02445cam a2200241 4500 759767710 TxAuBib 20210525120000.0 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u MS94-0011 TxAuBib 40 inches and oversize. 8. Some copyright restrictions may apply. Personal and business papers of the interests of the Labadie and Tucker families, notably Nicholas Labadie, Philip Crosby Tucker Jr., Mary Cecilia Labadie Tucker, Mary Cecilia Tucker, and Philip Crosby Tucker III. This collection includes several letters from Franklin Barlow Sexton regarding a libel suit filed by John Forbes against Nicholas Labadie. Forbes had served as commissary general at the Battle of San Jacinto. In 1859, Labadie published an account of the battle in the Texas Almanac, prompting the suit which was filed in Nacogdoches County and finally dismissed in 1866. Philip Crosby Tucker, Jr.'s papers document his service as a Major on the staff of General John Bankhead Magruder during the Civil War and his affiliation with the Freemasons, having founded the Tucker Lodge No. 297 in Galveston in 1867. Tucker married three times. He married Maria Louise Bryan, a widow, in 1859. She died at New Orleans in 1860. Two years later, he married Mary Cecilia Labadie (1838-1873), daughter of Nicholas D. Labadie. He married his third wife, Isabella Tamer Baldwin, in 1881. Papers of all of Tucker's wives are found in this collection. Mary Cecilia Tucker (1865-1953) was the daughter of Philip Crosby Tucker, Jr. and Mary Cecilia Labadie Tucker. Her activities in the United Daughters of the Confederacy, Veuve Jefferson Davis Chapter, are reflected in her papers. 20210525. English. Donated to Rosenberg Library by Harrold Henck in 1993. Agassiz Association, Christmas, Confederate States of America. Army. Texas Brigade, Courts, Estates (Law), Family histories, Freemasonry, Galveston Agricultural, Horticultural and Industrial Association, Hunt, Memucan, 1807-1856, Labadie, Cecilia, 1837-18. Labadie Family, Tucker Family. http://7028.sydneyplus.com/archive/final/Portal/RosenbergLibrary.aspx?component=AABC&record=35c30e41-c299-4d83-935f-1b83c48a337e RV8