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Jane Long
her to marry them.7" There is ample evidence of Lamar's regard
for her. He loaned her money when he first came to Texas and
wrote his brother just before the battle of San Jacinto that he
would leave his trunks with her and make and leave a will either
with her or Lorenzo de Zavala.80 While Lamar was vice-president,
he wrote and dedicated to "Bonnie Jane" a poem clearly de-
claring his love.81 But Jane remained a gay widow, and ten years
later Lamar substituted the name of Ann for Jane in the poem.
Life in the Republic of Texas was far from dull;82 and one
may be certain that Jane took an active part in all the gaiety.
After the San Jacinto ball one young girl complained in her
diary that she had danced with General Houston, but that he
forgot all about her when his attentions were claimed by a gay
young widow. Was this Jane Long?
In 1837, when she was thirty-nine, Jane moved to her grant
at Richmond in Fort Bend County, bought a negro man, and
began farming. Soon she had a comfortable home, which she
managed so well that she never again was in want. Furthermore,
she paid off James Long's debts. In 1850 her plantation was one
of sixteen in Texas valued at more than $ io,ooo, an impressive
sum for that time.83
By the time the Civil War began, Jane was known as Aunt
Jane or Grandma Long. She was exceedingly loyal to the Con-
federacy and would wear nothing not made in the South. She
even wore a palmetto hat which she made and trimmed; her
homespun dresses were of cotton grown, ginned, spun, woven,
and dyed on her own plantation. She sewed and knitted furiously
to help fill the boxes the Richmond women sent their soldiers."4
The winter years of life found Grandma Long surrounded by
admiring friends and loved by her family, the children and
grandchildren of Ann Winston Sullivan, who had died in 1870o.
After Edward Winston's early death, Ann had married Judge
J. S. Sullivan. Another Kian, granddaughter of the faithful
79Wharton, Fort Bend County, o103.
80Gulick and others (eds.), Lamar Papers, II, 351.
8slPhilip Graham, The Life and Poems of Mirabeau B. Lamar (Chapel Hill,
1938), 2oo.
82Reid, "Fashions of the Republic," Southwestern Historical Quarterly, XLV, 245.
sWharton, Fort Bend County, 1oi, 126.
84Mrs. Charles Milby to Marie Doncy, Houston Post, February 24, 1924.237
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