Photos & information courtesy of William A. Matthews from information compiled by Bob McBride
 

1. GEAN GAROT was born Abt. 1740 in Ireland, and died April 09, 1801 in St. Landry Parish, Opelousas, LA. He married ELIZABETH ??. She was born Abt. 1740 in Ireland.
 

i. JOSHUA GARRETT, b. Abt. 1757, Richmond, VA; d. 1813, in LA
 

2. JOSHUA GARRETT (GEAN GAROT) was born Abt. 1757 in Richmond, VA and died 1813 in LA. He married RACHEL ISABELLE (W). MELLON Abt. 1782. She was born Abt. 1765 in Paris, France or possibly MD/VA and died in St. Mary Parish, LA.

Children of JOSHUA GARRETT and RACHEL MELLON are:
 

i. JOHN JOSHUA GARRETT, b.September 03, 1783, Opelousas, LA; d. August 5, 1849,

3. JOHN JOSHUA GARRETT (JOSHUA, GEAN GAROT) was born September 03, 1783 in Opelousas, LA, and died August 25, 1849 in Bayou Sale Plantation, LA. He married PHEBE ARMSTRONG March 13, 1812 in St. Mary Parish, LA, daughter of JOHN ARMSTRONG and MARGARET ARMSTRONG. She was born February 24, 1789 in Wilks County, GA, and died June 09, 1846 in Bayou Sale Plantation, St. Mary Parish, LA
 

i. JOHN GARRETT, b. January 09, 1813; d. January 30, 1879, Jackson County, TX.
 

ii. MATILDA GARRETT, b. September 04, 1814; m. BENNET A. CURTIS, January 19,1833, St. Mary Parish, LA.
 

iii. LOUISA GARRETT, b. June 23, 1816; m. DAVID BERWICK, June 03, 1835, St. Mary Parish, LA; b. April 18, 1808; d. November 13, 1874.
 

iv. JAMES GARRETT, b. January 31, 1818.
 

v. WILLIAM GARRETT, b. January 31, 1818.

vi. SARAH ANN GARRET, b. January 10, 1820, Centerville, LA; d. July 01, 1891, Centerville, LA.

vii. MARY E. GARRETT, b. January 10, 1822, St. Mary Parish, LA; d. July 23, 1876, Crystal Springs, MS; m. COL. DANIEL DENNETT; b. March 27, 1818, Maine; d. January 05,1891, Brookhaven, MS.

viii. MARTHA A. GARRETT, b. December 28, 1824; m. DANIEL EDWARD CROSLAND, September 16, 1847, St. Mary Parish, LA.

ix. ARMSTRONG GARRETT, b. August 18, 1826.

x. SYLVESTER A. GARRETT, b. August 08, 1829.

xi. MARTIN ALONZO GARRETT, b. June 09, 1831.

4. CATHERINE GARRETT (JOSHUA, GEAN GAROT) was born Abt. 1785 in St. Martinsville, LA, and died Abt. 1855 in Bayou Sale, LA. She married RUFUS NICKELSEN May 26, 1801, son of THOMAS NICKELSEN and REBEKAH  CAUSBERI. He was born Abt. 1778 in LA or Mississippi, and died June 05, 1834 in St. Mary Parish, LA.

Children of CATHERINE GARRETT and RUFUS NICKELSEN are:

i. JEAN4 NICHOLSON, b. December 20, 1802.

ii. THOMAS NICHOLSON, III b. December 20, 1802; d. Abt. 1843.

iii. RACHEL NICHOLSON, b. January 12, 1804; m. JOSEPH ANDRUS, January 12, 1820, Franklin, St. Mary Parish, LA; b. March 23, 1794, St. Martinville, Attakapas Parish, LA; d. October 08, 1840, St. Mary Parish, LA.

iv. WILLIAM NICHOLSON, b. July 01, 1808.

v. JOSEPH NICHOLSON, b. March 21, 1810.

vi. MARY NICHOLSON, b. Abt. 1813; m. JULIUS ALLEN JOHNSON, November 03, 1831, St. Mary Parish, LA; b. Abt. 1815.

vii. PHOEBE ANN NICHOLSON, b. Abt. 1815; m. JAMES S. WILLIAMS, March 23, 1834, St. Mary Parish, LA; b. Abt. 1815.

viii. MARIAH NICHOLSON, b. Abt. 1818; m.CORNELIUS C. TYSON, June 25, 1835, St. Mary Parish, LA; b. Abt. 1815.

ix. OLIVER NICHOLSON, b. Abt. 1820.

x. ELIZA NICHOLSON, b. Abt. 1823.

