John: Were you aware that Judge Lamar had another brother, Jefferson Lamar? Ten days before he led his Cavalry in the Battle of San Jacinto April 1836, he wrote a letter to Jefferson, where he describes the sad state of affairs in Texas, tells his brother the fort [ the Alamo] was lost, Crockett murdered, and Fannin's Army entirely lost, and "that almost the whole of the Americans from Georgia and Alabama have perished", and that he was leaving in the morning for battle. (This research from Sherlene Mats, descendant of the original 1818 Cherry/deCherie Texas settler). Don't know where his brother Jefferson lived, but the original letter is in the Texas State Library. Records there also show that a Col. John COFFEE Hays led the First Regiment, Texas Mounted Riflemen in the same encounters as Mirabeau, as was James W. TINSLEY, Major, First Regiment, Cavalry, Texas Army, 1836. Anne