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Mother: Sarah BATTAN |
_Humphrey BASSE _________________________
| (1565 - 1616) m 1588
_Nathaniel BASSE Gent.________________|
| (1589 - 1654) m 1613 |
| |_Mary BUSCHIER __________________________
| (1568 - 1616) m 1588
_William BASS I "the Immigrant"_|
| (1618 - 1695) m 1641 |
| | _Samuel (Jourdan) JORDAN "the Immigrant"_+
| | | (1578 - 1623)
| |_Mary or Anna Marie (Jourdan) JORDAN _|
| (1596 - 1629) m 1613 |
| |_________________________________________
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|--William BASS II
| (1647 - 1695)
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|_Sarah BATTAN __________________|
(1620 - ....) m 1641 |
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Mother: Alice THOMPSON |
I have visited the cemetery in Houston where James T.
Collinsworth is buried. He has a huge headstone that was
presented to him during the 1936 Texas Centennial in honor of
his leadership during the Texas Revolution.
"1.James T., b1795, was a member of the Davidson Co. TN bar in
1828 in partnership in 1830 with John BELL. He sold his land in
Feb 1835 and moved to TX and became prominent in the affairs of
Texas Independence and on Mar 2, 1836 signed the Texas
Declaration of Independence. Before he died in 1838 he had been
Sec of State of the Republic and Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court and a Presidential candidate. (Brazoria Co.) Member of:
Convention of 1836 Washington-on-the-Brazos (1-22 March 1836).
Collinsworth, James Secretary of State (2nd) 17 March 1836 --
22 October 1836. Collinsworth, James Senate Brazoria Members
of: 1st Congress (1836-37) Columbia (3 October 1836 -- 22
December 1836) Houston (1 May 1837 -- 13 June 1837).
He stated he came to Texas only to take part in the struggle for
independence and intended to return to TN. A major in the TX
army, he raised a company of volunteers. An account of his
death is found in The Texas Republic shere it states that he
leaped from the deck of a steamer into Galveston Bay and drowned
being under the influence of ardent spirits for a week before
hand. he was bur. July 24, 1838 in the old city cemetery in
Houston, the first Masonic funeral in Texas. A county in north
Texas and a major thoroughfare in Houston is named for him."
COLLINSWORTH, JAMES (1806-1838). James Collinsworth, lawyer,
jurist, and signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence, was
born in Davidson County, Tennessee, in 1806, the son of Edmund
and Alice (Thompson) Collinsworth. He attended school in
Tennessee, studied law, and was admitted to the Tennessee bar in
1826. He was an ally of Andrew Jackson, Sam Houston, and other
leading Tennessee politicians. From April 30, 1829, until early
1834, Collinsworth served as United States district attorney for
the Western District of Tennessee. By 1835 he had moved to
Matagorda, in the Brazos Municipality, Texas, and begun the
practice of law. Along with Asa Brigham, John S. D. Byrom, and
Edwin Waller he represented Brazoria in the Convention of 1836.
At the convention Collinsworth signed the Texas Declaration of
Independence, introduced and guided to adoption a resolution
making his fellow Tennessean Sam Houston commander in chief of
the Texas army, became chairman of the military affairs
committee, and served on the committee appointed to draft a
constitution for the new Republic of Texas. After the convention
adjourned, Houston, on April 8, 1836, appointed Collinsworth his
aide-de-camp with the rank of major. After the battle of San
Jacinto Gen. Thomas J. Rusk commended him for his bravery and
chivalry.
From April 29 to May 23, 1836, Collinsworth served as acting
secretary of state in President David G. Burnet's cabinet. On
May 26, 1836, because of his intimacy with President Andrew
Jackson, he was designated a commissioner to the United States
to seek assistance and possible annexation. The mission failed.
Later in the year Collinsworth declined Houston's offer to make
him attorney general of the Republic of Texas. Instead, on
November 30, 1836, he was elected to a term in the Senate of the
republic.
When the judiciary of the republic was organized, Collinsworth,
on December 16, 1836, was appointed the first chief justice, a
post he held until his death. Also in 1836 he helped organize
the Texas Railroad, Navigation, and Banking Company, and the
following year he helped found the city of Richmond. He was a
charter member of the Philosophical Society of Texas, founded in
1837.
In 1838 Collinsworth was a candidate, along with Mirabeau B.
Lamar and Peter W. Grayson, for the presidency of the republic.
The first published report of his candidacy was on June 30,
1838. On July 11, however, after a week of drunkenness, he fell
or jumped off a boat in Galveston Bay and drowned. Most assumed
he committed suicide. His body was recovered and taken by boat
up Buffalo Bayou to Houston, where it lay in state in the
capitol (see CAPITOLS). Chief Justice Collinsworth was buried in
the City Cemetery, Houston, under the direction of Temple Lodge
No.4; his was "the first Masonic funeral ever held in Texas." On
August 21, 1876, Collingsworth County, its name misspelled in
the act of the legislature establishing the county, was named in
his honor. A state monument was placed at Collinsworth's grave
in the old City Cemetery in Houston in 1931.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Joe E. Ericson, Judges of the Republic of Texas
(1836-1846): A Biographical Directory (Dallas: Taylor, 1980).
