County named for

Senator W. S. Oldham
1813-1868

Legislator, Judge, Newspaperman. Came to Texas from Arkansas. Member 1861 Texas secession convention. Chosen delegate to provisional Confederate Congress, Montgomery, Alabama. Sent Arkansas to work for secession by Jefferson Davis, 1861. Texas Confederate Senator 1862-1865. Influental defender of states rights. He opposed centralized conscription and granting presidential power to suspend write of habeas corpus.

A memorial to Texans who served the Confederacy
Erected by the State of Texas, 1963.

—Stone marker in front of Courthouse