by Sharon Hall | Nov 15, 2013 | Feudin' & Fightin' Friday
This little war fought in Fort Bend County, Texas had nothing to do with birds, but could very well be described as a race war. Background In the early 1820s, the area which comprised Fort Bend County was settled as a so-called “plantation district”. By 1861 when it...
by Sharon Hall | Nov 8, 2013 | Feudin' & Fightin' Friday
Horrells and Higgins – Early Lampasas County Settlers John Holcomb Higgins and his wife Hester migrated to Lampasas County, Texas from Georgia with their young family. Their son, John Pinkney Calhoun Higgins was their first male child, born on March 28, 1851. ...
