Captain Nathen Brookshire

Nathen Brookshire was born in Rutherford County, Tennessee, in 1793, and served in the Creek War and the War of 1812 before reaching Texas in 1832. On October 5, 1835 he received a league of land in Stephen F. Austin's fifth colony. He later took command of John Bird's company at Bird's Creek after Bird was killed there, and he won 640 acres for his service. He and his wife Mary Ann Hooks had six children. When he died on January 10, 1853, his estate was valued at $2,900 and included nearly 2,000 acres.

What the plaque says

Captain Nathen Brookshire Captain Nathen Brookshire. Participated in the storming and capture of Bexar, December 5th to 10th,1835. A captain in the Texas Army, 1836. Born in Tennessee, 1793. Died Jan. 10, 1853

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• San Felipe de Austin State Historic Site — 8.7 mi
  Stephen F. Austin's colonial capital on a Brazos bluff, the town of the Consultation and the first Texas newspapers, burned by its own garrison in the Runaway Scrape of 1836.
• Attwater Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge — 21 mi
  Ten thousand acres of native coastal prairie northeast of Eagle Lake, kept for a critically endangered grouse, many of whose birds are hatched in captivity and released here.

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