This Day In Texas History - January 27

[joe817]

1829 - The Matagorda Colony is founded

1834, Stephen F Austin, is arrested in Mexico for inciting insurrection in Texas. He had traveled to Mexico to plead for the repeal of the Law of April 6, 1830, ending Immigration to Texas. He is eventually held for eleven months.

1836 - M. B. Clark, Alamo defender, enlisted in the company of Capt. John M. Chenoweth in Texas. He may have been one of the volunteers who accompanied James Bowie to the Alamo. Louis Moses Rose, who left the Alamo before its fall, stated that he had seen Clark at the mission

1838 - Frederick Lemský advertised in the Telegraph and Texas Register offering his services as a music teacher. He was a musician in the army until December 1836 and is said to have played "Come to the Bower" on the fife at the battle of San Jacinto.

1839 - Rev. Caleb Smith Ives reported the organization of Christ Church, Matagorda, probably the first Episcopal church in Texas. Formerly, during most of the period of Mexican Texas, Protestants could not practice their faith openly in Texas, since the Mexican government required allegiance to the Catholic Church. In 1838 Robert Chapman and Caleb Smith Ives were invited to open schools in the new Republic of Texas. Ives conducted the first Episcopalian service in the republic at Christmas 1838, and reported the first organized congregation a month later.

1945 - Elizabeth Toepperwein died in her home in San Antonio. At eighteen, while working in a Winchester factory, she met Adolph (Ad) Toepperwein, a member of a vaudeville-circuit shooting act who was also employed as an exhibition shooter by the Winchester arms company. After they married in 1903, Ad gave Elizabeth her first shooting lessons and discovered she was a "natural." She and Ad performed in a career that spanned forty years. She was the first woman in the United States to qualify as a national marksman with the military rifle and the first woman to break 100 straight targets at trapshooting. She also held the world endurance trapshooting record, hitting 1,952 of 2,000 targets in five hours and twenty minutes. The celebrated shooter Annie Oakley once said to Plinky, "Mrs. Top, you're the greatest shot I've ever seen."

1967 - San Antonio born Edward Higgins White II, Air Force test pilot, astronaut, and the first American to conduct an extravehicular activity (EVA) and fellow astronauts Virgil "Gus" Grissom and Roger Chaffee were killed when flash fire erupted aboard the Apollo spacecraft during a launch simulation test at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. In 1997 he was awarded, posthumously, the Congressional Space Medal of Honor.

[ELB]

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1838 - Frederick Lemský advertised in the Telegraph and Texas Register offering his services as a music teacher. He was a musician in the army until December 1836 and is said to have played "Come to the Bower" on the fife at the battle of San Jacinto.
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[joe817]

No kidding! Thanks ELB! Made my day!