(1792 - 1867) Brazoria County planter, founder of East and West Columbia, Texas, and one of Stephen F. Austin's Old Three Hundred colonists, was born on August 22, 1791, in Chester District, South...
Bell, Mary Evaline McKenzie
(1799 – 1856) The old adage that “behind every good man is a good woman" may have been begun by pioneer men and woman who saw Mary Bell in action. Despite having been born into a wealthy...
Angier, Samuel Tubbs
(1792–1867) Samuel Tubbs Angier, physician and Old Three Hundred pioneer, was born in Pembroke, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, on August 26, 1792, the son of Samuel and Mary Tubbs. On February 29,...
Underwood, Rachel Jane Carson
(1820 – 1896) Rachel Jane Carson was one of the youngest members of Stephen F. Austin’s “Old 300” Anglo settlers in Texas, is one of five prominent women in local history. She was born in Catahoula...
Underwood, Ammon I
(1810–1887) Ammon Underwood, early settler, son of Asa and Mercy (Durant) Underwood, was born at Dracut, Massachusetts, on February 13, 1810. In 1834 he took passage from Boston to Texas and arrived...
Thomas, Susanna M. Willams
(1809–1849) Susanna M. Williams was born in North Carolina and moved with her father, Solomon Williams, one of Stephen F. Austin's Old Three Hundred colonists who received title to a sitio and a...
Brown, Henry Stevenson
(1793–1834) Henry Stevenson Brown, early settler, trader, and Indian fighter, was born in Madison County, Kentucky, on March 8, 1793, the son of Caleb and Jemima (Stevenson) Brown. In 1810 he moved...
Byrom, John Smith Davenport
(1798–1837) John Byrom, early settler, son of Henry and Catherine Smith (Davenport) Byrom, was born in Hancock, Georgia, on September 24, 1798. In 1806 he moved with his uncle and guardian, John...
McFarlane, Dugald
(1797–1861) Dugald MacFarlane, [Also, spelled as McFarlane and McFarland] legislator, author, and signer of the Goliad Declaration of Independence, was born in Scotland in 1797. He immigrated to...
Hazen, Nathaniel C.
As Texian soldiers routed General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna’s Mexican troops at the decisive Battle of San Jacinto in April 1836, celebratory shouts of “Remember the Alamo” and “Remember Goliad”...
Rounds, George
(1805–1855) George Rounds, soldier and philanthropist, was born in New York about 1805, moved to Texas by 1836, and settled at Velasco. During the Texas Revolution he served in Colonel James W....
Adriance, John
(1816-1903) When John Adriance was laid to rest at Old Columbia Cemetery in December of 1903, he had left his mark on the East and West Columbia communities. He had been a soldier in Texas’s fight...
McCormick, David
(1793–1836) David McCormick, one of Stephen F. Austin's Old Three Hundred colonists, the son of Andrew and Catherine (Adams) McCormick, was born in 1793. He moved to Texas from Hempstead County,...
Cayce, Major Thomas Dodson
(1785–1857) Thomas Dodson Cayce moved to Texas from Tennessee in December 18291, making the trek by boat from Memphis2. He established a ferry near where the bridge over the Colorado River is now...
Bell, Thaddeus (Thaddus) Constantine
Elizabeth Cayce Bell is buried here but Thaddeus (Thaddus) Bell is buried in the Morse-Bragg (Pleasant Bend) Cemetery near the River Oaks Subdivision in Houston per research by Dan M. Worrall, July...
Bell, Elizabeth Hodge Cayce
(1830–1867) “The other was Elizabeth Hodges, then in her fourteenth year, well grown, self-reliant, mature in thought beyond her years, but strictly holding the school-girl's place to her sisters'...