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 1848 - 1909 (61 years)
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Generation: 2
| 2. | Algernon Sidney Thruston was born on 19 May 1801 in Louisville, Jefferson County, KY (son of John Thruston and Elizabeth Thruston Whiting); died on 5 Mar 1864 in Kentucky. Notes:
THRUSTON, ALGERNON SIDNEY (1801-1864). Algernon Sidney Thruston, soldier and lawyer, was born on May 19, 1801. He married Harriet C. Jacques of St. Louis, MO. They resided in Louisville, Kentucky, where Thruston practiced law. George C. Childress q.v. recommended Thruston to Stephen F. Austin q.v. as a man of quality and a good soldier. Thruston arrived in Houston in September 1837, began practicing law with Henry W. Fontaine, and became involved in local politics. Thruston served as commissary general for the Republic of Texas q.v. in 1837 and as quartermaster general in 1838. Sam Houston q.v. nominated him for attorney general on November 13, 1838, but Mirabeau B. Lamar q.v. became president before the nomination was approved by the Senate, and Thruston never filled the position. He received a headright and bounty certificate from the republic. He was a member of the Masonic Holland Lodge No. 1 of Houston and was a charter member of the Grand Lodge of Texas. He died on March 5, 1864.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: James David Carter, Masonry in Texas: Background, History and Influence to 1846 (Waco: Grand Lodge of Texas, 1955). James K. Greer, "The Committee on the Texas Declaration of Independence," Southwestern Historical Quarterly 30, 31 (April, July 1927). Louis Wiltz Kemp Papers, Barker Texas History Center, University of Texas at Austin. Telegraph and Texas Register, January 11, September 9, 1837. Amelia W. Williams and Eugene C. Barker, eds., The Writings of Sam Houston, 1813-1863 (8 vols., Austin: University of Texas Press, 1938-43; rpt., Austin and New York: Pemberton Press, 1970).
Algernon married Harriet C. Jacques on 19 Dec 1846 in Marshall County, TX. Harriet was born on 5 May 1827 in Missouri; died on 28 Oct 1873 in Kentucky. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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| 3. | Harriet C. Jacques was born on 5 May 1827 in Missouri; died on 28 Oct 1873 in Kentucky.
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| 5. | Elizabeth Thruston Whiting was born about 1771 in Virginia, USA; died in Jul 1822 in Kentucky. Notes:
Mrs. Elizabeth T. Thruston already had ten children when she and Aaron married.
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