Sheriff Ulysses Rabb

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1838, Lagrange, Fayette Co, Texas
• Census: 1860, Dewitt Co, Texas
• Military: 3 Apr 1862, Travis Co, Texas; Civil War Muster Roll
• Residence: 13 Jul 1867, Lagrange Co, Texas; voter registry
• Census: 1870, Fayette Co, Texas
• Other-Begin: 25 Aug 1872; letter
• Census: 1880, LaGrange, Lafayette Co, Texas

Notes:

Residence:
per voter registration in 1867, said in county and precinct for 29 years.


Census:
1860 Dewitt Co, Texas
residence 298 - Mabra and Sarah Jones
residence 299 M. and Elizabeth Parker
residence 300 A.H. and Elizabeth Parker

residence 301 (parents of Malissa Jones Rabb)
Enoch Jones 74 1786 farmer Delaware
Nancy Jones 67 1793 N Carolina
Lewis B. Jones 1838 22 Mississippi
Ulesses Rabb 29 1831 Texas <<<
Malissa Rabb (Jones) 27 1833 Mississippi
Paul M. Rabb 10/12 1859 Texas
N.B. Steddom 1847 Texas (grandson Napoleon Bonepart Steddum/Steddom, son of Mary)

residence 302 Lovelate (Lovelady) James & Nancy
residence 303 G.W. & Ellena Jacobs

Military:
name and rank: Rabb Ulysses, Pvt.
comm. off. Moore, L.W. Capt
organ: Co. I, Flournoy's Regt.
enlist: Ap. 3-62 at Travis County for 3 years or war
disch:
descrp: age 31
Remarks: R&F 121; En.Off.Col.Allen; Mus.Off.
L.W.Moore; Co.sta. at Camp Groce,
Austin Cty.; Texas; Jul 28-62; 1
muster roll;



Residence:
Texas Voter Registration
Fayette Co, Texas
Jul 13 1867
page 20, line residence place: LaGrange, Fayette County
in state: 37 yrs; in county 29 yrs; in precinct 29 yrs



Census:
1870 West of Caldwell Road, Fayette, Texas
pg 15
residence 89
Ulyses Rabb 39 1831 Texas farmer 100
Malissa Rabb 37 1833 Mississippi
L B Rabb 13 1857 Texas
P M Rabb 11 1859 Texas
R H Tollmson 17 1853 Texas
Nancy Jones 75 1795 North Carolina

also res 15
J.W. Rabb 35 TX
Kittie 22 TX
Mina 1 1869
Wm J. 1/12 1870

also res 132
Rabb, Virgil S. 30 miller and Dulce 21 TX

(Mary (Jones) Norton not in this township)

Other-Begin:
Mary talks of a Rabb family in a letter to her aunt Susan Bounds Butts. She says:

"And Mrs. Rabb come to see me not long ago. Mrs. Jones (Mrs Rabb's mother) staid a week with me she gave me her picture. She is in good health. Bob, Mrs. Rabb's oldest boy is quite a handsome young man he is in the ministry in the family. Mr. Rabb is a weakly man and had the misfortune to have all his fingers sawed off of his right hand. Bob can use tools very well. Lee and Paul are little men to work. They are the size of Andrew. Either of them will go to the field and work all day alone as well as though they had their father with them. They are very hard run, lost all they had in both overflows. Every spare day they have they work for some one else and get the money and help improve their home. Mr. Rabb thinks as much of Bob as he does his own. Bob joined the church last summer. He is exactly one year younger than Cyrus."

Census:
1880 La Grange, Lafayette Co, Texas
location listed is the county jail
Rabb U. White Male 47 abt 1833 Self (Head)Self Married
jailer, sheriff Texas Pennsylvania Pennsylvania
Rabb M. White Female 36 abt 1844 Wife Married Mississippi Massachusetts Massachusetts
Rabb Lee White Male 21 abt 1859 Son Single Texas Texas Mississippi
Rabb Paul White Male 20 abt 1860 Son Single deputy sheriff Texas Texas Mississippi
(also listed 8 prisoners)

Family/Spouse: Melissa Edna Jones. Melissa (daughter of Enoch Jones and Nancy Swain) was born on 12 Jun 1833 in Mississippi; died after 1890 in Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
Name: Ulysses Rabb
Gender: Male
Marriage Date: 18 Jul 1855
Marriage Place: Dewitt, Texas, United States
Spouse: Melissa E Tumlinson
FHL Film Number: 1012058

1. Deputy Sheriff Paul M. Rabb was born in 1859 in Dewitt Co, Texas; died in 1943 in Elgin, Bastrop Co, Texas.
2. Lee Bell Rabb was born on 8 Jan 1857; died on 11 Jul 1936 in Rock Island, Colorado Co, Texas; was buried in Myrtle Cem, Colorado Co, Texas.

