Dr. Albert Moses Levy

The plaque has Levy at Bexar and aboard the Brutus. His hardest months came later. On April 17, 1837, Mexican brigs-of-war captured the Texas Navy ship Independence, with Levy aboard as a surgeon. He escaped after three months and walked back to Texas, then settled into practice at Matagorda and in 1838 sat on a medical board created by Congress. Born in the Netherlands to a Jewish family, he is remembered in Houston, which proclaimed an Albert Moses Levy Memorial Day on April 30, 1986, honoring the Jews who fought for Texas independence.

What the plaque says

Dr. Albert Moses Levy Dutch immigrant Albert Moses Levy came to the United States in 1818. After graduation from medical school in 1832, he practiced medicine in Richmond, Virginia, until about 1835, when he left for New Orleans. In the service of the New Orleans Greys, he served as chief surgeon in the Siege of Bexar (Dec. 1835) and later served on the Brutus in the Texas Navy. Levy settled in Matagorda, where he married Claudina O. Gervais and was active in state and local affairs. (1986)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Levi Jordan Plantation State Historic Site — 28 mi
  A sugar and cotton plantation on the San Bernard River whose enslaved builders and their descendants left one of the best-preserved African American archeological sites in Texas.

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