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Historical Markers & Landmarks - People
| Marker Title: Bailey Anderson Address: City: Elysian Field County: Harrison Year Marker Erected: 1975 Designations: na Marker Location: FM 31 and CR 1402 Marker Text: (1754-1840) A veteran of the American Revolution, Bailey Anderson was born in Stafford County, VA. About 1760, he moved with his parents John and Sarah (Carney) Anderson to the Newberry District of South Carolina. At 21, he was in the Revolutionary army and during the next 11 years saw service in Georgia, Virginia, and the carolinas, fighting Indians and the British, scouting and patrolling. His father and two of his brothers were killed in the conflict. About 1795, bailey Anderson moved to Kentucky. There he served in the State Legislature, 1800-1802. In 1810 he moved to Indiana, to try life on another frontier. He migrated to East Texas about 1818. Although it was in dispute, Americans then considered this a part of the Louisiana Purchase. In 1820, when Spanish soldiers came from Mexico to evict the east Texas filibusters, Anderson and his family went to Arkansas Territory, but returned about 1821 as permanent settlers. The land surrounding this marker was in a grant from the Republic of texas to Bailey Anderson, Jr., a soldier in the Texas War for Independence. Nearby, in the family cemetery, is the grave of Bailey Anderson, a veteran of the American Revolution. Marker Title: Governor Edward Clark Address: City: Marshall County: Harrison Year Marker Erected: 1963 Designations: na Marker Location: Courthouse lawn, Houston at Washington Marker Text: (1815-1880) Born in Georgia. Came to Texas in 1842. Served as a member of Annexation Convention. 1st and 2nd Texas Legislatures. Hometown Texas First Confederate Governor Son of a Georgia governor. Participant Mexican War. Secretary of State 1853-7. Elected Lieutenant Governor 1859. Made Governor 1861 upon removal of Gov. Sam Houston, who opposed secession. Clark's major activity was mobilizing Texas in cause of Confederacy. Plans were made to prevent Federal invasion, take over enemy property, organize resources to provide supplies and arms for defense, and to properly care for families of Texas soldiers battling at the front. Gov. Edward Clark's term from March to November 1861 also faced difficulties caused by mechanics of changing flags, seals, currency, postal and tax systems for membership in new nation. Camps of instruction were set-up over state to enroll, equip and train troops. Hardest job was to convince Texans, the best horsemen in world, that all could not ride in cavalry but some must be foot soldiers in infantry. The C.S.A. was supplied guns, powder, lead, cloth made in penitentiary, salt and 20,000 troops in his term. In late 1861 he raised and became colonel 14th Tex. Inf. Regt. Led units in Arkansas-Louisiana campaigns to prevent invasion of Texas. Wounded and commended Battle Pleasant Hill April 1864. Discharged 1865. Postwar lawyer, businessman. Buried in Marshall Cemetery. Marker Title: William Delafield Address: City: Hallsville County: Harrison Year Marker Erected: 1972 Designations: na Marker Location: from Hallsville, go 6 mi. north on FM 450, then 3 mi. west on Keasler Rd. (CR 3628) at Lagrone Cemetery Marker Text: A veteran of the American revolution; lived in this area as patriarch of a family whose history typifies westward movement of the people of the United States. Son of Nicholas Delafield, a cooper in the English Navy in 1740s and an artisan living in Mecklenburg County, Va., as early as the 1760s. William Delafield as a lad of 16 served in the militia company of a neighbor, Capt. Reuben Vaughan, during the year 1779 when the former American colonies-- joined together against the tyranny of George III of Great Britain. In 1785 William Delafield, then 22, moved to Georgia. There he brought up a family and in 1827 was awarded land on basis of his Revolutionary War service. By 1832 he and a son Nicholas lived in Alabama, where in 1836 both received land grants in Barbour County. The son in 1846 settled here in Harrison County, Tex. By 1850 William Delafield also lived here, where he was known to neighbors as an elderly man who sat in a rocking chair relating stories of old times. He had lost a leg, probably in frontier fighting in Georgia against the Indians. His descendants include persons who have attained distinction in military and civilian life in Texas and other states. Marker Title: Matthew Duncan Ector Address: City: Marshall County: Harrison Year Marker Erected: 1962 Designations: na Marker Location: Greenwood Cemetery, west end of East Avenue Marker Text: (Star and Wreath) Brigadier General, C. S. A. Participated in Battles of Richmond, Ky., Murfreesboro, Chicamauga, Atlanta, Defense of Mobile. Erected by the State of texas 1962 Marker Title: James Leonard Farmer, Sr. Address: City: Marshall County: Harrison Year Marker Erected: 1997 Designations: na Marker Location: Wiley College Campus, near intersection of Wiley and James Farmer St. Marker Text: (June 12, 1886 - May 14, 1961) James Leonard Farmer, Sr., was the son of Carolina and Lorena Wilson Farmer. James Farmer studied at Cookman Institute in Florida before attending Boston University, where he received a bachelors degree in 1913, a Bachelor of Sacred Theology degree in 1916, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1918. He also attended graduate school at Harvard University in 1917. An elder in the Methodist Episcopal Church, Farmer served as pastor of churches in Marshall, Texarkana, and Galveston. He also taught philosophy and religion here at Wiley College, at Rust College in Holly Springs, Mississippi, at Samuel Huston (now Huston-Tillotson) College in Austin, at Gammon Theological Seminary in Atlanta, Georgia, at Gulfside Ministerial