Frances & Benjamin McCulloch
Austin, Travis County, Texas
Marker Inscription
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 McCulloch was born April 11 * 1780 Died in Ellis County * Texas * May 10, 1866 Benjamin McCulloch was born in Tennessee November 11 * 1811 * * Private in the Battle of San Jacinto April 21 * 1836 * * Killed in the Battle of Elk Horn * Arkansas * March 7 * 1862 While a Brigadier General in the Confederate Army Erected by the State of Texas 1936
Erected by Texas Historical Commission
The Story
This state marker rests over the graves of Frances Lenoir McCulloch and her son Benjamin, mother and son of a family that gave two brigadier generals to the Confederacy. Benjamin McCulloch first fought as a private at the Battle of San Jacinto in 1836, helping win Texas independence, then became a noted Texas Ranger before rising to Confederate brigadier general. He was killed at the Battle of Elk Horn (Pea Ridge), Arkansas, in March 1862.
Why it matters
The McCullochs embody Texas's passage from revolution to civil war, a single family whose service stretched from the fight for independence at San Jacinto to the battlefields of the Confederacy.
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Related people
- · Benjamin McCulloch
- · Frances Lenoir McCulloch
- · Henry Eustace McCulloch
Related events
- · Battle of San Jacinto
- · Battle of Pea Ridge
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