TEXAS RANGERS SERVICE RECORDS – 1847-1900 – Volume 2 "D" – "G"

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119 pages – soft cover – alphabetical listing with index to name not in alphabetical list – reprinted 2001 by Mountain Press
The Texas Rangers, according to their lore, were started in about 1823 when Stephen F. Austin hired ten men … to act as rangers for the common defense… the wages are to be fifteen dollars a month payable in property.  There is some discussion as to the exact date, but most Texas historians give this date as the beginning of the Texas Rangers.  Since that time, the group of lawmen have ranged far and wide across the state to keep the law.  This group was nor formally constituted until 1835.  Stephen F. Austin returned to Texas in 1835 after being imprisoned in Mexico City for a time and helped to form a Provisional Government.  At this time more than sixty men were known as “Rangers”.  Their badges were made from the Mexican peso.  On November 28, 1835, Robert McAlpin Williamson was chosen to be the first Major of the Texas Rangers and within two more years there were as many as 300 men in service.
This set of six volumes gives the names of those Rangers who served from 1847 until 1900.  An alphabetical listing is broken into six volumes as follows:
Volume 1 – covers the names from “A” to “C”
Volume 2 – covers the names from “D” – “G”
Volume 3 – includes the names from “H” – “K”
Volume 4 – shows the names from “L” -“N”
Examples from this volume:
“ELLIOTT, Alfred B. – Pvt., Commanding Officer:  McCulloch, Henry E., Capt., – Organization:  Texas Mounted Volunteers – Enlisted: July 5, 1851 – Discharged: Nov. 5, 1851, Age: 21, enlisted at San Antonio, TX, 4 months service – Ranger Muster Roll.”
“GILLESPI(E, T. P., Pvt. – Commanding Officer:  Reynolds, H. O., – Organization:  Co. # Fraontier Battalion – Enlisted:  Sept. 1, 1877 – Discharged: Feb. 28, 1878 – Place of Birth:  Coleman County [where living at the time] – 6 months service – Ranger Muster Roll”
Volume 5 – gives the names from “O” – “S”
Volume 6 – includes the names from “T” – “Z”