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Was born in the town of Greensville, Green Co., Tennessee on the 15th day of June 1816; in 1833 I run away from my father and lived in Abington, Virginia; I told my father a lie and he whipped me severley for it, as he hated a liar; I have often been in Andrew Johnson's tailor shop, in Greenville, and had contests with boys for the binding or edging torn from cloth; I frequently chopped wood as a favor for Mrs. Cardy, who was Andy Johnsons mother-in-law; Mr. Cardy, was a club-footed shoemaker in Greenville;

I emigrated to Texas in the fall of 1834, and lived on Cumming Creek. In the spring of 1835 I went on my first campaign with Capt. R.M. Williamson, who was called three legged Willie; John H. Moore, leister, Rabb, Eastland, Goheen, Ned Burleson, R.M. Coleman,Col.Neill, and others were in the company; we were absent about 60 days on the upper Brazos, and lived mainly on beef. In October, 1835, I joined Capt. Thomas Alley's company, at Gonzales, and marched about the 13th of October 1835, under command of Gen. Stephen F. Austin, who had been elected commander of the "Army of the People," for San Antonio; I belonged to that division of the army commanded by Col. Frank Johnson and Col. William T. Austin, which stormed San Antonio in December 1835. After the surrender of Gen. Coss I went to Mill Creek, now Austin Co., and planted a crop, and then joined Gen. Sam Houston, on the Colorado, on his retreat from Gonzales; participated in the battle of San Jacinto, on the 21st of April 1836, as a member of Capt. Mosley Baker's company, served out my three months time and then returned to Mill Creek and worked out my crop of corn.
 
In the winter of 1837 till 1840; wagoned to the west of Major Bennett. In 1842 I  have lived in Washington County and in Burleson County, where I am now staying. I have five children by my first wife, and have three by my present wife, one boy six years old, one two years old and one boy ten months old; I have eight children living, and have buried two boys and one girl. Of course I have never seen my present wife and younger children, as I have been entirely blind for fourteen years.