JONATHAN COCHRAN POOL

 

 

     Jonathan Cochran Pool, b August 6, 1806 in Georgia, d February 21, 1886 at his near Pool's Creek, in West Falls County, Texas and buried in the family cemetery there-was a son of Walter F. Pool, b ca 1775 in South Carolina, d 1846 in Texas and his Will pro- bated in September 1846 in Anderson County, where he had received a grant on May 20, 1835 for a league of land. His wife, and Jonathan's mother, had died before his will of Walter F. Pool was probated.

     Jonathan's parents and three brothers had moved from Georgia to Missouri Territory ca 1813, and by 1815, They were located in the Indian lands of Red River County (later Texas) - known as "Pecan Point," which encompassed Miller County, Arkansas. The family was included in a listing of the 1829 Tax Census.

     The Pool family, composed of the parents and Beverly Pool, Walter S. Pool, William Pool, and Jonathan C. Pool, hunted to sell pelts, and fished-getting along with the Indians until a deluge of settlers began arriving in the area. In 1822, the Pools moved to Nacogdoches, where Jonathan was married ca 1829 to Celia Emeline Pierson, b October 31,1815 in Kentucky, d ca 1850 in Houston County, Texas - a daughter of John Goodloe Warren Pierson and his first wife, Purity Ruffin (Pennington) Pierson, who had died in Kentucky before her husband moved to Arkansas with his three children by their marriage.

     When Jonathan's father-in-law, J. G. W. Pierson. moved to San Felipe in 1832 with his second wife and then, four sons, he was accompanied by Jonathan Cochran and Celia Emelina (Pierson) Pool. In 1832, Jonathan C. Pool was involved in the Anahuac incident on Galveston Bay, in opposition to Captain John Bradburn; and later he was with Colonel Bullock's troops, who forced the evacuation of Nacogdoches.

     Joining the Texas Army in 1835, Jonathan Cochran Pool was with Ben Milam at the siege of San Antonio, being one of three hundred and one men who assaulted San Antonio on December 5, 1835. Two days later, Milam was killed, and Pool was shot in the wrist. Subsequently, Pool joined General Sam Houston's forces, and was with him when Houston burned the town of San Felipe before crossing the bridge to San Jacinto. Before the Battle of San Jacinto, Houston had dispatched Pool to check on the Indian situation. In October 1871, Jonathan Cochran Pool was granted a pension for his Republic of Texas Army service.

     After the Texas war for independence from Mexico, Pool lived for a time in Nacogdoches, and was in the part of Houston County which became Anderson County in 1846.

     After the death of Celia Emeline (Pierson) Pool, Jonathan Cochran Pool was married second in 1850 to Mary Jemima Crownover, b May 30,1826 in Arkansas, d January 7, 1903 in Falls County, Texas - a daughter of Mitchell and Elizabeth (Laurence) Crownover. Mary Jemima Crownover was called "Jemima"; and after the death of Jemima's father, her mother had married second to Collin Aldrich, of Houston County, Texas. A daughter of Collin and Elizabeth (Laurence - Crownover) Aldrich, Ann Aldrich - widow of A. J. Corley - subsequently married a son of Jonathan Cochran Pool and his first wife, William S. Pool.

     Jonathan Cochran and Mary Jemima (Crownover) Pool relocated to Falls County, Texas in 1852 - settling on the land his children had inherited from their mother's share of the John Goodloe Warren Pierson league. Jonathan purchased the minor children's share of the land, and bought other land - spending the next thirty-four years there.

     The six children of Jonathan Cochran Pool and his first wife, Celia Emeline (Pierson) Pool, were:

     Braxton M. Pool, b ca 1831, dafter 1849 - was not married.

     Franklin G. Pool, b 1832, d after 1880 in Falls County, Texas - married first in 1856 to Emily Birke, b 1839 in Illinois, d 1861 in Falls County; married second on January 17, 1866 to Hellen L. Montgomery, b 1845 in Canada, d 1875 in Falls County, Texas.

     William S. Pool, b 1835 - married his step-mother's half sister, Mrs. Ann (Aldrich) Corley - daughter of Elizabeth (Laurence) Crownover and her second husband, Collin Aldrich, and widow of Andrew Jackson Corley, a lawyer, who died while in the Confederate States Army during the Civil War.

     Emeline Pool, b ca 1837 - no information.

     Jonathan Burleson Pool, b 1843, died in Bosque County, Texas-married Nancy Catherine Snell.

     Travis Richard Pool, b February 28, 1845 in Houston County, Texas, d April 15, 1908 in Cotulla, Texas - married March 29,1871 to Anna R. Montgomery, b 1852 in Louisiana, died at Cotulla, Texas - a daughter of John Montgomery of Canada, and his wife, Mariah, of England. They reared the children of his brother, Franklin, and her sister, Hellen, after Hellen's death.

     Jonathan Cochran Pool reared one son by his second marriage to Mary Jemima (Crownover) Pool:

     Robert Ray Pool, b September 5, 1853 in Falls County, Texas, d October 30, 1938 and buried in the Pool Family Cemetery - married in 1884 to Lula Lee Logue, b May 31, 1868, d May 2, 1940 - a daughter of Edward Logue, of Ohio, and his wife, Rachel (Walton) Logue, of Mississippi. Rachel (Walton) Logue was married second in Falls County, Texas to George Washington Parks, whose first wife had also died.

     Jonathan Cochran Pool is one of the true Texas Patriots before and after the Texas Revolution, seeing it change from a Mexican State to The Republic of Texas, a State in the United States, a Confederate State, and finally back to its place as a State within the United States of America.

 

 

 

 

Copyright Permission granted to Theresa Carhart for printing the biographies of these Falls County Families to this Web page.
"Families of Falls County", Compiled and Edited by the Falls County Historical Commission, page 360 column 1 and 2 and page 361 column 1.  
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