Although Edwin Oswald LeGrand (1801–1861) was born in North Carolina. LeGrand was one of the fifty-seven men who signed the Texas Declaration of Independence. He was a San Augustine delegate to the Convention of 1836 at Washington-on-the-Brazos and fought in the Battle of San Jacinto. His sister, the wife of William Colson Norwood, and her family also settled in San Augustine, Texas. LeGrand is buried near San Augustine.
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