Training School in Waveland, Mississippi, and at Howard University School of Divinity in Washington, D.C. A popular speaker, Farmer also was the author of several books, as well as biblical commentary and articles for secular magazines. Farmer married Pearl Houston; they were the parents of three children. Their son, James Leonard Farmer, Jr., became a prominent civil rights leader in the 1960s and founder of the Congress of Racial Equality. Farmer, Sr., retired in 1956, died in 1961, and was buried in Washington, D.C. (1997) Marker Title: Home Town of Texas Confederate General Elkanah Greer Address: Courthouse lawn, Houston at Washington City: Marshall County: Harrison Year Marker Erected: 1963 Designations: na Marker Location: Marker Text: (1825-1877) Born Tennessee. Fought Mexican War. Came to texas 1848. Commissioned colonel and raised 3rd Texas Cavalry. Attached to Ross' Texas Brigade. Fought at Wilson's Creek, Mo. Led brigade, division in Pea Ridge, Ark. Battle. Resigned commission but was recalled as Brigadier General October 1862. Chief Conscription Bureau for Confederacy west of Mississippi 1863. Worked to reconcile Confederate and Texas draft laws. Commanded Texas Reserved Corps in 1864-65 keeping them in readiness to withstand threatened Union coastal invasion. Organized slave labor to build roads, fortifications for state defense. Buried Memphis, Tenn. Knights of the Golden Circle. Marker Title: Alexander Travis Hawthorn Address: City: Marshall County: Harrison Year Marker Erected: 1963 Designations: na Marker Location: Greenwood Cemetery, west end of East Avenue Marker Text: (January 10, 1825 - May 31, 1899) Native of Alabama, Arkansas lawyer, Colonel commanding 6th Arkansas Confederate Infantry Regiment at Battle of Shiloh in Tennessee, commended for action at Helena and Fort Hindman in Arkansas, Brigadier-General in Confederate Army, commended for gallantry while leading brigade in Battle of Jenkins' Ferry in Arkansas, postwar Georgia businessman, Baptist minister in Texas from 1880 to 1899. Erected by the State of Texas, 1963 Marker Title: Sam Houston's 1857 Campaign in Marshall Address: W. Burleson and N. Franklin St. City: Marshall County: Harrison Year Marker Erected: 1991 Designations: na Marker Location: Marker Text: On May 23, 1857, during his first Texas gubernatorial race, Sam Houston came to Marshall, the hometown of two of his most outspoken critics, Robert Loughery and Louis T. Wigfall, for a much anticipated debate against his opponent Hardin Runnels. Here under an oak tree, in an overwhelmingly secessionist area, the Unionist Houston spoke so eloquently that Runnels, who was scheduled to follow, declined to speak. Though he lost the election, Houston's stirring oratory brought him forty-eight percent of the Harrison County vote. Marker Title: Walter Paye Lane Address: City: Marshall County: Harrison Year Marker Erected: 1962 Designations: na Marker Location: Marshall Cemetery, US 80 at Columbus St. Marker Text: (Star and Wreath) Soldier in the Texas War for Independence. Major in the Mexican War. Brigadier general, C.S.A. Erected by the State of Texas, 1962. Marker Title: Robert W. Loughery, Civil War Editor Address: City: Marshall County: Harrison Year Marker Erected: 1983 Designations: na Marker Location: 309 E. Austin St. Marker Text: In the mid-nineteenth century Robert W. Loughery (b. 1820) was one of East Texas' best known journalists through his association with several Harrison County newspapers. As owner and editor of Marshall's "Texas Republican", he supported such controversial issues as slavery, secession and the Confederacy, while boldly denouncing his opposition. After the Civil War he wrote for other papers around the state and was appointed United States Consul in Acapulco,Mexico, in 1885. He retired to Marshall, where he died in 1894, and is buried in the Marshall Cemetery. Marker Title: John T. Mills Address: City: Marshall County: Harrison Year Marker Erected: 1936 Designations: na Marker Location: Marshall Cemetery, US 80 at Columbus St. Marker Text: Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, Republic of Texas, 1839-1840, 1842-1845; district judge, state of Texas, 1846-1850. Mills County, Texas was named in his honor. Born in County Antrim, Ireland, Nov. 12, 1817; died Nov. 30, 1871. Octavia (Jones) Adair-Mills, widow of William A. Adair, and of John T. Mills. Died Nov. 20, 1890. Marker Title: Solomon Ruffin Perry Address: City: Marshall County: Harrison Year Marker Erected: 1967 Designations: na Marker Location: Marshall Cemetery Marker Text: (June 2, 1810-Jan. 13, 1895) Born in Louisburg, N. C.; came to Texas 1833. Never carried a gun, though he lived in locality of 1840's regulator-moderator feud, and risked life to help bury Robert Potter (first secretary of Navy, Republic of Texas), who had been shot by an enemy. Was elected county sheriff in 1848 after his predecessor was assassinated. Served 27 years-- consecutively from 1878 to 1895. Married Mary Susan James. Had a son and two daughters. Marker Title: Lt. Gen. George Perry Rains Address: City: Marshall County: Harrison Year Marker Erected: 1970 Designations: na Marker Location: Greenwood Cemetery, west end of East Avenue Marker Text: (September 18, 1872 - September 19, 1955) Born in Marshall. Received his medical degree from University of Texas. Enlisted in Marshall Light Infantry (local militia), 1890. Ended military career 49 years later as brevet lieutenant general. Saw service on Mexican border. In World War I served as colonel, 3rd Texas Infantry. Later commander, 144th Infantry, 72nd Brigade, and 36th Division. Honored nationally as doctor and military man. Active in civic affairs. Married Norma Pitts, 1899. Marker Title: Horace Randal Marker Title: James Harper Starr |
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