Mrs. Lucy Haggard Longbotham

Her husband has the Handbook of Texas entry, and she appears in it only in outline. Lucy and Robert Longbotham were members of the Primitive Baptist Church, and they had nine children. The entry says she died at the age of eighty, and Robert then married Louisa Harnes. He was buried in this Longbotham Cemetery, where he now has his own marker. The plaque says Lucy lived under nine flags; the Handbook says nothing of that, and no source reached counts them, so the number rests on the plaque.

What the plaque says

Mrs. Lucy Haggard Longbotham (1793-1873) One of nine children of the Rev. Henry Haggard, Baptist minister, and his wife Dorothy (Randolph), both natives of Virginia. Born in U. S. Territory south of the Ohio River (now Tennessee), Lucy Haggard moved to Alabama Territory about 1814. There, in 1820, she married Robert Brough Longbotham. In her lifetime, she lived under nine territorial, national, and state flags. She was the mother of nine children. (1972)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Blind Lemon Memorial Cemetery — 1.4 mi
  The Freestone County grave of the Texas blues singer Blind Lemon Jefferson, who recorded for Paramount in Chicago from 1926 and died there in December 1929.
• Confederate Reunion Grounds State Historic Site — 11 mi
  Where Limestone County Confederate veterans gathered each summer from 1888, later a water supplier in the Mexia oil boom, now a Texas Historical Commission site on the Navasota River.
• Old Fort Parker — 16 mi
  A rebuilt 1830s family stockade near the Navasota River, where a May 1836 attack killed men of the Parker settlement and took five captives, among them nine-year-old Cynthia Ann Parker.
• Petroleum Industry Park — 21 mi
  The pipes and drilling tower mark where a city water well struck oil on June 9, 1894, the start of the first Texas field to produce oil and gas in important quantities.

More markers nearby

• Robert B. Longbotham — steps away
• Wortham Schools — 0.7 mi
• The Wortham Oil Boom — 0.7 mi
• City of Wortham — 0.7 mi