The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 15, July 1911 - April, 1912 Page: 164
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Texas Historical Association Quarterly
Chronicle for July 9, 1911. After the war Mr. Steele settled near
Montgomery in Montgomery county, and engaged in farming. On
September 28, 1838, he was married to Miss Mary Ann Powell,
daughter of Archibald Powell.1 In the fall of 1844 he removed
to Limestone county, and made his home there continuously until
his death. Biography of Private Alonso Steele, only survivor of the
campaign and fight, and the official report of Gen. Sam Houston
with complete roster of the commands composing the little army,
is the title of a pamphlet of thirty-one pages published (without
date) by N. P. Houx of Mexia for Mr. Steele. W.
David A. Nunn2 was born October 1, 1836, in Summerville,
Noxubee county, Mississippi. He died at his home in Crockett,
Texas, August 13, 1911.
After completing a course in the schools of Summerville, he
attended college at Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and studied law at
New Orleans. Soon after being admitted to the bar, he was mar-
ried on June 8, 1858, to Miss Helen Williams, daughter of Bryan
T. Williams, of Macon, Mississippi, and sister of Judge F. A. Wil-
liams, of Austin. The young couple set out for Texas on their
wedding day, intending to locate at Waco; circumstances changed
their destination, and they settled at Crockett, where Mr. Nunn
began the practice of law. In 1859 he was elected mayor of
Crockett, and successfully maintained respect for the law among
numerous lawless characters. At the outbreak of the Civil War
he entered the service of the Confederacy. His first service was
rendered as Captain of Company I, Fourth Texas Mounted Vol-
unteers, Sibley's Brigade, in the New Mexico-Arizona campaign.
Returning home from the West, he raised another company of
cavalry, was elected captain, joined Walker's Division, and serve
in this command till the surrender. He was a member of the
constitutional convention of 1875, and as chairman of a special
committee of seven did much to influence the present free school
'Houston Daily Post, July 9, 1911.
'These facts have been compiled from notices of Colonel Nunn in the
Crockett Courier of August 17 and 24 and September 7 and 14.164
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