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V. R. C. Avery had limited educational advantages. His was the day of private teachers, and the supply of knowledge of the average pupil was generally measured by the size of the father's wallet. A good sup- ply of muscle was Mr. Avery's largest and
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most potent resource when he reached his majority. Ile hired out for two years at $20 per month, doing farm work. His next venture was to drive team on the shares between Bastrop and Ilouston and Port Lavaca. When he ceased this work he re- turned home, bonght a small stock of cattle and engaged in farming. With the exeep- tion of three years during the war, Mr. Avery continned in the stock business until 1873, getting fair returns for the labor and money expended. In 1871 he began driving to Kansas markets, and ceased these drives with the closing ont of his business three years later. He then bonght land and opened up the farm upon which he now resides. Here he has 712 acres of black waxy soil, 400 acres of which he is cultivating. Last year, 1892, his yield of cotton was 125 bales.
Politically, Mr. Avery is a Democrat, but until October, 1892, he took no more than a citizen's interest in the success of his party. At this time he was appointed to a vacancy existing in the office of County Commis- sioner of his precinct by the appointment of the incumbent, Mr. Brookshire, to the office of Sheriff. This was filled with credit to himself and satisfaction to the people, and last November he was elected to succeed himself.
In May, 1862, Mr. Avery enlisted in Captain S. M. Strayhorn's company, Colonel Gurley's Thirtieth Texas Cavalry, and with his command participated in numerous en- gagements west of the Mississippi. He was in the battles near Fort Smith and Fort Gib- son, Indian Territory, and also took part in the Cabin creek fight. In February, 1864, he returned to his company, after having been absent on a furlough some weeks, and was seonting about in the Territory until the close of hostilities. His command was
disbanded on the Little Brazos in May, 1865. In January, 1862, Mr. Avery married Mrs. McLaurin, daughter of Bartlett Sims, one of the oldest pioneers of this State. By her first marriage Mrs. Avery had one child, now Mrs. J. L. Bryant. Iler only child by Mr. Avery died when it was six weeks old. May 16, 1866, she passed away, and Noveni- ber 14, 1868, Mr. Avery married Jennie Harvey, one of the seven children of James and Jane (Reed) Harvey. Mr. Avery and his present wife have had seven children: Charles, Robert Harvey, Woody, Cora, Ed- gar, Engene and Lela. All are living except Charles. The family are members of the Methodist Church.
R OBERT A. JOHN, Connty Attorney of Williamson connty, was born in Bastrop county, Texas, September 7, 1864, a son of Rev. L. G. and Ruth (Eblen) John. The mother was a dangliter of John Eblen, a native of Tennessee, who came to Texas in 1827. He was a min- ister of Stephen and Austin counties, and his death occurred in this State in 1827, at the age of sixty-seven years. His wife, nee Miss Baker, died when Mrs. John was an infant. Onr subject's paternal grandfather, E. D. John, a banker of Cincinnati, failed financially in 1848. Ile then came to Williamson connty, Texas, erected the first flour mill in the coun- ty, at Florence, but sold the same just before the elose of the war to Mr. Atkinson. Mr. John then went to Galveston, and there, in company with Hiram Close, built the first cotton compress in Texas, which was also among the first in the United States. Hle died in 1871, aged eighty-one years, having been a member of the Methodist Church.
