Hephzibeth Looker Taylor

Her son Creed Taylor, born in Alabama on April 20, 1820, was four when the family reached Texas. At fifteen he helped defend the Gonzales cannon, then fought at Concepción, the Grass Fight and the siege of Bexar. After the Alamo fell he led his mother and the family through the Runaway Scrape, then fought at San Jacinto. He met Comanche warriors at Plum Creek in 1840, was wounded at Salado Creek in 1842 and rode in the Mexican War. His recollections, dictated to James T. DeShields, appeared in 1935 as Tall Men with Long Rifles.

What the plaque says

Hephzibeth Looker Taylor Born in South Caroline; married Josiah Taylor, October 1, 1807; came to Texas in 1824. After his death in 1830, she applied for a 1-league land grant in the Green De Witt Colony, based on Josiah Taylor's colonization certificate from the Empresario. On July 26, 1831, she received the grant. Her children were: William, Hardina, Johanna, Creed, Josiah, Pitkin, Rufus, James, Mary Jane; and by her second marriage, Joshua, son of Patrick Dowlearn. Recorded - 1973

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Chisholm Trail Heritage Museum — 3.4 mi
  A cattle-country museum in Cuero's 1903 Knights of Pythias Hall, telling the Guadalupe Valley's 1866 drive north and the Sutton-Taylor feud that bloodied DeWitt County.
• De León Plaza — 23 mi
  The central plaza of Guadalupe Victoria, the only predominantly Mexican colony in Texas, founded by Martín De León in 1824 and taken from his family after 1836.
• Museum of the Coastal Bend — 23 mi
  Victoria College's museum of thirteen thousand years on the middle Texas coast, from Clovis hunters and Karankawa potters to La Salle's lost Fort St. Louis and the first ranches.

More markers nearby

• Josiah Taylor — steps away
• Leonard Roy Harmon — 2.4 mi
• De Witt County Monument — 2.6 mi
• Cuero — 2.6 mi