The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 4, July 1900 - April, 1901 Page: 90
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90 Texas Historical Association Quarterly.
ing berries land flowers that we were soon, out of sight of the 'house
and we're lost in the pine woods. It seems like Providence guided
our footsteps. .We got on a footpath that led to the last house
below town. 'Mr. Farmer lived there, and he went home with -us.
Harrilsburg, June, 1833.
When 'we got home, mother was calling us. We had been gone one
hour, 'and were so, frightened that we stayed in the yard 'afterwards
all the tire.
Father met an 'old friend from St. Louis, 'Mr. Gallatin. Three
of the young men that came to Texas with us came to. visit us.
They had gone with MIr. Johnson to Brazoria. 'We were glad to see
them. ,They were going to Sian Felipe on a surveying expedition to
locate land. One was a surveyor.
By the 15th of June, the Brazos ancd Colorado rivers orverflowed,
and the water extended) from the Brazos to Buffalo Bayou. The
crops were all ,lost. Not corn enough was raised to feedl the people,
and no cotton was raised' that year. No, boat came during the year.
David Harris sent a schooner loaded with lumber tlo Tampico, Mex-
ico, ,which <brought back dry goods, but no provisions. It was many
days before we got any flour. Soon times became hard. The steam
mill was closed down, running only one day in the week to. grind
corn. IThat threw the men out of work, as sawing timber was the
on'y branch of industry in the place. There was some corn raised
on Buffalo Bayou and the Bay, but the main dependence 'o'f the
people was on the Brazos farmers. They, the planters, didn't raise
bread to feed their negroes.
Father concluded to move. I-Ie rented a farm near Staffoird's
Point, about fifteen miles from. Harrisburg on the Brazos. We
were very sorry to leave our new friends, but father thought it best
to move.
December, 1833.--Leaving Harrisburg.
The farm father rented was called the Cartwright farm. The
owner had .a large stock of cattle. We ,were to have the use of the
milch cows. It was in a good eighborholod; and, as there 'was no
physician living there, it was' a desirable situation.
'We left Harrisburg during Christmas, the weather warm -and
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