Quin's Friend Sam

Statue of Sam Houston

It was as the friend and companion of this brother [Quin Heironymous] on one of his short visits home in 1817 that I first saw General Sam Houston. He was an officer in the same regiment; a young man of fine appearance, tall, erect and well proportioned, with agreeable manners. I remember him well because my brother was much attached to him. Thirty-five years afterwards I met him in Lexington attending the funeral obsequies of Henry Clay. Time had dealt lightly with him; he had not lost his soldierly bearing and seemed yet in the vigor of manhood, though his hair and beard were frosted by the passing years. [Source]