Seth Ingram

Seth Ingram laid out San Felipe de Austin for Stephen F. Austin, and the plaque leaves out the worst day of his life. On September 2, 1830, he killed the lawyer John G. Holtham in San Felipe after a quarrel over defamatory handbills. He and his storekeeping partner Hosea League spent about sixteen months in jail, were freed on bond in January 1832, and were tried and acquitted that year. By 1834 he lived in Matagorda, where he served on the Committee of Safety, handled his brother Ira's estate, and in 1845 became a trustee of Matagorda University.

What the plaque says

Seth Ingram Sergeant 11th regiment, U.S. infantry, war of 1812. One of Austin's surveyors, laid out the town of San Felipe. Born in Vermong June 19, 1790. Died May 12, 1857

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Levi Jordan Plantation State Historic Site — 28 mi
  A sugar and cotton plantation on the San Bernard River whose enslaved builders and their descendants left one of the best-preserved African American archeological sites in Texas.

More markers nearby

• Ira Ingram — steps away
• Sinclair David Gervais — steps away
• Dr. Albert Moses Levy — steps away
• Richard Royster Royall — steps away