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Captain Thomas Hudson Barron
..Thomas Hudson Barron
Marker Location: First Street Cemetery. Waco Texas
(March 8, 1796 - February 2,1874) Thomas Hudson Barron, the son of John
M. and Susan Mattingly Barron, was born in Virginia. The family
moved to Kentucky in 1805. Thomas joined the Kentucky Militia in November 1814
and participated in the Battle of New Orleans. He married Elizabeth Carnall
in 1820 in the Arkansas Territory. They joined the Austin colony and came to
Texas in 1822, staying one year before returning to Arkansas. The Barrons settled
permanently in Texas in 1830 and are listed in Stephen F. Austin's 1831 Registry
of Families. The home the Barrons built in Independence was later purchased
by Sam Houston. Thomas and Elizabeth Barron joined the Sterling C. Robertson
colony in the mid-1830s. Barron was the Ranger captain in charge of establishing
Fort Fisher on the Brazos River in 1837. Elizabeth died after giving birth to
twelve children. Thomas married Mary Jane Shelton in 1846 at Falls-on-the-Brazos.
They became the parents of ten children and were among the earliest settlers
in the area that became Waco. Barron was clerk of the first McLennan County
Court in 1850 and of the first District Court in 1851. He built Waco's first
steam mill in the 1850s. A street, school and creek in Waco were named for Barron,
who served as McLennan County Tax Assessor in the 1860s after moving to Falls
County. Barron died at Masterville (later Bruceville). He was interred at the
Tom Cox Cemetery in that area. His grave was moved to this site in 1976. (1999)
........CAPTAIN THOMAS HUDSON BARRON
...Captain Thomas Hudson Barron, b March 8, 1796 in Virginia, d February 24,
1874 at the home of his son-in-law, Thadeus B. Mixon, in Bruceville, Texas and
first buried in the Cox Cemetery at Bruceville, and later moved for a second
burial at Fort Fisher, Waco. He had been on a business trip to Waco, and was
returning to his home on Deer Creek in Falls County, Texas, when he was caught
in a cold rainstorm, and stopped to escape the weather. He became ill, and died
of pneumonia within a week.
...On February 20, 1820 in Arkansas, Captain Barron was married first to Elizabeth
Carnall, b ca 1804, d ca 1845 at Bucksnort, Falls County, Texas. Captain Barron
lived in Arkansas as a pioneer with J. G. W. Pierson, Walter F. Pool, and others
who came to Texas before 1830. On January 17, 1836, he was mustered into Captain
Sterling Clack Robertson’s Company of Rangers as a First Sergeant, and
was in command of Fort Milam in December of that year. He acquired thousands
of acres of land, including the Barron Creek area in McLennan County, land in
Falls County, and in other areas. Captain Barron and Elizabeth (Carnall) Barron
had twelve children:
DECENDANTS:
1----- John M. Barron, b July 21, 1821, d 1847 at Bucksnort — was unmarried.
2----- Eliza Ann Barron, b September 11, 1823, d ca 1839— died unmarried.
3----- Thomas J. Barron, b January 2, 1825, d January 1847 at Bucksnort —
married Elizabeth Crouch — a daughter of Isaac Newton and Isabella (Deason
Crouch. They had one daughter, Elizabeth Barron. who married first to a Mr.
Roebuck, and married second to Cornelius M. Taylor.
4----- Nancy Caroline Barron, b October 13, 1827, d July 3, 1871 — married
December 13, 1846 Lewis Barker Powers, and had six children.
5----- Joseph David Barron, b May 6, 1828, d February 1846 at Bucksnort —
unmarried.
6----- Colbert Baker Barron, b December 8, 1929, d 1832.
7----- Almedia Barron, b September 10, 1832 — married in Waco, Texas on
April 6, 1849 to W. C. Cunningham, who d February 1853. They had Joseph L. Cunningham,
b February 15, 1850; Elizabeth Cunningham, b February 22, 1852; and Mozella
Cunningham, b July 6, 1853. Almedia married second on December 27, 1855 to Robert
Crudup, Chief Justice of McLennan County, and Representative to 12th Texas Legislature.
