Daughters of Republic of Texas work to recognize Joseph Dunman

If you’ve lived in the Lake Houston area long enough, you ought to know who Pleasant Humble is. He was a Civil War veteran from Louisiana who established a post office in his home in the 1860s that eventually bore his surname which later became the name of the City of Humble.
But, before there was Pleasant Humble, there was a Liberty, Texas farmer named Joseph Dunman who moved to what was then Mexican Texas in the 1820s. Dunman played an essential role in the creation of the Republic of Texas and in developing what is now Humble and the Lake Houston area, years before Pleasant Humble arrived in Harris County.

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