Clairborne Garner

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1825, Orange Co, Texas

Notes:

1850 Jefferson Co (Taylor Bayou Settlement) Census: Living in residence 11/11. Residence 9/9 was Leonard Hayes. Obviously related, but not sure this is where he fits into Garner family.
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Military service: Between 10-5-1835 and 12-4-1835, Texas Revolution, Battle of Bexar. First s heriff of Jefferson Co., TX He was a Captain in the Texas Rev. and Member of 4th Congress of Republic of TX.

In 1885 David Harman, a descendant of James Taylor White gave a fascinating affidavit about his experiences as a very young soldier in the Texas Revolution. Following is an excerpt from the affidavit:

At the first call for Volunteers in the Municipality of Jefferson in 1835, I volunteered in Capt. David Garner's Company. The Company was mustered at Claiborne West's House on Cow Bayou in the municipality of Jefferson (now in Orange Co.).

We were ordered (as I understood) to San Antonio, and on our way to San Antonio we went by San Felipe. There being dissensions in the Council, then in session, we were detained sometime I can't remember how long, awaiting the results of the council (my neighbor Claiborne West being a member).

GARNER, DAVID HESS (1807-1864). David Hess Garner, soldier, sheriff, and Republic of Texas congressman, son of Bradley and Sarah Rachel (Harmon) Garner, Sr., was born in St. Landry or Rapides Parish, Louisiana, in 1807. His father was a native of Maryland who moved to Louisiana about 1790 and fought in the battle of New Orleans. David moved to Texas in 1825 with four of his seven siblings, Jacob Harmon Garner, Isaac Garner, Anne (who married Claiborne West), and Sarah (Mrs. John) McGaffey, and settled at Old Jefferson (the site of present Bridge City) on Cow Bayou.

To help resist Antonio Lp?ez de Santa Annaqv in 1835, Capt. David Garner organized a compan y of volunteers. Armed with flintlock muskets and Bowie knives, his group of nineteen men, including his brother Jacob, set out for San Antonio. They arrived at the camp above Bexar on November 16, 1835. On December 4 Garner and his men were mustered into the company of James Chessher and Willis H. Landrum. Garner participated in the siege of Bexar under Gen. Benjamin R. Milam, which resulted in the capture of Gen. Martn? Perfecto de Cos. He was discharged from the army on December 13, 1835. On January 22, 1838, he received a headright certificate for a third of a league of land in Jefferson County. For his service at Bexar he received a donation grant of 640 acres. On December 14, 1838, he receive d a bounty certificate for 320 acres for service from October 5 to December 13, 1835.

On September 18, 1839, Garner married Matilda Hampshire in Jefferson County. They became th e parents of eleven children. The 1840, 1850, and 1860 census list Garner as a farmer and stock raiser. He was elected sheriff of Jefferson County in 1839. He was elected representative to the Fourth Congress of Texas (1839-40) and served one term. He was again elected sheriff of Jefferson County in 1843 and was reelected to the office in 1845. In 1855 he moved his family to old Indianola, where he continued to engage in the cattle business.

During the Civil War Garner, now too old to serve in the army, supplied the Confederate troops with beef. When his son Jacob Hampshire Garner, who had served in the Thirty-third Cavalry, returned home, he found his father penniless, though loaded with Confederate money and still a patriotic citizen of Texas. Garner died in old Indianola on April 10, 1864. His gravestone bears the Masonic emblem. His wife was a devoted Methodist.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: James Cox, Historical and Biographical Record of the Cattle Industry (2 vols., St. Louis: Woodward and Tiernan Printing, 1894, 1895; rpt., with an introduction by J. Frank Dobie, New York: Antiquarian, 1959). Texas House of Representatives, Biographical Directory of the Texan Conventions and Congresses, 1832-1845 (Austin: Book Exchange, 1941).
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Pioneer Reminiscenses of Jefferson County
by T.J. Russell

February 11, 1906
To the Journal:

One of the early settlers in southwest Texas was David Garner, who left many children an d whose descendants to the third and fourth generation are numerous and are among the best ci tizens of the county, and have filled many important positions in offical life and in privat e life and business.
At this late date but little can be learned of his early history. However, this much is known , that he was a resident of Louisiana in 1825 on Bayou Beouf, but whether in the Parish of Ra pides or Avoyelles is unknown. He at that time had a wife and grown children and was engage d in planting and raising stock. It was in 1825 that John McGaffey married the oldest daught er Sarah, and w___ at a later date of nine years located his headright league at Sabine Pass , this county.

