Home of Adolphus Sterne

Sam Houston lived at the Sterne house. The Handbook of Texas says he boarded with the Sternes when he first arrived and was baptized a Catholic in their parlor, as Mexican law prescribed. Eva Sterne was Houston's godmother; Adolphus did not serve as godfather because the date fell on Yom Kippur. Sterne's father was an Orthodox Jew and his mother Lutheran, and he was born most likely in Cologne. He kept a diary from September 1840 to November 1851, published in 1969 as Hurrah for Texas.

What the plaque says

Home of Adolphus Sterne A pioneer citizen of Nacogdoches. Born in Cologne, Germany, April 5, 1801. Alcalde at Nacogdoches under the Mexican government. Member of the Congress of the Republic of Texas. Died March 27, 1852. Buried in Nacogdoches. Here General Sam Houston made his home both before and after his marriage. The door of Adolphus Sterne was ever open to all the world. Erected by the State of Texas 1836

Where it stands

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