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The Sons of the Republic of Texas is a patriotic organization dedicated to perpetuating the memory of the founding families and soldiers of the Republic of Texas. [1] It was established in 1893. [ 1 ]
This is a list of notable hereditary and lineage organizations, and is informed by the database of the Hereditary Society Community of the United States of America.It includes societies that limit their membership to those who meet group inclusion criteria, such as descendants of a particular person or group of people of historical importance.
The Texas State Historical Association (TSHA) is an American nonprofit educational and research organization dedicated to documenting the history of Texas. It was founded in Austin, Texas, United States, on March 2, 1897. In November 2008, the TSHA moved its offices from Austin to the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas.
The headquarters, located along Museum Row in downtown Louisville, Kentucky, contains the organization's administrative staff offices, Sons of the American Revolution Genealogical Research Library, and the future site of an American Revolutionary War Education Center. The SAR is currently raising funds to finish the center's development.
Denton, TX: Texas State Historical Association. OCLC 651721302. Archived from the original on June 12, 2015; Chariton, Wallace O. (1990). Exploring the Alamo Legends. Dallas, TX: Republic of Texas Press. ISBN 978-1-55622-255-9. Davis, William C (2004). Lone Star Rising: The Revolutionary Birth of the Texas Republic. New York, NY: Free Press.
Sons of the Revolution was founded on February 22, 1876, in New York City, primarily by leading members of the Society of the Cincinnati and the businessman John Austin Stevens. He disagreed with Society of the Cincinnati requirements limiting membership to the eldest male descendants based on the rules of primogeniture . [ 6 ]
To date, 17 presidents of the United States have been members of the SAR. President Grant was admitted posthumously in recognition of his being a member of the Sons of Revolutionary Sires, whose members were later admitted to membership in the SAR. Ulysses S. Grant (posthumous) [1] [2] 18th; Rutherford B. Hayes [3] 19th; Benjamin Harrison [3] 23rd
Catherine and Daniel had two sons, Jeremiah (1838–1890) and Robert Sr (1841–1914), Clara's father. Upon Catherine's death in 1852, Ellen and Daniel Doughty [6] sold the Mississippi plantation and moved to Refugio to raise the boys. Both Jeremiah and Robert Driscoll Sr. were Privates in the Refugio Home Guard Unit [8] during the American ...