John S. D. Byrom

Byrom, a Georgian who settled in what is now Brazoria County in 1830, was a militiaman before he was a lawmaker. He fought at Velasco in June 1832. In 1835 Brazoria sent him to the Consultation, and the General Council then named him one of three commissioners to organize the militia in the municipality. He was one of its four delegates to the 1836 convention at Washington-on-the-Brazos, where he signed the Declaration of Independence. Barely a year later, in July 1837, he was dead.

What the plaque says

John S. D. Byrom Born in Georgia September 14, 1798; died July 10, 1837. Delegate to the Consultation, 1835; signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence, 1836.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Varner-Hogg Plantation State Historic Site — 1.7 mi
  A Brazos sugar plantation built by enslaved people for the Patton family, later leased convict labor and Hogg family oil, now told through Rachel Patton and Sarah Ford.
• Levi Jordan Plantation State Historic Site — 9.8 mi
  A sugar and cotton plantation on the San Bernard River whose enslaved builders and their descendants left one of the best-preserved African American archeological sites in Texas.
• Brazos Bend State Park — 17 mi
  Oak and pecan bottomland, lakes and alligators on the Brazos River 45 miles from downtown Houston, with the museum's George Observatory in the woods.
• Brazoria National Wildlife Refuge — 21 mi
  Coastal prairie, salt marsh and bays between Freeport and Christmas Bay, where an auto tour along Big Slough passes wintering geese, ducks and wading birds in the tens of thousands.

More markers nearby

• Nathaniel C. Hazen — steps away
• Byrd Lockhart — steps away
• Josiah H. Bell — steps away
• Ammon Underwood — steps away