Sam Houston

He had four sons, Sam Houston, Jr., Andrew Jackson, William and Temple Lea.

Sam Junior became a Confederate soldier and became a Prisoner of War after the Battle of Shiloh. He became a doctor and practiced in Texas and later became an author. He died in 1894.

Andrew Jackson Houston served in the Spanish American War, as a United States Marshall and from 1924 to 1941 as the Superintendent of the San Jacinto Battlefield. In 1941 at the age of 87 he was appointed to the US Senate. He died two months later.

William spent his adult life as an Army Officer in the Indian Service in the Department of the Interior. He died of an apparent heart attack in 1920 near Hugo, Oklahoma while riding out to visit a reservation.

Temple Lea graduated from Baylor in 1878, and then spent a year at Texas A&M. He was admitted to the Bar and became the District Attorney of the Panhandle District of Texas. He served two terms as a Texas State Senator and was well known for his oratory and colorful style in the defense of murderers. cattle rustlers and horse thieves. His most famous closing argument was the Soiled Dove defense of a prostitute in Woodward, Oklahoma where he died in 1905.

The results matter. At the Battle of San Jacinto, Houston achieved a clear and certain victory over the Mexican Army. He was in command. Nothing that he personally did contributed to that brief, historical moment. Possible arrogance on the part of Santa Anna contributed. The Twin Sisters made a contribution. "Deef" Smith did not contribute to victory by burning the bridges behind them, because few knew that it had happened. The flanking Cavalry under Colonel Mirabeau Lamar who the day before was an unknown Texas private played almost no part in the victory. Sleeping and unobservant Mexican pickets made a difference.

Sam Houston was a known commodity prior to San Jacinto and a heroic figure after that battle. Results Matter.

Sam Houston

He came to Texas for a new start, a way to redeem himself to himself if not to the people of his beloved Tennessee and to his fellow US Senators.

Here is also a brief profile of the others involved:

Lorenzo de Zavala

Lorenzo de Zavala was born in Yucatan, Mexico on October 3, 1789. He became an ardent advocate of a democratic reforms. He was imprisoned in 1814 but when he was released he re-entered politics and represented Yucatan in the Spanish Cortes in Madrid. Zavala setteled his family on the Buffalo Bayou across from what would become the Battle of San Jacinto.

Juan Seguin

Juan was born in 1806 and he was in a long established tejano family.

He became a harsh liberal critic of Santa Anna's centralization of authorities

in Mexico in 1820. When he served as the mayor he led the tejano life minded army

against Santa Anna's army in 1835. A year later he was at the Alamo for the first part

of the seige.

The Mexican commander stated that Seguin was still loyal to his Mexican subjects.

The Anglos use to be his comrades suddenly accused him of treason. The madness forced

him to flee to Mexico and leave the city he was born in.

James Fannin

James Fannin was born in Georgia in the January of 1804. Throughout the

18th century the U.S. had as a military figure during the Texas Revolution. James

Fannin came to Texas in 1834 to become a military figure in the U.S. Texas Revolution.

James Fannin was in the Battle of Gonzales, the Battle of Concepcion, and the Battle

of Coleto Creek Alamo Campaign. He was ranked colonel in all these battles. He also served

in the United States Army and the Texas Militia.

At the Battle of Coleto Creek Alamo Campaign he led the Texans on a retreat from

Presidio La Bahia on March 19. It happened because he took nine canons over 500 muskets.

James and his 400 men surrendered at the Battle of Coleto by the Mexican forces and were

taken back to Goliad.

George Childress

George Childress was born in Nashville, Tennessee on January 8, 1804. He went to college at

Davidson and graduated from there. George arrived in Texas in the December of 1835. He came to

Texas in 1830. He spent most on his time being one of the volunteers for Tennessee which helped the

Texas army. The free and independent republic of Texas was officially declared March 1836. The 54

delegates that are representing settlements in Texas approved the Declaration of Independence.

George Childress married Rebecca Jennings and they had two daughters. George tried 3 times

in 1887, 1889, and 1841 to start his own law practice but had failed. George committed suicide by

cutting open his abdomen.

David "Davy" Crockett

Davy Crockett was born in Northwestern Tennesse on August 1786. He learned how

and write at the age of eighteen. Around that time he had already started a family

with several children. David first became involved with politics as magistrate of his

local community. In 1821 he became elected to the State Legislature. For his fourth in

Congress and was defeated by a narrow margin. Crockett bid farewell to Tennesse and

came to Texas in 1835 because of the politics.

David Crockett joined the Texas Revolution and died at the Battle of the Alamo.

Crockett became famous and popularized by stage plays.

Sam "The Raven" Houston

Sam Houston was born in Virginia on March 2, 1793. Sam Houston came to Texas in 1832.

It was an interesting place filled with interesting people and a heck of a place to begin a new life and adveture.