New Release Coming Soon, Generations of Texas.

After sixteen years of preparation and research, and eight years of writing and editing, we are finally announcing the publication of our next SGR Publishing book, Generations of Texas.

It’s a book about ten prominent generations of Texas family history, beginning prior to the US Revolutionary War. It traces family history back to the 1600s, when early ancestors left Europe and came to America. The family had at least two known members who fought in the US Revolutionary War, and our first Texas history occurred in 1812, when patriarch Hezekiah Higginbotham traveled here to buy mules, only to be attacked and killed by Indians. It wasn’t until two years later that word of his death reached his family in Tennessee. Next, two Vaughan brothers answered the Texian call for help and came here to fight in Texas’ War of Independence from Mexico in 1835. They joined James Fannin’s army and fought until the army was surrendered and marched to Goliad, where, on March 27, 1836, virtually the entire army was executed on the orders of Santa Anna. Brothers James and William Vaughan died on that day and are memorialized on the Goliad War Memorial.  

The Vaughan family immigrated to Texas for good in 1850, farming and thriving until the Civil War. Three brothers went to war; two on the side of the Confederacy and one for the Union. The Civil War diary of US Army Captain Francis Asbury

Vaughan provides a fascinating history of his travels from Confederate Texas, dodging Confederate patrols across Texas, Mexico, and the Gulf of Mexico until he was able locate  and enlist in the US Army in Louisiana. As the principal character of generations 4 and 5, Francis Asbury Vaughan’s post-war life in central Texas is recounted  as a member of Texas’ Constitutional Convention, farmer, state and federal appointee, businessman, lawyer, and politician. His legacy includes children who were prominent in Texas, helping build the success of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Texas. And then there’s the story of Will Vickers, an orphaned child who was rescued from life on the road serving a blind organ grinder. After being rescued at age seven, he grew up in central Texas, married into the Vaughan family, and continued the story by producing the Vickers generations of the family. In the twentieth century, Generations of Texas gives way to the four most recent generations of Texans, documented previously in our published histories, Yesteryear and Yesteryear, The Next Generation.   

So, if you’re related to or interested in more than ten generations of the family of Vaughns, Vaughans, Gorees, Higginbothams, McKenzies, Vickers, and Stewarts, you won’t want to miss Generations of Texas. Look for it in the fall of 2021 at SGR Publishing