sam houston
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Sam Houston and Houston County
Sam Houston is widely known as one of the most illustrious political figures of Texas as well as the father of Texas among other things. Here is a little background information on the man to which we owe Houston County and the great state of Texas.
He was born on March 2, 1793 in Virginia, the fifth child and fifth son of Samuel and Elizabeth Houston. He is of Scots-Irish decent and reared Presbyterian. His mother was a god-fearing woman who inspired him greatly throughout the years. During his childhood he acquired a rudimentary education attending a local school for no more than six months. Houston's father died when he was thirteen years old. In the spring of 1807, he emigrated with his mother, five brothers, and three sisters to Blount County in Eastern Tennessee, where his family established a farm near Maryville on a tributary of Baker's Creek. In rebellion of his older brother's attempts to make him work on the farm in the family's store in Maryville, Houston ran away from home as an adolescent in 1809 to dwell among the Cherokees where he stayed for three years. Houston learned the language and was loved and respected by them and eventually made a citizen...