Moses Austin Bryan

Moses Austin Bryan was eighteen at San Jacinto, a third sergeant in Moseley Baker's company and then an aide to Thomas J. Rusk. The Handbook of Texas adds a job the plaque omits: he served as interpreter at the conference between Sam Houston and Santa Anna. Born in Missouri in 1817, he was a son of Emily Austin Bryan and nephew of Stephen F. Austin. He married Adaline Lamothe of Louisiana in 1840 and, two years after her death, Cora Lewis, and he died in Brenham on March 16, 1895.

What the plaque says

Moses Austin Bryan Grandson of Moses Austin, whose 1821 contract with Mexico opened Texas to Anglo-Americans. Moses Austin Bryan came to Texas in 1831; worked with his uncle, Stephen F. Austin; fought (1836) in Battle of San Jacinto; served as secretary, Republic of Texas Legation to United States, 1839; joined 1842 Somervell Expedition to resist Mexican aggressions in Texas; rose to major in Confederate army in Civil War, 1861-1865. Bryan was father of 5 children. (1973)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Independence and Old Baylor Park — 0.8 mi
  A crossroads north of Brenham that was the richest town in Texas when it won Baylor University in 1845, refused the railroad, and lost the college to Waco and Belton in 1886.
• Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site — 12 mi
  The townsite on the Brazos where delegates met in a cold, unfinished hall in March 1836 to declare Texas independent, with Independence Hall rebuilt and Anson Jones's Barrington farm worked as in 1850.
• Star of the Republic Museum — 12 mi
  A star-shaped museum of the Republic of Texas years, 1836 to 1846, built at Washington-on-the-Brazos after a Brenham campaign and opened on March 1, 1970.
• Navasota — 17 mi
  A railroad and cotton town where the La Bahia Road crossed the Navasota River, scarred by an 1865 explosion and yellow fever, and the home ground of the songster Mance Lipscomb.

More markers nearby

• Gen. James Willie — steps away
• Old Independence Cemetery — steps away
• Home of Dr. Asa Hoxey — 0.7 mi
• Columns of a Building of Old Baylor University — 0.8 mi