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SURVIVORS OF THE TEXAS REVOLUTION. 106
three times as Chief Justice of the county. My profession was surveying,
though I have tried several kinds of business, but mostly merchandising
and farming. In 1868 I was a bankrupt. I have raised ten children; the
two oldest sons served four years in the Confederate army. Respectfully sub-
mitted for correction. T. S. McFARLAND.
JOHN TAYLOR LEwIs.
John Taylor Lewis, second son of Col. S. S. Lewis. was born on the 14th
ol February, 1808, in Scott county, Indiana; moved.with his father to Carroll
parish, Louisiana, in 1826; came to Texas in Novemibdr, 1831, having married
the spring before. In 1835 he went to San Antonio and participated in the
battle or storming of Bexar. He is a farmer by occupation. He raised v
family of nine children, and his three eldest sons served throu-gh the fou
years of the Confederate war.
I have tried to obtain a sketch of the lives of the following persons, but .
far have failed Judge B. F. Jones of Newton; Jefferson West, of Bleakwood .
A. F. Allbright, Wm. McMahon, and Ira Stephenson, of Burkeville.
ZOROASTER ROBINSON.
Zoroaster Robinson, one of the participants in the Texas Revolution,
was born in the year 1808, in the city of Milledgeville,.Georgia. His parents
were Henry and Susan Robinson. He was raised to man's estate in the
State of- his nativity, and married there, in 1829, Martha Winn. In the win-
ter of 1834 and 1835, he immigrated to Texas, aid with his family settled in
what is now Grimes county, near the present location of the town of Ander-
son. In the fall of 183.5, in company with John S. Black, he went to San
Antonio, and participated with General Burleson in the siege and capture of
that place. At the call of the gallant Milam for volunteers to storm the Alamo,
he was the seventh man that stepped out in response to this call. His com-
rade, John S. Black, was the fifth. He was near Milam when he fell,
shot down while passing one of the streets in the city. After the capture of
San Antonio and the Alamo, he returned to his family and remained at home
till the 2d day of March, 1836, when he volunteered in the company of Capt.
Joe Bennett, and started next day, from the town of Washington, to relieve,
if possible, Travis,,who was then besieged by Santa Anna's army, in the
Alamo. On reaching the Colorado, they were met by the news of the fall of
the Alamo. On the Colorado he joined the army of Gen. Sam Houston,
who was then retreating before Santa Anna. He continued with Hoilston's
army to Harrisburg, where he was left sick with the measles. During his
sickness the battle of San Jacinto was fought, and from this providence was
prevented from participating in that glorious achievement. After the battle,
and so soon as he was able to travel, he, with others, went in search of their
families, whom they had left at the town of Washington for safety when they
joined the army. On arriving-at that place they found that their families
had fled, terror-stricken, eastward. Judge Robinson found his wife in the
Trinity bottom, surrounded by the overflowed waters of that stream, whither
she had arrived on foot, carrying her infant child in her arms. Such are
some of the scenes of trial and terror that the fathers and mothers of the
Texas Revolution witnessed and endured.
After the battle of San Jacinto, Judge Robinson again volunteered, joining
a company raised by J. G. W. Pearson, and went west and was attached to a
division of Georgia troops that arrived in Texas after the battle of San
Jacinto. From this time to September, these troops were stationary on the
frontier, scouting from the lueces to the Rio Grande, watching the move-
ments of the Mexicans. Felix Huston, during this service, was the Judge's
Colonel. After the conclusion of this service, the Judge returned to his
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