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Samuel Maverick

02 Feb

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Samuel Augustus Maverick was born in the summer of 1803 in South Carolina to Samuel and Elizabeth Anderson Maverick.  His father operated an import business.  Young Samuel worked in the family business, graduating from Yale University in 1825.  He left the family business and moved to Virginia in 1828 to study law.  For a while he practiced law and in 1833 he moved to Georgia for a year before relocating to Alabama to operate a plantation that had been given to him by his father.

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Posted by on February 2, 2017 in biography, county names, town names

 

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Mexia, Texas

11 Aug

Mexia is located in Limestone County in east central Texas.  It was founded in the 1800s and lies just north of Fort Parker with Groesbeck being the nearest town to the south of the fort.  Before the Anglo settlement began in the area, it was home to Native American tribes including the Comanche.

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Posted by on August 11, 2016 in biography, hispanic heritage, texas women, town names

 

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Floyd County and Floydada, Texas

23 Jun

There are 254 counties in Texas and 11 of them are named for Alamo defenders: Bailey, Bowie, Cochran, Cottle, Crockett, Dickens, Floyd, King, Lynn, Taylor and Travis counties.  Floyd County is one such county.  It was named for Dolphin Ward Floyd who is believed to have died on his birthday, March 6, 1836, in Santa Anna’s attack on the Alamo.  Ward Floyd was born in North Carolina in 1804 and later moved near Gonzales where he worked as a farmer.  In 1832, he married the recently widowed Esther Berry House, a mother of three by her first husband Isaac House, who also lived in Texas.

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Posted by on June 23, 2016 in alamo, biography, county names, town names

 

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Collin McKinney

12 May

Collin McKinney was a early settler in North Texas.  He was born in 1766 in New Jersey to a Scottish couple, Daniel and Mercy McKinney, making him 10 years old at the height of the American Revolution.  Near the end of the war, the family first moved to Virginia and then again on to Kentucky around 1780.

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Posted by on May 12, 2016 in biography, county names, republic of texas, town names

 

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Creed Taylor

28 Apr

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It is hard to imagine reading about any of the key events surrounding the Texas Revolution and the times surrounding it without encountering the name of Creed Taylor.  Taylor was the son of a family of early Texas settlers.  Despite his youth, he is thought to have taken part in the following battles: the “Come and Take It” battle in Gonzalez, the Battle of Concepción, the Grass Fight, the Siege of Bexar, the Battle of San Jacinto and others.

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Posted by on April 28, 2016 in biography, texas rangers, town names

 

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Burleson, Texas

21 Apr

The town of Burleson (32°32′9″N 97°19′38″W) now sits along the border of Tarrant and Johnson counties.  It was originally founded by a rancher and minister by the name of Henry Carty Renfro.  Born in 1831, Renfro came from a Tennessee family who had originally settled in Cass County, Texas when he was about 20 years old.  In 1853, he entered Baylor University when it was located at Independence, in Washington County.  One of his mentors there was Rufus C. Burleson, a religiously conservative professor who had become President of the university in 1851.

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Posted by on April 21, 2016 in biography, town names

 

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Richard Andrews, Andrews County and Andrews, Texas

17 Mar

Andrews, Texas is located in far West Texas.  If you hold your right hand up and imagine that this part of Texas is represented by your thumb and forefinger, Andrews County would be where your thumb and forefinger come together.  The town of Andrews is the county seat and just about the lone survivor of a number of small communities that were born and died out since around 1890 when settlers first began to come to the area.

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Posted by on March 17, 2016 in biography, county names, town names

 

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