Robert Houston, John Houston, Margaret Mary Houston, Margaret Bone, and 1 other

Ballynure, Mid and East Antrim, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

This plaque is erected in honour of General Sam Houston of Texas (1793-1863) whose ancestor John Houston and his family emigrated around 1730 from the Ballyboley area. The family settled at Timber Ridge, Virginia, where, with many others from these shors, they formed one of the Ulster-Scot communiti

es which dotted the Great Valley of the Shenandoah. Sam Houston was the great-great-grandson of John Houston and the son of Samuel Houston and Elizabeth Paxton. His father was a soldier during the Rev

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