Lara Elizabeth Plemmons Tumlinson, one of Stephen F. Austin's Old Three Hundred, was born to John and Elizabeth Jane Plemmons in Lincoln County, North Carolina, on July 7, 1778. In 1796 she married John Jackson Tumlinson and they had eleven children (or more). In 1821 Elizabeth and her husband left Arkansas for Texas to settle in the colony being established by Stephen F. Austin. Elizabeth was widowed in July 1823 when her husband, who was serving as
alcalde of the Colorado District, was killed by American Indians. In 1824, Elizabeth received a league and a labor of land that had been selected by her husband, on the Colorado River at the site of present-day Columbus. Elizabeth lived on this property until her death on January 5, 1829. Following her death the land was divided into six sections among her heirs on December 19, 1833. Eventually, she was buried in the Texas State Cemetery in Austin.
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Note: This is likely a cenotaph
Confederate Field
Texas State Cemetery
Austin
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