Martin Parmer

Martin Parmer's family life was as restless as his politics. He married four times: Sarah Hardwick in Kentucky about 1798, with whom he had ten children; Margaret Neal about 1827; Louisa Lout about 1830; and Zina Kelley about 1839. Sarah died in Texas in 1826, and her ten children later spelled the surname Palmer. Parmer himself died in Jasper County in 1850 and was buried on the A. C. Parmer survey, twelve miles southeast of Jasper, before his body was moved to the State Cemetery in Austin.

What the plaque says

Martin Parmer Born in Virginia, June 4, 1778 - Died in Jasper County, March 2, 1850 - A Delegate to the Constitutional Convention of Missouri, 1821 - Senator in legislature of Missouri - Second in command in the Fredonian War in Texas, 1826 - Member of the Consultation 1835 - Signed the Declaration of Independence, 1836 - Parmer County, Texas, named in his honor. Erected by the State of Texas 1936

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Texas State Cemetery — steps away
  A hill east of the Capitol that began with one general's grave in 1851 and now holds Stephen F. Austin, governors, Barbara Jordan and more than 2,000 Confederate veterans and widows.
• French Legation State Historic Site — 0.3 mi
  A raised pine house built in 1840 and 1841 for France's envoy to the Republic of Texas, who left Austin in a rage over a neighbor's pigs before it was finished.
• George Washington Carver Museum — 0.4 mi
  East Austin's museum of Black history and culture, grown from a segregated branch library moved across town in 1933, with a permanent exhibit on Juneteenth at its core.
• Texas State Capitol — 1.0 mi
  Austin's fourth statehouse, a Renaissance Revival capitol of 1888 that stands 311 feet to its Goddess of Liberty and was restored after the 1983 fire.

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• Robert Rankin — steps away
• Major William Cooke — steps away
• Richard Ellis — steps away
• John Hawkins Singleton — steps away