The history and geography of Texas as told in county names . nies is given in Winsors Westward Movement. Theportrait was destroyed by the British when they burned thecapitol, in 1814. GARZA. This county was named for the Garza family in San Antonio,a family which had been identified with that city for nearlytwo centuries. On the maternal side they are lineal descend-ants of Madam Rabaina Betancourt, who came with the firstsettlers in 1731. Geronimo Garza, the paternal ancestor, camelater and married a descendant of Madam Betancourt, andfrom this marriage sprang a long line of this distinguishe
The history and geography of Texas as told in county names . nies is given in Winsors Westward Movement. Theportrait was destroyed by the British when they burned thecapitol, in 1814. GARZA. This county was named for the Garza family in San Antonio,a family which had been identified with that city for nearlytwo centuries. On the maternal side they are lineal descend-ants of Madam Rabaina Betancourt, who came with the firstsettlers in 1731. Geronimo Garza, the paternal ancestor, camelater and married a descendant of Madam Betancourt, andfrom this marriage sprang a long line of this distinguished an-cestry, identified throughout the long history of that city withits civil, military and commercial activities, and is now oneof the most highly respected and useful connections of the city. Their loyalty to Texas as a province of Spain, a State ofMexico, of the United States, and of the Southern Confeder-acy, inspired the Legislature of Texas, in 1876, to erect a mon-ument to the memory of the family by naming a countyGarza. As Told in County Names 13. GOLIAD. This word means gigantic, (large) from Goliath of Gath,the giant of the Philistines. Prior to 1829 the presidio andmission and the little settlements around it were known as LaBahia, meaning the bay. In 1722 a presidio and mission was established on the siteof La Salles old fort near the bay. It was given the nameNuestra Sanctissima Senora Maria de Loreto la Bahia del Es-piritu Santo (our Most Holy Lady Mary of Loreto of the HolyGhost of the Bay). It remained but a few years here, when it was moved upthe valley to a spot that is now in Victoria County. In 1749 itwas moved over to the San Antonio River, the present site,and in the course of time all of the name, except La Bahia, fellinto disuse, but it was now far away from the bay, and in 1829the Congress of Coahuila and Texas concluded to do away withthe paradoxical name and to preserve some trace of the largepresidio, named it Goliad. 14 The History and Geography o
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