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Marriage: Children:
  1. Aaron John English: Birth: 14 JUN 1841 in Montgomery County, Texas. Death: 4 JUL 1865 in Leona River, Frio County, Texas

  2. Lucinda English: Birth: 29 JUL 1842 in Montgomery County, Texas. Death: 1912 in Marfa, Presidio County, Texas

  3. Marelda Jane English: Birth: 11 FEB 1845 in Montgomery County, Texas. Death: 1 JUN 1890 in Carrizo Springs, Dimmit County, Texas

  4. Jonathan English: Birth: 4 JUL 1847 in Caldwell County, Texas. Death: 23 FEB 1870 in Frio County, Derby, Texas

  5. Elizabeth M. English: Birth: 16 JAN 1849 in Caldwell County, Texas. Death: 27 JAN 1927 in Del Rio, Val Verde County, Texas

  6. Edward Burleson English: Birth: 7 APR 1852 in Yorktown, Dewitt County, Texas. Death: 24 OCT 1920 in San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas

  7. Placete Bailey English: Birth: 9 AUG 1853 in Atascosa County, Pleasanton, Texas. Death: AFT 1920 in Dimmit County, Carrizo Springs, Texas

  8. Joel Walker English: Birth: 13 JUN 1857 in Frio County, Texas. Death: 1 JUN 1911

  9. Amanda J. English: Birth: 10 FEB 1859 in Atascosa County, Pleasanton, Texas. Death: 16 DEC 1916 in Austin, Travis County, Texas

  10. Jacob English: Birth: 10 JUL 1860 in Frio County, Texas. Death: 1 JAN 1936 in Fabens, El Paso County, Texas

  11. Sarah English: Birth: 15 FEB 1866 in Dimmit County, Carrizo Springs, Texas. Death: 9 MAY 1896 in Dimmit County, Carrizo Springs, Texas


Notes
a. Note:   He came to Texas with Joel M. Walker who married Emiley McInvail/McInvial who was the daughter of Harrit Jane West. There were McVails in Arkansas..Some question as to which Joel brought him to Texas.
 Levi was the founder of Carrizo Springs, Dimmit County, Texas
 It was told to me by Lelia Ruth Smith Morton that Levi came to Texas with his uncle, Joel Walker, and his wife. Levi's mother was supposedly to be an Indian and that she died shortly after he was born. There is a Bailey Inglish in Bonham County, that could be the father of Levi. The Lloyd family has his father as Edward English.
  ENGLISH, LEVI (1817-1904). Levi English, pioneer, cattleman, and one of the first settlers of Dimmit County, was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, on August 25, 1817. His mother died while he was an infant, and he was brought up by his mother's sister and his uncle, Joel T. Walker. In 1824 his surrogate parents took him to Texas with them. English left home when he was about ten, and, according to his son Jake, lived for perhaps six months with a group of Comanche Indians.qv Family tradition says that English served as a scout for the Texas Rangersqv after leaving the Comanches and participated in several battles against Indians. According to his son, he also fought in the battle of San Jacinto,qv though no record of his service can be found. By the 1850s English had become a cattleman and a leader of a frontier community in Atascosa County, where he served as a county commissioner in 1856. In 1865 he led a group of fifteen families into what is now Dimmit County and established a settlement at Carrizo Springs. In 1880, when Dimmit County was organized and Carrizo Springs became the county seat, English donated land to the town for churches, schools, and a courthouse square. He married Matilda Burleson in 1838; the couple had at least one son, Jake, who was born in 1860. English died in Carrizo Springs on May 4, 1904.
  BIBLIOGRAPHY: Daughters of the Republic of Texas, Muster Rolls of the Texas Revolution (Austin, 1986). Laura Knowlton Tidwell, Dimmit County Mesquite Roots (Austin: Wind River, 1984). Vertical Files, Barker Texas History Center, University of Texas at Austin.
  John Leffler


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