Henry William Munson

Munson came to Brazoria County in 1828 by barge up the Brazos with twenty-four family members and nineteen enslaved people, and the Oakland plantation he built on Gulf Prairie rested on their labor. Before that he had been a judge of the Atascosito District and signed its 1826 census. With James F. Perry he helped start a local school. Cholera killed him on October 6, 1833, at forty, in the same months it struck Peach Point; his last words were reportedly a plea to educate his children. The Handbook says he was buried on the plantation.

What the plaque says

Henry William Munson (January 15, 1793 - October 6, 1833) Heroic early Texas soldier. Fought in Battle of the Medina, near San Antonio, 1813. Returned East afterward, but moved to Texas as a colonist in 1824. Fought on behalf of Mexico to quell Fredonian Rebellion, 1827; but against Santa Anna's agents in 1832 Battle of Velasco. Munson married Ann Pearce. In their family of 8 children was a son, Mordello, named for the Mexican officer who saved life of H. W. Munson at the Medina. Recorded - 1970

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Levi Jordan Plantation State Historic Site — 11 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.
• Brazoria National Wildlife Refuge — 12 mi
  Coastal prairie, salt marsh and bays between Freeport and Christmas Bay, where an auto tour along Big Slough passes wintering geese, ducks and wading birds in the tens of thousands.
• Varner-Hogg Plantation State Historic Site — 16 mi
  A Brazos sugar plantation built by enslaved people for the Patton family, later leased convict labor and Hogg family oil, now told through Rachel Patton and Sarah Ford.

More markers nearby

• William Joel Bryan — steps away
• Major James Peckham Caldwell — steps away
• Emily Margaret Brown Austin Bryan Perry — steps away
• James Franklin Perry — steps away