Chalton Thompson -- Chapel Hill Cemetery, San Augustine TX - Homemade Tombstones on Waymarking.com

This humble homemade tombstone marks the grave of Charlton Thompson, son of Doctor Samuel and Precious Thompson. Charlton Thompson was a stage of figuring early Texans. When he died in 1838 at the age of 29, he owned almost 40,000 acres of land, yet his grave is marked simply with this handmade tombstone that consists of his misspelled name written in wet concrete with his vital dates.

His tombstone reads as follows:

"CHALTON THOMPSON
1809-1838"

From the Handbook of Texas: (visit link)

THOMPSON, CHARLTON W. (1809–1838). Charlton Thompson, lawyer and Texas legislator, was born in 1809 in South Carolina. He moved to Coahuila and Texas in 1826 with other members of the Thompson family. He was a delegate from Matagorda to the Convention of 1833 at San Felipe. He moved to Natchitoches, Louisiana, in 1834 and practiced law. In early 1837 he returned to Texas and settled in San Augustine, where he acquired property. He owned the American Hotel, a municipal building, two rent houses, and ten or twelve lots. He married Sophia Lairy on August 1, 1837. On September 16 of that year Thompson became a first-degree member of the McFarlane Masonic Lodge in San Augustine. He was a member of the Second Congress of the Republic of Texas as a representative of San Augustine County. Thompson died in Houston in 1838 while attending Congress. At the time of his death he owned more than 39,000 acres of land."

Material: Stone Web Site: [Web Link] Date of Birth: Not listed Date of Death: Not listed

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