David Grieves

Grieves rose from the ranks in the year after the battle. Louis Kemp's sketch, drawn from service records, says he enlisted in Company I of the regular infantry on February 20, 1836, was named quartermaster sergeant on Captain Teal's roll on May 9, and left the army on May 31, 1837, as a second lieutenant and assistant commissary at $25 a month. About two weeks later he was dead. The Telegraph and Texas Register's notice asked editors in Rhode Island and New Orleans to copy it, and the man who took over his estate claimed Grieves owed him $800.

What the plaque says

David Grieves A member of Captain Henry Teal's company at San Jacinto. Born in Scotland; died in Houston June 15, 1837.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Sam Houston Park and the Heritage Society — 0.5 mi
  Ten historic buildings gathered in a downtown park below the skyscrapers, among them the 1870 house of the Reverend Jack Yates, built five years after emancipation.
• Buffalo Soldiers National Museum — 1.5 mi
  A museum in Houston's 1925 Light Guard Armory that tells the service of Black soldiers from the Revolutionary War onward, built from one veteran's thirty years of collecting.
• Rothko Chapel — 1.7 mi
  An octagonal chapel open to all faiths, built by the de Menils around fourteen dark canvases by Mark Rothko, with Barnett Newman's Broken Obelisk standing in the pool outside.
• Emancipation Park — 1.7 mi
  The Third Ward park that freedpeople bought for Juneteenth in 1872, rebuilt in 2017 on Emancipation Avenue and still the center of the city's June 19 celebration.

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• Robert Barr — steps away
• William C. Swearingen — steps away
• Jethro Russell Bancroft — steps away
• John Viven — steps away