Texas Heritage
Society
New
Meeting Place - March 21,
2013
We have a new meeting place for the quarterly meetings of the
Texas Heritage Society. Our next meeting will be held at 6:30 p.m. on March 21, 2013 at our new
location at the Administration Building of The
Forum located at 5055 W Panther Creek Drive in the The Woodlands, Texas. For directions
to The Forum, call
281-292-2600.
Our speaker for the March 21, 2013 meeting will be Jack
Watson, an officer with the Jean Lafitte Society in Galveston, Texas who will be speaking to us about Warren
Dewitt Clinton (W. D. C.) Hall from Natchitoches and Alexandria, Louisiana. Hall was involved in all
three of the Texas filibustering attempts which will tie into our recent study of Texas history
along the Red River in Lousiana made during our very succesful recent Tour of Texas History trip to
Natchitoches,
Louisiana.
Hope to see everyone at the March 21, 2013 meeting. We
will also be voting on our new Treasurer and Reporting Secretary to fill those positions following the recent
unexpected loss of Carol Lynn
O'Neal.
We would very much like to thank Mrs. Melinda Reeves Cagle
and Dr. Carrol D. Cagle for the use of their beautiful home for the past three years as the meeting place of
the Texas Heritage Society. We are very grateful to
them.
Tour of Texas
History
Natchitoches,
Louisiana
March
8-10,
2013
TEXAS HERITAGE
SOCIETY
Tour of Natchitoches, Louisiana
March 8-10, 2013
Natchitoches is the oldest settlement in
Louisiana. Established in 1714 it retains it’s original European flavor. THS has a block of rooms reserved at
historic Church Street
Inn, 120 Church Street. $125 for one bed and $135 for two beds. Free
breakfast and parking. 1-800-668-9298 Recommended by the tourist office.
FRIDAY—12:00 noon, meet in Many, Louisiana at Kim’s Oriental Kitchen, 175 Fisher Street
for Korean, Japanese and Chinese lunch. Then visit US Fort Jessup along Hwy 6 National Historic Trail, which
was the eastern entrance to the Neutral Zone, a thirty mile stretch of no man’s land between the US and
Spanish Tejas in 1805, where the “best is like the worst, there ain’t no ten commandments, and a man can
raise a thirst.”
Continue east along the Camino Real to Robeline. Visit the Adai Caddo historic Indian
village. Also visit Los Adaes Fort and presidio historic Spanish site from the early 1700’s. It was the
capitol of Tejas for 50 years.
Check in to the hotel. Dinner at a local restaurant to be decided.
SATURDAY — Tour Fort St.
Jean Baptist in town.
Private streetcar tour of the National Historic District, including the house where the
movie Steel Magnolias was made.
Lunch to be designated.
Tour Oakland and Melrose Plantations at the Cane River Creole National Historical
Park.
Free time for shopping etc.
Seafood dinner and speaker for the Civil War Red River Campaign. Cajun dance band
after.
SUNDAY—Church of Immaculate
Conception for mass.
Visit to Grand Ecole Visitors Center on the Red River
Free time and return to Houston.
Please let me know if you are going so I can arrange reservations a various
places.
Thanks,
Hewitt Clarke
Rebelwriter@pdq.net
Texas Heritage Society
News
Melinda
Reeves
Cagle

Texas Heritage Society Journal
editor, Melinda Reeves Cagle,
is shown here holding her latest contribution to the preservation of Texas history, History of
Montgomery County, Texas - Volume II. The book is a collection of county and family histories
relating to Montgomery County, Texas from 1837 to 2009. History of Montgomery County, Texas -
Volume II, was published in 2012 and released in December of
2012.
This beautiful 618 page hardbound history book
represents thousands of hours of work on Melinda's part as its editor. Assisting Melinda
Reeves Cagle in this effort were the members of the Montgomery County History Book Committee 2006-2012 which
included: Melinda Reeves Cagle, Chair; Ruben Borjas, Jr.; Carrol Dean Cagle, M.D.; Earlayne Chance; Kay Lynn
Dawes; Robert Donahoo, Ph.D.; David Frame; Barbara Hamilton; Karen McCann Hett; Frank Johnson; Lynn Keith;
Karen Lucas Lawless; Craig Livingston, Ph.D.; Cliff L. May; Gladys May; Melinda May; Carole Lynne O'Neal;
Maggie Robinson; Kay Roose; Anna Shepeard; Wanda Smith; Pat Ellen Spackey; Carolyn Terrell; Elsa Vorwerk and
Ava
Wilson.
History of Montgomery County, Texas - Volume II, is
a publication sponsored by the Montgomery County Genealogical and Historical Society, Inc. and is available
for purchase from that
organization.
Melinda Reeves Cagle, in addition to her editorial activities
at the Texas Heritage Society, is also the editor of the Texas State Genealogical Society Quarterly,
Stirpes. Melinda has won a number of awards as editor of several historical publications
by different
organizations.
Congratulations, again, Melinda on a job very well
done. The history book is exceptional and looks
magnificent.
Texas Heritage
Society
Christmas
Meeting
December 6, 2012
Meeting

