Captain A.C. Jones

The plaque names the railroad and the bank; it skips the politics. Jones held a Bee County office from April 1876 to March 1882, and in 1887 he was elected to the Texas House. He fell ill in San Antonio on the way to Austin, and T. A. Blair took his seat. C. P. Huntington of the Southern Pacific wrote to him between 1888 and 1892 about another line coming into Beeville, and the letters passed down to his great-granddaughter. The Beeville high school the district built in 1911 carries his name.

What the plaque says

Captain A.C. Jones One of builders of Southwest. Born in Nacogdoches County, son of very early settlers. Became a cattleman; served as sheriff of Goliad County in 1858-1860. In Civil War cavalry of Col. John S. "Rip" Ford for 4 years. Fought at Palmito Hill, war's last battle, 34 days after the surrender of Gen. Robt E. Lee. In 1886, raised $75,000 to build SA and AP railroad from San Antonio to Beeville. Aided in getting GH and SA to extend line form Victoria here in 1890. Was county treasurer, banker and the president and general manager of Beeville Oil Mill. (1965)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Zaragoza Birthplace State Historic Site — 26 mi
  A rebuilt stone house beside La Bahía marking where Ignacio Seguín Zaragoza, the general of the Battle of Puebla and Cinco de Mayo, was born in 1829.
• Presidio La Bahía — 27 mi
  A Spanish fort on its third site since 1749, held in turn by filibusters, insurgents and Fannin's Fort Defiance, rebuilt in stone in the 1960s around a chapel that never fell.
• Goliad State Park and Historic Site — 27 mi
  Mission Espíritu Santo on the San Antonio River, a mission ranch whose herds seeded Texas cattle country, rebuilt from ruin by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s.
• Fannin Memorial Monument — 27 mi
  The 1938 pink granite memorial over the common grave of Fannin's men, shot on the roads out of Goliad on Palm Sunday 1836, the grave itself found again only in the 1930s.

More markers nearby

• Early Trails in Bee County — steps away
• Benjamin Dudley Tarlton Dougherty — 2.1 mi
• Normanna — 2.2 mi
• First Presbyterian Church of Beeville — 5.5 mi