The Hon. Samuel Boyd Patton
Kendalia, Kendall County, Texas
Marker Inscription
Born in South Carolina in 1787, Samuel Boyd Patton moved to Tennessee as a youth. After serving in the war of 1812, he moved to Alabama, where he held public office and served in the state legislature. In 1837 Patton moved to Texas. He was appointed to the Board of Land Commissioners and was a member of the Congress of the Republic of Texas. He helped organize Blanco County and served as the first chief justice (county judge) from 1858-60. He was the second chief justice in Kendall County in 1865. He died in 1869 and was buried here on his homestead. (1996)
Erected by Texas Historical Commission
The Story
Born in South Carolina in 1787, Samuel Boyd Patton served in the War of 1812 and held office in the Alabama legislature before moving to Texas in 1837. There he sat on the Board of Land Commissioners and in the Congress of the Republic of Texas, helped organize Blanco County, and became its first chief justice. He later served as Kendall County's second chief justice and was buried on his homestead in 1869.
Why it matters
Patton's career links the early republic's frontier to the founding of Texas Hill Country counties, showing how one settler helped knit new government onto raw land.
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