Harvey Homan

An army muster roll preserves what the tablet cannot: what Homan looked like. Louis Kemp's sketch quotes Capt. Nicholas M. Dawson's roll, kept after Roman left the company. Homan was a Kentucky carpenter, five feet ten, dark-complexioned with dark eyes and hair, recruited by Roman at Velasco and enlisted on January 29, 1836, for the duration of the war. He had drawn a vest, a jacket, two pairs of pants, sheets, shoes and stockings worth $14.48, plus $80 in pay. He served on into 1837 and in 1838 sold his 1,280-acre bounty certificate for $200.

What the plaque says

Harvey Homan Came to Texas in January, 1836. Fought at San Jacinto in Captain Richard Roman's company. Born in Kentucky, 1806; died in Houston July, 1846.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Sam Houston Park and the Heritage Society — 0.5 mi
  Ten historic buildings gathered in a downtown park below the skyscrapers, among them the 1870 house of the Reverend Jack Yates, built five years after emancipation.
• Buffalo Soldiers National Museum — 1.5 mi
  A museum in Houston's 1925 Light Guard Armory that tells the service of Black soldiers from the Revolutionary War onward, built from one veteran's thirty years of collecting.
• Emancipation Park — 1.7 mi
  The Third Ward park that freedpeople bought for Juneteenth in 1872, rebuilt in 2017 on Emancipation Avenue and still the center of the city's June 19 celebration.
• Rothko Chapel — 1.7 mi
  An octagonal chapel open to all faiths, built by the de Menils around fourteen dark canvases by Mark Rothko, with Barnett Newman's Broken Obelisk standing in the pool outside.

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• John Cheevers — steps away