Henry Clay Davis - 1814-1866
“Clay” as everyone called Henry Clay Davis was born in Georgia and raised in Kentucky. He came to San Antonio, Texas and joined the First...
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Oct 20, 20231 min
U.S. Senator Henry S. Foote - 1804-1880
Senator Foote, a Virginian by birth, became the Democratic Governor of Mississippi 1852-1854. Then the Democratic U.S. Senator 1847-1852...
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Oct 17, 20231 min
President Lamar Arrives in Austin
On October 17, 1839, President Mirabeau B. Lamar arrived in Austin with his cabinet and the records from Houston of the Republic of...
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Oct 11, 20231 min
First Protestant Preacher in Texas
The first protestant to preach on Texas soil, Reverend Sumner Bacon, always carried his Bible and a loaded revolver. The Presbyterian...
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Oct 6, 20231 min
Thomas W. Ward – 1807-1872
Captain Thomas Ward was a hero of the Texas Revolution before it began. The Irish-born member of the New Orlean’s Greys lost a leg at the...
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David A Bowles
Oct 5, 20231 min
Austin’s First Settler – Jacob M. Harrell – 1804-1853
Jacob M. Harrell, an early settler, was born in Tennessee in 1804. He married Mary McCutcheon, and they had four kids. Harrell came to...
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David A Bowles
Oct 3, 20231 min
Jonesborough, Tennessee
Jonesborough is the oldest town in Tennessee. Established 17 years before becoming the sixteenth state. The town had 5,860 residents as...
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David A Bowles
Oct 2, 20231 min
Sarah Seely DeWitt 1789-1854
Sarah Seely and her husband Green DeWitt founded DeWitt Colony in the spring of 1825. Her husband Green would die in Monclova, Mexico on...
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David A Bowles
Sep 27, 20231 min
Michael Ziller
First Footer of the Republic of Texas, Michael Ziller was a German immigrant and ex-soldier under the command of Napoleon Bonaparte. He...
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David A Bowles
Sep 25, 20231 min
Austin’s First Capitol Building – 1839-1856
In the spring of 1839, lumber for the first permanent Capitol of Texas had been cut and hauled from Bastrop to the building site at West...
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David A Bowles
Sep 20, 20231 min
Green DeWitt - 1787-1835
Before coming to Texas, Green DeWitt was the first sheriff of Ralls County, Missouri 1821-1824. He petitioned Mexico in 1822 for...
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David A Bowles
Sep 18, 20231 min
Major James Kerr – 1790-1850
Major James Kerr was one of the “Old Three Hundred” who followed Moses Austin to Texas during the days of Colonial Mexico. He fought in...
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David A Bowles
Sep 14, 20231 min
Joseph Lee – 1810-1891
Attorney Joseph Lee arrived in 1840 in Austin as the three centers of government; city, county and Republic of Texas were being...
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David A Bowles
Sep 10, 20231 min
The Grandmother I Never Knew
The Spanish Flu killed my grandmother Gladys Whitt-Puryear (pictured above). She was born 1895 in Travis County, Texas. She married my...
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David A Bowles
Sep 8, 20233 min
Errors Engraved in Stone
My Thurman ancestors were early Travis County Pioneers. They are now buried on a hilltop in Hays County on private property. Originally,...
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David A Bowles
Sep 6, 20232 min
Oil Patch Warriors
This is a story that should make those in the oil patch proud! A little-known tale of WWII. Eighty years ago, a band of Texas and...
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David A Bowles
Sep 5, 20231 min
Thomas J. Pilgrim - 1804-1877
Thomas Jefferson Pilgrim was born in Connecticut but got to Texas as soon as he could. He and a group of sixty men arrived at Matagorda,...
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David A Bowles
Sep 1, 20231 min
No Trespassing!
WARNING! If you’re out traipsing through the woods as Becka and I often do, keep a close watch for purple painted posts. The state...
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David A Bowles
Aug 25, 20231 min
Majestic Mountain – Mount Rushmore
Alamo Height’s resident, Lincoln Borglum finished “Mount Rushmore National Memorial” after his father, Gutzon Borglum, died in 1941. The...
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David A Bowles
Aug 23, 20231 min
Lucien Bonaparte Maxwell
Born in Illinois prior to it becoming a state, Lucien’s father, Hugh Maxwell, was an Irish immigrant. His mother was French nobility....
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