Guest Speaker - Philip
Caudill
TOPIC - "Frontier Integrity at Grigsby's
Bluff"
The Texas Heritage Society will host its General Meeting on
December 6, 2012 in The Woodlands, Texas at 6:30 P.M. The meeting will be held at 18 West Shaker
Court in The Woodlands. See map
here.
Phil Caudill will present a talk on a little-known Texas Civil War moment in the life of Confederate
Cavalry Capt. William B. Duncan, a nineteenth century pioneer Texan from Liberty County.Caudill is the author
of Duncan’s biography published by Texas A&M University Press, Moss Bluff Rebel, A Texas Pioneer in the
Civil War. The book is included by TAMU Press in its Sam Rayburn Series on Texas Rural Life. The book has
been reviewed favorably by both academic and the popular press. Details and reviews are available
at
www.mossbluffrebel.org .
Tour of Texas
History
New Orleans,
Louisiana
October 5, 6 and 7,
2012
New Orleans St. Louis Cathedral Portrait © Lawrence Weslowski
Jr | Dreamstime.com
"New Orleans in the Texas
Revolution"
The Texas Heritage
Society travelled to New Orleans, Louisiana to see sites and hear
from speakers relating to early Texas history and the significant roles played by New Orleans and its people in the
Texas Revolution. THS members stayed at the Hilton Inn Convention Center, 1001 S. Peters Street, New
Orleans. THS Vice President Hewitt Clarke led this very successful Tour of Texas History to New
Orleans.
Photo Courtesy of Martha
Haydel
THS Members Dining in Mulate's Cajun
Restaurant
Photo Courtesy of Martha Haydel
Photo Courtesy of Martha Haydel
Photo Courtesy of Martha Haydel
To see many more photographs taken
during the New Orleans Tour of Texas History trip, click
here.
For information about future Tour of
Texas History, contact Hewitt Clarke at: hewittclarke@pdq.net
281-367-2709
Click Here
for Complete
Intenerary of this Wonderful THS Trip to New
Orleans
Texas Heritage
Society
September 20, 2012
Meeting

Photo Courtesy of Pat
Spackey
Guest Speaker - Jeff
Durst
"The Fort St. Louis Archeological
Project"
The Texas Heritage
Society will host its General Meeting on September 20, 2012 in The Woodlands, Texas at 6:30 P.M. The
meeting will be held at 18 West Shaker Court in The Woodlands. See
map here.
Photo Courtesy of Pat
Spackey
Our speaker will be Jeff
Durst, Regional Archeologist for the Texas Historical Associstion will be sepeaking to us on September 20,
2012. Jeff Durst has a bachelor's degree in English literature and a master's degree in anthropology from the
University of Texas at San Antonio. Durst has been actively employed in archeology for the past 18 years, most
recently as Regional Archeologist and Project Reviewer for south Texas. Prior to his current position as
Terrestrial Archeologist for south and coastal Texas, he served as the
assistant project director and then project director of the THC's Fort St. Louis Archeological
Project.

Photo Courtesy of Pat
Spackey
Jeff Durst has experience
in both historic and prehistoric archeology and has worked in Texas, New Mexico, and Belize (Central America).
His educational research has focused on the prehistoric Maya civilization with a concentration on the
archeology of the Maya Lowlands. Durst previously was employed by the Center for Archeological Research at the
University of Texas at San Antonio and acted as a Project Archeologist conducting archival research,
archeological surveys, site excavations, artifact analysis, and report preparation. Durst has authored and
coauthored numerous publications and papers on the archeology of Texas, New Mexico, and
Belize.

