James Henry Callison was killed at Refugio, Texas. Here is how it is listed. There is no
Parkhill listed as being killed at the Battle of Goliad, or the surrounding country.
Men lost at or near Refugio in the fighting of March 14-16, 1836, under Colonel Ward and
Captain King:
Anderson, Samuel
Armstrong, William S.
Callison, James Henry
Colgrove, John H.
Cook, Thomas
Davids, Fields
Davids, Jackson
Henley, James
Johnson, William R.
King, Amon Butler
Kirk, Harvey H.
Ledbetter, Samuel
Murphy, James B.
Murphy, James
Ray, Anderson
Rodgers, John B.
Sayle, Antoine
Shelton, William
Simpson, William K.
Smith, GalvinH.
Smith, Oliver
Stewart, John C.
Toler, Robert A.
Wallace, William
Weeks, Thomas G.
Winters, Christopher
Wood, Samuel
This roll of names differs from that engraved on the Texas Centennial monument at Refugio,
in that it omits six names:
Brady, Leslie G.H.
Eadock, Henry H.
Gibbs, Lewis
Humphries, Jesse C.
Penny, George C.
Ward, John
These men are listed as being in Fannin's Command.
This information is from a book that I got years ago titled "The Presidio La
Bahia" by Kathryn Stoner O'Conner. It was out of print for a long time by it is
now available again at La Bahia. I was at La Bahia in Goliad this past summer as one of my
ancestors, James George, hauled the Gonzales cannon to La Bahia but he did not fight
there. Instead he was one of the 32 men from Gonzales who went to the Alamo and died
there.
I will look down at the library for James Parkhill and see if I can find him in anything
about Texas. He could have been here and been killed and his name unknown as there were a
lot of men who died and were not named. I know that some of th men who fought at different
places are not always on the monuments. As I had said earlier, Samuel C. Callison, my
ancestor, fought at the Seige of Bexar, and also at San Jacinto although he is not listed
as having fought at San Jacinto, but he got land for it, so I guess he was there. My
husband's ancestor was also there and got land for having fought, but he is not listed
on the monument.
Joyce Moore