Matthew Duncan Ector

Ector reached Texas in 1850 and settled in Henderson, not Marshall; the Handbook of Texas says he moved to Marshall only in 1868, forming a law partnership with N. H. Wilson. His leg had been amputated below the knee after Atlanta on July 27, 1864. Elected district judge in 1866, he was removed in 1867 by Gen. Joseph J. Reynolds, then appointed judge of the new Seventh District in 1868. He won election to the Court of Appeals in 1875 and its presiding judgeship in 1876, and died in Tyler on October 29, 1879.

What the plaque says

Matthew Duncan Ector (Star and Wreath) Brigadier General, C. S. A. Participated in Battles of Richmond, Ky., Murfreesboro, Chicamauga, Atlanta, Defense of Mobile. Erected by the State of texas 1962

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Texas and Pacific Railway Depot and Museum — 0.5 mi
  The only surviving building of the Texas and Pacific shops at Marshall, a 1912 Mission Revival depot saved from demolition in the 1990s, still an Amtrak stop, with a railway museum and a Mikado locomotive.
• Harrison County Historical Museum — 0.9 mi
  Galleries in Marshall's 1901 courthouse that run from the Caddo to the present, with Wiley College, Lady Bird Johnson's inaugural gown and a military gallery across the square in Memorial City Hall.
• Starr Family Home State Historic Site — 0.9 mi
  Maplecroft, the 1871 Greek Revival house Frank Starr built in Marshall, with Ruth Starr Blake's glass and china, an 1880s kitchen restored in 2019 and a retirement home built for a formerly enslaved person.
• Jefferson Historical Museum — 14 mi
  A four-floor museum in Jefferson's 1888-90 federal post office and courthouse, with rooms for African-American history, Jewish heritage, the Caddo and Diamond Bessie, bought by the historical society in 1965 for $8,100.

More markers nearby

• Alexander Travis Hawthorn — steps away
• Lt. Gen. George Perry Rains — steps away
• East Texas Baptist University — steps away
• Van Zandt Hill — steps away