Enduring captivity, they were rescued by Albert Sidney Johnston and a unit of Texas soldiers, and eventually sent to live with their aunt, Jane Trimble, in Galveston. The Comanche murdered her parents and captured Fisher and her brother, William. Living near Don Carlos Rancho in Refugio County, the Gilleland family was attacked by members of the Comanche tribe in 1840. Her father fought in the Texas Revolution under Captain Thomalson. 002.Called the Mother of Texas, Rebecca Jane Gilleland Fisher (1831-1926), was born in Philadelphia on August 31, 1831, the daughter of Johnson Gilleland and Mary Barbour - Fisher moved with her family to Texas around 1837. SOURCE: Adapted from the Handbook of Texas Onlineįrom the guide to the Rebecca J. She was buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Austin. Honorary pallbearers included the two United States senators from Texas and four former governors. The Senate unanimously adopted a resolution in her memory and draped her portrait in mourning cloth. Her body lay in state in the Senate chamber, where funeral services were held. Her portrait was the first of a woman to be hung in the Senate chamber at the Capitol. She was the only woman elected to the Texas Veterans Association and was its last surviving member. For several years she gave the opening prayer when the Texas legislature convened.
She delivered an oration at the unveiling of the Sam Houston monument at Huntsville and aided Clara Driscoll in saving the Alamo from destruction. She was also president of the Austin chapter. Rebecca Fisher is known as “The Mother of Texas.” She was a charter member of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas and served as its state president for eighteen years. They established a home in Austin where Rev. Fisher edited the “Christian Advocate,” acted as pastor of the Shearn Methodist Church at Houston, and was chaplain of the last two Senates of the Republic of Texas. The Fishers returned to Texas about 1871 where Rev. Fisher served as a pastor in California and Oregon. Fisher took his wife with him on a voyage across the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans to reach California. Orceneth Fisher, a prominent Methodist minister who was much older than herself. Rebecca attended school in Galveston and finished at Rutersville, the only girl’s college at that time. Blair until they could be sent to live with Jane Trimble, an aunt in Galveston. The children were rescued by Albert Sidney Johnston and a detachment of Texas soldiers and taken to Victoria, where they stayed with William C. Rebecca and her brother William were taken prisoner and later left for dead. In 1840 Rebecca was orphaned when Comanche Indians killed her parents. The family eventually settled in Refugio County. Born Augin Philadelphia, Rebecca came to Texas along with her pioneer parents, Johnstone and Mary Barbour Gilleland, and a younger brother, William McCalla in 1836.
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