Captain Nathen Brookshire
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A 1936 gray granite centennial marker at the corner of 5th and Velasco in Brookshire, Waller County. Nathen Brookshire was both a US & Texas Army veteran and one of Stephen F. Austin's fifth colony settlers. The town of Brookshire is named after him.
Waymark Code: WMND34
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 02/17/2015
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Per the Texas Historical Commission's "
The Handbook of Texas Online" website:
"Nathen (Nathan) Brookshire (1793–1853), early settler, was born to James and Mary Brookshire of Rutherford County, Tennessee, in 1793. Before he moved to Texas in 1832, he served in both the Creek War and the War of 1812. On October 5, 1835, he received a league of land in Stephen F. Austin's fifth colony. He and his wife, the former Mary Ann Hooks, settled with three of their six children on land now in Waller and Fort Bend counties. Brookshire fought with Capt. John Bird's company in the Bird's Creek Indian Fight near the site of Temple. During the bloody battle against hundreds of Indians, Bird was killed, and Brookshire was chosen to succeed him. In return for his service he received 640 acres of land. In 1850 Captain Brookshire listed his occupation as farmer. At his death on January 10, 1853, his estate was valued at $2,900. It included almost 2,000 acres in Harris, Fort Bend, and Austin counties. He is buried in the Brookshire Cemetery.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Corrie Pattison Haskew, Historical Records of Austin and Waller Counties (Houston: Premier Printing and Letter Service, 1969). Waller County Historical Survey Committee, A History of Waller County, Texas (Waco: Texian, 1973)."