Buried in Plot 202, New Hope Cemetery. (Not marked, but near plot of daughter Maggie Robertson Campbell, married to Andrew Campbell).

Appears in censuses:
1850 Montgomery Co
1860 Montgomery Co
1880 Colorado Co
1900 Waller Co

CENSUS YR: 1850 STATE: Texas COUNTY: Montgomery DIVISION: No 1 REEL NO: M432-913 PAGE NO: 65
REFERENCE: Enumerated on 3 Oct 1850; Enumerated by C R Bell; Sheet 32B

LN HN FN LAST NAME FIRST NAME AGE SEX RACE OCCUP. VirginiaL. BIRTHPLACE MRD. SCH. R/W DDB

4 17 17 Robertson Jesse W. 27 M Mechanic 350 Tenn
5 18 18 Robertson Elizabeth 22 F Tenn
6 18 18 Robertson Lewis Thomas 6 M Tenn
7 18 18 Robertson A. Burret 4 M Tenn
8 18 18 Robertson Harriet Alice 2 F Tenn

He applied for a Confederate Pension in January 1905, and as late as 10 May 1905 he was still collecting the various documents required to submit. The pension was approved on 27 September 1905, so it is possible/likely he was still living up to or after that time.

I asked Gary White (gankintx@comcast.net) about the big family move from Colorado County to Waller County in the late 1880s, and this was his response:

There are several reasons, each of them a part of the overall picture. Most of the family was in the general vicinity of the town of Osage in Colorado County. That's a bit west of Columbus and north of Weimer on Harvey Creek. The church that they were a part of was Faith of the Union Baptist Church, where Jesse was a Deacon and Louis was the church secretary (and where Burrell is buried along with Louis' wife's father,although there's nothing there now but the cemetery and it's in the middle of a farmers field - been there several times). Most were there waiting for the event they had been promised would occur. The railroad would run a line from Columbus to Bryan and Osage, with it's thriving town - hotels, stores, doctor, dentist, blacksmiths (Jesse and his son-in-law James Martin Campbell) would be on the line. In 1881 the railroad built the line so it would run from Columbus through Weimer and west from there, leaving Osage high and dry several miles north of the line. Osage rapidly became a backwater town and shrank to nothing by the early 1890's. Jesse and some of the family moved to Borden on the railroad line and set up a blacksmith shop but it wasn't very successful. That's when they left for Waller County where Jesse Wiley was able to purchase about 211 acres of surplus state school property (Louis did the survey and on the original tract map of Waller County that land shows as "Louis Robertson Survey". Most of the rest of the migration you know. Jim Campbell and Harriet Alice Robertson Campbell stayed in Borden until Jim was killed in 1913 when a mule kicked him in the head. He's buried in the small cemetery at Borden, in an unmarked grave. Then Harriet moved to Houston Heights and lived with one of her kids until she died in 1935.

So you see, the failure of the railroad to extend through Osage and the opportunity of get several hundred acres of land very cheaply was the impetus to migrate to Waller County. And don't forget that where they ended up was not that far from where they originally started in Montgomery, Montgomery County. Aunt Mary used to tell me about Louis walking or riding horseback from the place in Waller to Montgomery on occasion to visit friends.

From: gankintx@comcast.net
Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2012 11:36 AM
Subject: Re: Genealogy & CSA Military Service

Louis Thomas Robertson joined Company B, Wauls Texas Legion as a private in September 1862 after service in the Texas State Militia, CSA. There are also indications he may have been a part of the 26th Texas Infantry, CSA, a three month unit, just prior to his joining Wauls Legion. He served until the end of the war and was present at Vicksburg during the 47 day seige that led to Pemberton's surrender of the Army of Vicksburg to U.S. Grant on July 4th, 1863. He also participated at the Battle of the Railroad Cut at Vicksburg where he and members of Company B re-took the Cut from advancing Union troops of the 88th Illinois Infantry.

His father, Jesse Wiley Robertson was also part of the Texas State Militia but records are sketchy on his service in Willis' Cavalry Regiment which was the cavalry arm of Wauls Legion. After Vicksburg, the paroled units returned to Texas and re-formed in Galveston as Company A, Steel's Regiment where they remained for the rest of the war patroling the coast as far south as Corpus Christi. They never again left Texas.

Louis' next younger brother, Burrell, also joined Company A late in the war and served about six weeks before the surrender.

Family is in Montgomery Co in 1850:

CENSUS YR: 1850 STATE: Texas COUNTY: Montgomery DIVISION: No 1 REEL NO: M432-913 PAGE NO: 65
REFERENCE: Enumerated on 3 Oct 1850; Enumerated by C R Bell; Sheet 32B
from http://ftp.rootsweb.ancestry.com/pub/usgenweb/tx/montgomery/census/1850/pg00063.txt

from Gary White, January 2009:

"Marriage Records of Robertson County, Tennessee, Book , Page, Jesse Robertson to Elizabeth Dorris, license issued 1 October 1844, solumnized by William D. Baldwin, M.G., (Pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church, organized 1838, Robertson County, Tennessee) 3 October 1844.(Note) It is not known whether Jesse and Elizabeth were married at Bethlehem Baptist which was Pastor Baldwin's home church or at Rock Springs Baptist where Pastor Baldwin also preached and where Jesse's father Lewis Robertson was Church Secretary. In 1851, Lewis would convey by Deed of Gift 1 & 1/2 acres to the Rock Springs Baptist Church for a new church building and cemetery. This researcher visited the Rock Springs Baptist Church in 1994."