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Last surviving signer of Texas Declaration of Independence dies
On this day in 1895, William Carrol Crawford, the last surviving signer
of the Texas Declaration of Independence, died while visiting his son in
Erath County. Crawford, a native of North Carolina, moved to Texas in
1835 and settled near Shelbyville. He and Sydney O. Penington
represented Shelby County at the Convention of 1836, which wrote the
Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the Republic of
Texas and established the ad interim government. Crawford, who later
lived in Camp, Hill, and Johnson counties, died ten days before his
ninety-first birthday.
- Links to Related Handbook of Texas Online Articles
- CRAWFORD, WILLIAM CARROL
- TEXAS DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
- PENINGTON, SYDNEY OSWALD
- CONVENTION OF 1836
- CONSTITUTION OF THE REPUBLIC OF TEXAS
- AD INTERIM GOVERNMENT
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