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(Born about 1810 in Georgia; Died on 08 MAR 1870 in Shelby County, Texas)
Jesse Amason arrived in Texas about 1834. He participated in the Texas Revolution, later receiving two land grants for his participation in the Revolution. His arrival in Texas by 1834, previous to the Texas Revolution, entitled him to a Mexican government land grant of a league and a labor or 4605 acres of land, which was later recognized by the Republic of Texas, and located in Shelby County.
Jesse Amason enlisted and fought in the U.S. War with Mexico in 1846 and from 1847 to 1848. His wife, Sarah Ann (Inman) Amason received a widow's pension based on Jesse Amason's Mexican War service. According to the Mexican War pension application of Sarah A. (Inman) Amason, she and Jesse were married by Rev. James English on the 15th day of February 1839 in Texas.
On February 19, 1862, at the age of 52, Jesse Amason enlisted with the Confederate States of America during the Civil War. He served until June of 1862 as Quartermaster and Captain of Company H, 11th Texas Infantry in O. M. Robert's Regiment. According to oral family history, a fife, which has been passed down through Amason descendants, was played in every war on American soil from the time of the Revolution through the Civil War. The fife, according to oral history, was brought to America on the Mayflower and passed down through the generations to Jesse Amason. The fife is now on display at the Shelby County Texas Museum.
Much of the land, in and around the community of Center, the county seat of Shelby County, was a part of the original land grant belonging to Jesse Amason. Land on which the courthouse in Center, Shelby County, Texas was built, was donated by Jesse Amason and others.
Jesse Amason was buried in March of 1870 in the Gibbs Family Cemetery in Shelby County, Texas, with full Masonic rites.
While there is a lack of positive documentation, proving this Jesse Amason was the son of 11. Uriah Amason (UriahI, UriahII) and wife, Elizabeth Rachels, the assumption of this relationship is based on the following facts:Three of the known sons of 11. Uriah Amason and wife, Elizabeth Rachels, or their families, relocated to Shelby County, or adjacent Nacogdoches County, between 1862 and 1880. Mathew Amason and wife, Louisa, relocated to Nacogdoches County, Texas by 1862 and perhaps earlier. The widow of Elisha Amason, Ary Ann (maiden name unknown) Amason, and the widow of Rufus Amason, Mary Ann (Sullivan) Amason, were in Shelby County, Texas by 1880 or earlier. A great granddaughter of 116. Rufus Amason (UriahI, UriahII), known son of 11. Uriah Amason and wife, Elizabeth Rachels, stated that she believed Jesse Amason of Shelby County, Texas was the uncle of her grandfather, 1161. William Franklin Amason (UriahI, UriahII, RufusIII).
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