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WILLIAM D. GLASCOCK first came to Texas in 1835 from Alabama
on a boat from Mobile.He came ashore in the Corpus Christi area .
William D.is our Original Texas Settler. He is my grt-grt-grt- grandfather.He is believed to have fought in the Battle of San Jacinto ,but must have signed up the day of the battle for their are no records supporting this except an oral history from grandson,Earle Glascock & for him being listed as a bastrop volunteer in the Daughters of the Republic records.William D. did serve in the Battle of Vasques in 1842. He recieved Republic Debt for this in 1853.
William D. first settled in Bastrop county in 1837 for he recieved his original 2nd class headright for 640 acres in March ,29 1838.His first wife Duanna Davis died &William went back to Alabama & married Salina A. (House)Chambliss in Alabama in 1837.We believe he came back to Alabama after the Independence from Mexico.
They had their first child Ann Elizabeth in Madison county,Alabama in 1837.By 1838 they were back in Texas.William D. is listed on the Bastrop county tax poll 1839,1841.He is also listed on the Republic of Texas census in 1840 in Bastrop county with 2955 acres.William D had several tracts of land including a town lot in Austin.
By 1850 Federal Census William D. is in Oak Hill,Travis county.His uncle Thomas Anderson deeded him 320 acres on Williamson Creek in Oak Hill.William D. died on this land in June 1853 with a bone in his throat at about the age of 36.He is buried in the Glasscock Cemetary in Oak Hill on this land in an un-marked grave along with his wife and son Francis.Also buried here are Francis' wife Mahala and four of their children.The Glasscock Cemetary was designated as a historical cemetery in 1998.
Francis Marion Glascock was a Cival War veteran &Travis county commissioner during the construction of the Montopolis Bridge over the Colorado River on Congress Avenue in Austin.He and his father William D. were both truck farmers.Mahala is the last one buried in the family cemetary in 1941.Francis(Frank)died in 1922 & from his 1919 Cival War pension application he stated he was born in Madison County,Alabama in 1843 and had lived in Texas for 74 years.
William D was born in Pittsylvania county, Virginia about 1815-1816
to Thomas Glascock &Sarah Finney Coleman.Thomas is descended from the Glascock's of Indian Banks, Virginia,on the Northern Neck.Thomas married Sarah Finney Coleman,Daughter of Daniel Coleman.Daniel Coleman was in the Revolutionary War. He was a judge in Pittsylvania county & his portrait is still hanging in courthouse along with his 1860 obituary.
This makes us sons & daughters of the revolution along with being sons &daughters of the Republic of Texas.
Thomas Glascock(e) is our original American colonist. He recieved his first patent in 1642 in Rapponnock County, Virginia.
He later purchased land between Lancaster creek & Morrattico creek.He called it Indian Banks.His son &grandson built the mansion in 1699 and is still beautiful being lived in by a descendant.Thomas was a Justice of the Peace & tobacco farmer.
William D. Glascock father Thomas was 1st cousin of George John Glasscock.George John has a well documented history in Texas & Travis county.His daughter,Mary Glascock married her 2nd cousin Washington Anderson( William D.'s 1st cousin). Washington Anderson(son of Thomas Anderson &Chloe Glascock.Chloe was Thomas's(William D. father sister).Washington & Mary had a daughter named Chloe& she married Rev.Robert Taliferro.Washington Anderson's history in Texas & Williamson county & Round Rock are well documented.
We are also distantly related to George Washington Glasscock.He is of course the one who Georgetown & Glasscock county are named after.
compiled by
Gregory Dale Glasscock
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