Thomas Osborn

Osborn came to Texas with his family in 1825 and was nineteen when he fought at Velasco in June 1832, in Capt. Henry Stevenson Brown's company. At the battle of Concepcion in October 1835 he was badly wounded. In the Goliad campaign he and his brother John Lyle Osborn rode in Capt. Albert Clinton Horton's company, an advance party cut off from Fannin's besieged army. He missed San Jacinto, detailed to guard families in the Runaway Scrape. He married Mary Augustine McCulloch in 1841, raised ten children, and died at Red Rock in 1883.

What the plaque says

Thomas Osborn Veteran of the Texas War for Independence 1835-1836 Velasco, Gonzales, Bexar and Coleto Erected by the State of Texas 1962

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Lockhart Courthouse Square — 13 mi
  A cotton-era courthouse town named the Barbecue Capital of Texas, built near the 1840 Plum Creek fight that followed the killing of Comanche leaders at peace talks.
• Bastrop State Park — 15 mi
  The westernmost loblolly pines in the United States, cut off from the East Texas forest by a hundred miles of post oak, burned almost entirely in 2011 and growing back.
• McKinney Falls State Park — 21 mi
  Limestone falls on Onion Creek inside Austin, where people camped under a rock overhang for thousands of years and a financier of the Texas Revolution built his stone ranch house.
• Texas State Cemetery — 26 mi
  A hill east of the Capitol that began with one general's grave in 1851 and now holds Stephen F. Austin, governors, Barbara Jordan and more than 2,000 Confederate veterans and widows.

More markers nearby

• Old Red Rock Cemetery — steps away
• Rockne — 3.1 mi
• Bethel Primitive Baptist Church — 8.8 mi
• Delhi — 11 mi