David Garner at a later date moved to Texas and died and was buried in her sacred soil. H e raised a family of several children of whom were Sarah, married John McGaffey; Rachel, wh o married Benjamin Johnson; anther daughter who married Claiborne West, who later lived on Co w Bayou, Orange County, Below the railroad crossing and near the place where Larkin R. Thoma s lived at a later date, and who represented Jefferson County in the Consultation at San Feli pe de Austin in 1834, where the first movement foe the independence of Texas was made. His so ns were Jacob, who lived in Sabine Pass and was injured somewhat during the great storm and o verflow there October 12,1886, and died soon after. He(Jacob) left behind him several childr en, all of whom are numbered among the useful citizens and much respected . First Leonard, de ceased, who lived on Johnson Bayou, Louisiana, and was a minister of the gospel; Milton, no w in Beaumont, who raised several children.; a daughter Anna, who married Allie Brock, a prom inent citizen of Beaumont; Bradley, now in the city. The daughters were Anna, married John Mc Call, now dead, she is still at Sabine Pass; Alice, married a Mr. Garrett, who is dead, she r esides at the Pass.

Bradley Garner a son of David Garner Sr., was drowned in Sabine Pass over sixty years ago , while on a visit to see a sick sister in Louisiana; Isaac, who moved away from here befor e the Confederate War, is dead; David Garner was at one time in the early days sheriff of th e county and subsiquently moved to west Texas.; he married a Miss Matilda Hampshire, sister o f Captain Lovan Hampshire of Taylor's Bayou. A full history of all the mambersof the family c annot be given now, but all of them have led exemplary, christain lives, free from any charge s of unlawful violence upon the persons and property of others.

The McCall brothers were natives of Pennsylvania and were raised in what was known as th e Rapp Settlement, in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, situated on the south bank opof the Ohi o River. The settlement was a community of people who held all property in common and often a ssisted those who had lived there but had gone away, when in distress . The writer hereof, i n behalf of John McxCall , after the diasterous flood at Sabine Pass in 1886, made applicatio n to the society for assistance. for him, to which a generous gift was made.

David Garner at one time, during the thirties lived in the place known as the Big Woods, C alcasieu Parish, Louisiana, near the present site of Edgerly. It was there that his daughte r Rachel married Ben Johnson, later of Sabine Pass. Of his daughter who married Claiborne Wes t, but little of the family history is known. West kept a small settlement store in an earl y day on Cow Bayou. In 1836 he contributed largely to the equipment of soldiers going to th e front to fight President Santa Anna at San Antonio, and subsequently moved to Gonzales Coun ty and died there at an advanced age. In 1839 he was one of the fifty seven men reported a s a compitent juryman in the county. He was a prominent man in the affairs of the public in t he county, was looked up to as an authority in many respects.

Of David Garner's descendants no one has ever been indicted by a grand jury. among his gre at great grandchildren is the child of Allie Brock, Esq. There are several others, among the m the grandchildren of Hon. B.J. Johnson of Sabine Pass.
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Residence:
Settled north of Present day Orange in 1825, while Texas still belonged to Mexico.
Article by W.T. Block: Jacob Harmon Garner, A Jefferson County Militiaman of the Texas Revolution

David married Matilda Hamshire on 18 Sep 1839 in Jefferson Co, Texas. Matilda (daughter of Jacob Hamshire and Hannah Lee) was born on 29 Jul 1811 in Bayou Teche, Attakapas Parish, Louisiana; was christened on 29 Jul 1912 in Louisiana; died on 30 Mar 1890 in Proctor, Comanche Co, Texas; was buried in Proctor Cem, Proctor, Comanche Co, Texa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Lutheran, son of Jacques Garneaux (James Garner) and Elise Stermot, of English America

"He became angered when his Uncle Straumit decided to send his brother James, to schoo l in England, left home and went first to Louisiana Territory, then to Texas. He married an d lived in Tuckapaw, Texas." "Southern Garners" by Sam Garner


They were living in Rapides Parish in 1810 with 4 children. Bradley served in the War of 1812 in LA with Capt. Thomas Patterson.

