Sponsor a Texas Hero Flag
Texas hero flags have to be replaced periodically due to normal wear and tear. You can help! Make a donation and sponsor a flag for your favorite Texas hero today. $30
Texas hero flags have to be replaced periodically due to normal wear and tear. You can help! Make a donation and sponsor a flag for your favorite Texas hero today. $30
In the late 1800s Jess Baker was a leader in Granbury and Hood County. In 1911 Texas State Representative Jess Baker once again raised the suffrage question in the Texas House. His resolution to enfranchise women was referred to the committee on constitutional amendments, which recommended that it not pass. Two years later T. H. McGregor…
San Antonio in 1837, John Coffee Hays came from Tennessee Hays shortly after Texas won its independence from Mexico. By 1841, he was a Texas Ranger captain at twenty years of age. A fearless fighter and skilled leader, Hays became famous for defending Texans against raids from Native American (Comanche) and Mexican bandits. Hays would come to symbolize the…
Join the Texas Heroes Foundation for a 3 day celebration March 1, 2, & 3, 2018 Stroll Thru Texas History
SOMERVELL, ALEXANDER (1796–1854). Alexander Somervell, soldier, and leader of the Somervell Expedition, celebrated as just one Texas Hero Remembered in Glen Rose on May 20th. He was born to James and Elizabeth Somervell in Maryland on June 11, 1796, and moved to Texas in 1833 with a land grant from Stephen F. Austin’s in…
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