James Washington Winters

Winters spent his last years as a witness. In 1901 the Daughters of the Republic of Texas asked him, as one of the San Jacinto veterans still living, to help identify points on the battlefield for markers. Adina de Zavala and Adele Looscan recorded his account of his life and the revolution, and the Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association printed it in October 1902. From 1902 until his death near Bigfoot in November 1903 he was second vice president of the Texas Veterans Association. He is buried in Brummett Cemetery.

What the plaque says

James Washington Winters A San Jacinto veteran, born in Tennessee, January 21, 1817; died November 15, 1903. Erected by the State of Texas 1936 San Jacinto veteran, went on Somervell Expedition. Loyal to former general Sam Houston, did not sign Oath of Allegiance to the Confederate States at Oakville, July 4, 1861. Capt. 29th Brig. T.S.M., Provost Marshall, scout between Nueces and Rio Grande rivers. 8 yrs. in Tuxpan Mexico. Wife, Piercy Tullos. Children; James, Josephus, Adeline, Susan, John, Marion, William B. and Sallie. His 2nd wife was Elizabeth Wier. (1968)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Atascosa County Courthouse — 19 mi
  The only surviving Mission Revival courthouse in Texas, built in 1912-13 on Jourdanton's town circle after a county seat vote that some residents still call a theft.
• Landmark Inn State Historic Site — 20 mi
  A store and stage stop at the Medina River ford in Henri Castro's Alsatian town, with a mill race under the ground and rooms you can still rent for the night.
• Frio Pioneer Jail Museum — 21 mi
  Pearsall's 1884 county jail, the town's oldest building, used for 83 years and now a free museum with a sheriff's home downstairs and six cells above.
• Longhorn Museum — 22 mi
  Atascosa County in one roadside museum: longhorn-and-mustang ranching, a moved railroad depot and caboose, a horse-drawn hearse and the town that calls itself the birthplace of the cowboy.

More markers nearby

• William Alexander A. Wallace — 3.7 mi
• William Carvin Winters — 4.8 mi
• Edward Brown — 5.0 mi
• Rossville Cemetery — 7.2 mi