commando2004 said:
aalan94 said:
I've always been fascinated by the fact that so many cities do not in fact match the counties with the same name. This is because many are named after the same person and in many cases, that person had a city named after him first and then a county later on when they were finally cutting up Bexar.
Yeah, it's weird. The city of Houston is in Harris County, not be confused with Houston County whose county seat is Crockett, not to be confused with Crockett County way out west.
Similarly, there's the city of Austin in Travis County, not to be confused with Austin County whose county seat is Bellville.
Milam County took up a huge part of Central and North Texas from 1837 until the early 1850's.
Confusing? Here you go.....the county seat of Milam County is Cameron. There is Cameron County in which the county seat is Brownsville and also a Milam, Texas which is in Sabine County.
Ben Milam was killed during the Texas Revolution when he was shot in the head through the door of the Alamo when the Texian revolutionaries initially captured San Antonio .
Cameron is named after Ewen Cameron who was part of the Meir Expedition. He was captured and part of the "Black Bean" incident. Even though he drew a white bean Santa Ana ordered him executed anyway.
He refused to confess his sins to a priest and before he was shot he proclaimed "For the liberty of Texas, Ewen Cameron can look death in the face." He then ripped his shirt open and yelled "
Fuego!"
I imagine he told Santa Ana to bugger off one to many times.