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From Handbook of Texas Online and Matagorda County History & Genealogy page

From the Matagorda County History & Genealogy page

From the Matagorda County History & Genealogy page

From the Matagorda County History & Genealogy page

   Dr. Edward Eugene Scott was born February 20, 1867, in Lampasas, Texas. 
   His parents were Dr. Morgan Jackson and Harriett Kenney Scott. They were natives of Gasconade County, Missouri, both being born there in 1821. 
   This family moved to Texas in 1852 and settled in the town of Lampasas. 
   His father, Dr. Morgan Jackson Scott, was a pioneer doctor, stock raiser and Texas Ranger Captain.
   When Edward was five years of age, his father was killed in a gunfight on the post office steps of Lampasas. 

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   John Sutherland’s grandfather was the Alamo physician Messenger and an uncle to one of the Alamo defenders.
   John Sutherland’s grandfather, Dr. John Sutherland, Jr. (1792-1867) moved to San Antonio in 1835; there the Alamo garrison hired his medical services.  
   He was injured in a fall from a horse and could not fight, so Col. William B. Travis sent him to bring help from Gonzales.  
   Dr. Sutherland returned with a contingent of men only to see the funeral pyres; among the dead was William DePriest Sutherland (1818-1836) the 17-year-old son of his brother George. 
   John Sutherland (1864–1965) and his wife Estelle Anderson Sutherland (1864–1933) are buried at Cedarvale Cemetery in Section 2 Block 59.
 Alamo Defenders

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From Handbook of Texas Online

From the Matagorda County History & Genealogy page

From the Matagorda County History & Genealogy page

   Although the wreck on the Brownsville yesterday was an unfortunate affair it served a good purpose in that it gave the 600 Minnesota troops en route Brownsville their first day off since they left home five days ago.
   Besides two troops of regular National Guard volunteers, the battalion under Major Leach had along Company “F,” composed of 171 University of Minnesota students and six officers under Capt. W. F. Rhinow, the whole constituting the Minnesota Second Battalion First Field Artillery, carrying 12 3-inch field pieces.
   Many of the boys expressed themselves as delighted with Bay City and took their enforced stop of several hours as an opportunity to attend church and entertain themselves in diverse other ways.
   Their chief amusement seemed to center about the county court house democratic donkey and the republican alligator held captive at the Confederate monument fountain by the Daughters of the Confederacy.