Hidalgo County New Mexico


The William Jasper English family in Bandera, TX
1835 - 1921
Born in Arkansas and enlisted as a private in Co. H 26th Arkansas Inf. CSA, until his release in June 1865.

Jasper married Nancy Blackwell and farmed in Johnson Co. until they later moved west. Their children were August, Irb, Frank, Lee, and Nancy.

They moved to Bandera, Texas and then on to the Portal area where most of the family also succesfully homesteaded. Jasper homesteaded in the Portal area and it was at the Sanford ranch that he died at the age of 86.