In Memory of Edward Conrad

Edward Conrad was a Philadelphian, born in April 1811, who reached Texas through Natchitoches in December 1835. He took a second lieutenant's commission in the Independent Volunteer Cavalry at Nacogdoches, and by Christmas his company had been merged into a Kentucky unit at Bexar. At the Convention of 1836 he represented Refugio and served on the committee that drafted the constitution, as well as signing the Declaration. Then he left early to join the regular army. Houston sent him to New Orleans to recruit, and he died at Victoria in July 1836, still serving.

What the plaque says

In Memory of Edward Conrad Born in Pennsylvania in 1810. Came to Texas in 1835. A signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence March 2, 1836. Died in Victoria July 13, 1836 while an officer in the Army of the Republic of Texas. Erected by the State of Texas 1936

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• De León Plaza — 0.2 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 — 2.0 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.
• Fannin Battleground State Historic Site — 16 mi
  The open prairie east of Goliad where Fannin's retreating column formed a square short of the Coleto Creek timber on March 19, 1836, and surrendered the next day.
• Fannin Memorial Monument — 25 mi
  The 1938 pink granite memorial over the common grave of Fannin's men, shot on the roads out of Goliad on Palm Sunday 1836, the grave itself found again only in the 1930s.

More markers nearby

• Home of Empresario Martin De Leon — steps away
• Site of Victoria's First Church — steps away
• This Marker Faces the Site_Home of John Joseph Linn — steps away
• Site of Round Top House — steps away