Captain Frank Jones

Company D belonged to the Frontier Battalion, six companies of seventy-five Texas Rangers each, organized in 1874 on Governor Richard Coke's recommendation under Maj. John B. Jones. Its men fought raiders but also arrested lawbreakers, escorted prisoners, guarded jails and attended courts. They settled the Mason County War, cleaned outlaws out of Kimble County in 1877, ended the Horrell-Higgins feud and captured Sam Bass. A 1900 court ruling gutted its power by letting only commissioned officers serve criminal process.

What the plaque says

Captain Frank Jones. Born in Austin, Texas 1856. Killed by bandits June 30, 1893. Near San Elizario while commanding Company D Texas Rangers. Erected by the State of Texas 1936.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Ysleta Mission (Corpus Christi de la Ysleta del Sur) — 1.6 mi
  The Tigua mission church at Ysleta, rebuilt in 1908 around the walls, bell and Santo Entierro that came through fire, its interior painted with rain clouds and corn.
• Tigua Indian Cultural Center, Ysleta del Sur Pueblo — 2.3 mi
  The cultural center of Ysleta del Sur Pueblo, the Tigua nation that has lived in the Mission Valley of El Paso since 1682 and keeps its own history here.
• Socorro Mission (Nuestra Senora de la Limpia Concepcion del Socorro) — 4.1 mi
  Socorro's adobe church on the El Paso Mission Trail, with walls five feet thick, carved vigas from an older church and a statue of Saint Michael said to have chosen the town.
• Chamizal National Memorial — 7.7 mi
  A park on land the Rio Grande once put in dispute, where a century-old border quarrel between the United States and Mexico was settled by treaty and a new concrete channel.

More markers nearby

• San Antonio de Senecu — steps away
• Corpus Christi de la Ysleta — 1.5 mi
• Oldest Mission in Texas — 1.5 mi
• Alderete-Candelaria House — 1.6 mi