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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Saor Alba, post: 755628, member: 21607&quot;]<img src="http://www.scottishmoney.net/banknotes/usa/texas501840tn.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>The Republic of Texas and Sam Houston have a special place in my family history.&nbsp; When Andrew Jackson forcibly removed the Cherokee people from Georgia and North Carolina in 1837-8 President Sam Houston of the Republic of Texas offered sanctuary to Cherokee that wanted to settle in Texas.&nbsp; Some of my ancestors took him up on the offer and settled in the Red River valley in NE Texas and built their plantation there that existed until the Civil War.&nbsp; Because of that, they were spared the ignominy of languishing in what would become the Indian Territory and later Oklahoma.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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