Washington, Lewis Miles Hobbs 1813-1857.
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Lewis M. H. Washington, born 1813 in Wilkes County, Georgia, came to Texas in the mid-1830s. He participated in the Siege of Bexar in December 1835, as a member of Fannin's staff. He married Rebecca Landis Davidson, a widow with five children, and they had four children together. Washington became a writer and contributed articles and poems to various Texas papers. He was captured and killed on a filibustering expedition to Costa Rica as a correspondent for the New Orleans Picayune in 1857.
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