Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1880 — Sam Houston and His First Wife. [ARTICLE]

Sam Houston and His First Wife.

to Tennessee, where he supported her byfa is own industry, thus eu-ly beaming famfly loyalty. lnWWVttthe age of 20. ha enlisted under General Jackaon. I in the Creek war, and for hia repeated deeds of gallsntry ha ao gained the eateem of lack son that he urged him to > permanently in the army. Beltgoing, however, and studying law in : NaahtUla, he 1 roee from office to office, and in 1823, at the age of 30, he waa elected to cbngreea, and then again, in,1827 waa elected governor of Teflflessfiß Up to this time Houston was unmarried. Universally 'admired, 'and urged by associates to form an alliance Which seemed essential to his station, a young lady of beauty and accomplishments was cqmmended to him by family influence. Hia proposal of marriage was accepted, and late in 1828 the marriage Ceremony was performed with unusual pomp. The next day Houston resigned his office, creesed the Mississippi into Aikansaß, and December 11, 1828, wrote from the agency of his old Cherokee acquaintance the letter to President Jackaon which called forth hia letter of January 21,1829. Nq one of Houston’s companions knew till his death the cause ot his new aourae, which hi» beat friends, like Jackson, regarded as partial insanity; no one but his widow could reveal it, and she only through a sense of conjugal and Christian duty. That cause was the highest test of loyalty of which any man could be capable. , , . t