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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN FOY
(1827-1893)

B ENJAMIN FRANKLIN FOY was the first ancestor of the CISCO

CLAN to come to Texas. His first visit to Texas was not a good experience
as he suffered the effects of it for the rest of his life.

BENJAMIN first came to Texas from Georgia in 1847 to fight in the Mexican
War. This visit was brief because U.S. Army records indicate he enlisted in
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Company C, [Captain Walton Ecton’s Company] 13 Infantry Regiment, U.S.
Army on April 10, 1847. He was honorably discharged at Mobile, Alabama on
July 15, 1848. His discharge papers describe him as “born in Bibb County,

Georgia, twenty one years of age, five feet ten inches tall, dark complexion, grey
eyes and light hair”. His occupation was noted as “farmer”.

Family tradition claims are when BENJAMIN first arrived in Texas to fight in
the war he caught the measles which settled in his stomach. Following that
illness he never had a well day the rest of his life

After his discharge from the service BENJAMIN returned to his home in
Meriwether County, Georgia but soon traveled back toward Texas stopping in
the state of Louisiana where his uncle, MORRIS H. FOY lived. MORRIS was
a brother of BENJAMIN’s father, LEWIS FOY. Nothing is known about how
long or why MORRIS had been living in Louisiana. BENJAMIN lived in
Louisiana for several years and his brother, ROBERT HENRY FOY later joined
him there. ROBERT HENRY continued to live with BENJAMIN and his family
for several years in both Louisiana and Texas.

Before he left Georgia for Louisiana, on September 19, 1848, BENJAMIN filed

an Oath of Identity with a Justice of the Peace for Meriwether County, Georgia.
In that oath he declared he was identical with the individual who was a member
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of Company C, 13 Infantry that enlisted in April 1847 and was discharged July
15, 1848 at Mobile, Alabama. This document was necessary in order for him to
be awarded a land bounty warrant issued from the Pension department of the
U.S. Government.

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