Paul Scarborough

Hallettsville, TX

Leiper Willoughby came to Texas in 1831 and fought in Captain William H. Patton's company at the Battle of San Jacinto in 1836, the engagement that won Texas its independence. He remained in arms for the young Republic, serving in the 1842 Vasquez Campaign against Mexican incursion and in frontier fighting that same year. He died in 1874, and the state honored him with a Star and Wreath marker in 1956.

Hallettsville, TX

Stephen Tucker Foley was born in Alabama and came to Texas in 1834, arriving just as the colony's break with Mexico approached. In 1836 he served in the Army of Texas, standing with Captain William Heard's company of citizen-soldiers at the Battle of San Jacinto. The State of Texas honored his service to the revolution with this marker in 1956.

Hallettsville, TX

Joseph Kent arrived in Texas around 1832, when the region was still a Mexican province stirring toward revolt. He took up arms in the Texas War for Independence, seeing action at the storming of Bexar in 1835 and at the decisive Battle of San Jacinto in 1836, before settling and dying in Lavaca County in 1849.

Hallettsville, TX

This ground began as the "Hallettsville Graveyard," deeded by Mary Jane Hallett Ballard to trustees in 1870 and used for burials until 1898, after which it fell into neglect and overgrowth. In 1952 civic groups persuaded the city to convert the site into a public park, whose central monument honors the county's heroes who fought at the Alamo, Goliad, Gonzales, and San Jacinto. The city and local garden club have tended the grounds ever since.