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Show Historic Gal! ; H iff CA ' - 1 V V j, hi" iu : Marian Rodgers, of Dallas, is the great-great-grand daughter of a Texas soldier who died in the famous "lottery of beans," after the battle of Mier in 1842. Of the 176 Texans captured by the Mexicans, Mex-icans, 17 drew black beans from an earthen bowl and were shot to death, 159 drew white beans and were sent to a Mexican prison Miss Rodgers, whose grandfather, Horace Hor-ace Isa Houston, was a first-cousin of Gen. Sam Houston, is a ranger-ette ranger-ette for the Texas Centennial Exposition Ex-position opening in Dallas June 6. |