Cherry, Wilbur H.

Wilbur H. Cherry was born in Oswego, New York, on January 4, 1820, and at the age of fifteen ran away from home to join in the Texas Revolution. On November 21, 1835, he joined Capt. Andrew Briscoe’s company of Liberty Volunteers and subsequently participated in the Siege of Bexar. After the Texas Revolution Cherry joined the Army of the Republic of Texas, on December 24, 1839; he received a bounty payment of thirty dollars for enlisting as a private in Second Lt. R. W. Lee’s Company F of Col. Edward Burleson’s First Regiment, Infantry. He served briefly in Capt. Benjamin Y. Gillen’s Company I and on May 19, 1840, transferred into Capt. Adam Clendenin’s Company A at Galveston. Cherry died in Galveston on June 12, 1873.

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