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Calendar of Events 2015 Quarterly Meetings THE TEXIAN Sept. 11-12, 2015 La Quinta Inn & Suites Belton, 229 West Loop 121, The Official Publication of The Sons of the Republic of Texas Belton, TX 76513; (866) 527-1498, Room Rate $101 + tax, cut off date August 21, 2015; Please identify yourself as SRT. VOL VIII NUMBER 3 AUGUST 2015 Hampton Inn & Suites, 7006 Navarro, Victoria, TX 77904; Dec. 4-5, 2015 ND (361) 573-9911, Room Rate $99 + tax, 1 King or 2 Queen NEWS RELEASE FOR THE 202 ANNIVERSARY OF THE BATTLE OF MEDINA cut off date November 18, 2015; Please identify yourself as AUGUST 15, 2015 SRT. The public is invited to attend our 15th annual ceremony commemorating the Battle of Medina, this being the 202nd anniversary of the bloodiest battle in Texas history! The Battle of Medina occurred on August 18, 1813 2015 SRT Events between the Royal Spanish Army and the Republican Army of the North when between 800 and 1,300 Ameri- March 2 Texas Independence Day March 6 Fall of the Alamo cans, Tejanos, Indians, and Spanish soldiers died in this all but forgotten battle which historians have named March 27 Goliad Massacre the Gutierrez-Magee Expedition. Since August 18th is on Tuesday this year, we will hold our normal com- April 21 San Jacinto Day memorative ceremony beginning at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday, August 15, 2015 under the large Oak trees on Old September 19 Texian Navy Day on the Battleship Texas Applewhite Road. We will have a Color Guard representing the U.S.A., Spain, Texas and Mexico, plus descen- October 2 Battle of Gonzales dants of the men who fought and died in this battle. Due to the heat, we will try to keep this ceremony as short November 3 Stephen F. Austin’s Birthday (Father of Texas) as possible, and adjourn to the nice cool meeting room at the First Baptist Church located at 400 North Reed Street in Pleasanton, Texas, for an afternoon seminar beginning at 1:00 p.m. on Saturday afternoon, courtesy of 2015 QUArtERLY MEETING Barbara Westbrook, Atascosa County Historical Commission Chairman. Sept. 11-12, 2015 La Quinta Inn & Suites Belton, 229 West Loop 121, Belton, TX 76513; Our feature speakers this year include Caroline Castillo Crimm, Ph.D., Professor of History at Sam Houston (866) 527-1498, Room Rate $101 + tax, cut off date August 21, 2015; State University History Department. Dr. Crimm spoke last year at the 201st Anniversary seminar, and you Please identify yourself as SRT. will not want to miss what she has to say about this all but forgotten event in Texas history. Dr. Bill O’Neal, the Texas State Historian, appointed by Governor Perry, will speak on the Gutierrez-Magee Expedition. Al McGraw will be back this year and will discuss the historic pattern of Spanish colonial ranchos, river cross- ings and early roads. Jessie Villarreal will bring his second book that discusses the Tejanos involved in events cont. pg. 3 PRESIDENT GENERAL’s Message 1717 Eighth Street Bay City, TX 77414 I know that historical happenings The Saturday meeting went well. RETURN SERVICE REQUESTED slow down during the summer. I The agenda moved along. One item hope that all of the members and that was discussed again was the chapters are doing well. use of the SRT logo. If anyone has questions on this, please contact the Contact us at: We had a nice quarterly meeting in Logo committee. Over the summer, SRT Office: www.srttexas.org Email: [email protected] June at Waco. Thanks to Curt Os- an item was brought up in the media, 1717 Eighth Street, Bay City, TX 77414 Phone: (979) 245-6644 Fax: (979) 244-3819 borne for setting up the hospitality a certain flag. Gentlemen if anyone room. Everyone had a good time. cont. pg. 3 Robert Kendall, KSJ I hope everyone is having a won- WHAt’s InsIDE derful summer. In May I went to Battle of Medina .......................1, 3 Historical Marker ..........................8 the Lone Star chapter lunch. I gave President General’s Message ....1, 3 In Memoriam ................................9 a talk about the SRT organization Janet’s Korner ...............................2 New SRT Members ...............10, 11 Chapter News ........................4, 5, 7 Calendar of Events ......................12 and my ancestor General Sidney Texian Navy Day ..........................6 Sherman. It was a very nice time. