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Nancy Moffette Lea (1780–1864) was the mother of Margaret Lea Houston and mother-in-law of Sam Houston. She was an integral member of the Houston family, running the household when Margaret was ill or pregnant. She is believed to have helped her son-in-law convert and be baptized in 1854.
Oct 26, 2019 · When Sam Houston asked to marry her daughter, Margaret Moffette Lea, Nancy Lea objected on the grounds that he was insufficiently religious, too old, divorced, and a drinker. Eventually she relented and is said to have influenced Houston's decision to join the Baptist Church at Independence, Texas.
Nancy Moffette Lea was the mother of Margaret Lea Houston and mother-in-law of Sam Houston. She was an integral member of the Houston family, running the household when Margaret was ill or pregnant. She is believed to have helped her son-in-law convert and be baptized in 1854.
Margaret Moffette Lea was born April 11, 1819, into a family of devout Baptists in Perry County, Alabama. Her father Temple Lea was a church deacon and the state treasurer of the Alabama Baptist Convention, and her mother Nancy Moffette Lea was the only woman delegate at the convention's formation.
On May 9, 1840, at the age of 47, Sam Houston wed the 21-year-old Margaret Moffette Lea, the daughter of Alabama planters. Their marriage spanned two decades and resulted in the birth of eight children.
When Margaret Moffette Lea was born on 11 April 1819, in Marion, Perry, Alabama, United States, her father, Temple Lea, was 45 and her mother, Nancy Patrick Moffette, was 38. She married General Samuel Houston on 9 May 1840, in Marion, Perry, Alabama, United States.
Born in 1819 in Alabama, Margaret Moffette Lea was from a devoutly Baptist family, her father a local and state church official. Her mother Nancy managed the family’s cotton plantation that she had inherited.
