Re: William Brister in Texas
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William Brister in Texas
Katherine Morgan 2/22/03
Looks like everyone may have been wrong about William and Daniel being brothers. Daniel had a brother named William, who married Sarah Jourdan, Clarissa's sister. But he never left Mississippi. It seems the William who left Mississippi with Daniel was William T.H. Brister, son of William Thomas Brister,who was himself a son of Samual Brister. Samual was brother to Daniel's Father William I. Daniel's father William and his brother Samual were born in Greenville, South Carolina and both ended up in the same part of Mississippi. So William Thomas and Daniel were first cousins, and William T.H. was Daniel's younger first cousin once removed. It certainly seems now that it was this younger William who came to Texas with Daniel. On the census for San Antonio where William and MaryAnn were listed, many have thought it said William was 50 and Daniel 45. If other dates are correct, William was 30 and Daniel 49 - easy mistakes to make when reading old census reports that were hand written. The Mississippi Brister researchers have Daniel's brother William pretty well documented.