With her husband Jacob Haller, Mary founded the town of Chappell Hill in 1847-49 and named it after her maternal grandfather Robert W. Chappell (1782-1860), who had settled in Texas during the Republic period (1836-45).
Mary and Jacob Haller donated land in 1850 for the Chappell Hill Female College, an institution which operated for about sixty years. (Source: Handbook of Texas Online) They also built a substantial home which served as a boarding house for college students and later became the Stage Coach Inn, now listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Although Mrs. Haller remarried Milton W. Baker of Galveston in 1854 after she was widowed, she died (at age 40) in Chappell Hill -- possibly a victim of the 1867 yellow fever epidemic.
Mary and Jacob Haller donated land in 1850 for the Chappell Hill Female College, an institution which operated for about sixty years. (Source: Handbook of Texas Online) They also built a substantial home which served as a boarding house for college students and later became the Stage Coach Inn, now listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Although Mrs. Haller remarried Milton W. Baker of Galveston in 1854 after she was widowed, she died (at age 40) in Chappell Hill -- possibly a victim of the 1867 yellow fever epidemic.
With her husband Jacob Haller, Mary founded the town of Chappell Hill in 1847-49 and named it after her maternal grandfather Robert W. Chappell (1782-1860), who had settled in Texas during the Republic period (1836-45).
Mary and Jacob Haller donated land in 1850 for the Chappell Hill Female College, an institution which operated for about sixty years. (Source: Handbook of Texas Online) They also built a substantial home which served as a boarding house for college students and later became the Stage Coach Inn, now listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Although Mrs. Haller remarried Milton W. Baker of Galveston in 1854 after she was widowed, she died (at age 40) in Chappell Hill -- possibly a victim of the 1867 yellow fever epidemic.
Mary and Jacob Haller donated land in 1850 for the Chappell Hill Female College, an institution which operated for about sixty years. (Source: Handbook of Texas Online) They also built a substantial home which served as a boarding house for college students and later became the Stage Coach Inn, now listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Although Mrs. Haller remarried Milton W. Baker of Galveston in 1854 after she was widowed, she died (at age 40) in Chappell Hill -- possibly a victim of the 1867 yellow fever epidemic.
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