John Richardson

Houston, TX

Moses W. Brigham marched with Captain Amasa Turner's company at the Battle of San Jacinto in April 1836, the roughly eighteen-minute clash that secured Texas independence from Mexico. He survived the fight but died in the young capital of Houston less than two years later, in January 1838. His marker preserves the memory of one of the citizen-soldiers whose service underpinned the new Republic.

Houston, TX

William S. Stilwell, born in New York in 1809, served as a private in Captain Isaac N. Moreland's artillery company at the Battle of San Jacinto, the decisive 1836 clash that won Texas its independence. Promoted to captain that December, he lived only a short time longer, dying suddenly in Houston in September 1837. A Telegraph notice asked New Orleans and New York papers to mark the passing of the young Texian officer.

Houston, TX

Born in England in 1814, William Daniel Durham threw himself into the Texas Revolution, joining the storming of Bexar in December 1835 and then fighting at San Jacinto in Captain William J. E. Heard's company. He rose to second lieutenant in the Milam Guards, a Houston militia unit, before his early death in 1838, just two years after independence.

Houston, TX

John Cheevers came to Texas in 1829, in the years when Anglo colonists were streaming into what was then Mexican territory. When the fight for Texas independence reached its climax in 1836, he stood among the men of Captain Thomas H. McIntire's company at the Battle of San Jacinto, the short, decisive clash that secured the Republic. He lived out his remaining years in the growing town of Houston, dying there in 1846.