History of Texas, Together with a Biographical History of Milam, Williamson, Bastrop, Travis, Lee and Burleson Counties. Page: 640
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40 HISTORY OF TEXAS.I
of William A. Pond, whose widow is now
Mrs. T. J. Gassaway. Mr. and Mrs. White's
children are: William A., deceased; Anna;
Sallie; Joseph; Ora, deceased; Robert; Rosy;
and Henry. Mrs. White is connected with
the Baptist Church.
LI\WXILLIAM E. BOUCHELLE, a farmer
IJJ/)of Williamson county, Texas, was
( born in North Carolina, February 3,
1832. His father, Dr. Thomas S. Bouchelle,
also born in that State on June 25, 1802, was
a physician by profession, and his death occurred
in Marengo county, Alabama. He
was a son of Dr. Thomas Bouchelle, a native
of Maryland, whose father was a surgeon in
Washington's army during the Revolutionary
war. The mother of our subject, nee Clarinda
J. E. Finlay, was a native of North
Carolina, and was a daughter of Major John
Finlay, a native of Pennsylvania. Dr. and
Mrs. Thomas S. Bouchelle had seven children,
two of whom came to Texas, one of
these (John M.) being now engaged in farming
near Killeen, Bell county.
William E. Bouchelle, the subject of this
sketch, lived with his widowed mother until
nineteen years of age, after which he clerked
in a store in Boone county, Missouri, six
months. In November, 1851, he arrived in
Texas, coming by water to Houston. and by
stage to Bastrop, where he followed carpentering
two years. He next followed the same
occupation in Austin until 1854, in which
year he came to Georgetown and bought
land. In the same year he returned to Austin,
and in 1855 came again to Williamson
county, where he began improving his farm
on Berry's creek, but shortly afterward sold
that place, and in 1859 purchased andnoved
to his present farm.On the outbreak of the war, in 1861, he
was one of the first to enlist in a company to
take the forts of the frontier, entering the
army for three months, and was elected Second
Lieutenant. He afterward resigned lis
position and returned home, where he assisted
in raising a company for the Confederate
regular army, of which he was elected Second
Lieutenant, and which was ordered to
Waco to a camp of instruction. This company
afterward became a member of a cavalry
regiment raised by Colonel William H.
Parsons, which was the first mustered into
State service and was subject to the Governor's
orders, and which, after much drilling,
was ordered to Sim's Bayou to guard the
railroad below Houston. In the spring of
1862 it was mustered Lito the Confederate
service for twelve months, as the Twelfth
Texas Cavalry, and took up the line of march
for Little Rock, Arkansas. where it reported
to General Holmes, who had orders to reduce
the numbers of the overflowing cavalry companies,
reorganize and muster in for the end
of the war, and to encourage the enlistment
of infantry. Mr. Bonchelle, with some other
officers and privates, after seeing that the
companies were full, took advantage of the
situation to come home to look after the welfare
of their families and help to raise more
troops for the end of the war. He enlisted
again as private in Company C, Seventh Texas
Cavalry, Sibley's brigade, afterward better
known as Green's brigade, and, being ordered
to Houston, was present at the retaking of
Galveston, when the steamer Harriet Lane
was captured. Ordered thence to Louisiana,
he took part in nearly all the battles and
skirmishes in which this regiment was engaged
in that State. He was in the battles
of Mansfield, or Sabine Gross Roads, and
Pleasant dill, and participated in all of thatI
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Lewis Publishing Company. History of Texas, Together with a Biographical History of Milam, Williamson, Bastrop, Travis, Lee and Burleson Counties., book, 1893; Chicago, Illinois. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth29785/m1/688/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.