Washington, Lewis Miles Hobbs, family papers, 1795-1969, 1980, 1993.

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Washington, Lewis Miles Hobbs 1813-1857. Washington, Lewis Miles Hobbs, family papers, 1795-1969, 1980, 1993.

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Washington, Lewis Miles Hobbs, family papers, 1795-1969, 1980, 1993.

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http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70049320

Abstract

Genealogical material, correspondence, financial records, literary productions and a land grant relate to the Washington, Cloud, Snead and Hammond families of Georgia and Texas, with emphasis on Lewis Miles Hobbs Washington, his wife Rebecca Landis Davidson Washington Reed and on William, Adam and John Wurts Cloud and their families.

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2.5 in.

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University of Texas Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 8003129

University of Texas Libraries

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Reed, Rebecca Landis Davidson Washington, 1808-1874.

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Davidson, Rebecca, 1808-1874.

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Cloud, William Johnston, b. 1838.

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Cloud family.

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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. ...