Jared Ellison Grocebiographical manuscript, 1936 1936

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Jared Ellison Grocebiographical manuscript, 1936 1936

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Biographical sketch ofJared Ellsion Groce, one of the Old Three Hundred (Austins first colony),who emigrated to Texas in January 1822. Time period described ranges from1782-1836.

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Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University

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Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University

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Groce, Jared E. (Jared Ellison), 1782-1836

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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 pe...