He died in Austin, Texas in 1870, leaving five children: Rebecca Crudup, b October
18, 1856; Louisa Crudup, b February 6, 1858; Robert Crudup, Jr., b March 28,
1861; Nellie 0. Crudup, b January 12, 1863; and Thomas Crudup, b December 4,
1866. After Robert’s death, Almedia married third on September 27, 1872
to James Patterson, who died November 24, 1878. They had: Celia Patterson, b
November 9, 1873; Fred M. Patterson, b April 9, 1875; and James Patterson, Jr.,
b 1877. Almedia married fourth on February 24, 1881 to B. W. White, and they
had no issue.
8----- Mary Jane Barron, b December 7, 1833 at Independence, Washington County,
Coahuila, Mexico (Texas), d January 16, 1893 — married first in 1850 to
John Bible and had two children who died; and married second on May 19, 1861
to David P. Thomerson, b September 14, 1829 in Spartanburg, South Carolina,
d August 30, 1897. They had eight children, and lived at Weatherford, Texas.
9----- Elizabeth Barron, b April 29, 1836 — died in childhood.
10---- Milam Barron, b November 3, 1839 — was a twin, died in the Civil
War while serving in the Confederate States Army — married Miss S. A. Lott, 
but had no issue.
11---- Travis Barron, b November 3, 1839 — was a twin, d November 15,
1891 married Betty Mixon, b June 21, 1844, d July 22, 1931. They had Desdemonia
Barron who married Tom Taylor; Travis Davis Barron who died young; and Delia
Barron who married a Mr. Spencer. Dessie and Delia lived in Lorena, Texas.
(NOTE* Travis Barron was the 1880 census enumerator for the 117th district
Mclennan county Texas)
12---- David Seeley Barron, b October 14, 1842, d 1867 in St. Mary’s,
Texas — of yellow fever.
........After the death of Elizabeth (Carnall) Barron, Captain Barron married
second at Bucksnort on September 3, 1846 to Mary Jane Shelton, b 1830, d March
26, 1882 and buried without a tombstone at Bruceville, Texas, a daughter of
A. M. and Elizabeth Shelton. Captain Barron and Elizabeth Shelton Barron had
ten children:
13----- Dink Barron, b March 16, 1848, d 1851.
14----- Mozella Barron, b January 7, 1850 in Waco, Texas, d 1922 — married
January 11, 1866 to Thadeus B. Mixon, b November 21, 1832, d August 23, 1875
— a son of Simeon and Margaret (Campbell) Mixon. They had five children:
R. B. Mixon, b November 20, 1866, d April 7, 1890 — unmarried; Josephine
(Mixon) Farris; Cora (Mixon) Niles; Mary (Mixon) Allbright; Lutie Mixon, b January
25, 1875 who married Felix A. . Flowers. After the death of Thadeus, Mozella married second
in 1876 to Joseph Cotner, and had George Cotner, Joe Cotner, Ida Bell Cotner, Minnie
(Cotner) Murray of San Angelo, Texas; and Millie (Cotner) Howell. Mozella married
third in 1890 to Robert B. Petree and had one son. 
15--Ronchalia (Ron-kayl-ya) Cumbe Barron(3/08/1852)-(10/04/1910)
married Martha Pochantes Reese (12/17/1855) - (8/10/1918) and
had F.H. Barron, Enoch Barron, Hamlett Brown Barron who moved to Durant Oklahoma
and Mary A.(Mamie) Barron who married Herber Yeager.
----------------RONCHALIA CUMBE "BUD" BARRON ---------------->>>>>
16----- Mary Ellen Barron, b October 15, 1854 at Barron Branch, Waco,
d October 21, 1910 at Blevins — married James Lafayette Courtney,
and had issue.
17----- Serena Barron, b June 23, 1856 in Waco, d March 7, 1933 at Loco, Oklahoma
— married January 17, 1872 to William Jonah Reed, b October 18, 1852 in
Louisiana, d February 26, 1925. They had ten children:
Thomas Reed, Nancy Lela Reed, Evelena Reed, Olive Reed, Coral Reed, Ruth (Reed)
Palmer, Jesse Reed, Jo-sephine Reed, and Pool Reed.
