Texas patriot Archelaus Bynum Dodson became famed as the man who introduced the Lone Star Flag during the Texas Revolution. Born in North Carolina, he came to Texas with his parents in 1827 and served as a delegate to the 1832 Convention seeking governmental reforms. On May 17, 1835, he married Sarah Rudolph Bradley. Later that year, as first lieutenant in a Texas defense unit under Capt. Andrew Robinson, he received from his bride her handiwork, a red, white and blue flag with a single star, beginning the tradition of the Lone Star Flag of Texas. This banner flew at Washington-on-the-Brazos when the Declaration of Independence was signed on March 2, 1836. Dodson continued to fight in the Texas Revolution until after the victory at San Jacinto. He located his headright land in Grimes County and moved his family there in 1844. Sarah Bradley Dodson, maker of the flag and mother of six children, died in 1848 and was buried in Bethel Cemetery near Bedias in Grimes County. In 1850 Dodson married the widow Louisa McWhorter, and in 1860 he moved his family west to another Texas frontier on the Nueces River, where he lived to a respected old age and was buried at death in Collins Cemetery, a half-mile south of here.