George W. Mudd, Early Settler of Old Somerset and the Old Bexar Community
Bernard Pyron
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Medina Guards, mustered October 21, 1861 at the Herrera Ranch at Paso de las Garzas, transferred to Company B of the Texas 2nd Cavalry under Capt. Charles L. Pyron,............................non-commissioned officers:
Lewis W. Nackolls 1st Sargt
Walter Mahony 2nd Sargt
Thos. C. Applewhite 3rd Sargt
John C. Stanfield 4th Sargt
Francis W. Avant 5th Sargt
Jop. M. Bright 1st Corpl
Blas Herrera, Jr. 2nd Corpl
Wm. J. Miller 3rd Corpl
Lott W. Johnson 4th Corpl
G. W. Mudd 1st Bugler
G.W. Mudd is probably George W. Mudd. Blas Herrera Jr., a corporal, is the son of Blas Herrera, scout for the Texas army who brought news of the approach of Santa Anna and 3,000 troops to San Antonio and the men in the Alamo.
I recognize the names in the list above of Applewhite and Avant, as being names of 19th century men in South Bexar county.
George W. Mudd belonged to one of the Irish clans of the Old Somerset-Old Bexar areas of the 19h century history of SW Bexar county and northern Atascosa county. Mudd Creek or Mudd Holler is named for George W. Mudd.
When it was flowing Mudd Holler ran from west to east and across Somerset Road from some point west of that Road. The point where the creek crossed Somerset Road was close to the southwest corner of the Virginia Pyron Subdivision of 1935, and that point was close to where Somerset Road changes direction slightly and heads due south to end at the county line.
A Cooper family in the thirties and forties lived west of Somerset Road in that area at about where Mudd Creek came across the Road. A son of that family was Edward Cooper, Called Buddy, who was the husband of Lillian Kurz. But I am not sure exactly where Mudd Holler began when it was flowing with water.
I have many memories of Mudd Holler, from the period of 1938 to 1948. The creek came out of Aunt Jessie Pyron Kenney's land into our 63 acres and there was a fairly wide pond about 50 yards inside the Blake Pyron land. That pond always, in those days , had water in it, even when Mudd Holler was not flowing. I remember one time when I was near that large pond and had my 12 gauge. I shot a quail which rose up from the other side of the pond. Farther east from the pond the creek became move polluted with oil from wells on our land. Then, I remember the times when Mudd Creek flooded. It would become wide when it crossed Somerset Road, and families who lived down in Atascosa county could not get to Somerset to shop, though they could have gone east on Heickman Road, turned north on Senior Road and headed west into Somerset on that road which ran to the Poteethighway.Irememberonetime in the very early forties when my older sister Mary and her husband Jerry Bush had their horse Red that Mudd Holler flooded and some of Daddy's cattle did not come up the lane to our pens back of the house. Mary got on Red - with me behind her - and we rode down to the flooded creek and went through some water maybe a foot or two deep, rounding up the cattle......
According to Roger Williams of Rossville, Atascosa county, reported by Peggy Weyel, there was a Mudd Colony in the 1840s and 1850s not far from Old Somerset in northern Atascosa county and Bexar, which is two miles west of present day Somerset in Bexar county. Some of the families of Mudd Colony included the Mudd, Barker, Hammond, Park, Brown, McConnell, McGloskey, McCoy, and Kenney. families. Ursie I. (Demples) Caruthers married Samuel J. Barker, of the Barker family listed above, and Jessie James married Clara McCoy, of the above McCoy family. This was the South Bexar county, Texas Jessie James, not the famous Missouri Jessie James. I remember him and especially remamber one time in the late thirties when he and my father were standing talking on the sidewalk in front of the Will Kenney store in Somerset and Jessie had his six shooter on his hip.
A lady who knew some of the Mudd family told Peggy Weyel that Billy Kenney (William Pyron Kenney) bought the old homeplace on Mudd Creek. My father Blake Pyron in 1948 traded his 63 acres on Mudd Creek to Will and Billy Kenney for a half interest in the Somerset store owned by the Kenneys. The wife of Will Kenney, was my aunt Jessie Pyron Kenney.
The following is from www.familysearch.org
George W. Mudd, Father
Texas Births and Christenings, 1840-1981
spouse: Mahala Hagan
child: Jacob Mudd
Also: Agnes Mudd
Ora Clare Mudd, George Hagen Mudd
and Andrew Constantine Mudd
George W. Mudd and wife Mahala were in Bexar county in 1853 and in Atascosa county in 1875.
