Memorial came linked to parents John McClung Houston and Margaret Mary (Cunningham) Houston who are actually his grandparents.
August 2021 thanks to Shirley Ann Carter Bennett Barham 46985785 (descendant of Thomas and Agness (Orr) Houston through their daugher Catherine Houston b.1754 who married John Henry b.1745) for correcting parent links to Robert and Mary (Davidson) Houston (of the General Sam Houston line).
John and Ann lived and died in Collierstown, a village of widely-separated buildings not far from Lexington, Virgina, and was buried in the cemetery of a neighboring church called "Oxford".
They had a considerable family of children, somewhat eccentric in their dispostions it is said, who scattered themselves over the West and whose histories are unknown to the writer.
--from, "Brief Biographical Accounts of Many Members of the HOUSTON FAMILY accompanied by a Genealogical Table", by Rev. Sam'l Rutherford Houston, D.D., 1882;
submitted 9-6-21 by Shirley Ann Barham 46965785.
Memorial came linked to parents John McClung Houston and Margaret Mary (Cunningham) Houston who are actually his grandparents.
August 2021 thanks to Shirley Ann Carter Bennett Barham 46985785 (descendant of Thomas and Agness (Orr) Houston through their daugher Catherine Houston b.1754 who married John Henry b.1745) for correcting parent links to Robert and Mary (Davidson) Houston (of the General Sam Houston line).
John and Ann lived and died in Collierstown, a village of widely-separated buildings not far from Lexington, Virgina, and was buried in the cemetery of a neighboring church called "Oxford".
They had a considerable family of children, somewhat eccentric in their dispostions it is said, who scattered themselves over the West and whose histories are unknown to the writer.
--from, "Brief Biographical Accounts of Many Members of the HOUSTON FAMILY accompanied by a Genealogical Table", by Rev. Sam'l Rutherford Houston, D.D., 1882;
submitted 9-6-21 by Shirley Ann Barham 46965785.
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