Signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence. Stephen Blount was born to Stephen and Elizabeth Blount in Burke County, Georgia, on February 13, 1808. He spent his young adulthood in service to his state: enlisting in 1833 in the Eighth Regiment of the Georgia Militia; serving as deputy sheriff, then sheriff, of Burke County for four years; aide-de-camp to Generals Robert Tootle and David Taylor from 1832 to 1834. He moved to San Augustine, Texas in August of 1835. The following year he was elected as one of three delegates representing San Augustine County at the Convention of 1836 to discuss the coming secession and war with Mexico, and there signed the Texas Declaration of Independence. He returned to his home and enlisted in the Texas militia in William Ratcliff's company; however, his unit missed the Battle of San Jacinto, arriving a day late. In 1838 he traveled to Alabama and married Mary Lacy, bringing her home with him in 1839; one of their eight children was Civil War Confederate captain Thomas Blount. From 1846 to 1849 he served San Augustine County as postmaster and worked his property, eventually acquiring sixty thousand acres. At the time of his death on February 7, 1890, he was vice-president of the United Confederate Veterans, having served during the war as an agent for the CSA.

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BLOUNT, Colonel S.W.
Col. S.W. Blount, the last surviving signer of the Texan Declaration of Independence, has just died at San Augustine, Tex. [Hopkinsville Kentuckian (Hopkinsville, Ky.), February 18, 1890 -]

Colonel S.W. Blount, the last surviving signer of the declaration of Texas independence, died suddenly at San Augustine, Tex., on the 9th. [The Globe-Republican.(Dodge City, Kan.), February 12, 1890