Samuel McCulloch Jr. (1810-1893), a free Black soldier in the Texas Revolution, was born in the Abbeville District of South Carolina on October 11, 1810. In May 1835 Samuel McCulloch, Sr., describing himself as a single man, moved to Texas with his son and three daughters, Jane, Harriet, and Mahaly. The family settled on the Lavaca River in what is now Jackson County. On October 9 1935, he fought at Goliad and was severely wounded in the right shoulder during the storming of the Mexican officers' quarters. He was the only Texan wounded in the battle and became known as the first Texan casualty of the revolution.
On February 5, 1840, the Texas Congress passed an act that required all free Blacks to leave the republic within two years or be sold into slavery. McCulloch submitted a petition, introduced by Patrick Usher, asking that he, his three sisters, and a relative named Uldy be exempted from the law. On November 10, 1840, a relief bill for the McCullochs passed.
Samuel McCulloch fought against Comanche Indians at the battle of Plum Creek on August 11 and 12, 1840. When Mexican general Adrián Woll invaded San Antonio in 1842, McCulloch served as a spy under the command of Col. Clark L. Owen.
McCulloch became eligible for bounty land by an act of the Texas Congress approved December 18, 1837, which entitled persons permanently disabled in the service of Texas to one-league (1 league = 4,428.4 acres) grants. On December 7, 1850, he located two thirds of his league on Frio Road and the south bank of the Medina River, fourteen miles to the southwest of San Antonio. McCulloch sold a third of his bounty land to John Twohig on October 22, 1851. In 1852 he moved with his family to the region of present-day Von Ormy, in Bexar County, where he lived as a farmer and cattleman. In his later years McCulloch attended reunions and gatherings of old soldiers and pioneers. On April 20 and 21, 1889, he attended the annual reunion of the Texas Veterans Association at Dallas. He died at Von Ormy on November 2, 1893. His name is registered on the Texas Veterans death roll for April 21, 1894.
This cache is NOT AT THE LISTED COORDINATES. To get the correct information to solve this puzzle, you will need to go to the listed coordinates and read the Texas historical marker located across the fence.
Final location is: N 29° AB.CDE' W 098° FG.HIJ'
The "McCulloch Cemetery" title does not count as a line for our purposes.
A= The number of letters in the sixth word of the tenth line.
B= The single digit to the left of the first comma minus 1, of the second line.
C= According to the sign, how many acres were deeded to the church in 1861? Double that number.
D= The sum of the: first digit of the year that McCulloch was born and the last digit of the year that he died in.
E= What digit would you be drawing if you drew the second letter of the fifth word of the second line?
F= The number of letters in the last word of the seventh line, divided by two.
G= The last digit on the last line of the historical sign.
H= What is the year of the oldest marked grave here? Take the sum of each individual digit of that year. Minus eleven.
I= The first letter of the last word of the sixth line, the last letter of the fourth word of the fourtheenth line, the fourth letter of the fifth word of the third line, the middle letter of the fourth word of the eleventh line. What does this spell?
L= Who is the only other person named on this plaque other than Samuel McCulloch? How many letters are in this person's last name?
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