Historical Marker
Major Israel M. Nunez
Historical marker location:
Stonewall, Texas
( at the entrance to Stonewall school at the corner of Loring St. and Peach St., Stonewall)
Marker installed: 1971
(1841-1906)
Civil War veteran and stage line operator who in 1870 founded Stonewall, naming it for Confederate General "Stonewall" Jackson.
Major Nunez, who lived 2 miles south of town and had a family of 9 children, donated land in 1886 for Stonewall School No. 18.