Originally both from Georgia, the Standifers and Youngs traveled together from Alabama to Texas.They arrived in a caravan of ox teams in what later became Hogeye. This was in 1828. The area in which they settled was in Austin’s Little Colony. Stephen F. Austin, the son and heir of Moses Austin, had settled his first group, the “Old Three Hundred,” on the rich bottomlands of theBrazos, Colorado, and San Bernard rivers, extending from the Brenham area, Navasota, and La Grange to the Gulf of Mexico according to Christoper Long in the Texas State Historical Association. The Texas Historian Fehrenhach described them as “the first Anglo planter-gentry in the ...