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Eliza (née Allen) Houston Douglass (December 2, 1809 – March 3, 1861) was the first wife of Sam Houston. Their marriage, over after just eleven weeks, ended Houston's career as governor of Tennessee .
Nov 15, 2020 · Eliza Allen’s Guitar, 1820s. This guitar belonged to Eliza Allen (1809-1861) of Sumner County, the forlorn bride of Sam Houston. A prized item in the Tennessee Historical Society’s collections, the guitar is a featured object at the new Tennessee State Museum, opening on October 4, 2018.
Sep 12, 2018 · On April 11, 1829, Sam Houston and his bride of eleven weeks, Eliza Allen, abruptly ended their marriage. Neither would speak publicly of the cause for the rest of their lives. Eliza returned to her parents’ home in Sumner County.
The collapse of Houston's Tennessee political career began on April 11 when the then-35-year-old returned to the Nashville Inn, where he had been living with his bride of just 11 weeks, Mrs....
Apr 27, 2010 · Looking for an eligible bride, the 36-year-old Houston married 19-year-old Eliza Allen after a “scandalously brief courtship,” the encyclopedia reports. Few details are known about the...
Nov 22, 2011 · Four years after their scandalous separation, Sam Houston filed for divorce from his first wife, Tennessee belle Eliza Allen, in a Nacogdoches court on Nov. 29, 1833. At age 35, Houston was on top of the world in 1829.
The Special Collections Library at the University of Tennessee recently purchased a copy of an invitation to the sudden January 1829 wedding of then-Tennessee governor Sam Houston and Eliza Allen. This rare item may be only one of its kind.
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