DUANE
Duane's take
Here's how the official marker tells it, and I'm just the one passing it along. Now, some names get carved into the record because they were there — right there — when the ground shifted under Texas. Daniel Shipman is one of those names.
Born in North Carolina on February 20, 1801, Daniel Shipman showed up in Texas history not once but twice, at two of the moments that mattered most. First was the Disturbance at Anahuac, June of 1832. That word — disturbance — does a lot of quiet work, doesn't it.
The kind of understatement that only makes sense when you know what was stirring in the air back then. Shipman was there. And then, three years later, he was there again.
December 5 through 10, 1835 — the Storming and Capture of Bexar. Five days of fighting for a city that would go on to mean everything to Texas. Daniel Shipman was in it.
He lived a long life after all that. Died in Goliad County, Texas, on March 4, 1881. The man who stood in the thick of two defining Texas conflicts came to his rest on quiet South Texas ground.
The marker doesn't let Eliza Hancock Shipman go without her due. Wife of Daniel, born December 22, 1813. She died in Goliad County, Texas, on September 11, 1858 — gone before her husband, the both of them buried by history in the same corner of the state.
The State of Texas erected this marker in 1936, because some people earn the right to be remembered by name, in stone, on the side of a road — and Daniel Shipman put in the work.
What the marker says
Participated in the Disturbance at Anahuac June, 1832 and the Storming and Capture of Bexar, December 5 to 10, 1835 Born in North Carolina February 20, 1801 Died in Goliad County, Texas March 4, 1881 Eliza Hancock Shipman Wife of Daniel Shipman Born December 22, 1813 Died in Goliad County, Texas September 11, 1858 Erected by the State of Texas 1936