5. WILLIAM GARRETT (JOSHUA, GEAN GAROT) was born Abt. 1785 in Bayou Teche. He married (1) POLLY MOSS. He married (2) AGATHA DEROUEN April 27, 1802 in SM Ch. v4 # 249, St.Martinsville, LA, daughter of JOSEPH DEROUEN and GENEVIEVE HEBERT.

Children of WILLIAM GARRETT and AGATHA DEROUEN are

i. ASPASIE GARRETT, b. May 23, 1803, St. Mary Parish, LA; d. December 16, 1829; m. JAMES LAMBERT.

ii. JOHN J. GARRETT, b. December 27, 1804.

iii. JOSEPH GARRETT, b. October 1806.

iv. MARIE CELESTE GARRETT, b. June 07, 1808; m. JR. JOHN STEIN, July 24, 1825.

v. HILAIRE GARRETT, b. August 31, 1815

Generation No. 4

6. JOHN GARRETT (JOHN JOSHUA, JOSHUA, GEAN GAROT) was born January 09, 1813, and died January 30, 1879 in Jackson County, TX. He married (1) LUCRETIA ROCHEL May 25, 1833 in Franklin, St. Mary Parish, LA, daughter of WILLIAM ROCHEL and SUSAN MIXER. She was born September 04, 1814 in St. Mary Parish, LA, and died February 22, 1837 in St. Mary Parish, LA. He married (2) THERESA GUIDRY December 05, 1839 in St. Mary Parish, LA, daughter of JOSEPH GUIDRY and MAGDALEINE BONVILLAIN. She was born February 04, 1818 in St. Mary Parish, LA, and died May 15, 1864 in Jackson County, TX. The following is a picture of Theresa.

Therese Guidry Garrett

Children of JOHN GARRETT and LUCRETIA ROCHEL are

i. ALICE GARRETT, b. April 04, 1834, St. Mary Parish, LA; d. May 21, 1836, St. Mary Parish, LA

ii. SEXTUS GARRETT, b. December 21, 1836, St. Mary Parish, LA; d. February 12, 1871, Blanco County, TX; m. JULIA B. WHITE, October 13, 1858, Jackson County, TX

Children of JOHN GARRETT and THERESE GUIDRY are

iii. LEANDER5 GARRETT, b. May 07, 1841, St. Mary Parish, LA; d. November 21, 1921, Jackson County, TX; m. (1) CATHERINE MCDOWELL, May 01, 1866; m. (2) HONORIA M. MOODY, November 29, 1877, Jackson County, TX.

iv. OPHELIA EMILY GARRETT, b. September 27, 1843, St. Mary Parish, LA; d. July 01, 1841, Bedford, Trimble Cty, KY; d. August 06, 1924, Edna, Jackson County, Tx.

Opheila Emily Garrett Matthews

Erastus Allen Matthews

v. MARY CORNELIA GARRETT, b. March 05, 1844, St. Mary Parish, LA; d. October 21, 1926, Palacios, Matagorda Cty, TX; m. ROBERT RANDOLPH BOLLING, November 15, 1866. Nicknames were Aunt Nellie and Uncle Bob. Subjects of the book Tales of a Texas Ranch by Ruth J. Bolling, published by The Naylor Company. San Antonio, Tx, copyrighted 1959. In 2018, the copyright has not been renewed.

vi. ODELIA THERESA GARRETT, b. August 15, 1846, St. Mary Parish, LA; d. December 31, 1918, Houston, TX; m. THOMAS GEORGE O'BRIEN, November 27, 1873; b. March 01, 1841, Bedford, Trimble Cty, KY; d. August 06, 1924, Edna, Jackson County, Tx.

7. SARAH ANN GARRET (JOHN JOSHUA, JOSHUA, GEAN1GAROT) was born January 10, 1820 in Centerville, LA, and died July 01, 1891 in Centerville, LA. She married DR. ETHAN ALLEN June 23, 1836 in St. Mary Parish, LA, son of ELIHU ALLEN and RUTH ALLEN. He was born July 04, 1808 in Williston, VT, and died January 19, 1884 in Centerville, LA

Children of SARAH GARRET and DR. ALLEN are:

i. RUTH ALLEN, b. Abt. 1836, Centerville, LA; d. October 20, 1854, Centerville, LA.

ii. DR. CHARLES ELIHU ALLEN, b. May 10, 1838; d. September 26, 1892, Centerville, LA

8. MARTIN ALONZO GARRETT (JOHN JOSHUA, JOSHUA, GEAN GAROT) was born June 09, 1831. He married ELIZABETH SUSAN CARSON June 09, 1852 in St. Mary Parish, LA, daughter of JOHN CARSON and MARY SANDERS. She was born May 05,1833 in St. Mary Parish, and died August 30, 1890 in Lafayette, LA

Child of MARTIN GARRETT and ELIZABETH CARSON is:

i. ANNIE ELIZABETH GARRETT, b. January 20, 1863, St. Mary Parish, LA; d. December 08, 1948, Morgan City, LA

The material in this chart was extracted from a web site by Bob McBride where he documented  his family lines several years before Ancestry became popular. He had shared this information with Bill Matthews, who now is sharing it with the readers of the Jackson County TXGenWeb page. The photographs were provided by Bill Matthews and are from a family picture album.
 

