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From: Tom Hoot <>
Subject: RE: Battle of San Jacinto
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 14:58:56 -0600


Bruce: All I did was copy verbatium what was there. I did not elaborate. I leave it up to the person to evaluate the information. A lot of historical writting are much like OBITS.

-----Original Message-----
From:CAPT Bruce Gustin III [SMTP:]
Sent:Monday, November 23, 1998 9:48 AM
To:'Tom Hoot';
Cc:'Ivan'
Subject:RE: Battle of San Jacinto

Tom,
Thank you for posting this. I'm not "shooting the messenger," but
this story about Dr. Lemuel Gustine stretches the limits of reasonable
credibility. The Dr. Lemuel who was the son of James Gustine & Mary A.
Duncan was a widower who was raising a 3 ½ year-old son in January 1836.
He was a medical doctor, not a Private in a Texas militia unit. I
haven't found any evidence that he was ever in Texas. The 1850 Census
indicates he was born ca.1810, not in 1816. Both of his wives were
born ca.1810 as well. The stories about Dr. Lemuel seem to get better
with every generation of his colorful descendants.

Another Lemuel Gustine, who Ivan Gustin told me was the son of
William B. Gustine and Ann Lyons, may have been the one who served at
the Battle of San Jacinto. Ivan wrote that this latter Lemuel was born
around 1816/17 in Pennsylvania and died in Texas. I haven't personally
researched this family, but I note that William B. Gustine was
enumerated in 1850 in Clarke County, Mississippi as a teacher. I'd be
very interested in any vital records concerning William, his wives and
children.
[Tom Hoot] Bruce I too am very interested in my great-great-grandfather
The National Genealogical Society published a collection of early
19th Century Texas Census enumerations covering the years 1826-1836 or
thereabouts. Unfortunately, it has been out of print for over twenty
years; I haven't seen a copy. If anyone has this book, they might be
able to add to this discussion.
W/r,
-= Bruce =-

-----Original Message-----
From:Tom Hoot [mailto:]
Sent:Tuesday, 17 Nov 1998 09:59
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Subject:Battle of San Jacinto

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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