George Weedon

George Weedon's grave and headstone were both lost for decades. He died in January 1842 at the vanished town of Cincinnati, now in Walker County, and was buried on his own land; his will mentioned no family and asked that twenty acres be set aside for a church, a cemetery and a schoolhouse. A Huntsville man, Wilbourn Gibbs, stumbled on the grave in April 1938, and Weedon was moved to the State Cemetery that November. His first stone, reading A Hero of San Jacinto, turned up in an Austin warehouse in 1989.

What the plaque says

George Weedon Permanently wounded in in the Battle of San Jacinto while serving in Capt. William S. Fisher's Company. Died Jan. 18, 1842 near old Cincinnati in Walker County, Texas Erected by the State of Texas 1936

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Texas State Cemetery — steps away
  A hill east of the Capitol that began with one general's grave in 1851 and now holds Stephen F. Austin, governors, Barbara Jordan and more than 2,000 Confederate veterans and widows.
• French Legation State Historic Site — 0.3 mi
  A raised pine house built in 1840 and 1841 for France's envoy to the Republic of Texas, who left Austin in a rage over a neighbor's pigs before it was finished.
• George Washington Carver Museum — 0.4 mi
  East Austin's museum of Black history and culture, grown from a segregated branch library moved across town in 1933, with a permanent exhibit on Juneteenth at its core.
• Texas State Capitol — 1.0 mi
  Austin's fourth statehouse, a Renaissance Revival capitol of 1888 that stands 311 feet to its Goddess of Liberty and was restored after the 1983 fire.

More markers nearby

• James Allison York — steps away
• Robert Crudup — steps away
• Dr. Gideon Lincecum — steps away
• Robert Potter — steps away