The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 4, July 1900 - April, 1901 Page: 159
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The Reminiscences of Mrs. Dilue Harris. 159
and could not wait any longer for the steamboat, which went up
the river later.
January, 1836.
Father returned home on New Year's day, after having been gone
two weeks. He sold the hides and laid in a good supply of drugs
and medicines. He would have gone to Harrisburg, but there was
no drug store in that place. lie said it would have been better to
haul his cotton to Harrisburg than wait for the steamboat, and that
it was doubtful whether he could get it to market before May or
June. H-Te got an advance of one hundred dollars on his cotton.
While he was gone he met some of the English people that had lived
in our neighborhood. Mr. Page had moved to Galveston bay, and
the Adkinses were living on the Brazos near Columbia. Miss Jane
Adkins, the pretty English girl, was married, and so was her
mother, the widow Adkins.
All the men and boys that went to the army from our part of
the country had come home and were at work. They seemed to
think there would be no more trouble with Mexico. There had been
a garrison of Texas soldiers left at San Antonio under Colonel
Travis. There were men enough in Texas to have organized a
large 'army if they could all have been concentrated at one point.
The people became very much discouraged on learning that
Mexico had sent a revenue cutter to Galveston. It didn't try to
land, but anchored outside. There were several schooners at Har-
risburg loaded with cotton and hides, that couldn't get ,out. The
captains said that the first big storm that came would blow the war
ship away, and that then they would run out.
February, 1836.
Every farmer was planting corn. Mr. Dyer and his wife came
from New Orleans on board a schooner which entered the mouth of
the Brazos, but they didn't see the revenue cutter. They came on
the boat to Columbia, and from there on horseback. They had
heard such bad news that they did not finish their visit. It was
that Generals Santa Anna and Cos with a large army were en route
for Texas. This news was brought direct from Tampico, Mexico,
to New Orleans by an American who came on a French ship. The
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