BOSTICK, SION RECORD (1819-1902). Sion Record Bostick (Bostwick), soldier of the Republic of Texas and the Confederate States of America, son of Caleb R. Bostickqv, was born in Alabama on December 7, 1819. The elder Bostick was a farmer and stock raiser and one of the ten original Texas Rangersqv. He was granted a sitio in what became Matagorda County by Stephen F. Austin on July 24, 1824. Sion joined his father there in 1828. In 1829 the family moved to San Felipe and in 1832 to the site of Columbus.
Sion Bostick was present for the battle of Gonzales in the company of Capt. P. R. Splane and took part in the siege of Bexar. When Antonio López de Santa Anna marched into Texas, Bostick reenlisted, on March 21, 1836, as a private in Capt. Moseley Baker's company of Col. Edward Burleson's First Regiment, Texas Volunteers; he fought in the battle of San Jacinto. A Sion Bostick is also listed as a member of Capt. William H. Patton's Columbia Company at the time of the battle. With two other scouts, Joel Robinson and James A. Sylvester,qqv Bostick captured and brought in Santa Anna on April 22. After San Jacinto he reenlisted as a private in the army, first for the term from March 11 through May 25 and then from July 1 to October 1, in the company of Capt. B. F. Ravill.
In 1840 Bostick was living in Colorado County and owned two slaves. He took part in the battle of Plum Creek that year and later claimed to have served during the Mexican War in Capt. Claborne C. Herbertqv's Company E of Col. John Coffee Hays's First Texas Mounted Rifles. This company was recruited in Columbus, but Bostick's name does not appear on its muster roll. On March 21, 1862, the forty-one-year-old Bostick enlisted in Capt. John C. Upton's Company B of Col. James J. Archer's Fifth Texas Infantry regiment of the famed Hood's Texas Brigade. He served for a time in Virginia but was discharged by the order of the Confederate secretary of war on September 22 as over age. "During the war with Spain I was very much troubled because I was too old to go," he later wrote.
Bostick died of cancer at his home in San Saba on October 15, 1902. He was a member of the Texas Veterans' Associationqv. His memoir of the Texas Revolution, dictated when he was past eighty years of age, was published in the Southwestern Historical Quarterly in 1901.
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