Brady BM from the Bill Turner Collection. Born in Livingston, Alabama and raised in Nacogdoches in the Republic of Texas, Ochiltree attended the public schools. He volunteered in 1854 as a private in Capt. John G. Walker's company of Texas Rangers in the campaign against the Apache and Comanche Indians in 1854 and 1855.[1]He was admitted to the bar by special act of the Texas Legi