Leander C. Cunningham

Before San Jacinto, Cunningham was the first lawyer at Mina, now Bastrop, where he arrived with two brothers in 1833. In May 1835 the ayuntamiento sent him to Nacogdoches with news of raids on the frontier and to seek a mutual-defense agreement, and that December the General Council made him the Mina District's agent for recruiting and supplies. He fought at San Jacinto in Jesse Billingsley's company. Afterward he served in the Second Congress and three terms as Bastrop County chief justice, and helped found Bastrop Academy in 1840.

What the plaque says

Leander C. Cunningham A San Jacinto veteran born in Tennessee, July 10, 1810. Died December 24, 1896. His wife Ann S. Cunningham born in Kentucky November 13, 1808, died June 19, 1895.

Where it stands

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