Jacob Harmon Garner

Jacob Garner volunteered in October 1835 and reached the camp above Bexar as a lieutenant on November 16 with his brother David, a captain. He fought in the Grass Fight on November 26 under Edward Burleson and took part in the December siege. On April 21, 1836, the day of San Jacinto, his captain posted him on guard duty in Liberty. He married Matilda Hayes on November 29, 1838, at the house of Benjamin Johnson, a San Jacinto veteran, and he died of pneumonia on February 27, 1887, the Handbook text says.

What the plaque says

Jacob Harmon Garner (1814-1887) Louisiana native Jacob H. Garner, son of Bradley and Sarah Harmon Garner, settled in Jefferson, a village on Cow Bayou in present-day Orange County, Texas, in 1825. In 1835 he took part in the Grass Fight and Siege of Bexar while serving one of two enlistments in the Texas Army for which he later received land and bounty grants. He married Matilda Hayes in 1838. A prominent citizen of Jefferson County, he served as Jefferson County justice of the peace in 1843, district clerk from 1846 to 1850, Sabine Pass alderman in 1857, and as a third lieutenant in the Confederate Army in 1861. Sesquicentennial of Texas Statehood 1845 - 1995

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Sabine Pass Battleground State Historic Site — 1.9 mi
  A waterfront park at the mouth of the Sabine where the earthwork of Fort Griffin stood, with a Dowling statue, a Union memorial, wartime magazines and a walkway for fishing.
• Sea Rim State Park — 7.3 mi
  Texas's far southeast corner: nearly two miles of Gulf shoreline backed by 4,000 acres of marsh, reached by boardwalk or paddle trail, rebuilt after Rita and Ike.
• Museum of the Gulf Coast — 11 mi
  Port Arthur's regional museum in a former bank building: fossils, Native Americans, the petroleum story, a 125-foot history mural and Halls of Fame for musicians, athletes and artists.
• Spindletop-Gladys City Boomtown Museum — 24 mi
  A re-created oil boomtown on the Lamar University campus, with a derrick, period shops, a 1941 granite monument and an optional re-enactment of the January 1901 Lucas gusher.

More markers nearby

• Benjamin Johnson — steps away
• Kate Dorman — steps away
• Kate Dorman — steps away
• Sabine Pass Cemetery — steps away