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L. G. John, the father of onr subject, was a native of Indiana. He was editor of the Texas Christian Advocate, now published at Dallas, for nineteen years. After resigning that position, he was elected by the General Conference of the Methodist Church, South, as Secretary of the Board of Missions, accord- ingly moved to Nashville, and has held that position eight years. Mr. John is now sixty- seven years of age, was well known over Williamsou county as a minister of the Meth- odist Episcopal Church, Sonth, is a man of marked personality, deeply pious, and an able expounder of the gospel. His first marriage ceremony was performed at the Brazos river, April 18, 1850, to C. A. D. Clamp and Miss Asenath Davis. The mother of onr subject was born in Texas, in 1833, under the Mexi- can Government, she having lived in this State about one-half a century, and during that time was under four different govern- ments, viz .: Mexico, Texas, Confederate and United States. She died in 1879, aged forty- four years, having been a life-long member of the Methodist Church. Mrs. John was a lady of unusual spiritual repose, with a rare gift of godly influence over young and old. She was accomplished, a most pleasant and agreeable lady, and was a minister's wife in every sense of the term, having been perfectly loyal to the best interests of her husband and the people whom they served. Mr. and Mrs. John were the parents of four children: Al- fred S., deceased; George, mailing clerk of the Galveston News, married Miss Rachel Fink; Annie E., wife of John Stone, a planter of Austin county, Texas, and they have two children, Robert J. and Lawrence M .: Rob- ert A., our subject; Ruth II., at home; Wal- ter N., a student of the Galveston Medical College; and Maggie S., at home. Alfred S. was a member of the law firm of O'Brien
& John, at Beaumont, Texas, was a promi- nent attorney in that part of the State, and worked principally for the Texas & New Or- leans Railroad. Ile died while serving as Mayor of Beanmont, in 1888. He married Miss Emma O'Brien, and they had two chil- dren-Erma and Alfred.
Robert A. John took the degree of B. A. in the Southwestern University, in the class of 1884, also receiving the highest honors of the class and the orator's medal. He then taught school at Round Rock college for a time, studied law with Fisher & Towns, and was admitted to the bar in January, 1885. In April, of that year, Mr. John was elected City Attorney, elected County Attorney in 1888, re-elected in 1890, and again in 1892, having had no opposition at the last two elec- tions. His record as County Attorney, as shown by the reports to the State Comptroller, makes his averages of successful prosecutions higher than any county attorney in Texas.
December 28, 1887, our subject was mar- ried to Miss Maggie S. Morrow, a daughter of Captain G. C. S. Morrow, of Georgetown, and a granddaughter of General Sam Ilous- ton, the hero of San Jacinto. Mr. and Mrs. John have four children: Barrett M., Marga- ret E., Jennie II. and Ruth E. Mr. and Mrs. John are members of the Methodist Episco- pal Church. Our subject is a member of tho Masonic order, chapter aud commandery, also of the I. O. O. F. and K. of P. He has passed all the chairs in the latter organiza- tion, and is now representative of his lodge to the Grand Lodge for 1893-'94, and is a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity. Politically, he takes an active interest in the Democratic party, and during the last elec- tion stmuped his connty for that party. Mr. John has faithfully discharged his duties as a I citizen and officer during his busy and event-
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ful life, is bold and original in his methods of thought, and is animated with the spirit of progress and enterprise. IIe is essentially a man of action, working hard in the present, and projecting his plans for the future. He is an efficient officer, a hard student, and has a most promising future before him.
