Rev. Robert Crawford

The 1936 stone gives Robert Crawford's war and pulpit a line each; the Handbook fills in a long itinerant life. He enlisted at Nacogdoches in January 1836 and fought at San Jacinto as a private in Calder's company. In 1840 he owned Rutersville town lots, one enslaved person and a metal clock. A 1932 book on San Jacinto veterans confused him with a Mier prisoner, but in December 1842 he was at a Methodist convention that sent him to Victoria. He later studied medicine at Galveston, retired in 1874 and died at Franklin.

What the plaque says

Rev. Robert Crawford A veteran of San Jacinto and a Methodist minister. Born in South Carolina in 1815. Died December 5, 1888. Erected by the State of Texas 1936

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Calvert — 5.3 mi
  A railroad cotton town of 1868 on State Highway 6 that claimed the largest cotton gin in the world and elected Black men to county and state office during Reconstruction.
• Milam County Courthouse and Jail — 25 mi
  Cameron's 1892 Renaissance Revival courthouse and the 1895 St. Louis-built jail beside it, now the county museum, are listed together on the National Register.

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