Person:Silas Glover (2)

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Silas Mercer Glover
b.1800 Elbert Co, GA
d.7 Mar 1851 Travis Co, TX
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  • H.  Silas Mercer Glover1800 - 1851
  • W.  Jane Ann CraftAbt 1800 - Aft 1839
m. 17 Jan 1820
  1. Andrew Glover
  2. Irena Glover
  3. Jane Ann Glover
  4. Charles R. Glover
  5. Martha Glover
  6. Francis M. Glover
  7. Louisa Glover1824 - 1900
  8. Silas John GloverAbt 1831 -
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m. 1843
  1. Carolina Glover
  2. Sarah Catherine Glover
  3. Lazarus Benjamin Glover
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m. 20 Nov 1850
  1. Mary Glover1851 -
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Name Silas Mercer Glover
Gender Male
Birth? 1800 Elbert Co, GA
Marriage 17 Jan 1820 Huntsville, Madison Co, ALto Jane Ann Craft
Marriage 1843 Huntsville, Madison Co, ALto Sarah L. Vann
Marriage 20 Nov 1850 Travis Co, TXto Susannah Anderson
Death? 7 Mar 1851 Travis Co, TX
Burial? Ebenezer Baptist Churchyard, Webberville, TX

Silas M. Glover was a Justice of the Peace of Madison County, and as such, performed marriages in the 1830's and 1840's.

He and 10 children left Madison County, AL, in late 1847 or early 1848, to go to Texas. They traveled in an oxen-drawn wagon train with Lazarus Vann, his two sons and one daughter,and two or three families named Bishop. The journey was accomplished in 3months, and it is said they came the southernmost route to avoid hostiles, andthey chose this season to travel to avoid heavy spring rains. Two older daughters, Elizabeth and Louisa, had married in Alabama, and they came the following year with their families. Irena Glover stated that she and the older girls took care of the babies on this long trek to Texas.

The year following the arrival in Texas, 1849, there was a grasshopper infestation resulting in total devastation of crops. That same year a cholera epidemic which seemed to follow the Colorado upriver from the coast reached Webberville and took several lives. A large Comanche Indian camp was located near where Georgetown is now.

Source - http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~dcglover/silasglover1800.htm

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