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Eliza returned to Gallatin and found a quiet life. So determined was she to escape the shadow of her first marriage, she asked for her portraits to be burned and to be buried without a grave marker. However, her family would place a simple stone on her grave more than a century later (4/5)

The scandal shattered Houston's political career in Tennessee. He resigned his governorship in disgrace, fled to live with the Cherokee, and earned the nickname "The Big Drunk." This exile sent him west, where he eventually became the hero of the Texas Revolution.
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Her name was Eliza Allen of Gallatin, TN. At eighteen, she married the ambitious 35-year-old Governor of Tennessee, Sam Houston—a man destined for the White House. But their marriage mysteriously collapsed after only a few weeks, altering the course of both their lives and American history.
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