Jesse and Rosanna Grimes

Grimes, a Creek War veteran, farmed and served as a justice of the peace in Washington County, Alabama, before coming to Austin's second colony in 1826. In the fall of 1827 he settled on what became Grimes Prairie. Under Mexico he was sindico procurador of the Viesca precinct and a regidor, and in 1832 treasurer of the Viesca district. He formed a close friendship with William B. Travis, and four days after Grimes signed the Declaration of Independence his son Albert Calvin Grimes died at the Alamo. After annexation he served in the Senate of the first four legislatures.

What the plaque says

Jesse and Rosanna Grimes Hon. Jesse Grimes Born Feb. 6, 1788 Died Mar. 15, 1866 A signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence Member of the Congress of the Republic Died in Grimes County. A county named in his honor.

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

• Gen. Alexander Watkins Terrell — steps away
• John Ireland — steps away
• William P. Hardeman — steps away
• Capt. Jesse Billingsley — steps away