​Richard Ellis

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Marker Text: ​Born in Virginia , February 14, 1781. Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia, 1820. Signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence and President of the Constitutional Convention, 1836. Senator in the Congress of the Republic of Texas, 1836 to 1840. Died in Bowie County, Texas December 20, 1846.
        Mary Danridge Ellis , wife of Richard Ellis, born in Virginia 1787, died in Bowie County, Texas October 21, 1832 , Ellis County, Texas was named for Richard Ellis. (1936)

Marker No: 14281

Gray Granite 1936 Centennial Marker

Location: 909 Navasota Street, Austin 

Geographic: ​30.265329,-97.727364