Just days before the 208th anniversary of his birth, the grave of Abram Anglin- early Texas Ranger, survivor of the Fort Parker attack, and Texas War for Independence veteran-has been newly marked to reflect his role in Texas history. Anglin, born December 28, 1817, was a member of Captain Seale's Company of Rangers during 183536, a unit organized "agreeable to order from the Council of Texas." He died on September 6, 1875, and is buried in the Faulkenberry Cemetery, where a metal Texas Ranger cross was recently added to formally acknowledge his service as one of the state's earliest Rangers. Marked the same day, and for the same reason, was the grave of Silas H. Bates, another early Texas Ranger whose service on the frontier of the Republic of Texas has long gone unrecognized. Bates is buried in the Fort Parker Cemetery, where his grave also received a Ranger marker recognizing his role in early Texas history.