Historical Marker
Richard Ellis
Historical marker location:
Texas State Cemetery, Austin, Texas
( Republic Hill section)
Marker installed: 1936
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 Dandridge Ellis
Wife of Richard Ellis
Born in Virginia 1787
Died in Bowie County, Texas October 21, 1837
Ellis County, Texas was named for Richard Ellis
Erected by the State of Texas 1936.