Home of Mrs. Margaret McCormick

Peggy McCormick, born in Ireland about 1788, received a league with her family on August 10, 1824, and after her husband drowned she and her sons raised cattle for the Opelousas market. Returning after the battle, she found her land strewn with dead Mexican soldiers and crossed the field to demand that Sam Houston bury them; when he and Santa Anna refused, she and her sons did it themselves. Neighbors and county officials cheated her of almost half her league through a resurvey, and in 1845 the sheriff sold all but her fifty-acre homesite for debt.

What the plaque says

Home of Mrs. Margaret McCormick On this site on April 21, 1836, stood the home of Mrs. Margaret McCormick whose husband, Arthur McCormick, died here in 1825. Mrs. McCormick lost her life here in 1854 when the home was burned.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• San Jacinto Battleground State Historic Site — 1.9 mi
  The 1,200 acres of coastal prairie and marsh where the Texas Revolution ended in eighteen minutes, and the 567-foot shaft of fossil-studded limestone that has stood over them since 1939.
• Space Center Houston — 12 mi
  The visitor center of NASA's Johnson Space Center at Clear Lake, with flown capsules, a shuttle replica riding a 747, and tram tours to Mission Control and a Saturn V.
• Emancipation Park — 18 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.
• Sam Houston Park and the Heritage Society — 18 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.

More markers nearby

• Texas Army Attacked in Four Divisions — 1.2 mi
• Battle of San Jacinto — 1.2 mi
• de Zavala Plaza — 2.4 mi
• Lorenzo de Zavala — 2.9 mi