Waco in McLennan County, Texas — The American South (West South Central)
David Smith Kornegay
Photographed By James Hulse, August 5, 2022
1. David Smith Kornegay Marker
Escaped the Dawson Massacre
1842 • Born in North Carolina
1810 • Died April 5, 1856
Erected 1936 by State of Texas. (Marker Number 1173.)
Topics and series. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: Cemeteries & Burial Sites • War, Texas Independence. In addition, it is included in the Texas 1936 Centennial Markers and Monuments series list. A significant historical date for this entry is April 5, 1856.
Location. 31° 36.814′ N, 97° 11.788′ W. Marker is in Waco, Texas, in McLennan County. Marker can be reached from Rock Creek Road, ¼ mile north of Steinbeck Bend Drive. The marker is located in the eastern section of the Bosqueville Cemetery. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Waco TX 76708, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 4 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies. Alexander McKinza (here, next to this marker); Bosqueville Cemetery Memorial (within shouting distance of this marker); Bosqueville Cemetery (about 400 feet away, measured in a direct line); Bosqueville Methodist Church (about 600 feet away); Bosqueville Baptist Church (approx. 0.2 miles away); Camp MacArthur (approx. 2.7 miles away);
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1. Kornegay, David Smith (1810 - 1856 April 5). San Jacinto Museum of History
Mr. Kornegay was County Clerk of Fayette County when he enlisted in the volunteer company hastily recruited by Captain Nicholas M. Dawson to repel the Mexicans under General Adrian Woll who had surprised, and captured San Antonio and were on their March toward Austin. He was among the few who escaped the "Dawson Massacre" of September 18, 1842. He was captured and imprisoned in Mexico and with Charles K. Reese and others escaped from Castle Perote, July 2, 1843. He made his way to Vera Cruz and there boarded the "Pretian" for New Orleans. Returning to Seguin he resumed his duties as County Clerk. On December 22, 1844 he was married to Elizabeth McGary by County Judge James S. Lester, a San Jacinto veteran. Mrs. Kornegay was born in Louisiana in June, 1826 and died in Lavaca County, September 27, 1880. Mr. Kornegay died in McLennan County April 5, 1856 and was buried in the cemetery at Bosqueville.
Photographed By James Hulse, August 5, 2022
2. Looking east at the David Smith Kornegay Marker
2. Dawson Massacre. Texas State Historical Association
After the capture of San Antonio on September 11, 1842, by Brig. Gen. Adrián Woll in the second of the Mexican invasions of 1842, Texan forces gathered on Salado Creek under Col. Mathew Caldwell to repel the raiders. While Texas arms were succeeding at the battle of Salado Creek on September 18, 1842, a calamity was occurring only a mile and a half away. In response to Caldwell's call for volunteers, Capt. Nicholas M. Dawson had raised a fifty-three-man company, mostly from Fayette County, and marched down from La Grange. Believing Caldwell's forces to be in grave danger, Dawson's men chose not to wait for Capt. Jesse Billingsley's company, which was following them, but to disregard the threat posed by numerous heavy Mexican cavalry patrols and to fight their way to the Salado. Near Caldwell's embattled line, between 3 and 4 P.M. on the eighteenth, the company was intercepted by a column of 500 irregular Mexican cavalry commanded by colonels Cayetano Montero, José María Carrasco, and Pedro Rangel and supported by a battery of two field pieces.(Submitted on August 11, 2022, by James Hulse of Medina, Texas.)
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Photographed By James Hulse, August 5, 2022
3. The view of the David Smith Kornegay Marker in the cemetery
This marker is a part of the State of Texas Historical markers for the War of Texas Independence. It also has information about the marker from the Atlas of Texas Historical sites including a Texas State marker number.
— Submitted August 11, 2022, by James Hulse of Medina, Texas.
Credits. This page was last revised on August 11, 2022. It was originally submitted on August 10, 2022, by James Hulse of Medina, Texas. This page has been viewed 161 times since then and 62 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3. submitted on August 11, 2022, by James Hulse of Medina, Texas.
