Nathaniel C. Hazen

Nathaniel Hazen was eighteen, in Harbert Davenport's account, when he enlisted at Nacogdoches around January 14, 1836. On February 9 he was one of eight men sent from San Felipe under Acting Lieutenant Samuel Sprague to reinforce Fannin. Around April 11, an acting captain's muster roll for Captain Patton's Columbia Company recorded that Hazen had joined with Daniel Murphy and Charles Shain. Beside his name the roll notes "One of Fannin's men, escaped from massacre at Goliad." He died the day Stephen F. Austin did, December 27, 1836, also at Columbia.

What the plaque says

Nathaniel C. Hazen Came to Texas in January, 1836; led out to be shot with Fannin's men, March 27, 1836, but escaped. Fought at San Jacinto in Captain William H. Patton's company. Died in Columbia, December 27, 1836.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Varner-Hogg Plantation State Historic Site — 1.7 mi
  A Brazos sugar plantation built by enslaved people for the Patton family, later leased convict labor and Hogg family oil, now told through Rachel Patton and Sarah Ford.
• Levi Jordan Plantation State Historic Site — 9.8 mi
  A sugar and cotton plantation on the San Bernard River whose enslaved builders and their descendants left one of the best-preserved African American archeological sites in Texas.
• Brazos Bend State Park — 17 mi
  Oak and pecan bottomland, lakes and alligators on the Brazos River 45 miles from downtown Houston, with the museum's George Observatory in the woods.
• Brazoria National Wildlife Refuge — 21 mi
  Coastal prairie, salt marsh and bays between Freeport and Christmas Bay, where an auto tour along Big Slough passes wintering geese, ducks and wading birds in the tens of thousands.

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• Josiah H. Bell — steps away
• Ammon Underwood — steps away