Family of Jacob G. Lentz
Jacob G. Lentz
b. about 1795 or 1797, North Carolina (IGI)
m. 1819 to Sarah Emerson (IGI-Limestone County, AL)
d. 1840 in Bastrop County, buried in Corbell community, near Red Rock,
Texas.
He was killed by Indians.
See probate records here.
He went to Missouri from Alabama in 1820, then to Texas in 1832. He arrived in
Bastrop, Texas,
as a S. F. Austin colonist in 1831. He was killed by Indians 9 years
later, leaving his wife & six children 4,428 acres.
Occupation: farmer
Military: fought in Mexican War.
Was in the Battle of San Jacinto.
Also
in War of 1812.
Resided: St. Louis Co., Mo. (1830
census)
1832, Matagorda Co., Texas
1833, Bastrop Co., Texas
1850 census shows Sarah in Bastrop Co.
Sarah Emerson
b. 1800 or 1801 (New York?)
m. (2) June 22, 1851, to E. (or C.) Parker, Caldwell County, Texas (Vol. A,
Pg
53-54), by Garrison Greenwood, Ord. minister.
See marriage record here.
d. 1868, buried Bastrop County, Texas
She was English
CHILDREN
of Jacob G. Lentz & Sarah Emerson:
1.
Henry Clay Lentz
b. September 20 or 22, 1820 (St. Louis, Missouri)
m. (1) December 1, 1853 to Lucinda Ann Barrow, Guadalupe Co., Texas
m. (2) May 24, 1868 to Nancy J. Moore,
Bastrop County, Texas (Vol. A, Pg.
435)
d. November 4, 1884
2. Eunice Lentz
b. 1823, in Missouri
m. (1) June 26, 1851 to John Cauddle, Caldwell County, Texas by Asa
Pullen,
J.P.
See marriage record here.
m. (2) to George D. Smith
3.
Mary Jane Lentz
b. ?, 1827 (Missouri)
m. (1) before 1850 census to ? Russell
m. (2) to ? Corbell, Texas
4.
Ann Elizabeth Lentz
b. May 7, l833 (Texas)
m. June 28, 1851 to Uriah Gould, Caldwell County, Texas, by Edward Heppenstull, Deputy
See marriage record here.
d. October 4, 1895, Florence, Texas
1850 census shows 18 children.
5.
Amanda Horton Lentz
b. February 8, 1835 (Bastrop Co., Texas)
m. (1) January 21, 1859, M. L. Burton, Caldwell County, Texas (Vol. C,
Pg.
40) by JP G. W. Sheaf
m. (2) August 30, 1864, Gabriel Moore Lentz, Bastrop
County, Texas (Vol.
A,
Pg. 163)
d. November 28, 1880, buried Corbell-Jones cemetery, Bastrop, Texas
6.
Thomas Hanson (or Hansen) Lentz
b. 1824/1837 (Texas)
m. to Eliza Wardick Browning
d. 1879-1885
See picture here.
7.
William Lentz
b. Missouri
d. about 1842 (Killed by Indians as a child, at Wilbarger Creek, Big
Prairie)
8.
James Lentz
b. Missouri
9.
Joseph Lentz
b. Missouri
10.
Robert Lentz
b. Missouri
11.
Melisie Lentz
b. Missouri
d. unmarried
