Captain Andrew Jackson Berry

Jack Berry came to Texas as a boy in 1826 and enlisted in the Mina Volunteers at what became Bastrop in February 1836, fighting at San Jacinto in Capt. Jesse Billingsley's company. He fought again at Plum Creek in 1840 and joined Jack Hays's Texas Rangers in 1843. He sat on the first grand jury of Williamson County and ranched in Lampasas County before buying a ranch south of Baird in 1881. In 1936 his widow, Mary Catherine, was honored at the Texas Centennial as the last surviving widow of a San Jacinto veteran.

What the plaque says

Born in Indiana May 16, 1816. Died at Baird, Texas July 31, 1899. Veteran of San Jacinto. Officer in the Confederate Army.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Frontier Texas! — 20 mi
  Abilene's multimedia museum of the frontier as the settlers told it, beside the Texas and Pacific tracks the town was built on, and the official visitor center for the Texas Forts Trail.
• Old Jail Art Center — 22 mi
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• Fort Phantom Hill — 24 mi
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• Conrad Hilton Center and Mobley Hotel — 24 mi
  The 40-room oil-boom hotel in Cisco that Conrad Hilton bought in 1919 when a bank deal fell through, now a museum of the Hilton start and of Cisco's 1927 Santa Claus bank robbery.

More markers nearby

• First Presbyterian Church of Baird — 1.1 mi
• Callahan County — 1.1 mi
• Camp Pecan, C.S.A. — 1.1 mi
• First Baptist Church of Baird — 1.3 mi