Louis Wiltz Kemp, The Signers of the Texas Declaration of
Independence (Salado, Texas: Anson Jones, 1944; rpt. 1959).
Texas House of Representatives, Biographical Directory of the
Texan Conventions and Congresses, 1832-1845 (Austin: Book
Exchange, 1941).
Joe E. Ericson
Recommended citation: "COLLINSWORTH, JAMES." The Handbook of
Texas Online.
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/CC/fco97
.html
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1st Masonic Funeral
_(RESEARCH QUERY) COLLINGSWORTH\COLLINSWORTH of VA & SC_
|
_David COLLINSWORTH _|
| (1724 - ....) |
| |________________________________________________________
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_Edmond COLLINSWORTH _|
| (1750 - 1815) m 1795 |
| | ________________________________________________________
| | |
| |_Thebie? FOX ________|
| (1728 - ....) |
| |________________________________________________________
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|
|--James T. COLLINSWORTH
| (1806 - 1838)
| _(RESEARCH QUERY) THOMPSON _____________________________
| |
| _James THOMPSON _____|
| | (1730 - 1792) |
| | |________________________________________________________
| |
|_Alice THOMPSON ______|
(1756 - ....) m 1795 |
| ________________________________________________________
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|_____________________|
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Mother: Joan CHRISTY |
_Johann George FRANCISCUS _
| (1739 - 1809)
_Andrew FRANCISCO I_____|
| (1762 - ....) m 1808 |
| |___________________________
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_Andrew FRANCISCO II_|
| (1809 - 1868) m 1835|
| | ___________________________
| | |
| |_Priscilla Jane STEELE _|
| (1762 - ....) m 1808 |
| |___________________________
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|
|--Henry Clay FRANCISCO C.S.A.
| (1843 - 1916)
| ___________________________
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| ________________________|
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| | |___________________________
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|_Joan CHRISTY _______|
(1817 - 1895) m 1835|
| ___________________________
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Mother: Amanda Anna MERRILL |
_Andrew GATEWOOD ____+
| (1740 - 1794) m 1768
_Robert Andrew GATEWOOD _|
| (1781 - 1823) m 1806 |
| |_Margaret KAY _______+
| (1750 - ....) m 1768
_Richard Henry GATEWOOD C.S.A._|
| (1818 - 1880) m 1855 |
| | _Anthony NEW ________
| | | (1745 - 1833) m 1782
| |_Lucy Dabney NEW ________|
| (1787 - 1865) m 1806 |
| |_Nancy WYATT ________+
| (1755 - 1833) m 1782
|
|--John D. GATEWOOD
| (1864 - ....)
| _____________________
| |
| _________________________|
| | |
| | |_____________________
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|_Amanda Anna MERRILL __________|
(1827 - 1880) m 1855 |
| _____________________
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Mother: Mary WALLER |
_John LEWIS III______+
| (1635 - 1690) m 1660
_Zachary LEWIS I______________________|
| (1673 - ....) m 1695 |
| |_Isabella MILLER ____+
| (1640 - 1703) m 1660
_Zachary LEWIS II____|
| (1702 - 1765) m 1725|
| | _____________________
| | |
| |_Mary WALKER _________________________|
| (1677 - 1725) m 1695 |
| |_____________________
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|
|--Waller LEWIS
| (1739 - 1808)
| _John WALLER I_______+
| | (1645 - 1723) m 1669
| _John II WALLER Gent. "the immigrant"_|
| | (1673 - 1753) m 1696 |
| | |_Mary KEY ___________+
| | (1648 - 1735) m 1669
|_Mary WALLER ________|
(1698 - 1781) m 1725|
| _____________________
| |
|_Dorothy (Dorothea) KING _____________|
(1675 - 1759) m 1696 |
|_____________________
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Father: HUGH de VERNON Mother: Daughter of BALLIOT |
_RICHARD de VERNON __+
| (1050 - 1107)
_WILLIAM de VERNON ___|
| (1070 - ....) |
| |_ADELISE PEVEREL ____
| (1050 - ....)
_HUGH de VERNON ______|
| (1100 - ....) |
| | _____________________
| | |
| |______________________|
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| |_____________________
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|
|--MATHEW de VERNON
| (1130 - ....)
| _____________________
| |
| _REGINALD de BALLIOT _|
| | (1070 - ....) |
| | |_____________________
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|_Daughter of BALLIOT _|
(1100 - ....) |
| _____________________
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|______________________|
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