San Jacinto veteran returned home to serve Matagorda County

   Daniel D. D. Baker (1806–1843), San Jacinto soldier and Texas legislator, was born in Massachusetts in 1806 and moved to Texas in February 1831.   In May 1831 he was granted a quarter league in Stephen F. Austin’s second colony in what is now Wharton County.

Jamison served as postmaster at Caney, Sugar Land

   Thomas Jamison, one of Stephen F. Austin’s Old Three Hundredcolonists, was probably born in Tennessee in 1792 or 1796.   He was in Texas as early as August 16, 1823, when he voted in the election that made James Cummins alcalde.

Holt’s extensive acreage sold for $11.11

   Samuel Hoit, early colonist, was born in Chester, New Hampshire, on February 10, 1781, the son of Zabez and Abigail (Hasseltine) Hoit.   Before moving to Texas in 1830, he was a justice of the peace and postmaster in Port Gibson, Mississippi.

Freed slave Ino Hudgins founded settlement named for him

   Hudgins (Hudgins Settlement) is near the site of the Robert H. Williams plantation in a section of the rich Caney Creek bottomlands once known as plantation row, a mile north of Farm Road 457 and eight miles east of Bay City in east central Matagorda County.

Sexton a widely dispersed rural community in in early 1900s

   Sexton Community was a widely dispersed rural school community just east of the Colorado River and seven miles southwest of Bay City in central Matagorda County.

"Markham-Fisher Hotel always part of Markham history" by: Mike Reddell

   It was built in the center of the new townsite in 1903 to lodge the town's important business visitors.

Merry Christmas 1937 from West side of the square

   After Thanksgiving in 1937, thoughts of Matagorda County residents turned toward Christmas. Stores around the square were decorating their display windows to entice shoppers to buy in Bay City.

Merry Christmas 1937 from East side of the square

   Shoppers on the east side of the square on December 11, 1937 were probably greeted with signs which said “Only 14 Days Until Christmas!”   They were grateful that the temperature which was in the 40s, was warming up a bit.

Merry Christmas 1937 from south side of the square

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Williams among Bay Prairie men who died at Goliad

   Napoleon Bonaparte Williams, soldier in the Texas Revolution, was born in 1809 to George F. and Lavinia (Hobbs) Williams.   The family moved to Texas from Connecticut.   George Williams, as a member of the Old Three Hundred, received a grant of a sitio of land on Tres Palacios Creek.