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How Mexia to lieutenant colonel in 1828, to colonel in Matamoros, he returned to New Orleans. George Louis Hammeken, an American
During his final three years in exile, Mexía
of Danish extraction who was involved in
1829, and to brigadier general in 1832.
Mexía served in the United States as traveled to Cuba and Central America for the building of a Mexican railroad in the
Got its Name secretary of the Mexican legation from the New Orleans export-import company 1850s. Adelaida died in Mexico City on
November 1829 to March 1831. While in
December 22, 1878. The second of the
of which he was a partner. He was involved
the United States he became an agent and also in negotiating an agreement for the children, Enrique Guillermo Antonio Mexía,
JOSÉ ANTONIO MEXÍA lobbyist for the Galveston Bay and Texas construction of a Nicaraguan canal. was born in Mexico City in January 1829.
After a career in the Mexican military, he
Land Company. As a supporter of Antonio
(1800-1839) López de Santa Anna during the popular Tempted to return to Mexico by the managed his and his sister’s vast estates
disturbances of 1832 in Mexico he led resurgence of the Federalists late in near the site of present Mexia, Texas.
Mexican military officer, the son of liberal army in its capture of Matamoros. 1838, he landed in Tampico on January He died in Mexico City on September
Pedro Mexía and Juana Josefa Hernández After the Anahuac Disturbances in June 3, 1839, and joined Gen. José de Urrea 19, 1896. In November 1833 the state
was, by his own account, born in 1800 in 1832, he led the so-called Mexía’s as second in command. Four months of Coahuila and Texas granted Mexía’s
Jalapa, although contemporary Mexican expedition to Texas to suppress what later, on May 3, 1839, at Acajete, near daughter Adelaida and his son Enrique
historians alleged that he was a native of was thought to be the beginnings of a Puebla, Urrea’s undermanned forces were separate titles to eleven-league tracts
Cuba. The deaths of his father and brother rebellion. Stephen F. Austin and other routed by government troops. Mexía was of land in Limestone, Freestone, and
in the Mexican war of independence forced Texas leaders convinced him that the captured and executed by a firing squad Anderson counties. In 1871 the Houston
him to seek refuge in the United States, settlers were loyal to Mexico. While a on the same day on orders of Santa Anna. and Texas Central Townsite Company
Happy to be
where he acquired such proficiency in the senator from the state of Mexico in 1834, In the eyes of his countrymen he had been named the town of Mexia for Enrique and
Happy to be petuating the
English language that in November 1822 Mexía joined Federalist forces that rose in guilty of unpardonable treason in bringing the Mexia family, thus per
Texas governor José Félix Trespalacios protest against Santa Anna’s assumption foreign adventurers into the country. Mexía name in Texas geography as well as
a part of the
Texas history.
named him interpreter for a Cherokee of dictatorial powers. After a two-month a part of the
Indian delegation to Mexico City. In 1823 campaign, Mexía surrendered in the state In Mexico City on August 5, 1823, Mexía
Mexia
Mexia
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Eugene C. Barker,
and 1824 he served as secretary of the of Jalisco and was ordered into exile by married Charlotte Walker, the twenty- “The Tampico Expedition,” Quarterly of
state congress of Tamaulipas, and from Santa Anna. In New Orleans he devoted two-year-old, English-born daughter of the Texas State Historical Association
Community.
Community.
1825 to 1827 as collector of customs in most of the next year to organizing and Christopher and Elizabeth (Cove) Walker. 6 (January 1903). C. Alan Hutchinson,
Tuxpan. In 1825-27 he took an active part outfitting a volunteer force of some 160 Charlotte died of typhus in Mexico City on “General José Antonio Mexía and his
in the growth of York Rite Masonry, and, men (most of whom were from the United September 25, 1864. Two of the children Texas Interests,” Southwestern Historical
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Quarterly 82 (October 1978). W. Roy
after 1827, in the affairs of the Federalist States), who sailed under his command of this marriage were closely associated Smith, “The Quarrel between Governor
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party. After serving briefly as a captain in in the Tampico expedition of November with the development of northeastern Smith and the Council of the Provisional
be transferred to Skilled Care of Mexia.
the army in 1823, he again entered active 1835. With the survivors of this abortive Texas during the last half of the nineteenth Government of the Republic,” Quarterly
service in 1827, when he was named attack on Tampico he landed in Texas in century. The first of these, María Adelaida of the Texas State Historical Association
to the staff of Gen. Vicente Guerrero. December. After failing to win the support Matilda, was born at Tuxpan on August 27, 5 (April 1902). F. H. Turner, “The Mejía
Thereafter he received several promotions- of Texas leaders for his proposal to attack 1826. By April 8, 1848, she had married Expedition,” Quarterly of the Texas State
Historical Association 7 (July 1903).
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