William McFaddin

William McFaddin was sixteen at the siege of Bexar. The Siege of Bexar Descendants biography says he was in the party under Thomas J. Rusk that buried the Goliad dead, and that after joining Houston's army at Columbus he was detailed to guard the wounded and baggage at San Jacinto, then released on his seventeenth birthday, June 8, 1836. In the Civil War he supplied beef cattle to the Confederate army and held a license to ferry and swim cattle across the Neches. With his son he founded the McFaddin Ranch.

What the plaque says

William McFaddin (1819-1898) Served in Texas War for Independence at first Siege of the Alamo and San Jacinto. Supply agent in Civil War. McFaddin, noted for his hospitality and generosity, founded empire in ranching that survives today. (1966)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• McFaddin-Ward House — 1.4 mi
  A Beaux-Arts Colonial Revival mansion finished in 1906 and lived in by one family for 75 years, with free guided tours of three furnished floors, the carriage house and gardens.
• Spindletop-Gladys City Boomtown Museum — 5.1 mi
  A re-created oil boomtown on the Lamar University campus, with a derrick, period shops, a 1941 granite monument and an optional re-enactment of the January 1901 Lucas gusher.
• Village Creek State Park — 11 mi
  A 2,466-acre state park on one of the few free-flowing creeks in Texas, with a launch for the Village Creek Paddling Trail, boat rentals and sandy-upland trails in the Big Thicket.
• Museum of the Gulf Coast — 19 mi
  Port Arthur's regional museum in a former bank building: fossils, Native Americans, the petroleum story, a 125-foot history mural and Halls of Fame for musicians, athletes and artists.

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• Aubrey Wilson "Moon" Mullican — steps away
• Andrew F. Smyth — steps away
• Police Chief Reid Tevis — steps away
• Magnolia Cemetery — steps away