That Sam Leeper! The bounty land this old soldier received for fighting in the battles of San Jacinto and Bexar was all over Texas. With more papers appearing on the internet, I find previously unknown counties where Sam's name appears on land patents. I wonder what amount of $$$ of real estate its value might hold today. His untimely death in 1855 left his third wife, Hannah, holding the deeds.
From The San Antonio Express in October 1909:
And this from the Houston Post, on 28 March 1917:
UPDATE: June, 2020 - Found another one in Smith County:
Source: The Weekly Courier-Times, Tyler, Smith County, Texas, p. 6 on December 30, 1910 (via The Portal of Texas History at URL: texashistory.unt.edu/ )