CONFEDERATE BIOGRAPHY: M. J. DEAN - Smith County, TX

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TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson, p. 130.

M. J. DEAN.

M. J. Dean was born in Anderson district, South Carolina, 
March 20th, 1831; removed to Texas in 1851. First landed at Galveston 
and traveled over the greater part of East Texas. In 1852 he returned 
to his native state and married Miss Fannie Rice, an accomplished young 
lady of the Palmetto state. In 1859 he returned to Texas with his 
fam­ily and remained one year in Dallas county; in 1860 remov­ed to Smith 
county and settled two miles south of Tyler. After the war he lived on 
his farm in the Indian Creek community, where he died 
September 18th, 19O6. In June 1861 enlisted in Capt. W. H. Smith's 
company, 7th Texas infantry. Was elected 2nd Lieutenant of the company, 
and while he was absent on a special detail his regiment was made 
prisoners of war in the surrender of Fort Donelson. He returned to the 
Trans-Mississippi department, joined the 15th Texas infantry, 
participating in tile campaigns of Walker's division until the end in 
May 1865. He was con­spicuous as a soldier, and true to the sacred 
principles of State's rights as laid down by Calhoun, Hayne and other 
brilliant statesmen of his native land. His family is prom­nent.  J. T.  
Deane, resides at Dallas; I. R. Dean, a preacher, resides in St. Louis, 
Mo.; 0. W. Dean, a minister resides at Hereford; W. E. Dean who died in 
1893 at Clover Bend, Ark,, was a  school teacher; Miss Lou J. Dean, who 
married W. T. Griffin, died in Tyler 10th of January, 1907; R. A. Dean, 
a grocery merchant, Tyler; Miss Bettie Dean, married J. S. Swan, and 
resides at Merkel.