Joel Walter Robison (October 1815 â€" August 4, 1889) was a Georgia
native and a fighter in the Texas Revolution. Years later, he served a
single term in the Texas House of Representatives.Born in Rutherford
County in Tennessee not long after the conclusion of the War of 1812,
Robison relocated with his family in 1831 to Brazoria County in
southeastern Texas. He and his father, John G. Robison, fought in the
Battle of Velasco in Brazoria County in 1832, the first pitched clash
between Anglo settlers of Texas and Mexican soldiers. The next year
the Robisons moved to Fayette County on Cummins Creek of the southern
Colorado River. In the revolution, Robison participated in the siege
of Béxar in San Antonio, the Grass Fight south of San Antonio, and
the Battle of Concepción at Mission Concepción in San Antonio, with
Texian Army insurgents led by James Bowie and James Fannin.Robison was
first a private under Captain William Jones Elliot Heard (1801â€"1874)
and Colonel Edward Burleson at the Battle of San Jacinto in Harris
County on April 21, 1836, six weeks after the Battle of the Alamo. He
was with the group which captured General Antonio López de Santa Anna
at San Jacinto. López de Santa Anna was reported to have ridden into
Sam Houston's camp riding double on Robison's horse. On December 14,
1836, with independence achieved, Sam Houston commissioned Robison a
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