Trask was born in Essex County, Massachusetts circa 1818 and arrived in Texas sometime between May 2, 1835 and March 2, 1836. He enlisted in the Texas Army and was attached to Captain William H. Smith's Cavalry Company. On the morning of April 20th, the day before the main battle, Colonel Sherman made an attempt to capture the Mexican's twelve-pounder long brass cannon; several horses were killed and wounded, and Trask had his thigh-bone broken, probably by a bullet. The wound was ministered to on the battlefield by Dr. Nicholas Labadie before he was conveyed with ad interim President Burnet to the hospital at Galveston, where he died three weeks later. On a joint monument erected in 1881 on the battlefield at the graves of those who fell in the battle, Mr. Trask's name is included among those buried there.
Note: This is a cenotaph. In 1881, a decision was made to place permanent memorials at the graves of those men who had been killed in the Battle of San Jacinto and buried on the battlefield. It was discovered, however, that all of the original wooden grave markers, except for Benjamin Brigham's, had rotted away and no one could remember exactly where the others rested. As a compromise, since the soldiers had been buried closely together, it was decided to place a cenotaph over Brigham's grave as a memorial to all of them.
San Jacinto Battleground State Historic Site
La Porte
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