Abel Seymour Cunningham

Abel Seymour Cunningham was born in Hardy County, Virginia, in 1810 and came to Victoria County in 1835. He served as a cavalry private from April to July 1836, turned out again in 1842 against Rafael Vasquez's invasion, and rode with Ben McCulloch's rangers when the Mexican War began. In politics he represented Victoria County in the House of the Ninth Congress of the Republic, from December 1844 to June 1845, and sat in the annexation convention that summer. At home he was an alderman and a lawyer the city hired for land cases before the Texas Supreme Court.

What the plaque says

Abel Seymour Cunningham Soldier in the Texas War for Independence Soldier, Ranger and Congressman Republic of Texas. Erected by the State of Texas, 1962.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• De León Plaza — 0.8 mi
  The central plaza of Guadalupe Victoria, the only predominantly Mexican colony in Texas, founded by Martín De León in 1824 and taken from his family after 1836.
• Museum of the Coastal Bend — 1.6 mi
  Victoria College's museum of thirteen thousand years on the middle Texas coast, from Clovis hunters and Karankawa potters to La Salle's lost Fort St. Louis and the first ranches.
• Fannin Battleground State Historic Site — 16 mi
  The open prairie east of Goliad where Fannin's retreating column formed a square short of the Coleto Creek timber on March 19, 1836, and surrendered the next day.
• Fannin Memorial Monument — 25 mi
  The 1938 pink granite memorial over the common grave of Fannin's men, shot on the roads out of Goliad on Palm Sunday 1836, the grave itself found again only in the 1930s.

More markers nearby

• Victor Marion Rose — steps away
• John J. Linn — steps away
• Don Martin De Leon — steps away
• Dona Patricia De La Garza De Leon — steps away