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- [S186] GEDCOM file imported on 14 Aug 2002., Shane Symes.
- [S609] A History of Rockbridge County, Virginia, Oren F. Morton, (1920) (Reliability: 3).
Samuel, Sr., the father of General Houston, was himself a soldier,
having served in the Revolution as one of the famous riflemen of Daniel
Morgan. Afterward he was an inspector-general of troops on the frontier
and held the rank of major. A first cousin was the Reverend Samuel
Houston born on Hays Creek, January 1, 1758. He was a graduate of
Liberty Hall and was licensed as a Presbyterian minister about 1784. He
spent several years in the proposed state of Franklin, which he took a
leading part in trying to establish, being a member of the committee
that drafted its constitution. Returning in 1789 he now became pastor
of the churches at Falling Springs and Highbridge. Mr. Houston was a
polished writer and for about twenty years he taught a classical school
in a building on his own place. he was original in his ideas and was
the inventor and patentee of a threshing machine. His house and barn
were built on plans of his own, and his farm of six hundred acres was
tilled on more scientific methods than were usual in his day. During
his long pastorate he perhaps united more couples than any other
minister in Rockbridge. He became blind near the close of his long
life, but was to have preached the day he died, which was January 29,
1839. He was tall, erect, and square-shouldered, dignified in manner,
and was both particular and old-fashioned in the matter of dress.
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RNT Family History
1758 - 1839 (81 years)