Photo Courtesy of Pat
Spackey
Texas Heritage
Society
June 21, 2012
Meeting
Guest Speaker - LaNell
Allee
TOPIC -
"ADVENTURES IN DISCOVERING TEXAS PROJECTILE POINTS"
FOLLOWED
BY "A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF THE THE KLEIN, TEXAS MUSEUM
COMPLEX"
The Texas Heritage Society will host its General Meeting on June 21, 2012 in The
Woodlands, Texas at 6:30 P.M.. The meeting will be held at 18 West Shaker Court in The
Woodlands. See map here.
Join us for our quarterly metting in June when our guest
speaker will be LaNell Allee who is a Native Houstonian and a 6th generation Texan. Ms. Allee is a twenty
five year member of The Daughters of the Republic of Texas. She has 30 years experience teaching 7th
grade Texas History, in Klein ISD, and received the DRT State of Texas History Teacher of the Year
Award in 1996.
She served the last nine as Living History Educator and
Historian for Klein ISD, overseeing the Klein, Texas Historical Foundation Museum Complex which includes
Wunderlich Farm, an 1891 German farm, three furnished houses from the 1800s, numerous barns and out-buildings
and a two-room schoolhouse. Ms. Allee is a past board member of the Spring Creek County Historical
Association and volunteer tour guide at the Tomball Museum.
Hood's Texas Brigade Association
Re-activated
Invites Texas Heritage Society Members to
Ceremony
Saturday,
May 19, 2012 in Richmond,
Virginia
Texas Heritage Society member, Ann Carlton
Oppenheimer, is also Corresponding Secretary/Treasurer of Hood's Texas Brigade Association Reactivated. Ann has forwarded an
invitation to Texas Heritage Society members for the dedication of the official Texas Battlefield monument
honoring Hood's Texas Brigade at the
Battle of Gaines' Mill in Richmond, Virginia and the reception
following.
The dedication is set for Saturday, May 19, 2012, at
2:00 p.m. For all the
details and a copy of the invitation, click here. HTBAR and the Texas Historical Commission have
worked closely together with the Richmond
Battlefields Association to make this wonderful event possible. Hope to see you
there!
Texas Heritage Society
President
Commissioned Colonel in
Texas Army
At the San Jacinto Day
celebration held on April 21, 2012 at the San Jacinto Battleground State Historic Site, Texas Heritage Society
President, Kameron K. Searle, was commissioned as a Colonel in the Texas Army.

Texas Army General Sam Houston IV and Colonel Searle Holding
Commission
In 1969, Governor Preston Smith officially
reactivated the Texas Army for ceremonial purposes. Each member of the Texas Army is commissioned as a "Colonel" by
the Governor of the State of Texas. The Texas Army participates as the special honor guard in the Governor's
Inauguaration Parade. In addition, they host state functions, official ceremonial events, re-enact events of 1835
and 1836, and travel internationally representing Texas and the Texas mystique.
Like the original army, the modern day Texas Army is made up of volunteers who provide their own
authentic "uniforms," weapons and camp equipage. Members of the Texas Army come from all walks of life, bound
together by a love of history. The Texas Army is dedicated to the purposes of perpetuating the memory of those
early Texas patriots who worked and fought as the first army of the Republic of Texas. The Texas Army is dedicated
to educating the public about Texas history.
Eight other Colonels were commissioned on April 21,
2012. These gentlemen were Col. Peter Goebel (U.S. Army), Dr. Victor Morris, Joe Acosta, Ralph Nelson,
Jim Thompson, Rob Wilkerson, Ed Ellis, and Mark Hegman.
Texas Heritage
Society
March 22,
2012
Meeting

Guest Speaker - Jack
Watson
TOPIC - MARY SABINAL CROW
CAMPBELL
ON GALVESTON
ISLAND (1817-1821)
The Texas Heritage Society will host its General
Meeting on March 22, 2012 in The Woodlands, Texas at 6:30 P.M.. The meeting will be held at 18 West Shaker Court in The
Woodlands. See map here.
Our speaker will be Jack
Watson, Galveston, Texas, a member of the Lafitte
Society, who will talk about
Mary Sabinal Crow Campbell, the wife of James Campbell. James Campbell was the most productive corsair
for Jean Lafitte during his stay on Galveston Island between 1817 and 1820. Mrs. Campbell's story begins
at Lafitte's town called Campeche on the island and includes a stay at Dr. James Long's encampment across
Bolivar Road at his Fort Las Casas. It was there in 1821 that Mary was involved directly in an incident
that determined Dr. Long's fate.
Jack Watson was raised in southwest Louisiana and
southeast Texas. A graduate of McNeese University, he spent 12 years as an Air Traffic Controller with the FAA
and 29 years as an investment adviser and partner with Edward Jones Investments. Jack is now retired and living
in Galveston, pursuing his lifelong interest in historical research. He currently is 1st vice president of the
Lafitte Society. He has had articles published in the Lafitte Chronicles.
Texas Heritage Society
Meeting
September
22, 2011, 6:30
p.m.

