Childress Factoids
- Childress County, located on the edge of the Texas Panhandle, was named for him on August 21, 1876. In addition, its county seat (Childress, Texas) was also named for him.
- Is buried at the Trinity Episcopal Church Cemetery in Galveston
- Is one of four 'founding fathers' of Texas to commit suicide: Anson Jones and Thomas Jefferson Rusk both died from self-inflicted gunshot wounds, and James Collinsworth drowned when he jumped off a boat.
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