In 1830 they were in Cow Bayou settlement, later Jefferson County Texas. This settlement had about 20 families scattered from the Sabine River to the Neches River in Texas. Today this Orange County Texas.

Two of their sons, Jacob Harmon Garner and David Hess Garner settled in Cow Bayou in 1824. In 1828 Sarah Rachel Harmon and Bradley Garner joined the family in Orange County, Texas. Rachel died in Orange County, Texas. Bradley died abt 1848 in Jefferson County, Texas.

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Bradley married Rachel Harmon on 27 Dec 1800 in Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana. Rachel (daughter of Jacob Harmon, (immigrant) and Hannah (Anna) Guiche) was born about 1780; died after 1819. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Harmon, Rachel, Lutheran (Jacob & Nanette Gaise) m Saturday 27 Dec 1800 Abraham Garnir, Lutheran (Jacques Garneaux & Elise Stermot of English America) Wits: Bradley Garnir, David Harman, John Andrus, Joseph Elah Andrus; bride signs as Rachel Herman and groom signs as Bradley Garnir. Fr. Pedro de Zamora (Opel Ch: v.1-B Protestant marriages: 1787-1830, p 7)

Notes:

Married:
Married by the Rev. Pedro De Zamora in the presence of Joseph E. Andrus, David Harmon, and John Andrus.

Notes:

He had children by a marriage prior to Nancy. An early Jefferson co. sheriff, David Garner married a Matilda Hamshire in 1839, who was a granddaughter of Jacob's.

http://www.genealogymagazine.com/desintexdeso.html
Destiny in Texas: Descendants of Jacob Hampshire and Hannah Lee of St. Martin Parish, Louisiana Compiled by James Pylant. 2000. Softcover, 340 pp., illustrated, indexed. ISBN: 0-9622746-7-4; LC: 99-072756

Among the many emigrants coming into the Latin South's colony of Louisiana at the dawn of the 19th century was Jacob Hampshire (c. 1765-1850) of York County, Pennsylvania, the son of German parents. His wife, Hannah Lee (c. 1784-1827), a native of Hampshire County, Virginia, had arrived with her family from Mississippi Territory. These families settled in Louisiana's St. Martin and St. Landry's parishes. But the destiny of the Hampshire family was reshaped when Jacob and Hannah's children, John, Martha, and Matilda, moved west--to the Republic of Texas. The siblings settled near Beaumont, where many of John Hampshire's descendants still reside. Martha Hampshire and her Prussian-born husband, Joseph Rubarth, moved to Milam and Williamson counties. Matilda Hampshire married David Garner and moved to Calhoun County. Descendants of the Rubarths and Garners spread north, south, and west in the state, including the counties of Bell, Coryell, Eastland, Comanche, Bexar, Crockett, Sutton, and Lubbock. Opportunity was ripe for an ambitious family who amassed thousands of acres, founded towns, and produced judges, newspaper publishers, and ranchers.

Jacob married Hannah Lee about 1804 in Louisiana. Hannah (daughter of Peter Lee and Rebecca Taylor) was born about 1780 in Hamshire Co, virginia; died in 1820 in Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

HANNAH LEE is said to have been a 1st or 2nd cousin to Gen. Robert E. Lee of the Civil War fame.

