Happy Independence Day! and Remember the Alamo!

Last summer I went to a memorial for my cousin William DePriest Sutherland, my cousin of five generations ago. It was through this reconnection with that part of my family that I began wearing the kilt - in the Sutherland tartan to honor my cousin. This Sunday is the 175th anniversary of his death.



I recently found this letter from W.D. Sutherland's mother, my GGG Aunt, and it tells the story of those months in 1836 from a woman's viewpoint.