Homer Robert Henderson

Henderson's captain, James Abijah Brooks, is remembered as one of the Rangers' "Four Great Captains," with John R. Hughes, William J. McDonald and John H. Rogers. A Kentuckian who worked as a cowboy and miner, Brooks joined as a private in 1883 and rose to captain of Company F of the Frontier Battalion in 1889. He fought fence cutters in Brown County and lost several fingers in a gunfight with the Conner gang in East Texas. He resigned as head of Company A on November 15, 1906, and later served as county judge of Brooks County, named for him.

What the plaque says

Homer Robert Henderson Texas Ranger; deputy sheriff; county commissioner in Ector and (later) in Crane County. Born in Wilson County; one of 12 children of Robert and Mary Elizabeth (O'Neal) Henderson. Came to Odessa as member of company a, Texas Rangers, under command of Capt. J. A. Brooks, in 1906. This was in period when Rangers kept the peace during citizen's filing of land claims. Married Annie Henderson here, October 8, 1908. Ranched in area. (1967)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• White-Pool House — 4.8 mi
  Odessa's oldest standing building, an 1887 brick house of a family the Texas and Pacific drew west, later cut into apartments for the oil boom and now a free house museum.
• Midland Army Air Field Museum — 6.3 mi
  A hangar museum at Midland's airport, run by Commemorative Air Force volunteers, telling how a 1927 grass field became the bombardier college that graduated 6,627 officers in World War II.
• Odessa Meteor Crater — 14 mi
  A shallow bowl in the ranchland southwest of Odessa where a shower of iron meteorites struck in the late Ice Age, with a trail down into it and a small museum on the rim.
• Permian Basin Petroleum Museum — 14 mi
  Midland's museum of the oil basin it sits on, from a restored diorama of the Permian reef to a 40-acre yard of drilling rigs and Jim Hall's Chaparral race cars.

More markers nearby

• Comanche War Trail — steps away
• Ector County — steps away
• Emmet V. Headlee, M.D. — 1.4 mi
• Old Buffalo Wallow — 2.3 mi