[4][5] In return for his service, he was awarded 1,200 acres (4.9 km2), plus an additional one-third of a league of land,[3] in Victoria County, Texas.

Upon Catherine's death in 1852, Ellen and Daniel Doughty[7] sold the Mississippi plantation and moved to Refugio to raise the boys.

Both Jeremiah and Robert Driscoll Sr. were Privates in the Refugio Home Guard Unit[9] during the American Civil War.

Listed among her friends in attendance[18] were both United States senators from Texas, Joseph W. Bailey and Charles Allen Culberson as well as three Texas members of the United States House of Representatives, James L. Slayden, Albert S. Burleson and John Nance Garner, who would become Vice President (1933–1941) under President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Hal remembered his wife's fondness for Lake Como in Italy during their honeymoon, and sought to give her the Texas version.

Clara closed Laguna Gloria[10] when her brother died in 1929 and the Seviers returned to the Palo Alto ranch headquarters.

In 1933, President Franklin Roosevelt appointed Hal Sevier as ambassador extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Chile.

The public entrance known as the Alamo's mission chapel was already owned by the State of Texas, which had purchased the building from the Roman Catholic Church in 1883 and had given custody to the City of San Antonio.

In 1903, Adina Emilia De Zavala enlisted Clara Driscoll to join the Daughters of the Republic of Texas and chair the De Zavala fundraising committee to negotiate the purchase of the long barracks that was owned by wholesale grocers Charles Hugo, Gustav Schmeltzer and William Heuermann.

The state reimbursed Clara Driscoll and on October 4, 1905, the governor formally conveyed the Alamo property, including the convento and the mission church, to the Daughters of the Republic of Texas.

By 1911, Governor Oscar Branch Colquitt[28] ordered the long barracks be restored to its original condition as it was in mission days.

During the 1912 restoration,[29] workers discovered foundation work that verified De Zavala's instincts that the structure had indeed been an original part of the Alamo.

In 1933, she backed down city engineers who wanted to purchase a portion of the Alamo property to widen Houston Street.

Driscoll served as the Democratic party's national committeewoman from Texas 1922–1938 and supported her friend John Nance Garner's[33][34] 1940 bid for the Presidency.

There was a reception, candle lighting, and unveiling of a portrait titled "Clara Driscoll, Patriot" by Corpus Christi artist Roy Miller.

Clara built the Hotel Robert Driscoll, which opened on May 25, 1942, in Corpus Christi,[41] to memorialize her brother.