Historical Marker

Robert Potter

Historical marker location:

Texas State Cemetery, Austin, Texas

( Republic Hill section)

A Signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence First Secretary of the Navy of the Republic of Texas.

Born in Granville N. C. in 1800.

Died at what is now known as Potter's Point, Marion Co, Texas.

March 3, 1842

Erected by the State of Texas

[Back of headstone]

A Representative in the Legislature of the State of North Carolina Member of the House from North Carolina in the United States Congress Senator in the Congress of the Republic of Texas.