The Father of Texas died of pneumonia at the home of a friend near what is now West Columbia at the age of 43. Every year volunteers replay his burial at the family cemetery in Jones Creek.
Get out there and try your luck in catching some of the 305,525 rainbow trout released into waters around the state. There are “no fee” locations for access to the Guadalupe River below Canyon Reservoir, one of the best spots to catch trout in America.