Daniel Shipman

Shipman's family left South Carolina in 1814 and followed the frontier through Tennessee, Illinois, Missouri and Arkansas, reaching the Pecan Point region in March 1822. That April he and his friend Charles Isaac Nidever rode south to the Brazos, and the family joined Austin's colony in 1823. He worked on William Selkirk's surveying crew, quarreled with Austin over a promised quarter league and looked over De Leon's colony before taking a league with Nidever in 1827. In 1879 he published Frontier Life: 58 Years in Texas, whose early chapters are his own memoirs.

What the plaque says

Daniel Shipman Participated in the Disturbance at Anahuac June, 1832 and the Storming and Capture of Bexar, December 5 to 10, 1835 Born in North Carolina February 20, 1801 Died in Goliad County, Texas March 4, 1881 Eliza Hancock Shipman Wife of Daniel Shipman Born December 22, 1813 Died in Goliad County, Texas September 11, 1858 Erected by the State of Texas 1936

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Texas State Cemetery — steps away
  A hill east of the Capitol that began with one general's grave in 1851 and now holds Stephen F. Austin, governors, Barbara Jordan and more than 2,000 Confederate veterans and widows.
• French Legation State Historic Site — 0.3 mi
  A raised pine house built in 1840 and 1841 for France's envoy to the Republic of Texas, who left Austin in a rage over a neighbor's pigs before it was finished.
• George Washington Carver Museum — 0.4 mi
  East Austin's museum of Black history and culture, grown from a segregated branch library moved across town in 1933, with a permanent exhibit on Juneteenth at its core.
• Texas State Capitol — 1.0 mi
  Austin's fourth statehouse, a Renaissance Revival capitol of 1888 that stands 311 feet to its Goddess of Liberty and was restored after the 1983 fire.

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• Bailey Hardeman — steps away
• Captain Andrew Briscoe — steps away