James Seaton Lester

Lester was a Virginia lawyer, admitted to the bar in 1831, who moved to Mina, the later Bastrop, in 1834. At the Consultation he sat on the committee that planned the provisional government, and in 1835 he was the army's recruiting agent at Bastrop for the attack on Bexar. In the Republic he sat in the First through Fifth congresses, for Bastrop, Gonzales and Fayette. He was one of Baylor University's first trustees, chief justice of Fayette County from 1844 to 1848, and lived at Winchester until 1879.

What the plaque says

James Seaton Lester Star and Wreath Delegate to the 1835 Consultation, San Jacinto Veteran, member of four Republic of Texas Congresses. Erected by the State of Texas 1962

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Texas Wendish Heritage Museum — 16 mi
  A museum at Serbin of the Wends, a Slavic people from Lusatia whose congregation of nearly 600 crossed on the Ben Nevis in 1854, losing seventy-three to cholera on the way.
• Bastrop State Park — 29 mi
  The westernmost loblolly pines in the United States, cut off from the East Texas forest by a hundred miles of post oak, burned almost entirely in 2011 and growing back.

More markers nearby

• Fayette County, C.S.A — steps away
• Fayette County — steps away
• Kreische Complex — 1.6 mi
• Monument Hill Tomb — 1.6 mi