Very Important Day In History

[Leo Tanner]

Fer awhile there was serious talk about slittin CA in half inta two different states.  The north part and the south part are very different.
     Wait a minute, that sounds like a familiar scenario...


Leo

[Russ T Chambers]

Fer awhile there was serious talk about slittin CA in half inta two different states.  The north part and the south part are very different.
     Wait a minute, that sounds like a familiar scenario...


Leo

Leo
I've often said Nevada would be willin' to give all of Clark County to California, and Nevada would take everything North of San Francisco.  We were supposed to have all of what is now Lassen County.  That and North Washoe County were what made up Roop County.  California had enough clout to change to boundaries from the crest of the Sierra to their present location.

[Texas Lawdog]

Good Luck with all that land development out there, Guys.

[Scattered Thumbs]

1836

Sam Houston elected 1st President of the Republic of Texas.

[Texas Lawdog]

Sam Houston? Wasn't he from Virginia? Heard he spent some time in Tennessee and out in the Indian Nations too.

[Tensleep]

Sam Houston? Wasn't he from Virginia? Heard he spent some time in Tennessee and out in the Indian Nations too.

Born just outside Lexington Virginia...

[Texas Lawdog]

Bro. Sleep, He seems to be mentioned occasionally in some Texas History books.  I heard that built a big statue of him In Huntsville, Texas, the ancestoral home of "OL SPARKY"!

[Arcey]

Yep. Staunton side ah Lexington. Texans, Virginians. We're kin 'n I'm proud of it. Fought 'n died side by side. Sumbody comes after 'Sleep er yerownfineself got me 'n Tom ta fight too. Ain't that right, Tom?

[Tensleep]

Folks need to unnerstand 'bout things like that...

Mess with Arcey ya mess with me... Mess with Tom, yer history cuz ya messed with me...

Feel tha same way 'bout OT, best not mess with him either... there's lots o' others too.

I'm a Texan by birth an' raisin', but I been a Virginian since 1971 by choice... best of both worlds.

[Ozark Tracker]

I feel the same as y'all do bout that,  we're friendly as hound dog pups but don't try to give us a swift kick.  somebody could get bit. 

here's some more information on Sam Houston.  the Cherokee wife he had was a GGGGGG? aunt on my Cherokee side.
She's buried in the National Cemetary in Ft. Gibson, in Officers Row.



Sam(uel) Houston, governor of two states, president of the Republic of Texas, U.S. senator, and military hero, was one of the most colorful figures of 19th-century America. Born near Lexington, Va., on Mar. 2, 1793, he was reared in Tennessee by his widowed mother. As a youth he spent much time with Cherokee Indians and developed close ties with them. Joining the army, he served under Andrew Jackson in the Creek wars (1813-14). In 1818, Houston resigned his commission and, after studying law for a few months, was elected attorney general for Nashville and appointed adjutant general of Tennessee. He served two terms in Congress (1823-27) and in 1827 was elected governor of Tennessee.

While governor, Houston married Eliza Allen on Jan. 1, 1829. For unexplained reasons (see below), however, the marriage was dissolved almost immediately, and Houston, under pressure from the influential Allen family, resigned his office. For the next 6 years he lived with Cherokee Indians in the Indian Territory (now Oklahoma), taking a Cherokee wife, Tiana Rogers (see below), and adopting Cherokee citizenship. He was a trader, advisor, and special envoy for the tribe on several occasions. It was in this last capacity that he first went to Texas, then under Mexican rule, in 1832 in a futile attempt to secure a land grant for the tribe. By 1835, Houston had moved to Texas. With the outbreak of the Texas Revolution in that year he was named commanding general of the revolutionary army. In March 1836, Houston was a delegate to the convention that declared Texas an independent republic. His command was reconfirmed, and he led the Texas army to a brilliant victory over Santa Anna in the Battle of San Jacinto (Apr. 21, 1836).

[Russ T Chambers]

1698 - Russia's Peter the Great imposed a tax on beards.   (I'd have to pay alot for the time I've had mine!)

1774 - The first session of the U.S. Continental Congress convenes in Philadelphia. The delegates drafted a declaration of rights and grievances, organized the Continental Association, and elected Peyton Randolph as the first president of the Continental Congress.

[Texas Lawdog]

Bro. Sleep and I are proud of our Texas heritage, the fact that we are Masonic brothers, we are AGGIES, and the most important part, we have two of the most beautiful and sweetest female chocolate labs in the World.

[Leo Tanner]

I'd fight fer any a ya, Calyfornian er not.
     Why in tarnation would beards be taxed?  I thought we had the market on taxes cornered


Leo

[Texas Lawdog]

Leo, It's the increased population, all the vermin in the beards.

[Delmonico]

I'd fight fer any a ya, Calyfornian er not.
     Why in tarnation would beards be taxed?  I thought we had the market on taxes cornered


Leo

In that time the rest of Europe shaved, Pete was tryin' to drag russia inta more modern times.

[Sod Buster]

Born just outside Lexington Virginia...

Yup..seen the marker.

[Arcey]

Wish y'all'd hush 'bout the beard thing. Ain't heard the socialists wantin' ta tax them yet 'n don't wanna give 'em no ideas. 

[Delmonico]

Wish y'all'd hush 'bout the beard thing. Ain't heard the socialists wantin' ta tax them yet 'n don't wanna give 'em no ideas. 

Hope the don't either, but I am safe, just got a moosh-stach.

[Leo Tanner]

Oh OK, I thought mebbe the tax were fer the food left fer later consumption.   A flavor saver comes in mighty handy in a pinch.


Leo

[Arcey]

See the chin whiskers in the avatar?

Chilly out. Been rakin' leaves. Come in 'n made some chicken soup. Woundup combin' it outtah that mess. Next mornin' I shaved it off.