Nancy "Nannie" Elizabeth Morrow

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Nancy Elizabeth Houston2,16. Born on 6 Sep 1846 in Ravenhill, Walker, Texas, USA.2,16 Nancy Elizabeth died in Houston, Harris, Texas, USA, on 19 May 1920; she was 73.2,16 On 1 Aug 1866 when Nancy Elizabeth was 19, she married Joseph Clay Morrow16 in Georgetown, Williamson, Texas, USA.16 Born on 20 Nov 1839 in Versailles, Woodford, Kentucky, USA.16 Joseph Clay died in Houston, Harris, Texas, USA, on 6 Mar 1925; he was 85

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On September 8, 1846, seven months after the Republic of Texas became a state, Nancy Elizabeth Houston was born at Raven Hill plantation, fourteen miles east of Huntsville; she was the second child and the first daughter of Sam and Margaret Lea Houston.

Young "Nannie" received her early schooling from her mother, grandmother Lea and a private tutor. Soon her proud father was calling her his "genius".

The Houstons moved to Independence in 1853, and Nannie attended the academy operated in conjunction with Baylor University. She was a talented musician practicing her music on a fine Steinway piano that Sam Houston presented to her when she was sixteen.

When Nannie was nineteen, she became engaged to Joseph Stiles Morrow, the owner of a mercantile business in Georgetown. Sam had died three years earlier and money was scarce in the Houston home, but Margaret insisted that her daughter have a fine wedding. Friends provided the fabric and made her wedding gown. On the evening of August 1, 1866, Nannie and Joseph Morrow were married in the presence of some three hundred guests who had not seen such a beautiful wedding dress since before the Civil War. For their honeymoon, the Morrows traveled to New York and visited Niagara Falls, and they were entertained at the White House by President Andrew Johnson before visiting the old Morrow home in Kentucky. Then the newlyweds settled down to married life in Georgetown. When Nannie's first child was due, she returned to Independence, and Margaret Houston Morrow was born at her grandmother's house on June 4, 1867.