18----- Robert Barron, b October 26, 1858, died young.
19----- Lucetta Barron, b March 13, 1861 — married first to James Maxey,
and married second to A. R. Porter and had Wallace Porter, Dew Porter, Gus Porter,
and Tom Porter and six others.
20----- Viola Barron, b September 28, 1862 in Falls County, Texas, d May 7,
1929 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma — married first in 1878 to John William
Sharp, d December 7, 1900 at Grady, Indian Territory (Oklahoma). They had: Robert
Emmett Sharp, b 1882; Martin Luther Sharp, b September 9, 1884; Reverend John
Travis Sharp, b January 20, 1887; James B. Sharp, b November 7, 1889 in Falls
County; Mary Jane (Sharp) Walker, b September 3, 1897 in Indian Territory (Oklahoma);
and Samuel Hudson Sharp, b November 11, 1900 in Indian Territory. Viola (Barron)
Sharp married second in 1902 to Thomas Franklin Calvery, d 1934 in Oklahoma,
and they had Vada (Calvary) Begley, b September 24, 1903 who lives in No-cona,
Texas; and Allen Baxter Calvery, b July 10, 1905 in Montague County, Texas.
21----- Josephine Barron, b May 26, 1864 in Falls County, Texas, d April 12,
1899 — married J. L. Litteral. They lived in the Cego area of Falls County,
and had nine children: Claude Litteral, Carrie Belle Litteral, Mary Elizabeth
Litteral, Ron Cali Litteral, Kate Litteral, Hallie Litteral, Thedford Litteral,
May Litteral and Ben Litteral.
22----- Lycurgus H. Barron, b June 6, 1867 in Falls County, Texas, d November 15,
1891 — married Martha May Neeley on January 5, 1890. They had no issue.
...After Captain Barron’s death, it took years to settle his estate.
He had no Will, and legal and administrative fees accumulated as the many heirs
tried to get it settled. His widow, Mary Jane (Shelton) Barron was married second
on September 9, 1875 to Reverend L. J. C. Bell, and they had one child who died.
In the late 1890’s, many of the children of Captain Thomas Hudson Barron
had joined the exodus to Indian Territory (Oklahoma).
Captain Barron and his second wife moved from Waco to the Blevins area of Falls
County shortly after 1860, and lived there for the remainder of their lives.
FROM another source on the WEB.
Children of Thomas Barron and Mary Shelton are:
I--Aaron Dink Barron, born March 16, 1848 in Milam Co, TX; died 1851.
II-Mozella Barron, born January 07, 1850 in Falls Co, TX or Waco, TX; d. 11/12/1922
in McLennan Co, TX; married (1) Robert B Petree; married Thaddeus B Mixon 1/12/1866
in McLennan Co, TX; born November 21, 1832 in MS; died August 23, 1875
in Bruceville, McLennan Co, TX; married (3) Joseph M Cotner 1876 in Falls Co,TX;
born Abt. 1850 in MO; died Bef. 1890.
III-Ronchalia Cumbe Barron, born 8/03/1852 in Falls Co, TX or Waco,TX; died 10/04/1910
in Durant, Bryan Co, OK; married M Pocahuntas Reese Bet. 1870 - 1875 in Falls Co,
TX; born Abt. 1855 in TN; died 1912 in Limestone Co, TX.
IV-.Mary Ellen Barron, born October 19, 1854 in Waco, McLennan Co, TX;
died 10/21/1910 in Blevins, Falls Co, TX; married James Lafayette Courtney10/30/1871
in Waco, McLennan Co,TX; born 10/31/1846 in Russellville, Hamblen Co,TN; d.4/14/1943
in Marlin, Falls Co,TX.23
V-.Serena E Barron, born July 23, 1856 in Blevins or Waco, TX; died 3/07/1933 in
Alma, OK;married (1) William Jonah Reid 1/25/1872 in Falls Co,TX;married(2)
James Losson Quinn April 22, 1902.
