Monument erected by Clark family.
Commonly known as the "Angel Marker."
Oak Grove Cemetery is the final resting place of four signers of Texas Independence. Their sacrifice helped shape the destiny of our great state and of our great city. Read the headstones to learn of the service they rendered.
Oh, write of me, not "Died in bitter pains,"
But "Emigrated to another star!"
- Helen Hunt Jackson (1831-1885)
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Thomas J. Rusk, 5 December 1808 - 29 July 1857. Texas statesman and patriot. Site includes a picture. |
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Charles Stanfield Taylor, 1808 - 1 November 1865. |
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John S. Roberts, 13 July 1796 - 5 April 1874. Military leader as well as Texas patriot. |
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William S. Clark, 14 April 1798 - 3 January 1871. Delegate to the conventions of 1832, 1833, 1836, and member of the Second Congress of the Republic. |
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