Thomas Cryer

1796-1855 · South Carolina

Born 1796, South Carolina

Died 1855

Children include Wade

Thomas Cryer was born in South Carolina in 1796. As a young man he was in Louisiana when the British moved against New Orleans in the winter of 1814. On 23 December 1814 he enlisted as a private in the company of Captain Thomas Bickham, Louisiana militia. He served until 1 February 1815, through the weeks of the campaign that ended with the British defeat below New Orleans on 8 January.

In 1825 he claimed land in St. Helena Parish, and his brother Honor swore an affidavit for the claim. On 10 February 1825 he married Ailcy Franklin, a South Carolina girl born in 1806, in St. Tammany Parish, on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain. Her mother, remarried by then as Jemima Magee, signed her consent. Their eldest son, Allen Franklin Cryer, was born that year. The family moved west across Louisiana, and their son Wade Richard was born in Calcasieu Parish, near the Texas line, on 28 June 1833.

By 1850 they had crossed the Sabine into Texas. The census of that year found Thomas and Ailcy in Tyler County, in the East Texas pine woods, with nine children at home, Wade among them at sixteen. Another son, Marselan Terrance Cryer, was born in 1836.

Thomas lived in Tyler County in 1855. He died on 10 August 1855 in Hardin County, aged about 59, and was buried in the Old Hardin Cemetery near Kountze. Ailcy lived another thirty-seven years. She drew a pension as the widow of a soldier of the War of 1812 and spent her last years at Floresville, in Wilson County, where her son Wade had settled.

Children

Wade Richard Cryer 1833-1909

Sources

War of 1812 pension application files, widow's original no. 13,291, certificate no. 26,762, Thomas Cryer; card photograph on Find a Grave memorial 241912342.

Find a Grave memorial 69877229, Alisa Franklin Cryer, Marcelina Baptist Church Cemetery, Floresville, Wilson County, Texas.

United States census of 1850, Tyler County, Texas, page 169, dwelling 102, family 102; National Archives microfilm M432, roll 915, archive.org populationschedu0915unix, image 317

St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, marriages, page 66, no. 240, as abstracted in Franklin Family History, Pascagoula Public Library, Local History and Genealogy Department, page 89 (Internet Archive franklin_202406).

War of 1812 pension file of Honor Cryer, widow's certificate 34,279, widow's original 43,054, bounty land 73,640-160-55, as abstracted in Franklin Family History, Pascagoula Public Library, Local History and Genealogy Department, page 88 (Internet Archive franklin_202406).

War of 1812 pension file card, Thomas Cryer, widow Ailcy Cryer (photograph on Find a Grave memorial 241912342); United States census of 1850, Tyler County, Texas, page 169, as given in a descendant's note on Find a Grave memorial 13423188; Find a Grave memorials 241912342 and 69877229; United States census of 1850, Tyler County, Texas, page 169, image read on National Archives microfilm M432, roll 915 (archive.org populationschedu0915unix, image 317); Daughters of the Republic of Texas membership applications, 1994 and 1996; Abstract of the War of 1812 pension file of Thomas Cryer, widow's claim 13,291, in a letter of A. D. Hill, executive assistant to the Administrator of Veterans Affairs (FamilySearch full text, Revolutionary War pension and bounty land warrant application files); War of 1812 pension files of Honor Cryer (widow's certificate 34,279) and Thomas Cryer, and St. Tammany Parish marriage record page 66, no. 240, as abstracted in a Franklin family history compiled at the Pascagoula Public Library (Internet Archive franklin_202406, pages 88 and 89); Louisiana land records, Greensburg district, claim D 24 (FamilySearch full text, ark 3:1:3QHV-Z3C7-99CJ)

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