Captain William Ware

At San Jacinto, by the account of James Washington Winters, Ware fought "like a wild mustang." He had raised his own company for the siege of Bexar, where he was slightly wounded in the hand, and on March 12, 1836, he reenlisted and was elected captain of a company in Col. Sidney Sherman's Second Regiment. By 1840 he owned 3,864 acres in Montgomery County, eleven horses and seventy-five head of cattle. When he founded Waresville on August 17, 1852, his was said to be the only Anglo-American family between D'Hanis and the Rio Grande.

What the plaque says

William Ware Capt. William Ware was born in 1800 to Joseph and Elizabeth Ware in Kentucky (Georgia in some sources). In 1828, he and his wife, Ann Murphy, and their three children moved to Montgomery County, Texas. From there, Ware raised a military company in 1835 and fought at the Siege of Bexar. In 1836, he raised the Second Company of the Second Regiment, Texas Volunteers, and fought with the Texas army at San Jacinto. That same year, the widowed Ware married Betsy Crane. While moving to Kaufman County in 1849, Betsy died en route to Sabinal Canyon. Ware and his son, John Crane Ware, arrived in 1852. Here they built a cabin, which became the cornerstone for the settlement of Waresville. Ware died in 1853 and was buried in the Waresville cemetery. (2003)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Garner State Park — 13 mi
  The Frio River park that Uvalde County built with the Civilian Conservation Corps and named for its own vice president, where people have danced on the stone pavilion every summer since the 1940s.
• Real County Historical Museum — 17 mi
  A small county museum in Leakey, at the head of the Frio Canyon, with a log-cabin parlor, an 1880s horse-drawn hearse, a wool and mohair shearing machine and 1910s jail cells.

More markers nearby

• Waresville Cemetery — steps away
• William Ware — 0.6 mi
• Utopia Baptist Church — 1.4 mi
• Utopia — 1.4 mi