Account of the Removal of the Remains of Stephen F. Austin from Peach Point Cemetery in Brazoria County, Texas to State Cemetery, Austin, Texas, October 18 to 20, 1910 Page: 13
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Peach Point was the old home of Austin's sister, Mrs. Emily
M. Perry. A portion of the old loghouse is still standing, having
survived the hurricanes of recent years, while the more modern
portion was swept away. The room where Stephen F. Austin
slept when he visited his sister, which was frequently, is intact
and well preserved. It contains his library, which has not been
removed since his death. The property belongs to Mr. James F.
Perry, of Peach Point, who, for sentimental reasons, is loath to
change it. The library contains many rare volumes. Some of
the books bear inscriptions in faded ink, denoting that they were
presents made to Miss Emily M. Austin while she was a young
lady at St. Genevieve, Mo. The old masonry gates, three feet in
diameter, are still standing, but there is little else to denote that
the Peach Point of the Perrys was once a glorious ante-bellum
plantation home. The noble live oaks which once formed a giant
horseshoe about the old place have been uprooted by storms.
Plantation life is again coming into existence around Peach Point,
however, and at the present time one may ride through miles of
sugar cane in that section of the country. More people are coming
into the country, land values are increasing, and the atmosphere
seems charged with the activity which betokens a new era
of prosperity on the old plantations.
SERVICES AT AUSTIN.
Special to The News.
Austin, Texas, Oct. 18.-The casket containing all that is mortal
of Stephen F. Austin, "the Father of Texas," is due to reach
Austin over the Houston & Texas Central Railroad at 4:45 o'clock
to-morrow afternoon. A procession will beformed, and will escort
the catafalque north on Congress Avenue to the Capitol. The
body will lie in state in the Senate Chamber until 3:30 o'clock
Thursday afternoon, when the funeral services will begin. The
body, which has been buried in an isolated place in Brazoria
County since December, 1836, will be reburied in the State cemetery
with State honors and ceremony.
To-morrow night memorial services will be held in the Senate
Chamber, the program to include orations and music. In the
processions, among the honorary pallbearers will be W. P. Zuber,
who is believed to be the only man alive who ever saw Austin,
and who was with Houston at the battle of San Jacinto; Alfonzo
Steele, of Mexia, the second survivor of Houston's San Jacinto
army, and J. W. Darlington, another soldier of the Texas Indepedenee
army, serving after San Jacinto.
Active pallbearers: Mayor A. P. Wooldridge, Railroad Com
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Bryan, Guy M., Jr. Account of the Removal of the Remains of Stephen F. Austin from Peach Point Cemetery in Brazoria County, Texas to State Cemetery, Austin, Texas, October 18 to 20, 1910, book, 1911; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth38129/m1/17/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Austin History Center, Austin Public Library.