Family Tree Nuts
In our first installment, Sam Houston; Pioneer, Patriot, Statesman, President – Part I, we explored the early life of Sam Houston, beginning with his birth and childhood in Virginia, his running away from home and living with the Cherokee in East Tennessee for three years, his military service, law career and entry into the political…
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 In our last installment, Sam Houston Part II – Life with the Cherokee, we explored the complex role Sam Houston played in the lives of the Cherokee people he had long identified with, both as an adopted member of the Cherokee Nation, and as an agent of the United States government who, led by the…
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Everyone knows that Sam Houston is kind of a big deal in Texas. But what most don’t know is that his life was so much more than just his being “the hero of San Jacinto” and the namesake of Texas’ largest city. Born in Rockbridge County, Virginia on March 2, 1793, Houston was one of…
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Nearly everyone in Kentucky with even a remote interest in history has heard of the Hunt and Morgan families of Lexington. The most famous (or infamous) being General John Hunt Morgan, “The Thunderbolt of the Confederacy”. Morgan’s Raiders kept Union commanders on their toes during the 1862-1864 raids through Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio, but Morgan’s…
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The Cahokia Courthouse is located in the village of Cahokia, which is in St. Clair County, Illinois. The structure was built as a residence around 1740, when present-day Illinois was a colony of France. In 1793 the structure was purchased by the Common Pleas Court of the United States Northwest Territory and subsequently became a…
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The Italian merchant spy that helped the Americans win the Revolutionary War! Francis Vigo! The interesting patriot Francis Vigo has a monument located at the General George Rogers Clark National Historic Park in Vincennes, Indiana on the banks of the Wabash River. He was born Giuseppe  Maria Francesco Vigo on December 13, 1747, in Italy.…
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Jemima Boone became nationally famous for her epic capture and rescue with the two Calloway sisters in 1776. Jemima Boone was born to Daniel and Rebecca Boone on October 4, 1762, in the Yadkin Valley of North Carolina, and she moved with her family to what became Boonesborough in 1775. Jemima became nationally famous in…
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“Finger Licking Good!” You have to travel to some very remote places on the globe to find someone that doesn’t recognize the image of Colonel Harland Sanders who built a restaurant franchise based on delicious southern fried chicken. Colonel Sanders was born on September 9, 1890, in Henryville, Indiana. He was the oldest of three…
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The very last house that Colonel Daniel Boone lived in. Family Tree Nuts visited this location, outside of Defiance Missouri, in the Femme Osage Valley at the home of Nathan Boone, the son of Daniel Boone, where Daniel spent his last days. In 1799 when Daniel Boone was 65-years-old, he was invited by the Spanish…
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We visited the grave of Lt Presley O’Bannon, who received the Mameluke Sword as a gift for leading U.S. Marines in the defeat of the Barbary Pirates, in Tripoli. This sword is used by Marine Officers to this day. He is also the first American to raise the U.S. flag over foreign soil, in wartime.…
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