William E. Collard

Collard was born in present Conroe, the grandson of the early settler Elijah S. Collard, and attended McKenzie College before the Civil War. Admitted to the bar in 1865, he practiced in Robertson County, where he was district judge from November 1880. On September 15, 1887, he was appointed to the Commission of Appeals, and on April 15, 1891, he became judge of the Third District Court of Civil Appeals, where he served until his death. He married Mattie Glaize in 1865; after her death he married M. E. Heth in 1868, and they had three children.

What the plaque says

William E. Collard Born in Montgomery County, Texas April, 1839 Died in Austin April 15, 1902 Served in the Confederacy 10th and 15th Texas Infantry Elected District Judge in Robertson County, 1880 On Civil Appeals Court 1887 - 1902 The State of Texas 1936 [Back of headstone] William E. Collard 1839 - 1902

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Texas State Cemetery — steps away
  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.
• French Legation State Historic Site — 0.3 mi
  A raised pine house built in 1840 and 1841 for France's envoy to the Republic of Texas, who left Austin in a rage over a neighbor's pigs before it was finished.
• George Washington Carver Museum — 0.4 mi
  East Austin's museum of Black history and culture, grown from a segregated branch library moved across town in 1933, with a permanent exhibit on Juneteenth at its core.
• Texas State Capitol — 1.0 mi
  Austin's fourth statehouse, a Renaissance Revival capitol of 1888 that stands 311 feet to its Goddess of Liberty and was restored after the 1983 fire.

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