Capt. Jesse Billingsley

Billingsley, born in Rutherford County, Tennessee, moved to Mina in 1834 and joined Capt. Robert M. Coleman's Mina Volunteers, forty-nine Bastrop County men including George B. Erath. At San Jacinto he took a wound that crippled his left hand for life, and afterward he served as a private in John C. Hunt's ranger company. In the First Congress he was said to have "furnished his own grub, slept on his own blanket" and worn buckskin. In 1842 he fought with John C. Hays at Salado Creek. He was first buried in the front yard of his home near McDade.

What the plaque says

Capt. Jesse Billingsley A soldier in the Army of Texas, 1835 Commander of Company C. First Regiment, Texas Volunteers at San Jacinto Member of the 1st and 2nd Congresses of the Republic Participated in the Woll Campaign, 1842 Member of the Senate, 5th and 8th Legislatures of the State Born in Tennessee October 10, 1810 Died in Bastrop County, Texas October 1, 1880

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Texas State Cemetery — steps away
  A hill east of the Capitol that began with one general's grave in 1851 and now holds Stephen F. Austin, governors, Barbara Jordan and more than 2,000 Confederate veterans and widows.
• French Legation State Historic Site — 0.3 mi
  A raised pine house built in 1840 and 1841 for France's envoy to the Republic of Texas, who left Austin in a rage over a neighbor's pigs before it was finished.
• George Washington Carver Museum — 0.4 mi
  East Austin's museum of Black history and culture, grown from a segregated branch library moved across town in 1933, with a permanent exhibit on Juneteenth at its core.
• Texas State Capitol — 1.0 mi
  Austin's fourth statehouse, a Renaissance Revival capitol of 1888 that stands 311 feet to its Goddess of Liberty and was restored after the 1983 fire.

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• William P. Hardeman — steps away
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