>>>”...of course Perry is the descendant of carpetbaggers. Hey, if you’re name isn’t Gonzales, Trevino, Gomez, Munez, Huston, Travis or Crocket (and some others) you are definitely a carpetbagger.”<<<
LOL. I know of at least 2 who were not carpetbaggers: my cousin Mary Cleveland and her husband Thomas Jefferson Rusk. Rusk was the first Secretary of War, a General at the Battle of San Jacinto, the first Chief Justice of the Republic, and one of the first two U.S. Senators from Texas, along with Sam Houston.
Thomas Jefferson Rusk was born in Pendleton, South Carolina to John Rusk and Mary Sterrit. John, born in Ireland, was a stone mason who built the Old Stone Church in 1797 which still stands today near Clemson University. Mary was born in the Pendleton district. John and Mary are buried in the church cemetery.
Mary Cleveland was born in Georgia, the daughter of General John Cleveland, who was the son of Lt John Cleveland, a Revolutionary War hero at the Battle of Kings Mountain, and the grandson of Colonel Benjamin Cleveland who was the militia commander at Kings Mountain. Mary’s other grandfather was Georgia Militia Colonel James Blair who, as a young scout, was also a Revolutionary War hero in the Battle of Kings Mountain and was depicted in the poem, “The Ride of the Rebel”.
Three of their sons fought for the Confederacy: Capt Benjamin L. Rusk, Capt John Cleveland Rusk and Private Cicero Rusk. Cicero was killed in Louisiana while serving with the 4th Texas Cavalry.
We are related to your Blair only by marriage but we are related by blood to Manual McConnell SEE: http://www.southerncampaign.org/pen/s2773.pdf ~ I think at one point the Souf’ Carolana militia was down to about 5 armed men who’d sworn the oath. That’d be McConnell and Blair. Their pension applications, and a number of books that refer to them were turned into lines of script in The Patriot.