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TEXAS HISTORICAL MARKERS

​Roy Bedichek (June 27, 1878 - May 21, 1959)

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Marker Text: ​Born in Illinois to J.M. Lucretia (Craven) Bedichek, Roy came to Falls County at the age of six educated first in his parents school at Blevins and later at the Bedicheks' Eddy Literary and scientific Institute. He graduated from the university of Texas in 1903. He and Lillian Greer were married in 1910, their children were Mary, Sarah, and Bachman.
         Bedichek was a reporter , editor, teacher, and homesteader before joining the staff of the University of Texas in 1917, he became the second director of the University Interscholastic League (UIL) in 1922. For twenty-six years he tailored league policies to the American ideal of education for every child. His use of educational competition as "a spur to industry and a whetstone of talent" has shaped the lives of the countless students who have participated in UIL academic , athletic, and  musical contests.
   A life long outdoorsman and animal lover, Bedichek wrote "adventures with a Texas naturalist" which was published in 1947. His letters, evidence of his enthusiastic correspondence; were collected into two books. Bedichek is fondly remembered as a conversationalist, folklorist, and storyteller who related all experience to the natural world.'He had the most richly stored mind of any man I ever knew,' said his friend J. Frank Dobie. (1998)
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Marker No: 11871
Aluminum 27 x 42 Subject Marker
Geographic: 31.285482, -97.254784
Location: Eddy Cemetery, Old Blevins Road exit off IH-35, Eddy
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  • Texas Historical Markers
  • Greenbrier Cemetery
  • Wilson Chapel Methodist Church
  • Marian Anderson High School
  • Alfred M. Hallmark
  • Frank Mulder Gossett
  • No 57: Old San Antonio Road
  • Zephyr Cemetery
  • Zephyr Gospel Tabernacle
  • First Baptist Church of Zephyr
  • Military Road
  • Zephyr Presbyterian Church
  • Burkett Pecan Tree
  • Hittson Ranch
  • Callahan City Cemetery
  • Admiral Baptist Church
  • Belle Plaine Cemetery
  • Ross Cemetery
  • Callahan County
  • The Prew House
  • Brooke Smith
  • Minnie Fisher Cunningham
  • Ebenezer Baptist Church
  • Dodge
  • Site of Andrew Female College
  • Glendale Cemetery
  • Community of Fodice
  • Holy Rosary Catholic Parish
  • Pegleg Crossing on the San Saba
  • B. T. Brown House
  • German Methodist Church/First Fire Station
  • Providence Church and Cemetery
  • Packsaddle Mountain
  • Homesite of W. F. Heller, Pioneer Farmer
  • The Bosque-Larios Expedition
  • No. 60 Old San Antonio Road
  • No. 56 Old San Antonio Road
  • No. 59 Old San Antonio Road
  • Texas Central Railroad
  • Center City Community
  • Orla
  • Fairview Cemetery
  • Leon County Courthouse
  • Anderson County in the Civil War
  • Judge H.T. Brown
  • Washington County, C.S.A.
  • Leander
  • Oveta Culp Hobby and the Women's Army Corps
  • Jacob Haller House
  • James M. Holt
  • Washington-on-the Brazos
  • Donigan House
  • Fort Worth Stock Yards Entrance
  • Smithfield Baptist Church
  • Elite Cafe
  • Joseph Brooks Home
  • Phair Cemetery
  • Robert Justus Kleberg
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