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Robert Love Reding

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Robert Love Reding

Birth
Death
1849 (aged 38–39)
Burial
Bastrop, Bastrop County, Texas, USA Add to Map
Plot
Section M, Plot 2
Memorial ID
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Army of Texas Participated in the capture of Goliad, October 9, 1835, Signer of the Goliad Declaration of Independence, Born in Tennessee 1810, Died 1849

He was born in Tennessee and came to Texas in 1835 to fight for independence. Reding signed the “Goliad Declaration of Independence.” This document resolved that Texas should be “a free, sovereign and independent State” and the signers pledged their lives, fortunes and honor to sustain the Declaration. Reding joined in the capture of Goliad from the Mexicans on October 9, 1835. Following Independence he became a businessman and a founder of the Bastrop Steam Mill. Turning to politics Reding served as Associate Justice of the Bastrop County Court (1842-4) and Chief Justice of the County (1846).
Army of Texas Participated in the capture of Goliad, October 9, 1835, Signer of the Goliad Declaration of Independence, Born in Tennessee 1810, Died 1849

He was born in Tennessee and came to Texas in 1835 to fight for independence. Reding signed the “Goliad Declaration of Independence.” This document resolved that Texas should be “a free, sovereign and independent State” and the signers pledged their lives, fortunes and honor to sustain the Declaration. Reding joined in the capture of Goliad from the Mexicans on October 9, 1835. Following Independence he became a businessman and a founder of the Bastrop Steam Mill. Turning to politics Reding served as Associate Justice of the Bastrop County Court (1842-4) and Chief Justice of the County (1846).


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