Dr. Thomas Jefferson Gazley

Gazley trained in medicine at Baltimore and practiced in Louisiana before marrying Eliza Boyce; the family came to Texas from Ohio late in 1828 and settled in present Bastrop County. In April 1829 he applied for a license to practice at San Felipe, and in 1830 he became clerk of the ayuntamiento. In the fall of 1835 he was surgeon in Michael R. Goheen's company. After the Revolution he moved to Houston, practiced law with John Birdsall and was senior warden of Holland Lodge No. 36. He died near the site of Smithville and was reinterred here in 1937.

What the plaque says

Dr. Thomas Jefferson Gazley --- front side --- Born in New York, January 8, 1801 * Died in Bastrop County, Texas, October 31, 1853 * Doctor- Lawyer, Soldier, Legislator Erected by the State of Texas 1936 --- back side --- Delegate to the Second Conven- tion of Texas, 1833 * Physician in the Army of Texas, 1835 - 1836 * Signer of the Declaration of Independence, 1836 * Grand Senior Warden of the Grand (Masonic) Lodge of Texas, 1837 * Member of the Second Congress, 1837 - 1838

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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• Dr. George Moffit Patrick — steps away
• William C. Crane — steps away
• Judge Edwin Waller — steps away
• Major William Cooke — steps away