Jacob Mudd, son, born 1871, residence in 1871, Somerset, Bexar, Texas
My guess is that "Somerset, Bexar" refers to both Old Somerset and Old Bexar and the Mudds lived somewhere not far from both communities. New Somerset, or present day Somerset, did not exist in 1871, since it was begun in 1909. Somerset in 1871 was a mile or more south of the county line down in Atascosa county, a little over two miles from New Somerset.
Could the Mudd homestead have been on what is called Survey number 273, file number 3-3280 - 320 acres - patented to George W. Mudd in 1859? This tract extended a bit over west of Somerset Road in 1882, being the road to Old Somerset in Atascosa county. It came to be bordered on the north by Dixon Road and on the east by Payne Road.
One time my father showed me a plum or peach tree just across the fence over into Aunt Clara Pyron Johnson's land from his land, and said this was where his family lived at one time. The spot was at about half way across the Blake Pyron land from west to east. All that was left in the early forties was this one plum or peach tree from their old homestead. Maybe this had been the George W. Mudd homestead at one time and there was a house on Survey 273 when my father's parents bought it in 1882 from George and Mahala Mudd, along with the Hayden 320 acre tract, Survey 274, file number 3-3282, patented to George W. Hayden in 1862.
From Texas General Land Office, Bexar County Landowners Map
On the map above, the Old Bexar Community was west of the name "Somerset" on the map past where it says "Sam'I L. W,", the Samuel Wheeler tract, and on the Clemante Bustillo tract. Old Somerset was not far south of the Jas. T. White land, which is on both sides of the county line on the map above. You can see that the G.W. Mudd Survey 273 borders the present day town of Somerset. That line which runs out of the north and heads southeast must be the reilroad tracks which did run through the northeast part of the A.M. Pyron G.W. Mudd tract.
https://billiongraves.com/grave/person/12053121 #
Grave information for George W Mudd, located in the San Fernando Cemetery #1, San Antonio Texas.
Birth date: 19 Jan 1819
Death Date: 20 Jan 1883
Another file indicates that George W. Mudd's widow received a pension for his service in the war with Mexico. I did not find anything on a Confederate pension for Mudd. Blas Herrera Jr. did receive a Confederate pension.
Bernard Pyron
: http://www.vonormystar.com/.../von-ormy-in-civil-war-new ..
..
Medina Guards, mustered October 21, 1861 at the Herrera Ranch at Paso de las Garzas, transferred to Company B of the Texas 2nd Cavalry under Capt. Charles L. Pyron,............................non-commissioned officers:
Lewis W. Nackolls 1st Sargt
Walter Mahony 2nd Sargt
Thos. C. Applewhite 3rd Sargt
John C. Stanfield 4th Sargt
Francis W. Avant 5th Sargt
Jop. M. Bright 1st Corpl
Blas Herrera, Jr. 2nd Corpl
Wm. J. Miller 3rd Corpl
Lott W. Johnson 4th Corpl
G. W. Mudd 1st Bugler
G.W. Mudd is probably George W. Mudd. Blas Herrera Jr., a corporal, is the son of Blas Herrera, scout for the Texas army who brought news of the approach of Santa Anna and 3,000 troops to San Antonio and the men in the Alamo.
I recognize the names in the list above of Applewhite and Avant, as being names of 19th century men in South Bexar county.
George W. Mudd belonged to one of the Irish clans of the Old Somerset-Old Bexar areas of the 19h century history of SW Bexar county and northern Atascosa county. Mudd Creek or Mudd Holler is named for George W. Mudd.
When it was flowing Mudd Holler ran from west to east and across Somerset Road from some point west of that Road. The point where the creek crossed Somerset Road was close to the southwest corner of the Virginia Pyron Subdivision of 1935, and that point was close to where Somerset Road changes direction slightly and heads due south to end at the county line.
A Cooper family in the thirties and forties lived west of Somerset Road in that area at about where Mudd Creek came across the Road. A son of that family was Edward Cooper, Called Buddy, who was the husband of Lillian Kurz. But I am not sure exactly where Mudd Holler began when it was flowing with water.
