Robert Emmett Bledsoe Baylor, a bachelor attorney devoted to Baylor University, was buried on the university campus after his death on December 10th, 1873, along the street connecting Independence with the male campus. In partnership with William M. Tryon, he worked tirelessly to found, nurture, and serve the institution as a trustee and professor. As a young man, Baylor fought in several key battles of the War of 1812, was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from Kentucky and Alabama, and emigrated to Texas in 1839. Around LaGrange, he preached in Baptist churches and helped organize the Union Baptist Association. He was elected district judge and concurrently served on the Supreme Court of the Republic of Texas until 1846, when Texas was admitted to the Union. As a member of the Texas Baptist Education Society, he used his political skills to help establish a Baptist university in the frontier republic, and despite his protests, Tryon insisted that the university be named in his honor. Baylor became a charter trustee of Baylor University in February 1845, served continuously on the board until his death, and also taught on the faculty without pay, lecturing on law during every session in which that program was offered. The single surviving photograph of his grave shows a crude headstone surrounded by a cast iron fence on the east slope of Windmill Hill, and in the early 1920s his remains were moved to the campus of Baylor College, now the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor, at Belton.