Leman Barker and Elizabeth James Standifer were married on Jan. 11, 1830, in a civil proceeding in Brazoria by posting a bond according to Michael Bailey from the Brazoria Museum.The Irish-born Catholic priest, Michael Muldoon, had not yet arrived in Texas, and Austin’s Old Three Hundred settlers had no resident priest or pastor. Protestant preachers were not allowed. Austin, himself, is said to have been a Jeffersonian Deist not belonging to an organized church.John W. Storey in the TSHA wrote, “he earnestly sought to obey Mexico's religious laws. He repeatedly reminded prospective settlers of the law and tried to avoid trouble by keeping Protestant missionaries out of ...