HOUSTON FAMILY
Sam Houston was a 19th century American statesman , politician and soldier. He was born in Timber Ridge in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia of Scotch-Irish descent.
He was elected as the first and third President of the Republic of Texas. He was also U. S. Senator for Texas after it joined the United States and also a governor of Texas. He refused to swear loyalty to the Confederacy when Texas seceded from the Union, and resigned as governor. To avoid bloodshed, he refused an offer of a Union army to put down the Confederate rebellion. Instead, he retired to Huntsville, Texas, where he died before the end of the Civil War.
His father Samuel Houston was a sibling of Jane Agnes Houston, a great grandparent of ours. They grew up in Carlisle, Cumberland, Pennsylvania as did our family. Samuel Houston married Elizabeth Paxton and Jane Agnes Houston married Matthew Patton.
Samuel Houston and his spouse settled in Kentucky and Tennessee. His sister Jane Agnes Houston Patton and her family went on to Jefferson County, Indiana.
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