21 comments

  1. Allison Whidby Harper

    Why yes I did! They are in my family tree!

  2. Gene Hocutt

    Did you know the Alamo was commanded by an Alabamian?

  3. Cassandra Nancy Kenfield-Lea

    Margaret Lea Houston would be my 3rd great-aunt! He brother, my great-great grandfather.

  4. Dana Thompson Dunn

    I know this house in Perry County, but I had always heard that they were married in Catherine. Does anyone know of a connection there?

  5. W K Boris Moran

    he wrote his name in the caves in northeast bama called sequoya caverns.

  6. Gary Todd

    YES MY GR,GR GRANDMOTHER WAS BORM IN PIKE ALABAMA 1858 DIED 1929 LAMAR TEXAS

  7. Marion, Perry County, Alabama was once called Muckle's Ridge - Alabama Pioneers

    […] in honor of Francis Marion, the “Swamp Fox,” hero of the American Revolution. Sam Houston, later of Texas fame, was married to a local girl in 1840 and Coretta Scott King, wife of Martion […]

  8. Sally Smith Shamblin

    The video was very interesting. However, it didn’t continue your lead-in about Houston’s marriages.

    1. Alabama Pioneers

      Thank you for letting me know. Sometimes Facebook will not include the link to the story. Here it is: http://alabamapioneers.com/know-general-sam-houston-first-third-president-republic-texas-married-alabama-native/#sthash.gg2bHbpk.dpbs

  9. Leslie Denney

    Very interesting

  10. Ed Welch

    Has the house in Marion been reconditioned. Aw it first hand in 1999 but was pretty run down.

  11. Elaine Hyre

    We have Gentry in our ancestry

  12. A.L. Marshall

    Luv Alabama history and these interesting posts!

  13. Sam Houston

    Love history

  14. Alabama Weaver

    Did you know the Alamo was in Mobile County Alabama.

    Did you know Florida was in Mobile County Alabama.

    Did yup know Louisiana aka Orleans was in Mobile County Alabama.

    York and Washington are to the North.

    Philadelphia is nearby.

    Natchez is nearby too.

    Now re-read history and see how all that traveling actually happened on the real map back then.

    Otherwise they needed cars to get around these impenetrable swamps and forests.

  15. Michael Gilbreath

    Sam Houston had two part Cherokee sons which were the inspiration for the movie in 1931 entitled Cimarron!

  16. Kim Price Seago

    Was she a creek indian

  17. Anne Jester Turner

    No, she was from Marion, AL. The Indian relationship happened in TN and Ark. before he came to Texas

  18. Norma Snodgrass

    Interesting history. Thank you

  19. Robert Neville

    https://th.bing.com/th/id/AMMS_19bd5bdd0b6daae3c1ecb654932da855?w=204&h=272&c=7&o=5&dpr=1.25&pid=1.7 Margaret Lea Houston.

  20. Locksley S Stubblefield

    Yes, I did.