Austin
Travis County, Texas
30 15.391' N 097 37.320' W

Text: Site of the home built in 1832 by Reuben Hornsby (1793 – 1879) and his wife Sarah Morrison Hornsby (1796 – 1862. Second built in “Austin’s Little Colony”. First in the present county of Travis. Famed for Christian hospitality. Here Josiah Wilbarger recovered after being scalped in 1833. Mr. Hornsby and his sons fought in many Indian battles and served as scouts in Capt. John J. Tumlinson’s Company of Rangers which was organized here in 1836. "