Captain Henry Stout

The Handbook of Texas follows Stout through the Wood County record. He served as sheriff from 1850 to 1852, and in 1855 voters sent him to the Sixth Texas Legislature for the district of Wood and Van Zandt counties. In the Civil War he was elected second lieutenant of Company B, Tenth Texas Cavalry, and received a medical discharge for age and disability on May 25, 1862. The 1880 census lists him as born in Virginia, which the Handbook treats as a likely error because the age matches the Tennessee-born Stout.

What the plaque says

Captain Henry Stout Henry Stout came to Texas in 1818 from Tennessee. Reported to have helped David Crockett plan his route to the Alamo, he served in the Republic of Texas Army in 1836, and from 1839 to 1845 was Captain of a Texas Ranger company. He moved here in 1847 and operated a grist mill and freight hauling business. He served on the commission to create Wood County in 1850, and was the first sheriff. He represented Van Zandt and Wood counties in the State Legislature in 1855-56, and was a Confederate officer during the Civil War. He is buried in a family cemetery adjacent to this site. (1992)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Governor Hogg Shrine — 10 mi
  Quitman's 27-acre city park, once a state historical park, where two houses tied to James Stephen Hogg's marriage stand beside an arboretum, a nature walk and the grounds of the Old Settlers Reunion.
• Lake Bob Sandlin State Park — 19 mi
  A 1987 state park on a 9,000-acre reservoir, where a Republic of Texas stockade called Fort Sherman stood in 1838 and the Caddo lived from A.D. 800 to 1860, now with fishing piers, trails and cabins.
• Tyler State Park — 24 mi
  A 985-acre park eight miles north of Tyler, built by the Civilian Conservation Corps from 1935 to 1941 around a 64-acre spring-fed lake, with more than 13 miles of trails.

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• Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church — 6.7 mi
• Pleasant Grove School & Cemetery — 9.0 mi
• Rhonesboro — 9.8 mi
• James Stephen Hogg — 10.0 mi