Berlet, Sarah Groce

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Jared Ellison Groce was one of the Old Three Hundred (Austins first colony), who emigrated to Texas in January 1822. He was born in Halifax County, Virginia, October 12, 1782, the youngest son of Jared Ellison Groce I, and his wife, Sarah Sheppard, a daughter of Colonel Jacob Sheppard of Surrry County, North Carolina. Wealthy through inheritance and his own efforts, he lost a fortune in the mercantile business in Augusta, Georgia, regained it again in the timber business in Alabama, and was a person of wealth and influence when he emigrated to Texas.

From the guide to the Jared Ellison Groce biographical manuscript, 1936 MS 179., 1936, (Woodson Research Center, )

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Cotton growing
Frontier and pioneer life
Indians of North America
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