(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...
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...
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,...
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'...