Texas Heritage Society - September 16, 2010 Meeting

Texas Historian and Author of the Biography Sam Houston

and the Book Passionate Nation

James L. Haley

"Ten Tall Texans You Probably Never Heard Of!"

The next quarterly meeting of the Texas Heritage Society will be held on September 16, 2010 at 6:30 p.m.   The meeting will be held at 18 West Shaker Court in The Woodlands.  See map here.   We have lined up another great speaker and Texas author, James L. Haley.  James Haley is coming to speak to us on a couple of different topics. First he will speak to us about "ten tall Texans we have probably never heard of" and then he will discuss the house in Austin occupied by Susanna Dickinson (who survived the Battle of the Alamo) and her fifth husband which still stands and is now a museum. See Joseph and Susanna Dickinson Hannig Museum here.

Sam Houston by James L. Haley

Submitted by Melinda Cagle and Kameron Searle 

"Save Texas History Symposium"

Set for November 6, 2010 in Austin, Texas

Texas Heritage Society members need to mark your calenders for the first ever "Save Texas History Symposium."  The inaugural "Save Texas History Symposium" will be held November 6, 2010 between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. at 1700 North Congress Avenue in Austin, Texas.  The "Save Texas History Symposium" will be hosted by Commisioner Jerry Patterson and the Texas General Land Office.  There will be lectures by Texas historians and plenty of other activities.  Click here to read the details of the "Save Texas History Symposium."  The cost to register is $25.00 per person.  You can register by calling 1-800-998-4GLO or by email at archives@glo.state.tx.us .

Texas Heritage Society

Tour of Texas History #6

Historic Times Along "Los Brazos de Dios" - Part 2

Sugarland/Richmond Fort Bend County

August 14, 2010

Saturday, August 14, 2010

This tour is free and open to all who enjoy Texas history.

9:00 a.m., Sugarland:  Imperial Sugar Refinery. 198 Kempner, Sugarland, Texas.  Map. Historian Bruce Kelly will show us historic sites including the old Terry sugar plantation that was eventually owned by the Imperial Sugar Co.  Bruce will discuss Ben and David Terry in the the Runaway Scrape, Terry's Texas Rangers, CSA, and later years.  The writer will discuss the Terry family when they were in MS and David Terry's time in California when he became Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court.  David Terry fought famous duels and killed a U.S. Senator.

11:00 a.m., Richmond: Lunch in a private room at Sandy McGee's Restaurant.  Bruce Kelly will describe the bloody shootout called the Jaybird-Woodpecker War during Reconstruction times when Ben Terry's son Kyle and others were killed.  Claire Rogers with the Richmond Museum will show us around Richmond: Carrie Nations Hotel, Jaybird Monument, an old saloon, and the Fort Bend Museum.

We will travel to historic Morton Cemetery in Richmond where Mirabeau B. Lamar, Deaf Smith, Jane Wilkinson Long and seventy three Confederate soldiers are buried.  We will have a short memorial service at the grave of Clement Newton Bassett who was wounded three times with Terry's Texas Rangers.  Following the visit to Morton Cemetery, we have been invited to the imposing home of Clement Bassett in Richmond. 

Please contact Hewitt Clarke so that he can get a headcount for restaurant reservations.

Hewitt Clarke - 281-367-2709 or  rebelwriter@pdq.net 

Texas Heritage Society

Tour  of Texas Number 5

Day Trip

Saturday, May 8, 2010

"Historic Times Along Los Brazos de Dios" Part 1

THS Members Examine the P. Nolan Headstone at Waller County Library in Hempstead, Texas

THS Members at Site of the Bernardo Plantation Home of Jared Ellison Groce Discovered Recently by Archeologists

Click on this link to see the rest of the photos from the Texas Heritage Society's Tour of Texas History # 5 

Texas Heritage Society Members Participate in DRT Convention Program

The Texas Heritage Society was well represented at the 2010 Annual Convention of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas held this year in Houston.  Pat Spackey, THS Publicity Chair, had organized a program saluting the Lone Star Flag of Texas and Dr. Charles B. Stewart. With more than more than 600 DRT members in attendance, THS members, David Martin and Kameron Searle, put on the program with the help of the "Texas Flag Man," Tom Green.  All three gentlemen were wearing 1836 period attire for their presentation.   

