The Joshua D. Brown Chapter of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas will hold its February meeting at 10 a.m. on Monday, Feb. 26, at the First United Methodist Church in Kerrville.
The speaker for the meeting will be Franci Plunkett, a 24-year member of the DRT and a participant with her husband Jim in an 1872 Texas Rangers re-enactment group, stationed out of Sabinal, TX.
During this time, she gained her working knowledge of the dressing habits of 1800’s women.
She will present a dressing table display and will take volunteers from the audience to figuratively dress them in period dress of the Republic of Texas days.
The Texas Honor Day celebrated this month is Texas Statehood Day on Feb. 19.
On this day in 1846, the formal transfer of sovereignty from The Republic of Texas to The State of Texas took place in Austin.
While the legal entry date of Texas into the United States was Dec. 29, 1845, authority to the new State of Texas was not given until Feb. 19, 1846.
For almost ten years, we had stood as an independent nation. Now, at the end of a formal ceremony on the steps of the old log Capitol building, the Stars and Stripes were raised, and Texas became the 29th state of the USA.
In his farewell speech that day, Anson Jones, the last president of Texas remarked: “With such a population as Texas possesses, characterized as it is with great intelligence and enterprise, and with such elements of prosperity as she now possesses, a genial climate and a fertile soil, it will be her own fault if she does not reach an importance and a social elevation not surpassed by any community on earth.”
The Joshua D. Brown Chapter Registrar, Judy McVay, is holding “Texas Thursdays” workshops on the first Thursday of each month at the Family History Place in Boerne and in Kerrville on the third Thursday at the Kerrville Genealogy Society. This event is held to assist any woman seeking to trace her ancestry back to the days of the Texas Republic.
For more information, contact McVay at 830-537-3742, or email her at [email protected].
Betsy Drapela is the publicty chair of DAR’s Joshua D. Brown Chapter.
