Posted on 03/06/2007 7:44:05 AM PST by WestTexasWend
"Damn - I'm proud to be a Texan"
yeah, me too. Texian actually. Moat of Stephen F. Austin's "old 300" came from Tennesee in 1823.
This ancestor of mine came a little later:
MILLER, THOMAS R. (1795-1836). Thomas R. Miller, Alamo defender, was born in Tennessee in 1795. He immigrated to Texas in June 1830 and settled in DeWitt's colony,qv where he owned a general store and farmed. On March 11, 1832, he married sixteen-year-old Sidney Gaston by bond. Their one child died in infancy. The couple separated on July 21, 1833. Miller served as clerk of the Gonzales Town Council, and in 1834 his home served as its meetingplace. At the outbreak of the Texas Revolutionqv he was one of the original Old Eighteen,qv defenders of the Gonzales "Come and Take It" cannon.qv From November 3 to 14, 1835, he served as a member of the Consultation.qv On March 1, 1836, Miller entered the Alamo as a member of the relief force from Gonzales, furnishing supplies for the company from his general store. He died in the battle of the Alamoqv on March 6, 1836.
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My great uncle 4 times removed, Deaf Smith, helped bury what was left of the burned bodies at the Alamo when he arrived 3 days after the battle. He also fired the first shot at the Battle of San Jacinto.
Texas. Forever.
As a shirt-tail relation of one of the defenders, this day is always one of pride for me, and it really burns my @ss to see the Mexican Criminals parade thru the streets of this great nation demanding we recognize them. IMHO we should recognize them.......much in the same manner as our fore-fathers did, and deal with them in the same manner......as invaders.
And the only thing that burns my @ss worse.......is the empty suits in Washington who tell us we should "embrace" these criminals..just so they can get there lawn mowed without having to pay a white kid to do it!
My hubby has been doing research on his family - turns out HIS g-g-grandfather on his grandmother's side fought in Houston's regiment during the Revolution.
Do you know the final resting place of Deaf Smith? Have always heard it was Houston Street that runs in front of the Fort Bend Museum.
AS far as I am concerned, there shouldnt be any reconquista further north than the Nueces River. They are a pack of liars that any land north of there "belongs" to them. None of their ancestors will have had anything to do with the Tejano's that lived in the Mexican state of Tejas y Coahuila.
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Believe it or not there is at least one very active freeper who espouses the very same thing.
I only recently discovered that there were six native born New Yorkers and five others who lived in NY before heading to Texas among the defenders at the Alamo.
Unfortunately true, especially for footballers.
I never begrudge athletes the money they get paid (though I must admit I'm jealous sometimes ;-) Whenever I hear someone griping about this, I try to (gently) remind them that athletes generally have a very limited earning period. They have to make all the money they can early on, because they're going to burn out fairly young.
Unless, of course, they're Nolan Ryan ;-)
Or Gordie Howe!
For some reason that I can't quite understand, it seems that hockey -- the most difficult of the major sports to play, and perhaps the most physical of them all (when you consider the speed and contact elements together) -- seems to have more players over the age of 40 than any other sport.
That includes someone like Gordie Howe (who played competitively as a pro in the WHA into his fifties as well as a current senior citizens like Chris Chelios (45 years old), Ed Belfouor (42), and Dominik Hasek (42). Go figure.
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