Wednesday, March 29, 2023

George Houston Davidson III

U.S., World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946

Name	George H Davidson
Race	White
Marital Status	Single, without dependents (Single)
Rank	Aviation Cadet
Birth Year	1919
Nativity State or Country	Texas
Citizenship	Citizen
Residence	Nacogdoches, Texas
Education	4 years of college
Civil Occupation	Skilled occupations in production of bakery products, n.e.c.
Enlistment Date	9 Sep 1940
Enlistment Place	Lufkin, Texas
Service Number	18030755
Branch	Air Corps
Component	Regular Army (including Officers, Nurses, Warrant Officers, and Enlisted Men)
Source	Civil Life
Height	73
Weight	160

George H. Davidson III 1937

George H. Davidson III 1938

George H. Davidson III 1940

George Houston Davidson's Fold 3 Memorial

This medal is awarded to any officer or enlisted person of the armed forces of the United States for heroism or extraordinary achievement while participating in aerial flight. Both heroism and achievement must be entirely distinctive, involving operations that are not routine.

The Silver Star Medal (SSM) is the United States Armed Forces' third-highest military decoration for valor in combat. The Silver Star Medal is awarded primarily to members of the United States Armed Forces for gallantry in action against an enemy of the United States.

Tyler Morning Telegraph

20 Oct 1942, Tue · Page 5

Tyler Morning Telegraph

21 Dec 1942, Mon · Page 5

Tyler Morning Telegraph

14 Mar 1952, Fri · Page 28

George H Davidson III

BIRTH: 18 Feb 1919
DEATH: 22 Mar 1967 (aged 48)
BURIAL: Sunset Memorial Park
Nacogdoches, Nacogdoches County, Texas, USA

Martha Kathleen Daniel

Name	Martha Kathleen Daniel
Age	17
Birth Date	6 Nov 1926
Issue Date	23 Sep 1944
Educational Institution	Memorial Hospital
School Location	Houston, Texas

Fold 3 Memorial

U.S., Select County Marriage Records, 1837-1965

Name	Martha Kathleen Daniel
Gender	Female
License Date	28 Aug 1948
License Place	Jefferson, Texas, USA
Marriage Date	11 Sep 1948
Marriage Place	Jefferson, Texas, USA
Spouse	Ira William Schwartz
Document Number	50389

Kathleen was born on November 6, 1926 in Swift, Texas to Norman Alford Daniel and Mattie Mae Peacock Daniel, where she grew up on her family’s farm. She became a registered nurse in 1947 after graduating from the Houston Memorial Hospital Cadet Nursing Program. Kathleen worked beside her husband Bill for many years at his dental practice in Port Arthur, Texas, after which she was employed for many years as a Labor and Delivery nurse at St. Mary’s Hospital. She was a longtime resident of Groves, Texas before moving to North Carolina and New York with her daughter Susan, where she helped raise her granddaughter Danielle with patience and love. She made her final home with her daughter Carolyn in Austin and Round Rock, Texas.

She lived her 94 years of earthly life with selflessness, unconditional love for all, courage, humility, hope, and always a witty sense of humor.

Throughout her life, she prioritized serving others. She was a faithful Deacon, serving several terms at Freedom Plains Presbyterian Church in LaGrangeville, NY and Round Rock Presbyterian Church, where she was a current member. There, she was an Emmaus sponsor and a member of both the Horizon Bible Study and Ladies in Stitches, where she made many lovely blankets for children in need. In addition, she volunteered at the Round Rock Serving Center. She also made beautiful handmade quilts for all of her children and grandchildren, and said that hand-quilting made her feel peaceful. She enjoyed many travel adventures, reading, sewing, knitting and crocheting, gardening, playing cards, working jigsaw and crossword puzzles, and watching Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune. She was tech-savvy, mastering her Apple iPhone like a pro. She loved football and her family relished hearing her holler “Woo-hoo!” when her favorite teams scored.

Kathleen was the most positive person, always looking for the good in others and providing a kind word and uplifting thought. Her faith was always important to her, and she lived a life glorifying God in both prayer and actions. She loved spending time with her children and grandchildren, taking great pride in all of their interests and accomplishments.

