ALBERT EDWARD GALLATIN WAS BORN IN FAYETTE CO,KY 1809 TO ABRAHAM GALLATIN B.1762 PA. AND ELIZA THOMPSON B.1785 MO. HE WAS REARED IN MO., OUTSIDE ST. LOUIS. HE AND POSSIBLY ABRAHAM WERE REPORTED TO HAVE COME TO TEXAS WITH STEPHEN F. AUSTIN'S SECOND COLONY; HOWEVER, IT IS KNOWN THAT THEY BROUGHT HORSES TO SELL WITH THEM. A LIST OF AUSTIN'S SECOND COLONY; I HAVE NOT FOUND AS YET TO VERIFY THE ABOVE STATEMENT
IN THE WAR FOR THE TEXAS INDEPENDENCE, ALBERT (SGT) AT AGE 28, FOUGHT AND WAS WOUNDED AT THE BATTLE OF SAN JACINTO, NEAR WHAT IS NOW DEERPARK, HARRIS COUNTY, TX. THIS WAS THE DECISIVE BATTLE THAT WON TEXAS ITS INDEPENDENCE FROM MEXICO ON APRIL 21, 1836. HIS NAME IS ON THE WALL OF THE SAN JACINTO MONUMENT AS A PARTICIPANT. HIS PICTURE WAS ALSO DISPLAYED IN A GLASS CASE.
HE WENT ON TO MARRY SARAH LOUISE JONES IN 1837 AND THEY HAD TEN SONS AND ONE DAUGHTER. I HAVE SARAH'S 1837 BIBLE WITH ALL THE FAMILY ENTRIES. MARY ELIZA (B.1838) m. DILLISHAW, MILAM(1840-1866), SAMUEL J.(1842-1905), ALBERT LOUIS (1844-1863), JOHN FISHEL (1846-1919), JAMES E.1847-? NO LISTING OF DEATH HOWEVER LAST ENTRY BY SARAH WAS 1866 SO HE LIVE AT LEAST THAT LONG, FRANCIS W. (1850-1851), WILLIAM WARE (1853-1936_, ELIAS THOMPSON (1855-1936)(MY GRANDFATHER) PLUS WALTER (1857-1857) AND OLIVER P. (1858-1860)
ALBERT EDWARD WAS BURIED IN BICKHAM CEMETARY IN BRAZOS CO, TEXAS.
SARAH WAS BORN IN BLOUNT CO., ALABAMA IN 1819 AND DIED IN 1889 IN HICO, HAMILTON CO., TX SHE IS BURIED IN OLD HICO CEMETARY. IT HAS BEEN NOTED THAT THERE IS NO MARKER. SHE WAS VISITING A RELATIVE, I THINK, MARY ELIZA IN HICO AT THE TIME OF HER DEATH.
ANCESTRY: When ALBERT EDWARD Gallatin was born on August 1, 1809, in Lexington, Kentucky, his father, ABRAHAM, was 46 and his mother, ELIZA, was 23. He married SARAH LOUISE JONES on October 23, 1837, in Washington, Texas. They had 12 children in 24 years. He died on February 14, 1898, in COTTONWOOD PRAIRIE AREA OUTSIDE OF BRYAN, Brazos CO., Texas, having lived a long life of 88 years, and was buried in COTTONWOOD PRAIRIE AREA OUTSIDE OF BRYAN, BRAZOS CO, Texas. Bickham Cem.
SHARON GALLATIN PHILLIPS
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