Robert Love Reding

The Goliad Declaration that Reding signed was drafted by Ira Ingram and read to the town's citizens at the presidio of La Bahia on December 20, 1835. It carried ninety-one signatures, among them Jose Miguel Aldrete and Jose Maria Jesus Carbajal, and declared Texas a "free, sovereign, and independent State." The General Council at San Felipe was embarrassed by it, since it was then courting Mexican federalists, and filed it away as inconsiderately adopted. It came seventy-three days before the Texas Declaration of Independence and cost Texas the federalists' support.

What the plaque says

Robert Love Reding Army of Texas. Participated in the capture of Goliad, October 9, 1835. Signer of the Goliad Declaration of Independence. Born in Tennessee, 1810, died 1849.

Where it stands

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