Reverend Jonathan Milton Houston

From Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Mar 17 2017, 18:06:54 UTC

• Tombstone reads: "He has fought the good fight kept the faith and?. He is at rest from his labors." [Source: Harvey Lusk Jr.]

Jonathan Milton Houston was the son of James Houston b. 1775 in Rowan, NC, and Patience Bills b. 2 Jun 1780 in Surry, NC (both buried at the Houston Cem., Marshall Co., TX); he had the following siblings: Christopher Columbus, Benjamin Franklin, Elizabeth M. (Betsy), Alfred Moore, Cynthia Hartshorn, James Bills, Lillias Louisa, Sally Martha, Samuel Patton, Marinda/Marlinda Caroline, Samuel Patton, and Patience Olivia Bills Houston.

He married on 27 Sep 1836, Fatima Lucretia Estes (buried at Sowers); they had the following children:

• James DeWitt,
• Edmond Wilkes,
• John Gibson,
• Cynthia Lucretia,
• Mary Elizabeth,
• Cordelia Ann,
• Benjamin Franklin,
• Andrew Jackson,
• Alfred Persis,
• Nancy Catherine,
• William Jefferson,
• Thomas Milton Thomas,
• Sarah Selipa, and
• Richard Malcom Houston.

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Inscription: "An Old Pioneer Preacher Passes Away."

Special Correspondence Times-Herald.

Gorbet met with the loss of one of her old pioneers, J. M. Houston, a minister of the gospel for over forty years, died very suddenly last Thursday. After eating a hearty dinner with his grandson, J. W. Lucus, he walked home, a distance of half a mile, and was a corpse by supper. Mr. Houston moved from Missouri to Dallas county in 1856, where he has preached as a Baptist to many a congregation. He was between 80 and 90 years old and leaves many friends to mourn his loss, he being a man of large family and many friends. He was the father-in-law of Jack Lucus, as good a man as Dallas county has, who also has many friends. - M. E.

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In March 2017, a descendant explained:

Jonathan Milton Houston, married to Fatima Estes Houston, was NOT the brother of Gen. Samuel Rutherford Houston

Jonathan Milton Houston was not the son Maj. Samuel Houston

He was the son of James Houston, son of Captain Christopher Houston, DAR certified lineage.

Captain Christopher Houston (1744) and Samuel Davidson Houston (1745) were born in nearly the same year, so that puts Sam Houston in a different generation that Jonathan Milton Houston too.