History

Steve William Parsutt
February 14, 1918- August 24, 2018

Rosie Mae Blair Dannelley
 
March 26, 1942- Sunday, September 2, 2018

Matagorda County TXGenWeb

William Prissick.
   Passages in the Life of an Eccentric Texas Legislator.
   The Family Pedigree of Hon. William Prissick-Oddities of Odd Englishman
Scraps of Early History 
   in the Settlement of Texas.
   (Written for The Galveston Weekly News 
   Jan. 12, 1882
By D.E.E. Braman, of Matagorda.)
 
      EDITOR’S NOTE: D.E.E. Braman came to Texas in 1836 to fight in the Texas Revolution (see adjoining story) and became one of the state’s early great writers and chronicler of the Times - William Prissick was an important topic to him.
   This is the second installment of the William Prissick chronicles that tell a good bit about Matagorda County life in early and mid 1800s.

Matagorda County TXGenWeb

William Prissick.
   Passages in the Life of an Eccentric Texas Legislator.
   The Family Pedigree of Hon. William Prissick-Oddities of Odd Englishman
Scraps of Early History 
in the Settlement of Texas.
   (Written for The Galveston Weekly News 
Jan. 12, 1882
by D.E.E. Braman, of Matagorda.)
 
   EDITOR’S NOTE: D.E.E. Braman came to Texas in 1836 to fight in the Texas Revolution and became one of the state’s early great writers and chronicler of the Times - William Prissick was an important topic to him.
   This is the second installment of the William Prissick chronicles that tell a good bit about Matagorda County life in early and mid 1800s.

From Texas Handbook of History

EDITOR’S NOTE: D.E.E. Braman came to Texas in 1836 to fight in the Texas Revolution and became one of the state’s early great writers and chronicler of the Times - William Prissick was an important topic to him.
   We’ll be running Braman’s biography of Prissick over the next three or four editions.
    On the unpicturesque eastern shore of Tres Palacios bay, where the wire grass flats and the gradually ascending land toward the bay each commingle, and where mosquitoes and other insect and animal pests of low degree abound in summer and winter alike, stands a small, windowless ranch-house, that was once used by Allen and Poole for their herders, when they shipped cattle from Palacios. 

From Carol Sue Gibbs
Matagorda County TXGenWeb

From Carol Sue Gibbs
Matagorda County TXGenWeb

   Ruth Washam (born c1795 - died October 30, 1862) was thought to be from Virginia and the daughter of William Washam.  
   She married William Mackey (died August 11, 1831) on August 25, 1816 in Blountville, Tennessee.  
   William was born in Ireland and he and his parents, John and Mary McIlwaine Mackey, emigrated to the United States, settling in Blountville, Tennessee. 
   Children of William and Ruth Washam Mackey were:  
   1. Mary Mackey born June 12, 1817 – died October 14, 1862 married Albert Wadsworth 
   2. Martha Mackey born November 28, 1819 – died June 4, 1831 
   3. John Mackey born January 15, 1821 – died November 12, 1893 Luling, Caldwell County, TX 
   4. Andrew C. Mackey born March 2, 1922 – died October 18, 1841 
   5. Sarah Mackey born October 8, 1923 – died August 15, 1824 
   6. Catherine Mackey born January 27, 1825 –died November 4, 1839 married Albert Wadsworth 

From Carol Sue Gibbs
Matagorda County TXGenWeb