Travis County, Texas
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Approximate location of the Missions San Francisco de Los Neches, Nuestra Senora de la Purisma Concepcion, San Jose de los Nazonis. Established in East Texas by Franciscan missionaries in 1716 for the Christianizing and…
View on map ↗A signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence Secretary of the Treasury of the Republic Born in Tennessee, 1795 Died on Caney Creek, Matagorda County October 12, 1836 Erected by the State of Texas 1936
View on map ↗Here Sleep Capt. and Mrs. Chauncey Johnson Capt. Johnson was born in Burlington, Vermont May 1, 1798 Served in the War of 1812 Came to Texas in 1840 Captured by General Adrian Woll At San Antonio, September 11, 1842 and…
View on map ↗A soldier in the Army of Texas, 1835 Commander of Company C. First Regiment, Texas Volunteers at San Jacinto Member of the 1st and 2nd Congresses of the Republic Participated in the Woll Campaign, 1842 Member of the…
View on map ↗Born in Mississippi November 25, 1810 Came to Texas in 1833 A Volunteer in the Army at Anahuac, 1835 Commanded A Company at the Capture of San Antonio, 1835 Signed the Texas Declaration of Independence Commanded a…
View on map ↗Army of Texas, 1836. State senator 1861-1862. Commissioned Colonel C.S.A., 1863. Member of the Confederate Congress, 1864. State comptroller, 1874-1881. Born in Mississippi, November 18, 1816. Died in Wharton, Texas,…
View on map ↗Participated in the Disturbance at Anahuac June, 1832 and the Storming and Capture of Bexar, December 5 to 10, 1835 Born in North Carolina February 20, 1801 Died in Goliad County, Texas March 4, 1881 Eliza Hancock…
View on map ↗A volunteer at Anahuac, 1832 Member of the Consultation, 1835 Commander of the Schooner "Flash" 1836 Most Worshipful Grand Master Grand (Masonic) Lodge of Texas, 1848-49 Born in Virginia, September 30, 1801 Died in…
View on map ↗Dr. Gideon Lincecum, a veteran of the war of 1812, internationally famous botanist, friend of Darwin. Born in Georgia April 22, 1793, died at Long Point, Washington County, Texas, November 28, 1873.
View on map ↗--- front side --- Born in New York, January 8, 1801 * Died in Bastrop County, Texas, October 31, 1853 * Doctor- Lawyer, Soldier, Legislator Erected by the State of Texas 1936 --- back side --- Delegate to the Second…
View on map ↗Approximate Site Reached by the Espinosa-Olivares-Aguirre Expedition. A good will trip made in 1709, when Spain was uneasy about her 190-year-old claim to Texas. (She had closed east Texas missions, then had learned of…
View on map ↗The first capitol in Austin was erected on this site in 1839. Every president of the Republic of Texas performed some official act within its walls.
View on map ↗Here Rest Frances Lenoir McCulloch and her son Benjamin McCulloch Two of the sons of Alexander and Frances Lenoir McCulloch * Benjamin and Henry Eustace * were Brigadier Generals in the Confederate Army Frances Lenoir…
View on map ↗General Alexander Watkins Terrell, born in Patrick County, Va., November 23, 1827. Came to Texas in 1852. Died while visiting in Mineral Wells, September 9, 1912. District Judge, Second Judicial District, 1857-1863,…
View on map ↗Born in Kentucky 1803. Came to Texas in 1840 from Mississippi. Associate justice, Supreme Court, 1840. Secretary of State, 1841. Attorney General, 1841-42. Charge d'Affiares of the the Republic of Texas to England,…
View on map ↗1856-1918. Now dedicated by the state to the uses and purposes of the Daughters of the Republic and the Texas Division of the Daughters of the Confederacy. Here O. Henry worked from January, 1887 to January, 1891.…
View on map ↗Commanded Co. D. First Regiment of Texas Volunteers at San Jacinto A member of 1st and 3rd Congresses of the Republic and later a Brigadier General of Militia Born in Virginia Sept. 20, 1802 Died in Houston, Texas Nov.…
View on map ↗Permanently wounded in in the Battle of San Jacinto while serving in Capt. William S. Fisher's Company. Died Jan. 18, 1842 near old Cincinnati in Walker County, Texas Erected by the State of Texas 1936
View on map ↗Member of the House of Representatives, 1847-1854 Speaker of the House, 1853-1854 Lieutenant Governor Dec. 21, 1855 to Dec 21, 1857 Governor of Texas Dec. 21, 1857 to Dec. 21, 1859 Born in Mississippi August 30, 1820…
View on map ↗In Memory of Thomas Christian, William Strother and Josiah Wilbarger, members of a party of five who were attacked near here by Indians in August, 1833. Christian and Strother were killed, Wilbarger was scalped and…
View on map ↗Participated in the capture of San Antonio, 1835 A member of Capt. Moseley Baker's Company at San Jacinto Born in Kentucky on July 4, 1800 Died in Lavaca County, Texas February 6, 1869 Erected by the State of Texas 1936
View on map ↗A member of Capt. Wm. W. Hill's Company at San Jacinto Born in Kentucky march 5, 1805 Died in Lee County, Texas August 15, 1848 Here also sleeps Amanda Wilkinson wife of James G. Wilkinson Erected by the State of Texas…
View on map ↗Served in the Army of Texas, 1836 Born in Pennsylvania Aug. 18, 1818 Died in Washington County, Texas March 18, 1883 His Wife Mary V. (Cooper) Dallas Born in Tennessee Jan. 22, 1826 Died in Washington County, Texas June…
View on map ↗Hon. Jesse Grimes Born Feb. 6, 1788 Died Mar. 15, 1866 A signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence Member of the Congress of the Republic Died in Grimes County. A county named in his honor.
