James Nathaniel Fisk

Fisk married into Deaf Smith's family twice. His first wife was Susan Smith, a daughter of the scout, who died early in 1849, likely of complications from childbirth. That August, on the 1st, the widower married her younger sister Simona. They had ten children, whose names carried the Revolution with them: among them Sam Houston Fisk, Erastus Smith Fisk and Benjamin Sappington Fisk, along with Zoroaster and David Bell Fisk. James's two children by Susan grew up in the same household. Simona, buried nearby, outlived him by fourteen years.

What the plaque says

James Nathaniel Fisk Served in the Army of Texas March 6, 1836 to November 16 1837. Born in Swanton Vermont, September 4, 1815, Died April 15, 1876

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• The Alamo — 1.1 mi
  Mission San Antonio de Valero before it was a fort: a church its builders never finished, a thirteen-day siege in 1836, and the Army gable of 1850-52 that became its emblem.
• La Villita Historic Arts Village — 1.1 mi
  The little village across the river from the presidio, where Cos surrendered San Antonio in 1835, rebuilt by Depression-era youth crews as a working crafts village.
• San Antonio River Walk — 1.2 mi
  A Depression-era park one level below downtown, built because San Antonio refused to pave its river after the 1921 flood, and designed by an architect the project later fired.
• San Fernando Cathedral — 1.6 mi
  The Canary Islanders' parish church on Main Plaza, where Bowie married and Santa Anna raised a red flag, rebuilt in Gothic Revival around the walls of the 1750s church.

More markers nearby

• Simona Smith Fisk — steps away
• John Lang Sinclair — steps away
• Clara Driscoll (April 2, 1881-July 17, 1945) — steps away
• Samuel S. Smith — steps away