Laura
Saegert
Texas State
Library and Archives
Commission
The next quarterly meeting of the Texas Heritage
Society will held on Thursday, September 22, 2011 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,
Laura
Saegert, who will speak to us about Texas State Library and Archives
Commission, its holdings, how to conduct research at the Texas State Library and Archives, its programs
and its conservation
efforts.
Laura
Saegert received her B.A. in Anthropology from the University of Texas at Austin in 1978. She received her
M.L.I.S. from the University of Texas at Austin in 1981. She is currently Assistant Director for
Archives in the Archives and
Information Services (ARIS)Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission, a position she has held
since September 10, 2010.
Ms.
Saegert has also been the Appraisal Archivist/Map Archivist in the ARIS Division of the Texas State
Library and Archives Commission since November of
1981.
The Texas
Heritage Society is very fortunate to have such an expert on the Texas State Library and Archives
Commission to come and speak to us. The home and main collections of the Texas State Library and
Archives Commission are located in Austin, Texas in the Lorenzo de Zavala Building which is
located across the street from the Texas State Capitol Building at 1201 Brazos Street. These
collections are amazing and can be extremely useful to those doing Texas historical research as well and
Texas genealogical research. Click here to contact the Texas State Library and Archives
Commission.
Texas Heritage Society, Inc.
Receives
501(c)(3)
Tax Exempt
Status
In a
letter dated August 9, 2011, the Texas Heritage Society, Inc. was advised that it was exempt from
Federal income tax under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Contributions to the Texas Heritage
Society, Inc. are tax deductible under section 170 of the Code. The Texas Heritage Society, Inc. is
also qualified to receive tax deductible bequests, devises, transfers or gifts under section 2055, 2106, or
2522 of the Code. Click here to see IRS
Letter.
Our hats
are off to our members of the committee that completed all the paperwork and forms for the IRS that made the
recognition of the Texas Heritage Society, Inc.'s tax exempt status possible. Members of the committee were
Barbara Hamilton, Melinda Cagle, and Carole Lynn O'Neal. Thank you all for your hours of hard
work.
Texas Heritage Society President Quoted in Report on the Preservation of Texas Court
Records
The Texas Court Records Preservation Task Force, appointed in 2009 by the Texas Supreme Court and
chaired by Houston attorney Bill Kroger and Texas General Land Office Commissioner, Mark Lambert, has released
its findings on the condition of county and district court records in the State of Texas in a report dated
August 31, 2011.
Click on this link to read the Report on the Preservation of
Historical Texas State Court Records. This report mentions Texas Heritage
Society President Kameron K. Searle, JD. whose first-hand knowledge of the condition of Montgomery county
records motivated Searle to write to the Montgomery County District Clerk stating his own findings,
quoted here,
"Historians who are familiar with the Records appreciate the wealth of
information they contain. The Montgomery County District Clerk recounted a report from one historian who
recently looked at the Records: "We have a letter from a local historian, Kameron Searle, expressing his
concern that many of these court documents are in danger of being lost through deterioration. He [Searle]
has done extensive research on the history of Montgomery County and states, 'documents found in two of [the
Montgomery County District Clerk] case files have been especially important to his research regarding the
large pre-Republic of Texas settlement in Stephen F. Austin's Colony known as the Lake Creek Settlement. It
had been forgotten for over a hundred years until [he] began [his]
research.'
There are untold stories about the lives of both
famous and ordinary Texans in these Records...."
From the Report on the Preservation of Historical Texas State Court
Records
— Melinda R. Cagle, Editor
Texas Heritage Society
Meeting
June 16,
2011, 6:30
p.m.
The next quarterly meeting of the Texas Heritage
Society will held on Thursday, June 16, 2011 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
author,
Dr. Louis
J. Marchiafava, who will speak to us about how to conduct oral histories and to aid the THS in starting our
own oral history
program.
Louis J.
Marchiafava received his Ph.D. in history from Rice University. For the past twenty-four years, he has
served as a consultant and director of oral history and local history research projects. He has taught
local history at the University of Houston - West Houston Institute and most recently a graduate course on
oral history at the University of Houston, Main
Campus.
In 1976,
Marchiafava served as Assistant Archivist at the Houston Metropolitan Research Center of the Houston Public
Library (HMRC) and as Archivist at HMRC from 1980-2000 when he retired to become a full-time
consultant. While Archivist, he also was Editor of The Houston Review. He was
Contributing Editor of Houston Monthly Magazine from 1977 to 1989. His published works include
The Houston Police, 1878-1948 as well as articles on local history subjects and contributions to
several multi-author publications. He is a member of the Harris County Historical Commission as well as
a member of professional and scholarly
organizations.
Texas Heritage
Society
Tour of Texas - In Search of Philip
Nolan
March 26,
2011
Cleburne Times Tribune Article - March 29,
2011
The Texas Heritage Society in a joint
venture with the Johnson County Historical Commission and Johnson County, Texas have established the Philip
Nolan Research Center in the Johnson County courthouse in Cleburne, Texas.

