King's relatives are buried here (Seguin), and he still has descendants here, including the "King Ranger Theatre". When he and the other Rangers laid out the original town, they called it Walnut Springs for the trees that grew nearby.joe817 wrote: ↑Fri Sep 13, 2019 7:18 am ...
1837 - John Rhodes King, legislator, Texas Ranger, Confederate officer, and first mayor of Seguin, …
... In the fall of 1859 he moved to Cibolo Creek in Eastern Bexar County. He was active in the movement to create Wilson County, and carried the petition to Austin.
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That sentence about him moving to Bexar County is incorrect. I see it appears several places on the internet (like Find A Grave), but it is wrong. Cibolo Creek does run through eastern Bexar County and there is a city of Cibolo right on the eastern border, but the creek wanders all over the place and heads well south. The part of the Cibolo Creek that John Rhodes King had a ranch on is south of Seguin and Guadalupe County, southwest of Bexar County, in Wilson County. King owned part of and helped lay out the city of Stockdale, about 20 miles due south of Seguin. I guess the guy liked starting towns. He is buried down there in Stockdale Cemetary. The Texas Handbook Online has a clearer summary history of him: https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fki67