Category: Texas

According to family history, Radford is buried close to his father, Marvil Jiles Tidwell in Hood County, Texas at the Rock Church Cemetery. Radford Jiles Tidwell, b. 6 April 1832, Dickson Co., Tennessee; d. 30 Apr 1904, Hood Co., TX; buried Rock Church Cemetery, Hood Co., TX (unmarked grave). He apparently married three times. The […]

Demetrius Willis was born on January 14, 1825, in Florence, Lauderdale County, Alabama. He was the eldest of five children who were orphans when Demetrius are 11 years old. Being raised by various aunts and uncles, Demetrius eventually immigrated to Texas and was a citizen of the Republic of Texas. Demetrius lived and fought under […]

Seaborn Goodrum was born in 1835 in Yalobusha Co, Mississippi to Thomas and Mary Goodrum. In 1851 Seaborn’s family moved to TX and settled in Grimes County. When the war erupted in 1861 Seaborn and three of his brothers joined the Confederate Army. His brothers Thomas P Goodrum and Reuben Goodrum served in the 21st […]

William Cannon Moore, was born in 1829 in Franklin County Tennessee to John Cannon Moore and Nancy Jemima Corn.  He travelled with parents by covered wagon to the Republic of Texas, arriving with his family in Bastrop County, TX, in June 1837.  John C. Moore was granted 1,280 acres of land in the same year  […]

George Washington Moore was born on January 22, 1832, in Franklin Co., TN., to Nancy Jemima Corn, (1807-1838), and John Cannon Moore, (1798-1839).,   George’s father John Moore arrived with his wife Jemima and four children in Bastrop County in June 1837,and was granted 1,280 acres of land in the same year.  George’s mother Jemima […]

George R. Norvell was born on 7 February 1828 to his father Nathaniel Norvell and mother Elizabeth B. Powell in Franklin Tennessee.  While the Norvell family in America started in Virginia, in the early 1700s, the family moved from Virginia to Granville North Carolina. By 1805, the Norvells had moved to Sumner County Tennessee from […]

John Andrew Geupel (pronounced GUY-PULL) was born in Wunsiedel, Bavaria (Germany) on the 18th of April in the year 1829 under the family name Johann Andrew Geupel. The death of his parents sent him to an orphanage where he learned the skills of a Tinner. Out to see the New World, John was 19 years old […]

The following was transcribed from the May, 1907, issue of the Gilmer Mirror, Gilmer, TX. It is dated Gladewater, TX., Mar. 10, 1907, Route 2. I am an old Confederate soldier nearly 72 years old. I came to Texas from North Alabama in the year 1858. Was sworn in the Confederate service at Coffeeville, Upshur […]

Born in 1833 in San Fernando De Rosas, Zaragoza, Mexico. Died in September 14, 1914, buried in Zaragoza, Coahuila de Zaragoza, Mexico Son of Ygnacio Torres and Maria Josefa Rodriguez de Luna. Recruited from a small Mexican village along the bank of the Rio Grande and mustered into service in the 8th Texas Infantry Company […]