Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
It is the house where Sam Houston died July 26, 1863. Houston's funeral was held in the upstairs parlor. The house is part of the Sam Houston Memorial Museum complex. Bailey died shortly before Houston, and the house was inherited by his son Frank. The house was sold to A. C. McKeen, who sold it to Pleasant Kittrell in 1866.
Houston County, Texas, about 100 miles north of the city of Houston, was named for him.; Huntsville, Texas, is the home of the Sam Houston Memorial Museum; A Tribute to Courage (a 67 ft (20 m) statue); Sam Houston State University; and Houston's gravesite, including a monument by Pompeo Coppini unveiled in 1911.
His son, Sam Houston Jr., served in the Confederate army during the Civil War, but returned home after being wounded at the Battle of Shiloh. [99] Houston's health suffered a precipitous decline in April 1863, which contributed to his death on July 26, 1863, at 70 years of age.
Woodland is a historic house on the grounds of Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas. Built in stages beginning about 1847, it was the residence of Sam Houston from 1847 to 1859. The house is now part of Sam Houston Memorial Museum, and is a National Historic Landmark. [2]
A Tribute to Courage monument is a statue of Sam Houston located in Huntsville, Texas (where Sam Houston lived and died), which is 65 miles north of the city of Houston (named in his honor). Sam Houston is one of the founding fathers of Texas. He led the army of Texas during their War for Independence from Mexico in 1836, including the victory ...
Dorothy Ann Richards (née Willis; September 1, 1933 – September 13, 2006) was an American politician who served as the 45th governor of Texas from 1991 to 1995. A Democrat, she first came to national attention as the Texas State Treasurer , when she gave the keynote address at the 1988 Democratic National Convention .
A crew works to straighten grave stones at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery. Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery in San Antonio, Texas. Administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, it encompasses 154.7 acres (62.6 ha), and as of 2014, had over 144,000 interments.
Service Corporation International is an American provider of funeral goods and services as well as cemetery property and services. It is headquartered in Neartown, Houston, Texas, and operates secondary corporate offices in Jefferson, Louisiana (near New Orleans). [5] [6] SCI operates more than 1500 funeral homes and 400 cemeteries. [1]