JESSE SUMPTER APRIL 29, 1876 EAGLE PASS, TEXAS MAVERICK COUNTY LAND DOCUMENT

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JESSE SUMPTER APRIL 29, 1876 EAGLE PASS, TEXAS MAVERICK COUNTY LAND DEED DOCUMENT.
SUMPTER, JESSE (1827–1910). Jesse Sumpter, soldier, settler, and memoirist, son of Isom and Susanna (Loving) Sumpter, was born in Owen County, Indiana, on February 21, 1827. After his discharge as a sergeant on April 27, 1852, Sumpter decided to settle at Eagle Pass, which was then a fledgling frontier village adjoining Fort Duncan and the jumping-off place for California-bound gold seekers traveling the Mexico route. He tended bar for Henry Matson until 1854, when he opened a saloon of his own and then went into the cattle business. In 1859 he married Refugia Ramírez; they had two children. In 1872 he married Virginia Ramírez (no relation to his first wife). Sumpter frequently acted as a deputy sheriff, and since the county was unorganized he had to accompany prisoners under perilous conditions nearly 150 miles to San Antonio in Bexar County. During the Civil War Sumpter became a merchant and was appointed by Lorenzo Castro as customs inspector for the Confederacy. When Maverick County was organized in 1871 he was elected the first county sheriff, an office he held until 1876. After leaving office he moved to Uvalde, where he lived for a time. He returned to Eagle Pass in the early 1880s as commissary manager for a railroad-construction company, which was extending a line from Piedras Negras (across from Eagle Pass) into Mexico.
After following the path of the railroad as far as Monclova, Sumpter returned to Eagle Pass, where he purchased and operated King Fisher's Sunset Saloon. Sumpter was appointed United States customs inspector at Eagle Pass in 1894 and held the position until his death on November 20, 1910. During his later years he was celebrated as the oldest citizen of Eagle Pass.
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