Notes:

listed as Jacques Garneaux & Elise Stermot of English America

Note: Elected district clerk of Jefferson Co, TX.
Event: Milit-Beg OCT 1835
Note: Enlisted under his brother David in the Texas Revolution. "When the Texas General Land Office burned at Austin in 1855, all original muster rolls of the Texas Revolution also burned. What exists there today as muster rolls were written down from the memories of Texas veterans who were still alive. Sadly as well was the fact that the muster rolls of some companies of Southeast Texas were not reconstructed at all, and Jacob H. Garner served 90-day enlistments in two such companies." 4
Death: OCT 1886
Note: Caught pneumonia as a result of exposure from a hurricane which killed Sabine Pass on 12 Oct 1886. He died a week later. 4
Event: Note 1871
Note: Applied for a 1,280-acre land grant, available to all surviving Texas veterans. 4
Event: Milit_Serv 04 MAR 1836 Old Jefferson, Orange Co, Texas
Note: Mustered in Capt. Wm. Milspaugh's compnay. 4
Event: Milit-Beg 03 AUG 1861
Note: Enlisted in the TX state militia, elected 3rd Lieutenant in a cavalry company, styled the "Ben McColloch Coast Guard". 4
Event: Note 1865
Note: He emancipated his two slaves (prob. inherited from his father). 4
Event: Note 02 OCT 1835
Note: The first battle of the Texas Revolution took place on October 2, 1835 as American settlers defeated a Mexican cavalry near the Guadalupe River.

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James married Elizabeth Straumit (Stermot) about 1778. Elizabeth was born in 1750; died after 1800. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Protestant (Church of England)
• Other-Begin: 17 Jan 1779, Natchez, Mississippi; petition
• Residence: 04 Oct 1779, Natchez District, Mississippi; signed petition

Notes:

a Protestant (Martin & Catherine --- of Alsace(?)), widower of Anne Gays.
Harmon, Jacob (record has Hartman) from Strasbourg; widower of Anne Gays, a Protestant (martin & Catherine --- of Alsace (?)) m 29 May 1804 Marie Bores, a Protestant; widow of Thomas Robertson (William from Ireland & Marie Semon from Long Island) * not entered in the St. Martin church registers (NI Ch: OA-#18)
Harmon, Jacob - inhabitant of Opelousas m contract dated: 27 May 1804 Mary Robertson, inhabitant of Opel.; Wits: Henry Hopkins, Commandant for Atakapas & Opel (SM Ct. Hse: OA-vol.22-2 #152)
Harmon, Jacob (record has Hartman) Protestant, of Strasbourg - now lives at Nementau (Mermentau) at the limits of the parish, there for several years, widower of Anne Gays (Martin & Catherine ---) "Informacion de Solteria Producida" - (Marriage Investigation regarding the freedom to marry) dated 29 May 1804 Mary Bores, a Protestant, of Quant, Co, Pennsylvania, living at Plaquemine Brulee for over 5 years, widow of Thomas Roberson (William of Ireland & Mary Semons of Long Island) Signed: Oliver Clark, Louis Prades. Fr. Michel Bernard Barriere (SM Ch: Marrige Investigation: Folio D, #40)
Harmon, Jacob lived at "Plaquemine Brule'" (present day Church Point) m Mary Harmon Succ. August 1809 (Opel Ct. Hse: Succ. #13)
Hargrave, Jacob of Strasbourg, widr of Anne Gays (Martin & Catherine ---) of Alsace, Protestant) m 29 May 1804 Marie Bores, wid. of Thomas Robertson (NI Ch: OA Folio, #18)

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PETITION BY THE ENGLISH INHABITANTS OF THE NATCHEZ AREA IN 177914 May 2011 , http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=%2FFH11&CISOPTR=120058&REC=1&CISOBOX=guice

PETITION BY THE ENGLISH INHABITANTS OF THE NATCHEZ AREA IN 1779
TO THE BRITISH

Sir
Natches January 17. 1779
TO HIS EXCELLENCY GOVERNOR CHESTER

We, His Majesty's Dutiful and Loyal Subjects, Inhabitants of the Natches, beg leave to acknowledge our sincere and hearty thanks for your Excellency's great care and attention to this District and the various measures from time to time adopted for the Defense thereof by which means our Enemies are, and have been, much awed by this part of the Country protected and defended and our property safely preserved and kept from such fate as hath been often devised and decreed against it. Permit us to assure your Excellency that our weak endeavors were ever exerted, never failing to assemble on all occasions when called upon by Colonel Hutchins, who on alarms hath often required our attendance, and the same Loyal Principles we hope will ever govern us to act with spirit in the future on such emergencies. You also have our thanks for appointing him to preside here, who is more likely than any other person yet offered to defend this District, to be useful in other respects and to yield a general satisfaction to our most virtuous inhabitants.

