Stephen Fuller Austin was born November 3 1793 to famous empresario Moses Austin and wife Mary Brown Austin in Virginia. He had a sister named Emily Austin. He also had a sister named Eliza Austin who died one month after birth. Austin was then raised in southeastern Missouri. When Austin was complete with college at the University of Transylvania in Lexington, Kentucky, he majored in becoming a lawyer. At twenty-one years old, Austin got the opportunity to serve in the legislature of Missouri Territory. After the Texas Revolution and Texas, becoming independent Austin had gotten a very severe cold. He then died December 27, 1836 in present day West Colombia. Austin never married nor had children.