Sherwood Y. Reamos

The stone gives Reams a single duty at Harrisburg, and the finding aid for his 1836 letter at the Briscoe Center fills in the rest. Sherwood Young Reams, born in Spartanburg, South Carolina, in 1812, came to Texas from Tennessee in 1835 and served under James C. Neill. Discharged for his health, he reenlisted in July 1836 for three months. He married Sarah Atkinson in 1837 and, two years after her 1853 death, Mary Backman. In 1870 they left Peach Creek for Buckhorn, where H. S. Smith had a gin and gristmill by 1873.

What the plaque says

Sherwood Y. Reamos Detailed to guard the baggage at Harrisburg April 21, 1836. Born in South Carolina, 1812; died in 1887.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• San Felipe de Austin State Historic Site — 17 mi
  Stephen F. Austin's colonial capital on a Brazos bluff, the town of the Consultation and the first Texas newspapers, burned by its own garrison in the Runaway Scrape of 1836.
• Star of the Republic Museum — 20 mi
  A star-shaped museum of the Republic of Texas years, 1836 to 1846, built at Washington-on-the-Brazos after a Brenham campaign and opened on March 1, 1970.
• Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site — 20 mi
  The townsite on the Brazos where delegates met in a cold, unfinished hall in March 1836 to declare Texas independent, with Independence Hall rebuilt and Anson Jones's Barrington farm worked as in 1850.
• Independence and Old Baylor Park — 22 mi
  A crossroads north of Brenham that was the richest town in Texas when it won Baylor University in 1845, refused the railroad, and lost the college to Waco and Belton in 1886.

More markers nearby

• Early Texas River Steamers — 6.4 mi
• St. John Lutheran Church — 6.4 mi
• Union Army P.O.W. Cemetery — 6.6 mi
• Bellville General Hospital — 6.7 mi