9The distinguished Guy M. Bryan, nephew of Stephen F. Austin, Sec-
retary of State, attributed Austin's death not alone to the mental and
physical strain under which he labored but also to "the exposure in a
small clapboard shed-room, without fire, which was his bedroom and
office."--William G. Scarff, A
Comprehensive
History
of
Texas,
I, 590.
Austin died at the residence of Judge George B. McKinstry, December
27, 1836.