Kathleen Daniel Schwartz Find a Grave Memorial

Calvin Giles Cureton

Name	Calvin Giles Cureton
Race	White
Age	23
Birth Date	22 Jun 1917
Birth Place	Nacogdoches, Texas
Residence Place	Shreveport, Louisiana
Registration Date	16 Oct 1940
Registration Place	Shreveport, Caddo Parish, Louisiana
Employer	Vitamelk Co.
Height	5' 8"
Weight	132
Complexion	Light Brown
Hair Color	Brown
Eye Color	Brown
Next of Kin	Mr Evert Calhoun

Calvin Giles Cureton

Name	Calvin Curaton
Estimated Age	19
Birth Year	1917
Yearbook Date	1936
School	Stephen F Austin State University
School Location	Nacogdoches, Texas, USA
Yearbook Title	Stone Fort Yearbook

Name	Calvin Giles Cureton
Ship, Station or Activity	Markab
Ship Number or Designation	AD-21
Muster Date	1 Oct 1945

USS Markab (AD-21) was a Hamul-class destroyer tender named for Markab, the third-brightest star in the constellation Pegasus. Markab was built as the cargo ship Mormacpenn by Ingalls Shipbuilding Company of Pascagoula, Mississippi and launched 21 December 1940. A ship named Mormacpenn launched the previous year had been acquired by the Navy to become the USS Griffin. The later Mormacpenn, sponsored at launch by the wife of the General Counsel of the Maritime Commission, Mrs. Carl F. Farbach, was intended for service on the South American routes of the American Republics Line. The ship was acquired by the United States Navy on 2 June 1941 before any commercial service at Charleston, South Carolina; and commissioned as USS Markab (AK 31) on 15 June 1941.

Following the Japanese surrender, Markab refitted and restocked ships bound for the occupation areas of Japan, Korea, and China. Steaming in their wake, she arrived Sasebo, Japan on 1 November and early in January 1946 joined the 7th Fleet at Shanghai, China. Her services in the western Pacific ended 2 April as Markab commenced the long voyage home for inactivation. The ship off loaded at New Orleans beginning 6 May. At Orange, Texas on January, 1947 she decommissioned and entered the Atlantic Reserve Fleet.

Name	Calvin Giles Cureton
Gender	Male
Marriage Date	16 Jul 1949
Marriage Place	Harris, Texas, USA
Spouse	Margie Neal Haney

Name	Calvin Giles Cureton
Gender	Male
Race	White
Death Age	63
Birth Date	22 Jun 1917
Birth Place	Texas
Residence Date	Abt 1981
Residence Place	Nacogdoches, Nacogdoches, Texas, USA
Death Date	30 Apr 1981
Death Place	Nacogdoches, Nacogdoches, Texas, USA
Father	Giles Cureton
Mother	Susie Chalker
Spouse	Margie Daniel

U.S., Department of Veterans Affairs BIRLS Death File, 1850-2010

Name	Calvin Giles Cureton
Gender	Male
Birth Date	22 Jun 1917
Death Date	30 Apr 1981
SSN	437030535
Enlistment Branch	NAVY
Enlistment Date	7 Oct 1942
Discharge Date	7 Dec 1945
Page number	1

Calvin Giles Cureton

BIRTH: 22 Jun 1917
Texas, USA
DEATH: 30 Apr 1981 (aged 63)
Nacogdoches, Nacogdoches County, Texas, USA
BURIAL: Swift Cemetery
Nacogdoches, Nacogdoches County, Texas, USA

The Flag of the Kingdom of Spain 1519 to 1821

The Spanish Flag of Castile and Leon flew over Texas for three hundred years. Spanish involvement in Texas began with Alonzo Alverez de Pineda's mapping of the Texas coast in 1519. Then, in 1542 Luis de Moscoso came to Nacogdoches and East Texas with the remnants of the Hernando de Soto expedition that had begun four years earlier in Florida. Spain's claim to Texas went back to the DeSoto-Moscoso Expedition, which claimed all of southeastern United States as Spanish Florida. Spain's occupation of Texas began in 1690 with the founding of Mission San Francisco de los Tejas on the Neches River. It continued in 1716 with the founding of six missions from the Neches River to Los Adaes in Western Louisiana, and 1721 with the founding of Presidio Nuestra Señora de Pilar de los Adaes----near present day Robeline, Louisiana. Los Adaes was the first capital of the Province of Texas. Texas was under the Spanish flag until Mexico gained its independence from Spain in 1821. Interestingly, the first flag used by the Spanish to claim Texas was not the familiar flag of Castile and Leon; it was a banner that had the Virgin of Guadalupe on one side and the crucified Christ on the other.

