Washington, Lewis Miles Hobbs 1813-1857.

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.

From the description of Washington, Lewis Miles Hobbs, family papers, 1795-1969, 1980, 1993. (University of Texas Libraries). WorldCat record id: 70049320