A History of Smith County, Texas Page: 66
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1~46, :as born in Spartenburg District, South Carolina, Septei-ber
10, 17V92. After serving under Gcneral Axicirew Jackson
in the war of 1812, he returned. -oae, arrield tannah Parker
in ICG6, and in 1G19 moved to the frontier of Tennessee, in
Lincolnr County, here he engaged in farrning. After winning
oroi.-inence 1n that section ao chairman of the vigilance comrittes,
which af'rorded the picreer community protection
frou the red 3s.v:ges and .whitc renegades who infested t'he
'rrcntier, he ccunae to Texas in 1834 and moved his family
later, 0oi. JIn;uary 1H, 18i. He choice a league and a labor
(4,,605 acres) of land in Nacogdoches (nowr Rusk;) County for
his home and opened a far'i, Hle returned to Tennessee and recruited
a company of seventy-five volunteers for service
against the iLexican invaders under Santa Anna in 1836, fiiiancin:;g
the himself .s to their subsistence, axns, ammunition,
and even firnishing thea trans.or ,at ion home after the battle
of San Jacinto.18
General Saitlh, living only about fifteen miles from what
was to be the southwestern boundary of the county that was to
bear his name, took a promine-.- part in the resistance to the
Cherokees. His home during the Indian troubles in 1837-1838
becsaie a refuge for the harassed settlers of the surrounding
country as it was strongly fortified by means of a stout
stockade and served as a protection for the settlers from
li^hite ana Richardson, op. cit. , ITT, 1250.
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