EDWARD LOVELACE (1764-1824) is my 3rd Great-uncle. He was a plantation owner in Catahoula Parish, Louisiana, and a friend, traveling companion, and business partner of Moses Austin, who died in 1821.  My great-uncle was an explorer and hunted bear in East Texas.  In June 1821 he and a nephew, Henry Holstein, accompanied Moses’s son Stephen F. Austin (“Father of Texas”) on his first journey through the wilds of Texas. Lovelace then loaned Austin funds to establish the Texas Austin Colony. He continued to support Austin by hiring a New Orleans schooner to deliver goods to settlers via the Brazos River. On a second voyage in 1824, he was killed by pirates off Galveston Island.  Edward Lovelace is listed by the Texas State Historical Association as one of the Texas Old Three Hundred colonists.