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE JANET ’S Korner 2015 - 2016 By: Janet Knox Administrative Assistant NEW SRT MEMBERS email: [email protected] 1717 Eighth Street Bay City, Texas 77414 (979) 245-6644 Name Chapter Ancestor Hometown Michael Ray Turner 32 Robert White Deer Park, TX • The next Quarterly Meeting is Sept. 11-12 Jeffrey Phares Bobo 33 Hardy Pace Pineland, TX La Quinta Inn & Suites Belton, 229 West Loop 121, Belton, TX 76513; Kevin Skyler Cato 36 Christian Smith Mansfield, TX (866) 527-1498, Room Rate $101+Tax, cut-off Darrell Ray Dunlop 36 Samuel Chelton Inman Euless, TX date August 21, 2015; Please identify yourself as Michael Robert Miller 36 Calvin Gage Idaho Falls, ID SRT. Left to right front row: Peter Gage Molino 36 Calvin Gage Idaho Falls, ID • You can view “The Texian” newsletter on the David Stone, Chaplain General; Edward Heath, James Burl Cox 39 John Jennings III Abilene, TX website for free. You may also purchase “The Second Vice President General; Robert Kendall, Texian” and it will be mailed to you for a fee of KSJ, President General; Bob Steakley, KSJ, First George Robert Chall, Jr. 40 John Padre McCoy San Antonio, TX $20.00 a year. Please contact the National office. Vice President General; William D. Power, Secretary Norman Forrest Porter, Sr. 40 George Joseph Blackman Pleasanton, TX General. Hillard Martin Soward III 40 George Joseph Blackman San Antonio, TX • Those members that have not paid their 2015 dues Left to right back row: are now considered delinquent and must pay a David Hanover, KSJ, PPG, Executive Committeeman; Robert Marvin Gillespie 47 Joshua Wright Young Granbury , TX $50.00 reinstatement fee plus the $40.00 dues fee L. Clay Fisher, Executive Committeeman; Kenneth Mason Harrington-Hensley LeBlanc 48 Arabella Gray Deve Harrington Blanco, TX for the current year. You can mail or go to website Pfeiffer, Treasurer General, Randy Pollard, Historian to pay your dues with PayPal. General. Scott Alan Schriewer 50 Ludwig Jauer Seguin, TX George Marvin Cunyus 52 Dickson H. Dyer Kilgore, TX • The editor welcomes all submissions of news William Bruce Kitchen 52 Thomas Jefferson Foster, Sr Wake Village, TX articles and photos for “The Texian”. Please DISTRICT REPRESENTATIVES submit electronic data using the following 2015 - 2016 John Patrick McCoy 56 David Baugh Lufkin, TX guidelines. 1. Submit text in WORD document John Patrick McCoy II 56 David Baugh Lufkin, TX format; articles may be edited due to space Daniel Joseph Hollmann 57 Lawrence Frank Odessa, TX limitations. 2. Submit photos as separate attachments in .jpg/.eps, or tif format. Caption Robert Emmett Hollmann 57 Lawrence Frank Odessa, TX for each photo or after the article’s text. Identify William Kipling Coe 58 Isaac Decker Pinehurst , TX the placement of people (e.g.L to R, center, front row, back row), with a corresponding key that Ronald Lee McAnear 58 John B. McAnear Livingston, TX matches the name of the file attachment. Please John Davis Morton, Jr. 58 Norman Austin Conroe, TX limit the number of photos submitted per article. Benjamin Fontaine Swank IV 58 William Rodney Baker Tomball, TX • Remember: All active duty personnel, your dues Mark Allen White 58 Isaac Guest Katy, TX are waived. Please notify the SRT Office by Jimmy Lynn Ferguson 59 Daniel Gilleland McKenna, WA email, postal service or telephone. Left to right front row: Arthur Evans, Gulf Coast • I would like to thank you for the articles and District; George Nelson, Brazos Valley District; pictures you are sending for your newsletter; they William D. Power, North East District; Bob Steakley, have been GREAT. I need YOUR help with KSJ, Frontier District. articles and pictures. If your chapter has or will (Not pictured: John Knox, Post Oak District) be celebrating any events PLEASE email me at: [email protected]. I will be submitting the Left to right back row: October issue for publication; the deadline for Tim Gibson, North Central District; John Meredith, submissions is Sept. 25, 2015. Lone Star District; Jim Massingill, Heart of Texas District; Ronald W. Brown, San Jacinto District. 2 11 cont. from pg. 1 NEWS RELEASE FOR THE 202ND ANNIVERSARY OF THE BATTLE OF MEDINA AUGUST 15, 2015 NEW SRT MEMBERS in Texas that connect to the American Revolution. We always invite representatives of both the Texas General Land Office, and the Texas Historical Commission, and William McWhorter will tell us what the THC has done this past year. I have invited Dan Arellano, who has organized the Battle of Medina Association to tell us what he has been doing this past year. Doc L’Herisson from Louisiana, will speak again this year, and tell us what he Name Chapter Ancestor Hometown has found about the men from Louisiana who came to fight in Texas. We always invite award winning author, Andrew Patrick Thomas Byford Teliha Kirby Ferguson Womack Oklahoma City, OK Robert Thonhoff, Teacher, Administrator, County Judge, who spent years researching this all but forgotten Leo Mitchell Etienne III John W. Smith III Austin, TX battle. However, due to health reasons, Professor Thonhoff probably will not be able to attend. If it were not John David Phillips, Jr. John Bryan Boyce, LA for Bob Thonhoff most of us would not know about the Battle of Medina.