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of 1847, and in 1863, Atchison married Lucy Holt, of Augusta, Georgia. He was a deeply religious man, and served as elder of the First Presby- terian Church of Galveston for many years. See Lewis Publishing Com- pany, History of Texas, with B1·ographical History of Houston and Galves- ton (1895), pp. 716-718. 4 J. Carrol Smith, son of Samuel and Sara (Long) Smith, was born in Giles County, Tennessee, in 1815. The father- died in 1844, and the mother, with her twelve children, moved to Texas to join her eldest son, J. Carroll, who had gone there in 1838. When J. Carroll Smith first reached Texas, he settled at Houston and engaged in the mercantile business; but on account of the frequency and fatality of yellow fever epidemics at Hous- ton, he moved to Galveston, where he lived for twenty-one years, engaged in the commission business. He then moved to Ennis, Ellis County, and bought a farm, on which he lived for some time; later he moved to Hunts- ville. During the Civil War, he gave a thousand bales of cotton to the State Penitentiary to be made into clothes for the Confederate soldiers. In 1840 J. Carroll Smith married Mary Cotton, a native of Mississippi. They had six children. Smith was a Democrat, and a member of the Baptist Church. See Lewis Publishing Company, A Memorial and Biograph- ical H1"story of Ellis County, Texas, 512-520. &Archibald St. Clair Ruthven was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1818. He was a charter member of the first Independent Order of Odd Fellows Lodge of Texas, organized at Houston, July 25, 1838. He became a mem- ber of the Holland Masonic Lodge No. 1 in Houston in 1846-1847. Later he was Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Texas, 1855-1856. For years he was bookkeeper for the firm of Rice & Nichols at Houston. Later he was in the mercantile business for himself. In July, 1865, while on a visit to Glasgow, Scotland, he died. See Histo1·y of Holland Lodge No. 1, A. F. & A. M., p. 47 (picture), 61, 67. Tow. K. DE GRAFFENRIE 1 Executive Department, Austin, March 26, 1860. Mr. W. K. de Graffenrie, Macon, Georgia My dear Sir, Your kind favor of the 21st of February is now before me. I have handed over the letter and the money to Messrs John M. Swisher & Company, General Land Agents, of this place, as per receipt~ above. These gentlemen are reliable and faithful, and you may rest assured that any business entrusted to them will meet with prompt attention. It affords me pleasure to serve you in any way, and more so, from the kindly relations which have heretofore existed between us. Truly Thine, Sam Houston. 1 Executive Reco,·d Book, No. 278, p. 109, Texas State Librar~•. The receipt, which is appended to the document, discloses that the query con- cerned lands of Joseph A. Loving.
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