We do also most heartily thank the Honorable Colonel John Stuart, ESQ.. for the aid of his Loyal Refugees under Captain Jackson's command who have been very useful to us. And also for the Company under the command of Captain William Mcintosh,
lately arrived, and hope they will be of no less service. And as it is reported by Captain Mcintosh and William Bethune that Indians are to be sent here, we do most ardently beg and request that no such may ever appear amongst us under the name of a
defense, as most of us are too well acquainted with the Indians to put the least confidence in them. And as we conceive that would be as useless and burdensome at this time as those heretofore sent to the District. What more, therfore, can we expect of
them now than at that time can they answer any other purpose than to Destroy the province that ought to support and sustain this Post, and to keep us in bodily fear.

The Indians formerly sent here was a reason why many People and families left their Habitations. But another such visit forced upon us, we fear, will add to an unhappiness and too, probably to the Country's desolation. And we, a Loyal people, why then shall we be forced to leave our settlement and fly to a Despotick Dominion.

We are informed of a report in Pensacola, that the Inhabitants of this District whose cattle have been slaughtered for the support of the Troops and the Indians, were contented with the price of five dollars per hundred, which report we declare to be exceeding wrong and that we have always thought, and yet think it ought not to be less than six Dollars and a Quarter and hope that price will be made good to those Injured people whose Beeves have converted to the King's use at an under rate.

We beg leave to wish Your Excellency the Compliments of the season, with perfect health, length of days, long to preside and your Administration happy under the auspicious reign of our rightful Sovereign, inthroned on a Glorious Constitution; is the prayer of.

Sir Your most Devoted and Obedient Humble Servants:

To His Excellency Governor Chester

1st list

Silas Crane
Christopher Mair
Abednigo Llewellyn
Charles Allen
Parker Carridme
William Ratliff
Johnas Gardner
Lewis Bingamon*
Nathaniel Johnson
Israel Matthews
John Ellis, Sr.
Cephas Kenard
Thomas Jordan
William Joyner
Coleby Rucker*
Charles Simmons*
Clement Dyson Sr.
Clement Dyson Jr.
Joseph Dyeer

2nd List

Thomas Dyer

John Dyson

James Coplen

Benjamin Carroll

John Carrel

Francis Steed*
David Wallman*
David Wallman, Jr. *

Solomon Wallman*


Luke Sexton*
William Meaks
Francis Meek
Samuel Osborne
Alexander Boyd
John Smith
George Stampley*
Stephen Dalba '(Dalla?) *
Jeremiah Routh

3rd List

Thomas Carter
David Holt
Ebebezer Gawsett*
Richard Dun*
Samuel Heady
Daniel Gardner
Jacob Stampley

Dibdall Holt

Henry Stampley*

Peter Stampley*
Henry Platna*
Jesse Carter
Isaac Alexander
Nathan Swayze
James Wilson*
Ira Witmore

4th list

Daniel Maygott
Elijah Leonard
Samuel Frazer
Edward Cartoss
Isaac Sheldon
John Felt
Joel Weed
C. Bingamon
Thaddeus Lyman
Nehemiah Carter
Senno E. Dwight

Thomas James
Josheau Howard

Jacob Cobeen (Coburn)

Samuel Gibson

Patt Clemons

Absalom Hooper

Stephen Holsten

Anthony Brabnazon

Stephen Jourden *
James Simmons*
Sterling Spell*
Stephen Mayes
John Ogg
Robert Dunbar
Earl Douglas
Timothy Hotchkiss