VI-.Robert Barron, born October 26, 1858 in Falls Co, TX; died Bef. 1860
in McLennan Co, TX.
VII-Lucretta Barron, born March 13, 1861 in Falls Co, TX; died Unknown; married
(1) James G Maxey 1/26/1874 in Bell Co, TX; born Unknown; died Unknown; married
(2) A R Porter March 28, 1878 in Falls Co, TX; born Unknown; died Unknown.
VIII-.Viola Barron, born September 28, 1862 in Falls Co, TX; died May
07, 1929 in Oklahoma City, OK; married (1) John William Sharp 3/28/1878 in
Falls Co, TX; born Abt. 1852 in MS; died 12/07/1900 in Grady, Jefferson Co, OK;
married (2) Thomas Franklin Calvery 1902; born Unknown; died 1934 in Oscar, OK.
IX-.Josephine Barron, born May 26, 1864 in Blevins, Falls Co, TX; died
April 12, 1899 in Durant, Bryan Co, OK; married Joe L Litteral; born 4/18/1862
in AR; died May 22, 1945 in Falls Co, TX.
X-.Lygurgus Barron, born June 06, 1867 in Blevins, Falls Co, TX; died
November 17, 1933 in Alma, Stephens Co, OK; married Martha Neeley; born Abt.1870;
died April 14, 1927.
*** This page is for general information only and may contain many errors.
Ronchalia Cumbe Barron is the only family father I am intrested in.
Any information you may have about his five children will be much apreciated by me.
*** This is a very rough draft and I have started it on this date 8/01/2003. Please email me
if you have more information (dates names ect.)or can correct my spelling errors and/or add
dates and names.
ROBERTSON COLONY DOCUMENT SIGNED BY ELIJAH STERLING CLACK ROBERTSON
84. COAHUILA Y TEJAS (Mexican State). [ROBERTSON COLONY]. [ROBERTSON, Elijah
H.]. [Printed form of land title completed in manuscript, with heading]: Sello
segundo: Doce reales. Habilitado por el estado de Coahuila y Texas para el bieno
de 1828 y 29 [dates extended to 35]. [Text commences]: El. C. Guillermo H. Steele
comd. Nombrado pr. El Supremo Gobierno de este Estado p[ara] el...posesion de
tienas y espedicion de titulos...en la empresa de coloniz[ación] de la
compa. de Nashville.... Thomas H. Barron se ha recibido....
Villa de Viesca, June 10, 1835. Signed by Guillermo H. Steele, Elija H. Robertson,
and Niles F. Smith. 4 pp., small folio, printed at top on p. 1, filing note
on p. 4. Edges with some small chips, small holes in creases where folded, overall
very good.
This title documents Thomas Barron's grant of one labor
of land in the Nashville Colony (Robertson's Colony) near Viesca, and
is signed by Elijah Sterling Clack Robertson, a signer of the Texas Declaration
of Independence. As empresario of Robertson's Colony in 1834 and 1835, Robertson
was responsible for settling more than six hundred families in Texas. See The
Handbook of Texas Online (Robertson's Colony), for a detailed account of the
complicated history of the Leftwich Grant/Nashville Colony/Robertson Colony:
"William H. Steele was appointed land commissioner of the Nashville (or
Robertson) Colony on May 24, 1834.... The capital of the colony was laid out
at the Falls of the Brazos (near present Marlin, Texas) and named Sarahville
de Viesca; 'Sarah' for Robertson's mother...and 'Viesca' for Agustín
Viesca, the Mexican official who was presiding over the state legislature when
it granted the contract to Robertson. All the Robertson Colony land titles were
issued in Viesca." See The Handbook of Texas Online (Sarahville de Viesca).
The document mentions Robert Leftwich's contract with the government of Coahuila
y Tejas, which was the first contract for colonizing 800 families, later to
be known as the Robertson Colony. Niles F. Smith served as an engineer during
the Texas Revolution. Afterward he became a prosperous businessman in Houston
and in 1836 became a notary public for Jefferson County.
