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: 33
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banquet ever given in this city on the day when the archives
were first brought here. Lamar, then President of this Republic,
Burleson, the shield of the frontier, and James G. Swisher, a
captain at San Jacinto, and who fought with the forlorn hope
at the capture of San Antonio in 1835, were among the guests.
They drank to the memory of Austin in these words: "Whatever
may be the pretensions of others, Stephen F. Austin will
always be considered as the Father of Texas. "
Austin, in writing to General Gaines, of the United States
army, said: "The prosperity of Texas has been the object of
all my labors-the ideal of my existence; it has assumed the
character of a religion for the guidance of all my thoughts and
actions for fifteen years, superior to all personal or pecuniary
views. "
AUSTIN S DEATH.
In a cold room he was writing for two days and nights his
final instructions to the Texas envoy to Washington, but the labor
was too much for the frail victim of a Mexican dungeon.
On the 26th of December. 1836, while the Christian world was
rejoicing over the advent of a Redeemer, Austin breathed his
last. His dying thoughts were of Texas. In his delirium he
said: "Independence is acknowledged; it is in the papersDr.
Archer told me so," and then the pale messenger with inverted
torch touched him, and he returned to the bosom of his
God.
Every flag in the republic went to half mast, and when the
papers announced that the "Father of Texas is no more," they
all knew who had died. President Houston and Lamar, with
the heads of departments, bore him to the grave, and Houston,
sorrowing for a great loss to the Republic, sprinkled the first dust
on his coffin.
Thus his life was sacrificed on the altar of duty.
"So the struck eagle stretched upon the plain,
No more through rolling clouds to soar again,
Views his own feathers on the fatal dart
That winged the shaft that quivered in his heart."
HIS FINAL REST.
And now we will place the remains of the great patriot near
the monuments of those whom he loved, and who helped him
make this mighty State. Colonel Frank Johnson, his companion
and friend; General Hardeman, who, when a boy, followed him,
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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/m1/37/?q=Lamar+University: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Austin History Center, Austin Public Library.