After the Mexican-American War, he mustered out and returned to near Independence, Texas where he married in 1851. Baylor died of an unknown illness two years later and is buried in Independence, Texas. Baylor's two younger brothers were John Robert and George Wythe Baylor. They were all nephews of Judge Robert Emmett Bledsoe Baylor, co-founder of Baylor University in 1845.
Henry Weidener Baylor is the namesake of Baylor County, located in North Central Texas. It was carved out of Fannin County in the late 1850s and formally founded in 1879. Before the Anglo settlement began, it was inhabited by a band of Comanche Indians who relied on its supply of buffalo for a great part of their basic needs for survival. It was not until the buffalo were eliminated from the area that the Comanche Indians were defeated and moved to a reservation in southern Oklahoma in the mid 1870s.
After the Mexican-American War, he mustered out and returned to near Independence, Texas where he married in 1851. Baylor died of an unknown illness two years later and is buried in Independence, Texas. Baylor's two younger brothers were John Robert and George Wythe Baylor. They were all nephews of Judge Robert Emmett Bledsoe Baylor, co-founder of Baylor University in 1845.
Henry Weidener Baylor is the namesake of Baylor County, located in North Central Texas. It was carved out of Fannin County in the late 1850s and formally founded in 1879. Before the Anglo settlement began, it was inhabited by a band of Comanche Indians who relied on its supply of buffalo for a great part of their basic needs for survival. It was not until the buffalo were eliminated from the area that the Comanche Indians were defeated and moved to a reservation in southern Oklahoma in the mid 1870s.
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