Historical Markers in Texas

Site of the Texas Home of Richard Ellis

History·Bowie County·Texas

A Virginian by birth and education - Jurist and statesman of Alabama, 1813-1825 - Came to Texas, 1825 - President of the Constitutional Convention, March 1836, and member of the Congress of the Republic of Texas - Born February 14, 1781 - Died here December 20, 1846 Erected by the State of Texas 1936

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33.5575, -94.4172

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