Amos B. Edson

Edson's army service did not end at San Jacinto. Louis Kemp's sketch, drawn from General Land Office muster rolls, says he had enlisted on February 13, 1836, for two years. When Turner was promoted, his men passed to Company A of the First Regiment of Regular Infantry under Capt. John Smith, and Edson stood muster with it on Galveston Island on December 31, 1836. By February 1837 the roll listed him as on command to the main army. That August he sold his headright rights to John Belden, and he died in Houston before the year was out.

What the plaque says

Amos B. Edson Arrived in Texas January 28, 1836, having been recruited in New Orleans for the Army of Texas by Captain Amasa Turner in whose company he served at San Jacinto. Died in Houston, 1837.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Sam Houston Park and the Heritage Society — 0.5 mi
  Ten historic buildings gathered in a downtown park below the skyscrapers, among them the 1870 house of the Reverend Jack Yates, built five years after emancipation.
• Buffalo Soldiers National Museum — 1.5 mi
  A museum in Houston's 1925 Light Guard Armory that tells the service of Black soldiers from the Revolutionary War onward, built from one veteran's thirty years of collecting.
• Emancipation Park — 1.7 mi
  The Third Ward park that freedpeople bought for Juneteenth in 1872, rebuilt in 2017 on Emancipation Avenue and still the center of the city's June 19 celebration.
• Rothko Chapel — 1.7 mi
  An octagonal chapel open to all faiths, built by the de Menils around fourteen dark canvases by Mark Rothko, with Barnett Newman's Broken Obelisk standing in the pool outside.

More markers nearby

• Mrs. Rebecca Lamar — steps away
• Augustus Chapman Allen — steps away
• Gravesite of John Kirby Allen — steps away
• David Porter Richardson — steps away