Freestone County, Texas History News of 1933 Dallas Morning News Jan 1, 1933 Section: I; Page: 14 N. T. A. C. Names Honor Students for Fall Term Fifty-One Dallasites in Scholastic Group Making High Record ARLINGTON, Texas, Dec 31 -- Despite inroads made by influenza and disagreeable weather conditions, students of the North Texas Agricultural College here achieved a splendid scholastic record during the period recently closed, Dean George L. Dickey announced Friday. A total of 168 students compiled a sufficient number of grade points to earn honors. Of these fifty-one were from Dallas, Dallas students earning the college in work for the period. ... Those making honors are: ... Annie Laura Bonner, Fairfield; .. ================================================= Dallas Morning News December 20, 1933 Descendants of Texas Pioneer Form Daughters of Republic Chapter Bearing His Name Special to the News WORTHAM, Texas, Dec. 13 - The descendants of Robert Brough Longbotham numbering over 600 were making history in Freestone County Wednesday when a chapter of the Daughters of Republic of Texas, called the Robert Brough Longbotham Chapter was organized in Wortham, composed entirely of his descendants. The meeting was held in the W. B. L?. hall which was decorated with a flag of the Republic of Texas; one of the early maps of Texas, one bearing a date of 1837, another of 1839, a map of the Longbotham league and in 1835, and numerous pictures of Robert Brough Longbotham and his nine children. Descendants from all over the county brought family relics. The huge family Bible, the text in old English, a family album and relics brought from England over a hundred years ago, photographs of twenty-one personages of the Longbotham relatives in England dressed in elaborate costumes on the wall. Robert Brough Longbotham came to Texas in 1832, one of the first settlers of the county. The town of Wortham is built around the log cabin erected in 1839 and there are numerous descendants in the county at this time. He was born Dec. 29, 1797, Durham County, England, died in Wortham, Aug. 6, 1883 and was buried at Longbotham Cemetery in the northwest corner of town. Mr. Longbotham served in the war of 1812, having been captured by the British while serving an apprenticeship on a United States merchant's vessel as a ship carpenter, and was pressed into service in the British navy; he also served in the war of 1835 which Texas won its independence from Mexico and against the Indians in 1839. In 1829 he married Miss Lucy Haggard, daughter of Gentry Haggard, one of the first settlers of Perry County, Alabama, and came to Texas in 1832 with David G. Burnet. Title to a large grant of land was given him by the Mexican Government July 24, 1855, which was located in what was the Robinson County but now Freestone County. The town of Wortham was laid out in 1871 near the center of this grant, which takes in the northwest corner of Freestone county and extends over into both Navarro and Limestone counties. For his services in 1836 and in helping drive the Indians westward in 1839 he received numerous tracts of land in other parts of Texas. The Longbotham chapter of the Masonic Lodge was organized in Wortham in 1875? by Thomas Longbotham, a son. Today there are descendants of Robert Brough Longbotham living in Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Oregon, Idaho and the Panama Canal Zone. Miss Mary Kate Hunter of Palestine, chairman of the organization committee of the Daughters of Republic of Texas was present and made an inspiring talk on the lives and services of the Texas... ...Graham Hoffman of Palestine and Mrs. Roberta Bays Campbell of Wortham. The first meeting of the chapter will be held Dec. 29 to celebrate the 136th anniversary of the birth of Robert Brough Longbotham and..