14. | Joshua McCuistion was born on 2 May 1830 in (Shelbyville) Coffee County, Tennessee (son of Robert Newton McCuistion and Elizabeth McQuerter); died on 22 Mar 1906 in Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico. Notes:
Was with his brother James in Robertson County, Texas in 1850, and is listed on the 1850 census.
Died:
Joshua owned land in the Blaylock Colony in Old Mexico. As explained by his great grandson, the Blaylock Colony was in Tamaulipas part of Mexico, South of Brownsville, Texas. Colony meant so many acres of land and the people on it.
In 1905, Joshua bought a ranch in the State of Tamaulipas, Old Mexico, south of Brownsville; the deeds were ratified by the Courts of Tampico. The next year, during the Mexican Revolution, the army of President Diaz overran his ranch, were defeated and recrossed, pursued by the army of Pancho Villa. Joshua and all of his native Mexican employees were murdered on or about 22 March 1906. It is not known whether government or bandit forces committed the atrocities; although, it is assumed to have been Pancho Villa. Although, another account states, Joshua was shot in the leg while in bed, which caused him to develop blood poisoning and he died from this. Because of legal complications and the lack of proper embalming methods, he was buried there.
Joshua married Mary Elizabeth O'Neal on 18 Nov 1851 in Franklin, Robertson County, Texas. Mary (daughter of Edmund Samuel O'Neal and Clarinda Augusta Reams) was born on 26 Aug 1831 in Texas; died on 29 Jul 1859 in Robertson County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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