View on map ↗Came to Texas from Tennessee. Prominent orator, jurist, and prosecutor. Delegate Texas Secession Convention 1861. Joined Confederate Army as Captain Company "B" Terry's Texas Rangers. After Terry was killed Wharton…
View on map ↗John Crittenden Duval, escaped the massacre March 27, 1836 and was the last survivor of Fannin's army to die. Born in Kentucky in 1816. Died in Fort Worth, Texas, January 15, 1897
View on map ↗A member of Captain W. J. E. Heard's Company in the Battle of San Jacinto Born in New York City October 3, 1808 Died April 1, 1892 His wife Anna (Scott) Lewis Born in Albany, N.Y. 1812 Died May 24, 1896
View on map ↗Served in the Army of Texas, 1836 The Army of the United States in the Mexican War, 1846 The Confederate Army 1861 - 1865 Born in Kentucky June 25, 1818 Died in Ellis County, Texas August 3, 1884 His Wife Rebecca Ann…
View on map ↗Born in Hart County, Kentucky January 1, 1827 Died in San Antonio, Texas March 5, 1896 [Back of headstone] An officer in the Confederate Army Senator in the State Legislature Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of…
View on map ↗A soldier of the San Jacinto Army. Born in South Carolina, 1812. Died July 4, 1856 Erected by the State of Texas 1936
View on map ↗Born in Alabama 1819 Died January 9, 1897 Participated in the Battle of San Jacinto as a member of Hayden Arnold's company Erected by the State of Texas 1936
View on map ↗Born in Maine 1804. Died in Austin, Texas, July 11, 1846. One of the founders of "The Telegraph and Texas Register" at San Felipe de Austin, October 10, 1835. A soldier at San Jacinto. First chief justice of Bexar…
View on map ↗--- front side --- Born in South Carolina February 10, 1789 Died Dec. 8, 1856 Erected by the State of Texas 1936 --- back side --- Member of Legislature, Ala., 1818 Associate Justice, Supreme Court, Ala. 1820 - 1835…
View on map ↗--- front side --- Born in Virginia, November 4, 1800 * Died in Waller County, Texas, January 3, 1881 His Wife Juliet M. De Shields Waller Born in 1801 * Died May 13, 1867 Erected by the State of Texas 1936 --- back…
View on map ↗Born in Virginia, March 28, 1808 - Died in Guadalupe County, Texas December 21, 1847 Erected by the State of Texas 1936
View on map ↗Born in Virginia, June 4, 1778 - Died in Jasper County, March 2, 1850 - A Delegate to the Constitutional Convention of Missouri, 1821 - Senator in legislature of Missouri - Second in command in the Fredonian War in…
View on map ↗A soldier in the Army of Texas. Arrived at San Jacinto April 22, 1836. Born in South Carolina, March 11, 1815. Died in Johnson County, Texas, July 11, 1897. His wife Elizabeth (Cooper) Walker. Born in Tennessee, October…
View on map ↗Born in Virginia February 14, 1781 Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia, 1820 Signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence and President of the Constitutional Convention, 1836 Senator in the Congress of…
View on map ↗Aug. 10, 1804 July 13, 1870 [Back of headstone] Crudup Member of the 12th Legislature
View on map ↗A Signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence First Secretary of the Navy of the Republic of Texas. Born in Granville N. C. in 1800. Died at what is now known as Potter's Point, Marion Co, Texas. March 3, 1842…
View on map ↗(FRONT)Born in Virginia, 1753 - Died In Cold Springs, San Jacinto County, Texas, 1837 Erected by the State of Texas 1936 (BACK) Robert Rankin was an officer in the Continental Army, Virginia Troops, 1776, in the same…
