Individual Details
A. Elisha "Lish" Walling
(Abt, 1821 - Abt, 1890)
1850 Houston County, Texas census.
1870 Houston County, Texas census.
1880 Houston County, Texas census.
A. Elisha joined the war for "Texas Independence" in 1842, on the "Santa Fe Expedition". (It has been reported for years he was in the Mier Expedition "Black Bean Drawing" when the prisoners were all lined up and had to draw beans to see if you would be spared. The story goes, if you drew a black bean you would be killed. A. Elisha drew a black bean and his brother Roy traded with him because A. Elisha had a family. This was not a true story, because A. Elisha had not married til after the war and he did not have a brother Roy. On further research, the monument that had the men that died on that affair, did not have a Roy Walling listed.) He did however go to Santa Fe, New Mexico with Company E, that was there to get New Mexico to side with Texas against the Mexicans in the war. That fell through because New Mexico turned on the Texians and gave them to Mexico, who in turn imprisoned them in Vera Cruz. A. Elisha was in prison in Mexico for over a year before he was let loose and walked all the way home to Grapeland, Texas. After he returned home he married Amanda Williams and they started their family.
Some of the Elisha Walling information from Cheryl D. Strickland, who cites Ava Bush as published in "A Wallen/Walling Genealogy II" by Maribelle and Bruce Wilder.
1870 Houston County, Texas census.
1880 Houston County, Texas census.
A. Elisha joined the war for "Texas Independence" in 1842, on the "Santa Fe Expedition". (It has been reported for years he was in the Mier Expedition "Black Bean Drawing" when the prisoners were all lined up and had to draw beans to see if you would be spared. The story goes, if you drew a black bean you would be killed. A. Elisha drew a black bean and his brother Roy traded with him because A. Elisha had a family. This was not a true story, because A. Elisha had not married til after the war and he did not have a brother Roy. On further research, the monument that had the men that died on that affair, did not have a Roy Walling listed.) He did however go to Santa Fe, New Mexico with Company E, that was there to get New Mexico to side with Texas against the Mexicans in the war. That fell through because New Mexico turned on the Texians and gave them to Mexico, who in turn imprisoned them in Vera Cruz. A. Elisha was in prison in Mexico for over a year before he was let loose and walked all the way home to Grapeland, Texas. After he returned home he married Amanda Williams and they started their family.
Some of the Elisha Walling information from Cheryl D. Strickland, who cites Ava Bush as published in "A Wallen/Walling Genealogy II" by Maribelle and Bruce Wilder.
Events
| Birth | Abt, 1821 | White County, Tennessee | |||
| Marriage | February 3, 1857 | Houston County, Texas - Amanda Elizabeth Williams | |||
| Death | Abt, 1890 | Erath County, Texas |
Families
| Spouse | Amanda Elizabeth Williams (1835 - 1902) |
| Child | Charles "Charlie" Walling (1857 - 1931) |
| Child | James Walling (1859 - ) |
| Child | Jesse Walling (1861 - 1928) |
| Child | Susan Walling (1862 - 1880) |
| Child | Lawson "Buddie" Walling (1865 - ) |
| Child | Polly Ann Walling (1867 - 1949) |
| Child | Nancy C. Walling (1869 - 1945) |
| Child | Elisha W. Walling (1872 - 1935) |
| Child | Elizabeth "Lizzie" Walling (1875 - 1941) |
| Child | Hosea Walling (1879 - 1931) |
| Father | Joseph Walling (1782 - 1840) |
| Mother | Catherine "Kate" Anderson (1780 - 1845) |
| Sibling | Susan "Sukey" Walling (1807 - 1881) |
| Sibling | Sarah "Sally" Walling (1810 - 1866) |
| Sibling | James R. Walling (1812 - 1893) |
| Sibling | Mary "Polly" Walling (1813 - 1895) |
| Sibling | Jesse Walling (1815 - 1840) |
| Sibling | John "Hosea" Walling (1825 - ) |