M. Phelps

5th list
Joseph Andrus
Isiah Flower
Joseph Halford
Philip Alston
John McCoy Alston
John Terry
John Staybraker
Joseph Schofield
John Horsier
Nathaniel Ive*
William W. Weber*
John Gayle
James Hannon

William Oglesby

John Hide
Anthony Hamberston*
Roger Harmen
Hezekiah Harmon
Elisha Flower

Mathias Friley*
James Crungetten
William Ellis Sr.
William Ellis
Immanuel Madden*
John Choty*
Richard King
John Holt*

6th list
Isaac Johnson
Stephen Swayze
Richard Swayze. Jr.
Bosman Hayes
Elizah Swayze
Samuel Swayze
John Holston*
Nathaniel Kennison*
Abraham Horton*
James Oglesby*
Samuel Philips*
Thomas Love
James Perry*
John Shunk*
John Row
Caleb King
Justus King
William Hayes
Ephraim Goble
Thomas Atkinson
Thomas Holmes
Justus Swayze Ogden
James Clayton
William Hulbard
Job Cory
Ephriam Thomell
Thomas Harmon
Wm Reed
7th list
Samuel Lewis, Francis Spam, Christopher Guise, Sr., Jonathan Guise, David Guise, Manuel Guise, Christopher Guise, Jr., Jacob Harmon*, James Truly, Joseph Standlie, William Smith, John Ryan, John Talley*, James Lefloe, Oliver Lyman, John Absheir*, Jacob Paul, Hardis Ellis.
* Indicates person signed with a mark.

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Source: J.C. Guice's family history book entitled The Christopher Guice Family in America: Other Families, Harmon, Kinnison, Martin, Siddon, pp 27-29.

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PETTITION FROM THE CITIZENS
OF NATCHEZ
OCTOBER 4, 1779


To Lieut Colonel Dickson 16th Regiment Commanding
His Britannick Majesty's Forces in the River Mississippi

Natchez, 4th October 1779

We his Majesty's dutiful and loyal Subjects the Inhabitants of the Natchez beg leave to return you our most sincere thanks for your generous and disintersted attention to our welfare in the Capitulation of Baton Rouge. From every Circumstance We had not, a Right to Expect such Terms and are fully impressed with the Idea that we owe them to the Unexampled bravery of you, the Officers and Men under your Command. Altho' the unavoidable event of war has reduced you and your Troops to a situation which greatly affects us; yet we have some consolation from your being in the Hands of a brave and generous Conqueror.

We most earnestly wish you that Promotion hereafter which your metit justly demands, and in the mean time every happiness that your present situation will admit of.-


Wm Hiorn
Rudolphus Green
Francis Strain
J Blommart

Earl Douglass
Jacob Harmon <<<
Wm McIntosh
Philip Mulkey

George Forney
Thadds Lyman
William Case
John Hartley

Chars Percy
Henry Lefleur
John Row
Dond McPherson

Patrick Foley
Richard Devall
William Vousdan
Andrew Whitefield

Caleb Hambrough
Will Ferguson
James Gregorie
James Gelison

John Alston
Peter Nelson
Jeremiah Cobb
Francis Farrel

Cesar Orcherrard
George Peavis
William Pountney
William Heyes

Joseph Harris
Sam Wells
Thomas Carter
Absalom Hooper

Stepin mayes
Alexr McIntosh
Luke Collins
Will Eason

C Bingamon
Luke Collins Jr
Alexr Murray
Bemjamin Day

Theo Collins
Geo Boles
Elijah Leonard
John Collins

Dibdall Holt
Walter Carson
William Collins
Sterling Spell

Timothy Hochniss
Hardress Ellis
Parker Carradine
Stephen Jordan

John Bisland
John Kennide
James Truly

Jacob married Hannah (Anna) Guiche about 1775. Hannah (daughter of Martin Guice and Catherine (..) Guice) was born about 1750 in Pennsylvania; died before 1804. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Protestant (Church of England)

Peter married Rebecca Taylor about 1790. Rebecca was born in 1773 in Hampshire Co, West Virginia; died in 1831 in Vermilion Parish, Louisiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Name:
name also given as Elizabeth Rebecca.