Biography Index

"There is properly no history; only biography."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

As this website has developed over the years the personal stories of the individuals who comprised the Terry's Rangers has increasingly become a primary focus. Many people have shared their family histories, genealogical research, and photos. An increasing number of biographical sketches and obituaries have been located. Individuals have been identified in the letters, journals, memoirs, and other items that have been added to the website. To organize this information we have been developing pages containing our notes for each man associated with the regiment. Our Biographical Notes should be regarded as works in progress and will be updated as additional or more accurate information is made available. If you have information or materials that can assist with this project we encourage you to that we might better share the stories of these remarkable men.

In addition to our own notes this website contains a number of biographies from published and unpublished sources. Here is a list of these biographies and biographical sketches.

History of South Arkansas - Goodspeed (1884)

Samuel L. Anderson

 

Personnel of the Texas State Government by L. E. Daniel (1887)

Jno. M. Claiborne (portrait)
George Bernhard Zimpelman

Types of Successful Men of Texas by L. E. Daniell (1890)

Gustave Cook (portrait)
George Stormfeltz
Osceola Archer (portrait)
G. W. Littlefield (portrait)
Charles G. Caldwell

 

A Memorial and Biographical History of Johnson and Hill Counties, Texas. - Lewis (1892)

Terry W. Wilie

 

History of Texas with a Biographical History of Milam, Williamson, Bastrop, Travis, Lee, & Burleson Counties. - Lewis (1893)

William H. Jenkins
John T. Randle
Dr. L. J. Turner

 

A Memorial and Biographical History of McLennan, Falls, Bell, and Coryell Counties, Texas - Lewis (1893)

Elijah Fleming Davison (portrait)
Thomas Harrison (portrait)
William H. Jones (portrait)
Rufus Y. King
Austin Robinson (portrait)
William Thatcher
H. M. Warren

 

History of Texas - Goodspeed (1894)

Joseph Marion Mangum

 

Memorial and Genealogical Record of Southwest Texas. - Goodspeed (1894)

William Erastus Moore
Edward R. Tarver

The Cattlemen of Texas and Adjacent Territory by James Cox (1895)

Joseph Collins

 

Texans Who Wore the Gray by Sidney S. Johnson (1907)

Leaders of Secession in Texas
Sleep in a Lonely Grave
Terry's Texas Rangers
J. K. P. Blackburn
J. M. Claiborne
H. C. Evans
Henry W. Graber
Thomas Harrison
John B. Jones
Tom Lubbock
Edwin M. Phelps
W. H. Pope
A. M. Shannon

Reminiscences of the Boys in Gray by Mamie Ann Yeary (1912)

Oscar W. Alexander (p. 8)
Clem Bassett (p.43 )
Thomas Elliotte Bolling (p.64)
W. M. Darst (p.173)
John Farmer (p.220)
William Taylor Gainer (p.249)
John W. Hill (p.334)
T. A. W. Hill (p.335)
Jessie Austin Holman (p.344)
Natt Holman (p.346)
John H. Houston (p.351)
W. B. Simpson (p.687)
W. H. Snider (p.709)
Charles W. Stone (p.728)
B. F. Weens (p.785)
J. K. White (p.791)

 

Who's Who in Texas, A Biographical Directory. Who's Who Publishing
Company, Dallas, Texas, 1931.

John Milton Brownson (p 84)

 

Runnels County Pioneers by Frank D. Jenkins, ed (1975)

John A. Hanna (p.103)
Nathan Worley Grant (p.109)
Colonel James Harrison Parramore (p. 154-55)

 

John A. Wharton: The Forgotten General. by Paul R. Scott (1981)

A paper written at Texas A & M University.

 

Biographies and family histories sent in by visitors to the website.

Joseph H. Andrews by Ernest Mae Seaholm
Ross Whatley Brooks by Richard Brooks
James Harper Cobb by his Grandson
James Harper Cobb by Freda Daniel
The Dunmans of Terry's Rangers by Patsy Kemp Powell
James F. Folk by Patsy Kemp Powell
John Lee W. D. Gibson by Shannon Clyde
Tom A. Gill by Mary Gill Smith
The Family of Andrew Gordon by Ric Gordon
O. E. Herbert by Ernest Mae Seaholm
Thomas Walker Jones by Andrew Jones
William Henry Jones by Charles W. Rush
Edward Harmon McKnight by Rick Parker
Charles Albert Moore by Hank Lewis
William Erastus Moore by Marshall E. Kuykendall
Sam Street by Ted Brooke
Sam Street by Woody Bell
Clinton Lucretius Terry by Roanld H. Livingston
John McQuincy Weston by Liz Lestor
Thomas Weston by Liz Lestor

Links to Biographies found in The Handbook of Texas Online (offsite)

Issaac Dunbar Affleck
Samuel Swann Ashe by Thomas W. Cutrer
James Knox Polk Blackburn by Nowlin Randolph
Robert Franklin Bunting by Paula Mitchell Marks
Archelas M. Cochran by Brian Hart
George Morse Collinsworth by Thomas W. Cutrer
David St. Clair Combs by Nowlin Randolph
Gustave Cook
William Andrew Fletcher by Diana J. Kleiner
William R. Friend by Ruby Farrar Pridgen
Thomas Harrison by Thomas W. Cutrer
Charles H. Howard by Martin Donell Kohout
Thomas McKinney Jack by Thomas W. Cutrer
John B. Jones by Thomas W. Cutrer
Fergus Kyle by Barbara Donalson Althaus
Thomas Saltus Lubbock by Thomas W. Cutrer
James F. Mathews by Thomas W. Cutrer
Samuel Maverick, Jr. by Anne Leslie Fenstermaker
James Francis Miller by Stephen L. Hardin
Charles Leroy Morgan by Anne J. Bailey
George Washington Littlefield by David B. Gracy II
James Love by Rose M. Harris
John Henry Moore
James Harrison Parramore by Eleanor Sellers Hoppe
John Hogue Pierson by Edwin G. Pierson, Jr.
John H. Pinchback by Jeff Carroll
William Henry Pope by Robert Lee Williamson
Jonathan Cochran Pool by Guy Maurice Cloud, Jr.
John B. Rector by Randolph B. Campbell
Mart H. Royston by Thomas W. Cutrer
Alexander May Shannon by Michael O. Shannon
Ben Stockton Terrell by Alwyn Barr
Benjamin Franklin Terry by Kenneth W. Hobbs
David Smith Terry by Kenneth W. Hobbs
John George Walker by Thomas W. Cutrer
John Austin Wharton by Robert Mayberry, Jr.