Samuel R. Frost

Frost's fortunes ran through the railroads. After studying law in Clinton M. Winkler's office and joining the bar in 1870, the Handbook of Texas says, he became attorney for the Cotton Belt and the Houston and Texas Central and helped organize Corsicana's first water and gas plants. He and fellow lawyer Bryan Barry bought the Kerens townsite plat and offered lots in 1881 and 1882. In 1889 he represented a district of four counties in the legislature and later declined a seat on the Court of Civil Appeals.

What the plaque says

Samuel R. Frost (Mar. 1, 1846 - Jan. 1, 1908) A native of Huntsville, Texas, Samuel R. Frost grew up in Navarro County and in 1863 enlisted in the Confederate army. After the Civil War, he studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1870. In the years that followed, Frost served as Navarro County attorney, county judge, district judge, and state legislator. He and his wife, Mary (Winkler), were the parents of nine children. The town of Frost (20 mi. W) was named in his honor. Recorded - 1984

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Petroleum Industry Park — 1.0 mi
  The pipes and drilling tower mark where a city water well struck oil on June 9, 1894, the start of the first Texas field to produce oil and gas in important quantities.
• Blind Lemon Memorial Cemetery — 21 mi
  The Freestone County grave of the Texas blues singer Blind Lemon Jefferson, who recorded for Paramount in Chicago from 1926 and died there in December 1929.
• Ellis County Courthouse — 29 mi
  J. Riely Gordon's courthouse of 1897 in Pecos red sandstone and pink granite, with twenty-one carved stone faces and two cornerstones left by a quarrel over its building.

More markers nearby

• David Reed Mitchell — steps away
• Col. Clinton McKamey Winkler — steps away
• Colonel Roger Q. Mills — 0.3 mi
• Frank Neal Drane — 0.3 mi