AP Clark - from Little Round Top to Palacios

   EDITOR’S NOTE: A.P. Clark was in every major engagement that the Army of Northern Virginia fought in up through the Battle of Gettysburg, where he was captured – at the Little Round Top.

John Barnett: Alabama soldier later became blacksmith

Death of John Edward Barnett Palacios Beacon, Feb. 11, 1913    Mr. John Edward Barnett died at the home of his son, J. F. Barnett, in this city, Friday evening, the 7th inst., at 7:30 o’clock, from an acute attack of lagrippe, at the age of 66 years, 1 month and 17 days.

Collinsworth lead victory at the 1st battle at Goliad

   George Morse Collinsworth (Collingsworth), soldier, planter, and civil servant, was born in Mississippi in 1810.     He was living in Brazoria, in 1832, when he participated in the battle of Velasco.      In July of that year he was serving as secretary of the Brazoria Committee of Vigilance.

"‘School House’ in the middle of the prairie" By Margaret Hill Lawson and McElrath Linn Matagorda County History & Genealogy page

"Palacios museum presents Riders on the Orphan Train" By Katie Hutto, Coordinator Palacios Area Historical Association City by the Sea Museum

George Brown named his sugar mill Sugar Valley

Letters to Santa from 1930s Matagorda County children

"Ira Ingram wrote 1st Texas Declaration of Independece, part of 1835 capture of Goliad" By Mary Belle Ingram From the Matagorda County History & Genealogy page rootsweb.ancestry.com/~txmatago/

Stephen F. Austin hired Seth Ingram to survey, plat town of San Felipe de Austin

Matagorda County was part of Maverick’s Texas history