I have many memories of Mudd Holler, from the period of 1938 to 1948. The creek came out of Aunt Jessie Pyron Kenney's land into our 63 acres and there was a fairly wide pond about 50 yards inside the Blake Pyron land. That pond always, in those days , had water in it, even when Mudd Holler was not flowing. I remember one time when I was near that large pond and had my 12 gauge. I shot a quail which rose up from the other side of the pond. Farther east from the pond the creek became move polluted with oil from wells on our land. Then, I remember the times when Mudd Creek flooded. It would become wide when it crossed Somerset Road, and families who lived down in Atascosa county could not get to Somerset to shop, though they could have gone east on Heickman Road, turned north on Senior Road and headed west into Somerset on that road which ran to the Poteethighway.Irememberonetime in the very early forties when my older sister Mary and her husband Jerry Bush had their horse Red that Mudd Holler flooded and some of Daddy's cattle did not come up the lane to our pens back of the house. Mary got on Red - with me behind her - and we rode down to the flooded creek and went through some water maybe a foot or two deep, rounding up the cattle......
According to Roger Williams of Rossville, Atascosa county, reported by Peggy Weyel, there was a Mudd Colony in the 1840s and 1850s not far from Old Somerset in northern Atascosa county and Bexar, which is two miles west of present day Somerset in Bexar county. Some of the families of Mudd Colony included the Mudd, Barker, Hammond, Park, Brown, McConnell, McGloskey, McCoy, and Kenney. families. Ursie I. (Demples) Caruthers married Samuel J. Barker, of the Barker family listed above, and Jessie James married Clara McCoy, of the above McCoy family. This was the South Bexar county, Texas Jessie James, not the famous Missouri Jessie James. I remember him and especially remamber one time in the late thirties when he and my father were standing talking on the sidewalk in front of the Will Kenney store in Somerset and Jessie had his six shooter on his hip.
A lady who knew some of the Mudd family told Peggy Weyel that Billy Kenney (William Pyron Kenney) bought the old homeplace on Mudd Creek. My father Blake Pyron in 1948 traded his 63 acres on Mudd Creek to Will and Billy Kenney for a half interest in the Somerset store owned by the Kenneys. The wife of Will Kenney, was my aunt Jessie Pyron Kenney.
The following is from www.familysearch.org
George W. Mudd, Father
Texas Births and Christenings, 1840-1981
spouse: Mahala Hagan
child: Jacob Mudd
Also: Agnes Mudd
Ora Clare Mudd, George Hagen Mudd
and Andrew Constantine Mudd
George W. Mudd and wife Mahala were in Bexar county in 1853 and in Atascosa county in 1875.
Jacob Mudd, son, born 1871, residence in 1871, Somerset, Bexar, Texas
My guess is that "Somerset, Bexar" refers to both Old Somerset and Old Bexar and the Mudds lived somewhere not far from both communities. New Somerset, or present day Somerset, did not exist in 1871, since it was begun in 1909. Somerset in 1871 was a mile or more south of the county line down in Atascosa county, a little over two miles from New Somerset.
Could the Mudd homestead have been on what is called Survey number 273, file number 3-3280 - 320 acres - patented to George W. Mudd in 1859? This tract extended a bit over west of Somerset Road in 1882, being the road to Old Somerset in Atascosa county. It came to be bordered on the north by Dixon Road and on the east by Payne Road.
One time my father showed me a plum or peach tree just across the fence over into Aunt Clara Pyron Johnson's land from his land, and said this was where his family lived at one time. The spot was at about half way across the Blake Pyron land from west to east. All that was left in the early forties was this one plum or peach tree from their old homestead. Maybe this had been the George W. Mudd homestead at one time and there was a house on Survey 273 when my father's parents bought it in 1882 from George and Mahala Mudd, along with the Hayden 320 acre tract, Survey 274, file number 3-3282, patented to George W. Hayden in 1862.
From Texas General Land Office, Bexar County Landowners Map
On the map above, the Old Bexar Community was west of the name "Somerset" on the map past where it says "Sam'I L. W,", the Samuel Wheeler tract, and on the Clemante Bustillo tract. Old Somerset was not far south of the Jas. T. White land, which is on both sides of the county line on the map above. You can see that the G.W. Mudd Survey 273 borders the present day town of Somerset. That line which runs out of the north and heads southeast must be the reilroad tracks which did run through the northeast part of the A.M. Pyron G.W. Mudd tract.
https://billiongraves.com/grave/person/12053121 #
Grave information for George W Mudd, located in the San Fernando Cemetery #1, San Antonio Texas.
Birth date: 19 Jan 1819
Death Date: 20 Jan 1883
Another file indicates that George W. Mudd's widow received a pension for his service in the war with Mexico. I did not find anything on a Confederate pension for Mudd. Blas Herrera Jr. did receive a Confederate pension.
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