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WRITINGS OF SAM HOUSTON, 1860
after four years in that position, he was elected representative of his dis- trict in the State Legislature, where he served for several terms; then he was elected state treasurer. in 1859, and served in that office during the Civil War period. He was married in Texas, in 1848, to Miss Susan Nowlin, who died at Austin, September, 1911, at the age of eighty-two. Cyrus H. Randolph himself, died at Austin in 1889, at the age of seventy- two years. Mr. and Mrs. Randolph had five children, two of whom are still living. See Johnson-Barker, Texas and Texans, IV, 1981.
To FRANCIS M. WHITE 1
[No date, about January 30, 1860] Mr. F. M. White: Please let examination be made as to Charles R. Haskell.2 He fell at the Alamo, I think, for I sent him with Colonel Bowie 3 and Colonel Bonham,"' from Goliad to the Alamo, on the 17th of Jany. 1836. Thine Houston. P.S. Some one, I suppose has drawn his land, a headright, bounty and donation claim, 1107 acres, 1280 & 640, in all 3,027 acres, I make it. 1 Goveniors' Letters, Texas State Library. This note was written on the back of a letter from Mrs. Paralee Haskell, Nashville, Tennessee, to Governor Sam Houston, J anuai-y 30, 1860. Francis M. White was in 1860, the Commissioner of the General Land Office of Texas. In 1876-1877, he· was practicing law at Texana, Jackson County. No further information. See Bentley and Pilgrim, The Texas Legal Directory, 1876-1877, p. 45. This source lists the name Francis N. White. 2 Charles R. Haskell was a soldier who fought with Fannin at the battle of Coleto, and was massacred with his chief, on March 27, 1836. Charles M. Haskell fell with Travis at the Alamo, Mai-ch 6, 1836. So it must have been Charles M. Haskell whom Houston sent back to the Alamo with Bowie and Bonham, January 17, 1836. Houston had probably forgotten, or it is possible that he did not know that two cousins, by so nearly the same name, had fallen in those two engagements, so disastrous to the Texas army in 1836. See Southwestern Histo,-ical Quarterly, XXXVI, 278, and XXXVII, 264. sFor sketch of Colonel James Bowie, see Ibid., XXXVI, 90-103. "For James Butler Bonham, see Ibid., XXXVI, 124-136.
TO THE SHERIFF OF WALKER COUNTY 1
Executive Department, January 30, 1860.
[Authorizing use of force against John S. Besser.P
1Executive Records, 1859-1860, p. 30, Texas State Library.
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