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Holy smokes.......
Hard to say
6th generation on my moms side.......John Peter Sjolander was the first from Sweden in the later 1800's.....
On my dads side though, who really knows!! Lineage was traced back to Cynthia Anne & Quanah Parker. So...who knows how long the Comanche bloodline has been here
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What generation Texan are you?
I just check cause I couldn’t remember but I’m 10th generation Texan! Jesus P Ybarbo (our grandpa) was born in 1857 in Nacadoches, TX and died 1956.
He was a Texas Ranger, he spent his youth as a cowboy driving herds of Longhorns cattle to Kansas City and Abilene before joining the Rangers. His great great grand father was Antonio Gil Y’Barbo one of the 1st settlers in the nacogdoches area before it was Tx he got a land grant from the queen of Spain
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Originally posted by Tejas Wildlife View PostI am 5th gen. Grandkids are 7th. Family originally came from England in early 1800. Several “notable” early Tatom’s. A Methodist preacher in Tn/Ky area who had 7 wives. Apparently life with him was hazardous to your health. Another, like S Slick mentioned, was partial to “borrowing” horses. One gentleman spelled his last name as Tatom, Tatem, Tatum, & Tathem in his own handwritten will! One Tatom died at Battle of Goliad. Looking up family history at old courthouses is interesting.
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Originally posted by tonyterry View PostI just check cause I couldn’t remember but I’m 10th generation Texan! Jesus P Ybarbo (our grandpa) was born in 1857 in Nacadoches, TX and died 1956.
He was a Texas Ranger, he spent his youth as a cowboy driving herds of Longhorns cattle to Kansas City and Abilene before joining the Rangers. His great great grand father was Antonio Gil Y’Barbo one of the 1st settlers in the nacogdoches area before it was Tx he got a land grant from the queen of Spain
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4th, but my family arrived in Galveston in 1855.
On my dad's side.
They helped found the town of Saint Hedwig.Last edited by Brute Killer; 02-05-2018, 03:59 PM.
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6th I think. Might be 7th. Ancestors on my Dad's side got here in 1838. My kids are 8th on my wife's side. The wife is a direct descendent of Capt Jesse Billingsley. He fought under Burleson at San Jacinto and was wounded in his left hand. There is a pair of his boots at the top of the San Jacinto monument.
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Originally posted by SaltwaterSlick View PostNot sure where my great grandfather was born, but he rode with the James Gang.. My grandfather's name was Jesse James Cheatom and he was born here in Texas... The gang had fled Missouri and come to Texas to hide out from the Feds n Pinkerton boys so that makes me at least 3 generations maybe 4 or more... My grandmother on that side was a Cherokee, and never had a birth certificate, but supposedly came from northeast Okla or SW Mo. My grandpa was sure fun to sit and listen to... He was born in 1883 and lived to be a hunert... Died in October... If he'd made it to January, he'd a been a hunert n 1... Was real healthy and mentally sharp until about 6-8 months before his death... He plowed a 1+acre garden with a dang merry-tiller when he was well into his 90's!! I'm a proud Texan, but come from a bunch of crooks!
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Ammon, the son of a Revolutionary War veteran, grew up on his father's farm in Dracut. In 1834, "for no other reason except to gratify a wild and rambling notion," he left his family and friends in Massachusetts and headed for Texas, then the state of Coahuila and Texas in the Republic of Mexico.
I always liked this quote, I have done a few things in my life for the same reasons.
Seventh here, I am not as involved as I used to be, but this is a good group for those that are interested.
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