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(September 3, 1812 - August 10, 1884) South Carolinian Aaron Mangum came to Texas with a Georgia battalion in 1835 and served under Colonel James Fannin at Goliad. Mangum took ill during an expeditionary mission and fatefully avoided death at the Goliad Massacre. He married Leonora Snively in 1836 and together they lived in Mississippi and Georgia before moving here to Grayson County about 1869. After his death the town of Mangum, Oklahoma, was named in his honor.
Mangum, Aaron S. is a historical marker in Sherman, Grayson County, dedicated in 1994. It is one of 144 historical markers documented in Grayson County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 174 historic sites cataloged across the county.
The site sits at 33.6321, -96.6190 near Sherman. The nearest cataloged historic site is LeTellier, John Henry, Capt. (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Olive Ann Oatman Fairchild, The Rev. John Silliman Moore, and Mita Holsapple Hall (1885-1965).
This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #5181007402. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
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