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Facts and Events
| Name |
Isaac Hite Fishback |
| Gender |
Male |
| Birth? |
3 Oct 1805 |
Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky |
| Other? |
1827 |
Nacogdoches Municipality, TexasMigration |
| Marriage |
22 Dec 1831 |
Jonesborough, Miller County, Arkansas(8 or 9 children) Jonesborough was considered part of the Wavell Colony in 1831, and is so marked on contemporary maps.
to Elizabeth Cornelius |
| Census[2] |
1850 |
Titus County, Texas |
| Will[4] |
2 Apr 1857 |
Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky |
| Death? |
2 Apr 1857 |
Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky(some sources say he was murdered) |
| Burial? |
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Bridgeford Family Cemetery, Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky(not in Find-a-Grave) |
| Probate[4] |
Aft 2 Apr 1857 |
Red River County, Texas |
| Other? |
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Note |
From the names, dates of application (all 1835), & names of witnesses, all from the index compiled from om the R.B. Blake transcripts in the Nacogdoches Archives.
No. 669. Fishback, Isaac H. Nacogdoches, 11 Dec 1835
Certify foreigner Isaac H. Fishback is a man of good character ..... married with family, resident of this municipality since 1827.....
[signed] Radford Berry
References
- Jackson, Ronald Vern, and Gary Ronald Teeples. Arkansas tax lists, 1819-1839. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Accelerated Indexing Systems, c1980)
1832. - ↑ Titus, Texas, United States. 1850 U.S. Census Population Schedule
p. 116B, dwelling/family 327/327.
Fishback, Isaac 45 yrs Farmer (real estate = $5,000) b. Kentucky
Fishback, Elizabeth 38 yrs b. Illinois
Fishback, Rebecca 17 yrs b. Texas
Fishback, Charles 14 yrs b. Texas
Fishback, Harriet 11 yrs b. Texas
Fishback, Jane 9 yrs b. Texas
Fishback, William 6 yrs b. Texas
Fishback, Martha 2 yrs b. Texas
- Texas. General Land Office. Abstracts of All Original Texas Land Titles Comprising Grants and Locations. (Austin, Texas: Texas General Land Office)
Cert. #27, Patent No. 299, 6 Oct 1855.
Received a 3rd class headright for 320 acres.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Texas, United States. Wills and Probate Records, 1833-1974
Red River County Will Book A, pp. 119-24.
- Russell, Traylor. History of Titus County, Texas: containing biographical sketches of many noted characters. (Waco, Texas: W.M. Morrison, c1965)
Vol. 2, p. 48-50.
THE ISAAC HITE FISHBACK FAMILY.
Isaac Hite Fishback is remembered as being an early day settler in northeast Texas and a man who wa always ready to tell some tall tale of something that had happened to him. The stories that he told have been recorded by various historians, among whom were Frank Dobie. However, as is true with many early day Titus County families, the name of Fishback has disappeared from the county, and so far as can be determined, only one descendant now lives in Titus County.
The Fishbacks were of German origin, and in some instances the name was spelled "Fishbaugh". John and Herman Fishback were two Germans who were brought to Virginia in 1714 by Governer Spotswood as "Iron Mongers." They settled on the Rapidan River in Virginia and then later on, becoming dissatisfied, some of the families moved on west and fimally into Kentucky. In the middle 1820s, Arthur Goodal Wavell and Benjamin R. Milam started a colonization project in northeast Texas (then still Mexico) called the Wavell Colony, and they hoped to secure from the Mexican government a grant covering all of northeast Texas. They advertised their colony extensively throughout the U/S. and in the 1820s numerous families were settled on the colony even though Wavell and Milam had not received title to the land. Some of these families were Clarks, Cornelius, Hopkins, McKinneys, Nalls and among others were Isac Hite Fishback and his brother, William. The Fishbacks settled in what is now Red River County and were there as early as 1828, according to an affidavit made by Isaac Hite Fishback for land from the Republic of Texas. Wavell and Milam never received title to their land, but notwithstanding this the many families that had settled in the area continued to live there and did receive land from the Republic of Texas (through headrights; a married man with wife and children could get 4400+ aces). William Fishback was at the Alamo and was one of those died in that battle. His name is listed as "William Fishbaugh."
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