Historical Marker
Fielding G. Secrest
Historical marker location:
1217 W. Dallas Ave., Houston, Texas
( Founders Memorial Park, 1217 W. Dallas Ave.)
Marker installed: 1936
Served in Captain Henry W. Karnes' company of cavalry at San Jacinto. Died in Huston, June 1, 1840.
His wife Eliza Sneed Secrest died in 1839.
The discovery of oil in 1901 near Beaumont, Texas, sparked an oil boom that transformed the state's economy and led to the rise of the modern petroleum industry.