Historical Marker
Frances & Benjamin McCulloch
Historical marker location:
Texas State Cemetery, Austin, Texas
( Republic Hill section)
Marker installed: 1936
Here Rest
Frances Lenoir McCulloch
and her son
Benjamin McCulloch
Two of the sons of Alexander and Frances Lenoir McCulloch * Benjamin and Henry Eustace * were Brigadier Generals in the Confederate Army
Frances Lenoir McCulloch was born April 11 * 1780 Died in Ellis County * Texas * May 10, 1866
Benjamin McCulloch was born in Tennessee November 11 * 1811 * * Private in the Battle of San Jacinto April 21 * 1836 * * Killed in the Battle of Elk Horn * Arkansas * March 7 * 1862 While a Brigadier General in the Confederate Army
Erected by the State of Texas 1936.
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