More On Our Blackburn Republic of Texas Heritage

Blackburn, Gideon b. 05-02-1817 at Williamson Co., TX - d. 12-23-1881 at LaVaca Co., TX "
"Blackburn, John L. D. b. ca 1815 at TN - d. 09-24-1869 at La Grange, Fayette, Co., TX"

Gideon Blake Blackburn was not born in 1817 at Williamson county, Texas. He was born in 1817 at Maury County, Tennessee where his older brother John L.D. Blackburn was born in 1815. Both were citizens of the Republic of Texas, and my grandmother Virginia Blackburn Pyron's uncle, John L.D. Blackburn, was in the Texas Army and in the Mier Expedition. Grandmother's father, Gideon Blake Blackburn, was a Texian. A third Blackburn brother. Edward Rose Blackburn, born in 1808, and father of Captain James K.P. Blackburn,CSA, also came to Texas. So did their mother Martha Carney Blackburn. Apparently Edward Rose and his mother arrived in Texas after the time of the Republic of 1836 to 1846.