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Stephen Fuller Austin was born [[Nov 3]], 1793 in Austinville, Virginia, son of Moses Austin (1767-1821) and Maria Brown. Stephen was raised on the Missouri frontier, where his family had moved when he was five years old and where his father Moses had a lead-mining operation in Bellevue, [[Washington County, Missouri]]. Stephen served in the Missouri Territorial Legislature, from 1814 to 1819. He was judge of the Circuit Court serving Lawrence County, Arkansas Territory in 1820. The [[Economic Panic of 1819]] led his father to embark on a scheme for the colonization of Texas, then part of Mexico. In 1821 Moses obtained a grant from the Mexican government, but died soon thereafter. It was his son Stephen who followed his father's idea and started a colony there in 1822 with several hundred families on the Brazos River. He attempted to get the Mexican government to make Texas a seperate state within Mexico. When this attempt failed, he advocated that Texas declare itself a seperate state without waiting for the approval of the Mexican congress. For this he was thrown into prison but released in 1835. When the Texas Revolution broke out, he went to the US to obtain assistance. He lost to [[Samuel Houston|Sam Houston]] for Presidency of Texas, but served briefly as Secretary of State in 1836. Stephen Austin died [[Dec 27]], 1836 in Austin, Texas. He was first buried at Peaches Point Plantation in Columbia County, Texas; but was reburied in 1910 in the Texas State Cemetery in Austin, Texas. ==Secondary sources== *Encyclopaedia Brittanica, 1985, "[[StephenFAustin1|Stephen F Austin]]" *"Early Lawrence County, Arkansas Records 1817-1830" by Desmond Walls Allen, 1995 transcribed [[StephenFAustin2|here]] *"The Descendants of Richard Austin of Charlestown Massachusetts 1638, unpublished manuscript,", Edith Austin Moore, LDS Film#0873972#2. Transcribed [[StephenFAustin3|here]] *Joe Cook in his WorldConnect file has [[StephenFAustin4|this narrative]]. *[http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/a_c/austin.htm PBS, "New Perspectives on the West:Stephen Fuller Austin (1793-1836)], captured [[StephenFAustin5|here]] *[http://www.cemetery.state.tx.us/pub/user_form.asp?step=1&pers_id=3 Website of the Texas State Cemetery, "AUSTIN, STEPHEN FULLER (1793-1836)"], captured [[StephenFAustin6|here]]. [[Category:Arkansas]] [[Category:Texas]]
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