Notes for Thomas Hale LEISTER

Notes for Thomas Hale LEISTER

Apparently, he is the one referred to in David Lister's Will, in
connection with the negro girl Kisiah (see Appendix 1 Lanford/Lister
Connection).
He lived in South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas. One report says
that he was a Judge in Texas, appointed by Sam Houston. There is among
the Paoli materials a copy of a picture of an old log house, said to have
been built in or about 1831, between Shelbyville and San Augustine, in
Shelby County (Texas), by Judge Thomas H. Lister. An article concerning
this house appeared in the Rotogra-vure Magazine in 1936. It was a
three-story house and it served as the unofficial headquarters of the
Moderator-Regulator War during the early and mid-1840s, when Shelby
County was almost under siege. Sam Houston was called to settle the
fiery dispute. It is said that Sam Houston often came to the house for
dances and to talk politics.