The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 9, July 1905 - April, 1906 Page: 276
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276 Texa.s Historical Association Quarterly.
of Mexico, to proceed to that place, he thinking I intended making
arrangements to remove my family there, but I had no such in-
tention. I was induced to go there for the double purpose of es-
caping from the murderous designs of the Rancheros and to get
off to New Orleans, where I thought I would be enabled to do some-
thing for my family or at least get to my friends in Texas, my
family feeling safer in my absence. On reaching Matamoras' I
found some American merchants with whom I had some acquaint-
ance, I was received and welcomed not only by them, but by all
the Americans in the place, more like a brother than a mere ac-
quaintance. I procured a passport to the mouth of the river from
the ,officers in command there and another passport to New Orleans
from the Alcalda who was made to believe that I was an American
citizen who had been trading from Matamoras to New Orleans.
2.
Letters from Texas recently received by the Editor announce the
death of his brother-in-law, ABRAHAM H. ORSBORN, who was
favorably known several years since among the citizens of the Town
for his gentlemanly demeanor, and upright and honest course in
life. He left this to accompany a younger sister to her home on
the Nueces River, the boundary line between Texas and Mexico,
and after the sailing of the vessel news arrived of the breaking
out of the Texan Revolution. In one of the sanguinary battles a
spent musket ball lodged in his breast, which could never be ex-
tracted, and which at times caused him serious inconvenience.
Being of business habits, his wound never detained him from at-
tending to his avocations. He left Houston, his place of residence,
in the stage for Austin, at which place he arrived on the 12th of
April, having been attacked by cholera on tbhe road, and died on the
14th. 'The Ancient Fraternity held a meeting subsequently and
passed the following Resolutions, for which his friends here at
the North return their sincere thanks, as also for their kind at-
tention on the melancholy occasion in attending to his bed of sick-
ness 'and interring him with Masonic honors. He left no family
but a large number of connexions and friends to mourn his de-
cease far from his place of nativity. The Editor will ever bear in
grateful remembrance this kindness of his Brethern of the Order,
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