Yorktown High School students portrayed the children of Hepzibeth Taylor in the DeWitt County Historical Commission’s production of “Lives Remembered” in the Cuero ISD Cafeteria Sunday, Nov. 16.
Two of the students, Taylor and Christian Gips, are descendants of Josiah and Hepzibeth Taylor. The other students were Calvin Duprie, Avery Martin, Zoe Irvin, Devin Zapata, Adam Serbin, Randen Zuniga and Kylan Respondek.
During planning for the program, history teacher Coach Valton Acree recruited students to portray the Taylor children.
The presentation commemorated the 200th anniversary of the founding of Green DeWitt Colony. The participating students learned the history of the colony to play the parts.
Josiah and Hepzibeth Taylor were among the early colonists who settled in what is now DeWitt County. After Josiah died, Hepzibeth was granted the land he claimed. Her nine children grew up in the colony and participated in the Texas Revolution and Runaway Scrape.
Sara Seeley DeWitt, widow of Green De-Witt, and their son Christopher Columbus DeWitt, were portrayed talking about the founding of the colony.
Other colonists that were portrayed during the program were Columbus Burns and his friend Crockett Cardwell, John and Daniel McCoy, and Valentine Bennett and his son Miles Squire Bennett.
Father Jose Antonio Valdez y Gonzales, on whose land grant the City of Cuero sits, was also portrayed.
