Jethro Russell Bancroft

The tablet gives Bancroft one company and one date; his papers fill in more. Louis Kemp's sketch, drawn from General Land Office files, shows a donation certificate for the storming of Bexar in December 1835, then a volunteer enlistment at Lynchburg in March 1836. On May 10, 1836, his captain certified that he was too sick to travel with the company and should be left with the sick; he was discharged in June. The Harrisburg board granted him a third of a league in 1838, and after his death his widow, Mary, administered the estate.

What the plaque says

Jethro Russell Bancroft Came to Texas in 1830. Served in Captain Thomas H. McIntire's company at San Jacinto. Died January 7, 1848.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Sam Houston Park and the Heritage Society — 0.5 mi
  Ten historic buildings gathered in a downtown park below the skyscrapers, among them the 1870 house of the Reverend Jack Yates, built five years after emancipation.
• Buffalo Soldiers National Museum — 1.5 mi
  A museum in Houston's 1925 Light Guard Armory that tells the service of Black soldiers from the Revolutionary War onward, built from one veteran's thirty years of collecting.
• Rothko Chapel — 1.7 mi
  An octagonal chapel open to all faiths, built by the de Menils around fourteen dark canvases by Mark Rothko, with Barnett Newman's Broken Obelisk standing in the pool outside.
• Emancipation Park — 1.7 mi
  The Third Ward park that freedpeople bought for Juneteenth in 1872, rebuilt in 2017 on Emancipation Avenue and still the center of the city's June 19 celebration.

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