The Flag of the Kingdom of France 1685 to 1689

France's claim to a part of Texas went back to 1682, when Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, explored the Mississippi and claimed all the land in its drainage for France. For some mapmakers and politicians, this included Texas. He named this land Louisiana. La Salle came to Texas in 1685, after he accidentally sailed past his destination at the mouth of the Mississippi. He established Fort St. Louis and a French settlement on Garcitas Creek off Matagorda Bay. The settlement was ill fated from its beginning. LaSalle was murdered by his own men near Navasota in 1687, and the settlers and soldiers who remained at Fort St. Louis were killed or captured by the Indians in 1689. The Spanish found Fort St. Louis and burned it to the ground in 1690. This French intrusion into Spanish territory caused the Spanish to begin the occupation and settlement of East Texas to prevent further French invasions.

The Flag of the Gutiérrez-Magee Expedition 1812 to 1813

Bernardo Gutiérrez and Lieutenant Augustus Magee flew their green flag of the new Republic of Texas over the Stone Fort in Nacogdoches in August of 1812. The Republican Army of the North, as these filibusters called themselves, had come from Natchitoches to Nacogdoches to recruit and train troops with the help of Samuel Davenport. They stayed for two months, drilled an army of over five hundred men, and then marched on to capture Goliad and San Antonio. Magee died at Goliad, and his place was taken by Samuel Kemper. Kemper and Gutiérrez captured San Antonio and issued a Declaration of Independence of the Republic of Texas on April 6, 1813. This brief time of Texas Independence was over when the Spanish general Joaquín de Arredondo destroyed the remains of the Republican army at the Battle of Medina on August 18, 1813. Augustus Magee and Samuel Davenport, who were in charge of the militia in Nacogdoches, were both Irishmen. That might have governed their choice of the Emerald Green flag as the Republican army's standard.

The Flag of the Dr. James Long Expedition 1819 and 1821

Some Americans believed that Texas was part of Louisiana as claimed by LaSalle in 1682 and should have been included in the Louisiana Purchase of 1803. One of those was Dr. James Long of Natchez, Mississippi, who came to Nacogdoches in June of 1819. Dr. Long proclaimed himself the president of his newly declared Republic of Texas. Dr. Long's red-striped Lone Star flag flew but briefly over the Stone Fort and his Republic of Texas. The Spanish caught Long when he went to Galveston, where he was seeking the assistance of pirate Jean Lafitte. There they defeated him and his meager army and chased him back to Louisiana. Dr. Long returned to Texas with a small army in 1821 and quickly captured the poorly manned garrison at Goliad. However, he was soon under siege by Spanish troops from San Antonio, who recaptured Goliad and took him captive. Dr. James Long was taken to Mexico City, jailed, then freed, and then murdered under mysterious circumstances by a Mexican soldier.

The Flag of the Mexican Federal Republic 1821 to 1836

Spanish Nacogdoches came under the Mexican flag in 1821, when Mexico finally won its independence from Spain. Mexico, in order to prove its ownership of Texas, began settling its eastern parts with the Anglos as early as December 1821. In that year Stephen F. Austin was allowed to bring the first of his Old Three Hundred Settlers into his grant on the Brazos. Thereafter, Americans poured through Nacogdoches, the Gateway to Texas, in search of cheap land. By the time of the Texas revolution in 1836, Anglos greatly outnumbered the Spanish-Mexican population. The Mexican flag that flew over Nacogdoches and still flies over Mexico was adopted in 1825. It has three vertical green, white, and red fields of equal width. In the center of the white field is the Mexican eagle sitting on a nopal cactus holding a snake in its beak. In Mexican legend, this was a sign to the Aztecs that they had reached the land that was to be their home.