On Saturday, March 26, 2011, a brief
ceremony was held at the Johnson County courthouse.


Some of the 350 Books
Donated by Texas Heritage Society Members: Mary Alice Williams and Hewitt Clarke. Left to Right: Attorney Charles
Lummus, THS Vice President Hewitt Clarke, and Johnson County Judge Roger Harmon.
Our most recent Tour of Texas took us to
Cleburne, Texas where steps were taken to further the development of the Philip Nolan Research
Center.

Following the ceremony, archeological exploration was conducted
with metal detectors at two different locations where the battle, which took the life of Philip Nolan in
1801, may have occurred.


Texas Heritage Society
Meeting
March 17,
2011, 6:30
p.m.
First Baptist Church of The
Woodlands

Speaker - James
Harkins
Texas General Land
Office
Our
speaker for March 17, 2011 will be James Harkins from the Texas General Land Office. Jame's talk is
entitled "Genealogical and Historical Resources at the General Land Office." He will be talking about
the more than 35 million documents and 10,000 maps in their collection, the various collections that exist in
the archives, how they relate to genealogical research , and how they can be accessed from
home.
James
Harkins is the Outreach Manager for the Texas General Land Office Archives and Records Program, where he is
responsible for promoting the General Land Office Archives and its collections to various groups. James
graduated from Texas State University - San Marcos with a bachelor's degree in Communications in 2005 and
received a master's Degree in Public Administration from Texas State in December of 2010. He has worked
for the Texas General Land Office since May
2005.
Note: The March 2011 meeting of the Texas Heritage Society will be held at a
different location. We will be meeting at the First Baptist Church of The Woodlands located at the corner of
Grogans Mill Road and Sawmill Road (11801 Grogan's Mill Road, The Woodlands, Texas 77380). The church
complex includes several buildings. We will meet in The Atrium which is located on the
northern-most part of the campus, facing east. It is the last building on the campus. We convene
at 6:30 p.m. for refreshments and a business meeting. Our program begins at 7:00 p.m. Hope to see
you there.
Texas Heritage Society Invited to Unveiling and
Dedication
Our Publicity Chair, Pat Spackey, has cordially invited all
the members of the Texas Heritage Society to the dedication of The Lone Star Monument and Historical Flag Park in Conroe, Texas on April
21, 2011 (San Jacinto Day), at 5:30 p.m. The park is located next to the Montgomery County Memorial
Library in Conroe, Texas. There will be an unveiling of a bust of Charles B. Stewart by Pat
Spackey.
Texas
Heritage Society Members Attend 175th Anniversary
of
Texas
Independence

Sam Houston IV, Pat Spackey and Kameron
Searle Are Descendants of Signers of the Texas Declaration of Independence


