Letter from President David G. Burnet to John Sutherland, April 3, 1836
John Sutherland, Jr. was born 11 May 1792, near Danville, Pittsylvania County, Virginia. He married Diana Kennedy in Knox County Tennessee on 31 December 1816. For a few years he ran a store and a bank in Decatur, Alabama ca. 1824. His wife, Diana, died 17 February 1827. He and his brother George and other family members received land grants to the Austin Colony in Texas, December 1829, but John did not come to Texas at that time. He attended medical school learning the Samuel Thomson’s method, a botanical method of healing. He moved to San Antonio in December 1835. Having been injured in a fall from his horse and unable to fight, Travis sent Sutherland to bring help from Gonzales. He returned to funeral pyres. He became an aide and envoy for President Burnet. After the Texas Revolution, Sutherland returned to Tuscumbia, Alabama. After his father died, he moved to Egypt, Texas in 1837. He married Ann Bryant Lane on 26 January 1838, who died in 1840. He the...
