Mrs. Lucy Haggard Longbotham
Wortham, Freestone County, Texas
Marker Inscription
(1793-1873) One of nine children of the Rev. Henry Haggard, Baptist minister, and his wife Dorothy (Randolph), both natives of Virginia. Born in U. S. Territory south of the Ohio River (now Tennessee), Lucy Haggard moved to Alabama Territory about 1814. There, in 1820, she married Robert Brough Longbotham. In her lifetime, she lived under nine territorial, national, and state flags. She was the mother of nine children.
Erected by Texas Historical Commission
The Story
Lucy Haggard Longbotham (1793–1873) was born in the raw territory south of the Ohio River that became Tennessee, one of nine children of a Virginia-born Baptist minister. She moved to the Alabama frontier around 1814, married in 1820, and eventually came to Texas — living, the marker notes, under nine different territorial, national, and state flags in a single lifetime, and raising nine children of her own.
Why it matters
Her life measures the restless expansion of the early United States in human terms: a woman whose homeplaces changed hands among nations even as she stayed put.
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