Charles H. Noyes

The statue's sculptor, Pompeo Coppini, was born in Moglia, Italy, in 1870 and trained at the art academy in Florence, the Handbook of Texas says. He came to the United States in 1896 and to Texas in 1901 to model figures for the Confederate monument at the Capitol. His Texas works include the Littlefield Fountain Memorial at the University of Texas, the Terry's Texas Rangers monument in Austin and the cenotaph to the Alamo's defenders of 1937-39. He moved to Chicago in 1916 for financial reasons and died in San Antonio in 1957.

What the plaque says

Charles H. Noyes, 21, died when his horse fell while rounding up cattle on the Noyes' Ranch. His father and mother, Gus and Lula Noyes, erected monument in 1919 as a tribute to their son and all Texas cowboys. Pompeo Coppini of Chicago studied horses two years before sculpturing statue. (1966)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Carnegie Library of Ballinger — 0.2 mi
  A 1909 limestone library with an Ionic portico in a railroad town the Santa Fe created in 1886, one of the few Texas Carnegie libraries still working in its original building.
• Z. I. Hale Museum and Rock Hotel — 15 mi
  A free museum in a Winters optometrist's office, a 1909 railroad hotel and a 1927 implement dealership, with Rogers Hornsby's hometown memorabilia and a 1912 horse-drawn cotton picker.
• Fort Chadbourne — 27 mi
  An 1852 infantry post and Butterfield stage station on a Coke County ranch, its fallen stone buildings rebuilt since 1999 by the descendant of the family that has ranched the land since 1877.

More markers nearby

• Ballinger — steps away
• Runnels County — steps away
• Site of the Town of Runnels — 4.7 mi
• San Clemente Mission — 6.6 mi