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HOPE of Austin’s Colony in Texas
James Hope
was
born about 1775 in England, the son of Robert Hope (1760 – 1808) and
Catharine Allison, daughter of Hugh Allison. He married Mary England on
25 March 1801, in Sheffield, England. They came to America and were in
present West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana where Mrs. Mary England Hope
died in 1821. A bond was filed there that named their nine children who
were her heirs. James married Elizabeth Bowering Jack, a widow with a
daughter, Elizabeth Bowering Jack (Jr.), there on 4 November 1822. James
and Elizabeth did not have children and she died 10 January 1823. James
took Elizabeth’s daughter with him to Texas and she lived with Horatio
and Augusta Hope Chriesman until she married William C. A. J. Hill of
Gay Hill, Washington County, Texas, in May 1835.
Before 1826, James married Alethea Sorrels, born 3 April 1807, in
Georgia, and they had two daughters. James moved to Texas before 10 July
1824, as one of Stephen F. Austin’s
Old Three Hundred
colonist and received title to one-forth league and two labors of land,
on the east bank of the Brazos River in what is now southwestern Brazos
County. By 26 March 1825, he had exchanged his league of land for that
of Bluford Brooks and was trying to secure land on Mill Creek. The
census of March 1826 listed Hope as a farmer and stock raiser aged
between forty and fifty. His household included his wife Althea, three
sons, six daughters, and one servant. In January 1827, at Mina, James
Hope signed a declaration of loyalty to the Mexican Government and a
protest against the Fredonian Rebellion. He advertised in December 1831
that he was going to England and leaving his son Richard Hope in charge
of his 15,000 to 20,000 peach and nectarine trees. According to Worth S.
Ray’s Austin Colony Pioneers, the tax rolls of 1840 indicate that James
Hope died about 1836. There is a monument in the San Felipe cemetery
with “James Hope, died 1836”.
Mrs. Althea Sorrels Hope married Alexander M. Brooks (1808 –
1899), and they lived in Houston. She died 3 December 1885, in Houston.
James and Mary England Hope had ten children. They are:
Prosper Hope
was
born about 1802 in New York. He served as a private in Captain W.W.
Hill’s Company H, 1st Regiment of Texas Volunteers commanded
by Colonel Edward Burleson at San Jacinto on April 20-21, 1836. The
company had formed on March 1, 1836, in present Washington County,
Texas. Prosper married Julia Ann Roberts on 19 August 1837, in
Washington County, Republic of Texas, and they had eight children. Mrs.
Julia Roberts Hope was born about 1818 in Tennessee, the daughter of
William and Elizabeth Roberts. Julia died about 1854 in Washington
County, Texas. On 29 July 1860, Prosper and the eight children were
living in Burleson County, Texas, and he received his mail at the
Caldwell post office. The children are: Mary Elizabeth Hope, born about
1841; Richard A Hope, born about 1843; Cyrus Hope, born 19 March 1845,
served as a Private in Company G, 2nd Texas Infantry, CSA,
died 19 March 1912, and buried in East Hill Cemetery, Fort Stockton,
Texas; Ann A. Hope, born 29 November 1846; Robert Peavey Hope, born in
1849; twins Laura A. Hope and Ellen V. Hope, born 13 June 1851; and
Julia R. Hope, born about 1854. In the 1850 Census, Prosper owned two
slaves. Prosper married Elizabeth Morris on 29 November 1861, in
Burleson County, Texas. They did not have children. There is a monument
in the Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery in St. Louis, Missouri for
Prosper Hope with death date of 6 September 1863. It is believed that
Prosper went to Vicksburg, Mississippi to take supplies to his two sons
Richard and Cyrus who were serving in Company G, 2nd Texas
Infantry, C.S.A. at Vicksburg. He is believed to have been taken
prisoner and was taken to a Federal Prison Camp in St. Louis where he
died. In the 7 September
1870, Census of Burleson County, Texas, in dwelling #494 was Crunk, Mary
E. age 27; Crunk, Julia age 3; Hope, Cyrus age 24; Hope, Robert age 22;
and Shepard, Mary J. age 25; and in dwelling #495 was: Hope, Elizabeth
age 49; Thomas, Lusatia age 28; Hope, George A. age 22; Hope, Nettie M.
age 20; Thomas, Anna E. age 9; and May, Taylor age 22, born in Georgia.
Amanda Hope,
born
12 April 1805, was the first daughter of James and Mary Hope. She
married James Gore Wilkinson, Jr. in 1830 in San Felipe. He was born on
5 March 1805, in Hardin County, Kentucky, a son of Captain James G.
Wilkinson. He was first married to Lucinda Harris on 5 July 1827. Their
son David Brown Wilkinson was born 7 April 1828, and married Susan B.