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W ILLIAM CORNELIUSDAL- RYMPLE was born in Moore conn- ty, North Carolina, on the paternal farm, Angust 3, 1814, where he remained during his first twenty-one years, securing in the meantime a common-school education. Soon after attaining his majority he started for Texas, although bnt little was known of that country in the interior of North Caro- lina at that early day. In 1837 he did duty in the ranging service, sconting the waters of the Brazos river. In 1839 he was again engaged in military service, this time sta- tioned at the embryo city of Austin, guard- ing the wood-choppers who built the first Government cabins in that city. In 1840 he 'married Miss Elizabeth Wilbarger, in Bas- trop county. When he was under General Ed. Burleson at San Antonio, in 1842, to repel the invasion of the Mexican General, Vasquez, he again showed his conrage as a warrior. He removed, in the winter of 1846, to San Gabriel, six miles below the present site of Georgetown. When the county of Williamcon was organized Mr. Dalrymple was appointed, in 1848, one of the Commis- sioners to locate a county-seat, and they selected the present one, Georgetown. The same year he was elected its first Assessor and Collector, being re-elected two years later. In the year 1855, he was elected to represent the counties of Williamson and ous to the war Colonel Dalrymple followed
Barnet in the lower branch of the State Legislature, being re-elected in 1857, serving through the sixth and seventh Legislatures of the State. On the 30th of December, 1859, Mr. Dalrymple was authorized by Governor Ilouston to recruit a ranging company for the defense of the frontier, which he did, marching the command to Red river, making his headquarters near the head waters of the Little Wichita river. On the 10th of Octo- ber, 1860, Governor Honston conferred upou Captain Dalrymple the appointment of Aid- de-Camp, with the rank of Colonel of Ca- valry (volunteer), also of Commander in Chief of the Texas militia, and on the 20th day of December, 1860, Colonel Dalrymple received orders from Governor Houston to " repair to the frontier and take coul- mand of all the troops now in service, or that may hereafter be called into serv- ice, until further orders." As early as February, 1861, Colonel Dalrymple found himself in cominand of six companies, mak- ing his headquarters at the "Old Comanche Agency," on the Clear fork of the Brazos river, near Camp Cooper, a five-company United States military post, which he event- nally captured, saving the property of the post to the State rather than see the same pillaged by a threatening band of citizen soldiers that was encamped in the vicinity, for secession was then rampant in the land. Colonel Dalrymple remained on the frontier until the following June. In 1862 he served for a time in Arkansas, as a private soldier in the Confederate army. Ile represented Williamson and Travis counties in the State constitutional convention of 1866, and also represented. in the State Senate of the Elev- enth Legislature, the counties of Williamson, Milam, Bell, Lampasas and Burnet. Previ.
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farming, and since that time he has been en- gaged in surveying and locating land on the frontier. On one occasion a party of seven- teen men, to which he was attached, was en- tirely broken up by a large number of In- dians at the head of the Concho river, in which engagement Colonel Dalrymple re- ceived, at close quarters, a severe spear wond.
The parents of our subject were James and Rosanna (Dawd) Dalrymple, the former born in Scotland in 1763, the latter in North Carolina in 1774. Onr subject is the only one of ten children now living, and also sur- vives his beloved wife, who died Jannary 24, 1869, having been a most estimable and noble woman. The four children born to their union are as follows: Jenett, an hon- ored resident of Georgetown, whose unself- ish devotion to her father and aunt in their declining years is most beautiful; Sallie, who died nnmarried, at the age of twenty-eight years; James, residing on a farın in Uvalde county, Texas, married Jane Patton; and William T., an attorney at Llano, married Alice Honghton.
Mr. Dalrymple is now near the sunset of a long, eventful and useful life. He is pal- sied and walks with measured tread. Dnr- ing his life in the State he has seen much of the development of Texas, and has aided those of his day in opening the frontier and preparing the way for civilization, and has contributed to the progress which the present generation now enjoys.
The parents of Mrs. Dalrymple were John and Anna (Pngh) Wilbarger, and came from Pike county, Missouri, to Bastrop county, Texas, in 1837. By his first marriage Mr. Wilbarger had eight children, namely: Jo- siah, who came to Texas in 1827, ten years before the remainder of the family, and was
scalped by Indians not far from the present site of Anstin; he survived the outrage, but died about 1845, his widow still resides in Bastrop, and is now Mrs. Chambers; the next child, Margaret, married William Clifton after coming to Texas, but both she and her husband are deceased; Sallie, a resident of Georgetown, came to Texas with her parents in 1837, was married, and is now living at the advanced age of eighty-eight years. her faculties being well preserved; Mathias, father of Mrs. Dr. Walker; Elizabeth, de- ceased, was the wife of W. C. Dalrymple, who is now an honored citizen of George- town; John Wesley, deceased, married Lucy Anderson, and his wife now resides near Round Rock: he was the author of a work called Indian Depredations in Texas; the next child, Harvey, was a farmer and died in Missouri, never coming to Texas; and the youngest child was Mary. By his second marriage Mr. John Wilbarger had two dangh- ters: Susan, afterward Mrs. Willis King, now deceased, who never came to Texas; and Ann, who became Mrs. Samnel King, marry- ing a brother of her sister's linsband. This is one of the oldest, best known and highly respected pioneer families in this portion of Texas.
