Mrs. Rebecca Lamar

The tablet gives Rebecca Lamar two relations; her family's papers fill in a little more. Born a Lamar, she married John Lamar, and their son Mirabeau grew up at Fairfield, his father's plantation near Milledgeville, Georgia. In May 1836, weeks after San Jacinto, her daughter Mary Ann Moreland reminded Mirabeau to write to their mother. She lived to see that son inaugurated president on December 10, 1838. When she died the next summer, Houston's Morning Star, a daily begun that April, printed a sketch of her life, and a condolence letter dated July 30 reached the president.

What the plaque says

Mrs. Rebecca Lamar Widow of John Lamar; mother of Mirabeau B. Lamar. Died at "Oak Grove" in Houston, July 26, 1839.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Sam Houston Park and the Heritage Society — 0.5 mi
  Ten historic buildings gathered in a downtown park below the skyscrapers, among them the 1870 house of the Reverend Jack Yates, built five years after emancipation.
• Buffalo Soldiers National Museum — 1.5 mi
  A museum in Houston's 1925 Light Guard Armory that tells the service of Black soldiers from the Revolutionary War onward, built from one veteran's thirty years of collecting.
• Emancipation Park — 1.7 mi
  The Third Ward park that freedpeople bought for Juneteenth in 1872, rebuilt in 2017 on Emancipation Avenue and still the center of the city's June 19 celebration.
• Rothko Chapel — 1.7 mi
  An octagonal chapel open to all faiths, built by the de Menils around fourteen dark canvases by Mark Rothko, with Barnett Newman's Broken Obelisk standing in the pool outside.

More markers nearby

• David Porter Richardson — steps away
• Amos B. Edson — steps away
• Augustus Chapman Allen — steps away
• Gravesite of John Kirby Allen — steps away