Born in Virginia
February 14, 1781
Associate Justice of the Supreme
Court of Virginia, 1820
Signor of the
Texas Declaration of Independence
and President of the
Constitutional Convention, 1836
Senator in the Congress of the
Republic of Texas, 1836 to 1840
Died in Bowie County, Texas
December 20, 1846
Mary Danridge Ellis
Wife of Richard Ellis
Born in Virginia
1787
Died in Bowie County, Texas
October 21, 1837
Ellis County, Texas was named for
Richard Ellis
Erected by the State of Texas
1936