M M. TEAGUE, County Judge, was born in Hall county, Georgia, April 23, 1836. His parents were Ben- jamin and Esther (Saddler) Teagne, both natives of South Carolina, in which State they were reared. The father was a farmer and Methodist Episcopal local preacher, serving in the latter capacity for more than a third of a century, dying in 1873, aged seventy-four years. Ilis wife was born in 1798, and died 1874. She was a model woman, a member
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of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Grandfather Teague lived in Alabama and owned much property. There were seven boys and five girls in the family of which our subject was a member. One child, Adaline, died in childhood, but all the rest lived to maturity and married, except Emory, the youngest, who died at the age of twenty-three years, from camp fever, in the Virginia army. in the spring of 1862. There are still living the following children: E. A. and A. F., the the former a farmer, rmming a gin in Washi- ington county, Texas, the latter is clerking for the Sheriff of Washington county, being his office deputy.
Our subject started in life as a farmer un- til the war, when he enlisted, in 1862, and remained in service until 1865, being in the artillery of the Confederate army made up at Selma, Alabama. He was captured May 12, 1864, at Spottsylvania Court House and was taken first to Point Lookont Mountain, and remained there until July 28, 1864, when he was transferred then to Elmira, New York. His treatment, while a prisoner, was accord- ing to the nsages of the war. He was released May 29, 1865, and returned home to Alabama, where his father moved from Hall county, Georgia. He first farmned and then tanght school until 1867, and was then elected County Tax Assessor for five years, being elected to his office in February, 1867, and then in the reconstruction period in 1869. He studied law in Edwardsville, Alabama, while holding the above named office, was licensed Marel 24, 1869, and began practice at once at Edwardsville for five years, and then moved to Wedowee, Alabama, remain- ing ten years in that place practicing law, and came to Texas in Jannary, 1883 At this place he continued farming until 1886, when he was elected, and has been re-elected twice.
to the office of County Judge. Ile has given excellent satisfaction, and his first majority was 6, his second 294 and his third 688, and he has run against the best men of the county every time. Ile found the county greatly in debt, and the taxes high, so he re- duced the debt and lowered the taxes, and now has money in plenty in the treasury and the public improvements very much better than before. .
Our subjeet was married October 14, 1858, to Miss Rachel Kitchens, daughter of Mrs. Lonisa Kitchens, of Wedowee, Alabama. Mrs. Teagne was sixteen years of age when married and has borne her linshand thirteen children, three of whom died in early ehild- hood, while the other ten are living in Texas, four being married and six living at home. Mr. and Mrs. Teague are devoted meinbers of the Methodist Church. He is a member of the Masonie order, but takes little interest in political affairs, yet votes the Democratic ticket.
