This Monument is Dedicated to Honor
Joanna Troutman
for the service she rendered the cause
of Texas independence.
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Marker Text Born in Crawford County, Georgia, February 19, 1818. She lived to see Texas free and one of the mightiest states in the American union, and died August, 1880.
When Texas was struggling to establish her rights as a state in the Mexican republic, she sent forth an appeal for help. Georgia responded by raising a battalion of volunteers, and Miss Joanna Troutman then 18 years of age, fired with her love of liberty and the zeal of the volunteer, with her own hands made a beautiful lone star flag and presented it to the Georgia Battalion and they landed in Texas with it in December 1835. The flag was symbolic of the lone struggle Texas was making. The flag was unfurled at Velasco and later carried to Goliad where it proudly waved over the walls of that fortress. This flag was raised as national flag on the walls of Goliad by Fannin when he heard of the Declaration of Texas Independence on March 8, 1836. It was constructed of white silk with an azure star of five points. On one side was the motto: “Liberty or Death”, and on the reverse side in Latin, “Where Liberty Dwells There Is My Country.” The tattered shreds of this flag silently witnessed the murder of Fannin and his men at Goliad Sunday March 27, following. Gentle, pure, patriotic, the hands of Joanna Troutman wrought her love of liberty into the beautiful lone star flag which witnessed the sacrifice of the men who brought it to Texas as the emblem of independence. Marker No: 14633
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909 Navasota Street, Austin
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