The Daughters of the Republic of Texas - James W. Fannin Chapter

08/20/2026

It’s not too late to sign up! 🐎

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08/17/2026

Are you registered for the roundup?! 🐎

Hope to see y’all in September!

08/02/2026

TEXAS HONOR DAY - Battle of Nacogdoches

After a skirmish in Anahuac in 1832, Mexican Colonel Piedras issued an order for all residents in Nacogdoches to surrender their arms.

Armed with nothing more than shotguns and various types of hunting weapons, the national militia of Nacogdoches, aided by local militias, fired the “first shots” of the Texas Revolution during the Battle of Nacogdoches on August 2, 1832.

07/21/2026

Be sure to get registered before August 20! 🤠

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07/09/2026

Hope to see y’all in September!

07/04/2026

Hope everyone has a wonderful - and safe - 4th of July!

06/28/2026

June 28, 1919, the Texas Senate ratified the national amendment granting women the right to vote. Texas thus became the first Southern state to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment and the ninth in the nation. Woman suffrage had been discussed in Texas as early as the Constitutional Convention of 1868. The short-lived Texas Equal Rights Association (1893-96) helped organize a suffrage movement. The Texas Equal Suffrage Association, a state chapter of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, led the fight for suffrage from 1913 on, and achieved one of its key goals when it won the right for women to vote in primary elections in 1918. Feelings ran strong on both sides of the issue; some women joined the Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage. In June 1919 a woman suffrage amendment was sent to the states for approval. The Texas House passed the amendment on June 23 and the Texas Senate on June 28.
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Photo used with permission by Theresa Bluntzer Baucum.

06/26/2026

The Battle of Velasco took place on June 26, 1832. Henry Smith and John Austin, in charge of Texans who had gone to Brazoria to secure a cannon for use against the Mexican forces at Anahuac, opposed Domingo de Ugartechea, commander of the Mexican Fort at Velasco, who tried to prevent the passage of the vessel carrying the cannon. Ugartechea and his men were ultimately forced to surrender and return to Matamoros, Mexico.

The Battle of Velasco was the first true military conflict between the Texians and Mexico and ironically, it was at the same Fort that the war for Texas’ independence ended in 1836 by the signing of the Treaty of Velasco.

06/21/2026

The daughters wouldn’t be what they are without their mothers and FATHERS! ♥️

06/14/2026

Happy Flag Day! 🇺🇸

On June 14, 1777, the Continental Congress approved the design of a national flag.