David Burkett

The Kerr Creek land the plaque points to began as a smaller grant. On November 26, 1831, land commissioner José Antonio Navarro titled David Burkett a labor of farmland on the northeast bank of the Guadalupe just below the town commons, running to Kerr Creek. His petition reserved a later claim to a stock-raising league on Peach Creek and the Lavaca, about 25 miles away. He had arrived on June 1, 1830 with his wife, Mary Ann Zumwalt, and four children. He was dead by 1845, when his estate was divided. The burial ground is on private land.

What the plaque says

David Burkett Progressive patriot and citizen soldier in Texas war for independence. A member of Green Dewitt's Colony. Came to Texas with his family, 1830. Served as a guard for women and children fleeing Gonzales before the approach of Santa Anna, 1836. Is buried on his 4,428-acre land grant extending south from this site. (1966)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Gonzales Memorial Museum — 0.9 mi
  A 1937 Centennial museum for the Immortal Thirty-two who died at the Alamo, holding the small iron cannon Gonzales calls its Come and Take It gun and the Handbook calls a second one.
• Palmetto State Park — 11 mi
  Dwarf palmettos, bogs and a spring-fed oxbow on the San Marcos River, with CCC stonework from the 1930s, a swamp an hour from Austin and San Antonio.
• Spoetzl Brewery — 17 mi
  The brewery a Czech and German railroad town started in a tin shed in 1909, run through Prohibition by a Bavarian who had brewed in Cairo, and then by his daughter.
• St. Mary's Church of the Assumption (Praha) — 24 mi
  The mother parish of the Czech settlements around Flatonia, a stone-fronted church of 1895 whose ceiling Gottfried Flury turned into a turquoise garden, with an August 15 feast since 1855.

More markers nearby

• Oak Forest Bridge — steps away
• African American Education in Gonzales — 0.8 mi
• The Immortal 32 — 0.9 mi
• Dr. George Washington Barnett — 1.3 mi