Episode 12: The Runaway Scrape - The Midwives Who Served at the Birth of the Republic of Texas!

<p>The rush to the Louisiana border was known to the Texans as the <a href="https://books2read.com/u/m2rQNG">Runaway Scrape,</a> the<a href="http://www.texasescapes.com/DEPARTMENTS/Guest_Columnists/East_Texas_all_things_historical/RunawayScrapeAMD302.htm"> Great Runaway</a>, or the<a href="https://bookshop.org/books/the-rose-of-brays-bayou-the-runaway-scrape-the-sabine-shoot-the-great-runaway/9781977737120"> Sabine Shoot</a>. Whatever one calls it, the wild exodus was a nightmare of terror and suffering for women and children across the Lone Star State. It was only their burning desire for retribution that made it possible for them to keep going.</p> <p><a href="https://www.history.com/topics/mexico/alamo">REMEMBER THE ALAMO!</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goliad_massacre">REMEMBER GOLIAD! </a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Come_and_take_it">COME AND TAKE IT!</a></p> <p><a href="https://sidneystjames.com/tag/dilue-rose/">Dilue Rose Harris</a> told her story for the Eagle Lake Headlight in <a href="https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/eagle-lake-tx">Eagle Lake, Texas</a>, in 1900.</p> <p>Delicate women trudged from day to day until their shoes were literally worn out and continued their journey to the east with bare feet, lacerated and bleeding at almost every step. Their clothes were scant and provided no means of shelter from frequent drenching downpours and bitterly cold winds.</p> <p><em>--- Soldier from the Battle of San Jacinto</em></p> <p>In efforts to escape the tyranny of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_L%C3%B3pez_de_Santa_Anna">General Santa Anna</a>, the older men, women, and children found the few ferries to cross the waterways could not accommodate the large volumes of traffic. At Lynch’s Ferry, over five thousand people were waiting to get across.</p> <p><em>--- Dilue Rose Harris</em></p> <p>In the group of women with Dilue Rose Harris, one recalled in her memoirs that there were very few white men in the hundreds in her group. The African Americans seemed to