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Nannie Elizabeth
Nannie was born on September 6th, 1846. She excelled
in her early schooling, Sam calling her his "genius." When the Houstons
moved to Independence in 1853, she attended the academy at Baylor. She
was also an accomplished pianist. Her father gave her a fine Steinway piano
for her 16th birthday. She married Joseph Stiles Morrow on August 1st,
1866. The couple traveled to New York and visited Niagara Falls and the
Morrow home in Kentucky before settling down in Georgetown, Texas in the
mercantile business. They raised six children of their own and, when Margaret
Lea Houston died in 1867, cared for the five youngest Houston children
as well. She died in 1920 at the age of seventy-four.
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