Maj. Samuel Houston

DAR A 057771, Patriotic service, VA. Furnished supplies.

Birth: 1745 Timber Ridge Rockbridge County Virginia, USA Death: 1807 Kentucky, USA

He was born about 1745 and died 1807. While absent from home on an inspection tour, Samuel Houston died at Dennis Callighan's, a friendly tavern house, on the 'New Road' to Kentucky. He was buried in the High Bridge Church yard, near the elaborate mansion of his cousin Matthew Houston.

After his death, Elizabeth moved her family to Tennessee in the spring of 1807. Samuel was a Captain in Morgan's Rifle Brigade, Continental Army, Virginia. Continued in service and after the war as Brigadier Inspector in Virginia Militia and advanced to rank of Major. They lived on the Timber Ridge plantation, Rockbridge Co., Virginia, until the death of Samuel. Samuel was married in 1783 to Elizabeth Blair Paxton (daughter of John Paxton of Rockbridge Co., Virginia). She was born about 1765 and died August 1831. They had 9 children.

(Sam Houston Museum)

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Parents:

• Robert H Houston (1720 - 1760)
• Margaret Dunlap Davidson Houston (1720 - ____)

Spouse:

• Elizabeth Blair Paxton Houston (1757 - 1831)

Children:

• John Paxton Houston (1790 - 1838)*
• Sam Houston (1793 - 1863)*
• Mary Houston Wallace (1797 - 1854)*

Siblings:

• Elizabeth Houston McClung (1739 - ____)*
• Samuel Davidson Houston (1745 - 1807)
• Anne Houston Barnes (1758 - 1829)
• Calculated relationship

Burial:

• High Bridge Presbyterian Church Cemetery
• Natural Bridge
• Rockbridge County
• Virginia, USA

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Created by: Sue McDuffe:) Record added: May 05, 2012 Find A Grave Memorial# 89614627

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