The Flag of the Fredonia Rebellion 1826 to 1827

For a brief while, the flag that flew over Nacogdoches was the red-and-white banner of Haden Edward's thirty-seven-day Fredonia Rebellion. Edwards had obtained a grant from Mexico to settle eight hundred families in East Texas in the Nacogdoches area. Unfortunately for him, most of the land had already been settled---legally and illegally---by the early Spanish, by Indians, and by Anglo squatters. His intrusion caused such a disturbance that the Mexican government revoked his grant. Disappointed over the loss of his grant, on December 16, 1826, Haden and his brother Benjamin rode into Nacogdoches, planted their flag in front of the Stone Fort, and proclaimed the Republic of Fredonia. They had formed an uncertain alliance with the Cherokees, thus the reason for the red and white colors of the flag. The flag carried the words "Independence Freedom and Justice" and the Signatures of sixteen of the original Fredonians. The Fredonian army consisted of no more than thirty men, the Cherokees never joined them, and Stephen F. Austin raised a militia to put down the East Texas rebellion. The Fredonians gave up their cause on January 22, 1827, and retreated eastward across the Sabine.

The Flag of the Republic of Texas 1836 to 1846

Mexican Texas became the Republic of Texas after Sam Houston defeated Santa Anna on the plains of San Jacinto on April 21, 1836. The first official flag was a white upside-down star on a blue background with T-E-X-A-S written between the points of the star. This flag never flew. The second flag of the Republic was adopted by the first Texas congress in December 1836. It bore a single, large gold star on a blue field. This flag was the same design as the "Bonnie blue flag that bears a single star" that was so popular among the Southern troops during the Civil War. The Lone Star flag that we now use was designed by Texas Senator William H. Wharton and was officially adopted by the Senate under President Mirabeau B. Lamar in 1839. The new flag kept the white star on the blue field, but now the blue field was a vertical stripe which occupied one-third of the flag, and it was balanced by horizontal white and red stripes, on the other two-thirds. This Texas flag has been prominently displayed for over 150 years.

The Flag of the Confederate States of America 1861 to 1865

For four years, the Stars and Bars flew over Nacogdoches and Texas. After years of conflicts of interest between the North and the South over states rights, slavery, and the right of secession, the Civil War began in March of 1861. Texas seceded and joined the Confederate States of America. It sent its Texas brigades into battle, and suffered for four years with the rest of the Confederacy before General Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox Courthouse on April 9, 1865. The most enduring of the Confederate flags during the War was the Stars and Bars with the square of blue holding a circle of the seven original seceding states. Texas was the seventh star. Because the Confederate Stars and Bars and the Union Stars and Stripes were easily confused in the heat of battle, General P. G. T. Beauregard introduced a Confederate battle flag. This was a square red flag with a white-bordered blue cross running diagonally from corners to corners. The cross contained thirteen stars representing the eleven Confederate states plus Kentucky and Missouri. This battle flag became the flag most closely identified with the Southern cause. The Confederate Stars and Bars came down in Texas after April 1863 and Appomattox, and the United States Stars and Stripes have been flying over this State ever since.

The Flag of the United States of America since 1846

On February 19, 1846, the Lone Star flag was lowered over the Texas state capitol in Austin, and the Stars and Stripes was raised. The Republic of Texas had become the State of Texas. From the beginning of the Republic in 1836, the majority of the Texians, most of whom had come directly from the States, had wanted Texas to join the Union. But many in the Union did not want Texas in the United States. Some did not want one more Southern slave-holding state, and some were afraid of causing a war with Mexico. Nevertheless, on July 4, 1845, the Texas congress voted to accept the articles of annexation offered by United States President James K. Polk, and on December 29, 1845, the congressional resolution proclaiming Texas as a state in the Union was signed by President Polk. The Old Glory that was raised above the Texas state capitol on the following February 19, 1846, had twenty-eight stars in four rows of seven stars each. Except for the four years of the Civil War, 1861 to 1865, these Stars and Stripes have since 1846 flown over the State of Texas.

Nacogdoches Texas USA

Nacogoches

Wednesday, March 29, 2023

George Houston Davidson III

George H Davidson III

Martha Kathleen Daniel

Calvin Giles Cureton

Calvin Giles Cureton

Jack Neil Murff