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Margaret Lea Houston (April 11, 1819 – December 3, 1867) was First Lady of the Republic of Texas during her husband Sam Houston's second term as President of the Republic of Texas. They met following the first of his two non-consecutive terms as the Republic's president, and married when he was a representative in the Congress of the Republic ...
Temple Lea Houston (August 12, 1860 – August 15, 1905) was an American attorney and politician who served from 1885 to 1889 in the Texas State Senate. He was the last-born child of Margaret Lea Houston and Sam Houston , the first elected president of the Republic of Texas .
Star of Destiny: The Private Life of Sam and Margaret Houston. Denton, TX: University of North Texas Press. ISBN 0-929398-51-3. Archived from the original on March 9, 2016; Seale, William (April 1992). Sam Houston's Wife: A Biography of Margaret Lea Houston. University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 978-0-8061-2436-0.
Margaret Lea Houston can arguably be called the original first lady of Texas. Hannah Estey Burnet's husband David G. Burnet was ad interim Republic president before Sam Houston became the official first president. During Houston's first term, he was in the process of obtaining a divorce from Eliza Allen, his estranged wife in Tennessee. [1]
Nancy Moffette Lea (1780–1864) was the mother of Margaret Lea Houston and mother-in-law of Sam Houston. She was an integral member of the Houston family, running the household when Margaret was ill or pregnant. She is believed to have helped her son-in-law convert and be baptized in 1854.
The Mrs. Sam Houston House, Independence, Texas, where Joshua visited to offer money to sustain Margaret Lea Houston and her children after Houston's death [10] [11] [h] When Houston died, the family was land rich and cash poor. [137] Joshua visited Margaret Lea Houston and her eight children in Independence, Texas.
Samuel Houston Jr. (May 25, 1843–1894) was the oldest of eight children born to President of the Republic of Texas, Sam Houston, and First Lady Margaret Lea Houston, and was the only of the children born in the Republic of Texas, before its December 29, 1845 annexation to the United States.
Mrs. Sam Houston House is a historic house on Farm to Market Road 390 in Independence, Texas. [2] Sometimes known as the Root house, this Greek Revival house was built probably around 1855. [ 3 ] Margaret Lea Houston , the widow of politician and Texas statesman Sam Houston , bought the house in 1864 from Major Eber Cave , a family friend.