In this second part of his letter, John H. Horan (1850-1932) briefly describes his father's life:
About 1840, John Horan came to Houston, then an embryo city on the banks of the Buffalo Bayou and had a store for two or three years. He then moved to Placid Creek in Bastrop County, and ran a store for several years.
In 1846 he married the beautiful Kate Cassidy (Ed. Note: Catherine Agnes Cassidy, b. 1828) and moved to Austin, Texas until his death in Nov. 1869.
In 1870 after my fathers death I received a letter from his brother, then living in Oakland, Calif. He had just discovered the whereabouts of his brother John. I answered the letter telling him my father had just died. I never heard from him again.
Signed; John Horan #2
Source: Mary Lou Fear and Al Yeager
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