Site of the Texas Home of Richard Ellis

Ellis reached Pecan Point on February 22, 1834, with his family and more than twenty-five enslaved people, and the cotton plantation he built on his league-and-labor grant of 4,428 acres rested on their work. After presiding over the 1836 convention he sat in the Senate of the Republic until February 1840. He died at his Bowie County home on December 20, 1846, when his clothes caught fire, according to his obituary, and was buried in a family cemetery near New Boston. In 1929 his remains and those of his wife, Mary, were carried to the State Cemetery in Austin.

What the plaque says

Site of the Texas Home of Richard Ellis A Virginian by birth and education - Jurist and statesman of Alabama, 1813-1825 - Came to Texas, 1825 - President of the Constitutional Convention, March 1836, and member of the Congress of the Republic of Texas - Born February 14, 1781 - Died here December 20, 1846 Erected by the State of Texas 1936

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Museum of Regional History — 23 mi
  Texarkana's oldest museum, in an 1879 brick building on State Line Avenue, with Caddo pottery, one of Scott Joplin's pianos and a research library of city directories and photographs.
• Atlanta State Park — 25 mi
  A shoreline park on Wright Patman Lake, leased from the Army in 1954, where Caddo ancestors farmed the Sulphur River and wagon traces such as the Bobo Ferry trace still cross the woods.

More markers nearby

• Harvey C. Sanders, C. S. A. — steps away
• Pleasant Hill Missionary Baptist Church — 1.9 mi
• Bowie County — 5.8 mi
• New Boston — 6.8 mi