Alamo Defender. He was a farmer who left for Texas in 1830 with his family and arrived in DeWitt's Colony on January 10, 1831. He registered for twenty-four labores of land on the Guadalupe River above Gonzales and also for one labor on a small creek that empties into the Guadalupe. In September 1835, he was one of the original "Old Eighteen", defenders of the Gonzales cannon. On February 23, 1836, he was mustered into service in the Gonzales Ranging Company of Mounted Volunteers. He entered the Alamo garrison with this unit on March 1, 1836 and died five days later in the Battle of the Alamo.
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DARST. Jacob C. Darst was a member of the Gonzales Old 18 and the Gonzales Alamo Relief Force where he died in Mar 1836. Son David Sterling Hughes Darst was a 15 year old at the time the major events leading to independence began in Gonzales. His memories of Gonzales town and the area at that time were the basis of much detail related in the late 19th and early 20th century including the layout of inner Gonzales town and its structures in 1903. The Darsts owned lots 2 and 3 in block 10 and had a home on the corner of St. Lawrence and St. John Streets, one block northeast of the fort. Jacob Darst also owned lots in outer Gonzales town northwest of the inner town. Jacob Darst was granted a sitio of land in the DeWitt Colony, the league of which was on the east bank of the Guadalupe River just into current GuadalupeCo near the GonzalesCo line. He received a labor which was east of Hallettsville, south of Sweet Home, in LavacaCo adjoining the Silas Morris league..When the Gonzales cannon was demanded by the Mexicans in September, 1835 Jacob Darst was one of the company of eighteen men who defended it. D.S.H. Darst was fifteen years of age when he accompanied his father to Goliad previous to the surrender of Colonel Fannin. It was that same spring when Jacob answered the call of the Alamo and was killed March 6, 1836. Information found and used with permission from SONS OF DEWITT COLONY TEXAS
Wallace L. McKeehan, All Rights Reserved.
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DARST. Jacob C. Darst was a member of the Gonzales Old 18 and the Gonzales Alamo Relief Force where he died in Mar 1836. Son David Sterling Hughes Darst was a 15 year old at the time the major events leading to independence began in Gonzales. His memories of Gonzales town and the area at that time were the basis of much detail related in the late 19th and early 20th century including the layout of inner Gonzales town and its structures in 1903. The Darsts owned lots 2 and 3 in block 10 and had a home on the corner of St. Lawrence and St. John Streets, one block northeast of the fort. Jacob Darst also owned lots in outer Gonzales town northwest of the inner town. Jacob Darst was granted a sitio of land in the DeWitt Colony, the league of which was on the east bank of the Guadalupe River just into current GuadalupeCo near the GonzalesCo line. He received a labor which was east of Hallettsville, south of Sweet Home, in LavacaCo adjoining the Silas Morris league..When the Gonzales cannon was demanded by the Mexicans in September, 1835 Jacob Darst was one of the company of eighteen men who defended it. D.S.H. Darst was fifteen years of age when he accompanied his father to Goliad previous to the surrender of Colonel Fannin. It was that same spring when Jacob answered the call of the Alamo and was killed March 6, 1836. Information found and used with permission from SONS OF DEWITT COLONY TEXAS
Wallace L. McKeehan, All Rights Reserved.
Alamo Defender. He was a farmer who left for Texas in 1830 with his family and arrived in DeWitt's Colony on January 10, 1831. He registered for twenty-four labores of land on the Guadalupe River above Gonzales and also for one labor on a small creek that empties into the Guadalupe. In September 1835, he was one of the original "Old Eighteen", defenders of the Gonzales cannon. On February 23, 1836, he was mustered into service in the Gonzales Ranging Company of Mounted Volunteers. He entered the Alamo garrison with this unit on March 1, 1836 and died five days later in the Battle of the Alamo.
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DARST. Jacob C. Darst was a member of the Gonzales Old 18 and the Gonzales Alamo Relief Force where he died in Mar 1836. Son David Sterling Hughes Darst was a 15 year old at the time the major events leading to independence began in Gonzales. His memories of Gonzales town and the area at that time were the basis of much detail related in the late 19th and early 20th century including the layout of inner Gonzales town and its structures in 1903. The Darsts owned lots 2 and 3 in block 10 and had a home on the corner of St. Lawrence and St. John Streets, one block northeast of the fort. Jacob Darst also owned lots in outer Gonzales town northwest of the inner town. Jacob Darst was granted a sitio of land in the DeWitt Colony, the league of which was on the east bank of the Guadalupe River just into current GuadalupeCo near the GonzalesCo line. He received a labor which was east of Hallettsville, south of Sweet Home, in LavacaCo adjoining the Silas Morris league..When the Gonzales cannon was demanded by the Mexicans in September, 1835 Jacob Darst was one of the company of eighteen men who defended it. D.S.H. Darst was fifteen years of age when he accompanied his father to Goliad previous to the surrender of Colonel Fannin. It was that same spring when Jacob answered the call of the Alamo and was killed March 6, 1836. Information found and used with permission from SONS OF DEWITT COLONY TEXAS
Wallace L. McKeehan, All Rights Reserved.
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DARST. Jacob C. Darst was a member of the Gonzales Old 18 and the Gonzales Alamo Relief Force where he died in Mar 1836. Son David Sterling Hughes Darst was a 15 year old at the time the major events leading to independence began in Gonzales. His memories of Gonzales town and the area at that time were the basis of much detail related in the late 19th and early 20th century including the layout of inner Gonzales town and its structures in 1903. The Darsts owned lots 2 and 3 in block 10 and had a home on the corner of St. Lawrence and St. John Streets, one block northeast of the fort. Jacob Darst also owned lots in outer Gonzales town northwest of the inner town. Jacob Darst was granted a sitio of land in the DeWitt Colony, the league of which was on the east bank of the Guadalupe River just into current GuadalupeCo near the GonzalesCo line. He received a labor which was east of Hallettsville, south of Sweet Home, in LavacaCo adjoining the Silas Morris league..When the Gonzales cannon was demanded by the Mexicans in September, 1835 Jacob Darst was one of the company of eighteen men who defended it. D.S.H. Darst was fifteen years of age when he accompanied his father to Goliad previous to the surrender of Colonel Fannin. It was that same spring when Jacob answered the call of the Alamo and was killed March 6, 1836. Information found and used with permission from SONS OF DEWITT COLONY TEXAS
Wallace L. McKeehan, All Rights Reserved.
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