Thomas married Serena Gilbert. Serena was born in 1805 in Hancock Co, Georgia; died in 1836 in Columbus, Colorado Co, Texsa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1812, Madison Co, Illinois
• Residence: 1820, Jonesborough, Texas
• Residence: 1821, LaGrange, Lafayette Co, Texas

Notes:

Fayette County History features a bio of Virgil S. Rabb, most probably relative of Ulysses.
http://www.fayettecountyhistory.org/biographies_record_of_swtex.htm

William Rabb was born in the Keystone State, in Fayette County. At an early date he moved with his family to near St. Louis, Mo., on the Illinois side of the river, where he erected a water mill for grinding flour, ran it successfully, sold out and moved to Washington, Ark., and there resided until 1819. He then came to Texas, but did not bring his family until 1822, coming with Austin's colony. However, be himself was here in 1821 and raised his first crop on Rabb's Prairie that year. This was the first crop made by an American in this section.


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William and Mary (Smalley) Rabb
came to Texas in 1821. William, son of Andrew and Mary (Scott) Rabb, was born Dec 21 1770 in Fayette Co PA> Mary was born abt 1772 also in PA and she and William were married around 1789. In 1803, William started westward with his wife and their children. He owned gristmills in a number of locations. In 1812 he was judge for Madison Co IL and served in the Illinois Territory Legislature during 1814 and 1815.
In 1820 William moved his family to the south side of the Red River to Jonesborough TX. The next year, william, Mary and two of sons, Thomas and Ulysses moved to Colorado River, near present day LaGrange. In 1823 they were joined by daughter, Rachel, her husband, Joseph Newman and children: sons: Andrew and wife Margaret (Ragsdale) and John and wife Mary (Crownover). William, his sons, Andrew, John and Thomas and son-in-law Joseph Newman were all members of the "The Old Three Hundred" Stephen F. Austin's Original Colonists.
Based on Austin's prior agreement with William to build a gristmill in the upper portion of the Colony, William received a total of five sitios. 13,000 acres in Fayette Co and 9,000 acres in Matagorda County. His land grant No 58 was dated Jul 19 1824. Due to Indians hostilities the gristmill was not completed until 1831. William and Mary both died later that same year, and are buried on a hillside overlooking Rabb's Prairie in Fayette Co, Texas.
Betty Newman (GGGGG) 219765

William married Mary Smalley in 1789 in German Twp, Fayette Co, Pennsylvania. Mary was born in Jan 1771 in German, Fayette Co, Pennsylvania; died in 1831 in Rabbs Prairie, Fayette Co, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Daughters of Republic of Texas
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Mary Smalley Rabb born in 1773 in Fayette Co, PA. Her parents are believed to be Benjamin Smalley and Rachel Cressen. Mary married William Rabb in 1789. Mary and William had five children:
Rachel Rabb (b 1790) married Joseph Newman
Andrwe born 1792 married Margaret Ragsdale
John born 1798 married Mary Crownover
Thomas born 1801 married Serena Gilbert
Ulysses born 1803.
Mary and William started westward through Ohio and Illinois by 1803. They owned and operated gristmills in several locations in Illinois. In 1820 they moved to the southside of the Red River to the Jonesborough Settlement in present day Red River County, Texas. They were members of Stephen F. Austin's Old Three Hundred families.
IT is from the diary of her daughter-in-law Mary Crownover Rabb we learn much about the early life of these families and their struggles to settle in Texas. Sometime after the family arrived in Texas, the youngest son Ulysses died. William and Mary Smalley Rabb both died in 1831 and were buried on a hillside overlooking Rabb's Prairie in Fayette Co, Texas.
Patty Newman Turner (GGGGD) 22513-S

Andrew married Mary Scott. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]