Samuel McCulloch Jr (1810 - 1893)

Born 11 Oct 1810 in Abbeville, South Carolina, United States

Ancestors

Died 2 Nov 1893 at age 83 in Von Ormy, Bexar, Texas, United States

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Biography

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Samuel McCulloch, Jr was a free Black soldier who fought in the Texas Revolution. He was wounded in the Battle of Goliad and became known as the first Texan casualty of the revolution.

Note following is primarily taken from Handbook of Texas Online ^[1]until other sources can be documented:

Samuel Jr. was born into slavery in 1810 in South Carolina, the son of a white father, Samuel McCulloch Sr, and unnamed mother. He moved with his father to Alabama around 1815, where several sisters were born. In 1835 his father filed an emancipation document for Samuel and his sisters in Alabama,^[2] then moved the family to Texas in 1835, where Samuel Jr. and his sisters were considered free Blacks.

In October 1835 he joined the Matagorda Volunteer Company and on October 9th he fought against the Mexican army at Goliad. He was wounded in the shoulder, which crippled him for life. Later he had to petition Texas to remain there due to an act requiring all free Blacks to leave the Republic. A subsequent act gave permanent residence rights to all free Blacks residing in Texas at the time of the Texas Declaration of Independence.

Samuel was granted bounty land on the Medina River, southwest of San Antonio. He sold some of that land and in 1852 moved to present-day Van Ormy, Bexar County, Texas where he was a farmer and cattleman.

Samuel married Mary Lorena Vess, a white woman, in 1837. They had five children before Mary's death in 1847. He passed away in 1893.^[3] He was buried in the cemetery named after him, on land he received in 1850 as bounty for his service.^[4]

Slave Owners

• Samuel McCulloch Sr, (father)

Research Notes

Some family trees on Ancestry show Rose Ann as the mother; she appears as Rose Ann McCulloch in an 1860 census record in Jackson Co, Texas with birthplace as Abbeyville, South Carolina, and living with M.H. McCulloch, possible daughter or daughter-in-law and possible daughter Jane Grey both born in Alabama. It appears several of Samuel's children are with them also. She is more likely step-mother as would have been very young to be Samuel's mother.

Sources

1. ↑ Nolan Thompson, “McCulloch, Samuel, Jr.,” Handbook of Texas Online, accessed February 26, 2022, https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/mcculloch-samuel-jr.
2. ↑ 1835 Emancipation Record, filed 6 July 1835 in Alabama (later recorded 6 Aug 1846), copy posted on Ancestry Copy-requires subscription
3. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #8305649 McCulloch Cemetery, San Antonio, Texas
4. ↑ McCulloch Cemetery information Historical Marker Database

• 1850 Census: "1850 United States Federal Census"
  Year: 1850; Census Place: Jackson, Texas; Roll: 912; Page: 217b
  Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 8054 #1035179 (accessed 26 February 2022)
  Saml McCulloch (38), Farmer, in Jackson, Texas, USA. Born in South Carolina. Living with inferred father, 5 inferred children.

• 1880 Census: "1880 United States Federal Census"
  Year: 1880; Census Place: Bexar, Texas; Roll: 1291; Page: 296B; Enumeration District: 021
  Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 6742 #7217119 (accessed 26 February 2022)
  Samuel Mcculloch (69), widower father, Works On Farm, in household of Lewis C. Mcculloch (38) in Bexar, Texas, USA. Born in South Carolina.
• Samuel McCulloch Jr in Wikipedia

• Wikidata: Item Q64876122, en:Wikipedia