Thomas Hudson Barron (1796-1874) was an early settler and Texas
Ranger. He came to Texas in 1821 with several of the first of Stephen F. Austin's
Old Three Hundred colonists, was a member of the Austin Colony for a year, left
Texas, then returned in January 1831, and in 1832 he received from Austin a
grant of one league of land in Brazos County. He also contracted to settle at
Nashville in Sterling C. Robertson's Colony. "He was granted twenty-four
labors of land now in McLennan County on March 25, 1835, and one
labor near the site of present Viesca on June 10, 1835" (The Handbook
of Texas Online: Thomas Hudson Barron).
($600-1,200)
BIBLIOGRAPHY: George B. Erath, "The Memoirs of George B. Erath, 1813-1891,"
Southwestern Historical Quarterly 26-27 (January-October 1923; rpts., Austin:
Texas State Historical Association, 1923; Waco: Heritage Society of Waco, 1956).
Gerald S. Pierce, Texas Under Arms: The Camps, Posts, Forts, and Military Towns
of the Republic of Texas (Austin: Encino, 1969).Thomas W. Cutrer
FORT FISHER. Fort Fisher, at a site on the west bank of the
Brazos River now within the Waco city limits, was built in February 1837 by
Capt. Thomas H. Barron'sqv company of Maj. William H. Smith's battalion of Texas
Rangers.qv In 1837, wrote ranger George B. Erath,qv "Waco was in the possession
of buffalo, and only a short time before had been vacated by the Waco Indians."
According to Erath, the rangers "built some shanties for barracks near
the big spring of the river" and named the post for Secretary of War William
S. Fisher.qv The fort was garrisoned first by Barron's men and later by other
rangers, including Capt. Daniel Monroe's company, and Smith for a time maintained
his headquarters there. The men "were too far out to do good service,"
however, and so the fort was abandoned in June 1837 or soon thereafter. The
post was reconstructed in 1968 as a home for the Colonel Homer Garrisonqv Museum
and serves as headquarters for a company of Texas Rangers. The reconstructed
fort displays works of contemporary Western artists and maintains an excellent
collection of weapons connected with the history of the Texas Rangers. The Texas
Ranger Hall of Fame and Museumqv is located nearby.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Gerald S. Pierce, Texas Under Arms: The Camps, Posts, Forts,
and Military Towns of the Republic of Texas (Austin: Encino, 1969). John Sleeper
and J. C. Hutchins, comps., Waco and McLennan County (Waco: Golledge, 1876;
rpt., Waco: Kelley, 1966).
Thomas W. Cutrer
LITTLE RIVER FORT. The Little River Fort's construction began
in November 1836 under the supervision of Sgt. George B. Erathqv of Capt. Thomas
H. Barron'sqv company of Col. Robert M. Coleman'sqv Texas Rangers.qv The fort
covered half an acre near the junction of the Leon and Lampasas rivers in what
is now Bell County. Six or seven cabins stood against the north wall of a nine-foot-high
stockade, and a sixteen-foot-square blockhouse provided additional defense.
The fort was first called Fort Smith after Maj. William H. Smith; it derived
its official name from its proximity to the Little River settlement that it
was built to protect. After 1841, however, its name was changed to Fort Griffin
in honor of Moses Griffin, a local settler who maintained the fort after it
was abandoned by the government. The fort was commanded successively by Sergeant
Erath, Lt. Charles Curtis, and Capt. Daniel Monroe. Its Texas Ranger garrison
probably never exceeded twenty men. Two skirmishes between the fort's garrison
and the Comanches were fought during the winter and spring of 1837, leaving
fewer than twenty dead on both sides. In June the rangers at the Little River
Fort were withdrawn to bolster the defenses of forts Colorado and Milam and
the town of Nashville. The Little River post was unoccupied for two years except
for use by an occasional irregular volunteer company. When the fort was abandoned,
the farming settlements in the area withdrew as well. On January 13, 1840, therefore,
the War Department sent Capt. James P. B. January'sqv Company F of the First
Infantry Regiment from Camp Caldwell to garrison the Little River Fort. Failure
to supply the troops there properly again forced the garrison to leave on February
28. The troops returned on July 1 and maintained the fort until the Army of
the Republic of Texasqv was disbanded in March 1841. After that, the fort saw
only sporadic use, serving as a stop for the Texan Santa Fe expeditionqv in
June 1841 and as a shelter for Capt. Shapley P. Ross'sqv ranger company for
a time in 1846. Little River Fort was eventually dismantled by Moses Griffin.
