Wednesday, October 17, 2018

My Texas Credentials




My Texas Credentials 
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7150233/blake-bernard-pyron

Blake Bernard Pyron- My Father

Birth
Somerset, Bexar County, Texas, USA
Death 22 Sep 1964 (aged 74)
San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas, USA
Burial Somerset, Bexar County, Texas, USA



Parents:
Aureluis Milton PYRON
Virginia BLACKBURN

Blake Bernard Pyron married Mabel May Moote on May 20, 1915 in Bexar County, Texas.

Children:
Harold Pyron 1916-1916
George Edward Pyron 1918-1998
Mary Elizabeth Pyron 1920-2012 maried  Jerry W. Bush
Louise M. Pyron 1923- maried Benjamin Poppe
Bernard Pyron 1931-

Virginia Blackburn Pyron, 1856-1943.  my Pyron grandmother,  was the daughter of Gideon Blake Blackburn, 1817-1881, who became a citizen of the Republic of Texas between 1836 and 1846. According to http://www.lavacacountyhistory.org/biographies5.htm Gideon Blackburn,"... a native of Tennessee, Mr. Blackburn came to Texas about 1840 or '41, and located on the Mustang Creek, now in Lavaca County."

See: http://www.drtinfo.org/ancestors-b
"Blackburn, Gideon 05-02-1817 Williamson Co., TX 12-23-1881 LaVaca Co., TX Dufner, Mary Ann"

This is from: The Daughters of the Republic of Texas list of ancestors who were citizens of the Republic of Texas. Great grandfather Gideon B. Blackburn was born in 1817 - in Tennessee, not in Texas - and died in 1881. He lived in Lavaca county, Texas during the time of the Republic and his wife's name was Mary Ann Dufner.  Yes, Mary Ann Dufner was German and Gideon B. Blackburn was Scots-Irish and originally a Presbyterian.

Grandmother Virginia Pyron's uncle, John L.D. Blackburn is also listed in the Daughters of the Republic of Texas list of ancestors in the Republic. Great-great uncle John L.D. Blackburn was in the Texas Army and was in the Mier Expedition. On December 23, 1842 about 300 members of the Texas Army invaded  and occupied the town of Mier in Mexico. The Texans ran out of supplies and surrendered to a superior force of Mexicans. They were put in prison, but they escaped from the Salado prison on February 11, 1843. All but four of them were recaptured by the Mexicans. Who were the Texans who made it back to Texas?

See: https://books.google.com/books…

Savage Frontier, 1842-1845, by Stephen L. Moore

After the escape of the Texans from the prison at Salado, "Mexican forces pursued and captured most of the Texans during the next two weeks. John Alaxander and Major William Oldham survived a perilous journey through the mountains and across the Rio Grande, arriving in San Antonio in Mid-April. Only two other Texans from this escape party were known to have made it back home alive, Thomas W. Cox and John L.D. Blackburn."

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