Leroy Tillman Kelso
Leroy T. Kelso was born in Mississippi in 1847 and his family arrived in Texas in 1850. In 1873, the Comanches were raiding in the Hill...
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david921866
- Nov 27
- 1 min
Alfred Givens Kelso, Sr.
Alfred Givens Kelso, Sr. came to Texas in 1829. He joined the Texas Army as First Corporal under the command of Captain William K....
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david921866
- Nov 15
- 1 min
Code of the Cow Country
The following poem is something I found in a barn many years ago on a feed sack. I tore it off and have since found the poem in various...
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david921866
- Nov 3
- 1 min
Father of Texas
The “Father of Texas” Stephen F. Austin was born in Virginia on November 3, 1793. His father Moses Austin received permission from Spain...
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david921866
- Oct 30
- 1 min
Alsey Silvanus Miller-1820-1885
Sixteen-year-old Alsey Silvanus Miller traveled alone to Texas in the fall of 1836. After a short stay in Washington County, he made Oak...
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david921866
- Oct 25
- 1 min
Charles DeMorse-1816-1887
Born Charles D. Morse in Massachusetts, he was educated in New Haven and New York City. In 1835, he joined Edwin Morehouse Volunteers to...
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david921866
- Oct 23
- 1 min
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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david921866
- Oct 17
- 1 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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david921866
- Oct 11
- 1 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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david921866
- Oct 5
- 1 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 4
- 1 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 2
- 1 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
- 1 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
- 1 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 19
- 1 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
- 1 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
- 1 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 9
- 1 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
- 3 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 5
- 1 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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