Murder and Mayhem in Houston by Mike Vance John Nova Lomax

Author:Mike Vance, John Nova Lomax
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-01-10T16:00:00+00:00

The troubled George Childress, author of the Texas Declaration of Independence. From the Mike Vance collection .

Childress died three hours later, most of which time he spent futilely begging for a clergyman to come baptize him. The author of the Texas Declaration of Independence was buried in an unmarked grave. It’s believed to be under the playground of Rosenberg School at 721 10 th Street; a cenotaph in Galveston’s Episcopal Cemetery was erected in 1935 and does not mark his resting place. 13

By 1857, South Carolina native and longtime Nacogdoches planter Thomas Jefferson Rusk had held just about every high office in Texas, from secretary of war back in the Republic days to chief justice of the Texas Supreme Court to United States senator and president pro tem of the Senate. Regarded by some party bigwigs as presidential timber in both Texas and the United States, Rusk always shied away from running.

He would have seemed to have it all, and yet he had nothing, for in the spring of 1856, his beloved wife, Polly, died of tuberculosis, leaving him with the care of five of their seven children, two others having reached adulthood.

Rusk was less chauvinistic than many of the men of his time and went out of his way to praise women.

“The men of Texas deserved much credit, but more was due the women,” he once said. “Armed men facing a foe could not but be brave; but the women, with their little children around them, without means of defense or power to resist, faced danger and death with unflinching courage.”

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