THS members, Phil Whitley, Pat and Ted
Spackey and Marisa and Kameron Searle, were in attendance at
Washington-on-the-Brazos on February 27, 2011 for the 175th anniversary of the signing of the Texas Declaration of
Independence from Mexico. Speakers at the 175th Birthday of Texas included Sam Houston IV and United States
Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson. Thousands were in attendance at the ceremony to remember their Texas heritage
and history.
Click Here to See 2010 THS Christmas Party
Pictures!
Texas Heritage
Society
Tour of Texas History
#8
"Lower Brazos - Los Brazos de
Dios"
Saturday January 15 and Sunday
January 16, 2011
Whistler Hotel Bed and
Breakfast, Angleton, Texas
This is a special overnight
outing. We will learn about the sugar plantations on the black soil of the lower Brazos, where Stephen F.
Austin lived and his first colonists had their pick of the rich land along the
river.
Saturday, 10:00 a.m. - Lecture
and lunch at the old Whistler Hotel on the Chenango Plantation located at
1820 County Road 36, Angleton, Texas, 77515. Archaeologist and historian James Smith will be our
speaker. So rich in Texas history, Chenango was first owned by Ben Fort Smith where his mother Obedience Smith lived in the early years.
Smith sold the plantation to the notorious Monroe Edwards, who was a forger of great talent and finally died
in Sing Sing Prison.
12:30 p.m. - Travel to old town
of East Columbia for a visit to one of the original houses built along the river. then to the interesting
museum at West Columbia and a talk about the
first Capitol of Texas and the inauguration of Sam Houston as president of the Republic of Texas
there.
2:00 p.m. - Across town to the
Varner Hogg State Historic Park for a
lecture about the sugar plantation where Santa Anna was protected by Columbus Patton, a good friend of Sam Houston.
Patton later moved a slave girl named Rachel into his bedroom and openly lived with her until the family had him
declared insane.
3:30 p.m. - Travel a few miles
south to the museum in the small town of Brazoria, where a large statue of Henry
Smith stands and Confederate General John
Bankhead Magrude had his headquarters during the
war.
5:00 p.m. - Check into a motel
in Clute, where there are seven motels along the highway, all with winter rates. Many of our members and
guests will be staying at the La Quinta Inn in Clute, Texas
located at 1126 South Hwy 332 West, Clute, Texas 77531. Tel.
1-979-265-7461.
6:30 p.m. - Happy hour at
On the River Restaurant a few miles away in Freeport, rated by
Texas Monthly as one of the finest seafood restaurants in Texas. Dinner off the menu and a talk by
historian Les Pettigrew about Confederate forts along nearby rivers and the little known battles with Union
forces.
Sunday 8:30 a.m. - Freeport History Museum for a talk by historian
Mr. Hickey who will start with the French explorers and take us through the important events in early Texas history
there. Then he will take us on a trolley ride around the old town of Velasco.
11:00 a.m. - After checking out
of the motel, we will meet at the Brazosport Museum in Lake Jackson for a talk by historian Harry Sergeant about
the tragic Abner Jackson Sugar Plantation
after all four sons went into the Confederate Army. Abner died during the war, two sons were killed in
battle. Two brothers returned, but got into a dispute. One shot the other, then died of
consumption.
12:00 noon - Lunch somewhere or
return home.
Important
Notice!!!
"Along the way we made a mistake in
the Whistler Hotel address. We indicated 1826 County Road 36. It should be 1820. The
highly dedicated rural postman refused to deliver mail with one digit off even with a big Whistler Hotel
sign staring him right in the face. So all the checks are being returned. We have 32 reservations so far. Throw the checks away. The hotel manager said, "C'est la vie.
Pay at the door.""
Hewitt
Clarke
For further information about
this very interesting THS Tour of Texas contact:
Hewitt
Clarke
281-367-2709

At our September Quarterly Meeting, THS Editor, Melinda
Cagle, received a gift from Kameron Searle thanking her for all her hard work on an article about the Lake
Creek Settlement in Austin's Second Colony that is soon to be published.
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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
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
THS, inc. holds general
meetings quarterly in March, June, September and December and conducts quarterly day trips to various historical
sites in Texas in May, August, November and January. These events may also include trips to research centers and
archives around the state. THS members provide funding for scholarships and awards, they work through the Texas
Historical Commission to establish historical markers, support and conduct cemetery preservation, publish the
history and genealogy of Texas and support the East Montgomery County Museum and Archives. We welcome all with
common interests to join us. photo image courtesy of East Montgomery County Historical Society,
Inc.
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
Tour-of-Texas Day Trips
Hewitt Clarke, Coordinator
Day trips to historical sites in Texas are scheduled for the months of May, August,
November and February and will follow the course of early Texas settlement and the Texas Revolution. Our next
tour is in August:
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.
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recognition.
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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 encourages 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 — Mary Jo Leonard
Pro tem
Treasurer — Phil Whitley Pro
tem
Editor — Melinda R.
Cagle
Directors at Large —
Carrol D. Cagle, M.D.
Barbara Hamilton
Brenda Horton
Cliff May

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