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Jincy Ann Harbour. Wasn't she the twin sister of Isaiah Jr.?
If I am not mistaken they were the children of Isaiah Harbour and Mary Miller. Isaiah was a Baptist preacher I think.
My third great grandfather was Isaiah's brother Calloway Harbour. My great great grandmother was Calloway's daughter Mary Elizabeth Harbour who married Greer Wood. They all lived at one time near Sweet Home until after the war, When they moved to Dripping Springs in Hays county.
Isaiah came to Texas first, and was a citizen of the Republic of Texas. Calloway came with him, but returned to Yalobusa county Missippi for a while where he married Serena Lasiter. He returned to Texas a few years later.
I think that I found an interesting twist to the reason why so many of the Lavaca County soldier of the War Between the States were in a Infantry company that was actually from Travis and Hays counties. This is how it may have happened.
There was originally a Company F, 4th Texas Cavalry that mustered near Lavaca County and left early. This is what I heard from a Civil War reenactor who knew something of that units history. He and I talked and he believed that the men in Lavaca county originally intended to enlist in the 4th Texas cavalry, but the 4th had left for the war. Some one apparently told them that Company F of the 4th Texas was recruiting near Travis County. When they arrived at Travis county, they discovered that this was the newly formed Company F. of the 4th Texas Infantry, and not the 4th Texas Cavalry. Among those who enlisted were some men who were related to each other. Among those who went were Calloway Harbour, his son in law Greer W. Wood, and a Harris and Goodloe who were distant cousins of Greer Wood.
Greer's best friend Jacob C. Quick was also with them.
Little did they know that they were joining one of the hardest fighting brigades on either side, for Company F of the 4th Texas Infantry was part of the famed Hood's Texas Brigade, instead of the cavalry unit that they thought they were joining.
Calloway was already in his fifties, and when they arrived at Virginia, he may have participated only in one action at Eltham's Landing before he became sick. His muster cards show that he died about six months later in Monroe Lousiana.
But there is a possibility that the surgeon may have just written him a death certificate, as they sometime did for older soldiers whose poor health and age might actually do them in in the hard campaigning. I have heard that Calloway and Serena had a son a year or two after Calloway's alleged death. This is a mystery that no one really knows the answer to I think.
Greer Wood his son in law went through the rest of the war, wounded three times, and captured and exchanged at Gettysburg. But hs survived along with Jacob Quick who lost an arm at Chickamauga. They were the only two survivors of the eleven who went to Virginia from Lavaca County. I have a picture of Greer and Jacob in an 1899 Hood's Texas Brigade reunion at Austin Texas.
I have heard that after the war, there was trouble between the former Confederates and a family that was affilated with the All Union league, and that a number of the former confederates went to Hays County where they were welcomed by their old comrades from the Texas Brigade. But that some of the folks still remained near Halletsville, and Sweet Home.
There is a lot of longevity in the Harbour family I think.
Mary Eliziabeth lived into her mid nineties, and her brother Isaiah lived to be about one hundred and three years old if my information is correct.
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