The site has been marked by the Texas Historical Commission.qv
BLEVINS COMMUNITY AND SCHOOL
Marker # 435
Location: From Bruceville-Eddy, take FM 1239 S about 9 miles
City: Eddy
Marker Erected: 1992
Marker Text:
The community of Blevins began about 1860, when Texas Revolution veteran Thomas
H. Barron and his family settled near Deer Creek. The Rev. Isaac Taylor
operated a school for area children from the 1870s until 1885, when Blevins
School opened. A public school district, formally organized in 1916, served
students in a nine-square mile area until 1939. A post office operated from
1886 to 1904, and at its height the community boasted two general stores, two
cotton gins, two churches, a blacksmith shop, and ice house.
Information from Texas Land Title Abstracts
Grantee: Thos. H. Barron
Patent Date: 01 Dec 1832
Acres: 4428.40
District: Brazos; Robertson
County: Brazos
Patent #: 201
Patent Volume: 9
Class: Title
Grantee: Thos. H. Barron
Patent Date: 25 Mar 1835
Acres: 4250.40
District: Milam
County: McLennan
Patent #: 807
Patent Volume: 15
Class: Title
Grantee: Thos. H. Barron
Patent Date: 10 Jun 1835
Acres: 177.10
District: Milam; Robertson
County: Falls
Survey/Blk/Tsp: 2
Patent #: 232
Patent Volume: 14
Class: Title
Grantee: Thomas H. Barron
Certificate: 4066
Patentee: Thomas H. Barron
Patent Date: 19 Sep 1845
Acres: 1280
District: Milam
County: McLennan
File: 228
Patent #: 671
Patent Volume: 1
Class: Mil. Bty
Grantee: Thomas H. Barron
Certificate: 4065
Patentee: Thomas H. Barron
Patent Date: 06 Feb 1846
Acres: 320
District: Milam
County: McLennan
File: 253
Patent #: 213
Patent Volume: 3
Class: Mil. Bty
Grantee: Thomas H. Barron
Acres: 4250.40
District: Milam
County: McLennan
Survey/Blk/Tsp: 5
Class: Title
Waco Daily Examiner, Wed., 25 Feb 1874, p. 3, c. 2
Waco, McLennan County, Texas
Died
At Masterville, on yesterday, the 24th, at 3 a.m., Capt. Thomas H.
Barron, one of the oldest settlers in all this region o country. He came to
Texas at an early day in her history and was closely identified with her interests.
Was prominent in the struggles of the infant settlements of the borders, against
both Indian and Mexican foes. His numerous and attached friends among the old
frontiersmen will pause and drop a tear to the memory of one who was always
foremost in all the perils and hardships of the men who wrested from the savages
the fairest land beneath the sun. One of our leading citizens, came to this
part of he State in 1844, and found Capt. Barron living at Viesco, on the Brazos,
in what was then called Milam county. He followed with interest the career of
this old frontier hero and joins his testimony to that of others in rating the
dead Frontiersman; a hero, a gentleman, and honest man. By his industry he accumulated
quite a handsome property and was perhaps one of the richest men in this section,
at the time of his death. We tender so the afflicted family our warmest sympathy
in their bereavement.
*** Information provided to me by Theron Palmer
about Hamlett "Scott" Barron's father was derived from THIS
page where he is listed as "Hambrick Barron who moved to Oklahoma"
son of "Ronchali Cumbe Barron, b August 3, 1852 in Waco, Texas — married
Pocohuntas Reese."
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