Site of the Home of Robert Justus Kleberg

Robert Justus Kleberg married Rosalia von Roeder in September 1834 and left Europe at the end of that month. His party crossed on the Congress, and the schooner Sabin, chartered at New Orleans, wrecked off Galveston Island on December 22, 1834. The family settled at Cat Spring, Austin County, in November 1836 and stayed until the fall of 1847, when they moved to DeWitt County. He was elected county commissioner in 1848 and chief justice in 1853, and was re-elected in 1854. The offices found in these accounts are local ones, though the plaque calls him a senator.

What the plaque says

Site of the Home of Robert Justus Kleberg Who came to Texas in 1834. Fought at San Jacinto in Captain Moseley Baker's Company. Senator in the State Legislature. Born in Herstelle, Germany, September 10, 1803. Died at Yorktown, Texas, October 23, 1888. A Texas county was named in his honor. Erected by the State of Texas 1936.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Chisholm Trail Heritage Museum — 9.9 mi
  A cattle-country museum in Cuero's 1903 Knights of Pythias Hall, telling the Guadalupe Valley's 1866 drive north and the Sutton-Taylor feud that bloodied DeWitt County.
• Fannin Battleground State Historic Site — 20 mi
  The open prairie east of Goliad where Fannin's retreating column formed a square short of the Coleto Creek timber on March 19, 1836, and surrendered the next day.
• Goliad State Park and Historic Site — 21 mi
  Mission Espíritu Santo on the San Antonio River, a mission ranch whose herds seeded Texas cattle country, rebuilt from ruin by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s.
• Presidio La Bahía — 22 mi
  A Spanish fort on its third site since 1749, held in turn by filibusters, insurgents and Fannin's Fort Defiance, rebuilt in stone in the 1960s around a chapel that never fell.

More markers nearby

• Site of the Home of Captain John York — 2.4 mi
• Meyersville — 3.0 mi
• Peter Bluntzer — 3.0 mi
• Hopkinsville Community, A Colony of Freedmen — 5.3 mi