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Thomas Emory Sherwood was born in Washington County, Indiana, to Rev. Jeremiah Sherwood and Sarah Elrod on May 31, 1835. Around 1842, Sherwood’s parents moved the family to Kauffman County, Texas, where his father was a Methodist Minister. On October 30, 1856, he married Nancy (Nannie) Lavinia McCreary in Rockwall, Texas, which was in ...
A military service number of the Regular Army. Service numbers were used by the United States Army from 1918 until 1969. Prior to this time, the Army relied on muster rolls as a means of indexing enlisted service members while officers were usually listed on yearly rolls maintained by the United States War Department.
Sam Houston had a diverse relationship with Native Americans, particularly the Cherokee from Tennessee. He was an adopted son, and he was a negotiator, strategist, and creator of fair public policy for Native Americans as a legislator, governor and president of the Republic of Texas. He left his widowed mother's home around 1808 and was taken ...
Native American tribes in Texas are the Native American tribes who are currently based in Texas and the Indigenous peoples of the Americas who historically lived in Texas. Many individual Native Americans, whose tribes are headquartered in other states, reside in Texas. The Texas Historical Commission by law consulted with the three federally ...
Sion Record Bostick (7 December 1819 – 15 October 1902) was a soldier for the Texas Army during the Texas Revolution, and later fought for the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. Bostick is most famous as one of the Texas Army scouts who captured Antonio López de Santa Anna during the Texas Revolution.
Look up muster in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In military organization, the term muster is the process or event of accounting for members in a military unit. This practice of inspections led to the coining of the English idiom pass muster, meaning being sufficient. When a unit is created, it is "mustered in" and when it is disbanded, it is ...
Pollard was born on October 29, 1803, in Ashburnham, Massachusetts, to Jonas and Martha (Martin) Pollard. He grew up in Surry, New Hampshire, and in 1825 he graduated from the medical school of the Vermont Academy in Castleton, Vermont. After residing for a period in Blauvelt, New York, Pollard then removed to Manhattan where he spent the years ...
The following is a list of people executed in Texas between 1819 and 1849. There were nine known executions during this period. ... 28-Mar-1838: Murder: Sam Houston: 4: