Joel Walter Robison was born 1815 in Georgia. With his father, John G. Robison, he served in Capt. Henry Stevenson Brown’s company at the battle of Velasco on June 26, 1832. Robison became a volunteer Indian fighter in the company of Capt. John Yorkqv. He served at the Siege of Béxar in 1835 and took part in the Grass Fight and the battle of Concepción. At the battle of San Jacinto, Robison was a private in Capt. William Jones Elliot Heard’s Company F of Col. Edward Burleson’s First Regiment, Texas Volunteers, and was one of the party that captured Antonio López de Santa Anna. The Mexican general is said to have entered the Texan camp riding double on Robison’s horse. On December 14, 1836, Sam Houston commissioned Robison a first lieutenant in the Texas Rangers. Joel died at his home in Warrenton on August 4, 1889.
The Siege of Béxar Descendants
The Soldiers and their Descendants
Bull, Pleasant Marshall
Pleasant Marshall Bull was born Feb. 18, 1808 in Grainger County Tennessee to John Valentine Bull and Fetna Bean. He came to Texas to acquire land, arriving in 1831 and settling in Brazoria, Austin Colony. He was a veteran of the Battle of Concepcion and the Battle of Bexar and is on the muster roll […]
Moore, Col. John Henry
Colonel Moore was elected Colonel Commandant of the Army of Texas on October 11, 1835 in Gonzales, the same day Stephen F. Austin was elected Commander in Chief and Edward Burleson, Lieutenant Colonel. Moore resigned his office on November 6th in Bexar and Ed Burleson was elected to replace him on November 7th. MOORE, JOHN […]
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