Nicholas Wren

Wren's marker names the Battle of the Hondo and gives no date. The Woll campaign's fight on Hondo Creek, the Battle of the Arroyo Hondo, came on September 21, 1842, after Gen. Adrian Woll's army left San Antonio. A small band of Texas Rangers under John Coffee Hays attacked on the creek's banks and captured a cannon battery, but had to abandon it when the main Texan force did not advance; four Rangers were wounded. The Texans then disbanded, and Woll's army returned to Mexico.

What the plaque says

Nicholas Wren (1807-1859) Came to Texas, 1833. Became a soldier in the Texas army, 1836. Was commissioned Lieutenant of Rangers by Sam Houston, President of Texas. Fought for Texas during the Vasquez and Woll invasions. Had horse shot from under him in Battle of the Hondo. Resided in Smith County at its organization, 1846. His wife Mariah was a charter member of Harris Creek Baptist Church. Wren died here in Mount Carmel community August 28, 1859. Incise on back: Erected by grandsons of Nicholas Wren (1968)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Tyler State Park — 4.0 mi
  A 985-acre park eight miles north of Tyler, built by the Civilian Conservation Corps from 1935 to 1941 around a 64-acre spring-fed lake, with more than 13 miles of trails.
• Camp Ford Historic Park — 5.7 mi
  A free county park north of Tyler on the site of the largest Confederate prison camp west of the Mississippi, with a kiosk, an interpretive trail and a historical society museum downtown.
• Goodman-LeGrand House and Museum — 9.1 mi
  A Tyler house begun in 1859 as four rooms, enlarged by the Goodman family over 73 years, and left to the city in 1939 with its furnishings, in a garden that fills a city block.
• Tyler Rose Garden and Rose Museum — 10 mi
  More than 38,000 rose bushes of about 600 cultivars in a free city garden, beside a museum of the Texas Rose Festival, which began in 1933, and of the rose industry.

More markers nearby

• In the vicinity of Harris' place — steps away
• Elisha Everett Lott — 2.4 mi
• First Baptist Church of Winona — 3.3 mi
• Antioch Baptist Church — 4.1 mi