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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.
ZIP Codes: 75961–75965 ... and served as one of the first two Texas U.S. Senators along with Sam Houston. ... was not divorced from his first wife Eliza Allen of ...
This is used for articles about Sam Houston, ... Sam Houston (1793–1863) m. Eliza Allen (m. 1829 div. 1837 ... Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives 1973–1975
Betsy Love Allen (died 1837), Chickasaw plantation owner who influenced the first Married Women's Property Act in the United States; Eliza Allen Houston (1809–1861), first wife of Tennessee governor Sam Houston; Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum, American film and television director; Eliza Allen Starr (1824–1901), American artist known for her ...
Eliza Allen (1826–1851) was an American writer from Maine. Eliza Allen may also refer to: Eliza Allen (1809–1861), First Lady of Tennessee and the first wife of Sam Houston. Eliza Allen (c. 1840–c. 1910), African American activist, clubwoman, and banker
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 ...
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 ...
Although separated from Eliza Allen, Houston was still legally married to her, but the Cherokee were not concerned about that. [49] Diana was the daughter of Chief John "Hellfire" Rogers (1740–1833), a Scots-Irish trader, and Jennie Due (1764–1806), Jolly's sister. [ 58 ]