HOMAS A. M. HILL, one of the pioneers and leading citizens of Bas- trop county, was born in Marion county, Alabama, July 24, 1834, a son of Middleton M. and Julia (Walker) Hill. The father came to Texas in 1835, and pur- chased the headright of General Edward Bnr- leson, bnt, owing to the then troublesone condition of the State, he returned to Ala- bama. In 1838 he came again to Texas, bringing his family, and located on his head- right of land. He brought two wagons, a hack, three teams, seven field hands, and a number of young negroes. Mr. Ilill imme- diately began erceting log houses, the floors of which were made of split and hewed pun- cheons, and our subjeet is still using the
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same puncheons for the floors of his cribs. In a few years he had 200 acres of his farm under enltivation. Milling was done on the south side of the Colorado river, at the farm of a Mr. Grassmeyer, on the Fayette county line. Abont 1841, Mr. Hill erected a cotton gin and mill, which was the third ever built in Bastrop county, and was operated by horse power. Cotton from all parts of the connty was bronght to this gin, and people also came for many miles to mill. Mr. Hill never participated in a regular Indian campaign, but frequently furnished young men with outfits to go after inaranding bands of Indians and Mexicans. He remained on his ranel until his death, in 1849. He left a wife and eight children, viz .: Sarah, the widow of Q. J. Nichols; Robert, deceased; T. A. M., onr subject; John W .; Martha, deceased, was the wife of T. J. Brooks; James H .; Mary S., widow of J. D. Williams; and Middleton, deceased. The mother died in 1869.
Thomas A. M. Hill, the subject of this sketch, attended the common schools, and al- so spent two sessions at Bastrop College. He began work for himself at the age of eigliteen years, as manager of Mrs. Oliver's farm, and at the breaking ont of the late war was engaged in the same occupation for his uncle, T. B. J. Hill. In 1862 he espoused the canse of the South, and joined Company D, Eighth Texas or Terrill's rangers, in the Army of Tennessee. He took part in the first and second battles of Murfreesborough, Perryville, Chickamauga and numerous other engagements, was paroled at Lexington, and the United States furnished transpor- tation a part of the way home, arriving here June 1, 1865. Mr. Hill remained at the old homestead from 1870 to 1889, and in the lat- ter year came to his present farm of 2,100
acres in the Colorado river valley, which is his portion of the farm. He has 275 acres of the place nnder a fine state of cultivation, and is is engaged in general farming and stock-rais- ing.
In 1856 he was nnited in marriage with Miss Sarah E. Seates, a native of Fayette county, Texas, and a daughter of J. B. and Theodocia (Smith) Scates, who were among the pioneer settlers of this State. The father was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence of the State of Texas. Mr. and Mrs. Seates had two children: Sarah E., wife of onr subject; and J. R , a resident of Texas. The father was twice married: by the second union had three children. He died in Colorado county, this State. Mr.and Mrs. Hill have liad twelve children, ten of whom grew to years of maturity: Middleton; Bell, wife of R. A. Rutherford; Anna and Austin, twins, and the former, uow deceased, was the of F. Hargrove; Fannie, wife of Pierce Lowery; Sarah T., wife of Dave Robinson; Julia; Robert and Mattie, twins; and the lat- ter is deceased. Mrs. IIill died June 1, 1891, having been a member of the Meth- odist Episcopal Church for many years. Socially, our subject affiliates with the A. F. & A. M., J. Nixon Lodge, No. 421, and Bas- trop Chapter, No. 95.
E DMOND C. BOND, a prosperous young farmer of Rice's Crossing, William- son county, is a native of Texas, hav- ing been born in Johnson county, February 28, 1858. His father, HI. Bond, is a native Tennesseean, his life beginning in MeMinn county, that State, April 4, 1825. His boy- hood was passed on a farm. His limited
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education was obtained in the primitive log school-house of his native county, attending only as the duties of the farm would permit. Ile married there, and at the age of thirty concluded to try his fortune in the new West. Locating in Johnson county, Texas, he en- gaged in stock-raising and farming, and was greatly prospered in his undertakings. He frequently drove his stock to the New Or- leans market. When the Confederacy was established and issned calls for defenders of her constitution and institutions, Mr. Bond enlisted and was assigned to Captain Freezell's company, Colonel Sweet's regiment. He was detailed as wagon-master, and served in that capacity eight months, being in the cotton trade and hauling to Shreveport and west Louisiana points. The last year of the war he was a Government overseer, and was so employed at the time of the surrender at Ap- pomattox. On his return home, Mr. Bond located in Gonzales county, where he was variously employed, his chief occupation be- ing trading. From Gonzales connty he moved to Colorado county, seven years later to Travis county, and fonr years after that to Mason county, where he resided until 1890. That year he came to Williamson county. His desire for prospecting was not yet sa- tiated, and in 1892 he sought a home in the Panhandle of Texas, locating in Nolan conn- ty, where he is now doing a successful livery business in the thrifty little village of Roscoe. Politically, Mr. Bond has always been a Democrat.