David Martin displays Lone Star Flag of Texas during program at 2010 DRT Convention in Houston, Texas

While Searle discussed the many accomplishments of Texas founding-father Charles B. Stewart, David Martin and Tom Green paraded each of the flags of Texas whose design included a single lone star prior Stewart's world famous design in 1839.  Tom Green then gave a short history of each of the earlier "single-starred" flags of Texas and David Martin discussed his recent historical research regarding Charles B. Stewart's Lone Star flag.  Martin concluded the program to a thunderous round of applause when he described the Texas Lone Star flag as "the most beautiful flag in the world."

OUR PURPOSE

The Texas Heritage Society, Inc. is based in The Woodlands, Texas. Its purpose is to discover, preserve, and promote the history and genealogy of Texas, particularly of South and Southeast Texas and to broaden historical knowledge among the general public through programs, projects, and publications, bringing together professionals, independent scholars, writers, educators and researchers. THS, Inc. will launch the publication, Journal of Texas Heritage, in January 2010.         

JOIN US

Dues for the Texas Heritage Society, Inc. are $25/year (Jan-Dec) and may be paid by check or money order to our treasurer: Mrs. Carole Lynn O'Neal, 71 East Kentwick Place, Conroe, Texas  77384. Dues include day trips and a subscription to the Journal of Texas Heritage along with an annual Tour-of-Texas Study Guide.

MEETINGS

PROJECTS

Among the numerous projects that this new organization has embraced is to explore and write the histories of long-forgotten Texas sites like Esperanza and Rusk, now only ghost towns in East Texas. The identification of historic sites for the purposes of study and to obtain Texas Historical Commission markers is one of its primary goals. THS, Inc. maintains a web page at TexasHistoryPage.com, along with a discussion log that encourages the exploration of Texas history and genealogy through dialogue. Projected is the publication of monographs, pamphlets and other works about the history and genealogy of Texas, particularly Southeast Texas.

EAST MONTGOMERY COUNTY MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES

The Texas Heritage Society, Inc. engages in activities and services for the support, development and promotion of the East Montgomery County Museum and Archives, located at New Caney, Texas. Seeing itself as ambassador for the museum, it seeks to strengthen awareness of the museum as an important resource for the study of Southeast Texas history.

STUDY GROUPS

August 8, 2009 — Tour of Texas History # 2

Stopping first at Washington-on-the-Brazos near Navasota, Texas, the group will hear a private lecture presented in Independence Hall, the site where Texas declared its independence from Mexico on March 2, 1836. William B. Travis’ “victory or death” letter will be read. A replica of the original building marks the location where representatives met to sign the formal declaration of independence and where the government of the Republic of Texas was established.

The group then will travel to Chappell Hill to the Masonic Cemetery where a toast will be made to Col William B. Travis at the gravesite of his son. There will be a picnic lunch at a former old store in town after which will be a guided tour of the town of Chappell Hill.

The group will leave at 8 a.m. from First Baptist Church of The Woodlands. Bring a sack lunch and drinks; we will stop at a designated park for lunch, returning to The Woodlands by 4 p.m. Bring a hat and wear comfortable walking shoes.

PRIZES, SCHOLARSHIPS, AWARDS

The Texas Heritage Society, Inc. recognizes various areas of historical and genealogical work with funding and special achievement recognition.

THS BOOK STORE

A resource for hard-to-find books about Texans and Texas.

NOTES ABOUT THE WEB SITE

The Texas Heritage Society, Inc. strongly encourages input from all of its members. We hope all members will contribute their many talents to this site. Please email your ideas and suggestions to the webmaster Kameron Searle at ksearle1@pdq.net . We strongly encourage members to submit articles relating to Texas history and genealogy to this web site as well as to the Journal.   The Texas Heritage Society also encourges scholars of Texas history everywhere to submit Texas history articles for publication in the Journal and on the web site. See Contact Us for more information about submitting an article.

Texas Heritage Society Officers 2009-2011

President — Kameron K. Searle, J.D.
First Vice President (Programs) — Hewitt Clark
Second Vice President (Membership) — Carolyn Terrell
Third Vice President (Publicity) — Pat Ellen Spackey
Recording Secretary — Ruben J. Borjas, Jr.
Treasurer — Carole Lynn O'Neal
Editor — Melinda R. Cagle

Directors at Large —

Carrol D. Cagle, M.D.
Barbara Hamilton
Brenda Horton
Cliff May