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Sion Record Bostick PapersManuscript Collection: MC185
Creator SketchSion Record Bostick was born in Alabama on December 7, 1819, son of Levi T. and Martha Bostick. He moved to Texas with his family in the late 1820s. Sion Bostick participated in the Battle of Gonzales in the company of Captain Peyton R. Splane and took part in the siege of Bexar. In March of 1836 he reenlisted as a private in Captain Moseley Baker's company of Col. Edward Burleson's First Regiment, Texas Volunteers. Bostick also fought in the Battle of San Jacinto. In 1840 Bostick was living in Colorado County and took part in the battle of Plum Creek. In 1862, the forty-one-year-old Bostick enlisted in Capt. John C. Upton's Company B of Col. James J. Archer where he served for a time in Virginia but was discharged by the order of the Confederate Secretary of War on September 22 as over age. Bostick married Susan Townsend in 1839. His first wife died in 1856. Bostick then married Mary Indiana Rhodes. Bostick died in San Saba, Texas, in 1902 and is buried in the San Saba Cemetery where a Texas historical marker was placed in 1973. He had eight children: James, Susan La Manda, Martha, Lavene, Volney, Hannah Elizabeth, Joshua and Hicks Bostick. Return to the Table of Contents Scope and Content NoteThe Sion Record Bostick Papers are comprised of two letters dated in 1899 and 1900 and an 1899 card photograph. The two letters are from Sion Record Bostick to W. S. Tate, and detail the battles, including San Jacinto, in which Bostick participated. Each is accompanied by the original stamped envelope. Also included in the collection is a cabinet card photograph of Bostick dated in 1899. Return to the Table of Contents
Return to the Table of Contents RestrictionsRestrictions on AccessNone. Terms Governing UseOpen for research by appointment. Publication RightsCopyright has not been assigned to the San Jacinto Museum of History. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Library Director. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the San Jacinto Museum of History as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher. Return to the Table of Contents
Return to the Table of Contents Administrative InformationCitation[Identification of Item], Sion Record Bostick Papers, MC185, San Jacinto Museum of History, Houston, Texas. AcquisitionW. S. Tate, Apr. 1939. Processing InformationProcessed by Lisa M. Lomas, 2012. Return to the Table of Contents Bibliography:
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