hardships they endured that we might enjoy the blessings of liberty.

"No flare of band—no beat of drum—no call of bugle disturbs the stillness that broods over their last resting place. . . . The giant pines whose plumes almost hid the sunlight from his [Samuel Huston’s] couch have given way to the woodman’s axe, while the silent stars stand as sentinels over his lonely grave. Here he lived, loved, died and was buried within the shadow of his own home." 1

Though no monument marked the grave of Samuel Huston -who lived and died near the present Carlisle, Pennsylvania, his descendants are a living memorial to his simple, faithful life which centered around the frontier chapel, the Silver Springs Presbyterian Church. From this line came a great succession of able and patriotic men and women who contributed much to -molding of the nation. Among these were planters, ministers, several physicians, many teachers, lawyers and successful business men.

When duty called, they took up arms to defend their country, and served with bravery and honor, some giving their lives for the new land in which they had sought freedom and opportunity after centuries of persecution. Among the outstanding -descendants from this branch of the family was James H. Eckles, who served as Comptroller of the U. S. Treasury during the second Cleveland administration and was a close personal friend of President Cleveland. Eckles had Huston blood from two sides. He was a direct descendant of Isabella Huston, mentioned heretofore, who married her first cousin, James Clendenin, son of Janet Huston and James Clendenin.

These Hustons usually had large families, ranging up to 10 to 12 children, and childhood mortality rate was low. In his genealogy of the offspring of Samuel Huston up to 1912, E. Rankin Huston lists by name 1,166 individuals, aside from several branches that could not be accounted for.

Other Houstons who emigrated from Northern Ireland and settled in Pennsylvania included William Huston who came to America about 1718 and reared a family in Deleware County, Pennsylvania. Among his descendants was Dr. Robert Mendenhall Huston, a physician, who filled the chair of Obstetrics in Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia and was elevated to dean of the faculty of that institution.

Another family, that of Samuel Nelson Huston and his wife,

1 E. Rankin Huston, p. 85.