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GALLATIN, ALBERT (1809-1898). Albert Gallatin, soldier, was born in Lexington, Kentucky, on August 1, 1809. He was single when he moved to Texas from Missouri in 1832. He enlisted in the revolutionary armyqv on November 1, 1835, took part in the Grass Fightqv in John Crane'sqv company, was discharged on December 13, 1835, and reenlisted as a first sergeant in William Ware'sqv Second Company, Second Regiment of Texas Volunteers. Gallatin was slightly wounded in the battle of San Jacintoqv and was discharged on June 12, 1836. In January 1841 he was captain of a company in Edwin Morehouse'sqv regiment in an expedition against the Indians on the upper Brazos River. Gallatin lived in Montgomery and Milam counties but died in Brazos County, on February 16, 1898. Both he and his wife, the former Sarah Louise Jones of Alabama, whom he married on November 23, 1837, were buried in Cottonwood Cemetery, near Bryan.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Daughters of the Republic of Texas, Founders and Patriots of the Republic of Texas (Austin, 1963-). Daughters of the Republic of Texas, Muster Rolls of the Texas Revolution (Austin, 1986). Louis Wiltz Kemp Papers, Barker Texas History Center, University of Texas at Austin. Texas Almanac, 1872.

Albert R. Gallatin

 

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