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Margaret Lea Houston (April 11, 1819 – December 3, 1867) was First Lady of the Republic of Texas during her husband Sam Houston's second term as President of the Republic of Texas. They met following the first of his two non-consecutive terms as the Republic's president, and married when he was a representative in the Congress of the Republic ...
Eliza (née Allen) Houston Douglass [a] (December 2, 1809 – March 3, 1861) was the first wife of Sam Houston. Their marriage, over after just eleven weeks, ended Houston's career as governor of Tennessee. Houston resigned and went to the home of his foster father John Jolly, a leader of the Cherokee people.
Sam Houston Birthplace Marker in Rockbridge County, Virginia. Samuel Houston was born in Rockbridge County, Virginia on March 2, 1793, to Samuel Houston and Elizabeth Paxton. Both of Houston's parents were descended from Scottish and Irish immigrants who had settled in Colonial America in the 1730s, [2] including his great-grandfather John ...
Houston and his wife, Margaret Lea Houston, relied on slaves to perform household, agricultural, carpentry, blacksmithing, and other duties for the family. Eliza, who came with Margaret into Houston's family, was critical to running the household and raising the children. She stayed with the daughters of Sam and Margaret until she died in 1898.
Born in Alabama, she met Sam Houston in 1839 when the latter traveled to Mobile seeking investors. They were married the following year and moved to Galveston, Texas, where Sam soon re-entered politics. Over the course of her husband's career, which often saw him traveling, Margaret mainly remained in Texas and raised her eight children.
Nancy Moffette Lea (1780–1864) was the mother of Margaret Lea Houston and mother-in-law of Sam Houston. She was an integral member of the Houston family, running the household when Margaret was ill or pregnant. She is believed to have helped her son-in-law convert and be baptized in 1854.
Robert H. Houston (1720–1760), born in Ireland, died in Virginia m.Margaret Dunlap Davidson (b. 1720) John Houston m. Anna Logan; Samuel Davidson Houston (1745–1807) m. Elizabeth Blair Paxton (1757–1831) Paxton Houston; Robert Houston; James Houston (1782–1824) m. Rebecca G. Herndon; John P. Houston (1790–1838) Sam Houston (1793 ...
Hannah Estey Burnet's husband David G. Burnet was ad interim Republic president before Sam Houston became the official first president. During Houston's first term, he was in the process of obtaining a divorce from Eliza Allen, his estranged wife in Tennessee. [1] Houston's 1838-41 successor Mirabeau B. Lamar was a widower during his term in ...