Historical Marker
Michael Moore Kennard
Historical marker location:
580 S. Main, Anderson, Texas
( opposite the road from the Fanthorp Inn, Anderson.)
Marker installed: 1971
Born in Tennessee. In 1828 he and family joined Robertson's Colony, bound for Texas. Arrived in 1830, probably having stopped to "make a crop" along the way.
Lived in present Grimes County; was granted a third of a league of land in Robertson's Colony.
For his service in the Texas Revolution, received additional land in Menard and Leon Counties.
His mercantile business-- firm of Fanthorp, Womack & Kennard-- was the first in Grimes County.