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Researcher: Mark B. McGill W.T. married Elizabeth while he was a confederate costal dispatch rider on the hazardous southern routes, spending lots of time dodging Federal patrols looking to stop him. By all accounts, he was quite a horseman. I've got his pistol and cowbell. The Wisemans owned the Locust Grove, a well-known "motel" on the old road between Texana/Edna and Matagorda/Brazoria (off FM172 today) and today sporting a historical marker. Eliz and Sarah had another older brother back in Ohio. During the war, she had two brothers fight for the south, and two brothers fight for the north. Two died as wounded prisoners-of-war, one died in combat (I'm trying to locate when/where), and only the oldest brother survived the war. The family returned to Ohio. Eliz and Sarah stayed. Sarah married "Captain Bob", supposedly the inventor of "boatman stew" (an oyster/rice concoction our family still enjoys). They owned a hotel at Indianola, twice destroyed. He sailed a schooner, so I've heard.
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