Know Your Texas History

A "Reader's Digest" version of Texas History from 1820 to 1946. Flossie Keels is a direct descendant of Nathaniel and Frances Hubert Lynch who came to Texas with "Austin's Old Three Hundred Colonists" in 1822. Lynch was the owner of the original "Lynch's Ferry," which played a key role in the Texas Revolution. She is a member of the Solomon Barrow Chapter of the Daughters of the Republic, Baytown, Texas, and a charter member of the "Descendants of Austin's Old Three Hundred Colonists." Another ancestor, Stephen Jefferson Stanley, settled in Zavala, Texas in 1828 with Lorenzo De Zavala's Colony. Keels was born in Zavala, not far from where her ancestors settled. Her parents were Pamelia Vianna Reed and Stephen Jefferson Stanley IV. Keels graduated from Houston Business College and Lee College School of Vocational Nursing in Baytown, Texas.