Austin
Travis County, Texas
30 15.919' N 97 43.650' W

Text: Born in Tennessee May 11, 1796. Died in Fayette County, Texas Oct. 29, 1875. His wife Agnes Sutherland Menefee born in Virginia August 22, 1794. Died in Fayette County Texas. Second Side Member of the Convention of Texas, 1832. Member of the Convention, 1833. Member of the Consultation, 1835. Signer of the Declaration of Independence, 1836. Chief Justice of Colorado County, 1836. Member of the Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth and Ninth Congress of the Republic. One of the five commissioners who selected Austin as the Capital of Texas. Member of the State legislature from Fayette County in 1852.