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From: Tom Hoot <>
Subject: Battle of San Jacinto
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 11:59:23 -0600
Officers and Enlisted Men
Battle of San Jacinto 21st April 1836
(Primary sources Dixon and Kemp's The Heroes of San Jacinto, John Henry Brown's History of Texas and Miller's Bounty and Land Donation Grants of Texas with additions from diverse other sources)
GUSTINE, LEMUEL (1816-1852). Lemuel Gustine, soldier, son of James Gustine, was born in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, in 1816. He was taken by his father to Natchez, Mississippi, in 1817. He was a doctor by profession. Gustine traveled to Texas in January 1836 and fought in the battle of San Jacinto under Henry W. Karnes as a private in the Second Regiment of Volunteers. He was discharged on May 30, 1836, and returned to Mississippi. He married Jane McCreary, with whom he had one child; his second wife was Sophia Thompson, with whom he had seven children. He died in New Orleans on May 22, 1852.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Daughters of the Republic of Texas, Muster Rolls of the Texas Revolution (Austin, 1986). Louis Wiltz Kemp Papers, Barker Texas History Center, University of Texas at Austin. Pat Ireland Nixon, The Medical Story of Early Texas, 1528-1853 (Lancaster, Pennsylvania: Lupe Memorial Fund, 1946).
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