I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much after I started. I doubt if I had gone to school six months in all when my father died. I was fourteen at the time.

She and Houston lived together for several years and although he was still married to Eliza Allen under civil law he married Tiana under the Cherokee law. At the convention to declare Texan Independence in March 1836 he was made Commander-in-Chief. On September 5 1836 he defeated Stephen F.

S. S. Sam Houston supported annexation by the United States.