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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 Mexican Government, which owned land, granted it to Stephen F. Austin as an empresario in exchange for taking responsibility for settling the area with others. Austin owned this tract of land by 1830 and sold the property in 1832 to his brother-in-law James Franklin Perry and sister Emily Austin Perry for $300.00.
The marble sculptures of Houston and Austin can now be seen in both the Texas State Capitol in Austin and in the National Statuary Hall Collection in the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. She was commissioned to sculpt a memorial to the career military officer and war hero Albert Sidney Johnston for his grave in the Texas State Cemetery.
On May 31, 1924, a banquet was held in the former rooftop garden of the Stephen F. Austin Hotel. This year, the venerable hotel, now part of the Royal Sonesta chain, celebrates its 100th anniversary.
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 ...
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