View on map ↗(Also called Coleman’s Fort) June, 1836 - November, 1838. Established and first commanded by Colonel Robert M. Coleman. Succeeded by Capt. Michael Andrews and Capt. William M. Eastland. An extreme frontier outpost…
View on map ↗Site of the Home Built in 1832 by Reuben Hornsby (1793-1879) and his wife Sarah Morrison Hornsby (1796-1862). Second built in "Austin's Little Colony". First in the present county of Travis. Famed for Christian…
View on map ↗Site of the Official Residence of Mirabeau B. Lamar, 1798-1859 President of the Republic of Texas, 1838-1841. The building was constructed in 1840 and destroyed by fire in March, 1847. Since 1882 the site has been…
View on map ↗[Front] Born in Tennessee January 31, 1788 Died in Bastrop County, Texas January 11, 1854 His Wife Eliza De Witt Hardeman Born Sept. 17, 1809 Died Feb. 8, 1863 Erected by the State of Texas 1936 [Back]Member Second…
View on map ↗Who manned one of the Twin Sisters cannon at the Battle of San Jacinto and was a veteran of the Mexican War, 1847 Born in Tennessee June 6, 1804 Died March 27, 1861 Erected by the State of Texas 1936
View on map ↗To John Williams and Howell Haggett. Killed by Indians in May, 1836 while detailed from Captain John J. Tumlinson's company of rangers to help protect the families of the Hornsby's settlement on returning from the "Run…
View on map ↗To Josephus Hornsby Mar. 15, 1822 Oct. 21, 1862 Son of Reuben Hornsby; settled here, 1832; Bastrop Ranger, 1837 In Flores Fight, 1839 Battle of Plum Creek, 1840 Brush Fight, 1840; Vasquez and Woll Campaigns, 1842; led…
View on map ↗Created January 25, 1840 Organized April 8 1843 Named in honor of William Barrett Travis Born in Edgefield District, South Carolina, August 1, 1809. Came to Texas in 1831, Commander at the Alamo, where he was killed…
View on map ↗Born In Richmond Va. March 17, 1816. Died in Independence Tex. Feb. 27, 1885. He gave his life to the cause of education and religion in Ga. Ala. Miss. La. and Texas. The remains of Dr. Crane were removed from…
View on map ↗Born in Montgomery County, Texas April, 1839 Died in Austin April 15, 1902 Served in the Confederacy 10th and 15th Texas Infantry Elected District Judge in Robertson County, 1880 On Civil Appeals Court 1887 - 1902 The…
View on map ↗Who served under General Jackson in the Creek War, 1813 Soldier in the Army of Texas, 1835 Born in Maury County, Tennessee January 12, 1792 Died in Guadalupe County, Texas February 15, 1871 His wife Kissiah Hines Tom…
View on map ↗A San Jacinto veteran - Born in Kentucky, April 15, 1815 - Came to Texas in 1830 - Died in Fayette County, January 19, 1858 Erected by the State of Texas 1936
View on map ↗A member of Captain Jesse Billingley's Company at San Jacinto Born in North Carolina October 15, 1809 Died in Williamson County, Texas July 17, 1889 His wife Elzina (Weeks) Avery Born in Missouri November 10, 1812 Died…
View on map ↗Born In Missouri 1811 Died In Bastrop County, Texas May 6, 1880 Participated in the Battle of Gonzales October 2, 1835 Served in the Texas Army, 1836 And in the Woll Campaign, 1842 Erected by The State of Texas 1936
View on map ↗Born in Georgia 1797 One of the Old Three Hundred Colonists A Soldier in the Texas War for Independence Died 1847 His wife Hetty Stiles Jones Died 1899 Erected by the State of Texas 1957
View on map ↗Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 1962 (medallion only)
View on map ↗Leonidas D. Carrington (1816-97) and his wife, Martha Hill Carrington (1824-59), came to Austin from Mississippi in 1852. He began to accumulate real estate and on Sept. 15, 1853, bought this block from James M.W. Hall,…
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