Edward Brown

Edward Brown's road to Poteet ran through a Mexican prison. After General Adrián Woll took San Antonio in September 1842, about fifty of the men captured there were sent to Perote Castle, where, the Handbook of Texas notes, prisoners of war were made to do common labor. President Tyler told Waddy Thompson, the U.S. minister in Mexico, to press for release. The Handbook dates the release of the Bexar prisoners to March 23, 1844, two days before sixteen other Texans tunneled out. Brown married that September.

What the plaque says

Edward Brown (1808-1886) A veteran of both the Texas Revolution and the U.S.-Mexico War, Edward Brown was an early Atascosa County colonist and landowner. He was born to Avery and Maria Brown, though documents differ on place of birth in Tennessee or Kentucky. While in New Orleans in 1836, he volunteered to fight in the Republic of Texas Army and mustered into service in the company of William D. Burnett. After the war, he remained in Texas. In the years after the Revolution, Mexico periodically invaded Texas. One of these invasions occurred in September 1842, in which General Adrián Woll recaptured San Antonio. Brown participated in the defense of San Antonio de Bexar from the house of Samuel Maverick. Brown was one of the prisoners marched to Perote Prison in Mexico, where he remained until Waddy Thompson, United States Minister to Mexico, negotiated his release in 1844. In September 1844, he married Loreta de la Fuentes y Fernandez of San Antonio (1819-1892), the daughter of Jose Cresencio de las Fuentes y Fernandez and Maria Gertrudis Diaz. Two years later, during the U.S.-Mexico War, Brown joined a company mustered in Castroville by John H. Conner in 1846. The unit mustered out in September 1847. Brown received a preemption grant for 160 acres of land on the "waters of the Atascosa" and dedicated the rest of his years to farming/ranching. Edward and Loreta had seven children: Eduardo "Waddy T" (b. 1848), Maria Soledad "Lolida" (b. 1850), Susanna (b. 1851), James "Santiago" (b. 1854), Hendrick (b. 1856), Marcellus (b. 1857) and Matilda (b. 1860). (2023)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Atascosa County Courthouse — 15 mi
  The only surviving Mission Revival courthouse in Texas, built in 1912-13 on Jourdanton's town circle after a county seat vote that some residents still call a theft.
• Longhorn Museum — 17 mi
  Atascosa County in one roadside museum: longhorn-and-mustang ranching, a moved railroad depot and caboose, a horse-drawn hearse and the town that calls itself the birthplace of the cowboy.
• Landmark Inn State Historic Site — 22 mi
  A store and stage stop at the Medina River ford in Henri Castro's Alsatian town, with a mill race under the ground and rooms you can still rent for the night.
• Mission Espada and the Espada Aqueduct — 24 mi
  The southernmost San Antonio mission and the oldest Spanish aqueduct in the United States, still carrying river water over Sixmile Creek to the fields after nearly three centuries.

More markers nearby

• Rossville Cemetery — 2.8 mi
• Rossville — 3.1 mi
• James Washington Winters — 5.0 mi
• Amphion and Amphion Cemetery — 7.4 mi