JOHN ENGLISH

   JOHN ENGLISH, fourth child of James and Elizabeth English, was born July 4/5, 1793 in English's Ferry, New River, Virginia.  He married ELIZABETH CHOATE on February 21, 1824. Due to the hostile Indians around the settlement he moved with the English   family to North Carolina when it was included in the present state of Tennessee.   During the Ware of 1812, John enlisted with General Andrew Jackson's "Riflemen of East Tennessee."  He fought at the Battle of New Orleans and was captured and detained as a prisoner for several weeks.  In 1824,  he and his family migrated to Texas and settled at Ayish Bayou District near the present county of Shelby.  On July 18, 1828, he was commissioned at New Orleans by the Governor of Louisiana, Captain of the 2nd Company, 2nd Battalion, of the 18th Regiment of the Militia of the State of Louisiana.  He was very active in politics, social and military affairs of East Texas.  He joined the struggle for Texas Independence.  He was present at the military engagement of Nacogdoches in 1832, and the following year, 1833, he served with his brother, William, as a Tenaha delegate to 2nd Convention of Texas in San Felipe.  In October, 1835, he took leave as a delegate of the consultation in Tenaha District and entered the military service as a Captain commanding a volunteer company, which proceeded to join the Texas Revolutionary Army near Bexar, Texas.    He served at the seizure of Goliad on November 13, 1835.  Following the war he continued his service as a member of the 2nd Congress of the Republic of Texas in 1837.  In 1838, he was employed by the Republic under orders of President Sam Houston for transfer of a special express through hostile and difficult territory form Headquarters 3rd Brigade, in Shelbyville, to General Dyers at Clarksville on the Red River.  His knowledge of Texas History made him very entertaining during the later years of his life and his children always spoke of the close friendship and attachment of their father and Sam Houston.  in 1854, he moved to Houston County, about twelve miles east of Crockett, to a community where several of his brothers and their families had moved. John and his wife Elizabeth were devout Christians and members of the Methodist Church.  Their home was known as "the preachers home."   Elizabeth died on June 19, 1857.  Years later, after a year of laboring under a chronic illness, Captain John died at his home near Crockett on Wednesday, December 30, 1868 at 4:00PM at the age of 75 years.  Both John and Elizabeth are buried in English Cemetery, Crockett, Houston, County, Texas. 

The children of John and Elizabeth Choate English:

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