Claiborne West

He married Anna Garner in Louisiana in 1824 and came to Texas seven years later; at the Convention of 1832 he sat for the Liberty District and served on its subcommittee for safety and vigilance for Cow Bayou. During the Runaway Scrape he went back to Southeast Texas to supply soldiers before San Jacinto, and then enlisted under Benjamin Franklin Hardin. After serving as postmaster at Jefferson he moved to Montgomery County, where he held six enslaved people in 1840, and by 1850 to Guadalupe County, where he held nine. He married three times.

What the plaque says

Claiborne West Star and Wreath Born in Tennessee 1803; delegate to the Convention 1832 and the Consultation, 1835. Member of the Council, Provisional. Government of Texas. Delegate to the Convention, March 2, 1836 and signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence; soldier and Congressman Republic of Texas. Died September 10, 1866. Erected by the State of Texas 1962

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Sophienburg Museum and Archives — 14 mi
  The hilltop where Prince Carl of Solms-Braunfels raised the Adelsverein's headquarters in 1845, now the museum and archive of the German colony that became New Braunfels.
• Gruene Historic District — 15 mi
  A cotton town on the Guadalupe that the boll weevil emptied, rescued in the 1970s by a kayaking architecture student, with a dance hall that says it has never closed.
• Spring Lake and the Meadows Center — 23 mi
  The headsprings of the San Marcos River, among the longest-inhabited places in North America, once an amusement park with a swimming pig and now seen from glass-bottom boats.
• Natural Bridge Caverns — 25 mi
  The largest known cavern in Texas, found in 1960 by four college cavers under a ranch family's land, entered beneath a 60-foot limestone bridge and still growing.

More markers nearby

• Riverside Cemetery — steps away
• Colonel John Ireland — 0.6 mi
• Second Baptist Church of Seguin — 0.6 mi
• Guadalupe County, C.S.A. — 0.6 mi