In Memory of Captain Thomas K. Pearson

Among the volunteers this 1936 monument names is Dr. Gustav Bunsen, a man already wanted at home. Born in Frankfurt am Main in 1804, the son of a mint official, he trained as a physician and was a leader of the failed Frankfurt rising of April 3, 1833, which gathered at his family's home in the mint and marched on the city's main guardhouse. Slightly wounded, he hid in the city, then escaped to North America. German records lost him in Texas in 1836, and a court declared him legally dead only in 1870.

What the plaque says

In Memory of Captain Thomas K. Pearson In Memory of Captain Thomas K. Pearson, Lieutenant Henry Cooney, Dr. William W. Hoit, Dr. Gustav Bunsen, Joseph Carpenter, Benjamin Dale, William Williams and two or three other Texan volunteers killed in action at and near San Patricio February 27, 1836 who were buried here next day by Rev. Father Thomas K. Malloy and of Sergeant John McGloin, Mathew Byrne, John Fadden, Edward Garner, Dennis McGowan, Patrick Niven, Edward Ryan, sons of San Patricio who perished at Goliad March 27, 1836 and of Sergeant George Pettuck and Andrew M. O'Boyle who were spared at Goliad through the intervention of Colonel Francisco Garay. Erected by the State of Texas 1936

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Lipantitlán State Historic Site — 3.5 mi
  Five undeveloped acres on the Nueces named for the Lipan Apaches who camped here, where Mexico built an earth-and-rail fort that Texans took early in the Revolution.
• Lake Corpus Christi State Park — 9.8 mi
  A lake park in the South Texas brush country above Mathis, on a reservoir of the Nueces, with a Civilian Conservation Corps refectory and more than 200 bird species.
• Texas State Aquarium — 25 mi
  A nonprofit aquarium on the tip of Corpus Christi Beach built around the Gulf and the Caribbean, with the largest coastal wildlife rescue center in Texas behind the exhibits.
• Art Museum of South Texas — 25 mi
  Philip Johnson's 1972 museum on the Corpus Christi bayfront, joined in 2006 by Ricardo Legorreta's Miller Wing, holding more than 2,000 works mostly from Texas and the Americas.

More markers nearby

• Old Cemetery on the Hill — steps away
• Old Dougherty House — 0.7 mi
• Saint Patrick's Catholic Church — 0.7 mi
• Battle of San Patricio — 0.9 mi