Tennessee native Roden Taylor Crain, a member of Capt. William Kimbro's company of San Augustine County volunteers, served in the struggle for Texas independence from Mexico. He fought at the Battle of San Jacinto on April 21, 1836, later received a land grant and pension for his service, and settled on that land in present Bosque County, where he lived for the rest of his life. He drowned in the Bosque River and was buried here in 1891.