Dame
She has just celebrated her 94th birthday. It is not Governess Ferguson. Yet she is the first woman whose portrait was ever hung in the Texas Senate Chamber. How she came to get there is a long story.
She, Rebbecca Jane Gilleland, was born in Philadelphia in 1831. Hardly out of swaddling clothes she was carried to Texas with the rest of her family so that her father could join the fight to free Texas from Mexico. He did, and after it was over he and his wife were murdered by Indians, and...
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