King on 28 November 1855 in Burleson County. Their son Christian Bowman
Wilkinson was born about 1833 and married Eunice McCain Denson on 3 July
1854. James Wilkinson joined Captain W. W. Hill’s Company H of Texas
Volunteers in March 1836, as a Private, in Washington County and served
as First Sergeant at the Battle of San Jacinto on April 20-21, 1836. He
held the office of Doorkeeper in the Second Congress of the Republic of
Texas held at Houston. He was elected Justice of the Peace in Washington
County, Republic of Texas in 1839. When Burleson County was formed from
Washington and Milam Counties in 1846, he was appointed Chief Justice of
Burleson County, Republic of Texas. He served in that office until his
death on 15 August 1848. He was buried near his home beneath a huge
post-oak tree on a knoll overlooking the Yegua Creek, about five miles
east of Dime Box, in present Lee County. The graves on 8 April 1938 were
on land owned by Mr. August B. Kubena when the State of Texas had the
remains of James and Amanda Wilkinson re-interred in the State Cemetery
in Austin, Travis County, Texas. A memorial service was sponsored by the
William B. Travis Chapter of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas.
Augusta Ann Hope,
born 29 November 1806, the second daughter of James and Mary Hope,
married Horatio Chriesman in 1825, in San Felipe, Texas, Mexico. Horatio
was the chief surveyor of Austin’s colony from 1822 until 1836. He was
Alcalde at San Felipe and Captain of the militia which caused him to be
in many Indian Fights. Between 1842 and 1846, Horatio moved his family
to what is now Burleson County, near present Deanville, Texas. Horatio
and Augusta had nine children: Rector O. Chriesman, born about 1828;
Mary Jane Chriesman, born 11 August 1830, married Thomas Coke Thomson in
1846; Ellen Virginia Chriesman, born in 1835, married McRuffin Nelms on
24 September 1854; Cornelia E. Chriesman, born in 1838, married William
Gaston Nelms on 10 July 1853; Richard O. Chriesman, born in 1840,
married Mattie Taylor on 26 March 1869; Orsenith Wesley Chriesman, born
29 April 1842, married Sue Abrigal Hill on 1 January 1861; Sarah Ann
Chriesman, born12 May 1846, married Arthur William Armstrong on 10
December 1868; and Thomas Franklin Chriesman, born in June 1848, married
Viola L. Stamps on 16 March 1870. Mrs. Augusta Ann Hope Chriesman died
25 June 1870, and was buried in the Chriesman Chapel Cemetery near
Deanville, Burleson County, Texas.
Horatio Chriesman was living with their daughter, Mrs. Mary Jane
Chriesman Thomson, near the present town of Chriesman, which was named
for him, where he died on 1 November 1878, and was buried in the
cemetery there. There is a historical marker at his grave.
Adolphus Hope,
born in 1808, enlisted in Captain W.W. Hill’s Company H of Texas
Volunteers in March 1836, which was largely made up of soldiers from
present Washington County. He was later promoted to Lieutenant and
fought at the Battle of San Jacinto on April 20-21, 1836. He married
Elizabeth Sophia Hawkins on 14 February 1837. She was born 2 December
1810, and died about 1845. They had a son, James Hope, born about 1837.
Adolphus was one of the original trustees of the Union Academy in
Washington on the Brazos. On 4 December 1848, he married Margaret A.
Fisher and they had two children: David Hope born about 1850, and Rector
C. Hope born in September 1851. Adolphus was living with his brother,
Richard Hope, in the 1850 Census of Washington County, Texas. Adolphus
Hope died at his home in Washington on the Brazos in November 1853. His
widow Mrs. Margaret A. Fisher Hope married Solomon Ward on 1 November
1864, in Washington County, Texas.
Eleanor Hope
was born 2 November 1811, in Louisiana. She married Thomas Gay on 22
November 1832, at San Filipe. Thomas was born 25 April 1805, in Georgia
and came to Texas in 1830. He was in the Battle of San Jacinto and died
26 May 1839, in the Bird Creek Indian Battle in present Bell County,
Texas. He and the other four victims were buried on the banks of the
Little River near the site of old Fort Smith, also in Bell County.
Eleanor and Thomas had four children: George Ewing Gay, born 3 November
1833, died 29 April 1896, in Lee County, Texas; William Gay, born 19
February 1835, died about 1860; Milam Gay, born 16 January 1838; and Ann
Amanda Gay, born 9 April 1840, died 3 November 1915.
Mrs. Eleanor Hope Gay married Luke Roberts on 15 June 1844. He is
the brother of Julia Ann Roberts, wife of Prosper Hope. Luke Roberts was
born 15 April 1817, in Tennessee and died 19 March 1886, at Lyons
Station, Burleson County, Texas. Luke Roberts owned ten slaves in 1850.
Eleanor and Luke had 5 children: Julia Augusta Roberts born 28 December
1844, in Washington County, died 16 August 1850, and buried in the
Roberts Cemetery in Washington County; James Franklin Roberts born 10
December 1846, married Martha Hester Hines on 15 October 1872, in
Washington County, had 3 children, William H. Roberts, Laura L. Roberts,
and Cata E. Roberts, and died 12 March 1929, in San Antonio; Mary
Elizabeth Roberts born 10 July 1851, married William N. Kidd on 24
November 1875, had 2 children Virginia Kidd and Minnie Kidd, and died 10
December 1937, in Houston; Laura Virginia Roberts born 13 October 1851,
married Thomas Henry Davenport on 11 December 1878, had a daughter Mabel
Davenport, and died 10 June 1958 in Somerville, Burleson County, Texas;
Eleanor Roberts born 8 December 1855, married Alonzo Judson Radford on 5
October 1876, had 4 children Erick Radford, Edith Radford, Stella
Radford, and Laura Radford, and died about 1933 in Apache, Oklahoma.
