Daughters of the Republic of Texas, James Butler Bonham Chapter

05/11/2026

We had a fantastic May meeting on Friday, finishing a wonderful 2025-2026 year for the JBB chapter! Our guest speaker was 3rd-generation combat Marine Veteran Jacob Schick who spoke on Service, Sacrifice and Tradition. We had many guests and prospective members in attendance and were thrilled to be joined by our DRT President General Ora Jane Johnson. We also held a memorial service for Babbs Lundy, a 20-year member of our beloved chapter. 🙏🏻 Thank you, Daughters & supporters!
Time to get ready for the 135th DRT Convention in a few weeks! ❤️💙

05/07/2026

04/28/2026

Battle of Flowers Parade 2026:
A parade organized & run entirely by women volunteers to honor the defenders of the Alamo & Goliad and to celebrate the victory at San Jacinto. The first battle of flowers parade was held April, 1891 in San Antonio, Texas.

Photo by Cindy Bormann with thanks.

04/21/2026

18 minutes. 190 years ago today. “Remember the Alamo” and “Remember La Bahia” or “Remember Goliad” ringing along the battle lines at San Jacinto, the Texans swooped down on the dismayed Mexican army, pursuing and butchering them long after the battle itself had ended.

630 Mexicans were killed and 730 taken prisoner. Texans lost only 9 killed or mortally wounded; thirty were less seriously wounded. The final and decisive battle.

Texas had won independence.

04/21/2026

It was a cold, wet and rainy day in San Antonio but five of our JBB members and two of our Children of The Republic of Texas members participated in the 108th Pilgrimage to the Alamo! This tradition is very important to the Daughters and is the kickoff of Fiesta! ❤️

04/19/2026

April 25, 2026

04/14/2026

Thank you to the Herald Democrat for covering our Texas Patriot Award this weekend!

04/11/2026

Today at Oakland Cemetery in Dallas, the James Butler Bonham Chapter of The Daughters of the Republic of Texas awarded Monica Newbury the Texas Patriot Award at the Friends of Oakland Cemetery Dallas annual picnic!
Monica has spent over a decade working to preserve precious Texas history in the Oakland Cemetery and works hard daily to ensure our community is engaged and involved!
We are grateful that our Daughters of the Republic of Texas - Alamo Mission Chapter started this tradition over 15 years ago and we are thrilled to bring it to North Texas! ❤️

04/10/2026

Today our chapter hosted our annual San Jacinto Day & New Member Luncheon! 🪻 Such a great gathering for our chapter and we are so thrilled to be have welcomed our new members! Special thanks to Dr. Paul Spellman for speaking to us on “The Old 300”. We are excited to check out his books! ❤️💙 Also big thanks to Ten50 BBQ - Richardson for providing such a great location!

04/08/2026

One hundred & thirty-three years ago in Texas…
April 8, 1893, ten Texas women, mostly members of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, issued a call for a statewide woman suffrage convention. The Texas Equal Rights Association, the first such statewide organization, was chartered at the ensuing three-day convention in Dallas. Internal dissension plagued the TERA, which had been organized as a branch of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, and it ceased to operate by 1896. In 1903 Annette Finnigan helped organize a successor organization, the Texas Equal Suffrage Association, which helped lead the long and ultimately successful fight for woman suffrage. Texas women were finally granted the right to vote in primary elections in 1918, and in June 1919 Texas became the ninth state (and the first in the south) to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which extended full suffrage to women.