the reservations, stipulating that they were to be given once a week, as well as prohibiting Native American hunting-parties unless accompanied by United States Army troops. This latter policy ended raids by Native Americans from the reservations. He also helped establish a military telegraph around the Texas frontier. Death He died in Austin in 1893 and is buried in Oakwood Cemetery. Legacy On the eighth season of Who Do You Think You Are?, actress and comedian Aisha Tyler learned that Congressman John Hancock was her great-great-great-grandfather. Hancock fathered a child with one of his slaves producing a son, Hugh Hancock, through whom Tyler is descended. Hugh Hancock would become a prominent leader of the Austin African-American community. Active in the local Republican Party, Hugh ran a bar called the Black Elephant. References External links Entry for John Hancock from the Biographical Encyclopedia of Texas published 1880, hosted by the Portal to Texas History. 1824 births 1893 deaths Democratic Party members of the Texas House of Representatives Politicians from Austin, Texas People of Texas in the American Civil War Burials at Oakwood Cemetery (Austin, Texas) People from Jackson County, Alabama University of Tennessee alumni Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Texas People expelled from United States state legislatures Southern Unionists in the American Civil War 19th-century American politicians