Llano County Texas Archives Photo Group.....Jordan And Charlotte Petty Wyatt 1880
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Source:             Wyatt Family
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This is a picture of Jordan Wyatt and Charlotte Petty on their ranch in Llano
Co. Texas Notice the "Leggins" Jordan wore, these were used to protect him from
Rattle Snake Bites. (ca. 1880)

Volunteer U.S. Federal Service, Mexican War. Enlisted with the First Regiment,
Texas Mounted Volunteers, better known as the Texas Rangers. First served with
Company E, recruited at Cedar Springs, Falls County Texas from July to
September 1846, and in John Long's Company, recruited in San Antonio, Texas
from May to June 1847. He re-enlisted for twelve months in company H, recruited
in Austin, Texas from June 1847 to June 1848, serving under Captain James S.
Gillett. These companies saw battle on the Rio Grande, and also lost several of
their men in skirmishes with the indians. Jordan married Charlotte Petty in
1849. His Mexican War record states they married in Bexar which at that time
was a large Land district. They appear on the 1850 census of Milam County.
Jordan's occupation listed as "ferryman."

Charlotte was the daughter of Theophalus Petty and Charlotte Sorrells. Her
parents came from Butler County Kentucky to Texas before 1849, and appear on
the same 1850 census of Milam County. Bell County was established in the latter
part of 1850 from division of Milam land District, and Jordan appears on the
tax rolls of Bell County 1851-54. According to his Mexican War pension record,
the family lived six years in Bell County, one year in Bastrop County and one
year in Lampasas County, where he had received a land grant for his war
service. Jordan was a member of the Ridge Company of Infantry under the
leadership of Captain A.J.Ridge; Organized in October 1861. Later he was in
Company three under Captain G.C.Bettie, organized in January 1864. In 1875
Jordan and Charlotte purchased 160 acres along the east bank of the Colorado
River near McAnnely's Bend. This land, a part of the William Hargrove 640 acre
headright, was purchased from the heirs of John Giddings for the sum of $42.00.
The deed states that Jordan Wyatt had been living on this land for "many
years." Farming and ranching was the main way of living in that area and Jordan
was primarily a farmer, but he did run few cattle under the brand "WY". Both
are buried in Tow, Llano County

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