WRITINGS OF SAM HOUSTON, 1851
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To MILTON McCLANAHAN 1
Huntsville, 10th Sept. 1851. Dear Colonel In answer to your welcome letter, I can only say that it will-be necessary that you should make oath to the loss of your discharge. The Rolls of the Army in the War Dept. will show your service, and I have no doubt but Col. Howard can obtain your card. I hope to be there, and if I can render any service to you, I will do it with the greatest pleasure. We all unite in the best regards to you & family. Truly Thy Friend Sam Houston Col. Milton Mcclanahan I send you a copy of the constitution by today's mail. I hope you will receive it. I will be happy to hear from you. Houston Col. Mcclanahan 1 From the original owned by Miss Emily McClanahan, a granddaughter of Colonel Milton McClanahan; The University of Texas Library has a photostatic copy. Colonel Milton McClanahan (July 5, 1796-October 30, 1861), was born in Blount County, Tennessee, but moved to Lawrence County, Alabama, in about 1817. There, in 1820, he was married to Dorothea Keys. In 1846, Colonel McClanahan moved with his family to Texas, and settled in Bur- leson County. While he lived in Alabama he was a member of the State Legislature-serving in both the lower house and the Senate-from 1834 to 1846. In fact, he resigned his seat in the State Senate to come to Texas. The title "Colonel" by which he was always known in Texas, was acquired through service in the State militia of Tennessee during the War of 1812. Mrs. McClanahan (Dorothea Keys) was born in Georgia of a pioneer family from Virginia. At the age of fourteen she moved with her family to Tennessee, thence to Alabama, where she met and married her husband. They reared a family of nine children, six of whom were living in 1893. Mrs. McClanahan died in 1893, aged ninety years. See Histo111 of Texas with Biographies of Milani, }Villiamson, Bash-op, and Burleson Counties (Lewis Publishing Company, 1893), 654-555; L. E. Daniell, Personnel of the Texas State Governm.ent, 1892, 150-151; E. E. Loughery, Texas State Government, f 01· 1885, 43-44; Victor Rose, Some Histo1-ical Facts in Regard to the Settlement of Victo1·ia, Texas, 165.
To THE EDITOR OF THE Texas Monmnent
Huntsvile, Texas, September 27, 1851. Dear Sir :-My attention has been called by a friend to an editorial in the Richmond Enquirer of the 2d inst. In it you sug- gest that I ought to disclaim, the a.gency of Mr. C. II. Donelson,
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