Richard Ellis - Waxahachie, Tx
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WalksfarTX
N 32° 23.118 W 096° 50.881
14S E 702432 N 3585181
Bronze statue next to the Ellis County Courthouse depicts Ellis standing as if giving a speech. He is wearing a long coat over trousers. His right hands hold papers as if he was reading from his notes. He is hatless and clean shaven.
Waymark Code: WMR00Z
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 04/21/2016
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Texas Escapes
In the spring of 1935, one year shy of a century since Ellis steered the Texas Declaration of Independence and the republic's Constitution through the parliamentary process, the Texas Legislature appropriated $15,000 for a statue in his honor.
The public artwork, fashioned by New York sculptor Attillio Piccirilli, was unveiled at the Ellis County Courthouse in Waxahachie on Nov. 12, 1936 by Ellis' great-granddaughter, Marie Ellis of Dallas.
Though no image had been found of Ellis, Piccirilli, with input from Centennial officials, chiseled the features of a youthful, high browed, clean shaven man perpetually demonstrating, as newspapers reported, an "attitude of defiance to oppression."