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- !SOURCE:
(1) 1826 Atascosito District, TX Census, page 5, listed as age 1, born in TX.
(2) 1880 Ellis Co, TX Census, ED 49, dwelling 240.
(3) "History of Ellis County", The Lewis Pub. Co., 1892.
(4) Ellis Co, TX, Marriage Record, Vol C, page 55.
!NOTE:
(1) Volunterred for Mexican War in Col George T. Wood's Regt.
(2) Fought at Palo Alto and discharged in 1846.
(3) Joined Capt. Lamar's Regt of TX Rangers, discharged in 1848, then joined
Capt. Blackwell's Co.
(4) Three months later joined John S. Ford's Co. of Texas Rangers.
(5) During March 1851, Lt. Walker, with a detachment of John S. Ford's Ranger
Company, including Robert Rankin and several others, charged a band of 15
hostile Indians at Cat Creek, about 60 miles SE of Laredo. Six Indians were
killed and 69 mules were captured.
(6) Also in 1851, Robert was in another fight south of the Nueces River on
Laganta Creek. This unit was discharged in 1852. (From "Texas Indian
Fighters" by A.J. Sowell, 1900).
(7) In 1859 he went to AR, bought cattle which he drove to MO and sold,
probably to his brother-in-law, the husband of Emily A. Rankin.
(8) He then went to Denver, CO, and mined until 1864.
(9) He landed in Virginia City and mined and prospected until 1867.
(10) Arrived back in TX in 1868.
(11) According to "Texas Confederate Scrip Grantees" by Thomas Lloyd Miller,
1985, Robert S. Rankin was granted 1280 acres, Johnson Co, TX, Nov 19,
1881, GLO File No. 1212, 76430-BX-41363.
(12) Member of Masonic Lodge No. 90, Waxahachie, TX, listed in Annual Return
in 1874.
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1826 - 1894 (68 years)
Has 68 ancestors but no descendants in this family tree.
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1802 - 1894 (92 years)