What Remains: A lasting link to the Gabriel Mills community

  • The Bittick Family Cemetery, where 1850s Williamson County settlers Jonathan and Jinsy are buried, is on CR 236 near Liberty Hill.
    The Bittick Family Cemetery, where 1850s Williamson County settlers Jonathan and Jinsy are buried, is on CR 236 near Liberty Hill.

    By Laura Plunkett

    Jonathan Albert Bittick was born in North Carolina in 1796. By 1820, he was living in Missouri, where he married his first wife, Polly. After her death around 1825, he married Jinsy (Jane) Butler, who had been born in Georgia. 

    The couple moved to Tejas in 1830, before Texas independence in 1836. As an early settler of the Republic of Texas, Jonathan received land grants in Sh…