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From: "ig" <>
Subject: Re: Battle of San Jacinto
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 02:06:25 -0600


>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.

The best I can do for now without seeing the original enlistments is a
list of Officers and Enlisted men.
Battle of San Jacinto. Medical Staff - Lem Gustine, M.D. Cavalry.
"The Handbook of Texas", 1952 Edition has the information about this Lem
Gustine being the son of James Gustin and Mary Duncan. I will try to
research it some more and see where I might find the original source. The
Texas State Historical Association makes this book so I will start with
them.
>Another Lemuel Gustine, who Ivan Gustin told me was the son of
>William B. Gustine and Ann Lyons,
Just wishfull hoping, nothing proven, I'm still a "wanta be". You'd
think I could do better in 12 years of digging. Being a son of William B.
Gustine and Ann Lyons was taken from a paper, "Descendants of John Gustine
and Mary Blair", Patrick Gustine Russell, 1984, this paper was given to me
by Edwin Hoot of Dallas. There is no other written documents to back this
up that has been found so far.
>Ivan wrote that this latter Lemuel was born around 1816/17 in
Pennsylvania and died in >Texas.
The 1850 Lamar County Texas Census list my Lemuel as 33, born in PA,
this all that I have so far to estimate his age and place of birth. He is
listed as a mechanic, I don't think he was a doctor.
The death of my Lemuel is taken from : Page 117 of the book "Backward
Glances" by A.W. Neville it is written Commissioner's Court meeting of May,
1858. Lemuel Gustine, overseer second precinct, Boggy road, "having departed
this life". Daniel Holman was appointed for the stretch from "center of the
bridge, on Pine Creek to the center of bridge on Sanders Creek.".
Please let me know of anything you might find,
Ivan L. Gustin

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