Black plaque № 21577

Prairieville, TX, United States

Capt. Edward Thomas Broughton and the Johnson Guards. Alabama native Edward Thomas Broughton, Jr. (b. 1834) came to Jasper, Texas, with his family in 1847. Broughton married Mary Elizabeth Douglas in 1856. He studied law in Smith County and was admitted to the bar in 1857. By 1860 the Broughtons wer

e living in Kaufman, Texas, where Edward was elected district attorney in 1861. In early 1861 Broughton and other men in the area formed the Kaufman Light Infantry. The company mustered in Prairievill

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