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ANGLO-AMERICANS 315
federate service, held the commission
of the war. He was a member of the
State Constitution Convention of 1866.
He was chosen by the State Governor
of Texas to go to Europe to manage
a law suit between the cotton-growers
and the manufacturers of cotton goods,
He en the case. He m. Malinda Lusk
in .
I. John James (3), 1821-1861, was
a civil engineer; he surveyed the
German colony in Texas, at that
time 250 mi. from any settlement
among hostile Indians. At the com-
mencement of the Civil War he
was traveling in one of the mail
coaches from San Antonio to Cal-
ifornia, when the United States
Troops were recalled from the
frontier, and he and all his com-
pany were massacred by the In-
dians. One of his boots and a
glove was all that was found to
tell his sad fate. James married
Matilda Sloane and they had:
(1) James, of Brenham, Texas;
(2) George, of Wichita Falls; (3)
William, of Ennis; (4) John; and
(5) Anna, q. s.
II. Anna (5), m. John N. Brown,
of Virginia:
Daisy.
2 Ernest Lee, q. s.
3 Clinton Giddings, m. Ist, Ethel Rob-
inson, of Austin:
i Clinton and
ii Robinson, twins;
m. 2nd, Marguerite Muller:
iii John N., b. 1936, in San Antonio.
4 Annie Louise, m. Stanhope Henry,
greatgrandson of Patrick Henry; they
live in Austin: 2 ch.
5 Marguerite, d. y.
III. Ernest Lee (2), m. Benita
Mount (C. W. and Mary R.):
1 Ernest Lee, Jr., q. 8.
2 Ann.
IV. Ernest Lee, Jr. (1), m. Doris
Wofford (Henry R. and Simona
Broadbent) :
1 Ernest Lee, III.
PASCHAL
The Paschal family in American are
descended from three brothers, who were
Huguenot exiles in North Carolina. The
Catholic French branch spell the name
“‘Pascal,’”? without the ‘th’. They are of
the, family of the marquises of Roche-
gude.
George Paschal was b. in N. C., 1760,
and d. in Ga., 1832. He was the son of
William. George m. Agnes Brewer, who
d. in Big Savannah, Ga., 1869, aged 94;
she was of Scotch-Irish stock.
George W. Paschal, son of George and
Agnes, sat on the supreme court bench
of Arkansas, and remov to Texas in
1846, and was the author of the volumin-
ous digest of the decisions of the Sup-
reme Court. He d. in Washington City,
ca 1877, while extending his labors in
legal literature. He m. three times;, Ist,
Sarah Ridge, daughter of Major Ridge, a
full blooded Cherokee Indian, by whom:
Agnes, George (m. Fannie Tilley), and
Ridge; Agnes m. William McNeir, of
Md., and they had Paschal (m. Edith
Hogan: Catharine, Leonore and Watie)
and Forest (m. Stella Frick, daughter of
Henry and May Kissling, of Bandera:
Waldo, Prof. of English at Univ. of N.
C., Stella, Ralph, George and Virginia,
living in Houston, Texas). George W.
Paschal had Bessie by his 2nd m., who m.
T. P. O'Connor, M. P. from Ireland.
I. Frank Lafitte, another son of
George and Agnes, was born Jan-
uary 15, 1810, at Lexington, Ogle-
thrope County, Georgia. He re-
ceived most of his education from
his mother. AS a very young man
he was compelled to seek work
and clerked for a time in a store.
He organized and taught a little
school. Hewascalled home tobe
with his father during his longill-
ness and death. In 1836 news of the
Goliad massacre of the Georgia
Battalion resulted in the banding
together of a force of men, by
Major Augustus Parker, at Rome,
Ga., who came to Texas and join-
ed in the fight for liberty. Frank-
lin L. Paschal was elected lieut-
enant of this company and came
to Texas with them. Shortly after-
wards. he became commissary of
Green’s brigade. He then became
a member of Jack Hays’ command,
“and was known for his unflinch-
ing bravery and calm and quiet
bearing which made him the trust-