William Gorham

The plaque gives Gorham two lines; Louis W. Kemp's biography fills in more. Born in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1798, Gorham ran away from home at fifteen and never went back. He came to Texas in 1831 with land in Austin's second colony, claimed the 1835 fights at Gonzales and Bexar, and was orderly sergeant of Peyton R. Splane's company at San Jacinto. He later served in Billingsley's Mina Volunteers and was at the 1840 Council House Fight in San Antonio. He married Lucinda Berry O'Daniel in 1848 and died at Black Jack Springs after 1883.

What the plaque says

William Gorham Star and Wreath Served in the Texas Army 1835-36. A San Jacinto Veteran. Erected by the State of Texas, 1962

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Nativity of Mary, Blessed Virgin Catholic Church (High Hill) — 6.6 mi
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• St. Mary's Church of the Assumption (Praha) — 7.3 mi
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• St. John the Baptist Catholic Church (Ammannsville) — 9.8 mi
  A wooden Carpenter Gothic church built in 1919 after storm and fire took two before it, its dusty-rose interior painted by an artist whose name was lost for decades.
• Saints Cyril and Methodius Catholic Church (Dubina) — 12 mi
  The church of Texas's first Czech settlement, under a sky-blue painted ceiling that was whitewashed in the 1950s and brought back from faint traces by its own parishioners.

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