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in 1828.156 Six years later, on September 22, 1834, he became one
of the editors of The Nashville Banner and Nashville Advertiser,
Nashville's daily paper, published by Hunt, Tardiff & Co. He
continued in the editorial chair until November 9, 1835, when he
was succeeded by Allen A. Hall, afterwards editor of the Daily
News.'"' At the time that Childress began his editorship, the
paper was reduced from a daily to a tri-weekly because "three years
had convinced the publishers that a daily paper would not pay in
Nashville."158 His efforts in behalf of the Texas Colonists while
editor of this paper, and his decision in 1835 to go to Texas, have
been reviewed.
He arrived in early January, 1836.55 On the 12th he applied
for a grant of land in Robertson's colony.1'60 On February 15,
1836, Colonel Wm. F. Gray, of Virgina, who had come to Texas
for the purpose of investigating the possibilities in the land situa-
tion for two friends, Tom Green and Albert T. Burnley""- of Wash-
ington, D. C., and was acting as their special agent, speaks in his
Diary of meeting Childress, which he spelled "Childers":
Monday, February 15, 1836.
Left Lakey's at 8 o'clock. Arrived at Col. Edwards about 11
o'clock, where we found Mr. Childers, of Milam, to whom I had a
"'Clayton, History of Davidson County, Tennessee, 97.
Among contemporaries practicing before the same bar were A. V.
Brown, N. S. Brown, later Governors of the State, John Catron, later an
Associate Justice of the Federal Supreme Court, Felix Grundy, great
leader of the Democrats, John A. Cheatham, Ephraim H. Foster, and
James Polk. See W. R. Garrett and A. V. Goodpasture, History of Ten-
nessee, Its People and Its Institutions (Nashville, 1900), 185, 186, 194,
195, 197.
"7Tbid., 238.
m"D. L. Merrit, and W. F. Hale, A History of Tennessee and Tennes-
seeans (Chicago and New York, 1913), II, 512-513.
Clayton, History of Davidson County, Tennessee, 238.
noFile 1.1, Goliad County. Geo. C. Childress, certificate 1st Class Head-
right, No. 72." General Land Office, Austin.
".OSee Register Book (containing names of 128 applicants for land in),
Robertson's Colony, 8. (General Land Office, Austin.) On this page is
the following entry:
No. 36
Geo. C. Childress aged
Child Charles aged 10 months
Sworn & recorded Jan'y 12th, 1836
by Alcalde.
"'.Burnley was Loan Commissioner of the Republic of Texas, 1837 to
1840. See Winkler, Secret Journals of the Senate, Republic of Texas,
1886-185, 18, 42, 58.132
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