Sam Houston Jr.

Wounded at the April 1862 Battle of Shiloh, he served time as a prisoner of war at Camp Douglas in Illinois.

Their daughter Margaret Bell Houston (1877–1966) was also a writer, as well as a suffragist who became the first president of the Dallas Equal Suffrage Association.

[3] His father was Governor of Texas at the time, and was removed from office for refusing to take an oath of loyalty to the Confederacy.

[4] Sometime during August 1861, Sam Houston, Jr., enlisted in the Confederate States Army 2nd Texas Infantry Regiment, Company C Bayland Guards, sending his mother Margaret into melancholia.

When I first heard the news, I thought I would lie down and die", she wrote to her mother Nancy Moffette Lea.

His father Sam Sr. had died in 1863, two years before the April 9, 1865 Battle of Appomattox Court House that ended the war.

Margaret Lea Houston pooled her real estate resources through rentals or taking out mortgages, to help finance Sam Jr.'s medical education.

[10][11] Lucy's and Sam Jr.'s daughter Margaret Bell Houston (1877–1966) was a writer and suffragist who became the first president of the Dallas Equal Suffrage Association.

Sam Jr.'s son Harry Howard Houston (1880–1935) worked in the medical field in Fort Worth, Texas.