The Dowling Family Tree with over half a million relatives,contains thousands of pictures and GeneaStars. We are all related!DowlingGeneastars | Facebook
L'arbregénéalogique Dowling avec plus d'un demi-million de parents,contient des milliers de photos et GeneaStars.Nous sommes tousliés!
Gov.
|
|
|
John Allen 1776-1833 & 
? ?) Temple Lea †ca 1834 & Nancy Moffette)with Samuel Houston 1834-1894 Married in September 1875, Walker Co., TX, toLucy Anderson 1845-1886 Nancy Elizabeth Houston 1846-1920 Married 1 August 1866, Georgetown, Williamson Co., TX, toJoseph Clay Morrow 1839-1925 with Emily Preston Morrow 1869-1892 Married 25 January 1886 toDavis Evan Decker 1865-1932 with : Stiles Morrow Decker 1888-1946 Margaret Lea Houston 1848-1906 Married 17 October 1866, Independence, Washington Co., TX, toWeston Lafayette Williams 1835-1889 Mary William Houston 1850-1931 Married 11 April 1871, Independence, Washington Co., TX, toJohn Simeon Morrow 1840-1886 Antoinette Power Houston 1852-1932 Married 28 February 1877 toWilliam S. Bringhurst Andrew Jackson Houston, Sen. 1854-1941 Married in 1877 toCarrie Glenn Parnell 1858-1884 William Rogers Houston 1858-1920 Temple Lea Houston 1860-1905 Married 14 February 1882 toLaura Cross 1863-1938
|
| Samuel Houston, Major 1750-1806 |  (1781)1child |
|
| Hannah Paxton 1743/- |  (1793) |
| John Paxton, Cpt. 1743-1787 | (1767) 1child |
| James Paxton ca 1744-1788 | (1786) |
| Isabel Paxton 1746-1780 |  |
| William Paxton ca 1751-1817 | |
| Elizabeth Paxton 1757-1831 | (1781) 1child |
| Joseph Paxton 1763-1798 | (1785) 3children |
| Mary Paxton 1764-1803 | (1787) 1child |
| (display) |
rootsweb: Click Here
HOUSTON, Samuel, (father of Andrew Jackson Houston and cousin of David Hubbard), a Representative from Tennessee and a Senator from Texas; born at Timber Ridge Church, near Lexington, Va., March 2, 1793; moved about 1808 with his widowed mother to Blount County, Tenn.; attended Maryville Academy (now Maryville College), Maryville, Tenn.; employed as a clerk in a store in Kingston, Tenn.; enlisted as a private in the United States Infantry 1813; served under General Andrew Jackson in the Creek War, rose to lieutenant, and resigned from the Army in 1818; studied law, admitted to the bar in 1818, and commenced practice in Lebanon, Tenn.; district attorney in 1819; adjutant general of the State 1820; major general 1821; elected to the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Congresses (March 4, 1823-March 3, 1827); Governor of Tennessee 1827-1829, when he resigned; moved to the territory of the Cherokee Nation, now a part of Oklahoma, was a trader, and was made a member of the Cherokee Nation by action of the National Council; moved to Texas around 1835 and was a member of the convention at San Felipe de Austin, the purpose of which was to establish separate statehood for Texas; member of the constitutional convention in 1835; commander in chief of the Texas Army; successfully led the Texans against the Mexicans in the Battle of San Jacinto in April 1836; first President of the Republic of Texas 1836-1838; member, Texas Congress 1838-1840; again President of the Republic 1841-1844; upon the admission of Texas as a State into the Union was elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate; reelected in 1847 and 1853 and served from February 21, 1846, to March 3, 1859; chairman, Committee on Militia (Thirty-first through Thirty-fourth Congresses); Governor of Texas 1859-1861; deposed March 18, 1861, because he refused to take the oath of allegiance to the Confederate States; died in Huntsville, Tex., July 26, 1863; interment in Oakwood Cemetery.
--- Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
{{ mediasCtrl.getTitle(media, true) }}
{{ media.date_translated }}
|