 
JOSHUA GARRETT

The earliest found record in the search for Garrett ancestors exists in Hebert's(?) early volume. Noted is the death of Jean Garot in 1801. Jean was born in Ireland, and married to Elizabeth. They had at least one child -- JOSHUA GARRETT and possibly another child named Jacob.

Joshua Garrett was a first-year volunteer in the Continental Army -- enlisting as one of seventeen gunners in the 4th Artillery Regiment of South Carolina on February 8, 1776. He was promoted to mattress on November 26, 1776. Their first battle -- against Earl Cornwallis's polished troops -- ended in a bloody defeat. After his one year's service, he temporarily returned to his father's business. In 1778 he refused to join the state militia and was imprisoned for six months due to that refusal.

Upon his release, Joshua Garrett joined General Prevost, but finding it impossible to stay at home, he fled to North Carolina until Charleston's conquest by the British in 1780. He then joined the British army under Lord Cornwallis, and marched with him to Yorktown. Garrett was often employed on secret service. In 1782 he became an ensign in the King's Florida Randers.

After the Revolutionary War, Joshua Garrett settled in Preston, Nova Scotia. British Court was set up in Nova Scotia to accept claims from the Loyalists. Garrett claimed a loss of 1,498 Sterling and was awarded 180 Sterling.

Sometime between 1782 and 1790, Joshua Garrett moved to the Spanish-French Louisiana Territory (Attakapas Post). Because the Original Acts of that area hold record of his father's death in 1801, Joshua's parents probably came to Louisiana with him. While there, Joshua married Rachelle Melon (Rachel Meloncan), originally from Maryland and widow of Irish-born Patrick Frank (Francois) Clark of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The Garrett family then moved south to the Bayou Salee (later becoming known as St. Mary [or Martin?] Parish), where he established the Garrett Plantation.

The Garretts owned cattle in Louisiana, as evidenced by cattle brands registered by Joshua and his two children in 1798.

In 1812, Joshua Garrett, with his sons and relatives, joined the Baker's Louisiana Militia to aid in the Battle of New Orleans under Andrew Jackson. In that same year, Joshua died.

According to the old records of the St. Mary Parish area, the Garretts and neighboring Nicholsons were leaders in community affairs.. In 1801, Catherine Garrett married the Nicholson's only son Rufus.

Garrett Bibliography
Moss, Bobby Gilmer Roster of South Carolina Patriots in the American Revolution Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, 1983.
p.344; Note: Joshua Garrett's General Index Card from the US Army Service Roll is #1984.

Palmer, Gregory Bibliography Sketches of Loyalists of the American Revolution Meckler Publishing, Westport, London, 1985.
p. 308 "A native of America, Garrett owned 150 acres, 50 cleared, on the Wateree River, near Camden, SC"
 

 JOHN GARRETT

Son of JOHN JOSHUA GARRET and Phoebe Armstrong, grandson of JOSHUA GARRET and Rachel Melon, brother of MARTIN A. GARRETT

>From a booklet or newspaper entitled [and un-dated] "Grenado The Early Days". [from the files of Leslie Coleman]

While still a resident of Louisiana, JOHN GARRETT served in the Army of the Republic of Texas as a Captain of Infantry attached to Colonel Karnes Regiment from 21 July 1836 to 31 May 1837 He served as Assistant Secretary of State, Republic of Texas, for six days in December 1838. From 31 May 1837 to 7 November 1837 he served as a Private in Captain Owens Company A, First Regiment, Permanent Volunteers, Republic of Texas. After the war he returned to Louisiana and circa 1850 migrated to Jackson :County Texas. where be was a planter.
He enlisted in May 1861 as a Private, Captain Clark L. Owens Company, Texana Guards, 24th Brigade, Texas Militia, War Between the States. He served as Major, Brigade Commissary, State Troops of Jackson County, Texas, from 27 October 1882 to 30 November 1862 when the State Troops of Jackson County were relieved of duty.
 

Married c 1868
Lenora Helena Brackenridge

Lt. Erastus Allen Matthews

Erastus Allen Matthews - Post War

Lytle Community Cemetery, Lytle, Atascosa County, Texas