Augustine B. Hardin

Hardin's Texas record starts well before the Revolution. In January 1827 he enlisted in Hugh B. Johnston's volunteer company, which marched to Nacogdoches to help put down the Fredonian Rebellion. Nine years later he signed the Declaration of Independence at Washington-on-the-Brazos. He was a Catholic, the only Hardin the Handbook of Texas says kept that faith after the Revolution, and he never remarried after his wife Maria died in 1844. He is counted among the founders of the Liberty Masonic Lodge in 1849.

What the plaque says

Augustine B. Hardin A signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence. Born in Georgia in 1798; died July 27, 1871.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Sam Houston Regional Library and Research Center — 0.7 mi
  A state archives and museum north of Liberty with an exhibit on Southeast Texas history and a campus of historic buildings, including an 1848 house and an 1898 church.
• San Jacinto Battleground State Historic Site — 31 mi
  The 1,200 acres of coastal prairie and marsh where the Texas Revolution ended in eighteen minutes, and the 567-foot shaft of fossil-studded limestone that has stood over them since 1939.
• Big Thicket National Preserve — 33 mi
  Start at the Kountze visitor center, where rangers sort the preserve's scattered units for you, and learn why Congress made this 1974 string of pearls the country's first national preserve.

More markers nearby

• Benjamin W. Hardin — steps away
• William Hardin — steps away
• Price Daniel — 0.3 mi
• St. Stephen's Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi