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supply of good, clear, cool water. The spring
furnished water for a baptismal pool and
supplied the tan yard, the mill, and the
distillery with all the water that was needed.
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'During the Civil War, Company C, 11th
Texas Infantry, Roberts Regiment, was
organized at Knoxville in August 1862. W.G.
Engledow was elected captain; W. E. Hill, first
lieutenant; Wes Stephens, second lieutenant;
and W.A. Dew, third lieutenant. The
regimental officers were O.M. Roberts,
colonel; J.H. Jones, lieutenant colonel; and
N.J. Carroway, major. Major Carroway was
killed at Jenkin's Ferry, and Captain Engledow,
was promoted to major, holding the office of
lieutenant colonel at the close of the war.
Engledow was born in Tennessee and came
to Texas with his parents in the early 1830s
and settled near Nacogdoches. He was
married to Nancy E. Ridgell of Alabama, andmoved to the John Engledow league in the
northern part of Cherokee County, where the
town of Knoxville was later laid out. He served
throughout the war in Arkansas and Louisiana.
He took part in seven battles, including Mansfield
and Pleasant Hill, being severely
wounded in the last named battle. He died at
Knoxville, Texas, 11 Sep. 1871. Colonel
Engledow was a planter and made that business
a success.
Thomas Bell (21 July 1785 - 22 July 1862)
married Eleanor Tillery (1784 - 18 June 1861)
in Knoxville, Tennessee, on 22 Jan. 1805. He
was one of the leaders in the movement to
emigrate to Texas from Knoxville in East
Tennessee near Bull Run Creek. It was in 1848
when he felt the desire to move. He was quite
well to-do, with a good farm, owning a number
of slaves, and fortunate enough to have a
considerable amount of savings. He was well
along in years; his children were grown with
the responsibility of their own families. He
was thinking of the many advantages that he
hoped would benefit the children and grandchildren
in the new country with rich, cheap
land. In 1848, Thomas Bell, with all of his
slaves except "Old Mammy" who stayed
behind to care for the grandchildren, left for
Texas with the understanding that his children
would make another crop in Tennessee
and come to Texas the next year. Each one
was to be given a home when he arrived.
After looking the country over and taking
time to choose a site, he decided on a tract
of land about half a mile north of the spot
where Knoxville Cemetery is now located. In
the fall of 1849, the Bell children and their
families, along with Old Mammy, left Bull Run
Creek to join their father in Texas. The trip
from Tennessee to Texas took three months
if made with oxen, but this trip took only six
weeks as mule teams were used. The covered
wagon belonging to Thomas Bell was called
"Old Buncombe, and it was this wagon that
brought the group to Texas. They arrived at
the Bell home on Christmas Eve, 1849.26
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