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Weatherred - Francis Marcus Weatherred - Brief Bio



Francis Marcus Weatherred, Jr. (1781-1854), son of Francis Marcus and Agnes (Suddarth) Weatherred, was born 
in Albemarle County, Virginia, on 15 July 1781. On 23 December 1806, he married Nancy Dowell. He served under Andrew Jackson in the Creek War before he moved from Tennessee to Texas in December 1835. He settled in Robertson's Colony and in 1836 joined Capt. William H. Patton's Columbia Company of Col. Sidney Sherman's Second Regiment of the Texas army; he was on leave of absence at the time of the battle of San Jacinto. In 1837 he was living in what is now Sabine County, where he operated a hotel at Milam. He was defeated as a candidate for representative from Shelby County in 1843. Weatherred died at Milam on 4 December 1854.
 
Sources:
TSHA Handbook of Texas. TSHA sources A Memorial and Biographical History of Johnson and Hill Counties (Chicago: Lewis, 1892), Vertical Files, Dolph Briscoe Center for American Hisotry, University of Texas, Austin.
Papers Concerning Robertson's Colony in Texas compiled and edited by Malcolm D. McLean, Vol XII, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas 1985, various pages.
Gifford White, ed., The 1840 Census of the Republic of Texas (Austin: The Pemberton Press, 1966), 170.

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