Victor Marion Rose

Victor Rose wrote history and ghostwrote another man's. He was the third of twelve children, joined the Third Texas Cavalry in June 1861, was wounded at least three times and nearly starved as a prisoner at Camp Chase, Ohio. He married Julia Hardy in 1866 and lost her to yellow fever in the autumn of 1867. He ghostwrote John J. Linn's Reminiscences of Fifty Years in Texas, published in 1883. A copy of his own history of Victoria was placed in the cornerstone of the county courthouse, completed in June 1892. He died of pneumonia at Myrtle Springs.

What the plaque says

Victor Marion Rose Victor Marion Rose, poet, editor, historian and soldier. From the founders of Victoria he gathered the fragments of the past and wove them into the history of Victoria County. Born in Victoria January 1, 1844. Died in Myrtle Springs February 5, 1893. (1965)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• De León Plaza — 0.8 mi
  The central plaza of Guadalupe Victoria, the only predominantly Mexican colony in Texas, founded by Martín De León in 1824 and taken from his family after 1836.
• Museum of the Coastal Bend — 1.6 mi
  Victoria College's museum of thirteen thousand years on the middle Texas coast, from Clovis hunters and Karankawa potters to La Salle's lost Fort St. Louis and the first ranches.
• Fannin Battleground State Historic Site — 16 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.
• Fannin Memorial Monument — 25 mi
  The 1938 pink granite memorial over the common grave of Fannin's men, shot on the roads out of Goliad on Palm Sunday 1836, the grave itself found again only in the 1930s.

More markers nearby

• Abel Seymour Cunningham — steps away
• Darwin M. Stapp — steps away
• Don Martin De Leon — steps away
• Silvestre De Leon — steps away