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 First Anglo Settler in Wood County Martin Varner
N 32° 39.293 W 095° 20.765
15S E 279963 N 3615459
Texas Historical Marker for Martin Varner, a very early Texas settler who had a considerable impact upon this area of the state. Located just west of his grave site in a roadside pullout along on FM 3056, about ten miles east of Mineola.
Waymark Code: WMW967
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 07/28/2017
Views: 3
Marker Number: 9024
Marker Text:
(March 4, 1787 - Feb. 14, 1844)
Came to Texas before 1820, and, in partnership with Henry Jones, operated a trading post in the Red River settlement of Jonesboro. He was a member of the "Old Three Hundred" who settled Stephen F. Austin's first colony. Varner first homesteaded near present Independence in 1822, then moved near Columbia in 1824, where he built the Varner Plantation. He fought in the Battles of Velasco (June 26, 1832) and San Jacinto (April 21, 1836). In 1841, Varner migrated to Wood County, where he was mortally wounded in an altercation over a debt. He is buried 100 yards east. (1975)
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