Amon Bond was the father of H. Bond. He was a native of the same county and State, and was born in 1793. He was a very successful farmer, as fine a business man as was to be found in the commonwealth, a poli- tician by instinct, an efficient public servant, and a popular citizen. He was for several
years Deputy Sheriff of his county. In the latter years of his life he took up his resi- dence in Texas, and died in Johnson county in 1869. The Bonds originated in Baltimore, Maryland; at any rate, that is as far back as the subject of this sketch can follow the his- tory. It was in that city that Ilarry Bond, Amon's father, was born. He followed the trade of blacksmith, and after the Revolu- tion, in which he participated as a patriot soldier, he settled in Tennessee, where his re- mains are buried.
Amon Bond married Sallie Carter, whose father was John Carter. The children of this union were: Elizabeth, widow of Robert Peters, is a resident of Ilood county, Texas; Sallie, deceased; Frances, wife of Austin Yates, lives in Hood county, Texas; H .; Rachel, deceased; Martha, the wife of Jack Wright; Charlotte; Eveline, who became Mrs. Gaf- ford; and Pleasant and Benjamin, both of whom died in Texas. E. C. Bond's mother was Martha, one of the twelve children of Barney and Phoebe Johnson, of Jackson county, Georgia.
HI. Bond's children are: Robert, deceased; Olivia N., who married Henry Crozier; Eliza- beth, the wife of John Saunders; Savanna, who became Mrs. W. S. Smith; E. C .: Fran- ces, deceased, was the wife of W. T. Caul- field; and Tennessee, deceased, was the wife of James Hamilton.
Country-school advantages were all that our subject had access to in his youth, and as a consequence his education is limited. He was employed three years by John Gambol, driving cattle to Nebraska and Wyoming from points in Texas. For this service he received $50 a month. In 1881 he married and began farming, locating on his present farm. He owns a part of the J. C. Duvall and M. Ruth tracts, aggregating 600 acres,
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400 of it being under cultivation. In 1892 his cotton crop amounted to 186 bales.
Mr. Bond married Laura, daughter of IIezekialı Hamilton, a brother of ex Senator Morgan C. Hamilton and Governor Jack Hamilton, bothi prominent men in Texas.
Governor Hamilton was born in Madison county, Alabama, January 28, 1815. He stndied law and was admitted to the bar in that State in 1841, and five years later came to Texas, and located at LaGrange. Ile was appointed in 1849 by Governor Bell as At- torney-General of the State, and from that time on made Austin his permanent home. IIe was Travis county's Representative to the Legislature in 1851-'53. In 1856 he was a Buchanan Elector, and three years later was elected to a seat in Congress, as an independ- ent candidate, General T. N. Waul being the Democratic nominee. He was a strenuons opponent of the policy of secession, and re- tained liis seat in Congress after the other members from the seceded States had re- turned to their constituencies. He returned to Austin in the latter part of 1861, and was made the Union candidate for the State Sen- ate, and was elected; but Texas had now cast lier lot with the Confederacy, and he declined to take the required oath. Iu 1862, being still opposed to the purposes and progress of the war on the part of the South, Mr. Hamil- ton left the State, and, making his way through Mexico, repaired to the city of Washington, where he was appointed by the War Department as Brigadier General of the Texas troops in the Union service. In 1865 he was made Provisional Governor of Texas by President Johnson. The following year he was made an Associate Justice of the Su- preme Court, and was a prominent member of the reconstruction Convention of 1868, in which he was the author and chief promoter
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