those days the road from Columbia to San Felipe did not follow the meanders of the Brazos but passed Damons Mound and Mrs. Powell place on Turkey Creek about a mile from the Bernard, thence up by Gabriel Cole's across the prairie and on to San Felipe. Page 72 Chapter VI Settlements on the Bernard pg. 64 ..Only two permanent locations were made by the Three Hundred on the Bernard in Fort Bend County -James Beard, the saddle maker, cook on the schoooner "Lively" and James Scott. The other Bernard locations from Gabriel Cole down to James where the south line of the County leaves the Bernard for the Brazos came later. At the time of the Revolution there was a solid tier of Mexican grants on both sides of the Bernard. Gabriel Cole whose survey lies in the Big Bend of the Bernard at the most north and westerly corner of the county, came from Maine (this is an error, should be South Carolina) in 1832 and got his grant that year. In 1835 he joined the patriot army at Gonzales and was at the "Seige of Bexar" in December. In the following March when Santa Anna's Army was on its way to the Brazos, Gabriel took his family and fled with the runaways. Later we shall see that his humble homestead on the Bernard was the camp site for the Mexican Army on its way to the Jesse Thompson Ferry on the Brazos in April. After the Revolution he continued to live on his land until his death in 1846. (Cole probably lived on the Charles Baird Survey at this time..See Act of Congress. 1839, Vol.3 pg. 40 ) Below Gabe Cole's , Andrew Northington from Kentucky came with his family. History of Fort Bend County pg. 87 .The Act creating the County (Fort Bend) and fixing its boundaries was passed 29 December 1837 ... On the east side of the Brazos the Countyline began at Bigham's upper line and followed the old line between Harriburg and Brazoria for three leagues, when it took a tangent to the north to a low elm at the head of Bray's Bayou by various turns the upper lines returned to the Brazos along the south line of Churchill Fulshear's league leaving the old sailor outside the County Boundaries. Crossing the river here it went up the west bank ten or more miles to the mouth of Sixteen Mile Creek and thence over to the Bernard at Gabriel Cole's corner. The Bernard formed the West B Father: James COLE b: 1760 in Newberry S.C. or Orange Co, Virginia Mother: Jeanor UNKNOWN b: 1769 in Newberry County, South Carolina Marriage 1 Elizabeth "Betty" LEAVELL b: 6 Sept 1806 in Newberry County, South Carolina Children: James L COLE b: 22 May 1821 in Newberry Co, South Carolina Richard F. COLE b: 12 Sep 1822 in South Carolina Alfred A. COLE b: 18 Jun 1824 in South Carolina Elizabeth COLE b: 1 Aug 1827 in South Carolina Mary Jane COLE b: 1 Jan 1830 in Ohio Gabriel COLE b: 12 Feb 1833 in Austin, Texas Austin Bryan COLE b: 23 Apr 1834 in Austin Co, Texas Pleasant COLE b: 11 Jul 1836 in Austin Co, Tx ****************************************** Given Name: Gabriel Surname: Cole Sex: M Birth: 12 Feb 1833 in Austin, Texas Death: 22 July 1888 in Temple, Texas Note: Served in Civil War under Capt. Hunt of the 16th Regiment of Infantry. Confederate Pensions Cole, Julia A application #04260 Victoria County, Texas wife of Gabriel Cole 1860 Census Bellville, Austin County, Texas COLE, G. 27 FARMER TEXAS COLE, J.A. 19 WIFE TEXAS COLE, J.W. 2 SON TEXAS COLE, C.H. 1 FEMALE TEXAS 1870 Census- Bellville,Austin County, Texas COLE, GABRIEL 37 M, W, FARMER, TX " " , JULIA ANN 27 F, W, -- , TX " " , JOHN W. 12 M, W, AT HOME, TX " " , CORDELIA H 10 F, W, " " , TX " " , JAMES E, 8, F, W, " " , TX " " , CLARENCE L, 5, M, W, " " , TX " " , POLLY A, 2 F, W, " " , TX " " , PLEASANT, 27 M, W, FARM LABORER TX STEPHENSON, MARTHA 76 F, W, AL 1910 CENSUS VICTORIA TX JULIA COLE IS LIVING WITH DAUGHTER AND SON IN LAW IN VICTORIA TX GARDNER, WARD A. HEAD, 48 TX IL, MO (HAS HIS NAME AS WOOD A. GARDNER) " " , CORDELIA WIFE, 49 TX, OH, TX COLE, JULIA 69 MOTHER IN LAW, TX, GA, AL WYLIE, MILDRED 22, NIECE, TX, AL, TX (WARD IS OCCUPATION - KEEPER OF BOARDING HOUSE- 12 BOARDERS PLUS 4 OF THEM)BOARDING HOUSE IS LOCATED IN VICTORIA TX ON EAST JUAN LINN STREET. Father: Gabriel COLE b: 1795 in Newberry County, South Carolina Mother: Elizabeth "Betty" LEAVELL b: 6 Sept 1806 in Newberry County, South Carolina Marriage 1 Julia Ann WOOD b: 8 Aug 1841 in Beeville, Tx Married: 7 Aug 1855 in San Felipe, Austin co, Texas Children: John W. COLE b: 10 Mar 1857 in Austin CO, Tx Cordelia H (Hattie) COLE b: 6 Jun 1860 in Austin CO, Tx James E. COLE b: Jan 10, 1862 in Austin CO, Tx Clarence "Charles" Leonard COLE b: 1 May 1866 in Bellville, Texas Polly A. COLE b: Sept 1868 in Texas Alva Catherine COLE b: 16 Jul 1871 in Temple, Bell, Texas Sam B. COLE b: 29 Dec 1872 Martha Elizabeth "Mattie" COLE b: 9 Jun 1875 in East Bernard, Tx Rilla Mae COLE b: May 1884 in Wooten Wells, Texas