Mrs. Eleanor Hope Gay Roberts died 5 February 1860, and was buried in
the Roberts Cemetery in Washington County, Texas.
William T. S. Hope
was born about 1812. He was on the first tax list of Washington County,
Republic of Texas in 1837 with his brothers Prosper, Adolphus, and
Richard Hope.
Richard Hope
was born 21 April 1814, in Louisiana. He opened a saddle tree shop at
Washington on the Brazos about 1834 that became widely known all over
the country as being of the highest class of workmanship. In July 1835
he joined Captain George W. Barnett’s company of Texas Rangers to fight
the Indians, and later also served in Captain James G. Swisher’s
company. At the Battle of
San Jacinto, he was a private in Captain Patton/Murphree’s 4th
Company that was detailed to guard the baggage of the Texas Army near
Harrisburg during the battle. From July 3 to October 3, 1836, he was a 1st
Lieutenant in Captain William W. Hill’s Texas Ranger Company in Colonel
Burleson’s Ranging Corps of Mounted Riflemen. Richard married Harriett
(last name unknown) before 1850 and they had five children: George Hope,
born about 1851; Rector Hope, born about 1852; Nancy Hope born about
1854; Laura Hope, born about 1855; and Emily Hope, born about 1856. Mrs.
Harriett Hope died in May 1856, at Washington on the Brazos and was
buried in the Old Washington Cemetery. Richard married Mrs. Sarah B.
Garrett on 25 November 1856, in Washington County, Texas. Richard Hope
died in March 1887 and his wife, Sarah, died in Oregon.
Mary
Hope
was
born in 1816 in Louisiana and died young.
Jane
Hope
was born in 1818 in Louisiana and died young.
Ann
Hope
was born 7 February 1821, in Louisiana. She married Thomas P. Shapard on
31 May 1838, in Washington County, Republic of Texas. Thomas was born 22
July 1811, in North Carolina, a son of Lewis Thomas and Martha (Paine)
Shapard. Ann and Thomas had six children: Eleanor Shapard, born 2
September 1839, married Alexander Cooke on 9 September 1858; Amanda
Shapard, born 24 September 1841, died 24 October 1842; Martha Shapard,
born 9 December 1844, married Thomas W. Eanes, died 10 November 1886;
Ann Shapard, born 13 August 1852, married Howell Gleaton, died 5 March
1922 in Anson, Texas; Mary Catherine Shapard, born 11 December 1854,
married W.A. Thomson; and Richard Roberts Shapard, born 13 June 1858,
married Mattie Gertrude Lewis on 12 May 1889, died 18 May 1923, in
Anson, Texas. Thomas
Shapard was an active attorney, a land agent, property owner, and
politician. He served in the Republic of Texas Army in 1836. Thomas P.
Shapard died 3 June 1859, in Hempstead, Texas, and Mrs. Ann Hope Shapard
died 3 January 1870, in Bryan, Brazos County, Texas.
James and Alethea Hope’s daughters are:
Mary
Hope,
born about 1825 in Nachitoches Parish, Louisiana and died about 1854 in
Madison County, Texas. Mary married Paul G. Moffatt on 23 December 1841,
in Houston, Harris County, Texas. Paul was born about 1823 in New Jersey
and died in 1868 in Harris County, Texas. They had three children and
one of them was Mary Jane who married Benjamin Wells Gammon.
Jane
Hope,
born in 1829 in Austin’s Colony, married Ferdinand C. Booker on 21
September 1843, in Houston. They had five children: Edward Booker, born
about 1845 in Texas; Samuel Booker, born about 1851 in Ohio; Sarah
Booker, born about 1855 in Indiana; Martha Booker, born about 1857 in
Indiana; and Elizabeth Booker, born about 1859 in Indiana. They were
living in Wayne County Indiana in the 1880 Census.
Compiled by: Narris W. Braly
Edited by: Linda Cobb Bigham
April 2010
Bibliography
Handbook of Texas Online, James Hope, Texas State Historical Association
Ray,
Worth H., Austin Colony Pioneers, Reprinted in 1995
Burleson County, Texas Query Forum on internet, Hope Family, by Linda
Cobb Bigham, Sept. 1999
1850, 1860, and 1870 Census of Texas
Moore, Stephen L., Savage Frontier Vol. I and II, University of North
Texas Press, Denton, TX
Moore, Stephen L., Eighteen Minutes, Republic of Texas Press, Dallas,
Texas, 2004
World Family Tree, Volume 7, Pedigree #2554, James Hope
Daughters of the Republic of Texas, Patriot Ancestor Album Volume
I and II, Turner Publishing
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