This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------53114AD124CC Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I am reposting this message to the Brazoria County Mail List, for possible interest to Galveston County researchers. Jim --------------53114AD124CC Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Received: from bl-14.rootsweb.com ([204.212.38.30]) by mta2.mailsrvcs.net (InterMail v03.02.04 118 119) with ESMTP id <19990419053455.NXSV16551@bl-14.rootsweb.com> for <jnturner@gte.net>; Mon, 19 Apr 1999 00:34:55 -0500 Received: (from slist@localhost) by bl-14.rootsweb.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA01257; Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:34:36 -0700 (PDT) Resent-Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:34:36 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 00:01:26 -0700 (MST) X-Sender: blueskye@pop.primenet.com Message-Id: <v01530501b340025b1451@[206.165.21.171]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Old-To: TXBRAZOR-L@rootsweb.com From: blueskye@primenet.com (Marianne Gilbert) Subject: [TXBRAZOR-L] HESTER-PATTON/CALDWELL/CALDER Resent-Message-ID: <AbxKz.A.6Q.rBsG3@bl-14.rootsweb.com> To: TXBRAZOR-L@rootsweb.com Resent-From: TXBRAZOR-L@rootsweb.com Reply-To: TXBRAZOR-L@rootsweb.com X-Mailing-List: <TXBRAZOR-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/16 X-Loop: TXBRAZOR-L@rootsweb.com Precedence: list Resent-Sender: TXBRAZOR-L-request@rootsweb.com X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 Hello list, I'm also a subscriber to the Christian Co., KY list [KYCHRIST-L] and saw this post from Ida. I responded to her post, and decided to repost them here in case anyone knows of these names from Brazoria Co. Thanks, Marianne Gilbert <blueskye@primenet.com> Phoenix, AZ >>Dear List, >>In the May/June 1998 issue of Back Home in Kentucky magazine was an article on >>Kentuckians' contribution in the Texas Revolution. Quoting the article: >>"William Hester Patton, 28, was born in Hopkinsville, KY but was a resident of >>Brazoria Co., TX when he joined the Alamo forces. A merchant and surveyor by >>trade, Patton was the commanding officer of a small company and attained the >>rank of captain. His life was spared when he left the Alamo as a courier >>either before or just after the Mexican forces arrived outside the walls. He >>later served as aid-de-camp to Sam Houston during the Battle of San Jacinto >>and quartermaster general of the army." >>The middle name was often the maiden name of the mother, but we cannot find >>one of our Hesters who married a Patton. Anyone have data to support the >>possibility of a HESTER-PATTON marriage? >>Thanks for your interest. >>Ida >Hello Ida, > >I'm a little behind in going thru my emails, so I'm only now responding to >your post of 3/15/99. Unfortunately, I don't know about your PATTONs, >however, your post sounded familiar to me in regards to my CALDWELLs. > >My gg grandfather, James Peckham CALDWELL, was born 1793 in Maryland, but >lived in Hopkinsville, KY from about 1819 to about 1832 when he moved to >Brazoria Co., TX. He was Adjutant of Capt. John Austin's Company in the >battle of Velasco (Brazoria Co.) in 1832. He moved to Hays Co. but died in >Brazoria Co. in 1856, buried at Peach Point Cemetery, close to his friend >Stephen F. Austin (however Austin's body was reinterred in Austin at a >later date). He was a planter, was involved in the Masonic Lodge in both >Hopkinsville and Brazoria Co. and was a devout Methodist. I too thought >that his middle name, Peckham, may have been his mother's maiden name, but >haven't been able to find a Peckham/Caldwell marrriage as yet. His sister >Jane's son, Robert James CALDER (who J.P. raised, as his sister's husband >died when their son was a baby) was Captain of K Company in the Battle of >San Jacinto. Maybe my James Peckham Caldwell and your William Hester >Patton knew each other. > >Would there, by any chance, be a mention of a James P. CALDWELL in that >"Back Home in Kentucky" magazine you mentioned? I am a subscriber to the >Brazoria Co., TX list [TXBRAZOR-L], so I will post your query and my >response there. I'm sure there must be a list for the Alamo, but I'm not >familiar with it. Check the Rootsweb internet site for the name of the >list. > >Good luck! >Marianne Gilbert ><blueskye@primenet.com> >Phoenix, AZ --------------53114AD124CC--