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- The Confederate Veterans from Texas: He was in the 11th (Spaight's) Battalion Volunteers Company A. This company trained and camped at Spindletop Oil Field in the early part of the Civil War.
1870 Census, Jefferson Co, Sparks & River Settlement,
living w/ Caroline Sparks, 27 y.o., farmer, TX
In 1880 San Saba Census (p 438), he indicates that both parents were born in England.
(Precinct 9; June 4, 1880) Received Confederate pension.
Martin Clifton Court told stories to his grandsons about his father, Thomas Jefferson Court, using an alias and hiding out from the law for a period of time. Thomas has been found on the 1880 Census in San Saba County, Texas. I thought the following excerpt about the history of that county was interesting.
"During the 1880s lawlessness became a problem, and the county experienced a period of "mob rule." In response, citizens formed an anti-mob organization. However, factions developed within the organization, and by 1896 the competing groups wee conducting what amounted to open warfare. After a number of men were killed, the Texas Rangers were dispatched to the area, and order was eventually restored."
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Alma Ward Hamrick, The Call of the San Saba: A History of San Saba County (San Antonio: Naylor, 1941; 2d ed., Austin: Jenkins, 1969). San Saba County History (San Saba, Texas: San Saba County Historical Commission, 1983).
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C.S.A. Information:
3 Aug 1915 - 15 Jun 1917 , Hesse, Comanche County, Texas
Thomas J. served in the military Civil War, 1 Oct 1861 to 27 Mar 1865 in Texas. The records show that T. J. Court, private, Company A, 11th (Spaight's) Battalion Texas Volunteers, C.S.A. enlisted October 1, 1861. The battallion, except Company B, became a part of 212st (Spaight's) Texas Infantry, C.S.A. There were no rolls on file per the regiment. His name is listed on the archive muster roll.
Per Sarah's application he was in the Captain Marshes Company
Seth Davis, living in the County of Dallas wrote: I was in Company A, Marshes Cavalry and served with Tom Courts in that Company. He made a good soldier and served until the close of the war. I am not personally acquainted with Mrs. Courts.
Sarah applied for his pension on 3 Aug 1915 and received it from1 Dec 1915 until her death in March of 1917. Sarah was living in Hesse, Texas, Comanche County at the time of the request and her death.
Mary "Mollie", Tom and Sarah's youngest daughter, wrote a letter to the War Department asking that the last pension check be returned to her because it was needed to pay for "sickness and burial expenses". She said the post office returned it before she had an opportunity to collect it. She was denied.
See File # 31804 - State of Texas - County of Comanche.
(from Byrda)
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