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About Antoinette Power Houston Bringhurst
Nettie Bringhurst, poet, was born in Huntsville, Texas, in 1852, one of eight children of Sam and Margaret Lea Houston. She attended Baylor Female College at Independence and Austin Female College. She began writing poetry at an early age; her poems appeared in Scribners and in the New York Evening Post. On February 28, 1877, at the Governor's Mansion in Austin she was married to W. L. Bringhurst, a professor at Texas Military Institute, Austin, and later at the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas (now Texas A&M University). The couple had five children, four of whom died in childhood.
In 1904 she was awarded first prize by the Bohemian, a Fort Worth magazine, for the best poem on the Alamo. She was state historian of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas from 1906 to 1908 and was elected poet laureate for life in 1908. Her best known poems include "The Lone Star Flag of Texas," "A Garnered Memory," "My Father's Picture," and "The Veterans' Reunion." In 1925 she unveiled a statue of her father in Houston. She died on December 5, 1932, as the result of an automobile accident. Funeral services were held at the Alamo. She was buried in Mission Burial Park, San Antonio.
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Antoinette "Nettie" Power Houston7. Born on 20 Jan 1852 in Raven Hill Plantation, Walker, Huntsville, Texas.7 Buried on 6 Dec 1932 in Mission Park, San Antonio, Tx. Antoinette "Nettie" Power died in San Antonio, Bexar, Texas., on 5 Dec 1932; she was 80.7 On 28 Feb 1877 when Antoinette "Nettie" Power was 25, she married William S Lorraine Bringhurst8 in Governor's Mansion in Austin, Travis Co. Texas.8 Born on 27 Aug 1844 in Louisiana, United States.8 William S Lorraine died in Navarro, Texas, United States, on 18 Feb 1913; he was 68.8
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Antoinette Power Houston Bringhurst's Timeline
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1852
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Huntsville Walker County Texas
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1883
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1890
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1893
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| 1932 |
December 5, 1932
Age 80
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San Antonio Bexar County Texas
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