Freeman Wilkinson

The stone says only that he died at Lynchburg in 1839; his widow supplied the rest. Wilkinson came to Texas in 1835, served from March 5 to June 5, 1836, and moved to Peter B. Dexter's company within days of the battle. On January 23, 1839, he married Delia Catherine Semore. In an 1882 letter to Ashbel Smith, written from Huntsville as the wife of General John S. Besser, she said he died of yellow fever that year and lay beside the men who fell. His heirs received his bounty and donation certificates only in 1854.

What the plaque says

Freeman Wilkinson A member of Captain Thomas H. McIntire's company at San Jacinto. Died at Lynchburg in 1839 and was buried near his comrades who fell in battle.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• San Jacinto Battleground State Historic Site — 0.6 mi
  The 1,200 acres of coastal prairie and marsh where the Texas Revolution ended in eighteen minutes, and the 567-foot shaft of fossil-studded limestone that has stood over them since 1939.
• Space Center Houston — 14 mi
  The visitor center of NASA's Johnson Space Center at Clear Lake, with flown capsules, a shuttle replica riding a 747, and tram tours to Mission Control and a Saturn V.
• Emancipation Park — 17 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.
• Sam Houston Park and the Heritage Society — 17 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.

More markers nearby

• Peter Jefferson Duncan — steps away
• de Zavala Plaza — steps away
• Persons Known to Have Been Buried in de Zavala Cemetery — steps away
• Lorenzo de Zavala — 0.6 mi