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: 50
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failed in one ambition, and that was to become the President of
the infant republic. He bowed gracefully to the will of the
people, and served wherever they decided he was most needed.
He sought first to be Provisional President in 1835, but Henry
Smith was selected over him at the convention by nine votes.
Again, after his return to Texas in 1836 from securing aid in
the East, he sought to receive the highest honor within the gift
of the people of Texas. Smith was a candidate also, but the
ascendency of General Sam Houston, under whom, as commander-in-chief
of Texas, the battle of San Jacinto was won, overshadowed
them, and both were defeated for the presidency.
December 27, 1836, at the age of forty-three, the life of this
keen business man, successful politician, able diplomat and
patriot, went out, and his body was buried at Peach Point. He
was a man that remembered with gratitude those who aided
him, as was seen in his rewarding the heirs of Hawkins, who
helped him on his first expedition. Texas has long remembered
with gratitude the services of Austin in her early days, but only
now has her gratitude become manifest with a tomb and place
in the State cemetery.
In John Henry Brown's history of Texas, Vol. 1, pages 114 to
117, appears the following account of the ceremonies attending
the burial of General Stephen F. Austin, in 1836, and which
may be interesting reading in connection with the removal of
his remains from Brazoria County to the State cemetery at
Austin:
General Austin died in the house of his friends, Mr. and Mrs.
George B. McKinstry. His remains lay in state from the twentyseventh
to the twenty-ninth, on which day they were escorted
from West Columbia, two miles, to the steamboat Yellowstone,
at Columbia. Colonel George W. Poe acted as marshal of the
procession, headed by the Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate and
House. Then followed the hearse, with his colleagues of the
cabinet, Henry Smith, William S. Fisher, James P. Henderson
and S. Rhodes Fisher, as pallbearers; his relatives, President
Houston and Vice-President Lamar; officers of the civil list, officers
of the army, officers of the navy, and clerks of the departments,
and citizens.
On arriving at Peach Point, on the river, the home of James
F. Perry, his brother-in-law, and the place of interment, the
procession was met by a detachment of the first regiment of infantry,
under Captain Martin K. Snell, who paid the last honors
to the deceased patriot, on his interment. His only sister and
other kindred were in after years buried beside 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/m1/54/?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.