DUANE
Duane's take
The official marker tells it this way, and I'm just the voice carryin' it down the road. Abram Anglin came into this world on December 28, 1817, and the world he stepped into didn't stay quiet for long. By 1835, he was riding with Captain Seale's Company — an early Ranger, mind you, in the Texas War for Independence.
Now that company wasn't just some ragtag outfit that wandered together on a whim. They were organized, as the record puts it, agreeable to order from the Council of Texas. Official.
Sanctioned. Called up for something bigger than any one man. Anglin rode with them through 1836, through whatever those years demanded of a young man willing to answer that call.
He lived on after the smoke cleared, long enough to see what Texas became. Abram Anglin died September 6, 1875 — a man who'd been there at the beginning, when Texas was still something being fought for rather than something already won.
What the marker says
Star and Wreath Born December 28, 1817. An early Ranger in the Texas War for Independence. Member, Captain Seale's Company 1835-36 that was organized "agreeable to order from the Council of Texas." Died September 6, 1875.