Samuel Joseph Redgate

Redgate opposed secession but stayed in Texas. The Handbook of Texas says the English-born legislator served in the House in 1846 and in 1860-61, one of the few members firmly against secession. By 1871 he lived in Dayton, Ohio, as a bank partner, and in 1876 he helped organize the Eagle Colonizing Association, which brought 350 Germans to Taylor County. He settled in Weatherford after his wife died in 1891 and died there in 1893. The plaque names his wife Mary Yergins and dates her death to 1881; a THC note corrects that to 1891.

What the plaque says

Samuel Joseph Redgate Born in England, 1800 Member of Legislature, 1858-1861 Died May 20, 1893 Jane Yergins Jordt Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Yergins Wife of H. E. Jordt Born in what is now Oklahoma August 20, 1836 Died April 8, 1896 In Memory of Mary Yergins-Redgate Born in Germany, June 11, 1816 Died in Dayton, Ohio October 31, 1881 Shortly after Mrs. Yergins was captured by Indians in 1836 a daughter, Jane, was born and the two were ransomed Mrs. Yergins after the death of her husband was married to Samuel J. Redgate Erected by the State of Texas 1936

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Chandor Gardens — 1.0 mi
  A portrait painter's English-and-Chinese garden rooms, blasted and planted from a bare 3.5-acre hillside in Weatherford beginning in 1936, abandoned after 1978 and reopened by the city in 2002.
• Lake Mineral Wells State Park and Trailway — 15 mi
  A Cross Timbers park on the old Camp Wolters grounds, built around a 1922 water-supply lake for a spa town, with Penitentiary Hollow's rock climbing and a 20-mile trailway.
• Granbury Courthouse Square — 22 mi
  A National Register square of limestone storefronts around W. C. Dodson's Second Empire courthouse, whose clock tower citizens saved after a 1968 tornado.
• Acton State Historic Site — 23 mi
  The smallest state historic site in Texas, a grave plot holding Elizabeth Crockett, widow of David Crockett, under a 1913 statue of a pioneer woman shading her eyes toward the west.

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