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The Tomb of Stephen F. Austin is located in Gulf Prairie Cemetery. [3] Other notable figures in Texas history who are buried there include Emily Austin Perry, [5] William Joel Bryan, [6] Henry William Munson, [6] Eliza M. Perry, descendants of James Franklin Perry and Emily Austin Perry, as well as people from the local area since 1829.
Stephen Fuller Austin (November 3, 1793 – December 27, 1836) was an American-born empresario.Known as the "Father of Texas" and the founder of Anglo Texas, [1] [2] he led the second and, ultimately, the successful colonization of the region by bringing 300 families and their slaves from the United States to the Tejas region of Mexico in 1825.
Stephen F. Austin Elementary School, named after the Father of Texas, serves the Jones Creek area. Austin Elementary, "The Pride of Jones Creek", is a Pre-K through sixth grade school, the only one in the district. The school's mascot is the gator, referencing the 11-foot (3.4 m) alligator that was found on the school grounds after flooding in ...
The Texas State Cemetery (TSC) is a cemetery located on about 22 acres (8.9 ha) just east of downtown Austin, the capital of the U.S. state of Texas.Originally the burial place of Edward Burleson, Texas Revolutionary general and vice-president of the Republic of Texas, it was expanded into a Confederate cemetery during the Civil War.
Stephen F. Austin is a full-length statue in marble.It shows Austin standing on slightly uneven ground with his left foot forward, looking up and ahead into the distance. The lowered hands hold a partially unrolled scroll, meant to represent a map, while a Kentucky long rifle leans against the left hip and l
The body of Stephen Lawrence, a Black teenager killed in an unprovoked racist attack in London three decades ago, will be returned to Britain from Jamaica where he was originally buried, his ...
He was buried some thirty feet away from the grave of Stephen F. Austin who had so vigorously opposed Parmer's early attempt to declare Texas independent of Mexico during the Fredonian Rebellion. In 1874, Tom Parmer published a biographical booklet about the adventures of his father, Martin Parmer, on the Missouri frontier titled Fifty-Five ...
Stephen F. Austin (1793–1836), "father of Texas" Padre José Nicolás Ballí (c. 1770–1829), grantee, settler, and namesake of Padre Island; Plácido Benavides (1810–1837), settler; Joshua Brown (1816–1876), first settler of Kerrville, Texas; John Neely Bryan (1810–1877), founder of Dallas; Moses Austin Bryan (1817–1895), early ...